Chapter 4 Circles and Verticals

The capital of Qianzhou, the city of Qianzhou.

This is a large city with hundreds of thousands of people, and in the evening, the lights are weaving, the pedestrians are dense, and it is very lively.

There are many entrances in the heart of the city, but compared to other places, it is very quiet.

The quietest street, two different styles of mansions facing each other, forming a stark contrast.

The vermilion top door of the house gate on the left, the tiger's head swallows the mouth, the width is more than ten meters, and it is very magnificent. On both sides of the Pingguang stone steps, there are two mighty stone tigers that do the shape of pounce, strong and vigorous, as if they want to kill the domineering of evil ghosts, vividly. Four tall guards in bright and heavy armor, standing quietly with guns, solemn and mighty, at a glance, they knew that they were from the army, standing in front of the door, and naturally felt that the killing atmosphere was coming, pressing people almost suffocated, this is the state governor's mansion.

On the opposite side is also a vermilion door, but it is only three meters wide, and there is nothing but a dismounting stone, which is extraordinarily simple in comparison. If it weren't for the word "state guard" on the door plaque, it would be hard to imagine that this was actually the state guard residence of the Son of Heaven who guarded Qianzhou and ruled tens of millions of people, and only the state lieutenant could compare with it in the entire Qianzhou.

The most famous and largest room in the Prefecture Shoufu is the study of the Prefecture Shouyue Zhong, with a collection of more than 10,000 volumes, and even the famous houses of various universities will often come to borrow them.

At this moment, there is only one person in the study, reading by candle in front of Chen Se's desk, his white temples are over his shoulders, and the rest of his beard is black, which looks a little strange, looking like he is past middle age, and his eyebrows can be imagined that he was once a romantic scribe. But now that he was studying, even if no one was around, he sat upright with his back straight, and his expression was solemn and serious, like an old pedant.

He is the governor of Qianzhou, Yue Zhong.

It is rare to be free, he holds a volume of "Tongyi Annotations" in his hand and reads it word by word. He flipped through the book for schoolchildren thousands of times, and every time he read it, he was about to take notes to write down a new understanding, when he was suddenly stunned, got up and opened the window, and looked into the distance with a shocked face.

"This, this is!"

There shouldn't be anything in the world that could shock him, but what he saw in front of him, Yue Zhong had only heard of it, but it was the first time he had encountered it in this life. His eyes swelled with silver aura, and he saw that hundreds of miles away in the north, in the originally dark night sky, a purple-gold pillar of air suddenly appeared and stood tall in the sky, in which the phantom of the five-clawed golden dragon was faintly visible, wrapped in crimson, the golden dragon seemed to be roaring and struggling, but it was still inevitable that the body was engulfed by the red mist and quickly died.

This scene, which was invisible to mortals, shocked him to see it.

"There are people who dare to burn the holy decree, aren't they afraid of punishing the Nine Clans? This push and order, it is really an eventful autumn, and even such a big rebellion has come out!" Yue Zhong anxiously stepped back and forth, becoming more and more unable to suppress the fire in his heart, "Be bold, be bold! If this happens under my rule, how much will I be implicated! If I seek death, I have to implicate myself!"

"That's the ...... Come on, send someone to Liu'an County quickly!"

In Liu'an County, the Liu family next door is surnamed Gu, an old neighbor of more than ten years, three generations in the same house, and they are gathering at the same table to enjoy the joy of family. Lao Gu held his grandson and teased, suddenly sniffled, and wondered, "Why does it smell of burnt?"

When the Gu family's daughter-in-law heard this, the taste changed, and she said unnaturally: "The slave family didn't stew the vegetables this time......

Lao Gu didn't say a word, threw down the child and rushed out of the courtyard, looking at the Liu family's sky-high fire and stunned. The family that followed was also dumbfounded.

"Quick, put out the fire!"

"But this," the rest of the people looked at each other, but they hesitated, and the Gu family's daughter-in-law boldly reminded: "This is the ...... of General Liu's family."

"It's all long hair and short knowledge!" Old Gu was furious for a while, and scolded angrily: "We don't care about his family's affairs, but this fire is about to burn our family!"

Only then did everyone wake up and hurriedly fetch water and scatter ashes.

Several families around were also in a hurry, each trying to prevent the fire from spreading to their homes, but no one wanted to save the fire of the Liu family, and no one wanted to save the people in the fire of the Liu family.

