Chapter 30

Having said that, everything seems to be very clear.

Yuan Que suddenly asked out of curiosity: "But why did Uncle Lu suddenly swallow me in?"

His original plan was to have a strong first intercourse, wait until they became affectionate and then get down to business.

Maybe by then Uncle Lu will be so exhausted that he won't have the energy to think carefully about the experience twenty years ago. He can then take the opportunity to extract Uncle Lu's promise about their relationship, record it as irrefutable evidence, and then wouldn't all the problems be solved?

Su Xuan and Zong Ning, who were deeply moved by Yuan Que's confession, said: "......"

This man is still so scary. Dad (Lu Tao) versus this guy is like a little white rabbit versus a big bad wolf. Help!

Su Xuan felt as if his breath was almost stuck in his chest. He twitched his lips and said, "...Maybe it's because you tried too hard to make Dad dizzy."

Yuan Que: "?"

He pondered this sentence, narrowed his eyes, and fell into deep thought.

Zong Ning didn't want to communicate with this guy anymore, always feeling that he would be choked if he wasn't careful, so he stood up and said, "Okay, now that I've made it clear, let's get out of here--"

Before he could finish his words, the two men and women picking vegetables next door raised their voices.

Woman: "Why are you so clumsy and haven't finished taking off yours yet?!"

Man: "You are such an annoying woman, why don't you pick it for me?"

Woman: "Damn, you're really lazy. You've gained all this muscle and can't even pick a vegetable."

The three people on the side: "..."

This little play hasn't finished yet?

It's quite boring that a scene about picking vegetables can last so long.

Su Xuan thought that his father had no idea what they talked about in his space capsule, and he must be very nervous. He must be worried and trying to focus on promoting the "little theater" at the same time, which must be quite overwhelming.

It’s better to go out quickly and let him feel at ease.

Before coming in, they agreed with Dad on the secret code for leaving the space capsule - he or Zong Ning would eject a ball of spiritual power, and when Dad felt it, he would "spit" them out.

Just as Su Xuan was about to roll up a ball of spiritual energy, a fight broke out between a man and a woman nearby. The man suddenly yelled, "If you keep making trouble, I'll really throw you to the pigs!!"

The woman glared at him, then slapped him hard on the head with a wave of her hand. "You want to feed me to the pigs? I'll feed you to that goat-shaped monster!"

As soon as these words came out, the air suddenly became quiet.

Su Xuan, Zong Ning and Yuan Que paused for a moment, then suddenly all looked at the two of them.

The two were phantoms, so naturally they couldn't feel their gazes and just continued their quarrel.

After the woman said this, the two began to argue again about who would feed whom to the monster. They kept talking back and forth, and soon, they were both holding two handfuls of vegetables in their hands, staring at each other, panting.

As if he felt the quarrel was boring, the man raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, curled his lips, squatted down and continued to pick two bunches of vegetables.

The woman glared at him for a moment, then kicked him and asked, "...you peasant, how much can you sell that monster for?"

The man muttered, "I've only heard that the nobles in the capital really love these oddities and are willing to pay a fortune for them."

The woman frowned. "But are we supposed to transport that monster to the capital ourselves? Can we get it in?"

The man shook his head: "It's difficult. We can only wait until the nobles pass by one day and invite them over."

The woman complained, "How long do we have to wait? Do we have to keep that monster around? What if no noble person comes by for a year or two?"

The two of them couldn't come to a conclusion, and finally, after picking the vegetables, they turned around and left.

Beside the wild vegetable field, Yuan Que stared at the two men's backs and asked, "What was that just now?"

With a sheep's body and a human face, this is obviously referring to Taotie.

And this is Lu Tao's space capsule. Which Taotie is the one mentioned by the phantom he created?

Not only that, the quarrel between this man and woman has gradually begun to take on a bit of ancient flavor from the modern national curse at the beginning - if the modern national curse at the beginning was because Lu Tao forgot how the ancients spoke, then what do the words that are gradually becoming more ancient at this moment mean?

Su Xuan murmured, "...Could it be Dad's memory?"

Zong Ning looked around sensitively again.

So everything around here is exactly the same as it was more than 1,200 years ago?

What Lu Tao is showing them is what actually happened more than twelve hundred years ago?

Su Xuan was puzzled: "But Dad isn't here. If it's just a memory, how can he know what these two people talked about when they went out to pick wild vegetables?"

