The old man does not need others to lead the way, but he needs a pretense to show the outside world that he is a blind person, a weak person, and a person who needs the support of others, so as to hide his true strength.

He's acting for others to see.

Millet wants to know where exactly he is going, and the old man has not yet told her.

When he was helping to train White Night, Xiaomi asked more than once. But the old man touched his chin and always said, "Don't hurry, don't worry, I'll tell you when the time comes." ”

Xiaomi had asked for his name, and as expected, he was reluctant to reveal. He said, "I'm going to tell you, and I'm going to tell you a fake name, so what's the point?" Xiaomi had no choice but to still call him "uncle".

How could a man who wants to hide all the time tell someone his name?

"Little girl, you don't have to tell me your name." The old man seemed to think that this was on par with Xiaomi, "I have seen too many people, more than you have seen ants." It's been so long that I can't remember their names. I sometimes wonder if I'll ever forget my name. ”

"Can you forget your name?"

"Little girl, you wouldn't understand what I'm talking about without an experience like mine. As long as time goes on long enough, nothing is unforgettable. The name is just a stress spell, and it doesn't really matter if you forget it. The old man rolled his eyes and said.

Although he rolled his eyes as if he hadn't, Xiaomi could still see that his eyes were moving. Xiaomi sometimes can't help but wonder if the old man's pupils are hidden behind the eyeballs. Others have black pupils in front, but this human spirit hides his pupils, and his eyes are not completely white.

Xiaomi heard her grandfather say that human language itself is a spell, but I have never heard of a person's name is also a spell. She felt that the old man was a little novel, and she was immediately very interested.

"Why is the name a spell?"

"If I call your name, you'll come back and look at me, it's your stress on yourself, that's what the name does. When someone says the name of someone you know, you remember what he looks like, and it's your stress on someone else. However, after many years, you no longer exist in the world, and no one remembers your name, and the spell becomes invalid and has no effect. So you can tell me, what is the meaning of a name for someone like me who has lived too long? It turns out that all the people I know are gone, and the people who know my name are gone. So my name has lost any purpose. The old man said.

Xiaomi was silent for a moment after hearing this, and asked, "Then you must be very lonely." ”

The old man smiled indifferently.

"I seem to understand you, but I don't seem to understand you at all." Millet said.

The old man smiled, "You can apply this feeling to your communication with the cat." When you need it, don't think of its name, but think of it, the real it. ”

"The real it?" Xiaomi asked.

"Its name is White Night, but White Night is not it. You want to avoid the name and communicate with it directly. Manipulating it with a stress spell like a name is very fragile. You should steer clear of this fragile communication and communicate directly with it. Forget its name, just like you never knew my name, but there was no barrier to our communication. There are no names, just you and me. The old man spoke the last eight words with great force, as if each word carried weight, and had to use his tongue very hard to throw them out.

Xiaomi looked at the white night again, and sure enough, it had a whole new feeling.

Xiaomi also has a new understanding of the world, it turns out that everyone knows some simple spells, and when everyone calls someone else's name, they are casting the power of a spell. People use this stress spell and are bound by it. Not only does it feel its own name when it is alive, but it also senses when a dead soul hears someone shouting its name, and the soul shouting uses the power of this sense.

Once this induction is formed, it is difficult to get rid of it for life. Grandpa named each of the collected resentments, and in addition to distinguishing them, he actually invisibly put a shackle on them. Xiaomi remembered that Helian Tian once said that if some ghosts in Japan tell you their names, it means that they are subservient to you and will be at your disposal in the future. Helian Tian also said that some wizards in the country of foreigners must not let their opponents know their names, and once the name is leaked, the wizards will be tantamount to exposing their weaknesses to their opponents.

Millet finally understood why the human spirit refused to tell her name. He wanted to prevent others from using his name to bind him and plot against him.

Since then, Xiaomi has never asked for his name again.

Although he was very unhappy when he asked for his name, his strength should not be underestimated. Under his auxiliary training, Bai Ye's eyes became bluer and bluer, and his soul ate more and more, his eating speed became faster and faster, and his way of eating became more and more ferocious.

Millet asks him where he learned the tiger taming skills and why he is so good.

The old man smiled and said: "Human spirit, that is, everything that people can do, I have seen and learned, I can do everything, and I have to do it more shrewdly than ordinary people." ”

He knows the meaning of every movement and every call of the cat, and then passes this knowledge on to Xiaomi, so that the communication between Xiaomi and Bai Ye is smoother.

Xiaomi has also been able to improve its own strength in the process of taming cats.

On the fifteenth night of the cat taming, the old man suddenly said to Xiaomi: "Little girl, you can let your tiger try it tomorrow night." ”

"Oh? Early adopter? What's new? Millet thought to herself, what you eat in the white night is all souls, and you don't eat like people and pay attention to the color, flavor, and taste, what's so fresh to speak of?

