man sanctified in death row vest

Chapter 323 Fried Fish and Fish Cakes
The gray mist twisted, like rows of high tsunami walls, squeezing from both sides to the middle.

A black river as thick as asphalt meanders through the narrow space.

A lone boat sailed on the Heihe River at a leisurely pace.

Qing Shisan stood straight at the bow of the boat, rocked the boat, and sailed to an unknown place.

on board.

Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong sat face to face, silent, neither of them spoke.

An awkward atmosphere silently brewed between the two.

It's really embarrassing.

Especially when Zheng Xiu retrieved the traces of Fengbei's past existence and his memory came back.

The orange cat narrowed its eyes half-closed, lazily dozing between the two of them.

Yue Linglong wisely didn't ask Zheng Xiu what he was looking for in Richan Town - even though she was aware of it.

Zheng Xiu sighed softly, and looked at the well-behaved lady sitting across from her—it was undeniable that Yue Linglong, who had a warm body, was a perfect wife that Zheng Xiu could hardly find fault with. She was gentle, kind, beautiful, considerate, sensible, obedient.

All the beautiful qualities that Zheng Xiu can think of seem to be able to touch Yue Linglong. Since she married into the Zheng family, she has worked hard to adapt to the customs of working hard, honoring her parents, going out of the hall, entering the kitchen, and being gentle. bed.

a few days ago.

Zheng Xiu entered the desert.

Following the direction in his memory, he found the ruins of the ancients who once left behind the legend of "returning to ordinary people".

The ruins are still there, but there is no message left by any candles inside.It's just a place full of wind and sand, obliterated in the dust of history, left over from some dynasty, it's meaningless.

Three locations, Beiman, Sun Cicada Valley, and Jingtang Town, where Zheng Xiu was very sure that candle traces were left, found nothing.This made Zheng Xiu almost certain that Zhu did not accidentally enter the constant darkness because of the shift of the world line, but that Zhu, the "first alien" who had been hidden in the cracks of history, had never appeared in this world. Pass.

no such person.

There is no such thing as what Zheng Xiu experienced.

Zheng Xiu looked away from Yue Linglong's calm face, and lowered his head to land on the orange cat who was licking its forked hair.

Today's orange cats look like ordinary orange cats.

The foreign-looking person who called herself "Annie" seemed to have never appeared before.

Annie?

I'm still called a batch.

Zheng Xiu slandered in his heart, but he had to work hard to digest all the information he got from Annie.Zheng Xiu frowned slightly, subconsciously moving his little finger from time to time.

A faint "thin line" stretched out from Zheng Xiu's little finger, sinking into the end of the void, no one knew where it was going.

Annie repeatedly persuaded Zheng Xiu not to look for Fengbei again, which not only did not dispel Zheng Xiu's desire to find Fengbei, but convinced Zheng Xiu that Fengbei must still exist.

Something called "Li" is wrapped around his little finger, and for some reason this becomes the only connection he has with Fengbei.

Fengbei sacrificed herself to save her father. At the same time, she cut off the "reason" between herself and the world, was obliterated, and disappeared in front of Zheng Xiu.It seems to be a very tragic thing, but precisely because Annie told the mechanism of "reason" in detail, and Zheng Xiu's understanding of "reason", he is sure that at the end of "reason" is where Fengbei is currently. place.

"She's out of the 'world.'"

Zheng Xiu thought silently in his heart, clenched his fists, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

Even though Feng Bei cut off all the connections with the world, he still left a trace of clues, which made Zheng Xiu seem like a drowning man grabbing the last straw, or like someone who has been lingering in the dark for a long time. A ray of dawn, involuntarily revealing a smile.

Annie didn't seem to see the "reason" in Zheng Xiu's hand that was connected to Fengbei, and Zheng Xiu didn't intend to tell Annie.

Zheng Xiu noticed that Annie had something to hide, so why not Zheng Xiu.

That "Jade Foot Hell" made Zheng Xiu experience Annie's "level" personally, and even a glimpse of it was enough to make Zheng Xiu extremely fearful and vigilant.As Anne herself said, it is easier to kill itself than to trample an ant - the "jade foot" is proof.

Give me back all the good thoughts I had about Yuzu, bastard.

That jade foot almost became Zheng Xiu's nightmare. As soon as Zheng Xiu closed his eyes, the "jade foot" that was bigger than the planet appeared in his mind. Now Zheng Xiu could no longer face the jade foot, and had a psychological shadow.

"But what does Annie want me to do?"

Zheng Xiu was very curious.

This is what he cannot understand and understand.

Annie once called herself and Fengbei "containers", which Zheng Xiu didn't have time to ask in detail.

container?

Alien?

creepy thing?

