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Chapter 1196 Chapter One Thousand One Hundred and Ninety-Three · "Young Master of the Lu Family."

【00:30 am on March 29th】

The night is deep and the lone moon is hanging high.

There are long rows of citron trees, gurgling streams, and the night wind blows through the lush greenery, causing the sound of pines and bamboos.

The gatekeeper of the Guwu family held a lantern and yawned.

"After standing guard, prepare to go back to sleep..." The gatekeeper looked at the empty door, feeling drowsy. He had never seen anyone provoking the Guwu family, unless they took the courage of a bear's heart and a leopard's courage.

Suddenly.

A thin and slender white figure appeared outside the door, with a long knife standing tilted down, like a ghost.

The night wind blew through the pine and bamboo trees, making a rustling sound, and the mottled shadows of the trees reflected on his white hair and accumulated in the slightly dark eyes.

High-rise houses stand in front of you, with layers of ancient buildings standing high and low, and the faint sound of gurgling streams. The tallest building has overlapping figures and bright lights.

...Many years ago, it was a night like this. He escaped from birth when he was young, and since then his life has fallen into the abyss. The happiness in the past is like a dream that does not belong to him.

He remembered that Su Ming'an said "we want to go together", so he had already sent a team invitation to Su Ming'an, and he could send it over as long as Su Ming'an accepted it.

"You are..." The gatekeeper saw Lu Shu's face clearly, and it was earth-colored.

"Are they all inside?" Lu Shu looked at the brightly lit buildings.

Once, he asked this group of people to tell the truth about the annihilation of the Lu family after the end of the tenth world. If you dare to hide anything, or introduce a scapegoat to fool him...

The long-buried haze gradually emerged in his eyes, and the familiar paranoia returned again. His expression at this time was just like the expression on the Fourth World's face when it learned of Su Ming'an's death, almost as gloomy and hateful as silt.

He had walked with Su Ming'an and the others in the sun for too long, but he had never forgotten his past. The darkness was just buried in his heart and never disappeared.

"Lead the way." Lu Shu moved forward with his sword.

…

When Lu Shu's team-up invitation was sent, Su Mingan was checking Lu Shu's [Memory Fragments], but he hadn't seen the team-up invitation yet.

The moment he touched the memory fragment, Su Mingan saw a field of lush trees. The morning mist floated under the fine sunlight, and there was a moist natural atmosphere after the rain.

This is Mount Taihua.

"--Who are you?"

A slightly hoarse teenage voice came from behind.

Su Mingan didn't expect to be discovered as soon as he landed. He turned around and saw a black-haired boy about twelve or thirteen years old standing on the tree trunk. He had long eyebrows and bright pupils, and his slightly narrow cheeks looked a little thin.

The red butterfly rests on the boy's fingertips, as if dotted with a drop of cinnabar in black and white. The young man stared at Su Ming'an, as silent as an ink painting.

His eyebrows were not gloomy, and his black and white pupils seemed to have been washed by clear water, like a flowing spring.

——The gentle young master looks like he stepped out of an ancient painting.

This was the first time Su Ming'an faced Lu Shu when he was a child. Although he had expected that the gap would be huge, he did not expect it to be so big.

But in fact, he could still see Lu Shu in the future through the boy of today. It is enough to predict...how tragic the growth process was, reshaping the children who should have grown up happily.

"I am..." Su Mingan hesitated.

Before he could say anything, the young man cupped his hand.

"There is no need to explain your identity. Grandpa taught me how to recognize people. You seem to be a good person." The young man said softly: "Outsiders, this place is not open to outside tourists. You came here because you must have something to ask for help from the Guwu family. ? My home is not far away. Do you want to come to my house to have a rest? I can make a pot of my new Biluochun for you. "

Then, the boy smiled. It was a smile that was neither raw nor forced, without a trace of haze, sunny and bright.

The sunlight falls through the bamboo leaves and flows into the blue eyes like tea. The young man seemed like an ancient prince of the Dragon Kingdom living in modern times, with a mist about him that was incompatible with the world.

Su Mingan could only nod.

They stepped on the rustling leaves and walked down the mountain step by step.

