Shen Zicheng

I remembered all this long ago.

These fragmented, messy, and blurred pictures were once clearly placed in front of me.

When I first met July and a half.

My intuition was correct. When we first met, Qi Yue didn't have any kind intentions. He approached me with the mentality of treating me like food.

I actually did almost become food.

July and a half ate part of me, but after he flicked through my memory wantonly, he who was eating suddenly stopped.

He then laughed like a villain, and I don't know if he resonated with something in my memory, but after laughing, he gave up on eating me.

I remember him whispering something in my ear, but I can't remember exactly what it was.

In short, after that, I fell into a state of chaos because of these unpleasant memories, and those memories were also disturbed by July and a half.

So much so that I'm only now getting them back.

But in every sense it seems to be too late.

I don't have any memory of how that farce ended, although I still had a little awareness of being the subject when Ah Cheng -- er, I mean the other me dominated, but then another I was so scared that I turned it on and restarted it once, so that I also broke the film.

Just before that, I vaguely remembered that there seemed to be the unwilling roar of July and a half.

Although I don't know what the purpose of July and a half is, I reasonably speculate that he failed.

Otherwise, I should have been eaten by July and a half, or shot to death by Shen Qiao's father.

Although he now also has an expression on his face that he wants to shoot me to death.

I don't know why, but as soon as I regained consciousness, I was at Shen Qiao's house, facing Shen Qiao's father face to face.

No matter in life or after death, this man with a BOOS face is no matter how scary he looks.

But if I insist, this seems to be the first normal conversation between me and Shen Qiao's father.

If it is normal for people to talk to ghosts.

Although my... father never mentioned such a person before his death, he seems to be my father's elder brother.

Therefore, he has four points like my father, especially the frowning and angry look, which is probably the reason why I have always been afraid of him before I was alive.

Of course now I am also terrified.

After a long silence, the first sentence that Uncle Shen... said was: "I can live for two more days."

...I can't accept this.

So I quietly waited for his next words.

"In two days, Shen Qiao will become a real spiritual master." Uncle Shen didn't seem very proud of this occupation that sounded like a family inheritance.

On the contrary, it seemed a little disgusted.

After another moment of silence, Uncle Shen glanced at me and said coldly: "When Shen Nan ran away from home, I was forced to shoulder this difficult burden. I thought he would die within a few days after he escaped. He will die outside, but I didn't expect him to look like a dog."

Having said that, he stopped and sneered. "Although his family was ruined in the end, he was happy for most of his life anyway, and spent a period of time in which husband and wife loved each other and parents and children lived in harmony."

——Speaking of which, I seem to have never met Shen Qiao's mother.

I have never seen traces of this person's existence in their home.

Uncle Shen seemed to have seen through my thoughts, and there was a bit of gnashing of hatred in his words: "But that was all in exchange for my whole life! Why can Shen Nan marry a wife and have children outside? Healer, so my wife must die in childbirth, and you have to ruin my child's life with your own hands?"

The moment he obviously started to get angry, I subconsciously wanted to run back, but he quickly restrained the somewhat hideous expression on his face, and looked at me who was hesitating whether to continue running with a blank expression.

"So I hate Shen Nan, I hate him for running away from home, and I hate him for having a normal life outside." Uncle Shen stared at me as if he was sure that I would not run away, and continued in a cold tone, "I want to take revenge on him I want him to experience the separation of his wife and children."

At this moment, I guessed the real reason behind everything my father encountered that year——

"... But I didn't expect Shen Nan to collapse before I could make a move." Uncle Shen frowned again when he said this, "I just said, how can people from our lineage live smoothly? It's been so long... but I never thought that you would survive."

Okay I guessed wrong.

I also didn't think I'd survive.I muttered in my heart, but my mouth was tense, and I didn't dare to say a word.

Uncle Shen waited for a while, and seemed to give me a strange look. Seeing that I was silent, he continued to say: "Although Shen Nan ran away from home at the beginning, he is still the flesh and blood of our Shen family. You... Logically speaking, you should have some Shen family blood."

not always.

I recall some not so good memories.

For example, the Shen Nan in his mouth, because he doubted whether I was his child, was against the shadow... the memory of beating me one after another.

"So not only my child can be a spiritual master of this generation, but you are also qualified." Uncle Shen's tone slowed down a bit.

"But I'm dead." I finally mustered up the courage to say a word.

"..." Uncle Shen didn't speak for a long time, he seemed to have remembered something, and his expression was rather complicated.

After a while, he sighed, and murmured: "I didn't expect... So you weren't..." After a pause, he changed his words, "I didn't even think that Shen Qiao would..."

I guess he wanted to say how Shen Qiao fell in love with me.

