In the Clouds: Mulan Line

Chapter 37
However, when he found Xiaoyu, what he saw was Xiaoyu whose chest had been torn open by the claws of the demon seed.

Seeing that bloody little body, boundless self-blame and remorse instantly overwhelmed Yuehui completely.

At that time, he hated a lot, hated the demon seed, and hated himself.

However, no amount of hatred can bring back that little life in his arms. He can feel that warm body is slowly getting colder, and no matter what he does, he can't bring it back...

At this time, someone gave him hope.

That person saw the desperate Yuehui and told Yuehui a way to revive people.

For Yue Hui, who was immersed in regret, this was like a life-saving straw.

Afterwards, Yue Hui came to the Black Sand Sea and devoted all his mind to the research of this matter.

In the end, he successfully injected Xiaoyu's consciousness and a large amount of life energy into the jade at the same time, artificially creating Yuzi.

Perhaps at the beginning, Yue Hui was hesitant about taking other people's lives, but slowly, he has completely changed his mentality.

"Xiaoyu, Daddy just loves you..." Yuehui was still muttering.

Why, he just wanted a chance to be a good father who could protect his daughter again, but he couldn't even keep this chance?
No, it's not like this, if he can save Xiaoyu once, he can save Xiaoyu the second time...

At this moment, Yue Hui heard a cold snort.

He turned his head in a daze, and saw Hua Mulan who was looking at him coldly.

Hua Mulan looked at Xiaoyu who had become dull in his arms, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes, but when she looked at Yuehui again, she was completely ridiculed and disdainful.

"Why, don't you give up? Xiaoyu is just a child, and she knows how to behave better than you."

Hua Mulan said mercilessly: "You may love Xiaoyu, but in my opinion, you clearly love yourself the most. You saved Xiaoyu to redeem your own mistakes, and you didn't hesitate to make even bigger mistakes for it."

"In order to save your own daughter, you have killed so many girls, and they are also the daughters of other people's families. When you think that you are all out of love for daughters, have you ever thought about the parents of these girls? It's ridiculous!"

Hua Mulan's words became sharper: "Xiaoyu saw that you were afraid, so she didn't make a sound and didn't expose you. She was only a child, but she restrained her fear and protected you as a father. What about you?"

"Let's look at yourself first."

"As a priest, you are supposed to protect the village, and as a father, you are supposed to protect your daughter. But as a guardian, you didn't protect the village that you were supposed to protect, and as a father, you didn't protect your daughter either."

"Finally, as a human being, you have not guarded your conscience as a human being."

Hua Mulan's words were so loud that Yue Hui was stunned.

Is that right?Whether he is a guardian, a father, or a person, is he so... unbearable?

He lowered his head to look at Yuzai, who was no longer moving in his arms. At this time, Yuzai seemed to have returned to a piece of jade without temperature, just like when he picked out this jade mine.

Everything seems to be back to the original point.

No, it's still different...

After a while, Yuehui murmured to himself in a low voice: "I'm just... afraid that Xiaoyu will blame me."

Unexpectedly, he did more wrong things, this time, will Xiaoyu forgive him?
A large amount of blood gushed out, staining Yuehui's white robe and Yuzai who had lost his vitality.

At this time, some of the missing girls also made some noise.

Originally, most of them had already absorbed a large amount of life energy, but because of Xiaoyu's return, they were at most a little weak now, but they would not leave any bad sequelae.

As for Amu Bo and others who were sucked dry by the jade mine before, they had no chance to come back to life, and their life energy was not absorbed by Xiaoyu, but more like absorbed by this jade mine...

At this time, a figure quickly rushed towards one of the jade platforms.

"Buried jade!"

This figure is Ligu.

When Yuehui appeared, Ligu really felt that my life was over, especially when Hua Mulan and the three of them fell into Yuehui's calculations in an instant, Ligu really felt that his life was over. It's hopeless, so buried jade is... hopeless.

But unexpectedly, the three of Hua Mulan did not intend to give up at all when they were crazily absorbing life energy, and their seemingly useless struggle really created a turning point.

Of course, Xiaoyu's kind nature is also a turning point...

