The so-called 'eight-tailed cat demon', as the name suggests, is an old cat that has grown eight tails and has been trained to become a spirit. After the old cat cultivates the second tail, it will grow another tail every eighty years. Until 640 years later, when the ninth tail grows, it has achieved great success in cultivation, and it can be ranked among the immortals.
But it is not so easy to be among the fairy world. When they grow their ninth tails, the Buddha will let them go to the mortal world to find a predestined person to help them realize a wish in order to test them. When that person's wish is fulfilled, their test will be considered passed, but at the same time, the ninth tail will fall off on its own, and they will be reduced from a nine-tailed fairy beast to an eight-tailed cat demon again. In this way, in another eighty years, when they grow their ninth tail, they still have to find a predestined person to fulfill that person's wish, and then the ninth tail falls off again, year after year, and repeats itself.
On the TV screen, the scientists failed to find out the reason why the wild cat grew three tails. In vain, they could only use the "eight-tailed cat demon" in the myth to figure it out. Various legends of the 'cat demon'.
Gong Lixin frowned a little while listening to the story of the "eight-tailed cat demon". Song Haoran, who was hugging him, also felt a little cruel, and sighed, "Didn't the Buddha deliberately play the eight-tailed cat demon? Fulfilling other people's wishes, Article 9 The tail will fall off, so the eight-tailed cat demon will never grow a ninth tail forever, and will be trapped in the mortal world forever?"
"It's just a legend, why do you take it seriously?" Lin Wenbo glanced at him and said calmly.
"Yes, there are no ghosts and gods in the world. People make up such stories just to find some hope of life in the illusion." Gong Xiangyi pursed her lips, with a smile on her face, but the smile didn't penetrate her eyes at all.
"It's always good to have hope in life." Song Haoran glanced at Gong Xiangyi with unpredictable eyes. After he finished speaking, he paused, with a little interest in his tone, and asked, "If you were to meet a cat demon who just grew a ninth tail, what would you wish for?"
"Of course it made me stronger!" Gong Xiangyi replied without thinking. Having experienced the apocalypse, she knows the cruelty of survival better than anyone else. No one can be trusted, no one can rely on, the only thing that can keep him alive is strength, superior strength.
Lin Wenbo glanced at Gong Xiangyi secretly, his eyes darkened slightly, and said in a deep voice, "I hope to be with the people I love forever, and wish them a safe and happy life."
Gong Xiangyi's heart was moved when she heard the words, and the sneer that seemed to have nothing on her face was finally tinged with warmth. Song Haoran smiled, and teased, "Brother, you are a literary artist, and these seem to be two wishes." After speaking, the smile grew bigger, and he laughed at himself, "My wish may be a bit vulgar, but I hope for world peace."
World peace—these four words are indeed very vulgar, but they are the most urgent wish that needs to be realized at the moment. The three of them fell into silence after hearing the words, and the cloud of the coming end of the world weighed heavily on their hearts again, which was so heavy that it was almost suffocating.
"Li Xin, tell me what wish you will make?" Song Haoran realized that he had made a slip of the tongue after finally relaxing for a day and brought up the end of the day, so he touched Gong Lixin's cheek to divert everyone's attention.
"Well," Gong Lixin pursed his lips, and said seriously, "My wish is that the eight-tailed cat demon can grow a ninth tail and be imprisoned in the mortal world forever. It's too painful." He was also imprisoned before. I know what it feels like to lose my freedom. The eight-tailed cat demon seems to have great powers, coming and going like the wind, but its endless life has been trapped in a cycle of death, and the situation is more tragic than his previous life. If one sentence can solve this deadlock, why not do it
The young man's voice was soft and waxy, clear to the bottom, the young man's desire was without desire, pure and true, but Song Haoran and the others were shocked before he finished speaking, and the living room fell into a brief silence.
It turned out that the Buddha's test was not a joke, nor was it a dead end. As long as the eight-tailed cat demon is lucky enough to meet a pure and innocent person who is willing to imagine for it wholeheartedly and get such a wish, it will naturally grow a ninth tail. Presumably, after meeting such a person, even if countless wishes are fulfilled for mortals and countless tails are dropped, the resentment accumulated by the eight-tailed cat demon can be dissipated overnight.
The Buddha is not only testing the state of mind of the cat demon, but also testing the hearts of the people. People who can make such a wish have no desires, no desires, and a pure and innocent disposition.
Song Haoran's heart turned a thousand times, and he looked down at the serious-looking young man in his arms, suddenly feeling ashamed. Compared with teenagers, how selfish and hypocritical are they? Such a pure and beautiful child should be pampered and protected, and live a happy life, instead of struggling to survive and suffering all kinds of hardships in the last days.
Thinking of this, Song Haoran suddenly felt a pain in his heart. He gritted his teeth secretly, tightened his arms hard, and firmly embedded the boy into his chest, for fear that he would never be able to touch him again in the next moment. At this moment, an obsession rose in his heart - if he could keep the beauty in his arms, he would pay any price.
The way Lin Wenbo looked at Gong Lixin also changed completely, hiding a deep shock. At the same time, the frequency of his heartbeat gradually accelerated, until the last violent beating stopped, leaving behind waves of heart palpitations, he slowly let go of his held breath, looked at Gong Lixin who was embraced by his friend, his eyes There was a trace of loss and sadness that I didn't even notice.
