The cold sword energy mercilessly cut the spider's body, almost instantly annihilating it into countless pieces of flesh and blood, splattering in the deep mountains and forests.
Ye Fan looked at the young man holding a sword and walking out of the blood rain, his pupils shrank slightly.
"How can this be… "
Ye Fan had sensed long ago that there was no trace of divine or forbidden ruins on little Zhou Ping's body, nor was there any spiritual power. He was just an ordinary teenager. He had doubted why Uncle Shang valued this child so much... This boy did not have any potential to become the brightest star among humans.
But the scene before him, whether it was the beating glass heart or the terrifying sword energy that instantly killed "Chuan", was completely beyond his cognition!
That heart... what exactly is it
Plop-plop-plop!!
The powerful heartbeat sounded like a war drum, echoing in the dead silent night sky. As the boy staggered, the glass heart that was exposed to the air was gradually covered by flesh and blood.
By the time the boy had taken ten steps, his heart had returned to his body and the echoing heartbeat disappeared.
But the chilling sword energy that filled the heaven and earth still poured out from the young man's palm!
"Who's there?"
Little Zhou Ping closed his eyes tightly, with scarlet blood flowing from his eye sockets. He faced Ye Fan vigilantly, and the fingers holding the sword were pale and trembling.
Ye Fan felt the oncoming sharp sword energy and his expression moved slightly. Although this sword energy posed almost no threat to him, if this was Xiao Zhou Ping's starting point, how terrifying would his future be
"I have no ill intentions." Ye Fan looked at him, "I'm here to help you."
"Are you coming to the mountains to help me?" Little Zhou Ping gripped the sword harder and harder. He spoke in a deep voice like a child who had suffered endless grievances, "Or... are you also in the same group with them?"
Ye Fan was startled, and opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't know where to start explaining...
He had followed the man all the way here, so Ye Fan himself didn't believe that he had no ill intentions... But Uncle Shang told him on the phone not to interfere too much and to focus on observation. He couldn't possibly state all his goals now, right
Forget it. It’s already this late. It would be unreasonable not to explain.
After hesitating for a long time, Ye Fan took a deep breath and was about to say something when the blinded little Zhou Ping staggered and fell straight towards a piece of exposed steel bar that looked like a spike!
Seeing this, Ye Fan's pupils suddenly contracted, and his figure flashed out like a golden lightning!
Just when Xiao Zhouping's head was about to be pierced by the steel bar, Ye Fan grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back to where he was.
Although Xiao Zhou Ping couldn't see, he seemed to sense the life-and-death danger just now, and his back was immediately soaked with cold sweat.
"What's wrong with your eyes?" Ye Fan asked, looking at the bloody eyes.
“… was stabbed.”
"How long ago?"
"About two or three minutes."
Ye Fan nodded, "Well, there is still hope."
Without waiting for Xiao Zhouping to speak again, Ye Fan covered his eyes with one hand, and the sacred Buddha light flowed from his palm into Xiao Zhouping's eye sockets. Xiao Zhouping, who was about to struggle, felt a warmth filling his mind, and the pain in his body was instantly reduced by half.
A look of surprise appeared on little Zhou Ping's face, but he did not resist. He could feel that there was no malice in the Buddha's light.
"you… "
As soon as little Zhou Ping opened his mouth, a breath of Buddha's light floated out of his mouth and dissipated into the air.
"Don't talk." Ye Fan's voice came from his ear, "Your body is so damaged, but you are still alive... It seems that the Eye of Time is right. You are a monster."
Little Zhou Ping was stunned. Although he didn't understand what Ye Fan was talking about, he still kept his mouth shut.
Dozens of seconds later, Ye Fan slowly put down his hand. At this moment, Xiao Zhou Ping's bloodshot eyes had basically recovered. A dim light appeared in his vision, and everything in the world seemed to be covered with a veil, blurry and unclear.
"I treated your eyes, but it will take a few days for them to fully recover. Fortunately, the treatment was timely, so there shouldn't be any sequelae." Ye Fan spoke slowly.
Xiao Zhou Ping waved his hands in front of his eyes in surprise to confirm that he could really see it, then raised his head and looked to his side.
The young man next to him was much taller than him, with a well-proportioned and strong body. But no matter how hard Zhou Ping tried, he could not see his facial features clearly. He could only vaguely sense the sharpness and domineering aura of the other person.
"… Thank you." Xiao Zhou Ping said softly.
"You're welcome."
Ye Fan turned his head and looked at him, "By the way, give me the sword."
Xiao Zhou Ping handed the prop in his hand to Ye Fan without any hesitation. The moment the sword left his hand, the sharp sword intent also dissipated.
