Chapter 111: The Curse of Fate
Playing cards, the largest of the fifty-four cards, the joker, are divided into two, the big ghost and the little ghost, also known as the big king and the little king respectively.
"King? Is it the head of the service society? β
Lao Tian smiled: "You have been to Homeland Island, and you have also been to the headquarters of the service agency. You see the situation there. In fact, there is no such thing as a leader or leader in the service, and the top of the service is a committee, a committee of twelve people who are flower cards to decide most of the decisions of the service. There is no such thing as a dΓΊcΓ‘i. β
"So, the king of playing cards, what's going on in the service club?"
"It's a status symbol." When Lao Tian said this, he frowned, as if he was reluctant to say more, as if he was not willing to mention the man more.
He lowered his head and thought for a while: "I saw the sad Mingyue in Paris, I really couldn't see her being wronged, so I went to the homeland island to find that guy to theorize, and we even started a fight - but unfortunately, I lost at that time." β
Chen Xiao didn't speak, but glanced at Lao Tian more.
Lost?!
"Don't be surprised, cΔo is a very strong ability, and besides, this ability can be applied to a wide range of fields, strictly speaking, it's almost a weakness ability! Whether it is used in combat or other fields. Lao Tian smiled bitterly: "What I am good at is martial arts, but unfortunately no matter how fast my sword is, no matter how clever my moves are, under his time control, it is difficult to have a chance to stick to his body and cause him harm." You know...... This world is all about matter. All limited by time! β
"I can't take the kids away from the island. I could only go back to see Mingyue. And then...... I took her out of Paris and back to China with her. Lao Tian's eyes became more and more sad.
"Of those rΓ¬s, I spent the most time alone with her, and even more alone than when the three of us traveled together in Europe. But she never loved me. She treats me like a very good friend. I walked with her, but I couldn't help her...... She was a very smart woman and knew how hard I was. Enlighten me: What if you can beat him? Can you put a sword on his neck and force him to come back and continue to love me? Feelings cannot be forced. β
Lao Tian shook his head: "Every time she says this, she will keep tears in her eyes and start drinking. At that time, the only thing I could do was drink with her. We drank on the West Lake, from the south to the north, from the east to the west. She is often in the mood for it. Feel free to point in one direction, and we'll go all the way in that direction. Then one day when she gets tired of it, she will go in another direction, and we will go somewhere else. She talked to me a lot, but she never mentioned my feelings for her. Finally one day......"
Chen Xiao couldn't help but move her eyebrows: "What? β
"Finally, one day, I couldn't help but speak first." Lao Tian sighed: "No way, I am also a human being, and if I am a human being, I will have my own ideas." Since she is not happy. Since that guy is minus her. Then I thought, maybe...... Will it be possible for her to be with me. I also want. If I were with me, I would never fail her, and I would definitely make her happy. So, one day, I asked her Mingyue, do you know that I love you very much in my heart? β¦β¦ Hey! When I asked her that, she didn't seem surprised, as if she had expected me to ask, and told me she knew. Her expression was calm and calm, but I was disappointed because the look in her eyes told me that I had no hope at all.
So, I asked her: Don't you want to say something to me?
She looked into my eyes and said in a soft voice: Brother Tian, what can I say to you? Do you say to you, forget me, in the future you will meet an excellent girl who is very suitable for you, and will bring you happiness...... But these words are too hypocritical. I don't like to say such hypocritical things, so I'd rather not say anything. Because I know, you'll see what I mean.
When I heard that, I was sad, really sad.
I asked her what she wanted to do in the future. She told me that she wanted to open a watch shop.
When she was in Europe, she loved to play with clocks. Because...... That guy's ability is cΔo to control time! So, she chose to open a watch shop!
In those years, she was a sad woman, she was abandoned by her husband, and her daughter was robbed, she couldn't do anything, and I couldn't do anything. I can only do everything in my power to hope for her to be happy. She likes clocks, so I tried to help her collect all kinds of expensive clocks from all over the world, and then accompanied her to open a watch shop, and spent most of my time guarding her and protecting her.
