Chapter 45: Going Against the grain (VI) Upside down and down, like waves...
Wei Yuanye leaped onto the roof. Shi Hong, holding onto the eaves, turned over and also jumped up and stood beside him.
Wei Yuanye said: "You..."
"I'm a real man," Shi Hong said, knowing what he was going to say. "At least I can help you."
Lin Yuzhou also climbed up the ladder and said, "Holy crap, is this really a phoenix?"
Wei Yuanye held the Kunlun wood in his hand. The phoenix's pupils narrowed at the sight of what he held. Shi Hong pulled out his own magnificent dagger and said, "Where's your father's magical weapon?"
"Enough to buy ten of your lives." Shi Hong said.
Shi Hong was no ordinary man either. He pinched the dagger handle with his two fingers and rotated it around his index finger. During the rotation, a red light ignited in the palm of his hand. He slowly stretched out his arms, and saw that the red light became bigger and brighter. He clenched his hand with his backhand, and the dagger turned into an ice crystal sword.
Shi Hong roared and rushed forward without a word, each step shattering tiles. With his final leap, he leaped up, gripping his sword with both hands and thrusting it down fiercely. As he neared Phoenix's face, he was stopped by an invisible barrier. His sword was trapped within it, unable to be pulled out. Shi Hong stomped on the barrier and roared, "Beast!"
Zhang Deng leaned over to take a look, and someone behind him asked, "What's going on?"
Zhang Deng was so scared that he trembled and turned around to see that it was Dong Yu.
Dong Yu said, "No one died, right?"
"Brother," Zhang Deng said, "Why are you here?"
"Why are you here?" Dong Yu also asked him.
Zhang Deng said, "But I don't have the dream of unifying the world!"
Zhang Deng was so annoyed with him. How could there be such a coward? He said, "I'm going to help. You stay here."
He heard Dong Yu say from behind: "Be careful!"
Shi Hong was knocked back to the ground by a huge pressure and staggered a few steps. Lin Yuzhou supported his shoulders. Shi Hong coughed muffledly to indicate that it was okay.
Wei Yuanye and the phoenix looked at each other for a moment. The phoenix's head trembled, and its pupils opened and closed. It actually made complex sounds from its throat. It was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman, old or young, and it was even difficult to make out the pronunciation.
"Where are you from?"
Wei Yuanye did not answer his question.
Phoenix's head was close to the ground. He seemed to be carefully identifying something and said, "You have the breath of a dragon."
Wei Yuanye: "Anything else?"
He spoke casually, but Phoenix continued, "It also smells like Kunlun wood. Are you a god? No, you are a human—what are you, exactly? Are you a mortal who calls himself a god, or a deity who calls himself a human?"
Wei Yuanye is not a god, and in fact he is not really a human either. All the skills he learned came from school. The dragon's breath was picked up from other worlds, and the Kunlun wood was a prop issued for tasks. In fact, Wei Yuanye has nothing, but in the eyes of Phoenix, Wei Yuanye's composition is extremely complex.
This kind of fear and dread was exactly what Wei Yuanye wanted. He took out the Kunlun wood and swung it, and the Phoenix prepared to block it. He tilted his head back, as if gathering strength, and another burst of hot flames swept over. Wei Yuanye did not fight him head-on, but when he was gathering strength, he rushed to his head in a few steps, a knife popped out of his sleeve, and he kicked with all his strength, stabbing the knife into the Phoenix's neck!
The phoenix let out a roar that resounded throughout the three realms, and used its beak to push Wei Yuanye away. Wei Yuanye flew out from the roof and was eventually caught by a huge net. Zhang Deng finally caught up with him after running and jumping. He used his Kunlun wood for the first time, and in a hurry, he forgot how to activate it. Zhang Deng breathed a sigh of relief and went to check Wei Yuanye's body.
