When he woke up the next day, as usual, the winter solstice habitually had to lie in bed for a while, to confirm his position, and then slowly wake up. Body, could not help but startled, and quickly turned his head.

The large bed is enough for two people. He used to sleep on one side and let the pillow on the other side be empty, but now there is a person lying on the empty pillow. The other person has a perfect face, but his eyes are closed. , as if to tempt others to kiss and wake him up.

After watching the winter solstice for a while, he looked away and looked at the ceiling, but the corners of his mouth could not help but quietly tilted up, and the arc became larger and larger.

"What are you laughing at?"

The person beside the pillow didn't know when to wake up, Long Shen's voice was not sleepy, maybe he woke up long ago, just closing his eyes and resting.

"Master, can you pinch me?"

Seeing Long Shen at the winter solstice, he felt that this request was too strange, and said with a light cough: "I dreamed of demons on the plane before, and I'm afraid that everything is an illusion created by him now..."

Of course Long Shen didn't do it. His response was to give Dongzhi a kiss, and finally let go when the other party was almost out of breath.

The hot and humid breath slowly rises, but the winter solstice suddenly thinks of a serious problem.

"Will head down be contagious?"

"What?" Long Shen didn't understand.

The winter solstice said embarrassedly: "Contagion through kissing."

Because he had heard a saying before that the witch gu is actually a kind of bacteria that enters the body through the channel of contact between the human body and the outside world, so the descending head of the same source as the witch gu should be the same principle.

"Will not."

Long Shen didn't know where his apprentice got his rich imagination. Even if it was contagious, he had already kissed so many times last night, and it was too late now.

The winter solstice blushed and took the initiative to embrace his neck: "Then kiss again?"

Long Shen saw his shy and restless heart now, so he lowered his head and pecked again on the lips.

"Are you up?"

Shaking his head on the winter solstice, looking at the blue sea and blue sky outside in the constant temperature room, accompanied by the person he loves most, he just wants to go on forever at this moment.

Long Shen had a rare moment of leisure, and he did not urge him. The two of them cuddled like this, quietly leaning on the bedside, enjoying the hard-won tender time.

"Master."

"Um."

"When Changshoujian is stained with my blood, it will take me into a fantasy world and go to everything you have experienced. Is Changshoujian your clone?"

"No." Long Shen frowned slightly, he didn't expect such a situation to happen to Chang Shoujian.

Looking at him at the winter solstice: "Is that it has a spirit?"

Long Shen was silent for a moment: "Did you see the process of my being forged in the illusion?"

Winter Solstice didn't know if this offended Qi Ling's **, and was a little uneasy: "I saw it, but I didn't mean it. The time and place of the scene that Changshoujian showed me seemed to be random."

"I know." Long Shen didn't blame him, "Then do you remember how I came into being?"

The winter solstice is naturally remembered.

"The air of the mountains, the spirit of the green wood, the ice of the sky, the rootless dew, the chalcedony of the earth, the brilliance of the stars, the essence of the sun and the moon, and the blood of Ou Yezi?"

Long Shen nodded: "These eight things are integrated, and finally become my sword body. After thousands of years, it helps me to transform into shape, so that I can decompose my soul more easily than ordinary people. When you left the capital, I Inject a ray of soul into the Changshou sword, so last time you were dreamed by a demon on the plane, I can sense it."

The winter solstice also remembered. At that time, they did take a special passage and took the Changshou sword on the plane. When he fell into a dream, he held the Changshou sword and did not let go.

He shuddered slightly.

He would never think that Long Shen fell in love with him so early. His master put so much thought into it because he was afraid that he would lose his life if he was just a fledgling man and would lose his life due to improper experience, so he sent this ray of soul into the sword. Good to know his situation at any time.

He would never know if he hadn't asked about this kind of spring breeze and rain, and the silent means of moisturizing things.

But he deserves to be treated like this by Long Shen?

"Master, can you take your spirit back?"

