The Old Man and the Monster Chapter 1 Different Paths, Same Endings

When Yu Sheng woke up, he felt a terrible pain in the back of his head, as if someone had given him a hard blow with a wooden hammer. He opened his eyes to the dirty canopy, and it took him a moment to realize that he was back in the van.

The blacksmith's music was still terrible, the car was warm, and he lay alone in the back row of the van for the rest of his life.

"I'm ......" Yu Sheng couldn't remember how he got to the car, he leaned on the back of his seat and tried to sit up, but the van jolted violently at the right time. The back of the rest of his head slammed against the window frame, and he couldn't help but snort and lay back down.

"You're awake," the big faces on the left and right leaned over, "we're almost in the woods, you get ready." ”

"What?" "Yu Sheng, holding back the pain in his headβ€”he probably knew where the headache was coming from when he first woke upβ€”frowned, "City in the Woods?"

"Yes," grinned left and right, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, "you must not forget, there is a god named Weng Xiaowei there waiting for us to rescue." ”

"......" Yu Sheng looked dazed, what did he mean by this, time had he turned back?

"Okay, don't tease him," Ding Qing couldn't help but say, "He needs to rest, and it's a miracle that he didn't get injured when he fell from such a high place." ”

"Probably I pressed on that guy," Yu Sheng pushed away his grinning faces with one hand and groaned, taking advantage of the smooth gap of the van to look left and right, but he didn't see the target of the action.

"We're going back like this?"

"yes, what else?" left and right did not have the shame of just flickering for the rest of their lives.

"What about Weng Xiaowei?" Yu Sheng turned his head and found that it was this group of people when the car came up, and it was still this group of people when he left, the target of their trip Weng Xiaowei was nowhere to be found, I don't know if he was missing or had been taken away by the Near-God Army, "He didn't go with us?" or was he preempted by the Near-God Army?"

Left and right did not answer, and turned his head in a daze.

"The target is dead," the store manager said, glaring left and right, "Dead in the melee, the mission can only end here." ”

"......," the rest of the life was silent, "what is this?"

'They got zero, we got zero, everybody was tied. The blacksmith suddenly shouted.

"For those who they can't win over, they usually capture and study them alive," said the store manager, "so the death of the target, although it is a pity, is not unacceptable." ”

The store manager clapped his palms with a faint smile on his face, "What's more, we got rid of moving back." So you're not right, this time we get a point. ”

The rest of my life was silent for longer.

"What about us, what if we can't win over the gods?"

"Then we can only ......," the store manager looked meaningfully at Yu Sheng, "kill them." ”

When he returned to the coffee shop, it was late at night, and he was physically and mentally exhausted for the rest of his life, and the first thing he did was to strip off his clothes and fall asleep on his bed, and he didn't get up sleepily until three o'clock the next day.

Yesterday's dress was no longer worn, a hole in the abdomen was broken, and there were blood stains all around, and the rest of his life was held in his hand for a long time, and he vaguely remembered the dagger in the sniper's hand when he was on the roof of the building.

Yu Sheng was startled, and his hand immediately touched the place where he was stabbed in his memory.

No pain, no abnormality.

Yu Sheng looked down and saw that there were no six-pack abs on his stomach, only a small layer of small belly, which was extremely smooth, not to mention the wound, and he didn't even see a red mark.

Yu Sheng recalled the words left and right, and immediately guessed Ding Qing.

The role of the rest of his life on the battlefield is almost zero, but he has already experienced the catastrophe of life and death, and he is still a little dazed and disappointed in his own ability.

The rags of the rest of his life were taken away, and the clothes worn by everyone that day were burned by the blacksmiths.

The rest of his life didn't care what the blacksmith did with the final little tail, he was looking up at the TV news about Woods in the bar.

The experience of several people for two whole days was only given three minutes of footage on the TV news, most of which were footage of the onlookers at the time, and finally the official summary of the reporter. The general content is that someone in Lin Zhongcheng killed multiple victims, including parents, and sabotaged an industrial pipeline, causing toxic gas leakage, and the onlookers fell unconscious, and finally the suspect was killed on the spot, and the unconscious people were no longer in serious trouble after full treatment.

Yu Sheng sat behind the bar, holding a cup of coffee in his hand, feeling quite uncomfortable and feeling empty.

Strange to say, for them to experience life and death, but only a few short formulas on the news, this is certainly not a bad thing for the wanderers, which shows that the upper echelons of the empire are still unswervingly implementing the principle of the gods not appearing in the world for many years, and the wanderers are certainly not stupid enough to take the initiative to break this decision of the empire.

Wanderers understood early on that if ordinary people knew about their existence far beyond ordinary people, they would have to deal with not only the Near-God Army, but also the Empire, which could attack with all their might, and the terrified ordinary people, who would have nowhere to hide.

