Shano: "..."
He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came up with a guess: "This can't be another game you set up, right?"
The boy's brows slowly frowned, and his dark eyes looked at the man in front of him without blinking.
The man laughed dumbfounded, and he replied without guilt: "Of course not."
It's just that he had expected that he would be attacked by the python at night, at most... it would be regarded as taking advantage of the fire.
"Hmm..." Xia Nuo groaned inexplicably, with an inexplicable look on his face, "Let me think about it."
He obviously believed the man's words, because he knew that a man would never lie, he just liked to mislead others with words and actions, making others believe the "truth" they saw, but he could stay out of it and be innocent Yes, this is his usual style.
The boa constrictor outside the window was not so considerate enough to give him time to think about it. He only heard a "crash", and a boa constrictor struck hard, and the glass on the window shattered into pieces and fell to the ground.
Xia Nuo was taken aback, and turned his head in surprise, only to see that the boa constrictor, which was about to crawl in through the hole in the window, was strangled by the suddenly sprouting vines, making a struggling "hissing" sound.
No, it should be said that those vines were originally born there, but they have been hidden in the shadows, never showing their own sense of existence, but now countless spikes have grown on the seemingly harmless vines, piercing the sand-spot python's body. The scales were firmly embedded in its skin.
Xia Nuo vaguely recalled that it was said in "Monster Encyclopedia" that the scales of the sand-spotted python are as hard as magic ore, and magic ore is already the hardest stone in the game world, and the scales of the sand-spotted python are comparable to it. The hardness of the scales can be seen.
——And these vines piercing the scales of the boa constrictor are no more difficult than piercing a piece of tofu.
"You can think about it slowly, don't worry." The man said with a smile as if to prove to him that he didn't mean to force him.
"..."
Xia Nuo was silent for a while, but suddenly asked a seemingly completely irrelevant question: "In your eyes, what kind of existence is a human being?"
"Human beings..." The man paused for a moment, as if he was a little surprised by this question, and seemed to be thinking about how to answer it. After thinking about it, he replied, "Human beings are so contradictory. Unable to comprehend the complex emotions that arise in humans."
"Small and humble, great and lofty, indifferent and ugly, warm and kind...all human beings."
"I have seen people who went through fire and water for their friends and finally chose to betray because of a trivial benefit, the lackeys of the high-ranking people bit their masters for the so-called justice, and the devout believers showed ecstasy when the gods fell. A brave man turns to his enemy... which is human."
"I've also seen a cowardly little man rise up against oppression for his wife and children, order the general who slaughtered the city to risk his life to save the baby who is about to be crushed, and the two opposing sides have a good drink before the final battle... This is also human."
"Complicated and contradictory, like a polyhedron refracting light, if it is not turned over, you will never see its true face clearly."
Xia Nuo looked at the expression on the man's face. When he said this, he was calm and objective, like an outsider who was completely out of the way, commenting on things that had nothing to do with him without emotion.
Involuntarily, he let out a long, long sigh in his heart.
No matter how much a man looks like a human on the outside, he is still not a human on the inside. It is almost impossible for him to think from a human point of view.
Just like now, when a man apologizes to Shano, it is definitely not because he realizes the mistake—maybe in his mind, he will never feel that he has done anything wrong—but because he feels that Shano wants him to apologize , so he made this move.
——Just as he promised, he is willing to fulfill all of Xia Nuo's wishes.
In his cognition, he is definitely not a debtor, but a giver. His apology was not from his heart, but from Xia Nuo.
That's why he was so surprised after Xia Nuo refused to accept his apology—it was like sending a gift but being rejected by the other party. He didn't understand why the other party said to him "" No".
But it doesn't matter, no one stipulates that the "gift" can only be given out once, and he knows that Xia Nuo still wants this "gift", so he chooses to change the method and hold this "gift" in front of Xia Nuo again.
If Xia Nuo refused again, the man would find a more roundabout and gentler way to deliver it to him next time, unless Xia Nuo really didn't want it.
After he figured it out, Xia Nuo even wanted to laugh a little, but he finally laughed out loud, his brows and eyes crooked, his thick eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, and there was a layer of white mist in his eyes.
The man didn't know why, but he was involuntarily immersed in this smile, his eyes followed the boy's shining eyes, the faint dimples on his cheeks, and the faintly red tip of his tongue exposed from the snow-white teeth...all of them fascinated him. reverse.
Maybe it's superfluous to say anything now, the man doesn't want to ask him why he is smiling, he just wants to kiss him fiercely, eat this smile down to the bone, and arbitrarily take it as his own, preventing others from seeing it.
——Such assumptions made him almost unable to extricate himself.
But Xia Nuo didn't give him this chance, the words he said abruptly interrupted the man's thoughts, he said: "I've thought about it——I forgive you."
The man hadn't come back to his senses, his mind was blank for a moment, and he was still thinking after hearing this sentence: What are you thinking about? Forgive what
Then he slowly woke up, with the blankness on his face still subconsciously raised the corners of his lips: "This is really great."
However, he still felt a little empty in his heart, probably because the bright smile disappeared from the young man's face after he finished speaking.
Now that he got the boy's reply, there is no need for the pythons outside the window to exist. The man manipulated the vines and strangled them neatly one by one. The smell of blood permeated the air, and the ground was full of corpses and scattered scales of the pythons. , and then slowly clean them up with vines.
Xia Nuo had been watching all this quietly, and suddenly asked a question: "You said you couldn't understand human feelings, but you said you liked me... Is this a lie?"
The author has something to say: Boss: This is a gift proposition :)
Sorry, my relative’s child was full moon yesterday, I didn’t know what I ate, and I got gastroenteritis at night... I’m going to get an IV drip tomorrow, everyone must learn from it, you really have to pay attention to eating in summer [cover your face ]
Good night dears, I will make up a little bit more tomorrow, please ignore my shortness today.