Chapter 159 - Last straw

In the treatment room.

A man in a strong black suit and a slender figure stood beside Gu Mang's bed.

He was holding a sword in his hand. The blade of the sword was still stained with blood, and red blood beads fell down one by one. But Gu Mang sat on the bed watching the man slowly approach across the translucent fog gauze curtain.

Maybe it was because of the stimulation of his life experience, Gu Mang didn't have much expression on his face. He just stared at the unexpected guest with a kind of cold numbness.

Suddenly Gu Mang said, "Why kill Murong Lian?"

The man in black paused for a moment. "How do you know it was me?"

Gu Mang stared at him. "Liaoguo hardened me like a wolf beast. I have a wolf beast's intuition."

The man in black said, "I see..."

"So why kill him?" Gu Mang said.

In fact, he did not expect that this person could answer, but the man in black slowly stopped. Then the muffled voice came out from behind his black mask.

"You are mistaken. Murong Lian was indeed killed by my hand, but I didn't want to kill him. I was only entrusted by others."

"..."

"But I know why he was killed by those who wanted to kill him," the man in black said. "Murong Lian knew too many secrets. If it were me, I would not let him live in this world."

Gu Mang asked again, "What about me? Why do you come after a week to kill me?"

"You are still mistaken. I'm not going to kill you at all."

Gu Mang stared at the sword dripping with blood and said, "That's really persuasive."

The man in black stroked the blade and said with a smile, "If I can, I really want to take your life directly. End it cleanly. It's just a pity that it's not that easy."

"You go into a quiet room deep in the palace where no one is, and taking care of someone's head suddenly isn't easy?"

The man in black smiled a little. "As expected, Murong Lian knew too much, and you know too little." But he didn't seem to want to explain anything more to Gu Mang. After all, the emperor of Chonghua's palace was full of experts. Even if his body techniques were good enough, if he dragged on for a long time and someone came to rescue, he would not be allowed to escape smoothly.

So he said, "I'm here today to tell you a secret you couldn't understand before."

Gu Mang narrowed his eyes slightly.

He guessed more or less what the visitor meant.

According to Liaoguo's Guoshi, his body was like a container full of tiny cracks. As long as the stimulus was carried to a certain extent, he would collapse completely and become a corpse devoured by the black demonic breath. He did not intend to kill him, but intended to tell him some secrets. Obviously, he intended to stimulate his mind again and destroy his heart.

Gu Mang sat up straight, a pair of blue eyes fixed on the other.

It wasn't that easy.

Rumors, Murong Lian's serious injury, Aunt Lin's identity, his lineage… So many winds and waves had hit him. His memory was indeed a mess. He was falling apart, but at least he could maintain his consciousness.

He knew that once swallowed by the black demon, the situation would be out of control. So he would not fall into the abyss. But what other secret could defeat him?

In such a short moment, there were countless guesses in his mind, and those guesses became the armor he put on for himself in advance - he thought that no matter what the other side said, he would not be more stimulated.

Until the man in black said two words to him.

"Heavenly oath."

Before Gu Mang could reflect the meaning of these four words, the instinct of the beast made his brain buzz, and his blood flow became cold unconsciously.

The blue lake-like eyes were slightly opened, and he could feel that the city defense he built and the armor he put on would be destroyed by these four words. He knew intuitively that he should try his best not to listen to it any more, but just like a moth would be attracted by a fire, knowing that it would die, he also murmured, "What?"

"Have you never thought about why the emperor let Mo Xi take over your remaining soldiers?" The words of the man in black stabbed into Gu Mang's eardrum like a sharp needle. "In those days, the emperor intended for him to take over the red feather army. Why do you think that the purest aristocrat like him would eventually he will become the commander of your northern army?"

The chill came out of his chest.

The man in black said, "Because of the heavenly oath."

Like a thunderbolt, his insides all burned.

"Just after you stabbed him personally, he knelt for three days and three nights in front of Jinluan hall, dragging his sick body to plead for the rest of the soldiers to the emperor of Chonghua," the man in black said slowly. "He was so arrogant, then he stepped into the mud for a while. He used to speak for you in front of the nobles, court, and military forces, to defend you. What was the last exchange? It was your stab to the heart!"

"Do you know how many people in Chonghua laughed at him at that time?"

"He had many enemies, and those nobles who could not ordinarily compare with him came out to ridicule him. They said that he didn't know you clearly, that he was bewildered, and even that you becoming a traitor of the state was caused by his untimely awareness. They felt that if he could have recognized you earlier, those innocent people would not have died in vain."

"They blamed him and placed the defeat on his head. On the one hand, they criticized his family, on the other hand, it was your abandonment of him. On the one hand, there was his hatred for you as a traitor, on the other hand, there was your long-standing friendship." The man in black spat out every word clearly. Hate could be turned into sharp needle. Every needle pierced Gu Mang's soul.

