"Gone forever..."

Xie Shuci repeated these words in a daze.

Si Kongxin said with a serious face, "At that time, Ban Xiaxi's consciousness will be completely covered by negativity."

The boy poured a few drops of water from the gourd that was hanging with him, and polished the human bone on the stone.

"You shouldn't have come in." The boy bowed his head.

"He will kill us?" Sikong asked.

"Yeah." The boy muffled.

"He hates everyone here."

Xie Shuci looked around at the empty houses hidden under the gray mist, feeling melancholy in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "What happened back then?"

The young man paused in his hand and raised his head, "So what if you know? That's a fact that has already happened."

"Perhaps, there is some misunderstanding?" Xie Shuci took a chance.

But the boy said: "There is no misunderstanding."

Sikong said: "You might as well tell the four of us what happened that year, maybe we can find a way to untie Ban Xiaxi's heart knot and let Chunsheng Mountain return to the ground."

Holding the half-polished human bone, the boy stood up, looked at the four of them, and said, "I tried it before, but it failed."

Xie Shuci frowned.

The boy said again: "However, it doesn't hurt to tell you."

Anyway, you can't get out anymore.

"Wait a moment." The boy put the bone knife back into his waist, turned around and walked to the thatched cottage, opened the door and walked in, a faint light flashed inside.

With the help of the light, Xie Shuci vaguely saw a few dried and blackened fish hanging in the room.

The room was very simple, with a wooden bed next to the wall, covered with withered grass, and the quilt was a mink fur cloak stained with thick black blood, probably a relic of the previous people who entered Chunsheng Mountain.

Except for this mink fur coat, the room can be described as poor.

Xie Shuci couldn't imagine how he survived.

Not long after, the boy returned to the courtyard with a white animal skin file.

The boy and Xie Shuci sat at the stone table, and Liu Dazhuang moved the boy's half-barked tree to their side and sat down.

Seeing his rude movements, the young man frowned slightly, "Take it easy, I still want to use it as a coffin."

"Make a coffin?" Xie Shuci asked in surprise.

The young man explained: "The corpses of my parents and villagers are trapped under the water. After I finish my revenge, I will salvage them all. There are also those who died here. If you can keep the whole corpse, I will do it too." Make a coffin for you."

Xie Shuci felt astringent in his heart, "How many pieces have you made?"

The young man said: "There are more than 20 coffins. Although there are many trees here, they are too humid. There are not many woods suitable for making coffins."

"What's your name?" Si Kongxin asked suddenly.

The boy was stunned for a moment, and said: "Before my parents had time to name me, they all called me puppy."

"My name is Xie Shuci, and this is my brother Xie An, Si Kongxin, and Liu Yunhan."

Finally, Xie Shuci pointed to the king, "It is the king."

The little dog put the sheepskin scroll on the stone table, and suddenly glanced at the king, "Is it hungry?"

Xie Shuci patted the king, "Are you hungry?"

"Aww!"

The baby is a little bit hungry.

Seeing this, the little dog turned around and walked into the house, carefully scraped off a piece of fish with a bone knife, put it in front of the king, and looked at him quietly.

The still time here endows the puppy with a calmness different from his age.

The king leaned forward and smelled it, and the smell made it very unacceptable, but under the gaze of the puppy, the king was embarrassed not to eat it, so he gritted his teeth and took the piece of fish in his mouth, chewed it wholeheartedly twice, but he still couldn't taste it. The taste was quickly swallowed.

Xiao Gouzi withdrew his gaze and opened the sheepskin file in front of him. Xie Shuci immediately raised his chin and took a look. There were some ancient pictures painted with rough paint.

Xie Shuci recognized it after looking at it twice, and said: "I saw the painting on it at the Water God University.

I've seen it in people's tombs. "

Xiao Gouzi said: "This file was given to me by an outsider. He is the only person who came out alive after entering here."

Xie Shuci's body was shaken, and he exchanged a glance with Si Kongxin, who asked, "Who is he?"

"He claims to ward off evil spirits."

Xie Shuci's eyes widened in disbelief, could this have something to do with evil spirits? !

