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    After the Master jumped down, he said in the half-moon language, “Kuma, what’s going on?”

    When she opened her mouth, her voice was quite different from what Xie Ren had imagined. It did sound cold, but it was small, as if it was a sullen child talking to herself, not that kind of cold and powerful voice. If it wasn’t for Xie Ren’s good ear, she probably wouldn’t have been able to hear it at all.

    Carving Mill said, “What’s going on? They’re all dead!”

    The State Master said, “How could they all be dead?”

    Carved and milled: “It’s because you pushed them all down, and locked them up in this hellhole!”

    The State Master said, “Who is here? There is another person.”

    In fact, at this time, in addition to the carving mill at the bottom of the pit, there should be two “people”, however, Sanlang did not breathe and heartbeat, that half-moon masters can not capture the slightest trace of his existence, just above the confusion, simply can not remember who fell and who ran, therefore, she thought that only Xie Ren one.

    Carving Mill said, “They’re the ones who killed my soldiers, are you happy now? Finally they’re all dead!”

    The master’s side was silent for a while, and in the middle of the day, a fire suddenly lit up in the darkness, reflecting a black-clothed girl holding a small flame in her palm.

    This girl looks like only seventeen or eighteen years old, a simple yakuza clothes, eyes are also black, not unattractive, just a very unhappy look, forehead and the corner of the mouth with a bruise, in the firelight to see clearly.

    If it wasn’t confirmed in advance, no one would have thought that the Half Moon Kingdom Master, was actually such a pale young girl.

    The flames also illuminated her surroundings. All around her feet were the corpses of Half Moon soldiers in armor.

    Xie Ren couldn’t help but glance to the side.

    Because the flames held up by that master of the country were very small, they did not illuminate the whole of the bottom of the pit of sinners, and they remained hidden in the darkness, but by the light of that faraway bit of fire, he could see a red-clad figure beside him.

    I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Miroku was already taller than him originally, but now he seemed to be a little taller. Xie Ren’s gaze slowly moved upwards to the teenager’s throat, paused for a moment, and then continued upwards, resting on the beautifully shaped jaw.

    The upper half of that teenager’s face was still hidden in the darkness, and the lower half of this face, too, seemed to be subtly different from before. Although it was handsome, but the lines and contours seemed to be a little more clear. Perhaps noticing his gaze, this face was slightly sideways, turned around, the corners of his lips shallowly curved.

    Perhaps it was because he wanted to see and get closer too much, without realizing it, Xie Ren took another step closer to him.

    At this time, only to hear the distant carving mill a loud scream, think is to see this tragic situation, greatly stimulated. Xie Ren suddenly woke up, turned back to see carved mill held up his head, and that master of the country heard him screaming, but no joy, no sadness, only nodded and said, “Good.”

    Carved Mill was grieving and was furious at his words, “What’s so good about it? What do you mean?!”

    The State Master said, “Good means that we are all finally relieved.”

    She turned to Xie Ren in the darkness and said, “Did you kill them?”

    Xie Ren said, “It was an accident.”

    Carve the mill and say, “What are you talking about with your eyes open?!”

    Xie Ren said stiffly, “Life is full of accidents!”

    The State Master looked at him, unable to read his demeanor, and asked, “Who are you?”

    This sentence was actually a very standard Han language, and it was also not a questioning tone. Xie Ren said, “I am a Divine Officer of the Upper Heavenly Court, and this is …… my friend.”

    Carved Mill couldn’t understand, but could hear that they weren’t arguing and said warily, “What are you talking about?”

    The State Master’s gaze slowly swept over Xie Ren and lingered on Sanlang for a moment, then withdrew and said, “No Magus has ever come here before. I thought you had long since left this place alone.”

    Xie Ren originally thought that she would fight with this Half Moon State Master, who knew that she actually had no fighting spirit and was slightly surprised. She asked again, “Are you guys coming out or not?”

    Xie Ren said, “Of course I want to go out. But there’s an array set up around here, so it’s impossible to get out.”

    Hearing this, that State Master walked to one of the high walls of the Sinner’s Pit, reached out and slapped his hand dryly on the wall, turned back, and said, “I’ve unlocked the formation, so you guys can go now.”

