Chapter 56:

Chapter 55 The Jedi (Part 1)
Zhong Qingzhu turned his head and looked at Shen Shi with a strange expression. Shen Shi looked at her and said, "What's the matter, my complexion is not very good, is my hand hurt again?"
"Um...no." Zhong Qingzhu shook his head and turned his eyes away.
Crawling all the way from the dark, deep and narrow cave, until here, the two of them can really stand up straight, and they can't help but feel a sense of relaxation. Zhong Qingzhu slowly walked forward a few steps, and stood in the middle of the tunnel where the fluorescent stone was twinkling and extinguishing. Only a little bit of light was shining like a soft and light star in the sky, with a little beautiful silver, shining around her head. Gently embrace her.
All around, she was silent, Shen Shi did not speak, but silently watched the girl with a hint of joy on her face, her eyes gleaming as if the stars reflected in the sky, even if she walked along the way, she was scarred and dirty, but at this moment. Under such brilliance, she looked like a fairy who fell into the world, gentle and beautiful, not like a mortal.
Zhong Qingzhu slowly opened her arms with a smile, as if she wanted to embrace this beautiful light, this magnificent wonder in life, embraced in her arms at this moment, as if she belonged to her alone.
"Damn!"
Only the next moment, she screamed suddenly, took a breath, and turned pale as she covered her left hand. Shen Shi walked over to support her, and said angrily: "Hey, your hand is broken, don't move around when nothing is wrong."
Zhong Qingzhu's cheeks reddened slightly, lowered his head as if embarrassed, and said, "I'm sorry..."
Shen Shi sighed and said: "You're here again. Didn't you say I'm sorry after telling you not to move?" After a pause, watching Zhong Qingzhu's face not very good, he seemed to be forbearing, and shook his head. Does your hand hurt?"
Zhong Qingzhu hesitated and said softly: "It doesn't hurt..."
Shen Shi frowned and said, "Doesn't it hurt?"
Zhong Qingzhu hesitated for a while, his voice became a little lower, and said: "It hurts..."
Shen Shi glanced at her, and saw Zhong Qingzhu holding his arm and his face seemed to be white again. After a while, she saw that her beautiful and delicate face seemed to tremble, and then she almost said in a mosquito-like voice: "Very pain……"
"You..." Shen Shi was almost speechless to her, anyway, he was the first time in his life to see a girl with such a temperament, but now looking at her such a pitiful appearance, his heart is inexplicably soft, and he walks over with light. Hold her left hand gently.
"Hi..." Zhong Qingzhu frowned and bit his lips, making a trembling sound in his mouth.
Shen Shi frowned and said, "Where does it hurt?"
Enduring the severe pain, Zhong Qingzhu pointed to the left elbow with his right hand, which was where the front broke. Shen Shi also couldn't think of a good way for a while, and he didn't dare to touch Zhong Qingzhu's wound easily. He raised his eyes and saw that the cloth strip that had just made a rope in the dark and hung his arm around her neck was gone. When she slipped down, she tried to raise her arm higher and put it in the rope loop.
Unexpectedly, when he raised his arm a little too high, Zhong Qingzhu groaned in pain. At the same time, there was a slight redness in his eyes, which was obviously severe pain. Shen Shi was taken aback, and he didn't dare to do it again. He hesitated for a moment, and asked, "How do you swing your hand so that it doesn't hurt?"
Zhong Qingzhu hesitated for a moment, and said: "Just hang it like this and don't move it, it will be better, but there will always be swings when walking around, so it hurts."
Shen Shi let out a "huh", pondered for a moment, glanced over the hanging strip of cloth hanging around Zhong Qingzhu's neck, suddenly his eyes lit up, and said, "Uh, I have a way."
Speaking, he walked forward, took the rope cloth strip from Zhong Qingzhu’s neck, took it in his hand and looked at it, only to find that the thing he tore off at random just now was really rough and ugly, and he couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed. "Don’t care about things urgently."
Zhong Qingzhu didn't speak, his cheeks were slightly red, but he nodded slightly.
