Chapter 145: Remembering This Past
At this time, the two of us had already walked to the door of the cafeteria, and as soon as we entered the door, we saw Xiaobai sitting closest to the dining window, with at least seven or eight dinner plates in front of him.
To my surprise, two of the plates were already empty, and the food in the plate that Xiaobai was holding was also decreasing at an alarming rate, and I saw that a third empty plate was about to appear.
Uncle Yuan stared at Xiaobai's figure for a few seconds, and suddenly smiled: "Guess what the staff who cook will think of Xiaobai?" Will you think he's also a freak, a madman? ”
I nodded a little blankly, as Xiaobai's good buddy, I was already so shocked, not to mention those strangers, Xiaobai's amount of food is no longer at the level of normal people.
"People tend to have a prejudice about things they don't understand and have never seen. In fact, many times it is difficult for me to understand the thoughts and actions of the people in the institute, who seem to me to be a bunch of crazy people, a bunch of freaks. Uncle Yuan said very sincerely.
The topic seems to have been pulled away unconsciously, but I didn't mean to correct Uncle Yuan, I think he must have another meaning when he said this.
"Uncle Yuan, if I'm not mistaken, there is a ...... between you and the research institute" I followed Uncle Yuan's words and expressed my inner doubts.
Before I finished speaking, Uncle Yuan already understood what I meant, and he smiled indifferently: "Are you curious, since I am as difficult as outsiders to understand those people in the institute, why am I close to them?" ”
I am indeed very curious about this, Uncle Yuan's relationship with those people in the research institute is definitely not ordinary. When he was seriously injured and dying, it was the people from the research institute who saved him, and the research institute was undoubtedly Uncle Yuan's backer.
Before Uncle Yuan said this to me today, I always thought that Uncle Yuan might be a fellow traveler with those people in the research institute, and they would be close to each other because they cherished each other.
Now it seems that things are not the same as I thought, and there seems to be something else hidden in this. Uncle Yuan was silent for a long time, and his eyes once again showed a look of remembrance.
When I saw him start to reminisce about the past, I subconsciously hid to the side. This made Uncle Yuan very embarrassed, and unconsciously reached out and touched his nose.
"Don't worry, that won't happen again. However, when it comes to my relationship with the group of people at the institute, I have to mention my good friend again. ”
Yes, when I heard the first half of Uncle Yuan's words, I breathed a sigh of relief. But when I heard the second half of the sentence, my heart hung again, and I couldn't wait to hide away, why did Uncle Yuan mention the so-called genius friend again?
"In fact, there is only a thin line between a genius and a madman. Those people are a group of real geniuses, and if it weren't for the light of my friend, I wouldn't have been able to fit into that circle. Uncle Yuan said with emotion.
Talented? Lunatic? Wait, I guessed something. Uncle Yuan's next words also confirmed my guess and made me feel the same emotion.
Uncle Yuan had said before that his friend was a well-deserved genius, and only that one could truly integrate into the institute and sympathize with that group of madmen.
It was with that light that Uncle Yuan gradually gained the recognition of everyone in the institute. Although Uncle Yuan's friend had an accident later, the people in the institute no longer regarded Uncle Yuan as an outsider.
I have to say that Uncle Yuan's friend is indeed the same person as those crazy people in the research institute. They're all geniuses, but they're also crazy guys.
Uncle Yuan had mentioned before that his friend had also practiced evil arts. Now I know that the reason why he cultivated evil arts was actually to study evil arts.
As we all know, as long as you practice evil arts, as your strength increases, you will definitely change your personality and become a bloodthirsty and violent person. As long as you embark on the path of cultivating evil arts, it is definitely more terrible than taking drugs, and there is no turning back at all.
At the beginning, some members of the supernatural group had also practiced evil arts, and there was no doubt that their fate was only a dead end. Later, Uncle Yuan's friend felt that evil magic was harmful, and decided to risk his life to find a solution and bring back the onmyoji who had embarked on the evil path.
The time and energy it takes to cultivate an Onmyoji is very amazing, and I was able to advance to refining Qi and transforming gods at this age, mainly because of the five elements that my grandfather left me. If it weren't for that, I might not have been able to advance in a few years.
Many onmyoji, even those with outstanding talents, need more than ten or twenty years of hard work to advance to refining qi and transforming gods, and it is extremely difficult to grow.
And most of the onmyoji who have joined the supernatural group have carried out various dangerous missions, fighting bloody battles to maintain peace on one side, with no merit and hard work.
If it was just because of a momentary mistake in cultivating evil arts, resulting in the death of the onmyoji of the supernatural group one after another, it would be a pity, and it would also have a great damage to the overall strength of the supernatural group.
"Like the Hundred Soul Banner, the evil art of using living people to refine puppets is extremely cruel. However, some evil magic methods are relatively mild, such as zombies, which were once very popular, and did not arouse the resistance of the Onmyoji at first. Uncle Yuan explained.
Some Onmyoji are not bad in nature, and if they are directly allowed to refine the Hundred Soul Banner or use a living person to refine a puppet, no one will agree. Because they know that it is an evil art, it hurts the heavens and peace, and once they cultivate, there is no turning back.
