Xie Shuci hugged the king and turned around, looking at the empty deck, feeling lost for a moment.

Du Pingsheng and the two left as early as noon. heard from him that he planned to go to Xiao Bao's mother to retreat for two months and write the second part of "Strange Records". He hoped to finish it before the Xianmen general election.

Before leaving, Xie Shuci gave them two soul-returning pills, fearing that something might happen to them in the future. As for Free & Unfettered Sect, almost all the Free & Unfettered Sect disciples in Machine Reading City died at the hands of Xie An. They are too busy to take care of themselves, so they probably don't have the energy to trouble Du Pingsheng for the time being.

Xie Shuci learned how to set up a barrier from Si Kongye, and he planned to set up a barrier and rest on the boat for a day before setting off.

As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place, when those people find that they are no longer in the city. When I chased them out, I must have thought that they had slipped away long ago, so I didn't do any more searches, and went straight to Baimen.

Xie Shuci set up an enchantment outside the Shenzhou, and ordinary monks couldn't see them or feel their aura.

Back in the cabin with the king, little Xie An was still asleep on the bed.

Xie Shuci walked to the side of the couch and sniffed his breath. After what happened last night, Xie Shuci was always afraid that he would die suddenly. Although he knew it was impossible, he still couldn't help worrying.

"You stay here to guard Xie... Brother Xiao Xun, I'll go and see Xie An." Xie Shuci said to the king.

"Oh!" The king responded, and in order to reassure Xie Shuci, he even changed back to his original shape and lay down on the couch.

Xie Shuci went up and rubbed its head, then covered the pearl in the room, turned around and opened the secret room.

A few candles were burning in the secret room, and the light was dim and soft. As the door of the secret room was slowly opened, the candles in the room danced lightly, reflecting Xie Shuci's figure on the screen.

Xie Shuci walked slowly to the side of the couch, the first thing was to check on Xie An's breath.

Xie An slept very deeply, his breath was steady and even, and he looked no different from someone who was in deep sleep. Xie Shujian couldn't help but breathe lightly, always feeling that he would still be the same as usual, waking up from his sleep immediately when there was any movement around him.

But this time, Xie Shuci had stood beside him for so long, and he showed no sign of waking up.

Xie Shuci couldn't help sighing, and went to check the wounds on his body. The healing speed was still slow, but there was nothing serious about it.

In the end, Xie Shuci simply sat down on the footrest, lying on the edge of the bed and quietly watching Xie An's sleeping face.

Xie Shuci made a decision in his heart.

Since the fate cannot be avoided, he simply does not hide.

Xie An has important matters to go to the Xianmen general election, so he will accompany him there, anyway, he will die anyway, and he prefers to stay with Xie An during the time before his death.

In the silence that filled the room, Xie Shuci fell asleep without knowing it.

When he wakes up in the middle of the night, the candles in the secret room will burn to the end.

Xie Shuci changed a few candles, kissed the corner of Xie An's mouth at last, and walked out of the secret room.

Back in the room, the room was dark, the king was lying on the side of the couch, sleeping soundly, wagging his tail from time to time, it seemed that he had a very happy dream.

Xie Shuci stepped forward and rubbed the hair on the back of Brain's neck, and then went over it to check Xiao Xun's situation on the couch.

He couldn't see Xiao Xun's face clearly in the dark, and wanted to reach out to check his breath, but just as he stretched out his hand, before it touched his skin, it was blocked by a finger.

Xie Shuci was stunned for a moment, then asked in surprise, "Are you awake?"

He didn't feel Xiao Xun's breath.

"Hmm." A slightly hoarse voice came from above his head.

Xie Shuci asked, "How do you feel?"

Xiao Xun pushed his hand back and asked without answering, "Have you gone to see the people inside?"

Xie Shuci nodded and said, "He was hurt a little."

After a moment of silence, Xiao Xun asked again: "Is he Xie An?"

Xie Shuci sat down beside the bed and said, "Yes, he is Xie An."

"Are you worried about him?"

"Well, I'm worried about him."

Xie Shuci rested his chin in one hand, and only a silhouette could be seen in the dark room.

"You like him very much?"

"Well, I like him a lot."

Xie Shuci didn't know why he asked such a question, he just wanted to talk to him, although he remembered that his age and appearance were different, but he was Xie An, just the Xie An when he was a child.

"How much do you like it?"

Xie Shuci glanced at him, but couldn't see his expression clearly, but there was a faint light in those dark eyes, "Do you know what liking is?"

