Novelette Waves, Waves

The sky was overcast with clouds, and the sea in the distance was churning with huge waves.

The entire screen is rendered in a gray color.

The waves crashed against the sheer cliff, almost swallowing it.

Xu Kai slowly appeared in this scene. On the cliff not far from him, a long sword surrounded by flames was inserted deep into the cliff.

He approached the place where the sword was, and suddenly a huge gap opened in the road under his feet, and Xu Kai fell down.

It was this dream again.

Xu Kai couldn't remember clearly how many times he had this dream.

Since three years ago, he would repeat this dream every few months, dreaming of a sword in the stone stuck on a cliff.

He is a man without a past.

One night three years ago, he inexplicably appeared alone in the garbage factory in this southern town.

If the old man who burned the garbage didn't take a second look, he would have been burned with that pile of garbage a long time ago.

When the uncle found him, he was covered in blood, and his body was in tatters lying on a pile of rubbish, his breath was weak.

Seeing this, the uncle carried him back and poured him two bowls of ancestral herbal tea.

Xu Kai woke up leisurely after dawn, but forgot his past.

"Where is this? Who am I?"

"This is Qinghua Town, you are the homeless man I rescued from the garbage factory."

From then on, he became Uncle Xu's godson--Xu Kai.

Uncle Xu is not a cleaner, he is the only onmyoji in this town.

This is a world where demons and monsters coexist with humans. Wherever there are people, there are demons, and where there are demons, there are onmyojis.

In this world, Onmyoji is a state-level civil servant who enjoys state treatment and does not accept assignments designated by the state. The workplace is determined by the Onmyoji himself.

Different from other civil service positions, although this position belongs to the level of civil servants, it does not need to take the prescribed civil service examinations with other candidates. Demons and demons are eliminated, so there is only one condition to become an onmyoji, which is to pass the national blood test.

Uncle Xu was not originally from Qinghua Town.

His original name was Xu You

When Xu You was eight years old, his mother died of illness, and his father married a stepmother for him.

The stepmother was always gentle with him in front of others, but beat him severely in the queen.

Unable to bear it, Xu You finally escaped with scars on a late autumn night.

Scarred and scarred, Xu You begged all the way to Qinghua Town, and was adopted by the kind-hearted Grandma Xu.

From then on, Xu You changed his name to Xu You.

Strange to say, the situation in Qinghua Town, which has always been the hardest hit by demons, has improved a lot since Xu You came.

Qinghua Town, where every house was closed at night, gradually had pedestrians.

The residents of the small town only think that Xu You is a lucky star, and often send some delicious food to Grandma Xu's house from time to time.

An experienced old man in the town felt that the matter was not simple, and immediately informed the National Blood Center of the matter.

Soon after, two blood collection staff members from the National Blood Center came to Grandma Xu's house.

The blood test results came back within a week.

Sure enough, Xu You was born with the blood of an Onmyoji.

As soon as the news came out, all the residents of Qinghua Town cheered.

There is finally an onmyoji in Qinghua Town, and the days of fear over the past few decades are coming to an end.

In this way, the young Xu You was sent to a special onmyoji school to study. At the age of 16, he graduated early and gave up his bright future of becoming an onmyoji in the imperial capital and insisted on returning to this simple town to protect the people he wanted to protect.

At five o'clock in the morning, Xu Kai stared blankly at the ceiling with his eyes open, in a daze.

Uncle Xu's snoring in the next room kept pace with the rustling leaves outside the window.

Suddenly, the red thread of the bell hanging in the house rang.

"There are demons!"

Uncle Xu stood up straight from the bamboo bed, and skillfully picked up the mahogany sword hanging by the bed.

"Xiao Kai, get ready."

Xu Kai doesn't have the blood of an onmyoji that scares the evil spirits.

But he dances a sword well, and his ability is comparable to that of an onmyoji.

Over the years, they have also contributed a lot to maintaining the safety of Qinghua Town.

This time the evil spirits are not that big, they are zombies with little power.

Judging by the style of the shroud, it seems to be from the next county.