Ye Fan weighed the sword in his hand for a few times and found that it was indeed an ordinary metal prop sword, and it was not even sharpened... And the young man in front of him used such a sword to instantly kill a "mysterious" person in the "Chuan" realm
Was it the spider that pierced his heart, causing the Forbidden Ruins to awaken? But Ye Fan had never heard of the Forbidden Ruins related to the heart.
Thinking of this, the image of the black shadow with red pupils reappeared in Ye Fan's mind. The sword in his hand was taken from the black shadow. Could it be that the so-called supreme being behind the other party had predicted all this
Just as Ye Fan was deep in thought, a rustling sound came from not far away. He looked up and narrowed his eyes slightly.
He held the sword in his hand and threw it casually!
Whoosh!!
The metal sword left an afterimage in the air, sweeping across dozens of meters in an instant!
“Ahhh!”
A scream was heard from the front, and two figures who were trying to escape were frightened and fell to the ground at the same time. A metal sword accurately pierced the soil in front of them, vibrating and making a buzzing sound, and it was just a hair's breadth away from cutting off their legs!
Hearing the scream, Xiao Zhou Ping's body shook violently.
He turned his head to look in the direction where the sound came from, squinted his eyes hard, and saw a man and a woman sitting on the ground shivering. Although he couldn't see their faces clearly, little Zhou Ping recognized them at a glance.
"You want to run away after selling your son? Where are you going?" Ye Fan put his hands in his pockets and walked towards the two of them slowly. His cold eyes seemed to come from the underworld.
"You, you you you...what do you want to do?"
The men who had been aggressive at first were now completely scared. They had witnessed with their own eyes how Ye Fan nailed the monster to death on the mountain with one sword, and how he had just carried them out in a flash. Even if these two men were stupid, they knew that Ye Fan was not an ordinary person, and they could no longer see his previous arrogance.
The woman next to her was so frightened that her face turned pale, and most of her makeup fell off, making her look like a mottled yin-yang face.
"What are you doing?" Ye Fan sneered. "It is said that even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. What's the difference between you, such unscrupulous parents, and the heart-eating spider over there? I have already killed a monster. Now, of course, it's your turn..."
Ye Fan slowly pulled out the metal sword that was inserted in front of the two men. The sword reflected a cold light, and the terrifying murderous aura directly scared the two men silly!
Perhaps because he was too frightened or because he was struck by murderous aura, the man's body trembled violently. A warm current flowed out from between his legs. A foul smell filled the air, causing Ye Fan to frown.
The woman next to her rolled her eyes and almost fainted.
"Brother... No, hero!! I know I was wrong, please let me go... It was her! It was this bitch's idea to sell my son! I was brainwashed by her!!"
The man slapped the woman in the face suddenly, bringing her back to her senses after she was almost frightened to death. She stared at the man blankly with her mouth wide open, unable to utter a word.
Ye Fan frowned and watched the scene calmly, but his eyes were always on little Zhou Ping not far away.
After a moment, he suddenly spoke:
"Zhou Ping, you were the one who was sold, and you were also the one who was abused... You have the final say on how to deal with them."
Hearing these words, the man and woman who were frantically begging for mercy were both stunned.
They turned their heads and looked at the young man standing alone in the ruins, with shocking scarlet remains on his body, and he was silent.
"Son, son! Dad knows he was wrong. Dad really knows he was wrong..."
The man finally came to his senses, and as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, he stumbled to his feet and fell to his knees with a plop, about ten meters away from Xiao Zhou Ping.
He didn't dare to get too close to Xiao Zhou Ping. After all, the scene of Xiao Zhou Ping killing the monster with a sword was too bloody and brutal. He didn't understand what happened to Xiao Zhou Ping, but his decades of experience in the society told him that the boy in front of him was no longer the bully who could be ravaged by him at will.
Xiao Zhou Ping still stood there, saying nothing. The silence that once represented a weak victim in the eyes of men now sounded like thunder, deafening.
He was really scared...
Thinking back to everything he had done to Xiao Zhou Ping, he was really afraid that Xiao Zhou Ping would chop him in half with one sword. At this moment, he threw all his man's dignity and father's rights behind his back. He wished he could kowtow to him on the spot in exchange for his life.
"Little bitch! I'm your mother! Do you dare to kill your mother?!" A sharp female voice came from the side. The dishevelled woman rushed to Xiao Zhou Ping like a madman, grabbed his shoulders and spoke viciously.
"Aren't you a good fighter? That man wants to kill me! Go kill him! Help mom kill him! Do you hear me?!"
