I am not human

Lie Gushe, "Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Bei Jing" contains, "Lie Gu She, in Haihe Prefecture."

It is also recorded in "Liezi Huangdi", "Liegushe, in Haihe Prefecture, there is a god and man on the mountain, who sucks wind and drinks dew, does not eat grains, has a heart like a deep spring, and looks like a virgin."

Liao Qingshu looked at the man in front of him, and silently made a big cross on the word "virgin".

"Of course, this 'Liegushe' is just a nickname. No one knows what the name of this place is. It is estimated that even the original creators of Shanhaijie didn't expect such a thing to exist. I don't know who started it first That’s what we call it, anyway.” The man explained with a shrug.

Liao Qingshu: "You...you?"

"I am not the only one who is lost in the world of mountains and seas. Throughout the ages, there have been far more dream travelers who have come here than you can imagine. Some have gone out, some have stayed, and those who stay in the end, without exception, will Become a resident of Liegushe."

"Then you said that the time here is out of order, so what's going on?" Liao Qingshu felt her heart beating faster involuntarily. It was obviously the first time she visited a place, but it was full of desires that made him want to escape.

"Literally. As long as it belongs to Liegushe, its development has no rules to follow. For example, did you see that flower?" The man pointed to a pink and purple cosmos. , "If the whole process from opening to withering is compared to an axis, then in Liegushe, this axis is discontinuous. It is cut into countless small pieces and scattered in different places, and now you see The one I got is located in the small axis of 'blooming', so in the process of its self-development, there is no 'withering', only disappearing after reaching the end of the axis."

"What about the 'withering' part?" Liao Qingshu asked dizzily.

"I don't know, maybe it exists in another time and space. Just like me in another axis, I met you 15 years ago in another place." The man puffed his cheeks rather childishly, "Of course, This is just my personal guess, and it is actually not very accurate. It is said that the timeline is cut into small segments, but there still seems to be another potential connection between segments. When a segment changes, other segments also change. Will be affected, I am still researching on this..."

"Stop!" Liao Qingshu finally couldn't bear to make a pause gesture, "It's fine to set the popular science here, can you stop talking nonsense? I don't want to offend, but I really don't remember seeing you , and where is this place, who are you, these are not important anymore, I won't ask, okay? I'm really in a hurry now, I'm here to find someone..."

"You can call me Qiuming, I said it at the beginning." The corner of the man's mouth twitched slightly, and then he quickly closed it, with a look of "I'm wronged but I won't say it", "And here, you really don't have to" Catch 'em. You can't catch it, things happen when they're supposed to happen, that's the only rule of Lie Kushe."

"Everything in the world follows this rule..."

"It's especially obvious in Liegushe." The man walked on the edge of the flowerbed and sat down. "It's useless to be anxious before the time comes. Why don't you come over and chat for a while? I've already passed one-third of the time, and it would be boring to spend any more time." .”

Liao Qingshu: "???"

He looked back at the way he came. It was foggy behind the garden gate, and he didn't know where it led. He took out his keyboard to see if he could do anything else, but he found that this mobile phone, which had always been strong, was unprecedented. The screen went black, and I couldn't help but feel a little heartbroken.

"I told you, in Lie Gushe, things only happen when they should happen." The man said in a persuasive tone, "Okay, anyway, you can't do much now, instead of going out and running around, why don't you come and stay with me?" Shall we chat for a while?"

Unwillingly, Liao Qingshu knocked on her mobile phone twice, turned her head and saw the man's face very similar to that of Jiufang Ziyan, thought about it, and walked towards him after a moment of hesitation: "What do you want to talk about?"

"Whatever. If you don't mind, tell me about the person you came here to find?" The man patted the open space beside him, "Sit down and talk?"

Liao Qingshu stood there without moving, staring at the man's handsome face for a long time, and said word by word: "The person I'm looking for is Jiufang Ziyan, do you know him?"

The man was stunned for a moment, raised an eyebrow in surprise, and said "Wow", "This is a bit powerful."

Liao Qingshu: "So, if you are really his father, don't..."

"Then don't talk about him." The man stroked his chin and said, "Let's talk about something else. For example, the sandalwood scent on your body... Have you seen a suanni recently?"

Liao Qingshu: "..."

10 minutes later

"Hahahaha! Really? Are you really asking Suanni to chase the sun with you? You must be out of your mind, hahahaha..." The man sitting by the flowerbed wiped his tears from laughing, and vigorously patted Liao Qingshu's face. Shoulder, "Hey, do you know that there is a Xihaner named Kuafu in the giant clan? I think the three of you can get to know each other well..."

"Kuafu is not a fool, and he has already turned into a stone." Liao Qingshu was sitting next to the man, and was swayed by him, with a dull expression like a vulture, "Again, I didn't ask Mr. Suanni to come with me Go, I didn't say anything at the time, he flew away after talking..."

"Hey, I understand, he's just like that." The man looked like he knew the Suan Ni very well, "Did you know that he practiced Buddhism? He practiced mad Zen, doing whatever he wanted, letting himself go, doing whatever he wanted It's not surprising that he would do such a thing after walking the same route as Yixiu Jigong."

"Isn't it great? You can do whatever you want without worrying about other people's eyes." Liao Qingshu said casually, fiddled with the cosmos leaves beside her.

The man took a deep look at him, and said: "The so-called wildness is also relative. There is a prison first, and then there is freedom. If you don't break it, you can't get out. Everyone comes here like this."

Liao Qingshu paused and looked up at him: "Has Mr. Suan Ni ever broken anything?"

"Don't look at him now, he was a stupid and pitiful little Simba back then." The man answered irrelevantly, betraying other people's dark history without hesitation, "I don't know why he grew up like this...but he would I didn’t expect to find me now. It’s really terrible, I heard that the World Honored One thinks highly of him.”

The man scratched his head in annoyance.Liao Qingshu looked at him for a long time, hesitantly said: "Could it be...you are really Qiuming? The former director of the Mountain Management Office?"

"Didn't you say this early in the morning? Young man, your brain is not good, and people are not clever at all. It is much worse than when you were a child..."

The man brought up the unfounded past again, but Liao Qingshu didn't refute this time, but lowered his head and rubbed his pants with his fingertips.An inexplicable uneasiness rose to the chest, like the tentacles of a jellyfish protruding from the deep sea, seemingly soft and ethereal, but in fact there is nowhere to escape, and it is full of scorching venomous thorns.

"I... have no memory of my childhood." He heard himself say, "To be precise, it was before the age of seven or eight. If you really met me... then you should know something."

"..." The smile on the man's face suddenly faded, his cheeks bulged, he bit his cheek thoughtfully, and then started playing with his tongue again. After playing for a long time, he finally nodded with determination: " Forget it, I'll give it to you directly, anyway, I will return it to you."

Liao Qingshu: "???"

The man took out a box half the size of a Xinhua dictionary from nowhere, and pushed it in front of Liao Qingshu: "Do you remember this thing?"

Liao Qingshu shook her head blankly, stared at the box for a moment, then took it hesitantly.It was a brightly colored red jade square box. The color of the box was different, the deep part was like vermilion, and the shallow part was like pink. The surface was smooth and flat without any extra decoration. In the middle of the gap, there is a spherical depression.Liao Qingshu took out the jade ball that she was carrying with her, and made a virtual comparison, no more, no less, just right.

He swallowed silently, raised his face to look at Jiufang Qiuming: "You said you want to give it back to me, is this the one?"

"No, it's what's inside." Jiufang Qiuming replied, "I kept it for you... In terms of your time, 15 years. Maybe it's time to return it to you. Everything you want to know is inside. have."