The whole body of this zombie is blue-purple, the nails are not long, and there is no white hair growing on its head. It only makes a whining sound. It seems that its spirituality is not yet opened, and it has not yet become a demon. It should have just turned into a corpse not long ago.

This kind of low-level zombie is too low-level, and there is no need to use yin and yang techniques to deal with it. Uncle Xu solved it with a single sword.

Uncle Xu took out a corpse talisman and dropped it on the fallen zombie. After a while, the whole zombie turned into gray powder.

Uncle Xu took out a black plastic bag and handed it to Xu Kai.

"Pack it up and send it to your Aunt Hong tomorrow as fertilizer."

Xu Kai held his breath and held the bag in one hand to pick up ashes bit by bit.

Aunt Hong, whose full name is Hong Wenjing, runs a snack bar in a small town.

When she was young, she was a famous noodle Xishi in the town. Not only was she good at making noodles, but she was also handsome, so men often came from other counties to pursue her.

But most of these people are warriors, not the type that Hong Wenjing likes.

Until one day, an elegant man in a Chinese tunic suit came to the store.

The man was handsome and elegant, and Hong Wenjing fell in love with him at first sight, and soon they fell in love.

Three months later, Hong Wenjing closed the noodle shop in the town and followed the man to live in his hometown.

Everyone said that Xi Shi married a good man with a refined temperament and found a good home.

Who would have thought that within half a year, Hong Wenjing would return to the small town alone.

It turned out that the man had a wife. He hid it from Hong Wenjing and wanted to take her home to force his wife to divorce so that he could marry her.

Hong Wenjing is not a woman who is willing to destroy other people's families. She immediately decided to break up with the man. The man begged bitterly and told Hong Wenjing that there was no relationship between him and his original partner. It was an arranged marriage, and Hong Wenjing was the woman he loved all his life. .

Hong Wenjing struggled for half a year, but she didn't want her original partner to be pregnant after half a year.

So far, she resolutely left and returned to Qinghua Town.

From then on, Hong Wenjing never thought about getting married again, until now.

Xu Kai has been in Qinghua Town for three years, and he knows in his heart how Uncle Xu has treated Aunt Hong in these three years.

He obviously likes her so much, but he always secretly takes care of her and protects her. Things that he can do by himself are always done by him.

Xu Kai sincerely suggested while loading the ashes.

"Father, you care so much about Aunt Hong, you might as well marry her."

Xu Kai thought that his father would make jokes as usual when he was told that he was on his mind, but who would have thought that Xu You answered his question positively.

"I am an onmyoji. I suffered from five disadvantages and three disadvantages. I was destined to have no wife. If I marry Aunt Hong, she will die!"

Xu Kai beat his hand holding the ashes.

"How do you know if you don't try?"

"It will be too late."

Xu You took out a wooden pipe from his arms, filled it with shredded tobacco, and held it to his mouth.

"I'm going back to bed and back to the cage, remember to send the things to Aunt Hong."

When Xu Kai arrived at Aunt Hong's shop, it happened that the noodle shop opened at seven o'clock in the morning.

The entrance of the noodle shop is already full of customers who are ready to eat noodles.

Xu Kai consciously stood behind the team.

"Have you heard that there was a demon disaster in the next county recently? In just half a month, half of the people in the county disappeared."

"What's the matter, aren't there dozens of onmyojis there? All of them are vegetarians?"

"Who knows? Lin County is not far from here, what if this spreads to our town?"

"Don't we still have Xu's father and son?"

"Just that pair of father and son? The old one is too old, and the young one has no onmyoji blood. I think we should move as soon as possible."

Xu Kai coughed.

The two people who were talking looked back, saw that it was Xu Kai, and immediately greeted him awkwardly.

"Isn't this Master Xu's godson? It's so early? Are you here to eat noodles?"

"Come to deliver the fertilizer, the zombie that the old man just turned into in the early morning."

After speaking, Xu Kai picked up the black plastic bag in his hand and shook it in front of them. The stench of dead corpses dissipated immediately. The two of them couldn't avoid it, and inhaled a big mouthful.

"Cough cough, vomit"