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Ming Xia was hospitalized in Mr. Hu's office for a week.

During this period, the literacy class he held in the ward (with only one non-human student) also achieved gratifying results.After Mr. Ming's surprise teaching, student Qingqiu has initially reached the cultural level of primary school graduates.

Ming Xia asked Mr. Hu to find someone to buy the textbooks from the bookstore. It has to be said that those who can pass the Xiucai test are still very talented in language learning.Once Qingqiu has mastered the Chinese pinyin and the method of looking up the dictionary, the progress of Chinese learning will be rapid.Poetry and classical Chinese are all skipped. For a monster born as a scholar, this level of appreciation of ancient poetry is simply too much.People mainly want to know what is modern literature.

He detested English, thinking it was a "barbarian language", and even uttered wild words, saying that when all nations came to the court, they all learned the language of our Tang Dynasty.

Ming Xia asked him, "Then what are you talking about? You were not born in the Tang Dynasty. According to the time Mr. Hu said, when you took shape, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty had almost prepared their belts to go to Meishan. Hanged."

Qingqiu pretended not to hear, and changed the subject bluntly, "Look how vivid this article is written: dragonflies spread their wings in mid-air, butterflies play hide-and-seek among flowers..."

Ming Xia, "..."

The topic transfer is also very lively.

As for the math...

When he started to recite the multiplication table, Qingqiu said that he was going crazy.

When learning division...Ming Xia said that she would go crazy if she did it.Qingqiu justifiably defended himself as a liberal arts student (the term liberal arts student is a modern term), isn't it normal not to like mathematics?

As a teacher at the beginning of Ming Xia, he gave it a brief introduction to the various courses in junior and senior high schools in a responsible manner.As a result, Qingqiu, who claimed to be a liberal arts student, fell in love with chemistry at first sight.When memorizing the periodic table of elements, I still had a smirk on my face, as if I was memorizing my passbook password.

"My senior brother is an alchemist," Qingqiu said happily to Ming Xia, "When I learn chemistry, I will be a better alchemist than him in the future."

Ming Xia, "..."

How to explain to him that chemistry is not for this?

Ming Xia sighed with his hands on his forehead, the minds of magical creatures like monsters are really unpredictable.

On the third day after Ming Xia woke up, Song Qing came to visit him with her bandaged arm hanging.

Ming Xia was somewhat concerned about Song Qing dragging him into Qiao's residence, but the adventure that day did not cause any bad consequences.So, Ming Xia felt that she was a little narrow-minded.

With a pine green beard and an unshaven beard, his whole body has completely lost the previous energy, not like a heartless big boy, but more like a tired middle-aged man who has been dragged down by work and life.He sat down on the chair next to Ming Xia's bed, and after a long silence, he said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."

Ming Xia sighed inwardly.

It seems that the last layer of window paper will not be able to hang.But what can he say at this time?

"I really didn't know about Ah Ying taking in Shui Ji at first." Song Qing lowered her head, and her eyes, which were originally lively, looked lifeless at the moment, "When Shui Ji harmed Qiao He, Ah Ying will Panicked, she came to ask me secretly. I asked her to hand over Shui Ji, but she refused."

"Shui Ji is... the big snake that swallowed Qiao He in the villa?"

Songqing nodded dumbly, "I don't know what relationship she has with Shui Ji. But Shui Ji told her that she knew a way to increase her demon power in a short time."

"Shui Ji was very proud at the beginning-although the old city is a trap, but the food in the trap is not good. She hid in Ah Ying's place and swallowed a lot of little monsters. But as the monster power she absorbed increased, she discovered that their family had long They were tampered with, no matter how they practiced, the monster power that grew on their bodies would eventually gather together and be absorbed by the water scorpion——in the battle of ten thousand monsters, the water scorpion almost lost its soul, and it could not be revived without the power of the whole family."

Ming Xia was terrified when he heard this, thinking that a selfish guy like Shui Zhi could actually be the leader of a clan?

"I persuaded Ah Ying not to get involved in these long-worm things, but she refused. Later I also saw that she was moved by Shui Ji's nonsense and became greedy." Song Qing sighed, "Why do you take advantage of it?" The beast had just regained consciousness, and swallowed it when its strength was still weak, and the two shared it equally. This cup of soup? I'm really fascinated."

Together with greed, the mind is obsessed with ghosts.Whether it is a human or a demon, it is the same.

In fact, Ming Xia was not optimistic about Shang Ying's fate, but Qingqiu said that Shang Ying was still alive when he was knocked unconscious, which gave him a little hope.But seeing Song Qing's appearance now, Ming Xia felt that it was too early to be optimistic.

"Didn't find anyone?"

"I found it," Song Qing said dejectedly: "You probably don't know that monsters and humans are different. Monsters are swallowed by stronger monsters, and when the monster power is exhausted, there is no human form. The remaining traces of Ah Ying's demon power were detected in her stomach, and the clothes she was wearing and some jewelry were also found."

In Mizuki's stomach.These words greatly stimulated Ming Xia, reminding him of the pair of legs and feet protruding from the snake's mouth that he saw in Qiao's villa, and immediately felt sick in his chest and abdomen.

Song Qing didn't notice that Ming Xia's face turned pale. He lowered his head and smiled wryly, "Are you saying she's stupid? She's a little demon who has been transformed for hundreds of years, and she wants to go to the tiger's mouth to snatch food..."

It turned out to be someone else's food.

