After leaving the cathedral, Gu You seemed to wander aimlessly through the long streets, his eyes shifting from side to side. And Lianwu followed behind him, countless times wanting to speak but holding back. He clearly saw that Gu You was no longer the "child" who had no memory before.
Keep walking, keep walking.
Gu You seemed to be looking for something, but he didn't want to say. Even he himself did not understand why he was searching for the west that he had never heard of before. Maybe he was crazy.
He kept searching but never found it.
"Ask." Finally, Lianwu couldn't help saying it.
"What?" Gu You asked him.
"I say, let's ask someone. We've never seen what a phoenix fruit looks like, and even if we walk past it, we won't know. Didn't she tell you to go to the Tidal Inn early after shopping?" "Lian Wu said. He suddenly felt that the prison slave was very smart. And when the prison slave took Gu You's hand and said those words, he watched as if they were a couple deeply in love with each other.
How wonderful it would be if that were the case. At that time, Lian Wu thought.
"Well... Let's just ask." "You ask," Gu said in a dull tone.
"Ask yourself. It was your prison slave who made you buy it. I'm just here to go shopping with you and I'm not responsible for the business of asking anyone questions." "Lian Wu smiled and said.
"Have you lived in the forest for so many years that you don't even know what a phoenix fruit is?"
Lian Wu shook his head. "To be honest, I've never seen it."
Gu You had no choice but to force himself to ask someone. But several times he called out to others, the words were on the tip of his tongue but he swallowed them. Then apologize and say to the other person, "I'm sorry, it's okay, I'm disturbing you." And the other person just throws out a "lunatic" and walks away.
Lian Wu watched Gu You's movements, somewhat at a loss for words. He shouted to Gu you, "You're a big man, how could your skin be thinner than that of a little girl?"
Gu You glared at him and said, "It seems you've forgotten how thick your skin was when you said goodbye to Rongyue." Clinging to her clothes, but unable to utter a complete sentence."
Lianwu's face turned red and her voice grew louder: "Me?" You say me? Where do I have it? My skin has always been the thickest!" As he spoke, he waved his hands exaggeratedly, drawing attention and laughter from many people around.
Gu You looked around and said, "Why are you so loud?" Are you afraid others won't know?
"Stop talking, ask, ask." "Lian Wu said.
Finally, Gu You, with a thick skin, found an old man. He went up, bowed and asked, "Grandma, where can I buy the phoenix fruit?"
"What? You say someone is looking for me?" The old man doesn't seem to have good hearing.
"It's not that someone is looking for you. I'm asking where I can buy the phoenix fruit," Gu You put his mouth close to the old man's ear and shouted loudly.
"Why is the young man speaking so loudly? I heard someone looking for me. Where are you looking for me?"
Lianwu pouted on one side. Gu You shook his head and said, "It's all right, thank you, grandma."
Gu You sighed and was about to leave, thinking he needed to find someone else with a better ear. Suddenly, the old man grabbed his wrist and said, "Young man, I see. You say you want to buy phoenix fruit?"
Gu You nodded, at least he didn't have the nerve to look for someone anymore. "Yes, grandma, I'll buy the phoenix fruit," he said.
"Young man, don't lie to me and say someone is looking for me. Just tell me to buy the phoenix fruit. I tell you you can buy it at the market on the west side of the city."
Gu You looked like he was about to cry. It turned out that the old man still didn't understand what he was saying. Perhaps she guessed that she was going to buy the phoenix fruit.
The old man asked again, "Is it for your lover?"
Just as Gu You was about to deny it, Lian Wu put her hand on Gu You 's shoulder and said to the old man, "Yes, how did you know?"
"Of course I know. If you don't buy the phoenix fruit for your lover, who else will you buy?" The old man opened his mouth and laughed, revealing the last tooth in his mouth.
Gu You felt depressed. Why must the phoenix fruit be bought for lovers? Could there be any special meaning? What made Gu You even more depressed was that the old man could actually understand Lian Wu's words.
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They walked around the market a few times and finally heard a cry from a vendor: "Phoenix fruit - fresh phoenix fruit -"
Gu You and Lian Wu walked over and saw that the stone platform in front of the vendor was piled high with small, fiery red fruits, smooth and shiny, like the faces of young girls. The colors are bright, but not garish.
Lian Wu pointed at the phoenix fruit and laughed heartily.
People around looked at Lianwu in puzzlement, perhaps they had never seen anyone who could laugh at a pile of fruits.
Gu You said, "What's so funny about that?"
Lianwu said mysteriously, "I know why the old man just guessed that you bought the phoenix fruit for your lover."
