The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

The fourth sister Jiang Wanru, who Lin Chaoyu said was "on the verge of death", was standing in the corner of her room. She hugged the sword in her arms tightly, and the half of her face that was exposed to everyone was pale.

Yes, this was her bedroom, but she was not the only one in the room this early in the morning.

The bedroom door was closed, and only the gray morning light penetrated the paper window, outlining everything in the house. The candle on the candlestick beside the table had just burned out, and there was still lingering smoke hanging on the burnt black candle wick.

Su Mei, who was sitting at the table, took a deep breath and accidentally choked on the smoke. She couldn't help but coughed twice. The others thought she had something to say and turned to look at her, but it was already done. At this point, what else is there to say? Su Mei silently licked her dry lips and clenched the swords lying on her knees with both hands.

She can still keep her composure, but that doesn't mean everyone is like that.

"Second Senior Sister...Master hasn't come yet, do you want me to go again..."

Before Qin Suyi finished speaking, Su Mei quickly turned her head and glanced at her. Her steps that she had taken forward were frozen in place, and her whole body began to tremble violently.

In the past nine years, she has had the closest relationship with her second senior sister. If the senior sister is a mother, caring and stern as an elder, then the second senior sister is everyone's sister. In everyone's memory, she is so gentle and considerate.

And this is exactly why she can bring everyone together.

But in Qin Suyi's eyes, the second senior sister has changed. When did it start? It was probably the moment when she took advantage of Master's absence from the Kipchak grasslands to gather everyone together and plot to kill Master...

What kind of person the master is, Su Yi can't say. She didn't have many memories about her master, but among her limited memories, what impressed her most was undoubtedly his seemingly plain eyes.

It seemed plain, but she always felt that there was something else hidden under that plainness. Is it concern? Su Yi doesn't know, but she feels that Master cares about everyone. For her, once she tries to trace her memory, she will never be able to bypass that day nine years ago——

The first color left in the memory of that day was azure. The blue water was noisy and the waves rolled over her ankles from time to time. As a young girl, she just stood on the beach.

The waves were white and the sand was soft, the sky was high and the clouds were clear. There was a noise behind me that I still can't recall. In my impression, I saw a group of gulls and herons not far away that were frightened and flew up. Then I was picked up by my master from behind.

That embrace was warm and calm, so Master was definitely not a bad person.

Therefore, when the second senior sister, whom she had always been close to, said that everyone should work together to kill the master, Su Yi's heart completely collapsed.

She neither agreed nor refused, but closed herself in fear. At that time, the master had just left for the war, and she thought that the war would have to last for several years. By then, the second senior sister might have changed her mind?

Unexpectedly, in less than a year, the master had solved all the troubles and returned to Taixu Mountain, and she had to make a choice.

She chose to tell the truth to her master, but before she could take two steps, she found that the second senior sister who knew her best was standing in front of her.

She said that her parents were killed by the master, "and you are the same. The memories you can't recall are the process of your parents being killed by the master."

Su Yi shook her head and refused to believe it, so the second senior sister who knew her best gave her another choice:

"I won't stop you. Either you tell Master and let her kill me, or you join us in killing Master. There is no third option."

But how to choose between the second senior sister and the master? The ancients said you can't have your cake and eat it too, but for Su Yi, if the second senior sister and the master are destined to choose only one, her choice is not to choose.

But isn’t not choosing itself a choice? So she was brought in in a daze.

And now is the last chance. Before the master steps into the killing array that has been arranged, there is still a chance to save everything - this is what Su Yi originally thought.

She even expected that the second senior sister would reject her. No, she originally hoped that the second senior sister would reject her. She doesn't want to make any choice between Master and Second Senior Sister. So if she chooses Master at this moment and Second Senior Sister rejects her, does that mean she has chosen Master but will not give up Second Senior Sister...

Okay, she knows that these are all self-deception, she is just doing unnecessary escape, but what's wrong with escaping?

Maybe there was nothing wrong, but the imagined rejection did not come. The second senior sister seemed to have anticipated everything. She didn't say anything, but glanced at Su Yi with her cold eyes.

Then, yesterday's words once again sounded in Su Yi's heart:

"Either you tell Master and let her kill me, or you join us in killing Master. There is no third option."

It's still the choice, still the irresistible hesitation.

Su Yi's toes were hanging in the air, unable to fall down.

Suddenly, she forced a smile and said:

"Second Senior Sister, look... didn't that Rakshasa man say that Fourth Senior Sister's condition was alleviated because of Master... Although Master said that those who fall into evil will be punished, he has not done anything to Fourth Senior Sister for so many years. Senior sister... there are also some other misunderstandings, we... don't need to kill the master, right... we can have a good talk with the master... right? "

After the words fell, the whole bedroom was in a commotion. It was obvious that junior sister Qin Suyi's words were not just her personal thoughts, but the thoughts shared by the other four people in the room at this moment...