    “……”

    That’s too nice to talk about!

    Xie Ren no longer knew what to say. It was at this moment that a person’s voice came from above, saying from afar, “Hey! Is there anyone down there? No one I’m leaving!”

    It was Fuyuki’s voice.

    Xie Ren seemed to hear Sanlang beside him tsk, he immediately raised his head, and sure enough, he saw a figure in black looking downwards, he shouted, ”Fuyao! There’s someone down there! I’m down here!”

    After shouting, he even beckoned, and Fuyao said from above, “Why are you still really down there? What else is down there besides you?”

    Xie Ren said, “There are a lot of things under this …… besides me, or you can see for yourself.”

    Fuyao also seems to think that it is better to listen to him than to see for themselves, so “boom”, released a large ball of fire, thrown downward.

    All of a sudden, the entire bottom of the Sinner’s Pit was illuminated by a ball of firelight as bright as day, and Xie Ren finally saw clearly what kind of place he was standing in.

    Surrounding him on all sides were mountains of corpses piled into peaks of blood, countless bodies of Half Moon soldiers piled up in overlapping piles, dark faces and arms, snowy armor, and purple-red blood. And where Xie Ren’s feet stood was the only empty space without corpses at the bottom of the entire Sinner’s Pit.

    All of this, all of it, was done in a split second, in the darkness, after Miroku jumped down.

    Xie Ren once again turned his head back to look at the teenager beside him.

    Just now, in the darkness, he vaguely saw that Sanlang seemed to be suddenly taller, and some of the nuances were subtly different, however, at this moment, under the bright firelight, standing beside him was still the same handsome young man as before, and when he saw him looking over, he smiled faintly.

    Xie Ren looked down at his wrists and boots, and sure enough, they were the same as the original, not adorned with anything that would make a tinkling sound.

    At this time, only a muffled sound was heard, and Fuyao jumped down. Xie Ren said, “Aren’t you tending to that merchant caravan of people?”

    Fu Yao just came down, still not accustomed to the bloody air at the bottom of the pit, frowned and fanned the air with his hand, said in a faint voice: “I waited for three hours and didn’t see you guys come back, I think something happened. I drew a circle and told them to stay elsewhere, and came over to take a look first.”

    Xie Ren said, “Drawing a circle won’t support them for long, if you leave like this, they will inevitably suspect that they have been left behind, and how can they run around out of the circle?”

    Fu Yao said, ”If a person wants to find death, eight horses can’t pull him out, not what to do. What’s going on with these two? Both who and who?”

    He was very alert to guard against the other two people at the bottom of the pit, but soon found that Carving Mill was beaten and injured, lying on the ground and moving hard, that Half Moon Country Master was drooping his head and muffled his voice, and his face showed the color of surprise. Xie Ren said, “This is the general of the half moon country, this is the state master of the half moon country, now they ……”

    Before the words fell, Carved Mill suddenly leapt up. He had been lying on his back for so long that he had finally built up enough strength, and with a loud shout, he stood up and struck the Half Moon Kingdom Master with a palm strike. A big man hitting a little girl, such a scene, if in the past it would be impossible to happen in front of Xie Ren. However, Carved Mill had a very good reason to hate the State Master, the State Master clearly could have dodged but did not, like a rotten doll generally by him to wrestle around. Carved Mill said angrily, ”Where are your scorpion-tailed snakes? Come on, let them bite me to death! Come on, give me relief too!”

    The State Master said sullenly, “Carve and grind, my snake won’t listen to me.”

    Carving Mill spat, “Why don’t I bite you to death!”

    “……” whispered the State Master, “I’m sorry.”

    Carve Mill said, “Do you really hate us that much?”

    The State Master shook his head. Carving Mill, however, became even more furious and said, ”You’re really trying to piss me off! You don’t hate us, so why did you betray us? You shameful undercover agent, treacherous|specialist, and traitorous thing!!!”

    Seeing that they were fighting harder and harder, and still beating each other unilaterally, Fu Yao frowned, “Hey, what are they talking about? Should we go up and stop them?”

