Chapter 104
◎Lian Jiu, I Love You Very Much (Part 2)◎
As soon as these words came out, Gu Huai swallowed all his words and suddenly realized that he seemed to be the one who had fallen into the trap.
How could they know? Didn't the demon gods keep her secret, afraid she might get hurt?
Even if other demon gods were willing, Si Lan would definitely be the first to object.
"How did you..." Gu Huai asked hesitantly, "Who told you?"
Lian Jiu said casually, "Since I came to the mountains, haven't your words and actions told me this truth?"
To be honest, these demon gods are much easier to understand than those people outside.
A group of simple ghosts represented by Si Lan.
Especially Jiang An, with just a few words of advice, he revealed all the things that I hadn't guessed.
Maybe he had been influenced by it from the very beginning, so when Lian Jiu learned about this, he was not really surprised. He just felt a little sad that he had been such an extraordinary person in the past.
But that is all in the past, what does it have to do with who I am now?
"I know. I'm a saint." Lian Jiu looked at Gu Huai's suddenly pale face and said slowly, "So what? Do you still expect me to cut flesh and bones like before? I'm a saint, not a fool."
Gu Huai didn't believe her and remained steadfast in his own beliefs: "If it weren't for those people, would you have to reincarnate over and over again, cutting your flesh and slicing your bones?"
Lian Jiu smiled: "Do you think you are speaking up for me and avenging me?"
"Isn't it?"
"Then why do you just abandon all the people I saved with my life?" Lian Jiu said, "Ultimately, you still care about yourself. You're using my name, Shennong's name, just for your own sake."
"Ha." Gu Huai felt it was ridiculous. She had done so much, and now she was considered to be doing it for herself?
She shook her head. "You wouldn't understand."
"Yes, how could you understand?" Gu Huai backed away and leaned against the wall. "You are a saint, and heaven and earth favor you. But you don't know that grains don't understand long-lasting love. You come and go like a puppet on a string. What do you know..."
"You're no match for Shennong." She raised her eyes, bloodshot in them, and said stubbornly, "He's a real person, moved by the heavens and earth, willing to sacrifice himself even without a mission. That's the virtue a saint should possess. You're nothing but a heartless ball of air..."
Before she could say anything, she fell against the wall with a bang. The wall lamps around her fell down and the ground was covered with broken glass.
"Si Lan." Gu Huai covered his chest and mocked him, "You are not even as good as me. Shennong is really good to me, but what about her?"
She pointed at Lian Jiu, who stood there motionless, facing the backlight. "In her eyes, you're nothing more than an ant. So what if you've remembered her for so many years? She doesn't even know your name. All the kindness you've been thinking about is actually her obligation. She treats everyone like this. Maybe she treated you well in the first place just to stop you from causing trouble in the world."
Si Lan didn't say anything.
Gu Huai raised his eyes: "Why, was I right?"
Si Lan walked up to her and looked down at her: "So what?"
The smile on Gu Huai's face stopped: "What did you say?"
"Whatever I think is my business and has nothing to do with her." Si Lan said lightly.
Gu Huai asked in disbelief, "Are you really that willing to accept this? If she can't remember anything, what's the difference between you and a clown?"
Si Lan lowered his eyes and looked at her coldly: "What does it have to do with you?"
"I feel bad for you!"
"Stop always feeling sorry for others." Lian Jiu walked forward and stood next to Si Lan. "One moment you're doing it for the demon world, the next moment for Shennong, for me, and now for Si Lan. You can't even handle yourself well, and you still want to handle so many people?"
"Isn't it? If you can't remember anything, what's the point of Si Lan doing this?"
Lian Jiu curved his lips and said, "So what do you hope Shennong can give you?"
What do you hope to give?
Of course, I hope that he can always look at me, be with me, and regard me as the most important. Only I can help him and accompany his family.
Why bother raising those ungrateful bastards?!
"You don't even know what he wants to do." Lian Jiu's eyes were filled with contempt. "You want to destroy his hard work in his name? What gives you the right? If I were Shennong, I'd be furious with you right now. What kind of person was I around back then?"
It was the first time that Gu Huai saw Lian Jiu showing such an aggressive side. He leaned against the wall, as if he was the one living in another world.
Lian Jiu switched his phone to Baidu, searched a few words, and placed it in front of Gu Huai. "Don't keep saying I'm a saint of heaven and earth. I've never admitted I'm a saint, let alone Shennong's selfless dedication. There are over eight billion people in this world, and countless people are dedicating themselves every day."
