Chapter 46: Going Upside Down (VII) Upside down and upside down, like waves...
Wei Yuanye replied: "Two months."
Dong Yu made a knowing expression.
Zhang Deng said, "What do you mean?"
Lin Yuzhou looked thoughtful and said, "If I had a wife, I would be a good man."
"I'm really embarrassed to say that," Zhang Deng said, "Hasn't you had enough fun in Shi Hong's shop?"
Lin Yuzhou: "But I never talked about love with them."
Zhang Deng felt somewhat powerless and speechless.
Shi Hongdao said, "I have a wife. I might not treat her too well and spend money freely, but she certainly can't control me. I need freedom."
"I really admire you," Shi Hong thought, and said to Wei Yuanye, "You're really good at keeping your wife by your side. I definitely wouldn't want to do that."
Zhang Deng said, "Love is inherently free. I didn't force Wei Yuanyefei to do anything. Besides, he's by my side."
Zhang Deng has never understood what straight men think since he was a child. In fact, Zhang Deng himself also feels that although he has never felt like a girl, his view on love is more like that of girls, and he longs for love like girls.
This was the first time he had ever heard a man talk about his views on love. It turned out that men didn't like their lovers to be so close to them. Zhang Deng felt a little disappointed when he heard Wei Yuanye say, "I'm very free."
Wei Yuanye's appearance is not very convincing. Judging from his looks, he will probably attract many women in his life and it will be difficult for him to have an ordinary relationship. However, based on Zhang Deng's understanding of Wei Yuanye, it seems that Wei Yuanye really has no romantic interests except him.
When in Zhang Deng's world, Wei Yuanye's account did not reply to any private messages. When he returned to the World Tree, his watch that represented communication almost never rang, and he did not socialize at all when he was in the World Tree.
This may be why Zhang Deng always feels that Wei Yuanye is different from ordinary handsome guys. He thinks Wei Yuanye even avoids establishing close relationships with others.
Zhang Deng secretly analyzed the reason. He thought that Wei Yuanye was always liked by others in previous missions, which caused him to develop PTSD. Therefore, he paid special attention to the sense of boundaries in everything he did.
Wei Yuanye said he was very free, but Shi Hong didn't quite understand. He asked, "Don't you feel annoyed sometimes?"
Zhang Deng said, "What are you so upset about? That's why you can't find a partner. If you're really upset, why are you together?"
"I've been with her before. I thought she was pretty when we were together, but after being together for a long time, I found it boring and wanted to do my own thing."
Wei Yuanye shook his head and said, "I don't have much to do."
Dong Yu said to Shi Hong, "Don't you realize they're both very sick?"
"You are a normal person," Dong Yu said, "They are the ones who are abnormal. Wei Yuanye is in love with them."
Wei Yuanye did not refute. He did not have those inexplicable male dignity and did not care about others criticizing his love.
But Zhang Denghen disagreed. He said, "Just because he's always with me doesn't mean he loves me. Your definition of love is too weird."
Everyone looked at him, not understanding what he meant.
Zhang Deng's view on love is so detached. He said, "Of course he doesn't love me just because he treats me well or respects me. Even if he scolds me, bullies me, or lies to me, he still loves me."
"According to what you're saying, I love him because I follow him around everywhere every day," Zhang Deng asked. "But if one day I stop following him around and go back home to work, does that mean I no longer love him?"
Zhang Deng asked, "Performance is just performance after all. Love is a deeper proposition. Love is certainly not simply about you being nice to me, so you love me. It's about me loving you even if you're not nice to me. Love is certainly not something you just do naturally, but something you have to do. If love is really superficial and based on behavior, then you just need to find someone who's good at taking care of you. A nanny is the perfect person for that."
Everyone: “…”
Zhang Deng said, "I love Wei Yuanye because I can't live without him. My life will fall apart, my personality will fall apart, so I have to love him. But if I just need him to be nice to me, then I don't love him, but I need a nanny. Wei Yuanye, what do you think?"
Wei Yuanye was obviously confused by what he said. Even he himself didn't quite understand their love. Wei Yuanye just nodded instinctively.
Zhang Deng stretched out his hand, indicating that this was true love.
"Wait." Lin Yuzhou disagreed. "So what you mean is that even if Wei Yuanye beats you every day, you still love him."
"Yeah," Zhang Deng said something shocking, "but your assumption won't happen. I won't fall in love with a violent person. I'm a good person myself, and I will only fall in love with a good person. Extreme people won't enter my world."
"Handsome guy," Dong Yu said, "Do you believe what you said?"
Shi Hong: "Isn't he still violent?"
Lin Yuzhou: "He is the most violent person I have ever seen in my life."
