[comprehensive] not human

I don't know how long I walked, the trail turned a few turns, and the surrounding farmland changed from empty to a few sporadic people.Those people were all far away, and when they saw someone passing by on the road, they only looked up, and then quickly lowered their heads and continued to work.Everyone was silent, talking indifferently, just quietly bending over, getting up, bending down, getting up, and walking.The whole scene is like a silent film, silent and eerie.Fortunately, Yan Bai has already seen the entrance of the village and the roof of thatched hut.He directly passed the two people in front and strode forward.

Entering the village, the surrounding area is still very quiet.If he hadn't seen a woman poking her head out of a hut, Yan Bai would have thought the whole village was deserted.After walking for a while, he realized that the scope of the village had come to an end. He stopped, thought it over in his mind in disbelief, and made sure that there were really only a dozen families in this village.

Where in the world did he come to?All the houses were covered with thatched roofs, and although the walls were made of yellow mud, Yan Bai felt that if he still had a body, he could demolish the house with his bare hands with a light push.The windows of the house are basically opened very small, because there are no panes and white paper pasted on the windows, so it should be called a hole rather than a window.Looking in from the entrance of the cave, the inside is pitch black, presumably there is no lighting.

The whole village is a capitalized poor word.Yan Bai suddenly felt that any deserted village he had seen in the past could be called a rich and noble family compared with this place - even if it was an abandoned rich and noble home, no matter how abandoned it was, a dead camel would be bigger than a horse.

Yan Bai walked around the village and found that no one in the whole village could see him, even if he walked into someone's house through the wall, the owner of the house would not notice.Only once, when he walked in front of a newborn baby, the originally quiet baby burst into tears, and his mother hurriedly undressed and fed, completely unaware that the baby was not hungry but saw someone.

Walking out of the dark room, Yan Bai stood on the muddy ground with flying loess, not knowing what to do for a moment.Fortunately, at this time, he saw a child walking towards him, and the other party's eyes froze for a moment when passing through the words.Although he returned to normal in a flash, Yan Bai was sure that the child could see him.

He walked up to the child and looked down at this kid who looked only seven or eight years old—the hair was very long, draped messily behind his back, his head was big and his body was small, and he was wearing a dusty coarse cloth cloak. The cloak was wide but not long. It reaches the child's knee, revealing two calves as thin as bamboo poles.The child lowered his head and walked straight through the words blocked in front of him, like every ordinary person who couldn't see him.

A smile flashed through Yanbai's eyes, he raised an eyebrow, and followed the slow-moving little ghost unhurriedly.This followed for three days and three nights.

Yan Bai couldn't help but admire the little guy's perseverance, he could endure it for three days even though he could see him.Mingming was very uncomfortable under his own gaze, but he suppressed the discomfort and pretended not to notice it.The little ghost should be a vagrant, and he was driven out by the villagers after only staying in the village where Yan Bai saw him for two days.On the morning of the third day, the little ghost ate up the dry food he had finally stolen in the village, and walked for a day without seeing the next village.When resting at night, Yan Bai could clearly hear his stomach rumbling, but the child remained expressionless, and only touched his shriveled stomach with his hands.

After thinking about it, Yan Bai got up to leave, and he clearly heard the child heaving a sigh of relief after he walked out of the range of the fire.So when he came back again, it was understandable that the other party couldn't pretend anymore and his eyes widened.

Yan Bai waved at him, the child's dark eyes flashed with defense, and he looked at Yan Bai motionlessly through the flames.

After a moment of stalemate, Yan Bai offered to compromise, and he turned and left again.This time it took him a long time to go back, and before he stepped into the bright light of the flames, the child's exclamation sounded ahead of time, probably because he saw the gift that Yan Bai gave him.

Animals are always more sensitive to humans. After Yan Bai found the hare nest, he wanted the child to come and catch the rabbit by himself, but he didn't expect the other party to be so hungry and still refused to let go of his vigilance. He had no choice but to do it himself for a long time Only then did he find a way to force the rabbit out of his nest and drive him all the way to the resting place of the child.There is no way, he has no entity, not only when he encounters animals, he can't even use spells much, and even driving away rabbits is only successful after returning to his original form.

Of course his hard work paid off.After the child caught the rabbit and saw him again, he took the initiative to talk to him: "%#￥%&*."

Yan Bai was taken aback for a moment, and recognized that this language was Dongying.He sat down, making sure not to enter the child's vigilant range, and then said: "I don't understand what you are saying."

The other party naturally also discovered the language barrier between the two.The child looked him up and down, his expression was very complex, including envy, doubt, respect, fear, nervousness and so on.He wrinkled his face and thought for a long time before picking up a branch and writing on the ground.Yan Bai leaned over to take a look, and was stunned again, he didn't expect this Japanese kid to be able to write Chinese characters!Although the fonts are crooked and they are all the simplest words, his ability to write Chinese characters is enough to surprise Yan Bai.

He wrote "Why Me"

Yan Bai guessed that what he wanted to express was why he followed him, so he wrote on the ground with his fingers "Only you can see me"

After staring at it for a while, the child nodded, and wrote solemnly: "Look at it." He shook the rabbit he was carrying in his hand, and then wrote "Yes".