Gu Huai couldn't understand what she was saying and looked at her phone.
There are many people in those videos, and all kinds of sounds fill the ears, making people feel suffocated.
Gu Huai subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but Lian Jiu reached out and turned her face around, forcing her to face the person in the video.
"Did you see that?" Lian Jiu stared at her. "In here, there are soldiers who risked their lives to save people in the flood, doctors who stayed up for days and nights to care for patients in the hospital, firefighters who rushed into the flames to save trapped people, Duan Zian's family has been practicing medicine and saving lives for generations, and even those drugs you distributed, those you thought were insignificant, how many police officers risked their lives to prevent them from harming others."
"You're saying these are the humans you hate, aren't you?" Lian Jiu flipped through other videos. "Our kindergarten teacher Shanshan, how many times did she go up into the mountains and into the forests to rescue animals during her graduate studies with research teams? Some people cycle hundreds of kilometers just to find a good home for a dog, while others endure a lifetime of hardship yet still give a stray cat a home."
Lian Jiu held her face in a shackle and made her watch the videos. "Tell me, who among these people lacks a spirit of dedication?"
"Who wouldn't risk their life to do these things? Aren't they saints?"
Gu Huai's body began to tremble and his eyelashes twitched violently.
Lian Jiu's fingertips were wet with her tears, but he still didn't let go: "You only see Shennong, only see me. Look at these people, who doesn't put everyone else first and themselves second?"
"Gu Huai." Lian Jiu put the phone away and lifted her face to look at him. "You have to know that there are thousands and thousands of Shennongs in this world, and thousands and thousands of me. You have only met two of them, that's all."
The emotion in her eyes was very calm: "And I, in your eyes, am a saint born from heaven and earth."
"What I did before wasn't for those selfish people, but for the millions of saints I've never met who are not worth mentioning in your eyes."
"What about you?" Lian Jiu asked her, "If it were you, could you do it?"
Gu Huai didn't say anything. Her breathing became heavy. She slowly slid down the wall to the ground as if she was exhausted and sat down in a daze.
"You know you can't, right?" Lian Jiu withdrew his hand and lowered his voice. "So what's the point of all this? In the end, isn't it just another purgatory? And then you have to hope that another saint will appear to save you?"
Lian Jiu lowered his eyes and spoke word by word: "Why?"
At this moment, Gu Huai finally raised his head and reacted: "You are not."
"You haven't remembered it yet, right?" She held on to the last glimmer of hope. "If you remember it, you won't say that."
Lian Jiu found her naiveté laughable. "Have I lived these past twenty years in vain? Without any self-awareness at all?"
"Even if you take a step back, you're not a worm in my stomach. How can you know what I was thinking back then?"
Lian Jiu said sternly, "You don't understand me as well as Si Lan does, so what right do you have to judge my actions?"
After a few seconds of pause, he continued, "Even Shennong, whom you keep talking about, you don't understand him."
Hearing this, Gu Huai, who was sitting on the ground, laughed out loud, his shoulders shaking slightly, and murmured, "He's already dead, who knows."
After she finished speaking, she stood up with the help of the wall and coughed lightly: "Now that I have come this far, do you think a few words can convince me?"
"Did you misunderstand something?" Lian Jiu shrugged. "I don't mean to persuade you to change your ways. After all, you've already done it, and you won't be forgiven."
"and you……"
Lian Jiu chuckled: "I just want to shatter your self-righteous beliefs."
Gu Huai opened his eyes slightly.
How is it possible? How could the difference between a person before and after be so huge?
She even doubted whether the person in front of her was a saint. Why did he have such thoughts!
"And then?" Gu Huai looked at Si Lan standing beside him, "Do you want him to kill me?"
"Murder is against the law." Lian Jiu said slowly, "But I did think about this for a long time, and fortunately I finally figured it out."
"I've been thinking that since many things in our world can't be shared with the human world, we should have our own laws and regulations." Lian Jiu raised an eyebrow. "It just so happens that you're a demon god, so you can set an example for the demon world."
Glancing around the cave, Lian Jiu smiled and said, "You've created a prison just right for yourself."
Seeing that she was confident, Gu Huai pursed his lips and said, "You are not panicking at all. Aren't you afraid that I have set a trap for you?"
"What trap?" Lian Jiu looked at the children. "They just want me to use my own blood to wake them up."
