"Hello?"
"Uncle Shang, are you sure we can change history by doing this?"
Under the orange light, Uncle Shang, who was holding the phone, was slightly stunned, "What's wrong?"
"I followed the address you gave me to look for the kid named Zhou Ping, and on the way I met a 'mysterious'..."
On the other end of the phone, Ye Fan quickly described everything that had just happened. Uncle Shang frowned and fell into deep thought.
"Who is it that is giving us a warning on behalf of the Supreme Being?"
"have no idea."
Uncle Shang was silent for a moment, his bloodstained face seemed to be in deep thought. After a long while, he slowly spoke:
"I understand... You continue to follow Zhou Ping, but don't act rashly. Observe first to see if our existence will have any impact on history."
"good."
As Ye Fan hung up the phone, Uncle Shang sat alone in the black-sailed boat, and his consciousness returned to the convenience store along with those eyes that could see through time.
Zhou Ping changed back into his own clothes and walked out of the warehouse. At this moment, the store manager Meng Xiang was walking towards him, yawning. He glanced at the clean and tidy store and nodded.
"Thank you for your hard work. Was everything ok last night?"
Zhou Ping glanced at Uncle Shang who was floating in the void beside him, lowered his head, and hummed softly.
After spending so much time together, Meng Xiang had long been accustomed to Zhou Ping's personality. He waved his hand without giving it much thought and said, "I'll take over the shift. You should go back and have a rest."
Zhou Ping didn't say much. He walked out of the convenience store with his bag, checked the time, and walked straight towards home.
After taking two steps, he suddenly stopped and looked a little unhappy.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Zhou Ping's expression suddenly change, Uncle Shang immediately asked vigilantly.
Zhou Ping looked back at the convenience store, his expression changing continuously, and finally he sighed bitterly...
"Forgot... Forgot about borrowing money again."
"..." Uncle Shang, who was attached to Zhou Ping, asked in confusion, "Why, are you short of money?"
"It's okay. Actually, there's not that much shortage. It's just..."
Zhou Ping said halfway, seemed to not know how to express himself, and simply shook his head and walked forward without saying a word.
"Maybe we can change the subject." Uncle Shang spoke again.
"What?"
"You said before that your life has long been a ruin..." Uncle Shang paused for a moment.
"So, what happened four years ago?"
…
[2012]
Ye Fan's figure crossed the dark sky and landed again in Taohuawu community.
He stared at the room where Zhou Ping was, a glimmer flashed in the depths of his eyes, and then he uttered a light exclamation:
"Where are the people?"
In his sight, the room was empty and only a mess on the floor.
Ye Fan's brows suddenly frowned.
It took him less than twenty minutes to chase the "sea" mystery. How come the whole family disappeared in the blink of an eye
Thinking of the sea surface before he left the house, Ye Fan had a bad feeling in his heart. He climbed into the house directly through the window, his sharp eyes like an eagle's pupils, sweeping through every corner.
Except for the small-scale fighting in the living room, other rooms were normal. Judging from the placement of shoes at the door, this family was not kidnapped, but left on their own...
Where do they want to go
Uncle Shang's task was to keep an eye on Zhou Ping. Ye Fan naturally couldn't just give up. He immediately made a phone call:
"I'm Ye Fan. Please help me contact the night watch team stationed in Xijin City and call up the road surveillance as quickly as possible. I'm looking for someone..."
…
Outside Xijin City.
A black Santana was speeding on the empty lane.
The only remaining headlight on one side barely illuminated the dim road. As the vehicle continued to move away from the city, more and more winding turns appeared at the foot of the huge mountain shadows, and the bumpy ride made people dizzy.
"… Mom has already told your third uncle that you should stay with him for a few days. Mom and Dad will come back to pick you up after they have avoided the limelight."
As the car shook along the bumpy mountain road, a heavily made-up woman turned her head from the passenger seat. Her face was dark in the backlight, and Xiao Zhou Ping couldn't see her expression except for her narrow eyes. However, from her tone, she seemed to be smiling at him.
