Retired shadow guard's guide to raising cubs

Chapter 38

The small wooden sign is square and square, and the sharp edges and corners show rounded arcs, which should be caused by being played and caressed for a long time.More than a dozen wooden plaques are all black, but they are different from the black color of the Xuanmu wooden hairpin, giving off an ominous atmosphere.

Mu Jinnian brought the wooden plaque close to his nose, and sure enough, he smelled a faint smell of blood from above.

Is it...

The original light brown color can be vaguely seen at the corners of some wooden signs, which undoubtedly supports Mu Jinnian's conjecture: these wooden signs have been soaked in blood for an unknown number of times before they condense into an indelible surface that cannot be wiped off. black.

The front and back of each wooden sign are engraved with words, one side is unified as "Moying", and the other side is engraved with "one", "two", "three" in sequence, all the way to "twenty-two", missing in the middle "Nine", "Ten-two" and "Ten-five", besides that, the other side of the top one is not a number, but a weird pattern, because of too much wear and tear, the specific appearance can no longer be seen clearly.

He finally recognized that it was a shadow card, and the shadow guard had to die. He had seen it on the shadow guard of the Mu family before, and they looked similar with minor differences.

How could Moran have this...

A flash of lightning suddenly flashed across Mu Jinnian's mind. It only makes sense for Mo Ran to have a shadow card, doesn't it?

The scenes of getting along with each other in the past resurfaced, like a revolving lantern floating in front of his eyes.The details that I didn't care about or didn't notice were pointed out one by one.

For example, when Mo Ran was on the hill, he paid too much attention to the rescued shadow guards. His room was clean and tidy, and he didn’t look like he was inhabited. Exquisite, but it can be vaguely seen that the most original sword move is extremely aggressive, almost the same as the shadow guard's style of exchanging injuries for lives...

Mu Jinnian was lost in thought when suddenly there was a sound outside the window, it seemed that Mo Ran was coming back soon.

He looked around in a panic, put the things in his hand back to the foot of the bed, stumbled into the quilt, and wrapped it tightly from beginning to end.

The person who came in was indeed Mo Ran.

"Jin Nian?" He called out, but the person on the bed didn't move, as if he was fast asleep.

Mo Ran's eyes fell on the shadow card that had obviously been touched by someone, walked over, picked up the string of things that had accompanied him for most of his life, and put it away: "The people outside are the Mo Yingwei of the Yan family, they should be fighting I found clues from your moves, and I have already dealt with them. With this warning, the Yan family dare not do anything to you at will. Be careful in the future, and don't be entangled by them again. "

He pretended not to notice that the protruding part of the quilt was trembling, and finally said: "I'm going first, you have a good rest."

After all, Mo Ran deliberately made a little noise, left the room through the window, and waited to go to a place a little further away before hiding all the movement, with a light foot, and a few ups and downs back to the roof where Mo Yi and the others were.

Mo Yi and Mo Shi had their acupuncture points tapped, tied up and thrown on the roof. The two who were struggling to break the seal immediately fell silent when they saw Mo Ran go back and forth.

Weighing between the two for a moment, Mo Ran reached out to grab Mo Shi, but was blocked by Mo Yi.

"Do you want to save him?" It was obviously a question, and Mo Ran said it in a flat tone as if it was the truth.

Mo Yi didn't object.

He has confirmed that Mo Ran is the only Mo Yingwei who successfully defected from the Yan family a hundred years ago.This person has been able to live smoothly until now, and his scheming skills are much better than his own.Even though he didn't know why he left and came back, his mood suddenly became so bad, but it didn't affect Mo Yi's judgment: facing this person, denying it doesn't make any sense.

"I don't know, but there are still indecisive people like you in the Ink Shadow Guard."

Mo Yi forcefully suppressed Mo Shi's resistance behind him, silently but forcefully blocked Mo Shi and the "old senior".

It doesn't matter whether you say he is indecisive or irrational, once he is captured by this person, who knows what he will face.After all, being a leader is no stranger to extorting confessions by torture.

"It doesn't matter." Mo Ran didn't bother to care about what this man was thinking, so he took him aside, sealed Mo Yi's mouth with spiritual power to prevent him from making any noise, and then used his powerful spiritual sense to insert Mo Yi arbitrarily and unreasonably. One's sea of ​​consciousness stirs up gigantic waves in it.

