Chapter 122: Tail Ship 40
"Jiang Yuelu!"
He woke up with a start as if he had died suddenly.
The illusion disappeared, and he emerged from it. It was still the stern ship, and still the ruins. Nothing had changed. It seemed as if he had spent a long time in the illusion, but only a few seconds outside.
Tong Mian saw that he didn't respond and shouted worriedly, "Jiang Yuelu!"
"I heard that."
Jiang Yuelu looked at the twisted baby carriage and asked, "Why did you let me see this?"
The huge, ugly body let out a childish giggle, "We are on the same side, can't you see?"
"Yes, I did capture Will and the others, but as you can see, I was killed by that bastard before the boat was repaired. The tragedy of their family was caused by Jin Muxi, so there is no reason for us not to cooperate."
"I'm seeking revenge for myself, and you... aren't you on good terms with that little girl?"
The baby carriage opened its mouth wide, with sharp teeth lined up in a row and a rotten smell spewing out.
"Revenge for your dead friends should be considered as a reason for you humans to take revenge, right?"
Jiang Yuelu thought, well said.
"But I refuse."
The huge figure of the stroller paused for a moment, "You refuse?"
It quickly remembered that the wizard still had the Ghost King's bargaining chip in his possession.
"The Ghost King's eyes won't stay in this ghost city for long. I said, he has his own things to do, otherwise he would have come long ago..." Baby Stroller shook his head, and glanced at Tong Mian with twisted red eyes, "Besides, your strength is the weakest among you. I hope you understand clearly that I am looking for you to negotiate entirely because of Lord Ghost King."
"Whether their safety can be guaranteed from now on depends entirely on your decision, Jiang Yuelu. I advise you to answer me carefully."
"Are you still going to refuse my cooperation?"
Jiang Yuelu said without hesitation, "Yes, I refuse."
"Why should I cooperate with you? To survive?"
"Do you think you have the credibility? Drake's soul was just ripped apart by you."
"So you're speaking up for my child," the stroller laughed. "How childish."
Jiang Yuelu seemed to have heard a joke, "Why should I speak up for him? He did a lot of bad things under your command. What does the murder between you and your son have to do with the people in our wizard academy? I don't cooperate with you because I don't want to make you look bad."
"As for my team, I'm sorry, this is the first time the three of us have teamed up for a mission, and we haven't established a strong revolutionary friendship yet. If I die, they won't be sad. If they die, I won't be sad either." Jiang Yuelu stared at it closely, "Do you think humans love each other and are willing to sacrifice and die for each other without hesitation? Your understanding of humans is really pitiful. I am far from being as selfless as Will and the others."
Tong Mian whistled as a matter of course, "Yes, yes, life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor are determined by God, what the hell does it have to do with you?"
Leng Wenhan stared at the stroller silently, his cold eyes full of rejection.
After a long silence, it chuckled, "When humans go crazy, they are much scarier than us."
"Fortunately, you are not my last trump card. I am not stupid enough to pin my future on strangers..."
His pupils emitted a faint red light, and his entire body made a teeth-grinding sound of bones cracking. His originally swollen body inexplicably grew one section, then two sections... The baby carriage used all its strength in its last move, and the entire ground began to shake.
The monster's blood-red eyes stared at a golden figure.
Jin Muxi waved his fan nonchalantly, and the gravel and dust passed by him without leaving any trace on his luxurious clothes.
"Today, even without you..."
"I will also avenge myself!"
The stroller howled at the top of its lungs, mobilizing all its strength.
A flash of blood suddenly exploded!
The next second, the stretched body of the stroller froze.
A little bit of golden light seeped out from the place where its head and neck were connected, and a gorgeous golden fan came out from the incision and returned to the owner's hand. Jin Muxi did not touch the fan himself, but turned it in the air, and the golden light on the wound became stronger and brighter.
"Bang!"
A head fell to the ground with a perfectly cut surface.
One hit kills.
Seeing that the fan could not be cleaned no matter what, Jin Muxi simply threw it away, and without looking at the baby carriage that was unwilling to close its eyes, he stepped over its head and walked towards Jiang Yuelu. Behind him, the head that had swelled like a cyst gradually shrank into a small one, and the endless resentment finally died out.
Jiang Yuelu withdrew her gaze and looked at the gorgeous young man in front of her.
