"What words!"

Chu Zhanyan made a snap of his finger through the fire and landed on Huo Sheng's head, shaking him all over,

"It's sour, can it be atmospheric. ”

"You ......"

Huo Sheng's sword eyebrows raised, and he was about to get angry, and there was no good reason to think about it, so he simply snorted and put his eyebrows back in place.

Shen Zheng smiled, shook his head and sighed,

"You're really different from those people. ”

"I said it. ”

Chu Zhanyan shrugged his shoulders, took down the jar on the fire and refilled a cup for himself, although the tea is not a good tea, but it is accompanied by a story, and it is also delicious to drink.

There was a long silence in the hall, the golden bear had already fallen asleep next to Shen Zheng's legs, and after the young man hesitated for a long time, he finally asked the question in his heart,

"Why don't you kill me?"

"I'm not the right path in your mouth, and the grievances between us are over, not to mention that you are not bad. ”

Chu Zhanyan fiddled with the fire and said lightly.

Shen Zheng was a little surprised by the evaluation that people are not bad, and couldn't help but remind him,

"I'm an evil cultivator, and I've killed a lot of people. ”

"So what?"

Chu Zhanyan's hand playing with the branches was still steady,

"For cultivators, fighting and killing people is really not new, and how bad can a guy who can think about the safety of others when death is near?"

Shen Zheng was stunned, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"I want to know more about where it came from than that. ”

Raising his chin at the sleeping golden bear, Chu Zhanyan was a little curious,

"I've read the Demon Record, and there is no record of a demon that can control nightmares, but the golden bear does. ”

"It's Fuzhi, right?"

Shen Zheng smiled and rubbed the golden bear's head, and he didn't know if it was too heavy, the bear opened his eyes and looked at him in a daze.

"You've seen it?"

Chu Zhanyan was a little surprised, although "Fu Demon Record" is not a secret book, but there are not many people who have circulated it.

Fuzhi, is a kind of docile and harmless demon, the appearance is like a black bear that has shrunk countless times, has a pair of large and round ears, is very lazy, spends most of the day sleeping with a branch, feeds on the sap in the trunk, and will send sound waves to attack people when it perceives danger, because it has to deal with hard bark trunks for a long time, so the minions are also particularly powerful.

"My father happened to have one in his room, and I peeked at it while I was passing the time. ”

Shen Zheng hugged the golden bear on his lap, his expression suddenly became a little warmer, and said,

"Do you believe in cause and effect?"

"Of course. ”

Chu Zhanyan nodded without hesitation,

"Meditating and cultivating every day is the cause, because of cultivation, the spiritual energy enters the body realm and improves, and this is the result. ”

"Very straightforward analogy. ”

Shen Zheng nodded appreciatively and asked again,

"Do you think there is such a thing as a miracle in the world?"

It is not used to believe, but to think two words.

This time, Chu Zhanyan did not answer directly, but thought about it very seriously for a long time, and then said,

"Yes, since the word miracle exists in the dictionary, there must be a reason for its existence. ”

"I think so, too. ”

Shen Zheng suddenly laughed and patted the golden bear's head,

"Really, butterfly?"

"Take it away, you're hurting me. ”

The golden bear waved its paws in protest.

"Butterfly, the eldest sister in the story of Liuzhou City, your daughter-in-law?"

Chu Zhanyan was surprised,

"Isn't she alone?"

"Weird, huh?"

Shen Zheng smiled and said,

"That day I was besieged and killed, my father died, my younger brother did not know where to go, the critical moment was the butterfly they saved me, but unfortunately the difference in strength was too great, and finally Liu Sanyuan and Ah Dan desperately blocked, I and the butterfly were able to escape, but at that time we were also exhausted, and finally fell unconscious next to a cave, and when I woke up again, she was already dead, only a golden branch lying beside me, and called my name, saying that it was a butterfly. ”

"It's a miracle. ”

Chu Zhanyan had to sigh at the wonder of fate.

At this point in the story, it is not difficult to explain the origin of the golden bear, the cave where Shen Zheng and the butterfly fell into a coma should be the place where a Fu Zhi hibernates, coincidentally, there should be a "nightmare" seed underneath, and the emotions of the two dying people bloomed to give birth to the nightmare.

In "Fu Demon Record", it is described that the object seen by the first consciousness is in the form of it, and probably the first thing that the newborn demon sees when he comes out of the ground is not Shen Zheng and butterflies, but Fu Zhi who was frightened and woke up.

As for why the butterfly's consciousness ran into Fu Zhi's body, it is estimated that it was caused by the obsession that surrounded Shen Zheng and refused to disperse after death, and no one could say what happened, but in short, under a series of coincidences, the butterfly finally survived, abandoned its original body, and parasitized on the body of a "Fu Zhi" transformed by a nightmare, forming another special existence.

And it may be the only nightmare in the world, at least so far, that is intelligent and capable of commanding the rest of its kind.

"No wonder you have such a big reaction when she comes out to save you. ”

Huo Sheng suddenly said,

"Once such an existence is exposed, I'm afraid it will attract countless righteous path cultivators to hunt down and kill, right?"

