The Fantastical Beasts at World's End

"Actually—" Nie Renyan was taken aback by Ye Zhao, and he hesitated for a moment before saying, "I was thinking about it when I saw that your wound healed in just one day and one night. Your situation and my It’s a bit like, not just what you just said, but I heard from Luo Xiaochen that you also had some very strange dreams and repeated them many times?”

"Yeah." Ye Zhao nodded and said, "Just like what you said, it was also a very strange dream, and after waking up, I can't remember the specific content clearly, I just remember that it seems to be a sacrifice or some kind of festival. The scene, this is the content that will be repeated every time, and sometimes there will be other fragments, but I basically don’t remember it. The only thing I remember very clearly is the dream that the white tiger jumped in the same sacrificial team. Come out, and after landing, it becomes you."

"..." Nie Renyan picked out his ears, and looked constipated: "Wait a while, daughter-in-law, you mean, the reason why you guessed who I am is because of a dream?!"

Ye Zhao spread his hands: "Well, I started to doubt it because of that dream, and then I went through the clues and found that they were all right."

Nie Renyan: "...Daughter-in-law, you are definitely not a beast, but a magic stick! Foretelling dreams or something..." =口=

Ye Zhao glanced at him lightly.

The number displayed by the elevator slid all the way to the second floor and stopped. Ye Zhao stepped out of the elevator. There were more people passing by in the corridor, and it was not convenient to continue the topic just now.He pursed his lips and glanced at the sign hanging from the top, turned a corner, and strode towards the canteen to the west.Nie Renyan caught up with him in two or three steps, and walked side by side to the row of windows where he bought food.

They came down quite early, so there were only a small group of family members of the patients in front of the window, and the line was very short, and it was their turn after only a few people lined up.

Ye Zhao took a glance and found that those people basically bought boxed lunches, planning to pack them up to eat in the ward, and the dining area of ​​the cafeteria was almost empty.He ordered Nie Renyan to buy two dine-in meals first, then found a corner where he could talk conveniently, and sat down first, with his slender fingers crossed and his chin propped up. The coat is well-proportioned, and it looks cold with a touch of elegance.

When Nie Renyan turned back with two meals, he saw Ye Zhao sitting there gracefully, and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth—he really fucking loves Ye Zhao's accent.

The two sat face to face in the corner of the cafeteria, eating the meals on the same plate, and suddenly felt like they were back in middle school.It’s just that they were still wearing cotton T-shirts and jeans at that time, and they would go to the basketball court to play for a while when they were free. Most of the time, one of them was carrying a schoolbag on one shoulder, carrying the school uniform that had been taken off, and waiting for the other to stuff it. Headphones come slowly.

Flash forward for many years.

Probably affected by this atmosphere, the two ate a few mouthfuls in silence and forgot to continue the previous topic until Ye Zhao suddenly said, "It's not foreknowledge."

"Huh?" Nie Renyan took a bite of his meal, still complaining silently in his heart that the craftsmanship in this cafeteria is really similar to the cafeteria in middle school. Responding, "You mean your dream?"

Ye Zhao nodded, "At that time, I only paid attention to the connection between the white tiger and you, but now I think about it, and I realized that in the dream I had, you were dressed differently than now."

"What do you mean? What am I wearing?"

"The black robe, I can't remember the specifics, but it is definitely not a modern dress, and the hair is not so short."

"Long hair?" Nie Renyan asked casually, he was picking out the dishes that Ye Zhao didn't eat to his dinner plate.

"Long hair." Ye Zhao watched his movements, and picked out two pieces of meat and some rice for him, "It was tied up. When it landed, the hair behind it floated up a little, and it looked very long." .”

Nie Renyan imagined how he looked with long hair, and felt panicked no matter what he thought.He grinned and said, "It does sound a bit different from the reality. I wouldn't grow long hair no matter how hard I think about it. It's so tiring to wash. There's also a black robe. This is the rhythm of becoming a monk."

Ye Zhao: "..." Why is it that no matter what topic comes to Nie Renyan, it can be dragged out thousands of miles away.Isn't the brain circuit on one channel?

"Maybe it's because you can predict the fog, so you thought about it from the beginning, if it wasn't for the prediction..." Nie Renyan touched his chin with a thoughtful look on his face, "I did it before Although I can’t remember the content of those dreams, they feel more like memories from the past, some fragmentary memories from when I was Qiongqi, could it be that the nature of your dreams is the same as mine?”

"You mean, those scenes in the dream may be things that I have encountered before?" Ye Zhao frowned, trying to recall the scenes in the dream, but except for the extremely blurred images that passed by, nothing could be seen. I can't remember, but after Nie Renyan said it, there is indeed a different feeling——

It's like every vague scene that passes by but can't be grasped, has a kind of...familiarity that makes the heart tremble slightly.

