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Inside the Xu mansion, the fire caused by the lightning strike has been basically extinguished, only a few sporadic flames remained in the ruins, and green smoke curled up into the sky, showing to outsiders the chaos that took place here.Some of the servants were running back and forth, busy tidying up the scene, while others had already packed up their belongings secretly, and even took advantage of the chaos to roll up some things that did not belong to them, and were about to flee.

As a servant, it is really embarrassing to not be loyal to rescue the master when he is in trouble, but to take advantage of the fire to rob him.But even if it wasn't for property, but for their own lives, they didn't dare to stay in Xu's mansion anymore - in just one day, they were missing and dead, and many people saw claw marks and lightning falling with their own eyes. Which idiot would believe it?You must know that the last person who provoked monsters almost died!

It is said that blood flowed to the street outside, and the red-stained ground could not be wiped clean, so the whole stone brick had to be replaced.No one dared to collect the corpses that had been gnawed to pieces by the monsters, which almost caused another epidemic. Finally, a firewood torch was thrown into it, and a big house was directly burned to the ground.

At this time, within Xu's mansion, it seemed to be a repeat of the past.If you don't run away as soon as possible, don't you stay and wait for death?

When the Lu family came to the gate of Xu's mansion, what they saw was the scene of the door being opened and the figures flustered.The red silk that was decorated on the door when they were newlyweds hadn't been taken off yet, but there was no trace of joy, and it was so red that it was desolate.Although there were quite a few strong servants among this group of people, they were actually just planning to block the door to ask for an explanation, but they didn't expect the Xu mansion to be in such a mess, and Madam Lu was out of breath for a moment, so she barged in in a daze. Pushed in front of Xu Xingchun who was yelling at someone to clean up the corpse.

Xu Xingchun was in a state of fright and anger - after seeing the monk in a panic that day, he did have some doubts about his strength, but he never thought that he would die like this!Still dying so... with great momentum!

He didn't know that there were houses outside that were also damaged by lightning, and he was already in chaos. What he was thinking was that if what happened tonight was spread, what would happen to the rumors... When he saw that the Lu family had made a fuss... When he came out, his head was even bigger.

This group of people didn't scold him for provoking monsters as soon as they came up. They only said that they heard that there was a fire in Xu's mansion, and the newly married bride was injured. rest assured.If Xu Xingchun was considerate, it would be best for them to take him back to recuperate for a few days.

Where did Xu Xingchun find out and return them?He wanted to find it but couldn't find it!Naturally, he could hear that the "injured visit" was just an excuse. Judging by the Lu family's unrelenting attitude, even if he excused that his wife was not injured, or could not show up for a while because of fright, they would not let it go and insisted on seeing her. People can't.

He caught a glimpse of the monk's body that he wanted someone to carry away as soon as possible, but was stopped by the Lu family, and rolled to the ground again while dragging his teeth. He gritted his teeth and decided to turn his back on it, and catch the Lu family by surprise.So he snorted coldly, gritted his teeth and said, "I haven't asked your Lu family, what did you marry... You asked me instead?"

Then, ignoring someone in the Lu family's team scolding him because of his words, he raised his voice: "I thought you were also deceived, didn't know the inside story, and thought it would be good to deal with it secretly... Now it seems that you don't Was it premeditated?"

The leader of the Lu family said angrily: "What kind of deceit, what kind of premeditation? Speak clearly, don't make insinuations here!"

"Okay, then I'll tell you!" Xu Xingchun sneered, "I moved into a new house last night, no one was there, there was a big fox on the bed! I didn't dare to show it, so I hid secretly, and immediately invited the demon master over Deal with it. I didn’t expect that fox demon to be so vicious that it actually killed Master—” He pointed at the corpse of the monk on the ground with a disfigured head. ? I want to ask you, are you deliberately colluding with the fox demon to marry me, plotting to kill me, and plotting the Xu family's property?"

This is to completely push the fault to the Lu family.Xu Xingchun had a very good plan in mind: the fox demon has only been married for less than two days, so there must still be some evil spirit left in the Lu family.If the Lu family refuses to admit it and start a quarrel, it's time to ask the exorcist to check it...