"Why?" Gu You found it strange, but after some thought, he felt he had fallen into the language trap of Lian Wu. "I'm not buying phoenix fruit for my lover!"
Lianwu waved his hand and said, "Let's not discuss who for now. No wonder I haven't heard of such a name as Phoenix Fruit. It turns out they have changed their names. Do you know what the fruit was originally called?"
Gu You shook his head and said, "How could I know?"
Lian Wu laughed again and whispered, "Xiangsi Guo. Ha ha, yearning, is it you yearning for the prison slave or she yearning for you? In the old days in the forest, if a man had feelings for a certain woman, he would go up the mountain to pick a lot of love fruit and send it to her home. No wonder the old lady guessed it right. I thought she knew divination."
"What do you mean by guessing right?" Gu You made it clear again that he was not giving it to his lover.
And the man selling the phoenix fruit also smiled diligently and said, "Buy some. My love fruit here is very delicious. If you don't believe it, you can taste one." You're not buying this for your lover, of course."
Gu You smiled at the man, thinking that at least someone is not blind.
Then the man said, "It should be your beloved, and only after that can you be considered lovers."
Lianwu laughed again, went to the stall, picked a phoenix fruit, wiped it on his clothes and stuffed it into his mouth. As she chewed, she said to Gu You, "Not bad, very sweet, come and choose, give it to your beloved."
Gu You's face was tense, but he still couldn't help walking over and picking the bright red fruit as the prison slave wished.
While picking, Lianwu noticed that most of the people buying things in this market were church people, with the symbol of the divine religion pinned to their chests: a drop of water contains the whole planet.
On the way to South Street, Lianwu kept mocking Gu You, and Gu You had to pretend not to hear anything and ignore him. At most, just think of him as a madman.
Finding the Tidal Inn, the two walked into the lobby. But Gu You immediately sensed that the atmosphere in the lobby was rather strange. There was not a single passenger in the hall. The shop owner sat in the counter, huddled in the corner, shivering. The only clerk stood under the stairs at the other corner of the hall, looking at them, pale.
"Come on." Gu You whispered to Lian Wu.
Lian Wu also felt something was off and hurriedly walked out of the lobby.
Outside the shop, there were already four black figures standing, and the crosses in their hands were familiar. In the lobby, four men also came down the stairs, their crosses shooting out silvery-white sharp blades.
"Undead warriors, why are you here?" Lianwu was astonished. Didn't the prison slave say that the undead warriors wouldn't be against them?
Gu You immediately realized that the mission of the soul warriors was to hunt down those who possessed the black word stones, and he happened to have two of them. But how did the Soul warriors find out? Unless someone tells them. So, who told them? Only one person knew, but Gu You was unwilling to believe it was her.
"Hello, cultivator." One of the dead warriors outside the door said.
"What? Monk?" Gu You was certain that this was the first time he had heard the word.
The Undead warrior smiled, thinking that Gu You was deliberately pretending to be stupid in front of him. He said, "Miss Prison Slave has ordered us to come here and wait for you, your esteemed monk. I've heard that you have black lettering stones on you, are they?" There was an uncontainable pride in your tone.
Prison slave... Command... Come here... Wait...
All of a sudden, Gu You felt his mind go blank. It turned out that all of this was a trap, and he himself was the plaything the prison slave had set in that trap. Buy the phoenix fruit and wait for her at the Tidal Inn. How well it was arranged. What an exquisite plan!
Gu You lowered his head, looking at the phoenix fruit he held in his arms, looking at the blood-red color, feeling a great sense of irony. She played with it again and again, but he trusted her again and again, and let her play with it again and again.
"Ha ha, interesting." Gu You laughed, laughing so hard that all the radiance on his face vanished in an instant. All the fruits of longing in his arms fell to the ground, and he bounced restlessly a few times and rolled all over the ground. The longing in my heart also fell to the ground, smashed to pieces.
"I was fooled by this woman again." His fists were clenched together.
The undead warrior approached smugly and said, "Monk, hand over your hidden word stone."
"And then?" Gu You glared at the soldier's narrow eyes that emerged from the gap in his helmet.
"And then?" The Necromancer sneered contemptuously. "Then, of course, we killed you."
"Dream!" Gu You let out a roar, concentrating all his energy on his right fist. With a powerful punch, he struck the cold steel, and the helmet of the undead warrior was crushed, with blood spurting from his nostrils and mouth onto Gu You's white robe. The blood dripped onto the fabric and spread out quickly like a splash of ink.
While the Soul Warrior was hit by his fist, the cross slash in his hand simultaneously tore apart Gu You's chest.
