Murder

Chi Yebai was extremely surprised.

When he and Sima Feng left Shifang City, Fang Changqing said that Wen Xuanzhou had already left, and he didn't know where this person went.

How did Wen Xuanzhou know that he and Sima Feng came to Jiezilou?And how to enter this dense stockade?

Chi Yebai tried his best to calm himself down and stared at Wen Xuanzhou.He decided to ask the most important question first.

"How did you get in?"

"Come in from the entrance."

"The entrance can no longer be opened." Chi Yebai said.

Wen Xuanzhou pointed to the top of his head: "There is also an entrance above, only I know."

"You know I'm...we're here in Jiezilou?"

"Of course I know."

"How do you know?" Chi Yebai was full of doubts.

Wen Xuanzhou did not hide his intention at all, and told the whole thing.

It was Song Beiyan who sent the message to Wen Xuanzhou.

Wen Xuanzhou did control Song Beiyan, but it didn't start when Gan Lele unintentionally said the word "Shen Ying Ce" to Song Beiyan.As early as when he was still living on Qingping Island, when he wrote to Sima Liangren asking Chi Yebai to come over and give him a further diagnosis, Song Beiyan had already been controlled by him.

This control is subtle.He and Song Beiyan lived together day and night, and when Song Beiyan fell asleep at night, he whispered in his ear repeatedly, supplemented by special herbs and utensils.The aroma from the medicinal herbs, the rhythmic sound of knocking on the utensils, and Wen Xuanzhou's whispering voice, the combination of the three is the prerequisite for Song Beiyan to accept his instructions unconsciously.

Then he jumped into the water, making Song Beiyan and others think he was dead.

Song Beiyan conveys information in a secret and regular way.He is normal during the day, only when he falls asleep at night, around midnight, Song Beiyan will definitely get up to go to the toilet.Gan is happy to know about Song Beiyan's habit, but he never thinks there is anything suspicious about it.

Sometimes Song Beiyan would walk past the latrine, stand under the wall of Sima's house, roll up small paper strips, and stuff them into the cracks in the wall.The cracks in the wall have been cracked for many years, and they existed as early as when Wen Xuanzhou was treating Chi Yebai: the paper rolls were stuffed in, about three or four inches deep, and after that, as long as someone ticked the outside of the wall, it would be ready immediately. take away.

Wen Xuanzhou naturally wouldn't take it by himself.He used the money and asked beggars on the street to fetch it for him.There were people coming and going in the street, children running around, and playing hide-and-seek against the walls, so no one ever suspected it.

In addition, Wen Xuanzhou would find a way to remind Song Beiyan only when he needed information, so he passed it on only five or six times, and each time it was safe and secure.

"Unfortunately, it's not Sima Feng or you that Sima Liang asked Song Beiyan to follow, but that gangster. There is really no news worth looking into for a gangster. Therefore, if Song Beiyan doesn't act together with you, it will be difficult for me to get any information." Valuable information." Wen Xuanzhou said, "If it is really discussed in detail, his role is not very big."

"But you can't count every step we take." Chi Yebai whispered, "This is too mysterious."

"It's really impossible, not only me, but anyone else can't do it." Wen Xuanzhou nodded, took a candlestick, and took two steps forward, "But you should understand that everything in the world is bounded by a spider web. inside."

The candlelight flickered and went on and off, so that Wen Xuanzhou's face was also dimmed.The rain has become much lighter, and the water pouring down from the top has gradually decreased, intermittently.

"I told you, didn't I?" Wen Xuanzhou suddenly lowered his voice, "Everything in the world depends on the knot."

The tip of the sword in Chi Yebai's hand fell to the ground suddenly, with a loud sound.

This is what Wen Xuanzhou said when he taught him how to cast a "room".

In order for Chi Yebai to create a huge "room" in his heart, Wen Xuanzhou really thought of many ways, such as shutting the two of them in a study room full of bookshelves, and letting Chi Yebai keep walking blindfolded until the end of the day. The structure of the study is all in mind one by one.

This factually existing study room is the embryonic form of the huge and boundless "room" in Chi Yebai's heart.

When he was blindfolded and could tell the specific location of each bookshelf and the specific location of each book, in the darkness that he couldn't see, he seemed to see everything.

Then Wen Xuanzhou ordered him to sit in the study and extend the room he "saw" twice, three times, ten times...

In the ever-extending study room, there are a large number of repeated books.Although Chi Yebai is young, he is very intelligent. He already knows the meaning of making this big room and countless bookshelves.

Sure enough, Wen Xuanzhou then began to teach him how to put all the things he had read, heard, and stored in his memory on the "bookshelf".

"Everything in the world depends on the knot." Wen Xuanzhou held his hand with an unusually gentle tone.He had a ball of thin cotton thread in his hand, and the silk thread was tangled. He wanted Chi Yebai to untie them all and tie 99 knots.Every knot has to be meaningful, and Chi Yebai has to learn how to imagine new knots under each knot.

This is a more difficult exercise than making "rooms" and bookshelves.

It took Chi Ye nearly ten days to finally be able to distinguish and explain the meaning of the thousands of "knots" around him.

"The three knots No. 60 are Sima Feng." He stammered, "There are 72 knots left after this knot. They are Sima's parents, Ah Si, and Sima's horse... ..."

"There's still a horse?...Which knot is that horse?" Wen Xuanzhou asked.

"No. 30." Chi Yebai immediately said, "Under the horse's knot, there are seventeen more knots, which are manger, saddle, horse straw, etc... The saddle knot is related to Sima's father, They can be linked together..."