"you……"
Even Gu Huai was shocked by Lian Jiu's foresight at this time.
Lian Jiu raised his eyebrows: "I also know that you didn't even leave a way out this time. Only I can save them, so I will have no choice."
Gu Huai didn't say anything.
"Your original intention was to make me remember the past. Whether you used Wan Rao or Little White Bear, you wanted me to use my own blood to save them." Lian Jiu said slowly, "But you didn't expect that I already knew my identity. Thanks to Si Lan's stubbornness, I was able to trick you as well."
"In the final analysis, without me, you're nothing." Lian Jiu laughed. "You can even donate 300ml of blood. Besides, I know everything that happened before, so why should I be afraid of this? Even if they can't be saved, it's none of my business. Saving them is my kindness, and not saving them is my duty. Can the law punish me? Your moral blackmail of so-called saints is of no use to me. I don't care what you think."
Lian Jiu pointed outside the cave and said, "Even any monster or monster god in the monster world today has no right to accuse me."
"What about you? Who are you?"
After these last words were spoken, there was almost no sound in the entire cave.
After a long time, Gu Huai slowly put on his hat, lowered his head and kept smiling bitterly: "Yes, I am nothing, but the director is."
After she finished speaking, she raised her head slightly, her eyes full of sinisterness: "You miscalculated one thing."
"The person next to you can protect you." Gu Huai tilted his head and said, "But he lacks something."
As soon as she finished speaking, her entire body began to twist.
Lian Jiu had seen Yuan Qing and Jiang An like this before when they were scaring people.
It is their Dharma image.
Gu Huai's Dharma image is obviously bigger and taller than the other two, almost reaching the top of the cave.
And it wasn't just her, Lian Jiu could also see many black shadows running around in her Dharma image.
"What is that?"
Si Lan stood in front of her: "Monster."
Lian Jiu was shocked.
So when Si Lan said that the monsters had no reaction, it turned out that they were swallowed by the medicine beast.
Si Lan, the demon god who kept saying that he wanted to eat the divine beast, didn't actually bite it, and Gu Huai actually swallowed it!
When did this happen?!
"Si Lan was seriously injured for you. If it weren't for me, he wouldn't have recovered so quickly. But I could have taken advantage of that opportunity to gain some benefits. These things are about to dissipate. Fortunately, I brought them to Kunlun Mountain to raise them. It's far away here and no one can control them." Gu Huai said in a deep voice, "But you know what? If you hadn't rejected me that day, perhaps they would never have been able to use them."
Her voice began to become a little hoarse, probably mixed with the sounds of the monsters: "You guessed wrong a little bit. I made two preparations, one for you, and the other for the monsters. Since you don't want to, then I don't mind if what happened back then happens again."
Lian Jiu immediately understood.
When the demon gods woke up, Si Lan was in the worst condition, including when he first arrived.
Before he appeared, they all thought that the saint was dead, so Gu Huai took advantage of the fact that Si Lan had just woken up and was in poor health, and was even trapped in nightmares of the past, waking up in dreams all night long.
When treating Si Lan, Gu Huai collected all the images of the monsters that were about to disappear, and took the initiative to come to Kunlun Mountain.
No one here can control her, and she is not within Si Lan's spiritual awareness range.
Originally, she had planned to swallow these monsters and repeat what happened back then, so that the monsters could also become the masters.
But later I suddenly appeared, and she changed her mind. She wanted to remember her past and become the one who could dominate the demon world. This led to the incident at Fu Yu Mountain. But she didn't expect that I not only rejected her, but also broke her fantasy and advocated that the human and demon worlds coexist.
So after that she returned to Kunlun Mountain and swallowed these monsters.
No wonder Si Lan never noticed any movement in the seal.
No wonder Jiang An was not allowed to come over. Jiang An must have known it at a glance.
At this moment, Lian Jiu seemed to suddenly understand why he came to this world.
If he and Si Lan had sealed the monsters together, Si Lan's injury would have given Gu Huai an opportunity to take advantage of, and the monsters would have been released again.
That's why I was implicated by the seal and was dragged into this world again.
At this moment, Lian Jiu didn't know what to say.
"In order to save you, Si Lan sacrificed his own Dharma image." Gu Huai's voice echoed throughout the valley. "Now, besides saving your life, what else can he offer you?"
After saying that, he suddenly rushed towards Lian Jiu.
Si Lan's expression hardened, and he transformed into his original form and rushed in front of Lian Jiu.
