Qizi

No picture had ever shocked Yingfeng so much that he stared at the person in front of him for a long time, forgetting the reason why he was called him in the first place, but Ling Xiao didn't see him speak after waiting for a long time , Take the initiative to ask: "What do you want me to do?"

Yingfeng didn't realize his abnormality yet, so he asked:

"why are you laughing?"

"Did I laugh?" Ling Xiao touched the corner of his mouth, as if he really did, "I don't know why, but as soon as I entered here, I felt very peaceful in my heart, and I couldn't help it."

"That is the power of God. God will calm our souls. Everyone who walks into the church will be infected by God's grace."

A voice slowly sounded from the other side of the church. The two looked at each other, and saw a man dressed as a priest coming out of the narrow door on one side.Tianxiu people can't tell the age when they reach adulthood, but the experience in this person's eyes can make people conclude that he has gone through many years in this life, and the years have deposited invisible traces on his unchanged appearance.

He came over and looked at the two of them carefully, "You are both here for the first time, is there anything you need help with?"

"Oh," Ling Xiao quickly handed over the brochure in his hand, "I'm from Bikong, our principal wants me to bring this brochure to Ling Xing, saying it's his relic."

The pastor probably hadn't heard anyone mention this name for a long time, and he froze when he heard it, and took a long time to pick it up.

He turned to the first page and found a familiar face among the faces with blank eyes and numb expressions.

"Yes, this is his graduation yearbook. I heard him mention it once. He said he wanted to pick it up, but he always failed to do it because of some things. I didn't expect someone to send it over after such a long time."

He raised his head and looked at Ling Xiao, but he didn't seem to be looking at him, "I think the first time I saw him back then, he was standing where you are now. At that time, his condition was very bad. None of them can illuminate the shadow in his heart, although he is alive, he is like a walking ghost."

"At that time, he had already dropped out of school. I saw that he had nowhere to go, so I stayed here and taught him God's will. It was God who pulled him back from the brink of life, and he became more and more alive every day. , not only walked out of the past by himself, but even helped many suffering people get rid of the haze, and won people's admiration."

"If I have to say I have any regrets, it's probably because that incident had too much impact on him, which made him unable to accept the coming-of-age ceremony, and refused to become an adult after 80 years of infancy."

Ling Xiao quietly glanced at Yingfeng, and he listened very seriously.

"Can we go and see where he lived?"

The pastor closed the booklet, "Come with me."

Ling Xiao and Yingfeng followed the pastor through the narrow door just now and entered the church.

"His bedroom is very small, because we are full of energy, and we don't need too much material to be satisfied." After speaking, he pushed open a door, and a room that really looked small appeared in front of the two of them.

But although the room is small, it is filled with all kinds of things in an orderly manner, making people feel neither shabby nor crowded.

"I clean it regularly, so the room is very clean, you can sit wherever you want."

Ling Xiao looked around the room. There was a bunk bed, a double desk and two chairs, which almost occupied the entire space. Other than that, there were bookshelves carved out of the wall, which were full of books.

"You live together?" he asked curiously.

"Oh no," the pastor followed his gaze to the bunk bed, "my room is not here."

"Then he has other roommates?"

The pastor slowly touched the edge of the upper bunk, "This bed was added later, and a very special person lived here."

"Special people?"

"Yes," said the pastor, "Ling Xing raised a lone star."

"Lone Star?" Ling Xiao didn't know what this meant.

Yingfeng, who hadn't spoken since entering the room, picked up the topic, "Lone Star is an extremely rare mental illness. People called Lone Star will show an atavistic personality without human emotions. Not to mention being unable to empathize with others. Therefore, in their spiritual world, there is no sympathy or pity, only obedience, as long as they receive orders, even if the opponent is a person who has no resistance, they can kill without hesitation."

"On average, one person with this kind of emotional deficiency will appear every 500 years. In the same 500 years, the Tiangu star will move to the extension line of Tianzhu star and Zhiyang. The three stars are three points and one line, so people use Tiangu star The Lone Star has no ability to love. When they awaken, they will find the strongest person to kill in their young state, gain the ability of the other party at once, and grow into the most terrifying fighting machine. There have been A lone star, one person destroyed a small country in Linxing, and it was only after that time that the country began to realize the power of this defective personality."

The pastor nodded appreciatively, "You're right. According to legend, in ancient times, the Tianxiu people behaved like this for a period of time. We were all lone stars in the past. Later, when we all evolved, the lone star became a true star." The Lone Star. After the Lone Star wakes up, he will slaughter his own kind, and no school can take him in. The military should have taken over, but Ling Xing thinks that the training of the military will make him more ruthless, so the church came forward to make an agreement to keep him. It was brought down by Ling Xing until it was awakened, and then handed over to the military department."

