Chapter 74
◎You are not a 犼, you are a dog (Part 2)◎
Su Caifeng, who was watching the melons, didn't know what important thing had happened. He used his surfing speed to say, "Hurry up, tell me what trouble you've run into."
Lin Qi was already devastated: "He's really a friend of mine!!!"
Forget it, there’s no way to explain it to this Pixiu.
Lin Qi didn't want the melon seeds anymore. He felt that if he continued to knock them down, the world would be over, so he rushed back angrily.
When he reached the door of Silan, the door was never opened for him.
"Si Lan!" Lin Qi no longer cared about anything else. He banged on his door and shouted, imitating the melodramatic dramas that Jiang An and Shu Henshui had watched. "I know you're in there. Don't hide in silence! Come out and explain everything to me!"
There was no response from inside.
Of course Si Lan heard the conversation between Qilin and Pixiu. Now Lin Qi realized that opening the door was just to listen to his nagging.
It's useless, and you still say you keep your mouth shut?
Haha, the kitchen colander is not as big as his mouth.
"Si Lan!!" Lin Qi didn't care. This was a big deal. How could Si Lan make such a big fuss without saying a word!
The teachers next door were all startled and ran out: "Shenjun? What happened?"
Lian Jiu also thought Si Lan was in real trouble and came out anxiously: "What's going on?"
When Lin Qi saw Lian Jiu, he thought of Si Lan's disrespectful thoughts and almost vomited blood.
Before he could say anything, the door in front of him opened with a bang.
Lin Qi became even angrier. So you have to wait for the principal to come before you open the door?
But he couldn't tell the headmaster about this, so Lin Qi kept saying, "It's okay, we were just joking. You guys go back and rest. I was a little loud."
As he said that, he hurriedly pushed open Si Lan's door, slammed it shut and locked it.
Lin Qi slapped Si Lan's desk, and the night light moved a little.
Si Lan remained seated, carefully placing the nightlight back in its place. After making sure it wasn't damaged at all, he said coldly, "Should I install a speaker for you?"
"Pretend! Pretend right there!" Lin Qi grabbed his ear and said, "I'll tell every monster in the demon world about your disrespectful thoughts! Let them condemn you!"
Si Lan was in the wrong, so his ear moved in his hand and slipped out.
It's over, this reaction is the final word.
Lin Qi now hated Si Lan's tendency to acquiesce and said in frustration, "Is he really the principal?"
Si Lan still didn't speak.
Lin Qi sat on the stool he had sat on before, which was still warm. "Tell me, what are you thinking?! Such a big thing, and you didn't say a word?"
Seeing Qilin so excited, Si Lan suddenly felt that his previous performance was acceptable, and his heart strangely calmed down: "I just found out about this too."
It turns out that it’s nice to have someone who can take on this kind of pressure for you.
Si Lan suddenly became cheerful, and there was a bit more warmth in his eyes when he looked at Qilin.
Hearing this, Lin Qi suddenly remembered what it meant when Si Lan didn't say anything at the bottom of the sea but finally said "I understand".
So this is what you understand?
Are the mermaids' love talks meant to enlighten you?!
Don't be too outrageous!
Lin Qi looked around, poured himself a glass of water and drank it in one gulp. Only then did he calm down a little: "Tell me everything from beginning to end."
"There's nothing much to explain." Si Lan said, "Didn't you all see it?"
"The problem is that we don't have such disrespectful ideas as you do?"
Si Lan frowned: "You still want it?"
"...Is this the point?!" Lin Qi just wanted to grab his shoulders to sober him up. "Is this where your possessiveness ends? The point is, she's a saint!"
If it were anyone else or an ordinary person, Lin Qi would not find it so difficult to accept.
But the Saint, this is the person that everyone in the demon world and even the demon gods hold at the top of their hearts! He is the savior.
Si Lan lowered his eyes: "I know."
"You know..."
