Zongman: I have really retired!

The bus slowly entered the stop. The huge vehicle blocked most of the monster's body. Xia Youjie finally looked at the monster's appearance through the bright and huge window.

It was humanoid, but its huge body was covered with skin as soft as mud. From time to time, people would pass by it and get a little bit of it on it, which made Xia Youjie feel a little nauseous.

"Kid, do you want to get in the car?"

The driver looked at the ugly Xia Youjie with some worry. Although Japanese children go home by themselves after school, it was raining now. Judging from the look of this child, he probably didn't read the weather forecast and brought an umbrella. What should I do if I catch a cold?

Xia Youjie withdrew his gaze from the monster, turned around and politely thanked the driver before getting in the car.

"Look at how wet you are, wipe it with water quickly. It will be hard to take medicine for a cold by then."

A mother with her child saw Xia Youjie's slightly wet trouser legs and hurriedly took out a piece of paper from her bag and handed it to Xia Youjie.

"Thank you."

Xia Youjie politely thanked the woman.

"Oh, this kid is so polite, unlike my kid who doesn't even say hello when he sees someone."

The woman smiled even happier. Although she complained about her child, everyone could see that she was still very proud of her child.

The bus started slowly, and Xia Youjie sat opposite the woman with his back to the monster.

When the vehicle was about to exit the street, Xia Youjie suddenly turned sideways and looked at the monster. He was still curious about what the monster looked like.

The monster's face... was actually densely covered with eyes.

A few seconds after Xia Youjie stared at it, the monster slowly crawled towards the bus that was speeding away. The sharp sound in its mouth became louder and its movements became faster. When it got up and moved He swept past a tree next to him, and the trunk swayed visibly.

Unfortunately, within a few seconds, the bus disappeared from the sight of the monster. The monster stopped on the spot. Losing his target, he squirmed a few times and returned to wandering near the building opposite the bus station. Everything seemed like Nothing happened.

Xia Youjie on the bus was secretly making notes on the monsters in his mind.

He couldn't look those monsters in the eyes, and he couldn't let them realize that he could see them.

After being discovered, their movement speed has obviously become stronger, and they can obviously contact the entity when attacking. Without preparation, he is still a child, so it is best not to send him to die.

Really, it should be treated as invisible...

Xia Youjie pursed his lips and looked at the passengers in the car. There were not many people in the car. There were office workers with tired faces who had just gotten off work, students with heavy schoolbags, a few housewives carrying colored bags, and The young mother with her child just now.

"Brother, is he new here?"

The boy who had blushed at his mother's teasing finally returned to normal. He raised his slightly flushed face and asked Xia Youjie curiously.

"Well...just moved here."

Xia Youjie responded mildly.

"Then my brother lived there before, why did he come here?" The child asked again. This time he even got out of his mother's arms and approached Xia Youjie shyly.

"Yokohama, I came to Iwate Prefecture because my parents were transferred."

"Hey, Yokohama is a big city. I heard there is a huge amusement park. It's not like there is nothing here, not even fun places."

The children feel a little regretful that children born in small counties always yearn for big cities outside.

Xia Youjie smiled and said nothing. Although the big city is prosperous, due to the large number of people gathered and the high pressure of life, there are more monsters born from human negative emotions, which means that the possibility of encountering danger is also high. got bigger.

Because of this, Xia Youjie's parents gave up the opportunity to work in a big city and brought Xia Youjie to a small place like Iwate Prefecture. Although the economy is not developed, it has fewer people and less work pressure. Most importantly, There are also a lot fewer monsters...

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When he walked to the door of his home, he stopped and stood silently at the door. The little boy took a deep breath, and then racked his brains to find a reason. He was thinking about how to explain to his parents that he should obviously Got home an hour ago.

Xia Youjie stomped on his trousers that were wetted by the rain and stuck tightly to his skin. He felt that the closed door looked like a man-eating monster.

