Killing God

Shen Shi was silent in the dark, and after a while, he said: "I don't know either." But after a pause, he still whispered, "But it's too early to say this now, we always have to try Can't find a way out."

Zhong Qingzhu gave a soft "hmm".

Unable to see her face clearly in the dark, Shen Shi hesitated for a moment, and said: "Are you tired, why don't you sit down and have a rest, and then go."

Zhong Qingzhu seemed to be really tired, and he didn't insist on hearing the words. The two of them groped in the darkness and found a higher place with no water on the edge of the cave to sit down. As for their feet, they were still not in the water, but Can't close it.

Shen Shi leaned his back against the stone wall, and suddenly felt that after a moment of relaxation, the pain that was already in all parts of his body suddenly arose, and he couldn't help but hummed.Zhong Qingzhu, who was sitting beside him, seemed taken aback and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Shen Shi gritted his teeth, and said: "It's nothing serious, it's just that there are pains in many places on my body."

Zhong Qingzhu was silent for a while, but when he spoke again, his voice was a bit worried and apologetic, and he said softly, "I'm sorry, I, I only thought about myself all the time, but I never thought that you were just like me. The one who rushed down must have been injured too, I really... are you okay, is there any serious injury?"

There was a slight sound of the wind, but a soft little hand stretched out gently, and touched his shoulder with some inexplicable trembling. It seemed that he wanted to continue groping, but he didn't dare to go any further, just froze there.

Shen Shi smiled and said: "It's okay, I've seen it myself, it's all skin trauma, it's nothing serious."

Zhong Qingzhu breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "That's good."

Shen Shi nodded in the dark, didn't say anything, Zhong Qingzhu didn't say anything, the two of them just sat in the dark, resting in silence.

After a while, Shen Shi suddenly noticed that Zhong Qingzhu sitting beside him seemed to be trembling slightly. At the same time, in the silence in the darkness, there seemed to be some extremely suppressed faint choking sounds. The girl beside him seemed to be shaking slightly. She was sobbing quietly, and seemed to be afraid of being discovered by him, and was desperately suppressing herself.

"What's the matter?" Shen Shi hesitated for a while, and finally asked.

When Zhong Qingzhu was asked by him, he seemed to know that he still couldn't hide the fact that he was crying. The choking voice gradually became louder, but he still tried his best to control himself, but the voice was trembling, and even the words were a little blurred:

"I, I miss my mother."

Shen Shi sighed, and didn't say much. In fact, when he was panicking in the dark just now, he was a young man, why didn't he think about his short and fat father?

Hearing Zhong Qingzhu's choking sobs beside him, with a bit of helplessness and grievance, Shen Shi after a while, still wanted to talk to her, which could make her relax, and said: "Your mother She is a very good person, seeing how you think about her?"

Zhong Qingzhu seemed to wipe his eyes in the dark, and said in a low voice: "Yes, my mother is very good to me. She always remembers me when she was a child. She never scolds or beats me. She treats me like a sweetheart." .”

Shen Shi was silent for a moment, and said: "No wonder you miss her so much."

After Zhong Qingzhu said a few words, it seemed that his mood had calmed down a little. He sighed softly in the dark, and said quietly, "Where is your mother, where is she now?"

Shen Shi paused for a moment, and said, "She died when I was born."

Zhong Qingzhu's voice became quiet all of a sudden, and after a while, he took a little care and said, "I'm sorry..."

Shen Shi waved his hand in the dark, and said with a smile: "Okay, there's nothing to say sorry about, you didn't know that before. Also, why do you always say sorry to others? Do you always owe a lot of money to others?"

Zhong Qingzhu couldn't help being dumb, and after a while said: "Really?"

Shen Shi said: "Yes."

Zhong Qingzhu thought about it carefully, and said: "It seems that this is really the case..."

Shen Shi laughed, and said: "That's not true, so I don't care if you talk to others, but you don't have to be so careful when you talk to me, it sounds weird."

Zhong Qingzhu said: "Oh."

After these few conversations and conversations, the two of them calmed down a lot. The feeling of strangeness that existed before was now a little more intimate.Sitting in the dark, the two of them chatted sentence by sentence. From Zhong Qingzhu's mouth, Shen Shi knew that she was indeed born in a weak blood offshoot of the Zhong family's concubine, and her family background was also poor. In addition, he was useless, and he was full of five poisons in his early years. He would make a lot of troubles in the family. He beat and scolded Zhong Qingzhu's mother and daughter all day long. nasty thoughts.

As for later, I don’t know if it was God’s eye, the old man fell into the water and died for no reason. Since then, the mother and daughter have depended on each other, and their livelihood is also poor. Zhong Qingzhu’s mother had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to the Zhong family’s clan , I didn't hold out much hope at all, but I was lucky enough to meet the [-]th birthday of the old lady of the Zhong family.

Since then, the mother and daughter have finally lived a stable life. Although the status in the Zhong family is still low, what Zhong Qingzhu's mother does on a daily basis is some servant work such as washing and cooking, but there is food, clothing and clothing. Living in the house, the mother and daughter are already happy enough, even if some people in Zhong's family don't like them on weekdays, they will make things difficult for them from time to time, or make sarcastic remarks, Zhong Qingzhu will endure it silently, as time goes by , but has developed a bit of a cautious surname as he is now.