Yuan Que whispered, "Look around you, the thatched hut has changed."

Su Xuan and Yuan Que were shocked and turned around, only to find in shock that—

The thatched house, which originally seemed deserted, now had a breath of life. Firewood was piled against the wall, and some vegetables and fruits were placed by the wooden window.

The man and woman who had left were walking around in the house at some point, and there was a little child crying at the back door. The woman had no time to pay attention to him and even cursed at him in frustration as she passed by.

I don't know when that wild vegetable field became a proper field.

Behind them on the right, there appeared a small thatched hut with a few chickens and ducks walking around inside.

Everything is different from before!

This place has changed from being deserted to being a place where a family lives!

Su Xuan turned around and asked Zong Ning: "Is this the thatched hut you saw when you passed by here that year?"

Zong Ning shook his head and said slowly, "When I entered the capital, this thatched cottage had become what we just saw."

No one lives there, spider webs are everywhere, and the vegetable field is overgrown with weeds.

This only proves that Lu Tao had appeared here many years before Zong Ning entered the capital.

Later, the family either moved or had an accident, but in short, they left this place.

After countless years, the thatched hut became abandoned, the vegetable fields were overgrown with weeds, the thatched hut collapsed, turned into rotten wood, and turned into a pile with the soil.

Yuan Que suddenly turned around and walked towards the straw hut!

Su Xuan and Zong Ning also thought of something and hurried to follow.

It is not difficult to guess from the conversation between the man and woman just now that they caught the father who is still in beast form.

It is impossible for them to accommodate such a monster in the house where they live. Apart from this, the only place where they can hide it is the straw shed where chickens and ducks are raised!

The three of them came to the simple thatched hut, took a closer look, and their faces changed slightly.

Yuan Que's face immediately darkened.

There were three chickens, two ducks, and feces everywhere, which smelled terrible.

In the corner, something was tied to a wooden pillar with ropes.

It looks like a lamb, with the body of an animal and furry, but with a human head on its neck, pale and thin, looking listless, and with a pair of small sheep horns on top of its head.

He was probably the size of a child of seven or eight years old, and was tied up with hemp ropes and unable to move.

The person who tied him up was probably very scared and used very rough methods, using several layers of hemp rope to tie him up. Just looking at him made people feel like they could not breathe.

And this little monster just huddled in the corner, with its head hung, its face pale, and dying.

He is like a young version of Lu Tao.

Yuan Que's face turned pale, and he wanted to go in immediately, but he didn't expect his body to pass through directly - just now he could still use the branches to write and draw on the ground, but at this moment they were like ghosts, unable to touch the real objects at all!

Yuan Que was stunned.

Su Xuan sighed, already understanding his father's intention, and said softly: "Just wait and see, Dad must want to tell you something."

These are things that have already happened, the established past.

There is no point in struggling in this illusion.

Yuan Que clenched his fists, his body as stiff as a stone.

Uncle Lu...what exactly do you want to show him?

…

In a blink of an eye, the little boy came running over.

He was holding a handful of stones he had picked up from somewhere, squatting beside the straw hut, carefully looking at the little monster in the corner of the hut.

The little monster seemed to notice his gaze, raised his head slightly, pursed his lips, and smiled at him ingratiatingly.

The little boy was frightened and raised his hand and threw a stone over!

The stone hit the little monster's face and almost hit his eyes. The little monster closed his eyes, cried out softly, and shrank his neck in fear.

Yuan Que's face looked extremely ugly.

Su Xuan and Zong Ning also pursed their lips.

The little boy threw stones at the monster, muttering, "Monster! Bad monster!"

After a few throws, he seemed to find it interesting. He stood up straight, made a face at the little monster, and said with his tongue sticking out, "Sooner or later, my mother will sell you out. Those people will eat you up like pigs and sheep!"

The little monster opened his eyes wide in fear and shook his head desperately. Tears welled up in his eyes. He said in a hoarse voice, "No, please..."

Seeing the frightened look on the little monster's face, the child seemed particularly happy, and wanted to say something else with a proud look on his face, but the next second he was hit from behind by his mother, and he covered his head and screamed in pain.

Turning back to see the cold-faced woman, the child also showed a frightened expression like the little monster and whispered, "Mom..."

"Go play by yourself and don't mess with this thing. It might eat you!" the woman threatened.