Chi Yebai thought he hadn't said enough, so he stood up and gestured.At that time, he trusted Wen Xuanzhou wholeheartedly.In the darkness, the thousands of "knots" beside him are like thousands of stars, surrounding him, wrapping him, protecting him, and guiding him, summarizing and summarizing step by step until all things, All clearly categorized with the original 99 knots.

These 99 "knots" are the 99 bookshelves in Chi Yebai's "room".

As he grows older, the "room" is getting bigger and bigger, and the "bookshelves" are getting more and more.But as long as he follows the traces of silk threads and knots, he can always sort out the context, and immediately place them on different "bookshelves".The chaotic memory was finally sorted out. When he learned this method, his heart was filled with infinite gratitude to Wen Xuanzhou.

A "knot" can be a person or a key event.While sorting out these memories, Chi Yebai himself also discovered that things in the world are indeed full of coincidences and uncertainties, but every coincidence and uncertainty is always completed with countless established facts.The first horse Sima Feng raised died, and he cried for a long time.If he hadn't been crying for so long, he wouldn't have found fragments of herbal medicine under the horse's dead body, and finally found that the horse grass was mixed with poisonous plants.These poisonous plants were accidentally put into the horse grass by the groom, because these herbs are harmless to people, and his wife was bitten by a snake and was about to use these herbs for healing.The groom took care of his wife and children, was exhausted, and did not carefully arrange the herbs.And that snake was caught by Sima Feng outside, and he wanted to keep it for play.

Either a coincidence, or not a coincidence.There are all kinds of world conditions, mixed and chaotic, but there are vague traces to follow.

Chi Yebai understood the meaning of Wen Xuanzhou's words.

Wen Xuanzhou couldn't grasp their every move - what he thought about was the possibility of every move.

Leaving Song Beiyan on Qingping Island is a "knot".And under this knot, there are several possibilities, which are the "knots" derived from it.

The Shifang City incident is also a "knot". After the incident is resolved, Sima Feng and Chi Yebai may go home, go to Jiezilou, or stay in the Shaoyi League... This is another result of several events derived from Shifang City. "Knot".

Wen Xuanzhou has the ability to sort out these possibilities that have not yet happened, so he always follows them closely, and is even always one step ahead.

"You already knew about this village." Chi Yebai took two steps back, and Wen Xuanzhou was already getting closer.Chi Yebai tightly grasped the sword in his hand, his tone was a little unsteady: "This village is so strange... It's full of human bones and blood, and the rope under your feet... Is this a place for sacrifice?"

"Yes, a cruel but interesting method of sacrifice." Wen Xuanzhou stopped, and smiled while looking at the bottom, "People of the Wu'e religion believe that only by peeling off the flesh and blood, removing the bones and blood, and being washed by wind and rain, can people be freed from this life. their sins. Their... elders, or leaders, are those few people, all of whom are good at killing and dismantling bones."

He paused, then continued with a smile: "They are all the instructors of the Condor Battalion, and they are my husband."

The rain was still pattering down.Wen Xuanzhou was already standing by the rope.This is where Chi Yebai stood just now.He lowered his head and looked down with great interest: "You have read it all, do you find it interesting?"

"How do you know I'm here?" Chi Yebai suddenly asked, "Did you also guess this?"

Wen Xuanzhou frowned: "Long time no see, you seem to talk more than when you were a child. This is not what I guessed, the encounter tonight is really just a coincidence. I haven't been here for a long time, I want to come and see, Look at the things I carved back then, but by coincidence, I saw you."

"What did you engrave?" Chi Yebai asked again, "Is it the writing on the wall?"

Wen Xuanzhou was a little surprised: "You have already seen it? Great, I have been thinking about it day and night, how to bring you here, this is really not a small problem."

"Why did you engrave these things?" Just as he finished speaking, Chi Yebai asked again, "These confusing words... do they make sense?"

Wen Xuanzhou smiled: "Of course it makes sense, I can explain it to you in detail, but..."

He turned the candle to shine on Chi Yebai, and was about to continue talking, but was surprised to find that Chi Yebai had his eyes closed.

At this moment, Wen Xuanzhou suddenly felt an ominous feeling in his heart.He immediately closed his mouth, but his voice was still echoing in the bone village.

The next moment, he heard a shining silk thread appear above the candlestick in his hand.

It is rain.It was rainwater that fell from the top, almost forming a silk thread.

Wen Xuanzhou instantly understood what happened.

It seems like a coincidence that he came to this position, but it is not a coincidence.

When Chi Yebai was talking to him, he kept backing away.In order to get close to him, he continued to walk forward while he was retreating.When he got here, Chi Yebai just happened to ask him the function of the stockade, and just happened to mention the "rope", Wen Xuanzhou stopped, and illuminated the lower rope with candle light.

This is where Chi Yebai just stood.So he knew that there was a leak in this position.The rain will fall, it will fall.And in order to prevent Wen Xuanzhou from noticing the heavy rain, Chi Yebai kept asking him questions and constantly distracting him.

The rain line really fell.

With a "hiss", the candle light went out.

Wen Xuanzhou fell from the light to the darkness for a moment, his eyes couldn't adapt, and all he saw was the deep darkness.

The moment the candlelight went out, he knew that Chi Yebai must have opened his eyes.

Chi Yebai got used to the darkness, knew exactly where Wen Xuanzhou was standing, and knew that Wen Xuanzhou couldn't see him now.

Wen Xuanzhou's heart sank—this young man, like himself, made inferences and arrangements in an instant.Although this was an arrangement full of loopholes, no one had time to perfect it. Chi Yebai was about to raise his sword to attack with killing intent.

The smoke from the candle hadn't dissipated yet, and the piercing sword energy really hit Wen Xuanzhou from the front!