Lian Wu and Shi Zhu climbed onto the horse, but Shi Zhu suddenly said to him, "You go first, meet up with my sister, and then tell her I asked her to take you to Gu You."
"What?" Lian Wu couldn't understand why Shi Zhu had suddenly changed his mind.
"Don't ask, I have my own business to do. Hurry up and take care of my sister."
Lian Wu grabbed Shi Zhu's wrist. "Tell me, what are you going to do? What is so important that you can do without your sister who loves you so much?"
"These have nothing to do with you. Get out of here. Don't you want to see Gu You again?"
"How could you not? If I wanted to see him, I'd have been killed by those bastards long ago. Why live so hard? But I didn't do that because Gu You's life went on in me and I had to help him..."
Shi Zhu interrupted Lian Wu and said, "The reason why I deceived my sister was that there was something very important to do."
"What could be more important than your sister? Tell me, maybe I can be of any help." "Lian Wu said.
Shi Zhu smiled, "I don't need your help. If you really want to help, go out of town quickly and find my sister. Friend, remember my name, Candle. Trust me, follow my sister Xuanling and you can find Gu You."
"You can't deceive me." "I said Gu You is dead and no one knows him better than I do," said Lian Wu. He died, and it was I who pushed him into the river leading to the lake of the Spirit."
"Nobody knows him better than you do?" "Shi Zhu said, his palm brushing past Lian Wu's eyes and then drawing back his waist.
Two words, engraved on the black stone, "Shi Zhu", flashed before Lian Wu's eyes.
Lian Wu was somewhat surprised, perhaps he should have known earlier that Shi Zhu was the same person as Gu You. The remnant Soul once spoke of mental power, and today Shi Zhu spoke of it too. Also, Shi Zhu knew Gu You and asked himself warily many questions before he believed him a little, as if protecting a secret about himself.
Why did you show this to me? Don't you know it's dangerous?" "Lian Wu looked around and said.
"Don't look around like a thief? Don't forget that we are now noble knights. As for why I showed you the secret, perhaps it was because I suddenly wanted to show it to someone. And around here, there's no one more familiar than you." "Shi Zhu said to Lian Wu with a smile.
"Are you with Gu You?"
"I didn't know him before, but I saw him some time ago. My sister saw him too. Gu You wasn't dead, but you almost sent him to feed Tianzhu. Fortunately, we found him."
"Not dead? But... But he..."
"Yes, his blood has been drained, but his mental power remains. Don't ask me why his mental power is not limited by his physical condition, because I can't answer such profound questions. All right, go and find my sister." The candle pulled the REINS.
The long sword slid out from Lian Wu's waist, and the blade pressed against Shi Zhu's neck. The candle was startled and spread out his right hand.
"Master, be quiet and don't move." "Now that you don't have a wand, do you want to compete with an assassin?" said Lian Wu. Alas, you've lost. My sword is just a little bit away from your life and death."
"You..." Shi Zhu felt the cold air from the blade as if it were about to freeze his throat, and his tone was stiff. "What are you doing?"
"Shi Zhu, just now you told me that you have the black Hidden Word stone and also told me that Gu You is still alive. Don't you know what I'm going to do?" Lianwu laughed uncontrollably.
"I don't understand..."
"Since Gu You is still alive, I can't let you go on the adventure alone. You may have memories of Gu You, or the ability to awaken his memories. Listen to me, or take me to do what you want to do. Or, let's go out of town right now to look for your sister."
The candle heaved a sigh of relief. "You fellow, how could you threaten a friend like this?"
"Shi Zhu, let me go with you to do what needs to be done. I will bring you back to Xuanling well, and you will awaken Gu You's memory."
"You madman." "Looking at the edge of the sword by his neck," said the candle.
Lian Wu smiled and took his sword back. "Madman, Gu You said so too. Tell me, what shall we do?"
"We..." The candle suddenly held the hilt of the waist sword and pulled upwards. Due to poor Angle control, the sword got stuck in the scabbard, which was slightly wider than the blade.
Lian Wu laughed, and Shi Zhu said, "I wanted to return it to you once."
"Return me? I think forget it. With your swordsmanship, you might just chop off my head. Tell me what you're going to do and don't let your sister worry about it outside."
The candle said helplessly, "Well, take you, this somewhat dangerous hero. I'm going to find a man, an old man."
"Old man? All over the streets." After saying this, Lianwu looked around. But dramatically, there was no ghost in the street at this time except for two crazy knights fighting around. "The church people have turned this place into a living hell to catch us," said Lian Wu, pucking his lips.