Such an important place was disturbed by an outsider, as if a sharp knife had been stabbed straight into his head, Mo Yi's face turned pale on the spot, and his clothes were instantly soaked in cold sweat.The previously suppressed internal injuries mixed with pain that exploded in his mind rushed to his senses, but due to the limitations of Mo Ran, he was forced to lock the screams in his body.

Mo Yi didn't last long, his eyes turned black, and after another struggle, he finally couldn't stand the torture, and he was about to pass out.

Mo Ran seized the moment when Mo Yi lost his mind, and activated the soul-hunting technique.

Mo Yi is indeed the leader of the new generation of the Yan family, and he knows a lot about the inside story of the Yan family.

For example, a hundred years ago, several direct disciples of the Yan family fought and annihilated each other for the position of Patriarch, and they did not hesitate to kill each other. In the end, they all died. Throne, and had a son named Yan Jun.

Another example is that the tenth son kept a low profile, provoked everywhere, and finally killed all his brothers, and had the last laugh. Another example, the former head of the family, that is, the former owner of Mo Ran, died so suddenly, thanks to him as the first The ten sons have been poisoning persistently for several years.

For example, the reason why the elders of the Yan family insisted that he, Mo Ran, killed the previous head of the family and devoured the head was also the idea of ​​the tenth son, just to clean himself.

What's more, since then, the position of Commander Mo Yingwei has been divided into Commander Mo and Commander Shadow, each commanding half of the manpower and monitoring each other.

A mere leader of the Mo Yingwei, not only can know so many secrets, but also can hide the truth from the tenth son, the current head of the Yan family, and his master. This Mo Yi is not easy.

Mo Ran asked him: "Knowing so much, are you not afraid of being killed by your master?"

His secret was completely exposed, Mo Yi slashed Mo Shi, who knew nothing, and stood opposite Mo Ran: "This is a dead end, but sooner or later."

Being able to restore so many truths from the clues, Mo Yi is undoubtedly very clever.Such a person has been tortured over and over again by far more pain than ordinary people can imagine, and can't see a little light. Mo Ran doesn't believe that he is willing to sink into the darkness just like that, and has no other thoughts: "Do you want to escape?"

"I can't escape." Mo Yi shook his head, "Since what happened to your lord, the Yan family has added many rules to prevent the same situation from happening again. Dividing the Mo Yingwei into two is one of them, to improve the effect of the heart-eating medicine It is the second. The third is that the recruited shadow guards are no longer fatherless, motherless, and relatives, but have brothers and relatives alive, or parents, or brothers and sisters. The Yan family took them to the outskirts of Yanshan, Give them a living, and they are also used as hostages to restrain the Mo Yingwei. They don't know anything about their situation, and they just think it's good luck, or the Yan family's kindness to help them."

But in this world, how can there be so much good luck and kindness for no reason?

A warm smile appeared awkwardly on his stiff face: "I lost my parents since I was young, and I still have a younger sister. She is very good-looking, good-looking, and has a good temper. When she was young, she was always 'brother' and 'brother' The ground screams very nicely. Now she is called by the master to be a maid. Occasionally, when I have free time, I can still look at her from a distance."

Speaking of this, Mo Yi returned to his expressionless face, staring at Mo Ran: "I only have this one sister. If I run away, she will die. I will not run away." As if to show his determination, he emphasized again Again, "I will not run away, nor will I betray my master."

Even if the ending is only a dead end, even if the pain is so painful that even death is an extravagant hope.

"...Let's go." Mo Ran was silent for a while, and turned sideways to get out of the way.

Mo Yi was a little surprised: "You won't kill me?" He looked at the person standing in the shadow who couldn't see his expression clearly, "I won't keep your secret. As Mo Yingwei, obeying the master's order is the first rule."

Mo Ran said: "I know. Give me a word to your master, don't try to get things that don't belong to him. Back then, I could only be at his mercy, which doesn't mean it's the same now."

"I've made a note." Mo Yigong cupped his fists and saluted, "Just leave now."

Mo Ran released the restraint for them, and watched Mo Yi lift the unconscious Mo Shi away. He sat cross-legged on the eaves, and in the silence of the night, he went to look at the room where the light was still on in the inn.