"I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time."
Jin Muxi was smiling, but it brought an unprecedented sense of oppression.
Jiang Yuelu recalled that in that illusion, he also said to Rongrong gently and kindly, "I want to talk to you." But his gentle approach brought destruction.
His throat tightened involuntarily, "What are you talking about?"
"Some of what it said was right, but some was not. The tragedy of their family was not caused by me alone. On the contrary, I am also confused and I really want someone to explain it to me."
He raised his eyes and saw a pair of glittering, empty eyes.
When he smiled, only his skin and flesh moved, and no extra emotion overflowed from the depths of his eyes.
"But first I have to know, what ending did it show you?"
Jiang Yuelu said with difficulty: "You gave Rongrong a gift."
"Oh, that mark." Jin Muxi nodded. "It was no longer useful. She didn't need any help to see through her parents' lies. She did a lot of things, but she couldn't make them happy. They did smile during the meal, but everyone could see that it wasn't a real smile."
Jiang Yuelu was puzzled: "Do you think they should laugh?"
"What else?"
"If you don't want to repair the boat, then don't repair it. If you want to leave the ghost cave, I agreed and will send them back later. I also specially found a girl that her brother likes. We all thought he would be happy, but he wasn't. He looked at the other person in despair, as if asking why you are here."
"I asked him, 'Are you unwilling to be with her? If not, I will send her away.' But after hearing what I said, he gritted his teeth and said he was willing."
Jin Muxi shook his head. "I gave them wealth, status, love... whatever they wanted, I could give them. But why, I still don't see that kind of pure happiness from them again? They are getting weaker day by day, and even I can't save them."
Jiang Yuelu turned his head and looked at the "meat heart" in Leng Wenhan's hand. His throat seemed to be rusted. "What kind of deal did you make with her?"
Jin Muxi was puzzled: "Transaction?"
"Oh, you're talking about that simple sacrificial ritual."
He then glanced at the withered head behind him, "Killing him only costs a small wish, and I fulfilled it for her without much effort, so there is no need to pay an extra price."
"Then why is she becoming more and more like a monster?" Jiang Yuelu held back and didn't blurt out "becoming more and more like a monster".
His words left Jin Muxi confused.
"Strange? Has she changed at all?"
Tong Mian came close to Jiang Yuelu and whispered to her, "The process of communicating with gods is a process of getting very close to gods. Do you remember the shaman dance I mentioned? Why do you have to act crazy to communicate with gods? Because the world of gods is incomprehensible to us humans."
"In that chaotic phase, if we are not careful, we will be contaminated by the breath of God. But this is not a blessing for us, but..."
Tong Mian shut up, saying anything further would be blasphemy.
Jiang Yuelu thought about the time when Will saw his smiling daughter and Jin Muxi at the table, and the thought that they looked more like a family came into his mind. Suddenly, he had an incredible guess.
"Could it be that she has been assimilated by you..."
Jin Muxi smiled and said, "What's wrong with being assimilated by me? Am I weird?"
"Don't you think I'm more human than these monsters?"
"I don't like fighting and killing, and my ghost city is mainly based on market transactions. I can understand people's emotions, their happiness and suffering, and I have also humanely abolished the boring currency of the underworld money and created a Yongle City based on happiness."
"What is this ship that can reach the sky?" Jin Muxi said with a smile.
"Nothing compares to the laughter I heard when I sat by the window that day."
Jiang Yuelu shook her head, "You are sick... You are really sick. You are all crazy, one crazier than the other. You are not as good as that baby carriage. At least it knows what it wants, but you... You don't even know what you are, what you want, and why you do these things."
"You can't even understand yourself, how can you understand humans?"
Jin Muxi observed him, "Are you angry? Did my words anger you?"
He tried to identify the possible source of this anger, and his eyes finally fell on the dying "piece of meat". "It wasn't me who made her like this. Her ability is slowly expanding. The range of the mark has grown from a room to a boat, and then expanded to the entire Ghost City."
"Soon, she will know whether the ghosts in this sea are happy or sad."
"In order to make it easier to monitor her, she chose to merge with the ship. You could say that the ship has become her, and she has become the ship. They have long been inseparable. If you say assimilation, there is a point. She seems to like seeing smiling faces and happiness just like me."
