Chapter 8: The Night

The sky is like ink, and the night is like a flat dark sky blanket, rolling across the sky.

Protikara's streets are narrower than any other city in the Tang Dynasty, allowing only two carriages to pass side by side. The walls are yellow or white. In this dark night, it is just a dark shadow.

The streets, which are still noisy during the day, are now silent, so quiet that insects can be heard, and people's words are all gone. Only those closed windows, with yellow candlelight, barely holding up a trace of light in this darkness.

The sound of footsteps dangling in this narrow alley full of Tianzhu's breath.

The so-called smell of Tianzhu is just the smell of the smoke incense incinerator. It seems that someone will worship the gods and Buddhas in their homes all day long.

Chen Rufeng knew early in the morning that Tianzhu was deeply influenced by Buddhism. From time to time, he could see some monks passing by with their palms together and saying words on the street. But in addition, there are not many things that can be related to Buddhism. It is probably just a small town in Protihora, and even a temple has never been seen. Those monks and monks are probably ascetic monks.

At this moment, the moon is dark and the wind is high. Not to mention the monk, even the figure is not seen on the street.

I don't know how many times I have been back and forth. Pukina's face became more and more sad, and she still didn't see Saxard's figure.

"What should I do?" Pujina asked anxiously. Chen Rufeng stroked his chin and thought for a while and asked, "Where does Uncle Saxde usually like to be?"

Pujina seemed to remember something and raised her head.

She pulled up Chen Rufeng's arm, and two figures on the street began to run.

In front of it is a thick darkness.

And can the people who come out of the familiar darkness really forget the pain hidden in the depths?

Will the wound bleed again when he re-entering the forest of memory?

"Does Uncle Sack usually like to come here?" Chen Rufeng looked around, with only tree trunks, and coldly looked at the two dark figures in the forest.

Pujina doesn't seem to be able to stand the woods in the night. Although she has entered the forest hundreds of times since she was a child, she has never tried to explore the forest at such a night. The tall trees rustled, like a whispering soul.

She took a breath and said, "If there is anything wrong with him, he likes to take a walk in the woods."

In the darkness, Chen Rufeng nodded and continued to walk forward. Pujina next to him leaned tighter. Chen Rufeng felt that his arm was fiercely inserted by her five slender fingers.

The fallen leaves on the ground were trampled by cautious footsteps, the wind frightened the moon, and the stars trembled. There seemed to be some ferocious beasts in the forest moving stupidly and roaring in a low voice.

The line of defense in Pojina's heart has been hit again and again. From time to time, she stepped on some broken branches and screamed, but she found that it was a false alarm, but her body was already close to Chen Rufeng.

"Why don't we... turn back?" Pjina proposed in an empty voice that if it hadn't been for the darkness at this moment, Chen Rufeng could have seen the cold sweat on her forehead and a burst of panic in her eyebrows.

Chen Rufeng looked up, and the crescent moon quietly looked at him like an elder, as if to persuade him to look back.

In the dark, what is calling him?

Without a reply, Pujina's fear continued to increase. It was not until her five fingers exerted desperately to wake up Chen Rufeng from the shadow of meditation.

"Let's go." After a long time, Chen Rufeng spit out these two words. Pujina breathed a sigh of relief, but Chen Rufeng stepped forward instead of turning back. Pujina exclaimed. When Chen Rufeng had taken five steps away from her, she hurriedly caught up.

"Aren't you going back?"

With the brilliance of the moon, I could barely see Chen Rufeng shaking his head.

The further forward, the white glow on the moon is even brighter, like a fairy's veil sprinkled on the world, without hesitation, which also calms Pugina's trembling heart a little.

The dark, which was outstretched, was finally forced back halfway under the brilliance of the stars and moon. The outlines of Chen Rufeng and Pujina were faintly discernible.

Chen Rufeng's footsteps suddenly stopped, and Pujina was shocked again. Looking at Chen Rufeng in the moonlight, she saw that his face looked strange, as if every part of his face was twitching.

His eyes were empty, as if they were stuck in the scene in front of him. Even the spirit was deeply sucked in and never returned.

Pujina looked forward along his eyes, and her heart suddenly seemed to collapse, and her fear was like a fierce wave of anger, gushing out of her heart and grabbed her throat fiercely, so that she could not scream.

Wooden graves, densely falling in front of you!

The old place is still the same, surrounded by tall trees, dense branches and leaves covering the sky and the moon. It seems that this is a natural shed, and even the moonlight can't stain this place at all.

People who sleep in the soil, in this way, become a part of the earth in the strange soil.

"How can...what on earth..." Pujina pulled Chen Rufeng's clothes in fear and looked forward to his answer, but the man beside her seemed to have turned into a wooden sculpture and stopped talking and thinking. In this way, she stared at the cemetery in front of her until eternity, the stars shifted, sunrise and sunset!