Who would have thought that such a big battle would involve so many lives, and the result would be the result of a paranoid father's crazy behavior of trying to make artificial jade to revive his daughter?

However, Ligu ran to the front and back of the buried jade, but found that these missing girls were still very weak due to being tossed for so many days, and they probably wouldn't wake up in a while.

At this time, Baili kept the promise and walked to Hua Mulan's side.

He looked at the high platform with a complicated expression.

However, after turning his gaze to Yuehui's body, Baili Shouyue showed a somewhat dazed expression, as if he was thinking about something.

Hua Mulan recovered from the silence, and seeing Baili's promise-keeping expression, she immediately asked, "Baili? What are you looking at?"

Baili Shouyue was still staring at Yue Hui's body, with his left arm wrapped around his chest, his right elbow pointing on his left hand, and his index finger and thumb gently pinching his chin: "Captain, are you surprised? I remember that Yue Hui Once said to Xiaoyu, if you don't come back, I will go out to find you."

"It sounds like he hasn't left the Black Sand Sea."

Mentioning Xiaoyu, Hua Mulan couldn't help feeling depressed again. '

Xiaoyu... really shouldn't have to go through this.

Hua Mulan clenched the hilt of her sword tightly, nodded after a while, and said, "You are right. According to Yuehui, he has indeed been in the Black Sand Sea all the time."

"Then how did these missing girls come here?" Baili kept his promise.

Hua Mulan frowned suddenly.

Because of Xiaoyu's affairs, she actually ignored this point for a while.

Yes, Yuehui has never left the Black Sand Sea, so how did these girls from all over the cloud appear here?
"Yuehui still has helpers." Hua Mulan said quickly.

Baili Shouyue nodded and said: "Yes, these missing girls come from all over the world, so it is likely that Yue Hui has more than one helper."

"Since that's the case, let's get rid of the evil. Next, we should find these helpers." Hua Mulan quickly made a decision.

Baili Shouyue and Hua Mulan were talking when they saw Kai approaching: "Captain, over there..."

Kai pointed in a direction.

"What happened over there?"

"Corpse." Kai replied simply.

There are corpses in this jade mine, which is quite normal, presumably left by some victims.

Hua Mulan and Baili Shouyue walked over together, but seeing the appearance of those corpses, even Hua Mulan, who had experienced many battles and saw a lot of blood and gunpowder smoke, couldn't help frowning.

"Snapped!"

Hua Mulan clenched the hilt of the sword tightly, and a murderous aura filled the air. Even Baili Shouyue, who was beside Hua Mulan, felt a chill.

The corpses that Kai mentioned were all skinned!
Only muscle tissue and bones remained, neatly placed on the ground in rows.

Because of the special environment of the jade mine, the life energy here is so rich that these corpses have not decayed no matter how long it has passed, so it is impossible to determine how long these people have been dead.

Hua Mulan was silent for a long time before saying, "The cheap price is back."

She didn't expect that she actually underestimated the extent of Yue Hui's madness.

Baili kept the promise and pondered slightly, why did Yue Hui do this?Is it psychological distortion?To vent?

Before, Baili kept the promise, although he felt that this person was almost insane, but his insanity mainly came from his guilt towards his daughter and his obsession with resurrection, and he was still sober occasionally.

But what can peeling off so many human skins bring him?
Unless this incident helps revive Xiaoyu, but...

"Huh? This is..."

Baili Shouyue walked a few steps closer to the corpse, knelt down and picked up a piece of metal.

On this piece of metal, there are neatly arranged diamond-shaped patterns, star pattern iron!

And under the star pattern iron, there are some black crystal sand.

Hua Mulan noticed the star pattern iron in Baili Shouyue's hand, and seeing Baili Shouyue's reaction, she suddenly thought of something.

Amobo's subordinates who died before also had star pattern iron left behind.

Hua Mulan had a strange feeling in her heart. She began to examine the corpses one by one, and Baili Shouyue was doing the same thing.

Kai didn't know what the two were doing, but just stood by silently.

The death conditions of these corpses were very miserable, none of their eyes remained, only empty eye sockets remained, and the ears were cut off along with the skin.

