Chapter 45: Hurt
From that burst of awesome nonsense, I don't know is Zhang Xiaofan's body was originally strong, or Bi Yao's persuasion had an effect, the original fever that had been persisting gradually receded a little, Zhang Xiaofan also slowly recovered his sanity, the person is also awake, but the disease is still not light, mostly still lying down to rest.
This day, Bi Yao has nothing to do in the cave wandering, and finally walked to the golden bell lady left those four words, carefully looked at, can not help but sigh for it. Zhang Xiaofan sat next to her and couldn't help but ask, "What are you sighing for?"
Baguio hummed and said, "I am sighing for Madam, she is so talented and beautiful, but she was let down by you stinky men, suffering for her whole life, how unworthy!"
Zhang Xiaofan was dumbfounded by this.
Baguio read these words carefully again, suddenly "eek", but found an oddity, the last word of the last sentence of these four sentences "bitter", the lower "mouth The word "bitter", the lower side of the "mouth" is actually deep into, and other words are very different, her eyes turn, almost immediately reacted, reached out to the waist of the Acacia bell picked up a ratio, the size of the real just right, could not help but let out a cry of joy.
Zhang Xiaofan was surprised at the back and said, "What's wrong?"
Baguio turned back to him and smiled, "There's help!"
Zhang Xiaofan was shocked, immediately came to the spirit, joyfully said, "Really?"
Baguio embedded the bell, see no reaction, and try to turn around, a few moments later, suddenly inside the cave, "Kaka" sound, the stone wall vibration, Baguio was shocked, holding the golden bell and backed away, only to hear a "rumbling" sound, the original smooth stone wall actually collapsed! A layer down, revealing the inner layer, the upper side is also like the inner chamber of the heavenly book engraved with words.
Zhang Xiaofan first a happy, but then in this stone wall around to see, face but gradually ugly, it seems that this mechanism is just Mrs. Golden Bell in order to cover up the stone wall of the text and set up, there is no way out, this time he is frustrated very much.
Baguio is staring at the text on the stone wall, Mrs. Golden Bell left something, and hide this tight, must not be unusual. After a long time, her face looks uncertain, but the color of sigh is especially heavy, whispered: "So this is the 'infatuation spell'."
Zhang Xiaofan was impatient beside her, and came over to take a few glances, but saw that the first few sentences were:
"Nine ghostly spirits, gods and devils of the heavens.
With my blood, I offer myself as a sacrifice.
Three lifetimes, seven lifetimes, forever in hell.
Only for the sake of love, though death is not regrettable...".
He knew at a glance that this is the evil way in the evil spell, but look at the color of Baguio, happy mostly, can not help but hum, said: "This can be pointed out where the way out?"
Baguio was dumbfounded and said, "No."
Zhang Xiaofan faintly said, "Then what's the point of you learning it?"
Bi Yao was silent, and only after a long time did she say, "You don't know the origin of this infatuation incantation, this incantation was passed down by our Sacred Sect since ancient times, but it is rumored that no one has ever been willing to utilize it?"
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaofan became curious and said, "What?"
Baguio sighed and said, "The legend says that this incantation was comprehended from the Book of Heaven by an intelligent female ancestor back then, but it can only be practiced by a woman, and I heard that it is the result of a woman's essence and blood being transformed into a severe incantation, which is extremely powerful..."
She has not finished, Zhang Xiaofan has interrupted her, in the eyes of contempt, said: "Then it is called 'Knight Blood Mantra' well, but also what the spell of infatuation, the evil devil, attached to elegance!"
Baguio's face changed, but then she was stunned for a moment and whispered, "You're right, even if it's like Mrs. Golden Bell, her old man, isn't it useless in the end?"
Zhang Xiaofan ignored her.
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The two of them spent a few more days here, Zhang Xiaofan went to look at the Book of Heaven in his spare time, while Baguio was often staring at the words on the stone wall that she called the "Infatuation Mantra" in a daze.
The first volume of the Book of Heaven, in fact, there is no actual cultivation method, the whole of the difficult text, can be considered a general outline. However, Zhang Xiaofan had practiced both Buddhist and Taoist true methods, so he could still understand this text, but only just.
Zhang Xiaofan was still puzzled by the realm of Buddhism and Taoism merging into one as stated in the Book of Heaven, did it mean that the two true methods of "Taiji Xuanqing Dao" and "Great Brahma Prajna" should be integrated and practiced at the same time?