Unfortunately, later, she died. β
Lao Tian flicked his tears: "I have been with her for ten years, and in ten years, I have watched her like a slowly withering flower, just like this little by little, a woman who was originally bright and bright has become silent, and there is no longer a trace of joy and smile." You know, she was only thirty years old when she died!! In those ten years, I went to Homeland Island a few more times to find that bastard, and I fought him several times, but I couldn't beat that guy. At the last time, though...... When I got back to the island, I told the bastard that Mingyue was dying. That bastard finally had some people who promised me to take their daughter out of the island to meet Mingyue. At that time, the girl was already twelve years old, and she looked very much like her mother, especially when she smiled, and she was almost as beautiful as her mother. β
"Later, after the girl went back with me to see Mingyue, we buried Mingyue, what I didn't expect was that when I was buried, that bastard suddenly came from the island, in front of Mingyue's grave, I couldn't help but draw my sword at him, because in my opinion. He was the one who killed Mingyue!!
That. It was the first time I hurt him after I had tried with him many times in ten years!
I remember very well that day he suddenly came without telling me, appeared in front of the grave, and stood there quietly alone. I can see that. There was a trace of regret and guilt in his eyes, but it was this regret and guilt that made me hate this guy even more.
And that time. When I made a move on him, he unexpectedly did not fight back at all, but just blindly resisted and dodged. Eventually, he seemed completely out of shape, and I stabbed him in the chest with a sword.
I really want to go up and make up for it and kill that bastard! But looking at Mingyue's tombstone, I know that even if Mingyue is dead, she is still thinking of him in her heart! I can't kill the man she loves in front of Mingyue's eyes!
And...... And their daughter was there.
I remember it well. I was glaring at him. I asked him why he didn't fight back, why didn't he dodge.
He was bleeding from his mouth, laughing miserably, and told me that I had failed! That road, there is no way. And because of it, everything is lost. At the time, I didn't understand what that meant, but after years of knowing, I finally understood!
The guy went away in pain since that day. We never saw each other again. I went back to the service headquarters several times after that. I never saw him again, and I heard that he had later moved away from the island. Stayed elsewhere. For many years, I didn't see him again until I left the service.
Their daughter told me that she didn't want to go back to the island. She wanted to inherit her mother's watch shop. Naturally, I wouldn't refuse such a request, and in my opinion, she shouldn't have gone back to that bastard. It's just that I'm worried that bastard will come back and forcibly take her away.
But after he was injured and left, he never returned. I accompanied the little girl and started to help her run the watch shop, she was only twelve years old, she was extremely intelligent, she knew everything, she had the inheritance ability, she had all the abilities of her parents, including the bastard's time ability!
For many years, I took care of her as a daughter, and until she grew up, she called me uncle, and finally she had a lover of her own, started a family, and gave birth to a child...... Her husband is an ordinary person, but soon, we were surprised to find that her daughter still inherited the ability to inherit! When a child is born, he has a lot of abilities! It's almost a copy of her mother's back then!
At that time, I understood that inheritance abilities can be inherited! This ability was first seen in Mingyue's daughter, and then it will always be inherited by her descendants! Mingyuedi's daughter, gave birth to another daughter, we named her Nianyue, in honor of her grandmother, I once loved the woman in the land.
But a new problem has happened!
Just after Xiao Nianyue was born, her mother, who was Mingyue's daughter, suddenly lost her abilities! The knowledge in her head hadn't been lost, but the time ability she had copied from her father was gone!
It's as if all these abilities were transferred to Xiao Nianyue's body at once!
In addition to being knowledgeable, she has almost become an ordinary person.
When Xiao Nianyue was fourteen years old, I ushered in the turbulent era of war in China that lasted for more than half a century, and I had no choice but to leave China with their family and bring them to North America.
Unfortunately, in a later accident, the husband and wife died in a car accident that went far away.
Later, I had to go back and leave North America with Xiao Nianyue, she was still too young, and I didn't worry about her alone. And it just so happened that I had to go back to the island for a while to do something, so I took her back to the island and ...... She met a man on the island who was a paranormal and could transfigulate.
What happened next, just like what happened many years ago, the two met and fell in love...... From beginning to end, I was like a father guarding Xiao Nianyue. In fact...... If you count from the relationship between me and Mingyue, I can almost be regarded as her grandfather, and if you talk about actual age, I'm afraid it's even more ......
Xiao Nianyue later had offspring, and this time it was still a daughter. And then, just like when she was born all those years ago! After the child was born, it seemed that Xiao Nianyue's time ability was taken away immediately, and Xiao Nianyue became an ordinary person.
But at the same time. Because Nianyue's husband has a shapeshifting ability. When a child is born, he has mastered two abilities at once: time and transformation! β
The old field god sè is very tired.
