"I don't need you to intervene in my affairs!"
I firmly looked at Xu Yingchen with hostile eyes.
"But now you must be suspicious, right?""Wen Jiubai, the person you trust, the person you love. You think he can't hide anything from you anymore, that even if he lies to you, there must be a reason for him, and that must be for your own good. But now you're starting to think that everything you thought was ridiculous."
"Shut up!"
God knows how much I wanted to grab his collar and slap him twice, but the tall black hairy monsters around me made me dare not act rashly.
"What's wrong? Am I wrong?" Xu Yingchen's eyes showed a sly gleam, "If what I said is wrong, just think I'm talking to myself. After all, the most important thing to you right now is Wen Jiubai, Right? Wen Jiubai, Wen Jiubai, everything revolves around Wen Jiubai alone. From the moment you met him, he was like the center of everything, shining like the sun. But he never thought about you, you were like He was led away like a pet. Now you should finally figure it out, right? Because to him, you are just a substitute doll."
"Xu Yingchen!" I ignored any scary monsters around, and greeted him with a punch in the face. But this is his territory, he easily dodged my attack, and grabbed my wrist in one hit.
"Why, are you angry? Am I wrong?" Xu Yingchen glanced at the silent Wen Jiubai with contemptuous eyes, "Did you hear what he just said? You are just one of Wen Qingyu's thousands of reincarnations One, before you, he has met countless 'Wen Qingyu', he met them, got acquainted, fell in love, kissed—oh, maybe he has slept with many of them." Xu Yingchen showed a mocking look look.
"Impossible!" I retorted blurted out.
"Really?" Xu Yingchen turned his gaze to Wen Jiubai, "Then if what I said was false, why didn't he refute it?"
Yes, Wen Jiubai has been silent since Xu Yingchen appeared, without saying a word.
"Wen Jiubai." I controlled my voice and said, "Say something."
But Wen Jiubai avoided my sight, staring at the ground under his feet in silence.
"The most ridiculous thing is that you are the only one who doesn't know about this from the beginning to the end." Xu Yingchen laughed out loud, and walked around me slowly, "I have been watching you all the time, watching you—His Royal Highness. The little weasel next to the fox, the Bai Ze you met in Diecui Mountain, yes, and the cat boss who lives between Yin and Yang. They all know who you are, but there is no one from the beginning to the end Tell you. And you still trust them foolishly, but you don’t know that they treat you as a joke all the time! Oh, and, I almost forgot. Do you know why Wen Jiubai lied to you because I sealed him?"
I shook my head.
"Idiot." Xu Yingchen shook his head, "Yu Ruyi. The legendary treasure that can grant any wish, he lied to you, but he just wanted to use you to get Ruyi! He is also a monster, take a closer look, he and us It’s different, I’m the same as you, a human being! Don’t you understand? All monsters in this world are evil, they’re all viruses in the human world, and they should be eradicated completely!”
I looked blankly at Xu Yingchen who was eloquent. This time, I really don't know what to say. No words can express my feelings. In an instant, the world in my eyes was shattered by something, and the rest of the things were broken into pieces, and none of them was complete.
And at this moment, Wen Jiubai spoke.
I thought he would explain Xu Yingchen's words. Or at least he was able to say "don't trust him" to me. Even if it is such a sentence, I will pull out from my daze and reconsider Xu Yingchen's words.
But Wen Jiubai just said in a low voice, "If you don't hurry up, the best time to break the barrier will be passed."
"Oh, yes, I almost forgot." Xu Yingchen shrugged, spread his hands and said, "Break the barrier, right? It's okay, it's okay, I won't stop you. But Gu Yu, think about it carefully! So what if you broke the barrier? I was killed, and then Yancheng was saved? Maybe. But even if you save the city, what can you do?"
Xu Yingchen approached me, "You should already understand, right? You, just like me, have no place in this world. No matter here or in Beining, you are just a toy named 'Gu Yu', It's just a substitute. You should understand! You and I are the same kind of people, there is no place for nostalgia in this world, princess!"
I lowered my head, took a deep breath, raised it again, and then slowly approached Xu Yingchen.
"I have a question."
"Ask, ask." Xu Yingchen looked very enthusiastic, "As long as it is a question you ask, I will know everything!"
"You said, you are human just like me." I raised my head to look at him, "But, I saw you in my dream. You are the priest next to Qingyu—my side. If that priest is you, How can you, a mere human being, have lived for thousands of years until now?"
And... now Xu Yingchen's appearance is very different from the young man in my dream, it's hard to imagine that they are the same person.
Xu Yingchen laughed out loud, and the laughter reverberating in the dark space made people feel a little creepy.
"Yes, this is a technique I am proud of." Xu Yingchen suddenly stretched out his arm, motioning for me to look at those big black-haired monsters, "Have you seen them?"
I nodded, my heart trembling for a while.
"A monster I've never seen before." I whispered.
Xu Yingchen laughed loudly, "No, you are wrong. They are not monsters—they are genuine human beings!"
My eyes widened and I was speechless.
He said... human
But how is this possible! How could these terrifying monsters covered in black hair be human beings!
"Didn't you ask me why I can live for so long?" Xu Yingchen stretched out his arm, stroking the hair of the frightening black monster lovingly, "No, that's wrong. As a human being, of course I can't live with my body. A long time. The lifespan of human beings is too short. I can only survive by constantly changing my body. Of course, those people whose bodies have been taken away by me are also very poor. Their souls have lost their bodies but they cannot Enter the reincarnation. I have no choice but to train them to be my servants, so that is the best of humanity." Xu Yingchen touched the black-haired monster and said with a smile.