The found Tuo is three and a half years old

Blue... the other shore flower?

When I heard this word, I couldn't help but stay where I was.

I never thought I would have the chance to hear about the whereabouts of that particular flower again.But for me as a "ghost", the blue Bianhua is really something I can't help but care about.

Because during the hundreds of years of being a ghost under that lord, what I have been doing is actually only helping that lord find the blue Bana flower.

Speaking of which, Mr. Wu Mi once told me a little bit about his own past.He told me those as stories. At that time, he didn't tell me that the sick human being in the story was himself, and I hadn't been turned into a ghost by him yet.

"It was a child of a noble family. Before it was born, its heart stopped beating several times. When it was just born, it was even regarded as a stillbirth by the family."

Wu Mi-sama who appeared in Yoshiwara as a doctor said so.

At that time, I was secretly crying on the balcony of the attic because I was worried about my father's illness, which disturbed the adult.But the adult was not in a bad mood at the time, so he patiently told me the story.

"Although he barely survived, all the doctors asserted that the child would not live to be 20 years old. But even so, the child still wanted to live."

"Later, a doctor who was not bad at all prescribed a special potion, which changed the child's body and turned him into a man-eating monster—but he also gained an indestructible body and a powerful body. strength."

At that time, I didn't really understand what he meant by telling that story.But I think, since I suddenly told a story to me when I was crying secretly by myself, that adult should want to comfort me.So I forced a smile on my face.

"Thank you."

He froze for a moment.There was an inexplicable emotion in those scarlet eyes reflected under the moon.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly asked me: "Do you want to live? Live forever."

For me at the time, that was a very strange question, because I was living normally, eating normally, and breathing normally.I never thought about whether I wanted to live or not.

I tilted my head and pondered for a long time, but in the end I could only curl my lips dejectedly: "I can't figure out such a complicated question suddenly, because I have never experienced a state other than 'alive', so I don't know how to be alive." Will it look better?"

"But I still want to live."

After a brief pause, I rolled my eyes and said, "Father wants to get better even if he is sick, and everyone is working hard to live a good life. I'm not very good at thinking about too complicated issues. Anyway, everyone I'm working hard to live, so living should be a good thing."

A soft breath came from my ear. Although the expression on the adult's face didn't change, I vaguely felt that he seemed to be smiling.

And not long after that, my father left this world completely, and I was given eternal life by that adult.

"'Ghosts' can have a long life, but they can't see the sun." Lord Wu Mi said to me: "But it's not impossible to solve. As long as you find that kind of flower, you can let the blue Ghosts overcome the limitations of sunlight."

So I searched for more than 200 years.

If I have to say it, I don't have any obsession with the sun. Although it is somewhat inconvenient to only be active at night, after more than 200 years, I have long been used to it.

But at that time, I still dreamed of finding that kind of flower—because that was the task entrusted to me by Mr. Wu Mi.

Unfortunately, until the day Mr. Wu Mi left, there was no progress in this task.

After Mr. Wu Mi was gone, I tried to find it for a few more years, until when I passed this small town at the foot of the Ural Mountains, I suddenly realized that even if I could find the blue Bana flower, it would be impossible to get Wu Mi A compliment from Mr. Mi.So I finally gave up that futile effort completely.

But things like fate seem to like to joke with me very much. I didn't expect that after more than 100 years, clues about that kind of flower would come to me by themselves.

"Hey."

Because I was too surprised, I didn't pay attention to the surrounding situation at all for a while, until a familiar voice with dissatisfaction suddenly sounded in my ear, and I turned my head slightly, and I saw how much stained Fyodor's card was. Displeased faces.

"At such a distance, if Haruko suddenly made any unexpected moves, Uncle Liao Sha might not have time to dodge."

Fyodor said with the corners of his lips drooping: "You are also the leader of the gangster who dominates the entire state. Even if you know us very well, you should always be on guard, right?"

Hearing what Fyodor said, Alexei chuckled lightly, and backed away as if nothing had happened.

Then Fyodor came between Alexey and me without compromising.

"Even if I want to find that special flower, I will go with Qingzi." He raised his face solemnly, staring into the man's ice blue eyes: "Qingzi will not leave me."

