In the darkness, Gu You saw the face of the prison slave again, fair and charming.
Dreaming again.
Gu You struggled to ask the prison slave, "Why did you harm me?" Why do you always appear in my dreams?"
The prison slave crouched down, his eyes shining with beauty. With her face a little closer, she said, "You often dream of me?"
"Why do you always show up in my dreams? Then say something I don't understand and leave? What on earth do you want to tell me? Who on earth are you?" Gu You asked a series of questions because he was afraid that before he could figure things out, the prison slave would disappear into the darkness as before.
When the dream is over, she and I are enemies. He said to himself, though in the dream, Gu You's consciousness was very clear.
"Do you hate me?" The prisoner did not answer.
Gu You thought for a moment, his eyes vacant. He said, "In reality, I hate. Because you always hurt me and killed my friends. But in my dreams I don't hate, because... Because..."
"Because of what?" The other person pressed.
He himself doesn't know why, perhaps the prison slave in the dream didn't hurt him. "You are beautiful in the dream, but there is such a big gap between you and the real you," he said.
The prisoner's face turned slightly red.
"Believe me, I did no harm to you. There are too many misunderstandings that I can't clear up." The prison slave picked up a bowl of water, held it to Gu You 's mouth and said,' Come, drink it. I'll take you away. '
The sweet liquid flowed down his throat and into his body, and the prisoner's shadow gradually became blurred. The bowl rolled down from Gu You's fingertips, and then consciousness was paralyzed once again. Before all consciousness vanished, he knew the dream was coming to an end. He reached out his hand and said, "I don't want you to leave."
As soon as the prisoner's slender fingertips touched Gu You's palm, the man's big hand fell to the ground.
The dream still ended.
Gu You opened his eyes, sat up, and saw Lian Wu lying beside him. Soft sunlight shone on his face from the slanting sky above, and warmth spread through his body.
"Where am I? Aren't we arrested? Split Soul says it's the people of the church -- it's the prison slaves who are arresting us." Gu You muttered to himself, unable to remember what had happened.
"You're awake." A pleasant voice said.
Gu You sought the source of the sound, but saw the slender figure of the woman come up to him and squat down.
"Prison slave!" He shouted. Sure enough, the people of the Pero Chamber of Commerce handed them over to the people of the church.
"Are you feeling okay?" The prisoner asked with a smile.
Gu You didn't say a word. He swung his fist out. The prison slave quickly stepped back and stood firm. Gu You also stood up and rushed towards the prison slave. The sword slipped out and landed on Gu You's neck, but did not pass over it.
Gu You glared at the prison slave with a hateful look and said, "I said I would avenge my dead friend."
"Revenge?" The prison slave's sword hand trembled slightly. "Do you think I killed that man?"
"Wasn't it you who ordered the dead Warrior to kill him?"
"How ridiculous! Do you think the Undead would obey my orders?"
Gu You did not answer.
"I tell you right now that your friends weren't killed by me or my subordinates, nor were the Dark knights and the Dead warriors my subordinates. Also, you are not our enemy, and your friend is. If you're being hunted down, it's all because of your friends. Do you believe me?"
Gu You said angrily, "Tell me, where is my friend's body? Did you or your men take him away?"
The prison slave was somewhat surprised. "Didn't you take the body away last night? When I got there, the body was gone, and all the light knights guarding it were dead."
"You don't have to make up a story to deceive me. When we got there we happened to see you talking to a few Dark Knights."
"Exactly, I did talk to the Dark Knight..." The prison slave's words stopped, and she suddenly felt that things were not as simple as she had imagined. Who on earth took the body?
"You really didn't get the body?" The prisoner asked Gu You.
"Tell me, where is my friend's body? Return his body to us. If you want to catch me, you can exchange me for it." Gu You roared.
The prison slave said, "I don't want to catch you. You're not on my duty. And I'm now out of the mission."
"Who believes your nonsense!"
The prison slave felt wronged and shouted along: "Who wants you to believe?"
Lian Wu also woke up. Seeing the prison slave's sword pressed against Gu You 's neck, he nervously asked, "Gu You, are you okay?"
"Don't speak. Wait for us to make things clear." The prisoner's voice softened a little.
Lian Wu nodded, feeling as if the couple were quarrelling and that he was the troubler to mediate. No, that's not the case. The prison slave's sword was already pressed against Gu You's neck. How could it look like a couple quarrelling? Lian Wu came to his senses a little, only then did he remember that the prison slave was their sworn enemy. He said, "Witch, let him go."
"Witch?" The prisoner asked, and looked at Gu You, "Am I the witch in your heart?"
"Yes, demoness. "Ruthless witch, I'll kill you to avenge my dead friend."