Long Shen shook his head, without explaining much, only said: "No, it doesn't have much impact on me."

Winter Solstice took his hand and clasped his fingers.

"I think the most correct thing I have done in my life is to be on Changbai Mountain and entangle all of you, even if you say I can't get into the Special Administration Bureau, I didn't give up."

Long Shen smiled slightly, but he didn't say it. It was precisely because the Winter Solstice was unwilling to give up no matter what, and he passed the written test interview with excellent grades, and he didn't give up any ordinary people during the zombie simulation training. The idea of ​​taking apprentices came into being.

Maybe since then, he has put the winter solstice into his eyes, but he has forgotten that the eyes and the heart are connected, so it slowly penetrates from the eyes to the heart.

After waiting for a whole morning, when the winter solstice finally protested, Long Shen did not condone him any more, and called the hotel dining car directly to prevent the winter solstice from continuing to stay in bed.

The weather outside the window was fine, the sun was shining brightly, and the sea showed a completely different brilliance from last night. As far as the eye could see, there was a clear line between azure and light blue, just like him and Longshen, who were originally like people from two worlds. , but eventually became a common part of this sea.

It's a pity on the winter solstice. He originally wanted to take Longshen to parachute and snorkel, but now his body can't do strenuous exercise at all. To avoid parachute, he suddenly suffered from angina and died in mid-air for the owner of water sports. Trouble, he had no choice but to dispel this idea, fortunately Long Shen didn't feel bored at all, even if the other party's temperament stayed in the room for a whole day.

After eating, Dongzhi stretched his waist, sat on the sofa in front of the window, took out the drawing board he brought and started painting.

Long Shen took the book and read it next to him, feeling that the years were quiet.

Since opening his heart last night, Dongzhi now wants to kiss and hug each other as soon as he sees him, but he doesn't want Long Shen to feel that he is too sticky, so after a few glances, he looks away and focuses on the drawing board.

"Master, do you have any paintings you want?" he asked.

Long Shen thought for a while: "Help me draw a picture of you."

The winter solstice was startled.

Long Shen: "Last time you only drew me."

Winter Solstice smiled and said, "Okay."

The pen moved quickly on the tablet, scribbled and corrected, the outline was quickly displayed on the computer screen, and the lines were slowly corrected, from draft to line draft, and then to color, the sun slipped from overhead to the other side of the sea level, a The afternoon was spent in the aroma of coffee and tea.

Long Shen raised his eyes and saw that the painting had already been completed, and the final refinement was just short of it.

The scene of the winter solstice painting is not complicated, it is still in a dark environment, Long Shen and the winter solstice, Liu Qingbo and Huo Jie are walking forward in pairs, Long Shen recognizes that this is their cave under the water of Huai, but he can see it at a glance , Long Shen is obviously more detailed and attentive in the painting. The Winter Solstice even remembered the details of his clothes at that time, but he looked much rougher when he painted himself.

Long Shen said: "You draw yourself a little more finely."

Winter Solstice smiled: "It's very detailed."

Long Shen: "Then when you finish painting, send the painting to my mailbox."

The Winter Solstice agreed and continued to color the painting. Long Shen's phone rang, and he answered in the room without avoiding the Winter Solstice.

After a while, he hung up the phone and said to the winter solstice: "It's a call from the Northwest Branch. The car bureau is out of retreat. If you are free in two days, we will go to Xi'an tomorrow."

The winter solstice has been heard in all branches of the Special Administration Bureau, but only in the literal sense.

It is said that the name of the director of the Northwest Branch is Che and Bai. After they came out underground in Yinchuan last time, the aftermath was also handed over to the Northwest Branch, and Long Shen and Song Zhicun were very relieved to directly pick up their sons and do not need to stay there to continue. Supervision, it can be seen that he has a lot of trust in the director of the car.

Now that the head-dropping technique on the winter solstice, when even Long Shen could not find a way to resolve it for the time being, he thought of going to a sub-bureau for help, instead of going back to Beijing to find consultants such as Zongling Zhang Xiankun and other bigwigs. For what personal feelings, but Long Shen thinks that Chief Che will be more capable.

