Zhang Zhongjian jumped on the roof, just in time to see Lin Yufei sitting on the ridge of the roof with his knees crossed, his chin resting on his knees, looking at the empty front, the whole person curled up into a small ball, like a stray dog shivering in the cold wind. Zhang Zhongjian didn't control the sound when he came up, he obviously heard it, but he still didn't move.

"The teacher's words are over there. Lin Yufei stretched out a hand and pointed in the direction of the gymnasium. It was a starless night, and the light at the door of the residence could not shine that far, and even the best eyesight could not see it in the dark night. "I'm fine, you can go see the teacher. ”

"I've been like this for 2,000 years, and I'm used to it. Zhang Zhongjian came to Lin Yufei and sat down, and also looked at the dark night in front of him, "I came here to find you." ”

"Did you find it? Lin Yufei asked sullenly.

"No, we didn't find her, she wasn't there when we got to school, and the other girl you mentioned wasn't in the dormitory, but she left a note. As he spoke, he handed a note to Lin Yufei. It was a piece torn from a piece of letterhead, and the handwriting on it was as neat as a printed type, but there was something delicate about it, like a girl's font: "Since Feifei has found it, then I will go back first." Remember to contact me when you have time, Ran. ”

Lin Yufei read it silently, crumpled the note into a ball and threw it aside.

"Aren't you in a hurry to find it?" asked Zhang Zhongjian.

"What about after I find it? Let me destroy it? Kill my own sister?" Lin Yufei still didn't move, but his voice was a little hurried, obviously not calm. Zhang Zhongjian did not answer. After a while, Lin Yufei said in a low voice: "Senior brother, I'm sorry. I was just...... Don't know what to do. The teacher is actually right, if that capable person is really my sister, and she is really out of control, it is inevitable to destroy it. If it was someone who didn't have much to do with me, I don't think there would be much hesitation. But that was my sister, my only relative after my parents died, and she took care of me even more than I took care of her over the years. All of a sudden, she's the one I'm going to exterminate...... I don't even know how to face her, I'm such a selfish person, how can I be a stargazer?"

Zhang Zhong quietly stopped the words of this junior brother, and a trace of doubt suddenly flashed in his eyes, and then disappeared. When he heard the last sentence, he suddenly said: "Selfish people? Who is not selfish in this world? Who do you think stargazers are? Saviors who hide in the shadows for the safety of all mankind?"

Lin Yufei was suddenly stunned, raised his head for the first time, and looked at Zhang Zhongjian blankly, unable to figure out how the senior brother, who had always been lenient, could say such sharp words. Zhang Zhongjian ignored him and said to himself: "You already know that there are countless and strange abilities in this world, and most of them don't regard themselves as human beings. Do you know why?"

"Why?" Lin Yufei asked blankly.

"In this world, excessive power never brings friends, only fear and rejection. Any one of them, if they expose their abilities in front of people, will be treated as an outlier. Who would be friends with a group that rejects them and treats them as aliens? They call ordinary humans ants, but they are just those who have been abandoned by the large group, subconsciously resisting. ”

"As for stargazers, they're just an outlier among a bunch of outliers. We are outliers among human beings, and we are also outliers among the capable, and our identity as capable people cannot be changed, but we also don't want to confront the big group of ordinary people, not because we want to return to the big group - that's impossible. We stick to what we do just because of some personal reasons. ”

"Private reasons?"

"We don't belong to the group of ordinary people, it's doomed. But we come from this group, and there must be something here that we care about and value. We can't break these bonds, we can only protect them. This is the essence of stargazers, there is no righteousness, we protect this world, just because there are things in this world that we value. ”

"Is that all?"

"What do you think?"

"But you have lived for one or two thousand years, after such a long time, is there anything you can't let go?" Lin Yufei looked up at Zhang Zhongjian, with doubts in his eyes: "Is there anyone other than the ability and cultivators who can survive for so long?"

"I'm going to tell you. After this incident, the teacher and I will leave, and I guess there will be Ge boy. Before that, there are always things to be clarified. Zhang Zhongjian sighed, "Let me tell you, what did my teacher and I insist on in the past two thousand years." I didn't want you to understand so quickly, I just hope you can at least not resent the teacher too much. The teacher once borrowed the power of the First Emperor to go to sea twice to seek medicine, you know, right?"

