The origin of the matter
The moment I was protected, there seemed to be some reflection in the house. Before I could react, dense red sniper dots were projected from the window and all focused on Zhang Tianyi, reflecting a layer of floating dark red on him.
I was startled to see a tall figure in the room. Gao Liu also came to my side and used himself as a human shield to block Zhang Tianyi's sight towards me. He said calmly:
"Counselor, stand back."
I didn't expect the situation to take such a sudden turn for the worse. My head was about to explode and I shouted anxiously, "Wait!"
Xu You ignored me, pulled out a pocket intercom microphone from his collar, and said coldly: "Captain Yan, get ready."
Prepare? Prepare for what? Shoot someone?
My mind buzzed and without thinking, I immediately shouted, "Zhang Tianyi!", signaling him to give in quickly.
"Hey, I'm here."
Zhang Tian responded without any self-awareness, and even had the leisure to point out the window to me, "You see, this is how I was stuck in the hospital these days and couldn't escape."
He said it easily, but sweat broke out on my forehead. I looked nervously and saw Yan Mo, who was standing still and holding the sniper rifle steadily in another building far away outside the window. He looked like a frozen statue, so quiet that it was creepy.
Among the many slightly shaking red dots, the red dot that was quietly pinned on the center of Zhang Tianyi's eyebrows was the one that Yan Mo's gaze extended to.
I have seen Yan Mo's determination when shooting, and I know he will not show mercy. As long as Zhang Tianyi makes the slightest movement, he will pull the trigger without hesitation. With his accuracy and speed in hitting the running monster in the hot rain and mist in the snowy mountain town, even a god would be shot in the head.
"For the past half month, he has been quietly threatening you with a gun in the dark. If I make the slightest move, he will force me back."
Zhang Tianyi seemed to be somewhat impressed and said with a smile: "If he didn't need to take turns with others and occasionally sleep for a while, I would doubt that Old Yan was made of iron."
I was furious. How could this bastard Zhang Tianyi act like nothing had happened? What had happened to make him so confused? No matter what, I couldn't believe that he had harmed me.
I wanted to kick him to wake him up.
He held Xu You tightly with his hand and without saying anything else, he just called him "uncle".
I'm not an ungrateful person. Despite the huge fuss at the Zhang family, I have restrained myself and haven't taken any action for so many days. There is only one reason for this: they see that I trust Zhang Tianyi, and out of respect and love for me, they insisted on watching me until I woke up, and only took action against Zhang Tianyi after I knew the truth and agreed.
From the moment they called me a consultant, all the respect they showed me was extremely serious, without any discount.
Since I have the ability and status to control the situation, I will never allow me to just stand there and watch a misunderstanding happen, allowing anyone on either side to suffer irreparable damage.
A series of thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant. Seeing that I was still defending Zhang Tianyi, Xu You became furious and pointed at me and cursed, "You are still confused!"
When I saw him getting angry, I immediately felt relieved, knowing that he still cared about me. As long as he didn't get so angry that he didn't recognize me, that would be fine.
It is meaningless to argue and quibble about "I trust him" at this point. Playing the emotional card when two sides are confronting each other is basically equivalent to taking sides. It will only add fuel to the fire and hurt feelings, and it will not help the situation.
I knew that the Zhang family was sincere to me, and I didn't want to overdraw their affection, so I immediately changed the subject and said seriously:
"There are still many unclear points about the Shilin Mine, the miners and the Foghao Town Hospital. Zhang Tianyi has promised to explain it to me clearly. Now you have beaten him to death and disabled him. Who can I ask later?"
"Besides, the death of the prophet is only his one-sided statement. We both fell into the hands of a fake person and suffered losses. If there are any hidden dangers that we are not aware of, who will take care of your life and my life if something happens in a while?"
I spoke sincerely, and most of it was also spoken to Yan Mo on the other end of the intercom. I was still a little nervous, and I just hoped that I, the omnipotent butler, would calm down and put down my "knife" first.
After a while, Yan Mo's sniper red dot dropped two inches.
As the former captain, Yan Mo's opinion was also very important to Xu You. Xu You's face was uncertain, and after thinking for a while, he slowly said:
"Okay, let him explain first."
I breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that the atmosphere in the room was finally not so explosive, and quickly signaled Gao Liu, asking her to ask the teacher's wife to come and calm the situation.
After only forty or fifty minutes, the broker entered the ward. He looked exhausted and seemed to have just returned from being busy with something.
After I explained the situation in a few words, she nodded decisively: "Xiao Ran makes sense."
I just stood in front of Xu You, staring at his vital joints carefully, as if I was ready to help me throw Xu You over my shoulder at any time.
Xu You's face turned green, but he couldn't beat me nor could he scold me. For a moment he felt helpless and looked at me up and down with a gloomy face.
As he watched, seeing that I was still shamelessly pretending to be stupid, he probably felt both amused and helpless. He shook his head, his expression softened, and pointed at me and laughed and cursed me as a bastard.
I knew I was in the wrong, so I just smiled at him.
I looked around and saw that there was half a box of spare mineral water in the corner, so I walked around the room and gave everyone a bottle.
After everyone had taken a sip, I grabbed the last bottle, walked over to Zhang Tianyi, and forced it into his mouth:
"Brother, I'm the one who's protecting you now. If you don't tell me, my reputation will be ruined. Are you still being stubborn?"
I was exaggerating. Zhang Tian looked at me and saw that I had no intention of backing down, so he felt helpless.