Wei Yuanye stood up and glanced at the sky. The attack didn't cause much damage to Phoenix, but instead angered him. He breathed fire at the two of them. Wei Yuanye and Zhang Deng ran away without saying a word. Wei Yuanye said as he ran, "Give me yours."
Zhang Deng threw it to him without saying anything. Wei Yuanye took it and threw his own to him. "Take it," he said, and then jumped onto the roof by stepping on the wall. Zhang Deng looked at him in admiration, what a master of parkour.
Wei Yuanye picked up the Kunlun Snow Mountain wood, turned around and ran, and saw that Shi Hong was already hanging on the Phoenix. Lin Yuzhou was burned all over and rolled on the ground to put out the flames on his body.
The snow mountain wood in Wei Yuanye's hand was green all over and emitted a chilling chill. It was formed from sunken wood under thousands of years of snow. Wei Yuanye scattered snowflakes, which flashed colorful tiny circles of light in the sun. After being dazzling, it turned into a huge snow wave at some point, coming in waves. Wei Yuanye stepped on the snow ladder to climb up, and took a big step forward in front of the huge beak. The snow mountain wood turned into an ice cone. He used his body weight as gravity and cut around the beak, cutting off most of the phoenix's beak!
Zhang Deng only heard a loud roar above his head, followed by Shi Hong's curses: "Damn it, burn my shop down, pay me, and speak!"
Dong Yu ran out with his eyes closed, shouting, "Evil beast! I'll fight you!"
Zhang Deng looked at him speechlessly. Dong Yu opened his eyes and said, "Where is it?"
The huge phoenix's head fell right in front of him and hit the ground with a "bang". Dong Yu widened his eyes and fell silent.
Wei Yuanye sat on the eaves and looked down. From this angle, he had no expression on his face and seemed a little cold and condescending.
"Take us up the mountain," Wei Yuanye said politely to the Phoenix on the ground, "Thank you."
Zhang Deng went to find Ah Ping and asked, "The boss didn't give you any trouble, did he?"
"No," Ah Ping said, "Didn't you lose money?"
Zhang Deng: "Hey, I'm going to trouble you. Take this."
"Fei Mao came to me earlier and said he wanted to read a book," Zhang Deng opened his schoolbag and handed him the book he had written. "This is my book. Find a literate teacher and prepare lessons based on this book and teach them. I have something to do and will be out for a while."
Ah Ping asked, "Where are you going?"
"Kunlun Mountain," Zhang Deng said with a heroic look on his face, "I'll never return this time."
Ah Ping took the book and said, "I don't have any money."
Zhang Deng had already made preparations. He took out a few hundred yuan from his pocket, stuffed it into his hand, and said, "No matter how hard life is, we can't let our children suffer. No matter how poor we are, we can't let our children go without education. I stole this from my captain, so spend it sparingly."
Aping looked at the handful of money and fell silent.
There was no time left to light the lamp. He heard someone calling him from outside, so he hurriedly patted Ah Ping's shoulder and said, "Eat well. You're too thin. I'm leaving now."
"If you really can't do it, then don't do it anymore. Study first. You can earn more money later," Zhang Deng said again. "Find a few more people who are willing to study and teach them together. The money has already been spent anyway."
Lin Yuzhou kept calling Zhang Deng outside, and Zhang Deng responded, saying, "He's really gone."
He ran out with his schoolbag on his back, only to feel gusts of strong wind. He squinted his eyes and looked up, and saw a group of people standing on the back of the Phoenix waiting for him. Lin Yuzhou bent down and held out his hand to him. Zhang Deng jumped suddenly and grabbed his hand, but before he could get on, he felt an external force throwing him all over the place. The Phoenix was flying, and Zhang Deng rolled and crawled onto its back, and saw Niu Zhuang was also on it.
The wind was so loud that Zhang Deng shouted, "Where did you pick it up?"
"I saw him buy Li Sen's stone," Shi Hong said speechlessly, "he was just being kind for a moment."
