Chapter 58 Xue Jingzhen Do you want to make friends?
The water ghost was half dead, but he was still talking. He led the way without stopping, "Little kid, you don't know that I, Yongxi, have been your neighbor for ten years. I am half your elder. When your grandparents passed away, I saw them off."
"Speaking of which, your Li family is a rare flower. Three generations of your family are all wealthy idlers who are devoted to guarding the family business. They collect rent and drink tea every day. Although they have no ambitions, they have avoided the disaster of bankruptcy."
"whisper."
"Unlike the Bai family, they just had a literary talent. After only a few days of being the county magistrate, his family members started to amass wealth. The imperial envoy caught them all and killed them on the spot with a sword."
"For example, the He family in the east, Your Majesty has been on the throne for more than 20 years, but they are still thinking about the favor of the previous emperor and the glory of the previous generation. They are always resentful and muttering nonsense about the promise made by the Emperor Taizu at the beginning of the establishment of the country, such as sharing the world with the nobles."
"Jigu, Jigu."
"Even a ghost like me knows that, let alone the ancestors of eight hundred years ago, even the living parents have no control over their children's savings. Your Majesty has already secured the throne. The nobles have occupied the good farmland, and slavery is rampant. They are all very fertile, and the people are complaining. The emperor wants to make some private money, but he can't even have a few sons. The Great Zhou, on the surface, is still prosperous, but in fact it is already rotten. Are you waiting for the country to be destroyed if you don't start with the nobles now?"
The water ghost expressed some insightful opinions, and when he saw that they were almost there, he smacked his lips, turned back with an unsatisfied look, and wanted to say something to the baby.
The little kid was quite considerate of it and listened to it quietly all the way without interrupting it.
Thinking of this, the water ghost was in a very happy mood.
Then, it saw the current appearance of the little baby that had been following it.
The face was still that lovely jade-like face, placed upright on a bloated body, with tangled sturdy limbs covered with suction cups, barbs and intricate ancient patterns.
No wonder I kept hearing that strange “chirping” sound just now.
It was so immersed in political discussions that it didn't realize that it was the tentacles squeezing and rubbing in the water that made the noise.
At this moment, the water ghost wished that the baby was just eaten by the monster instead of turning into this appearance.
But the white silk bellyband and golden collar hanging under the head of the water monster were so eye-catching that they could not be more eye-catching, hinting at the identity of its owner: the young lady of the Li family who was born not long ago.
Thinking about his attitude towards Him just now, the water ghost fell silent.
Li Zhou was listening with great interest. Who doesn't like to listen to gossip? When she saw that the water ghost stopped talking, she leaned over and asked in confusion, "Why don't you continue?"
“…”
The water monster's whisper penetrated into the water ghost's ears, and a greedy desire for knowledge exploded in its brain. Then, it shook, and finally a small piece of its body exploded silently, leaving only a ball of inky black hair, which slowly turned into a ball of ink in the water, and finally disappeared completely.
Because of Li Zhou's gossip desire, the water ghost was actually blown up.
Li Zhou thought this was some new kind of escape technique, and looked left and right in confusion. He twitched his nose for a long time, but he didn't smell the scent of water ghost anymore.
Why? She wasn't hungry and had no intention of continuing to eat it.
It seemed as if she was so greedy that she wouldn't let go of even a small carrot.
Depressed Li Zhou raised her head and looked at the new friend she found through sniffing. The rain was still as heavy as a curtain, soaking her whole body. She wanted to get into the house quickly.
A strange creature, which looked like an ape but had four ears and a pair of fins on its back, was squatting at the gate of the courtyard. It looked at Li Zhou.
I heard there is a dish called raw monkey brain.
Won't that cause parasites?
I'll ask mom later if I can cook the monkey brain for her to eat.
While he was thinking, the monkey-like monster opened his arms and pounced towards Li Zhou.
Li Zhou stretched out her two hands - tentacles, and gently caught it. The moment the monkey monster was touched by her, it was scraped into several pieces by the barbs.
The strength seems a bit too much.
Li Zhou blinked in confusion and looked down at his hands, wondering why he suddenly lost control of his strength.
The rain poured down on her relentlessly, and the wet feeling extended from her body to her heart, as if her entire body was being soaked from the outside in.
"Is the day coming?"
Li Zhou raised his head after vaguely hearing his mother's voice. Just as he showed a happy expression, he felt his brain, which had been soaked, suddenly hurt.
"Don't go out."
This is the voice of Master Liaochen:
"Something's wrong with Li Zhou."
Are you talking about me? What's wrong with me?
Li Zhou lowered her head and carefully examined her body. One, two, three... She counted her hands and feet. A person has two hands and two legs. The rest is...
On the simulator interface, 10 points of comprehension flashed rapidly. Li Zhou paused, not realizing anything, and his eyes became more confused.
A bolt of white lightning struck above her head.
Boom——!!
Li Zhou was struck by lightning.
But nothing seemed to happen.
Who is targeting her?
Li Zhou frowned and looked up at the dark sky, and heard a cry of surprise: "Zhou'er!"