She tightly grasped Xiao Zhou Ping's shoulders, pointed a finger at Ye Fan, her eyes full of resentment and madness!
A ripple finally appeared in Xiao Zhou Ping's eyes. He looked at the harsh face so close to him, and his face was filled with sadness...
"…let me go," he muttered.
"Hurry up!! Kill him!! You little bastard, why don't you do it?! Have you forgotten whose belly you came from?! You ungrateful dog! I shouldn't have given birth to you, and I shouldn't have raised you like this..."
"let me go!!!!"
boom!!
The pain and anger that the boy had suppressed in his heart for more than a decade were all condensed in these three words, like a lion's roar that almost deafened the woman's eardrums!
Invisible pressure exploded from Xiao Zhouping's body, directly throwing the woman several meters away. She fell heavily to the ground, followed by a painful groan.
Ye Fan watched all this quietly, his eyes moving away from the woman without any mercy, and looking back at Xiao Zhou Ping:
"Do you need me to help you kill them? Don't worry, I won't leave any traces."
Xiao Zhou Ping was silent for a long time.
"Gathering people to gamble, intentional injury, child trafficking, buying and selling human organs... How many years can I be sentenced to for all these crimes combined?"
"At least twenty years, maybe indefinitely."
Xiao Zhou Ping took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, as if all the burdens on his shoulders had been lifted. "I am not qualified to judge them... Leave it to the law."
"… good."
Ye Fan nodded, and looked at Xiao Zhou Ping with a more complicated look.
He kicked the kneeling man in the back and said in a cold voice, "Your son spared your two lives, why don't you get out of here?!"
The man was caught off guard by the kick and fell to the ground, but he did not dare to show any anger. He crawled to his feet and ran down the mountain without looking back. The woman next to him also ran away and followed closely behind him.
Ye Fan glanced at the two people's backs indifferently, then turned to look at Xiao Zhou Ping.
"Besides your parents, do you have any relatives who can be guardians?"
"Well, I also have my third uncle."
"That's good."
"So, who are you?" Xiao Zhou Ping squinted his eyes and looked at Ye Fan, asking doubtfully, "Are you a policeman?"
"Me? I'm not a policeman, I..."
Jingle Bell-
Ye Fan's second self-introduction was interrupted again. He frowned and took out his mobile phone from his arms.
Seeing the caller, Ye Fan's face flashed with surprise.
"Wait a minute, I'm going to take a call."
"Okay." Little Zhou Ping nodded obediently.
Ye Fan walked aside and answered the phone.
"Hello, Uncle Shang?"
"Did you kill the spider 'Mystery'?"
"…?" Ye Fan was stunned. "How do you know there is a 'mysterious' spider here?"
"Zhou Ping told me this. Zhou Ping four years later." Uncle Shang sighed. "What stage has it reached now?"
"Um... I just treated his eyes, and dealt with his parents. I'm preparing to take him back to the Night's Watch headquarters..."
"No, that's it."
"What's the meaning?"
"Don't you understand yet? The Eye of Time cannot allow us to change history. Everything you have done so far is part of history... It is an established 'fact'. Once you try to do something beyond the historical track, various factors will interrupt you... Don't you realize it?"
Ye Fan was stunned for a while, turned around to look in the direction of Xiao Zhou Ping, and fell into deep thought.
"In Zhou Ping's narration, he didn't know who you were. His interaction with you ended here... Even if you wanted to do something else, you would be interrupted by fate, so our plan would not work at all."
Uncle Shang's voice was somewhat bitter. "The problems we face can only be solved by ourselves. Zhou Ping can't help."
"… I see."
Ye Fan hung up the phone, sighed, and walked towards Xiao Zhou Ping again.
Little Zhou Ping still stood in the ruins, without moving a step, waiting obediently for Ye Fan to come back.
"It doesn't matter who I am... Just think of me as a hero who helps others when he sees injustice." Ye Fan shrugged.
"Next, the police will let your third uncle become your new guardian, and your parents will no longer disturb your life... You have been freed from hell, and it's time to enjoy your life. Maybe one day in the future, we will meet again."
In the blank eyes of Xiao Zhou Ping, Ye Fan walked forward and patted his shoulder gently.
"Boy, I'll wait for you to grow up."
Ye Fan smiled slightly, turned around and walked down the mountain.
Little Zhou Ping came back to his senses and was about to ask something else when the figure in the black coat had already disappeared into the hazy morning glow.
"Hero..."
The young man stood in the rising dawn, staring in the direction he left, lost in thought.
…
Between the mountains and forests.
