Yaohi Hill

"It's normal to hear that, after all, this family is really famous..."

While talking, Xia Ke suddenly found that the other side was silent.

He was wondering, turned his head slightly, but saw Shi Kui fell asleep.

Must be too tired.

The knight thought, he wanted to look away but couldn't help staring at her sleeping cheek.

The sun outside was very strong, and the golden and warm light hit the young woman's face, dyeing the beautiful eyebrows and eyes with a layer of hazy light yellow.

Her expression was more relaxed than ever.

It's really rare to be so unprepared.For some reason, her nerves are always tense, no matter where she is.Perhaps, only in sleep can one completely relax and reveal another side that is different from the usual.

The knight looked at Shi Kui, and there seemed to be a slight curve in the corner of his mouth.

The next second, the train entered the tunnel, all the light disappeared, and the surroundings were instantly plunged into darkness.

For some people, being in the dark is more reassuring than being completely exposed to sunlight.

When the train was about to arrive at the station, Shi Ai woke up.

Her face wrinkled, and then slowly opened her eyes.

"It's already here?"

The knight smiled and said, "Not yet, you can rest for a while."

Only then did Shi Kui realize that she seemed a little too defenseless in her current state, so she quickly sat up straight and coughed.

Neither of them spoke any more, they just looked at the scenery outside.

As if remembering something, she took out her phone and glanced at it.

Sure enough, that strange number sent her a text message.

The two agreed to meet at a coffee shop in the town at the foot of the Kukulu Mountain.

Because the station was relatively close to there, it didn't take long for Aoi to meet the person she wanted to meet there.

Xia Ke sat on the other side, because Shi Kui told him that she would meet that guy alone later, so he was asked to stay next to him.

Sitting on the chair was a young man with black hair and dark eyes, holding a thick book in his hand.

Seeing her coming, he picked up his phone and was a little unsure: "Are you the one on the phone?"

Shi Kui nodded and sat down.

The young man's temperament is relatively gentle, and he speaks very politely: "I couldn't understand at first that Xiu could accept other women after his sister. But after seeing you, miss, I suddenly understood."

"Really..." Shi Kui felt that he might have misunderstood something, but this kind of misunderstanding is nothing, after all, the person in front of him is the only one who might be close to the truth.

"I want to know about his past."

Shi Kui said bluntly.

The young man smiled, then handed over the book and opened the first page.

Above is a group photo of the three teenagers.

The gloomy young man stood next to a pair of siblings who looked very similar, with no expression on his face but unexpectedly relaxed.

"This is Xiu, and me and my sister."

Isn't this repair... the wanted criminal found out by the knight?

She couldn't help but glanced at the knight, then looked away again.

Could it be that...Collett is Xiu, the wanted criminal of the Batokia Republic?

These two people are actually one person... That's why they have a special connection...

However, the age does not seem to be right.

"Xiu has the habit of keeping a diary, but he doesn't believe anyone, and his sister died again, so I have been keeping these things for several years."

"Now that he's dead, it doesn't matter if those secrets are revealed."

The young man's expression was a little bitter.

Shi Kui opened the second page, it was a child's handwriting, very immature and scribbled, but with a kind of indescribable gloom.

……

Since he was born, he knew that he was just an accident.

However, this is not a beautiful accident, but a tragic beginning.

Xiu, who was born unexpectedly, caused a lot of trouble for his prostitute mother.

Unlike the forced women, his mother did it voluntarily.She has no parents, and she grew up in a slum. There is no fundamental difference in three views from those who grew up on Meteor Street. Maybe the latter is stronger, and often has the ability to control the fate of others later on.

Xiu's mother thought that as long as she made life easy for herself, she didn't care how the money was obtained.

It hadn't occurred to her to have children, and a man like her had no intention of being a mother at all.

But this accident was born in the end, because she found out very late, and she didn't want to go to a small hospital for the very dangerous abortion operation.

After Xiu was born, she didn't love him, but treated him as a dispensable thing.

When he was young, he still wondered why his mother was different from other people's mothers?

Why didn't she let him go to school?

Why is she not being gentle with him, but showing a sweet smile to those hideous men, even she is better to a wild cat than to him.

But in the end, he no longer wanted to think about these unanswered questions.

Because he has not communicated with the outside world for a long time, he lives only on the leftovers of his mother's meals. He is thin and thin, with a gloomy expression.

Their neighbors said that the child's eyes looked like a devil.

Mother still went out with different men, and even brought those men into the house later.

He curled up in a corner without saying a word.

One day, the prostitute brought back by the mother fell in love with this handsome boy who looked like a girl, and wanted him to accompany him, saying that he would give his mother double the money.