I believe there are some rumors or customs in folk stories in many places, such as spreading salt at funerals and people not being able to look back when walking in the middle of the night. Although many of these customs have been abolished with the development of science and technology. But some customs have remained.

For example, children can see things that adults can’t see. Xia Youjie’s parents didn’t believe this. But at some point, Xia Youjie started to be scared or talk into the air. At first, they thought it was just the child’s strong association ability. Hallucinated.

But later, the unknown wounds that appeared inexplicably on Xia Youjie's body, the description of the child's features that became clearer and clearer as the child grew up, and the subtle changes that they could detect from time to time, all these special cases combined made them have no choice but to believe that this There are inexplicable things like ghosts in the world.

With the idea of ​​​​solving problems when they arise, they immediately asked the old people in the countryside how to solve this problem.

The old man muttered a lot of useless nonsense. The general meaning is that the child is "reincarnated". After birth, the "yang energy" in the body is insufficient and there is some "yin energy", so the child can See the "yin spirits" that adults cannot see.

Some children outgrow their sight, while others are born with a gift that they may never get rid of.

Xia You and his wife couldn't help it. They were just ordinary people. They had lived in the city since they were young and didn't even understand the customs that some children in the countryside knew.

Xia Youjie was still very young when he woke up. He was frightened half to death by the monsters floating in the air all day long. The couple was helpless. They didn't even dare to ask him to go to the kindergarten for fear of themselves. His child died inexplicably, and his mother, who was a company employee, was forced to leave her job and become a housewife to take care of him.

But children are naturally attracted to moving things, so little Xia Youjie was still frequently attacked by curse spirits at that time.

Fortunately, his range of activities was small, and there were no powerful curse spirits nearby. The most serious injury Xia Youjie suffered was a broken arm.

But after that incident, Xia Youjie's parents were always nervous. They never allowed him to contact the cursed spirits and made him pretend that they couldn't see them. Therefore, the couple later moved Xia Youjie to a remote place. In Iwate Prefecture, people even started to believe in Buddhism.

When Xia Youjie was seven years old, he discovered that he had the ability to conquer monsters.

At that time, he saw a small fly-like monster on the teacher's neck. Originally, he wanted to treat it as invisible as usual.

But the teacher is very nice. He will praise him for his good homework, be polite, and give him candy.

So when he heard that his teacher often had neck pain, but couldn't find out why when he went to the hospital, he suddenly thought that it was the monster.

So, during the massage, he endured nausea and grabbed the monster that had been lying on the teacher's shoulder. Sure enough, within a few days, news came to the school that the teacher's shoulder had healed without medication.

Xia Youjie was very happy. It was the first time that he helped others with his special ability. From then on, Xia Youjie often relied on his child's body and outstanding appearance to remove the cursed spirits from other people's bodies. Because of this, he even gained the title of Fu Bao in that area. I don't like him personally, and even my parents no longer dislike Xia Youjie's special abilities, and are even proud of him.

Xia Youjie discovered that his technique was also wrong. He had just finished school and accidentally bumped into a hurried-looking man on the road.

The man turned around and ran away, completely ignoring Xia Youjie who was knocked to the ground. Before Xia Youjie could get up and curse, he saw the monster following the man.

That monster was a third-level curse spirit, a powerful enemy that Xia Youjie had never faced before. When Xia Youjie was attacked because he looked directly at the curse spirit, all he could think about was that he was unwilling to die here. With his last breath, he finally defeated the cursed spirit at the cost of a broken arm.

At that moment, he learned his own technique without any teacher - the magic of magic.

A technique that allows you to take the subjugated curse spirit into your own hands and manipulate it freely. According to the level conversion, if the difference is more than two levels, you can save the need to surrender and obtain the curse spirit almost unconditionally. When absorbing the curse spirit, you need to turn the curse spirit into a black ball and then swallow it from the mouth.

Although this process was as disgusting as swallowing a rag that had been thrown into the sewer to wipe vomit, it was a waste for Xia Youjie, who was obsessed with Pokémon anime at the time. After all, being a hero also comes with a price. ah.