Zhang Deng said, "It's overloaded."
Niu Zhuang looked at him pitifully and said, "I was just kidding!"
Wei Yuanye pulled him and asked him to sit next to him. As soon as Zhang Deng sat down and smelled the scent of Wei Yuanye, he suddenly felt that he had experienced too much that day and was so tired!
The sky quickly darkened, and the night flowed down like water. Zhang Deng saw that the phoenix's beak was tied and fixed with hemp rope, which seemed a bit ridiculous. He said, "What should we do with its beak?"
"It doesn't matter," Shi Hong said, "Are you worried that he will be laughed at by the other Phoenixes?"
Zhang Deng said, "Put away your dry humor!"
Lin Yuzhou: "There is a way. Wait until Nirvana and you can get a new one."
Zhang Deng: “…”
Dong Yu said: "If it really falls off, we can reduce the weight and even carry a few more people."
Zhang Deng: "Are you disrespecting the gods again?"
"He's now our defeated opponent," Dong Yu said, as if his mindset had suddenly changed. "Gods are nothing more than this."
Zhang Deng leaned on Wei Yuanye's shoulder and smelled the burning smell on his body, reminding Zhang Deng of the desperate fight they had just had with the big bird that afternoon. Zhang Deng said, "How abstract."
Wei Yuanye said, "Is this still abstract?"
"Fighting with a phoenix," Zhang Deng said. "I wouldn't even dream of that."
Wei Yuanye: "So you think my victory is abstract."
Zhang Deng: “Yes.”
"Losing is more abstract," Wei Yuanye said, "If I die, I'll throw away the communicator, so you can't go back and stay here as a widow."
Zhang Deng: "I'm going to find someone to marry soon, I can't keep it a secret for a while."
Wei Yuanye: "I will transform into a fierce ghost, and I will defeat anyone who is friendly to me."
Zhang Deng: "You've turned into a fierce ghost, why should I look for someone else? I'll just live with you."
Wei Yuanye: “…”
Zhang Deng: "A love story between a man and a ghost, haha."
Dong Yu was about to vomit and said, "Are you two sick?"
Wei Yuanye stretched out his big hand and rubbed Zhang Deng's curly hair. Then he put his arm on Zhang Deng's shoulder. In Zhang Deng's opinion, this was a more ambiguous gesture than a kiss. Zhang Deng leaned against him slightly, feeling a little sleepy.
Lin Yuzhou asked: "Have you two ever had a fight?"
"No." Wei Yuanye said.
Zhang Deng said, "We did argue."
"We didn't have a heated argument," Zhang Deng said. "We just got angry."
Wei Yuanye remembered it and didn't refute it.
But how can couples not quarrel? Zhang Deng, as someone who has experienced it, said: "Everyone will quarrel. In the future, I won't be really angry when we quarrel."
Dong Yu: "How long have you two known each other?"
"Time is not a measure of love," Zhang Deng said. "Why do we always assume that couples are in love because they're in the honeymoon phase? This is undoubtedly a blasphemy against love."
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: "I have a wife. I may not be too good to her and spend money freely, but she certainly can't control me. I need freedom."
"I admire you very much," Shi Hong thought, and said to Wei Yuanye, "You keep your wife by your side, that's really good. 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..."
Lin Yuzhou asked: "Have you two ever had a fight?"
"No." Wei Yuanye said.
Zhang Deng said, "We did argue."
"We didn't have a heated argument," Zhang Deng said. "We just got angry."
Wei Yuanye remembered it and didn't refute it.
But how can couples not quarrel? Zhang Deng, as someone who has experienced it, said: "Everyone will quarrel. In the future, I won't be really angry when we quarrel."
Dong Yu: "How long have you two known each other?"
"Time is not a measure of love," Zhang Deng said. "Why do we always assume that couples are in love because they're in the honeymoon phase? This is undoubtedly a blasphemy against love."
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