"..." Zhang Deng was speechless and said, "Anyway, I don't think so."
Shi Hong said with regret: "You are finished."
Wei Yuanye also had doubts. He asked, "Am I violent?"
Everyone asked in unison: "What do you think?"
Zhang Deng also didn't understand: "Actually, he is very rational."
Wei Yuanye nodded and said, "Yes."
Everyone was speechless about them.
"Actually, you two are a perfect match," Shi Hong concluded. "It's inappropriate for you to cause trouble to anyone else."
Zhang Deng felt that he simply couldn't explain it to them. In the lives of these people, love was just a topic of conversation for them to make friends. It was an unimportant chapter in their lives. To them, it was just a role of a partner that they needed in life, rather than being truly moved by love.
In fact, Wei Yuanye may not understand why Zhang Deng loves him, but this is what makes Wei Yuanye different from others. In Zhang Deng's eyes, love is not a play between two people, but a subject that he must complete. He does not need Wei Yuanye to make any cooperation or concessions in this relationship. Wei Yuanye only needs to be himself, because Zhang Deng feels that he is very good at loving. He does not want a blockbuster love. What he needs is an imperfect, real life that makes him feel breathless and tired.
Zhang Deng once again felt that he was quite smart. He felt that he was more insightful than everyone else and would definitely feel more relaxed because of it.
"At this rate, we can reach Kunlun before dawn." Dong Yu's tone was not surprised, but a little panicked. He said, "What should we do?"
Wei Yuanye: "What should we do?"
"Do you really want to fight the gods?" Dong Yu kept thinking about this. "This is outrageous! No one in this world has ever done this."
"It's not illegal," Lin Yuzhou said without any emotion. "You can do anything that's not illegal."
Shi Hong said, "Even the gods have never taken things from people. They were the first to do so."
Except for Dong Yu, none of the others felt they were doing something big. Zhang Deng consoled Dong Yu, "You're already sitting on the Phoenix. To be honest, it doesn't make much difference whether you kill the immortal or not."
Dong Yu held his head in tears, then came to his senses and said, "But there is no such chapter."
Zhang Deng: “?”
He was quite sensitive to this kind of words and said, "What?"
Dong Yu realized that he had said too much and immediately said, "Nothing."
Zhang Deng asked, "Are you reading the novel?"
"No," Dong Yu said, "I just said it casually."
Zhang Deng felt that his reaction was wrong, but did not continue asking.
Dong Yu's identity is indeed strange. He doesn't seem like a real alien, but he seems to know some things about other worlds, and he also has a vague understanding of the future direction.
Zhang Deng didn't know if he was overthinking it, but he always felt that there was a subtle sense of spoiler about Dong Yu.
But Dong Yu didn't say anything, so no one knew what was going on with him, and no one paid any attention to him anymore. After all, it was normal to have secrets, and few people here were without secrets.
It’s just that the fear and strangeness Dong Yu showed were too obvious, which doesn’t mean that his secret is deeper than others.
Zhang Deng took a nap on the back of the phoenix in the middle of the night. The phoenix's feathers were dark red, with golden and turquoise silk feathers mixed in, flashing a very secret light in the night. Zhang Deng nestled in the huge feathers, smelling the slightly burnt smell, and actually slept soundly.
While sleeping, Zhang Deng still had some consciousness. In this half-awake, half-dreamy state, he realized that he truly lacked the most basic sense of crisis. He seemed completely unaware of the dangers of this world.
It doesn’t matter. Zhang Deng then thought, is it necessary to pretend that I cherish my life?
Just go to sleep if you are tired, Zhang Deng advised himself. Anyway, the worst result is sudden death in an accident, and he is not afraid of death.
Just thinking about this, he fell into a deep sleep. When he opened his eyes again, he was awakened by the sunlight shining on his eyelids. The fiery red morning sun penetrated the clouds and shone on his face. He slowly opened his eyes with the lamp on, and happened to see the sunrise.
Several large black birds brushed past them and flew into the sky. They flew so high that they could not see the shadows of the trees. They could only see a mountain peak in the distance, surrounded by a hazy white mist. The entire sky seemed to be dyed with ink, with fiery red, light yellow, and bluish-white halos.
Everyone who saw this scene was slightly shocked by the magnificent and tranquil nature, and no one made a sound.
After about twenty minutes, the Phoenix let out a huge roar towards the sky. The sound was different from the one heard in Yingzhou. It cut through the sky, and they seemed to have just woken up.
Dong Yu seemed to have suddenly figured things out after last night. Now that things had come to this point, there was no room for regret. He was the first to sit up and said, "We're here."
