Chapter 617: Life
What is my relationship with Scar?
To be exact, there is almost nothing to do, but he has saved me from the desperate situation of death several times, I owe him so much, it is indeed like what Scar said, every time he meets me, it is his misfortune, but it is my greatest luck.
I held back my tears, bit my lip tightly and said, "What can I do for you?" β
"You don't have to do anything, while I can hold on...... Hurry up and run from the cave, I know that you kid has a lot of potential, and when you really reach a certain height, you can think about revenge for me. The corners of Old Scar's mouth had overflowed with a large amount of blood, and he said with a reluctant smile.
I yelled, "No, I'm not going to give up on my friends, even if I want to go, I'll take you with me!" β
Old Scar smiled weakly and said, "You kid, you are always so naΓ―ve that you want to laugh, but I don't know why, you are a trustworthy person, you never abandon your friends, maybe it is because of this that Goncy will be willing to die for you!" β
I choked up, "Tell me what the hell to do!" β
Old Scar was silent, I don't know if it was because I was too tired, so I didn't want to speak, and I didn't dare to touch him easily, the two stood in relative silence like this, and after a while, he suddenly smiled bitterly and said, "Xiao Ye, I'm going to die soon, I've known you for so long, you've never seen what I look like, haven't you always been curious about what I'm like under the mask, today I satisfy your curiosity, okay?" β
I suppressed the grief in my heart, nodded through my tears, and said, "Okay, actually, I really want to know what you look like." β
"Actually, I haven't looked in the mirror for a long time, and even I've almost forgotten what I look like, now you can touch me, plant my mask." β
Instead, I hesitated, and my hand was halfway out and froze there, and the old scar made me look at him, indicating that he had already had the will to die, and when he was alive, the old scar never refused to show his true face, and he was not willing to face his appearance until he was about to die.
In fact, I also know that people who are engaged in the corpse chasing industry are extremely ugly, because they have to bear the torture of five disadvantages and three deficiencies, so most corpse chasers will choose the kind of people who are extremely ugly when choosing apprentices.
Maybe this is also the reason why Old Scar has always refused to show his true face.
Seeing that I was reluctant to uncover my mask, Old Scar leaned back against the stone wall slightly, panting with difficulty and said, "Are you afraid of being frightened by my appearance?" β
"Not really!" I quickly said, "I just think that you don't have to look good to make friends, I ...... No matter what you look like, I'll treat you as a friend. β
"Haha......" He showed a tired and hoarse smile, nodded and said, "I know, it's because I'm dying that I want you to see my face, I've lived most of my life, and I always have to leave something to the world, I don't want to die without someone who can remember my face, do you understand?" β
I nodded vigorously, "Okay, I'll see what you look like!" β
After saying that, I reached over with my trembling fingers and gently lifted the mask on Old Scar's face, and when my gaze swept over Old Scar's face, I was completely stunned.
On his left forehead, there was a centipede-shaped hideous wound, extending from the gap between the eyes and the chin, because it was too uncomfortable, the old scar's facial muscles kept twitching, and at the same time, it also drove the centipede-shaped scar, which was very hideously twisted.
However, on the right side of his face, it is as smooth as jade, because the old scar always wears a mask at any time, causing the skin on his cheeks to be very white, and he actually has an extremely handsome face, which makes me stunned.
The left side of his face was hideous, but the right side of his face was as warm as a piece of jade, and two completely different faces grew on the head of one person at the same time, which looked very strange.
I was stunned for a long time, and I didn't come back to my senses for a long time, and Old Scar smiled faintly and said, "How is it, isn't it ugly, you are scared by my appearance?" β
"I didn't ...... Old Scar, you're not ugly at all, it's just ......" I don't know how to describe it, pointing to the scar on the left cheek of Old Scar, and hesitating, "for...... Why did you look like this? β
"Haha......" Old Scar let out a hoarse wry smile, silently pointed to the left side of his face, and said with a reminiscence on his face, "Actually, when I was a child, I did not look bad, but then I had an accident and was dying, and my family sent me to an old man who guarded Yizhuang in the next village, and begged me to live." β
In the intermittent narration of Old Scar, I learned about his past, the old man who guarded Yizhuang was a corpse chaser, and he told Old Scar's family that if he wanted Old Scar to continue to live, he must be by his side all year round and improve his physical fitness through practice.
Of course, Scar's family is willing, as long as Scar can survive, they will do anything. However, the old man with a strange personality made a request, he said, there is a rule for those who chase out corpses, and they must choose ugly-looking people as the inheritors of the mantle, but Lao Scar is not only not ugly, but he is a handsome young man with a good demeanor, and he gives Lao Scar two choices, either where he comes from and where he goes, or ruin his face, in order to get the opportunity to cultivate the Fa.
Scar will always remember that day, his teacher put a sharp knife on the fire and roasted it for a long time, roasting the blade red, and then raised the long knife with his own hand and stomped on Scar's face.
In this way, he obtained the qualification to practice, but at the same time he also lost his most proud face, and during the time he followed the teacher to practice, the old scar became silent, and it took him three full years to come out of the shadows and put on the mask that the teacher gave him, and this was a full thirty years.
For the past thirty years, Scar has refused to let anyone see what he looks like, not even himself, because he can't accept his face.
After listening to this story, I fell silent for a while, and then said, "Then do you hate your teacher?" β
"For the first two years, I wanted to let this old guy die......"
Old Scar tugged at the corners of his mouth with difficulty, revealing a bitter smile, "But later, ...... Later, I realized that the teacher did this for my own good, although the face of the person is important, it is nothing compared to life, and the corpse chaser is destined to be unable to get rid of the five evils and three deficiencies, and no one who is engaged in the corpse chaser industry has ever been able to die well in the end, and the face is broken, but also to avoid this situation as much as possible, if it were not for this knife, I might not even live to be thirty years old......"
I said with a blank face, "Then why are you still in this business?" β
"Brother, I didn't have a choice at that time, I was scratched by a corpse, I was seriously poisoned by a corpse, if I didn't have a teacher to take me into the industry, I would only have half a month left to live...... "Old Scar's tone was full of pain, and in the end, he sighed,
"Maybe that's fate!"