Three hundred and sixtieth eight chapters ups and downs
Open your eyes, it's a new day...
Not necessarily.
There is only one kind of sky in the underworld, and it is difficult to tell the morning and evening. Zong Gu wants to know the exact time.
After moving his hands, he found that he could raise his arms, so he took out his cell phone from his pocket.
“…”
The screen is dark and cannot be opened.
Even though I did nothing, so many days passed, my phone was exhausted from standby.
Turning his head, Hongzi's cell phone was placed next to him.
Hongzi, who had been awake, consciously turned off the phone early to retain the power so as not to stay in the underworld without knowing the time.
She was also lying beside him at this time, her eyes closed, her breathing calmly, and she had not yet woken up.
The two of them lie here like corpses for two days. Apart from getting up to find steamed buns and gnawing steamed buns, they did nothing most of the time, just lying down;
When he woke up, he spoke with her, and when he was in a state of decline, she also waited aside, slowly waiting for his body to return to normal state.
I don’t know if it’s because of luck or something else. Although spiritual bodies often pass by, they all turn a blind eye to the two people behind the broken wall, and at most they just take a few glances.
After all, there are all kinds of spirits in the Yellow Spring, so it is not surprising that nothing can be done.
It is precisely because of this that they can stay here forever.
Hongzi had no power to tie a chicken, and he was almost unable to move. The seven divine powers on his body fell silent after the Great Thunder God escaped. If he really encountered a malicious spirit, the two of them could only wait for death.
.
Turning his head and looking at Hongzi for a while, Zong Gu moved his arm, picked up her cell phone with some difficulty, turned it on and looked at the time.
"Is it six o'clock in the morning..."
The battery life of the phone was about 60%. There was no signal here, so naturally there was no news. Zong Gu quickly turned off the phone again.
Putting his phone back and looking at the void above his head, he became stunned again.
Today is the eighth day of falling into the underworld.
About an hour or two later, Hongzi also woke up.
After waking up, she dared to get closer to him, although even if he pressed Zong Gu in his sleep, he would not say anything.
"Good morning...is it morning now?"
Hongzi picked up her phone and was about to open it and take a look at the time. Zong Gu said that at around seven or eight o'clock, she did not turn on the phone, but looked at her face at the screen.
"I haven't washed my face and hair for eight days..."
"I've been two years..."
“——Ah, I don’t want to listen.”
Putting down her phone, she said again: "Do you want to sit up?"
"Well... I seem to be able to get up by myself."
Zong Gu said, slowly straightening his waist and supporting the ground with his arms on both sides. Although it was still a little painful, he still sat up successfully.
"Look...why are you crying?"
“Hey…”
Hongzi sat beside him and watched, stunned for a moment, wiped the foundation of her eyes, and then she found that her fingertips were a little wet.
"No, that... I just feel a little moved."
She wiped two more hands quickly and continued, "It's great. In two days, Zong Gu will be able to return to normal."
"Probably not that fast, but not too long."
His legs were weak and he still couldn't stand up. He moved to the side and leaned against the broken wall.
"Do you want to eat?"
"Um."
Hongzi went to the side to get two steamed buns and divided them into one.
He can eat by himself now, and she doesn't need to tear it off and feed it piece by piece.
“How is it?”
"Great." Zong Gu opened his eyes and said lies, "It was soaked with the fragrant sweat of the young girl, like the dew given by God, which made people want to lick it completely first before they could bear to eat it."
"……abnormal."
He bite it down, "This will make me less resistant to eating."
Hongzi muttered again, "It's even more perverted" and took a bite.
Huangquan’s steamed buns are not made of starch, and they will not taste anything if they are chewed ten thousand times. They are so boring that she can’t find anything similar to it for analogy.
"What does earth taste like..."
"It's the taste of earth."
"Where is the sand."
“The smell of sand.”
"What does this steamed bun taste like?"
"Whatever you have to say is the smell of air."
That is, it has no taste.