"Did you think you were the only one who was suffering? When you were in hell, he was just as dead in the cracks. The difference is that when you went to hell, you still knew what you went for, but he was in the middle of nowhere. All you did was hide from him, make choices for him, and ignore his true feelings. Gu Mang... "

The voice between the lips and teeth of the man in black seemed to be steeped in poison.

"You forced him."

Gu Mang, as if stung by a snake or a scorpion, suddenly shrank to the deep part of the curtain. His face was as white as paper.

"You would not tell him anything and covered his eyes. You were afraid that his retention would shake your determination, so you sent him to the border selfishly - yes, you were determined to refuse, but you didn't even give a chance for him to say goodbye to you!"

"No... No... " Gu Mang held his head and shrank to the bottom of the mattress.

"No..."

"Why not? How about not? Gu Mang, you put out his faith, dignity, and light. Just because you thought that he would follow the way you arranged and live a life of peace. Why were you so headstrong!"

It was so painful that he cracked his head. Gu Mang, a trapped animal, curled up in a bow, and spoke in a low voice.

"Not so… I don't want him to..."

"You don't want that. This is already the case," the man in black said, almost ridiculing. "Because of your concealment, the emperor could take the lives of thirty thousand remaining soldiers to threaten you for the second time. The first time was to make you an agent, the second time was to make you an insurgent."

"Heavenly oath" the man in black said to him with malice.

"For a man who thought he had left him forever, your Xihe Jun has reduced his life span by ten years, and has made a pledge not to betray his majesty or Chonghua."

"Gu Mang, I don't know if he told you all this when you were grieving for him?"

A clear sentence.

But it was like a tan whip beating on Gu Mang's body, which made him shiver all over. His blue and white lips trembled.

I don't know if he told you all this…

At present, it seemed that the handsome face with dark features appeared again. When the long eyelashes fell, they covered everything his eyes possessed.

Mo Xi put his hand on his forehead and said to him in a low voice, "Shixiong, it's ok. It's all over. We have a lifetime to live."

He braved the risk of breaking his spirit core and found out the truth of Gu Mang's treason. He swam to the shore with Gu Mang, heard Gu Mang's pain, understood Gu Mang's sadness and promised to bear it with him no matter what happened next.

Only Mo Xi didn't show him his own wounds.

He didn't tell Gu Mang that their whole life was no longer complete. Ten years had become an oath to protect Gu Mang's remaining soldiers without his knowledge.

"Do you know what the funniest thing is?"

The man in black saw the agony of Gu Mang, who was on the verge of collapse. He took a step forward, his eyes full of malice.

"The funniest thing, Gu Mang, is that his oath was made in vain. You and the emperor promised good things in the future, but made him into a fool who didn't know anything and couldn't sleep all night. In fact, even if he didn't make this oath, would the emperor really embarrass your remaining soldiers? No."

He gurgled out his venom and stabbed it into Gu Mang's bones and muscles.

His victory was in hand. From his expression, he could see how confused and broken Gu Mang's mood was now.

He was like a spider waving eight claws, pacing from the carefully woven cobweb to the prey trapped in the web. The last blow struck down——

"You had a brilliant plan, and your first calculation was him. Gu Mang, if I were a relative who loved Mo Xi, my greatest wish would be that he never met you in

this life."

It seemed that the porcelain surface chipped into finely ground pieces, making a disturbing breaking sound.

"It was you who killed him."

As if the bowstring were broken, Gu Mang howled painfully. He smashed his forehead against the mattresses. His back was arched, his fingers were buried in his hair, and his throat was full of animal cries.

A heavenly oath.

Heavenly oath!!!

The wind of the school yard from many years seemed to rise again. The birch branches were rustling, and the young boy, quiet and exquisite, held zongzi under the tree and nibbled at it. He noticed his eyes and looked at him quietly.

Those black eyes that couldn't be stained with dirt.

That young man he thought was as rare as jade when he first saw him… And after everything, he had became the first fallen chess piece on the chessboard. And all this time, he didn't know it.

"Xihe Jun, Wangshu Jun, Lu Zhanxing… Gu Mang, you think the sacrifices of these people has nothing to do with you. You are wrong. When you become an agent and planned for your justice, they all became your chess pieces. You will always… Don't try remove yourself."

With these words, the man in black put a narrow jade slip, which held a recording of Mo Xi's vow of the past, in front of Gu Mang.

He looked out quietly.

He knew that he could not stay any longer. He had felt a strong spiritual force coming in the direction of the quiet room. He had to leave now.

But he was confident. He knew that it was very difficult for Gu Mang to bear the blow. Besides, he managed to steal the jade slips which recorded the cruel past and give them to this man who was on the verge of collapse.

The man in black said in a low voice, "If you don't believe what I said, this slip can't be faked. Have a good look at how miserable the wrong decision you made forced him to be."

He sheathed his sword. Before Mo Xi arrived, his poisonous energy swam up the eaves, and soon disappeared.

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