"I have been accompanying Xiao Nianyuedi's daughter to get married and have children again...... However, what happened later was not as happy and smooth as imagined. β
Lao Tian said this. sighed: "Moreover, I finally understand why that bastard said it in the first place. It's a failure! The path he pursued would not work at all! It doesn't work at all! β
"Why?"
Chen Xiao was very concerned.
Lao Tian's god sΓ¨ is very yΔ«n Yu: "Start with the daughter of the bright moon!" Mingyue's daughter was thirty-seven years old when she died in an accident! And later, Di Xiao Nianyue only lived to be thirty-nine years old! Xiao Nianyue's daughter only lived to be thirty-eight years old! If the death of Yue's daughter was an accident, but Xiao Nianyue, and Xiao Nianyue's daughter...... It's all normal birth, old age, sickness and death, but it's too early! None of them lived past the age of forty! This is indeed an irony! The so-called inheritance, although it allows human beings to directly inherit all the knowledge of their predecessors through heredity, but. But at the same time. Children will take away all the power of the mother's land! At the same time, the mother's life span is greatly reduced! As I said, although it has saved more than ten years of study time, it has shortened the life expectancy even more! β
Chen Xiao's heart was shocked!
Don't live to be forty?
According to the story told by Lao Tian, the phoenix is a descendant of Mingyue...... Can't you survive...... Forty?!
"Actually, I tried to find that bastard for this! Because I think maybe only he knows. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to see him again, and he didn't seem to want to see me again. But later. After all, there are still my friends in the service club...... Well. Skofy: You've seen it, just years ago. Phoenix's mother, who was with us at the time, was the owner of a watch shop, and I was worried that she wouldn't live to be forty years old. But to my surprise, when she lived to be in her thirties, she was still as beautiful and delicate as a girl. There is no trace of aging. Of course, this is a premise, and she has always been single.
After Shi Gaofei gave her a thorough examination, he told me a guess that perhaps this inheritance had some kind of natural flaw.
Originally, it was a low-probability chance combination of two special genes, and some kind of mutation that we can't understand has occurred, resulting in a new ability. But while this ability is called a legacy, it also allows the child to take all of the mother's abilities with them.
Don't forget, that bastard in the first place...... He's a long-lived guy too! Although he is not as good as me, as a supernatural being, he can also live for about two hundred years. It doesn't make sense that his children inherited the ability of time from him, but they didn't pass on his longevity, and they didn't live to be forty.
Therefore, Shi Gaofei's guess has a lot to do with fertility!
When a child is born, all the abilities from the mother's mutation will be sucked away! As a result, the mother not only loses abilities such as time control, transformation, mind reading, etc., but also absorbs the ability of longevity!
It even caused damage to the mother's vitality, so that after the life force passed, the aging accelerated, and before the age of forty, he would die of physical health problems.
There is a huge flaw in this inheritance!
Once the offspring is born, it means that there is not much left of the mother's life.
It's a pity that Phoenix's mother finally fell in love with a man. That man was not a stranger, but he made Phoenix's mother tempted. She was in her thirties at the time, but she was still as beautiful as a girl, and the man loved her to death, and finally Phoenix's mother was finally tempted.
Although I told her that once she got married and had children, she might repeat the path of her mother and ancestors, not only losing her powers, but also dying young.
But after all, the power of love is great.
As soon as she came, she loved that man very much at that time, and she was desperate. Even if it's death, be with that man! Even I tried hard to persuade her that even if she wanted to be with that man, as long as she didn't have children. But Phoenix's mother still refused to listen. No matter what, she wanted to give birth to an offspring for that man. Second, Shi Gaofei only made a guess at that time. Not entirely sure. Phoenix's mother loved that man to the extreme. She retorted to me, "What if the guess is wrong, and you won't live to be forty years old even if you don't have children?" That's why she's willing to risk her life to do it......"
Chen Xiao sighed.
Needless to say, the rest of the story.
Now that the phoenix has been born, ...... Need you say anything?
After getting to know Phoenix. I had never heard her speak of her mother...... Presumably......
"Mother Phoenix finally broke the lifespan limit of Mingyue's offspring and lived past forty years old, but that was because she gave birth to a child late. I calculated. Once Mingyue's offspring gives birth to a child, then the lifespan will not exceed twenty years at most! Hmph, that terrible inheritance, although magical, seems to have become a shackle, cursing Mingyue's queen in it! β
Chen Xiao thought for a while, and thought of a possibility: "Since it is, during the birth process, the baby will take away the mother's land ability...... So. Descendants of the bright moon. What if it's a man? As long as it's not a woman and doesn't have children, it's fine, right? β
"It's like a curse too." Lao Tian shook his head, and he was very helpless: "After the bright moon, several generations of her descendants are all women!" Not a single male! I asked Shi Gaofei and he explained that it was like a genetic mutation! Regardless of Mingyue's descendants, the man who married later was an ordinary person or an anomaly. The offspring born are all female xΓ¬ng! Until now. There is no exception! β
These words, word by word. It's really like a curse, knocking Chen Xiao's heart!!
