Cooking in the Monster Shelter

Chapter 109 Forsaken Nursery Rhymes (17)

Lin Hao and Lu Yinge reached an agreement and immediately went to the castle to find Mingchuan.

The appearance of this dream is very different from the previous day. Not only has the season turned into a cold winter, but the originally deserted and quiet streets have no idea when houses have been vacated, like gray and heavy giants standing on both sides.

Lu Yinge’s expression was complicated, and he rarely appeared contemplative, frowning and walking forward. Concubine Lin raised her eyes and glanced at him, and asked curiously, “What’s the matter?”

“Ming Chuan…”

He gave a low “tsk” and rubbed his hair in annoyance: “He was such an introverted child, but he must have suffered a lot when he has become like this. We, we just left him like this-ah ah too Too much!”

“What can be done? Don’t you go to investigate the Linguang Orphanage and stay in your dreams?” Lin Yu kicked a stone on the side of the road, lowered her head and responded softly, “Not to mention that we can’t leave and leave. It was decided that if you want to help Mingchuan escape from here, you can only continue to advance the timeline and find the truth behind it.”

The two were speechless all the way, relying on the road in memory to arrive in front of the castle. Strange to say, the streets are crowded with people, and finally there is a bit of vibrant people, but this building is still lonely and gloomy, even more lifeless than when they saw it last time.

The carved flowers on the outer wall are condensed with blade-like icicles, like the sharp teeth of canine teeth; apparently there has been no cleaning in the courtyard for a long time, the withered flowers are turned into ashes, the rhizomes become long gray lines, the fragrance disappear , Only the smell of corrupt soil enveloped it; the castle gate and yard were unguarded, and compared with the streets outside the gate, it looked like a cold, dark dead city.

“How do I feel that this place is a little more terrifying than before.” Lu Yinge took a breath, and exhaled white smoke when he spoke. “It seems that Mingchuan’s architectural aesthetic is not good.”

Concubine Lin glared at him. Before he could respond, he heard a whisper in surprise: “Hey, the two over there! Outsiders are not allowed in the castle. If you don’t want to die, just come out!”

——A middle-aged man with a surprised face stood outside the courtyard gate. He seemed to have just passed by here, his left leg kept moving forward but stagnated in the air: “Are you foreigners? Under our king. After giving orders, if anyone breaks into the castle without authorization, there is only one dead end.”

“Thank you.” Concubine Lin smiled at him slightly, “We are friends of the king, and he will not hurt us.”

“Friends? Take care, then-don’t blame me for not reminding, the one who lives in the castle doesn’t blink, it’s terrible…”

The man looked at them suspiciously, turned and walked in another direction, whispering to himself followed the winter breeze into Lin Ma’s ears, “It’s really strange, so gloomy and terrifying people will have friends?”

“Then,” Lu Yinge frowned tighter, “Shall we go in?”

Concubine Lin nodded: “Go in.”

After entering the castle, the annoying cold wind finally stopped. Lu Yinge glanced at Concubine Lin speechlessly, but the furry arm that hugged her arm did not come down.

The internal structure and impression of the castle did not change much. Before they were taken all the way to the end by Natalia, so they didn’t know the whole structure of the building. Lin Hui looked around and spoke in a very low voice: “It seems that I can only search slowly one by one.”

Lu Yinge thoughtfully: “I have a way.”

Seeing the little girl around him raising his eyebrows, the young man smiled triumphantly from the corner of his mouth: “You think, although the magic mirror is broken, haven’t its fragments talked to you before? As long as you can find the magic mirror, I will be able to ask about Mingchuan’s whereabouts.”

And they happened to know, and only knew where the magic mirror was hiding.

The two hit it off immediately and followed the memory to ascend the spiral staircase. The reception room was also empty. When Lin Yan used the master key to open the secret room door, he heard a very familiar creak.

The door of the room was slowly pushed open, and the dim light poured into the small space in front of them like flowing water. When they saw the scene in front of them, Lin Hao and Lu Yinge couldn’t help but be stunned.

Without the huge magic mirror standing on the ground as imagined, only a neat and simple wooden table was placed in the center of the room.

In the center of the round table, a brass-colored lamp pot stands alone.