    Xie Ren also really couldn’t stand to watch, stepped forward and grabbed Carving Mill, saying: ”General! General! I see, why don t you tell us who that Yongan thief really is, we ……” Suddenly, that state master grabbed his wrist.

    This grab came suddenly, grabbed dead tight. Xie Ren’s heart sank first, thinking that she was going to take advantage of the opportunity to assassinate, but he didn’t expect that when he looked down again, this State Master was lying on the ground with a bit of bruising at the corner of her mouth, tilting her head back to look at him. She clearly did not speak, but her two dark eyes burst out with a burst of almost scorching vitality.

    This appearance overlapped with a small silhouette in his memory from an extremely long time ago. Xie Ren said offhandedly, “It’s you?”

    The State Master also said, “General Hua?”

    With this back and forth, everyone at the bottom of the pit was stunned. Fuyao took a step and snatched forward, knocking Carved Mill out with one hand, saying, “You guys know each other?”

    Xie Ren, however, had no time to answer. He squatted down, grabbed the State Master’s shoulder, and looked her face over carefully.

    The party is far away from knocking is not real, coupled with this young girl’s appearance grew up also changed, and after more than two hundred years, all sorts of reasons, so that he did not recognize at the first time. But now look again, this face, clearly still remember the appearance!

    Xie Ren couldn’t speak for a while, and only after a long time did he say, “Half a month?”

    The State Master grabbed his sleeve at once and actually looked a bit excited, saying, “It’s me! General Hua, you still remember me?”

    Xie Ren said, “Of course I remember you. But ……”

    He gazed at the young girl for a moment and sighed, “…… But how did you get yourself into this state.”

    Hearing him say that, a few hints of pain suddenly spilled out of one of the State Master’s eyes.

    She whispered, “I’m sorry School Captain …… I, screwed up.”

    This is both a general and a lieutenant, where else would an onlooker not be able to hear it? Fuyang was slightly stunned and said: ”Lieutenant? General? You? How can you be like this? That general mound is?”

    Xie Ren nodded and said, “My mound.”

    Fuyao said, “Didn’t you say you came here two hundred years ago as a rag collector??”

    Xie Ren said, “This …… is hard to say. Originally I did intend to do so.”

    It was said that one day two hundred years ago, for some reason, Xie Ren couldn’t hang around in the East anymore, so he decided to take shelter and planned to cross the Qinling Mountains and go south to break into a new world of collecting rags. So he took his compass and headed south.

    This way, he was depressed all the way, why did he feel that the scenery on the road was not quite right? Obviously it should be green and densely populated, but why is it getting more and more desolate?

    Doubtful as he was, he kept on walking relentlessly, until he walked and came to the Gobi, and was blown by the gale, and ate his mouth full of sand, when he realized that the compass he had taken, had long been broken.

    The directions given to him along the way were all wrong!

    Pointing in the wrong direction can’t be helped, in line with the idea of “come all the way, visit the desert scenery is also good”, Xie Ren or continue to go forward, only, temporarily changed the destination to the northwest, finally came all the way to the border, and in the half-moon country near the temporary residence.

    Xie Ren said, “Initially I did just collect scraps and stuff around here. But with the frequent border turmoil, there were often desertions, so the army took people in indiscriminately to fill up their ranks.”

    Miroku said, “And you were taken in by force?”

    Xie Ren said, “It’s caught. But it’s pretty much the same thing anyway, just be a soldier. Later on, I drove away bandits a few times, and somehow managed to become a school lieutenant. Those who gave me face also called me general.”

    Fu Yao was suspicious again, “But how come she called you General Hua? It’s not like your last name is Hua.”

    Xie Ren waved his hand and said, “Don’t worry about that, I casually took a fake name at the time, it seems to be called Flower Xie.”

    Hearing this name, Sanlang’s complexion moved slightly, the corner of his lips hooking a bit if at all. Xie Ren didn’t pay attention and continued, “The border junction has a lot of war, there are a lot of orphans, and when I am idle, I also occasionally play with them. One of them …… name is called Half Moon.”

    When there were bandits, Xie Ren must have been the bravest soldier, no one dared to stop in front of him or even stand next to him. But when there weren’t, it seemed like anyone could make him.