He took the water and tapped my wrist with it, which made me shrink my neck. “At this distance, I can take you hostage.”
I was speechless: "Then I'm not an ungrateful person who deliberately came to my door. How can I live in the Zhang family in the future? Stop talking nonsense to me."
Seeing my normal attitude, Zhang Tianyi pinched his nose and said with a headache:
"Is this how you should react to me?"
"Including the young man at the beginning, and then Taizi and Sanyi, I have confessed that I have plotted against you three times."
"Is there anyone who is so eager to be cheated as you?"
Hearing him say that, I felt relieved. I thought that both sides might be able to listen to him now, so I pulled out the accompanying bench from under the bed and sat down.
Then he said seriously:
"No matter how serious you sound, I am still clear about one thing: I was already caught because of Tai Tsai."
"Without your plan, I still have to find a way to get rid of the predators of the prophet and the fake man. Last time, I relied on Dongzai to interrupt the process of my transformation into Tianyi, but after all, it was only a temporary solution. No one knows when the prophet will come back and bite me again."
"It is said that a thief can steal for a thousand days but never be on guard against thieves for a thousand days. If I want to completely ensure safety, according to my previous inference, I have to find the part that the prophet took out of my body and completely cut off the connection between us."
I pointed at Xu You. "Master, he's easy to talk to. At least he has a clear goal. At worst, he can just cut off the replaced ear. But what about me? Do you want me to scrape off every piece of flesh on my body to see where the 'stone' that the prophet put in is?"
Zhang Tianyi didn't say anything.
I looked around, and waited until everyone understood and digested the situation, and their eyes were on me, before I continued, "If it were me, I would rather choose to cut off the source of the trouble and find a way to completely eliminate the prophets and the fake people."
"The only problem is that you concealed this plan and used me as bait. But I was already drawn into it and had no way to escape the fight with the Prophet. Since I happened to be the most suitable trap for the Prophet, it would be indecisive not to take advantage of it.
As for the truth, I shouldn't have known this in the first place, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to deceive the prophet. Now that you've been honest with me, it's not too late."
Actually, there is one thing I haven't said yet. Everyone has something to do. I never mind whether I become a tool in the division of labor. I think I am just an ordinary person. Compared with a superficial position, being able to do things well is the most important thing for me.
Not to mention that this time, in the final analysis, it was all for the sake of saving my life. As the real beneficiary, if you were to care about this, you would be looking down on me.
But having said that, I felt that I had explained the matter clearly enough, and there should be no more ambiguity or misunderstanding. So I simply changed the subject and got back to the point, asking him:
"You used the dilapidated remains of the prophet in the stone forest of the mine. What happened to the prophet behind the hidden object now? Was he assimilated and died forgetting himself? Or was he used as fertilizer by the mine prophet and eaten by his own kind?"
"You can say they are dead. We mixed up the two prophets, and the underlying rules are the same, so they have long been inseparable. If one gets into trouble, the other can't escape either."
Zhang Tianyi paused for a moment, "But I want to digress a little."
I was surprised that I had never seen him so talkative, so I asked him what he wanted to say.
He thought about it and asked me, "What happens after death?"
ah?
This question is quite interesting. I thought about it for a while and answered: "According to tradition, when a person dies, he becomes a ghost. When a ghost dies, he becomes a ghost. When a ghost dies, he becomes a ghost. After Xi, there are Yi and Wei."
Zhang Tianyi hummed, without any hesitation, and explained solemnly:
"There is such a statement in the records of the mine keepers. They believe that the ordinary death of human beings is nothing more than the extinction of body and spirit. And the death of strange stories, like the mine prophet who died but not stiff, is more like a further malicious distortion of the rules, leading to more disordered chaos and stereotypes."
"For strange stories, there are also transformations that are deeper and more unpredictable than death, just like ghosts and demons. But no matter what it is, that kind of depth will gradually become so deep that even people like us who are deeply polluted cannot see it. So no matter what, it will eventually continue to die at the end of death, diving into the deep sea of strange stories to a depth that no one can detect, and it will be difficult to connect with this world anymore."
"So you can rest assured that there will be no more follow-up on the matter of the prophet."
At this point in the conversation, everyone in the room was already listening intently. This time, I didn't need to speak. Xu Youxian frowned and asked:
"What's going on with the mine keepers? They know too much. What happened twelve years ago?"
As a person who had personally been to the deserted village and stone forest, Xu You obviously had no similar experience at all, which was actually very abnormal.
Zhang Tianyi laughed, looked around, dragged a bench, and sat next to me.
The red dots of snipers were still sticking to him and moving with him, but Zhang Tianyi didn't care. He thought for a long time this time before he smiled and said that he had a puzzle that he hadn't figured out. Let's talk about it today.
Seeing him start to take the lead, my eyelids jumped and I had a bad feeling: "Let's talk about the topics one by one, don't stir up trouble."
"It doesn't matter. It's all the same thing."
Zhang Tianyi spent the rest of the afternoon telling us a story about a hospital in Wuhao Town and a pneumoconiosis patient twelve years ago. All the misfortunes, including the killings by the group of miners, started from here.
The pneumoconiosis patient had just escaped from the Stone Forest Mine after an incident. At that time, the mine prophet had not yet died and was in the most active and stable state.
Before telling me this story in detail, Zhang Tianyi asked me a question that made my scalp tingle. He asked me if I still remembered why the two of us, no, to be more precise, the three siblings of the Xu family, had never lied since we were young.
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