"You know, these are things that are written. ”

"Well, let's start here. Zhang Zhongjian said, "The first of the two trips to sea that year was a complete failure, and the teacher returned before he even left the offshore sea. At that time, the first emperor was already dissatisfied, but the teacher deceived the emperor. He claimed to have seen the Immortal Mountain, but it was only because of the lack of supplies that he could not reach it, and the emperor's desire to seek immortals was flourishing, so he gave the teacher a second chance. A few years later, the teacher went to sea again. ”

"But this trip to sea was really just an escape. Before going to sea for the first time, the teacher had never left the land, and the years at sea made him deeply afraid of the dangers of the sea, and he actually decided in his heart that he could not find the fairy mountain. So on the eve of the second voyage, the teacher had already fled. The one who really got on the boat and went to sea was just a stand-in that the teacher secretly spent a lot of money to find and was quite similar to him. ”

"Before the second trip, the teacher already had a family and two children. He himself knew that fleeing was a big rebellion, so he sent his wife and children to a remote place early, and only waited for a few years to go back to reunite. Unexpectedly, just one year later, war broke out, and the First Emperor died before that. At this time, the teacher had already entered the door of the Ghost Valley, completely obsessed with the path of cultivation and had no time to look outside. By the time he had succeeded in his cultivation and his ancestor Mr. Guigu had been feathered, hundreds of years had passed. ”

Only then did he think of his wife and children. However, hundreds of years have passed, and the place he arranged back then has long since ceased to exist after several wars. His wife and children were not well-known people, so he inquired about the prefectures, counties, and counties in the vicinity for hundreds of miles, and even searched almost all the household registration records of the government government overtly or covertly, but found nothing. He didn't even know if his wife and children had survived. ”

"His search continued for hundreds of years, and it didn't stop until I started. At first, he just inquired about the news of his wife and children, and later even began to inquire from house to house, and every family with a family tree did not let go, just hoping to find his descendants. ”

"Did you find it?" Lin Yufei couldn't help but ask.

"Nope. In fact, the place he arranged back then had experienced many wars, and there were not a single person living there, and the possibility of survival was extremely small. But the teacher always believed that his wife and children survived and left offspring. Now he doesn't look for it anymore, but he firmly believes that there is a descendant living in some corner of this world. So he cultivated desperately in the hope that he would live a little longer, so that he could protect his descendants for a longer time. ”

"Now you know, the teacher is not a selfless person, and sometimes he is even a little cautious. But his concern for his wife and children is real. He only guards this world because he firmly believes that his wife and children survived back then, and there are people in this world who are worthy of his protection. I am not the only disciple in this sect for more than a thousand years, and many of them are not necessarily stronger than you, but at least they are much stronger than me. Now they are all gone, they basically died in a certain incident, and all of them did not die to protect the world, but for someone or something. ”

"What about you, senior brother?" Lin Yufei suddenly asked.

"Me?" Zhang Zhongjian was stunned for a moment, and suddenly stopped talking. He sat there in silence, as if thinking about something. After a while, he smiled bitterly: "Well, it's not that there is nothing that can't be said." I followed the teacher as a stargazer, just to repay the favor. ”

"Repay the favor?" Ye Fei sat opposite Ge Tongshan, and asked curiously when he heard the words, "What kind of kindness?"

"I'll start from the beginning. Ge Tongshan said, "Regarding the matter of your senior brother, there are many records in the Tang legend. Although it is regarded as a legendary novel, many of the records about your brother are true. Boy, have you read the Tang Legend?"

"No, I'm not interested in ancient books. Ye Fei muttered.

"That's not knowing. Before your senior brother worshiped the Guigu Gate Wall, he actually had a teacher. Ge Tongshan said, "Your senior brother himself is actually a ...... In today's parlance, it is called an illegitimate child. When he was born, his father didn't want to keep him, and claimed that he was too ugly to be born and was discarded. Fortunately, he was rescued by a slave, who later became his first teacher, the large Lemo, later known as Kunlun Nu, and also a famous figure in the Tang legend. ”

"It turns out that the senior brother is still leading the art investment master!" Ye Fei exclaimed.

"Yes. Although this Kunlun Nulemo was not a member of my Dao Sect, he was very famous among the capable people at that time. With his derivative concept-level speed, coupled with his outstanding sword skills, even a cultivator with an extremely high realm, few people could beat him. Your elder brother's sword technique is inherited from what he has learned, and it is extremely sharp and difficult to do. Although he learned thunder and water after joining the Guigu Sect, he had less time to use the knife technique, but the influence of Le Mo on him was great, and his stunt was also affected by the Le Sharpening Knife Technique. Sharpening the knife with extreme speed is exactly what is commonly used in strangles. ”