Chapter 145 "Why must it be the devil?"
Where does that sense of alienation come from?
From the moment Yun Zhi stepped into the dark room, the vague feeling from before finally materialized into a thought.
—I am indeed the extra one.
He doesn't belong to this place, nor to this body called Yunzhi.
Or rather, from the very beginning, there should never have been a person named Yun Zhi here.
So much so that being ignored, killed, and cruelly treated as an outsider in each reincarnation seems to have become an inevitable fate.
Besides, Yun Zhi doesn't seem to belong entirely to the current time and space.
He could see those things that hadn't happened yet, or those fragments that happened in the distant past, sometimes things that didn't even seem like they would happen in this world.
Fortunately, they were just scattered fragments; otherwise, the sheer volume of memories alone would have been enough to drive him insane.
Not to mention the strong emotions it carries, inherited from the Yunzhi group.
Yunzhi was never the name of any specific person.
Rather, it refers to one of the twins born within the Yun clan at any given time.
Or rather, it's the extra one.
According to the Yun clan's ancestral teachings, members of the Yun clan will not have twins or multiple births, except for the birth of "He".
The records about what "He" actually is are actually vague.
It is only described as a non-human creature with a human appearance.
The ability to foresee the past and future, and to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, is a secret treasure that the Yun family has worshipped for generations.
With this secret treasure protecting them, the Yun clan can stay away from worldly troubles, enjoy peace in prosperous times, and even find a safe haven in chaotic times.
The ancestral rule stipulated that only the clan leader and his confidants of that generation could know this secret.
Besides, you can't even tell your closest relatives.
Firstly, such a treasure must be carefully guarded, and outsiders must not be allowed to covet it.
Secondly, the treasure itself must not be made aware that it is different, otherwise how can it be made to be willingly driven to serve the entire Yun clan?
Correspondingly, the ancestral precepts specifically noted this point.
Once "He" discovers the truth.
Even the slightest abnormality must be met with swift and decisive execution. After death, the body must be placed in a shrine equipped with a protective array.
When the time comes, "He" will naturally return in the form of an infant.
This individual, named Yunzhi, has no specific physical characteristics.
However, they must have a face that is exactly the same as their brothers and sisters.
This is something that naturally born twins wouldn't have.
It's impossible to remember how many Yun Zhis were killed before Yun Zhi was born.
But he was indeed the last one.
Under his influence, Yun Yao burned down the ancestral hall, destroying the formation set up by the Yun clan ancestors.
He thus gained his freedom.
This is what Yun Yao has always wanted.
He even had a name of his own—Lan.
It is the orchid of a secluded valley.
It's also the orchid in Lan Yunzhi's name...
If a person can experience both the future and the past at the same time, then what is the cause and what is the effect?
Lan thought to herself that she had long since lost the ability to distinguish between them.
In a daze, he felt as if he had gone through a long journey.
Forgot where I came from, and where I am going...
I only vaguely remember that I seemed to be waiting for someone to arrive.
In a legend from a distant land that Lan had read, there was a strange tale called the Devil in the Bottle.
It tells the story of a devil trapped inside a wine bottle, idly waiting for an unexpected redemption.
In its first century, it planned to give the person who opened the bottle and saved it an inexhaustible amount of money.
In its second century, it made a wish to unearth all the underground treasures for the person who opened the bottle.
In its third century, it even offered three wishes as a way of thanking the person who opened the bottle.
But three hundred years have passed, and still no one has come to save the devil.
By the fourth century, the devil had lost patience while waiting. He changed his mind and vowed to kill the person who would save him in the future.
“Because he actually made Him wait for so long…” Lan said softly.
Looking at the boy in front of me, who had gradually fallen asleep without me noticing, I realized that he was extremely tired but was still trying his best to stay awake.
They're so cute...
I don't know why, but Pipa was fine for the first half of the night, but by the second half, she was already so sleepy.
His head suddenly lurched forward, snapping him back to reality. He looked at the young man in front of him with some apology.
The latter smiled and said, "If you're sleepy, go to sleep."
I'd heard Lan say something like that before, but this wasn't a dream. If I were to fall asleep, I would really be asleep.
Pipa shook her head: "It's a rare opportunity, and I also want to wait until dawn with Lan."
This is the first, and probably the last, time the two of us will watch the sunrise together.
"By the way, what happened to the devil who wanted to kill the fisherman?" Pipa asked.
"I was tricked by a fisherman into demonstrating how I climbed into the bottle, and then I was locked inside and thrown back into the sea."
After Lan finished speaking, she added in a nonchalant tone, "It's a fairly standard story. In the end, evil is punished, and the fisherman uses his wit to defeat the ungrateful and evil devil."
"really."
Pipa chimed in softly, "However, compared to the fisherman's wit, it's more accurate to say that the devil lost to himself."
"How so?" Lan asked with interest.
Pipa yawned, perked up a bit, and replied, "The devil cares too much about what mortals think, to the point that he's hardly like a devil who could oppose the gods."
The boy spoke calmly, his face serious.
"Just like a human being wouldn't desperately try to prove their greatness to an ant. A normal person, faced with an ant's questioning, would more naturally choose to ignore it or simply step over it. If I had to say—"
At this point, the boy frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
Then she suddenly chuckled softly: "The so-called devil in the story is more like a human being wearing a devil's skin."
Only those of the same kind care so much about each other's thoughts.
A wicked god who was said to be utterly evil and dared to defy the gods, ultimately sacrificed his chance to escape in order to gain the approval of a human.
This can no longer be explained by stupidity.
It's simply...unbelievable.
"So, if it were you, what would you do?" Lan asked, resting her chin on her hand.
Lost in thought, the boy didn't notice the other person's deep gaze.
Instead, he instinctively made the judgment: "The fisherman can still choose how to die, but within a given range, such as counting down three numbers. If the fisherman cannot choose, then kill him according to his own will."
After saying that, Pipa subconsciously glanced at Lan, and the moment he met her smiling eyes, he seemed to suddenly realize something.
She added softly, "I mean, under the premise that the devil is going to kill the fisherman in the story."
Lan smiled, tilted her head, and looked at the loquat with interest. Then she pointed out something that the boy himself hadn't noticed.
Why must it be the devil?
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