The eyes of the prison slave were filled with tears. He had been secretly helping him, but he regarded himself as an enemy. She knew it because she was in the church and there were many things the other person didn't know. If he had known about those things, the misunderstanding would have been cleared up. But she couldn't say that he was an outsider and couldn't sink into those struggles with her.
"Do you really want to kill me?" "Asked the prisoner.
"Exactly. As long as I don't die, I'll kill you!"
The sword slipped off Gu You 's neck. The prison slave handed the sword to Gu You and said, "Just now I heard your friend call you Gu You. Gu You, that's your name, I guess. Gu You, kill me."
Is she crazy? Gu You thought. Not only did he think so, but even the prisoner himself felt that he must have gone crazy. There were still so many things to do, but she willingly handed the sword to the man before her who regarded her as an enemy.
Gu You hesitated and did not go to receive the sword. He had no idea what the woman was thinking.
"I've taken you out of the city of Wangshen. Don't go back there. All of this has nothing to do with you. I have lost my power. Don't get involved again. Take care of yourselves and never come back here again."
Gu You gritted his teeth and boldly grabbed the sword. Rage flared in his eyes, but the prison slave did not attack him.
"Don't clash with the Dark Knights and the Souls of the Dead. They are too powerful. Believe it or not, I'm going to say it again. Dark Knights and Dead warriors are not my subordinates. They are not as easy to deal with as the Knights of Light. I doubted whether they were led by the highest level of the church, but I didn't get a definite answer." The prison slave could not believe that he would say so much to Gu You, and it was all about concern. She fears that if she dies, there won't be another person who knows the church so well to help her.
Gu You tried hard not to listen to the prison slave, thinking that she was deliberately saying that to numb his soul. He raised his sword, but the soft, sorrowful voice could not be suppressed and went deep into his mind.
"And, and what you said to me in the dungeon of the Pero Chamber of Commerce... I really like those words."
The sword struck down.
A fierce half-moon was drawn.
The light of the sword vanished, and Gu You thrust the sword into the ground.
Tears finally welled up in the eyes and formed two streams on the beautiful face of the prison slave. She looked at the stone that had been split in two by the sword light and said, "Why didn't you kill me?"
Gu You turned away and did not reply. As the sword was about to tear open the body of the prison slave, Gu You had hallucinations before his eyes. He saw his own dream. In the dream, colors gradually emerged. The robes of the prison slaves turned into a quiet pale blue, fluttering gently. In the dream, tears hung on the prisoner's face and he said to himself, "Gu You, leave me alone and go."
Then, more words burst forth in the heavy air.
"You often dream of me?"
"Do you hate me?"
"I'll take you away."
...
All the words drifted past his ears and settled slowly. When the dream was about to end, Gu You heard his own voice: "I don't want you to leave."
The prison slave said softly, "Gu You..."
"Get out!" Gu You was ashamed that he had not avenged the remnant soul. "I don't want to see you again. If I see you again next time, I will fight you to the death."
The prison slave wiped away the tears on his face, but there were more tears covering it. I and Gu You are not on the same path and will not end up together. She drew her sword from the ground and put it back into its sheath. Then she hopped on her horse and ran towards the silhouette of a distant city.
She never expected that her relationship with him would turn out like this. Perhaps it should have ended like this. She told herself there was still a lot to do and to forget all that shouldn't be remembered.
Everything in the Pyro dungeon came to mind again.
Gu You's hand dropped feebly to the ground. And the prisoner's hand was still stuck in the air, not retracted. She tilted her head and stared intently at the face of the man before her. Furrowed eyebrows, thin lips. Unfortunately, his eyes were closed and he couldn't see the pair of eyes that were as beautiful as snowflakes.
His fair cheeks were slightly flushed in two circles, and his big eyes sparkled.
The slender hand slowly descended, and when it touched the big hand on the ground, it suddenly bounced back. Then, slowly down, it landed in the man's palm. She stretched out her slender fingers and merged them completely with Gu You's hand. She just couldn't understand why her hand was much smaller than Gu You's.
She lowered her head and slid her little hand onto Gu You's wrist, carefully counting the lines on her big hand.
Smoothing out the white hairs scattered on the edge of her head, the prison slave hesitatingly leaned down and hesitated for a long time, leaving a lip mark on Gu You's forehead. The man, who was dozing off in the power of the potion, lifted the corners of his mouth and gave a sweet smile.
Staring at the lip print for a long time, the prison slave began to mock himself for being so stupid. While mocking himself, he wiped the lip print. In the heart, there was an indescribable sweet satisfaction.
The horse had run far away, but the prisoner did not turn back. She was afraid, afraid to look back and see Gu You not watching her back. She said softly, "Gu You, actually how I wish I could live in your dream."
