Kikai

"Although ghost attendants look like us, they actually have no self-awareness."

"You mean Master Maoci has no self-awareness? Impossible, how could she not have no self-awareness if she is so smart?"

"She really didn't. Her self-awareness disappeared forever when she signed the contract with her mother-in-law ten thousand years ago." After a pause.

Shuang Lang thought about it and said, "If the contract is terminated, maybe she can regain her self-awareness, but when she signed the contract with her mother-in-law, she was already dead, and if the contract is terminated, she will die within three days."

"But she still thinks when she has emotions. These are all manifestations of self-awareness." Yu Qi still doesn't believe it. If she doesn't have self-awareness, how can Mao Ci make a judgment?

This is actually very easy to explain.

"Well, that's actually imitation. She was already very smart, so even though she didn't have self-awareness, she was still smart. My mother-in-law ordered her to accompany me and take care of me, so she imitated her mother-in-law to be a competent ghost. So, many of her judgments and ways of handling things are based on her mother-in-law's habits."

Yu Qi suddenly felt a tightness in her chest: "...Does she know about Maoci?"

"She knows that the master-servant contract can only be signed on the premise that both parties are voluntary. Although the ghost servant will lose self-awareness, the party as the ghost servant can share life with the master. The mother-in-law is a chaotic ghost who can share her unlimited life. Life at that time was something that many creatures envied."

I haven't experienced it personally, and I don't know why Maoci was exchanged for eternal existence, so Yu Qi can't evaluate whether Maoci's choice is right or wrong.

There was no sound behind her, so Shuanglang turned around and glanced at her. Seeing her downcast expression, she was silent for a while and suddenly said, "Does my sister think it's worthless?"

Yu Qi shook his head: "Everyone has the right to choose. Although I feel unbelievable, I don't have the right to comment on Maoci's choice. I'm just thinking, if it were me, how would I choose?"

"Alive." Shuanglang made the choice for her.

"But what's the difference between having no self-awareness and I've disappeared?" Is it still an independent person without self-awareness?

Shuang Lang stroked her hair: "With existence, there are infinite possibilities."

Yu Qi couldn't help but want to praise Shuang Lang, is she smart enough to say some philosophical words?

However, Shuanglang didn't wait for her to speak, and broke Yu Qi's thoughts by himself: "This is what my second brother said. When he brought Mao Ci to his mother-in-law, Mao Ci was actually unwilling, but my second brother said so. After saying such a sentence, she is willing."

"...You still have a second brother?" Isn't the information in Mingshu Pavilion a bit outdated?It is clearly written that Shuanglang has no relatives and no reason, but now not only has an adoptive mother, Po Meng, but also a second elder brother.

In other words, since there is a second brother, then: "Do you still have a big brother?"

"My second brother is the king of equality. I'll take you to meet him some other day. Big brother... my mother-in-law won't let me call him big brother, and I'm not allowed to mention him. He named himself Mu Danlanhan, and He rebelled into the Demon Realm a long time ago, and Granny could have been named the No.11 Ghost King, but because of his defection, the ancestor of the Ghost Realm deprived Granny of the title of Ghost King."

"Is this punishment too heavy? Besides, it was said that Yama's adopted son had also defected, so isn't Yama now still acting as the king of ghosts?"

"Well, Xiao Huairan just betrayed the ghost world, and he didn't do anything specific." Mentioning Xiao Huairan again, Shuang Lang, who gradually recovered his memory, suddenly remembered something related to him, but it doesn't matter now.

Leaving Xiao Huairan's memories behind, Shuanglang continued to compare the differences with Yu Qi: "Mudan Lanhan not only betrayed the ghost world, but also created the demon world with his own hands."

……

Ten minutes later, all ghost messengers gathered together.

After all, they were sent to the human world together, so everyone is not very far apart.

"The place we are currently at is the reception point set up by the underworld in the human world. The person in charge is surnamed Nan. This mission is likely to require a long-term stay in the human world. Everyone is a high-level ghost messenger. Too much contact with living people will cause danger. I don’t need to say more about the consequences, right?” Mao Ci spoke with words of warning.

"..." Yu Qi really didn't know, but after hesitating, she still didn't ask about the consequences. After all, everyone seemed to understand it very well, and it was embarrassing for her to say that she didn't know.

Forget it, it's better to ask Shuanglang in private, the embarrassment made her more determined to go back and study the knowledge that ghosts should have, her current knowledge is really too little.

It was just a routine warning, after Maoci finished speaking, he looked at Shuanglang: "My lord, I will go to Mr. Nan to discuss our respective matters about our stay in the human world." She meant that she would negotiate on behalf of Shuanglang, Although he knew that Shuanglang would definitely not go there in person, he still wanted to ask for instructions.

As for the negotiation issue, Shuang Lang was indeed not interested in participating, so he nodded casually and agreed to her request.