Even if he was really deceived by the monk and the Lu family married not a demon, so what?If you offer a lot of money, you can detect the evil spirit without the evil spirit.Xu Xingchun's mind turned, and he thought of several coping strategies for several situations in an instant, so he was distracted, and it took a while to realize something was wrong: the Lu family team was too quiet, and no one refuted it.

Silence continued to spread, Xu Xingchun saw someone trembling, showing a frightened expression.What they're looking at is—

There was a faint voice from behind: "You talk so nonsense, don't you feel guilty at all?"

He turned his head abruptly!On the ruins blackened by the fire, at some point, a figure in red stood up and down.The figure was a bit transparent, the red clothes were blurred into a ball, only the face was very clear, it was a bluish-white face with no expression.After a moment of silence, someone yelled "Ghost!" The stagnant crowd suddenly became chaotic, and suddenly they pushed each other and began to retreat into the distance.

The ghost turned a blind eye to the people around him and only stared at Xu Xingchun. "It's obvious that you and that monster monk plotted against the fox monster's inner alchemy to attract revenge and even cause me to die tragically..." Its voice was erratic, without any ups and downs, and it seemed extraordinarily weird, "I thought I was dead, and I couldn't refute it, so I could do whatever I wanted. Slander?"

Madam Lu covered her mouth and was about to shed tears again. She wanted to get out of the sedan chair, but was forcibly dragged away by the maid beside her.The figure turned her head towards her with a complicated expression. Mrs. Lu clutched the car curtain tightly, and suddenly heard someone whispering in her ear: "Don't worry, he's not dead... I'm here to deal with the demon trouble." Demon Master, Madam please calm down, Xu Xingchun will be dealt with later, Madam will be in charge of the overall situation."

——It was the same voice that uttered in the crowd just now.Mrs. Lu was in doubt, and a glimmer of hope rose in her heart. Afraid of being seen out, she quickly covered her face.Xu Xingchun froze in place for a while, to be honest... he didn't remember what his newlywed wife looked like, subconsciously turned his head to look at the performance of the Lu family, and immediately met several pairs of frightened and resentful eyes.And Mrs. Lu covered her face, her shoulders twitched from "crying", and she seemed to be about to pass out.

When he turned his head and saw that "spirit", he couldn't help taking a step back. "You must die a terrible death if you do such a thing..." The "ghost" dragged his voice seriously, but the corners of his mouth twitched. Fortunately, his face also became blurred at this time, so no one could see him. Come out, "The fox demon will not let you go..."

Xu Xingchun's lips moved, but he didn't make a sound. Then he rolled his eyes and fell on his head. From others' point of view, it was obvious that he had been told the truth, was threatened, and fainted from fright.The specter who seemed to be wearing a scarlet wedding dress stayed in place for a while, making some crying and laughing sounds, and then slowly faded away, disappearing without a trace.

There were several exclamations from the crowd, and someone shouted: "The demon monk is gone!" Sure enough, the place where the corpse was lying on the ground was empty at some point.In the midst of the chaos, several attendants wanted to help Xu Xingchun who was lying on the ground, but they failed to grab him, leaving him in the hands of the Lu family, losing this last bit of initiative.

On the ruins, Lu Mingye stopped pretending to be a ghost, and quickly slipped away from where he was, avoiding the crowd with difficulty, and joining Han Jiang who was coming to pick him up.Just now Han Jiang stood behind Xu Xingchun incognito, shut him up and fell down with a knife in his hand, and he was directly convicted of the crime-after that, if he had to find a reason to quibble, his credibility would be severely compromised.

They originally wanted to go to Mrs. Lu's sedan chair, but there were too many people and chaos there, so they had to give up.When I got outside the crowd, I saw the red-clothed boy I met on the road poking out his head from the hiding place, and beckoning to them—but the red robe he was originally wearing was now being draped over Lu Mingye's body. Create atmosphere while playing tricks.

Lu Mingye walked over, saw the corpse of the ghost monk lying at his feet, and avoided it with some discomfort. "Where's your master?" he asked.

"The ghost monk left some things in Xu's mansion, and the master went to deal with them." The boy said, and praised Lu Mingye with a smile, "Good job."