Although he knew that there was little hope of survival, there was always some temptation in his heart. Zhang Xiaofan quickly tried to follow the direction described in the "Book of Heaven" to cultivate, but the simultaneous use of these two true methods, is not an easy task, not a few moments he was already churning with gas and blood, and had to stop dismally. For several days in a row, there was no progress at all.
With this, there is a bigger problem in front of the two of them - there is no food.
Cultivation of Taoist people, although the sky into the sea, but in the end is also a mortal body, legend has it that the profound seniors in the Taoist practice of the art of grain, do not drink and do not eat, but no one has ever seen. From entering the cave, Zhang Xiaofan's dry food has been lost, although fortunately there is water in the cave to drink, but dry food is only Baguio one person with, and where enough to eat? Even if the two repeatedly save, is quickly eaten.
So I don't know how long I stayed in the cave, I'm afraid but two days of work, Zhang Xiaofan and Baguio two people will look at the empty food bag dazed.
"Ugh!" Baguio sat on top of the platform, next to the pile of dead bones, but did not feel the slightest bit uncomfortable, it seems that the Devil Sect women, really is not quite the same as ordinary people. But nowadays, she was looking sad.
Zhang Xiaofan's condition is getting better very quickly, the fever has almost subsided, except for his body is still a little weak, but other than that, there is no big problem. At this moment, he heard Baguio sigh and turned his head towards the demonic woman.
Into his eyes, is that a water green clothing woman is sitting on the edge of the platform, a pair of feet resting in mid-air, there is not a moment to sway, along with her waist that the Acacia bell "tinkling" ringing, if not in this environment and know her identity, Zhang Xiaofan almost want to think that this is still a naive young girl.
But this look, Bi Yao but than when we met, haggard much more. Her daughter, daily still have to that small water curtain to wash and comb some, so look still looks beautiful, and no dirty feeling, just these days, she is obviously thin.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaofan heart, from childhood, he has heard the master brothers teach, the devil in the way of selfishness, ruthless. But now in this cave in the middle of the Jedi, for what reason, this devilish woman will still give half of the only food to himself to eat?
Zhang Xiaofan was lost in thought and didn't notice Baguio looking over, seeing Zhang Xiaofan looking blankly at himself at some point, his face suddenly turned red and snapped, "What are you looking at?"
Zhang Xiaofan was startled and hurriedly turned his head away, saying sardonically, "No, nothing."
Bi Yao was behind him, but also did not rebuke him as loudly as imagined, for a long time, instead, a sigh came out and said, "We are trapped in this cave desperation, not far from death, you do not have to be that constrained."
Zhang Xiaofan froze for a moment, slowly turned to look at Baguio, only to see her somewhat thin but still beautiful face, there is a faint helpless smile, could not help but blurt out, "In fact, when I was seriously ill, you do not have to give me most of the dry food to eat, so that you can also live for a few more days, maybe ⋯."
"Maybe then what?" Bi Yao suddenly interrupted him.
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and whispered, "Maybe you might be saved."
Baguio shook her head slightly, a small smile appearing on her face as she said, "I don't want to die, but I'm even more unwilling to wait slowly for a skeleton and another gradually decaying dead body in the dead silence of this cave, in that case, I'm afraid that I'll go crazy myself first before anyone comes to save me."
Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help but shiver when he heard the kind of situation she described, this was indeed not the life of a human being.
Bi Yao glanced at him and faintly said, "What, are you scared too?"
Zhang Xiaofan immediately straightened his back and exclaimed, "No way!"
A smile appeared at the corner of Baguio's mouth, and a trace if gentleness gradually appeared in her eyes as she looked at him, softly saying, "Promise me one thing, okay?"
Zhang Xiaofan frowned and said, "What?"
Baguio smiled faintly and said, "We have eaten all the dry food now, and there is nothing to eat except for some water, so I'm afraid that in less than seven days, we will starve to death."
Zhang Xiaofan was silent.
Baguio's face was calm, but the next words that came out made Zhang Xiaofan as if he was seeing a ghost, and he was shocked: "In a few days, if you see that I can't make it, you can kill me first."
Zhang Xiaofan opened his mouth wide, pointing at her, and was unable to speak for a moment! It did not occur to him that Bi Yao still had a calm face as she said the unimaginable, earth-shattering words, "After I die, my flesh will still be there, so if you are bent on survival, you will probably be able to live for a while longer if you eat my flesh."