Xiao Xun lowered his eyes, "I don't know."

Xie Shuci looked at him curiously and asked, "Don't you have anything you like?"

Xiao Xun asked, "What is liking?"

Xie Shuci didn't know how to explain his liking to a poor kid. After thinking for a while, he said, "Let me give you an analogy. Some people like swords and become sword cultivators; some people like to cure diseases and save lives and become Dan Xiu; I like to be unrestrained, so I practiced the Way of Freedom. Do you understand what I mean?"

He nodded and said, "Do whatever you like."

"Yes, that's pretty much what it means."

Xiao Xun lowered his head, stretched his thin chin, and said, "I have cultivated the way of killing, does that mean I like killing?"

Xie Shuci was taken aback for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

He had never thought about this question before, Xie Anxiu said, is it because he likes to kill? He also didn't know why Xie An wanted to cultivate the Dao of Slaughter.

Son of the Dao of Heaven, this should be a very noble status in the eyes of outsiders, why did Xiao Xun turn to practice this Dao of Slaughter that would be expelled by the Dao of Heaven?

Could it be that he was so bad from birth?

Xie Shuci turned his head to look at him, and said softly: "Not necessarily. Tell me first why you want to practice the Dao of Slaughter, and I will analyze it for you?"

Xiao Xun's tone was light, "Because I want to kill people."

Xie Shuci: "..."

Such a simple, crude reason.

Xie Shuci ended the topic in a nonchalant manner, afraid of going on, the little boy suddenly said "I want to kill someone, you go find someone for me, or you let me kill".

Xie Shuci curled his mouth, "Okay, you've slept for so long, are you hungry? There should be some dry food on board."

"Do you like Xie An more or my father?" Xiao Xun asked abruptly.

Xie Shuci said helplessly: "I like them both, regardless of superiority or inferiority."

Xiao Xun asked again: "How about this dog?"

Xie Shuci didn't know why he asked so clearly, so he could only explain: "I like them differently than I like the king."

"What's the difference?"

For this spirit of breaking the casserole and asking the end, Xie Shuci really has no choice.

"Everywhere is different. You are still young and don't understand."

"I don't understand, you can explain."

Xie Shuci never expected that Xie An didn't like to talk since he was a child, but his thirst for knowledge was still very high when he was young. But he didn't know how to distinguish his liking for Xie An from his liking for the king.

He can't say, I like Xie An like your parents like you, like Dawang like your parents like you, the key is that this guy is still young, Xie Shuci doesn't want to tell him these things .

"I can't explain it to you, I can't explain it clearly. Do you usually have so many problems at home?"

Xie Shuci was just asking, and had absolutely no other meaning, let alone finding him annoying.

But after hearing his words, Xiao Xun buried his head even lower and said, "No."

Xie Shuci felt that he was a little depressed, and squeezed his arm with a smile, "What's the matter? No one answered you at home?"

Xiao Xun didn't know the reason, but he felt at ease staying with Xie Shuci. After he was silent for a long time, seeing Xie Shuci still looking at him helplessly, he said slowly, "I can't talk at home."

Xie Shuci was startled, "Why?"

"They said I was different from everyone else."

"They? Who? Are you sick? How are you different from others? Why don't they let you do it?" Xie Shuci frowned and asked.

Xiao Xun could hear the indignation in Xie Shuci's voice, he kind of enjoyed the emotion Xie Shuci produced because of him.

He lowered his eyes and said silently: "They locked me in one place, and they will only let me out when they need me."

Xie Shuci frowned even tighter, "When will they need you?"

Xiao Xun said: "They have difficulties."

"What do you need?"

"I need to help them solve it."

Xiao Xun stared at his fingers with dark eyes, and said: "They will kneel on the ground and beg me, I need to satisfy all their demands."

Just like a cold Buddha statue, he doesn't need to make a sound or move, he just needs to sit obediently on the altar and fulfill their wishes.

What can be placed on the altar should be a Buddha statue, not a person with thinking and soul.

Because Xie An represented half of the Dao of Heaven, they hoped that he could be like Dao of Heaven, only needing to be trapped on the altar to accept their prayers.

This kind of him is not alone at all. He cannot have his own thoughts and can only be at the mercy of them.

It is not a symbol of heaven at all, he is more, more like... a... slave... driven by people's desires.

Would a person like Xie An be willing to be someone else's slave?

No, absolutely not.