Curse! That damn legacy! It's like a curse!!
Inheritance saves more than ten years of time, but it makes people pay more for life! And irreversible......
It is as if the invisible hand of fate has strangled the throat of mankind and does not allow mankind to open up a new path!
And Mingyue's descendants are this sacrificed sacrifice! A victim of fate to show his might!!
So, Chen Xiao ...... If you really like that girl Phoenix, if you are really together in the future, then, for her good, you must not let her give me offspring! Otherwise, you'll hurt her! β
Chen Xiao nodded silently, was silent for a while, and suddenly remembered something in his heart.
"Ahh That's right! Who is Phoenix's father? β
Lao Tian smiled, he stared at Chen Xiao's eyes: "It seems that you have guessed a lot of things." β
He shook his head and sighed: "I have to say, this is a new variable in an accident!" Hmph, Phoenix's mother was very lucky, she met someone back then, that is, ...... Firework! It's a pity that even the prophecy of fireworks can't stop a woman who is deeply in love from giving birth to a child for the man she loves!
And when Phoenix's mother was dying, she told me that the fireworks had predicted that she would not live for long. So...... She thought, she won't live long anyway, so it's better to fight hard and give birth to the man she loves!
It's a pity that fireworks can't save her! Because fireworks can predict the future, but they can't change it.
However, there is a new change in the details of this matter:
Phoenix's mother, the child she gave birth to, is a pair of twin daughters! β
Saying that, Lao Tian looked at Chen Xiao and smiled faintly: "That's right, you guessed right, Phoenix's father's surname is Xiao!" And the girl in your school who is in love with Xiao is Phoenix's own sister. β
After a pause, Lao Tian smiled faintly: "Now, do you know that Xiao Qing's girl is so young, how can she practice such good kung fu?" Because this is the ability to pass on at all! Almost from birth, she inherited a lot of martial arts knowledge from her father. It's just that this time the twins have produced a new change! That is, the ability is not inherited equally by the two girls! Rather, there are serious imbalances. β
"How?" Chen Xiao's heart suddenly lifted.
"In other words, according to my later investigation, it seems that Phoenix has inherited almost all of its abilities! Her mother, her grandmother, and other previous generations, through constant marriages with other abilities, eventually accumulated several abilities, all of which were inherited from Phoenix herself, making her a rare and strange existence with multiple abilities other than you. But Xiao Qing doesn't seem to have inherited any abilities! It's just that he has been smarter than ordinary children since he was a child, and his talent in martial arts is very strong.
It's just a coincidence, a coincidence with very little odds for the twins, the phoenix can be said to be lucky and unlucky, inheriting all the abilities and also treasure the curse of that lifespan! But Xiao Qing is almost no different from an ordinary girl.
At the same time, in addition to the ability, there has been a certain degree of weakening in the inheritance of knowledge, and both girls have inherited some, but they are incomplete, which is far worse than the normal inheritance that can generally inherit about ninety percent of the knowledge. The inheritance of knowledge has only reached a very weak level, which is manifested in being good at a specific field, such as Xiao Qing's martial arts field. It seems that when it is time to pass on knowledge, there is some disorder.
Moreover, the descendants of Mingyue in the past will inherit a lot of their mother's memories after they are born. But this time, because it's a twin, it's also affected by an unknown aspect, and the memory loss is extremely serious!
Phoenix's mother ran back to me by herself and gave birth to a child!
But strangely, after the baby was born, she immediately begged me to do something for her. β
"What?"
"Send one of them back to the Xiao family! The one that doesn't have the ability! And the phoenix, which can be supernatural, was left behind by me. Lao Tian sighed: "I didn't know why at the time, but Phoenix's mother told me before she died that this decision had something to do with fireworks." β
Firework! Sure enough, it's fireworks!
I heard Lao Tian continue: "And just a few days later, the phoenix was also picked up. Even I don't know who the person who picked up the phoenix is, because of this incident, the phoenix's mother is hiding it from me! β
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