The little child cried out "Wow" and turned and ran away.

Only the little monster and the woman were left by the straw hut.

The little monster was so frightened after hearing what the child had just said that he trembled with fear. He cried and begged the woman, "Please don't sell me, don't eat me, my meat is not tasty!"

The woman turned around to look at him and said expressionlessly, "Whether your meat is delicious or not is not up to us to decide."

The little monster choked up, extremely confused: "I saved him! I clearly saved him that day, why did you do this to me!"

Hearing the little monster's words, the woman subconsciously glanced at the child who had run away.

The "he" the monster mentioned was obviously referring to the child.

The woman pursed her lips and said in a cold voice, "...The dog just got lost in the forest. We won't need you. We'll find him sooner or later."

This is to write off all the credit he had for saving their child.

The little monster seemed to see through the family's determination to sell him for money, and a look of despair and collapse appeared on his face.

This look seemed to make the woman very unhappy. Feeling guilty for a moment, she threatened again, "Behave yourself, or we'll kill you before we even sell you to someone noble!"

After saying this, he turned and left.

The little monster trembled and became completely hopeless.

Yuan Que took a deep breath and tried his best to endure it.

Time in the illusion seemed to speed up, and soon, night fell.

The man and woman quarreled again in the hut over some trivial matters. The man strode out, wandered around the open space twice, and suddenly noticed the sounds of chickens and ducks. He turned around and walked into the hut with a wooden stick.

The little monster was drowsy, but he woke up suddenly when the man broke into the hut.

The light was too dim and he could not see clearly. He could only vaguely see a dark figure. He unconsciously shrank his hands and feet and began to tremble.

Su Xuan and the others felt something was wrong.

In the illusion, the man strode up to the little monster, raised the wooden stick and hit it hard!

Su Xuan and the others all tensed their bodies and took a step forward subconsciously, but they still passed through those real objects - the three of them gritted their teeth - these were all illusions of the past, and they could do nothing!

In the straw hut, the little monster screamed in pain!

The man hit him again and again, cursing, "Stinky bitch! Dead bitch!"

The little monster's cries became more and more miserable. He tried desperately to hide, but he couldn't get away!

The sound of the wooden stick falling was so loud and fierce that it was like a strong wind.

Suddenly, a stick hit the little monster's face directly. The rough spikes cut a bloody mark on his face. Blood oozed out and formed a stream, flowing down his cheek.

The little monster cried hoarsely and kept shouting: "Stop hitting me, stop hitting me! It hurts! Please -"

The man seemed to hear nothing, his eyes turned red and he started beating violently!

The little monster can’t stand it anymore!

At a certain moment, he mustered up the courage, raised his head suddenly and bared his teeth at the man.

Taotie has a mouth full of tiger teeth, which are densely packed and sharp, and are particularly scary!

The man was startled at the sight of that mouth full of sharp teeth and took a step back.

Su Xuan and the others were also worried, thinking that the little monster was going to struggle to break free.

However, what greeted the little monster right after was a heavy blow from the man with a stick - his eyes bulged out, bloodshot, and his face was hideous, and the force with which he swung the stick was even heavier and more brutal than before!

He cursed in a trembling voice as he beat her, "If you look at me again! If you look at me again! I'll dig out your eyeballs, you monster!"

The little monster cried out again, and its ferocious disguise was completely shattered!

He was beaten so hard that he screamed and begged for mercy!

After he finished smoking, the man gasped for breath, looked up at the sky and took a deep breath. He seemed to finally feel relieved, spat, and turned to leave.

The little monster hung his head and remained silent.

Looking at this scene, the air around Su Xuan, Zong Ning and Yuan Que seemed to have completely condensed.

Yuan Que stared at the man who was leaving, his eyes were so cold as if he was looking at a dead person.

After a pause, he used great willpower to move his cold gaze from behind the man and back to the little monster.

He couldn't help it, so he moved, passed through the fence and entered the hut.

Su Xuan and Zong Ning opened their mouths, but in the end said nothing. They just followed him in silently.

The little monster didn't move at all, and it seemed that there was not even a sound of breathing.

Yuan Que squatted down in front of him, his eyes sweeping over his blood-stained face, his body covered with wounds, and his small, tender little horns. He even forgot to breathe for a moment.

After a moment, he stretched out his hand, his fingertips trembling slightly.