"Fuck! This is such a fucking weird night!"
The dusty man walked quickly through the forest. After walking a few steps, he looked back and after making sure that he was far away from the monster, he couldn't help cursing.
"That little bastard! We worked so hard to raise him, and he actually wants to send us to jail?!" The woman grabbed the man's arm, "What should we do? Don't you know someone in the underworld? Can you help us escape?"
"Escape? Escape!"
The man seemed to have remembered something and smiled grimly, "That little bastard doesn't understand the law at all. Gambling? Human trafficking? Organ trading? Hehe... Does he have any evidence?"
"You mean..."
"Without evidence, what can he use to report to the police? Just his empty words? Besides, he is still a minor and cannot sue himself. We are his parents. If we just find a hospital to write him a mental disorder certificate, wouldn't that be easy for us to arrest him?"
The man spat and said viciously, "You little bastard who hasn't even grown all his hair yet, you still want to fight me? Just wait and see!"
Hearing this, the woman's eyes suddenly lit up and she cursed:
"This little bastard is an ungrateful bastard! He will be dealt with sooner or later!"
"Yeah?"
A voice like that from the underworld rang out from the woods, and the figures of the man and woman paused at the same time!
They turned their heads suddenly and saw a figure in a black windbreaker slowly walking towards them in the dark forest. With his appearance, the temperature around him dropped rapidly!
Seeing that person's appearance, the man's face once again showed fear! !
"You... Why are you here?!!"
Ye Fan did not answer his question, but just stepped forward calmly and said lightly:
"In theory, the job of the Night Watch is to deal with 'mysterious' cases. Criminal cases are not our responsibility. Using the Forbidden Ruins to harm or even kill ordinary people is a serious violation of discipline..."
Feeling Ye Fan's terrifying aura, the man and woman's legs began to tremble uncontrollably again, and the feeling of being dominated by fear once again filled their minds. Reason told them to leave here as soon as possible, but their bodies could not move even a step under Ye Fan's gaze.
Ding-
Ye Fan snapped his fingers, and an emblem was shot from his fingertips into the sky, fell among the fallen leaves on the ground, and was buried without a trace.
Wearing a black windbreaker, Ye Fan walked forward in the dead silent forest. He loosened the collar of his shirt with one hand.
"Fortunately, I'm not wearing a cape today... nor am I carrying a straight knife."
The fist of flesh and blood was waving in the dark forest. A phantom flashed through the flesh and blood. A flock of flying birds was startled from the forest and disappeared at the end of the sky.
…
[2016]
A dark shadow lightly climbed up the second-floor window and entered the bedroom.
"It's half past five now, and there are still four hours before the noodle shop opens. I can still sleep a little longer." Zhou Ping lay on his back on the bed and yawned.
"You haven't finished yet. What will happen after we go down the mountain?" Uncle Shang floated beside him and asked.
"Then I met the police who blocked the road on my way down the mountain. My third uncle also received my call for help and came to pick me up as soon as possible. He later became my guardian... As for my parents, I had already called the police, but the police said they couldn't find them either. They must have fled because of the crime. I haven't seen them since then."
Zhou Ping turned his head to look at Uncle Shang, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally spoke,
"Do you...really want to watch me sleep?"
Uncle Shang: …
"According to what you said, you killed a 'mysterious' when you were a child. How could you still be an ordinary person now? Your Forbidden Ruins should have awakened long ago."
"I don't know, but I definitely don't have the super powers you mentioned."
"Then do you feel a special energy in your mind?"
"What kind of energy?"
"It's just... like water, a cup of tea, a pool of water, a river, or even an ocean?"
Zhou Ping lay on the bed and thought seriously for a moment.
"Maybe not."
Uncle Shang frowned and muttered to himself, "It shouldn't be like this... Logically speaking, your talent should be quite terrifying. It's impossible that you still can't sense the existence of spiritual power in four years..."
"Maybe I didn't perceive it carefully enough?"
"It's possible. Try to feel it carefully again."
"… good."
Zhou Ping's eyes slowly closed.
One minute, ten minutes, half an hour...
Until a slight shout was heard, Uncle Shang's eyelids jumped suddenly. He looked at Zhou Ping who was tired and fell asleep, and sighed helplessly...
"This child..."
Uncle Shang did not wake Zhou Ping up. After all, he was really tired. He worked in a noodle shop during the day and secretly worked in a convenience store at night. He could only sleep four hours a day. As an ordinary person, Zhou Ping was really working hard and living seriously.