Gu You secretly watched the prisoner's departing figure, and all kinds of different thoughts tangled together. He still had a vague recollection of what he had said to the prison slave in the dungeon: "I don't want you to leave." Take that as a dream, for in reality everything is so pale and powerless.
Don't let her go, but tell her to get out.
Don't let her go, but shout that you don't want to see her again.
I don't want her to leave, but I say I'll fight her to the death next time we meet.
How wonderful it would be if all of this were just an illusory dream.
Lianwu came over and said, "We can't see anymore. Let's go."
Gu You denied that he was watching the prison slave and said, "Lian Wu, I didn't kill her just now. Do you hate me?"
Lianwu retorted, "If I had held that sword just now and I had killed the prison slave, would you have hated me?"
"You hate me." Gu You said in a low voice, "I did not avenge the remnant soul."
"I did not hate you, and the remnant soul would not hate you in the other world. Gu You, I believe that before everyone makes a choice between life and death, they will endure a torment more painful than death. After the torment, there is no more distinction between right and wrong in their choices. This is something that is hard to understand except the person involved." Lian Wu placed her hand on Gu You's shoulder, "But I understand you. Gu You, you are much more mature than when we first met."
"What's next?"
"Next... Stop thinking about it. If we see her again in the future, I hope we won't be enemies with her. If we have to be enemies, I hope we don't meet again."
Gu You looked into Lian Wu's eyes, feeling an inexplicable gratitude in his heart.
Lianwu said, "I believe in your dream. The prison slave has appeared in your dream, so there must be some reason that we don't know yet. And she's not as bad as we thought before. He caught us through the Pero Chamber of Commerce, but instead of sending us to that bunch of scoundrels of the Undead Warriors, he took us out of the city. Perhaps he really wanted to push us out of danger."
"So is she a good person or a bad one?"
Lianwu smiled wryly. "I don't know either. Good person, bad person, does that matter? What matters is whether she is good or evil in your heart."
"I don't know yet." Gu You couldn't let go of the consciousness that the prison slaves' organization had killed the remnant, and the remnant was his friend.
They rode on the horse left by the prison slaves and headed for Lianwu's home. They stopped wearing hoods and met the Light Knights several times along the way, but the knights just looked at them strangely and did not make a move.
Finally, they were back in the forest. The withering and the clamor were all left behind.
They dismounted and sat down on the grass. Lianwu habitually took out a handkerchief from his pocket and held it in his palm.
Gu You perked up and said, "It's really disgusting for a grown man to wear a handkerchief."
Lian Wu laughed and held the handkerchief tighter as if afraid that Gu You would snatch it away.
"Next, I want to retrieve my memory. Too much time has been wasted. I don't know if I can get my memory back." Gu You said, taking out the black stone from his pocket.
"Perhaps by the time you regain your memory you'll realize you're married, and you missed your wife's birthday," said Lian Wu playfully. Let's now imagine what color your wife's face will be when you get home."
Gu You smiled, not responding to him. He touched the word "hide" on the stone with his fingertips, and many unexplained thoughts flooded his mind.
"Who am I? Where is home? Is this "hide" my surname or the organization?" As he said to himself, he turned the stone over and the word "Remnant Soul" came into his sight.
"Remnant Soul!" Gu You shouted and stood up, nearly dropping the stone from his hand.
"What?" Lianwu asked, he had never seen Gu You do such an exaggerated move before.
Gu You's hand trembled as he reached into his pocket and pulled out another black stone. Seeing Gu You holding two stones in his hand, Lian Wu stood up and said with a mischievous smile, "Oh, a baby?"
Gu You said nothing and handed over the stone engraved with the name of the remnant soul.
Lian Wu took it, but still wore a smile on his face. When his gaze fell on the stone, the clouds veiled his smile. He murmured, "How... How could... How could this be? A remnant soul?" He thought he was mistaken and rubbed the corners of his eyes a few times.
"The spirit is the same person as me?" "Gu You said.
"But... How could the stone of the remnant soul be with you?"
Gu You recalled carefully that when Gu You and the remnant soul changed into white robes in the forest, a black stone fell to the ground. And he thought it was his own stone, fearing that the remnant would discover his secret, he quickly hid the stone. But he never discovered that the stone belonged to the remnant. The remnant spirit is always hiding something from them, and now it seems to be hiding a secret about this stone. And wasn't it said that the day the remnant was taken away by the undead warrior that something very important was lost and needed to be sought?
Perhaps the remnant can help retrieve the memory. Only, he's dead.
He's dead.
Gu You looked in the direction of the city, but couldn't see its shadow. A new concern arose. The organization of the prison slaves was chasing the souls of the dead, so they must be against him too.
What will the next meeting be like?