I am not human

The grove mentioned by "Sushan" is easy to find, a small piece of birch trees, swaying in the wind, lush and green.Liao Qingshu stepped in without thinking much, but it didn't take long before she realized something was wrong.

It was too quiet, the woods were too quiet.No insects, no birds, not even the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.The only movement was the "click" sound when Liao Qingshu stepped on the dead leaves.However, as the suspicion in his heart grew bigger and bigger, the frequency of this sound became lower and lower, until finally, it stopped completely.

So far, there is really no sound at all.The whole space seemed to be dead.

Liao Qingshu looked around uneasily, and quietly took two steps back, knowing that there was no one else, but deliberately lowered her voice.An uncomfortable feeling enveloped him, accompanied by a slight pain in the back of his neck.Generally speaking, this feeling either represents Jiufang Ziyan who is about to get angry, or it represents danger.

Instinct told him that it would definitely not be the former, so Liao Qingshu only hesitated for a moment, then turned around and ran away.

He has poor stamina, but good explosive power. He can get excellent in the 50-meter sprint test every time. It is reasonable to say that it will not take long to run out of this small forest that is only big enough for field battles. However, like all fantasy adventure suspense horror stories, there must be As it developed, Liao Qingshu found that he couldn't escape.

After a while of silence, he did what all protagonists in fantasy adventure suspense horror stories do-he took out a box knife and drew an arrow on a tree.

Tentatively, he continued walking along the arrow, and the ending was taken for granted. He soon saw the tree with the arrow engraved on it.

Liao Qingshu's palms began to sweat, but he still carved the same mark on the tree next to him unbelievingly.Because he was too nervous, his knife slipped and almost cut off the index finger of his left hand.

Although the finger was still alive, it was still scratched.Liao Qingshu walked forward cautiously while pressing the wound. After walking only a few dozen steps, as expected, he saw the two trees with the marks engraved on them.

... If, is it really the often said ghost hitting the wall?

Liao Qingshu, who had zero experience in this area, wanted to cry but had no tears.

He began to regret that he always slept through the water class and did his homework.He only remembered that a bald professor once mentioned how troublesome it was for ghosts to hit the wall, but he didn't remember the cracking method at all!

He tremblingly took out a dozen yellow talismans that Jiufang Ziyan had stuffed in front of him respectively, wanting to see if there were any useful ones in it, he glanced at the arrows engraved on the two trees, and was suddenly taken aback.

He remembered very clearly that the marks he had just engraved were one facing left and the other facing right, with the arrows pointing outward respectively.However, the two arrows now face each other and both point inward.

...Could it be that this pair of marks is not actually the two that I engraved?

However, the size and position are exactly the same, except for the direction pointed by the arrow...

Liao Qingshu looked up at the two trees.However, in his view, the trees are all the same, so he can't tell whether these two are the two trees he saw just now.

Is someone hiding in the dark, secretly engraving marks to mislead me while I am not paying attention... or the two trees turned around by themselves, and accidentally reversed the arrows?

Liao Qingshu shook his head and laughed because of the second thought, imagining that the two big trees were secretly chatting behind his back, when he saw him coming, he quickly stood up straight and pretended to be dead, but he couldn't figure out his chest and back for a long time. Just standing upside down in such a daze...

Liao Qingshu felt a little funny.But looking at the tree again, he couldn't laugh immediately.

The arrows that were still pointing inward just now turned back to the outward-facing state by a mistake.

It's as if someone realized that he made a small mistake, and then sneakily corrected it while others were not paying attention.

This made Liao Qingshu a little confused.

He cautiously walked up to a mark, wanting to take a closer look, when the arrow suddenly turned into an open eye, staring at him and yelling, "Hey, have you had enough sleep? Wake up !"

Liao Qingshu was startled, opened his eyes, and found that he was leaning against a tree, in front of him was Jiufang Ziyan who had taken off his sunglasses, and beside Jiufang Ziyan, there was a big black cat squatting.

"Jiufang..." He muttered and got up. Seeing that nothing serious happened to him, Jiufang Ziyan walked towards the woods without looking back. Liao Qingshu followed closely behind and asked, "Jiufang, How do you know I'm here?"

