When Xia Fan returned to the wing, the old lady's words of gratitude were still echoing in his ears.

"How is it, the first time you feel like helping someone get rid of trouble?" the fox demon looked at him with a smile, with a hint of banter in his tone, "Do you feel that you have become a savior and can control the fate of others in your hands?"

"Honestly, it's pretty good. Xia Fan automatically skipped the second half of her sentence, "I kind of know why Master embarked on this path - compared to entering the Privy Council, it feels like a good choice to travel around like this and eliminate harm for the people." ”

He only now realized that despite his master's many problems, he was also a monk who could draw qi into his body. The advantage of qi alone is enough for him to get a stable job in a big family or a dart game, so that he will not live like a homeless man most of the time.

The reason why Master has embarked on this path may be because of these thanks.

If it weren't for the fact that he had to enter the Privy Council to learn more about the mysteries of the world, he would have made the same choice as Master.

After all, such a thing as chivalry and righteousness is a fantasy that almost everyone has had.

In addition, the old lady's complaints about the Privy Council also made Xia Fan quite concerned. When he was wandering with his master, he had heard several cases of the Privy Council officials cutting down evil spirits and protecting the safety of the party, and the government also promoted the Privy Council as a structure to deal with all abnormal phenomena, which seemed to conflict with what Mrs. Tian said.

It's just that he doesn't have any verification method now, and the master never mentions this aspect, and he avoids it when he encounters a priest, and he can probably only wait until he enters the Privy Council to know if there is a misunderstanding between them.

"By the way, I still don't understand a thing," he said, returning to the supernatural knowledge he was most interested in, "If cats can become ghosts when they die, then aren't other animals possible......?" There should be ghosts everywhere in the streets, but that's not how I actually feel. ”

This is already a conservative statement, Xia Fan looked down at his palm, if you count the microorganisms, there are bacteria dying in his palm every minute and every second, and new bacteria will be born, if these creatures need qi to be born, and they can become ghosts when they die, then the world is inevitably too lively.

And how do bacteria perceive it...... The cat can still see a blurry shadow with window paper, not to mention the microorganism, the microscope magnification is not high enough, and the visual vision is a problem, so how to remove it?

"There is no way to become a ghost for no reason, no matter what kind of evil it is, it needs to rely on strong emotions to have a chance to transform. The fox demon shook his fingers, walked to the coffee table and sat down, and poured himself and Xia Fan a cup of tea, "This emotion can be anger, pain, unwillingness, resentment, ecstasy and bliss, or other feelings that are difficult to summarize. ”

"Just as a large number of people who have died in vain can form a great desolation night, although they are dead and their consciousness is lost, the qi full of strong resentment will linger for a long time until it causes visions. ”

She pushed the tea to Xia Fan, "So you found the key to this?"

Xia Fan immediately understood the meaning of her words, "The key is diverse emotions. ”

Li nodded, "Your reaction is one of the few things that can be praised. ”

I see...... According to the fox demon, the more emotionally diverse the creature, the easier it is to leave traces after death, which can also be understood as the stronger the consciousness, the easier it is to have an impact on the objective world. And the microorganisms that I was worried about before will naturally not become evil because they do not have complex consciousness.

In terms of the richness of emotions, man is definitely the first of all souls.

Wrong...... Xia Fan glanced at Li, maybe he had to add a demon.

It's just that the number of demons is much lower than that of humans, so it's not so obvious.

It can be deduced from this that the probability of human qi being transformed into evil is much higher than that of other species, and the harm is also greater.

Thinking of this, Xia Fan felt a heartfelt satisfaction, and the veil of the world seemed to have faded a little more for him.

Turning the fox demon over is really the right choice.

But another question came to his mind.

...... What is the emotion that makes a cat a monster?

Tian's wife seems to have said that Ah Hua died of illness, but animal disease and death is a common thing, even if livestock fall in pieces due to the plague, there is no major problem.

A thought suddenly flashed in Xia Fan's mind.

He looked at Li with some surprise, "That cat...... Didn't you die of illness?"

The latter seemed to have expected him to ask, "Even a human being, when he knows that his time is near, it is difficult to have any thoughts of resistance, let alone a cat? ”

Then the answer is on the horizon.

Only pain can make life unforgettable in the shortest possible time.

It was tortured to death.

And the perpetrator did not aim to kill it, but to prolong the painful process as much as possible - if it was just slaughtered, it would not make the fox demon say something like "ordinary encounters are not okay".

"It won't be...... Tian's wife did it herself, right?" Xia Fan felt some hairiness on his back.

"It's not very likely," Li's answer made him breathe a sigh of relief, "If the tanuki cat dies at the hands of the Tian family, it will be too late to escape before death, how can it still wander around the house leisurely after death." Other than that...... The woman's feelings for the cat should be sincere. ”

"That's fine. Xia Fan raised his head and drank a big sip of tea, as for who poisoned Ah Hua, I am afraid there is no way to verify, and it is impossible for him to track down for a cat - after all, for people in this era, animal abuse and killing is nothing at all, let alone legal punishment, and there will be no moral condemnation.

But after thinking about it, what if the real purpose of the perpetrator was not to torture the tanuki, but to murder Tian's wife?

This person knows that if he inflicts enough pain, there is a chance that ordinary living beings will die and become evil, so with a little targeting, the first scourge of evil must be the living people of the Tian family.

No...... These ideas are too conspiracy theories to be such a coincidence. Xia Fan shook his head and put his distracting thoughts behind him, since he couldn't find the perpetrator, the above speculation could only be a guess forever, and it could not be confirmed.

A sentence that Li had said before suddenly sounded in his ears-

"Evil is the cause, but not necessarily the culprit. 」

Did she think of this at that point?

If Ruqiu really died of physical weakness, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the person who tortured the cat would be considered a murderer.

After solving this sudden "haunted" incident, the time was almost midnight, and even Xia Fan felt a little tired. He yawned and motioned to the fox demon, "It's not too early, let's rest today." ”

Li nodded, got up and walked towards the back room.

When she was about to reach the door, Xia Fan stopped her again, "Also, today's ...... I'm sorry. ”

"Oh?" the fox demon glanced at him with interest, it turned out that Fang Shi would also apologize to the demon. For some reason, her mood suddenly improved a lot. But this point cannot be easily revealed, otherwise the other party will think that he is too easy to compromise, and he must be deeply aware of today's problems.

"You didn't do anything wrong, so why apologize. As you said, I'm helping you, not them, and it's just a way to repay the life-saving grace I used to have-"

"That's not what I'm talking about. Xia Fan's answer surprised her, "Obviously, we helped the Tian family together, but in the end, I was the only one who got their gratitude." And the real meritorious can only succumb to the background, in other words, I have the share of gratitude you deserve. ”

"What...... Li looked away after a moment's pause, "I don't care about human gratitude." ”

"I care. One day, I want people to know that demons have helped them, and that one day, you won't have to hide in the shadows when you help others. Xia Fan looked into her eyes and said softly, "With this connection...... Humans will also take the initiative to help demons. ”