The scorching sun is high, the sky is blue and cloudless, and the outside is like an oven.

In a barren mountain in the remote mountainous area of Province F, the leaves of flowers and trees are dying, but a thin wisp of light smoke wafts in the mountain.

The breeze blew, bringing a touch of coolness, but Xu Xi tightened the windbreaker on his body, feeling a little cold. I coughed twice when I was blown by the wind, and the cough touched my lungs, and it hurt like being cut by a silk thread. His pale and blue face turned a strange red, and he gasped twice, his breathing as heavy and difficult as a bellows.

Pick up a few pieces of paper and place them on the fire in front of you, letting the weakened fire burn again.

"Dad, Mom, children are not filial!" Tears circulated in the eye sockets, and finally broke out of the eyes, fell to the ground, and fell into eight petals.

Xu Xi's age is not very old, only twenty-three years old, but his complexion is unusually pale, with bruises in the white, and even a lot of skin has cracked, revealing black-purple bloodshots, which is by no means what a normal person should look like.

Smoked by the smoke of the dark paper, Xu Xi coughed violently twice.

At this moment, a hissing sound sounded, and a five-step snake crawled out of the rock crevice of the tomb, and it swam in front of Xu Xi, sticking out its tongue, staring at Xu Xi.

There was a snake, and it was still this highly venomous snake. Xu Xi looked around his body, but he couldn't find a dead stick that could be used. Sighing, he reached out to grab the five-step snake at the moment. But I didn't want to kill it, I just wanted to throw it away.

The next moment, the lightning-like probe of the five-step snake bit Xu Xi's arm.

The imaginary pain did not come, on the contrary, the body felt a little lighter, not as painful and tired as before.

After a few seconds, the five-step snake let go of its mouth and fell to the floor, its body twitching, and it died! Sure enough, compared to the poison of the five-step snake, is his body more poisonous?

Sighing, when Xu Xi stretched out his hand to throw away the body of the five-step snake, suddenly the five-step snake raised its head again, instantly coiled up, and looked up at Xu Xi, the snake's eyes were pitch black, like a black gem, but there was black smoke.

The next moment, the snake spoke: "Xu Xi, make a deal with me!" I can give you a new lease of life! ”

Even if death was imminent, Xu Xi's voice was still three degrees higher: "What are you?" ”

"I, I am a snake demon, and all the snakes in the world are under my control! I've been following you for a long time, you're a very interesting person, and as long as you sign a contract with me, I will grant you eternal life and endless power. ”

Eternal life? Strength? Xu Xi shook his head with difficulty: "No, I won't be wrong again and again." ”

The snake sneered in a low voice: "Wrong again and again? Have you really learned your lesson? You are very smart, but unfortunately you are just a little smart, do you remember when you were a child, your parents took you to the county seat to study? Your father wants his son to become a dragon, but unfortunately, after arriving in the city, you fall into the whirlpool of desire and hypocrisy, and you are the culprit who killed them. ”

Xu Xi closed his eyes in pain, yes, he was the culprit who caused the death of his parents!

Back then, in order to let him receive a better education and change his fate, his parents took him to the county seat to study, which changed his life from then on.

In the village, every child wears patched clothes, rolls in the mud, plays happily in the mud, and goes up to the tree to pick peaches and eat fruits. But it's different in the city, the children here don't wear patched clothes, the children here don't play with mud, the children here take a bath every three days, and the happiest thing for the children here is to talk about the gray wolf, be happy, eat snacks, and collect cards.

And he, no money!

The snake did not stop: "Humph! It is you who stretch out your hand to your parents, roar wantonly when something goes wrong, and increase their burden, you are a parasite that knocks on the bone and sucks the marrow, parasitic on your parents who have no skills, and do all the dirty work in order to earn a little money. Just to make yourself live decently! ”

Xu Xi nodded slightly, put a few more pieces of dark paper, and let the fire continue to burn: "Yes, everything is just like you said, they are my fault!" Now that I'm going to die, let me go down to earth to forgive my sins!" ”

The other party was right, in the increasingly clumsy and emaciated figure of his parents, he came out of the remote countryside and erased the difference between himself and his peers in the city. It was he who squandered every penny of his parents' hard-earned money! And this, but for his own childish and ridiculous face, now think about it, how ridiculous!