I also find it amazing.

Speaking of this, Uncle Shen seemed unable to restrain his inner anger, and slammed one hand on the table, making me tremble all over in fright.

"Shen Qiao was almost killed by you!" Uncle Shen suppressed his voice, gritted his teeth and yelled out such a sentence.

I opened my mouth subconsciously, but then fell silent again.

After Uncle Shen yelled such a sentence, he leaned back on the back of the sofa as if he was exhausted, and said bitterly: "... I was almost killed by me too." After a pause, he stretched out his hand and rubbed the corner of his eyebrows , "Shen Nan probably never told you about this. He is shrewd and knows that this job is not easy to do, so he escaped early, and he didn't even leave me a chance to struggle desperately."

"Psychic master...it sounds beautiful, but in the final analysis, it is the existence of human beings and ghosts. From the moment we become a spiritual master, we are no longer living people. The so-called spiritual masters are actually all human beings. A group of immortal monsters. Sounds tempting, right? Who doesn't want to live forever?" Uncle Shen sneered a few times.

——His description made me seriously think about it, whether or not the spirit-eliminating master is a more powerful ghost.

So everyone is dead?

"But we are not ghosts." Uncle Shen glanced at me coldly, which made me feel a little guilty. "We will get sick, we will suffer, and we will grow old—it's just that we won't die. And because of us, our friends will If we are choked to death, our loved ones will be choked to death, our loved ones will be choked to death, only we, only we can't die, whether we are disabled or too old to move, even if we live in the torment of illness every day, we can't die. unless--"

Uncle Shen paused for a while, took a deep breath, and then continued slowly: "Unless the son becomes the next spiritual master."

— No wonder.

I suddenly figured it out.

"I originally thought, anyway, you are crazy too... A lunatic, it would be appropriate for a lunatic to do a job that only a lunatic is willing to do. This way... Shen Qiao can still live a normal life..." Uncle Shen said Sure enough, it didn't surprise me, "But I didn't expect Shen Qiao to come back suddenly in the year when I was ready..."

After a pause, Uncle Shen seemed to be full of remorse and said: "He should have noticed my thoughts. After finding out that you were not there, he had a big fight with me, and even ran to Ye Cheng to ask where you are. , I wanted to take you away overnight, that's why I encountered that landslide..."

That's why I will die.

I am a little hesitant.

If I hadn't died then, wouldn't I be a... dementor with a brain problem now?Does Shen Qiao no longer need to be a spirit remover who is not so much an inheritance, but a curse?

...But will Shen Qiao be happy?

Will he live a normal life because of this?

I was so bewildered.

"You died on the spot, and Shen Qiao also entered the intensive care unit. In order to keep him alive, I... I gave him half of the inheritance..." Uncle Shen covered his face with his hands, as if he felt extremely painful for his actions "He lingered on the edge of life and death for several months, and finally survived, but at the same time he became a half-spiritualist. The spiritualist... the spiritualist! To become a spiritualist, you have to see you guys every day. A messy and disgusting thing! You have to make people close to you suffer inhuman suffering! You have to...you have to let your child suffer all of this...I...I made him a half-spiritualist... "

"In order to prolong the time when Shen Qiao is regarded as the next generation of spiritual masters, I tried to avoid meeting him... who knew you... you!" Uncle Shen raised his head suddenly, took a few breaths, and finally did not pounce on him Tear me into two pieces, and just said viciously, "You said you died, so why did you show up in front of Shen Qiao? Your father ruined my life, and you want to ruin my child's life?!"

My face turned pale for a while.

Although it has always been the case.

I don't know the grievances of the previous generation.

But I did... hurt Shen Qiao.

It was I who drove him to pieces.

It was I who pushed him into the abyss of collapse.

I did it.

It's all my fault.

"Shen Qiao is not yet a real spirit exorcist, and he can't bear the pressure to get rid of you, but he is because of you, just because of you..." Uncle Shen shook his head dejectedly, "I don't know you What was done to him, when I found him, he was already on the verge of death, and even now there is no hope of surviving—unless he becomes a real necromancer."

I remembered the first words Uncle Shen said to me.

Speaking of this, Uncle Shen's expression gradually became serious, just like his appearance in my memory. "...I don't know how you know that...that thing, and I don't know why you helped him—but Shen Zicheng, I beg you, because Shen Qiao likes you so...so much, For the sake of what he has done for you, Shen Zicheng, I beg you, don't let that thing interfere with us... I don't know what will happen if the spiritual master's inheritance is taken away, but if it really happens With this matter, Shen Qiao really has no hope of surviving."

July and a half.

I looked at Uncle Shen and nodded slightly.

Even if he doesn't say it.

I also want to settle accounts with him.