They met on the road. Originally, Lu Mingye was hesitant to go up and ask, but because he was carrying the paper bird that was crushed by Han Jiang, his breath was detected, but it was the young man named Yun Xun. Come and ask him first.The two sides had a brief exchange, and went to the Xu Mansion together, where they acted out this pretend play.

This was discussed during the chat between Lu Mingye and Lu You.Pretending to be a ghost is not only easy to win people's trust, but putting the charge of "attracting demons" on Xu Xingchun's head has another advantage: Even if Mrs. Lu has gone through this incident, she still believes that she wants a proper marriage. Ye stayed and let him get married or get married - after all, so many people saw him "die".

From now on, he doesn't have to hide anything, and he doesn't have to pay the price of severing contact... Of course, Master Lu still has to be kept in the dark.However, no one cared about him anyway.

It was originally planned to have Lu You turn into a prototype of a fox demon, and then come out to make a fuss, but now he had to omit this step.I don't know where he and Yunzheng are, how are they doing now?

Hearing about what happened from Yun Xun, even though Yun Zheng's master and junior didn't seem worried - he didn't see that it was just a faking - Lu Mingye still couldn't rest assured.The joy of successfully getting Xu Xingchun just now dissipated. Lu Mingye looked out of the city worriedly. He didn't know if it was a psychological factor. He only felt that the sky over there was a little red, which seemed very ominous.

Hope everything goes well...

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Lu You felt that he was about to be struck by lightning.

He didn't even know how he survived the seventh tribulation thunder—he seemed to have underestimated the tyranny of the monster's prototype body, but this level was nothing in front of the robbery thunder.He lost consciousness for a brief moment amid the pain and lightning, and then woke up choking on the water: he slid down the slope to the bottom and fell into a shallow stream.

Lu You jumped out of the water and saw wisps of white mist rising from the surface of the water. Several fish were floating on the surface of the water with their bellies turned upside down. The grass and bushes by the stream were in a mess and were all scorched.On the contrary, he doesn't feel much pain now, but more numbness and unconscious trembling and twitching, his movements are a little out of order, and the rumbling sound in his ears can't be heard clearly.

The surroundings seemed to calm down.Lu You raised his head and looked at the sky above with hope, and then his hope was shattered: the thunder calamity is not over yet... The clouds are still hanging above his head, like the surface of boiling water, and the white light inside is looming and constantly flickering.But it seemed to be waiting for something, the seventh tribulation thunder condensed several times but then dissipated, as if hesitating whether to strike him again.

With the mentality of waiting to die, Lu You looked up for a while, but he didn't wait for the thunder to fall.He stood in the water, and the surrounding water surface that was disturbed when he got up just now gradually calmed down, reflecting his current appearance: dark and wet, with the hair on his body scorched in several places, and he was in a pitiful mess.He limped onto the shore, feeling familiar with the surrounding scene.

It seems that Yun Zheng brought him here that time, the creek where the monsters in the water live...

None of those light spots that were dreamy and unreal at night could be seen at this time.Perhaps it was because the aura was disturbed, making it impossible for them to condense, but Lu You thought it was more likely that... all the monsters who were here were eaten by him.After absorbing those auras, he instinctively used black magic to protect himself, and only then did he regain half of his life.Just look at Jie Lei's indomitable appearance...it's hard to say how long he can survive...

Lu You looked back up the slope again, and saw the traces of himself rolling down. "I would have killed Xu Xingchun casually before I knew it..." He muttered to himself, and he didn't care if it was wrong to mention killing so easily.After the wedding, Xie Junyu left with his sister, and only one of the three mission objectives remained, which was Xu Xingchun's death——

Although completing the task also means saying goodbye to Yun Zheng hastily, but compared to now...he may die here, and then come back to life, and the points will be deducted as negative, perhaps the former is better. "I don't know if there is still time to pray for Xu Xingchun's sudden sudden death?" He shuffled towards the woods, sniffing, trying to ease his fear of the unknown, "The system is also true, just saying that negative points are very Trouble, I haven't said what will happen..."

"Why can I hear you talking bad about me every time I unblock it?"

A faint voice spoke beside him.Lu You paused, and suddenly didn't want to leave.He sat down on the spot, and the tail with a pinch of white hair that had been burned off by Jie Lei swung behind him, sweeping away a few fallen leaves. "You've come out," he said. "Don't talk about it. If you want me to apologize to you later—although I think I'm just telling the truth—you just tell me, now Is there anything I can do in this situation?"