    One day he found a piece of sand wall to build a fire, with his helmet cooking, cooking the smell floated out, angry a few soldiers came over to kick over the thing he cooked. Xie Ren heartbroken to pick up his own helmet, but turned around to see a pimply-faced child squatting behind him, ignoring the hot hands to pick up the broken things on the ground to eat, stunned him: “Do not! Wait, little friend you!”

    As expected, the little child hula hula ate a few piles of things picked up on the ground, tearing up a burst of dry vomiting, wow crying, scared Xie Ren upside down to lift her a burst of frantic, a good while before finally eating down things to vacate out. Finished he squatted on the ground and wiped the sweat: “You’re all right little friend …… sorry ah, but this matter you must not tell your parents, next time do not pick up the ground messy things to eat …… and so on and so on what are you doing! “

    The child is actually full of tears to pick up again, actually want to eat. Xie Ren grabbed her and realized that the child’s belly is really fast in front of the heart to the back.

    People are so hungry that they will eat anything. They’ll eat it even if they’re so disgusted that they cry.

    Xie Ren had no choice but to go back and get the last of his dry food for her. Then later on, the child could often be seen peeping at him from a dark place nearby.

    As far as I can remember, that child named Half Moon always had such a very unhappy look, and always had bruises on her body and face, and when she looked at him, she just grabbed the hem of his coat like this, and looked up from the bottom to the top with a babbling look. Because she was ostracized among the Halfmoon children, besides Xie Ren, only a Yongan teenager who lived at the border with her occasionally paid attention to her, so she spent her days following these two people around.

    She seldom opened her mouth, but she could speak Chinese, so Xie Ren had never been able to figure out where she was from. Anyway, when he saw an unattended child walking around carelessly, he also brought her along carelessly. Empty to teach her to sing, wrestling, and occasionally perform a chest breaking or something, the relationship is not bad.

    Xie Ren said, “I had thought that the word ‘half-moon’ in ‘Half-Moon State Master’ referred to the country, but I didn’t realize that it was really the State Master’s name that was called Half-Moon.”

    Fuyao said, “What happened afterward?”

    Xie Ren said, “Later …… it was pretty much the same as what was said on the stone tablet in that general s mound.”

    After a moment of silence, Miroku said, “The tablet says you’re dead.”

    At the mention of that stone tablet, Xie Ren felt depressed.

    Shouldn’t a normal inscription sing praises and glorify the commemorator? It’s okay to write such a derogatory remark, but how can you write down such a shameful death in a serious manner?

    He couldn’t look straight when he read this paragraph while sheltering from the wind, and if it weren’t for the fact that Miroku could read the Half Moon text and was also watching from the sidelines, he would have pretended that the paragraph about how he died wasn’t written on the tablet. It made him squirt when he saw it, so how could he blame others for wanting to laugh when they saw it too? People went to his memorial mound to avoid the sand, saw his deeds on the monument, and had to comment and laugh a lot, he was still embarrassed to ask people not to laugh, it was really quite a bit depressing. Xie Ren felt that his eyebrows were about to be rubbed red by him, and said, “Ah, that, of course I’m not dead. I pretended to be dead.”

    Fu Yao had an incredulous look on his face. Xie Ren defended, “Being stepped on too many feet simply can’t climb up, there’s nothing else I can do without pretending to be dead.”

    In fact, the specific how to “die” Xie Ren also do not remember too clearly, even in the end why the soldiers of the two countries fought that also do not remember too clearly, only know that it is some very boring small things, he really do not want to fight at all. However, at that time, he had already been depreciated, no one listened to him. Both sides were killing until they were red in the eyes, when Xie Ren rushed out, both sides took a look at this person, not knowing what was going on, their knives and swords were fiercely directed at him. Fu Yao questioned, ”It must be because you’re always sticking in the middle and getting in the way that you’re pulling the hate from both sides, right? Otherwise, how could the others slash at the sight of you? And you know you have a lot of hate, right? If so, why don’t you avoid so many people, why do you want to rush in? If you want to avoid them, you can definitely avoid them.”

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