So he started to rebel? Against the way of heaven, but also against the desires of people.

So he cultivated the Dao of Killing, and when people asked him to carry their hopes, he tore their hopes to pieces with his own hands.

Deviant?

This is not deviant at all.

This is... the death of jade and stone.

He was just resisting with the way of burning jade and stone together.

Xie Shuci felt a little distressed.

From the moment he was born, he was forcibly placed on the altar.

Without thought, there is no freedom.

So what's so scary about death? What's so scary about disappearing? What's so scary about pain?

Will he be willing to be controlled by others? Would you be willing to be someone else's tool?

Xie Shuci caressed his temples with his hands, something seemed to be blocked in his throat, making him unable to say any comforting words.

Xie Shuci's fingers stuck to his skin with a trace of warmth, which made Xiao Xun feel a strange feeling in his heart. He likes that Xie Shuci is sad for him, and he also likes the way Xie Shuci looks at him intently.

He didn't know the reason, but he was simply greedy for Xie Shuci's temperature.

Perhaps it was to see Xie Shuci's concern for him, or perhaps he had never met a person who was willing to listen to his thoughts.

He avoided Xie Shuci's starry eyes, covered his eyelids with long eyelashes, and said in a very calm tone: "I have cultivated the way of killing, and they don't allow it."

Xie Shuci looked at him quietly and listened to him say, "What did they do to you?"

"Do you know the legends about the punishments that sinful people will receive when they enter hell after death?" Xiao Xun raised his eyes and looked at him.

Xie Shuci's heart seemed to be cut open in the middle by a knife, and the cocoon-like pain spread from his chest to the veins of his whole body. He seemed to have guessed something, but he was afraid that his guess was true.

His teeth began to tremble inexplicably, and he even hoped that Xiao Xun would stop talking.

Xiao Xun didn't seem to feel his trembling and flinching.

He wanted Xie Shuci to feel sorry for him, he wanted to get what he wanted from Xie Shuci, and he had never felt the emotion before, he said: "They said I was guilty, that I violated the way of heaven, and should be severely punished." punish."

Xie Shuci's expression was a bit unbearable, but he still tried his best to keep his smile on. He was a little afraid to listen any more, but he had to listen, he had to listen, he wanted to know what his Xie An had been through, He wants to keep these in mind.

"They pulled out my tongue and restored it with spiritual power..."

As soon as he said a word, Xie Shuci couldn't hold on any longer, and tears rolled down his cheeks.

In the dim light, his teardrops were like a dim star falling from the night sky, Xiao Xun's voice suddenly stopped in his throat.

Xie Shuci wiped away his tears and asked, "What else did they do to you? Tell me."

Xie Shuci's voice became hoarse.

Xiao Xun just looked at him fixedly, he didn't like Xie Shuci's tears.

He hoped that Xie Shuci would look at him intently, but he didn't want his eyes to shed tears.

He shook his head, lowered his eyes and said, "They didn't have time to do anything to me, you rescued me, didn't you?"

Xie Shuci's eyes seemed to be pricked by a needle. In his current memory, Xie Shuci saved him from going through those criminal laws in time, but in fact? When his Xie An was nine years old, after he decided to cultivate the Dao of Slaughter, how many methods did they use to stop him? punish him?

He didn't even dare to think about it deeply, if he thought about it an inch deeper, he would feel a sharp pain in his bones.

Xiao Xun doesn't like Xie Shuci's tears, but he likes Xie Shuci's tears for him.

He likes the fireworks on Xie Shuci's body, which is different from anyone he has seen before. But obviously this was the first day he knew Xie Shuci, yet he seemed to be very familiar with him.

He raised his arm, put his palm twice smaller than Xie An's on Xie Shuci's cheek, stroked the tears on Xie Shuci's cheek with his cold fingers, and said like a ghost, "Xie Shuci, how can you like my father?" Like Xie An, do you also like me?"

His gentle movements seemed to be comforting, Xie Shuci was a little embarrassed, pushed his hands away from his face, and said, "No, you are too young, but I can like you like a king."

Xiao Xun was a little unhappy, looked at the king who was sleeping soundly on the ground, then looked at Xie Shuci, frowned slightly, and said, "Am I like a dog?"

Xie Shuci: "..."

Xie Shuci burst out laughing with a "puchi".

Xiao Xun looked at him and suddenly found that he liked Xie Shuci's smile more than Xie Shuci's tears and heartache.