In fact, this may also be Su Mei's own idea.

Su Mei remained silent, pursed her lips tightly, and slowly glanced at her junior brother and junior sister. She suddenly laughed, but the smile was quite forced and sad:

"Maybe, maybe everything is our misunderstanding. But, we have come to this point, is there really any way out? If Master knows everything we plotted, can we really have a way out?"

Qin Suyi opened her mouth and mustered up the courage to say loudly:

"No, Master is not that kind of person. All mistakes have not happened yet. She will not kill us!"

"Oh? Really?"

Su Mei tilted her head and smiled miserably, "What kind of person is Master, Su Yi? Do you think you understand him? When Yan Shiluo had cholera in the world and was defeated by your senior sister, what did Master do? He killed people and burned down the village, leaving almost no one alive. Damn it, I was at the scene at that time...and your third sister, fourth sister, and fifth sister are almost the last survivors of the village."

Qin Suyi had nothing to say. Seeing her at a loss, she turned to look at the others. Su Mei smiled again and said softly:

"Perhaps, this matter has always been led by me, and you are all deceived by me. If you choose to withdraw at this time, Master may really spare your lives... But I, I have been too deeply involved, and I cannot escape. …”

At this point, she shook her head violently, then looked down at her toes and sighed feebly:

"Forget it...forget it...you all can leave. Little Ma, you can leave too. Master wants to fight and kill me, and I am the only one..."

"No, I'm not leaving!"

Yanqing looked extremely painful when his name was called, but in the end he chose to side with the second senior sister.

Wanxi and Wanru were both silent. They stood side by side in the corner, their movements were exactly the same - holding the long sword given by the master tightly in front of them with both hands, as if the sword was the only life-saving straw in the drowning state. .

Seeing that no one spoke, no one expressed their opinions, and no one made a choice, Su Yi didn't know what to do - was she really going to leave her alone as the second senior sister said?

No, that simply can't be done. This was impossible to do originally, and it became even more impossible after the second senior sister said these words.

Su Yi suddenly became very flustered. She didn't know how the other senior sisters and brothers would treat her. The dispute just now... she started all of this.

When she was in a dilemma, she felt someone silently approaching her in the room...

"!"

Her whole body was filled with excitement. Before the words "kill and silence" could form in her mind, she felt her hand being held by someone.

The fingers of those hands were cold, but the palms exuded a warmth that could not be ignored.

Su Yi unexpectedly turned her head and saw Ling Shuang standing beside her with an expressionless face.

"Fifth Senior Sister..."

Ling Shuang shook her head silently and pulled her aside.

As a result, the six people in the room consciously divided into three parts: Ling Shuang pulled Su Yi and stood on the right side of the door. Sisters Wanxi and Wanru stood on the left side of the door holding swords. Su Mei was sitting on the chair facing the door, stroking the yin and yang swords across her knees. The youngest Yanqing's eyes were closed tightly, with struggle and pain smoldering in his brows, but he still stood firmly beside Su Mei. Mae side.

Su Mei looked around at everyone again, with a wry smile on her lips.

The main reason why Third Sister and Fourth Sister are here is because of Fourth Sister's illness. Now this crux has been resolved... and Su Yi and Ling Shuang's attitudes are also quite playful...

Of course, the parents of the four of them also died at the hands of the Master. This is an irrefutable fact, but for the parents who have long been blurred in their memories, can the hatred they have for this really completely overwhelm their dependence on the Master? ?

It's hard for Su Mei to say, especially since she puts her winning hand on the fifth sister whom she can't see through the most.

And Xiao Ma'er... He has the least reason to stand here, and he is also standing here in the most pain, but he is the one who stands most firmly behind her...

This group that she had forcibly put together was gradually disintegrating. Of course Su Mei knew it, but it didn't matter. She thought on the bright side - the three parts were surrounded on three sides and took action together, with senior sister Chao Yu serving as the last brick. , blocking Master's escape route, everything is exactly the same as her original plan, isn't it?

But...in this case, what choice will the senior sister make?

This is the only thing Su Mei cannot control...

It is true that what is going to happen next will be cruel and will make everyone present suffer in pain for the rest of their lives, but...

If they didn't, they would suffer more, and at least she would suffer more.

"I'm sorry for bringing you all into this."

She wanted to apologize at the last moment, because if it failed, these might be her last words.

But the muscles in his throat completely collided, blocking all words.

