txolops Chapter 98 The Antidote
Chapter 98 The Antidote
"To shut up!"
There was a piercing sound of gold and stone colliding.
It turned out that the young man swung his sword and cut off one of the little fingers of the Taoist.
Although Chunyu's clan is good at puppetry, not every disciple in the clan has this talent. The criterion for judging is very simple, whether they have a pair of slender hands.
Chunyu Puppet naturally belongs to the best of them. His hand bones are slender and beautiful, three points longer than ordinary people. He belongs to the category of excellent talent. Able to become a generation master of the Chunyu clan.
"Your Highness is really ruthless."
Chunyu Puppet sighed leisurely, and casually looked at the piece of his little finger that fell to the ground, as if it didn't fall from his hand.
He was still smiling, and looked the boy under the cloak up and down, not hiding the flash of greed in his eyes.When his eyes fell on the young man's left hand hidden in his snow sleeve, he said with a smile, "Your Highness is ill again?"
"That's right, under the stimulation of realgar powder, His Highness's disease will attack more and more frequently in the future, maybe once every three to five days, maybe shorter. Right now it's only on the hands, and in the future snake patterns will cover the whole body , climbed onto the face, even if His Highness wanted to hide it, he couldn’t hide it.”
Noticing that the young man's hand holding the sword trembled slightly, Chunyu Puppet's eyes were filled with pity, like a living Bodhisattva who rescued the suffering: "Your Highness can cut off all ten fingers of the poor, and even cut off the hands and feet of the poor." Cutting it off, but taking revenge on the poor, what good is it for His Highness? Why does His Highness always forget that in this world, only the poor is His only salvation, and only the poor can love and protect His Highness without any grudges."
"Pindao knows that now His Highness recognizes Dingbeihou's master and apprentice, and feels that Dingbeihou is a thousand times better than Pindao. No, maybe in His Highness's heart, a dirty villain like Pindao is not qualified to be with him at all." The Marquis of Dingbei, who has made great military exploits, is on par."
"But today, why did His Highness come here alone, but Dingbeihou didn't accompany him? Let the poor guess, His Highness must not dare to tell Dingbeihou that he has such an ugly mark on his body, right? His Highness is afraid, afraid of Dingbei Hou will also regard His Highness as a monster. Your Highness knows better than anyone else that Dingbei Hou, who has always kept himself clean, will never tolerate his apprentice as a little monster. Your Highness, you are destined to live in darkness in this life, you The only person I can rely on is the minister—”
"To shut up!"
The boy's chest heaved violently, and blood oozes from his eyes, but the cold blade in his hand lay across Chunyu's neck, cutting off a deep bloodstain.
"You think Gu Zhen dare not kill you!"
The young man's dark eyes were gradually swallowed by blood and hostility, the sword deepened a little, and Chunyu Puppet's neckline was instantly bright red.
But Chunyu Puppet was still smiling.
"Your Highness will not."
The Taoist smiled with crooked brows and eyes, and his voice was extremely soft: "Your Highness, don't you want an antidote? In order to capture His Highness's heart, the poor Taoist has traveled all over China these years, and has gone through hardships to capture all the surviving green pythons. He almost died in Shekou every time, just to offer medicine to His Highness."
"Only the poor can bring His Highness back to life..."
While Xu Xu was whispering, Chunyu Puppet jumped up from the ground without warning, with silver threads flying around between his fingers, piercing through the hearts of the two masked men in black who were holding him hostage.
Chunyu smiled: "Thank you, Your Highness, for giving Pindao time to detoxify." Although one finger was broken, he used the remaining nine fingers to manipulate the silver thread, and his flexibility and attack power did not decrease at all.
Mu Yun swung his sword to the grid, his body was as light as a feather, dodging and shuttling between the silver threads, Chunyu's eyes became more and more greedy for the young man's handsome figure like a dragon, and when he made moves, he was a little more teasing, the silver threads were false and real , Sweeping towards the young man's face for a while, and sweeping towards the young man's foot for a while, forcing the young man to bend down frequently to dodge.