"It's just that she can't control her desire." Jin Muxi said with a smile: "After all, she is still a child, right?"
Jiang Yuelu sneered inwardly: Yeah, does she have a choice?
"In the end, her parents and brother saw her living on the ship and became insane because they couldn't accept it. Will said that the ship was cursed and had cursed their family and their daughter. When they were about to destroy the ship, she tried to stop Will, but unfortunately she couldn't control her strength..." Jin Muxi sighed and shook her head.
The dying "piece of meat" spoke again.
"So, I killed them."
The past that she had deliberately forgotten filled her mind. She felt the pain deep in her body, and tears flowed out drop by drop. "I don't know what happened to me. They cried in front of me without any concealment, and I couldn't accept it... By the time I reacted, it was already..."
"So it was me. Everything is because of me..."
Jiang Yuelu shouted: "It's not because of you!"
"It was this piece of trash in front of you who seduced you, controlled you, and turned you into a monster that even your parents feared. They are unhappy because they are worried about you! What they fear most is that you will continue to deteriorate, so they will collapse after seeing you lose control."
"Your father, Will, who loved ships so much...eventually wanted to destroy the ship to save you!"
The protruding blue veins on the "piece of meat" trembled again and again, oozing out blood-red liquid, as if it were really shedding tears.
After hearing this, Jin Muxi smiled and said, "Hey, hey. I'm really sad that you misunderstood me like this. I was so good to her, how could I let her become a monster? Besides, she's very cute like this."
He slowly placed his hand on the transparent shell and lifted it lightly, and the lid disappeared. Jin Muxi took out the piece of meat as if no one was around. The protruding silk threads extended in all directions under the shining golden light. The heart seemed to be fixed in the center of the boat and could not go anywhere.
Jin Muxi talked to himself.
"What's strange is that the Tail-Bearing Ship ate all the souls of their family that day. According to the former Lord of the Capital, the Sky-Bearing Ship received the required sacrificial souls and should have ascended to the sky, but it stayed in the air, motionless."
"Although I am not very interested in the Skyship, I am still a little curious."
"I found some explanations from the records Will left behind, and combined with my own guesses, I believe that Rongrong's joining caused some changes."
"In Will's plan, there was no trace of her at all. After she merged with the ship, she witnessed the death of her parents and her mind was closed. Therefore, the ship that inherited her will could not be free and could not fly. Do you agree with this explanation?"
Jiang Yuelu remained silent.
But Jin Muxi didn't care about his answer. "Then, how can we make her return to normal? I found the answer in Will's records. Just two drops of pure tears can open his daughter's heart. It's like he foresaw the ending of today and prepared for her long ago. Well, a great father."
Jiang Yuelu heard it and said, "Two drops of pure tears..."
He found it outrageous.
How could this fairy-tale-like description be the final solution?
Jin Muxi insisted, "It's true, that's what he wrote. His feelings for his daughter are so profound, how could he not consider her future happiness?"
Jiang Yuelu whispered, "Happiness, happiness, is this the only thing in your mind..."
"No!"
A strange hoarse voice suddenly sounded.
Jiang Yuelu turned around and was startled, "...is it you?"
A young man in his thirties came over, looking haggard and weathered. They had met once in Guiliu Ju, and it was he who pointed out the right direction during the chaotic escape, buying time for Jiang Yuelu and others to escape.
Soon, the young man came to Jiang Yuelu and Jin Muxi who were standing confronting each other.
The battle was about to break out, but he was not afraid at all. After seeing the piece of meat in Jin Muxi's hand, he clenched his teeth and said, "What do you know!"
As he finished speaking, he raised his hand and wiped his face painfully, revealing his true expression.
It was the face of a boy who was less than seventeen years old, with curly blond hair, and facial features similar to Rongrong's.
Jiang Yuelu had seen this face many times in the illusion and recognized it almost immediately, "It's you!"
Rongrong's brother, Will's son!
Brother Jiang nodded and said, "My father and mother did their best to protect me at that time..."
When talking about the past, his eyes looked a little dim.
"Then I hid on this ship, Joan...my uncle, he seemed to recognize me, but he didn't say anything, nor did he report it to Jin Muxi."
"I think he probably thought I was insignificant and couldn't make a difference. I kept waiting, and suddenly one day, a man showed up and told me that the time was coming."
