Mirror: Twin Cities - Chapter 53

People…shark people should live in water, right? Otherwise, the blood in the body will be frozen by the cold on the land. However, who is forcing them to leave the sea and become slaughtered fish?

In the windless night, the dark desire in my heart receded like a tide after the peak, leaving behind endless exhaustion.

The night seems to be long without end, without a trace of light…Why is it not bright yet?

The blood on the bed slowly cooled down, and the body of the woman next to him slowly stiffened. He exhaled, pushed open in disgust, closed his eyes, and began to rest for a short time—

However, the moment he closed his eyes, he saw that white robe, like a shooting star, fell straight from before his eyes, farther and farther away… However, the strange thing was that the face of the falling person turned more and more. The more clearly it emerged, the closer and closer to him. The pale face was raised, eyes looked at him lifelessly, fingers stretched out almost to touch his face: “Suma”-the withered petal-like lips closed slightly, calling him.

In the darkness, he woke up suddenly. The curtain is heavy, and the fragrance of incense is sweet and rotten, mixed with the smell of blood.

Are you dreaming again? … He slowly closed his eyes and forced himself to sleep.

“Somo.” However, the voice repeated again, close at hand.

The finger tapped lightly on the door leaf, and it sounded like thunder in the silence before dawn: “It’s me.”

He suddenly sat up from the piles of brocade mattresses, the little puppet on the bedside seemed to be affected by his movements, and jumped up with a knock. The heads of the shark and the doll turned to the door outside the curtain at the same time. The empty eyes of the puppet master flashed brightly in the dark night, and they suddenly changed countless times, but after all, they were silent and did not speak.

“I’m Bai Ying.” The voice outside the door was very soft and calm, suddenly like a dream, “——Are you inside?”

The corner of the little puppet’s mouth was bent upward, but as soon as his mouth opened, the puppet master’s hand suddenly protruded and covered his mouth, as if to stop some words abruptly.

However, the puppet’s hand moved. Before the owner had time to control it, the leads on the left and right wrists flew out, and the ring attached to it was wrapped around the door leaf, pulled and opened with a rattle.

The gleaming blue-gray sky light before dawn penetrated in, accompanied by the wet wind on a rainy day, blowing the overlapping curtains in the room.

The door opened suddenly, and the woman in white who was about to walk away stopped, turned her head, and looked into the open door without any obstruction. The wind and rain under the porch blew her ankle-length hair, pale as snow.

The eyes that couldn’t see anything seemed unable to withstand the sky light that suddenly penetrated at this moment. The puppet master sat up naked on the couch, subconsciously raising his hand to block his eyes. However, as he sat up, the naked female corpse covered with blood on the side of the bed fell with a snap, and hit the foot of the mahogany bed with her head heavy, blood pouring from the dead man’s forehead.

Suddenly, the two people inside and outside the door did not speak, and the silence seemed as if an invisible abyss burst open, engulfing everything.

Only the little puppet sat on the head of the bed, grinned silently, opened his hands, and made a gesture of “greeting” the visitors outside the door.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, dragging into the corridor, blowing the peculiar long white hair of the woman in white, and then blowing it into the airtight room, instantly sweeping away the smell of incense that filled the room, making people’s minds abrupt. wide awake.

Neither person spoke, staring silently. This time they looked at each other, as if a hundred years had passed.

How can you not be shocked? Looking back again is a hundred years old.

No matter what kind of past they have had, they no longer know the person in front of them.

It turned out she was like this. …What a ridiculous thing, he actually “sees” her for the first time.

A hundred years ago, the shark boy had heard her voice, touched her cheek, and kissed the center of her eyebrows… However, the blind boy had never seen her before. The touch of the finger outlined the appearance of the noble girl in his heart. That illusory face has appeared in nightmares countless times in a hundred years-the pale face is upright, the eyes are looking at him lifelessly, the fingers stretch out almost to touch his face, the withered petals. His lips closed slightly, calling him. Then, the time and space suddenly split, and the white dress floated like a feather into an invisible abyss.

She also couldn’t recognize the young man sitting in a pool of blood in front of her.

At the last moment of a hundred years ago, she said goodbye to the shark boy with a secret sneer and cruelty engraved on the child’s face. The dark blue eyes were dim and unfocused, just like the eyes of some kind of reptile. However, that teenage face was still childish and green, completely different from the shamelessness of the man in front of him.

After a long silence, an unpredictable smile appeared at the corners of the blood-covered puppet master’s mouth, put down his hand, kicked the dead body completely off the bed, put on a long coat and walked down to the ground indifferently, raising it like a challenge. Start to meet any expressions and eyes.

silence. In the silence, a flash of lightning suddenly cracked the sky, illuminating the sky and the earth.