After eating the tasteless breakfast, Zong Gu lay down and Hongzi walked around for a little while.
She didn't dare to run too far, and soon returned to him, holding a pile of steamed buns in her arms.
"What are you doing."
"No, that... I was thinking, if there was no new steamed buns suddenly appear, then what should Zong Gu and I eat... so I wanted to save some first."
"Unless the underworld is destroyed, this day will never happen."
Zong Gu looked at her and the steamed buns in her arms, "and they can't save them."
"Why?"
"Just like wild vegetables in the countryside, they will wither if they are picked and left without eating them. The same is true for the food in the underworld... but in form it is not "withering", but returning to the original source, that is, re-decomposing it into the power of the underworld. Time is also
Faster.”
"Yeah……"
Hongzi piled the steamed buns on the ground, lay down beside him, staring at him.
"Isn't it tired to stare at it like this?"
"tired."
"Then change the way you can feel it once it changes."
"What……"
Zong Gu pointed to the ground under each other's heads, "as pillows are placed."
Hongzi hesitated a little, "Isn't it good to treat food like this..."
"I don't really understand what you, the person who puts a bunch of steamed buns on the ground, are saying."
She curled her lips, then took action, and used steamed buns to pile up a double-layer pillow for Zong Gu and herself.
"It's quite soft... I feel an inexplicable sense of guilt."
"It's all done by Hongzi, it has nothing to do with me."
She turned her head and glared at him, "Then let the gods punish me."
“…”
After hearing her mention of the gods, Zong Gu suddenly fell silent.
Although he quickly recovered as before, Hongzi still noticed his emotional changes.
"What's wrong?"
He wanted to say nothing, but when he spoke, he stopped hiding: "I am just waiting for the gods to save me and Hongzi."
“…”
Hongzi also remained silent for a while, "Sir Yuedu?"
"No, it's Lord Yuedu's mother."
"Mr. Yuedu's mother...isn't he without a mother?" Since she learned about Yuedu's actual identity, she has privately studied the parts related to him in the myth - although it was finished in a few minutes.
"There is a nominal mother," said Soya, "that is, Lord Yoon-senami."
"Is that god who created Japan?"
"Well. She is also the master of this Huangquan Ghost Country."
"Yeah……"
Looking at the void above his head, Hongzi let out a long breath.
"Please come and save me and Zonggu, Lord Yin Xie."
Zong Gu didn't say anything more, and she fell silent.
When you wait in a daze, your emotions always rise and fall, and the turning point is often just an unintentional word or a trivial thought that suddenly appears.
When at a high place, the two can talk and laugh like they were still in the world, and turn a blind eye to the current embarrassment;
When they fell to the trough, they didn't want to speak for a long time. They each had the darkest negative thoughts and were secretly sad.
Time flows silently and silently, without any trace.
Picking up the phone that turned off the phone, Zong Gu paused for a while, and then put it down again.
"Don't you open it?"
"No need." He looked at Hongzi with a depressed look, "Is it okay?"
“…”
She didn't say anything, just shook her head.
"I want to hold you."
He raised his gaze and looked at him, Hongzi moved his body and lay with him.
Just the simple action of getting up sideways made Zong Gu grin in pain and it took him a long time to recover.
"It doesn't matter..."
Hongzi stared at his face for a while, and saw him shaking his head, then slowly hugged his body and pressed his face against his chest.
"Zonggu."
"Um."
"Are we really still alive?"
"It should be."
The severe pain made his voice weak and firm.
"The pain makes me feel alive."
Hongzi hugged her tighter, "Only by holding Zong Gu like this, can I believe that everything in front of me is real, not a dream."
"At least I'm real." Zong Gu lowered his head and stroked her back.
The two hugged each other tightly, hugging each other speechlessly until the steamed buns under their heads suddenly dissipated and hit the ground together.
"pain……"
Hongzi rubbed her head, sat up immediately, and touched the place where the steamed bun disappeared.
