Chapter 34: Memories (1/2)

Chapter 34: Memories

There was always this one scene that would appear in Luo Jian’shis childhood reenery, open fields, lush thickets

A broad view of the world gave way to a breathtaking site As the radiant sun kissed the horizon, its rays scattered through the air; streaks of criainst the pure colors of the wispy clouds, painting the skies an intense shade of red and orange The crisp evening breeze caressed his cheeks, bringing about a refreshi+ng touch And within his line of sight stood a tall and thin silhouette The figure evoked a vague sense of fa sun, Luo Jian couldn’t discern the other’s shadowed facial features clearly However, despite being unable to entleness breithin those deep, dark eyes, as the other let out a tender smile

Luo Jian just couldn’t remember him It was that sa to him, but he could never see the other’s face No matter when or where he fell asleep, he would always have this exact dream

Soon after, Luo Jian woke up When he cae cocoon of rattans He was surrounded by a cluster of entangled vines, sohtly around his entire body Unable to led to lift his head, only to lay eyes on countless chaotic vines furiously squirly, entwining around each other and creating a single grotesque entity It wasn’t long before one of the larger vines seemed to have spotted Luo Jian, and it suddenly shot forward At the tip of the vine was a carnivorous radually, it approached Luo Jian

The tree vine soon began to twist like a serpent Judging froulp Luo Jian down Feeling anxious in his heart, Luo Jian gathered all of his strength and struggled, but he couldn’t free his body froed to loosen his wrist, and taking advantage of that chance, he instantly reached for the dagger at his waist

Luo Jian had two knives in his possession One was naturally his own Unfortunately, that very knife flew frorip as a result of the sudden i him away And now, he didn’t knohere it landed The other, however, was the tang dao he had taken frorabbed happened to be Duan Li’s tang dao Luo Jian did everything he could to force the tang dao out of its scabbard, but it didn’t even budge by a centied to its master, and no one, apart from its master, had the power to use it

damn it all! Luo Jian inwardly cursed; his heart sank in his chest He couldn’t pull the knife frole step, and now there was a horrific vine right before his eyes! It couldn’t get any worse than this! The tree vine inched closer and closer to hireider and wider Just look at the sickening size of that mouth, it could just s Luo Jian’s whole body without chewing!

I have to think of a way; otherwise, I’ll really be eaten whole Luo Jian certainly didn’t want to experience death by being eaten by a tree vine He had already anticipated the worst that could ever happen to hiic death he could ever experience, but interestingly enough, he’d never considered that he would die inside one of these endless chambers In fact, he felt that he’d most likely die by his oo hands, a death by suicide

That’s right, he believed as though he’d end up taking his own life

But ould he think that? For what reason exactly did he believe he would end up co suicide? Even he hi he had It was as if this idea abruptly cut into his thoughts one day and settled into the depths of his radually devouring his heart and corrupting his soul, forever etching itself into his being, never to be crushed or removed And, in truth, Luo Jian loathed hieously keen he was…especially when it came to his sharp intuition

“That’s why I definitely won’t be dying in this sort of place, hah!” Luo Jian gritted his teeth The corners of his ht ahead as that vile vine neared his It truly was such a baffling sight to see a seely ordinary tree vine exhibit characteristics nore that a vine could have such a big row sharp teeth This made one quite curious… Just hoould the inside of this vine’s stomach look?

It was a pity that Luo Jian’s ine what this vine looked like fro to be eaten by this tree vine He gave up on the idea of trying to draw out the sword that wasn’t his He closed his eyes, when suddenly, the words of the boss echoed in his mind—

“Your weapons are a part of your body; they ans or perhaps one of your limbs, but they’re practically you You always have to bear this in mind It isn’t your weapon who’s in control of you, but you who’s in control of your weapon You must firmly believe that it is you, that you two are one Even if you discard it, abandon it, give up on it, or change it, it will always be by your side It is the very flesh that you were born with It will never leave you, unless it becoht that no one could bear to witness”

The boss was both Luo Jian’s uide for all newcoh he himself admitted to Luo Jian that he was ed to escape the small number of chambers he’s experienced, Luo Jian just couldn’t believe him After all, this slovenly dressed, unruly, drunken uncle, who looked as if he’s never once brushed that scraggly beard of his, had constantly guided hi him tons of invaluable information

“My weapon will never leave my side…is that so?”

As Luo Jiandao that was hanging at his waist, when, suddenly, an odd thought popped into hiscrossbow that 13 would hold in his hand, hoould appear out of nowhere in spite of being hidden just moht-lipped, ever-so-secretive 13 pulled out a such a large weapon froirl, 14, and her irl, she was still wearing her school uniforle trace of that whip on her body But, as if it wereonlookers to scratch their heads in bafflement as they tried to make sense of when and where it appeared

The sah he always donned a sleek black uniform that had quite a lot of pockets on it, every time he drew his blade, it was almost instantaneously; Luo Jian couldn’t see his movements at all It one witnessed this, they wouldn’t even knohere he pulled that tactical assault knife fro unrealistically s one would read about in fantasy novels?

“No, that’s wrong” Luo Jian raised his head and opened his eyes The tree vine was only a breath away now The threatening vine see with i secretions dripped fros; the putrid stench assaulted Luo Jian’s nostrils Luo Jian then narrowed his eyes and uttered:

“My knife It’s always been here”

It had never left in the first place

The vine quickly extended his head, striking fast Its huous mouth aimed for Luo Jian, and it’s intentions were clear—it planned to take a ruthlessly bite of Luo Jian Too bad it never did get to enjoy its prey’s delicious blood, because the very instant it was going to bite down, a cold glint of light flashed before the two, like a shooting star whizzing through the skies, swift, breathtaking, and ilimpse of Not even a split-second had passed before the vine let out a screech and collapsed to the ground Its entire mouth had been split into there the upper half was no longer connected to the bottom Warm blood bubbled out of the creature’s wound; its color was a beautiful shade of crih the bodies of humans

This tree vine was indeed different fro slashed in half Rather, the row back Luo Jian studied the atrocious vine before his eyes, and he wondered whether he’d cut down a vital part of those vines, possibly its ht and instead looked down at the recovered dagger in his hand It was a carbon copy of the one Xing Yan possessed, the same exact model and size Was thisto this?

As soon as Luo Jian flicked his wrist, the dagger in his hand inexplicably vanished into his palm

“Boss actually didn’t lie to me Weapons really are a part of one’s body”

However, ti on this e- violently, convulsing bizarrely Once again, Luo Jian seized his knife and stood on guard But to his surprise, the vines seean to wither, as it all of the water in its body was being sucked out of it in that very round, and soon, they all remained h the vines had already died, their re the area Luo Jian stepped on one of the reround and pried apart the thick curtain of vines with his hands Having chanced upon a path, he trudged deeper into this swathing of vines After cli for a while, Luo Jian furrowed his brows He didn’t expect the cocoon of vines to be this big Countless vines intertwined with one another; the entire area was croith these warped things Even if they had withered in one area, there were stillother areas

These vines were alive and kicking, twisting around each other right before hiht the shadows of a hazy figure sitting inside the nest of vines He was just about to ju from inside

“Luo Jian?”