In this way, everything that Xie Shuci encounters after passing through the book is inextricably related to warding off evil spirits. Xie Shuci does not believe that there is such a coincidence in the world!

Hearing the word "exorcism", Si Kongxin and the two looked serious.

"Aside from giving you the file, what else did he do?"

"How did he leave?"

Xiao Gouzi shook his head and said, "He didn't do anything else. As for how he left, I don't know, but I didn't see his body here, so he should be alive."

The four fell into deep thought.

Xie Shuci was thinking, if the driving force behind his frequent encounters with these things is to ward off evil spirits, what is his purpose?

What's more, the dog monster asked him to find evil spirits, why?

Xiao Gouzi spread out the file and said to Xie Shuci: "What I know is not much different from what is on the file. Since you have never seen it before, you should already know it."

Xie Shuci nodded, "I know."

Xiao Gouzi continued: "Back then, my parents' ancestors had frequent contacts with the Banxia family. Because of the existence of the Banxia family, Chunsheng Mountain was like spring all year round, and the crops planted by the ancestors would have a bumper harvest every year. After a good harvest Ji, a few playful children in the village drowned accidentally, the ancestors were sparsely populated at that time, and almost all the young children in the village drowned in the water overnight, and the ancestors developed resentment towards the Banxia family because of this."

Liu Dazhuang sneered: "Others protect you from good weather, and you can't look down on your own children, so you put the blame on others? You really deserve to die!"

Little Gouzi didn't react when he heard it, and continued: "They are ignorant and ignorant, maybe they think that the water in the world is controlled by the Banxia clan, and they think they can save these children, but they let them drown. In the water, people think that the Banxia clan is not worthy of the word 'water god'."

The corner of Si Kongxin's mouth curled into a sarcastic smile, "It's ridiculous that the word 'water god' was imposed on them by mortals. What is the difference between them and monks in the world? They are just those who can control water and are willing to protect the common people in the world. Just a monk."

Xiao Gouzi didn't refute his words, as if he wasn't interested in the entanglement.

"In the beginning, although they felt resentful, they knew that they could not compete with the Ban Xia clan with their mortal strength, so they gradually distanced themselves from them. Until one day, a man dressed like a wizard came to them and told them, The nemesis of the Xia family is fire." Xiao Gouzi said in a flat tone, "In order to avenge the drowned child, the ancestors were obsessed with ghosts, and the day before setting the fire, they used the method given by the wizard to hold a ceremony in Chunsheng Mountain together with the people at the foot of the mountain. A torch ceremony was held, and the Banxia family was affected by this, their spiritual power declined, and they stayed behind closed doors. That night, the ancestors burned their tribe with a fire, and no one survived from top to bottom, from old to young."

"A bunch of beasts! This is a fucking bunch of beasts!" Liu Dazhuang cursed directly after hearing this.

Si Kongxin couldn't help but gritted his teeth, trying not to curse out loud.

However, Xie Shuci already knew about this, and felt bored and swollen in his heart.

Xiao Gouzi put away the file and said: "After the Banxia family perished, the wizard disappeared, and no one knew his identity. The ancestors recorded this in the genealogy. The description of the wizard is only Carrying a red longbow."

"The red longbow? Could it be the sunset longbow from Free & Unfettered Sect?" Liu Dazhuang asked.

Si Kongxin said: "This matter is of great importance. There are countless monks who use longbows in the world. Don't talk nonsense."

Xie An, who was listening to their conversation, smiled inexplicably.

"Since it happened to our ancestors, why do you know such details?" Si Kongxin asked.

The little dog put away the sheepskin files and said: "Some are what Ban Xiaxi said, and some are from parents.

Listen to it. "

"Have you seen Ban Xiaxi?" Xie Shuci asked in surprise.

"You guys have so many questions." The little dog stared at them, maybe because few people talked with him in these years, he didn't feel impatient because of this.

"I used to be an orphan, and the totem on my face was a symbol of my slave status. Later, I accidentally fell into the vicinity of Chunsheng Mountain. At that time, I was about the same age as Ban Xiaxi. I planned to seek death and drown myself in the water, but I met Banxia. Xi. At that time, he was not dumb and could speak."

Due to the long history of this matter, when he mentioned it again, there was not much fluctuation on his face.

