Order of the Pleiades

"This?"

He Chenze crossed his arms and stomped his feet, looking at the pile of fallen leaves with tangled roots in front of him, the expression on his face was indescribable.

Yu Huan also frowned and got off his horse, using his feet to move the fallen leaves back and forth a few times.These fallen leaves are very brittle and shatter into fine crumbs when touched lightly.

"There should be nothing wrong."

He squatted down while talking, and rummaged through the small piece with his hands.

In the early morning, there should have been a layer of fog, and the leaves and soil were wet. When I rummaged, my fingertips were stained with wet soil.

When he went out, the bundle of hair was a little loose, and a strand hung from his forehead, and he wanted to keep it from going back.The wet mud on his hands was brought to the hair, and the result became worse and worse, and the strand of hair was made stiff by him and the mud.

In the end, he pushed it aside in frustration and continued to rummage.

He Chenze was originally eager to pull out a handful of grass to feed the horse, but he opened his mouth after seeing this scene.

"Can you be affected by a lock of hair?"

Yu Huan looked at him when he heard the sound, with the same puzzled look on his face,

"how?"

The other party nodded thoughtfully, and after throwing away the remaining grass in his hand, he squatted beside Yu Huan to help him search.This human hand is not dusty, even if it is poked into the mud and then pulled out, it is still clean.

Yuhuan stared at his hand for a long time, and finally asked the question he had always wanted to ask.

"You don't understand suffering, you don't understand joy."

He looked at He Chenze's eyelashes fluttering in the blink of an eye from the side, casting a shadow on his amber-colored pupils, and inside was a pool of still water that had been calm for thousands of years.

"Then how do you understand what it means to be in love with each other, and what it means to be unswerving in life and death?"

The fallen leaves shattered at the sound, and leaked out from between He Chenze's five fingers. He rubbed his hands together and scattered the others.

The light and shadow cast down fragmentarily, swaying between the man's eyebrows and hair.

Yu Huan knew that he had slipped his tongue, so he didn't dare to speak any more, and just buried himself in his search.

When he thought He Chenze would not return to him, he heard the other party's voice.

"I wanted to treat him well, and so did he."

"Our lives are endless, and someone must be with us."

He Chenze seemed to have pondered for a long time to come up with this answer, but he also felt that some words were not expressive, and thousands of words were entangled in his mind like a mess.

"You said it the other way around."

Yuhuan's eyes were bright, and a beam of light was cast between his brows.

"It should be that you want to treat him well and stay with him, but luckily your life is endless."

"You gods have lived for too long, and these emotions have long been forgotten."

He Chenze laughed out loud after hearing this, narrowed his eyes and pretended to be angry: "I think you also feel that you have lived too long, do you want to go to the underworld to play?"

Yu Huan quickly shook his head and followed his words to change the subject.

"Will we go to the underworld after we die?"

"Naturally, there is a book of life and death there, which will record your life."

He Chenze suddenly found a fist-sized hole in the fallen leaves, he frowned, and cleaned the surrounding leaves little by little.

Yu Huan also saw it and leaned over.

Like some kind of small creature's cave, Yu Huan knocked on the side of the cave a few times, put his ears close, but didn't hear the sound inside, stood up and shook his head at He Chenze.

He Chenze also imitated him and knocked three times on the edge of the cave, then got up and took one step at a time, and when he took the fourth step, he squatted down in the pile of broken leaves and knocked hard, the surroundings sank in response, revealing an entrance of the cave, which was bigger than before. That one is much bigger.

A frightening fluffy creature was curled up on the edge of the hole, staring at He Chenze with rounded black eyes, watching that hand stretched out from above, covering the sky and grabbing the back of his neck.

He Chenze stood up holding it, raised it up and shook it at Yuhuan who was a few steps away, and Yuhuan walked up to He Chenze and poked its nose gleefully.

"Is this a brown mouse?"

Yuhuan stretched out his hand and grabbed the tail of the thing in front of him. It would be a bit far-fetched to say that it was a brown rat, it was almost bigger than a weasel.

The brown mouse screamed out of his fright, and Yu Huan hurriedly let go of his grip.

He Chenze thought it was noisy, so he slapped it on the back. The other party was very sensible and immediately quieted down.

"Give me back."

He Chenze spread his hands, speaking concisely.

The brown mouse stared, its limbs dangling in the air.He Chenze didn't want to talk nonsense with it, so he shook the hand holding it vigorously a few times, and heard the other party's uncomfortable hum as he wished.

Then he sent his five fingers away, and the brown mouse fell to the ground unexpectedly. After realizing it, it rolled and crawled back into the hole.

He Chenze clasped his hands behind his back and explained to Yu Huan who didn't understand.

"The stone is on it, more or less able to get some light. Although you can't get the Tao, it also adds a lot of ability."

He Chenze was obviously very upset, looking like he was being taken advantage of for nothing.

The legs of Yu Huan and others were numb, but the brown mouse didn't come out after it went in. He Chenze obviously understood, and his face was stinky.

"Is there water?"

After hearing this, Yu Huan went to the horse to fetch the water bottle and handed it to him.

After shaking the kettle a few times, He Chenze walked to the original cave, kicked the soil with his shoes to block the entrance of the cave, and then walked to several other places, completely blocking the brown rat's exit.

In the end, He Chenze returned to the original hole where Yu Huan was, unscrewed the lid of the pot and poured water into the hole. The small pot of water was small, but He Chenze dumped it for a long time after casting the spell.

The two of them hid at the entrance of the cave and waited. After a while, they saw small bubbles appearing on the surface of the water, followed by a tip of a nose. Then the brown mouse was forced to come out of the water suddenly, with the same thing in its mouth. A similar soul fragment hangs around Yuhuan's neck.