Xiao Zhou Ping sat alone in the narrow back seat of the car. The stench of low-quality second-hand smoke and old leather made him frown uncontrollably. In the darkness, he looked up at the woman and spoke hesitantly:
"When did you... tell him? I didn't see you call."
The woman's smile seemed to freeze, and she quickly replied, "My mom sent me a message saying so."
"But isn't Third Uncle's home in the west of the city?"
"Your third uncle bought a new house, didn't you know?" The woman turned her head back. Outside the windshield, the pale car lights illuminated a winding mountain road. "But your third uncle didn't have enough money, so he could only buy a remote place like this... You are the first child to visit his new home."
"Why are you explaining so much to him? He knows nothing!" The man who was driving was a little impatient.
The woman glared at him and said nothing.
Little Zhou Ping looked at the mountain road in front of him that seemed to extend all the way to the deep hell. His scarred hands clenched uncontrollably. His small chest rose and fell, and he suddenly spoke:
"If I go to my third uncle's house today, what will happen to the school? If I don't go to class tomorrow, my homeroom teacher will call me and maybe even visit my home."
This is the longest speech Xiao Zhou Ping has spoken in the past six months.
Hearing this, the man and woman were both stunned.
"Then... then I'll call my class teacher first." The woman took out her cell phone.
"Do you know his phone number?" Xiao Zhou Ping asked immediately.
"… "
"Give me your phone, I'll help you dial."
The woman hesitated for a moment, but still handed the phone to Xiao Zhou Ping behind her. The latter took the phone, clicked a few times, and then gave it back to the woman.
After a short dial tone, the woman raised her voice and said to the other end of the phone: "Hey, Teacher Chen~ Yes, I'm Zhou Ping's mother, I just want to ask for leave for him..."
boom!!
Before the woman finished her words, the back door was manually unlocked and opened, and a young figure jumped out!
The howling wind rushed into the car, startling the man and slamming on the brakes.
The sharp sound of tires rubbing against the ground broke through the dead silence of the forest. The woman who was on the phone nearby screamed and almost hit her head on the windshield, and her phone fell out of her hand!
Due to the inertia of the car, little Zhou Ping's body fell heavily on the mountain road and rolled several times. His arms and knees were all bloody. He managed to get up from the ground and staggered into the forest!
The scarlet taillights of the car stopped on the side of the road not far away. The man quickly got out of the car and ran towards Xiao Zhouping while cursing!
At this moment, the woman also picked up her phone with a grim face, glanced at the background of the application, and her pupils shrank slightly.
"This little brat, he sent a message to my third brother!! He asked my third brother to call the police!!!"
Hearing the woman's scream coming from behind, the man's face looked so ugly that water could drip out of it. He quickly shuttled through the woods, relying only on the flashlight on his mobile phone to barely illuminate the way ahead. In the blurred light and shadow, he could barely see the small figure stumbling forward.
"Damn it! Don't let me catch you!!"
Little Zhou Ping gritted his teeth and ran desperately in the dark woods. He didn't have a cell phone or flashlight, so he could only rely on his eyesight and intuition to avoid the trees and bushes in the forest. Even so, his speed was not slower than the man behind him!
His eyes seemed to be able to see through the darkness, and he deftly avoided most obstacles. Even though he felt pain all over his body, compared to the pain he usually endured, this little bit was nothing.
"Fuck you"
"How dare you run away? Don't forget that you are my son!"
"The buyer I made an appointment with is already waiting on the mountain! If you run away today, your mother and I will be beaten to death by the debt collectors!!"
"I raised you to this age, and you're just an ungrateful person? You dare to call the police to arrest me?"
"What the fuck"
Seeing that he could not catch up with a child and was hit in the face by branches repeatedly, the man felt endless anger in his heart. Countless swear words and insults spewed out of his mouth, like arrows piercing through the darkness and into the soft heart of little Zhou Ping in the distance.
Little Zhou Ping ran wildly in pain, feeling a strong sense of pain and sadness in his heart. The pain in his heart overwhelmed the scars all over his body. He had always been silent and autistic due to domestic violence, but for the first time he couldn't control himself and opened his mouth, howling in the dark!
