Strange Tale

Long Jiu drank most of the jar of wine in one go.Si Ren looked at him in surprise: "Where did you pretend to be?" !

"But I don't know where to start." Long Jiu hugged the wine jar, which had lost a lot of weight, into his arms, "Why don't you ask."

"What will you answer truthfully when I ask you?"

"Well, if you can't say it, I'll tell you directly."

Si Ren wanted to ask a lot, so he sorted it out in his mind, "Listen to what you mean later. You knew I was in your dream in the temple at that time, right?"

"know."

"You dreamed about Long Chen, did you show it to me on purpose?"

"Yes, aren't you curious about what happened to me, so I tell you that I am a monster attached to someone else, nothing special."

"But why do you know what happened before you attached to Chen?"

"That's Chen's memory, not happy at all, you think I want to know."

Si Ren narrowed his eyes, "Do dead people have memories?"

Long Jiu glanced at him quickly, "It's the memory left before death."

"Is Chen dead or not?"

"Have you heard of 'people' who can live from the Warring States Period to the present?"

"Then where did his soul go?"

"how could I know."

Doesn't he know it himself?Si Ren thought to himself: Impossible.That couldn't tell him what Huan'er saw.

After being silent for a while, Si Ren lifted the wine jar and touched the one in Long Jiu's arms, "Okay. Next question."

Si Ren took two sips, and Long Jiu drank the remaining half of the jar of wine.

"One more." Long Jiu pointed to the wine jars piled up behind Si Ren.

Si Ren stared at him dumbfounded, "You...is it okay to drink like this?"

"You're not like ordinary people who can't see what I am. I'm not as weak as you see with the naked eye. When will you see me the way you should? That's why I don't like this body."

Si Ren pouted, picked up the jar of wine and handed it to Long Jiu, "Why don't you change it if you don't like it, or just turn yourself into a human form."

"Do you think I don't want to if I can?"

"Why not?"

"I can't say that." Long Jiu opened the wine and drank a lot, "There are other problems."

"Why are you afraid of the god's dagger?"

"Its original owner... once killed me."

"Killed you?!"

"Ah."

"Then why aren't you dead?"

"Sometimes monsters can be resurrected, but everyone thinks I was killed by him."

"So you are still afraid of God's dagger?"

"That's not a human thing."

"Who is its owner? Is it still alive?"

"For gods, how can there be death and life?"

"god?"

Long Jiu smiled, "At least it used to be."

"Isn't it now?"

"Now he is in the world."

"Is that the person you're looking for?"

Long Jiu didn't answer, and drank again.

Si Ren thought for a while, "Is he the only one who can pull out the divine dagger from you?"

"Ah."

"So... when you were in the temple, you thought I was the one you were looking for?"

"Ah."

"Who is that man? Why are you looking for him?"

"Since you are not him, there is no need to know so much."

"How do you know I'm not?"

"Didn't I see your hands? The person I'm looking for has unusually long arms."

"what?"

"At that time, I thought you were his reincarnation, so I tried it with the fire of samadhi. If it is, you won't feel pain, and you will show your real body with the left arm longer than the right arm."

"Won't that look weird?"

"It's not that serious. It can only be seen by comparing the two hands."

"Oh." Si Ren nodded, "Then I'll ask you again..."

Long Jiu became a little impatient, "How many more things do you want to ask?"

"the last one."

Crash, clatter——Long Jiu raised his head, picked up the jar, and poured a lot of wine into his stomach, "Ask."

"During the three days I stayed in the General's Mansion, you knew from the beginning that I had a purpose, right?"

"Of course, I'm not stupid."

"Then do you know what I did in those days?"

"more or less."

"for example?"

"You didn't know how to open the stone door in the dungeon until you sneaked behind me and followed me to Dudu's mother. It's not what you said, and you knocked on the wall a few times before knocking on it. "

"Oh, you saw me. That's easy."

Long Jiu was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

"I want to ask: Why did you drink your own blood for Dudu Wan?"

"Um……"

"Can't you tell?"

"No, if you can't say it now, you won't be able to see it then." However, Long Jiu hesitated a little when he said this, "It's for... so that Dudu can live."

Si Ren was not surprised, "Let me just say, no matter how powerful the witchcraft is, she can't really make herself immortal. It turns out that she is living by absorbing your demon power. Hmm... I don't understand: you are strong enough, Why do you have to keep a witch by your side if you don't need someone to protect you? Is it just to control those souls?"

Long Jiu shook his head, "I can't tell you this."

"That's normal? He's not even a mage, how did he survive until now without changing his face?"

"Also? I saved him. You don't need to ask how, but I can tell you that as long as I don't die, he will always be like that."

Si Ren smiled, "Isn't that almost the same as immortality? It sounds like an enviable thing."

Long Jiu didn't answer, and drank again.

The jar in Si Ren's hand was almost bottomed out, and he drank the last few sips, "I often know that you are not Chen, right?"

"I know. But..."

"what?"

"He still treats me the same as Chen."

"You don't like that, do you?"

"Hmph, it doesn't matter, it's probably because it's been too long, and I'm used to it."