She didn't say anything in the end, just closed her eyes and waited quietly for the last moment to come.

…………

"Master, the fourth sister is really dying!"

The sound coming from the room failed to put Lin Chaoyu away, and she started to slap the door of the main hall instead.

I don’t know what will happen to her if she makes up her mind to stay in the house and not go out - Hua thought sarcastically in her heart, and unconsciously shrank into the warm embrace in front of her as always.

But the next moment, she realized something, held Mikael's chest with both hands, and repositioned herself——

It's a pity that the embrace in front of her does not belong to her, does not belong to her now, and has never belonged to her in the past.

"Have you figured out what to do?"

Hua shook his head.

"I don't know, absolutely no idea."

He is obviously fifty thousand years old. Even if he only counts the time he is awake, he is already over five thousand years old. But at this moment, at least at this moment, Hua feels like he has changed back to fifty thousand years ago, and changed again. She became the confused girl who only knew how to follow him.

"Mikael..."

"I am here."

"Do you still remember... that poem? That poem that belongs to our civilization, but was brought to this civilization by us. The story that belongs to our civilization also sprouted again in this civilization -

"Hector knew that the kingdom would eventually fall, and Achilles also knew that he was heading for death. But the two of them still stepped onto the battlefield without hesitation. In this story that was destined to be a tragedy from the beginning, neither one People have hesitated or wavered about this.

"They do it, we do it, and I do it too."

Perhaps something was not appropriate for the occasion - a disturbing voice sounded in Hua's mind.

After all, she is not going to the battlefield and facing death, but the same thing is that she has to face what she should face, and she has to face what she should not escape - the betrayal that is destined to come.

"It doesn't matter."

Mikael's voice was as gentle as in her memory, making her increasingly confused about the flow of time.

Then, there was a familiar touch on the top of her head. Mikael gently rubbed her head and put the hairpin he had taken off before into her hand.

"Go on, no matter what choice you make, I will be behind you and I won't let anything happen to you."

Hua nodded, holding the hairpin tightly with her fingers.

"Actually... you don't need to go to such trouble. In the future you foresaw, I just didn't expect such a betrayal. Now that I'm prepared, they can't kill me."

As he spoke, Hua gradually regained his confidence, and the trace of weakness in his heart was completely erased before it had time to ferment.

"It's better to be careful. Ling Shuang has cultivated your Taixu sword energy to the level of a sword god. She has the possibility of killing you."

"That's just a possibility."

Hua stood up, tied up Mikael's trimmed long hair again, and walked straight out the door without any hesitation in her steps.

She took off the door latch, held the door frame and pulled it inward. The morning light from the outside world instantly flooded in. Under the contrast between light and dark, Hua instinctively squinted her eyes.

But this did not hinder her sight. Lin Chaoyu was standing in front of her. Chaoyu raised his hands, as if he was ready to continue knocking on the door. Hua's sudden appearance startled her. She felt guilty and took half a step back unconsciously. I almost fell down on the steps.

Hua's eyes stayed on her for a moment, and then he said calmly:

"Walk."

Lin Chaoyu was just thinking about what kind of excuse he should use to walk behind his master, but he saw Hua passing her without saying a word and walking towards the killing array they had set up.

After taking two steps, Hua turned back, glanced at her blankly, and asked:

"What's wrong, Chaoyu? Why don't you follow?"

"oh oh!"

Lin Chaoyu hurriedly followed up and looked at Hua's back. She suddenly felt that the master today was a little different from usual.

Did she notice it? No, this strange feeling comes from...

Chaoyu's eyes stopped at the tips of Hua's hair hanging down to her waist.

"Master...you cut your hair short?"

She was a little surprised. In her mind, Master had never cut her hair since she went up the mountain...

Abnormal...so much so that an ominous premonition kept swirling in my mind and could not be erased.

"Um."

Hua responded calmly, without further explanation, and never took the initiative to say another word to Chao Yu.

Just walking to the door of Wanru's bedroom, Hua stopped.

"Gulu——"

She heard Chaoyu behind her swallow hard.

"Huh?"

She bent down and saw a dead leaf at her feet. No matter how the morning wind blew around her, it clung to the ground and remained motionless, as if the dead leaf was not a dead leaf, but a piece of iron that could not be shaken by the wind. sword.

There are only two people on Taixu Mountain who can do this.

"snort……"

Hua closed her eyes, but raised the corners of her mouth unconsciously.

She picked up the dead leaf with two fingers of her right hand, stood up straight again, took a step forward, and gently placed her left hand on the door.

But she did not push the door open at the first moment, but whispered:

"Chaoyu..."

The next moment, without waiting for Zhaoyu to respond, she pushed open the door.