Why
Why is it like this... He has done nothing wrong! Why did fate treat him like this?!
He could endure being beaten and scolded, after all, they were his parents, the ones who gave birth to him... Even though they had never fulfilled their parental duties, Xiao Zhou Ping was also earnestly fulfilling his filial duty as a son and grandson. He thought that one day he would have a normal family like others, but he didn't expect that in the end, he would be abducted and sold by his biological parents...
Little Zhou Ping felt as if his heart was crushed and trampled into the dirt. Everything around him seemed to be gradually fading away. Running had become his instinct.
I don’t know how long I ran, the man’s voice behind me had disappeared. Xiao Zhou Ping was gasping for breath, the wounds on his body were torn and bleeding from the intense running, and his consciousness was a little fuzzy.
He walked along the gradually sparse forest ahead, and finally passed through the small forest and came to another section of the winding mountain road.
At this moment, a pair of bright headlights suddenly broke through the darkness, and with a whistling buzzing sound, a shabby van crashed head-on into Zhou Ping who had just walked out of the woods!
Xiao Zhou Ping's pupils suddenly contracted!
boom!!
A muffled sound was heard, and the young figure flew in an arc in the air, fell heavily to the ground, motionless.
The bright lights tore through the darkness, and the doors on both sides of the van opened. A bald man wearing a leather jacket and covered with tattoos walked forward, grabbed Xiao Zhouping's hair, sniffed his breath, and nodded slightly.
"not dead."
"It doesn't matter if he's dead. What we want are his body parts anyway." Another man lit a cigarette and replied calmly.
"That idiot Zhou couldn't even deliver a shipment to us... If we weren't familiar with this place, we might have let him escape."
"Hmph, a loser who is so useless that he sold his own son to pay off his debts, what good can you expect him to do?" The man who lit the cigarette narrowed his eyes, "Load the goods and take them back... Oh, and tell that loser Zhou that we found this stuff ourselves, and the price... We have to bargain for another 50,000."
"okay."
…
"Into the mountains?"
Ye Fan was sitting in a high-speed police car, his brows slightly furrowed.
"Yes, we retrieved the road surveillance of the entire Xijin City. Just half an hour ago, the car had left the city and entered the mountain... There is no surveillance installed on the mountain, so it is not clear where they are now." A police officer reported seriously.
"But we have set up checkpoints on all roads leading in and out of the mountains, so if we find any trace of them, we will know it immediately."
Seeing Ye Fan's serious expression, the police officer hesitated for a moment and spoke again.
"Or, we can mobilize all our manpower to search the mountain..."
"No, that would make too much noise." Ye Fan shook his head immediately, "You guys have worked hard, just leave me on the mountain road, I will find it myself."
The police car slowly stopped on a deserted mountain road. Ye Fan, wearing a black coat, got out of the car alone. As the taillights of the car disappeared at the end of the road, his gaze towards the mountains gradually became deeper.
"Something's wrong. This smell... Is there something hidden in the mountains?"
…
In a daze, little Zhou Ping's eyes slowly opened.
As he regained consciousness, pain came from all over his body. His face, which was still stained with blood, was pale. He raised his head with difficulty and found himself lying on a cold metal table.
A dazzling halo of light shone from above his head. He tried to get up, but found that his hands and feet were locked tightly. Various tools similar to knives and scissors were placed on the rotten wooden table next to him. The smell of disinfectant made his stomach twitch.
What is this place... an operating table
Before little Zhou Ping could come to his senses, he heard a faint sound of quarreling coming from outside the door.
"Another fifty thousand reduction?! This was not the price we agreed on in the first place!!"
"That's right, we have sent our son to you, how can you go back on your word?"
"We picked up the goods from the mountain ourselves. What does it have to do with you? Can you prove that it was you who sent the goods? If our boss is kind, you won't get a penny! Take the money and get out!"
"Brother, let's discuss this... I'm being chased by debt collectors and I'm counting on your money to fill the hole. You're short of 50,000... What should I do?"
"What you do is none of my business!"