"The phoenix has brought us to Kunlun Mountain," Dong Yu plucked a feather and pinned it inside his clothes, saying, "This feather can serve as a barrier. Brothers, once we reach Kunlun Mountain, things won't be so simple. We must be careful."
The phoenix swooped down and threw them all down. Wei Yuanye also took the opportunity to pluck two feathers. The phoenix looked back at them, raised its head and whistled, stirring up a gust of wind, and left.
They stood there, looking at the scene around them——
It was a dark forest, and the trees almost covered the entire sky. They could not see the scenery above, but could only hear unknown rustling sounds around them.
Zhang Deng said, "Okay, this chapter is about survival in the wild."
"Let me refute—" Lin Yuzhou raised his head slightly and stretched out his arm to stop him behind him, "I'm afraid it was an escape from the wilderness—"
Zhang Deng followed his gaze upwards and saw a pair of huge eyes looking down at them from above. A stone creature with a huge head was approaching them silently.
Zhang Deng took a deep breath, and Dong Yu said decisively: "Kunlun Corpse Ghost Buddha, run!"
Zhang Dengguang had already given up when he heard the name. Without a word, he ran away, and everyone followed closely behind him. Shi Hong said, "This Phoenix must have thrown us here on purpose!"
Dong Yu pushed aside the vines and said, "The Corpse Buddha is formed from corpses on the battlefield. Although it is called a Buddha, it is a human Buddha. Only by killing 9,999 evil people in the human world can one become a true Buddha."
Zhang Deng heard it for the first time: "Am I a bad person?"
Dong Yu: "You've already entered someone else's territory, so don't worry about it."
"Don't be like this," Zhang Deng shouted as he ran, "I've been a coward my whole life—"
Shi Hong grabbed a vine and swung, brushing past him, leaving behind a sentence: "What a coward to have come to Kunlun Mountain."
Before he could finish his words, the vine broke and threw him out, sending him rolling down the mountain pit.
Niu Zhuang picked up Zhang Deng and put him aside, dodging a fatal attack. Before Zhang Deng could thank him, he heard Lin Yuzhou yell "Fuck!" and stopped. The Corpse Ghost Buddha slammed down with a huge palm. Lin Yuzhou moved to the side without looking back and said to Shi Hong at the bottom of the pit, "Are you alive?"
Shi Hong also made a "rub" sound and said, "You guys come down."
Without a word, Zhang Deng jumped down at lightning speed. Wei Yuanye almost couldn't catch up. After everyone jumped down, Lin Yuzhou said affirmatively, "Zhang Deng, you are good at escaping."
Zhang Deng fell down and saw stars. He once again realized that he really should gain some weight. It would be too painful to fall down without some meat on his body.
Shi Hong stood in front of them with his back to them, and said with a light, "Is it safe here?"
This was obviously a cave. Before anyone could take in the surroundings, they heard Shi Hong say, "These are all my brothers. Don't be impulsive."
When their eyes adjusted to the darkness and they could see clearly, they had clearly broken into a den of thieves!
Six or seven fox-faced, half-human figures stood about five meters away, looking at them warily.
Everyone: “…”
The Corpse Buddha was pacing above, and the heavy footsteps sounded for a moment. Finally, it seemed that it was afraid of the things in the cave and finally left.
This place is obviously a cave for cultivation, about one hundred square meters. The light comes from the place where Shi Hong fell just now. A water source is led down from above, and the sound of gurgling water can be heard. It is obvious that these half-humans have been cultivating here for a long time.
Zhang Deng looked at their expressions and always felt that they looked a bit like Qing Mi who came to see them last time.
Lin Yuzhou cursed loudly: "Your father, Shi Hong."
"What should we do then?" Shi Hong whispered, "If I die, won't you blame yourself for the rest of your life? Why don't we die together?"
Dong Yu said: "I won't blame myself! Why did I come down here too!"
Shi Hong said, "Aren't we good brothers? Oh, it's okay. Good brothers should share joys and sorrows, right?"
Niu Zhuang was somewhat touched: "Are we good brothers?"
The older half-human in the lead said, "You smell like our companions."
She was a woman, and lighting the lights was a huge alarm bell.
Could Qing Mi be her son or grandson? If she was truly her mother, how could she dispel this hatred?
Not only he thought so, none of them answered this question.
The old woman knew the answer from their silence. She said, "Qing Mi is dead. Where is Li'er?"
"That girl is still alive," Shi Hong said, "but she ran away."
The grief on the old woman's face only flashed by, and was soon replaced by numbness. Without changing her expression, she said, "What are you doing in Kunlun?"
"Could it be that the humans outside have already come in to kill us?" The old woman glanced up at the sky and when she said this, there was an imperceptible sense of anticipation and cheerfulness in her tone.
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