"Hey, hypocrisy!" Gong Xiangyi's cold ridicule broke the silence in the living room. She stood up, folded her hands on her chest, condescendingly glanced at Gong Lixin who was being protected by Song Haoran, and hurriedly left the living room.
The more Gong Lixin puts on a pure and lovely look, the more she wants to tear him into pieces. In her previous life, she was deceived by his illusion and fell into a place of eternal doom. In this life, she will never repeat the same mistakes again. However, I didn't expect Haoran to accept his tricks. It was obviously different from her previous life. She was a little uneasy and frustrated.
"Wenbo, it's time for you to have a good talk with Xiangyi. Don't you think she has changed a lot recently?" Song Haoran suppressed his anger and spoke in a deep voice. Seeing that the child in his arms blinked a pair of big clear eyes with a confused expression , without the slightest bit of grudge, which slightly eased the coldness on his face.
"I will." Lin Wenbo rubbed Gong Lixin's hair reassuringly, his tone was a little cold, and he didn't intend to chase him out at all.
How could Lin Wenbo, her fiancé, not notice Gong Xiangyi's change? But many times she wanted to have a long talk with Gong Xiangyi, but she refused with various excuses. Gong Xiangyi was really busy, so he had no reason to blame her, but his desire to know her and get close to her disappeared bit by bit.
Unknowingly, Gong Xiangyi and Lin Wenbo are going through the old path of changing their relationship from strong to weak in the previous life, but this time the positions of the two parties are reversed. It's a pity that Gong Xiangyi still tried her best to reverse all the tragedies that didn't happen, but she missed what she should cherish most at the beginning.
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Time is still passing by mercilessly, following the "Revolution of Things", the "Revolution of Human Beings" of the Trilogy of Destruction has finally arrived. The largest influenza outbreak in human history has hit the globe. According to the preliminary statistics of the World Health Organization, the influenza epidemic has affected at least 65% of the world's population, an unprecedented scale.
Fortunately, this new type of cold virus is very fragile. It will be killed by human white blood cells three days after it invades the human body. Some experts appealed in the media that if you catch a cold, unless you have a severe fever and coma, you don't need to be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment, so as not to cause congestion and paralysis of medical institutions.
Seeing the flu-related news broadcast on TV in turn, Father Gong and others felt more and more depressed day by day. At the same time, they felt very fortunate that they believed Gong Xiangyi's words and made preparations in advance.
Father Gong sent someone to make a detailed registration of all those who had flu in the army, so that they could be managed in the future. According to Gong Xiangyi's prediction, most of the people who have been infected with this influenza will become zombies, a small number will become supernatural beings, and those without any symptoms are still ordinary people.
Register these soldiers early, and when the end of the world comes, he can take precautions in time and isolate these people to prevent new zombies from hurting people and people with supernatural powers from being hurt. As for the infected people, there was nothing he could do because they were too numerous and outside his jurisdiction.
In the Gong family's team, apart from Father Gong, Mr. Lin and Gong Xiangyi, who had obtained supernatural powers, did not have symptoms of a cold. Gong Lixin, Song Haoran, and Lin Wenbo all had fevers to varying degrees.
Father Gong was so anxious. During the three days when his son had a fever, his hair turned gray countless times, and he seemed to have aged by dozens of years. Because the daughter once predicted that he, his son, and Mr. Lin would all be ordinary people, while Lin Wenbo and Song Haoran would become supernatural beings. The daughter's prophecy has not been missed once, but now his son who should be fine suddenly has a fever, and he does not know whether he will become a supernatural person or a zombie in the future. This unknown torment makes him exhausted physically and mentally.
On the other side, Gong Xiangyi was also secretly surprised. She remembered very clearly that in her last life, Gong Lixin didn't have any supernatural powers, and only relied on her deceptively pretty face to survive until the late end of the world. Why does fate seem to go wrong every time it happens to him in this life? If Gong Lixin possesses supernatural powers, what should he do? Can he avoid his subsequent plot? Gong Xiangyi was in shock and doubt.
This infection doesn't mean anything. Gong Lixin may survive the virus' damage to his body and become a one-in-a-million superpower, or he may become one of the many zombies. Of course, the possibility of becoming a zombie is much greater. Thinking of this, Gong Xiangyi raised her eyebrows, the fear in her heart receded like a tide, and the arc of her lips was cold and scary.
Song Haoran and Lin Wenbo obviously also considered this possibility. They forcibly suppressed the fear in their hearts, tried their best to think about the good side, treated Gong Lixin who was in a fever with more care and cared for him, and wished they could treat him better, even better!
In fact, the fact that Gong Lixin was infected by the virus was just a misunderstanding. One month before the end of the world, the last poison of Biodan—the blood jade tree frog was finally found in Brazil.
After all the raw materials were gathered, Gong Lixin immediately began to refine Baidu Dan. The day when the elixir was refined happened to be the day when the virus broke out on a large scale, and it was even more coincidental that after taking the Baidu elixir and using internal force to catalyze the medicinal properties, the body would have a hyperthermic reaction due to the erosion of hundreds of toxins, and it would be the same as the zombie virus infection. The symptoms are very similar.
Misunderstandings were created in this way, so that later Gong Lixin was recognized as a supernatural being, and he was also a rare multi-line supernatural being. This is a later story.