Chapter 158
Looking at Jiaoyue's pale face and the bowl of medicine in her hand in the memory fragments, Di Changqing and Buyehou knew exactly what was added to the medicine.
Perhaps all the misfortunes began with this seemingly ordinary bowl of medicine.
Jiaoyue personally brought a bowl of medicine to Jiaocheng every day, and he drank it for a month. Jiaocheng recovered, but the paleness on Jiaoyue's face never disappeared again.
Jiaoyue no longer continued to expand her business empire. While she was at it, she began to take Jiaocheng to her side and teach him carefully, day after day, year after year.
Mermaids are spiritual creatures born from heaven and earth. Perhaps because Jiao Cheng is the child of a mermaid and a human, he learns things very quickly and, over time, loses his arrogance.
Bright Moon taught him for twenty years.
When Jiaocheng was 28 years old, Jiaoyue was ready to leave.
"Mom." Jiao Cheng tried to persuade her to stay, "If you let go, I won't be able to control those uncles."
The business empire founded by Jiaoyue started out as a cloth shop and now has expanded to many industries.
"You are twenty-eight, not eight." Twenty years have passed, and Jiaoyue's appearance is still bright and beautiful. Even though wrinkles have appeared on her face, it is still the grace left by the years. "Twenty years, I have stayed long enough."
Jiao sincerely pleaded: "Arong is already pregnant, can't you stay a few more years?"
Jiao Cheng, 28 years old, has been married for more than a year.
Jiaoyue turned and stared at him. Jiaocheng's appearance did not have the good qualities of their couple. Although he was handsome, he was not stunning. The only difference was the shape of his eyes, which looked particularly like Baili Xiangxun.
But his personality did not follow any one person.
Jiaoyue suddenly felt extremely tired. Could it be that a person's character is determined by fate and cannot be changed?
Before Jiaocheng was six years old, the couple traveled a lot, but they would go home to spend ten days with him every two months. Later, when they realized that his personality had changed, Baili took care of him for two years. After Baili passed away, she kept the child by her side for twenty years.
Jiaoyue was also a mother for the first time, and she studied hard how to be a good mother and how to educate her children. The people who grew up with Jiaocheng were carefully selected by her. She did not ask them to achieve great things, but they must be upright. In the process of his growth, Jiaoyue also took him to experience the kindness and darkness of the world, to know right and wrong, and to distinguish between right and wrong.
But Bright Moon could not deceive herself.
Her child was indeed excellent, but this excellence was only reflected in his ability, not in his character. He had not done anything wicked or evil, but he was not an upright and kind person in the secular sense either.
"I will not change my mind." Jiaoyue said, "What's the point of leaving wealth to my descendants if they are useless? What's the point of leaving wealth to my descendants if they are useful?"
If a child has no future, even if you give him mountains of gold and silver, he will not be able to keep it. If a child is capable, he can earn mountains of gold and silver by himself.
Perhaps Jiaoyue was too determined to leave, so Jiaocheng had no choice but to give up: "Mom, please stay for another day. Tomorrow... we will say goodbye properly."
Jiaoyue agreed.
A mother is not on guard against her child.
The memory fragments come to an abrupt end here. All the scenery disappears, and the vast sea is transformed again. No one knows what happened exactly during the appointment, but the future result is already clearly laid out before their eyes.
The sand beneath my feet began to lose its reality, and the scenery before my eyes gradually deconstructed - this movie, which began as a comedy and ended in tragedy, finally came to an end.
The surging waves turned into invisible spots of light, and between the spots of light a messy flower room could be vaguely seen in the darkness. Di Changqing suddenly attacked without warning!
The spiritual power gathered at his fingertips and quickly attacked Bailicheng's body beside the mermaid skeleton. The spiritual power turned into a somewhat illusory flame that enveloped Bailicheng's head.
But the flame only lasted for less than two breaths before being extinguished by the powerful energy.
Yu Tu used energy to roll out the black soul from Baili Cheng's head.
"I said, Senior Buyehou——" His spiritual power was suppressed by the energy, and Di Changqing was attacked by the spiritual power, spitting out blood, "Your reaction is too fast, isn't it?"
In the scene where the memory fragments materialized, Di Changqing deliberately used actions and words to reduce his own danger and tried his best to appear harmless. He knew that Buyehou didn't believe it, but what he never expected was that Buyehou didn't believe it at all.
Bailicheng has been doing "business" with them for many years. Although the things he knows are not core, there are still a lot of bits and pieces, and it would be troublesome if they were leaked.
Di Changqing originally planned to come out of the materialized memory fragments and immediately destroy the remaining soul of Baili Cheng - there is no real reincarnation in this world, but the memory of the remaining soul that has not completely dissipated can be checked through special means.
Di Changqing's move just now only destroyed one third of Baili Cheng's remaining soul.
"What's the point of keeping this dirty, broken soul?" Di Changqing smiled, "Why don't you let me take care of it?"
Bailicheng's black residual soul was rolled into a small ball by Buyehou. Di Zhangqing saw him and shook his head slightly: "No big deal."
The refusal was decisive.
Di Zhangqing raised his hand to wipe the blood from his lips: "Where is the skeleton of the mermaid? Can I take it away?"
As he expected, Marquis Buye also refused to agree.
