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With this conversation, Xu You's attention has undoubtedly been completely shifted to the strange child.
The young Xu You felt a sense of appreciation for talent, thinking that this kid was a bit eccentric, but he was neither humble nor overbearing and spoke clearly, so he was a good prospect.
You can ask if he has any family members, and then find out his background. If there is no big problem, instead of letting this child follow the inhuman "prophet" to perform magic outside, it is better to poach him and turn him over. Then give him to the broker instructor to train him, and he will become a good player.
It just so happens that I can take this opportunity to have a word with the broker.
As he was distracted by thinking about the instructor who was giving him a lot of headaches and seemed like his natural nemesis, Xu You's face couldn't help but get hot, from his neck to the back of his ears.
Zhang Tianyi, at his age, obviously couldn't understand this kind of restlessness that seemed like that of a young boy. He looked at him with some confusion: "What?"
Xu You quickly put away his smile, coughed awkwardly, and said with a stern face:
"What on earth are you doing here? Why don't you stay at home, you little brat? Were you sent to the master as an apprentice by your family, or were you kidnapped by him? If you have no choice, you can just come with us."
Zhang Tianyi was a little surprised. He could tell there was some concern from an adult behind the nonsense. He said in surprise, "Thank you. I found him on my own during the trip." He paused, as if he couldn't figure it out. "You're a good person?"
Xu You's face turned green after hearing this, and he felt so embarrassed that he wanted to get into the ground. He thought to himself, how can I not look like a good person? Do I look like a gangster? He comforted himself by saying that children just can't talk, and there is no big problem with their image.
After deceiving himself like this, Xu You asked curiously, "You found him halfway? This master is like a yellow-skinned demon. We in the Zhang family can't find him."
Zhang Tianyi shook his head: "I just want to follow him to find this village, in order to find someone. As for other things, I don't know. I don't know about your affairs and I don't care."
Xu You was confused. What did it mean to find someone? It didn't sound like it had anything to do with ghosts or gods, but rather some kind of scam he was familiar with. How did it go, "Little boy, follow uncle. Uncle will take you to find your mother"?
He was startled and looked around in the darkness. He thought, this village and the master are in cahoots. What about hearing children's laughter in the middle of the night and the master shedding his skin? This group of people are using the names of ghosts and gods to cover up the activities of human traffickers!
The more I thought about it, the more it resembled the real thing.
"Did the master spread the news that as long as people followed him devoutly, he would lead them to find their lost relatives?"
Xu You's face was a little gloomy. "And then you heard the news. How come this elusive master suddenly found a little kid like you?"
Xu You was very familiar with this practice. In the old society, the practice of sexually assaulting and mutilating women was at its most rampant. They would often abduct women and children from certain households and then return to harm them.
When the family was desperate, they followed him and indeed found their family, but they were turned into pigs when they arrived. The victims were quite respectful and obedient along the way, and the people around them did not notice anything unusual.
Xu You had rarely seen such a scum who deserved to be killed a thousand times in his life. He immediately pressed the homemade bird gun at his waist silently and clenched his back teeth viciously.
When Zhang Tian heard him come to a conclusion in just a few words, he thought about it and looked a little strange.
"You are right. Many children were lost in this village. It was indeed a man-made disaster. They made it into a ghostly incident to cover up the evil deeds."
"It's just that I'm not here to be fooled."
The child didn't seem to want to argue with Xu You, and continued: "The people missing in the village were all sent to quarry. You still have time to rescue them if you hurry.
As for the prophet, he is not here for the stones, and has nothing to do with these things. As you can see, his brain is not very good. "
Xu You frowned when he heard this. What kind of way is this to send a child to quarry stones? The master was not after the stones, so could he be innocent?
But from the contact, he also vaguely felt that the master was a little dull, very sinister and weird, but surprisingly did not show any malice. He seemed to be very easy to trust others and did not seem to be on guard at all.
Xu You whistled in the distance, first called his men to quietly inquire about the quarrying, and then told a few smart men to search the mountain to rescue people, then turned back and wondered:
"What on earth is the master doing here? What kind of broken wall is worth him running to such a place?
If he were to discover the mountain people's shameful secret, I think he is just a mortal, and if he were to be knocked down and thrown deep into the mountains, he would be dead and rotten in less than three months."
Zhang Tianyi answered every question, but his answers surprised Xu You.
"I don't know. I asked the prophet, and he said he didn't know either. He just saw some images and knew that after coming here, he would be able to get something he desired and get out of the predicament. But the prophet didn't know why he came here or what would happen."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Xu You stopped urgently, "Can you speak human language? What the hell is going on?"
Zhang Tianyi seemed a little helpless, but still patiently explained to the adult and asked him if he had noticed the prophet's big head.
Xu You nodded.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but nod my head, "So Taizi solved the problem of his big head here, and he found the so-called wall." So, whether it's Nian Ziqing or Taizi, the strange big head feature unique to the prophet might be some kind of failed parasitic disease.
Think about it more, if I didn't break the closed loop and was released while being parasitic by the comb jellyfish, would I eventually become like this alien?
When I interrupted, all the guys around me gasped. Fang Ao even came over to touch my head and said in amazement, "It's incredible, I'm almost really smart."
Gao Liu, who had been sitting in the corner listening to the story silently, also gently touched the back of her head. Although the symptoms of her being parasitized by the comb jellyfish were different, she couldn't help feeling a little scared.
Suddenly no one paid attention to me. Xu You was talking very enthusiastically, but he stopped halfway and looked at me helplessly, and said angrily, "Will you let me continue? How about you do it?"
I'll come if I want.
I stopped sitting on the floor and stretched my muscles by leaning against the wall in the corridor, wondering who the kid was looking for if he was really my brother, what he had lied to Taizi about, and how to gain his trust.
