Nightcrawler: 20 Years of Peaceful Demons

Chapter 325 The Secret Inside the Tortoise Shell

Many things happened in 1999. In terms of the world, the euro was officially launched, the United States promoted the missile defense system, NATO bombed Yugoslavia, the earthquake in Turkey, the Russian army wiped out Chechnya, China and the United States reached an agreement on China's accession to the WTO, and scientists completed原The 22nd pair of chromosome genetic codes, the Chinese government resumes the exercise of sovereignty over Macau...

These are reported every day in newspapers and on TV, and everyone knows them.

But in the corner that people don't know, many secret things happened.

During this year, from a small character who has just stepped into the world of practitioners, I have completed a very gorgeous turn, whether it is to obtain the inheritance of the fire of candle yin, or the first time in the advanced training class for practitioners. No.2 Such excellent results, or making a big fuss at the engagement banquet of the second son of the Huo family on Hong Kong Island, and robbing the fiancée of the future talker of the Huo family, leaving calmly, etc., all declared to the entire world at that time Then, there is such a person who rises up.

There is no airtight wall in the world, and the news about me is also passed on word of mouth among news dealers, intelligence brokers, and Jianghu people.

However, the size of the rivers and lakes is supported by a huge country and a huge population.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Most of the time, people are concerned about the present and the moment, and for other things, they just listen to the news, so apart from the relevant parties, not many people care about it.

These things are like throwing a stone into a rushing river. Although there is some movement, it is still invisible in the end.

No one will care about too much nonsense.

For me, apart from the accumulation of fame, it is more about harvest.

The mystery of Jiuxuanlu, the acquisition of Yuehualu, the fire of Candle Yin, the golden armor of the incarnation of the Liujia God, and the nine-way cloud-turning stick method, these are the foundations for me to stand in this world.

Corresponding to this is the enemy I handed over.

From Huangquanyin, to the Huo family on Hong Kong Island, to Baozhilin in Chancheng, to the five provinces of the beggar with a colorful face, and a mysterious research organization with unknown origin...

The existence of these people made me vigilant all the time to the dangers of the Jianghu, and I also practiced harder. What I did was to struggle hard and survive in this seemingly calm, but actually dangerous Jianghu.

Of course, in addition to enemies, I also made many friends.

I even got a love.

And a kinship.

If the "brother" that Suzaku calls is mine.

At the turn of the century, Ma Yi'ao, Suzaku and I were always looking for Feihua's whereabouts.

Although the files and records of that research institute have disappeared mysteriously, some relevant clues still remain, and from the records of a surviving researcher, we know that Fei Hua stayed in the research institute for almost two weeks, Later, because of her special blood type, she was transferred to another secret base along with eleven research subjects.

In order to find that base, we traveled to more than ten cities in the three provinces of northern Hubei, Jiangnan, and northern Fujian, and finally destroyed two small dens, but in the end we did not find Feihua's whereabouts.

During that period of time, it's not that we didn't gain anything. Judging from all the signs, the blood in Fat Flower's body is far from being as simple as that of Haizhu Nightcrawler.

According to the relevant personnel, if it is just an ordinary and sparse nightcrawler bloodline, it will basically be imprisoned in the underground laboratory of the research institute, and it is impossible to be transferred.

In fact, Feihua was the main reason for that transfer.

During that period of time, we interacted frequently with Li Hongjun.

As an outstanding student from the first advanced training class for practitioners, although he did not get the ranking he wanted, but because of his good family background, he directly joined the 419 office, which is what we call the Tianji Department, and became official investigator.

Along with him, there is Tang Dao who won No.1, that boy who drinks a bottle of AD calcium milk every day.

It's just that we have more dealings with Li Hongjun.

Although we didn't have close contact when we were in school, after leaving school, our contact increased. Li Hongjun also replaced Su Lie as our liaison with the government.

Of course, the main reason for this is that I contradicted Empress Tianji because of Suzaku's relationship, which made the relationship between the two sides suddenly cold.

Sometimes I talked about this matter with Ma Yi'ao, and I thought it might be because everyone's sense of competition was too strong when we were in school.

After leaving the society, those two months of time together became memorable again.

So everyone cherishes each other more and more.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, Li Hongjun has gradually paid more attention to the energy of Ma Yi'ao and me.