"The Wizard Academy will bring a turning point for me and my sister. I originally doubted why wizards would come to Ghost City, but when Joan received your bounty and later saw you in Ghost City... I realized that this is the opportunity at the moment."
"So, that's why you sent us out of Guiliuju..." Tong Mian suddenly realized.
Without the later contact with Drake, they would not have been pushed here by fate.
Jiang Yuelu was not upset by the plot. Instead, he felt a sense of connection with the young man in front of him: everything was done to save his sister. If it were him, he would also try his best.
Jin Muxi looked at the boy with great interest. "So you didn't die? Well, if Rongrong wakes up, she will be very happy. Maybe she won't even need to look for tears, and she will get better..."
Brother Jiang said angrily: "I said, no, tears can't save my sister!"
After he finished speaking, he laughed uncontrollably, pointing at Jin Muxi and bending over with laughter, "That was a fairy tale my father made up for Rongrong, but you thought it was the only way and made Qiong search for it day after day for decades!"
"Do you know how I feel when I see the ghost market collecting tears every day? I find it ridiculous and pathetic, just like you, Jin Muxi, just like you!"
Jin Muxi was silent for a long time.
"But that's what Will's notes said."
"The girl's heart has grown leaves, locking her inside. At this time, what can be used to wake her up?" The boy murmured to himself, tears streaming down his face.
"After hearing the fairy tale, my sister was so sad that she couldn't sleep, so my father changed the ending for her. He coaxed her that the little girl with leaves didn't need to wait for the prince and the knight to redeem her. The next day, her father brought two tears."
"One drop of happiness, one drop of pain."
"Pure tears soaked the leaves, and the girl was awakened by human emotions. She walked out of the closed leaves, hugged her lost family, and the family lived happily together from then on."
He raised his head and looked at Jin Muxi. "That's what the fairy tale is about. You've been following the rules for years like a clown. It's just a fairy tale my father used to trick children."
"Why can't you tell the difference? Because you don't understand human emotions at all. You don't know what made my sister sleep peacefully, you don't know what made my father revise the book with all his heart, you don't know why we would rather lie than deceive our sister... You don't understand why this story was born."
"Protection, love, these people's emotions, you don't understand them at all."
He turned to Jiang Yuelu, "Do you know what this lunatic did?"
"He told you that my sister didn't pay anything for the sacrifice, right? How can there be no price to pay for a deal made with an evil creature? Rongrong died at that time..."
His bitter tone sounded as if he had been preparing to say these words for years, and his dead, no longer beating chest rose and fell violently.
"I don't know what method he used to revive my poor sister, thinking that this resurrected monster could quickly integrate into our family. But she is not my sister at all! She is just a puppet that you have placed your selfish wishes on. You want her to pretend to be harmonious and happy with us!"
It didn't start until the sky gradually darkened.
Shadows spread across the boat like moss, and moisture left no corner untouched.
Jin Muxi's teeth-grinding voice rang out again, but this time, he didn't laugh.
"If you want your child to live, bring her back to life. If you want her to continue to accompany you, stop this day forever. If you want to forget the pain, I will give you the ability to forget."
"I protected you and saved you, but you are still afraid of me. I wonder why. I can't feel much happiness in your daily life. Have you been pretending?"
Jin Muxi's voice was as heavy as mercury.
"Since it's so painful, just die."
As soon as he finished speaking, his body shone brightly, and the golden light was so dazzling that Jiang Yuelu could hardly open his eyes, and he could not help but cover half of them with his hands. Looking through the gap, an extremely huge golden figure rose from the ground, with golden threads connected to it from all directions, and holding a constantly vibrating heart in its hands.
Jiang Yuelu looked up and her pupils dilated.
A beautiful and luxurious blood-red Guanyin!
Guanyin's eyes were filled with tears and blood, and she had no aura of saving the world or saving people. Her whole body emanated a strange and evil nature.
Jiang Yuelu's heart was filled with alarm, and she yelled at Tong Mian, "Come here quickly!"
Without the full power, Jin Muxi could kill the baby carriage with a small fan. Now that he has transformed into a strange form, it will be even more difficult to resist. Jiang Yuelu did not dare to be careless. She took the things thrown by Tong Mian and flew high into the sky without hesitation. One by one, talisman papers floated out of her hands, exploding with endless sparks, and brought him to the hand of the Bloody Guanyin.