In the face of life and death, there is something that cannot be seen: "Dad, Mom! You must wait for me, and I will be filial to you underground. ”

The snake did not let him go, but wanted to tear the scars in his heart and magnify his guilt: "It is you, selfish, taking the compensation money that your father exchanged for his life, squandering extravagantly, harming others and yourself!" And now I'm giving you a chance, a chance to see a different side of the world. Let you have the ability to make up for regrets! ”

Xu Xi calmly accepted the snake's condemnation, when death was approaching, he had never been so sober, and because of this, his heart was like a rock, and his heart was even more difficult to be shaken: "Harm others and yourself? Indeed it is! ”

The compensation money that his father had paid for his life had been exhausted by him, and now he had nothing. In the first place, why did you embark on this desperate road?

When I was in high school, a traffic accident took my father's life, and my mother, who couldn't bear the huge blow, became seriously ill and was bedridden and died soon after. And after Xu Xi received a huge amount of compensation from the insurance company, he went to an extreme. At a young age, he began to pursue the mystical ability of unpredictable prophets, the mystical ability to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and the medical skills of the flesh and bones of the living dead. He doesn't want tragedy to happen again, he wants his relatives and friends to have misfortune, and this is just the beginning of another tragedy.

The snake continued to attack and touch the defense line in his heart: "You are ignorant, in order to pursue that ethereal superpower, you put yourself to the test, and finally let your body collapse and send yourself to a dead end. ”

Yes, the other side is right. With the passage of time, he fell into the predicament of no progress in research, and he lost his rationality in anxiety, and under the inducement of various crazy thoughts, Xu Xi's research slowly went astray. In order to obtain supernatural abilities, driven by desire and gambler psychology, he began to do various experiments on his body, such as electric shocks, poisons, Gu worms, curses, etc., he made mistakes again and again, and went further and further on the wrong path, which caused his current situation.

It's all self-inflicted! I've been a joke all my life! But that's the end of the joke!

The snake chuckled: "What's even more ridiculous is that when the superpower you have worked so hard for appears in front of you, do you want to make mistakes again and again, and not seize the opportunity?" ”

"Superpowers, do you teach me?"

"Sign the contract, I can give you the superpowers you have always dreamed of, give you a healthy body, and you can start your life again!"

Xu Xi shook his head slowly but firmly: "No, don't." You're a snake demon, I'm human! If it is not my race, its heart will be different, I have never made the right choice in my life, I will not make mistakes again and again, in order to steal my life, to be a traitor! I don't know what you've taken a fancy to me, but I won't make a deal with the devil to sell my soul to you! ”

The snake scoffed, "Soul? For your filthy soul, what am I going to do? If the soul is really a good thing, as long as I create a natural and man-made disaster, wouldn't it be as much as I wanted? The soul, to me, is of no value! I don't need your soul, I just need you to do a few things for me! ”

Xu Xi closed his mouth, unwilling to deal with the snake demon anymore, he is not a person who is good at words. Moreover, when facing the salesman, Xu Xi grasped a truth, in the face of people who can speak well, don't open your mouth, don't deal with the other party, otherwise, there will be a time when you will suffer! As long as you firmly grasp one point, no person with a normal IQ will do loss-making business, and if you can't do it yourself, the other party won't.

The snake tempted: "This life-saving straw, whether you catch it or not, the choice is yours!" However, only by living can there be hope! ”

Death is within reach, the body is like thousands of ants biting the pain, everywhere it hurts, everywhere it itches, but he is powerless to scratch, to scratch, to drive away all this pain. At this time, as long as you nod your head, all this may be far away from you, and you may really be able to regain your life.

Yes, there is hope in life, but the Xinhua dictionary also tells us a word - life is better than death! There are many people in history who are not afraid of death, and how many people can survive life is better than death? Death may be cruel, but many times it is often a kind of mercy.

It's better to live than to die!

Xu Xi ignored the devil's words anymore, quietly leaned on his parents' graves, and closed his eyes.

A gust of mountain wind blew, taking away the last of his breath.

"Damn it!" The snake was extremely angry and disappointed: "It really deserves to be...... Existence,I can't be tempted in the face of a desperate situation.,It's a pity that I can't sign the contract.,But,Do you think if you don't agree.,I can't help it? ”

The snake demon opened his mouth and spit out a cloud of black mist, which grew in the wind, enveloping Xu Xi's whole body.