The rest of the words were stuck in his throat. Thinking of Si Lan's previous words "no" and "I'm not worthy", Lin Qi suddenly felt that this matter was terrible.
Why is he a saint?
Lin Qi calmed down and asked carefully, "Is it about this return?"
"I don't know." Si Lan sighed, "It was already like this when I realized it."
"So what was going on between you and her before?" Lin Qi asked, "Didn't you say she didn't even recognize you?"
"Um."
Lin Qi waited, but unexpectedly Si Lan just hummed and said nothing. He sighed and said, "You can hear it all. The reason I came to see you is because she asked me to come."
Si Lan raised his eyes slightly.
That’s right, it was because I heard it that I opened the door and let Lin Qi in the first time.
"She knows you're usually a taciturn person and is afraid you'll bore yourself. Don't you know that yourself?" Lin Qi said, "For so many years, you've kept everything to yourself. If Pixiu hadn't enlightened me today, I wouldn't understand why you're so tormented by your own thoughts and won't share them with anyone else."
Si Lan looked at him silently: "You are a big mouth."
“…”
Thinking about how he almost let something slip when he left the house, Lin Qi refused to admit it. "Who told you not to tell me the truth? What's the point of calling us friends? Of course I want to find out, and didn't I brake?"
Si Lan fiddled with the night light from time to time.
What he actually cared about was not Qilin's big mouth, but he was not ready to say it out loud, because she had kept it in her heart for so many years, it had become a habit, and she didn't want to share it with others, didn't want others to know.
But she has been trying to pull herself out of this vicious circle.
Just like before.
Si Lan couldn't help being influenced by her, and also wanted to get a little bit of the so-called life in these only eighty years.
Including these - friends.
For the first time, Si Lan mentioned his first meeting with Lian Jiu in front of other demon gods.
At that time, he had never even seen other demon gods. He was like a trapped beast, wandering among the clouds and in the sea all day long. Seeing those who suffered because of his birth, his depression grew deeper and deeper.
He even tried to destroy himself.
It was at this time that she appeared.
He appeared beside him without any warning and looked at the people on the ground with him.
She asked, "Are you sad?"
At that time, I couldn't even speak well, and I just looked at her warily.
She stood there in a white dress, which was totally out of place with her bloody and dirty body. She seemed brighter and cleaner than the sun above the clouds.
She lowered her eyes, looked at the people below, and said, "These disasters and sufferings have nothing to do with you."
"So, what is it related to?"
She smiled and said, "I don't know either."
“If I could find the reason, I wouldn’t be here,” she said.
Since then, she would appear at the same place on time every day. Sometimes she would stare at the ground in a daze, and sometimes she would want to pull herself to play some strange things, such as chess.
Even if she doesn't speak, she can still talk to herself, talking about the things and people she encountered on the ground.
Even if I don't get an answer, I feel happy just saying it.
The situation on the ground gradually improved, but she became thinner day by day.
Suddenly one day, she said, "I'm leaving."
I froze while trying to understand the chess game, looking up at her bewilderedly.
She looked at the lights of the houses on the ground and said with a smile, "I don't know when the next time will be, but I hope we won't meet again in the future."
"Little Qilin." She leaned forward and patted her head. "Don't always blame yourself for everything. No creature in this world exists because of sin. All life is born with hope, and you are no exception."
"Don't stay here all the time. Go down and have some fun. Look at the lights of this world. They actually have their own charm."
She smiled and said, "It can be considered as checking for me."
"Where are you going?"
At that moment, she looked out at the vast land and said softly, "I'm not going anywhere. I will exist in every corner of this world until it needs me again, but I hope the world will never need me."
That was the first time I met her, and she never showed up again for many years after that.
"She is a saint..." Hearing this, Lin Qi said in a deep voice, "Of course she appears because the world needs her."
"Wait a minute." Lin Qi looked at him in surprise. "So after this, you named yourself Si Lan?"