"Here, this cat kept biting my trouser leg and dragged me here."

Liao Qingshu glanced gratefully at Lao Zhan who was following him, and the walking big black cat looked back silently, stepping on the leaves with its four fat paws, not only made no sound, but also left no shadow behind.

Liao Qingshu looked away, and asked after a while: "Then where are we going now?"

"Through this grove, there is a small door..."

"Ah, I know this!" Liao Qingshu said, "By the way, I saw Su Shan just now, and he told me that Shengmu Mandui is in the neighborhood behind the forest..."

"What the hell... Forget it, just pretend I didn't say it!" A strange expression flashed across Jiufang Ziyan's face, and he swallowed the unfinished words.Liao Qingshu gave him a puzzled look, and followed him all the way to the small gate.

It is said to be a small door, but it is actually just a hole in the wall, just enough for Liao Qingshu to pass through, while Jiufang Ziyan needs to lower his head to pass through.Liao Qingshu stood at the same place and waited for Jiufang Ziyan to come over, and was about to lead him to the building Su Shan mentioned, but Jiufang Ziyan led him directly to another resident.

"Jiufang?" Liao Qingshu wanted to ask a question suspiciously, but was repeatedly interrupted by Jiufang Ziyan.They are now standing in front of a half-open anti-theft door. Jiufang Ziyan pushed the door and walked in without knocking. Liao Qingshu followed anxiously, but what he saw was a clean boy sitting behind a desk. The "Su Shan" I have seen before.

"you……"

"Hi, I'm Muman." The boy said, pointing to the chair in front of him, "Please sit down."

"You are Muman? So you were kidding me just now?" Liao Qingshu felt confused, but Muman smiled politely, "I don't remember that we met today. If so, we should It was a week ago today."

What is he talking about, why can't I understand a word?Liao Qingshu shook his head, and looked at Jiufang Ziyan for help, but Jiufang Ziyan said to Mu Man: "Doctor, he started again..."

start?What started?Liao Qingshu's doubts were getting bigger and bigger, but Mu Man still just smiled, comforted Liao Qingshu to sit down, and invited Jiufang Ziyan out again.

Liao Qingshu looked at Jiufang Ziyan who actually walked out the door without saying a word, and felt that the world was unreal: "What is the situation now?"

"Don't be nervous, it's nothing." Muman said, opening a book in front of him, "Can you talk about your life in the past week?"

Liao Qingshu didn't answer, just stared at him suspiciously, and said for a long time: "Who are you?"

"As I said, I am Muman." Muman replied, "Or, who do you think I should be?"

"Shengmu Mandui, a tree demon who escaped from the mountain and sea world?" Liao Qingshu said uncertainly, feeling inexplicably lost.

Muman nodded knowingly, and wrote down two notes in the notebook: "Oh, so I have become this kind of setting in your world."

"What do you mean?"

"Liao Qingshu, have you ever had the feeling that...the world you live in is different from others?"

Liao Qingshu frowned, looked down at her hands: "What exactly do you want to say?"

"In your world, there are exorcists, monsters, half-demons, and a school for half-demons. What is it called... The School of Everything? Well, that's what you said before." Muman flipped through own notebook, "Have you ever thought that none of these actually exist?"

Liao Qingshu stared at him for a long time, then got up suddenly, and shouted out the door: "Jiufang..."

"If you want to find Jiufang Ziyan to support your worldview, then I advise you to forget it." Mu Man said leisurely, "He was the one who brought you to me at the beginning. I told him, your mind is a place of its own. A world view cannot be easily shaken, so the best way is to follow you first, cooperate with you in acting, and then slowly correct you... Oh, yes, I am curious, what role is Jiufang Ziyan in your world? "

"...Uh, an exorcist?" Liao Qingshu replied, looking at her hands again.

"Well, that makes sense, after all, he's a programmer, and bugs are similar to ghosts and ghosts." Muman shrugged.Liao Qingshu stared at him for a while, then slowly sat back on her seat, and said, "Since you said you want to follow me, why do you want to..."

