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"Are you serious?"

Zheng Xiu looked back at Xie Luohe.

"otherwise?"

Xie Luohe asked back, stroking the mural with his fingers, and said with a smile: "'Zhu' is a character from nearly a thousand years ago."

Zheng Xiu: "It's not that you said, you think Zhu is still alive?"

Xie Luohe pointed to the "coffin" on the last mural, and smiled slightly: "But I have nothing to say."

Zheng Xiu pondered.

if…

As a foreigner, Zhu has the ability of "immortality", has been hidden in the cracks of history, and even lived "200 years later" where Zheng Xiu is, Zhu's true identity can only be that person.

200 years later, due to Zheng Xiu's unintentional actions in Baili Village, the founder of "Yeweiyang"-Yezhu was involved.

Innumerable clues are entangled in Zheng Xiu's mind, and Zheng Xiu always feels that he is only a little short of being able to fully understand everything.

About "Zhu"'s longevity, "Zhu"'s purpose of creating Ye Weiyang, "Zhu"'s purpose of attacking Fengbei.

All of this seems to be hidden in these few seemingly simple murals, the secrets are hidden deep, and it is difficult for Zheng Xiu to see through.

Zheng Xiu repeatedly stood on the altar, observing the murals.

Watched again and again.

The murals record the life of "Zhu", a foreigner, and the process of "Sun Chaser" chasing the scorching sun.

In the penultimate mural, the exaggerated face of "Zhu" and the strange expression of "little sun" in his eyes.

Xie Luohe quietly looked at Zheng Xiu who was in deep thought, a touch of loneliness gradually appeared on his face.

The bright moon sinks.

The night sky turned from pitch black to dark blue.

Zheng Xiu actually looked at this mural for half the night.

Looking at the town from a distance, as the night fades, the hustle and bustle returns to silence.

At this time, Xie Luohe couldn't help but break the silence: "It's time to go, if we don't go, the people of the Lieyang tribe should suspect us."

"Is there a possibility..."

Zheng Xiu, who had seen the murals in the middle of the night, frowned at this moment and said: "The record on the murals is not the path that 'candle' walked?"

Xie Luohe was slightly taken aback when he heard the words: "You mean..."

"I should have noticed earlier." Zheng Xiu pointed to the last mural and said calmly: "All the murals have 'sun' painted on it, but the last one. I don't think this is meaningless, but to illustrate What."

"'Scorching Sun' doesn't just disappear."

"The scorching sun disappeared from the mural. I was thinking that the 'scorch' in the painting might not refer to the round in the sky, but a symbol, a symbol of something."

"It is very likely that it is an invisible 'thing', so the ancients used 'scorching sun' as a metaphor."

"For example... the doorway."

"This road does not refer to the road 'Zhu' walked in the world, but the 'road' he walked step by step into the doorway."

Xie Luohe touched his delicate chin when he heard the words, and nodded after thinking for a moment: "You are right. But in fact, he did arrive here, otherwise it would be impossible for the ancients here to record Zhu's life in the form of murals." , and worship till now.”

Zheng Xiu shook his head with a smile: "Sometimes, the image and the appearance do not conflict. He has indeed come here, but what happened on the way is also the process of him going deep into the door. In other words, that round of 'scorching sun' is very likely It was Zhu, who was an 'inhuman', who worked so hard to see the end of the doorway and pushed open the last door."

"But in the end..."

Xie Luohe weakly pointed to the last mural.

Zheng Xiu: "I speculate that the three pillars should have a special meaning. Around the pillars and the coffin, there are desert residents worshiping. This is probably some kind of 'ceremony'. Through this 'ceremony', the 'candle' was successfully extinguished." 'Scorching sun'."

After pondering for a moment, Xie Luohe shook his head: "It doesn't make sense. Since the 'scorching sun' is the candle that is struggling to find, why does he want to destroy it at the end?"

"Because...he melted? It is very likely that even his name, 'candle' is an abstract expression. Candle, fire, melting. It means that in the end, Sunstrider discovered that what he was chasing was not a good thing, so he Find a way to eliminate it, using those three pillars."