Shi Zhu said, "People have all gone into hiding. They just saw the two of us here and didn't dare to come out." The old man I'm looking for has only seen him once, and that day he was wearing a fiery red robe."
"Could you be more specific?"
"That was all I saw, but later I asked someone and heard that the old man was a high-ranking official in the church."
"High official?" said Lianwu. I don't know the ranks in the church, I don't know what the high ranks are. Oh, bishop, is that high enough?"
"Bishop? A bishop must be a very high official."
"Bishop?" "Bishop, Red robe..." Lian Wu shouted, startling the two horses, "Bishop, Red robe... Red Robe Bishop. Is the person you're looking for a Red Robe Bishop?"
"You know him?" The candle tightened the REINS and controlled the horse to be quiet.
Lian Wu looked at Shi Zhu. "The red-robed bishop has been famous in Wangshen City some time ago. Haven't you heard of it?"
"Some time ago... Oh, I wasn't here a while ago. I only got back here a few days ago. Why haven't I heard about the Red Robe Bishop now?"
"He became famous a while ago because the Knights of Light searched everywhere for the real assassin who killed him. But then the real culprit was found, so the matter died down."
"Assassinate..." The candle's face turned a little ugly. "So, is he already dead? Who killed him?"
"The Undead warrior grabbed the remnant, killed him, and then declared the remnant to be the murderer. Do you believe it?"
The candle shook its head. "So, our thread is broken again."
"Well, why on earth are you in such a hurry to find the Red Robe Bishop?"
"Because he saved me and my sister, and he seems to know a lot of things..."
A hoarse voice suddenly emerged, interrupting the candle's words: "Yes, he did save you, and he does know a lot about you. It's a pity that the dead don't speak. Of course, if you die too, you might still be able to hear him speak."
The two turned their heads and saw a soul warrior slowly approaching.
"Undead warriors, I've been looking for you for a long time." Lian Wu drew two swords. "Kill the remnant soul and frame him. Then kill Gu You, I was about to take revenge on you."
"Revenge? How funny! If it weren't for your good luck, you would have died at our hands long ago. You're injured, can you still fight? And the mage next to you, will he fight us with a sword?" "The Necromancer said contemptuously.
"How do you know I'm a mage?" Shi Zhu was somewhat surprised.
"How do I know? Of course I know." The soldier said, taking off his helmet. The face, which had been hidden in the darkness, slowly emerged from the darkness.
"It's you!" Lianwu and Shizhu shouted at the same time.
"Yes, it's me, the leader of the Undead warriors. But you already know my other identity." With a smile on his face, he said.
Lianwu knew him. The day he first met Gu You, Gu You held a black hidden character stone in his hand and wanted to go to a house with a black stone standing at the entrance to search for the mystery of his origin. Just as Lian Wu had been following Gu You all the way there, he ran over and stood in front of Gu You, calling him brother. Then he tricked the man in the house - the man in front of him - into saying that Gu You was crazy. All of this, Lian Wu still remembers.
Shi Zhu knew him because she and her sister both met this man in search of the answer to why they were here. If it weren't for the sudden arrival of the old man who asked them to leave, they might have been killed by the undead warrior. The bloodstains seen on the ground that day should have been left by their companions.
"So it was you." The candle said.
"How about one more story?" "After you left that day I began to wonder if there was any connection between the Red Robe Bishop and the Black Hidden Word Stone," said the commander. It's a pity that he soon showed a flaw. Not only did he know the black lettering stone, but he himself had one."
The candle was shocked again. Yes, he had guessed the possibility before. Otherwise, the old man wouldn't have shown the way to strangers.
"If he had been willing to tell us where you are, he would have belonged to us and spared death. It's a pity that the man is old and his mind is not sharp, and he insists on competing with us." The leader did not go on, but laughed on his own.
"So you are the real culprits, aren't you?" At last, Lian Wu understood why the Light Knights would go around making people wrongly accused as killers, and why the Undead warriors would, after killing a remnant, put the label of the real culprit on the remnant's head without evidence. Because they are the real culprits, and once the "real culprits" are exposed, no one will hold them accountable anymore.
"But I don't understand. If the man who has the black word stone is your enemy, then why hide the truth? Tell everyone that we are demons, and then you kill the Red-robed bishop, won't that be justified?" "Lian Wu said.
"Devil? You don't have that stone and you don't deserve to be a devil. The church doesn't want others to know that their vice-bishop is a devil, do you understand?"
