"How come..." I murmured.
"Hey, to be honest, I hid on purpose two days ago, so that you couldn't find me, I'm really sorry." The boy suddenly stuck out his tongue, scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "But now I have made up my mind , since it’s something you decide to do, you can’t escape.”
"Escape, what are you talking about?" I was confused.
"If you don't leave, it will be too late." Wen Jiubai said.
The boy nodded and bowed to Wen Jiubai and me respectively, "Thank you, we will see you again."
"Wait, what are you going to do?" I subconsciously grabbed the boy, and the boy's body began to emit that warm and strange light.
"If I want to save her daughter, I can still do it at the cost of my only cultivation base." The boy smiled at me.
Then, for no apparent reason, a gust of wind suddenly blew up, and the young man floated up with the gust of wind, his white clothes fluttering, and the light on his body became more and more dazzling. In the end, the light exploded, fluttered, and scattered in the sky like fireflies, more beautiful than any fireworks I have ever seen in my life.
I stared at the sky blankly, my throat was tight, and I didn't speak for a long time.
"Is he... dead?"
After the shock, the heavy sadness came like a flood. I felt out of breath all of a sudden, staggered a few steps, and almost fell to the ground.
"No, it's not enough to die."
Wen Jiubai's words instantly rescued my emotions from hell.
"It's just that I lost all my cultivation and my body returned to its original form. As a monster, this is a shameful thing, but it's not a big deal." Wen Jiubai said calmly.
"What about Grandma Li's daughter?" I turned my head abruptly.
"It should be able to save her life. After all, it is a demon who has devoted all his efforts. It is useless for no reason." Wen Jiubai said softly.
I let out a long sigh of relief, as if I had lost all the strength in my body.
"Yeah, great..."
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The next day, Grandma Li came to the old house again as agreed, but was told by Wen Jiubai that she missed the time with Bai. For three consecutive days after that, Grandma Li came to the old house on time, sometimes only for a while, sometimes for an hour, but Bai never showed up.
But as time went by, Grandma Li also began to bring us good news.
"Did you know? The doctor said today that the cancer cells in Jin Ling's body don't seem to have spread, which is rare. It's really great."
"Oh, let me tell you, there is another piece of good news today! The doctor said that the cancer cells in Jin Ling's body are disappearing. This is simply a miracle! That's great, that Golden Buddha is really good!"
"Thank you Buddha, thank God, thank Bodhisattva, Jin Ling is really getting better slowly. I will never forget your great kindness... Jin Ling is about to be discharged from the hospital, and even the doctors are saying that this is a record in the history of medicine. What a miracle!"
In the end, Grandma Li left with a smile, still chanting Buddha and Bodhisattva, and never returned to the old house.
"She will gradually forget about him." Wen Jiubai leaned against the locust tree in the yard, lowering his eyes, "Humans are like this. When they need others, they think of him. Even the name, voice and appearance I can’t remember all the smiles, and I still have to look for them stubbornly. Once life returns to normal, no matter how important people were, they will gradually be forgotten in the depths of memory.”
"How is that possible!" I retorted subconsciously, "Grandma Li has missed him for so many years—"
Wen Jiubai turned his head to look at me, and said calmly, "How can a person miss someone who has long been forgotten?"
In the evening, I returned to the dormitory from Wen Jiubai's shop.
The three roommates were all there, and when they saw me coming back, they greeted me, as if they were used to me being away from the dormitory for a long time. I wanted to wash up and go to sleep right away, but I couldn't help opening the "Onmyoji" game in my hand while lying on the bed. This mobile game was recommended to me by Su Xiaoyun, let me play it together no matter what, praise this game to the sky.
I wandered around the game casually and played a few rounds with Shikigami. Just as I was about to put down my phone, a player challenged me.
"What, only one person?" I muttered, thinking that I was a novice who had no shikigami, so I accepted the challenge without hesitation.
But within two minutes of the start, I almost jumped out of bed.
"Wait, wait? Abe Seimei at level 70?"
Although there was only one person on the other side, he directly killed the shikigami of my team. That move made people dumbfounded.
When I was holding the phone and couldn't even scold my mother, a message was suddenly sent to me on the other end.
[Abe Seimei]: Haven't slept yet
I'm at a loss, what's the situation, why does this person say hello to me after he abused me? I also had to go back to the past.
[Source Boya]:? ?
Not long after, the other party sent a private chat message.
[Private] [Abe Seimei]: It's been a busy day, go to bed early. Don't let things that are there or not bother you all the time.
I laughed while holding my phone, and immediately understood who it was.
[Private] [Source Boya]: You are the one, you are still playing games at such a late hour, do you look like a competent boss
The news will come back soon.
[Private] [Abe Seimei]: I'm worried about you.
[Private] [Source Boya]: It's better to ask for a huge sum of money than asking about your health.
[Private][Abe Seimei]: (╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻
I couldn't help covering my mouth and sniggering, Wen Jiubai, who is so cold and cold in real life, can even use emoji to show his cuteness in the game. It always feels... a little cute.
[Private] [Abe Seimei]: By the way, these two days, you have to be careful of small animals.
[Privacy] [Source Boya]: ... ?
[Private] [Abe Seimei]: Go to bed early, good night.
Before I could ask clearly, the game showed that Seimei Abe was offline.
"You bastard!" I yelled angrily.
After a while, the buddy on the lower bunk poked his head out and said to me with a smile, "Gu Yu, what are you doing laughing and cursing on the bed?"
I turned over and got under the quilt, "Don't worry about me!"
"Let's just say that Gu Yu has a girlfriend! You still don't admit it! Hey—"
"Shut up and sleep!"