After staying in the Special Administration Bureau for a long time, the Winter Solstice has gradually understood a rule: it is not necessarily that the ability is not enough to be able to ascend, and some are purely for personal reasons, such as Long Shen, with his seniority and ability, he could have taken a higher position. . But some people like to get promoted and get rich, while others like to do things. Long Shen obviously belongs to the latter group. He prefers to do it himself. Watching this world achieve peace in his own hands will make him more happy than getting any high-ranking officials.

Now this Chief Che Baiche seems to be such a person.

"Master, is Director Che's mentorship very powerful?"

Long Shen said, "He doesn't have a teacher, he is a master."

Although he had expected it long ago, the Winter Solstice couldn't help but be surprised. He now knew that most of the spirits of Chengjing would have hints in their names. For example, Longshen was transformed by Longyuan Sword, and Tang Jing was a homonym of Tang Jing. Mingxian pondered carefully, and it was indeed related to the guqin, so what is the origin of this chief Che Baiche?

He couldn't help but fall into this interesting guess, and after a while he said, "Is the car station transformed into a carriage?"

Rao was a serious person like Long Shen, and he couldn't help but be amused.

"Why don't you guess if he is a white deer or a white fox?"

Ah yes, it makes sense to say that, the winter solstice frowned and said, "What does the surname of that car mean, just pick it up?"

Long Shen: "Most of the names are accidental. Some people associate their origins with their names just to express gratitude or commemorate."

The winter solstice nodded, he knew that in Long Shen's heart, he must be deeply grateful to Ou Yezi.

"Master, do you know where Ou Yezi has an ancestral hall or a tombstone to pay his respects? I want to pay tribute to his old man's demeanor, and I will visit every year in the future."

Long Shen smiled and held the opponent's hand.

He has never experienced this kind of thought, the feeling of being able to know his own mind easily, although it is unfamiliar, it beats a slight joy that he can't ignore.

So this is love.

"No need, everything is empty when you die, you only need to have intentions in your heart, and the form doesn't matter."

The topic returned to Che Bai, Long Shen said: "The name of the car bureau is indeed related to the origin, but it was taken from his surname. The left side of the word Xuanyuan is Che, and the right side of Cypress is Bai. ."

The blinking speed of the winter solstice's eyes could not help speeding up. Even if he saw the three-headed python or Wuzhiqi at this moment, he would not be more surprised, because he had just learned that the director of the Northwest Branch was actually the Xuanyuan tree planted by Huangdi himself. cypress?

In other words, he is about to meet the ancestor of his nation, the living Xuanyuanbai?

He had long known that the Special Administration Bureau had hidden dragons and crouching tigers, but when he heard the original form of Che Bai, it still took several seconds to digest it.

"I have seen some textual research, saying that Xuanyuanbai was actually planted in the Han Dynasty?"

Long Shen shook his head: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, Ou Yezi and I traveled all over the world, and at that time, we had a relationship with the car bureau."

I was fascinated by the winter solstice, thinking back to the era when a group of heroes gathered and a hundred schools of thought contended, wish could have been born thousands of years earlier, even if Long Shen was still a sword at that time.

Long Shen said: "The reason why the head-dropping technique is regarded as a sorcerer is precisely because it is closely related to the descendants. Even if it is a car bureau, it may not be completely resolved. I just hope that you will not be disappointed when the time comes."

Winter Solstice smiled: "No."

He never dreamed that this feeling could be accepted by Long Shen. Now that even this wish has been fulfilled, the Winter Solstice suddenly discovered that life and death are actually not so important to him anymore.

Long Shen seemed to see what he was thinking, and his face softened slightly: "Also, because of the need to hide my identity for work, the car bureau was once married and had a wife, but his wife died prematurely due to illness, although you and I have made up our minds, But it's better not to show too much in front of him, so as not to provoke his sadness."