Lu Jing, who was standing aside, stared coldly for a while, seemed to understand what they meant, and interjected with a smile: "I'll go with Mao Cigui."

Maoci frowned slightly, she was more used to acting alone.

"Isn't the purpose of our coming here just to learn? My adults need to learn, so naturally I, my subordinate, also need to learn."

What Lu Jing said was very reasonable and well-founded, and Mao Ci could only agree to go with him.

The matter of communication has been settled for the time being.

Since Shuanglang was in charge of this matter, Maoci and Snake Qu had discussed it before, and Jiang Muzhou would not let Jiang Muzhou know about the snake transformation for the time being, in order to prevent him from making trouble.

"The specifics of this mission are unknown. We will communicate with Mr. Nan before deciding on the next step. Until then, please don't act alone." Mao Ci said this to Jiang Muzhou.

Jiang Muzhou was not interested in running around with this body on his back, so he snorted disdainfully.

"Then where should we go now?" Jiang Muzhou's other ghostly messenger Lang Kuang asked, he likes to act directly, rather than discussing things in such a dawdly way.

Maoci didn't answer, but looked at Shuanglang, waiting for her to give an order.

"Go to the person in charge first." If you don't find the person in charge first and understand some rules of this world, you may go into trouble if you act rashly. Shuang Lang has a deep understanding of this.

Maoci took out the token of this mission, and put a blue curse mark on it, and a wisp of green smoke appeared on the token, slowly drifting to the depths of the corridor.

This is the smoke that guides them to find Nandang.

Originally, Yu Qi planned to be her nanny honestly, but after climbing up seven flights of stairs with the guide smoke, she finally couldn't stand it any longer and leaned against the wall to take a deep breath.

After getting used to the lightness of the ghost, this body is really too heavy!

"Persist a little longer, it should be here soon." Shuang Lang wiped off the uncomfortable sweat on his forehead.

Yu Qi glanced up, the guiding smoke was like a line of green smoke rising to the sky, if she really wanted to climb up like this, she would have to die again.

"Can we go to the elevator?"

"what is that?"

"..." For a long time, Yu Qi has always been the one who knows the least, so she is also used to acting in the way of Shuanglang and the others. It can be seen that Yu Qi only reacted when she found her and asked what the elevator was. Now they It's in the human world!She is the one who knows the most about the world right now.

Glancing at the bewildered and panting "hundred-year-olds" in front of him, Yu Qi waved his hand, took command and led everyone to find the elevator.

Then, they stopped in front of a smooth door.

Maoci looked at the smoke guide: "The direction is wrong."

Before the words were finished, the leading smoke had already changed the direction of leading the way spinelessly, and floated in along the thin crack of the elevator door.

"This is a shortcut." Yu Qi smiled at her.

Maoci nodded, then took a step forward and opened the smooth elevator door with his bare hands, and looked inside. There was a bottomless well inside, and there was no way to go.

Yu Qi was stunned, can the elevator door still open like this?

After the investigation, Maoci turned his head and told Shuanglang: "My lord, there is no way ahead, is there something wrong with the smoke leading the way?"

If they are still ghosts, they have plenty of ways to go up, but they are currently dragging their cumbersome bodies, and it is impossible to climb up such a steep hole.

"No! It's not like this." Yu Qi was stunned by the momentum of her breaking the steel with her bare hands, and just recovered.

Walking to the door of the elevator that was forcibly opened, I stretched out my index finger and pressed the small upward arrow next to the door: "The elevator is a small room, walk into the small room after a while, and then the small room will send us up. "

The number lit above the door began to change rapidly.

A few seconds later, the elevator arrived.

Looking at the small room in front of everyone staying in place, he didn't dare to go in for a while.

"Is this a magic circle? Humans also use magic circles?" Lang Kuang poked his head in the direction of the elevator curiously.

"It's not a formation, it's just..." Yu Qi really didn't know how to explain it, "It's just a means of transportation."

It was detected that no one came in for too long, and the elevator automatically closed the door.

Shuanglang watched calmly as Yu Qi pressed the small arrow again, and the door opened again.

This time, Yu Qi stopped explaining, and pulled Shuanglang directly inside: "Go in quickly."

Shuanglang obediently followed her in, and Maoci quickly followed in. She had seen clearly just now that the door would close by itself. What if the door closed and sent Shuanglang away?

However, the elevator was not as evil as they thought, and the three of them stood in the elevator unscathed.

"No problem, come in." She proved that the elevator is not some strange formation with practical actions.

Seeing that it seemed to be all right, everyone hesitated.

Snake Qu took the lead and walked into the elevator.

But after a long time, the elevator doors closed automatically again.

Just as Yu Qi reached out to press the door open button, Maoci quickly reached out and pulled Snake Qu, who had just walked between the elevator doors, in.

But for a while, he didn't control the strength well, he used too much force and the space in the elevator was too small, and Snake Qu was pulled by this force, pressing down on Maoci and hitting the wall heavily.