The memory of the past was lifted out and ruthlessly smashed on the top of the head, like thunder, and blood all over the body.

Is it sad or angry?

"Do you want to hear a story?" After a long time, Chen Rufeng said in a hoarse voice. Pujina's eyes were already wet with shock. At this time, Chen Rufeng opened his mouth to speak, and she looked at him with joy. What she responded to her was a solemn face.

Pujina nodded.

"Once upon a time... or not long ago, in the distant Tang Dynasty, there was a team of envoys from Chang'an, the capital, and their destination was Tianzhu. Although the wind, food and sleep, the poor mountains and rivers, and the sufferings are unspeakable, the team has never complained. They are happy to talk and laugh along the way. Chen Rufeng said slowly, and a trace of memory, like a piece of paper, was pulled back out of his mind and put together again.

Pujina listened silently.

"The general who protects this team is a hero named Ma Yulin. He has excellent swordsmanship and treats his subordinates with clear rewards and punishments. The whole team is with him as the core. Along the way, he stepped on this Tianzhu land without any danger." Speaking of this, Chen Rufeng moved his eyes away from the white moon, looked into the deepest darkness, and smiled forgetfully.

"General Ma once said to an accompanying boy in the team that as an upright man, he must be calm. He taught this boy not to be shrouded in his haze all day long and bravely face everything in the world. This is what a man did." Speaking of this, Chen Rufeng laughed again, but there were tears. Pjina looked at his happy and sad expression and unconsciously pricked her heart.

"Until one day, their party walked into the woods. On that day, there was a rainstorm in the forest, as if to swallow up the heavens and the earth."

Pujina seemed to remember something and nodded. In her memory, there was such a rainstorm not long ago.

"That day, they found a shelter from the wind and rain, which is here." Chen Rufeng's eyes were shining forward, and tears were already shining like dew in his eyes.

" Unexpectedly, when they were sheltering from the rain, several masked people in black suddenly killed them." Speaking of this, Chen Rufeng's voice began to choke, and Pukina also looked at him uneasily, with a faint chill in her heart.

"In this forest, blood splashes and blends with the rain. Those soldiers rose up to resist, but after all, they were invincible because of their previous hard work and weak bodies!"

Pujina was shocked, and she looked at the place in front of her in panic, as if the scene of blade fighting and bloody fighting that day appeared in front of her eyes.

It's like a scene of purgatory in the world, screaming endlessly, a living body, lying down in pain like this!

Pujina unconsciously closed her eyes, and tears flowed down from the corners of her eyes.

"General Ma Yulin... tried his best to resist those murderers, but he was finally outnumbered and died!" Chen Rufeng said it in one breath, and Lin Zhonghong returned quietly, as if he had just passed all the words.

"Only the boy who accompanied him is fine." Chen Rufeng tried his last bit of strength in his throat, looked up and closed his eyes heavily.

There was a soft sob beside him, and the man left his side.

Chen Rufeng slowly opened his eyes, and the dense leaves that could not be covered on the top were also stretched out by the wind, revealing the white light of the moon, shining like a curtain from the sky, shining on the weak body that was gradually approaching.

Pujina walked forward step by step and solemnly.

At the moment she left Chen Rufeng's side, she did not feel that a circle of red light flashed in Chen Rufeng's eyes, which was even more strange in this dark forest.

Pujina did not seem to be afraid of the wooden graves here. Instead, there was a strong pity in her watery eyes. She walked to the center of the cemetery, put her palms together and knelt down.

She lowered her head slightly, closed her eyes devoutly, and whispered the eulogy in her mouth.

The moonlight seems to shine a bright place on the ground for her, covering her whole body, as if the light man has naturally merged into one without any boundary.

She didn't know at all that the strong murderous atmosphere behind her was getting stronger, and this strong murderous atmosphere emanating from Chen Rufeng.

When the sadness is extreme, it will turn into an out-of-control hatred!

The nature of killing, from the hidden place, gushed out again, occupying Chen Rufeng's whole body.

The red eyes flashed faintly in the dark night.

"What do you want to do?!!!" Chen Rufeng felt an irresistible surge and drowned himself in an moment. He seemed to want to hold something, but there was nothing he could do.

"Kill...kill the whole world!"

Chen Rufeng desperately wanted to drive away the man who occupied his body, but there seemed to be a few rolls of black gas. He tied his hands and feet like a rope, bound him in a corner, looked at this evil spirit of the devil, and manipulated his body.

Chen Rufeng's eyes were red, looking at the back of him kneeling devoutly on the ground, and his face was distorted.

The silent smile is destined to add a trace of blood in this dark night.