What's more, the biggest advantage of this technique is the variety of routines and moves. Even if the attack pattern is figured out, it only needs to release new spell spirits.

This is super cool for Xia Youjie who wants to become a Pokémon Master! ! It's just that these curse spirits are a bit ugly, and standing behind them during a fight is really worthless! ! !

Because Xia Youjie's arm was broken, the new parents were obviously frightened and finally made up their mind to move with Xia Youjie.

Xia Youjie's chances of encountering curse spirits have been significantly reduced. Most of them are useless and low-level. Children who are spoiled never like to have their tempers wronged. They find the curse spirits ugly and unpalatable and unwilling to subdue them. In addition, After moving, his parents enrolled him in various fighting classes. Since then, Xia Youjie has become accustomed to using fighting methods to eliminate cursed spirits instead of using magic techniques.

Only occasionally did Xia Youjie encounter some strange or beautiful curse spirits, which he would reluctantly conquer.

Xia Youjie: I also choose appearance and strength, okay? You have to have one of the two to be worthy of my tongue.

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With a click, the door was opened.

"Isn't it cold after standing at the door for a long time? Why don't you come in?"

Mrs. Xiayou lowered her head and softened her tone, unable to detect the obvious worry in her happy and angry tone.

Xia Youjie at the door was obviously frightened by the sudden opening of the door. He lowered his head and muttered: "Mom... I'm sorry, I..."

"Come in first."

Mrs. Xia You said softly, and gently pressed her warm palm on Xia Youjie's head.

"If there is anything we can go into the house and talk about it slowly. You will tell me, right?"

Xia Youjie walked into the room silently and sat on the sofa. Mrs. Xia You sat opposite him, looking at him tenderly.

"Jay, do you know why I'm worried?"

Mrs. Xia You asked softly.

Xia Youjie raised his head, looked into his mother's eyes, and said softly: "Because I have special abilities... which makes me easily injured..."

Mrs. Xia You nodded, "You are still young. I don't want to stop you from protecting others. As a mother, I just hope you can care more about yourself."

Xia Youjie lowered his head and clenched his fingers into fists. "I know, Mom. But... I obviously have that ability, why don't I do it? Isn't it wrong to protect weak ordinary people?"

Mrs. Xia You held Xia Youjie's hand, and she gently opened Xia Youjie's tightly clenched fist.

"Jie, you are excellent, and your mother also believes that you will become a great person in the future. But please remember that helping others does not become a reason for you to hurt yourself. Even if you are used to pain, there will be pain behind you. There will always be someone who feels sorry for your injury.”

Xia Youjie raised his head and looked into his mother's eyes, and said in a muffled voice: "Mom, I know, I will try my best not to get hurt, I'm just a little tired..."

Mrs. Xiayou smiled and said in a gentle tone: "If you feel too tired, you should have a good sleep instead of continuing to work hard. Don't blame yourself too much. I know you have worked hard to get to where you are now.

You should take more rest, participate in more school activities, or make some like-minded friends. It is always better than being bored in your room. "

After speaking, she gently tapped the tip of Xia Youjie's nose with her index finger, her tone full of endearment.

Xia Youjie nodded shyly, "I know, I will work hard."

Mrs. Xia You stood up and pushed Xia Youjie to the dining table. The woman with similar eyebrows to Xia Youjie hugged him gently:

"What you need more than hard work is rest. Don't worry, we will always be behind you."

Xia Youjie felt the warmth of his mother's hug behind him, and even the frustration of finding out that he was ignored by the police today was much lessened.

The food on the table was his favorite, but it was a pity that it had cooled down because of his late arrival. Mrs. Xia You pressed Xia Youjie on the dining table and let him drink the freshly served hot porridge first.

And she turned around and went into the kitchen. Parents are always like this, trying their best to leave everything that you think is good to you and what they think is good to you. Although they don't know whether this is what you want or need, they still do it. Will leave it to you subconsciously.