Chapter 36: A Transaction
Xia Jie looked at it fixedly, the length and width of this yellow paper were less than one meter, outlining a circle, and around the circle were five evenly distributed rings.
What is jaw-dropping is that there are words in the center of the ring, which are six characters, such as human, immortal, god, demon, demon, and ghost, and the herringbone ring is in the center, while the other five rings are in a state of encirclement, like a large plate, which contains these things.
"Huh?" Xia Jie was silent for a moment and came back to his senses, this unexpected situation was mostly related to his involvement ten years ago.
Compared with this drawing, he was more curious about Shi Jieren's attitude.
Whether it was what Jiu Jian Immortal said before, or what he saw at the moment, Shi Jieren didn't seem to be a threat.
He lost interest in Zhao Ling'er. He no longer even sent someone to guide her back to Nanzhao, let alone to tease Tang Yu and Anu to verify the relationship between them.
The situation is strange and ...... Wonderful!
"Don't be surprised, my friend." Shi Jieren smiled, he walked slowly, indicating that he had no intention of harm, he walked across the beam, stood on the side of the yellow paper, and kept a distance of two meters from Xia Jie.
He still held his hands in front of him, as if he was not guarded, he raised his head to look at the drawings next to him, and said in a low voice: "I made a mistake back then, and I was also hostile to you. But now that I have realized my mistakes and understood my ignorance, I have made amends for the disaster of that year. ”
"Make amends?"
Xia Jie was stunned, this Shi Jie was completely different from what he thought before, how did a paranoid and arrogant world destroyer become a confessor who bowed his head and admitted his mistakes?
"Yes, the disaster ten years ago, although some of the people were lost, in the past ten years, Nanzhao has recuperated, everyone has lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the national strength has increased by forty percent compared with ten years ago, and this is the compensation I have made."
Rao is Shi Jieren said the truth, but Xia Jie did not relax his vigilance, he was able to develop the Lunatic Worship Sect to this point, and its brainwashing means and abilities, put it in modern times, are those legends. Pin the head of the people!
"What the hell are you trying to say?" Xia Jie frowned and asked in a low voice.
Shi Jieren bowed slightly, and said with courtesy: "I admire your insight, I want to be friends with you, I hope you can let me understand where these worlds exist, if possible, maybe you can tell me directly." Does love really exist? ”
His words were unexpected by Xia Jie, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was reasonable.
Shi Jieren is an orphan, he has a deformed worldview that he has cultivated since childhood, and he longs to be cared for and loved by many people. In other words, he lacks a sense of presence.
This is not a mental illness, but Shi Gonghu's strict parenting methods on him are undoubtedly a very bad catalyst, making him gradually evolve into an extremist with a revenge psychology against society.
It's strange that Shi Jie is very smart, he has his own set of explanations for all the truths in the world, and Shi Gonghu knocked him off the cliff with one palm, and he grabbed a small tree in a panic, which made him feel that his existence was the will of heaven, and it was God who saved him.
So, with a great change of mind, he founded the Lunatic Cult and destroyed the foundation of the country from thousands of people, which is the best revenge for Shi Gonghu!
He wants him to see that the country he has given his life to is now in his hands and can be kneaded at will! Get away with murder!
After many years, Shi Jieren has become a very popular minister.
Shi Gonghu resigned and went into hiding, revenge? It has long been done, and all that remains is boring and tedious.
But after all these years, he found a new problem, and he couldn't understand why, Shi Gonghu, who was his father-in-law, wanted to kill himself?
Love? Legend has it that life and death depend on each other, the love of father and son, this very simple thing, he thinks about it day and night, but he feels more and more that it does not exist!
The love of mortals is mostly the love of flesh and blood, and even more so the exchange of interests. Just like the Witch King and the Witch Queen, he can clearly see that the Witch Queen Qing'er does not love the Witch King, she is for the Nanzhao Kingdom, and the Witch King is only obsessed with her appearance.
Therefore, he incited the people, threatened the witch king to order the execution of the witch queen, and summoned the water demon beast to force out the witch queen's Nuwa, he wanted to see if there was true love between them.
Although after the turmoil of Xia Jiejiu Sword Immortal and others, the Witch King did not really order the killing of the Witch Queen in the end, Shi Jieren already knew his answer. The love between them is nothing more than that!
Disappointed, very disappointed!
From the establishment of the Lunatic Worship Sect to the present, from the most ordinary beggar of the Nanzhao Kingdom to the high-ranking emperor, he has not found the love that has touched him deeply, and he has lost patience with this place.