Then came the overlapping voices of Master Liaochen and Mr. Li:
"She is no longer your daughter!"
"Yue Niang, don't go!"
“Wuwuwu…”
Dalang cried again.
Li Zhou didn't have the heart to laugh at him. She looked up at the sky. The place where her head was struck by lightning seemed to have a crack, and some deliberately suppressed things were coming out of the crack. Her eyes lost focus, but her brain was turning unconsciously and she began to think.
On the simulator interface, the 10 points of comprehension flashed wildly again, but this time, it failed to stop Li Zhou from continuing to think.
The entire simulator interface turned blood red, sometimes solid, sometimes blurry, and it seemed like it would collapse at any time. Miss Yu, who was in it and had already closed her five senses, shivered, covered her ears, and tried hard to resist this force that was causing everything to collapse.
Li Zhou's eyes were blurred, but her vision was clear. She could see clearly the sun and moon hiding behind the dark clouds, the countless stars in the distance, and the strange things rushing towards here.
The value of comprehension jumped from 10 to 99 in an instant.
The voice of "No worries..." sounded and then disappeared in the chaotic whispers.
Li Zhou sat in a daze on the throne surrounded by stars, in front of him were ribbon-like things emitting soft light.
They have no fixed shape; they spin and jump, presenting her with the most special dance.
On both sides, there were creatures with hunched backs, long and thin fingers, holding flutes, and tirelessly playing slow-paced music.
She held her chin and yawned out of boredom.
The rainstorm stopped without warning. In the rising water, the tentacles holding the baby's head gathered together and seemed to have fallen asleep.
Before the residents in and outside the city had time to rejoice, they saw in horror that after the dark clouds dissipated, an even more terrifying force swept across the world.
The closer you are to the sky, the more you can feel the horror of this power.
The He family, who lived at the highest point, covered their throats, opened their eyes wide, and pointed at each other.
Everyone's back is hunched, their fingers are becoming long and thin, and they can no longer utter normal syllables in their throats.
The frightened people rushed into the room, took out the bronze mirror, ran to the well and the pool, and looked at the water.
The reflected shadows told them that the changes in themselves were no different from those in the people around them.
Li Zhou nodded his head and almost fell asleep to the sound of the flute and the beautiful dance.
Behind her, at an unknown distance, a blazing fireball was dragging a huge ancient corpse, with worms constantly falling from the cracks in its cracked skin.
On the uneven moon, shrouded in coldness, there is a palace surrounded by mist, and an obscure song is heard from the palace...
Further away, seven mouths formed into a bucket shape, opening and closing, with sticky saliva flowing between the dense teeth inside...
In addition, there are objects that expand and contract like breathing, surrounded by fungi, and things that rot and are surrounded by flies...
Countless beings exuding an ancient atmosphere carefully bypassed the dozing Li Zhou and moved forward.
"This..." A voice suddenly interrupted the soothing lullaby and woke up the master of the throne, "...Is this the world after ascension?"
The ribbons emitting soft light and the waiters with hunched backs all turned to face the person who made the sound.
In the endless darkness, Li Zhou opened his eyes and saw a figure wearing crimson clothes, jade belt, black eyebrows and starry eyes.
"Who are you?"
Into this unchanging world, something new broke in. Li Zhou was not angry. He looked curiously at the person who was slowly walking towards him.
There was an extremely complex emotion on her face, which Li Zhou could not understand or describe.
Her voice was clear and much more pleasant than the waiter's unoriginal flute. "My name is Xue Jingzhen," she said. "I'm a cultivator. What about you?"
It was the first time someone asked her who she was. Li Zhou was a little excited. She opened her mouth and wanted to say her name. Two words were about to come out of her mouth, but she couldn't remember them.
"How old are you?" Li Zhou quickly skipped the difficult question that she couldn't answer because she remembered her age!
"I am already nine thousand years old," Li Zhou said, "but they," she pointed at the ribbons and waiters, and said aggrievedly, "always say I am still a child and won't let me go out."
Xue Jingzhen wiped away the blood flowing from his ears and eyes, looked at Li Zhou, then looked at the huge stars and monsters in the distance, nodded and said: "They are right, you are still a child."
Li Zhou collapsed in frustration, slumped on the throne, and muttered, "There's nothing fun outside anyway, I don't even want to go."
After hearing this, Xue Jingzhen's nose and mouth began to bleed again, along with some debris. She raised her hand and gently brushed away the blood and flesh. She was stunned when she saw that her five fingers had become slender without her noticing.
Then, she turned her head and glanced at his back thoughtfully. The cultivator's straight back bent a little without her knowing when.
There is not much time left.
Xue Jingzhen turned his head and ignored the changes in his body. He glanced at the stars and monsters behind the throne heading towards the blue planet, then raised his foot and walked towards the great being perched on the throne.
Ribbon and the waiter immediately stopped her. When she heard the footsteps, Li Zhou raised his head and said, "What do you want to say?"
