Chapter 51
"No more?"
"Is this the end?"
"Where did the retard go after that?"
"How could this evil spirit be influenced by a retard?"
"No reversal?"
Luo Yu's five consecutive questions made Chi'er's head buzz. This story was written by Ma Gui, and he didn't know how to answer Luo Yu's questions.
However, Lord Benben must have his own ideas when he wrote this!
This guy must be unable to understand the profound meaning of it just like me.
"That's what Lord Benben wrote. If you have any questions, you can ask him after he comes back." Chi'er said.
Luo Yuxiao didn't say anything. He felt that Benben's book was very similar to the one written by a stupid author named Gun that he had read this year.
Luo Yu closed the book and put it on the ground, then opened a new one.
The book I have in my hand now is probably the latest one written by Benben. There are no creases on the cover at all. It should not be finished yet, maybe just the beginning.
Luo Yu flipped through a few pages at random, finding them mostly blank. He asked Chi Er, "Will he continue writing this book after he comes back?"
Chi Er glanced at the notebook in his hand and said, "It depends on what the content is. If it's something he particularly likes, then he will definitely write it down when he comes back. Open it and see what it is. Let me think about it and see if he has mentioned it."
When Luo Yu turned to the first page, his hand paused and his eyes looked a little dull.
"What's wrong?" Chi'er felt that he was weird.
Luo Yu scratched a few times on the notebook with his fingertips. "He wrote here about opening a human convenience store in the underworld. What does it mean that it only happens once in a thousand years?"
Chi Er snatched the notebook and took a look. The more he read, the brighter his eyes became. "What a novel story! As expected of Master Ben Ben! The stories he writes are getting more and more interesting! Opening a human convenience store in the underworld, how the hell did he come up with this idea?"
"Oh, this seems a bit difficult. Will I mess it up by accident?"
"Hiss... I don't think so. Master Benben is always brave enough to take on new themes! He's always invincible, so he'll definitely be able to write well!"
"Chi'er..." Luo Yu didn't understand what he was saying.
"Huh? Ouch!" Chi Er was startled. "Why do you look so bad? Did you see a ghost? Oh no, did you see a person?"
Luo Yu's fingertips trembled slightly as he pointed at the content again. "What does Benben mean by 'once in a thousand years'? Hasn't this happened before?"
Chi Er scratched his head, a little worried, and prepared to get up, "Are you okay? Otherwise, I'll call Gi over..."
"Don't." Luo Yu held him back, and Chi'er sat down again.
"I'm fine, just answer my questions."
Chi Er was a little worried. "I don't know what you are talking about? What do you want me to answer?"
Luo Yu was anxious, and the next words he said were almost shouted, "That person who opened a small human store in the underworld! I ask you if it only happens once every thousand years!"
"Ah?" Chi'er looked at him at a loss after being yelled at.
Luo Yu showed an impatient look.
"No, no... No, this, this is just a story. Why are you so angry?" Chi'er stood up and took a few steps back, away from him.
Luo Yu took a deep breath, suppressed his doubts, and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I was too excited. I just wanted to ask you, didn't the underworld have a human convenience store before?"
Chi Er held the notebook and shook his head, "No, this is a story that Master Ben Ben made up himself. This thing never happened in the underworld. It sounds unrealistic."
"Doesn't it bloom once every hundred years..." Luo Yu murmured with his head down, "Why has it never bloomed before..."
Chi'er frowned and touched the back of his head. After thinking for a moment, he still couldn't understand what he was saying.
"Why has it never been opened... Why did you lie to me... Why did you lie to me..."
“…Did I hear it wrong…But didn’t you say it happens once every hundred years…” Luo Yu buried his head between his knees, holding it with his hands. He felt a sharp pain in his head, as if someone was cutting it with a sharp object.
"What happened!" Gi rushed over with a bowl of noodles, slurping it in his mouth, and several noodles flew out.
"Chi'er, what happened to Luoyu?"