This was the first time Lian Jiu saw his prototype. He had rabbit-like ears, dragon horns, a body covered with scales, and four claws that looked like eagle claws.
He stood in front of me, huge in size.
Although he had guessed long ago that he was not a simple rabbit, Lian Jiu still couldn't help but be angry that he had hidden this from him.
Amid the growls of the medicine beast and the husky, Lian Jiu shouted, "Si Lan, get out of the way!"
Gu Huai scoffed, "How could he possibly..."
Before he could finish his words, Si Lan actually moved aside.
How could he! He couldn't bear to see Lian Jiu get hurt!
While she was stunned by this, something seemed to come out of nowhere and hit her with a few bangs.
The severe pain in the body dissipated instantly.
Gu Huai lowered his head in disbelief, looked at the bleeding wound on his body, and then looked at Lian Jiu.
She held a black gun in her hand, her eyes cold.
The demon beasts' Dharma images that were about to dissipate disappeared in an instant. The severe pain made Gu Huai's Dharma image unable to maintain any longer. His body shrank rapidly and finally turned into his original form: "Human things..."
"Look forward." Lian Jiu approached with a gun in hand. "Why can't you learn?"
This was the experience she had learned from those who had been causing trouble for the demon world, as well as those animal traffickers. She felt that the demon world should also have security guarantees, so she informed Long Ying in advance. Demons are different from humans, so naturally, their weapons also need some improvements.
Long Ying went to Zhang Chi to get a new gun. Originally, he wanted to tell Gu Huai about it after arriving in Kunlun Mountain, but he didn't expect this incident to happen before he could say anything.
Now these bullets contain the divine power of all the demon gods except Gu Huai, all condensed together, so they are naturally powerful.
Fortunately, Gu Huai was big in size, so he could hit him with his eyes closed even though he had never used a gun before.
At this time, Long Ying and others who got the news also arrived.
After seeing the scene in the cave, they all fell silent and walked up to the distraught Gu Huai.
Long Ying squatted down, took out the special handcuffs that he had used on the demon for the first time, and handcuffed Gu Huai. He sighed and said, "You have disappointed us. We have given you many chances."
In fact, when Lian Jiu said he wanted to have a video conference, he did not turn off his mobile phone, but directly opened the group voice.
Even when Gu Huai was shown the video later, she was so distracted at the time that she didn't notice these details at all.
So later, all these words were heard by the demon gods.
Gu Huai looked up at Lian Jiu. He had no intention of stopping the bleeding. He just leaned against the stone and said softly, "Can you help me pick up my hat?"
There was no hat at all; she had just conjured it up herself.
Her current physical condition no longer allows her to maintain her divine power, so the hat is naturally gone.
"You don't have a hat anymore." Lian Jiu put away his gun and said calmly, "By the time you wake up, it will have weathered into the soil in who knows when."
These were the words Gu Huai had said before, and Lian Jiu now returned them to her intactly: "And you lost it yourself."
"It's not just the hat," Lian Jiu said. "You've lost all your friends."
Gu Huai raised his eyes and saw the demons and gods who had lived with him in the human world.
Finally, her gaze fell on the cave entrance, where a slender figure stood. It had been there since morning, but had never entered.
The person she envied the most was Jiang An.
Even though we told her not to come, she came after all.
Among all the demon gods, Gu Huai envies Jiang An the most. She is simple and innocent, and is the closest to him.
In fact, they are very similar, both of them are looking at only one person wholeheartedly.
It’s just that Jiang An is luckier than himself.
In the past years, I was also taciturn like Si Lan. Only Jiang An would take the initiative to play with me and teach me how to make alchemy pranks.
So until today, I don't want her to see me like this.
Even if it's just hearsay.
Finally, Gu Huai closed his eyes, tears rolling down his gray cheeks, and turned his head away: "Don't let her in."
The other demon gods remained silent. Qilin and Su Caifeng carried the animals out together. Jingwei, Yuanqing, and Yu Chongming stood by the children, helpless: "Director, this..."
Lian Jiu walked over and said, "Let me do it."
She walked over and saw Si Lan following closely. She turned around and said, "Since I know everything that happened in the past, you should put away all your divine seals. This little blood is nothing. If you really want to do something, go back and learn how to make some wolfberry and red dates for me to replenish my blood."
Si Lan moved his fingertips and nodded silently.
Lian Jiu: "Give me a bottle of milk."
Si Lan silently searched his pockets.