Xiaogouzi said: "He is my only friend. I heard something about his family from him. At that time, the whole clan sent him out of the tribe with the little spiritual power left. He could have lived , I didn't realize that he was dead, until I grew taller and grown up two years later, but he didn't change at all. Only then did I know that he didn't leave alone, he tried to use his meager strength to pour water Putting out the fire, unfortunately failed.”

When he said the last sentence, Xiaogouzi's tone rarely fluctuated.

"Because of the totem on my face, even if I beg, no one is willing to give me a bite of food. Only my parents and the villagers here are willing to take me in. If it weren't for them, I would have starved to death. But, I don't know that my father Mother's ancestor was the enemy who killed the Banxia clan. When Ban Xiaxi learned that I recognized my father and mother as adoptive father and mother, he suddenly disappeared. When he reappeared, it was three years later, and it was no longer me. The Ban Xiaxi I used to know."

After that, the flood happened, causing all the surrounding people to move out of the vicinity of Chunsheng Mountain, and Chunsheng Mountain sank to the bottom of the water not long after.

"Do you hate him?" Xie Shuci asked.

"I don't hate, I avenge my parents because I want to repay their kindness, but I don't hate him."

After listening to Xie Shuci, he couldn't help sighing. Rather than staying in Chunsheng Mountain for revenge, the little dog was actually looking for a reason to stay in Chunsheng Mountain and silently accompany Ban Xiaxi through thousands of years. Years ago.

Just like when he was asked for the first time, he said that the object of revenge was "Shui", not Ban Xiaxi.

Xie Shuci suddenly remembered something, turned his head to look at Si Kongxin, and asked, "My Fu Long magic weapon can dispel the miasma and let him maintain a positive personality temporarily. Can it turn the black sea water back to its original color?"

In some matters, Xie Shuci is like this, he doesn't want to be obsessed with who is right and who is wrong, it doesn't matter to him, because it has nothing to do with him, he just acts purely according to his own mood.

It's like, he knows that what his ancestors did to the Banxia clan is so wrong that it cannot be forgiven, but he is still just a bystander, unable to replace the Banxia clan and the "law" in the original world to sanction them, what he can do What is right is to do what you want to do and what you can do.

Hearing this, Xiao Gouzi's eyes froze, and he looked straight at Xie Shuci.

Si Kongxin frowned and pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, Fu Long's magic weapon can indeed expel the miasma and suppress the resentment in him, but it's just driving and suppressing it. As for whether it can eliminate the resentment in his heart, I don't know." clear."

Xie Shuci pursed his lips and lowered his head, "After coming out of the fairy tomb, I heard Chu Wenfeng mention that in the tomb, it was Ban Xiayin who cleared away... the evil spirits on those earth ghosts, maybe they can find him There is a way!"

After hearing this, Si Kongxin didn't have much hope, "There is an essential difference between evil spirits and resentment, not to mention that the sea water here has been accumulated for thousands of years and will not be eliminated so easily. However, we are here anyway The purpose is to find Ban Xiayin, but you can give it a try."

Xiao Gouzi listened to the conversation between the two, with some expectations in his eyes, he lowered his head and pulled out the very sharp bone knife from his waist, and put it on the stone table.

"This is the most precious thing in my body. I give it to you. Can you please try your best to make the water here return to its original color?"

The little dog's eyes stopped on Xie Shuci's face, with a very sincere expression.

After hearing this, Liu Dazhuang said in astonishment: "What's the matter with you kid? Don't you want to take revenge on Ban Xiaxi? Why do you still want us to help him?"

Liu Dazhuang is so stubborn, he doesn't understand the style at all.

Xiao Gouzi is a very organized person. Hearing Liu Dazhuang's question, he explained: "The person who killed my parents was the negative Ban Xiaxi in your mouth. If I can eliminate the negative him, I can also be regarded as avenging my parents." revenge."

Liu Dazhuang: "..."

After thinking about it carefully, he actually felt a little convinced. There seemed to be nothing wrong with this logic.

Xie Shuci looked at the sharp bone knife on the table and asked, "Is this thing made from human bones?"