But after the incident of the water monster back then, Shi Jieren was surprised to find that there were still many places in the world that he had not been to, and he set his goal on a mere Nanzhao country, just the mortal world, it was too narrow, he should look at the whole world, to see more praised gods and demons, to see if there is such a thing on their bodies.
At this time, Shi Jie people no longer only need love, love is a thing that runs through his life and affects his life, and its importance is almost the 'Tao' that Yin Ruozhuo has been longing for back then!
On a certain level, this is the 'Tao' of Shijie people. Therefore, he wants to find, verify, and see with his own eyes what kind of existence this thing that is pursued and praised by everyone!
And Xia Jie's appearance is tantamount to a guiding light, his insight and ability are far from being comparable, so Shi Jieren surrendered his identity today and faced him with a flattering attitude, just to ask this question that confused his life.
Looking at Shi Jieren's expectant gaze, Xia Jie was slightly stunned for a moment, and nodded directly.
"Of course there is."
However, Shi Jieren was not satisfied with this answer, he also knew that short-term love did exist, but it was not pure love, under the threat of external objects, driven by interests, love was unreliable.
What he is looking for is the kind of unswerving love that the world calls it.
"Of course this love is there." Xia Jie replied.
Shi Jieren continued to ask, he needed facts to prove it, but the question did not get a clear answer.
Because Xia Jie couldn't explain it in detail, he thought about it and was silent for a moment, "No matter what I say, you think it's very false and ethereal, don't you?" ”
He seems to have discovered Shi Jieren's problem, what he wants is not just a few words, no matter what others say, it is not as profound as his own understanding.
Shi Jieren was stunned suddenly, he also felt that he seemed to be a little obsessed, he smiled indifferently, nodded and said: "Yes, I have seen too much and heard too much over the years, even if I have a love for a moment, it is not what I pursue." ”
In the past ten years, he has not gained nothing, the more he understands, the more persistent he becomes, and in today's world, the love generated by mortals who have been old, sick, and died for decades cannot be touched at all.
Shi Jieren bowed apologetically, "I shouldn't have asked you this question, because it's not something that can be explained by answering at all. ”
Xia Jie looked sideways at the beam of the house thoughtfully, and asked rhetorically, "So, you hung this drawing and asked me about their existence, do you want to go to these places to find the kind of love you think?" ”
"That's right, that's what I meant."
Shi Jieren breathed a sigh of relief, he pretended to be favored by heaven's will, he had long been out of the level of mortals, when he learned about these worlds and found that they really existed, his thoughts changed as a matter of course, it turned out that he had been looking in the wrong direction.
He calmly stretched out his hand to make a plea, pointing to the table on the side of the dormitory, where there were teapots and other drinking utensils and chessboard objects, "Please sit down, I've always been asking you, maybe you come here, you also have your needs, we can make a deal, what do you think?" ”
Xia Jie smiled dumbly, this enemy he thought was the most tricky, but at this moment he politely invited him to drink tea.
He couldn't have imagined that his return to what he had done ten years ago had caused such a huge change in Shi Jie's people, it was like a different person.
In the plot, because he couldn't discover the existence of love for a long time, he later wanted to destroy the world with the help of the five spirit beads and water monsters, and then rely on the power of Ling'er's Nuwa to recreate a perfect human being, but now, he has focused on the worlds such as the god realm and the demon realm, but he has lost the interest in destroying the world.
"Deal?"
Xia Jie's eyes froze, and he sat down face to face, watching him behave elegantly boiling water and pouring tea, Xia Jie thought about what he needed and what he could do.
Now Shi Jieren is targeting the gods and demons in several realms, which will not cause conflict for the rescue mission, and Shi Jieren's experience is still a tragic character in general.
Killing him, following the plot will not produce perfect points, and if you don't kill him, there may be a chance that there will be a reward, you can give it a try.
As for using the information about the Six Realms in exchange for information about Shi Jieren or making a move, it is also a sure bet.
After a while, the aroma of tea filled the room, Shi Jie did not show eagerness, after a process of making tea, the previous gaffe had been well suppressed by him, and he reached out very peacefully to invite Xia Jie to use tea.
He raised his hand and raised his glass and said: "This is the young tea picked by Nanzhao in the New Year this year, although the tea tree is not as good as the Central Plains, but it is also a rare treasure." ”
Wine makes people confused, tea makes people sober, as the head of a religion, whether it is the worship of Nanzhao or the filial piety of the believers, he has never lacked these etiquette things.
Xia Jiexin held the teacup in his hand, looked at Shi Jieren with his eyes, and suddenly smiled: "You want to get a way to enter the Six Realms, but how can you guarantee that you have what I want?" ”
Shi Jieren blew the tea foam, and his expression was very indifferent, as if he was talking about what to eat at noon today: "How is the water monster?" ”