"Maybe you don't understand what real upbringing means. Religion in Tianxiu belongs to a completely foreign civilization. In order to learn God's will, I have overcome the pull of my soul and visited many surrounding planets. In their social structure, every A baby is raised by their family and taught them to do everything in a way that doesn't happen in our species."

"But Ling Xing did it. As a baby, he raised another baby meticulously, taught him what is right, what is wrong, what is allowed and what is not allowed, and taught him How to think with the feelings of a normal person also teaches him to understand the feelings of others, among the Tianxiu people who can never understand family affection, they live like the elders and younger generations in a real family."

The pastor looked up, "The books you see are all found by Ling Xing to help him learn human culture. He said that Lone Star will never understand human feelings, but at least he can learn human rules through books. In his Under the influence, that person developed the habit of reading, and if he didn’t understand anything, he would go to the book to find the answer.”

Ling Xiao's eyes fell on the bookshelf, and then moved down to the desk. He seemed to see two people sitting at the desk with their backs to him. One was reciting the words in the book line by line for the other, and the other asked questions from time to time. Something, the man stopped to explain to him.

"When you came in just now, you must have seen the flowers and plants in the yard. Those seeds were also brought back by Ling Xing from various planets. According to the agreement between the church and the military, Lone Star must go out with the army at least once a year, so that as soon as possible Learn fighting skills. In addition, Lone Star does not have soul traction, and often travels to the stars alone. Ling Xing wants him to bring back local seeds every time he goes. The planet is not only resources and killing, but also such beautiful life exists."

"Then why was Ling Xing executed later?" Ling Xiao couldn't understand more and more, if Ling Xing was really as good as the pastor said, why was he sentenced to death again?

The pastor looked serious, "That year, I set off to Linxing to learn the teachings as usual. When I came back, the two of them had disappeared, and I couldn't find them by any means."

"The church believed that this matter was related to the military department, but the military refused to admit it. It was not until the news that the military department ordered the secret assassination of Ling Xing came out. Under the pressure of the people, the military announced that there was no assassination, but the death penalty."

"But he's still a baby." Ling Xiao still remembered this matter firmly, "Didn't it mean that when the baby dies, his soul will be scattered?"

"That's right," the pastor suddenly became a little indignant, "so the law does not allow the immature death penalty, but the military only said that he was no longer an immature when he was executed, but they couldn't give any evidence that Ling Xing was an adult. The refusal to disclose the identity of the person who made the contract has intensified the conflict between the church and the military to the apex, and it has remained unresolved for so many years."

"What about Lone Star who was raised by him?"

"I don't know. He disappeared completely with Ling Xing. We never got any news about him again. It is likely that he was hidden by the military as a secret weapon. Now we don't know which planet he is fighting on." He was filled with righteous indignation Said, "They have always been like this. War is the only meaning of their existence. One day God will punish them for what they have done."

Ling Xiao and Ying Feng looked at each other, "I heard that he committed treason, what did he do?"

The priest's mood gradually eased, "He stole a seed."

"seed?"

"The tree species of the tree of souls."

Ling Xiao remembered the tree of souls he saw at the base, "Why did he steal the tree seed?"

"In fact, in order to overcome the pull of the soul and expand the territory, the military has long tried to build soul lighthouses on alien planets, but these lighthouses were unable to function. Later researchers discovered that the lighthouse and the tree are a whole, only around the tree of souls , the lighthouse will light up, a lighthouse without trees is just a decoration.”

This is the third time Ling Xiao has heard the word soul traction from him. Knowing nothing about it, he asked Ying Feng with his eyes, and the latter briefly recounted to him what he had learned from Fu Yao. for a moment.

"That's it," the pastor nodded after listening to his explanation, "everyone of the modern Tianxiu people has a different degree of soul traction, but the ancient people didn't have this kind of problem. To prevent our unlimited expansion, and in this way to alleviate our evil."

"The tree of souls only bears a seed for thousands of years. Some people predict that the tree of souls is now in its old age, because there are fewer and fewer souls growing on it, and sooner or later it will stop completely. At that time, a new tree of souls will be needed. Tree replacement. But the military wants to plant tree seeds to alien planets frantically, and the way to expand this range to the extreme is to let a person without soul lead the tree seeds to a distant place to plant, and then threaten the local people. residents build lighthouses so they can get twice the operating area."