"It's really gone." She grabbed the air in front of her and "completely disappeared."
"It's not completely gone..." Although it can't be seen or touched, Zong Gu could feel the power of the yellow spring around his head suddenly becoming stronger.
"There is 'growing' over there again." Hongzi looked at a nearby piece of broken wall. The steamed buns on it were originally taken away by her, but now they reappeared.
"Anyway, don't worry about the food being finished," Soya said.
"Okay. Do you still want a pillow?"
"Forget it, it hurts a lot when my head suddenly hits."
Hongzi didn't go to collect steamed buns anymore and lay down next to him.
"Songgu seems to have been awake much longer today."
"Well, my head is not so drowsy. I want to be with Hongzi, too."
"Not forced?"
"Don't worry."
And Zong Gu's awakening lasted all day.
It was not until around 10 o'clock in the evening that he felt a little sleepy as usual.
"Zonggu's body is gradually returning to normal..."
"Um."
With the extreme state of chasing the Eight Thunder Gods seven or eight days ago, Zong Gu felt that it was not surprising that he died on the spot, but he still survived. This is no longer an explanation for the strong will to survive.
Eighty-most because of this special physique, he thought that the power of the underworld that nourishes his body at all times was also indelible.
He was dying and resurrected, and he had calmly accepted the fact that he was not a normal person.
And now, he is not the only living citizen of the Huangquan Kingdom - there is also a red son.
This is probably not entirely a bad thing, and Sonoya thought again.
At least in the underworld, they will never be starved to death. Even if they are a little injured, they can recover quickly with the help of the power of the underworld.
But they won't stay in the underworld all the time.
As his body recovered a little, Zong Gu's confidence also increased.
Even if Emperor Ju didn't come to rescue him in the end, he still had many things he hadn't tried, so he might not be able to escape.
"I will definitely find a way to take Hongzi away from here."
"Hey... well, I believe in Sonoya."
"When we return to the world, Hongzi will wear Tongye's amulet, so that the daughter of Huangquan will not be able to detect your existence."
"Where is Sonoya?"
He opened his hand and a dark green magma appeared on the palm of his hand, "I have this."
After being in a coma for five days and being awake, he found that the effect of the eight-foot Qiong Queuyu shielding spiritual consciousness was also restored.
Recalling that Chao Wuling had mentioned before that the eight-foot Qiong Gouyu needed the power of the Huangquan to drive it, he couldn't help but guess that perhaps it was because the power of the Huangquan inside Gouyu was consumed that it suddenly failed.
It's just that the timing is too coincidental...
It’s impossible that Yuedu or Juicyong secretly turned off the effect of blocking spiritual enlightenment by blocking the eight-foot Qiong Gouyu?
This thought suddenly popped up in his mind, and Zong Gu shook his head again, thinking that it was impossible.
He could not think of a reason for them to do so.
"Eight-foot Qiong Gouyu..."
Hongzi picked up Gouyu, played with it in her hand for a while, and then took out the mirror of the true scriptures in her pocket.
"I can't believe that the three real artifacts are two in my hands."
Zong Gu looked at the two things in her hand and said, "If you are lucky, you may be able to see the third artifact in the underworld."
"Tiancongyun Sword?"
"Well, the Tiancongyun Sword was also left in the underworld." He paused for a moment, bringing hope for what he had just mentioned casually, "I wish I could pick it up."
When he was in a coma, Hongzi only cared about his back, and the samurai sword that had been broken twice was nowhere to be seen.
Without weapons, he always feels unsafe.
I have to get a weapon with me...
However, this is something that he can only consider after his body has fully recovered.
Putting down the gueju and bronze mirror, Hongzi stood up and stood behind the broken wall and looked into the distance.
"Even if I don't hold the mirror of the true scriptures, I can see the spirit body now."
“…”
She lowered her head, "Is it because I ate Huangquan's food?"
"Um."
"The same goes after you go out?"