"It seems that the way I speak made you misunderstand." Alexei raised his hand and touched the back of his head, and laughed twice: "Because that kind of flower will only be in the most sunny days of the year , it blooms for several hours during the day, so even if you go looking for it together, Miss Yinzhu can’t bring back that kind of flower by herself, can she?”

Fyodor's face darkened again. For some reason, I always felt that he seemed very unhappy now.He stared at Alexei for a while, but said nothing else.

Seeing him like this, Alexei hurriedly added: "Feyya also wants to..."

"I know about this matter." Fyodor interrupted Alexei: "I will discuss it with Haruko."

"Compared to this, isn't Uncle Liao Sha here to help me celebrate my birthday?"

The topic was diverted abruptly by Fyodor, so Alexei finally stopped talking about the blue flower.

But even if he didn't say anything, I still couldn't help being a little concerned when I heard about this kind of thing.

In fact, Fyodor himself doesn't care too much about "birthday". Although I will seriously prepare him a much richer meal than usual every year, Alexei and Ivan will always bring Gifts came to celebrate, but I also know very well that for Fyodor himself, this day is just a normal day in a year, and there is no essential difference from the other 360 four days.

Alexei won't mention too many things about the "Necromancer Society" in my house. Fyodor, who lives in the woods all year round, doesn't seem to have much in common with Alexei and the others. So after a simple meeting, Alexei also took Ivan and left my house to go about his own affairs.

It was also at this time that Fyodor approached me with a serious face.

"Haruko, there's something I want to tell you."

As Fyodor grows older, I actually find it increasingly difficult to understand what is going on in this kid's little head. Although he has always lived with me, it is a bit reconciled to say it, but I have to admit that he The amount of knowledge and insight has already unconsciously far surpassed me by a large margin.

I have indeed lived in this world for hundreds of years, but in the past days, I just kept the continuation of my life. I never took the initiative to understand the world, and I was not curious about new things. I don't even bother to think about those complicated and difficult problems——

But Fyodor was different.

Even I can clearly feel that the scenery he sees in his eyes is different from mine.

He likes to read, likes to meditate with his palms on his face in his spare time, and likes to sit in front of the computer and type codes. He can do many things that I can't even think of.

I'm not smart, but I'm not stupid either.Sometimes I feel a little proud because my Fyodor is actually a very good kid.

It's so powerful... Sometimes, I even feel a little unreal.

Fyodor doesn't like to do housework, but under my daily coercion and inducement, he will occasionally help me share some simple tasks.

However, today, I obviously didn’t ask him to help clean up. I even thought that it’s his birthday, so it’s okay for him to be lazy for a day, but after Alexei and Ivan left, he actually took the initiative to help me clean up. The bowls and chopsticks were removed.

After everything was tidied up, Fyodor did not go to read a book or fiddle with the computer as usual, but stopped in front of me solemnly and said that.

"What's wrong?"

For no reason, I felt a little nervous in my heart.

He rarely put on such an expression in front of me, and almost never talked to me so seriously.

"That man has been investigating things about 'ghosts'. He is very good at collecting information. Over the years, he has collected a lot of legends about 'ghosts'."

Fyodor pulled out a chair at the dining table, motioned for me to sit down, and then pulled out another chair beside him.

"I'm also very surprised that he was actually able to find out about the blue Bana flower." I replied casually.

"Haruko never mentioned to me about her past." Fyodor said suddenly.

The light in the restaurant is warm orange, shining on the young man's slender eyelashes, casting a thin shadow on his beautiful face, and when he raised his eyes again, the purple pupils were extraordinarily bright: "Haruko has told me that she is a 'ghost', and I also know that Haruko has more power than ordinary humans, I know that Haruko has a long lifespan, I know that Haruko can't see the sun—"

"But Haruko didn't tell me about the blue Higan flower, nor about the 'ghost'."

The black-haired boy rested his elbows on the table, and naturally clasped his hands together.

"I've read the materials collected by that man, and there are many things about 'ghosts' in it, but..."

"Those are not Haruko's affairs."