As soon as the brown mouse popped its head, it rushed straight at He Chenze wetly, put the stone in its mouth in front of him, and then quickly slipped into the forest with oil on its soles.

He Chenze snorted coldly at the brown mouse, and didn't bother to bother with it. He picked up the gravel and put it in his palm, staring at it for a long time.

This piece is much smaller than the previous one, a thin piece that looks like it will shatter if you push hard.

He Chenze took a deep breath, put his hands together in his palms, and lightly threw it into the air.

While throwing it up, he stepped on the ground and jumped, and when he landed in an instant, there was a small child in his arms, and he fell asleep in his arms obediently.

He tilted his head and rubbed the silver hair beside Xiao Linjian's ear lightly with the tip of his nose, smelling the faint milky fragrance from Xiao Linjian's body.

"Come back early."

Whispers are a little hoarse, gentle and lingering like spring rain falling on fresh mud.

Standing beside the two of them, Yu Huan also heard He Chenze's almost praying whisper, and suddenly felt a trace of indescribable sadness in his heart.

He stretched out his hand to touch the child's cheek, and when the two of them touched, the light that hugged Xiao Linjian also wrapped around Yuhuan's index finger, circling a few times before dissipating.

He Chenze didn't see it, and Yuhuan didn't ask.The child's pure white eyelashes fluttered a few times, and when they opened slowly, they just caught Yu Huan in his eyes.

Xiao Linjian stared sleepily at the man in front of him, and smiled at him after a while.

Suddenly, there was a buzzing in his head, as if the stars all over the sky were taken into the eyes of this child, the sound of ebony decay in the depths of the forest and the surging light of the sea of ​​clouds in the sky, all crashed into Yu Huan's arms together with his smile middle.

He stretched out his tender little hand to hold Yu Huan's two fingers, the palm was a little wet, warm and soft.

He Chenze handed him into Yu Huan's arms, and watched him staring at Yu Huan intently.

Yuhuan was embarrassed by the look, so he teased Xiao Linjian with his hand.

He stretched out his index finger and shook it a few times in front of the child. Xiao Linjian sat in his arms, pressed his hand on Yuhuan's arm unmoved, and continued to stare.

He Chenze didn't understand what Xiao Linjian was thinking, so he rubbed the soft white hair on his head vigorously.

"what happened?"

The child didn't answer, but slowly turned his gaze back to He Chenze's face again.

After looking at him for a while, he seemed to recognize him, stretched out his arms and smiled at He Chenze, his lips were pale, and a row of small white teeth were exposed when he smiled.

Feeling his arms getting lighter, Yu Huan wanted to hug the child in his arms in panic, but he missed the hand that He Chenze stretched out.

The child turned into a piece of rubble again and fell into Yuhuan's hands.

He suddenly didn't dare to look at He Chenze's expression for a moment, afraid of bumping into the other's dazed expression.

"It doesn't matter, he should be like this."

The children in each fragment are independent, and their memories are not connected, so this child does not know He Chenze.

He Chenze thought that Yuhuan was frightened by the scene in front of him, so he comforted him.

The other party raised his head in response, only to see the unwillingness flashing in the man's eyes.

"It's normal for this kid not to remember me."

He Chenze seemed to be muttering to himself, his voice was pitifully small.

He understands that the memories of the children in each fragment are not connected, but it is inevitable that they are somewhat depressed.

The shards in his palm were still warm, the same temperature as the little hand that held him just now.

He saw He Chenze take the fragment out of his hand and put it together with the one on his neck in his palm.

When He Chenze let go of his hand again, the two pieces merged into one piece, the size remained the same, and the firefly blue light between the patterns was half bright.

After thinking for a long time, Yu Huan spoke, and made his request to this god for the first time.

"If I help you find each one, can you tell me a story between you?"

He Chenze is a little taller than him, and he always lifts his jaw slightly when looking at him closely.Because of this action, the request appeared to be more sincere.

The other party did not answer.

"I'm only for you for a moment, and you tell me that it will not hinder you."

"Why do you want to know?" He raised his eyes sharply.

"Is it curiosity, or is there a conspiracy?"

He Chenze leaned his upper body forward, and Yu Huan took a big step back in surprise.He Chenze stretched out his hand and grabbed the rope around his neck, Yu Huan struggled backward, drawing a red mark.

"You can do whatever else you want."

He Chenze smiled harmlessly at him, but exerted a little bit of force on his hands, and the twisted strands of hair were embedded in the flesh and blood.

The two stalemate secretly, and there are blood oozing from the back of the neck.

"But if you go after him..."

He Chenze suddenly loosened his strength, and Yu Huan was caught off guard and staggered back a step, and was gently pulled back by the opponent's wrist.

The person's posture was the same as when he was talking to Lin Jian before, He Chenze pressed against Yuhuan's right ear and whispered to him, his hair rubbed against the tip of his nose, the cold breath different from the fragrance of children's milk sneaked into his nasal cavity.

"I let you wish to die."

In that moment, Yu Huan was tightly wrapped by the bone-chilling chill that surged from the bottom of his heart.

It's like the fear of ants watching the elephant's feet fall head-on, and the panic of butterflies falling into the river swamp with broken spines, or like a canary shackled in a cage with nowhere to escape.

He closed his eyes tightly beside He Chenze, trying his best to suppress the trembling.

"I know you people are always greedy, wishing for longevity, praying for freedom from disease, wishing to be free from the seven sorrows, not the eight sufferings."

He Chenze has always been cool, he just came to the world with a soft and moist skin.So when the skin was lifted, the always elegant voice was as cold as a ghost.