Most of the onmyoji who have embarked on the evil path do not have a deep understanding of evil art when they first come into contact with evil arts. They just chose some gray means in order to try to improve their strength.
For example, the extremely prosperous corpse chasing faction more than a hundred years ago, they spent all day with corpses and mastered a method of refining zombies. For a long time, refining zombies was not considered sorcery.
The method of refining zombies is relatively not particularly bloody and cruel, you only need to use corpses, and then sacrifice them, you can refine an ordinary corpse into a zombie with unparalleled attack power.
Because using the help of refining zombies to improve one's own strength is far faster than step-by-step cultivation, countless onmyoji are eager for the yin-yang technique of refining zombies.
However, those who spend all day with corpses and are not mentally strong will inevitably be affected by Yin Qi. Later, some people developed the evil art of refining evil corpses, which caused endless harm.
Compared with zombies, evil corpses are far superior to zombies in terms of flexibility and speed because they are sealed with remnant souls in their bodies. However, every time an evil corpse is refined, it means that a yin spirit is mutilated and cannot be reborn.
Listening to Uncle Yuan's meaning, it seems that a lot of things happened later, refining evil corpses and refining zombies are not allowed by the righteous path onmyoji, and the corpse chasing faction is silent.
Nowadays, although the righteous path onmyoji has clearly realized that refining zombies is also an evil art, there are still many evil arts that are not too obvious, and it is possible to make some onmyoji who are not bad in nature embark on the evil path.
Combined with the case we handled this time, the situation of the righteous path yin-yang technique is indeed very embarrassing. They can easily come into contact with evil arts, and once they go astray, there is no turning back, and it is inevitable that some dogs will jump off the wall in a hurry.
Although Uncle Yuan's friend's idea was shocking, his intentions were good. If you can really find a way to make some misguided Onmyoji change their evil ways and return to the right, it can be called immeasurable merit.
It's a pity that the senior didn't succeed in the end, and it is said that later he also changed his mind and was frantically hunted down by the supernatural group. After so many years, Uncle Yuan still feels very sad for his best friends whenever he mentions this past.
During the time when listening to Uncle Yuan's reminiscences of the past, Xiaobai had already placed a thick stack of empty plates in front of him, and he had already burped to the brim, but he was still strong enough to eat two more servings.
I roughly counted, Xiaobai's meal tonight is comparable to his usual week's meal, and I'm really worried that he will have a problem.
After talking for a long time, Uncle Yuan was ready to return to the original topic.
Uncle Yuan told me that the reason why he told me so much was just to let me know that the so-called crazy people in the supernatural group were actually geniuses that the outside world could not understand.
However, I was a little disappointed, originally I thought that Uncle Yuan's tirade would have a great connection with Xiaobai's current situation. But no matter how you look at it now, it seems that he is just taking the opportunity to reminisce about the past.
If it weren't for the fear that Uncle Yuan might suddenly explode again when he was reminiscing about his best friend, I wouldn't have been able to help but divert the topic.
"You must keep this past in mind. My friend is a failed hero, and I will not allow anyone to insult him. Uncle Yuan suddenly said seriously.
My heart tightened, and I quickly pretended to be very serious and responded: "That's right, that senior is indeed a hero, but it's just bad luck." ”
Last time, I was unknowingly because I said "smart but being smart by mistake", which made Uncle Yuan mistakenly think that I was humiliating his friend, so I suddenly went crazy.
This time, I learned to be obedient, as long as I mentioned Uncle Yuan's friend, no matter what he said, I just need to praise a few words according to his meaning.
Uncle Yuan showed a pleased smile on his face, nodded and said, "Very good, I will only tell you about this past once, don't ask me again in the future." More specific things, I won't tell you. ”
I couldn't help but secretly curse myself, my brain was not broken, why did I risk asking him about it again? Even if he never talks about more specific things, I won't have the slightest curiosity at all!
"Don't worry, Uncle Yuan, I have already remembered it and will not ask you again." I replied with a smile.
Uncle Yuan sighed deeply and looked at me with a complicated look, which made me feel a little hairy in my heart.
At this time, I didn't realize the deep meaning in Uncle Yuan's eyes, and I didn't expect that this so-called past would have a lot to do with me, and almost killed me.
"As for Xiaobai's affairs...... Actually, what he said is right, it doesn't matter if you know the inside story or not. After a while, Uncle Yuan suddenly said.
Uncle Yuan is kidding me? Rory talked to me a lot, and I listened patiently, but now he tells me that it doesn't matter if I don't know about Xiaobai?
"Uncle Yuan, you ...... You've gone too far! "I almost had a violent outburst, and if I hadn't been able to beat him, I would have wanted to hit him on the ground and beat him up on the spot.
Uncle Yuan glanced at Xiaobai again, and sighed helplessly: "Actually...... In fact, Xiaobai just learned the magic technique of Wang Shenpo, and it is not a big deal, so we don't need to care about these details. ”
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