no puppet

Xie Hengyan's pupils shrank slightly, and subconsciously asked: "What wish?"

Xie Cong said: "Do you still remember the person who brought you to Tongjing Island?"

Xie Hengyan tried hard to recall for a while, but finally shook her head: "I don't remember, I was seriously injured at that time, how can I remember these things."

"Your seal of karma was forcibly sewn on the heart, and it is difficult to integrate with yourself." Xie Cong pointed to Xie Hengyan's heart, "At that time, he rescued you, but you didn't have the slightest impression. "

Xie Hengyan suddenly showed a bewildered expression: "I don't know... Then what happened to him?"

Xie Cong said flatly: "Dead."

Xie Hengyan: "..."

"He was killed by Cheng Daofeng early in the morning." Xie Cong said coldly, "And you are amazing, now holding the lackey of Renbi Yufu in your hands... You really dote on him."

"I didn't spoil him." Xie Hengyan immediately retorted, "I just won't let you kill him, I don't care what else you do."

Xie Cong glanced at him, and suddenly said mockingly: "...Heartless, confused."

Xie Hengyan didn't want to argue with him about Yin Chun, so she turned her head to look at the row of iron cages in front of her, and continued: "Go on, what did he ask you to do after the man died?"

Xie Cong laughed back and said, "When a person dies, he naturally wants to come back to life."

Xie Hengyan was stunned for a moment, and asked in a low voice: "If a person cannot be brought back to life after death, how can it be possible to come back to life?"

"You don't even understand what I said. The magic of the world is always the same - if a person goes to extremes, there are countless ways to prolong his life." Xie Cong narrowed his eyes and said, "Although he is a living person, But he once refined a karma seal that was almost the same as a demon. Afterwards, he dismantled the karma seal and gave it to a wooden puppet that was equal to his own body."

Xie Hengyan's expression changed slightly: "... ordinary people can withstand such a toss? Can he still live?"

"Of course he can live... Not only can he live, since then, he has just been divided into two people." Xie Cong said word by word, "a living body and a puppet wooden body - both are controlled by him independently Consciousness, nothing has gone wrong."

Xie Hengyan was stunned for a long time, then Fang said with difficulty: "Since he is so powerful, why can Cheng Daofeng kill him so easily?"

"That's why I said, if he doesn't want to die, there are countless ways to prevent him from dying." Xie Cong said indifferently, "At that time, what Cheng Daofeng killed with his own hands in Laifeng Town was just his living body—— The wooden body of the puppet has been preserved intact, and the Karma seal is still alive. This is why, after his death, he was able to take you all the way to Tongjing Island, and finally to me."

Hearing this, Xie Hengyan's mind suddenly flashed a person's name.Without even thinking about it, he blurted out almost instantly: "Is your old friend Fang Yan?"

Xie Cong was also a little surprised: "Do you remember?"

"No... I was in the Biyu Mansion before, and I heard it mentioned by chance." Xie Hengyan said, "Cheng Daofeng keeps this name secret, and the Rong Mansion seems to be quite jealous of this person... How did you get involved with him? ?”

Xie Cong raised his chin: "Isn't it thanks to you that I have a relationship with him?"

Xie Hengyan said awkwardly: "But I don't have any impression of him... All I know is that he is by no means a kind person. If you work for him, you will inevitably cause trouble."

Xie Cong was silent, he raised his head and took a deep look at Xie Hengyan. The emotional meaning was unclear, but after all, it lacked the original cruel and violent taste, and instead had a trace of indescribable softness.

But that softness is minimal, almost fleeting.

Before Xie Hengyan could see it, Xie Cong turned his gaze sideways and said expressionlessly: "I said, my affairs...don't interfere too much."

Xie Hengyan frowned, and said again: "Then these puppets... no, Fang Yan asked you to raise these weirdos? There are such a large number, if people from Rongfu catch them, they will be beheaded."

"The puppet's wooden body has a limited storage time. Now that it has lost Fang Yan's control, it is just an empty shell that rots at any time."

"What do you mean?" Xie Hengyan said in a deep voice, "You want to say that the puppet body he survived will not live long?"

"Therefore, he desperately needs another living body that fits perfectly with him to serve as the existing container for the karma seal—wait until everything is settled before seeking other methods to achieve the ultimate goal of resurrection."

Xie Cong slightly raised his hand, and brushed across the entire row of hard and firm iron locks around the iron cage - and there, without exception, were all unconscious, large and small, ugly monsters that almost lost the characteristics of a living person.

Xie Cong said: "These are all failures, those who have lost their way... probably won't come back."

Xie Hengyan's almond-shaped eyes widened: "Then before that, Li Haishuang's family..."

"Yes." Xie Cong said without hesitation, "Feng Xing's body and Fang Yan were relatively compatible, so I started from their Li family, and even made many puppets of the same size according to Feng Xing's appearance... …but in the end, it all ended in failure.”

Xie Hengyan suddenly said in disbelief: "You came to Feng Town just to do this... catch living people as containers? Xie Cong, are you crazy!"

"Otherwise, what do you think I'm doing?" Xie Cong's face was gloomy, but he had an unscrupulous and weird smile on his face, "I left Tongjing Island and traveled around for so many years, did I just go sightseeing?"