Yan Bai couldn't help laughing, he thought it was cute for such a young child to act so serious.Seeing his smile, the other party curled his lips and began to slaughter the rabbit.His technique is very skillful, and he strikes directly without hesitation. It is impossible for ordinary children to smash the rabbit's head with a stone calmly like him.What worries Yan Bai the most is that the child will kill the rabbit, but there is a look of guilt in his eyes.

What an interesting kid, Yan Bai thought to himself.After the child finished eating, he picked up a branch and wrote on the ground, "Yanbai. You?"

The child understood what he meant, but this time he hesitated for a long time before making up his mind to write a few Japanese characters "まつぱのうどうじ" on the ground.

Yan Bai looked at the line of calligraphy-like characters, and said to himself in silence for a moment: "I'd better call you a brat."

The child looked at him suspiciously, and wiped off his name and words with his hands.It was not until later that Yan Bai learned from the grown-up children that names are curses for people or ghosts, and telling the other party your name means giving your life, which is the highest level of trust.It wasn't until then that he understood why the kid hesitated for a long time to tell him his name.Hearing his emotion, the young man who had changed his name to Ma Cang Ye Wang explained softly with a smile: "Because I didn't have the desire to live at that time, I thought that if you really want to kill me, it doesn't matter, and it's good to make me a ghost. "

Of course, the current Yan Bai still doesn't know what the child is thinking, he just wants to follow someone who can see him.It was only after spending a long time with the little ghost that he realized that the child named Ma Yedouzi hated crowds, and would not approach human villages unless it was absolutely necessary.In the case of sufficient food, he went directly to places inaccessible, wishing to be as far away from people as possible.Originally, when Yan Bai wasn't following him, he would steal some food from the village from time to time, but now with Yan Bai as his helper in catching rabbits, he wished he could become a savage in the deep mountains.

Yan Bai especially can't understand this point, human beings are social animals, no matter what a person says about his withdrawn personality, he can't stand it after not communicating with his own kind for a long time.This is not the case with Ma Ye Boy. Rather than saying that he does not want to contact humans, it is better to say that he hates people.

"Why? You are a human being after all." On the same night, Yan Bai sat by the fire and asked Ma Yeboy, "You can't spend your whole life without living among the crowd."

Ma Ye Boy's immature face looked a little gloomy under the firelight, and sometimes the look in his eyes really didn't look like what a seven or eight-year-old child should have, just like now he replied in an old-fashioned way: "What do human beings have?" Well, they're far more dangerous than ghosts, and it's fine not to live with them."

Yan Bai tapped his head unceremoniously, seeing Ma Ye hugging his head and puffing up his face to look up at himself, showing a childish look before nodding in satisfaction.

"Why did you hit me?" The boy glared at him.

Yan Bai poked the fire with a branch, and said lightly, "I don't know, my hands are itchy."

Ma Ye Boy snorted, and it took a long time before he whispered angrily: "Anyway, I don't need to communicate with humans, it's enough for me to be able to talk to ghosts."

Yan Bai heard him tell the story about him and a little ghost named Yipo Chiyo.According to Maya, his Chinese characters and the ability to live in the wild were taught by Otopo Chiyo, and they traveled together for a while.Now that he said this, Yan Bai once again thought of the magical little ghost who took the initiative to make friends with human children, and was a little curious about his current whereabouts: "Why didn't Yi Po Chiyo follow you?"

Ma Ye Boy's eyes dimmed, he lowered his head and said in a sullen voice, "Because...he lent me his power, I...I used it too much, so..."

Yanbai realized: Although the power was exhausted by Ma Ye, the source was still in Otopo Chiyo, so the other party disappeared.

"What the hell did you do?" It stands to reason that the power of a ghost with more than 200 years should be enough for a child to squander, even for hunting wild boars.

"...Why should I tell you." Ma Yetong's tone turned cold, he raised his head and looked back to the guard he had when he first met Yan Bai.

"It's nothing, it's fine if you don't want to say it." Yan Bai pressed his head and said calmly, "I'm just thinking about whether I should give it to you when you want to borrow my power in the future." What he meant by this sentence I wanted to make a joke, but I didn't expect it to make Ma Ye's face change drastically.The child jumped up immediately, and said angrily to him: "Don't worry about it! Before I met you, I could live well by myself!"

After finishing speaking, he walked directly to the other side of the fire and lay down with his back to Yan Bai.Yan Bai's hand was still hanging in the air, maintaining the position of rubbing his head just now, and he put it down after a while, listening to the sound of firewood crackling and burning in the fire, he sighed: It's really troublesome to raise a child, a precocious child like Ma Ye Peace of mind at ordinary times, it will be even more troublesome at critical times.

Ma Ye Boy is not only precocious, but also very vengeful.Yan Bai's joke that night probably hurt some of his weaknesses, so much so that he didn't speak to Yan Bai for a whole month after the incident.In the end, after seeing Yan Bai turned into a black snake, he forgave him.

"Your snake body is so beautiful." Ma Yetong's eyes sparkled with excitement, and he squatted on the ground with his legs crossed and looked at Yan Bai.

Yan Bai vomited the snake letter leisurely: "Aren't you angry now?"

Ma Ye pouted, stretched out his hand to let him climb onto his arm, and only apologized after the black snake's body was completely wrapped around him: "I'm sorry, I just thought of Chiyo, if he didn't lend me strength, he wouldn't either. will disappear."