Even the Three Chaos City, which is now considered the best hiding place for the gods, once that happens, I am afraid that it will be the first to become a hunting ground for the gods.

When the news was broadcast on the TV in the coffee shop, he was sitting on the other side of the bar eating his lunch two hours late, and when he heard the news, he was just taking a big bite of the rice in his mouth, and the picture quickly moved on to the next news.

"That's it?" Yu Sheng put down the teacup, and a few customers in the store chatted about each other, not even paying attention to what was playing on the TV, most of them ordered a cup of coffee, and then officially started to rub the air conditioner and the Internet.

"What's just that?" the left and right mouths are stuffed with something, and it sounds like "ten hungry and six fragrant".

"This news," the rest of his life held his cheeks, a little inexplicably sullen, for his life and death experience was not even a punctuation, although he knew that this was of course good, but he still couldn't help but slander, "That's it, let's just say a few words......"

He swallowed his mouthful of food with great effort left and right, and rolled his eyes in a choked manner, until for a while, when he almost thought that he was about to see the first Yishen person in history who choked himself to death.

"What's there to say about this," gasped left and right, "Of course they want to make big things small, is it possible that they want to publicize the existence of the Yishen Ones to the whole empire? ”

Glancing left and right, "If I'm not mistaken, you should have met that group of people." ”

Yu Sheng immediately remembered the man in black who took all the passengers away on the day of the train accident.

"Did you hear what you just said?" "Poisonous gas, causing people to be unconscious, don't you feel familiar?"

Heavenly Lock, this is the best way for the Near-God Army to cover up the existence of the Divine One, and the traces of the battle can be barely covered up by any reason for the accident. As long as the vast majority of people don't have memories of the gods, even if a few fish slip through the net to talk about it, they will only be treated as babble and laughed off.

β€œ...... It's really sad......" Yu Sheng recalled, and said slowly, "Speaking of which, I heard a colleague talk about it before, he said that he drank too much at noon one day, and met an unusual person once, that person had four arms, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to approach, so he fled from a distance, and after waking up, he always thought it was just a drunken hallucination. ”

After taking a sip of tea for the rest of his life, he began to connect the memories of the past with the present one by one, and he was shocked at this moment that it turned out that the Yishen had always been behind his life, but he never noticed, "Until one day, he found that there were other people who had seen unusual people, and even photographed them, but for some reason, they have not been able to make it public, even if a certain paragraph is circulated, it will only be regarded as an artificially made sensational thing." They also had private gatherings, where everyone exchanged and sorted out their own information. ”

"Oh, there really are such sick people," said left and right, quickly clearing his lunch, hearing the memories of the rest of his life, and the slightly mocking comment, "you didn't attend their ...... once." Patient Mutual Aid Society?"

"Me?" he shook his head when he felt the bitter taste of coffee fill his mouth, "Come on, I thought he was a little chattering at that time, and it was too late to hide from him." But he quit soon after, and I never contacted him again. ”

"Oh, that's cold. "Tidy up and go out and throw away the trash.

"It's not cold," wait until the left and right come back, and continue the topic just now, "You haven't worked, probably can't understand, now people are like this, everyone has their own lives." When working together, you don't see you when you look down, and the relationship is of course close, but once you leave that environment, everyone has their own things, and there is no time and reason to communicate with each other, and the relationship will naturally cool down quickly. ”

"Tsk," he said, stumbling left and right, quite teachable, "I see." ”

"There's a lot more you need to know, young man. The rest of his life sighed and pretended to be old.

Left and right sullen, humming a few words, "Thanks to the fact that I am still a student." ”

"When will school start?" the rest of his life wondered.

"In September, you can not go over or go," he spread his hands left and right, "Anyway, in the future, they will spend money to buy diplomas, anyway, they have money, and it is natural for me, as a son, to spend a flower for them." ”

The rest of his life is the first time he has heard his family mentioned by the left and right, but he doesn't need to observe the words and colors for the rest of his life, and the negative emotions of the left and right about his family are almost written directly on his face, and he can't wait to mark it with a bold and shiny font.

"I heard, you don't live with your parents?" Yu Sheng carefully mentioned it, he was curious, he was curious about what kind of life the gods living in the shadows had, after this period of contact, Yu Sheng found that even if the gods have far beyond ordinary people's abilities, but they can't hide the same joys, sorrows and sorrows as ordinary people, this is the fetters of life outside the shadows to them, firmly engraved in the hearts of these people, your past has shaped the present you, whether you admit it or not, throw away the ability to be different, in the final analysis, the gods are still ordinary people, gods and people, God's ability, but fall in the human body。

Although curious, Yu Sheng didn't want to show too much concern and cause disgust from the left and right, no matter how terrible and evil it was to the empire as a wanderer, but for the rest of his life, it was a rare new friend.

What's more, although he has not fought for the rest of his life, but in his heart, the empire does not belong to any righteous party.

