Xiyao

It snowed in Zhedan City.

General Chu pushed the door open, and the snow on the threshold was shaken, rustling his collar.

The policeman shivered, looked at the gray sky, and let out a mouthful of white mist.

A fire was lit in the room to take care of Li Ruo, but the smell of inferior charcoal was quite pungent and smoky.

Yao was not very satisfied, but she also knew that Chu Jiangli could only afford it by doing odd jobs and saving money, so she squatted beside the fire with an extremely disgusted look.

At this moment, when the door opened, air-conditioning poured in, but it also dissipated the smoky smell, blinked the demon eyes, and turned back thoughtfully: "The cat is meowing?"

Chu Jiangli was startled, and looked around for a week, but saw nothing.

Li Ruo casually pointed him in a direction: "Over there."

The policeman walked twenty steps in the direction he pointed, and found an unnaturally bulging snow pack. He pushed the snow away and saw a kitten beside the dead female cat, howling mournfully. I live with a pink little nose and a stiff mother.

He sighed, carried the kitten back into the house by the hem of his clothes, and put it by the brazier to warm up.

Li Ruo glanced coldly: "I'm sick, I can't live anymore."

He signaled Chu Jiangli to throw the cat out, but the catcher didn't move: "It's so cold, even if it can't survive, it would be better if it was warmer when it died."

Hearing this, the demon gave him a surprised look: "I thought that your overflowing kindness has been spent on people enough, isn't it limited to people now?"

"It doesn't matter whether it's a human or a cat," Chu Jiangli said, "It's still alive, so it shouldn't do anything to save it."

Li Ruo snorted lightly: "You can't save it."

Chu Jiangli speculated that he meant that it would be better to give him a relief, and he was a little annoyed: "Is it the style of a demon to take life easily?"

He said it unintentionally, but the demon's expression turned cold all of a sudden, and he stared at him blankly, and it took him a long time to look away: "Don't just talk about things you don't know."

"'Death' is the rule of heaven and has nothing to do with demons."

"It arbitrarily obliterates some things, but uses the so-called reincarnation to deceive sentient beings."

He looked at Chu Jiangli: "Hey, human, let me ask you, after reincarnation, is that person still the same person?"

"There is no memory, no past love and hate, no past likes and dislikes, completely different personalities, people and things I knew no longer exist, and they are clearly two completely different people."

Chu Jiangli's eyelashes trembled, and the meaning of his words gradually became clear: "You think 'death' is something that shouldn't exist."

Li Ruo said noncommittally: "The first raid on the wilderness was a barren land with miasma, rain, haze and smoke, and the sun hung high. In ancient times, there was fire, and the vegetation was poisonous. The sky does not pity all things, so all things pity themselves and become demons."

His eyes sharpened, and suddenly his expression was almost violent: "However, after the birth of the Heavenly Dao, I ordered all monsters to bow their heads."

Chu Jiangli knew what he was going to say next.

The monster clan should not, and raised the flag to declare war on the Dao of Primordial Origin, stepping its authority into the dust.

The irritated Heavenly Dao lasted [-] years, conceived incarnations and acquired [-] sources, and started the battle of source demons in tens of Yuanhui.

"But those are not things that you have personally experienced." Chu Jiangli said, "You claim to have lived ten thousand years, which is an extremely huge number for the human race, but it is not enough to fully experience that period of history."

Li Ruo nodded his eyes with his finger: "It's 'seen' before."

"This pair of eyes, born before the Dao of Heaven, has witnessed the beginning and end of the battle of the source demon, and has been passed down to this day along with countless seas turning into mulberry fields."

Chu Jiangli was shocked: "You mean—"

"Yes," Li Ruo nodded, "It wasn't my original eyes."

"At the beginning of this world, there was no written language. Based on the immortality of demons, our bodies are history books, treasures, and codes of law. When the day cannot be recorded, we will split it up and use it as a source of inheritance. device."

"It's not that the demon has no blood relationship, but it doesn't need to be. Compared with unreliable descendants, the most important inheritance task is completed by himself. He has my tongue, which will replace my words. He has my ears, so Ears will listen instead of me. He has my legs, and this leg will walk instead of me."

He said word by word: "Since it is immortal, it is immortal. It will be passed down from generation to generation without end. What I inherited is these eyes."

Chu Jiangli subconsciously touched his hollow right eye that had been gouged out. Under the illusion, the depression still remained: "You took my eye because you wanted to see what I saw?"

"No creature can see all over this world. Although human eyes are prone to decay, it is also a different perspective. I thought at first that it would help me find the way to continue the demon race. But after a long time, I realized that people, It's really too small, what they can see in their lifetime is extremely limited, nothing more than a few things circulating."

