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Keynes didn't care about Le Jing's saying that he was a monster who didn't fit in with the world. He had always been a monster in everyone's eyes since he was a child. He even thought he was a monster.

So he asked the young man curiously: "Are you a monster too?"

The young man nodded with a smile, as if he didn't notice the dagger on his neck.

"Don't you feel anything about killing people?" Keynes asked again.

The young man blinked and didn't answer his question. Instead, he asked him: "What do you think of killing people?"

There was only pure curiosity in the young man's eyes. Even when Keynes pointed a dagger at him, there was no personal emotion towards Keynes in his eyes. It was the first time Keynes met such a person.

He thought he wouldn't kill him?

No, a man who could be wanted by the whole continent would not be so naive.

So he was particularly brave and not afraid of death?

Keynes didn't think so.

While he was struggling, he found the eagerness to explore in the man's eyes.

He finally got it.

This man was not afraid of death, he was indifferent to death. He controlled the fear of death with a superior attitude.

In terms of spirit, he conquered death.

After figuring this out, an electric current spread from the coccyx to the cerebral cortex, and his pupils shrank in excitement, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

He was finally sure. This man was undoubtedly a monster.

He quickly retracted the dagger on his neck and looked at his monster companion: "Can you buy me a cup of tea?"

The young man showed a friendly smile and nodded slightly: "Of course."

So in Victor's dumbfounded eyes, the half-elf known as the murderer and his prey sat together peacefully, just chatting happily over the aroma of tea.

For some reason, after thinking that one of the protagonists was the terrible monster Le Jing, he didn't feel surprised. After all, Le Jing was the most terrible monster he had ever seen in his life. It seemed normal for such a big monster to subdue a small monster?

... Although he didn't understand how Le Jing turned enemies into friends through those few words.

After taking a sip of hot tea, Keynes finally began to answer Le Jing's question: "From childhood to adulthood, I have no special feelings about killing. For me, killing is as normal as eating and drinking, so I don't understand why humans have given so many definitions to killing. I want to kill, and I have the power to kill, so why don't I kill?"

The half-elf looked at Le Jing with confusion. He was really wondering about these things. He was not the legendary pleasure criminal who enjoyed killing, nor was he an antisocial personality, and killing would not make him feel guilty. For him, killing was just a part of his [daily life].

It can be said that Keynes was completely a type that Le Jing had never seen before.

The young man raised the corners of his lips and showed a pleasant smile, which made the black cat who had been secretly observing this side stand up in fear and almost fell flat on its face.

"In a sense, I can understand your thoughts." Le Jing took a sip of tea, and quietly looked back at the confused half-elf through the misty tea fragrance, "Would you like to hear about my past?"

Keynes put down the teacup and sat upright on the chair, "I would like to hear the details."

Le Jing chuckled and began to slowly tell his past.

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Le Jing is an ordinary person.

Or rather, he is trying to be an ordinary person as much as possible.

His grades are always average, and he also follows the doctrine of the mean in his dealings with others. He obviously has a good appearance that conforms to the social aesthetics, but he always dresses himself inconspicuously.

He will not do anything out of the ordinary because it will attract attention.

Attracting attention is what he hates most. Once he attracts attention and his inner self is explored by others, his identity as an [alien] will be completely unconcealed.

Although he doesn't care about being isolated or attacked, he doesn't mind making people pay the price for doing so. But in that case, he will probably be locked up in a mental hospital like his mother.

Although he thought his mother was a normal person, the doctor and his father said that his mother was born with an antisocial personality and was a potential criminal. So his father, who was a policeman, put his mother in a mental hospital without hesitation.

In his opinion, his mother was too careless and too stupid. Since he chose a policeman as his partner, he had to be careful to hide his abnormality. It was her own fault that her father saw her abnormality due to her negligence and put her in a mental hospital.

If it were him, he would be careful enough not to let anyone see his abnormality.

So he has always played the role of a mediocre and boring normal person.

And he has always performed perfectly under his father's surveillance and successfully deceived the psychologist into giving him a normal evaluation.

But his father's sensitivity and intuition as a policeman are not so easy to fool, and his father has never relaxed his surveillance on him. Maybe he performed too perfectly?

Fortunately, he loves reading. Whenever he immerses himself in the world of books, he can get a breathing space from his father's strict surveillance. He relies on books to study everything and improve his understanding of the world. Books are truly the greatest achievement in human history!

With the comfort of the ideal world constructed by books, he was able to survive in the real world, go to an inconspicuous university step by step, choose an ordinary major, and then become a reporter under the arrangement of his father.

How ridiculous. He is a monster who can only survive in the shadows, but he has become a journalist whose purpose is to expose the darkness of society.

Le Jing originally thought that he would have to become a night watchman of the times to support justice in the future, and for this reason he made the painful decision to abandon the golden mean. However, he soon discovered that many of his colleagues were more peaceful and self-protective than the moderation he pursued. So he immediately gave up his previous ideas and became a social veteran who just muddled along - because this is the "daily life" of mortals.