That is Aladdin’s magic lamp.

“Strange,” Lu Yinge stepped forward, picked up the magic lamp and held it in his hand, “How can this thing appear here?”

“Mingchuan put it.”

Lin Ma followed him into the small house and brushed the mouth of the magic lamp with her finger as before. This is the way to summon the lamp god. As expected, the white smoke slowly rises in the sunlight and gathers into a tall and sturdy man.

“Aren’t you today—Huh? Why are you?”

The Djinn came out lazily, and made a very low voice impatiently. When he saw the two of them, he was suddenly excited and almost broke the voice: “You you, who are you? You obviously don’t exist!”

Lu Yinge looked at him disgustingly: “What do you mean?”

“Um, this…” Deng Shen took a step back visibly, “Since you disappeared, the kid has started looking for me all over the world. When I saw me again, he only said one wish.”

He paused for a second while talking, then explained with a dry smile: “He wants to see you.”

Lu Yinge’s body shook.

“Every time after satisfying the three wishes of mankind, I will disappear and go to another place, waiting to be discovered by other destined people. Although he found me for the second time, because the number of wishes was reset, he naturally got it again. It’s a chance to make a wish.” At this point, the man swallowed, “So I plan to help him find you! But, why even if I use all my power, there is no way for him to meet you? Why? …My power will show that you don’t exist at all?”

Concubine Lin lowered her eyelashes: “He only made this wish from beginning to end?”

“correct.”

The lamp **** swayed around and looked extremely resentful: “You two are really too much! To leave without saying a word and leave the child here alone. You must not know it, Mingchuan wakes up every day The first thing he did was to come to this hut and make a wish to meet you over and over again—but it never came true. Even an outsider like me can’t bear to look at him.”

The answer to him was a dead silence, the darkness swallowed the little daylight, and the silence and darkness grew wantonly, and no one spoke anymore.

It was Concubine Lin who broke the deadlock. She seemed a little frustrated, and her voice was low: “Have you ever seen a boy who looks exactly like Mingchuan?”

She was asking about shadows.

“It looks exactly the same as him? Ah, you mean the fierce and rude brat?” Deng Shen didn’t understand why she asked about this, showing a puzzled look, “Although he looks exactly the same, he is exactly Mingchuan’s. The opposite.”

Lu Yinge couldn’t wait to ask: “Where is he now?”

“How do I know? That guy only appeared once. But it’s really strange to say that since he appeared, Ming Chuan’s whole person has become more and more strange, completely different from usual. Although it sounds incredible, but I I always feel that maybe Mingchuan is possessed by that kid and he can’t say no–”

Halfway through his words, he suddenly shut his mouth in embarrassment.

A slender figure appeared at the door, and the dark shadow was dragged by the light to grow into a long one. Lin Hao and Lu Yinge looked back at the same time and saw a familiar but unfamiliar face.

As seen in the confinement room of the orphanage, Mingchuan has grown up a lot. He is still very thin, and looks slender and tall even in a heavy winter coat. The once gentle and ignorant expression has completely disappeared, and now only the gloomy indifference and cruelty are shrouded on his face.

“Are you Mingchuan…or his shadow?”

Lu Yinge gritted his teeth, his eyes flashed, and he secretly clenched his fists.

“Mingchuan?”

The man turned his head, and a sneer sneered from the corner of his mouth, reminiscent of the ice and snow freezing on the window lattice: “You said that waste, he has been killed by me.”

The atmosphere beside him suddenly solidified, sharp wolf claws emerged from his fingertips uncontrollably, and the young man gritted his teeth and let out a low growl, his eyes burning.

“Are you angry? Both you and him should thank me. If it weren’t for me, that guy wouldn’t know how many more times he would be killed—”

Before he finished his words, he saw Lu Yinge swiping his paws and pounced, Lin Jia held the young man down, and said in a low voice, “I’m coming.”

“Sister.” The cold smile in his eyes was even worse, and the boy bent his eyes. “It was you who left him silently first. What will happen to that guy afterwards? It has nothing to do with you? But ah, if so If you can die here today, waiting for me to bury the three of you together will be regarded as fulfilling one of his dreams.”