He seemed to want to touch the little monster's cheek, but his fingers penetrated the little monster's body as usual and he could not touch anything.

But at this moment, the little monster seemed to sense something, trembled, and raised his head slightly.

He seemed to meet Yuan Que's eyes.

Yuan Que's expression tensed, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Uncle Lu?"

Unfortunately, the little monster didn't really see him.

What he saw was a firefly flying in from nowhere.

A single bird swung leisurely in the darkness, drawing a curved and unrestrained curve, and landed on the tip of the little monster's nose.

The little monster's face was covered in dirt. His eyes rolled back, and he stared cross-eyed at the firefly on the tip of his nose. After a while, he muttered, "It hurts."

Yuan Que seemed to be stung and clenched his fingers.

In front of him, the little monster said to the firefly in a hoarse voice: "Will I be eaten?"

The firefly flew away from him again.

It is naturally impossible to answer.

The little monster asked himself absentmindedly, "I'm going to be eaten. I shouldn't have saved that child, right?"

The firefly was circling in the darkness, and the little monster's eyes followed it.

"If I hadn't saved that child, he would have been eaten by the wolf. His mother couldn't have saved him in time. I can't pretend I didn't see anything," the little monster continued in a hoarse voice, tears streaming down his face. "But I shouldn't have sent him all the way back here, right? I should have put him down earlier and let him go back to his mother on his own."

"—I was just, I was just too hungry. I originally thought that maybe his mother would give me some food as a thank you, but I didn't expect that they would act like good people and trick me into a straw hut and then tie me up."

The memory of that night twenty years ago flashed through his mind like lightning. At that moment, Yuan Que froze and could not move.

He remembered that night, under the starry sky, when Uncle Lu held the seven-year-old boy in his arms and said, "Uncle, I don't want things to get too complicated, so when we get to the police station, I'll put you down and you can go in by yourself, okay?"

The bird was speechless.

...How long did Uncle Lu live?

From this simple straw hut at this moment to the era they lived in, in these more than a thousand years, how many years did Uncle Lu experience clearly with his eyes open?

And how many times has Uncle Lu experienced similar situations?

Of course he is kind.

Even though he was repaid with ingratitude, there was despair and regret in his eyes when he looked at that family, but no hatred.

Even the ferocity he showed just now was all fake.

He is a person who can never be fierce. Most of the time, he is a soft ball.

At this moment, he was just leaning against the wooden pillar, covered in wounds, filled with fear, fatigue, and hunger. In the darkness, facing a firefly, he murmured to himself, wondering if he should have saved the child...

Shouldn't we save him?

The fact is, more than a thousand years later, he still finally rescued "that child".

——The only difference was that by then, he had learned to let go of the child early.

Yuan Que's heart seemed to be gripped by a hand.

How much suffering did people like Uncle Lu have to endure before they learned to "let go of that child early"?

——Over these long years, this man seemed to have never changed his true nature. He just learned to stay away from...stay away from things that he felt were dangerous or would bring him harm.

And how much suffering did he endure to develop such a conditioned reflex?

Yuan Que didn't know how to describe his feelings at that moment.

It seemed as if something was about to tear apart, and something was squeezing the torn pieces into a ball.

His breathing was a little disordered and heavy, and his fingers were clenched so tightly that they pinched his palms.

He spoke, his voice horribly hoarse: "Uncle Lu..."

The little monster couldn't hear anything and said sadly to the firefly, "People always hide their thoughts. I can't understand them. They are so scary."

These words entered the ears of the original sparrow.

Yuan Que trembled slightly and suddenly froze.

He just suddenly remembered a certain fragment of that night twenty years ago -

After Uncle Lu rescued him, he tried to tempt Uncle Lu with money.

Admittedly, such temptation may bring him danger, but the fact is that when a normal person rescues a "kidnapped" child, he should know that the child he rescues is worth a fortune.

If he really had any bad intentions, he would have planned everything when he rescued the child.

But Yuan Que was almost certain at that time that Uncle Lu was a good man.

It’s just that he has seen all kinds of people since he was a child, and suddenly he became curious about how kind this magical monster uncle is.

He wanted to see what this seemingly honest and kind man was like inside.

This was probably Yuan Que's bad taste, so when he was seven years old, he began his investigation while being very sure in his heart that this man would never hurt him.

And how did Uncle Lu respond when faced with the small, seemingly innocent Yuan Que in his arms?