Li Ruo said: "So, I no longer look at the world they see, and I also stop collecting those fragile eyes."

He spread his hands and made a holding gesture from the air: "Your eyes are very beautiful, and I can't help but want to keep them. Although there are only a few rotten things filling them, the light is too bright and dazzling .”

"I don't comment on your preferences." Chu Jiangli was not comfortable with this topic, and turned to say, "You haven't talked about the world of demons for a long time, why do I associate demons with death and make you angry ?”

"Because of the reason." Li Ruo said.

"reason?"

"The reason for the birth of death." Yao squinted his cold eyes, "At that time, the incarnation of Tiandao was severely injured, and when Tiandao took it back, the origin of life asked Tiandao, why did you drive the demons to extinction, and expel the demon clan from this world?"

"Tiandao only answered eight words-if you are not of my race, your heart must be different."

"The origin of life is realized and martyred with one's own body. Since then, the world has died, and all things have died. At that time, the Yuan clan had no head and was already devastated. However, the origin of death was born from the corpse, clothed in a sea of ​​blood, with a long sword pointed at it. , I asked a simple question, and you are willing to bow your head."

Li Ruo answered this question silently with sneering eyes. His eyes seemed to contain a piece of thin ice, but now the edge of this piece of ice is sharp, so sharp that it will cut people.

He didn't even bother to spit out the answer in words, saying: "After the source of death got the answer, he only said the word 'kill'."

So the demons that would not fall fell one after another, and the demons that would not die died one by one.

Their corpses were spread on the battlefield like mountains and seas, while the monsters behind were still rushing forward frantically.

Tireless and fearless of death, he filled in the history examination paper with bone and blood as the answer.

Chu Jiangli was shocked and murmured, "Is it worth it?"

In order not to bow his head, he spent hundreds of millions of years on the battlefield.Throw life and death lightly to resist the giant wheel that runs over, reject rules and constraints.

"Worth it?" Li Ruo said, "Monsters are free, equal, and unruly. No matter whether we are convinced or oral, it is tantamount to nonsense."

"What happened later?" Chu Jiangli asked after being silent for a long time.

"Death killed a total of 360 demons, and when the last sword fell, he pleaded guilty to the Heavenly Dao, saying that the gods and demons had already been born."

"Gods and demons?" The policeman thought hard, "I know that gods are chosen by the Conferred Gods Platform set up by the Origin of Life, but Xi Huang only has the name of a demon, and there is no such thing as a demon."

"After human beings die, they enter reincarnation, what about demons after death?" Li Ruo asked.

"Become...a demon?" Chu Jiangli hesitated.

"Death becomes a demon." Li Ruo nodded.

"Just as gods are mostly powerful humans, demons are mostly powerful dead demons. Gods are born to kill demons, and monsters are born to defy the sky. Therefore, the last source of the source race establishes the country of death and returns to the ruins, and guards the world under the nether world forever. demon."

"Although the battle of the source monster ended with the loss of both sides, the monster clan did not lose."

"Death is not the end. Although they are trapped in the seal, one day they will break through the seal again and raise the flag against the sky."

Under Li Ruoqing's cold voice, he couldn't hide his passion, but Chu Jiangli was quite puzzled, and said, "One day, which day will it be?"

The demon glanced at him angrily: "It's not important."

"Why isn't it important?" Chu Jiangli asked, "You don't even know what day it is, and you don't even know if that day will come. If you are chasing an illusory goal, won't you get lost on the road?"

"Ignorance!" Li Ruo shouted lowly, "You don't understand its greatness, if our clan wins in the end—"

"The wilderness returned to the wild, civilization was destroyed, time and space were reversed, and all monsters became immortal existences again." Chu Jiangli interrupted, "Whether the structure of a country and one city is good, or the clothing, food, housing and transportation are exquisite, the human race has achieved the number of monsters." Something that cannot be accomplished in thousands of years."

He pointed to the wooden table: "You like sesame glutinous rice balls very much, but the heavenly dao is dead, and the creations of the heavenly dao are like ants in the eyes of demons. They have been slaughtered, and you can't even eat a bowl of glutinous rice balls."

"What's so great about that future?"

Li Ruo was stunned, and said: "It's just a little appetite, I don't feel too much regret. Compared with spiritual pursuit, this little sacrifice is really insignificant."

Chu Jiangli sat down by the bed, picked up a spoon and scooped a round sesame glutinous rice ball, the snow-white glutinous rice ball was wrapped with sweet sesame filling, steaming hot.