The more Zheng Xiu thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case.

What is the gold content of a top painter?

Xie Luohe pursed her lips and smiled, she did not deny Zheng Xiu's speculation.

As dawn approached, Xie Luohe pointed towards the top of the mountain: "Actually...the coffin on the mural has always been there."

"what?"

Hearing this, Zheng Xiu was stunned for a moment, and couldn't laugh or cry: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" As soon as the words came out, Zheng Xiu frowned, reacted, and asked three questions in one breath: "Have you gone up to see? What's in it? Let outsiders go up?"

Xie Luohe was silent for a while, and then replied respectively: "I have seen it, I don't know, I can't."

Zheng Xiu couldn't understand Xie Luohe's answer, and stared at Xie Luohe.

"Forget it, look at your thoughtfulness, I'll take you up there to have a look, so that you don't give up." Xie Luohe saw Zheng Xiu's eyes and knew that Zheng Xiu suspected that she was lying, so he stomped his feet angrily, and the hard rock was crushed Xie Luohe stomped with a half-coquettish "foot" with a muffled sound, and a crack extended along Xie Luohe's little feet to the mural.

With that said, Xie Luohe wanted to carry Zheng Xiu up the mountain.

"No, I'll do it myself." Zheng Xiu was carried by Xie Luohe all the way like a little pig. He was terrified of the feeling of his hot face sticking to Xie Luohe's cold buttocks, so he waved his hand quickly, took out the Luohe pen, and used it He made a small cut with a small knife, and in the blink of an eye, Zheng Xiu drew a vivid big bird on the ground.

The big blood-colored bird spread its wings and flew high, carrying Zheng Xiu on its broad back to the sky.

"Tsk, why do you like to show off so much?"

Xie Luohe mocked in a low voice, jumped up, touched the mountain wall with his toes, went up and down several times, Xie Luohe caught up later, jumped on the bird's back, put his hands lazily forward around Zheng Xiu's neck, and exhaled in Zheng Xiu's ear Said: "Don't let me fall."

Zheng Xiu replied angrily: "It's okay, with your strength, you won't die if you fall."

Xie Luohe was suddenly at a loss for words, speechless.

What Zheng Xiu said... is really true.

The two stepped on the bird drawn by Zheng Xiu, and the cold wind blew head-on, blowing their hair behind their heads.

Xie Luohe hugged Zheng Xiu's neck quietly, and said in a low voice: "It would be great if we could keep doing this."

Zheng Xiu didn't answer, the bird flew faster and circled the top of the mountain.

There are many "crow-like" creatures circling on the top of Sunset Mountain, which are a circle larger than ordinary crows. They seem to be what Xie Luohe called "vulture crows".A flock of vultures built their nests on the mountainside. When a "big alien bird" broke into their territory, the flock of vultures made a shrill chirp, trying to drive away the uninvited guest.

"Painting Birds" uses Zheng Xiu's blood as the medium, and is connected with Zheng Xiu's mind.Zheng Xiu manipulated the painted bird to circle the sky a few times, and found that there was actually a trail leading to the top of the mountain, but it was deliberately destroyed.

Unless you climb with bare hands, or fly directly up like Zheng Xiu, you can climb to the top of the mountain.

There is only a small bare platform on the top of the mountain, and a sarcophagus is prominently placed on the platform.

I do not know how long the sarcophagus has been left here. It has been exposed to the wind, sun and rain. It is densely covered with small cracks, and the growth of unknown pale red moss can be faintly seen between the cracks.

The two landed on the top of the mountain.

Zheng Xiu walked around the sarcophagus, and at a glance, there was no obvious trace of the sarcophagus being opened.

"I once asked the great elders of the Lie Sun tribe, and they said that what was buried in the sarcophagus was the 'candle' that was integrated with the Lie Sun back then."

Xie Luohe stood aside with his hands behind his back, smiled, and took the initiative to inform the matter.