At this moment, all the scenes of those few seconds were replayed in Yuan Que's mind as if in slow motion.

The man smiled helplessly and said, "No need. Saving you is just what I should do. As for this kind of thank you money, I can't afford it. One million, my hands will tremble if I hold it."

After he finished speaking, without waiting for Yuan Que to try to test him further, he lowered his eyes, paused, and changed the subject directly, talking about other things in a relaxed tone.

All the details were connected together in an instant, as if a bolt of lightning split the world of Yuanque!

His pupils suddenly constricted, and his heart dropped straight down -

——Uncle Lu knew it at the time! That night, Uncle Lu knew he was testing him!

He knew that the child in his arms at the time was wearing a disguise of innocence, secretly spying on his true self.

However, he did not expose it, nor did he get angry. He just downplayed it and changed the subject.

The sudden realization made Yuan Que open his mouth, his mind going blank.

He looked at the little monster in front of him at a loss, and then recalled the little boy who had thrown stones at him and spoken ill of him, and his expression became dull.

This family pretended to be good people and tricked Uncle Lu into a straw hut and tied him up.

Uncle Lu cannot understand humans, nor can he understand their hidden side, and he feels afraid and repulsed by this.

At the beginning, he also pretended to be an innocent child, trying to find out Uncle Lu's true feelings.

Even though he didn't repay kindness with enmity like that little boy, his reaction and his disguise were like a bucket of cold water to the kind-hearted Uncle Lu, right?

Isn’t that simply history repeating itself, pushing Uncle Lu away from humanity time and time again?

Su Xuan spoke from behind him at this time: "...the time when each monster learns to transform into a human form is different. The timing for a new generation of monsters is always later."

"Before they can truly transform into human form, their spiritual power is often very weak. Once they are able to become human, their human appearance is fixed. Dad looks to be in his thirties, so he learned to transform into a human at that age. For a monster, this is already very late."

Maybe I'm a little stupid and can't learn.

Maybe it's malnutrition or lack of physical strength.

All in all, in that era, my father must have had a very difficult life for more than 30 years.

And some things - such as every fear, every struggle, every pain, are enough to be engraved into the bones.

His personality, his experiences, everything mixed together to form the Lu Tao of today and his current way of survival.

"Will it not hurt so much if I stay away from these people?" In the straw hut, the little monster choked to the fireflies.

Maybe, maybe he is stupid.

But idiots also want to live well in this world.

Therefore, fools also have foolish ways of living.

——If you can’t defend yourself, just avoid it.

When he saw those human eyes that contained various thoughts, he ran away.

Yuan Que suddenly stood up and whispered, "If that's what he thinks, then when I tell him what happened twenty years ago and let him know that I am that child, won't he leave me?"

At this moment, he finally understood why Uncle Lu had concerns.

He is afraid of complex human beings because complex human beings have hurt him.

Although Yuan Que is not a bad person, he has a very bad personality.

He has been very self-righteous since he was a child, thinking that he is very smart, and others always praise him for his intelligence.

Being mindful of others is something he learned since childhood.

Not showing his emotions on his face is a habit he developed since childhood.

When he meets a dangerous person, he will smile and then give the other person a hard stab.

The seven-year-old boy learned these things in order to protect himself to the greatest extent possible, but all this was enough to make Uncle Lu stay away from him, wasn't it?

He is the kind of person Uncle Lu fears the most, isn't he?

Yuan Que's eyes were dark and his whole body was shrouded in a lingering frost.

He stared at the little monster in front of him, as stiff as a sculpture.

Su Xuan hesitated to speak.

In a sense, Yuan Que was right.

In the straw hut, the fireflies flew away and darkness returned.

The little monster opened his mouth, but knew that he could not keep such a tiny firefly. He could only lower his head in disappointment and slowly began to whimper.

His crying was very faint, and sounded so sad, desperate and pitiful.

Yuan Que's expression shattered again bit by bit.

He stood motionless for a while, and finally moved amid the little monster's crying. He knelt down again, trying to touch the little monster, and said in a hoarse voice: "Uncle Lu, don't cry."

He knew the little monster couldn't hear him, but he couldn't help it.

He felt distressed when he saw little Uncle Lu shaking in pain.

However, the little monster actually answered him with sobs: "But it hurts."

Su Xuan, Zong Ning and Yuan Que were stunned.

Yuan Que tried to touch the little monster again in disbelief.

