Star Trace Gate

Xu Bangzi listened to Ren Ye's curses, but did not retort. He just politely replied, "Brother, shall we go talk over there? Just you and me? Okay?"

Ren Ye stood on the dock, facing the evening breeze, and sneered, "You lied just now, so you want to run away?"

"No." Xu Bangzi shook his head with innocent eyes: "The woman who followed you fed me poison, how could I dare to run away?"

"Do you think everyone can agree that I can talk to you alone now?" Ren also looked at the other party's expression: "If you run away during the conversation, my pants will be full of shit, and everyone might think that you and I are colluding to backstab you."

“……!” Xu Bangzi was speechless.

"Before entering the Gao family's gate, if you can't convince me, I will definitely tell Master Gao everything that happened between us, and he will make the final judgment." There was a strong threat in Ren Ye's words, and this reaction mainly came from the fact that he completely couldn't understand the motives behind Xu Bangzi's behavior.

The night breeze blew, and after the two looked at each other for a long time, Xu Bangzi nodded slowly: "Okay."

While he was talking, Butler Liu had finished greeting the Gao family members, and they all hurried to the Gao Mansion on foot.

Walking on the small road with wild and deserted areas, Xu Bangzi said with a calm expression and a sincere voice: "I was born in the Love Village. I am an orphan. I have been lonely and helpless since I was a child. No one has taken care of me. One winter, I was starving...!"

"Fuck it!" Ren Ye cursed through gritted teeth.

"How do you curse?"

"Classic winter, classic orphanage opening, isn't it? My dad stopped writing a plot like yours twenty years ago." Ren Ye said coldly: "Let me ask you, do you speak human language?"

"Okay, I'll try not to use descriptive words." Xu Bangzi sighed, "Alas, but I really didn't lie to you. I am indeed an orphan, as if I was born to be born in the Love Village... My memories before the age of three or five are blank. I can't remember anything about my family or my background. I've asked the villagers, but they don't know either."

Is it a residual soul?

Many residual souls were evolved by the Star Gate Heavenly Dao and do not have any memory of their birth. For example, some people are born with parents, relevant kinship and interpersonal relationships since they were evolved.

However, for Ren Ye, he would definitely not easily believe what Xu Bangzi said.

"Later, a kind middle-aged couple took me in because they felt sorry for me." Xu Bangzi continued, "That middle-aged couple had no children. The man was a blacksmith and was very hardworking. He didn't have many relatives or friends in the Love Village and just buried his head in work. The woman had some chronic diseases and couldn't do farm work. She could only wash dishes for others at home to earn a little money for vegetables. They didn't live a rich life, but they were really good to me... For the rural areas here, most people don't adopt children who are over five years old. Because children have memories, it's a bit difficult to cultivate family affection for non-blood relations."

"I grew up in their home. I don't need to mention the food, shelter and clothing. I clearly remember that for more than ten years, they never said a single word to me that was against the rules. It was really not easy, after all, they were not their biological children." When Xu Bangzi said this, his face was a little sad and nostalgic: "But they educated me just like their own children, scolding and beating me... It was an unforgettable time."

"How old is the woman? How tall is she? How much does she weigh? What color clothes does she like to wear? Don't hesitate, answer me immediately." Ren Ye listened carefully, but suddenly asked a question off topic.

Xu Bangzi was stunned for a moment, then replied calmly, "When I went to her house, she was 46 years old and about meters tall. She didn't wear colored clothes because she couldn't afford them. She only wore gray cloth clothes."

Ren Ye was silent for a while: "And then?"

"Then there was the Lust Village... the Shen family massacre." Xu Bangzi's voice trembled as he spoke here. "When the bloody night happened, my adoptive father had just finished teaching me how to make embryos that day. After dinner that night, the old couple even said... that they would arrange for me to find a wife. I was already an adult by then. Alas, they often said such things. Then... the village caught fire, there were shouts everywhere, and people died one after another. I remember very clearly that Wang Shoucai was responsible for killing the villagers on my side... he brought as many as thirty or forty masters. My adoptive parents also died in their hands, with their heads chopped off."

"so……!"

"Yes, the two jars of ghosts I asked Wang Shoucai for were from my adoptive parents, Uncle Lin and Grandma Wang." Xu Bangzi added, "They were very kind to me in raising me. I can't let their souls be sealed in the jars and tortured forever."

Ren Ye frowned and deliberately guided him in the opposite direction: "Everyone in this village was killed, why are you the only one who survived?"

"Haha, outsiders all thought that there was only one survivor in the entire Love Village that night - Shen Yuan." Xu Bangzi sneered: "In fact, there are two, because there is me."

"How did you survive?!" Ren Ye asked.