"Hey, big brother, please raise the price a little more... My son is in good health, really, he has never been sick since he was a child, you will definitely be able to sell it for a good price..."
"… "
Xiao Zhou Ping's breathing became rapid. He stared at the door and clenched his hands to try to break free from the shackles, but only made a hard clicking sound.
After a long time, he closed his eyes in despair and lay flat on the operating table with a deathly pale face.
Sizzle—
The halo above Xiao Zhou Ping’s head suddenly went out!
The sudden darkness made Xiao Zhou Ping open his eyes subconsciously. He looked at the ceiling above his head and his pupils contracted violently!
At some point, a huge gray face slowly appeared on the ceiling of this narrow room. Its empty, pale eyes stared straight at Xiao Zhou Ping on the operating table, and a ghostly whisper echoed:
“Heart… Such a wonderful heart… A heart I have never seen before!!!”
This was the first time that little Zhou Ping had seen a monster beyond his cognition. The young boy opened his eyes wide and confronted the face that covered the entire ceiling. He could feel an unprecedented resentment filling the room, and the temperature around him dropped rapidly!
But soon, he relaxed.
He glanced at the monster above his head, then at the shackles on his hands, and the knife beside him... and smiled bitterly.
The monster does look scary... but that's all. There seems to be no difference between being eaten by the monster and being torn into parts and sold by others.
In these years of pain and darkness, Xiao Zhou Ping's mind has been tempered by despair countless times. He rarely has emotional fluctuations and has even lost the ability to "cry". For him, death is also a kind of relief.
Just as he slowly closed his eyes and calmly prepared to face death, a sharp sound of the door being pushed open was heard.
"Fuck, that woman is so difficult to deal with! Finally got rid of her."
"They are still bargaining with us... If they keep pestering me, I will shoot them with two bullets!"
"They say even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, but this is the first time I've seen someone send his own son here on his own initiative."
"Okay, get to work. This guy is young, and all his organs should be able to sell for a good price... How's the buyer doing?"
"Don't worry, Brother Hu. I have already contacted the buyer."
As the door opened, four or five men walked in one after another. Two of them were wearing surgical gowns and looked like professional medical staff. Their eyes kept scanning Xiao Zhou Ping with greed like wolves.
Everyone's attention was focused on Xiao Zhou Ping, so much so that no one even looked up, completely ignoring the gray face on the ceiling...
"Don't blame us, kid... blame your asshole parents. We are just doing the job for money."
A man wearing a green medical mask walked up to Xiao Zhou Ping, holding a syringe in his hand, gently squeezed out a few drops of liquid, and spoke slowly.
Another medical staff member began to carefully check the surgical instruments and containers used to store fresh organs.
The others sat casually on chairs in the corner. The man called Brother Tiger looked at the time and couldn't help but urged, "Okay, stop dawdling and get started."
As soon as he finished speaking, his peripheral vision seemed to detect something, and he looked up at the top of the operating table in confusion, and then his mouth opened uncontrollably...
"What the hell!? What the hell is that!!"
Whoosh!!
Before the others could react, the blue-gray face growing on the ceiling suddenly squirmed, and several sharp spears that looked like blood vessels shot out from it, piercing through everyone's bodies accurately in an instant, and scarlet blood gushed out!
"You guys... dare to covet my delicious food?" The face sneered, "Although your food may not taste good, it's just right as an appetizer."
No one in the room had expected such a sudden change. Those blood vessel spears nailed everyone except Xiao Zhou Ping to the ground or wall. As the blood vessels squirmed, beating hearts were forcibly pulled out of the bodies.
The man called Brother Tiger opened his mouth in pain, his face withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his eyes were full of fear!
"Strange...monster..."
The original sneer and contempt instantly turned into painful wails that resounded throughout the room. The people who lost their hearts did not die immediately, but waved their limbs wildly like crazy. The walls and the ground were gradually dyed scarlet, like purgatory on earth.
The bloody scene before him made Xiao Zhou Ping's pupils shrink slightly. He felt very uncomfortable with the blood, flesh and wailing that filled the room. He felt his stomach churning, but he didn't have the slightest sympathy.