As for her being able to come to Ling Xiaozong now, it is another chance.The Zhong family is a well-known vassal family under the Lingxiao Sect. Although the family has lacked talents in the past few decades and its momentum has not been as good as before, but relying on the connections in the sect before, they are usually taken care of by senior people, so they still barely join the ranks. Among the four major vassal families, but in terms of power and strength, it is far inferior to the Sun family, Xu family, and even the relatively weak Hou family.

But familiar faces are also good. There are quite a few high-ranking members of the Lingxiao Sect who came to the Zhong family. Once, a senior elder came over to see if there were any outstanding disciples in the Zhong family's generation. Zhong Qinglu was selected from among them. Looking at it, there were not many talents, which disappointed the entire Zhong family. Unexpectedly, before leaving, the Lingxiaozong elder saw Zhong Qingzhu who happened to be serving tea and water from the side...

When Shen Shi heard this from the side, he couldn't help baring his teeth, thinking that this is wrong, this is not a person who is unlucky and unlucky, from the beginning to the end, this is clearly the appearance of a lucky star!

That guy Sun You is really unreliable!

Shen Shi secretly came to a conclusion about his neighbor and friend in his heart.

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During the conversation, Shen Shi also casually talked about some of his past experiences. When he heard that Shen Shi was also the same as himself, almost growing up with his father, Zhong Qingzhu seemed to have some sympathy for him. I don't know if he felt the same. reason.

In short, as they talked, the relationship between the two of them became much closer. After chatting for a while, Shen Shi felt that his tiredness had dissipated a lot, so he said to Zhong Qingzhu: "Have a rest, why don't we go again?" go forward?"

Zhong Qingzhu agreed without any objection.

The two began to grope forward in this dark cave again. This time they crawled forward for a longer time, because the surroundings were too dark, they had to move forward while groping, and it was okay for Zhong Qingzhu to follow behind, Shen Shi walked ahead, and in the darkness, there was always an illusion that he might bump his head into a hard rock wall, so he couldn't move fast, and had to keep groping in the darkness.

Walking like this, I don't know how long they have been walking, the two of them were panting again, and their bodies felt exhausted. At this time, they already felt a little desperate in their hearts. It seems that there is no hope and vitality.

Could it be that he really wanted to die in this dark cave?

Frustration and discouragement, like poisonous insects quietly gnawing at Shen Shi's heart, made him feel a little irritable again, but he vaguely heard the movement of the girl behind him, but reminded him that he was not alone now, maybe The boy's inexplicable self-esteem wanted to retain some dignity in front of the girl, so he forcibly suppressed the restlessness and irritability in his heart, and continued to climb forward.

It's just that how long this can last, even Shen Shi himself can't tell.

At this moment, suddenly in the dark depths ahead, there was a faint light flickering suddenly.

Shen Shi's body froze for an instant, and he stopped suddenly.Zhong Qingzhu, who was behind him, didn't notice anything, and walked forward without warning, and bumped into Shen Shi's body suddenly, "Oops", they both fell into the water at the same time.

"I'm sorry..." Zhong Qingzhu said this when he opened his mouth.

Shen Shi didn't have time to pay attention to her words, he grabbed her soft palm with a little excitement, pointed forward, and said: "Look, look over there."

Zhong Qingzhu let out an "ah" and looked forward with some puzzlement, only to see a faint light shining peacefully in that corner in the depths of the darkness.

"Ah!" Zhong Qingzhu exclaimed again, but this time the voice was full of surprises, and Shen Shi was also extremely excited, saying: "Let's go over."

Zhong Qingzhu nodded heavily and said, "Yes."

Along the dark cave tunnel, the two speeded up and crawled towards the light. As they got closer and closer to the light, the light seemed to light up, and they could gradually see the scenery around them clearly. Sure enough, it was the kind of underground cave I imagined. The rock walls were dark black, and there was water everywhere, which was very humid.

The light became brighter and brighter, and at this time they could see clearly that there was a corner ahead, and the light was shining from behind the stone wall at that corner.

When they finally reached the corner and turned around, a gentle light finally fell on the two of them, and in front of them was a tunnel that was wider and taller than before, enough for a person to walk upright.

And in the stone walls around the top of this cave, among the deep black rocks, there is a little bit of brilliance like stars, inlaid on the stone wall, emitting a silver shining gentle light, bit by bit, twinkling and flickering. A dark cave is reflected like a dream, like a fairyland.

"It's so beautiful..." Zhong Qingzhu looked at the scene in front of her, the star-like brilliance was reflected in her bright eyes, she looked so beautiful, she couldn't help admiring.

"This is 'fluorescent stone'," Shen Shi glanced at the beautiful lights like stars, and said lightly, "It can emit low light spontaneously, often accompanied by hard rocks, and occasionally used for lighting, but it is not very practical, except In addition, it cannot be used to make alchemy into a weapon, and it is not very useful, so it is not considered a spiritual material."

"This stone is worthless." Finally, he added another sentence, speaking with certainty.