Zhang Xiaofan almost fell to the ground.
Only after half a day did he come back to his senses from this great shock, and immediately said to himself in his mind, "All the people in this demonic sect are indeed demons, and they can even do this kind of thing!" But looking at the color of Baguio's face, she was actually calm, her heart was even more chilled, she couldn't help but take a step back, her fingers were almost trembling as she pointed at her, saying, "You, what did you say?"
Baguio looked at her, the tenderness in her eyes seemed to have grown a little thicker, but in Zhang Xiaofan's eyes, it seemed to be a little more poisonous than all the poisons in this world combined.
"Don't you want to go back to the Great Bamboo Peak of Qing Yun Mountain to meet that Ling'er senior sister of yours? You still have a few fellow disciples who are in this Ten Thousand Bats Ancient Cave, they will surely come to look for you, and the longer you live, won't their hope of finding you be greater?" Bi Yao slightly lowered her head, but she spoke in a tone that was still so flat.
But Zhang Xiaofan didn't care about her tone, he didn't even notice how she knew about Ling'er's sister, he just pointed at her and said angrily, "You, you actually told me to eat, eat, eat... You evil devils and foreigners, you're simply unbelievable! Shameless, disgusting, I, I... you, you..."
The more he spoke, the angrier he became, but his mouth was not very bright, "I, I, I", "you, you, you" said half a day, but did not come up with anything. However, his reaction, but seems to be early in Bi Yao's expectations, she is not angry, not ridiculed, just staring at him in a daze for a long time.
Only after Zhang Xiaofan's loud, ragged breath gradually subsided did she slowly say, "Eat me or not, that's up to you, but you must kill me first!"
"Again!" Zhang Xiaofan burst out angrily, "Don't think that I will be in the same boat with you devils, if you give me some dry food, I will use this flesh to return it to you that's it, if you want to pull me down, you can't do it!"
Baguio slowly shook her head and said, "No, I am afraid."
Zhang Xiaofan habitually said, "Nonsense! I will never fall for your tricks... Huh, what did you say?"
As if in this life and death situation, Baguio's mood changed like never before, only to see that she seemed to be caught up in some kind of memories, a kind of awe that Zhang Xiaofan had never seen in her before surfaced on her face, and then, she shook her head heavily, as if she was trying to get rid of some kind of thoughts.
"Do you know what it's like to be a person waiting to die?" She said in a low voice.
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, vaguely realizing that she seemed to have something else in mind, and curiosity rose as he said, "What?"
The muscles in the corner of Baguio's eyes seemed to twitch, at this moment when she was facing death, to this young man who was the only one who accompanied her in front of death, she actually found it difficult to control her feelings, even the voice that she spoke, carried a hint of haziness and emptiness, "When I was six years old, my mother took me back to the 'Six Foxes Cave in Fox Qi Mountain ' to see my grandma, unexpectedly at that time your righteousness to attack, which 'Tianyin Temple' Pu Fang evil monks with magic treasure 'Faotu Golden Bowl' will be the whole Six Foxes Cave collapse, alive and buried me and my mother and grandma and the three buried alive in the ground. "
Zhang Xiaofan's body suddenly trembled, a trace of bad premonition, even a kind of vicious chill, flooded from his heart and cooled from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet.
It was as if Baguio had completely fallen into painful memories at the moment, her eyes looking straight ahead, empty, just like the tone in which she spoke, bland and hollow, yet carrying the deepest pain, "At that time, I was howling with fear, terrified. It was a small cave, and because there were a few boulders holding it up, we were able to survive, but grandma was too badly injured and died soon after. My mother and I cried bitterly in that darkness and buried Grandmother's corpse."
"We were buried deep in the ground, surrounded by a hard, cold rock, except for a few drops of water coming from between the cracks in the rock. I was scared, but Mother kept telling me that Xiao Yao wasn't afraid, Father would definitely come to save us."
Zhang Xiaofan was holding his breath at the moment, listening carefully with a hint of indescribable strangeness and hidden awe, as if he felt something that was about to happen.
"But, it was always pitch black there, and father never came, I was so scared in that pitch black hole, and my stomach was hungry, and I kept crying. I still remember, my mother sighed beside me, holding me tightly in her arms, and kept saying to me: xiaoyao isn't afraid, xiaoyao isn't afraid, mother won't let anything happen to you, your father will definitely come to save us!"