Xiaogouzi nodded: "I picked up some broken limbs and arms."

"No, no! Put it away quickly, even if you don't tell me, I will try my best."

Xie Shuci hurriedly shook his head, the more he looked at the pale thing, the more flustered he felt, who wants to carry human bones with him! Xie Shuci will be scared to death sooner or later.

Sikong said: "Tell me first, how Ban Xiaxi kills outsiders, and why you are not affected by the miasma here."

Xiao Gouzi nodded and said: "At first there was no miasma here. Maybe my body has adapted to the underwater environment, so it was not affected. As for how he killed outsiders and used water, you are still alive, which can only prove that he temporarily I don't want to lay hands on you."

A flash of light flashed in Xie Shuci's mind, he sat up straight, and said in surprise: "The reason why Ban Xiaxi doesn't kill us now is that we promised him before to help him explain to Ban Xiayin?"

Si Kongxin was stunned after hearing this, "Brother Shuci makes sense."

"So, we are all safe until Ban Xiayin is found?" Liu Dazhuang said.

Si Kongxin shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, the negative Ban Xiaxi's emotions are not stable, and no one can be sure when he will strike. Brother, you should be very familiar with the mountains, take us to see first."

"Yes, yes, but you all have to follow me to a place first."

"where?"

"Iezuka."

After sitting for a while, a group of people walked towards the back mountain.

Xiao Gouzi led the way with a pearl in front, and Xie Shuci followed behind. Perhaps there was a "native" named Xiao Gouzi, and the few people were no longer as tense as before.

On the quiet mountain road, the appearance of a few people seems to embellish a little other color in the silent landscape painting.

Not long after, the four of them followed the puppy to the foot of the back mountain.

The terrain here is relatively low, and the black sea water floods the foot of the mountain. Under the light of the pearl, it looks a little bleak.

The five stood on a hillside, overlooking the land swallowed by the sea below, and gasped.

I saw that in the land under the hillside, dozens of graves were densely dug, some of which still had this simple empty coffin, and the thick ink-like sea water had already submerged some of the graves.

"The water level has risen again." The little dog murmured, with an imperceptible sigh in his tone.

"This...you dug it all?" Xie Shuci said in disbelief.

"Um."

Looking at the grave that was engulfed by sea water, Xiao Gouzi's expression became complicated and sad.

"I've dug hundreds of graves here," Xiaogouzi said.

Xie Shuci looked at the tomb closest to them. The soil on it was uneven, and it should have been dug out not long ago.

He dug one when the sea water filled it.

Xie Shuci had to admire his perseverance, if this matter were put on Xie Shuci, his mentality would have collapsed long ago.

As if they sensed the five people on the hillside, the quiet sea water below the slope suddenly swayed slightly, and the water splashed against the small tomb on the ground, and the merciless sea water poured into the tomb.

How much hatred do you have to do to do this? Not even a resting place is allowed after death.

How can the resentment accumulated for thousands of years be dissipated.

"You said earlier that the corpses of the villagers were trapped in the water?" Si Kongxin asked.

Xiao Gouzi pointed to the increasingly turbulent sea water in the distance, and said, "It's all below."

"Then their souls..."

"It's also down there, Ban Xiaxi won't let them reincarnate." Xiao Gouzi said.

Xie Shuci sighed.

Xie An, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked, "Where are the dead bodies of the Ban Xia clan buried?"

The little dog froze, his face turned pale, and he said: "According to the genealogy records, the Banxia family was burned to ashes, and there was no body left. The ashes... were thrown into the river."

Xie An lowered his eyes, and a mocking smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth, "Tit for tat is all."

"I don't fucking understand, as for? Hate them so much?"

Si Kongxin also said: "It's nothing more than a setback."

To, at,?

As for?

Unfortunately, until now, no one has come to answer them.

The dark sea water slapped the ground, making a low-pitched roar.

For thousands of years, in the quiet and silent space, only sea water roared unwillingly and angry through the waves for decades.

In a corner they didn't see, a pale face floated in the water.

With silver pupils drooping, he stared blankly at the few people on the hillside.

As for?

These three light words seem to make everything that happened less important.

He closed his eyes slightly, the memory of that time is still vivid in his mind.