Mother just froze for a moment, and then agreed with a smile.

Of course, that guy didn't succeed.Because he hid a knife under his pillow and killed the man when he was not paying attention.

Then, that night, he escaped in the rain.

No one knows where this scary-eyed boy came from, and he also started his wandering life.

Until one day, he met that girl.

Xiu, who was injured by a group of gangsters, woke up and saw a girl with black hair and black eyes. The girl seemed to have eaten something for him, and his wounds healed immediately.

"Are you leaving?" the girl asked him quietly.

Xiu nodded, but he was reluctant to leave, because he was not qualified to approach the sun in such darkness.

Too much sunlight will burn those who are in the dark.

He didn't expect to meet that girl again, but soon, they met again.

Xiu, who made a living by stealing, was beaten half to death and left on the side of the road. His vision was blurred and his stomach hurt like burning.

A white dog crawled past him with food in its mouth.

Even dogs are better than him.

Xiu inevitably thought to himself.

However, he saw a pair of thin white legs stop in front of him again.

"It's you again." The girl squatted down and looked at him.

He felt that the girl's eyes were full of sympathy and love, but he was not happy at all, and he was so embarrassed every time he met.

Like a bereaved dog, no, he was a bereaved dog...

The girl's younger brother was still very young, looking at him with wide open eyes.

Xiu stubbornly turned his face away.

He didn't want her to see himself like this.

The girl took him home, and this time she gave him the same food as last time, and he watched his wound heal quickly again.

"What did you give me...to eat." Xiu asked.

The girl smiled: "It's amazing." She secretly told him that it was a kind of fish meat that was ground into powder, and she put a little into the water, which can make people recover quickly.

What fish meat powder possesses such miraculous powers?

Xiu didn't know, but he didn't doubt it, because there are many unknown things in this world.

The girl told him that the mermaid's meat was ground into powder.

"What is a mermaid?"

The girl's black eyes seem to be shining: "In the legend of our country, the mermaid is something that can bring beauty to people, and its meat has unusual effects."

She waved the cup in her hand triumphantly: "Just add a little bit to ordinary water, and people's injuries can heal quickly. Those guys thought I was a medical genius, and desperately asked me to buy the formula. Not like this."

Xiu suddenly understood where she got her money from.

The girl and her brother live well without a mother, all thanks to the mermaid's flesh.

"It's because of the mermaid's meat that I can live so happily. It must be a treasure bestowed on us by the gods, so I have always believed in what my mother told me."

However, Xiu instinctively felt that it was dangerous.

Mermaid meat comes in a small jar, containing glistening scales.

Its meat... is it really useful?

Xiu secretly cut off a piece of meat and threw it to a puppy at night.

Soon, he saw that the normal-sized dog suddenly turned into a blue-skinned monster.

This is not a beautiful thing at all, but a kind of poison.

Does the girl know about this?

The following days passed peacefully and indifferently, and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction.

Until one day, the girl was taken away by people who wanted to know the formula of the medicine. When Xiu found her, she was already dying.

"Just tell them?" Xiu clenched his fists, "Why do you want to hide such a thing... what is more important than living?!"

He couldn't understand what she was doing.

"I'm sorry, Xiu." The girl's voice gradually weakened, "That's the last thing my mother left me..."

"That thing is poison." Xiu said coldly, his voice full of despair. "Don't you know?"

Maybe she knows, but it doesn't matter anymore.

The world was once again plunged into darkness.

The diary disappeared after the girl died.

Shi Kui closed the book, and then asked the young man, "What's next?"

"He took revenge on everyone." The young man lowered his head, "When I was a child, I never knew that it was actually a poison that could turn normal people into monsters..."

"What about the remaining mermaid meat?" Shi Kui took out a small glass bottle containing mermaid scales, "This is what he sold to others."

"He took all those things away." The young man shook his head, "I don't know what he's been doing these past few years, but it seems that the him behind is completely different from the him before."

Another tragedy caused by mermaid meat.

And this Cowlett, probably as the knight guessed later, became rich with the mermaid, bribed the government with a lot of money, escaped the arrest warrant, and then completely changed his face and became another person.

Shi Kui rubbed her headache-ridden head.

"I remembered... just this year, he seemed to hide something in the original place." The young man said, "Since those people became monsters, he, like his sister and mother, began to be sensitive to things like mermaids." Interested."

The author has something to say:

Originally, I wanted to write about beating the enemy. Forget it. Speed ​​up the progress. The next chapter will return to the Warring States period. Maybe the ability is not good. to kill kill