"Zheng——" there was a long buzzing sound, the sword collided with the silver thread, sparks flew everywhere, the silver thread broke, and the cold blade cracked, Mu Yun and Chunyu Puppet were shaken so that they each took a few steps back, blood spilled from the corners of their mouths.
Eighteen silver threads, half of which were cut off, Chunyu Puppet narrowed his eyes, finally revealing a little sinister look.And the long sword in Mu Yun's hand was also broken, only half of it was left in his hand.
Chunyu Puppet threw out the remaining nine silver threads almost at the speed of thunder, and hit the opposite boy——
Both of them were so focused on subduing each other that they didn't notice the sudden sound of fighting in the courtyard.
There was a "bang", at this moment, the dilapidated door was kicked open from the outside, and a silver-white figure rushed in like a ghost, grabbed the boy's waist and threw it behind him, and the other hand caught it with his bare hands The nine strings were randomly rubbed between the palms, and a domineering internal force flowed back into Chunyu puppet's body along the silver strings.
Chunyu Puppet didn't expect that this man's skill would be so overbearing, unable to dodge in time, he spit out a mouthful of black, his body hit the wall like a kite with a broken string, and his nine fingers manipulating the silver string were blown to pieces , not one left.
"what--"
The smile on Chunyu's puppet face finally crumbled inch by inch. Looking at his bare palms without fingers in horror, he let out an inhuman scream.
Everyone in black in the courtyard had been subdued by the elusive Northern Xinjiang cavalry. Mu Yun's mind buzzed, and he stared in shock at the silver figure that seemed to descend from the sky: "Master..."
"Your account will be settled later!"
Wei Zhao left a sentence coldly, strode forward, lifted the tattered Chunyu Puppet by the neck, and asked coldly, "Where is the antidote?"
Mu Yun was too frightened to make a sound. Ever since they met each other, Master Baoyi has been coaxing him gently, and will do whatever he asks for. He has never spoken to him in such a harsh tone.Hearing Wei Zhao mention the "antidote" now, Mu Yun panicked even more.Could it be that cheap master already knew everything, when did he know it?
Without his ten fingers, Chunyu Puppet could no longer perform the puppet art. At this moment, his disheveled hair was hanging on the wall, and his broad avenue robe was bulging in the wind, just like a wandering ghost.He stared at Wei Zhao sinisterly and distortedly, with anger, jealousy, and hatred rolling across his eyes, and suddenly he laughed again.
"Why is Marquis Wei so angry?"
"Let me guess, it's because of your apprentice, he doesn't trust you at all, hahaha, hahaha, he would rather come to Pindao for an antidote than tell Marquis Wei the truth."
Wei Zhao sneered, not being disturbed by his provocation, his subordinates increased their strength, and asked again: "Where is the antidote?"
"Uh--"
Chunyu Puppet's neck was twisted and rattled, his breathing was difficult, his face was red, but he still smiled like crazy.
"Weihou prides himself on being noble, but in the final analysis, Weihou is the same person as Pindao, and even Pindao's master. As for the antidote, Pindao can tell Weihou where Weihou is, but does Weihou dare to use it... ..."
Chunyu Puppet suddenly leaned against Wei Zhao's ear, and whispered a few words in a low voice. On Wei Zhao's froze face, Chunyu Puppet smiled full of revenge pleasure: "Marquis Wei, do you dare to use it?"
After saying this sentence, he suddenly turned his eyes straight to the snow-robed boy not far away, showing a strange and malicious smile: "Your Highness, you have to remember that all the people who treat you well in this world, They are all coveting your beauty, coveting your body, no different from poor people, haha, hahaha—”
Wei Zhao's face was gloomy, sparks flew from his eyes, he twisted hard, Chunyu Puppet let out a scream, and fell to the ground as if broken again.
"Take it down, and keep his dog's life well!"
Wei Zhao squeezed out a line of words from between his teeth, and ordered coldly.
Mu Yun wanted to go forward, but when he saw that Wei Zhao was really angry, he drew back his feet in fright.
Several soldiers quickly dragged Chunyu Puppet down, at this time another soldier came in from outside and asked, "Master, what should we do with those people outside?"
"Detention first."