Xue Jingzhen stopped in front of the throne, squatted down, and looked carefully at Li Zhou's expression: "Are you lonely?"
Li Zhou said: "What is loneliness?"
Xue Jingzhen was startled, then smiled slightly: "Do you want to make friends?"
Li Zhou wondered: "What is a friend?"
Xue Jingzhen seemed to have known that she would ask this question, and smiled: "If I were your friend, I would take you out to play. In my world, there are flowers, grass, mountains, rivers, and furry little animals with big tails..."
"I see, you and Li are from the same place." Li Zhou blurted out, then frowned, "Hey, who is Li?"
Her memory is not very good, and she forgets things that happened in the past when she falls asleep.
Xue Jingzhen's pupils dilated slightly. No wonder, "He" could communicate with her. It turned out that a senior had been here before. What about that senior now... She lowered her eyes, her gaze sweeping over the ribbons and waiters, the stars and monsters.
A hint of sadness flowed from her eyes, but she quickly put away these emotions.
Be it the truth of ascension or the ancient secrets, she no longer had the chance to explore them.
She looked at Li Zhou again: "Then do you want to go and take a look at the things you haven't seen?"
Li Zhou shook his head and said, "No."
She vaguely remembered that sometimes when she had nothing to do, she tried to reach out to the passing stars, but as soon as she touched them, the stars that were still twinkling suddenly scattered, scattered here and there, and she couldn't stick them back.
The streamer and the waiter comforted her and said that this was because she was still young. When she grew up and could control herself, such things would not happen again.
So Li Zhou explained to Xue Jingzhen: "Let's talk about it when I grow up."
Xue Jingzhen's back had been bent into an obtuse angle, and her fingers had become increasingly thinner. She could no longer hold back her anger, and she lowered her head and began to cough dully, coughing up some blood-red and pitch-black fragments.
Li Zhou looked at her without blinking. She was the first person he had talked to for such a long time, but it seemed that it was about to become something he was used to and nothing new.
Xue Jingzhen still didn't care about the changes in her body. After the coughing stopped, she stretched out her slender hand to Li Zhou: "I can lend you my body."
She smiled and said, "If you can come to my world, I will be very happy."
Li Zhou looked at her in surprise, then looked at the stars who were tiptoeing behind him: "Are you sure?"
"Um."
"Then your body will be gone."
"It's okay."
"Your world may become pieces."
"No."
“…”
Li Zhou carefully got into Xue Jingzhen's hunched body, which was almost indistinguishable from that of a waiter.
She recalled the appearance of the immortal cultivator she saw at the beginning. With a thought, her bent back straightened up little by little, and her skinny fingers became filled with flesh and blood.
Xue Jingzhen's remaining consciousness said in Li Zhou's mind: "I'm sorry."
She turned into a floating, transparent panel, on which some words that Li Zhou could not understand slowly formed.
"I have to do this, to limit your power," she said apologetically.
Li Zhou stretched out his hand towards the passing stars, and suddenly he felt a sharp pain on his fingertips, and then a drop of blood appeared.
Li Zhou licked her fingertips subconsciously, and suddenly understood what it meant to limit power. She said happily: "This way, your world won't suddenly fall into pieces."
This is a good thing, why should I say sorry?
The cultivator seemed to no longer have the energy to explain, and seemed to be concentrating on doing something important.
The words on the panel appeared one after another, and Xue Jingzhen's consciousness guided Li Zhou to fly towards the blue planet.
When she landed on the ground, the wide sleeves of her robe suddenly turned into short-sleeved sweatpants. The shrill sound of horns came into her ears, and several high school students riding bicycles, shouting "We're going to be late", passed by her like the wind.
"This is my life before I traveled through time. I thought I'd let you get to know me first."
Xue Jingzhen's voice became very light, like a cloud or mist, and could dissipate at any time.
Li Zhou said: "What is time travel?"
She really doesn't understand a lot.
"You'll know all about it later."
The voice became softer and softer, as if he was about to fall asleep. Xue Jingzhen finally said: "If you understand my world and can become friends with me..."
"Um?"
Li Zhou pricked up her ears. Why could she hardly hear what she was saying?
"...Then play a little game with me."
In Fujiao City, in the turbid water, on the piled up tentacles, the baby's head is still not awake, and the gurgling sound of the flowing water carries away the tiny whispers.
"The influence of the seniors will eventually run out..."
On the simulator interface, the comprehension value still remained at a blood-red 99 points, but it was no longer flashing.
Bursts of snickering sounded from under the water.
Click, click...
In the He's residence, people kept having their backs bent more than 180 degrees and broken in half.
Intestines, heart, lungs, liver...the internal organs that were dislocated at some point fell out with a plop.
The blood and water gathered together and flowed to the low-lying areas.
"Walk……"
The elders, who were thinking of the emperor's conscription, pushed the young men, who represented the hope for the family's revival, to the lower ground outside the gate.
"Stay away from the sky..."
The young men were not happy and shouted, "But only if we are closer to Him can we bend down more humbly, become better at playing music, and serve Him better."
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