After all, it is too easy for a monster that can control a large number of demons to bring disaster to the world.

Because man himself is an existence controlled by desires and emotions.

"A few hours ago I thought you were. ”

Shen Zheng smiled, and suddenly put one hand into a fist and coughed a few times, and it was faintly visible that blood was flowing down his fingers.

His injuries had not healed, and although Chu Zhanyan had withdrawn his sword intent, the wounds and dark energy that penetrated were real.

"Don't get me wrong, if it weren't for Chu Ermu's poor and more exquisite, you would have died a long time ago if it were me, and the bear would have been slaughtered for you!"

Huo Sheng snorted, he didn't know who he was talking to, so he looked at the stars with a face.

"Ignore him, he is virtuous. ”

Chu Zhanyan held back a smile, looking at the golden bear's pair of round black eyes, the more cute he looked, out of the temperament cultivated by teasing something all year round, he couldn't help but reach out and poke the tip of the bear's hard and wet nose.

"Don't touch me!"

The golden bear opened its mouth as if it had been stung and bitten, but unfortunately its speed was far less than that of the black cat, and it was easily dodged by Chu Zhanyan.

"Okay, hairy girl, don't make trouble. ”

Shen Zheng hugged her back, with a helpless look and doting eyes, as if talking to himself,

"When I was a child, I didn't understand why I lived that kind of life without a fixed place, and later after my father died, I realized that he was the saucer of the Tang Army's dark department, a killer, responsible for collecting intelligence, assassinating the Great Sui and other important ministers, and a series of tasks, which were the most dangerous and the most spurned professions, affected by this, when the Great Sui was not dead, it was inevitable to be cautious, but the speed of the emperor's heart change was no less than the sudden turmoil in the Jinghai......

Saying that, Shen Zheng couldn't help but shake his head and sigh,

"Emperor Tang treated my father as a knife, using it to kill the enemy when it was unsheathed, and destroying it when it was not needed, in case it was used by others, my father's practice was unorthodox, and it was not difficult to kill him, just need to quietly spread the "evil cultivation", and add oil and vinegar, and naturally there will be countless righteous ways to remove the demon and become famous. ”

"Inevitably. ”

Chu Zhanyan was a little sympathetic to him.

Shen Zheng's father's fate was not beyond his expectations, in fact, this is a bit old-fashioned, is there less such a thing as an emperor in the past?

Not less.

Once the seat of the person is high, there will be more suspicions and worries, always thinking about whether someone will come to shoot the chair under him, and whether the courtier has the intention of rebellion.

Chu Zhanyan even thought that if a nightmare appeared under the golden court, the effect would probably be no less than that of Meow falling into the fish pile......

"I don't want to touch those things anymore, and I don't want to follow in my father's footsteps. ”

Shen Zheng stroked the Fu Zhi in his arms, his eyes were full of hope, and the light flashed under the firelight,

"Although I have lost a lot, I still have what I have, I want to take Mao Yatou to Chang'an, take her to eat the Lantern Festival on Zhengyang Street, take her to see the lanterns, and then go to build a new grave for Liu Sanyuan and Ah Dan, and then live well, because my brother may not be dead yet, I have to find him." ”

"I've lost a lot, but I still have the ...... I have"

Chu Zhanyan chewed this sentence carefully, his eyes were a little complicated at some point, but there was a smile spreading at the corners of his mouth, and there seemed to be some kind of desolation on his serious and rigid face that could not be described in words.

"It's good to have hope. ”

"Better than nothing......"

"People must have a reason to live, right?"

Shen Zheng spread his hands,

"I know it's a bit sour, but it's still the same thing. ”

"The truth of!"

Chu Zhanyan snorted and scolded rarely,

"The most unreasonable thing in this world is truth!"

Fu Zhi sat in Shen Zheng's arms and watched him quietly, there seemed to be many points of light circulating in his dark eyes, just like the starry sky on the top of the mountain at night, full of mysterious taste,

The starry sky spun for a long time, she blinked, and suddenly said softly,

"It turns out that you are also a sad person......"

There was a wind blowing in the dilapidated hall.

With the damp moisture of last night, pulling on the crackling flames to rise and light white smoke, like a soaked cat lying on its stomach,

The boy's rigid face stiffened slightly, and he was silent for a long time.

The black cat looked up at him, its tail stopped waddling.

Huo Sheng no longer competed with the stars in the sky outside the door, and turned his head, looking at his friend's suddenly lonely shadow, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking,

"That's really right for you, and it looks like it's just poked in the most sensitive place. ”

The only thing that can change a person's personality is experience.

In the past, Chu Zhanyan was never a sentimental person, nor was he as interested in strangers' stories as he is now.

Huo Sheng couldn't help but recall the days when the two of them worked side by side to eliminate demons and kill demons, someone waved a fast sword, it was really decisive and ruthless, why was it so leisurely and plain like now, and he was still sitting and drinking tea with evil cultivators?

If it was at the beginning, I am afraid that it would have been five steps of blood spattered......

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