In the dim room, tears were still shining in his eyes, and he squinted his eyes with a smile, like crescent moons.

Xie Shuci raised his hand and rubbed his head, "Then, can I like you a little more than him?"

There was a slight smile in his voice, Xiao Xun suddenly felt like he was fighting for food with a dog, he lowered his head and didn't speak.

But Xie Shuci deliberately teased him, and asked relentlessly: "What's wrong? Talk, can you?"

Xiao Xun is now a nine-year-old child after all, he can't bear to be teased, his cheeks are a little hot, he hangs his head and wants to speak, but he can't hold back a word for a long time.

Xie Shuci looked at his reaction and couldn't help but find it funny. His little blind man was cute when he was a child, and he knew how to be shy... Xie Shuci has never seen Xie An shy. He usually looks serious, but he is not serious in private. There are so many tricks.

The more things you have never seen, the more novel you feel, and the more you want to see them.

He bowed down. He bumped against Xiao Xun's arm, "Ask you? Is it okay? If you don't speak, I like it a little more than you."

Xiao Xun tensed his face, looked up at Xie Shuci, then quickly looked away, "Mmm..."

"Huh?" Xie Shuci pretended not to hear, "What did you say?"

"En." Xiao Xun's voice was a little louder.

"Huh? I didn't hear clearly."

Xiao Xun: "..."

No matter how stupid Xiao Xun is, he should know that Xie Shuci is deliberately teasing him, not to mention that he himself is not stupid.

Raising his eyes to meet Xie Shuci's smiling eyes, he pushed Xie Shuci angrily.

How could Xie Shuci have imagined that this little boy had such great strength, he pushed him off the bed, and sat on the ground with a "plop" on his buttocks.

"Hiss—" Xie Shuci's fall during the day didn't heal, but he suffered another disaster, "Why did you strike so lightly, I was just joking with you."

"Not funny."

Xie Shuci stood up while rubbing his butt, and muttered, "It's not cute at all."

He walked up to the king, put its tail on the ground, and sat down with his back against its belly. He felt a familiar breath approaching in his sleep. The king didn't wake up, but habitually rolled up Xie Shuci with his tail. .

Xie Shuci said: "Brother doesn't have the same knowledge as you, let's rest for the next two days, and I will take you out to play."

"Where to go?"

"interesting place."

Resting in the mountains for half a day, Xie Shuci and the king's body recovered almost, Xie Shuci put away the Shenzhou, took Xiao Xun and the king to a nearby small town.

The small town is not far from Machine Reading City. Xie Shuci planned to buy some soft dry food and maps in the town, and then took the commercial road to Tianzhu City.

There are trades between states and countries in the cultivation world. There is usually a road dedicated to ordinary businessmen. Only the fortress will allow entry and exit.

Xie Shuci thought about it. Although the business road is winding and twisty, and every time you reach a fortress, you have to change the road guide to go to the next place, but it is relatively safe. Those people would never think that at such a critical moment, Xie Shuci and Xie An, two cultivators, will choose to leave by taking the business route.

But how to get the road guide for merchants is a difficult problem for Xie Shuci.

He originally wanted to join a caravan with Xiao Xun and leave, but the trade in the town is basically with Machine Reading City, and there is no caravan going to Bian Province, and it is impossible for Xie Shuci to return In Machine Reading City, there seemed to be no other towns nearby, and things suddenly came to an impasse.

Without getting the guide, Xie Shuci couldn't take the risk of taking Xiao Xun to leave directly.

After buying the soft goods in the small town, and learning about the situation, Xie Shuci did not leave in a hurry, and imitated Chu Guiyi's method of collecting information before, and sat in a teahouse with a lot of people to see if he could find any opportunities .

However, he sat in the teahouse for a long time, but he didn't find anything useful, but their combination was too conspicuous, and the little granddaughter of the teahouse owner ran to them from time to time to touch the king quietly.

When the king turned into a puppy, he was very naive and very likable. In addition, he had a pleasing personality. When the hair on his neck was rubbed twice by a stranger, he immediately narrowed his eyes in a familiar way, and he had to push himself closer to the person's arms.

The little girl was a little timid at first, but seeing that the king was not afraid of life and was very attached to her, she relaxed and hugged the king into her arms.

The king, this little thing, has grown a lot in its original form, and its cultivation seems to have improved. When it becomes a puppy, it can change its size at will. It seems that the image of the little milk dog is the most popular and the most comfortable to hold. It simply It becomes the image of a little milk dog.

