Infinite Nerves [Infinity]

In his sleep, Qianwu's fingers inadvertently touched the wooden box. It has a hard wood texture, but the edges and corners are smooth, as if it has lost its sharpness after being touched repeatedly.

In the hazy dream, he seemed to be back in elementary school, he followed Jiang Chen behind, calling Jiang Chen brother constantly.

Jiang Chen turned his head and grabbed his hand, "What's the matter?"

"I like Brother Jiang Chen." Xiao Qianwu lowered his head and looked at the ground, "Brother, I like you so much, can we get married and hold weddings like neighbors when we grow up?"

Jiang Chen seemed to be taken aback, he let go of his hand suddenly, and stared at him, "What are you talking about, you are my younger brother."

"Brother doesn't like me?" Qian Wu looked at him sadly, in his eyes, Jiang Chen's face gradually blurred, and when it became clear again, he looked almost exactly the same as him, as if looking in a mirror.

"I only like brother." Qianwu sighed and squatted on the ground with his face on the ground, "Let's not tell mom and dad, let's do it secretly."

"Not good." Jiang Chen frowned and took a step back, and said in a cold tone: "Go to school, I think you've got nothing to do."

Qianwu: "But..."

"No but." Jiang Chen was extremely fierce, "No matter what, the after-dinner cakes will be confiscated from you."

"..."

Qianwu hangs his head and doesn't speak anymore.

"This is for you to play at school." Jiang Chen threw a box over while talking, and warned: "Go to school well, don't learn some messy things. If you do this again, I will ignore you."

As he said that, he turned his head and left, Qianwu sighed faintly, picked up the box on the ground, pulled off the wooden cover, and there was a paintbrush lying quietly inside.

At the end of the pen is engraved with Jiang Chen's immature small characters: Qianwu Special.

"You still say you don't like me." Qianwu held his forehead firmly, "Brother is so dumb."

……

"Qianwu."

"Qianwu, wake up."

A hand gently patted his shoulder, and after a while, Qianwu gradually woke up from the strange dream.

After sleeping on his stomach all night, his back was stiff and painful, he sat up and turned his head to face Jiang Chen: "Huh?"

"Sure enough, something happened to the Chen family." Jiang Chen said with a heavy tone, and put the new handwritten newspaper in front of him.

Twenty-six people died in the town yesterday, not including the two who died in the inn.

Among the vast list of the dead, there appeared "the old man of the Chen family who was separated from his family and just returned home to pay homage to his grandson."

It is speculated that the screening condition of the death pool is that he participated in a funeral yesterday.

Qianwu saw the last line of small characters.

"The copyist Ling Yaoba died unfortunately because he attended Chen Ma's funeral. Today, Ling Yaojiu copied the newspaper for everyone."

Peng Peng's face recovered a little after a night's sleep. He was drinking the red bean porridge that Qu Ying cooked for everyone, and said, "So there are five people in the Chen family. It's just that the old man didn't have time to go back yesterday, so we didn't find out about it." .”

"There are five people, which means that one of them is not a key NPC, but we don't know who is." Xiaobai was full of worry, "According to the worst case scenario, the two dead are both key NPCs. We are really not far from being killed."

"Why don't you go and protect the Chen family." Miaomiao glanced at Jiang Chen, as if she was afraid of his objection, and immediately said: "I know what Qianwu said is right, what is going to restore the original appearance of the matter, but there is no clue now, right? , let’s procrastinate for a while, right?”

"You can go and guard it." Qianwu nodded, "Purgatory Man may appear again today, let's squat him."

The sun was scorching again on the way, this time before going out Jiang Chen brought several bags of water and asked Qu Ying to cook some mung bean soup for preparation.

"What did you think of?" He asked Qianwu.

Qianwu said, "I had a strange dream. When I was in elementary school, I was rejected when I confessed my love to you."

A puzzled expression appeared on Jiang Chen's face.

After a long time, he couldn't believe it: "You treat me... so early?"

"Dream. I'm talking about dreaming. It has nothing to do with the real situation of the two of us." Qianwu glanced at him, "The dream is very strange. I call you brother, and you call me brother. After I confessed, I found that you changed Became me, we are exactly the same."

Jiang Chen paused.

"The dream of Chen Ma and Chen Shu?"

Qianwu nodded, "I think so."

Qianwu walked very slowly in the scorching heat, and they unknowingly fell at the end of the team again.

Jiang Chen said in a low voice: "My elder brother just wants to be a good elder brother, but my younger brother is not willing to be just a younger brother. After my younger brother was thrown away by my elder brother, he was killed by a trafficker, and his resentful soul entered purgatory. He sacrificed his family and climbed to the Nine Palaces. "

"Well, it can be connected in this way." Qian Wu's tone paused slightly, "But obviously, only two brothers entered purgatory in a family of five. Also, the mission said that four key NPCs died. If Chen Ma counted as one, So he actually sacrificed only three people—grandfather, father and mother. He didn’t sacrifice his elder brother, how did that elder brother enter Purgatory?”

Jiang Chen thought for a while, "Maybe Chen Ma is not a key NPC, and the four are from the Chen family other than him."

"I still don't think he will sacrifice my brother." Qianwu shook his head, sighed drowsily, "In my dream, I was very close to that little boy's mind. He is a born devil, cruel and ruthless, but he doesn't would hurt my brother."