After several days of thinking, Zheng Xiu only thought of one possibility.In the eyes of existences at Annie's level, the strange thing is a thing. The strange person does not acquire the power of the "weird thing", let alone a glimpse of the door to become the strange person, but the strange person itself, which is equivalent to the "weird thing". The existence of "object container".

What the hell is the monster?
This seems to be back to the original point.

On the day Zheng Xiu was imprisoned and saw the doorway, the huge red eyeball he saw exploded and scattered 49 rays of light.Those 49 rays of light are the original face of the monster.

There are countless mysteries.

He still needs to deal with Annie carefully.

Rubbing his chin, Zheng Xiu nodded secretly as he looked at the little she-cat who turned over on the board, with her belly turned upside down, her posture gradually enchanting, and somewhat alluring.

He had to pick up his previous experience of picking up alien wool, and get something out of the orange cat.

"and many more."

Qing Shisan's [Ferryman] can walk freely in his Bund.

There is a subtle difference between this and Zheng Xiu forcibly opening the Bund to enter the Bund.

The difference is that after Zheng Xiu opened the Bund, he needed a [post station] to locate it, otherwise he would easily lose his way.As a "ferry man", Qing Shisan did not have such worries.

The Ferryman seems to exist for just such situations.

"I want to go somewhere."

When leaving Sun Cicada Valley, Zheng Xiu was originally scheduled to return home.At this moment, Zheng Xiu had a whim and wanted to go to Baili Village.

Qing Shisan was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, but didn't say much, you are the young master and you have the final say.Zheng Xiu told Qing Shisan the general location of Baili Village, and Qing Shisan squatted on the bow of the boat and looked at the map for a while.

When he was humming the little tune again and rowing with the rocker, he suddenly realized that he didn't dislike following Zheng Xiu's command.This kind of "naturalness" seems to be engraved in his bones, and doing things for Zheng Xiu makes him feel happy from the bottom of his heart.

This made Qing Shisan feel a little bit puzzled.

It doesn't make sense.

While thinking it was unreasonable, after a while, a fork gradually diverged in front of the boat.

Qing Shisan drove into the side road, a crack opened out of thin air, and the three of them regained their feet on the ground and returned to the ordinary world.

Arrived in Yanzhou, the sun was clear.

Zheng Xiu looked around and recognized that this was the mountain path where he died thousands of times back then.

Back then when bandits were rampant here, Zheng Xiu fought a bloody path and was very familiar with the surrounding terrain.

"Just around here."

"Meow."

With a meow, the orange cat jumped into Zheng Xiu's arms.

"Annie?"

Zheng Xiu asked quietly.

"Meow!"

The orange cat blinked and stared at Zheng Xiu with big innocent eyes.

Well, no.

Now Orange Cat has become a unilateral contact intermediary between him and Annie. Only Annie contacted him actively, and Zheng Xiu could not find Annie.This kind of "passivity" made Zheng Xiu quite aggrieved, and secretly slapped the orange cat a few times as a punishment.

soon.

Zheng Xiu arrived at Baili Village.

Or...the place that used to be Baili Village.

"impossible!"

Zheng Xiu looked at the "deep pit" with a smooth edge in front of him in amazement, and was suddenly disturbed by the wind.

There is a huge deep pit in front of you. The bottom of the deep pit is smooth and hemispherical, as if it was dug away by a huge spoon.

There is nothing left.

"impossible!"

Zheng Xiu jumped into the deep pit with the orange cat in his arms, walked around the pit, but found nothing.

"What are you wondering about?"

The orange cat in his arms suddenly made Annie's voice.

"Impossible, without candles, without rituals, why did Baili Village disappear!"

Zheng Xiu suddenly had doubts about the "conclusion" he had deliberated not long ago. If there were no candles, no candle layout, and no "ceremony" once every hundred years, why would the Baili Village tragedy still be staged.

Annie seemed to enjoy the feeling of nestling in Zheng Xiu's arms.

It forcefully squeezed its furry head into Zheng Xiu's skirt.

Being held in the arms of a stupid container is not an unacceptable thing compared to a dirty floor.

Annie understood, and lazily explained: "Stupid container, don't you think that that 'phenomenon' was completely created out of thin air by mere people?"

"……Phenomenon?"

Zheng Xiu stopped and held Annie up in front of him.

"... hold."

Annie showed displeasure, and her tone suddenly turned cold.

Zheng Xiu quickly hugged the orange cat in his arms.

Annie's tone softened instantly: "It's just a very common phenomenon. It's like sunrise, like sunset, like rain, like snow, like tides. That's all."

Annie spoke a terrifying thing in an extremely ordinary tone and using the most ordinary metaphors.