I can't figure out this question for now, but there is one thing I have a rough answer to through my interactions with Taiwanese and some clues.
I guess Xu You might have been lucky to escape the disaster.
Xu You was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Because of trust.
It was actually very strange that Taizi showed a dazed look or an unguarded trust in Xu You when they first met.
However, this is not unexplainable.
Because Taizai treated me the same way. In his fake Xuyou identity, he seemed to be trying to take care of me, and in his real identity, he kept asking me questions and asking for help, and he almost always answered any questions I wanted to know.
He acted as if he had never thought that I would resist, run away, or deceive him.
——Because he treated me as a spare human skin suit.
People will not have any defense against a piece of clothing that belongs to them. This is why he was so upset and crazy when he was misled by the little fat cat and thought that the human skin in his hand had a weird reaction.
From our brief contact, we can see that his behavioral logic has always been simple and clear: when his clothes are damaged, he will find a way to fix the problem; if he can't fix it himself, he will ask others for help; if that doesn't work, he will immediately look for the next piece of clothing.
So when facing the mountain people, Taizi was simply harmless and ignorant. These were not his clothes, and they had no meaning to him. He didn't care.
Facing Xu You, or rather, Zhang Mo who was not yet called Xu You, a piece of clothing that was not yet mature and could not be used for the time being, and this piece of clothing volunteered to help him find a way out of the predicament, Taizi was of course grateful and even shy and uncomfortable.
Taizi had too many choices at the time, his "clothes" were probably not damaged, and he "foresaw" that there was a so-called "wall" in the village that he wanted to find. The villagers, Zhang Tianyi and Xu You all showed great willingness to cooperate. It was really the right time, right place and right people.
The distortion of the "prophet" guided him here, and indeed gave him ample surprises and ways to survive, allowing him to pick and choose at ease.
In that situation, there was no need for him to plot against Xu You first.
When I made this guess, I was shocked, my scalp tingled and I cursed inwardly.
This is not something I made up, there is indeed another thing to support it:
That is, if we go back to the present twelve years later, why did Taizi appear in the convoy, in a skinned state similar to that of a demon in the mud, mixed in with a bunch of non-humans. Moreover, it seemed that he was following Xu You around like a ghost, but was hardly noticed by others.
Is it possible that the method that Taizi found back then was wrong or only temporary?
He thought he could get rid of those human skin clothes and the big head, but the ending was very tragic, which forced him to hide and look for new targets to skin.
For example, Xu You, whom he had met at the beginning?
I suddenly remembered a scary thing: "Captain Yan, when you were still Yan Er, did you tell me that you saw some Mud Devils mixed in the team in the communication. One of them was following Xu You in a sinister way?"
Before he could finish his words, Yan Mo, who was whispering to the doctor on rounds among the waiters, looked up. We looked at each other and fell into a moment of shocked silence.
——Now we know: the "evil spirit in the mud" is Taizi.
He had been following Xu You in a nearly invisible way, until the convoy encountered the moonlight mud disaster and the gaze of the trapped palace mother was about to fall on him. Taizi had to hastily and resentfully give up the "new clothes" that he had almost got, and climbed out of the window to escape into the forest.
The only two people in the entire convoy who discovered and could see Taizi were me, who was seriously parasitic in the pit at the time, and Yan Mo, who had been turned into a stillbirth by the pit.
But due to the information gap, we all just regarded him as some strange monster in the mud, and naturally would not think of anything else.
Thinking back on it now, I get a chill down my spine.
It was possible that during the time when Taizi was trying to attack Xu You, he turned his attention to me for the first time.
But Xu You's distortion and I swallowed the water sample of the pit unexpectedly, which interrupted his plan again and again, making it impossible for him to start. The prey that has been targeted and transformed by the pit is not something he can expect.
After he escaped from the convoy, I don't know who he chose to survive. But I guess he didn't just pick anyone, and it wouldn't last long. In this way, he kept choosing new targets, and finally got the human skin he had in his hand.
But when he approached the guy in some identity and rushed to him impatiently, thinking that he could get the next life-saving "clothes", he saw that the guy was crushed by the collapsed platform building. One can imagine his shock, anger and despair at that time.
He took the risk of kidnapping me, and when he was confused, he always tried to play the role of Xu You and the guy. Maybe the two blows were too great, or maybe there must be some kind of connection or substitution between him and the selected "clothes" first.
I don’t know about this, but Taizi’s situation is indeed extremely bad.
So, what happened to Taizai, who was originally like a fish in water with his "prophetic" ability, showing a sense of relaxation and trust in a superior position, that suddenly fell into this situation? Was it really the wall he was looking for that had gone wrong?
What experience turned his almost innocent cruelty into the resentful madness he has today?
"Maybe...it has something to do with me and Zhang Tianyi. At that time, we went into the quarrying mountain with a group of mountain people and Taizi."
Xu You looked strange when he heard this.
"It's hard for me to explain the details, because I still don't have a complete understanding of what happened."
"But, disciple, you may know." Xu You said softly, "Didn't you keep saying in your confusion and delirium that you had a dream?"
I was stunned.
After going around in circles, I unexpectedly returned to the dream that I wanted to mention but was always interrupted and had no chance to mention.
However, in that dream, because I was still in the process of a gestalt collapse due to face blindness, I couldn’t recognize the facial features of anyone in the dream. I was always puzzled and couldn’t connect it with what I was experiencing now.
Now that I think about it, maybe the people involved are the most confused. What I saw in my dream, as if I were in their shoes, was exactly what Taizi, Xu You, Zhang Tianyi and their group experienced when they entered the quarrying mountain.
But this dream is a bit long.
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