"If it's really a memory, it should be a long, long time ago, right? Like, last life?" Ye Zhao recalled those extremely fragmented images, which are definitely not the scenes that would exist in modern times. The old feeling is more like It happened hundreds, even thousands of years ago, so long that it cannot be traced back. "If that's the case, why is there you in my memory?"

Nie Renyan raised his chin: "Tsk, daughter-in-law, don't you think this is romantic?"

Ye Zhao: "..." He touched the bowl of hot soup with no expression on his face.

Nie Renyan immediately pressed his hand and said dog-leggedly: "I was wrong, don't splash it, this soup is quite hot, it would be bad if you lose your appearance, right?"

"...I just want to drink." Ye Zhao patted his paw away, brought the soup over, took a few sips from the spoon, and said, "If I had a relationship with you at that time, plus what I said before Similar physical changes, will I also-"

Before he finished speaking, Nie Renyan shook his head: "You mean the four beasts? I don't think so. The four beasts—Qongqi, Taotie, Wuwu, and Chaos. You have seen two of them. The guy who made himself look like a splashed ink painting should be one of the remaining two, although there is indeed one missing, but it is definitely not you."

He stretched out his index finger and shook it left and right: "First, as I said, I can sense the breath of the same kind. When they appear in human form, the reason why I can't sense it is because they deliberately hide it. But you are different, because you can't hide these things. If you are one of the four fierce beasts, then your breath will be somewhat similar to theirs, but no, your breath is indeed different from Luo Xiaochen and the others , but they are not the same as Taotie."

He stretched out another finger, "Secondly, when the body changes, it will be affected by nature to some extent. The more changes, the greater the impact. It is called a fierce beast, and its nature definitely has an extremely cruel and vicious side. Just like I had obvious explosive and irritable emotions at that time, if you are one of the four fierce beasts, there should be some changes in temperament, otherwise you, this fierce beast, are too... gentle."

"Third." He stretched out his ring finger and continued: "The part I remember in the dream has the original appearance of the other three fierce beasts. None of the eyes are golden in color, they are all red."

He stretched out his little finger, waggled all four fingers together, raised one corner of his mouth into a smug smile: "Those three are all too curious, how could my wife be like that." =_,=

Ye Zhao: "...can you persist for more than 10 minutes every time you are serious?" After listening to Nie Renyan's analysis, he also felt that the possibility of himself being one of the four fierce beasts was really unlikely, but the special changes in his body were obvious. Putting it here in vain, if not, what could it be?

But when it came to Taotie, Ye Zhao suddenly remembered something, he saw that Nie Renyan had almost eaten, so he picked some food from him, and asked: "When you used that dagger before, did you have any special feelings? "

"What special feeling?" Nie Renyan looked at the gradually increasing amount of rice on his dinner plate, and was a little speechless: Wife, do you treat me like a fool? =_=

Ye Zhao gave a "hmm" and said lightly, "Last time, Taotie seemed to be particularly afraid of this dagger, and the place where he was stabbed bled quite badly. You are similar to him, so I asked you if you felt anything."

"..." Nie Renyan froze while eating, and after a few seconds of stunned, he became sad and angry, "Damn my wife, why don't you give me the dagger? You're trying to murder your husband!"

Ye Zhao coughed lightly and lowered his eyes to eat.

Nie Renyan came under Ye Zhao's nose and continued to complain: "Aren't you afraid that I might react to that dagger?!"

Ye Zhao rubbed the tip of his nose, turned his face away, and looked at the door to one side, where a few family members came to buy food with their own lunch boxes—well, the lunch boxes are in a good shape.

Nie Renyan quit, stretched out his hand to gently pinch Ye Zhao's chin, and turned his face away: "Quick! Look at me! Don't look away!"

Master Ye finally let out an impatient "tsk". Of course, most of this impatience was due to guilt. He pinched Nie Renyan's paw and threw it aside, saying, "I really forgot. I was in a hurry. Who remembers this kind of thing?" Things, don't mess around."

Based on Nie Renyan's understanding of Ye Zhao, of course he knew that he was guilty and refused to admit it, so he went ahead and said, "Is that something that can be made up for if you forget it?! No, my wife! You have to make it up to me, you have to make it up!"

"How to compensate?"

Nie Renyan looked around solemnly, then lowered his voice and said to Ye Zhao: "After the fog clears and you go home, sit on me once." =_,=

Ye Zhao: "..." With no expression on his face, he slammed the empty soup bowl on Nie Renyan's paws on the table, turned his head and walked away.

Talking about compensation to Nie Renyan, he really lost his mind.

Helping Luo Xiaochen and the others buy food with a dark face all the way, and followed the elevator back to the ward, Ye Zhao suddenly remembered: Nie Renyan said that none of the four fierce beasts had golden eyes...but in his dream, the white tiger's eyes were clearly It is smoky gold.