Shen Shi took the cloth and asked Zhong Qingzhu to hang his left hand naturally on the side of the waist, and then took it from the wrist, directly tied her body through the waist, fixed his left hand to the side of her body, took a step back and looked at it. , I felt that the rope just now seemed a little short, and it didn’t seem to be very stable. It looked like it would fall off at any time. After thinking about it, I just used the light of the surrounding fluorescent stones to tear a few pieces from my body. The cloth strips, after all these tossing down, suddenly tore the Lingxiaozong disciple's clothes torn to pieces.
Zhong Qingzhu saw this scene in her eyes, opened her mouth slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn’t know why she wanted to say something, and in the end, she just silently looked at the sunken stone in front of her, in this dark and cold cave, and around It was the silver brilliance that shone softly like stars, illuminating his serious and focused face.
Tear off the cloth strips, entangle them together and tie them into knots, pull them tightly, and divide them into two. One binds her wrist at the waist, the other avoids the elbow, and tied it again from the top of the arm close to the shoulder. , But it bypassed Zhong Qingzhu’s chest and passed through the armpit of her right hand, wrapped tightly around her waist, finally completely fixed her left hand beside her, never moving randomly anymore .
For some reason, Zhong Qingzhu's cheeks suddenly turned red, especially when Shen Shi was helping her tie the second arm-fixing cloth, and his body shook subconsciously, as if he wanted to step back and avoid. But when she raised her head, she only saw the boy standing in front of her, with a serious face, frowning slightly, as if he was afraid of hurting her. A little bit of starlight was gentle like water, quietly falling from the top of his head behind him, his forehead was faintly sweaty, and his eyes were so clear that they were intertwined with the stars, deeply reflected in her eyes.
After all, this foot cannot be stepped out.
All the cold and darkness, fear and horror, seem to have quietly receded, leaving only the gentle, caring and focused eyes of the boy in this dream-like starlight.
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"Huh", Shen Shi took a deep breath, took a step back and turned his somewhat sore neck, looked at the tied rope with satisfaction, laughed, and said: "Okay, now you don't have to worry about your arms moving. I hit a wound."
Zhong Qingzhu lowered his eyes slightly, and suddenly some did not dare to look at his eyes and face, as if he could not even speak, he just nodded slightly.
Shen Shi suddenly gave a "Huh", surprised a little, and said, "Zhong Qingzhu, why is your face so red?"
For an instant, Zhong Qingzhu felt that his cheeks were so hot that he was about to burn. With his head hanging low, he seemed to have lost the courage to lift him in an instant.
After a while, she suddenly felt a warm palm attached to her forehead. After a while, she heard Shen Shi hesitate and said to herself: "It doesn't seem to be hot, it doesn't look like a fever. Looks like..."
Zhong Qingzhu suddenly raised his head and looked at Shen Shi, only to see Shen Shi standing not far in front of him, looking over at him with a puzzled expression. Although it looked pleasing to the eye, he still felt a little silly.
"Fool..." She couldn't help but whispered, but for some reason, her heart seemed soft, as if there was a strange and unspeakable joy, and it didn't seem to be the case, even she herself didn't understand.
It was very quiet in the cave. Although Zhong Qingzhu's voice was very small, Shen Shi actually heard it. He was furious and stared: "What, I've done so much to help you, you still call me a fool!"
Zhong Qingzhu looked up at him, slowly showing a smile on the corners of his mouth, the blush on his face faded slightly, but it was still as delicate and beautiful as a peach blossom, and she looked at the boy's eyes as if they were also like water waves. After a while, she only smiled softly and said softly: "Big Brother Shen, you are not a fool. No one has ever treated me as good as you. You are a good person."
Shen Shi stayed for a while, and didn't react for a while, although he didn't quite understand why Zhong Qingzhu suddenly became such a strange appearance, but at this moment, in the faint starlight, the girl in front of him was It exudes a strange beauty he has never seen before, and even brings a dazzling afterglow, so that the anger he has just risen is lost in a blink of an eye, and his tight face can't hold it anymore, scratching his head and backing away One step, he said:
"Uh...then, if you don't scold me, then forget it."
