"Life! Is it such a heavy price to pay?"
The man with the beard opened his mouth and dropped the half-burned cigarette to the ground.
He suddenly felt very guilty. After all, the talisman was obtained at the cost of Chen Huai'an's life, and he just spent 100,000 to buy it?
At that time, Chen Huaian probably didn't know the value of this talisman.
It seems like he is deliberately deceiving me.
"Then how did you know the price was life? I remember you didn't know this talisman could work before, right?"
Chen Huaian had already prepared his words, and he said without a single mistake: "I really didn't know before, as to how I determined that the price was life..." He rolled up his trouser legs to show the densely packed osteosarcoma to the beard.
"To be honest, I am a terminal cancer patient, but a week ago I was in the middle stage."
The man with the beard looked at the osteosarcoma on Chen Huai'an's leg and said in confusion, "So, because you exchanged for the talisman, your cancer got worse?"
"Yes, the doctor said that the speed at which my cancer cells spread was unprecedented in my life, and the cancer worsened just after I exchanged for the talisman."
"Then, how long can you live?"
"Who knows?" Chen Huai'an smiled and said, "If you die slowly, it will take half a year, if you die quickly, it will take about a month."
The man with the beard was confused. It was hard for him to imagine that the handsome guy in front of him with a sunny smile was already a dying man.
But the osteosarcoma in his leg told him that it was real.
The boy was indeed in the advanced stage of cancer and would not live any longer.
'Damn it to me!'
He slapped himself hard in his heart.
As the chief of the Demon Slayer Division of the Prefecture District, he actually deceived a patient with advanced cancer and took away such a precious talisman for only 100,000 yuan! Not to mention that he would feel guilty about it, if the Demon Slayer Divisions of other districts knew about this, wouldn't they kill him behind his back? !
"Brother Huai'an, I'm sorry."
In order to make himself feel at ease, Lu Beihu quickly apologized to Chen Huai'an.
"Brother shouldn't have tricked you into taking a talisman away from me before."
"Oh, it's okay~" Chen Huai'an waved his hands: "Don't I have more talismans here? I'm already terminally ill and dying, so it won't make any difference if I lose some more life."
The man with a beard looked at Chen Huai'an silently, feeling even more upset.
"I'll transfer another 100,000 to you!"
"Okay." Chen Huaian opened his mobile phone and presented the payment code in a flash.
Bearded: "..."
After transferring the money, the atmosphere between the two of them became noticeably more sincere.
"Brother Huai'an, what are your plans for the future?"
"Planning..." Chen Huaian and Lu Beihu looked at the traffic. His plan was to continue making money to recharge the game. He was willing to recharge before he knew that the 'electronic girlfriend' was a companion spirit, and now that he knows, he is even more willing to recharge. What if a prop that can cure his cancer is released in a game?
Also, is the world in this game real?
If this game is fake, why is his electronic girlfriend so vivid?
But if this game is a real world, wouldn't the civilization level of that world be much higher than that of Earth? After all, the power of a common Thunder and Fire Talisman is already terrifying. What if it is an Immortal Talisman? There are other higher-level talismans, wouldn't any of them be as powerful as a missile or even a nuclear bomb? !
This makes even less sense.
It is obviously unreasonable that the three-dimensional world dominates the 3-dimensional world.
Secondly, this world also has so-called main quests, so-called plots, and the ability to choose dialogues.
How could he be able to control the direction of the real world?
If he was really that powerful, he would have become an immortal by now.
No matter from which angle you look at it, the Cangyun Realm looks more like a game world.
Therefore, Chen Huai'an was certain that the electronic girlfriend game in the mobile phone was the "companion spirit creature" mentioned by Lu Beibei.
As for whether the immortal cultivation world in the electronic girlfriend is real, he still maintains a skeptical attitude.
As the saying goes, seeing is believing.
Of course he hoped that Li Qingran really existed.
But sometimes having too much hope is not a good thing.
That means that once reality meets expectations, a heavy spiritual price must be paid.
Seeing that Chen Huaian didn't say anything, Lu Shabei thought that Chen Huaian was confused about what to do, but he understood this very well. Many resuscitators would be at a loss when faced with this question, so he patted Chen Huaian on the shoulder:
"This world will become more and more chaotic, and everything we protect can be shattered at any time."
On the sidewalk, elementary school students who had just finished school held hands and sang nursery rhymes.
On a bench in the park, a couple hugged and kissed passionately.
The sun was chasing the old man carrying the vegetable basket. The delivery guy could do nothing but stop the car and watch the old man walking so slowly.
Chen Huai'an looked at everything in front of him, and the voice of the bearded man rang in his ears:
"Brother Huai'an, why don't you join the Demon Slayer Division? I can help you contact some revivers with healing abilities to see if they can solve your cancer problem. The current Demon Slayer Division is different from before. Do you know the breathing method? It's similar to the exercises in novels, which can absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Currently, only our Demon Slayer Division has it."
"Of course from my perspective, I don't want you to join the Demon Slayer Division for these benefits. I hope you join for the mission!"
"The mission of protecting our homeland, protecting humanity, and protecting a peaceful life!"
After the beard was finished, he glanced at Chen Huai'an with the corner of his eye.
This set of rhetoric is the training technique of the Demon Slayer Bureau.
Normally at this time, if the revived listen carefully, there will be some emotion on their face.
Especially young people like Chen Huai'an, what they love to hear the most are these passionate words.
But...
The beard found that Chen Huai'an had no expression on his face!!!
"Thank you for speaking to me, and thank you for inviting me."
Chen Huai'an shook his head and continued to smile, but what he said was not very funny.
"Well, you know what? My mother died in a forest fire, and she was supposed to receive 200,000 in compensation, but for various strange reasons, I only had 20,000 left.
I had a very hard time these years. When I thought I would be able to get through the hard times after graduating from college, I was diagnosed with advanced cancer. The hospital only asked me if I had insurance and money. If I didn't have insurance, they asked me to raise money first, otherwise they would not treat me.
My girlfriend cheated on me and dumped me after she found out I had cancer..."
The bearded man looked at the boy bathing in the sunshine and said harshly, "Do you think this world is unfair? So..."
"No, I think the world is fair." Chen Huai'an shook his head. "It is reasonable to wait for death if you don't have money to treat the disease. It is also normal that the pension cannot be paid for various reasons. Isn't it understandable that the girlfriend ran away when the boyfriend got cancer?"
"and you?"
"I just felt that when I was most desperate, the world didn't embrace me.
If I were to turn around right now and embrace the world, I would be disgusted.”
Chen Huai'an looked at Xu Beihu, the light in his eyes flickering.
However, the man with the beard also felt that the young man sitting in the sun seemed to exude a dead silence all over his body.
"Uncle, you are protecting your world. But my world is not worth protecting."
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At the end of the street, Chen Huai'an's figure dragging his suitcase gradually disappeared into the distance.
He turned around, smiled, waved and said goodbye, then turned around and blended into the crowd like everyone else.
The man with the beard sat silently on the steps, smoking one cigarette after another, and the words that Chen Huai'an left before he left seemed to be still echoing in his ears.
"I won't join the Demon Slayer Division. At least for now, I can't find any reason to join the Demon Slayer Division, nor can I see the mission you mentioned. But if you need help, you can come to me, although I don't know if I can help."
The red light turned green.
The man with a beard put out his cigarette and blended into the crowd.
He didn't go back to the Demon-Slaying Bureau, he just wanted to go for a walk.
Look at the people who live under the same sky but exist in different worlds.
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