As we all know, winding zero is a human being

"Ling, you are squatting here to block the sun. I need to see the herbs before I can cut them."

After the cold dew, the time of day began to gradually become shorter. Under the cloud cover, Heian capital also became gray. There was news from Yinyang Liao that it would snow soon, and the mansions of all families were preparing for it. New firewood for winter.

The young doctor moved a chair and cut the prepared medicinal materials into thin slices while it was still daylight. He was curious about the medicinal materials he was going to use when he had nothing to do, so he squatted there and watched.

"Zero...are you listening to me?"

Seeing that he hadn't moved yet, no matter how good-tempered the young doctor was, his forehead had bruised veins. He quickly took out a medicine from the medicine box behind his back, and raised his volume: "Master Shangxian Ling ?!"

Zero raised his head in an instant, and a centipede three feet long was swaying right in front of his nose. The black and blue shell still had the ferocious look of its teeth and claws when he was alive, which made him sit down on the ground in fright.

"Don't threaten me with such a name and surname." Even so, Zero's mood is still rising.

Hei Xian, a young doctor, who the hell is he who is eager to announce that Master Tsujiya, the best in the world, has given him a surname these two days.

[Does the host really need psychological counseling?I'm at the headquarters, just got off the server, the updated information includes a full set of psychological counseling courses? ]

Zero gave up his seat, and watched the young doctor grind the centipede into a powder in the medicine bowl. He felt that it was better not to report this kind of thing to his Master Tsujiya.

[Host?Is the host there, Moses Moses? ]

"I think I'm fine now."

After signing the supplementary agreement and starting to renew his life, he almost forgot some details of the long time he had been lying in the hospital bed.

The name is the first existence to be erased. Even the name "Zero" is a name he gave himself by borrowing from his No. 0 system, so that even his face is blurred. It was a word he hadn't meant to draft.

He came to this strange world alone, only his belief in living was still strong, and his young master matched his beliefs, and firmly riveted him to his side with his surname.

There has never been a better time than now.

[...Host, if you go on like this, it is very likely that you will develop into our target Raiders individual, hey! ]

"...Then let's talk about it later."

Just messing around with the system, in short, this thing is useless except for opening a daily call for him in the early stage, and he has to learn manually. It is a job for migrant workers to work hard to provide performance to the boss. Fishing, why stand when you can sit down?

"Zero, I've finished reading the anthology of poetry that was delivered the day before yesterday, so go and move another box for me."

"Ah—here it comes, do you still want Tang Dynasty's poetry anthology, Master Tsujiya?"

... Workers, the soul of workers, workers are the masters!

Cough, it smells so good.

The poems brought by the monks came from the Tang Dynasty, and the princes in Ping'an capital seemed to have completely forgotten the surging waves surrounding the retreat of monsters in the court and the field. They sent their servants to copy the latest words and sentences back, or directly Go to the bookstore to buy the poetry collections carefully prepared and bound into volumes by the vendors.

The Ubuyashiki family is, so to speak, a big family that is deeply rooted in Heian capital. The people at the bookstore saw the lines on the corners of Zero's clothes from a distance, and respectfully loaded the bookcases prepared earlier in the morning onto the carriage.

Fangshi is far away from the mansion, and the level of excitement is of course incomparable to mansions with high walls and deep courtyards. When Mr. Tsujiya’s body can still support him as the heir of the obstetric house, he meets with visiting guests for a while. It's not so deserted.

The brass bells under the necks of the cows and horses are crisp and proud, and if it is an afternoon under a clear sky, it can last for a long time.

"What a coincidence... I remember your name is Zero?"

Turning an alleyway is the fruit shop he often goes to. It can be regarded as a century-old shop in Kyoto. The roof is covered with cypress wood tiles, and a string of wind chimes is hung under the eaves. Make a pleasant sound.

As the saying goes, the breeze is also a guest.

The white-haired young onmyoji walked out of the shop with a package in his arms, and at some point there was a little follower by his side.

"...Master Qingming?" He was not too surprised to meet Abe Seimei in this kind of place. He greeted the son of the white fox with a zero smile. It is always right to make friends with this legendary onmyoji, " Is this your new pet? A cute puppy."

The white hair ball, which was recognized as a puppy, froze, and opened its mouth angrily as it exploded. Ling thought it was about to bite, and hurried away.

Qingming picked it up quickly with quick eyes and hands, seemingly reassuring but firmly stopped it: "Xiaobai is a fox, he is my shikigami... not a puppy!"

"Be good, Xiaobai, talking on the street will still scare others, so you don't have to be so restrained when you get back to the courtyard."

The white fox with Ruonv Nengmian obliquely still obeys his onmyoji's orders, but he still seems to have a natural guard against Ling.

Xiaobai slipped out of Qingming's arms and leaned into his ear, whispering a few words to him.

"Uh, the smell of ghosts?"

Seimei opened his eyes slightly and quickly glanced at Zero's body twice.

The bellflower print of the pentagram flashed across his fingertips.

Zero did not miss his words and actions, and he began to recall when he ran into a monster outside again.