With a "pouch", Zhong Qingzhu suddenly laughed, his mouth bends, his eyes are like morning stars, and his smile is as beautiful as a flower.
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The wind and rain swept the world like obscurity, and the entire Herring Island seemed to be immersed in a gray rain and mist. From a distance, it looked like a huge herring swimming in the sea of ​​miserable wind and rain.
In the Herring Jixuanri Hall, the atmosphere in the study was extremely cold.
Wang Gen darkened his face all of a sudden, slapped up, staring at Zheng Zhe, who hurried back with an anxious expression, and shouted: "What do you mean by Zhentang, why is there one less person?"
Zheng Zhe smiled bitterly and said: "After I passed, Junior Brother Zhong and Junior Brother Xu, who were on duty in Zhentang, were counting the number of people. After counting several times, they found that one person was indeed missing." After a pause, Zheng Zhe Glancing at Wang Gen's face, he still whispered softly, "The two juniors are also very anxious there."
Wang Gen said angrily: "If things are done, what else is there to rush!"
Zheng Zhe smiled awkwardly, not daring to intercede and speak for the two. Wang Gen took a deep breath, calmed down, and said in a deep voice, "Who is the one who got lost? Is it an old disciple or a newcomer?"
Zheng Zhe said: "The two juniors Zhong and Xu have checked the heads. The one who is not present now is a new female disciple who has just arrived on the island, named Zhong Qingzhu."
"Zhong Qingzhu..." Wang Gen frowned, thought for a moment, and raised his head to look at Zheng Zhe. "The surname is Zhong, and he belongs to the younger generation. Could it be a child of the Zhong family in Floating Cloud City?"
Zheng Zhe nodded and said: "It was from the Zhong family, but I heard from Junior Brother Zhong that although this younger sister was born in the Zhong family and is of the same origin, she has a low status in the family and cannot be taken seriously by the Zhong family. It can be regarded as a remote branch."
"Zhong Qingzhu, Zhong Qingzhu..." Wang Gen didn't seem to hear Zheng Zhe's comforting words to his ears. Instead, he frowned while standing there. He seemed to think carefully about something, "How does this name always feel How familiar are you?"
Chapter 56 The Jedi (Part 2)
"Let's go." Shen Shi urged angrily, "I don't know if we can escape right now. How can we stay here longer? Go ahead and see if there is a way out."
Zhong Qingzhu promised, but his steps were very small. His eyes just looked at the beautiful star-like scenery on the stone wall beside him, as if he was intoxicated by it, and a little reluctant to leave.
Shen Shi snorted and repeated his point again: "Come on, these stones are worthless."
Zhong Qingzhu turned around and smiled at him, and said, "But don't you think this place is really beautiful?"
Shen Shi said disdainfully, "Can you be beautiful for dinner?"
Zhong Qingzhu glared at him with half anguish and half joy, and said, "Can the spirit crystal be eaten as a meal?"
Shen Shi laughed and said, "Ha, don't tell me, Lingjing can really serve as a meal."
Zhong Qingzhu was taken aback, and then he couldn't help but laughed, shook his head and followed up, smiling: "You can say it."
In the words of the two of them, the allusion of the spirit crystal eating as a meal does have its origins and is widely known in the realm of cultivation. The reason is that the cultivator begins to cultivate and absorb the spiritual power of the spirit crystal, once the spiritual power enters the body, it will gradually Begin to transform the human body. Many of these changes will be very different from the mortal body. One of the most obvious changes is that after the spirit is introduced into the body, the spiritual power containing the magical power of heaven and earth is sufficient to support the consumption of the human body. No more eating other foods. Simply put, after the monks start practicing, they don’t need to eat anymore...
After Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu, a group of new disciples entered Qingyu Island, in the first few days, Lingxiaozong still arranged some food for them, but since they started practicing, they have all entered the stage of attracting spirits into the body. , These foods stopped. For them, who can already be called monks, in their future careers, as long as there are spirit crystals for cultivation, they basically do not need to eat ordinary food. Of course, besides spirit crystals, there are many treasures of heaven and earth. The panacea that contains spiritual power is of great help to cultivation, and they will take it if they have the opportunity, but these rare things will depend on chance in the future.