"..." Jingwei was speechless, "You really are hiding stuff wherever you go."
Lian Jiu took the milk and walked over to the children. He asked Yu Chongming for a needle and calmly pricked his finger, dripping the blood into the milk. After a while, he withdrew his hand and looked at Gu Huai: "See? Even so, I remember that I am still myself."
Gu Huai looked at her with his deep eyes, and after a while he slowly smiled: "I see."
She said to herself, "I am not myself."
But Lian Jiu had no intention of talking to her any further. He handed the milk to Jing Wei to feed the children and said, "You can take the children away later. I'm tired and need to go back to rest."
He turned and left. When he reached the door, he saw Jiang An hiding in the carriage of the painted carriage. Lian Jiu said helplessly: "If you want to go, go and have a look."
"No." Jiang An poked his head out and said in a muffled voice, "I just came to see what would happen to her. I won't talk to her anymore."
They had their own ideas, so Lian Jiu didn't say anything more and didn't ask her to go with them.
Maybe she'll go meet him alone.
Lian Jiu turned around and walked to the other side. Si Lan followed her, staring at her hands.
Hua Ma would wait here to send the animals and children away, so Lian Jiu turned around and said, "Si Lan, take me back."
Si Lan immediately withdrew his gaze from her fingertips and didn't know what to do for a moment.
Lian Jiu curled his lower lip and said, "Use the prototype you just used to take me back."
At this moment, Si Lan was completely obedient. Whatever she said was what she did, and she immediately lowered her head.
Lian Jiu lay on top of him, flew up, and leaned over to touch his ear.
Si Lan's ear rested obediently on her palm, and she finally had the chance to ask, "When did you find out?"
Although the words were abrupt, Lian Jiu knew what he was talking about in an instant: "I started to suspect it when An An woke up, and I was sure that this happened after Fu Yushan took the blood."
"You're too nervous about me." She chuckled. "It's not worth getting so nervous for that one drop of blood. Why am I the only one who can understand animals? Other teachers have been here for a long time, but they can't do it. Their blood doesn't work either."
"But like I said, I never considered myself a saint. This identity is irrelevant. I am Lian Jiu, and all you need to know is Lian Jiu."
That's why she emphasized to all the demon gods over and over again that she was an ordinary person and would only be an ordinary person.
Lian Jiu grabbed Si Lan's ear and said, "But you, you've been lying to me all along. You kept lying to me even if I didn't force you. You even pretended to give me a physical exam that day and placed a divine seal on me, right? With you treating my wounds at Fuyu Mountain, did you think I wouldn't notice what it was?"
Si Lan, feeling that his IQ was being crushed, said: "...It's my fault."
It turns out this was the reason why she said she was angry before.
Si Lan asked again: "Why didn't you get angry later?"
Obviously, he still hid his true identity from her.
Lian Jiu paused and sighed, "I asked An An that day and found out how I died. I also know what you did."
So she couldn't get angry.
Even though he was angry, Si Lan kept the past events a secret, including those dangerous things.
But that day she finally understood why Si Lan did this.
I have always told him that I want to be an ordinary person and live to be eighty years old, so he always remembers it, not wanting to be troubled by the past, nor does he want her to be tripped by so-called responsibilities.
He is so pure that he can't get angry for a long time.
Suddenly, Si Lan called her: "Lian Jiu."
"Um?"
"I love you much."
Lian Jiu was stunned for a moment, then nodded subconsciously. Realizing that he couldn't see, he hummed again: "I know."
"It's not because you're a saint." Si Lan put his ear to her palm, "It's because you're Lian Jiu."
Lian Jiu finally came to her senses. She chuckled softly, "I know. I asked you."
After realizing Si Lan's feelings, Lian Jiu once wondered whether he liked the saint who was very important to him in the past, or his current self.
Until that day Si Lan said, "You don't seem to know how good you are."
At that moment, Lian Jiu finally understood that although Si Lan was simple and confused in some aspects, he had always known himself very clearly in this regard.
Lian Jiu leaned over and hugged his neck: "I already understand what I need to find out."
"What?"
"Si Lan." Lian Jiu lifted his ear and put it close to his ear. "I'll always remember you."
In mid-air, Si Lan suddenly stopped. He forced himself to remain calm and not lose his composure. "What?"
Lian Jiu smiled and said, "When I saw you at the market that day, I recognized you immediately. You are the always unhappy beast in the clouds."
She whispered, "Why else would I tie your hair?"
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