Zheng Xiu originally wanted to say that this was a lot of human lives, but when he thought of the billions of twisted corpses trampled under that jade foot in the "Jade Foot Hell", he suddenly closed his mouth.

The levels are different.

In the eyes of such an existence, human life may be more contemptible than ants.

Zheng Xiu stared blankly at the deep pit in front of him.

He found that he had misunderstood it before, and had always misunderstood one thing.

It was the first place Zheng Xiu arrived after he became a [Prisoner].

Now, he finally understands why it is here and why it is there.

The massacre in Baili Village was not planned by Zhu alone.But a "phenomenon"!
Even without candles, the Baili Village tragedy would still happen.

"You haven't given up yet?"

Orange Cat asked.

"what?"

"A container named Fengbei." The orange cat had already seen through Zheng Xiu's careful thinking, but was too lazy to point it out. It asked strangely: "This is just the most inferior way of reproduction among 'their' humans, a pure instinct And impulsiveness, you just learn it. Isn’t that human named Yue Linglong the same to you?”

Annie couldn't understand Zheng Xiu's persistence: "Even if the container named Fengbei is still alive, she has transcended and left, but you can't leave. You will never see her again."

The orange cat pointed to Yue Linglong who was rushing here anxiously: "Look, there is nothing wrong with her. Even if I am such a noble existence, even if I can't understand your dross called 'emotion' , can also tell you that she is the most suitable for you. When she is with you, she will give birth to a powerful offspring."

Zheng Xiu didn't answer, and walked again, without direction, walking casually.

Walking and walking, Zheng Xiu started to run, panting heavily.

Yue Linglong carefully slid from the edge into the deep pit, her palm was worn off a layer of blood, and it was bloody.She walked towards Zheng Xiu, hesitating to ask her husband what he thought.But Zheng Xiu was already running in the deep pit with the kitten in his arms.

Yue Linglong was taken aback, and stopped involuntarily.That back made Yue Linglong couldn't help but have a thought that she didn't want to accept.At this moment, Zheng Xiu's back looks very much like those children in the clan who lost their favorite toys in the past, at a loss and helpless, but stubbornly unwilling to seek help from adults.

Zheng Xiu ran from here to there, from there to here, and after running several times, he finally stopped at the edge.

"Now, Anne."

"You should call me Lady Anne."

The orange cat stretched out its paws and corrected seriously.

"Okay, Annie."

"..."

"Do you remember the fish cakes?"

Annie licked her lips and nodded: "I don't remember, I haven't eaten it, it's not delicious."

Zheng Xiu smiled: "I asked her later how the fried fish cakes are made. I thought it was just chopping the fish meat, throwing it into the oil pan and deep-frying, and the delicious fried fish cakes came out of the oven."

Suck.

Annie wiped her mouth with her paw and smacked her lips: "That sounds good."

"But it's actually not. It turns out that when she wakes up every morning, she will go to the market to buy the freshest crucian carp. When she gets home, she will carefully pick out the thin bones with chopsticks and rub them into powder with her hands. Haha, this will be her natural The alien technique is very convenient;" Speaking of this, Zheng Xiu smiled self-deprecatingly: "She knows that orange cats are greedy, and when they eat it, they gulp, and there is no way to tell. She is always afraid that the fish bone will get stuck in the orange. A cat's throat, she always picks out every bone;'

"She will mix potato flour with fish meat, add fresh eggs and salt, and she will ask Zhi Zhi to help them shape the fish balls into the shape of fish. She said that the orange cat will have more appetite;"

Suck.

The orange cat wiped the corners of its mouth with its paws, and its eyes became brighter and brighter.

A nostalgic smile appeared on Zheng Xiu's face, his eyes were out of focus, and the usual picture of a woman with curly hair, covered in white powder all over her face, with her sleeves rolled up, busy in the back kitchen appeared in his mind.

"After kneading into the shape of a fish, heat the oil and put it in the pan. She said that it should be deep-fried first, then removed, and then fried for the second time when the oil temperature is reheated. The fried fish cakes fried in this way are crispy on the outside. Tender, very delicious."

The existence named Annie drenched Zheng Xiu's clothes.

"Sounds good." Annie tried her best to make her expression look more majestic, and said with a straight face: "Go back and make some for me to taste, stupid containers, you are only worth this."

Zheng Xiu shook his head: "What I want to say is, why don't you give up? I now know how to make you understand. 'You' used to be in our Zheng family. You are a group favorite and everyone likes it."

"It can be changed to anyone else. Knowing that you like fish, at most they will fry fish for you."

"As for Fengbei, she will make 'fish cakes' for you."

Annie was taken aback.

“Fried fish and fish cakes.”

"This is the difference between Fengbei and others."

(End of this chapter)