This time, I actually met him.

Yuan Que's expression changed, and he immediately hugged the little monster and coaxed him in a low voice: "It doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't hurt anymore, don't cry, it's okay now."

The little monster snuggled up to his neck and cried non-stop, with warm tears constantly sliding down Yuan Que's neck.

Yuan Que felt those tears and felt his heart tingling.

The little monster cried, "I am going to be eaten like a pig or a sheep."

"No, you will live well," Yuan Que stroked the little monster's head again and again, his Adam's apple rolling and his voice hoarse, "you will live for thousands of years."

"But I, oh, I can't escape." The little monster sobbed.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Que immediately went to look for the knot of the hemp rope. He found it behind the little monster and pulled it open with force!

The hemp rope loosened, the little monster was startled, broke free, and climbed up in a daze.

He got on all fours, looked at himself, then raised his head to look at the bird standing in front of him, his eyes filled with a hint of timidity, curiosity, and gratitude.

He tilted his head and asked quietly, "Who are you?"

Yuan Que was stunned.

It is impossible that Uncle Lu from more than a thousand years ago was untied by him.

This could no longer be the development that Uncle Lu remembered.

How should he answer Uncle Lu’s question?

After watching for a long time, Su Xuan spoke up, "...Actually, you don't have to worry about Dad getting scared of you after he finds out you're the kid from twenty years ago... Putting aside the fact that the nature of your incident is different from this family of three, he's actually quite scared of you right now."

Su Xuan said, feeling helpless: "You don't think that you were scarier when you were seven years old than you are now, do you?"

The devil will only continue to evolve, but he will not suddenly turn into an angel.

Yuan Que was stiff: "..."

"Now you know his concerns, but the fact that he follows you means he's already trying to open up."

"He showed you all this, definitely not to reject you, but just to let you know why he's afraid," Su Xuan paused and sighed softly, "and then, I hope you can be more tolerant of him and wait for him."

Danger does not necessarily mean betrayal and pain.

Danger can also be gentle.

Dad must have understood this, so in this illusion, he chose to let Yuan Que provide the ultimate redemption for the young him.

He chose to open his arms and accept the danger.

He already understood that no matter how complicated Yuan Que was, what Yuan Que would eventually do to him was to loosen the shackles that bound him and hug him gently.

At this moment, in the straw hut, the little monster looked up at Yuanque and suddenly smiled.

He smiled gently, helplessly, and asked again: "Who are you?"

In an instant, Yuan Que woke up suddenly as if he was hit by a surging wave. The complex emotions rising in his chest were simply indescribable.

He slowly half-knelt down, staring closely at the little monster, and said in a low, hoarse voice: "Yuan Que."

"Who is Yuan Que?"

"It was a child you saved twenty years ago," Yuan Que said with tears in his eyes. "Now that child has grown up, he really likes you."

"He won't hurt me, will he?"

Yuan Que smiled and said solemnly, "Never."

The little monster smiled.

The scene before my eyes began to distort, and the magic mirror suddenly changed.

Su Xuan, Zong Ning and Yuan Que were pushed out of the straw hut. When the shaking vision became clear again, they were stunned to find that the little monster was still tied to the wooden pillar, with his head hanging down and motionless.

Yuan Que subconsciously shouted, "Uncle Lu!"

The little monster couldn't hear it, so he suddenly raised his head and murmured, "I can't die... I can't die here..."

He began to close his eyes tightly, his whole face wrinkled, as if he was trying to hold back something.

However, he was obviously not a monster with excellent talent, otherwise he would not have waited until he was in his thirties to stabilize his human form.

He tried more than a dozen times, and was almost exhausted halfway through. But he finally gathered a trace of spiritual power when the sky was slightly bright.

A fierce whirlwind swept past, and in a blink of an eye, the rope broke into several pieces and fell from his body.

The little monster was overjoyed and rushed forward excitedly, falling flat on his face in the mud!

He quickly got up, shook his head, then carefully glanced at the quiet thatched house, and wanted to escape by climbing over the fence.

Unexpectedly, the door of the hut was suddenly opened. The woman who had just woken up rubbed her eyes. When she saw him, she was stunned for a moment and then screamed: "It's gone! The monster has run away! The monster has run away!"

The little monster was so scared that he turned around and fled in the opposite direction, but he was startled by the woman's voice. A small figure rushed out from the side door and rushed straight in front of the little monster!