Wei Zhao waved his hand, signaling everyone to go out, and the dilapidated hut quickly became quiet, leaving only the master and the apprentice.
……
"Aren't you very courageous? Why don't you talk?"
Wei Zhao picked up a chair and sat down, his eyelids fluttered and fell on the young man opposite him.The cloak on the young man's body had fallen to the ground, presumably it had fallen from the fight just now, his eyes were drooping slightly at this moment, his long eyelashes were as thick as a fan, and he trembled slightly with his voice, he was still holding a half-severed sword in his hand , the black hair and the snow-colored headband were tangled together, clinging to her cheeks, making her little face whiter, obviously frightened.
The young man remained silent, and the atmosphere froze.No matter how angry Wei Zhao was, he was finally glad that he arrived in time, that this little guy was still standing here, and his heart softened, so he patted his leg and said, "Come here."
But Mu Yun didn't know how Wei Zhao would "settle accounts" with him, he was guilty and at a loss, and even a little confused.He didn't know what Chunyu Gui said to Wei Zhao in the end, but judging from Wei Zhao's reaction, it would never be anything good.He was very scared. He had been thinking about the antidote for so many years, but in the end it was nothing.He was even more afraid that he would never be able to turn back into a normal person, and would only be a little monster who never saw the light of day.
In that case, he would rather kill himself.
Anyway, the vengeance has been avenged, and those who have hurt him have all died directly or indirectly in his hands, including the "end of life" Emperor Wu.Although he really wants to live hard and stay by the cheap master's side, if the cheap master really despises him and doesn't like him anymore, he will never be his burden with shamelessness.
He has no nostalgia for people and things in this world, and the only thing that can support him to live is a cheap master.It's ridiculous that those officials and concubines and princes who are wary of him every day and rack their brains to frame him think he wants to be that prince.If it wasn't for revenge on the cheap father, if it wasn't for not wanting to be born in the same batch as Emperor Wu, if it wasn't for the sudden appearance of the cheap master after many years, he would have sunk to the bottom of the lake long ago to seek his freedom.
Thinking of it this way, Mu Yun suddenly became somewhat relieved and determined.
The young man took a deep breath, still holding the broken sword tightly, and slowly walked up to Wei Zhao, ready to speak out the generous words he had prepared in his belly, expressing that he would never be a dog's skin plaster and would never be offensive determination.However, he only opened his mouth, and as soon as he lightened up, he was wrapped around his waist and pressed into his arms.
Wei Zhao said, "Extend your left hand and let Master see."
The boy's whole body froze, but the hands hidden in the snow sleeves shrunk even tighter, and even the waist, which was soft just a moment ago, became tense in an instant.
Wei Zhao didn't need to be forceful, he just lowered his tone and repeated, "Be obedient, stretch out your left hand, and let Master see."
"Why, it's so tightly hidden, is it hiding gold or silver?"
"The apprentice is old enough to know that he is hiding money from his own house, and he is not even filial to the master."
"Forget it, just hide it, and you won't be afraid to cover it up..."
Marquis Wei re-used the glib kung fu of his youth, and babbled for a long time, but he didn't know if it really worked, or the little guy on his leg was finally annoyed by his nagging.The young man bit his lip, and finally stretched out his curled left hand from the snow sleeve very slowly.
Row upon row of cyan snake patterns are printed on the snow-white skin, as if there is a real snake walking around the snow sleeve, it is shocking.
The young man was so sensitive, he caught Wei Zhao's moment of loss of consciousness, and felt like getting an electric shock, he wanted to withdraw his hand.
"Well, it's pretty pretty."
Shrinking halfway, the boy heard the familiar deep male voice whispering in his ear.
Mu Yun slowly raised his head, stunned, amazed, and looked at Wei Zhao in disbelief, his shoulders trembling uncontrollably.
Wei Zhao twitched his lips and said, "Your Highness, don't you know that the green python is a god in the book. In my hometown, there is a legend that anyone who feeds the god with blood can live a long life. worry."
"Why don't you take half of the antidote and keep the other half?"
The boy's eyes finally turned red, and big tears rolled out.