Tong Mian's voice came from below, "You really need to use it!"
"Not now, how long should we wait?" Jiang Yuelu raised the transport scale in his hand, growled at the dying heart, and suddenly began to accuse.
"Rongrong, you killed your parents, do you still remember?"
His action shocked the young man from the Jiang family, and even the Blood-Red Guanyin forgot to move for a moment.
Jin Muxi's voice seemed to be equipped with a loudspeaker, transmitted through the resonance of the air, "What are you doing?" Because he was too shocked, he actually smiled.
Jiang Yuelu ignored him and continued to whisper to the Heart Demon, "You killed them, and you also helped Jin Muxi kill so many people without knowing it. Aren't you an accomplice? Don't you feel guilty?"
"And us, we will die here next. You look at me and remember how you begged me to come to Ghost City? If it weren't for you, would we come here to die?"
The Jiang family's young master angrily said, "What bullshit are you talking about! Does this have anything to do with my sister? Is she willing?! I must be blind to choose to help you!"
"Is she your sister?" Jiang Yuelu looked at her heart that was constantly panting. "You said it all before, she is just an imposter, a puppet, a monster."
The heart-piercing words seemed like a sharp knife stabbing into his heart. Brother Jiang looked up and said, "She... is also my sister."
"It's all my fault..."
Rongrong, whose face was completely disfigured, whispered in agony, "It's all my fault."
The questions were like sharp knives, cutting her heart.
"It's all my fault, ahh ...
Endless regret and pain filled her trembling heart, and the girl howled uncontrollably.
Jiang Yuelu’s mind moved, now is the time!
He quickly inserted the transport scale under his heart, and a strange weighing platform was established. His speed was so fast that before anyone could react, a huge amount of energy slowly escaped from the other end of the scale. The terrifying power brought silent vibrations, and the sense of crisis spreading in the air made the Bloody Guanyin stop.
Jin Muxi lowered his head, saw the fortune scale, and suddenly understood.
Jiang Yuelu wanted to take advantage of the girl's despair and pain.
"Interesting, interesting." Bloody Guanyin slowly leaned down, staring at Jiang Yuelu with a smiling face, "Her pain may be more useful than Tong Mian's. Why didn't I think of this way of playing? No wonder the Ghost King likes you. If he didn't insist on having you, I would have wanted to stay here."
"You wish!"
Jiang Yuelu tried her best to control the buzzing and vibrating fortune scale.
His face was a little distorted because of the force.
Bloody Guanyin looked at him struggling like a tiny insect, and asked with endless compassion: "She has been driven crazy by you. Even if you hurt me, it will be difficult for you to escape. After thinking for a long time, you can only think of this method that will hurt both sides?"
"Hehe..." Jiang Yuelu laughed.
His hands were in pain, and he smiled in a somewhat devilish way. The struggle with the over-lucky scale almost tore his body apart, and when he touched the pain of the scale, a terrifying scream overflowed from his mind.
He felt his eyes become bloodshot and crazy, able to look Guanyin in the eye, "Who told you... it's a lose-lose situation. Child, you need to be coaxed... you don't understand."
He lowered his head with difficulty, looked at the screaming piece of meat, and tried to make his voice gentle.
"Remember the boat we found in your father's room in No. 1 Mansion? He stole a small amount of materials when he was building the Sky-reaching Boat, and used the sacred wood your mother brought to build the boat that could travel freely in the ghost den. He also left a sealed box containing the underworld's money on the boat."
He spoke softly.
"That's the escape boat he left for you."
The sharp scream of pain stopped abruptly.
"When he and your mother were trapped in the den of evil and unable to move, they were still thinking about a way out for you. They left this boat for you in the hope that you could get out of here."
Jiang Yuelu endured the screaming and roaring in her mind.
Although his words had some effect, he was too sensitive now, and the pain that other wizards felt when they heard them was doubled for him.
"So." He gritted his teeth, "You must help me."
A drop of liquid slid onto his hand, as if it was a silent and firm answer.
Jiang Yuelu felt a surge of joy in his heart, but then a sharp pain came over him. He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth to resist the resistance, and let out a low, tense groan from his throat. He squeezed his heart, which was connected to the scale, into Guanyin's palm. After doing all this, he turned over and jumped.