He took a bite and said vaguely: "I still think that a bowl of hot glutinous rice balls is more realistic than Gao Yuan's Hongtu."

Li Ruo frowned, and was quickly interrupted by the arrest, "A frog at the bottom of a well, playing the piano to a cow, you have compared me to two animals, isn't that enough?"

Yao ignored him, and said viciously: "Short-sighted."

Chu Jiangli swallowed the glutinous rice balls and smiled: "Those are too far away, if you think about it, the glutinous rice balls will be cold."

Li Ruo picked up the cat, sat down too, picked up the rough clay bowl, and fiddled with the round glutinous rice balls inside, thinking that human beings are really vulgar, thinking about trivial things all day long.

It doesn't matter whether it's daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, or whatever you eat for breakfast and dinner, is it so heavy that the aisle will disappear and the sky will collapse?

Thinking about it, he scratched the pulp of his finger with his wrong hand, and brought his bleeding finger to the mouth of the dying kitten on his lap.

The kitten sucked his blood greedily immediately, Li Ruoxin calculated that it had had enough, grabbed it by the back of the neck and threw it into the air like a pigeon.

Before Chu Jiangli could stop it, the cat gradually transformed into a human form in the air, and when it landed, it was already a child.

He looked around between Chu Jiangli and Li Ruo ignorantly, and disappeared after a few vertical jumps.

The catcher quickly came to his senses, and found that Yao took the opportunity to scoop up all the glutinous rice balls left in his bowl, one mouthful at a time, his eyes were so sweet that his eyes narrowed.

"Aren't you..." Chu Jiangli was at a loss.

Don't you, don't want to save it?

Li Ruo swallowed a glutinous rice ball: "As I said, if you can't do it, I will help you."

He shook his finger: "The gifted part cannot be revived, so I will eat you a few more glutinous rice balls as compensation."

The catcher sighed: "You can eat it if you want, I didn't let you eat it."

He was a little curious: "Can a new demon be created by donating flesh and blood?"

"Then why is the Yaozu still declining day by day?"

"Because, it is a defective product." Li Ruo said, "It didn't take a long time to grow, and it didn't go through the smoke of blood and fire, and only two or three tenths of the gifted power can be used. More importantly, They are content with their own immortality, and have lost their determination to fight against the Dao of Heaven to the end."

"Decadent in ease, satisfied in obedience, even though he has a demon body, he does not have the heart of a demon."

He said: "Even if hundreds of thousands of such defective products are produced, they are useless."

Chu Jiangli got up, cleared the bowl and the table, but said: "What's so bad about it, isn't it more meaningful to live steadily than to die for a moment's enthusiasm?"

"That's not a demon." Li Ruo emphasized, "It's just wearing a layer of demon skin, but with a human heart!"

He was furious, with a murderous intent in his tone, the arrester quickly closed his eyes, opened them again, and said, "Li Ruo, they are 'humans'. They are 'humans' who are afraid of death and long for food and clothing. I was not born as a demon, so how can I have the confidence to bow my head and lower my eyebrows to me like a demon, and the self-confidence to move mountains and seas in an instant."

"What you are after is too high. They can't see it, they can't think of it, and they don't need it."

The demon was not convinced, Chu Jiangli took a step back in compromise, and said while washing the dishes, "Even if the newborn demons don't meet your expectations, what about those great demons who have survived since ancient times like you?"

"Why did you disappear without a trace?"

Li Ruo lowered his head and lowered his eyes, and gave him an unimaginable answer: "I don't know."

"do not know the meaning?"

"The demon's time is too long. During the endless waiting, many demons gradually got bored and began to think of ways to pass the time. Some collected gems that could fill up a sea. Some were addicted to story books and changed their identities To tease and seduce human beings. Some traveled all over the barren mountains and rivers, trying to find out how many kinds of flowers there are in this world, and even broke into the ruins in order to see the legendary Bana flowers..."

Li Ruo said: "All kinds of things. They are so decadent that they have lost their former pride. Most of them are unable to bear the endless time and ended their own lives."

"We have repelled the way of heaven and lost the origin, but we are no match for the time and the change of the stars."

The mighty and brave demon was defeated by time in the end.

Like a hero with a white head, a beauty with an old age.

It's always sad when everything that is prosperous goes down.

Chu Jiangli sighed slightly, shook off the water drops from his hands, hugged the thin Yao from behind, and rested his chin on his shoulder soothingly.

He hugged him gently, then straightened up and went to wipe the table with a rag, but he didn't see Yao Yao's pupils shrunk slightly, staring at his figure as if he didn't recognize him, for a long, long time.

The author has something to say: this is the end of the manuscript.