The names of the demon gods were all chosen by myself. Since I couldn't read at that time, the names were rather perfunctory. For example, my own, Yinglong, and Chongming Bird were simply their names in reverse order.
Like Jingwei, it was purely an old grudge from her lifetime.
The slightly better one is Jiang An.
According to Jiang An, her name was given by a saint, who hoped that all the lands and rivers in the world would be at peace.
But Si Lan, who was illiterate at the time, gave himself a name that had nothing to do with the species.
Si Lan agreed.
She asked him to go see the dim lights of the world for her, and so he came.
Si Lan, Si Lan.
Lin Qi felt even more depressed. The headmaster was more important to Si Lan than he had imagined. "So what happened next? You don't even know where she went?"
"I didn't know it then," Si Lan said, "but I found out later."
The next time they met was not long after I transformed, and was dragged into the human world by these demon gods.
By then, many dynasties and generations had passed, and the current situation was turbulent again.
I wandered around aimlessly every day, often found myself among the refugees, and felt that the world of the human world was just like this.
That's when he saw her again.
Although she was dressed differently, she could be recognized just by the background.
He stumbled forward against the flow of people, and finally, with trembling hands, he almost grabbed the hem of her clothes, but when he saw that his hands were too dirty, he suddenly withdrew his hands and followed her for a long time.
Unexpectedly, after a while, she suddenly turned her head.
She looks the same as when we first met, she hasn't changed at all, she hasn't aged at all after all these years, and her eyes are still calm and gentle.
Then she laughed again: "Follow me for what?"
At that time, I seemed to have lost the ability to speak.
Seeing that she still looked the same, I thought she was also a monster, but I was actually a little happy.
When she didn't get an answer, she didn't say anything else, but continued to smile and said, "Why are you so dirty?"
Then she took off her hairband, gently tied his hair, and said softly, "Be nice to yourself."
She stayed there almost all that time, among the growing number of refugees outside the city.
I would go there to see her every day and drink a bowl of porridge she cooked like those refugees.
This time, she was among a group of people telling them the stories she had told them before and teaching them how to play chess. It always took her a long time to squeeze in front of her, but seeing that she looked increasingly tired, she could not say anything and just looked at her silently for a while before being pushed away by others.
She can teach everyone how to read, write and draw. As long as she knows something, she can teach everyone.
So I wanted to work harder so that she could see the words and paintings I wrote and drew.
Later, everything settled down, the number of refugees became fewer and fewer, and in the end, I was the only one going there every day.
On the last day, she packed up all her things and sat there, as if waiting for him. The surroundings were clean, as if there was no trace of her having lived there before.
Unlike when we first met, her complexion was also very bad and became paler.
Sure enough, she said, "Don't come again, I'm leaving."
"Where are you going?"
"Follow the wind," she said. "Wherever the wind blows, there I go."
Noticing that she was still wearing the headband she'd given her, she chuckled and said, "Isn't it good to be alive? Let's move on. There's still something to be nostalgic about in this world."
For a moment, I thought she recognized me, but she didn't say anything else and turned away.
I followed her for two steps but she turned back and stopped me: "Don't follow me."
He always listened to her, even then.
But because of being obedient, he lost her again.
Lin Qi remembered that during that period, Si Lan always ran outside every day, and the demon gods were looking for him everywhere every day. He also gradually began to dress himself up, always wearing a red headband when walking around the city, and began to take the initiative to learn how to be a human being and experience the life of those humans.
He can read and write, and he is more serious than anyone else.
This situation continued for several years until one day, he began to lock himself in his room again and rarely went out. The red headband was put away and he was never seen wearing it again.
Lin Qi was in a complicated mood. He didn't expect that when no one knew, it was Lian Jiu who allowed Si Lan to stay in the world again and again.
"So it was because of her that you later went out with us to suppress those monsters."
That was the third time we met.
There are more and more monsters, and they are discovered more and more frequently in the human world. Some monsters with magical powers are exploited, causing unrest in the human world.
It was also at that time that Bai Ze was born.