"A person without a soul? Isn't it a lone star?"

"That's right, so the military gave him this task, but this plan was destroyed by Ling Xing first. Until now, I don't think what he did was wrong. He violated the teaching that cannot steal, but saved Countless innocent lives have also been saved from the murder of our compatriots, and the fault of one person will benefit all sentient beings."

"Where is the tree seed that he stole now?"

The pastor shook his head, "I don't know. People from the military have also searched many times, but no matter what, they can't find the whereabouts of the tree species. With Ling Xing sentenced to death, this matter will always become a mystery."

Ling Xiao and the others had been staying for a long time. When they were saying goodbye, the pastor personally sent them outside the door, and once again passed by the blooming courtyard, it seemed that every flower had a unique meaning.

"It's been a long time since I've had anyone talk about Ling Xing, and I'm glad someone still remembers him. There's an inherent warlike element in our souls, but faith will help us smooth that out. Force should be used Defend rather than invade, I hope more young people can understand this, and you are welcome to come here often.”

Before returning, Ling Xiao tactfully expressed his willingness to drive, but this time Yingfeng didn't stop him, but took the initiative to go to the passenger seat.

Along the way, Ling Xiao always felt that someone was staring at him, and every time he turned his head, he met Yingfeng's gaze, which made him a little unnatural.

"I really won't get mad," he said. "Even if there was any excitement, I stayed in the church just now. I am calm now."

Yingfeng turned his head silently, not wanting to say that the reason he looked at him was not because of this.

The careless Ling Xiao just felt that Yingfeng's behavior was not normal after entering the church, and he didn't think about where the abnormality came from, nor did he delve into the meaning of Yingfeng's eyes that fell on him many times.

"Where do you think Ling Xing will hide the tree seeds?"

Yingfeng wasn't thinking about it, so he replied casually, "I don't know, what do you think?"

"If I were him, I should give it to important people for safekeeping," Ling Xiao thought.

"The important person is the pastor, but I believe he is not lying, and he doesn't know the whereabouts of the tree species."

"Who said that Lone Star is also his important person?"

"The tree seed was stolen from him, so how could it be given to him for safekeeping?"

Only then did Ling Xiao realize his paradox, and rubbed his nose in embarrassment, "That's why I guessed wrong."

But after Ling Xiao said this, he thought, besides the pastor and Lone Star, who else would he give the tree seed to?

It was dusk when the two of them returned to the academy, and the sharp-eyed Ling Xiao saw a familiar person enter the dormitory.

"Is it a pillow crane? What is he doing in the tenth grade dormitory?"

Yingfeng frowned when he heard the name, "I don't know, stay away from him, they are not good people."

They intentionally slowed down their pace, distanced themselves from the people who were going up, Zhuyue opened the door, checked vigilantly that there was no one else in the corridor, and let the pillow crane in through a gap.

"I've already brought the things, the service is considerate, buy one get one free," Zhenhe took out two portable injections, one with bright orange liquid and the other transparent.

"The orange one is the second generation of Embers, and the transparent one is the purification agent. The second generation has strong side effects. The purification agent will not make you suffer less, but at least it will prevent you from dying. I have already used it. I told you, if you remember the order wrong, don't blame me for not reminding you."

After he finished speaking, he put the injection on the table. He was not at all worried that the other party would renege on his debt. To him, Zhu Yue was someone who could be crushed to death with one finger, and any precautions against him would be unnecessary.

After listening to his introduction, Zhuyue silently took out the Soul-Suppressing Stone from yesterday's place and handed it to him as agreed. Zhenhe was very satisfied with his performance.It has long been heard that Kui's soul-repelling stone is missing, and the military is also looking for it nervously. Unexpectedly, it was secretly hidden by such a useless person. It seems that although he is not very capable, he is quite courageous.

Zhenhe is appreciating the mysterious ore in his hand intently. There is a legend about the soul-suppressing stone, which will awaken the earliest memories of the soul. I don't know if this legend is true or not.

But if it is true... Zhenhe suddenly realizes that there seems to be something he has overlooked. If this rumor is true, isn't Zhuyue...?

Zhuyue quietly picked up the bright orange injection. It turned out that this was something Ling Xiao stole from the base. He relied on this thing to defeat Kui and became entangled with Yingfeng.

"Is this really Burning Ember II? Let me try it out."

what?

Zhen He was startled to feel that something was wrong, and turned around instantly, only to see Zhuyue push the last bit of potion into her body, red light flashed in her eyes, and after a low growl, her sharp fangs were exposed.