Chapter 20 (1/2)
Chapter 20 Man in Red
The weather had no regards for the heroes gathered at Dong Ting, seeing how gloo heavily suspended the rain in midair and it could fall down any time The damp air was chilly and there were less and less fallen leaves
There was aabout his ho drea stepped down to let Abbot Ci Mu take the reins Zhou Zishu, while hidden in the crowd, heard the young hed, ”One day I should beco Yu the Overlord of Western Chu, upon seeing E's procession, had said, ”I a his younger years also dazedly lauard leader is a worthy official title to strive for, just as Yin Lihua is a worthy maiden to wed”2 In this vast and obscure world, ouldn't want to give it their all and becoendary hero fit for the history books?
The adolescence years were always full of vitality, so it wasn't unco his teeth and clenching his fist while exclai ”One day, I should become someone like him”
Someone who had the world in his power
But what calory?
Zhou Zishu's Master passed away too soon, leaving the Si Ji Holdings in chaos with a lack of a leader Just like that, the responsibility fell on his shoulders as he is the Big Senior Brother - but howSenior Brother really do? He was barely over fifteen that year
The current E his ti3 when he was fifteen was indulging in wine and pleasure and letting the back when he was fifteen was a kid stranded in a foreign land as hostage, full of resentfulness but had no way out
That's why Liang Jiuxiao in some ways had become his only solace as they depended on each other to live on
But since when did the cracks in their relationshi+p appear?
Maybe it hen Liang Jiuxiao visited the capital for the first tily horrible conflicts between fa each other in cold blood, saw all the cris, even deaths of loyal officials—behind all of which was the Big Senior Brother who was already standing up, fiercely conde the Ghost Valley in front of all the heroes
Zhou Zishu's eyes were downcast, as if he was sleeping Not a single syllable of Liang Jiuxiao's interrogating words had once left his mind all these years
”What are you all after, really? Power? The throne? Glory and wealth?”
”Your fate will not end well if you continue down this road, please snap out of it!”
”An eye for an eye is how it is, big brother…”
An eye for an eye? Why should blood be paid back with blood while in this world there were other ways to ly and thought, Ah, Jiuxiao, we're both wrong after all
At that 's words and Zhou Zishu's train of thought The noise sounded like it belonged to a child, but was also strangely raspy There was internal force underlying Gao Chong's voice, so it was evident that this person was not your run-of-the- how they were able to cut him off
They spoke louder ”Sir Gao, how can you come to the conclusion that the Ghost Valley's behind all this just with mere words? Isn't this a little far-fetched?”
Everyone's gaze was drawn to one spot, not excluding Zhou Zishu The one who spoke up was a dwarf-likeon the shoulder of another man whose build was the complete opposite Zhou Zishu could be considered tall coe iant His hair ild and his beard was unta his dark eyes visible He carried the dith care, using his huge hands to grip the s
Weren't these ”Earth Lord”4 Feng Xiaofeng and his wishy-washy friend Gao Shannu?
Their physical attributes were too distinctive, to the point that everyone kneho they were the lint in Zhou Zishu's eyes; in fact, he harbored no bad feelings towards this Feng Xiaofeng at all If the ruraythe rules His physique ht also be the one that contributed to his stubborn and unpredictable behaviors
Except for Gao Shannu to whom he was attached at the hip, he didn't listen to anyone else In short, he was difficult
Feng Xiaofeng's voice was grating to the ears ”You're being unreasonable, Sir Gao, with your talk about those ”evil-doers” in the Ghost Valley Of course the Ghosts of Qingzhu Ridge have done a lot of despicable things—they would be decent hu rude, because with the Valley's strict rules forbidding people to leave once they enter and preventing the Ghosts fro ht at thispursed his lips, his Buddhlike face no longer s indescribable intiood while, then asked slowly ”Is that you, Brother Feng? What is your opinion then?”
Feng Xiaofeng sneered, ”Spare me all of your niceties You think I don't kno you're calling me ”Brother” on the outside but ”Dwarf” on the inside? Well this dwarf has heard soive all you jobless heroes a warning, so that you don't go and do soh to confir was definitely not theseemed to be non-existent in his vocabulary Not only was he unpleasant, others would label hi without a doubt
There hispers about how he cut off soue after they called hiue of someone who address him impolitely, and when they did show hih nut to crack
Gao Chong frowned, but as a renowned hero he had to be courteous and not try to argue with aSo he asked in a civilXiaofeng let out a cruel laugh, sounding not unlike a ? I e and Yu Tianjie's case, but do you dare say that the deaths of Zhang Yusen and the Patriarch of Tai Shan have no correlations to the Lapis Armor?”
At this, the expressions of those ere in the know changed immediately as whispers broke out Zhou Zishu took note of Gao Chong seerave expression In contrast, Monk Gu's young disciple as sitting near Gao Chong paid no attention, his posture and attitude rese beside Zhao Jing, sneaked a look at the elder He saw Zhao Jing's face turned into aelse rather scary after ”Lapis Ar question was stuck in his throat