Uncle Shang sat down at Zhou Ping's small table. Outside the window was an alley with birds singing and flowers blooming. Early risers rode their bikes away in a hurry, old men and women lined up to buy vegetables, and the aroma of steamed buns from the breakfast shop wafted in the air. This small road in Xijin City was filled with the breath of the city and the world.
For some reason, Uncle Shang suddenly had a feeling that Zhou Ping, who was sleeping soundly on the bed at the moment, seemed to belong here...
It is a miracle that a child who came out of a hellish family did not go astray and had no resentment in his heart. Instead, he continued to live his life steadily, just like a pure lotus blooming from extremely evil soil.
Perhaps it is precisely because he is such a person that he can become the rising bright star in the future destiny of mankind...
"Should I go back... or..."
Uncle Shang turned to look at the sleeping Zhou Ping, with a hesitant look on his face.
Facts have proved that the Eye of Time cannot change history. His original plan to help Zhou Ping rise in advance and resist the invasion of the gods into Daxia also fell through... In 2012, Daxia can only rely on its own strength to fight against the disaster, so it seems that there is no point for him to continue to stay in this era.
Maintaining his sight in this era comes at the cost of his eyes and life. The longer his sight stays here, the more vision he will lose when he returns. When he becomes completely blind, the [Eye of Time] will also be unable to be activated, and with his current lifespan, he cannot withstand too much damage.
But looking at Zhou Ping lying on the bed, Uncle Shang felt reluctant to let him go... It would be such a pity to let such a rough gem be buried in the streets.
Uncle Shang loves talents. Although Zhou Ping himself does not have combat capabilities, he is the best in the world in research on the development of the Forbidden Ruins. Wang Qing, the commander-in-chief of the Great Xia Night Watch, and Venerable Ye Fan were both brought up by him. He believes that as long as he is given some time, Zhou Ping will definitely grow up quickly.
In the quiet bedroom, Uncle Shang sat alone at the table, seemingly lost in thought.
Time passes by every second.
Finally, Zhou Ping's eyelashes trembled slightly, and after a moment he struggled to sit up.
"Sorry... I seem to have fallen asleep." Zhou Ping said in a low voice.
"It's okay." Uncle Shang turned around and smiled at him.
Zhou Ping was about to say something when his eyes suddenly fixed and he asked in confusion: "Your body...why does it seem to be a little lighter than before?"
"Because the time I stay in this era is limited." Uncle Shang stood up, looked directly at Zhou Ping, and said seriously, "Put this matter aside for now... Let me ask you, do you want to control your own power?"
"Control your own...power?"
"Just like you killed that spider four years ago, but you can do more. Your limit is far more than that. To be honest, even I can't see how far you can grow..." Uncle Shang took a deep breath, "But with greater power, it also means greater responsibility. Are you willing?"
Hearing this, Zhou Ping's mind unconsciously emerged the mysterious man in a black coat and with a blurred face on the mountain four years ago...
"Like... a hero?" His eyes lit up slightly.
"Um."
"Yes!" Zhou Ping nodded heavily, "I want to be a hero too!"
Hearing Zhou Ping's answer, Shang Shu smiled, "I can only stay in this era for three days at most... In three days, I will help you pave the way for your future. One day, you will become the strongest person."
"First, start by sensing mental power."
"I just calculated that four years ago, you were able to kill the 'Chuan' realm 'Mystery', which means that your mental strength at that time was at least the 'Chuan' realm. After four years of natural growth, you should have been able to touch the threshold of the 'Hai' realm, so..."
Hearing this, Zhou Ping seemed to remember something. He wanted to interrupt but was too embarrassed, so he silently raised his hand.
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
"Teacher, I seemed to sense something when I was dreaming just now." Zhou Ping blinked, "I don't know if it's an illusion, but I seemed to... see an overflowing bottle. The shape of the bottle is very strange. I seem to have seen it in that book...
What's his name, 'Klein'?"
Uncle Shang's smile suddenly froze.
…
[2012]
Cangnan City.
A young girl in a tattered cloak walked with her head lowered in the deserted alley.
No one knew where this cloak came from. It was twice as wide as her body. The fat hat covered the girl's face, and strands of silver-white hair could be vaguely seen hanging down.
"who?!"
The girl who was walking seemed to have noticed something. She suddenly turned her head and looked behind her, her eyes full of vigilance.
On the back of her hand, a complex pattern suddenly lit up!
In the shadow of the alley, a human-shaped black shadow was outlined, and a red pupil between the black shadow's eyebrows slowly opened, like an elegant gentleman in the dark night.
"Hello, Ji Nian." He raised his hand to press down the brim of his hat and smiled.
"You can call me, [Voyeur]..."