On the night of the millennium, I, Suzaku and Ma Yi'ao spent it in a People's Square in Ludao, northern Fujian. The crowd was crowded, as if people from the whole city had crowded onto the street, listening to the passage of time. , when the hands of the clock on the square pointed to the morning on time, there was a huge cheer among the crowd.

Young, old, and young, men and women, all cheered and celebrated the arrival of the new century.

Gorgeous fireworks appeared in the sky, people who didn't know each other hugged each other, several good-looking young female college students surrounded Ma Yi'ao all the time, and when the bell rang, they all jumped on him.

I held Suzaku's hand tightly and begged her to release Qin Liluo's consciousness, but Suzaku flatly refused.

In fact, I have met Qin Liluo several times in this long time, and the time we spend together is only a few minutes.

Qin Liluo told me that her cultivation of "Heavenly Demon No Mind" has reached a critical moment.

If she can pass this hurdle, her consciousness will undergo a qualitative change, and her strength will also increase exponentially, just like the transformation of a phoenix.

And if she doesn't succeed, she will most likely perish.

So she couldn't show up at any time. This matter was not Suzaku's fault, but her own choice.

I understand Qin Liluo's explanation.

It's just that the long-term unfamiliarity made me feel very awkward, and I couldn't grasp the emotional relationship with Qin Liluo. This matter was like a long-distance relationship.

What makes me even more sad is that the time we spend together is too short, and the strangeness has not been eliminated, and the person has already left.

This incident made me quite painful, but fortunately Suzaku is a relatively easy person to get along with most of the time, except for the occasional temper tantrum.

Sometimes she acts like a girl who lacks love, acting like a baby to me and Ma Yi'ao, sometimes giving us old-fashioned lessons and giving advice on how to practice, and sometimes she is so sleepy that it is difficult to wake her up.

But with the accumulation of time, her cultivation base began to become more and more powerful, and there was a straight upward trend.

The New Year's Day in 2000 came with cheers, and five days later, we raided a remote island in Ludao, only to find that the information we got was false, and it was just a deserted island. In addition to a few abandoned dilapidated houses, there are thick bird droppings and nests of sea snakes.

We searched the island up and down, but in the end we didn't find anything.

As the sun was setting, I sat on the top of the hillside of the island and sorted out the things in the gossip bag.

There are some supplies, food and water, tents for camping in the wild, and a complete set of clothes. Ma Yi'ao's, mine, and Suzaku's are all stuffed here, as well as some bits and pieces of tools, etc. .

Basically, everyone's belongings are thrown at me, and it becomes a small grocery store.

Fortunately, this thing has enough space, otherwise it really can't hold so many things.

If there are too many things, it will naturally be messy. I have to sort out the things by category to avoid the difficulty of searching when I get the chance.

Suzaku was playing his flute not far from me.

This hobby was picked up not long ago. According to her own statement, she has studied this kind of musical instruments such as silk and bamboo, and it is this that has accompanied her through the long and lonely years.

I didn't believe it at first, but when I bought her a flute for 20 yuan at a street stall and listened to her playing it, I found that although she couldn't play any complete tunes, she followed the melodious melody. Thinking of the sound of the flute, she could inexplicably feel an ancient and distant artistic conception, and she was able to control it no matter if it was high pitched, low pitched, melodious, or passionate.

This kind of voice is not specially trained, but a voice from the heart, which makes people feel more moving.

However, when I found a piece of tortoise shell, the sound of the flute stopped suddenly.

In the next second, the tortoise shell fell into Suzaku's hands.

She looked at the obscure rune on it seriously, and after a while, she looked at me and asked, "Where did this thing come from?"

This thing is the reward I got after I got No.2 in the Advanced Research Class.

It is said that there are some clues to the secret realm of Yujiang on it.

And Xiyang is in the secret realm of Yujiang.

However, I couldn't figure out anything from these messy runes, so I finally stuffed it in the corner.

I chatted with Suzaku about the origin of this thing, and she was very excited, and said to me: "Do you have the current map?"

What map did I say?
Suzaku said, "What map, world map, idiot!"

Seeing how excited she was, I hurriedly asked, but Suzaku was unwilling to tell. I hurriedly met Ma Yi'ao, left the island, and returned to Ludao City. I found a bookstore, bought a map, and spread it out for Suzaku.

She was looking at the map while facing the tortoise shell. After looking at it for a long time, her finger landed on a place and said, "Here."

I looked down and saw that the place she was pointing at was Yazhou.

Yazhou on Hainan Island.

(End of this chapter)