Si Lan had a premonition that she was about to appear again.
He could sense destiny, and when he saw Bai Ze, he suddenly realized that the reason he could see and find her before was because she was different. She was the saint.
He also realized why every time she disappeared, he, who could sense destiny, could never sense her again.
Because she really disappeared completely.
The third time, because Bai Ze was with her all day, she couldn't get as close to her as before.
Just watching from a distance.
It was then that I understood why she had become increasingly weaker with each of her previous appearances.
The flesh and blood of the saints are the support of the mountains and rivers. She cuts her flesh and bones, and every time she appears, it is to fill the wounds of this world.
When everything is settled, she will be at the end of her strength. Every part of her body will turn into mountains, rivers and trees, and she will disappear into the world again until she appears again.
No wonder she said that she hoped they wouldn't meet again.
This time, the monster caused chaos, forcing her to appear in the world again and become the core of the formation that could suppress the monster.
But unlike the previous times when she cut her flesh and bones, this time after she became the core of the formation, she could no longer turn into wind and earth, but was suppressed there forever.
Lin Qi frowned: "Jiang An said that you almost lost your life for her."
Si Lan raised his eyes: "Isn't it because of her that I am still alive?"
This left Lin Qi speechless: "So you saved her?"
Si Lan's throat moved slightly, and his voice was a little hoarse: "I thought, there is no way to save him."
She is a saint, and her existence itself is a mystery.
Even if she could sense destiny, she was ultimately just an ant in the universe, far inferior to her.
But he couldn't just watch her sleep in the ground forever.
It’s better to give it a try. The worst that can happen is that we die together.
So he sacrificed his own soul and took on all the backlash from the center of the formation for her.
But even so, he still watched her lying there, no sound.
Even her body gradually dissipated, as she said, turning into wind and drifting away to who knows where.
At that time, he thought that he had failed to save her.
But unexpectedly, I felt relieved at that moment.
After living for so many years, he finally did something he wanted to do. He no longer had to wait. He was afraid that he would never be able to wait for her again.
He didn't know how to get through the days and years that followed.
But unexpectedly, he woke up again thousands of years later.
He stayed on the snowy mountain of Fuyu Mountain all day, not understanding why he had to wake up again.
Until he regained his sense of destiny, he could feel that she would appear again.
So he was willing to stay there day after day, guarding this world and these monsters that she had saved for her.
It's just because of her.
He didn't want her to see the devastation again when she came back.
He would first erase for her those traces in the past that needed her blood and bones to fill.
The reason why Long Ying was originally instructed to bring her here was just to keep her under his own watchful eye so that he could hear and see her every move, fearing that she would cut flesh and bones silently again like before.
However, her appearance this time surprised him.
Because she is no longer the person who knew her mission in the past, but more like an ordinary mortal, as she said, afraid of death.
So many years, so many times.
I finally knew her name - Lian Jiu.
Finally, she knew the name he had given her.
I didn't break my promise, but kept watching over this dimly lit world for her.
Even though she no longer remembers the past.
But it doesn't matter, after all, she never remembers herself.
All saints, all heaven and earth, all shall die.
She just wanted to be Lian Jiu, and she only wanted to live to be eighty years old.
After hearing Si Lan's words, Lin Qi took a deep breath and thought about the day when the director first came to Nanhai. He also talked to Si Lan and asked him if there was anything he wanted to do.
At that time, Si Lan said that he wanted to live to be eighty years old.
It turned out to be this eighty-year-old.
Lin Qi felt a little uneasy and looked at Si Lan uncomfortably: "You really can't tell me?"
"say what?"
"Tell Henshui and the others," Lin Qi covered his nose. "I think this is better than those meaningless, melodramatic TV shows they watch."
"..." Si Lan looked at him indifferently, almost looking at a dead person, "TV series?"
"Of course, I don't mean to say I'm just watching the show." Lin Qi's hands were shaking with nervousness. "I really didn't expect your story to be so long. It's even more difficult than I thought."