After working like this for three years, Lejing has been successfully playing his role as a passerby, working conscientiously and no one doubts him. Then because of his "outstanding" performance, the newspaper leader promoted him to editor.

It was originally going to be such a happy and satisfying plot development, but fate suddenly took a sharp turn - news came from my hometown that my parents were in a car accident and died on the spot.

To be honest, when he first heard the news, he was filled with great joy and relief beneath his dull sadness.

My parents are dead, and no one can restrain me.

He is free!

For the first time in his life, he truly felt alive.

However, the death of his parents has a Rashomon-like quality.

Because the perpetrator was his uncle's son, his cousin.

His cousin knelt in front of him and cried bitterly, saying that he didn't mean it. He mistakenly used the accelerator for the brake out of panic, which resulted in this tragedy.

His uncle and aunt's family also knelt in front of him and begged, saying that just a few days after his cousin got his driver's license, he ran a red light because he was in a hurry to visit his sick aunt in the hospital, but unexpectedly... they hoped he could forgive his cousin. .

According to the law, if the cousin did not do it intentionally, then he only violated the road traffic law and only needs to bear civil liability rather than criminal liability. Therefore, the three members of the uncle's family insisted that the cousin did not do it on purpose. Indeed, in the eyes of outsiders, my uncle's family and my own had always been in harmony, and there was no deep hatred at all. My cousin could not have committed the crime of deliberately killing his uncle and aunt.

So he smiled and forgave his cousin in a soft voice, earning his cousin's gratitude and... pride.

He narrowed his eyes and showed a harmless smile. Maybe it's because the golden mean he has always pursued is so perfect. That's why he was looked down upon by his cousin. In my cousin's perception, he has always been a submissive "daddy boy".

Although he was indeed relieved that his parents were dead, there was no doubt that he still had feelings for his parents. Although they were thin, they were enough for him to complete his so-called "revenge".

At this point, Le Jing stopped and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. Keynes thought for a moment and asked, "Did you hire a killer?"

Le Jing asked in surprise: "Why do you say that?"

Keynes answered honestly: "Because you look weak."

Le Jing laughed, shook his finger at Keynes, and warned earnestly: "There are many ways to kill people, and killing with a knife is just the lowest one."

Keynes asked unconvinced: "So what did you do?"

"It's very simple." The young man took a sip of tea casually, his voice was clear and flat, without any emotion, "I just made him a plate of uncooked rice."

Noticing Keynes' doubtful gaze, the young man explained: "This is a kind of fungus. If you eat it before it is cooked, you will suffer from vomiting, diarrhea and hallucinations, and even drowsiness."

"I told him, who was unconscious, that you were poisoned by fungi and your symptoms were relatively mild. Just drink more water and you'll be fine..." The young man smiled and said nonchalantly, "Then I fed him a glass of mad dog saliva."

He patiently educated Keynes, a medieval aboriginal, on science: "You know that if you are bitten by a mad dog, you will get mad and die, right?"

Keynes nodded in confusion.

"That's because the body fluids of mad dogs contain something called rabies virus. If this virus enters the human body, people will get the same mad disease as mad dogs."

"This virus, if carefully preserved, can survive outside the body for a week. And do you know what's the best thing?" The young man asked the half-elf enthusiastically, his black eyes showing a lighter amber color under the light. Shi Zheng was shining brightly, "The incubation period of rabies is very long, and the highest can reach 20 years. And my cousin was scratched by the family dog ​​when he was a child."

"He had not been vaccinated at that time." The young man supported his chin with his right hand, his eyes curved into beautiful crescents, "So two months later, my cousin started to feel sick, dizzy, and had numbness and itching all over his body. Then a few days later, he started to be afraid of water and afraid of water. The wind caused convulsions all over his body, and finally he was paralyzed, his respiratory and blood circulation systems failed, and he quickly fell into a coma. The whole process lasted only six days. "

"I have been by his side for the past six days." The young man said with a smile: "There are two types of rabies patients, one is completely irrational, and the other is sane throughout the whole process, and my poor expression Brother, unfortunately it’s the latter.”

Victor swallowed and cautiously joined the conversation: "In other words...?"

"He witnessed his own death soberly throughout the whole process." The young man confirmed Black Cat's idea with a smile, and then sighed, with a rather dull look in his eyes, "Since then, I have discovered that killing people is really easy. ”

Although his reason told him not to ask any more questions, Victor couldn't help but ask the young man curiously: "Do you think your cousin deliberately killed your parents? Why?"

"I was curious too. Then I found out after investigating." Le Jing curled his lips and lowered his eyes with a lack of interest: "There is no special reason, he just wants to do it."

"He is just an ordinary pleasure criminal who is happy to kill people."