“Jiang Yuelu!” Tong Mian was running around on the ground like an ant, “Here, here!”
They were like hiding from a time bomb, tumbling and crawling away from the Bloody Guanyin. On the way to escape, only Rongrong's brother did not move. Tong Mian ran and urged him: "Run! It's going to explode soon!"
The other party didn't move.
Tong Mian wanted to say something else, but Jiang Yuelu stopped him and said, "Let's go."
Just as they met up with Leng Wenhan and ran to the end of the ruins, there was a loud bang behind them, and countless cracks extended from the palms to the body. Guanyin's porcelain-white body instantly disintegrated into pieces, and the white porcelain with golden light fell one after another, like a golden rainstorm erupting in the distance.
Tong Mian breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's finally over... Let's hurry up..." Before he could even utter the word "leave", he heard Jiang Yuelu order, "Take Wenhan and me there. I know you still have some magic weapons that you haven't used yet."
"Why do we have to go over there again? We have finally escaped..." Tong Mian was full of resentment, but then he thought, the luck scale has not been taken out yet, this thing can greatly improve his combat level.
He smiled and took out his magic weapon that could shrink the earth. In a flash, the three of them arrived at the place where they had just escaped.
The golden rain fell heavily, making the ground even more dilapidated.
Jiang Yuelu finally found Rongrong's heart on a slightly larger piece of white porcelain. The surface was covered with a thin piece of clothing, which was exactly what Rongrong's brother had been wearing just now. Now there was only the clothes, and no trace of the ghost.
Her brother was completely horrified.
And because of his protection, Rongrong's heart was still holding on.
But this vitality will not last long, and she will soon die completely. Jiang Yuelu half-knelt down, looking at the fragile heart blooming in the golden fragments, and her voice was still as light and ethereal as when they first met.
"...Lord God?"
"Yes, I'm here." Jiang Yuelu felt her throat was blocked and uncomfortable, "Sorry. I still couldn't save you."
"It's okay... You are just a newly born little god... My father once said that children should not try to do things they cannot do... Even if the sky falls, there are still adults to find a way." The girl smiled, "One day you will be able to help many people and save many people."
"You asked me the question before, whether you have seen your brother and sister... I asked all the ghosts in this sea, and they all said they have not seen them. Unfortunately, they... they are not in this ghost city."
Jiang Yuelu said: "I understand. I will go look somewhere else."
“It’s finally over…” The girl sounded very tired. “I really want to have a good sleep like this.”
Jiang Yuelu said softly: "Go to sleep, you can see your parents and brother when you fall asleep."
"Haha, you are lying to me again. I am not a child. I have lived in the ghost den for so long that I also know some of the rules after death."
"When people die, they become ghosts, just like my brother. In this case, we can still meet in the afterlife. But my parents' souls have been scattered, not even a trace of residue is left... I will never see them again."
Jiang Yuelu shook her head, "No, it won't happen. Do you still remember this brother with white eyes?"
"He is very powerful. He is the underworld official."
The girl was stunned. "Really?"
Leng Wenhan nodded.
Tong Mian looked left and right, "Even if we send the underworld to find the ghost that has long been scattered, we can't, unless..." His eyes widened, "No way, can it be that you... the god in your family is not easy to talk to, don't just exchange it casually! Besides, aren't you afraid that the academy will punish you?"
Jiang Yuelu said firmly: "Leave it all to me."
Looking at them, Tong Mian realized that the two had already discussed it. "So you were whispering about this matter for a long time... Forget it, let me take part as well. At least I can help you say something good in front of my uncle."
…
After a moment.
Leng Wenhan was too weak to stand steadily, and Jiang Yuelu supported him before he fell.
The golden rain was still falling slowly, and two illusory figures appeared in front of Rongrong, seeming real and illusory, like a dream.
"Dad, Mom?" The girl opened her arms in surprise. She was stunned to find that she was no longer trapped and had grown arms.
Her body quickly filled with spirituality before she quickly ran towards them, the light melting into her temporary flesh, allowing her to open her arms and embrace them completely.
The talisman paper in front of Jiang Yuelu burned out again, and he lit another one without any regret.
Tong Mian looked at him and didn't say anything to dissuade him.
"Mom and Dad." The girl looked over, "And my brother..."