Concubine Lin didn’t know what she was thinking, she raised her eyes and glanced at him quickly: “Come on.”

She moved swiftly and swiftly, and the young man who had the same appearance as Ming Chuan sneered and took out a knife from her arms.

Concubine Lin had spare energy. Although she also had a knife, she didn’t seem to use it to attack. Although the young man had not been trained, his movements carried a ruthless will of death. The two struggled, and a stalemate actually formed.

Even Lin Hao didn’t know why she was at the disadvantaged side.

Lu Yinge frowned secretly.

He knew that the woman’s strength was more than that, but he didn’t understand her intention to hide her true level deliberately. He knew Lin Hao’s strength clearly, and now it seemed that she not only slowed down her movements twice, but she didn’t make any aggressive gestures at all, just avoiding and defensively.

It is natural to be able to release the water so that the opponent can’t see it at all, and there is really no one.

She dodges lightly and swings the knife again and again, suddenly her expression stunned, and her figure suddenly stops–

Because the opponent’s offensive was too swift, she didn’t have to dodge, and the dagger was about to pierce her profile.

“Hey, what are you doing!”

Lu Yinge finally couldn’t bear it, and was about to rush forward to help her, but he did not expect to see even more incredible scenes.

The young man holding the dagger seemed to be more nervous than him, his body suddenly stagnated, his arms suspended in the air.

It was also at this moment that Concubine Lin changed her constantly defensive posture, raised her hand to hold the opponent’s arm and twisted it violently. Although the strength is not great, the sudden pain is enough to make him drop the dagger and be pressed against the wall.

The boy gritted his teeth and closed his eyes resignedly.

Predictably, the sharp stabbing pain did not cut the throat. Instead, it was the clanging sound of a sharp object falling on the ground.

—— Lin Concubine lost the dagger.

The young man raised his head hastily and blankly, facing the sight of Concubine Shang Lin’s close at hand. She didn’t smile, her eyes contained endless chaotic blackness like the vast starry sky. When she met him without a word, her compassionate eyes were soft as water.

He heard Concubine Lin speak in a deep voice, and in a categorical and clear tone, he said gently one by one: “You are the real Mingchuan, right?”

The moment he heard these words, the raging red tide quickly occupied the boy’s eye sockets. His back stiffened subconsciously, and he squeezed a pale sneer from deep in his throat: “What nonsense are you talking about? How could I be that useless——”

“You obviously can kill me in one fell swoop, but you stopped at the most critical moment,” she still maintained the posture of holding Mingchuan on the wall, looking up at him, “Although she claimed to want to put us to death, But judging from the unruly offensive, it is clear that I want to kill myself… May I ask you what you are doing? Mr. Shadow.”

She bit the last four words very clearly, and the boy gritted his teeth and avoided her gaze in embarrassment.

No wonder Lin Hao’s movements have always been methodical, but at that moment there was an unimaginable mistake. It seems that there is only one reasonable explanation for the pause of a few seconds.

He seemed to have lost the strength of his whole body, and the murderous aura that had enveloped him disappeared: “You… pretend that you made a mistake to deceive me?”

“We have seen the Djinn.”

Lin Yan answered the wrong question, raised her hand to wipe the blood on Mingchuan’s side face, leaving a touch of mild heat when her fingertips ran across her cheek, making the latter subconsciously hold her breath: “He told us what you wish you made every day… I’m sorry.”

In the final analysis, she and Lu Yinge also have a considerable part of the responsibility for the reason why Mingchuan became what it is now.

He was helpless in the orphanage. After entering the dream, he finally experienced the gentleness and protection that he had never had before, but the two of them left without saying goodbye time and time again, leaving the boy alone to face the unknown and murderous. The world—even if their original intention was not to let Mingchuan know that he had died a long time ago, but this way of giving hope back and forth, and disappearing without warning, would indeed cause great harm to his psychology.

If he had never seen light, he could have endured the boundless darkness. But once you have the experience of being in the sun, when you return to the dim **** that you used to be used to, you will definitely feel uncomfortable and go crazy.

What’s more, he is so lonely, except for the lonely shadow, no one wants to be by his side.

