"Impossible! It's impossible!!"
On the pitch - black hand, the single eye stared so hard that the eye socket cracked. The splashed bloodstreams instantly turned into countless blood - red nematodes that burrowed towards my eyes and nose.
That eye even howled and tried to get into my mouth!
"I want to go back! Go back and ask my brother - in - law. He always said he loved me!"
Qiu Zhuqing's obsession was to marry Si Cheng. That's why she was trapped under the abyss of this obsession and couldn't leave. Now my words had almost shattered all the hopes in her heart. She just wanted to climb out and ask Si Cheng why he had treated her like this!!
"You fool!!"
I was desperately prying at those two pitch - black hands, trying to get rid of her entanglement. Suddenly, a pale and gaunt big hand grabbed the eyeball that was trying to get into my mouth.
"Ah!!"
Qiu Zhuqing, in pain, flipped her hand and grabbed backwards. I saw Zhu Youjian's deathly - pale face between those pitch - black fingers, shining brightly.
He stared at me, and I stared back at him.
"Are you scolding me?" I was so entangled that I could hardly breathe.
"Yes!"
While Zhu Youjian was talking, his hands never stopped. He tore Qiu Zhuqing's two hands off me.
"What do you think you're capable of, daring to claim you've come to save me?"
As expected of an emperor, his normal tone of speech left me speechless.
"I... I felt sorry for you!"
When I said this, I was already mentally prepared to be mocked. Unexpectedly, he suddenly let out a long sigh.
"Give me a drop of your blood."
As Zhu Youjian was speaking, he had already stretched out his lean and pale hand and held my fingers.
The nail of his little finger was as long and sharp as a knife. With just one stroke, it pierced my palm. Originally, as a living soul, I shouldn't have been able to bleed, but the intense pain was so real. Immediately, a drop of blood oozed out from the wound and floated straight in the air, like a round pearl, showing a gorgeous blood - red color.
"Great and lofty heaven, with boundless magic power. Using blood as a contract, never betray for all eternity..."
As Zhu Youjian chanted, that drop of blood emitted a faint red light in the dark abyss. Then, suddenly, it drilled into Zhu Youjian's Tianxing acupoint. In an instant, he swelled up like the scarecrow that had been my substitute before, expanding infinitely in the abyss. Wherever he passed, those black hands let out shrill screams like darkness being dispelled by light and then disappeared.
"De Yue makes a contract with Du Xinghe! No pardon shall be granted. When the talisman arrives, it shall be executed!"
His voice grew from small to large. By the last four words "When the talisman arrives, it shall be executed", it actually thundered like a spring thunder in the dark space. Then, he took my hand and took just one step, and we had already stepped out of the abyss.
Those two pitch - black ghost hands belonging to Qiu Zhuqing were still in his grasp.
At the edge of the abyss, a small light - yellow scarecrow was standing with its hands behind its back, as if waiting for our appearance.
After Zhu Youjian led me out of the abyss full of ghost hands, he returned to his former lean and pale self.
"Si Jiangchen, you're so scheming..."
He coldly let go of my hand and casually threw those two still - wriggling black hands in front of the scarecrow.
Si Jiangchen... scheming?!
Just as I was in surprise, I saw the scarecrow "whoosh" and jump straight into my forehead. Immediately, a burst of white light flashed in my mind. I heard a soft voice calling my name.
"Du Xinghe, wake up..."
I opened my eyes blankly and saw Lu Tianchang's extremely good - looking face only half a foot away from me. He was vigorously patting my Baihui acupoint on my head.
"Ouch... Stop patting!!"
He was quite strong. My head was dizzy from the shock. I quickly pushed him away and sat up.
"Si Jiangchen?"
I looked around.
It turned out that I was still in that delicate small flower hall. At this time, the three incense sticks in front of Qiu Zhuying's memorial tablet hadn't burned out yet.
Si Jiangchen was kneeling on the cushion in front of the memorial tablet. It seemed that he felt I had woken up, and he slowly stood up.
"What's going on? Where's Zhu Youjian?"
I heard in my dream that Zhu Youjian said Si Jiangchen was scheming against him. With Si Jiangchen's cold - blooded character, he might scheme against others until they had nothing left! That guy named Zhu Youjian was already so pitiful. I didn't want him to be forced to do things he didn't want to do.
"Here."
Si Jiangchen spread out his hand. His palm was very big, and there was a small bone - china jar in his palm, sealed with a piece of yellow silk.
He walked to my side and casually handed the jar to my hand. "From now on, let him protect you."
"Why?"
I stared at Si Jiangchen with wide eyes. "Let him go. I have you to protect me!"
I was telling the truth. As the soul of an emperor, no matter how down - and - out Zhu Youjian was, he wouldn't be willing to follow someone like a little attendant.
"..."
After hearing my words, Si Jiangchen was slightly stunned for a moment. Then he suddenly smiled gently. "Du Xinghe..."
He turned his head, reached out his hand to hold my waist and pulled me into his arms. His forehead gently touched my head again. He asked me in a low voice, "Do you know that you're very good at coaxing people?"
"Ah?!"
I didn't understand what he meant. I've always had a bad temper. How could I say nice things?!
Si Jiangchen lowered his head, and his lips touched my cheek, cold and soft...
But suddenly I felt something strange.
"Help me hold my mother's memorial tablet."
Si Jiangchen looked up at the small memorial tablet on the long table. A woman's whole life could only be remembered by her own son!
I nodded silently, walked forward and held the gilded memorial tablet. At this time, Lu Tianchang had already picked up the scarecrow representing Si Jiangchen from the ground, tied it with a red string and put it into his yellow cloth bag.
And my scarecrow was just a pile of ashes...
In this situation, Si Jiangchen and Lu Tianchang both looked so serious. Even though there were countless questions in my mind, I couldn't ask anymore.
Let's wait until tomorrow...
Thinking like this in my heart, I followed Si Jiangchen and the others out of the door.
Outside, the sun was still shining brightly. The gloomy and unclear environment I had experienced seemed like a nightmare. If it weren't for the small bone - china jar in my hand, I really would have thought that the almost life - and - death scene just now was just my imagination.
"Xiao Si, are you sure you want to do this?"
When we had returned to the door of the main hall, Lu Tianchang suddenly stopped and looked at Si Jiangchen. "Once you take this step, there'll be no turning back!"
"Yeah!"
As if not willing to talk more, Si Jiangchen turned back and smiled. "If there's no turning back, I hope Brother Lu can take good care of Du Xinghe for me!"
"Hey!! What are you two talking about?"
The strange feeling I had noticed since before had now magnified infinitely. "Si Jiangchen, what are you plotting?"