"Do you believe?"

Zheng Xiu asked back, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to open the sarcophagus.

"I don't believe it." Xie Luohe smiled and shook his head.

Zheng Xiu paused, frowned and asked, "But why did you..."

Xie Luohe knocked on the sarcophagus and let out a "beep". "No matter who the skeleton in the sarcophagus is, no matter what I see, if you don't believe it, you just don't believe it. Then, opening the coffin is meaningless to me."

Zheng Xiu asked again: "So, you came up and left?"

Xie Luohe said calmly: "Yes."

The simple answer made Zheng Xiu understand Xie Luohe's thoughts.

Back then, the Xieluo River followed the footsteps of "candle".

Like Zheng Xiu today, she came to Sun Cicada Valley.

She saw the murals.

She sneaked to the top of the mountain and faced this seemingly ordinary sarcophagus.

She knew it was a corpse.

Xie Luohe is gone.

She didn't open the coffin.

It's not because Xie Luohe doesn't want to find the "answer", but because Xie Luohe firmly believes that "Zhu" is still alive. Since "Zhu" is still alive, it means that "Zhu" has not "returned to a normal person", and the answer she wants is not. not here.

No matter who the person lying inside is, whether it is "Zhu", as long as Xie Luohe doesn't believe it, everything is meaningless.

What she cares about is not "Zhu"'s life, let alone where "Zhu" will go, but "return to normal people".She just wanted to turn back into an ordinary woman, to be able to start a family, to be able to have a full house of children and grandchildren, to be able to enjoy her life in peace, to be able to sleep soundly, that's all.

When Xie Luohe saw the murals, she knew in her heart that this place was not what she wanted. A few years ago, Xie Luohe was depressed, left Richan Valley, returned to Yunhe Village, and became her "big villain" with peace of mind.

However, Zheng Xiu is not Xie Luohe.

The purpose of his journey is quite different from that of the Xieluo River.

What he seeks is not only the answer to the riddle, but also the way to break the situation.

After all, Zheng Xiu wanted to see and understand.

The two were silent, Zheng Xiu mustered all his strength, and pushed the coffin lid...but didn't push it away.

"fool."

Xie Luohe saw that Zheng Xiu was exerting all his strength to breastfeed, he couldn't help laughing, and slapped the coffin lid away.

The coffin board, which had been built for many years, finally failed to cover it under the majestic power of Xie shrew, and saw the sun again.

Zheng Xiu wanted to get closer, he turned his head and smiled at Xie Luohe: "Aren't you curious?"

"It's boring."

Xie Luohe pursed his mouth and looked away.

Two heads approached the coffin.

After a moment of silence.

The two spoke in unison, wondering: "What is this!"

When Xie Luohe and Zheng Xiu saw the bones in the sarcophagus clearly, they couldn't help raising their heads at the same time, looking at each other, and they both saw the obvious "incredible" in each other's eyes.

Not absurd, shocking, unbelievable.

At this moment, one word emerged in the hearts of the two of them at the same time: strange.

So weird.

In the sarcophagus, there is indeed a skeleton that has long been weathered.

The pale bones reflected a white gleam under the pale moonlight.

The skeleton lay quietly, with a long and narrow head, a pointed face, and eye sockets distributed on both sides, which were smaller than those of normal people.The ribcage of the skeleton was particularly wide and thick, and the lower limbs strangely formed an "anti-bow", bending backwards.What surprised the two of them the most was that the skeleton's arms and five fingers were extraordinarily long, more than twice as long as ordinary people.

This skeleton is not in the shape of a human being.

Therefore, when the two witnessed the true contents of the bones in the sarcophagus, their first reaction was to say "what is this" instead of "this is impossible".

"Ah-ah-ah!"

Ferocious eagle crows hovered high in the sky. The moment the sarcophagus opened, they swooped down in groups and attacked the two of them.

Xie Luohe slapped one of them to death casually, and after scaring away the rest of the crows, he asked with a complicated expression, "This is..."

"It's Ye Weiyang's...the crow raiser!"