Immediately after that, Gu You's right punch struck again, hitting the dent in his helmet, and the Dead Warrior fell feebly. The other seven dead warriors simultaneously gathered in the middle, their cross slashes shining with a bone-chilling light. Lian Wu reached out his hand, trying to push Gu You away.
But in just a short moment, seven thin, sharp blades emerged from different parts of Gu You's body.
After two seconds, Lian Wu found out what had happened.
Two seconds later, blood gushed out from the wound along the sharp blade. Lian Wu's face was smeared with Gu You's blood and flushed red by the hot blood. His pupils dilated and his gaze fixed on Gu You's profile. Gu You gazed straight into the grey sky outside the inn, his eyes filled with sorrow and despair.
Desolate, sorrowful.
Eternal despair.
"Gu... Gu You... How Lian Wu wished Gu You were joking with her. "Gu You, you... Wake up... Stop playing... Gu You..."
At the same time, the sharpness of the cross cut was drawn out of Gu You's body, and the blood was even more rampant, soaking Gu You's robe. The white robe was almost entirely dyed red, like a raging flame, burning the entire body of Gu You.
Without support, Gu's body crumbled down. Lian Wu held him up and whispered in his ear, "You..." How could you... You can... Leave... You haven't found... Lost... Gone..."
"We won't kill you if you don't have a black lettering stone on you." One of the undead warriors said to Lian Wu.
"... Memory... You haven't found your memory yet... You haven't recalled what's in your memory..." "Lian Wu murmured.
The Undead warrior shouted impatiently, "Get out!"
Lienwu raised his face, and the Soul Warrior saw the red light in his eyes, as if they were soaked in blood.
"Dream!" "Lian Wu said, one hand supporting Gu You and the other brushing past one of the undead warriors. The warrior's head swung a few times from side to side and fell off his neck. The cross slash in his hand was already in Lienwu's hand.
One blade pierced into Lianwu's shoulder, and another immediately went in through his back.
The cross slash in Lianwu's hand fell off and dropped to the ground. He stepped over the cross slash with his foot, the cross slash jumped, and a dead warrior's right leg was cut off and his body collapsed.
Two more blades pierced through Lian Wu's body, but he kept supporting Gu You's body. He knew that he had no extra strength to fight back and must take Gu You out.
Forcing his body out of the four blades, Lian Wu twisted his body, carried Gu You on his back, and darted out of the inn into the street like the wind. The Undead warrior hurriedly chased after him.
Lian Wu tried to use the agility of a forest assassin, but with Gu You on his back and seriously wounded, he was getting slower and slower. Wherever he ran, Gu You and his blood spilled on the ground, in the dust, drawing a slightly crooked trail. And behind him, the undead warrior was getting closer and closer.
Just then, a few Knights of light patrolled by.
Lian Wu grabbed a horse and placed Gu Youheng on its back. The rider on the horse drew his long sword, and at the same time Lianwu turned up and kicked the rider off. He pulled the REINS tightly and, before he could even secure himself in the saddle, controlled the horse to run in the opposite direction. He was going to take Gu You to the forest, to Gu Ming and save him.
He must!
The cross slash in the hands of the two undead warriors spins away from them and flies towards the galloping horse ahead.
The Cross spins in the air and spins into a ring.
One of them suddenly dropped behind the horse, about to sever its hooves. Lian Wu pulled the REINS, rolled off the horse, and trampled the cross slash to the ground with his feet. After touching the ground, the Cross Blade continued to spin, leaving circular scars on the stone pavement. Just as Lian Wu was about to mount the horse, another cross slash streaked across his back, ripping off a large piece of cloth. The bright red blood quickly stained the bare skin on his back.
The warhorses galloped through the long streets, through the city gates, knocking down several knights of light who were blocking the city gates. With two men covered in blood, they charged through the dead ruins of the ancient city and into the thick forest.
Every time the horse's hooves hit the ground, Lian Wu was tormented by the throbbing pain of the wounds. Each time, more blood would break through the nearly congealed dam of blood, consuming his life.
His eyes were blurred and everything before him seemed to be shrouded in mist. In consciousness, there are scattered rings of light, overlapping and interweaving.
He was tired and needed a nap.
Only, he can't sleep yet. He couldn't sleep until he saw Gu Ming, until he told Gu Ming that Gu You must be healed.
"Gu You, my friend. Can you still hear me? Hold on, hold on a little longer, the lone cry can save you. Can you hear me? I say, hold on, can you hear me?"
But gradually, even he himself couldn't hear what he was saying.