"This is Xiaohong, my first insect." The young man touched the butterfly with his finger: "My family is a new family. Because it has mastered the skills of raising insects, it has become a clan in the ancient martial arts. Guwu Most of the aristocratic families have been passed down from generation to generation, and they have mastered some ancient inheritance of the Dragon Kingdom that has been almost lost since the Tang Dynasty, such as divination, water drifting, qigong, etc. My family specializes in insect control. "

"I've never heard of these." Su Mingan brushed the branches and leaves above his head. He always thought that there were no such things in the modern world and that everything was scientific.

"Just because you haven't heard of it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You regard all things other than science as feudal superstition, but that's not the case." The young man shook his head: "In this great country for five thousand years, there are so many technologies that you can't touch. and history. These secret inheritances only happen within the family, and the outside world can only see what is under the camera, and naturally they will not be known to you. "

"Information cocoon room." Su Mingan understood.

"Huh? What cocoon? I still have a cocoon at home." The young man's eyes showed a bit of astonishment. It was obvious that he had never heard of the hot words on the Internet. He really looked like he had stepped out of an ancient painting, isolated from the world.

If it weren't for World Games, Su Ming'an, who lives in a modern city, would never have known each other in his lifetime with such a handsome young man trained by an ancient martial arts family. Their worlds are completely parallel. Su Mingan will not leave the bustling city, and Lu Shu will not leave the mountains.

But... they met.

The disaster of exterminating the whole family and the torture of illness made Lu Shu decide not to let go of Su Mingan from the first time he saw him. Otherwise, his hatred would never be avenged until his death.

Countless coincidences and accidents made two people who had no connection at all become close friends.

"Wait, that's not right." The boy suddenly realized: "You haven't even heard of these things, so why did you appear in Taihua Mountain?"

Su Mingan was speechless. This reaction speed... is consistent. It is indeed him.

"I'm not a bad person, right." Su Mingan said.

The boy looked at him seriously for a while and nodded slowly.

"Then let's go." Su Ming'an asked indirectly: "Is your family a new family?"

"Yes." The boy looked like he had never had much contact with outsiders, and he spoke out everything like pouring out beans: "We only recently learned about the ancient martial arts family, a big organization. Grandpa thought about it for a long time and decided to take us to join, seeking refuge, and also want some better insect secrets."

"Seek refuge? Do you have any enemies?" Su Ming'an said.

The boy really didn't treat him as an outsider, and continued to pour out beans: "Grandpa did have some enemies when he was young. That era was very chaotic, but Grandpa was not wrong."

"I see, thank you for your answer, Master Lu." Su Ming'an said.

The boy's calm expression changed instantly, and he couldn't hold it back: "Don't shout like that... Our family hasn't reached this status yet, and I can't afford to be a young master..."

"Master Lu?" Su Ming'an said.

The boy walked in front, paused, and didn't look back. Su Ming'an was thinking whether he should tell Lu Shu about the extermination of the family. If he told him, would there be any changes?

The bamboo forest swayed, and a man and a child walked down the mountain, their figures gradually sinking into the sunset.

…

[00:42 am]

The door of the hall opened wide, and a man and a sword came out from the cold wind.

In the ancient martial arts hall, the lights flickered, reflecting six rows of middle-aged and young people. They were dressed in simple clothes, as if they had walked out of the distant history and sat here.

The columns of the hall stood tall, with dragons and snakes coiling and phoenixes spreading their wings, engraved with the history of the family from ancient times to the present. Heroes and heroes, so many legends, are all engraved on the ancient carvings, filled with the vicissitudes of time and history.

However, this place is like a nightmare for Lu Shu. Many years ago, he was sentenced to be expelled from the ancient martial arts family here, and left alone.

"I'm back." Lu Shu faced all the eyes and said lightly: "Give your answers."

The woman with black twin ponytails sat at the top.

"I will give you an answer without hiding, Lu Shu." Mizushima Kawase said. She is now the most powerful person in the ancient martial arts family: "Chi Liu."

A white-haired middle-aged man walked out and handed a scroll to Lu Shu: "Young Master Lu, this is the truth."

"Don't call me Young Master Lu, don't use your way of addressing me." Lu Shu's eyebrows were filled with gloom.

You can hear a pin drop in the hall, and people are very quiet.