Zheng Xiu's eyes were fixed. If he hadn't seen the real face of the "crowman" with his own eyes, Zheng Xiu might not be able to recognize what the hell the skeleton in front of him was.But the battle with the crowman in Jingtang Town that day left a deep impression on Zheng Xiu. Almost at first glance, he matched the "birdman"-shaped skeleton with the crowman.

The existence in the sarcophagus was beyond Zheng Xiu's expectations.

Even if the sarcophagus is empty, Zheng Xiu can accept it.

Unexpectedly, the skeleton of a birdman emerged.

This skeleton instantly messed up Zheng Xiu's thoughts that were about to be cleared up.

It's just that Zheng Xiu is almost certain that in the "present day" who has lived in the world for 1000 years and lived 200 years later, the alien with the "immortality" physique, the Sun Chaser named "Zhu", is the one who created Ye Weiyang. The one behind the scenes, the Lord of the Night.

What Zheng Xiu couldn't figure out was what the Yezhu saw at the end of the journey, what were those three pillars, was the crow-keeper a human or a bird, and why there was a skeleton of a crow-keeper lying 200 years ago. Sunset Mountain in the Westlands.

How many crow-keepers did Yezhu create?
The sky is bright.

Zheng Xiu was in a complicated mood and went down the mountain with Xie Luohe.

When walking near the town of Cicada, Xie Luohe deliberately tore a hole in Zheng Xiu's skirt, messed up his hair, and hurried back to the town pretending to be on his way.

The banquet lasted all night, and many desert residents were lying on the street lying here and there.

Hearing the footsteps of the two, the men and women looked up in a daze, and seeing the messy clothes of the two, they immediately looked at each other and smiled, showing a knowing smile, and turned over to sleep with a mutter.

In Richan Town, Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe stayed for one day...no, ten days.

At first, Zheng Xiu felt that this place was wild and difficult to get used to.But gradually, Zheng Xiu gradually fell in love with the simple folk customs.

The sun rises and sets, the wind blows the waves of the leaves, Zheng Xiu grinds his ink and paints every day, he is very happy.

The good times don't last long, No.11 days.

Zheng Xiu put down his paintbrush in the courtyard, looked at the picture of "Flying Eagles in the Desert" on the scroll, and fell into deep thought.

"Want to leave?"

Xie Luohe did not know when he stood behind Zheng Xiu, stepped forward and pinched Zheng Xiu's shoulder bones, and asked softly.

They still tacitly did not mention Fengbei and Zheng Xiu, and only thought of Gongsun Mo and Xie Luohe, enjoying a moment of tranquility and ordinary time away from the hustle and bustle of the rivers and lakes.

"Ah."

Zheng Xiu nodded.

"What are your plans?"

Xie Luohe asked with a smile.

"Find someone."

Zheng Xiu answered calmly.

"candle?"

"Yes."

"Fengbei, no more?"

There was a smile hidden in Xie Luohe's eyes.

Zheng Xiu was silent for a moment, then quickly shook his head: "Stop talking."

Xie Luohe stopped kneading Zheng Xiu's shoulders, she leaned closer, a strand of soft long hair fell from Zheng Xiu's back, and gently scraped Zheng Xiu's face, making Zheng Xiu's face itchy.

"Angry?" Xie Luohe asked.

"No."

Zheng Xiu looked away.

"You think my words don't count?"

Zheng Xiu sighed softly: "You can't force it."

"Okay!" Xie Luohe slapped Zheng Xiu's back and almost slapped Zheng Xiu on the table. Xie Luohe said carelessly: "I, Xie Luohe, always keep my word and keep my word!"

"Ha! Are you sure?"

Zheng Xiu made a strange laugh, not knowing whether it was anger or joy.

"That,"

Xie Luohe raised three fingers.

"You help me with the last three things, and I will return Fengbei to you, how about it?"

Through three fingers, Zheng Xiu looked at Xie Luohe's unpredictable smile, silently for a while, and finally nodded.

"You said."