Xu Bangzi had a painful expression on his face, and gritted his teeth as he said, "When Wang Shoucai led his men to attack my home, it was too late to run away... My adoptive father asked me to hide in the underground darkroom where the embryos were refined. There were a lot of sundries there, and I was thin at the time, so I thought I could escape. But they searched very carefully... They wanted to dig deep underground, but they didn't want the matter of the Lust Village to be leaked. I was discovered...!"

"and then?"

"Then... I was terrified. I wanted to live...!" Xu Bangzi looked at Ren Ye: "Do you know how strong a desire to live will be when facing death?! I knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Wang Shoucai frantically. At first I said a lot of things... but they ignored me and dragged me into the yard. When I saw that the knife that was going to chop me was suspended within three inches of my head... I didn't know where the inspiration came from, and suddenly I shouted, tonight, so many people are killing people together, can you guarantee that everyone is trustworthy? Let me live, I... I can do anything for you."

Ren also frowned.

"It is because of these words and the fact that my adoptive parents are still alive that I am alive." Xu Bangzi looked at Ren Ye sincerely: "Wang Shoucai chopped off my adoptive parents' heads in front of me and sealed their ghosts. He told me... if he wants to see your parents again, from now on, you will be my eyes."

After a short pause, Xu Bangzi continued, "Later, I went to Qijia Town to worship a master. After learning the skills of killing, I followed Wang Shoucai's instructions and went undercover in the Gao family. You guessed it right. My actions tonight were not for Lao Wang or Lao Gao. I just wanted to get back the ghosts of my adoptive parents. I didn't expect you to suddenly jump out and mess things up."

"Qijia Town?" Ren Ye looked at him coldly: "You really found a good excuse! Apart from the Abstinence Center, we have no contact with other places and people, and we have no way to verify it."

"Everything I said is true." Xu Bangzi replied: "If you don't believe me, you can go back to the Desire Village and look for news about me at the third household on the second street from the south of the village. It should be possible to confirm it."

Ren didn't reply anymore.

When the two of them talked about this, everyone had already seen the Gao family compound.

The footsteps made a creaking sound on the ground. Ren's brain was active and he was analyzing the story told by Xu Bangzi in his mind.

First of all, this story cannot be fully believed, because many things are just Xu Bangzi’s one-sided words and cannot be verified at all.

For example, did Wang Shoucai really give up on killing Xu Bangzi just because of one sentence? Logically speaking, Wang Shoucai is indeed a calculating person. There is a certain probability that he left a person alive in the Love Village and used him as an undercover agent later, but... the probability is not high.

Also, Xu Bangzi said that he learned all his skills in Qijia Town.

How could he so easily become a disciple of a master and learn such amazing supernatural powers?

This is not impossible to happen, but the probability is too small.

This old guy must have hidden a lot of key information, and this information may be related to restoring the entire story of Qijia Town. It’s just that he doesn’t want to say it, or he is guarding against himself.

However, can a remnant soul have such intelligence?

Thinking of this, Ren Ye started to speculate again. Tang Feng said that his mission was to find a person who tells the truth in the abstinence center, so... can that person secretly leave the abstinence center?

If so, is Xu Bangzi's identity really just a security guard?

He is neither loyal to Master Gao nor obviously working for Wang Shoucai, so what is his real purpose?

Is it really just to save two ghosts?

Pull some eggs!

Ren also thought of this and sneered in his heart: "If he wanted to save the ghost, then his goal would have been achieved when he was in the Wang Mansion. He could have run away alone and avoided the risk of being tortured by everyone, or even killed out of anger."

He must have some other purpose...

When they were about to reach the front door of Gao's house, Ren Ye suddenly said, "Give me a reason to help you hide these things."

"Okay." Xu Bangzi immediately replied, "I know a little about the things about the Lust Village. Tell me what you want to ask."

Ren Ye blinked and suddenly asked, "Shen Yuan, do you know about Shen Yuan? He is the eldest son of the Shen family."

Xu Bangzi was obviously stunned, licked his lips and replied: "I know a little."

"Then tell me about him." Ren Ye looked at his expression and said, "Just one sentence to arouse my greatest interest in him."

Xu Bangzi stepped forward and said after thinking for a long time: "Shen Yuan was originally going to marry Guo Litao's daughter from the Guo family!"

"I already know this."

"But you know that Shen Yuan doesn't like Guo Litao's daughter at all? He likes another girl." Xu Bangzi lowered his head and said softly, "It was Shen Jishi who wanted to win over the Guo family, so he forced this marriage, but I heard that... Shen Yuan was not happy and insulted and ridiculed Guo Litao's daughter in public many times."

Ren Ye looked at him and said, "Even Wang Shoucai may not know this kind of secret. How can you, the adopted son of a blacksmith, know these things?!"