"yes, I've lived on my own since they divorced. "Watching the rest of my life collect money and find money, bored, "Otherwise, my dad lives with his new girlfriend, how embarrassing it is for me to go, my mother and ......" He hesitated for a while, "My sister ...... together"

"Then why don't you live with your mother," Yu Sheng didn't notice the hesitation left and right, he stared at the cash register at this time, his mind full of today's income, "Four hundred." ”

"I ......" was flashed by this sudden change in topic, "What four hundred?"

"Today's income," Yu Sheng was a little helpless, "There is only a few hundred yuan of profit a day, which is probably not enough for the rent, I really don't know how the store manager persevered." ”

"Remind you, I'm the majority shareholder of the coffee shop," waving his hand from side to side, ignoring the rest of his life's surprise, "don't look at me like that, the family has money, and the two of them probably feel guilty, and every month they will give my son who doesn't come home a considerable amount of money." What's more, this small building is the store manager's own, although the blacksmith uncle is a good man, but his studio has no cost, and almost all he earns is profit. ”

"No wonder," Yu Sheng nodded, and turned the subject back again, "Then why don't you live with your mother and sister?"

There was a little headache left and right, "You used to chat like this before?"

The rest of his life was full of innocence.

"It's okay, imaginative, unrestrained," thought left and right for a while, and then slowly explained, "If there is anyone in our family who feels the most guilty, it should probably be me, I used to ...... I'm a little sorry for my sister......"

"Huh......" Yu Sheng gradually raised his eyebrows, this is a bit informative......

"What are you thinking?" Seeing the strange expression of the rest of his life, he couldn't cry or laugh left and right.

The rest of his life shrugged.

There was silence for a long time before he spoke again: "I discovered that I had the ability six years ago, and like most of the gods, it was difficult for me to control this sudden power at the beginning, but my ability is different from yours, if my power is not controlled well, ......"

Yu Sheng nodded, of course he understood the meaning of the left and right, if the lethality of the power of the gods was compared to a weapon, then Yu Sheng's ability could be called a balloon sledgehammer at most, and the power of the left and right was a powerful bomb.

His eyes crossed the rest of his life, and he recalled the past, and only continued after a while: "My parents quarreled too many times, and at first they would pay attention to avoiding me and my sister, but later their conflicts became deeper and deeper, and the quarrels became more and more intense, and in the last days, they didn't care about it at all. Even if we were all in front of each other, they would still point to each other's noses and turn out the trivial things more than ten years ago to accuse each other, and their fierce and vicious look was really too strange, and often scared my sister to tears. ”

"Hmph," he snorted coldly at this, and he glanced at the rest of his life waiting for the rest of his life, "Listen to the story, I'm thirsty, can you bring me a cup of iced coffee." ”

"Only ice water. The rest of my life refused without hesitation.

"I'm a shareholder...... Forget it......" Rolling his eyes left and right, "one day, they quarreled again, more fiercely than ever, and my sister and I hid in the kitchen. ”

The left and right are very similar to themselves, and the rest of my life thinks, the beginning of the two people's experiences is almost exactly the same, but they walk different roads in the middle, but they arrive at the same place and here because of various coincidences.

"Listening to their louder and louder quarrels that day, I couldn't hold back any longer, and the ability just appeared. He chuckled left and right, full of bitterness, "You think, in the kitchen, all kinds of things, just flew into the sky, startling me and my sister, and the two of us just looked up, and then this ability suddenly disappeared......"

Yu Sheng was silent, and a picture came to his mind: two little children, looking up at various kitchen utensils floating in the air, and then those various sharp or heavy utensils suddenly lost traction and fell towards the two people.

"I'm lucky, I just got a knife on my arm, but my sister she ......" there was a moment of silence, "she burned half of her face from the hot oil that spilled out." ”

He didn't know what to say for the rest of his life, he could imagine that after everything that happened that day, the pain and guilt in his heart would be difficult to go away from today, and it would be with him for the rest of his life.

"You haven't seen her, my sister is so cute," the left and right eyes passed through the rest of her life, falling into a memory somewhere, "she is the most beautiful one in the family, the little princess in the eyes of everyone." She likes to wear pink, loves puppies, and likes to hold my legs and deliberately keep me from walking. That little face, round and bouncy, I like to touch her face the most, and then run around with her on my back. ”

Left and right smiled wryly and retracted his gaze to look at Yu Sheng, those eyes were already full of tears.

"Don't talk about touching it now, I don't even dare to look at half of her face, can you imagine a beautiful and cheerful girl, half of her face is like an angel, and the other half of her face is a demon in hell?"

Yu Sheng wanted to say that he could imagine, but this imagination was painful and suffocating, and he finally understood the true meaning of the wanderer.

They still have ties in this world, but deep down in everyone's heart, they have exiled themselves.