After Yuan Lao was busy, it was already more than six o'clock in the afternoon, and outside the window in winter, especially in the mountains and forests, it was starting to get dark, and the people in the yard were leaving one after another.

Upstairs, Yuan Lao sat across from us, staring at the two of us, his beard shaking.

He didn't speak, and neither of us dared to speak, he endured it for a long time, and finally sighed and said, "Things are even more difficult than imagined so far, you are not in this position, you may not understand." ”

"Even if you two don't come to me, I'll go find you." Yuan Lao took a sip of tea, and my brother and I hurriedly poured it.

"Let's make a long story short, explain things clearly, and save you a lot of dreams at night." Yuan Lao touched his white beard and said calmly: "From the time the demon slaying order was issued to the present, I have received tens of thousands of reports from eight directions, or even more, and many have not been replied to. ”

"During this period, I asked Chen Xie to help count it, do you know how many people have died since the day the gate of purgatory was opened?"

As soon as he said this, my heart "chuckled", my palms began to sweat, my heart beat violently, not afraid, but self-blame and uneasiness, and an extremely strong sense of guilt welled up in my heart.

For from beginning to end, I was the one who entered purgatory, and I was the one who opened the door, in other words, I was the one who killed these people.

"Altogether... How many? "My voice was uncontrollable and became shaky.

"At least 10,000 people." He let out a sigh, as if coming from a long distance: "You must know that the people who escaped from purgatory are not ordinary ghosts, they kill people, many times, it seems to be caused by accidents, only people like us can see that it is the work of evil spirits. ”

"Everywhere the eye touches, there is sorrow and sorrow."

"I'm sorry..."I lowered my head, not knowing what else to say, I knew what to say in my heart, but I couldn't say a word.

Yuan Lao waved his hand and sighed: "Now there is no need to say sorry anymore, alas, a month ago, someone began to ask me, saying that I hope you can quit the ghost world and never come back." ”

"I didn't pay attention to it, but later, more and more people began to make joint requests, and they were prepared and thoughtful." Yuan Lao said: "On the one hand, these people want to test whether I am a qualified leader, and at the same time, they don't want you to stay any longer, and you can still get a righteous name." ”

"There are so many people that I can't protect you anymore."

When Yuan Lao said this, there was a lot of helplessness in his tone. I can hear it.

My brother and I sat there, stunned, even forgetting where we were.

“... Exit to go? But where else can we go after quitting? ”

"The world is big, and the four seas are home." Yuan Lao said helplessly: "The matter has come to this, no matter how much you say, the only way for you now is to leave, and from now on you will no longer care about anything in the ghost world, and if you continue like this, you can still protect yourself, otherwise these people will never agree to you stay!" ”

"You guys think about it, when you decide to quit, just leave by yourself, I won't send you, I'm old, I can't see you parting, by the way, when you leave, remember to leave everything on your body, you can't take it out."

"Something? What is it? ”

"They say you have a pair of high heels and a ring on your hand, and there are evil spirits hidden in them, and if you really want to quit, you can leave these things behind, and someone will find a way to destroy them for you."

When my brother heard this, his eyes widened: "Destroy?!" This ring was left to the two of us by my grandfather, and I swear I would never take it off to anyone! ”

"I'm not going to hand over my shoes either." I felt extremely uncomfortable at the moment, and my voice was almost choked: "I've already been sorry for Chen Qing once, and there won't be a second time in this life... ”

"Confused!" Yuan coughed angrily: "How much ability do you think you have?" If you don't leave things behind, who will believe that you quit? If you don't quit, it means that you are the enemy of all of them, understand? They can kill you justifiably, and I can't help you! ”

Yuan Lao coughed badly, Wu Tian hurriedly brought water over, Chen Xie pushed his glasses on the side and said: "Actually, I have already calculated for you, and all kinds of plans have been considered, but no matter which direction you look at, your best way out is to leave things behind, and then disappear and leave, otherwise, you will definitely be killed, and it will also leave my master, leaving a stigma that has no prestige and cannot manage the ghost world!" It's best not to do things that harm others! ”

"Nope! We won't give Chen Qing and the ring to them! Even if you kill me, you won't hand it over! My brother gritted his teeth, his body trembled, and suddenly knelt down and said, "Old Yuan! Your kindness to our brothers will not be repaid in this life! In the next life, I will be a ghost, and I will come back to repay you! But this time, forgive us..."

"You guys! You're so mad at me! Old Yuan's beard trembled, and he sighed: "You don't really know these people at all, with your strength, how can you fight others?" Many of them are taking advantage of this incident to gain a foothold in the Demon Eradication Realm, and even want to take the place of the Warlock's premier position, and if you insist on going your own way, I can't help you! I can only watch them kill you! ”

My brother and I didn't speak, we knelt on the ground, silent on each other.

It was raining in the mountains and forests outside the wooden window, and the sound of rain hitting the leaves at night seemed to be a thousand horses galloping.

The people in the room were silent, no one spoke, no one moved.

The wind was blowing outside, and the wooden windows creaked and creaked.

After a long time, Yuan Lao got up and walked slowly, and Wu Tian helped him to the window.

He turned his back to us, did not look back, and said in an old voice: "This room, there have been generations of Warlock Venerables, and I can't count how many generations I have, when I was young, I never thought that I could become a Venerable, but destiny is impermanent, like a turntable, and finally the fate falls on me." ”

"It's the same in this world, generation after generation of people are running day and night, all kinds of people, coming and going, they are running beside the rivers, under the stars, many people are lost on the way, die on the road, I don't want you to die on the road like them." Yuan Lao sighed at the rainy mountains and forests outside the window: "Let me tell you a story, do you want to hear it?" ”

He said slowly: "Many years ago, it was also a rainy night like this, the mountains and forests were dark and oppressive, and I couldn't see anything, and at that time I was not a Venerable One, and I accompanied the previous Venerable, that is, my master, to recuperate here, and one night when it suddenly rained heavily, two people broke in. ”

"These two men, a man and a woman, were covered in mud and rain, and they climbed up from the next step of the mountain."

"The most surprising thing is that in their arms, holding a child, who is only a few months old, is wrapped in clothes in the heavy rain, crying heartbreakingly."

"They came to my master and said that they didn't have long to live, and they hoped that the master could adopt them for them."

"Master asked them what their names were and what happened? Why do you say that you don't have a long life? And what's going on with this boy? ”

"The man holding the child said that his surname was Tu, his name was Tuyoushan, and the one in his arms was his son, called Tuyi."

The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, the wind was blowing, the ghost was crying wolf, but I didn't seem to hear it, the whole person was stunned in place, the memory was pulled far away at that moment, and the familiar name was repeated in my mouth: "Tuyou Mountain... Tuyou Mountain... It's you, grandpa... You've been here before..."

"After he and the woman left the child, they left in the heavy rain, and when they left, they also said a word to my master, Master, when this child grows up, you must tell him that his surname is Tu, his name is Tuyi, and he is a member of our Tu family."

After Yuan Lao finished speaking, he looked back at us and let out a sigh, when this sigh was young, I was disobedient, and my father hated the same when iron was not made of steel.

When I was a child, my memories of my grandfather suddenly became blurry, and I couldn't remember anything.