In fact, they have been a little afraid of Lu Shu for a long time.

In their eyes, this white-haired young man has always been a wolf cub who is crazy and desperate. In his early years, he did things like biting off a piece of flesh from his enemies. In the last days of Lu Shu's terminal illness, they were still worried whether Lu Shu would carry out a suicide attack and drag a group of people down with him, but fortunately Lu Shu was so sick that he was almost unable to get up.

Why did only Lu Shu, a junior, survive back then?

Those enemies couldn't kill a junior. They probably wanted Lu Shu to live alone and endure the torture of extermination forever. If it weren't for the advent of the World Game, Lu Shu's final outcome would be to die of illness on the street.

People waited for Lu Shu to finish reading, as if waiting for an unknown judgment.

…

[00:53 AM]

Su Mingan failed to have tea with little Lu Shu.

They just walked a few steps, and Su Mingan felt that he was becoming transparent. The next moment, he was no longer in Taihua Mountain.

What came into view was a family gathering.

The young man, about sixteen years old, stood silently, with a mantis resting on his shoulder. He was wearing a dark Hanfu and had grown very tall.

In the hall, the people of the ancient martial arts family warmly blessed the young man and respectfully called him "Young Master Lu".

That was really a time of flowers and brocade, and fire and oil. The new family was prominent for a while, and everyone wanted to build a relationship. Countless gifts were sent to the Lu family, and the threshold was almost broken by the matchmaker.

Su Mingan didn't know whether he should approach. The young master of the Lu family, who was surrounded by people, saw him at a glance.

"It's you." Lu Shu called him: "Why did you suddenly disappear before?"

Lu Shu took him out.

On the rooftop, the smell of alcohol dissipated. Looking out, there are endless mountains, and peach blossoms and spring breezes are in front of you.

Lu Shu's extraordinary ability, Noel's immortality information... It seems that there are many unsolved mysteries in this world before the world game begins.

"Run away." Facing the taller Lu Shu, Su Mingan's first sentence is to run away.

If you don't run away, it will be too late.

"Where do you want me to run to?" Lu Shu said: "I know you are a magical person, you can suddenly appear and disappear. But if someone really wants to harm me, can I run away?"

"There is always a place, there is always a place where the light shines." Su Mingan suddenly thought: "Why don't you go to H City to find me."

Lu Shu looked at him quietly:

"If we leave the protection of the ancient martial arts family, the disaster may come faster. I know that the Lu family is now thriving, and many people want our insect training secrets, as well as grandfather's enemies... It's useless for us to escape to anywhere."

"Then go for help, go to my house." Su Mingan said immediately.

"Ordinary people can't do it... After all, who doesn't desire extraordinary power, and everyone defaults to not caring about our affairs." Lu Shu shook his head: "Grandpa also thought of this, so he took us to the protection of the ancient martial arts."

"...But what if the upper echelons of the ancient martial arts family also acquiesce to this?" Su Mingan's question was deafening. He had long discovered that the extermination of the Lu family was clearly acquiesced by the ancient martial arts family.

But Lu Shu's eyes were still silent.

"...There is no way out."

They are clearly different from ordinary people. The laws that can protect ordinary people cannot protect him.

Su Mingan wanted to threaten the ancient martial arts family and ask them not to take action, but as soon as he had this idea, his body began to become transparent.

He immediately took Lu Shu's hand and wrote the address on his palm. He knew he would have to leave again soon, but at least he could leave a way out for Lu Shu.

"When you have nowhere to go." He gradually disappeared in Lu Shu's sad sight:

"Please come here to find me. At least... don't wander around."

...

Lu Shu finished reading the scroll and raised his head.

"Shao Tao, Zhu Feng, Mu Xiu, Mu Er, Mo Yongchun, are the main culprits." Mizushima Kawaseong said indifferently: "Back then, they joined forces with your grandfather's enemies and decided to set fire to the house and take away the insect control method."

"In addition. E Wenshan, Cen Lun, Duan Yangyu, Gao Hanhai, Jian Yuyu, are accomplices. They blocked the Lu family's spies and prevented the message of help from being transmitted, resulting in only you surviving in the end."

"The list of other helpers is also in the scroll. We have detained both the main culprit and the accomplice."