The winter solstice was very unexpected: "Do artifact spirits also get sick?"

His idea is very simple, since the car bureau is a tool spirit, then the one with him is naturally a tool spirit.

However, Long Shen said, "His wife is an ordinary person."

These few words can make the winter solstice brain fill up with a thrilling and touching story, but what surprised him even more is the marriage of the spirits. In his opinion, most of them should be as innocent as his master. Desires, but it doesn't look like Tang Jing.

Seeing that he was hesitating to speak, Long Shen asked, "What do you want to say?"

Winter Solstice couldn't hold back his curiosity: "Isn't all the spirits cultivated wholeheartedly?"

Long Shen felt very strange about his question: "The artifact spirit has already transformed, and naturally has seven emotions and six desires. It is no different from ordinary people, but it has a longer lifespan and cannot have children."

After speaking for a while, he said again: "You are not in good health right now, so you can't do too intense exercise, or you may have a seizure. If you want, wait until you lower your head to resolve it."

Although Long Shen has a mild temper, he is more magnanimous than anyone else, and he is not keen on the behavior of human beings who want to entertain or refuse.

But the winter solstice collapsed in his heart. He wanted to say that he didn't want it, or that he didn't need it, but such an answer seemed very strange and even more obvious, so the white face slowly turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he looked at the other party. , I wanted to justify myself, but it was a bit ridiculous, and it was hard to endure.

Obviously, the level of spiritual communication between them is not enough. Long Shen misunderstood his reaction and suddenly smiled: "Actually, if you want, you don't have to have physical contact."

The Winter Solstice didn't understand what the other party's words meant when he saw Long Shenshen pointing his eyebrows.

A heat flow immediately poured in from between the eyebrows of the winter solstice.

"Close your eyes." Long Shen said.

The winter solstice is unknown, so still obey.

It's dark all around.

But it suddenly lit up again.

The winter solstice found that I was in an empty world, and it seemed to be between the ethereal universe. The breeze was rippling everywhere, and it was as warm as spring, but it was as hazy as seeing flowers in the fog. I only felt a laziness emerging from my bones. When he woke up like that, he couldn't help but want to stretch, but he felt that he couldn't move, standing on the lonely flower branch, and when he moved, he was shaky.

He became a flower.

The buds are waiting to be released, or the flower bones on the branches.

This thought vaguely rose in heart, and whole body was slightly warm, as if had been soaking in the hot spring for a long time, and became more and more lazy. The delicate petals were gently scratched by the fingers, and the sensitivity was instantly transmitted to the nerves, making people tremble involuntarily. It was like breaking out of the ground in spring, slowly stretching under the kiss of the sun, and gently swaying under the caress of the soft wind, he couldn't resist the pleasure, even if the movement of the hand gradually accelerated, the flower buds were covered petal by petal, and went out. break apart.

Gradually, the stamens wrapped in the buds were also exposed to the air, and a sudden torrential rain made the whole flower buds wet. A slight pain came over the perception, but more than a shudder of contentment.

The rain gradually subsided, the sound of the rain gradually stopped, and the warm sunshine appeared again, which evaporated the water on the petals to dryness. Only the rainwater contained in the flower buds still trembled and kept, warming up, full of sweetness and sweetness. The tranquility flooded over like a tide, gradually drowning all consciousness...

The winter solstice opened his eyes and found himself lying neatly on the bed, but his face was flushed and his chest was violently heaving, as if he had just experienced an indescribable and wonderful journey, but he was more tired than running 8000 meters, and his body was in a kind of collapse. And in a delicate state of laziness.

He gasped, "This is..."

"God." Long Shen replied.

There is no physical contact, but an ideological blend, but it can achieve a spiritual pleasure stronger than the body. He had seen it in novels before the winter solstice. At that time, he thought it was just a novelist's fantasy, but he One day you can experience it for yourself.

It may not be possible to describe this feeling in terms of wanting to die. If you have to use one word, all you can think of in the winter solstice is bone erosion.

