God's Gift

"Then why don't they sacrifice themselves?" Yu Youyou listened for a while and muttered, isn't this the principle of survival of the fittest? But they never use morality to whitewash themselves in the sea.

When Lu Keming heard Yu Youyou's words, he chuckled and said in an ambiguous tone, "If I sacrifice myself, who will enjoy the final results?"

Shen Minghua sighed, looked at the lights on the opposite mountain, and wondered: "If the villagers don't kill those girls now, when will they do it?"

"Six days later." Lu Keming glanced at Shen Minghua and said calmly, "The sacrifice in this village lasts for seven days. Today is the first day. There should be a final sacrifice in six days."

"But if we go back five days after the Buddha Worship Festival, you don't have to consider these issues at all."

Shen Minghua listened to Lu Keming's words and immediately understood what he meant. He frowned and said, "If we go back in time on the fifth day, we won't have the chance to see the final sacrifice."

Now the most important thing becomes breaking the time reversal.

"I heard from Fang Ziang that the female ghost following Chen Qingqiu is related to the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha. Could it be that the flashback was caused by her?" Ye Li stroked her brow and gave her guess.

However, this guess was something Lu Keming and Yu Youyou had already known.

Shen Minghua looked at Lu Keming's calm expression and realized that things were probably really as Ye Li speculated, and Lu Keming already knew about it.

Ye Li looked at him and understood what the other was thinking.

"The only ones who can see the female ghost now are Youyou and Fang Ziang." Ye Li looked at Yu Youyou and asked, "Youyou, do you still remember what she looks like?"

Yu Youyou nodded quickly and said, "Okay, I'll draw it for you when I get back."

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou and nodded without hesitation. He raised his eyebrows, pinched her paw, and asked, "Can you draw now?"

"Isn't this easy?" Yu Youyou tilted her head and glanced at Lu Keming. She was able to draw even without hands.

"Okay." Lu Keming smiled and walked home with Yu Youyou in his arms, "Then let's go home and take a look."

More than ten minutes later, several people gathered around the table and watched Yu Youyou holding a ballpoint pen in her mouth and drawing a stickman with long hair.

Shen Minghua's expression was somewhat difficult to describe. He stared at the stick figure on the paper for a long while, then looked at the confident Yu Youyou, and finally found a sentence: "The painting... is very vivid."

Yu Youyou raised her head and wagged her tail a few times.

Lu Keming picked up Yu Youyou's masterpiece without changing his expression and analyzed: "Is it a woman with long black hair and no clothes?"

"Yes!" Yu Youyou looked at Lu Keming and nodded quickly.

"Is there any other information?" Lu Keming rubbed Yu Youyou's head and asked with a smile.

"That's all." Yu Youyou thought about it and really couldn't think of anything else.

Ye Li held his forehead and said, "I'll go wake Fang Ziang up and see if he has anything to add."

After saying that, she turned and walked towards Fang Ziang's room. After a while, she returned to the table with Fang Ziang, who had hurriedly put on his clothes.

"That female ghost is really related to the flashback. She is so powerful." Fang Ziang muttered as he put on his coat.

When he saw Yu Youyou's painting, his eyes widened for a moment and he gave Yu Youyou a thumbs up. He quickly picked up the pen on the table, found a piece of white paper, and drew the appearance of the female ghost.

"She's actually pretty, but her face is too pale, her eyes are too red, and she doesn't like to wear clothes."

As Fang Ziang muttered to himself, he simply drew a sketch of the character.

Yu Youyou stood on the table and walked to Fang Ziang, looked at the painting in his hand, then turned her head to look at her own.

It's indeed a little different.

"You draw well, right?" Fang Ziang looked at Yu Youyou's expression and said proudly, "My mother made me learn this and that since I was a child, and it wasn't in vain."

"It's indeed very similar." Yu Youyou nodded and affirmed.