Ming Xia sighed, "What did you say that day to verify whether Qiao He is normal or not, you told me that?"

"Yes." At this point in the matter, Song Qing had nothing to hide. "I searched all over the bar, and everyone said that Ah Ying went back to the room, and then she didn't come out again. Qiao He and Shui Ji were also gone." There are only a few snake scales of Shui Ji left in the basement. Apart from Qiao He’s house, I don’t know where to find her.”

"Why did you find me?" Ming Xia had a vague guess in his heart, but he wasn't sure for a while.

"I'm sorry, Ming Xia." Song Qing smiled bitterly, "Actually, I know, if I tell you clearly, please help to find someone together, you should agree. But at that time, I was very confused. I didn't dare to make any demands, so I had to half-deceive and take you there with me."

"How did you find out?" Ming Xia couldn't tell if he was disappointed by this answer.Being calculated by others, even if you are not a very good friend, you will not feel happy emotionally.

"You mean... the protective formation engraved in the blood?" Song Qing gave a short and sharp smile, "Who would not be jealous of such a good thing. Shui Ji can detect that although I have low demon power, I still have it." Felt."

Ming Xia was silent.He always thought that Song Qing was a big boy without a chest, but the fact is that Song Qing noticed the secret in him, but acted nonchalantly.

"Since you found out, you have been thinking about the most suitable place to use me, right?" Ming Xia's tone was light, "You were afraid that you would not be able to defeat Shui Ji, so you specially dragged me to serve as a shield for you."

Song Qing wanted to say I'm sorry, but she fell silent when she reached the point of her mouth, with a look of shame on her face.

The conversation became more and more stiff, and Qingqiu, who was huddled by the pillow to catch up on sleep, couldn't listen anymore, got out of the towel and shook his hair, "Xiao Xia, you don't have to be so angry. You must know that the code of conduct of the monster race is different from that of your human race." are different."

Ming Xia, "..."

"You can't ask a monster who grew up believing in the rule of 'the weak eat the strong' to tell you about the core values ​​of socialism. Songqing's approach is normal according to our standards, and there is no problem." Qingqiu looked at Songqing, Look at him again, "In our Yaozu, we can't trust others at will."

Ming Xia, "..."

It sounds like there's really nothing wrong with it.

"The monster doesn't believe in anyone, but only in his own strength and brain." Qingqiu jumped back and forth on the sheet cutely, but the words he said were so cold that they could drop ice balls, "If you believe in others casually, no one will be eaten will say anything."

Ming Xia filled in the second half of the sentence for him in her heart: Who made you stupid.

Qingqiu's old-fashioned conclusion, "So, Song Qing came to apologize to you. This action has been affected by human behavior patterns. Why is there a circle outside the old city, which is obviously a civilian residential area? Because the Yaozu is Such an untrustworthy race."

Song Qing, "..."

Is this fucking bird praising him, or hurting him?

Qingqiu tilted his head to look at Ming Xia, who was obviously dull, and added cruelly, "For monsters, you are weak, stupid, and trust others casually... Then I'm sorry, you deserve to be eaten. Originally, Humans were originally created as rations for youkai.”

Ming Xia, "..."

Qingqiu walked over and patted the back of his hand with his wings, and said earnestly, "My child, this world is so cruel."

Unbearable, Ming Xia pinched its neck, "Shut up, you scumbag of science! You keep saying that you like chemistry, but you still can't memorize the periodic table of elements. You are a human being, and you still have a brain." In jail?!"

Qingqiu was shaken by him and rolled his eyes, "What's wrong with me? I'm just afraid that you will get into a dead end and come out to explain the truth and explain it to you. You see, it's fine if you don't appreciate it, how can you be so violent..."

"The weak prey on the strong, aren't you monsters like this? Why can't you resist me?" It's not easy for Ming Xia to beat the wounded Song Qing, after all, he still has a plaster cast on his arm.Furthermore, the friendship between him and Song Qing is not so good that they hold each other accountable.He had no choice but to vent his anger on Qingqiu who jumped out to make up for him, "Isn't that what you said just now?!"

Qingqiu, "..."

Can he say that what he said just now is definitely not what he meant?

Song Qing watched them fight with bitterness in her eyes.When Ming Xia faced him, his eyes were bright, warm and bright, with a hint of a smile.

In fact, after staying among human beings for a long time, he would also look forward to and want to get the goodwill and friendship of human beings.But now he has no face to say these words to Ming Xia.

In the long life of the Yaozu, Songqing would occasionally want to make a few human friends and communicate with them in their way.In this kind of interaction, sometimes, he even felt that it was not so important whether he was a human or a demon.This made him feel happy—isn't the first step in Yaozu's cultivation to become a human?

But he himself didn't expect that until something happened, until he was pushed to a threshold where he needed to choose instinctively, his monster nature would prevail without hesitation—for the monster race, human beings This creature is too fragile.They have long been used to not taking their lives seriously.As Qingqiu said, human beings were originally created as rations for monsters.

Human beings say: If you are not of my race, your heart must be different.

Song Qing used to scoff at this sentence.But now, he suddenly felt that the person who said this must be a very smart person, because he had seen through all of this early on.

The boundary line between man and demon that he once thought was blurred has always existed—at least in his heart, it has always existed.

Song Qing walked out of the ward with her head down.He asked himself in a daze, if he was the one who was being concealed and used, would he choose to forgive?

Song Qing thought for a long time, until he walked out of the temporary inpatient department, he did not come up with an answer.