After finishing the last bag of mung bean soup, everyone finally arrived at Chen's house.

Probably because yesterday's screening condition was to attend a funeral, today the Chen family held a funeral, almost no one set foot there, the house was deserted, and the figure of Purgatory Son stood out from everyone.

But this time, instead of standing in the corridor, he entered the mourning hall.

Qianwu and the others walked over and saw the old man in the coffin.The person walked very peacefully, and still couldn't see any wounds, so he could only lie there.

"Weird." Qu Ying frowned and said, "Almost all the people who died last night were eaten, why is he not the only one?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the Purgatory suddenly turned around.

"Why are you here again?" Purgatory Man looked at them with some annoyance, "Stay restless in the inn, what are you doing?"

"We are very interested in the affairs of the Chen family." Qianwu approached, stood beside the coffin with him, and said in a low voice, "The Chen family is walking very strangely. Chen Ma, Chen old man, seem to be with other Townspeople die in different ways."

With a movement of his fingers resting on the side of the coffin, Lian Guizi looked at Qian Wu.

"Are you confused too?" Qianwu stared at him, "Do you want to know the truth about the death of the Chen family?"

Purgatory Man didn't speak. After a long time, he calmly looked away and said, "I'm not interested in these human sufferings."

"Really." Qianwu's tone was also very calm, and after a while he suddenly asked: "I'm curious, how can a person become a demon?"

"What do you mean?" Purgatory Zi frowned.

Qian Wu smiled, "You will die in this town, I want to find out the way forward."

"Heh. The way forward?" Lian Guizi laughed, but Cheng Jing's eyes were full of sadness, and said: "When you have nothing, maybe there will be this opportunity."

"Nothing..." Qianwu savored these four words.

Purgatory turned around indifferently, "You new townspeople have too many problems, running around, I might consider sending you back."

"Okay." Qianwu smiled at his back, "Anyway, this town is only forcibly supervised by you for your own will, and whatever you say counts."

Purgatory son stopped at his feet.

He suddenly turned his head and stared at Qianwu, "What did you say?"

Qian Wu raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "The last question, you and Lian Jiwu, who is stronger."

Purgatory stared at him with a frown, and murderous intent suddenly appeared in his black eyes, but Qianwu ignored the danger, and just continued to say indifferently: "Isn't the repeated sealing and supervision just to know the truth about the death of the Chen family? Help you, end this endless cycle as soon as possible."

After a long time, the ferocity in those eyes gradually faded and became indifferent again.

"My younger brother is very strong." The Purgator sighed softly when he said this, with some helplessness, "Only those who are inhuman can stand taller. After the reunion in Purgatory, he rarely came to me on his own initiative."

"So, if you fight, you will lose, right?" Qianwu confirmed.

Purgatory Zi frowned, "Why are we fighting?"

He shook his head slowly, "We never fight, we never hurt family members."

After saying this, he turned and left.Jiang Chen came over and whispered: "As you expected."

"Humans shouldn't try to destroy demons. Only demons can destroy demons." Qianwu said in a low voice, "Sure enough, Lian Guizi doesn't know, or rather, he doesn't want to believe that it's his dead younger brother who sacrificed his family one after another. If he finds out, The two brothers are fighting among themselves, and this dungeon is probably over."

"We don't seem to have seen the Purgatory kill someone." Jiang Chen said suddenly.

Qian Wu shook his head, "Maybe he just set foot on this road to find his younger brother."

"Everyone." Qu Ying suddenly called out, "Would you like to take a look here?"

Qian Wu and Jiang Chen walked over, while Qu Ying was holding the hand of the old man in the coffin.

"What are you doing." Peng Peng said weakly, "Don't do terrible things with the corpse, hello."

"There is a little blood on the tip of his index finger." Qu Ying pinched the old man's finger as she spoke, "Could this be a death wound?"

Hearing this, Zhong Liye took it over and looked at it, then threw it away casually, "Impossible, it's not broken at all, it's not blood, it looks like a little bit of cinnabar is printed on it."

"Let me see." Jiang Chen looked serious, walked up and pinched the old man's fingers again.

There was indeed a little deep red on the old and rough skin. Looking at the mark, he suddenly thought of the blood-colored tear mole under the eyes of Lian Ji Wu.

"People really were killed by Purgatory Wu." Qianwu showed a clear look, then thought of more in a flash, looked at Jiang Chen and said: "Chen Ma, who shouldn't have appeared and died immediately, is just a plan set up by Purgatory Son to make up for regrets." It was a small illusion, so when Chen Ma died, Lian Yuanzi only watched from a distance, like watching a sad movie. And exposing the reason for the successive deaths of the Chen family was the original intention of Lian Yuanzi to supervise the town. Want to know the truth."

Wen Li, who had been silent all this time, was suddenly puzzled and said, "Purgatory Wu should be afraid that Lian Guizi will know all this, why did he leave a mark?"

Qian Wu looked down at the scarlet mark, rubbed it with his fingers, and half of the little cinnabar was easily rubbed off.

"Maybe it's a confession of guilt, I dare not say it, I can only hide it carefully." He lowered his eyes and said softly: "I want to confess, but I am afraid of being discovered. Chen Ma is really a perverted and fragile child."