"Little Xuanzi, take me to see him." I said.

Because I thought of something important.

Although Xiao Xuanzi didn't know what I meant, when I said this, he seemed to understand and nodded, and took us to the backyard.

By the time we got to the room, the lunch box that had been placed on the windowsill had already been taken. There was movement in the room, and I motioned for them to all wait outside, and by myself, I quietly entered the room.

The sound of squirming inside should be that he is eating.

The door to the back room on the left is ajar, and that's where the sound comes from. I crept over and pushed open the door, but when I opened it, half of my meal was on the table, and the man was gone.

He was very alert, and must have heard my movements, and immediately hid.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you!" I said.

However, no one responded.

In this room, in addition to a table on this side and a bed on the other side, there are bookshelves in front of it, and there are at least a dozen rows of bookshelves, all of which are Taoist classics.

In the room, there was a slight smell of blood.

The smell of blood came from the side of the bed, and I walked over to it, with a small barrel and rusty iron tongs.

There were blood stains on the bedding.

What's going on?

The smell of blood came from the barrel, and I took the candlestick and looked at it, and I couldn't help but be surprised. What I saw were scales the size of fingernails, bloody, and looked like they had just been pulled out.

I carefully picked up a piece and looked closely, and saw that it resembled snake scales. Thinking of Xiao Xuanzi's statement, he was said to be a monster by the villagers, could it be that he was the same as when I was a child, and he was covered in scales? And he couldn't accept himself like this, so he hid here, pulling off his scales one by one, just to be a normal child.

The same sadness reminds me of my past.

Abusive, ostracized, afraid, fearful......

All the things from the past came to my mind. For a moment, I had a sore nose, and he might be like me, not a monster. Even if it's really a monster, you can still live well, and you don't have to hide in this corner of the underworld, pull off your scales, and secretly lick your wounds.

I stood up and wanted to get him back because, I knew, I could repair his wounds.

At this moment, I heard a "hissing" sound behind the bookshelf over there, which was very faint, but soon disappeared again. I know he's hiding there.

"You don't have to worry, I won't hurt you." I said.

"You get out!"

"Get out!"

He seemed to get very emotional and yelled at me. That voice is just a child, which makes people feel distressed to listen to.

"Don't get excited, I'm a friend of Xiao Xuanzi, I want to help you." I said.

"He doesn't keep his word! Not my friend! He said, looking very angry, and then I heard footsteps behind the bookshelf over there.

I saw a little kid coming out from behind the bookshelf. He is about the same size as Xiao Xuanzi, and his height is not much different, but he is tightly wrapped all over his body. His arms, and his legs, were thickly wrapped, but blood seeped out of the thick strips of cloth.

This scene is distressing to watch.

"You get out, get out! My business, it's none of your business, get out! "He yelled at me, and the more he did this, the more distressing it became, and if he had been hiding in this dark room, he would never have been able to get out of that psychological shadow.

"Can we sit down and have a good talk?" I asked.

"You're human, and I, not human, what are you talking about?"

As he finished saying this, suddenly, a roar of rage came out of his throat. The cloth wrapped around his whole body shattered in an instant, and his body was changing.

A moment later, he was transformed into a cyan python.

The python was scarred, apparently caused by the removal of many scales. It swooped and slammed at me, and it said angrily, "In this case, do you still want to talk to me?" ”

"Of course we want to talk about it, why not?" I asked rhetorically.

It lunged at me suddenly, its fangs sharp and strange. And I, on the other hand, raised my hand to change the fingers and directly sealed the center of the python's eyebrows.

It fell to the ground, and the body of the python gradually transformed into the appearance of a child. If it's a snake demon, I seal his eyebrows like this, and it will only make him keep the body of a python. However, he is different, after I sealed his eyebrows, he became a child, which is the opposite of the snake demon.

"You're a demon hunter, do you want to catch me?" It crawled up, looked at me viciously, and asked.

He was covered in scars all over his body, and those places that were not scarred were scars everywhere. However, under the scar, new scales still grow.

"I'm not a demon hunter, and I'm not a Taoist. You pull out all the scales, but those scales will still grow back, so why not accept them? I asked.

He smiled wryly.

"Accept? If you grow scales, can you accept it? He looked at me and asked.

I didn't answer immediately, but rolled up my sleeves, and the breath in my palms flowed, and the scales on my left and right hands were all visible.

At that moment, he was stunned.

"It's not if, I'm like you, covered in scales. When I was a child, as soon as I dipped in alcohol, all these scales would show up, and they would call me a monster. The only difference between the two of us is that the color of the scales is different, you are covered in green scales, and I am covered in white scales. I said.

After I said that, he just looked at me like that.

For a moment, everything seemed to be quiet.

I knew that he needed a process of digestion, and from childhood to adulthood, he found his own kind for the first time. This feeling, more than any kind of comfort, is more realistic.

He suddenly began to cry, and at the beginning of his crying, it was difficult to stop the tears. I went over and asked him to sit down on the edge of the bed and use a spell to temporarily seal the wound on his body.

"You're just like me...... It's a youkai, right? He asked.

He is only about ten years old, but those eyes are full of vicissitudes. I can't imagine how many terrible things have happened to him.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"My mother died in childbirth the year I gave birth, and my father saw that I was a monster, so he left me and ran away. My grandfather gave me a name, Chen Liuzi. However, my grandfather fell ill and died when I was three years old, and I begged for food in the village to make a living, but not only did they not give me food, but they beat me......"

As he spoke, he couldn't stop crying.

I patted him on the shoulder and said, "Those things are in the past, Rokuko, and I can tell you for sure that you really are not a monster." Even if you're covered in scales, you're not a monster. What's more, even if you are really a youkai, you are not harmful, and those who bully you are more hateful than youkai! ”

Chen Liuzi shook his head and said, "I'm not a monster, why do I have scales all over my body?" ”

"I just sealed your eyebrow soul vein, if you are a monster, seal the eyebrow soul vein, you will show your original form. And you just appeared in your original form on your own, and after I sealed your soul vein, you changed back to your current appearance. This is enough to show that you are not a monster. You've been here for so long, and you must have read some books to know what I mean. ”

My words were like a ray of sunshine shining into his heart.

For the first time, I saw brilliance in his gaze.

"For your own sake, those scales don't really need to be pulled off." I said because I had seen that the scales on his body had gradually receded after I sealed the soul veins of his eyebrows for him.

Seeing this, he was even more surprised.

He even knelt down at me, I helped him up, and I said, "Liuzi, in fact, these scales will not be a burden to you, on the contrary, they are the beginning of your difference!" ”

I clenched my fists and let my scales show again, and continued, "These scales, more than once, have saved my life. ”

He suddenly fell to his knees at me again.

"Master!"

I patted him on the shoulder and told him to get up first, and then, taking a few bites of his meal, took it and handed it to him.

His stomach was growling, and I said, "There's no hurry, let's eat first." Eat your last meal here, and then come with me to eat outside, and you don't have to hide here. ”

Chen Liuzi took his rice bowl and cried while eating.

For the first time, he felt that the food was fragrant in his mouth, not bitter as before. "Sixth son, when were you born?" I asked.