Fyodor looked at me and said without a word: "I want to know Haruko better."

The air suddenly became very quiet. Facing the boy in front of me, I was at a loss for a while.

"Why did you say such a thing all of a sudden?"

After being silent for a while, I squeezed out this sentence from my mouth.

"Because Haruko is very concerned about the blue Higan flower." Fyodor blinked his eyes lightly: "But we have lived together for so long, Haruko has never mentioned it, nor said that I want to find that kind of flower .”

"why?"

"because……"

I hesitated a little before speaking.

I really never mentioned my past to Fyodor, of course, because I don't care about the past. For me, compared with the time that has passed, the current life That's the most important thing, but I don't mention that to Fyodor mainly because of other reasons—

He is the child I raised. In front of him, I always pretended to be omnipotent, but during that period of the past, I was just a rookie who had achieved nothing.The strength is completely out of the list, and the boss is often said that the brain is not good. This kind of black history is at least in front of Fyodor. I am a little bit embarrassed.

But the young man's eyes seemed to have some special magic power. Under his gaze, there was a strange coincidence, but I finally opened my mouth.

"The search for the blue Bana flower was actually a task sent by my former boss. But more than 100 years ago, that boss was sanctioned by humans, so of course I have no reason to bother looking for that kind of flower."

I spoke lightly, as if I had nothing to do with myself, but the young man who was listening actually frowned slightly.

After I finished speaking, he suddenly asked, "What about you, Qingzi?"

"Since that kind of flower can help 'ghosts' overcome the sun, hasn't Haruko thought about finding that kind of flower for herself?"

"I haven't thought about it." I shrugged: "Anyway, for me, no matter how life is, it's easy to get used to it. It's not a big deal not to be able to see the sun, not to mention that I have lived like this for a few years. A hundred years."

"And tip, you need to know that my boss has been looking for that kind of flower for nearly 1000 years—he has countless 'ghosts', but even so, he spent so long and couldn't find the blue Bana flower he wanted. "

"I don't want to do such a troublesome thing."

"Well, but this time it was the news that came to me on its own initiative, so I don't mind trying my luck—if I can overcome the sun, I can go out to bask in the sun with Tip."

"I have been sitting in front of the computer all day long, and I am really worried that the tip will get moldy."

"..."

Fyodor pursed his lips, but the atmosphere around him seemed to relax a lot in an instant.

After a brief hustle and bustle, life seemed to be returning to the same routine as before.The only difference is that Fyodor will pay extra attention to the news about the "blue other shore flower" when he is usually tinkering with the computer.

It is said that that kind of flower only blooms for a few days a year, and the place where it grows is special. It can almost be said that it is an existence that cannot be found—but compared to the aimless search back then, now with this information as an auxiliary Really want to find that kind of flower, seems to be just a matter of time.

Of course, apart from the special material "Blue Bana Flower", the rumored prescription that can free the "ghost" from sunlight is also quite complicated.Fortunately, Alexey himself is a doctor, and his scope of practice is surprisingly wide. In addition to the commonly used Western pharmacy, he has also made considerable achievements in Eastern prescriptions.

When he has nothing to do, he will also prepare medicinal materials according to the prescriptions he got from the "Yushiro".

I don't know exactly who Yushiro is, but I heard from Fyodor that Mr. Yushiro, who is a painter, can only describe a woman named "Jushi" all his life, and I I've heard of Zhu Shi's name before.

——That was the guy who betrayed that lord during the Warring States Period, and he was also an excellent pharmacist.

I don't know more information.

Maybe they have something to do with the death of that adult, but I still don't have much interest in Yushiro and Zhushi's affairs.

Probably because I am too weak, I don't want to be contaminated with anything about that nightmarish battle.The grown-up didn't let me see more about that battle.All I know is that the adult went to attack the mansion of the head of the Demon Slayer Squad at night, and the fact that he died in the sun in the end.

From that day on, Fyodor would occasionally pester me to tell stories about the past, and it didn’t take long for the part of looking back on the past to become as regular as his childhood bedtime stories.

But for that child, my affairs probably are not much different from distant legends.