Lu Keming didn't say anything. He looked at Fang Ziang's painting and frowned. He felt that the person in the painting looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere.

He searched his memory but couldn't think of anyone who looked like this female ghost.

Ye Li picked up the painting and looked at it for a while, then said, "Take this painting and ask Chen Qingqiu tomorrow. Since the female ghost has been following him, she must have some connection with him."

Fang Ziang looked at Ye Li with a look of praise. Ye Li turned around and saw his expectant eyes. After thinking for a while, she reached out and patted Fang Ziang on the shoulder.

"Thanks a lot."

"It's okay, it's not hard." Fang Ziang smiled happily and moved closer to Ye Li, but was pushed away by Shen Minghua without a word.

Fang Ziang looked at Shen Minghua, Shen Minghua smiled slightly and said in a gentle voice:

"Now that we know what she looks like and it's late at night, let's all go back and get some rest."

"Okay." After Shen Minghua said this, Ye Li turned around and went back to his room.

Fang Ziang glared at Shen Minghua angrily, and followed Shen Minghua back to the room, leaving only Yu Youyou and Lu Keming at the table.

The dim candlelight surrounded the night room. The candle flame swayed gently in the air, casting the shadows of Lu Keming and Yu Youyou on the wall.

Yu Youyou looked at the paper on the table, picked up the pen and started writing again. Lu Keming did not leave either, he sat down at the table, leaned one hand on the table, and looked at Yu Youyou under the candlelight.

It is not convenient to hold a pen in your mouth, so Yu Youyou moved very slowly, running around the paper, with her chubby paws stepping on the paper from time to time.

"What is this painting?"

Yu Youyou stopped what she was doing, looked up at Lu Keming, lowered her head again, and said to him vaguely, "Wait a moment."

After saying that, she held the pen in her mouth and drew a few more strokes on the picture. Gradually, a cave appeared on the paper, and outside the cave was flying a giant dragon breathing fire.

Only then did Yu Youyou pause for a moment, pointed at the dragon with her claws and said to Lu Keming:

"This is you."

Lu Keming looked at the giant dragon with bared fangs and claws drawn on the paper, his eyes curved, and his voice was as soft as water, and he replied: "Okay."

Yu Youyou lowered her head again and scribbled on the paper. Soon she drew a sea in front of the cave. In the sea there was a round fish with a sword on its fin, pointing it at the fire-breathing dragon.

She pointed at the dragon and told Lu Keming in a crisp voice:

"this is me."

Lu Keming looked at the fish on the paper and asked in confusion: "Why is it a fish?"

Yu Youyou's eyes rolled around a few times, and she said naturally with a gleam in her eyes: "Because it's Yu Youyou."

"Okay." Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou's serious expression, and the corners of his mouth raised. His smile broke the long-term gloom, and he asked again: "Then is this fish holding a sword a warrior who came to defeat the evil dragon?"

"Yes." Yu Youyou nodded and walked in front of Lu Keming.

She quickly got into the role, with a resolute expression, "You evil dragon that brings disaster to this place, I am Yu Youyou, a warrior from the Deep Sea Kingdom. I will defeat you and rescue the princess!"

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou, the smile on his face deepened, and he said very cooperatively:

"You are worthy of being the bravest warrior in the world, Yu Youyou. I have dominated this place for so many years, but I was defeated by you."

After hearing Lu Keming's words, Yu Youyou tilted her head and looked at him for a long time, then suddenly changed her tone and said, "Then I won't defeat you."

"Hmm?" Lu Keming was still cooperating with Yu Youyou in acting. When he heard this, he thought she wanted to play something else and asked, "Then what are you doing?"

Yu Youyou coughed twice and said again: "Lu Keming, the evil dragon that brings disaster to the area, I am Yu Youyou, a warrior from the Deep Sea Country..."

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou seriously, waiting for her next words, and was ready to cooperate, but he heard her say:

"I'm here to save you."