"No!" Xie Hengyan almost lost his voice, "The ones you found, including Li Haishuang's family, are all real people. You...how could you do such a thing?"

Xie Cong said: "Put away your overflowing sympathy, whether they live or die, what does it matter to you?"

Xie Hengyan really made him choke.After a while, Fang hesitated and said: "Even so... You can live a good life on the island, why do you take the risk and compromise your personality for the self-interest of others?"

"Personality."

Xie Cong stepped forward with one hand, and poked Xie Hengyan's chest vigorously: "Here... on the whole ship, the person who is least qualified to mention personality is only you."

Xie Hengyan was stunned for a moment, but was speechless to refute.

Xie Cong asked, "Are you human?"

Xie Hengyan turned her face away and said, "...I am not."

Xie Cong said: "Then what else do you have to say? Should I take care of what I want to do?"

"I shouldn't be in charge." Xie Hengyan's throat was a little bitter, "Whatever you do is right... I have no right to control it."

Xie Cong spread his hands: "Now you know everything—what should you do next? You hold that one in your heart... How should you deal with it, you don't know what to do?"

Xie Hengyan quickly reacted, and immediately said: "I can't kill him."

Xie Cong said: "Are you going to let him go back and wait to see how I die?"

Xie Hengyan shook her head, but pursed her thin lips, not knowing what to say.

Xie Cong suddenly raised his voice: "Are you helping me or helping him?"

"Help...you." Xie Hengyan whispered, "But I...can't kill him."

Xie Cong's expression was distorted for a moment, but soon he adjusted it again, almost suppressing the anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice, "Okay, I promise you, you don't have to kill him."

Xie Hengyan's gloomy pupils lighted up slightly, as if some tiny stars were embedded in the black almonds.

"You find a way to control the person and erase all his memories... Remember, it's all." Xie Cong said gloomyly, "After that, he will stay on this ship forever, and he must not leave for half a step."

Xie Hengyan's expression froze suddenly, and then he said slowly and hesitantly: "This..."

Xie Cong asked, "What? Can't it be done?"

"It can be done." Xie Hengyan was very embarrassed, "But...why?"

"what why?"

Xie Hengyan said: "You have no reason to fight against Cheng Rong's family at the same time. If it's just for one reason... Isn't this just asking for fun? Or do you have other difficulties?"

Xie Cong asked back, "What are my difficulties?"

"I really don't understand you." Xie Hengyan sighed, his expression was indescribably complicated and downcast, "I'm going to have a good life, but I want to come to this muddy water."

Xie Cong's voice was slightly cold: "Are you innocent? Are you proud of protecting the lackeys of Biyu Mansion?"

"I'm not proud of it, I just don't want him to die." Xie Hengyan said, "But who are you doing it for? For Fang Yan?... Are you very familiar?"

Xie Cong turned his gaze sideways and didn't bother to look at him again.Generally speaking, the silence obtained after questioning means that Xie Cong does not want to give any accurate answer.

——He has always gone his own way, Xie Hengyan should have gotten used to it long ago.

However, after so many years, the father and son reunited again. There are too many things that are too far away from Xie Hengyan's original imagination... It has even deviated from the range he could predict.

Xie Cong was originally a person who was indifferent to the world.

He used to stay quietly in the small wooden house where they lived together every day, carving wooden figures and painting wooden flowers, and taught Xie Hengyan how to read, sculpt, draw...and even chop firewood for cooking.

Like all ordinary families, they have spent countless years together, quietly enjoying the plain and warm years, without any greed or dissatisfaction.

Nothing has changed until now.

The man in front of him is irritable, vicious, eccentric and ruthless... He even regards human life as nothing - this is not the Xie Cong in Xie Hengyan's impression.

At least a long time ago, he would pat the puppet on the head and tell him that "human life is very fragile, so at all times, be careful and tolerant of them."

But now he holds the fragile life in the palm of his hand, and then——squeeze and crush it little by little, until finally they are wiped out, leaving no trace of what they should have been.

Xie Hengyan lowered his eyelashes and stared at Xie Cong calmly for a long time.However, Xie Cong's eyes were always looking at the tall and cold prison in front of him, and the wailing sounds behind the cage.

The two did not speak for a long time.

In the end, Xie Cong turned around, looked back at the silent puppet behind him, and suddenly asked softly: "...What are you doing in a daze? Wait for me to help you with something?"

Xie Hengyan silently took a step back, and after a moment of silence, Fang said slowly, "I'm just thinking, what you're doing now... things that go against your original intention, will you really not regret it in the future?"

Xie Cong smiled lightly, but still didn't answer his question directly.

He asked: "If I say, I don't regret it—even if I do all the bad things in the world and get my hands dirty, will you always stand by my side?"

Xie Hengyan just paused for a moment, and then returned him with a gentle and gentle smile.

"I can."

So he answered.

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Xie Hengyan's sentence "I will" was the last straw that crushed his father.

In fact, Xie Cong didn't want to see him say that, very much!

Xie Hengyan: So who are you for?

Xie Cong (sigh like an old father)

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The gloomy April has finally passed, and I will continue to work hard in May ~ Thanks to everyone who accompanied me all the way here, I am working hard to type~