It’s that little boy!

The woman was stunned and cried out: "Dog!!"

The child looked menacing, yet also a little frightened. He held a stone in his hand and shouted, "Monster, I'll beat you to death!"

"Dog!" The woman wanted to run over, but she didn't dare. Her face was pale, as if she was afraid that in the next second she would watch her son being eaten by the monster.

When the man came out, the little monster had already run towards the child. Amid the two people's screams—

The little boy was so frightened that he staggered and sat down.

The little monster walked around him, crossed the path, and ran into the distant forest.

The man and woman were stunned. After they came to their senses, they rushed forward and pulled the child up from the ground.

At this moment, the words they spoke became full of modern flavor again.

"Are you stupid? Your mother doesn't dare to rush forward when she sees a monster, but you are standing in front of it? Aren't you afraid of being eaten?!" The woman cried and beat the child.

The child was also frightened and murmured, "But the monster ran away! The monster ran away!"

"He ran away, so he ran away. You unlucky kid, why are you still thinking about this kind of thing?!" The man was almost angry to death and hurriedly checked the child's body.

The woman glanced at the direction the monster had fled and said tearfully, "Fortunately, he didn't hurt the dog."

The man froze, sighed, and said, "Well, actually, he was the one who saved the dog in the first place. He's been a good monster from the beginning to the end, but we are the ones who repay our kindness with hatred..."

The woman lowered her head, her face full of guilt: "Hmm..."

Su Xuan and the others laughed.

This is ooc.

These three guys who had turned against each other before suddenly reflected on themselves and turned over a new leaf?

Dad is quite good at YY.

After laughing, the three of them felt complicated again.

If it weren't for being too gentle, who would have such an imagination after experiencing such a thing?

In Dad's heart, he always hopes that everyone is kind in the end.

All the scenes slowly dissipated like smoke.

The entire space turned into a vast expanse of white.

The middle-aged man appeared in front of the three of them with his head hung.

Zong Ning said helplessly, "Aren't you afraid of seeing Yuan Que's reaction? And yet your spirit followed us in?"

Su Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Dad, how long have you been eavesdropping?"

Lu Tao whispered, "Since, since you two were at the edge of the vegetable field?"

After saying that, he glanced at Yuan Que and looked away uncomfortably.

Yuan Que's Adam's apple rolled.

He took a step forward, cupped Lu Tao's face in his hands, and whispered, "Uncle Lu, I'm that kid from twenty years ago. I was born in the Yuan family and couldn't live like other kids, so I'm mean and cunning. Sometimes I might even act pretentiously to tease you, but I will never, ever hurt you. Can you accept me like this?"

Lu Tao blushed a little. After all, he was in front of Su Xuan and Zong Ning, so he felt embarrassed.

But after this, he also knew that some things had to be made clear and he couldn't drag it out any longer.

He said helplessly: "Actually, I've lived for so many years and I know that many seemingly complicated people are not all bad people."

Apart from the time when he was asleep, in the hundreds of years when he was awake, he had met people like the family of three who repaid his kindness with enmity, and he had also met people who looked ferocious but would throw buns to him even when they were starving.

Humans are complex and varied.

It’s just that Lu Tao is too stupid. He is afraid that he can’t distinguish between good and bad, and he is also afraid that he will be hurt again. Slowly, slowly, he even completely loses his original intention of living in this world.

So he used a stupid method to avoid anyone or anything that he thought was "not so good".

It's safe to live like this.

But until now, Lu Tao finally realized that if he lived like this, he might lose many important things.

Thinking of this, Lu Tao suddenly smiled and said, "I really didn't expect you to be the same kid from twenty years ago. Do you know what I was thinking when I realized you were tempting me with money?"

Yuan Que looked a little nervous.

This was the first time he showed this look in front of Lu Tao, which made Lu Tao feel a little curious and itchy.

Unable to resist touching Yuan Que's cheek, Lu Tao laughed and said, "I wasn't unhappy at the time. Why would I be unhappy with a child? I just thought that children are young and have many thoughts. You're not afraid to say it. Did I really rob you again? You're just being too smart."

Yuan Que was stunned and a little confused.

Then his expression changed, and he said seriously, "Actually, I already knew that you were a good person, Uncle Lu, so even if I said that, I wasn't afraid of what you would do to me. But if you want to make friends, some screening is still necessary."