Zong Gu thought for a while and nodded.
"Then I am a spiritual enlightened person now?" Hongzi asked again.
"This is not the same thing. Hongzi just became 'visible'."
"All right."
It was like that when you saw too much spirits, most of them looked not much different from ordinary people. They were nothing more intense than those of ordinary people. They were nothing more intense than those of the fierce ones, and the negative ones became more negative. After standing for a while, she sat down again.
Putting away the bronze mirror, Hongzi asked, "Does Zong Gu want to lie down?"
Zong Gu nodded, then said, "I can lie down myself."
"oh."
Hongzi was happy for him, but also felt a little disappointed in her heart: as his body gradually recovered, he became less dependent on her.
Of course she hopes that he can get rid of the pain as soon as possible, but selfishness is inevitable.
Although she always talks about what to do after leaving here, in her heart, she still thinks more about another extreme possibility: what should she do if she can't get out in this life?
Do you have to stay in the underworld until you are 70 years old and 80 years old?
The land is everywhere, and there is nothing. The only thing that is worthy of gratitude is that he is still with him - no Qian, no Guan Yuan's senior sister, no Ling, only him and her.
She could only rely on him, and likewise, the only person he could rely on and touch was her.
But is that all she wants?
In the world, her parents, sister and best friends are waiting for her, and her life has just begun...
"What's wrong?"
"fine……"
Zong Gu moved his body and lay down next to him.
Hongzi also lay down beside him, looking at the void.
"I was wondering...what should I do if neither Zonggu nor me can go out."
"Don't talk about topics like this that make people unable to sleep."
"If you can't sleep, you can't sleep. Anyway, there's time now."
"I will do everything possible to get Hongzi and me back to the world," said Zong Gu.
"Yeah." Her head tilted, and she leaned on his shoulder, "I believe in Sonoya. I just... think about it casually."
"If you really can't leave..."
He also followed her words "think about it casually", "For the remaining decades, I will probably take Hongzi and walk around the underworld as much as possible."
"Will you marry me?"
"Of course." Soya smiled, "Although there is no church or shrine here, Hongko will become my only wife. We will give birth to countless children and fill the whole fountain."
“…”
She blushed a little, and because of the nonsense in the second half of his sentence, she raised her hand to pinch him, and when she fell, she just grabbed his arm.
"Two are enough...one boy and one girl."
"Sorry, I'm not ready to be a father. I'm just a high school student myself."
"He appeared, the man who left the mess in the late night drama is handsome, fickle, and irresponsible. It's all in line with the image of Sonogu."
Zong Gu smiled.
"I won't give up on Hongzi."
She was silent for a while, then let out a long breath, her head leaning toward the other side.
"It's just because Zong Gu has no choice now that he chose me. If he could return to the world, Zong Gu would still choose Guan Yuan's senior sister."
"Of course I will choose Kyoko," Soya said, "but I won't let Aoko go."
"Saying this kind of thing again..."
He held her hand, "Because I've been seriously considering this since the day I told Hongzi."
“…”
"I am such a man who obeys desires and is greedy, but even if I know that I am such a person, Hongzi still can't give up on me, right?"
She didn't say anything.
"I can't give up anybody between you and Akane, either."
When he heard him mention Akane Kirino, Hongko immediately pursed her lips and turned her back to him.
"I'm sleepy."
Behind him, the only sound of his deep breathing was the sound of him.
She still had no sleepiness after lying with her back to her silent for more than half an hour.
Turning around again, he closed his eyes, as if he was asleep.
After looking at him for a while, Hongzi slowly approached again and leaned on his shoulder.
"I don't know if I can see them again now... I can't lie to me before I go back."
"I don't want to deceive Hongzi."
“…”
Zong Gu opened his eyes, supported his trembling arms, and sat up.
"It will be no good for each other when you deceive yourself at this time." He paused, "What's more, I will definitely take Hongzi away from here."
Even if he goes to "eat people", he will take her out of the underworld.