Human trafficking, intentional homicide, organ trading... In the eyes of these people, the human body is nothing more than a tool for them to make profits. Now that they have been disemboweled and tortured, they deserve it.
Five beating hearts tied by blood vessels, bolted to the ceiling's face, like a scarlet jungle.
As the blood vessels pulsed, a look of intoxication appeared on that gray face.
After a few seconds, the five hearts seemed to be drained of energy, becoming completely dim. The remaining blood vessels slowly moved above Xiao Zhou Ping, gently rubbing his cheeks and chest, as if caressing some precious treasure.
"It is a miracle that such a pure heart can grow out of such evil soil."
Feeling the friction on his chest, Xiao Zhou Ping frowned slightly. He looked straight at the face above his head without saying a word.
"Why, aren't you afraid?" He looked at the young but calm boy with a surprised face.
"Kill me if you want." Little Zhou Ping said, "I'm not afraid of you, nor am I afraid of death."
Looking at Xiao Zhou Ping's calm eyes, his gray face was somewhat unhappy. He enjoyed the wailing and begging of humans when he plundered their hearts. After all, this was when their hearts beat most happily and energetically...
But now Xiao Zhou Ping's calmness made this delicious dish less fresh and spicy, and his appetite was immediately reduced.
"Not afraid?" The gray-white face sneered, "Then I'll try another way..."
As soon as he finished speaking, two blood vessels instantly pierced Zhou Ping's eyeballs on the operating table. His eyes, which were originally calm like gems, instantly turned blood red!
Xiao Zhou Ping only felt an unprecedented pain coming from his eye sockets, and everything in front of him turned bloody, and then turned pitch black... The pain made his shackled body twist violently, and his heart began to beat at an alarming speed!
“Ahhhh!!!”
Hearing Xiao Zhou Ping's roar, the gray-faced man suddenly laughed, and a huge mouth opened on the ceiling, swallowing the operating table and Xiao Zhou Ping, who was roaring in pain!
As the gray face closed its mouth, the screams stopped abruptly.
boom!!
After swallowing Xiao Zhou Ping, countless blood vessels burst open from the ceiling and directly collapsed the entire operating room!
In the dark and silent forest between mountains, the abandoned old building trembled violently. A blood-red body more than ten meters tall struggled to stand up from it and crushed the entire building into pieces. Countless birds were startled and flew up from the dust!
“Hahahaha! I didn’t expect that I could eat such a sweet heart while hiding in this mountain… Once I digest it thoroughly, I can easily step into the ‘sea’ realm! No, maybe I can even directly enter the ‘infinite’ realm!!”
"The Night Watchmen of Xijin City... I will kill you all sooner or later!!!"
As the flying dust gradually dissipated, a huge blood-red spider was outlined under the moonlight, with a grayish-white face growing on its back. Countless spider silks that looked like blood vessels naturally hung from the surface of its body, hanging hundreds of withered hearts.
At the same time, on the other side of the mountain road.
"Um?"
Hearing the loud noise coming from afar, Ye Fan suddenly turned his head, his eyes narrowed dangerously, "Is it there..."
He took a step forward, and the next moment his figure turned into a golden stream of light that flashed across the dark mountain, rushing rapidly towards the "mysterious" creature!
Just as he was about to arrive, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. After hesitating for a moment, he quickly fell to the ground below. On the winding mountain road, a man and a woman were running down the mountain in a panic!
Of course Ye Fan knew these two people, they were Zhou Ping's parents.
"What the hell?!!"
"Monster... There's a monster in the mountains!!"
"That seems to be where Brother Tiger and the others are? What happened?!"
"Why bother with them! They seized our car and demanded 50,000 yuan... We took the money and ran!"
The two men didn't have a car, and they only walked less than a kilometer on the mountain road. The movement behind them naturally scared them. Before they could come to their senses, a figure in a black coat fell from the sky and intercepted them.
"Where is Zhou Ping?" Ye Fan asked concisely.