In the deep cave tunnel, Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu continued to walk forward, during which Zhong Qingzhu turned his head several times, seemingly still thinking about the place where the fluorescent stones gathered just now. But as they walked, they found that there were some fluorescent stones on the stone wall of the tunnel ahead, but there was no special concentration just now. Most of them were walking sparsely in the cracks or corners of the stone wall, which seemed to emit light. It's also bleak.
But this is the case, this little light can still vaguely illuminate the road in the cave, making it easier for the two of them to walk.
As he walked farther and farther, the shining star-like stone wall at the back had gradually disappeared into the deep and winding cave behind him. The surroundings seemed to be quiet again, and darkness descended again, slowly spreading from all directions.
With the faint light on the stone wall, Zhong Qingzhu's heart became inexplicably and a little nervous. The cave in which he was at this moment seemed to have never been visited before, and there were primitive and abrupt rock thorns and strange rocks everywhere, which seemed to be transformed in the faint light As dark shadows, erratic, with a bit terrifying, like the ghosts and ghosts in the legendary and underworld.
Without knowing it, she subconsciously moved closer to Shen Shi, and gently grabbed his sleeve with her uninjured right hand. Who knew that she stretched out her hand and grabbed it. Zhong Qingzhu was taken aback before remembering this. His sleeves have been transformed into two long cloth strips, which are tied in front of his waist and chest, fixing his injured left arm.
Her face was in the shadows, as if reddening again, she sneaked a glance at the boy walking in front of her, and suddenly felt that the darkness around her didn't seem so terrible.
"Hey, Zhong Qingzhu." Suddenly, Shen Shi in front of him suddenly yelled, as if he wanted to say something, but Zhong Qingzhu suddenly felt that it was not very pleasant, and said:
"Big Brother Shen, don't call me that. It always sounds like we have hatred, and it's cold."
"Ah, isn't it?" Shen Shi didn't have the delicate thoughts of Zhong Qingzhu's little daughter, and he was taken aback, and said: "It seems to be right, then what do I call you, sister Zhong?"
Zhong Qingzhu's mouth was slightly squeezed, his bright eyes flickering in the dark, and he said, "Well, when someone else is there in the future, you call me Junior Sister Zhong, but when there is no one, you call me Qingzhu. "After finishing speaking, I felt that what I had said was not clear enough, so I quickly explained and said, "That's how my mother called me. You used to worship the immortal rock on the day you entered the sect. Just saved me once, and today is even more...well, anyway, you are really kind to me, so in the future, when there is no one, call me Qingzhu, OK?"
Shen Shi blinked, feeling a little overwhelmed in his mind. He usually has a cautious temper, but he focuses more on other things. In the final analysis, he is only a twelve-year-old boy. Dou Weikai, and not like a little girl, would have matured earlier, and now he really couldn't understand such ambiguous and subtle words. He only felt that Zhong Qingzhu’s words seemed to make sense, but there seemed to be something wrong, but he didn’t understand it, so he didn’t want to. Anyway, the most important thing now is to live first, and it’s no big deal to take care of these names. The thing he used, he said immediately: "Okay, I'll call you Qingzhu from now on, so it's convenient to call it."
Zhong Qingzhu smiled, covering his mouth with his right hand, looking at Shen Shi with eyes full of water, and said: "What do I call you from now on, is it OK to be Brother Shen?"
Shen Shi waved his hand and said, "I'm seeing you outside. Just now you said I called you what your mother called you, so you should do the same for you, just let my father call me like that."
When Zhong Qingzhu saw Shen Shi like this, he always felt that the boy was a little bit stupid the more he looked at it, and he was strange, but he looked more and more pleasing to the eye, suppressed a smile, and said, "Then how does your father call you?"
"Stones, or small stones."
"Um... well," Zhong Qingzhu was silent for a moment, secretly despising the short fat man who had never met before, and then said: "When there are outsiders, I will call you Brother Shen, no Isn't it okay to call you a stone?