"So you wanted to be friends with me, a man who looked to be in his thirties?" Lu Tao laughed.

Yuan Que also laughed.

Seeing Lu Tao's smile, he finally felt at ease. He raised the corners of his lips and said gently, "Well, it's a pity that it didn't work out."

Yuan Que moved closer, turned his face, and gently kissed Lu Tao on the lips. His dark eyes fixed on him, and he said in a hoarse voice, "But it doesn't matter. If we can't be friends when we are young, we can be boyfriends when we grow up."

He scanned Lu Tao's face carefully and said softly, "You protected me when we were little. Now that we're grown up, I will protect you."

Lu Tao's pupils trembled slightly.

He lowered his eyes and his ears turned red.

He once asked God why he became a monster.

The life span of a generation of monsters is so long, and it is so tiring to live for such a long time in the complicated human world.

But he didn't have the courage to commit suicide, so he could only continue to live carefully.

But what is interesting about such a life?

Now, he seems to have tasted it to some extent.

*

After coming out, it was still the same messy hotel room.

Su Xuan and Zong Ning had changed into their clothes and turned into human form. They squatted on the carpet-covered ground and hissed in pain.

Lu Tao and Yuan Que both fell on the soft bed and bounced back, still looking at each other affectionately.

Su Xuan: Damn, my dad has started to show double standards. It turns out that we are all dogs when it comes to love!

On the bed, Yuan Que rested her head against Lu Tao's forehead, feeling as if a myriad of emotions were entangled in her heart.

He gently stroked Lu Tao's cheek, raised his lips, and whispered, "Uncle Lu, now that we've talked about it, shall we continue?"

Hearing this, Lu Tao shrank his neck and his ears turned red again.

Now that his heart knot had been untied, he naturally no longer had any psychological burden. He even felt a special intimacy because of his honesty with Yuan Que, and his heart was beating wildly.

Can……

He glanced at Su Xuan and Zong Ning, his face flushed, and he said shyly: "Wait a little longer, wait a little longer!"

Su Xuan wiped his face, got up from the ground with an expressionless face and said: "Since you two are fine, Zong Ning and I will leave."

Lu Tao coughed twice and whispered, "I'm not going back tonight."

"..." Su Xuan, "I know!"

Others forget their principles for the sake of beauty, and his father forgets his son for the sake of beauty, and he is so happy that he doesn't want to leave!

Su Xuan pulled Zong Ning away with an unhappy look on his face.

Seeing him turn around and leave, Lu Tao hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice: "Ah Xuan!"

Su Xuan stopped and looked back.

Dad smiled at him, a simple, innocent and gentle smile: "Thank you."

Su Xuan's expression softened.

The centuries-old father's first love has some of the flavor of his childhood in the fantasy world.

The father in the illusion was miserable and pitiful, but at this moment his face was full of soft happiness.

Su Xuan felt both amused and relieved.

He and Lu Tao didn't spend a long time together, but he had recognized him as his godfather after all, so there was always a special feeling between them.

Lu Tao was really happy that he could find happiness smoothly.

Su Xuan looked at Yuan Que and said seriously, "Be nice to Dad."

Even though Yuan Que is not a simple human being and Dad would be at a disadvantage facing him, sometimes only such a person can better protect Dad and hold hands with him for a lifetime.

Su Xuan thought that he treated Yuan Que as his own family.

Moreover, if Dad and Yuan Que continue to talk about their relationship seriously, they will inevitably have to face the issue of spirit core production - the first generation of monsters can give half of their spirit core to humans.

They kept half of the spirit core for themselves, spent ten years waiting for the spirit core to grow back completely, and then gave half of the spirit core to the human body again.

Once humans have a complete spiritual core in their bodies, they will have a lifespan as long as that of a generation of monsters.

Of course, this is just a theory. So far, Su Xuan has not seen a human being who has truly been transformed by a spirit core.

But in short, from today on Yuan Que is a member of the Lu family, so Su Xuan spoke to him in a gentler tone.

Then, Yuan Que smiled and replied, "Okay, son."

Su Xuan: “…………”

Zong Ning quickly pulled Su Xuan out of the room and slammed the door shut, fearing that Su Xuan would lose his temper and rush over to beat someone up, and he and Lu Tao would have to try to stop the fight!

Zong Ning is already tired today and doesn’t want to have another headache!