Jinnian should be asleep already, right?After seeing the shadow card, Jinnian must also know that his kindness really shouldn't fall on someone like him.In the future, he will meet better and more suitable people, there will be many like-minded partners, and he will have a bright and unlimited future, instead of sinking into the bone-chilling darkness with him, no matter what happens.

The shadow guards are such sad and ridiculous people, forced to hide in the dark, become tools, their hands are stained with blood, then broken off, discarded, covered in mud and kneeling at the feet of their masters, watching them master them People from the past, present and future laugh wantonly in the sunshine.

Many years ago, when he was in jail, he was desperately eager to find out the truth and clear himself up, but now, the truth itself was brought to him, but it was no longer that important.

So what if you are lucky enough to glimpse the light?It was just a quick glance and continued to look desperately at myself in the mud and couldn't struggle, and finally sank deeper and deeper.

And he himself...

Mo Ran was slightly dazed, as if he had returned to the time when he had just escaped from the shackles of the Yan family. He was ignorant of human nature, and his every move seemed to be separated from the surroundings by a layer of veil.People's contempt, evasion, and impatience are all telling him one thing: this bright world does not need or welcome him, he is superfluous, and his existence will tarnish this light.

Fortunately, he met a noble man who taught him how to turn from a weapon into a human being. He also told him little by little what is good and what is evil, and let him understand how unbearable his past was.

He has killed many people, old people, children, young people, or a few, or a family of five, or the owner of a sect.Some of them have done all kinds of bad things, some have lost their virtues, and more of them just blocked the way of Yan's family or offended people of Yan's family. The crime was not worthy of death, but they were sentenced to death just like that.

In the past, he could swing the sword indifferently, but when he understood the truth, everything in the past even made him unable to pick up the sword in his hand for a while.

There was a voice in his mind persuading him: Those people were all his master wanted to kill, so what does it have to do with his knife?

How can it not matter?It was he who swung the knife, and he was the one who struck. Hot blood splashed on his face, and the wailing of those people before they died was in his ears all night long.

It wasn't until then that Mo Ran discovered that the imprint of the Yan family on him was so deep, so deep that he seemed to be in an abyss when he was bathed in the warm sunshine, so deep that he seemed to be unable to escape or leave behind for the rest of his life. clear.

No wonder his master once called him "indecisive," and he was right.

Then, he bid farewell to the nobleman who lived in seclusion, carried a sword on his back, and embarked on an aimless journey alone. On an afternoon near dusk, under the sunset glow, he walked into a teahouse.

Because it is not time to eat, there are not many people in the teahouse, sitting in the lobby in twos and threes, ordering a pot of tea, sipping slowly, listening to the storyteller invited by the teahouse, and occasionally meeting with friends or The tea friends at the next table had a chat.

The story of the storyteller is actually nothing new, it is nothing more than a foolish boy in the backcountry who was bullied and fell to his career, and got a secret book of cultivation, from then on he made great achievements and became immortal.

Everyone is immersed in the thrilling adventure of the silly boy, but Mo Ran is inexplicably concerned about an ordinary plot.

The silly boy saved a man, who used to be a killer.After waking up, the killer asked the silly boy, I have killed countless people, why did you save me?

The silly boy said, because you are not a bad person, because you don't want to die yet.

The killer asked: I am a killer, why am I not a bad guy?

The silly boy said: The beggar who was about to starve to death on the side of the road just now, you gave him your steamed stuffed bun, and you saved him.

The killer was influenced by the silly boy and became his good brother.

Can saving people become a good person?

Mo Ran gave the storyteller all the money he had, and he kept the fool's words in his heart, and he did it for decades.

For so many years, in order to alleviate the crime of killing innocent people, to escape the nightmare, and for the conscience that is ridiculously superfluous for the shadow guard, he saved one person after another, and kept sewing and patching, and finally pieced together what is now Jinnian. The bright look in his eyes.

Only he himself knows that a story is a story.He has done so much, but peeling off the outer skin of "ink dyeing", the inside is always filled with nothing but emptiness and darkness.

He has not become a good person, and still does not know the way forward.

How can a person who cannot even save himself give hope to others?

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