【Original God】I am looking for the flesh and blood of love in time and space

The girl could tell at a glance that something was wrong with the wanderer these days.

It was obvious that he was the kind of person who wanted to stick together after they met, but he went out early and came back late during the period when the girl was recuperating. One night, the girl even vaguely sensed his arrival in her sleep.

There seemed to be a slight smell of blood at the tip of her nose. But when she saw the homeless man by the bed the next day, he looked fine again, and the girl thought it was just her illusion.

"I'm leaving now. I'll come find you when the little ghost wakes up."

"Ah," the girl laughed as she drank the porridge cooked by the homeless man, "How come Xiaocha has become a little surveillance camera...what are you doing?"

"Of course I have my own things to do. Miss Savior, do you really want me to be around you all day?"

The wanderer snorted lightly, obviously still brooding over the quarrel a few days ago. His words were a bit unpleasant to the ear, but he subconsciously softened his tone, fearing that the listeners would take his angry words seriously.

Like a kitten that looks fierce but is actually timid.

"Aren't you going to spend some time with Xiaocha today?"

The girl put the bowl aside:

"He will be going to Liyue with Immortal Xun Gui Na Qi tomorrow. If we don't spend a good day together today, we might regret it, right?"

Pity?

Indeed, they separated this time, and unless they met specially, it would be difficult for them to meet again.

Seeing the wanderer was obviously shaken, the girl curled her eyes:

"No matter what you are busy with, always leave some time for your own 'life'."

"no need."

The wanderer spoke in a hurry, as if he was deliberately denying or avoiding something. Even after he finished speaking, he did not give the girl any time to persuade him further and left quickly.

"……what?"

The girl rubbed the back of her head.

It's rare to see a homeless person looking like this - there's something strange about it.

There must be something weird.

The girl thought about it and lifted the white quilt of the hospital. Just as her feet touched her shoes, she found two furry little heads popping out of the door.

A child's head and a kitten's head.

"what."

The girl put on her shoes slowly and calmly:

"I was caught by two small surveillance cameras."

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Life - enjoying life, no matter how you think about it, has little to do with him.

Memories of sin, sadness, hatred—the killing, betrayal, confusion...

The closer you get to happiness, the more these things become like wildfires in the wilderness, licking towards the big tree in the center little by little.

Then it burned him and devoured him.

He kicked away the corpse of the monster in front of him and looked at the thing in front of him, which was huge, hard, and looked like congestion, but it was completely inconsistent with his understanding.

Tsk...it's gotten bigger again.

He discovered this thing by accident.

This place is in an underwater cave in a certain sea area of ​​Inazuma. If he hadn't killed monsters along the way, he would never have found it.

The wanderer raised his hand and touched the purple-black, rough shell.

It felt like the touch of a tree trunk that had been dead for many years - or rather, the extremely rough skin of an old man.

If it was a normal heat, at most he would think it was something similar to siltation - and the wanderer had always had some vague connection to the earth veins, so when he got close to this thing, he could hear some strange sounds in his mind, but they were so vague that they couldn't form any sentences, as if a very poor quality speaker was attached to the wall, playing drums mixed with human voices, making his head swell.

He confirmed one thing almost immediately.

She must not be allowed to get near here.

He had read something similar in the girl's memory.

The girl called it——

"cocoon".

"Wow!"

An arrow came at the wanderer from behind at an extremely fast speed. He dodged it by turning his head and drew a wind blade with his backhand. The next second, the hillbilly man was silenced by the arrow.

"Tsk."

Perhaps due to the influence of the "cocoon", he could feel that his senses had become noticeably dulled, and he couldn't even easily dodge attacks of this magnitude. There was a shallow scratch on his face, and two beads of blood were oozing out.

Feeling a slight numbing pain on his face, the noise in his head became louder and seemed to be clearer, making it almost impossible for the wanderer to concentrate on studying this thing. He stared at that thing with an extremely strong desire to destroy it.

It was like Pandora's blind box, tempting him that as long as he broke it, he would be able to release some incredible things.

It is stirring up the darkness at the very edge of light.

"Damn it."

The wanderer stretched out his hand to support the stone wall. Even if he shook his head twice, he could not get rid of the sounds that were becoming clearer but still noisy.

In the chaotic background, one word was amplified and magnified, and finally, it even occupied his brain faintly -

"Kill, kill, kill."

In a corner that he hadn't noticed, the arrow fell to the ground, covered with some purple-black powder.

And on the outer shell of the "cocoon", a thick purple color slowly flowed down.

-

"Hmm? So, he's been fighting monsters lately?"

The girl propped her head up, thinking of the smell of blood that night, and nodded.

Zhai Xia Cha was holding the bamboo hat in his arms. The bamboo hat seemed to feel a little hot. It shook its ears, jumped out of Zhai Xia Cha's arms, and nestled on the tiles at the foot of the bed. Then it was attracted by the sheets hanging from the girl's bed and stretched out its two front paws to tease them.

The girl smiled and pulled the quilt, then continued:

"So suddenly...did he tell you why?"

Zhaixiacha tilted his head and thought for a while, then frowned:

"He seemed to be saying that the more monsters there are, the more silt there will be...?"

As he spoke, Zhaixiacha rubbed his head a little irritably:

"He didn't tell me that much, but the general idea is that as long as there are fewer monsters, the spread of the congestion will slow down, and my sister will feel more at ease."

Monsters...are they related to siltation?

He never mentioned it to himself.

However, there was nothing to be shocked about when he heard this news. After all, there were many people in the Institute who were researching strange things. He could ask about it when he came back.

"By the way, Xiaocha."

The girl smiled mysteriously, spread her hands towards Zhaixiacha, and motioned him to put his hands up.

"W-Want to hold hands?"

"Hmm (three times)."

The girl held the hand that Zhaixiacha had placed in her palm, turned it over, gently folded her hands together, and spoke softly with a smile:

“It’s a surprise.”

My palms felt slightly cold, and something heavy seemed to be weighing down my skin.

The girl pulled her hands apart, and in Zhai Xiacha's hands were two small heads. The outer layer was transparent, and the inside had snow-white patterns that looked like ice that had been through thousands of years.

One is a child's head, and the other is a kitten's head.