The woman in white did not speak, looking at such a scene, the lightning reflected on her face, reflecting her faintly transparent, intangible illusion. After a long time, she lowered her head, her lowered eyes seemed to hide her expression, but she sighed out a word: “Suma, how did you make yourself like this…”

With a single word, all the wall barriers were completely defeated in an instant.

He suddenly started.

“It’s quiet.” Na Sheng sighed as he listened to the sound in the back room, and didn’t hear anything for a long time. Then he wrapped her up in Xijing and continued to dawdle: “So, the princess was just about my age at that time?-Tell me more details, such a wonderful story, you finished with just a few words?”

“Wonderful? Story?” I was so entangled that I told this little girl the story about a hundred years ago in a brief and concise manner. Xijing was regretting his next difficult business. He couldn’t help hearing Na Sheng’s words. He jumped up, his face changed, “You girl, you know a ghost! You have the ability to jump down from there to show me?”

Na Sheng didn’t expect Xijing’s reaction to be so violent, he couldn’t help shrinking his head and sticking his tongue out.

“I knew that Sumo was not a good person.” It further confirmed her initial opinion, and the Dongba girl frowned. “But I didn’t expect him to be like that since he was a child! If the sharks were like him, then he deserves to be treated. …”

Before she finished speaking, she closed her mouth abruptly and looked at the door opened by the saloon.

Seeing that it was the person who had apparently risen to visit Xijing in the morning, Na Sheng suddenly stuttered, afraid to look at Yan Xi’s eyes, and lowered his head: “I, I’m not talking about all the sharks… I’m just talking about that Sumo…”

“Ms. Sheng, why are you back again?” Yan Xi frowned and looked at her with a cold voice, “Young Master let you go.”

Na Sheng smiled awkwardly, but when he saw Yan Xi’s tone, he felt aggrieved-why do people have two faces? But where is Yan Xi, who took her to death a day ago?

“I’m sorry, I asked her to stay.” Xijing stood up and replied to the warrior soldier, “I’m waiting for Ting to come back-when she comes back, I will immediately take Na Sheng and Young Master Murong to leave the Ruyi Gambling House, please Be a little bit more generous.”

Seeing the swordsman in front of him, Yan Xi’s eyes fluctuated, and suddenly bowed his bow and saluted: “Master Xijing, I was too late last night, come over to pay tribute to you in the next morning-a hundred years ago, if you hadn’t tried to stop all the sharks in Jialan City, It has been retaliated and slaughtered by the Kongsang people a long time ago.”

Xijing was a little surprised and smiled embarrassingly: “It’s just a moment of anger, why bother so? It was my colleagues who were bewildered by anger and wanted to do that kind of frenzied massacre. I didn’t go crazy with them, of course I had to stop it.”

“If everyone is like your Excellency…” Yan Xi sighed in a low voice, after all, he didn’t finish. Lifting his head, his eyes returned to sharpness in an instant, and his voice became cold: “But even so, the young master’s order must be executed-that girl Sheng must leave the Ruyi Gambling House, otherwise I have to do it.”

“Uh… do it?” Xijing didn’t expect this shark warrior to be so mentally minded, and smirked, “Do you expect to compete with me and be an opponent?”

“The order cannot be violated.” Yan Xi stood up with his sword, his voice calm.

Xijing narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes were cold and sharp, and he laughed from his nose.

“Hey, hello! Uncle, don’t do it!” After seeing Xijing’s greatness, Na Sheng was shocked, jumped up, and quickly grabbed Xijing’s hand, for fear that he would draw his sword in anger, and replied hurriedly, “I’ll go out.” , I’ll go out! I’ll go out and wait for you at the corner of the street-you wait for Ting to come back, and then come out to find me together.”

“Eh?” Xijing didn’t mean to draw the sword at first, but looked at her in surprise, “Are you afraid that I would kill him?”

Na Sheng was a little embarrassed, and finally remembered a reason: “He saved my life from under the wind falcon.”

“Oh.” Xijing glanced suspiciously at Na Sheng. He always felt that the reason was a bit far-fetched, but when he looked at Yan Xi, he nodded, “The Zuoquan envoy of the Restoration Army–heard of your name for a hundred years, it really does. Plant it.”

After a pause, the swordsman smiled and threw away the hip flask in his hand, clapped his hands, and looked out the window: “Come on, don’t make you embarrassed–then Sheng, go out and avoid it… Damn, that girl Ting What’s the matter? Isn’t it just going to Chengdong to buy a pot of wine, why haven’t you come back for so long?”

While talking, looking out the window, his face changed abruptly, looking towards the east of the city.

Under the dim sky at dawn, the rain curtain was dense, and suddenly