"Okay." Di Changqing shrugged.
If he asked, Buyehou would not give it to him, and if he beat him, he could not beat him. If Laotou asked, he would have tried his best anyway.
"Senior, you are full of sympathy. After seeing what happened to the mermaid skeleton, you probably want to help." Seeing that the mission could not be completed, Di Zhangqing seemed to give up directly, "What about Bailicheng's remaining soul?"
He actually has an unfinished hidden meaning-will Bai Licheng's remaining soul be handed over to the Alien Bureau?
If he doesn't hand it over, it means that the Marquis of Buye will remain neutral. If he hands it over, it means that he has clearly taken a stand between the two parties.
But Di Zhangqing heard an answer that he would never have thought of no matter what—
“Feed the dog.”
Di Zhangqing: “…Ah?”
His current mood was as if he had witnessed the incredible first encounter between Jiaoyue and Baili Xiangxun in the materialization of memory fragments.
It’s just… hard to describe in words.
Then Di Zhangqing began to laugh wildly, and as he laughed he aggravated his injuries and spat out another mouthful of blood: "Bai Licheng is feeding the dog, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, not bad!"
His body was shaking the whole time, and it was hard to tell whether it was because of the pain from the injury or because he was laughing so hard: "Senior, you are so funny. I am embarrassed to call you old-fashioned in my heart."
"You won't give me Bailicheng's remaining soul, and you won't give me the skeleton of the mermaid either—" Di Zhangqing smiled slyly, "Then this rotten stall that follows will all belong to you!"
The tempered glass of the greenhouse had been shattered into tiny pieces, leaving only a twisted frame. Di Changqing leaned back and fell from the fifth floor without any warning.
Yu Tu only felt the spiritual power fluctuation of the formation for a moment, and Di Changqing's breath disappeared.
Yu Tu: “…”
He turned around to look at the mermaid skeleton floating beside Baili Cheng. The black bone spurs all over the mermaid skeleton had faded away, leaving only the white bones. The yin energy was no longer swirling, but was quietly attached to the surface of the bones.
Yu Tu looked into the skeleton's empty eye sockets, and unexpectedly saw a kind of calm sadness from the resentment in the eye sockets.
Yu Tu suddenly remembered the "little black cloud" after purification. She was lively and cute, just like the free and proud little mermaid who climbed onto the fishing boat and shouted "robbery" at the beginning of the memory fragment.
The son killed the mother, and the mother killed the son.
Hidden in Di Changqing's light and calm narration were tears of blood.
After killing Baili Cheng, some of the lines on the mermaid skeleton's body became darker, some became lighter, and some disappeared... becoming increasingly chaotic.
"Bright Moon." Yu Tu looked at the skeleton and finally made up his mind, "Do you want to go with me for now?"
He and Jiaoyue had no connection, so it was a loss no matter how you looked at it, but Di Changqing was right, he just wanted to control it.
Gold Devourer No. 3 is already very big, so it doesn't seem to make much difference if he gets a little fatter.
The empty eye sockets of the mermaid skeleton stared at him. Although the outburst of resentment caused the memory fragments to materialize, even after being purified, the consciousness on the skeleton was still faint. Rather than being Jiaoyue's consciousness, it was more like her remaining instinct as a mermaid - to take revenge when there is revenge, to complain when there is complaint.
But instinct is also a part of her, so after killing Bai Licheng she would feel sad and cry, even if she herself forgot why.
The mermaid skeleton stared at him, resentment surging in her body. Yu Tu stood quietly and waited until the mermaid skeleton made her choice.
Perhaps it was the good impression she had of him as "Little Wuyun" that influenced her, and she finally chose to believe Yu Tu.
Yu Tu used energy to shrink the mermaid skeleton. After shrinking, the mermaid skeleton waved its tail and wrapped itself around Yu Tu's wrist, looking like an exquisite and unique bone bracelet.
After this set of operations, the energy consumption was more than Yu Tu had imagined. He shook slightly and exhaled.
Looking at the messy greenhouse, Yu Tu decided to run away quickly, but when he stood at the edge of the greenhouse, he suddenly had a creepy sense of danger—as if he was locked by something.
Yu Tu gathered his energy in his eyes and looked in the direction of the danger—
He saw a familiar face.
One of the four members of the special team who came to rescue them when they were trapped in the Shining Tower and almost died at the hands of Spider-Man.
Theoretically, the energy here is abnormal, and the fact that the special team members were able to get here so quickly shows that they really care about the safety of ordinary people, but the premise is that Yu Tu is not considered a suspect.
He even suspected that the reason Fang Yan was discovered by him was because he was the youngest among the four groups and did not have as much experience as the others, which was why he revealed his whereabouts in the night when it was convenient to hide.
A one-way sound transmission note cut through the sky in the night and flew in front of Yu Tu. Yu Tu heard Fang Yan's voice coming from the sound transmission note—
"We've received a report. We've locked you down. Put down your weapon immediately, or we'll kill you on the spot!"
When the resentment of the mermaid skeleton was rising, Di Changqing had clearly set up a barrier. Later, Yu Tu built a new energy barrier. Even if it was hit by the resentment, there was still one layer of the barrier left, which ordinary people could not see at all. Apart from Di Changqing, who could report the case?
It’s better to report to the special forces!
No, he is sick!!!