As for ghosts, it seems that they can be regarded as a kind of monsters in this era, and they should not reach the level of midnight bells and curses... right?

"It's a strange feeling... It doesn't have a demonic aura, but it doesn't look like a human being either." Seimei tried another speech-speaking style with Zero's consent in confusion. The clear light dissipated, but nothing happened.

The young son of the white fox may have never experienced such a thing, and he inevitably became a little obsessed with this exception as he was smooth sailing on the yin and yang road. It was just that Zero was in a hurry to send the books he had brought back to the mansion. After casting a spell with the pentagram and bellflower seal, there is no other way.

"—I'm suffocating Xiaobai to death! Master Qingming! The smell Xiaobai smells is obviously the smell of a ghost, why can't you find the imprint left by a ghost on that guy's body!"

It is said that if ghosts choose their own blood food, they will shake people's hearts and souls with their ghostly aura, and then find their own blood food according to the imprint on a moonlit night, and then devour it.

"...Maybe that ghost didn't have any malice toward him? This is the era when individuals and ghosts co-exist, Xiaobai."

The son of the white fox nibbled on the words, as if he was not mentioning a ghost that everyone avoided talking about, but a friend he hadn't seen for a long time.

"This is the era of symbiosis between individuals and ghosts."

Yin and Yang work together, no matter good or evil, it is difficult to determine black and white.

"I remember when I saw the Ghost King of Dajiangshan, Xiaobai, you had the guts to beg several bowls of wine from him."

"Well...this is different! Seimei-sama!"

"So... What's the difference between Xiaobai and Puppy?"

It took half a day to walk from the mansion to Fangshi. In addition to the books, the doctor also handed him his account with confidence. Many medicines are expensive and hard to find. It is always necessary to use the contacts of the Ubuyashiki family to buy them. Much faster than finding it by himself.

"Calamus, Phellodendron, Guizhi..."

"...the blue flower from the other side?"

Packs of medicines are in his hands. Compared with the past, he can get as expensive as Cordyceps and ginseng from the disposable share, but the last medicine is marked in the doctor's handbook, and they are not found by them. arrive.

Ling Nian took the prescription and led the carriage back to the mansion, passing by the flower stand under the courtyard porch, the bare vines with only branches left showed a bit of lifelessness in the winter.

He saw Sakura wandering under the flower trellis, lost one of his clogs, and didn't realize that his snow-white footbags rubbed against the black mud in the courtyard.

"What's going on?" Zero called out to her, and her footsteps paused for a while.

Sakura turned her head suddenly, her face was bloodless, panic and fear lingered in her eyes, "Zero...Zero!"

"Master Tsujiya, he..."

The bookcase in his arms fell to the ground, and the snow-white pages flew out and landed in the same muddy ground, with mud on the foot of the pages.

Zero felt a roar in his brain, so shocking that he could only see Sakura's lips opening and closing, the broken sentences could not be woven into a sentence.

He ran away, not caring that the people he met all had weird expressions, and he couldn't tell who the fear in Sakura's eyes was for.

The path in the wooden and stone courtyard was winding and winding. He stepped in the shallow pond, and the algae entangled his clogs.

The window casements were closed so that no sunlight could penetrate, and the dried flowers and porcelain vases that I placed before leaving lay on the corridor, broken into fragments all over the floor.

There was a thin crack in the wooden door, enough for Ling to get through sideways, but he didn't lift his foot for a long time.

The blood stains inside and outside the house showed a dark red color, and the undried liquid was still oozing out, and the blood dripped on the broken tiles, like the sound of water leaking from timekeeping.

"...Doctor?"

Zero went in anyway.

He saw the short knife twisted into the young doctor's heart, with two holes in one cut, and the bright white blade was still dripping blood.

Gui Wu Tsuji Wu Mi didn't know when it turned into plum red eyes half-closed, and most of his collar to the corner of his robe were stained with blood.

He suddenly coughed violently, and the tatami was stained with fresh blood again.

"Master Tsujiya—your body...?"

"It hurts, Zero."

Zero heard Ghost Dance Tsuji Muchan say this.

"it hurts."

"Come here, come to me."

The sound of wet footsteps was mixed with the sound of trampling liquid.

Even when Gui Wu Tsuji was weakest, Zero never heard him cry out in pain, and he still couldn't hear the vague voice stuffed in his throat.

Pale arms wrapped around his shoulder blades, unbound black curly hair grazed his face.

His young master buried his head in the socket of his neck, his nostrils were buzzing, sniffing his gurgling pulse.

"It's nothing...it's okay..."

Zero heard himself say that.

In fact, he still couldn't hear clearly, as if the sound of something collapsing was disturbing in his mind, like the hoarse and struggling cicadas in late summer and early autumn.

The only thing that could be heard clearly was that Gui Wu Tsuji slowed down the rhythm, every word seemed to be knocked in his heart.

"Fortunately...you are fine..."

It was like a signal, the tight hands that seemed to melt him into his blood and blood slowly relaxed, Zero raised his head in a daze, and for the first time he saw clearly in Master Tsujiya's plum red eyes Reflected self.

There was blood all over.