"The Liu family really doesn't know what bad luck they have gone, this fire is down, I'm afraid it's completely over......"

On the main street in Liu'an County, the smoke in the north corner caused a commotion among pedestrians, "I haven't seen such a big fire for several years!"

"I hope the yamen will come quickly, otherwise how many houses will have to be burned and how many people will die?"

There was a lot of discussion, and an old man who was walking quickly in the crowd was blocked by more and more people who stopped to watch, and a strong uneasiness suddenly appeared in his heart, and he also turned his head to look, and suddenly stood on the spot.

"In that direction, don't disturb the young master!" Uncle He couldn't care about his own business anymore, turned around and strode towards home.

The fire was raging, the smoke was billowing and the heat was pressing, and the study was charred everywhere. Among them was a small, huddled figure, his clothes and hair already charred, and his flesh creaking. burned the holy decree, but it was just a matter of dying early and dying late, although he was sober for a while, he didn't bother to toss anymore, Liu Heng didn't regret it, but there were many things, and he couldn't figure it out when he arrived.

He struggled less and less, his burning brow fixed on an expression of extreme pain, and finally he let out a long breath of turbidity, as if he was the last question of the world before he died.

"Why, what, ......"

In his short life, he did not do evil for the sake of treachery, but lived cautiously, striving to chase hope and change, just to live a better life, is this also wrong? If this is also wrong, then everyone is wrong, why is he the only one to be punished? If it is right, why should he be deprived of all hope?

Until death, he didn't understand.

Airplanes!

It was like a bell chime chirping softly, very abruptly in the crackling fire everywhere, and a green light suddenly flew up, hovering above Liu Hengjiao's corpse, like the light and shadow of an open scroll.

Why?

Liu Heng's questioning before his death seemed to sound again, the green light was bright, and it was particularly dazzling in this hot world that was so red and twisted, and it seemed that the fire was getting brighter and brighter. The scroll was densely packed with words, square, and extremely beautiful, but no one knew what was written.

Why?

Airplanes!!

The humming sound became more and more sharp, and the nearly 1,000 words of the scroll, each word suddenly exploded, becoming thousands of tiny vertical and circle, like the runes of immortals, mysterious and fine, forming something that no one could know.

Why?

Airplanes!!!

A vertical, suddenly beating into a circle, this is like a beginning, all the runes beat rapidly, moving back and forth between the vertical and the circle, every moment, it seems to show some kind of huge and complex content like a vast ocean.

This strange light and shadow suddenly froze at a certain moment, and the green light exploded!

The violent explosion, the green light like mist, instantly enveloped the entire Liu'an County, and violently spread farther away, how spectacular!

In the green mist, the anxious He Bo put on a posture of rushing into the door at the door, but he retreated step by step. The water spilled by the Gu family's daughter-in-law turned into a crystal streamer in mid-air, and then retracted in the wooden barrel.

The fire contracted rapidly, and the scorched bones in the study gave birth to muscles, viscera, membranes, and hair!

Boom!

With the sound of his heart beating again, Liu Heng got up, one by one the bookshelves were erected from the fire, and the volumes of books flew back to the bookshelves by themselves, continuing to list them neatly. The big fire, the small fire, turned into a flame, and the candle flame flew into Liu Heng's hand and put it back on the desk.

Even the Holy Decree appeared out of thin air!

Time is actually reversing!

How terrifying and weird is it to come back from the dead and turn things around?

And what kind of miraculous power makes such a miracle happen?

Liu Heng, who fell on the desk, clenched the holy decree tightly, and fell asleep with a mouthful of wine, as if nothing had happened, he was just drunk. There was only a vague scream, a little green light on his forehead, and he disappeared at first glance.

The pedestrians on the street continued to play, and Uncle He paused in the bustling crowd and shook his head suspiciously, "Why am I in a trance?"

He turned his head to look home, there were a few lights dotted in the night, nothing unusual, so he laughed at himself: "I'm really old, I'm a little uneasy, I have to go home quickly when I'm done." ”

Ordinary figures blend into the crowd and can no longer be found.

The neighbor Gu family is still happy in the courtyard, as if nothing has happened.

Hundreds of miles away, the door of Yue Zhong's study, the state capital, was slammed open.

"Old man......"

Yue Zhongchao frowned at the two subordinates who rushed in, and said unhappily: "Even the rules I set dare to disrespect, who gave you the courage?"