"I think it's difficult." The system said.

Lu You sighed, relaxed his body and lay down on the ground.After a few seconds, he sat up again, worked hard for a while, his figure began to change gradually, and finally returned to his human form.He touched the clothes on his body, showing a bit of a wry smile: I have always wanted to change with the clothes when Illusion, but I did it at this time... Jie Lei seemed to have finally made a decision at this moment, and seemed to have to The dissipated eighth tribulation thunder still began to condense.

"Really... Do you have to split all nine paths to be satisfied?" Lu You leaned against the tree, watching the branch-like electric light in the cloud, as if the space had been split into cracks, with a majestic and exquisite feeling.

The surrounding air trembled, and the vegetation bowed under the might of Heavenly Tribulation. Every time the sound of thunder rolled, Lu You would tremble. Insist, "Hey, the system... I was sent here on a mission from God, so I'm not considered a smuggler, right? I didn't do anything heinous... Yunzheng helped me block six thunderstorms, just let God Do you feel uncomfortable?"

The system didn't answer, but instead answered him a question. "When you crossed the heart demon tribulation before," it asked, "what did the heart demon ask you?"

Lu You narrowed his eyes.Lightning flashes linger on his irises.The inner demon has dissipated, but his own voice, which is laughing, crying, angry, and mourning, is still repeating softly in his ears.

--What are you afraid of?

——Because it took too long, one day he would get bored and stop chasing...

— Or, the other way around?

"The demon asked me, what am I afraid of..." he murmured.After dealing with the ghost monk, this question seems to have a terrible meaning.The most tormenting part of the heart demon tribulation is not making a choice, but facing the fear that arises in the heart at that moment.

Fear of being abandoned.I am afraid that I will become a sad person who is entangled endlessly.Afraid of letting him down.Fear of being alone.besides……

If he hadn't been haunted by his inner demons, he wouldn't have discovered what he thought he had completely forgotten... In that dark and gloomy underground room, the pain and terror of being pierced by tentacles in his heart had never disappeared.That shred of fear, hidden at the bottom of all getting along, can't decide anything, and it doesn't affect him to love.But it exists.keeping it.The tiny tingling pain, insignificant, became like a stick in the throat after he noticed it.

The real question is... deep down, does he always feel... that what he loves is a monster in essence?

Lu You didn't say this to the system. "I've overcome the inner demon." He just said that.

The system also didn't comment on this answer, which is like nonsense without knowing the inside story. "Don't you want to know the consequences of negative scores?" It said abruptly, "Now I can tell you. If you have a record of negative scores, you will become the property of the gods and bear a mark, which is equivalent to changing from an employee to a As a slave. Negative points cannot be eliminated after paying off, and the imprint needs to use very expensive props, and it takes a long time to wear off..."

Lu You said "Oh" without emotion, still looking up at the Jielei that was about to fall. "The unequal clauses are waiting here." He whispered, "Is it your bad taste to announce the tragic ending in advance?"

After a pause, he said, "I'm not scared. Anyway, it's not permanent... just take a little more time."

"Is that so?" the system said, "Since you said so, I'll choose another method."

Amidst the increasingly violent roar of thunder, Lu You heard the sound of the chain sliding.He lowered his head in surprise, and saw the golden chains emerging from the surface of his body... as if emerging from the soul... In just a split second, those chains wrapped around him into an airtight cocoon.Although it is a matter that is directly related, but it has been too long, so Lu You only remembered when he had seen these chains: before meeting the system, after the first death In that darkness...

This is the covenant that makes the human soul the "chosen people" of God.

"Goodbye." The system said softly.Its voice is lazy most of the time, but at this moment it is closer to gentleness, and it has something like a joke between friends, "You're welcome, and I hope you don't scold me when we meet next time—although you won't It becomes a negative score, but maybe... it will be even worse."

Its sound died away immediately.The glare of lightning surged in, dazzled Lu You's eyes through the translucent chain, but he didn't hear the loud noise, and didn't feel any pain. He only felt the golden cocoon that wrapped him shake violently—— In the clear and crisp sound of breaking, the first crack opened on the chain of the contract.

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