It turns out that you bunch of bastards are really the underlings of the church in private. Under the banner of saving and cherishing all lives, it's a gang of killers." "Shi Zhu said viciously, wishing he could tear the villain before him to pieces at once. But he couldn't. The man should have some stories left to tell.
"Minions of the church? The leader laughed wildly, "I think you should say that the church is our minions. Well, you two, that's all for the story. Are you ready?"
"What's the secret in the black lettering stone?" The candle roared loudly.
"Sorry, I've said all I wanted to say. It turns out that you yourself don't know the secret about the black Word stone. If you want to hear about it, go to the other world and ask the Red-robed Bishop." The commander took a step back, raised his hands in the air, and slapped them a few times.
Lian Wu said to Shi Zhu, "Why don't you know the secret of the black Hidden word stone either?"
Looking around, Shi Zhu said, "I forgot to tell you before. I have lost my memory too. But I can guarantee that I have lost less than Gu You has lost, at least I remember my childhood."
"Did Gu You appear in your childhood?"
Shi Zhu shook his head and whispered, "It's not over yet. The Red Robe Bishop - the name in this church is so awkward - left me something before he left."
"What?" "Asked Lian Wu.
"Be careful!" The candle pressed down Lienwu's head, and a black axe flew over Lienwu's head.
On the other side of the street, dozens of dark knights sat on horseback, blocking the street.
"There are so many of them." Lianwu looked, his hand holding the sword sweating.
The leader of the Undead warriors said in the direction of the Dark Knight, "You've come at a rather inopportth time. These two men are mine. One of them killed several of my brothers."
And the other shouted, "Then take that one. The mage is mine. He killed several of my brothers today, too."
The commander of the warriors smiled lightly, and the next sentence seemed to be addressed to Lian Wu and Shi Zhu: "Are they competing with me in terms of numbers? Well, I'll have to let the hidden brother out." Having said that, he raised his hand and slapped it three times.
On the rooftops on both sides, several souls climbed down the wall. Then, a large number of people came out of the corner. Then, on the ground, several people emerged and broke the bluestone floor into pieces.
Lian Wu pointed at the last undead warrior to appear and laughed loudly, "Shi Zhu, look at them. Their heads are so hard. They even broke the hard stone floor." Then, pointing at those dead warriors, he shouted, "Hey - you guys who don't care about your lives, do your heads hurt? Do you want to fall and get some medicine?"
Shi Zhu, who had been very nervous, burst into laughter at Lian Wu's rambling.
The commander of the warriors couldn't help laughing too. He put his index and middle fingers together, the other three fingers in his palm, and waved the two together forward. The ten undead warriors who were standing in front of the formation rushed forward in an instant. The commander watched the ten black mists rush towards the two men in the Light Knight armor, as if they were about to devour their bodies like ghosts. He whispered, "Is it necessary to send so many men to kill a wounded assassin and a sorcerer without a wand?"
The black fog condensed and twisted together at the position of the two.
Lian Wu grabbed the shoulder of the candle and propped himself up on the saddle, and the two bodies rose into the air. Black fog cut each other beneath their feet, warhorses were torn to pieces, and blood splattered everywhere, making the people present feel sick. The black fog suddenly dissipated, and the figures of the undead warriors emerged, stopping and forming a circle at the feet of the dance and the candle.
The circle was filled with fragments of warhorses. Beneath the fragments was filthy blood, spreading outwards and staining the ground red.
On the Dark Knight's side, warhorses marched in unison, the sharpness of the axe shining in the light of the sky.
The Dance and the candle fell, into the bloodstain, with countless stinky drops of blood splashing beneath their feet. In an instant, ten cross slashes were simultaneously and neatly thrust from the outer edge of the ring formed by the undead warriors towards the center.
Like a black flower, the petals rolled towards the center, enveloping its food and tearing out desperate drops of blood.
Ten cross slashes, ten silver-white streaks, all stopped beside the two men at the same time. The sword and the candle seemed to be trapped in a prison of death, and with the slightest movement, the sharp blades would Pierce their skin.
Blood flows down from the feet of the undead warrior standing in a ring.
The Dark Knight formed an even larger and wider ring outside the ring, surrounding two silver-white figures, waiting for a grand death.
"Ha ha, this game is really fun to design." "Said the knight commander, throwing the axe in his hand, which flew past the candle's ear. Then there was a burst of wild laughter from the black crowd.
The sky darkened and dark clouds enveloped it. It seemed that everything was tinted black.