Such days lasted almost a whole winter.

When the backlog of white in the woods gradually faded and the branches were finally stained with fresh green, Fyodor suddenly told me that he had found the trace of the "Blue Bana".

"But that kind of flower blooms during the day, and it must be when the sun is shining."

While saying this, Fyodor didn't even take his eyes off the screen.

"So Haruko doesn't have to go there. I will help Haruko bring that flower back."

I know that there is nothing wrong with what Fyodor said, but I still have a feeling of powerlessness from the bottom of my heart for no reason-obviously in this era, my strength is stronger than any human being, but in this crucial situation Time, I'm still useless at all.

Fyodor packed his bags quickly, and Alexei, who knew about this, sent Ivan to go with Fyodor.

When the two children left home, Alexei specially came to the cabin in the woods.

"Don't worry, Miss Yinzhu. These two children have grown up, besides, Ivan is already a cadre who can take care of himself, and they will complete the task."

My mood is unavoidably complicated. Apart from the helplessness, there seems to be another emotion—speaking of which, this is the first time since I brought Fyodor home, this child is separated from me .

When Fyodor left, there was still no special expression on his face.Because I can't see the sun, I can't even send the two children too far.

And when the figures of the two children disappeared completely, Alexei leaned into my ear and said softly: "Speaking of which, Miss Yinzhu, when I was researching that prescription, I accidentally discovered that even if If you don’t add the blue Bana flower, that kind of potion might also temporarily help ghosts overcome the limitation of sunlight. But the specific effect is not clear, I don’t know if you are interested..."

"Eh?" I looked at him with some surprise: "Why didn't you tell me about this kind of thing earlier? In this way, maybe I can send the tip to the airport."

"Because I only discovered this two days ago, and there is no way to confirm whether it is effective, let alone how long the effect will last, so of course I cannot ask you to bear this uncertain risk."

Alexei looked at me with burning eyes: "Anyway, Fei Jia is not here at this time. If it is convenient, Miss Yinzhu may come to my old clinic."

"Maybe, when Fei Jia comes back, Miss Yinzhu can bring him a little surprise."

When the young man in a black suit looked at me, I took half a step back for no reason.Even I can't say why, but when I look at this guy, I can always feel an inexplicable sense of disobedience.

"But the tip is for me to find that kind of flower." After a short hesitation, I said: "Anyway, it's only a few days away, so don't be in a hurry."

"Aren't you worried?" Alexei pursed his lips lightly, so that I couldn't see where the arc of his lips pointed: "Although Ivan is following, Fedya has always been weak, and Most of the places where that kind of flowers bloom are inaccessible mountains and forests, and no one can say for sure what they will encounter.”

"If it weren't for the fact that things in the town couldn't turn around, I would have sent a few more people to follow. Of course, if you can follow around, naturally there is nothing to worry about."

"It doesn't take too much time to test the medicine. By then, if you drive overnight, you may not be much slower than the two children. What do you think?"

I still feel like something is wrong.

"The last time the child left you to act alone, it seems to be ten years ago."

I suddenly opened my eyes wide.

Ten years ago, the scene where the child was captured by the former leader of the "Necromancer Society" Boristley is still vivid. At that time, I swore that I would never let him experience such a thing again He was hurt like this—

Sure enough, the only way to make me feel at ease is to keep him in my sight all the time.

So I finally agreed to the "drug test" proposed by Alexei.According to him, the so-called test drug is just to extract some cells from my body for analysis, and it will not have much impact on me.

It was daytime now, and Alexei specially asked his subordinates to drive a light-proof car to take me to the town and send me to the clinic that I am not too familiar with.

It was also the first time I knew that there was a very spacious underground consultation room hidden under Alexei's clinic.

The furnishing of the consultation room is much more luxurious than the consultation room above where Alexei usually consults people, and the various complicated equipment is dazzling.

Alexey invited me to sit down at a nearby table and kindly poured me a cup of tea.

It's just that when I picked up the teacup, a special smell suddenly swept over the tip of my nose-it was enough to make the "ghost" feel suffocated. Although it was very weak, I was still keenly aware of it.

It is wisteria.