He stared at the ceiling absentmindedly, and he didn't even have the energy to look at Long Shen. The sweat on his forehead was wiped off by Long Shen, but what followed in his heart was a dense feeling of shame, his face flushed red, can't wait to bury the whole person in the quilt.

Long Shen looked at his fluffy head exposed outside the quilt: "Although the pleasure of divine intercourse is stronger than physical contact, but after all, it consumes the spirit and cannot be done often. If you want, at most once a week."

"I'm not a stallion with a sperm head!"

The winter solstice couldn't bear it any longer, the whole person emerged from the quilt and protested strongly, and the flushed face did not know whether it was from anger into anger, or was stuffy under the quilt for a long time.

Of course, when he saw Long Shen's meaningful eyes, he knew that the other party was teasing him.

For the first time on the winter solstice, learned that his master also has a sense of humor.

...

The good times are always fleeting, and the situation to be faced is unknown and dangerous.

Two days later, they canceled the booking from the hotel and flew directly to the historic city in the northwest.

The Northwest Branch may be the most formal office among all the branches and offices have seen on the Winter Solstice, because it is located in a small building next to a research institute in the urban area, and the same signboard hangs with the research institute outside. , Only when you enter the small building can you see a small nameplate on the wall, written to the Northwest Branch of the Special Administration of the People's Republic of China.

The head of the sub-bureau, Che, is also completely different from the gray-haired old man in the winter solstice imagination. The other party is about forty or fifty years old, his hair is combed back, he is wearing a Chinese tunic suit, and he wears gold-rimmed glasses. He looks more like a university professor who teaches and educates people. rather than practitioners.

In the face of this bureau chief whose age is almost comparable to this national civilization, the Winter Solstice did not dare to be slighted at all, and respectfully greeted him after Long Shen.

Che Bai was amiable and smiled before saying a word, and there were fine lines at the corners of his eyes. He had already learned the ins and outs from Long Shen, and without much delay, he asked how the winter solstice felt.

Winter Solstice said: "I just vomited blood once yesterday, but I haven't had an attack today. I feel okay, but I get tired easily, and my hands and feet are weak."

Che Bai took a pulse for him, pondered for a moment, and frowned slightly.

"This is not a simple head-turning. I'm afraid that the demon has also imposed some kind of restriction through the head-turning operation, so it is difficult to understand."

It was the first time heard this statement on the Winter Solstice, but Long Shen's expression was not surprising, obviously he knew it for a long time.

"Yes, that's why I can only ask you for help."

Che Bai sighed: "If it were ten years ago, I would have been confident. Now that my lifespan is approaching, I am afraid that I am powerless. I will try it first."

Long Shen's expression froze: "We can find another way."

Che Bai smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, life is predetermined and cannot be saved by human beings. It has nothing to do with helping you or not. Come, the winter solstice, sit down, just close your eyes and relax like you usually do breathing exercises."

During the winter solstice, Yiyan closed her eyes on the sofa, practicing the familiar breathing skills as usual, and soon forgot Long Shen and Che Bai beside her.

At this time, Che Bai took out a small bottle, opened the cork, and placed it under the nose of the winter solstice. There was faint smoke rising from the mouth of the bottle, and it quickly slipped into the nose of the winter solstice.

There was a subtle change in his expression.

"Open your eyes." He heard Che Bai say.

The winter solstice slowly opened my eyes, and in front of my eyes was a dense jungle that almost blocked the sun. The sun was strong above my head, but the soil exuded a damp smell. Maybe it just rained not long ago. These plants are also very characteristic, which makes people feel When you see it, you can think of the tropics.

"Move forward."

Che Bai's voice sounded, but when he looked around at the winter solstice, he didn't see anyone. He calmed down and continued to move forward.

He realized that he was not an entity at the moment, but more like a ghost passing through time and space. The vegetation, branches and leaves, as he continued to move forward, still rustled in the sun, providing a shade for the soil.