In order to survive, Mingchuan can only abandon his weakness and pity, and force himself to become another person completely opposite to the past. When he swung his sword to kill the monster that had abused/killed himself time and time again, when he passed the forest path where the three of them walked together countless times, when he held the magic lamp every night and spoke softly. , Made a wish with extremely pious and strong emotions, hoping for years when they reappeared day by day——

At that time, what was Mingchuan thinking in his mind?

“I, I am not…” The young man lowered his head embarrassedly, and exhausted all his strength to endure the surging choking, but his eyes were hot and hot, “I am not him.”

“Sorry, I didn’t expect things to turn out like this. I didn’t want to make you sad when I concealed things that would suddenly disappear. I didn’t expect it to be like this.” Lin Hao put down his right hand that was pressed against the wall.” Why conceal your true identity?”

Tears finally poured out uncontrollably, Ming Chuan bit her lower lip tightly, trying to keep herself from crying. His mind was filled with hot air, and his face and eyes were flushed red.

He couldn’t speak, and he couldn’t tell Concubine Lin himself the reason for the inexplicable ——

In fact, he didn’t have too many twists and turns or conspiracy, he just didn’t want to see Lin Hao and Lu Yinge showing disappointed or fearful eyes at him.

Since entering the orphanage, he has become an insulator of family and friendship. The children in the yard are all in danger, and everyone is always in a panic that cannot escape. In addition, he is extremely shy and introverted, and there are few close friends around him. It wasn’t until I met them that Mingchuan realized the feeling of being cared and guarded for a long time, and finally he was able to temporarily let go of his gloom, like all normal grown up children, showing a shy but happy smile.

The three of them spent only a few days together, but for Ming Chuan, they were memories that he would never forget in his life, and in his eyes, the two of them were also irreplaceable and the most important people.

In just a few years, he was grown from a thin boy who was slaughtered to a tyrant above all monsters. Everything has become too much, only Lin Yan and Lu Yinge are still the same as before.

Once they find that their former partners have become so cruel, they will definitely feel disappointed from the bottom of their hearts.

Mingchuan looked forward to their return day after day, but when he really looked at Lin Hao, when Lu Yinge asked “Are you Mingchuan or a shadow?”, he realized that he was already totally different-tyrannical, cruel and hideous.

He was afraid to see them in such a despicable manner.

Therefore, the young man was careful to hide his identity, even if he would be treated as a shadow and killed mercilessly. For him, what is more terrifying than death is the only one who cherishes his eyes with disgust.

Ming Chuan was trembling like a small beast in his throat. He seemed to have a lot of things to say in his mind, but he didn’t seem to be able to say anything. After a long silence, he struggled to tell her, “Don’t …Don’t look at me, please.”

Lu Yinge walked forward quietly, and looked at Concubine Lin at a loss.

His mouth was clumsy and straight. He didn’t know what to say to comfort him at this moment. He could only awkwardly raised his hand and gently rubbed the young man’s fluffy black hair.

Concubine Lin probably guessed what Mingchuan was thinking, and sighed silently. When she spoke again, her voice was softer than before: “If it’s really uncomfortable, just cry.”

“I, I make a wish to the lamp **** every day, hoping to see you again, over and over again, and never stopped.” Perhaps the nerve was pricked by this sentence, the young man finally sobbed and whispered, his tone of voice There is no complaint or resentment, full of grievances, “but you never showed up…not even for a short second. Why, why don’t you come to see me?”

“This is not something we can decide, sorry.”

He was finally willing to speak, Lin Lin’s tense consciousness relaxed a little, and he quietly breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart: “But please believe that our starting point is to help you. One day, Lu Yinge and I will take you away from here. ”

Ming Chuan took a deep breath, tears still falling down. The boy’s cheeks were completely covered with blush, and the pupils covered with bloodshot eyes were filled with soft water. His voice seemed to be wet with tears, and it appeared soft: “Why do you…know it is me?”

“Didn’t I tell you? As long as you are Mingchuan, no matter what you become, even if you become a cruel beast, we will recognize you and save you from the curse. Not to mention—”

Lin Yu smiled lightly, wiped off the teardrops rolling on Mingchuan’s face, her tone was soft as a falling snowflake: “You haven’t changed from before. You’re not a beast, you’ve never been.”

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