Her mouth seemed to be blocked, and she felt extremely bitter. She did not dare to look into their eyes. "Because of me, you... I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Will picked her up and said softly, "When we stepped into this hellhole, our lives were no longer in our own hands. How can we put all the blame on you? Didn't Dad say that we adults are still here even if the sky falls? If you want to blame someone, you can only blame me for going out to sea."
"Yeah, yeah!" The girl nodded repeatedly with tears in her eyes.
"But you did do one thing wrong."
The girl raised her head and stared at her serious mother in a daze.
But soon, the mother smiled softly and touched her daughter's head. "Your biggest mistake was not telling us and secretly contacting such a dangerous monster. Didn't I tell you that if you encounter something you can't handle, just call mom."
Rongrong was stunned. She didn't expect that her mother and father would be so tolerant and forgive her.
Someone patted her head. She turned around and saw her familiar brother. "You are still so stupid. You can't even think of such a simple thing? How can we blame you? We are a family."
“…”
Rongrong looked at them for a long time, and suddenly burst into tears.
"I've been so sad these years. Where have you all been? Why are you all not here..." She was throwing a tantrum like a little kid.
She let out her grievances and loneliness to her heart's content, but she didn't notice that the accumulated depression and pain were quickly passing away. Although she was crying, she smiled as she leaned over her family.
"Um?"
A faint but pleasantly surprised voice rang out, "Yes... this is the kind of happiness... the happiness I have been chasing for for so long, is this... hahahaha!"
Jin Muxi stood up shakily and looked over here in shock.
His eyes were shining so brightly that he even forgot about the injuries on his body.
"How did you do that?"
Jiang Yuelu looked at him and suddenly realized a way to make this madman suffer. He raised the corner of his mouth, "I won't tell you."
No matter how much Jin Muxi begged, he just wouldn't tell him the reason.
Everyone can understand this feeling, but Jin Muxi can't. He is a natural monster and doesn't know that after people accept pain and overcome it, they can get purer and more extreme happiness. Humans are such complex creatures, with seven emotions and eight sufferings that are difficult to distinguish.
Jiang Yuelu knew that he would not understand, so she shook her head and said, "The happiness you have gained is just superficial."
"Do you think every ghost in your ghost city is happy? It is because you blindly pursue standard numbers that they abuse tricks to gain happiness. But I want to ask, are the countless numbers you get happiness? Is happiness that can be measured happiness?"
"Is it happiness to have a harmonious marriage and a happy family by pretending to be happy? Is it happiness to indulge in a beautiful dream grave of knowing nothing?"
"Drake lives in despair, with tears marks on his face. He is with the people he thinks are his family. Isn't he happy?"
"Qiong lives in happiness. He has countless happiness points, but is he really happy?"
The repeated questioning left Jin Muxi speechless.
After a long time, he slowly raised his hand.
A blood-red Guanyin appeared again. Tong Mian and Leng Wenhan could not help but be alert and prepare for battle, but soon they discovered that it was just an illusion.
Jin Muxi looked at the spinning gorgeous Meiyin. This was the first trophy he had obtained on his wandering journey. Because it was beautiful, he accepted it.
"Everyone said that the Lord of Ghost City was thinking, because he had to come on a broken ship that couldn't fly when there were so many good places to choose from. But you know, after my brother and I were separated, we were always wandering until I came here and saw them celebrating their birthday.
"What is a birthday? I have never had one. My birth was death, but someone is laughing at a girl's birth long ago.
“I was attracted by this carefree paradise, but I didn’t expect that humans are so fragile that a small change can turn paradise into hell.
"Humans have their own life and death. I won't interfere with people's death, because there is no fun in intervening. It's just meddling. But bringing them back to life is different. When I heard Will begging for his daughter to come back to life, I let her live. This is the wish he said in person. But why was he so scared when he saw his daughter come back to life?
"Didn't I give them back the paradise? Didn't I grant their wishes? Why were they crying at the end? Just like my brother. I hate tears.
"Why aren't they grateful to me, or afraid of me?"
Jin Muxi raised his head, and the last piece of golden rain fell on his face.
"Why……"
"They don't want to come near me?"
Jiang Yuelu looked up at Guanyin. It had compassion for the world, but it did not understand human feelings.
He said, "When you come down from the position of gods and ghosts, you will understand."
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