Chapter 727 A Drop of Blood
After a brief silence, Ye Shu slowly pulled his palm out from under her fingers and said, "Okay, I'm not cold anymore. Can you go back to your own bed and sleep?"
Chang'an was picked up by him from a secret room in the Zhao Kingdom. Zhao Kingdom is located in the northern part of Tianyao. It is one of the few powerful countries that believe in demons. The Langya Demon Sect is The religion of Zhao Kingdom.
The people of the Demon Sect have always been cruel in their methods. In order to specialize in developing new secret techniques to strengthen themselves, they often secretly purchase slaves to use as trial bodies.
Most of these slave trial bodies are people with spiritual roots and extraordinary aptitudes since childhood.
Ye Shu was also thrown into the dark secret room as a trial subject and tortured for a year.
The people of the Demon Sect in the Secret Art Room are cruel and cruel. All the trial subjects who enter are basically tortured like animals. Not only are they physically abused, but they are also mentally and physically destroyed. and control.
The duration of the secret arts trial is generally not long, at most one year, and the trial bodies in that small room will basically be tortured to pieces, draining all the value that can be mined from the body. Very few people Be able to come out completely.
But Chang'an was an exception. She only stayed in the secret room for a month before Ye Shu took her home.
Of course, she has not yet completed her stay in the secret room, so naturally Ye Shu will come and complete it for her.
Ye Shu's body has also suffered great damage. He suffered the torture of bone removal and bone replacement. The 206 human bones in his body have been replaced with 98. Those 98 bones were all taken from the snowy demon wolf. of bones.
A mortal body is hardened to the bones of a demon.
At that time, Ye Shu was only a teenager, and he was tortured by the people from the dark realm of the Demon Sect until he was transformed into a human being. He suffered from the pain of the coldness of the demon bone every night.
At that time, Chang'an, who was rescued by Ye Shu, stayed with him every day and clearly remembered his miserable appearance every night.
It was so cold that my hair and eyebrows were frozen. The skin on my body was so cold that it turned blue and purple. I could not speak or move my limbs. I was like a disabled person.
Chang'an possesses two spiritual roots, wood and fire. He saved her from hell, and she burned her spiritual roots at night to relieve him of the pain of cold bones. The two of them lived in that dark and helpless period. Over the years, we have been stumbling and accompanying each other through the longest and most painful time.
They have been like this since childhood. Ye Shu rarely gets close to others, but he is used to her company to warm up at night.
He accompanied Lin Zheng into the demon world and lurked for decades. He only returned to the human world a month ago. He worked non-stop in the dark to solve the internal and external troubles in the Hou Mansion that had been left unattended for decades, and helped Lin Zheng stabilize his position. The position of Lord.
Having breathed a little, I returned home and was about to fall asleep as usual during those days in Zhaoguo.
But the quilt and thin clothes were close to each other. Due to the resurgence of the Gu mother in Chang'an's body, his body was no longer as young and difficult to grow as it used to be.
Ye Shu, who had always treated her as a daughter, a sister, or even a pet, had never been too defensive.
To this night, the soft touch between his arms was telling him that Changan was no longer the little girl he saved back then. Her true mind and age were already that of a mature woman.
Chang'an noticed his slightly stiff body.
This is the first time he has kicked her out of bed.
Her face looked melancholy and there was water in her eyes.
Seeing that she didn't move, Ye Shu turned his head impatiently and said seriously: "Didn't you hear what I said?"
Chang'an finally moved, but did not get up. She stretched out her hand nervously and carefully, and dropped it. On his waist, he blushed, lowered his head, and slid his little hand restlessly.
Ye Shu's whole body was shocked, as if he had been bitten by a snake, and his hand suddenly strangled her wrist like an iron chain. The force was so strong that the sound of bones creaking and rubbing could be heard in her body.
It must have been extremely painful. Changan sucked tears from the corners of his eyes, raised his head pitifully, and stubbornly said with his lips: I can do it!
Ye Shu threw her hand away hard, stood up and put on his coat with a livid face, his face was terrifyingly cold: "You can?! What can you do?! I wasted so much effort to suppress you. The Gu mother in your body, your body was not meant to be abused like this!”
Chang'an hugged him tightly from behind and cried heartbreakingly with a hoarse voice. Her vocal cords had long been torn and her voice was hoarse and not human. She was very sensitive to her own voice and rarely uttered the slightest sound in front of others. sound.
But now she was crying so hard.
Ye Shu looked down at the two hands tightly locked around his waist. After all these years, he had no idea that she still had this thought.
He pulled his hand away forcefully, turned around and stared at her coldly, his haze-colored pupils full of coldness, melancholy, hatred, and the boundless gray sky.
Ye Shu coldly sneered: "Do you know who you are sacrificing yourself to! The man in front of you has been put into a slave cage since he was a child, played with, and treated like a domestic animal. Forward! What kind of kindness are you pretending to do here? Don’t you know what kind of virtue I am? There’s nothing clean about me. What are you talking about to such a dirty person?”