There are also some broken clothes left beside them, these clothes are already stained with blood.

Hua Mulan rummaged through some clothes, and a sheepskin book caught his attention.

Opening the sheepskin book, there are petty prints that have faded due to the age.

These characters looked like tiny pictures, and Hua Mulan frowned: "What kind of characters are these?"

"It's the Mifeng script used by the 36 countries in Yunzhong to seal the kingdom." Baili Shouyue said.

"You know this kind of writing?" Hua Mulan was surprised, Baili Shouyue did understand a lot.

Baili kept the promise and said: "I just know a few, I read some ancient books in the cloud, and have some contacts."

"What's written on it?"

"This is a diary, all of which are written in diaries. It is the experience of the owner of the diary who strayed into the Black Sand Sea..." Baili Shouyue pressed the lines of text with his fingers, and read slowly, "The black fog that pervades all day long... Black sand...mummy..."

Some texts were already unclear. After Baili Shouyue roughly read a few articles, he turned to the front title page of the diary, and there were two complicated characters written on it.

"Is it the master's name?" Hua Mulan asked.

"Yes!" Baili Shouyue showed a hint of surprise on his face.

"Is there anything special about this name?" Hua Mulan asked puzzled.

"It's a little...unexpected, the word is...Wu Nan."

"Wu Nan!?" Hua Mulan was startled, it turned out to be the diary left by Wu Nan, "It's such a coincidence that this diary was found after so many years!"

"Wu Nan should have dropped it here, right?" Kai said aside, since Wu Nan entered the Black Sand Sea and dropped a diary, it is reasonable.

"It didn't fall." Hua Mulan shook her head, "I took it out of my pocket."

"Huh?" Baili Shouyue pointed to the torn sackcloth on the ground: "This dress? That means... this is what Wu Nan wore back then?"

"He threw the clothes here together?" Kai was a little puzzled, why did he throw away the clothes?The night in Shahai is very cold.

Hua Mulan murmured: "Let's not talk about what to wear when I throw away the clothes, but why should I throw away the diary together?"

Hua Mulan couldn't help raising her head, glanced over, and soon saw Wu Nan's figure.

Speaking of which, Wu Nan has been very quiet since entering here. Before Hua Mulan fought fiercely with Yuehui, he didn't notice Wu Nan at all.

At this moment, Wu Nan didn't pay attention here, but was checking Ligu's injuries.

In the fierce battle with Yuehui before, Ligu seemed to be injured.

Hua Mulan looked at Wu Nan, and said to Baili Shouyue: "You told me before, star pattern iron... what can it do?"

When encountering the zombie in the jade mine before, Baili Shouyue found black crystal sand, jade fragments, and star pattern iron.

Baili kept the promise: "It is the favorite material of alchemists. It can be used to make many things. It is a waste to just use it for forging weapons. Its best use is to make mechanisms."

"Producer?" Hua Mulan raised her eyebrows.

"Yes." Baili Shouyue patted the spear in his hand, "My gun uses star pattern iron."

In the sea of ​​sand in the clouds, mechanism techniques are well-known, and Hua Mulan also knows something about them.

Suddenly, she had a strange idea. She looked at the corpses here, and murmured, "Speaking of it...there are quite a few relics left beside these dead..."

"Huh?" Baili Shouyue vaguely felt that there was something in Hua Mulan's words.

"The resurrection of the dead sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?" Hua Mulan seemed to be talking to herself.

"Captain, what are you talking about? I can't understand." Kai was a little at a loss. Hua Mulan's words were too jumpy, and he couldn't keep up.

"Baili, turn to the end of the diary and see what's written?"

Baili Shouyue hastily flipped through the sheepskin diary in his hand. The diary was only half used. The text in the front was all beautiful small characters, but in the back, it became more and more scribbled, and the last few entries were distorted and deformed. Like an earthworm.

"Written what?"

Hua Mulan looked at the last few pages of the diary. The paper was densely filled, not only the grids, but also the corners.

Baili Shouyue looked a little dumbfounded: "Just... one sentence, these pages are all repeating one sentence, what is written is: the mirror is a bit dirty, I look at myself in the mirror, the two of us only have One can walk out of the sea of ​​black sand..."

what! ?