Si Ren turned his head to look at Long Jiu's side face, wondering if he was delusional because he was drunk, he seemed to see a bit of helplessness and loneliness from the expression of Long Jiu's eyelids drooping under the candle shadow.Suddenly he remembered the conversation between Long Jiu and Ye Chang that he heard through the wall on the last night in the General's Mansion: You said... what if I don't want to look for it anymore?

You can do whatever you want, I don't care.But I'm afraid it won't be easy for my mother...

Well, too.I'll just say it casually, if you really don't want to find it, let alone Grandma, even the Musketeers and those who live and die are not easy to deal with.

……

"Sometimes, there are some things that you can't help yourself without knowing it. Are you tired?" Si Ren suddenly asked such a sentence, as if he was talking to himself or asking Long Jiu.

Long Jiu turned his head, something flickered in his eyes, "Have you ever felt this way?"

Of course, Si Ren couldn't say that he had peeked at him and overheard their conversation, but Si Ren thought that even if he had never heard those words, it would not be difficult to guess his feelings and thoughts by looking at Long Jiu now.

At this time, the candle that Si Ren had lit when he first arrived was extinguished, and the wine cellar, where the moonlight could not penetrate, instantly became pitch black.

Si Ren could no longer see Long Jiu, only the sound of his breathing could be heard.

Long Jiu could see Si Ren clearly.

At first Si Ren was quite calm, but soon his face showed a somewhat bewildered expression, and then he supported the bedside with one hand and stretched out his hand towards Long Jiu, as if he wanted to determine the distance between the two.

This is the reaction of ordinary humans, and no sighted person can endure the darkness without seeing his fingers for a long time while awake.

When Long Jiu raised his hand just as Si Ren was about to catch him, a blue flame ignited in his hand.With the light and being able to see where Long Jiu and them were, Si Ren relaxed again and returned to his previous state.

"What are you most afraid of?"

As he spoke, Long Jiu pushed the fire in his hand forward, and the blue flame floated in the air.Si Ren was stunned.Long Jiu raised his hand again, another ball of fire...

Then he pushed five or six times in a row, and the wine cellar was immediately filled with clusters of blue, yellow, and red flames.It's so beautiful, Si Ren was dumbfounded.

"Why don't you answer?"

"Ah?" Si Ren recovered and looked at Long Jiu, "What are you most afraid of? Oh, I am afraid of many things. For example, fear of hunger, fear of thirst, fear of cold, fear of heat, fear of pain, fear of illness, fear of death, Afraid of lack of money...there are too many, how can there be 'most feared'."

At this time, a ball of yellow flames floated over, and Si Ren poked with his hands curiously, but he didn't feel anything.The fire was not warm, so he imitated Long Jiu and stretched out his hand to push it, but his hand passed through it, and the fire still stayed where it was.

"It's so interesting..." Si Ren just wanted to ask why this happened.

Long Jiu interrupted him with a slight smile, "Are you still afraid of the dark?"

Si Ren knew that it was Long Jiu who saw his embarrassment in the darkness just now, so he smiled embarrassedly, "Yes, you must not be afraid of the dark."

Long Jiu withdrew his smile and lowered his head, "I'm afraid of being alone."

"what?"

"I'm terrified of becoming a human being again."

"Alone? It's good to be alone, no one bothers you, no one makes trouble, it's so clean, so comfortable."

"Humph, is it? It may be nothing for one person, one day, two days, one month, one year. But you haven't tried 100 years, 200 years... 1000 years... You have always been yourself, at the bottom of the deep pool, without a sound There is no light, the body does not exist, but the consciousness is clearer than ever. No one talks to you, and no one cares about your emotions. I can’t forget what I want to forget. I don’t know when I will see the light of day again, and I will never die... "

Long Jiu's voice became lower and lower, and Si Ren leaned towards him unknowingly.In the light that was changing colors from bright to dark, the outlines of Long Jiu's five sense organs looked softer and softer.He didn't know whether he had finished speaking or felt Si Ren, he suddenly raised his eyes.Because when it comes to sad things, at this moment, the eyes are full of confusion and sadness, and the bottomless pupils are not the pain that a person can bear in the length of a lifetime.

What about monsters?Si Ren thought: Even if the main body is far less beautiful and delicious than what he saw in front of him, what moves people is the side of the powerful demon that may never be known to the public.Si Ren's heart moved, and his lips lightly touched Long Jiu's lips.

But it was only for a short moment, after Si Ren's mind went blank, he quickly raised his head, "I'm sorry, I..."

Long Jiu grabbed his collar and pulled him back in front of him.

The foreheads of the two were touching the tip of the nose, but there was a subtle distance between the four lips.The nose gradually filled with the smell of wine mixed with each other, and the fire in the room became brighter and brighter.

Long Jiu's hair and eyes began to change color.

Si Ren's heart almost stopped beating, and the image of Long Jiu walking out of the water naked appeared in his mind.

At the moment when it was about to explode, all the flames were suddenly extinguished, and Long Jiu let go of Si Ren.Feeling a gust of wind sweeping past him, Si Ren knew that he was the only one left in the wine cellar.

"Dragon Nine──" Si Ren jumped to the ground and wanted to chase, but he tripped over an empty wine jar and fell to the ground.

Part Two