Baguio's face gradually turned pale, but still continued, "However, father still didn't come, yet I was already starving, and kept crying to mother for something to eat. Mother searched the cave one at a time, but never found anything. Later, I was so hungry that I didn't even have the strength to cry, but just lay in my mother's arms and moaned. Suddenly one day, Mother found a piece of meat! ⋯"
Zhang Xiaofan saw Baguio's body shaking almost at the same time she spoke.
"I was too hungry to care about anything, I ate it, and then seemed to sleep comfortably, as if at that time, Mother Nature also laughed out in the darkness. And so it was that Mamma found me a piece of meat at intervals, and I lived on, but Mamma's voice grew feebler by the day. Finally, one day, I called out to her, but she didn't answer, and ever since then, I've been in the darkness, alone, waiting to die like this."
Baguio slowly turned her head and looked at Zhang Xiaofan, Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help but feel a chill when he was looked at by her eyes.
"Do you know what it's like to wait for death alone there? Do you know the smell of your mother's corpse slowly rotting right next to you? Do you know what it's like for a person to never be able to see their surroundings and live in perpetual fear?"
With every question she asked, Zhang Xiaofan's body shook a little.
While Baguio was silent, Zhang Xiaofan didn't even dare to breathe, finally, it was like she woke up from a dream, but it was like she was about to wake up, and in a trance, she spoke again, "Finally, one day, all of a sudden, a light shot down from above my head, and I screamed in fear and hid in the deepest corners, and then, as that light got brighter and brighter, and as the hole above got bigger and bigger, I heard my father calling out the name of my mother and I Then, saw Father jump down and get in front of me."
"He didn't look at me first, but saw my mother first, and just now when the light was bright I was so focused on looking up that I forgot to look at my mother. When I remembered I was already blocked by dad and couldn't see my mother's corpse, but I clearly saw dad's body shaking, and the whole person seemed to change into stone, and then uncle Qinglong, uncle Baihu and uncle Xuanwu, who had jumped down after dad, were all stupefied in place one by one and didn't move at all."
"I was suddenly very afraid, even more afraid than if I had waited to die in the darkness, and I called out in a small voice: Father. Father slowly turned around, and the three uncles lined up and stood behind him, blocking Mother's body, and I still couldn't see her. I asked in a low voice, Father, where is Mother?"
Zhang Xiaofan could see clearly that Baguio's body was shaking with every word she said at the moment, as if the girl who asked was right in front of them.
"Father didn't say anything, but his face was so scary, even though I'm small, I know, I know, at that time, he really wanted to kill me, wanted to kill me, his own daughter! But he didn't do it after all, he saved me, took me in his arms and left that dark cave. Just before I left, I peeked over my father's shoulder and looked down, my mother's body had already been buried by the three uncles, revealing only one hand, but I don't know why, that hand, that hand, that hand..."
Bi Yao's voice was suddenly silent, Zhang Xiaofan was startled, looked toward her, but saw Bi Yao's face white, eyes closed tightly, the whole body actually fell straight down, looking actually fainted. Zhang Xiaofan almost subconsciously immediately rushed up and held her, only to feel cold to the touch, almost not like a living person.
He had just recovered from his illness, his body was powerless, and it took him a lot of effort to put Baguio on the platform, looking at her pale face, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly realized that his whole body had been completely drenched in cold sweat.
That night (actually do not know whether it is the night, but Zhang Xiaofan intuitively thought it was the night), Baguio has been unconscious, but in the dream from time to time called out "mother", "father" and other words, the two people's position all of a sudden actually inverted, turned into Zhang Xiaofan to take care of her! It seems that this is the place where Baguio's heart is deep.
It seems that this is a deep heart of Baguio a very painful past, coma, several times screaming, cold sweat, Zhang Xiaofan at a loss, until finally, Baguio unintentionally chaotic arm, grabbed his shoulders, snuggled in his arms, as if to get what to rely on, only gradually calm down, quiet sleep.
But the hands, is tightly grasping Zhang Xiaofan's clothes, and even nails into the flesh, pain Zhang Xiaofan grimace, but somehow, looking at Baguio's pale face, he actually can not bear to leave, forced to bear down, let her snuggle in his arms, sleeping peacefully.