"Whatever." Shen Shi waved his hand with an indifferent look, then frowned slightly, as if thinking about something.
Zhong Qingzhu looked at him and said, "What's the matter?"
Shen Shi was silent for a moment, then laughed dryly, and said, "I just asked you to ask you something."
Zhong Qingzhu nodded and said, "Then you ask, what's the matter?"
Shen Shi coughed, turned around and continued walking forward, saying: "But you suddenly pulled a bunch of things called naming, I seem to have forgotten what I wanted to ask..."
Seeing his back walking forward, Zhong Qingzhu shook his head and smiled, and followed.
A little bit of light in the cave, like a firefly in the dark, is faint but so beautiful, drifting gently behind them, as if eternally immortal, floating in the darkness.
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I don’t know when, Shen Shi suddenly realized that the splashing sound that seemed to linger around his ears seemed to disappear. He looked down and found that he was no longer trampling in a puddle, but standing on a dry ground. .
The direction of the entire cave, along the way, seems to have a tendency to slowly climb upwards. Shen Shi was overjoyed, and said to Zhong Qingzhu who was next to him: "It seems that there is no water."
Zhong Qingzhu turned his head to look, and quickly realized, the same expression of joy, nodded with some expectations, and said: "That means, are we on the ground soon?"
Shen Shi laughed and said, "It's hard to say, but the hope is great. You are not tired. If you are tired, take a rest. If you are not tired, we will continue walking."
Zhong Qingzhu shook his head and said, "I'm not tired, let's go."
"Yeah." Shen Shi nodded and agreed, then turned to move on. In this mysterious and deep cave, there seems to be a vein of fluorescent stone, which has been continuing on the cave wall, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, but after all, it gave them a little hope in the dark.
And as the water subsided, the cave's terrain gradually rose, Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu gradually felt that the hope of getting out of trouble was increasing. In this case, even the original fatigue was temporarily left behind by them. Even if they were actually rushed into the ground by the rapids from the beginning until now, they have been trekking in the dark cave for a long, long time.
The sound of footsteps reverberated in the cave, and there was still silence around, the gasp gradually became louder, and sweat began to flow down his face. But the ground under the feet is getting higher and higher, as if it indicates that the exit is just ahead. Whoever it is, even Zhong Qingzhu, who was severely injured and broke his left hand, clenched his teeth and insisted, without the intention of stopping to rest.
Step by step through the darkness, through this deep and quiet cave, it feels like crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, chasing the last bit of hope.
Suddenly, a ray of bright light in front of him suddenly shone in.
Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu saw it at the same time, and stopped at the same time, looking ahead.
There is a beam of light.
Familiar, warm light.
Shen Shi let out a long sigh of relief, and when he looked at Zhong Qingzhu, she was also very excited, and her lips trembled slightly, just looking at him.
Shen Shi nodded, smiled and said, "I'm saved."
There seemed to be tears flashing in Zhong Qingzhu's eyes. He couldn't say anything, just nodded.
Shen Shi waved his hand and laughed and said, "Go, let's go out."
After talking about it, let’s go first, and with Zhong Qingzhu strode across the somewhat rugged ground, towards the light, and soon saw a hole appeared in front of it, about a person tall, full of moss, light It is coming in from outside the cave. Although it is not very bright, it must be above the ground.
Shen Shi was full of joy, and smiled at each other with Zhong Qingzhu, both with the comfort and joy of the rest of his life, and then walked out side by side.
It's just that at the moment they can walk out of the cave, they can see the scene outside the cave, and suddenly both of them are stiff. What is in front of them is not the cave where they fled to avoid the huge waves. , And it’s not the beach where Zhong Qingzhu picked up the shells before. At this moment, in front of them, it is a very deep and narrow sinkhole. The bottom of the pit is no more than ten meters wide. The other half is a water pool, surrounded by cliffs. , Abrupt like a peak, as high as more than a hundred meters, but the two of them are at the bottom of this desperate Jedi Tiankeng, like two extremely tiny ants.
(Something happened tonight, the two chapters were posted together.)