"You... who are you?" Seeing Ye Fan falling from the sky, the man and woman were both shocked. The man stuttered for a long time, but still managed to speak fiercely, "Fuck you, you dare to block my way? Get out of here now!!"
"… hehe."
Ye Fan was too lazy to talk nonsense with them. He grabbed the collars of the two men with both hands and turned into a stream of light and flew rapidly towards the mountain!
No matter what this man and woman did to Zhou Ping, they must know Zhou Ping's whereabouts. Even if the situation is urgent now, Ye Fan will not let them go.
Of course, this process was not so pleasant for men and women... They were held by the collars by Ye Fan and rushed over a kilometer at an astonishing speed. They felt like they were about to fall apart. As soon as Ye Fan stopped, the two fell to the ground like dead dogs, as if they were about to vomit bile.
"The mystery of the 'Chuan' realm..."
Ye Fan stood in front of the ruins of the old building and snorted coldly.
The blood-colored spider also sensed his presence, and it roared on its gray face. Countless spider silks like blood vessels came flooding over, tearing through the air with sharp explosions!
Before coming to Xijin City to find Zhou Ping, Ye Fan had not thought about fighting with "Mystery". He was wearing casual clothes and didn't even bring a straight knife. Although it was easy for him to beat a "Mystery" in "Chuan" realm with bare hands, it was not good to transform here and make a big noise...
Ye Fan seemed to remember something, reached under his coat, and a metal sword used for performances fell into his palm.
He glanced at the overwhelming blood-red wave, and a brilliant Buddha light poured into the sword, and he swung it casually!
A ray of golden thread instantly pierced through the void, and the vast Buddha light shattered the spider silk in the sky. Like a flash of lightning, the huge body of the blood-colored spider was smashed into the mountain behind, and a shrill roar resounded through the night sky!
Ye Fan simply threw out a performance sword and broke the "mysterious" forbidden ruins. As the dust settled, the metal sword had nailed the blood-colored spider to the cliff.
The peak pressure of "Klein" raged out from under his flying coat, shaking the entire forest. The man and woman who had finally recovered from their shock were hit head-on at a very close distance, and they sat there stupidly with dull eyes.
Ye Fan's eyes swept across the ruins of the old building, and he immediately noticed the five people, Brother Tiger, who had their hearts cut open and died, but he did not see Zhou Ping...
His eyes gradually turned cold.
"And the child?"
He raised his head slightly, and his eyes burning with Buddha's light stared at the blood-red spider nailed to the cliff, and a terrifying pressure poured out!
The blood-red spider, whose movements were restricted by the metal sword, began to tremble uncontrollably, and looked at Ye Fan with horror on its gray face. An unprecedented sense of life and death crisis surged into its heart... Even when it faced the Xijin City Night Watch Squad before, it had never had this feeling!
Its intuition told it that the man in front of it was definitely a monster! !
"He He… "
The blood-colored spider was about to say something when his body suddenly shook!
As its voice suddenly stopped, the gray face bulged violently, as if something was about to come out of it!
puff!!
With a slight sound, a bloody hand with fragments of shackles remaining on it broke out and instantly grasped the metal sword that was nailed to the bloody spider!
At this moment, both the Blood Spider itself and Ye Fan in the distance were stunned.
Ding!!!
A clear sword sound exploded out of nowhere, and the blood-red spider's stiff body was instantly cut vertically, with the fracture being extremely smooth.
The next moment, the blood-colored spider's body, which was split in two, was cut horizontally again and evenly divided into four pieces, then eight pieces, sixteen pieces, thirty-two pieces... The invisible sword energy cut madly in the dark night, chopping this monster that devoured hundreds of hearts into pieces!
Ye Fan felt the breath in the blood-colored spider's body, his pupils shrank slightly, and a look of shock appeared on his face for the first time!
Countless pieces of flesh fell to the ground, and the stench of blood filled the night sky.
A blinded boy, holding a sword in one hand, limped out of the bloody purgatory... Countless blood vessels that had pierced his chest were pulled out, and his skin and flesh were torn off.
In the middle of the chest with exposed white bones, a heart that looks like glass is beating strongly!