"Whether you can taste it or not, it's not clear now. It is also a test of the results of these days' training. The 'fresh' that will come tomorrow is even more powerful than the hanged ghost that has made it die once. ”

"More powerful than a hanged ghost? What is that? She has seen and remembered Bai Ye's progress these days, but Bai Ye has not yet competed with higher-level ghosts. She wanted to try it too. Since the old man opened his mouth, he should be somewhat sure of Bai Ye, but Xiaomi still remembers Bai Ye's last death, if Bai Ye dies again, I don't know if he will swim up if he throws it into the water, and he still has such good luck not to be drowned.

These unknowns make Xiaomi both scared and expectant.

"You'll find out tomorrow night. That's all for today, you have to go back, or your master will be suspicious. The old man said.

Every time Xiaomi stays with the old man in the mass grave, it only takes more than an hour, and if he comes out too early and goes back too late, he may ask where he went.

Xiaomi doesn't know where the old man is staying, but every time I see him come and go freely, I feel relieved.

After returning to the dog meat restaurant, Xiaomi cut a lot of paper before falling asleep. Although this time was very comfortable, she still looked forward to her grandfather's return as soon as possible. The paper figures she cut are much better than before, not only in appearance, but also in terms of facial features, nose and eyes, and even clothing styles.

In the past, the paper-cutting person threw it casually, but now she will fold it neatly and put it on the table next to the bed and hold it down with a weight.

Early the next morning, Millet was woken up by someone from the dog meat restaurant. She heard someone shouting outside.

Before Xiaomi could get up, a woman in black rushed into the house, her expression was still cold, but she pointed anxiously and said, "Miss, your white night has started a fight with other cat ghosts!" Go check it out! ”

Millet hurriedly got dressed and rushed out with the woman in black.

By the time Millet arrived, there were already four or five bloody kittens and ghosts lying on the ground.

Xiaomi was startled, thinking that Bai Ye had fallen in a pool of blood, she grabbed the woman in black and asked eagerly, "What about Bai Ye?" What about my white nights? ”

Kittens and ghosts all look about the same, and it's easy to get confused.

The woman in black pointed to the little black cat not far away that was surrounded by kittens and ghosts, and said, "It's there." ”

Millet relieved himself a little and asked, "How did they fight?" ”

The woman in black said: "The other kitten ghosts are playing with the paper figures on the ground, and your white night suddenly rushed out to drive the other kitten ghosts away." The kittens are fighting with your white night. ”

"So you want to protect my paper man?" Next to the bloody kitten ghost were more than a dozen paper figures that she had cut last night and then pressed with a ruler. She didn't know how these paper figures got here.

"It should be. Miss, call your white night back, it has killed several kittens and ghosts in a row! Now it has aroused the wrath of the cat ghosts, and they want to besiege the white night! If we fight again, I'm afraid we will lose both! These cat ghosts are the hearts and minds of the master! The woman in black begged.

Xiaomi was immediately moved. In order to protect her cherished paper figures, White Night turned against her former companions! However, it was really ruthless, and it actually bit several kitten ghosts to death!

At the same time, Xiaomi was also amazed that Bai Ye far surpassed the original kitten ghost like it in such a short period of time.

Xiaomi looked at Bai Ye's location, twenty or thirty kittens and ghosts surrounded Bai Ye, scratching their teeth and claws, but they didn't dare to attack rashly. It seems that the four or five companions who died in front of them have given them a new white night that is not what it used to be.

Although Bai Ye was surrounded by it, he was not timid at all, but was majestic and imposing. It was immersed in the vicious fight and did not turn its head to look at Xiaomi.

Seeing that Bai Ye seemed to be full of confidence, Xiaomi didn't listen to the woman in black and told Bai Ye to come back. She wanted to see how capable the White Night was. After all, the old man said that tonight will test the results of these days' training. If Bai Ye can't deal with these kitten ghosts, I'm afraid he can't deal with ghosts that are even more powerful than hanged ghosts.

She even silently prayed that the white night would not be able to defeat this rabble of kittens and ghosts. If Bai Ye is scratched, she can use Bai Ye's injury as an excuse to ask the old man not to test Bai Ye first.

She was still worried that Bai Ye would be strangled to death again.

The more you care about something, the more you can't afford to make a mistake, and the more you can't let it take a risk.

While Xiaomi was waiting for the cat ghosts to fight, Helian Tian came over.

Seeing the tragic situation of the dead cat ghost and the tense atmosphere of the living cat ghost, Helian Tian hurriedly shouted: "Don't fight!" ”

These cat ghosts are all cultivated by Helian Tian, although Bai Ye is the most agile, but the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat.

He could summon them with a snap of his fingers, but he didn't. He knew that snapping his fingers didn't have much effect on Bai Ye, and if the other kitten ghosts let down their vigilance, maybe Bai Ye would take the opportunity to sneak up and make the kitten ghosts' casualties even worse.

He wants to keep casualties to a minimum.

So, he turned around and said to Mr. Bai and Mr. Ye in the arms of the woman in black: "Mr. Bai, Mr. Ye, please help me persuade Bai Ye!" ”