Xie Shuci saw it acting coquettishly and licking its fingers in the arms of the little girl, coaxing his around and wagging its tail almost to the sky.

"Uncle, what's its name?" the little girl asked with a smile.

Xie Shuci: "..."

So he looks like a man from the uncle generation?

"What's your name uncle? My brother."

"Oh." The little girl nodded sweetly, "Brother!"

Xie Shuci suddenly felt better, "It's called Dawang."

The little girl immediately picked up the king, "Your Majesty?"

"Aw!"

"King?"

"Aw!"

Seeing its flattering appearance, Xie Shuci was filled with disdain.

Xie Shuci sat for a long time without gaining anything, holding the idea of ​​treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor, he tapped on the table with his fingers, attracting the little girl's attention, Xiao Xun who was sitting opposite also looked at him.

"Then what... I want to ask you something." Xie Shuci lowered his voice.

The little girl asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?"

Xie Shuci said: "Are there any merchants in your town who want to buy things in Bian Province? Or places near Bian Province?"

The little girl said: "Bian Province is so far away, no merchant here will go to Bian Province to buy things."

"Really..." Xie Shuci sighed, it seemed that there was really no other way, they could only go to the next place to see if there was a caravan going to Bian Province.

Xiao Xun stared at him. When Xie Shuci was shopping, he asked the boss of Buxing about the business for a long time. Xiao Xun had a general understanding of the situation and what Xie Shuci had planned, so he asked the little girl directly: " Can I buy the customs clearance guide of the commercial road?"

The little girl stared blankly at Xiao Xun, nodded and said, "Yes, my grandfather sells it for fifty taels, and it can be stamped."

Xie Shuci: "..."

Grass, forget about this stubble!

As the saying goes, money can make Mo Tui ghosts, as long as you have money, why can't you buy a small customs guide?

After a stick of incense, the owner of the restaurant handed over a document and a token to Xie Shuci.

Xie Shuci held it in his hand and sighed, this is the so-called power of money!

After getting the guide, Xie Shuci prepared to leave the town with one person and one dog.

The king and Xiao Xun are the great heroes he got the road lead. When passing by the meat bun shop, Xie Shuci bought them a big meat bun, but Xiao Xun disgusted him in every possible way. After a series of methods, he took a bite of the big meat bun, which was probably the first time he ate this kind of food. He frowned for a long time before swallowing it.

"what about the taste?"

"En." Xiao Xun nodded.

The two walked towards the exit of the town together, and saw many people surrounding the exit from a distance.

Xie Shuci leaned forward curiously, but there were so many people around him that he couldn't see what was inside.

He patted the passers-by around him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Passers-by said: "Not long ago, Jiyue City sent someone to send a portrait of Xie Shuci, saying that he covered up the sinner Xiao Xun and escaped. Now many immortal families are tracking their whereabouts."

Xie Shuci was taken aback, and immediately covered his face with his hands, only showing his eyes, "Whose portrait?!"

"Xie Shuci's, it is said that it was still made by Old Meng, only he has seen Xie Shuci up close."

Depend on! Mr. Meng? !

The reason why he was so confident that he didn't even cover his face was because he was sure that they didn't have his own portrait. How could he be sold by the cheap master in the end?

It's over, it's over... This time can't even get out of the small town...

"Should I say it or not, these Xie Shuci's looks have no similarity to those written in the Strange Records, they are too ugly."

Xie Shuci: "?"

"Who is ugly? Who do you say is ugly? Can you say it again?"

Since was a child, no one has said that Xie Shuci is ugly!

"Tsk, you don't like him too, do you? There was a girl who liked him so much just now that she almost fainted when she saw his portrait. Here, see for yourself if you don't believe me."

nonsense!Can he believe it!Although his appearance can't be said to be unparalleled in the world, it is absolutely impossible to be ugly, right?

Passers-by let him out of the way, Xie Shuci signaled Xiao Xun and the king to wait for a while, then squeezed into the crowd.

A passer-by pointed to a portrait on the wall and said, "Look at it for yourself. I call him ugly to flatter him."

Xie Shuci gritted his teeth, thinking that you are ugly, your whole family is ugly, I don't know what I look like?

He followed the passers-by's fingers and saw the portrait on the wall.

Xie Shuci looked at it for a moment, expressionless, who the hell is this?

He thought he had read it wrong, rubbed his eyes, and continued to look—"Ugh!"

Really ugly!