After talking about it, his eyes slowly turned red.
Yes, no one knows what he went through better than Chang An.
Even in the Lin Family Marquis Mansion, the dead soldiers and internal guards who sold their lives to the old Marquis heard all kinds of rumors about Ye Shu in Zhao Kingdom, but no one had ever seen with their own eyes how he acted in Writhing and struggling in that dirty, smelly quagmire.
Only Chang'an has seen him in his most embarrassing state.
In the darkness, Ye Shu's eyes were cold and his smile was sarcastic: "I will fight for my own life, I don't need your sympathy."
Outside the wooden house, there were heavy winter thunders, strong winds swept the city with cold rain, and at some point, a heavy rain fell in the clouds.
Ye Shuhan had a cold face and took two steps back. He had already put on his robe and clothes. He no longer looked at Chang An Kongji's sad eyes. He kicked over the bench angrily, opened the door and left in the heavy rain.
On the night of reunion after many years, we parted on bad terms.
The next day, the winter rain began to clear, and the sky in the early morning was gray and a little dead.
The door of the Lin family's Hou Mansion was pushed open with a creak, and the yawning concierge got up early to guard the door.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the door opened, he saw Ye Shu leaning against the stone lion statue at the gate with his eyes closed and dozing. His already thin face was as pale as a ghost in the gray morning light.
"Master Ye Shu?" The porter looked shocked. When he lowered his eyes, he saw his bare feet without shoes.
He felt his heart pounding at the sight, and hurriedly greeted him: "When did Master Ye Shu come back, yo? You are still wet. Could it be that you stood outside the door all night? Come on, come on, follow me!" Enter the mansion. "
Strangely, the young master left the mansion early this morning to do some business. If Master Ye Shu had been standing at the door all night, he should have met him. Why did he still look like a wandering ghost? Waiting at the door as if.
Ye Shu raised his dark black eyes and glanced at the young man. The young man shuddered for no reason and immediately fell silent.
Although Young Master Ye Shu grew up with the young Marquis since childhood, eating and living together, and was clearly the son of a retainer, the old Marquis also raised him as his own son.
But the two children raised together have completely different personalities.
In the hearts of these servants, Ye Shu is far less lovable than the young Marquis Lin Zheng. They feel that he always has a sinister and sinister temperament about him that makes people uncomfortable, making it difficult for people to get close to him.
"Did Lin Zheng bring guests back last night?"
This arrogant attitude of calling the young Marquis by his first name also made the young man feel slightly unhappy.
"Reporting to Young Master Ye Shu, at dusk last night, the young Marquis indeed brought someone to stay in the east chamber guest room. Why did Young Master Ye Shu ask about this?"
Ye Shu ignored the young man and turned around. Walk quickly towards the east wing. "Brother Ye Shu?" Bailian was looking at the topographic map of Yunzhong City that Lin Zheng left for him, making arrangements in advance for entering the dark city, when he heard a burst of hurried footsteps coming from far to near in the corridor.
He did not sleep at night. The door was wide open. When he looked up, he saw a familiar face.
In the demon world, Ye Shu followed Lin Zheng as a follower. The two were almost inseparable. Bailian was not surprised to see Ye Shu in the Hou Mansion.
He glanced at Ye Shu, noticed his disordered energy, and said in surprise: "Are you injured?"
"A little injury." Ye Shu twitched the corner of his mouth, pretending to be smiling. I said hello to him.
He did not exchange too many greetings, and said directly: "I heard that you are going to the underground city to find the lost demon pet?"
Bailian's eyes changed, He stood up suddenly and looked at Ye Shu eagerly: "You Is there any way to help me enter the dark city?"
Ye Shu closed the door behind his back, was silent for a moment, and said: "If you want to enter the dark city, you can only enter the city as a seller, a buyer, and a night hunter. .”
"Night hunter?" Bailian frowned.
Ye Shu breathed out slowly and said: "The night hunters can be said to have a cooperative relationship with the underground dark city. The underground dark city is intricately connected and sells intelligence and secrets from all over the world, as well as The night hunter provides secrets or goods to the underground city as a third party in exchange for generous rewards. "So?" Bai Lian looked at Ye Shu. , vaguely guessed something.
"I am one of the night hunters."
As expected.
Ye Shu took out a red gold token from his arms, put it on the table and said seriously: "I can take you into the dark city."
Bailian was stunned and said in a daze: "If I remember correctly If so, the Lin family and the Dark City forces are incompatible with each other. You..."
"So what?" Ye Shu lowered his eyes, and the gray morning color melted into the dark eyes: "I am not from the Lin family."
His surname is Ye, and he is Ye Shu from the Demon Sect. , I have never been part of the Lin family, so naturally I don’t have to abide by the Lin family’s rules.
Bailian looked at him deeply, put down the map in his hand, and finally realized why Ye Shu wanted to take Lin Zheng out to look for him.