He didn't speak loudly, but the two subordinates were so frightened that their faces turned white, and they fell to their knees and confessed their mistakes repeatedly.

"I'll go to my wife to get the punishment later. Yue Zhong looked at the scroll and said casually, "Let's talk about it first, what is the big thing that happened?"

As soon as he heard this, the slightly thin subordinate on the left immediately collapsed to the ground, and the tall and black one on the right was also trembling.

The two of them were struggling before rushing in, because the master had rules, when he was in the study, no one was allowed to disturb him if there was no major matter of the sky falling, otherwise it would be handed over to the lady to deal with. And Madame's methods, no one who has suffered is not afraid, and those who have not suffered are the same.

But when they heard the old man greeting, they had to come in again, and now the old man suddenly changed his face, which really made the two of them bitter and unable to speak, so they could only kowtow and beg for mercy.

"What's going on?" but seeing that the two reckless subordinates didn't speak for a long time, Yue Zhong was a little angry and aggravated, "Let's talk about things first......!"

The tall and black subordinate trembled, and hurriedly explained: "We were on duty outside, but we heard the master shouting in the house, for fear that something would happen to the master, we, we will ......"

"Huh?" Yue Zhong's gaze finally withdrew from the scroll, and he looked surprised when he heard this, "I shouted someone in the house? I was obviously reading a book, when did I say this?"

He looked at the two of them intently, and saw that both of them were full of grievances, and they were about to cry, not like they were cheating, and the suspicion in his heart became heavier and heavier.

"Yue Hun, you are the most honest, you tell me, what do you hear me shouting?"

"I heard that the old man seemed to be in a big fire just now, and shouted that someone was coming, and I quickly sent someone to Liu'an County, and we rushed in. “

"Send someone to Liu'an County?" Yue Zhong saw that the other person was also nodding again and again, only to feel like a fantasy, and his surprise was beyond measure, and he couldn't help frowning and pondering.

With his cultivation, it is difficult to have anything in the world that can affect him without his knowledge, and even change his memory, he clearly remembers that he is reviewing "Tongyi Note", and he has not moved, let alone angry and yelling, are the two of them lying?

This may be the largest, but ...... Why bother?

It is difficult to deceive him, a strong man who guards thousands of people for the Son of Heaven, especially because they have no reason to do so! Knowing the fate of trespassing in the study, still doing this is like deliberately looking for death, and the two of them are together?

If what the two said was true, who framed them?

Any movement around a hundred meters is impossible to escape his perception, and if he wants to frame two subordinates, the ability of the mastermind behind the scenes is simply superfluous, and it is impossible.

Rather, it seems that I was in a trance for a while while I was in the middle of the book?

After pondering for a while, he said lightly: "Okay, let's go down." ”

"Yes!" The two of them, who had been worried for a long time, got up and retreated, and were about to go out, just about to breathe a sigh of relief, but they heard a sentence fluttering from behind the desk, "Family law is inevitable, remember to go to Mrs. to receive the punishment." ”

The two subordinates immediately cried and mourned, and secretly said that they still didn't escape from this unwarranted disaster tonight.

"Strange, strange......"

After the door was closed, Yue Zhong was still thinking about it.

No one lies, and he doesn't know anything about it, it's ...... Amazing!

Strange to say, the strange ability of the strange Bamboo Roll Phantom to go back in time was only enough to affect a city, and it couldn't take care of the Taishou Mansion hundreds of miles away. But from the time Taishou Yue Zhong called people to the two subordinates rushing into the door, there was only a short time apart, but it was as strong as Taishou Yue Zhong was actually affected, and such a monstrous disaster as "the holy decree was burned" was completely forgotten in a blink of an eye!

It's as if the people, things and even people's memories related to this fire have been quietly erased by an inexplicable force, and even the dignified Taishou is not spared, which shows the power of this miraculous power!

"Dreams, illusions, what a miracle!"

After thinking for a long time, Yue Zhong smiled open-mindedly and wrote, "No wonder the teacher admires rare confusion, there are many strange things in the world, mediocre people are ignorant, and even I am not exempt from vulgarity." Such a strange thing is obviously beyond my ability to explore, so naturally I can only be 'rare and confused'. The teacher's current realm, through this strange thing, finally let me get a glimpse, and it is also a strange fate, worth remembering!"

"As for 'quickly send someone to Liu'an County'......" Yue Zhong lifted his pen for a moment, frowning and groaning.