The fire swept across the entire tribe. The scorching temperature, fleeing figures, and screams, everything was as clear as it happened yesterday.

The intense, fiery flames can incapacitate them with fear.

At first, they didn't know who it was who brought them the disaster.

Therefore, at the first moment when the fire spread, his elder brother, the young head of the Banxia clan, was still worried that this damn flame would hurt other people in the mountain, because many mortals gathered in the mountain for the torch meeting.

When he was in danger, his elder brother summoned a water mirror with a small amount of spiritual power, which reflected every corner of the mountain.

He searched many places, but didn't see anyone, until their tribe was reflected on the water mirror.

Then, he saw his brother froze.

In the turbulent fire, the elder brother stood quietly in the fire, and Ban Xiaxi stood behind him with tears in his eyes. It was impossible to imagine that at this moment, the face of the elder brother who always had a gentle smile appeared. What kind of expression.

In the water mirror in front of his brother, he saw a group of people standing outside the tribe. They held up the torches in their hands and threw them into their tribe one by one, burning down their houses and their clansmen.

Those people had happy smiles on their faces, and hatred in their eyes, as if they had done something heinous.

However, they obviously did nothing.

At that moment, he saw his indomitable brother tremble.

Brother, are you also afraid?

afraid of what?

Are you afraid of this sudden fire, or are you afraid of those hideous human beings?

The fire destroyed their way of retreat, and the clansmen were dead or wounded. Except for the crackling and burning sound of the flames, not even a wail could be heard.

"elder brother……"

"Um……"

That fear made my brother's voice tremble.

"Uncle...they..."

"Um."

The elder brother put away the water mirror, staggered, and leaned on the candlestick, "Xiaoxi, elder brother has no strength, you have to escape by yourself, you understand?"

"Brother..." Ban Xiaxi shook his head desperately with tears rolling down his face.

The elder brother used the last trace of spiritual power in his body to form a blue water flow, wrapping around Ban Xiaxi, but he never looked back at him.

"Be obedient, escape from the hole you usually sneak out of, you are the last blood of my Ban Xia family..."

Ban Xiaxi was weak and sick when he was young, and his elder brother let him rest in the tribe. He accidentally found a dog hole and often sneaked out from there.

It turns out that my brother knows it all.

"I can't last long, let's go!"

Brother turned his head sideways, and a teardrop rolled down his cheek.

It turned out that his elder brother would also be afraid to cry...

Ban Xiaxi took a deep breath, and the phrase "the last blood of the Ban Xia clan" seemed to give him endless courage. He wiped away his tears and took a deep look at his brother, as if making a final farewell, then turned to face the old man in his memory. place to run.

The blue water light on its body appears and disappears from time to time, indicating the fragile physical condition of its owner.

He shuttled through the sea of ​​flames, and the remaining spiritual power in his body was not enough to support him to escape. When the spiritual power was about to dissipate, a faint ray of spiritual power flew towards him in the sea of ​​flames, and merged with his brother's spiritual power. Together, protect him outside his body.

"Go..." A weak murmur came from the sea of ​​fire.

Ban Xiaxi recognized this person as his uncle.

As he walked through the sea of ​​flames, from time to time, there would be spiritual power that was so weak that he could hardly feel it, it seemed that they were using their last breath in their lives to protect the last hope of the Banxia clan to escape from birth.

Tears came one after another, and the flames made his legs weak, but he didn't dare to stop for a moment. The last hope of the whole clan was carried on him, and he couldn't stop.

When he crawled out of the dog hole on hands and feet, he ran to a place far away from the sea of ​​fire with the last of his strength. In the process, he felt that the last spiritual power belonging to the whole clan was dissipating. .

The spiritual power disappeared, proving that they were dead.

His body slumped on the ground, realizing that the last trace of spiritual power belonging to his brother had disappeared, and finally he couldn't control it anymore. He bit his lower lip tightly and let out a low, desperate sob.

However, at this moment, he heard a sound of chaotic footsteps behind him.

He wanted to stand up and leave, but he couldn't make any effort.

Ban Xiaxi has already escaped from the sea of ​​flames, why is he still dying?

Yes, why.