Originally, I came back to make Si Lan give up those unrealistic fantasies and stop bothering the director.
But after hearing this, Lin Qi actually felt heartbroken for Si Lan.
I wish the director would know right now that Si Lan is the little beggar.
But... just like Si Lan said, it's absolutely not possible.
Now Lin Qi could understand why Si Lan said that he was not worthy of her.
He had always looked up to the headmaster and didn't even dare to touch him. He had met him three times but never said his name once.
It is very likely that in the eyes of the head teacher, he was really just a passerby in the past.
Only Si Lan himself remembers so many things. To the headmaster, they are now just friends with whom he has a better relationship, nothing more.
The emotions were not equal at all, not to mention that Si Lan never thought of making her remember the past.
Lin Qi asked: "What are your plans?"
"I don't have any plans." Si Lan sat there, his profile illuminated by the night light, looking particularly lonely. "I don't even know when it started."
"I can see it now," Lin Qi said, "You simply can't leave her, and it's very likely that you've been inseparable from her since the beginning!"
Si Lan did not deny it, and he could not find any reason to deny it.
From the beginning to now, over the years, it is impossible to let go.
But if he really gets married like a mermaid.
This also seems impossible.
Si Lan couldn't get over this hurdle, and the headmaster over there didn't have any such intention at all.
"Then we can only hide these things as I said before." Lin Qi stuffed Si Lan's ears hard, "Your ears! Put them away! Control yourself, and we will still be good friends in the future."
Si Lan lowered his ears: "Can you control it?"
"Aren't you the one with the best self-control among the demon gods?" Lin Qi paused for three seconds, looking at his ears. "I mean before."
"Think about this," he suggested. "What would happen if the headmaster found out?"
Si Lan thought about it and felt that Lian Jiu might never be nice to him again.
Lin Qi: "Are you calm?"
The ears were silently retracted: "Calm down."
"Okay." Lin Qi clapped his hands, thinking with the care of an old father, "That's it. Let's start by being friends. Don't we want to live to be eighty? There are still many decades to go. Let's take it one step at a time."
He solemnly warned: "Don't let the headmaster find out!"
Si Lan nodded: "Yeah."
After giving numerous instructions, Lin Qi left with a sigh.
Unexpectedly, the next morning, I saw Si Lan sitting in the cafeteria eating breakfast with his ostentatious big ears.
The netizens in the live broadcast room were going crazy.
What kind of play is Si Lan playing? !
[Your kindergarten recruits teachers like this?!]
[Ahhh my Si Lan, he really wore bunny ears, I cried my heart out.]
[Oh my god, the abstinence face plus the bunny ears really touched me.]
Why would a kindergarten have such a teacher? She's completely devoid of conscience. Where's her morality? And where's her contact information?!
Lin Qi's eyes went dark: "???"
He walked over quickly and whispered, "I said control, are you controlling me?!"
Si Lan took a slow sip of porridge and said calmly, "I tried, but I can't control it."
"you……"
At this time, Lian Jiu came over with fried eggs and observed Si Lan's state: "Are you in a good mood today?"
Si Lan smiled and nodded: "Yeah."
Lian Jiu asked, "Where are your ears?"
Si Lan said confidently: "I've been in a good mood recently and I can't control it a little bit, but it's okay."
Lian Jiu nodded. As long as she was in a good mood, it was fine. She picked up two eggs and placed them on Si Lan's plate: "Two for you."
She always remembered her promise to give herself two eggs.
Si Lan curled his lips slightly and his ears moved again.
Lian Jiu felt itchy after watching it and couldn't help but touch it.
The beast's ears moved even more happily, and it raised its eyebrows at him.
After Lian Jiu walked away, Si Lan said calmly, "This way, she can control her ears without being discovered. She likes it."
Lin Qi, the witness who was forced to watch the whole thing and was even disturbed by his ears, said: "..."
You are not a lion, you are a dog.
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