"Because I found that that kind of treatment plan doesn't work." Muman stood up, walked around the table and walked towards Liao Qingshu: "You are too deep in your own imagination, and blindly following you will only make you get worse. It's getting more and more inextricable. To cure you, you have to be slapped in the face. When you understand it, I will tell you that there is no such thing as a half-demon, such a school of everything, and such a mountain management office. In fact, you have nothing special about you. You are actually a Ordinary people—"

"...Actually, I'm really not." Liao Qingshu looked up at him, and all of Muman's unfinished words disappeared in those clear amber pupils.Liao Qingshu got up and looked directly into Muman's eyes: "Where did you learn this technique? "Master of Hypnotism"?"

Muman looked at him in surprise for a while, then burst out laughing, put his hands together, sat on the table, the original polite smile disappeared, and the whole person became casual and lazy: "I saw this in Su Shan's dream. This movie, I have always wanted to play it, but I didn't expect it to be exposed so soon... How did you see it?"

"I once saw a psychologist when I was in the orphanage. Compared with them, you are not professional at all." Liao Qingshu said bluntly, "Although Lao Zhan's shadow is faint, it is not impossible. And there is..."

He raised his left hand to show Muman, there was no wound on the slender index finger: "I am very grateful that you hid my injury, but the problem is that it still hurts."

"Okay, the details, pay attention next time. Also, I have to make up a professional film..." Mu Man seriously wrote down two notes in his notebook, and then looked narrowly at Liao Qingshu: "Speaking of it, I thought you would like this plot better. There are no monsters, no half-demons in the world, just living as an ordinary person...isn't it good?"

"Very good, but it has nothing to do with me." Liao Qingshu tensed her body and said, "I'm not an ordinary person, what's the point of pretending to be like that?"

"Hmm, as expected... No wonder I will be the only one left in your class... Hey, don't look at me so surprised, my intelligence network is very wide."

Mu Man looked at Liao Qingshu and smiled softly: "I'm a little curious, why? Even if you are doing a job like garbage, you still insist on staying in a world that recognizes the existence of half-demons... The identity of a half-demon is so important to you." Is it important?"

"I just want to be myself." Liao Qingshu said firmly, but Mu Man laughed unceremoniously: "It's really nice to say, be yourself... But I look at you now, but I don't see anything."

He looked at Liao Qingshu, golden green appeared in his eyes, and his ears gradually changed into feather-like leaves: "What I see is just a human-shaped box."

As if being punched hard, Liao Qingshu raised her head abruptly and said sharply, "What nonsense!"

"Isn't it? Going to the human society or staying in the other world doesn't make any difference to you. Because no matter where you are, you have to hide in that box carefully, lest others see your true face."

Mu Man leaned close to Liao Qingshu with a smile, and said softly: "Hey, Liao Qingshu, let me ask you, when you saw the exorcist besieging Tao Quan that day... have you really forgotten what you did?"

Liao Qingshu froze instantly.

The corners of his lips were tensed, and his breathing became short of breath.

—Never told anyone, but...actually remembered.

Although he forgot it at the time, but later, because Lin Hongle conveyed Tao Quan's warning about the "box", he couldn't help thinking about it, and after thinking about it, he remembered it.

At the same time, I remembered an inexplicable but profound fear, and a closed door.

"Yes, that's the door." Muman whispered, "Push it open, Liao Qingshu. Then you will know that what you have been looking for is actually such a ridiculous thing..."

No.

Absolutely not.

Only this door...

"What's the matter, are you scared?" Muman looked at him provocatively, "Push it away...or, shall I help you?"

"you dare!"

Liao Qingshu let out a cry from his throat, his eyes suddenly turned golden, and the white wings behind him surged, and he threw himself at Muman fiercely, but what pressed into his shoulder was the sharp claw of a huge beast.

—Tear him up, tear him up now!Tear up this ignorant guy!

Intense anger swept through Liao Qingshu who had turned into Qiongqi. He opened his bloody mouth and let out an earth-shattering roar——

"Meow--"