The Demon Boy Descends to the World, Li Mansion, in the Xuanhuang Diagram of the Universe.

After watching the whole process from the conversation between the strong man and the old man to the strong man carrying the old man to the Li Mansion, Nezha sat on the ground without saying a word.

He should have been happy, after all, judging from the conversation between the strong man and the old man, he didn't save a group of white-eyed wolves, and there were still people who knew how to thank him.

But he was not happy at all.

"I really...... Did you save them? ”

Nezha sat on the ground with his knees crossed, and for the first time in his life, he began to reflect on himself.

The frightened gaze of the villagers, the innocent smiling face of the girl, the roar of the big man in the village square, and the old man who knocked blood out of his forehead in front of the Li Mansion......

For the first time in Nezha's life, he began to reflect, was he right? Does he really want to save those people and help those people, or does he really just want to kill the youkai and then accept the gratitude and worship of those people?

"They...... Why are you so afraid of me? ”

Nezha sat on the ground with his knees folded and whispered.

Thinking back to what the big man said in the water curtain, Nezha looked at Gu Yunze fiercely: "Old Gu, do you know what happened when I was born?" ”

"You really want to see it?"

Gu Yunze looked at Nezha's eyes, and Nezha nodded.

"Okay," Gu Yunze waved his hand, and the picture of the water curtain changed again, "This is the picture I took out of the heavenly machine, since you insist on wanting to know, then take a look." ”

Nezha looked at the water curtain, the picture in the water curtain flickered, and he clearly saw that his born self easily seriously injured dozens of people, smiling evilly while holding flames to smash other people's houses.

Or even throw the flames into the crowd.

It wasn't until Taiyi threw out the Qiankun circle and suppressed the demonic nature on Nezha's body that the picture of the water curtain ended.

"This ...... I did it?! ”

Nezha's eyes widened.

"To be precise, it should have been done by you who were controlled by the power in your body when you were just born, and you were unconscious."

Gu Yunze shrugged: "Now you understand why they are so afraid of you?" Because you did have a criminal record when you were born, as far as I know, although you didn't kill anyone, you were seriously injured at least dozens of people, and generally even if demons invade, dozens of people are rarely seriously injured. ”

Gu Yunze paused, and added: "But demons can kill and eat people, and part of their fear of you comes from the damage you caused when you were born, and the other part is fear of your great power. ”

"Fear...... My power? ”

"Do you remember the girl who was going to kick the shuttlecock with you, so do you remember the first time you and your mother kicked the shuttlecock? Your mother is a Terran master who can fight demons head-on, and you inadvertently kicked her into the wall. ”

Gu Yunze explained: "Your strength is far beyond ordinary people, even more than most demons, you should be glad that you didn't kick the shuttlecock with the girl at that time, otherwise if you go down the shuttlecock, the child will be kicked directly into a puddle of minced meat by you." ”

"I'm ......," Nezha's eyes widened, "but I've been able to control my power, huh?" ”

"Yes, you can control it, but the question is how do others find out that you can actually control your own power and you are not dangerous? They only saw you take out a youkai with two moves, destroying half of the village by the way. ”

Gu Yunze shrugged and said.

"I ...... Did it really do? ”

"You mean killing the youkai and destroying half of the village by the way?"

"Hmm."

Nezha nodded sullenly.

"If you want to say wrong, it must be right, after all, you killed a man-eating youkai and saved their lives, it must be right, but the behavior you showed during the battle made it difficult for them to trust or get close to you even if they were grateful to you."

"Why?!"

Nezha asked.

"You already have the answer in your mind, but you don't want to admit it, right?"

“……”

Nezha was silent, Gu Yunze was right, Nezha had an answer in his heart, but he didn't want to admit it from the bottom of his heart - if his father and mother saved people in the eyes of others as a Terran hero to kill demons, then he was a powerful demon and killed another demon.

Nezha must admit that when he killed the bird demon, the most important thing in his heart was definitely not the life of ordinary people - otherwise, he would not be able to draw the bird demon into the village casually, and he was more concerned about whether he could kill this monster.

I care more about whether I can prove myself.

I care more about whether I can be recognized.

Yes, yes.

Although he didn't say it, Nezha knew that he really wanted to be recognized by others.

So he craves the gratitude of others, the respect of others, so he kills the harpy in the village.

He saved a lot of people, but the white-bearded village chief outside said that half of the houses in the village had been destroyed, and half of the fields could no longer grow food—and that people would die because of it.

He really didn't know that demon blood would pollute the fields, but the destruction of the house was completely avoidable, he just had to pay a little attention, as long as he didn't beat the bird demon into the village.

But he didn't, he didn't care about that, he didn't care if the people whose houses were destroyed would have no place to live, all he cared about was whether he could kill the monster and get the approval of others.

It wasn't until the old man said that someone in the village would die that Nezha finally realized that he might not really deserve the gratitude of the villagers, even if he saved them from the harpy.

In the eyes of all the villagers, including the village chief, Nezha just killed the monsters that would threaten their lives, nothing more.

"Lao Gu, I want to go to the village to see ......"

Nezha stood up and said.

"Now? It's getting dark, are you sure you want to go? ”

"Hmm!"

Nezha nodded heavily.

"Good! Let's go! ”

Before Gu Yunze's words fell, the scenery around the two of them had turned into a half-destroyed village.

Some people spent the night lying next to the ruins, and the ruins beside him were his home.

Li Jing did arrange money, food, and accommodation for the village, but half of the village's people, even Li Jing, could not all be resettled for a while, and in the end, they could only temporarily settle those who were the most difficult to survive.

Some of the remaining people were given a piece of land by someone with an intact house, but not many people could afford to give someone a place, so in the end some people had to sleep outside.

Nezha and Gu Yunze stood quietly in the dark night, and the silver moonlight sprinkled down, giving a layer of silver to the brand-new ruins in the village.

Next to the ruins of houses illuminated by the moonlight, hungry villagers curled up and fell asleep.

Nezha's eyes fell on the leader of the "Demon Slaying Gang", who was the girl's sister, his sister was placed because she was too young, but he and his mother did not.

Under the moonlight, the child who had thrown rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves at Nezha quietly got up, he couldn't see Gu Yunze and Nezha - they had invisibility spells on them, he looked at his mother curled up beside him, and took off his small, thin coat.

He put the small, thin, old cloth over his sleeping mother's body, even though it could only cover a small part of his mother's upper body.

The child, topless, burrowed into his mother's arms, pillowed on the ruins, covered with moonlight, and fell back asleep.