Kai was shocked, he only felt the chill behind his back, and the diary that Baili Shou promised revealed infinite weirdness.

Looking carefully, these distorted characters like ghostly drawn symbols, although they seem to be illegible, and he doesn't recognize them at all, but carefully discerning the characters of the strokes, they are indeed repeating.

This sentence filled the last few pages.

The mirror was a bit blurred, I looked at myself in the mirror, only one of us can get out of the sea of ​​black sand?
In the end, Wu Nan was... crazy?

Or, the one who finally walked out was actually...

Kai turned his head to look at Wu Nan, but saw that Wu Nan was treating Ligu's wound wholeheartedly, oblivious to what happened here.

What exactly is going on?

The last page of this diary...

Kai subconsciously clenched the handle of the long knife.

Hua Mulan was silent for a long time, and then said: "These worn out clothes... are relics left by the original owner... This should also include Wu Nan's diary..."

"You mean..." Baili Shouyue pinched the diary, and he also realized something.

"If we say that Wu Nan not only left behind his clothes, but also this corpse..." Hua Mulan pointed to a skinned corpse next to the clothes...

"Then what is it that went out? A ghost?" Kai only felt that the more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became. Heishahai is a place of no return. I don't know how many people died in Heishahai, but Wu Nan went out...

"Maybe it's not a ghost, but... a piece of human skin..."

what! ?

Kai's pupils shrank suddenly, and a piece of human skin came out! ?

How does the human skin go?
No matter how you look at it, Wu Nan not far away is a normal-looking person, how could it be just a skin?

"Captain, why do you have such an idea?"

"Because of these black crystal sand and star pattern iron..." Hua Mulan stretched out her palm, "This is what Baili discovered."

"What do you mean? What can these things explain?"

Hua Mulan said: "There are gods in the clouds. Those powerful sages in ancient legends are equivalent to gods, and ghosts... I just heard that I have never seen ghosts in this world."

"I believe in gods or ghosts. It is even more bizarre to be resurrected from the dead. How much Yuehui spent to revive Xiaoyu, and Xiaoyu is not really dead. She was renewed by a secret method. Strictly speaking, Yuehui is just Trying to cure her, to replace her body before she dies."

"But before that, we encountered a person who came back from the dead. How easy is it to come back from the dead? And Baili just happened to find star-pattern iron and black crystal sand at the place where we fought the dead body. Star-pattern iron can Used to make traps. There are many kinds of traps, one of which is... puppets!"

"The star pattern iron builds the puppet's skeleton, and the black crystal sand provides energy. These may be the parts left after the mechanism puppet was destroyed."

"In other words, the person who came back from the dead is probably just a puppet."

"A top puppet master can make a puppet no different from a real person. As long as it is covered with a layer of human skin, no one will be able to notice the difference. From our point of view, it is resurrection from the dead."

"Human skin... puppet... Captain, what do you mean... so many corpses here have been skinned and made into puppets?"

"That's right, there are still some remnants of star pattern iron and black crystal sand around these corpses, so... using the human skin of the corpses as mechanism puppets is the best explanation."

"And... Yuehui hasn't produced jade mines for so many years, how did he catch those girls?"

"I guess, those people who strayed into the Black Sand Sea back then were all killed! The so-called people who went out are no longer human beings, they are all puppets, and they returned to their original tribes and cities , In fact, the mind has been controlled, they arrested people for Yue Hui, so that they could kidnap so many girls in such a short period of time without anyone noticing."

"Because it's a puppet, it's normal to leave black crystal sand on the scene, and it can just be pushed to the demon god, and the demon god can explain it."

Hearing Hua Mulan's explanation, Baili Shouyue also felt chills in his heart: "So the captain means...the real Wu Nan is already dead."

"Not only did he die, he may have gone crazy in the end. His last diary is no longer written by a normal person. He may have witnessed the birth of his own puppet..."

After hearing Hua Mulan's words, look at the last words in Wu Nan's diary——

The mirror was a bit blurry, I looked at myself in the mirror, only one of us could get out of the sea of ​​black sand.

(End of this chapter)