"He asked me if there had ever been a human convenience store in the underworld before. I said no, and then he..."
"Ding Dong", the bowl in Gi's hand fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
"Ouch! My bowl! This bowl costs several dollars! I told you not to take it but you insisted on taking it! Now you're in trouble! Pay me back!" The noodle stall owner heard the noise and hurried over, cursing, but Gi didn't hear it at all.
It still maintained the posture of the bowl falling from its hand, its face as stiff as a stone.
Chi'er also realized that something was wrong, but... he really didn't know. Did he do anything wrong?
Seeing that it showed no sign of apologizing, the noodle stall owner's anger flared up. He put his hands on his hips and yelled, "This is my bowl! It's not yours! Why are you still standing there like a statue? Hurry up and get me a broom to clean the floor! Otherwise, I'll make you pay for three bowls!"
Gi moved, but instead of going back to the noodle stall to get a broom, he walked up to Luo Yu and squatted down to look at him.
The noodle stall owner almost couldn't breathe, and was waving his fingers and preparing to continue cursing. Chi'er went over and held down his waving hands, shushed him, and pulled him out.
"Luo Yu." Gi called him.
Luo Yu raised his head from his knees, glanced at it, and moved his body back. His eyes were unfamiliar, as if the person squatting in front of him was a stranger who was ready to attack him.
Gi turned his face away, and now he didn't know what to do.
"Take me to see Luo Zhi." Luo Yu said in a cold voice.
Gi got up and walked towards the ghost house.
Luo Yu also stood up and followed it.
On the way to the ghost house, every step Luo Yu took felt like he was stepping on a thorn bush. The thorns penetrated deeper and deeper, piercing the skin, penetrating the bones, and finally turning the flesh and blood into a mess.
"You wait here first, I'll go in and call him." Gi said as he stepped into the ghost house and walked towards the lobby.
Luo Yu looked at everything around him and felt a little dizzy. He squatted down, huddled against the wall, looked at the ground, and his thoughts drifted far away.
"Gi."
As soon as Gi entered the lobby, he heard Luo Zhi calling it, and the voice spread all around without a fixed point.
This is a sign that the soul is about to dissipate.
"What happened?" Luo Zhi's voice sounded again around, sounding fragmented and needed to be pieced together to hear the specific content.
Gi stared at the empty space in front of him, and after a moment, he sighed, "Luo and he know."
As soon as these words were spoken, the air around them seemed to sink into a swamp, and with every breath they took, the feeling of impending death grew closer.
After an unknown amount of time, Luo Zhi's voice spread out again.
"I had originally planned not to say goodbye to him."
Gi pondered for a moment and said, "Let me help you build a physical body. You don't want to see him like this, do you?"
Two minutes later, Luo Zhi's voice sounded again: "Thank you."
"But my shape won't last long, so hurry up," said Gi.
"Well, let's get started."
The images flashed through Luo Yu's mind frame by frame, and in those memory fragments, it was as if he had pulled out a soul and was looking at the past from a third-party perspective.
Luo Zhi in the picture did not show any strange expression, and was still the same as he remembered.
Luo Yu watched them flit back and forth between the underworld and the human world. They went to Anmian Road to buy paper money, then drove to the neighboring Huangbei City to burn it... met Wang Sanpao... was chased by a woman at the vegetable market for debts... moved his bed because she was worried he wouldn't adapt... his soul escaped after entering the demon world... and detoxified in the starving ghost territory...
"Luoyu."
"Luoyu."
Luo Zhi's voice in this video was different from before. The tone now sounded heavy and cold.
Luo Yu realized something was wrong and came back to his senses. What caught his eye was a pair of black leather shoes. His gaze climbed up and he saw a familiar face. Then he realized that this was not the voice in his head, but the real Luo Zhi standing in front of him and calling him.
The moment their eyes met, they were both stunned tacitly, and their heartbeats skipped a beat.
But soon, Luo Yu's expression gradually turned into strangeness, questioning, and grief.
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