Although the power in the hands of a large marquis family like the Lin family is extremely heavy, it is just like a towering building. Without the older generation of marquises to support such a large family, how can a young man like Lin Zheng be able to support it? Live.
If an innocent and powerful family loses its backbone, it will only attract countless evil wolves to surround it. I don’t know how many people are staring at the crown on the head of the young Marquis Lin Zheng.
Lin Zheng is a man who adheres to strict rules and lives his life like the blazing sun and fire, brilliant and upright. He disdains to join the others, so it is difficult for him to make any progress.
Ye Shu can only be a hidden sword, cutting through thorns and thorns, using his life to obtain the secrets of various countries, and exchange for rich resources from the dark city.
It is these resources that have built up Lin Zheng today.
And everything he did was violating the rules of the Lin clan, and he was destined to get no response.
Bailian asked: "Lin Zheng... doesn't know this, right?"
"We can't let him know this. If he knows, he will kick me out of the Hou Mansion." Speaking of this, Ye Shu's eyes showed confusion for the first time: "If I leave the Hou Mansion, I don't know where else to go."
He carefully hid the secret that must never be discovered, but He told Bai Lian without reservation.
Perhaps even Ye Shu himself didn't realize that he had developed such a trusting disposition towards Bailian at some point.
Balian could feel the gentle kindness hidden under his sharp and cold shell, and his heart couldn't help but feel warm: "Thank you, Ye Shu."
Ye Shu has endured all the sufferings and expressed his gratitude to the world. I had long since lost any expectations, but when someone suddenly said thank you so solemnly, there was still an unclear feeling in my heart, and I felt uncomfortable all over.
He picked up the red gold token again with stiff fingers and rubbed it, looking a little clumsy and pitiful.
Ye Shu lowered his head, not knowing where to put his eyes, so he could only look straight at the token in his hand: "Thank you... thank you for what, you helped me save my mother-in-law, I have nothing to do with it." That’s right. Okay, while Lin Zheng is away, let’s set out now, shall we?”
The entrance to the underground city is difficult to find. If there is no special method, it is to turn the entire cloud upside down and dig into the ground. Even three feet may not be able to find the real dark city.
The token in the hand of the night hunter can serve as a guide to lead Bailian to the entrance to the dark city.
After leaving Lin Mansion, the two found a remote place, and Ye Shu smeared blood on the token.
The red gold token immediately turned into specks of light and dissipated into a mist of particle light. Surrounded by the mist, a few bells rang, and a bright red sedan appeared in their sight.
The sedan is hovering in the air in the mist, like a phantom. The bearers carrying the sedan are not men, but four graceful women. They are slim and graceful, wearing graceful and sentimental red dance skirts and gauze hats, which are quite exotic.
But when the four women turned around and looked at each other at the same time, what was covered by the veil was the face of a decaying skeleton.
This early in the morning, such a scene of the underworld was created...
Bailian held his forehead and was speechless. If he hadn't been a dead and cold 'corpse', he might not have been so cold. The ground was startled.
Ye Shu is obviously used to it: "Get on the sedan, shall we?"
Imagine that Ye Shu is a night hunter in the dark city, and he is considered to be a high-level one. The area of this sedan It's not small, it can accommodate four or five people.
Bailian got off the sedan with him, and the four pink skeletons did not express any dissatisfaction. They hummed a sinister ghost song and walked into the cool morning breeze. He quickly disappeared into the woods.
A long, long time.
There was only a deep thud as the sedan that was floating in the air finally landed on the ground.
The sedan leading to the dark city has no curtains. Once you enter the sedan, the sedan door will appear and be locked. Balian cannot observe the inside line of the outside world entering the dark city, although he can perceive it with his spiritual sense. Probing.
But the methods of the underground city are too subtle. The entire space in the sedan is distorted and chaotic. If the spiritual consciousness is released, it will be messed up by the space formation in the sedan.
When Bai Lian and Ye Shu got out of the sedan, the four graceful beauties in pink smiled sweetly and turned into a handful of ashes, dissipating in the wind, and the big red sedan also turned into a Ask Ye Shuhaosheng to put the token away.
Looking around, there is a black ancient bridge ahead. There are countless pedestrians coming and going on the bridge, all wearing masks that hide their faces.
At the end of the bridge, there is a dark underground city that cannot be seen.
Ye Shu also took out two masks that he had prepared in advance and gave them to Balian: "The dark city is full of shady activities. Anyone who enters the dark city will not take their own. The true face is revealed. After all, everything auctioned inside is priceless. No one can guarantee whether someone will intercept and intercept you when you leave the dark city. Don't call me by my real name after you enter the city. I called him "Shadow" in the dark city, but you didn't give him a name for easy identification."
"Really?" Balian took the mask and put it on, smiled, and said, "Enter the city. After that, you called me 'a drop of blood', right?"
"A drop of blood." Ye Shu frowned, although he felt that the title sounded a bit unlucky, but he didn't say much.
(End of this chapter)