no puppet

——In this case, you can call me Fang Yan.

Fang Yan said that he had no name, and he didn't know where he came from, let alone where he was going.

At that time, Fang and Xie Cong met for the first time, but they could only see the ashen face of this man, without the slightest ups and downs in his eyes, as if shrouded in an invisible dead air.

It's like a person who has lost his attachment to the world, leaving only an empty shell, still coming and going in the world of mortals, and still can't find his due destination.

Fang Yan once asked Xie Cong: "Why are you suffering, and why are you sad?"

Xie Cong didn't answer, but he didn't know that not long ago, he personally sent the two people who were dear to him in his life back to the dust and into the grave.

There are still portraits of them hanging in the house, the young and beautiful wife, and his ignorant and innocent son. When Fang Yan's eyes touched them, for some reason, he accidentally found a trace of unspeakable love from the cold paper. suffering.

"I used to have my beloved family." Fang Yan said to Xie Cong, "But they were all taken away by that group of wild beasts... We never met again after that."

Xie Cong: "Beast?"

"Yes, wild beasts." Fang Yan said with a smile, "a group of ferocious beasts who only know how to plunder."

Xie Cong couldn't understand, so he turned his head and said, "You don't have to tell me the riddle. Here, there are no wild beasts, and there are no predators. What is there is only the destiny... the will of the heavens is like this. If you take people's lives, I can do nothing about them." how?"

Fang Yan said: "Do you believe in fate like this?"

Xie Cong didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and said without looking back: "My surname is not Ming, my surname is Xie."

Fang Yan didn't know what to say, but he let out a "chuck" and laughed.Xie Cong asked him where he came from and why he was so injured. Fang Yan was silent for a long time. Fang lazily returned to the side of the couch and said jokingly: "I was born in the wrong place. I was born to be annoying... Later, I struggled around, and finally got a family, but the family tried to kill me in a different way-I was originally so unwelcome, no matter where I went, I always There is no place of rest."

Xie Cong said, "Why does your family want to kill you?"

Fang Yan said: "Because my life is like this."

Xie Cong sneered and said, "Just kidding."

Fang Yan said: "Don't you believe in fate the most? It's a joke when I tell you like this." Xie Cong didn't answer, Fang Yan continued: "I never believed in the unfairness of fate, so I was born with the destiny. At that moment, I was always trying to figure out how to make a change.”

Xie Cong mocked: "Is there anything that can be changed? You've said it all, life is born like this, if it wasn't for the gods to come down to earth, how could they tamper with their own destiny?"

Fang Yan said: "If I say, can it be changed?"

Xie Cong just sneered and didn't answer him.At this time, Fang Yan sat up from the side of the bed. Suddenly, the person and the shadow split into two parts invisibly. Xie Cong didn't even realize what happened. Fang Yan in front of him suddenly became completely Two figures separated, one was lying on the side of the couch, the other was beside Xie Cong, showing him a treacherous smile.

In an instant, Xie Cong was shocked, and an expression of infinite panic appeared on his pale face, but Fang Yan in front of him continued to split into four people from the two while he was retreating hastily, and then transformed into four again, as if There are countless thousands of faces—sometimes transformed into that charming woman, sometimes turned into that ignorant child, and finally returned to his original appearance, standing at a place not far from Xie Cong, opening his eyes. Those bottomless eyes silently stared at him.

——Besides the barrier, Xie Hengyan and Xie Cong showed almost identical expressions of horror.

In that short moment, Xie Hengyan probably understood that the ability that Fang Yan has been controlling all along is not only to create a fixed time division of the enchantment, but this kind of control can also be adapted to himself—just like before on the sea ship, Xie Hengyan Cong unintentionally revealed the message to Xie Hengyan.Although Fang Yan was a human being, he refined the karmic seal equal to that of a monster. Since then, his body has been arbitrarily divided into countless parts. Among them, Xie Cong intentionally mentioned that one is the body of a living person who died in the hands of Cheng Daofeng , as for the other one, it is the puppet wooden body that Fang Yan built for himself.

So in the enchantment in front of him, is the body that Fang Yan borrowed, his main body or the wooden body?

Xie Hengyan raised her eyes, and kept moving forward, trying to see more clearly.But Xie Cong was obviously as shocked and frightened as he was, so that at the moment Fang Yan split into four, Xie Cong's dark almond eyes widened, he couldn't stop backing up and dodging, and finally staggered and sat back down. on the ground, but still looking at Fang Yan with panicked eyes.

Fang Yan was taken aback by his reaction, and when he came back to his senses, he finally couldn't help laughing out loud, and his ups and downs of hearty laughter echoed throughout the lifeless wooden house.

After laughing, Fang Yan squatted down, facing Xie Cong's side, and raised his hand to pinch his sharp chin.

"……Hey."

Fang Yan suddenly asked: "Do you believe that there is eternity in this world?"

Xie Cong was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and said softly, "I don't believe it."

Fang Yan said, "What if I can do it?"

Xie Cong raised his eyebrows, obviously thinking that he was talking nonsense again.

But at this time, Xie Hengyan listened to everything, and suddenly had a very strong premonition - he felt that Fang Yan's promise was not simple, and even if Xie Cong chose to agree, he might pay a heavy price for it.

Sure enough, after that intentional or unintentional temptation, Fang Yan, who was treacherous and cunning, temporarily disappeared from Xie Cong's sight—just like the day when he came in a hurry, Fang Yan left behind nothing after he left. leave no trace.

But for Xie Hengyan, who was watching from outside the barrier, the day and night related to them was nothing more than a fleeting fragment.

What Xie Hengyan watched was like the shadow of a lantern on a horse.Most of the things came and went before his eyes, and the only thing that changed in the process was Xie Cong's long black and smooth hair, which was dyed with strands of frost and snow in the years of waiting. .

After that, Xie Cong still lived a lonely and peaceful life.That was Xie Cong, whom Xie Hengyan didn't know. He was always alone, sitting silently and expressionlessly on the recliner in the backyard, looking at the flowers in front of him that bloomed and thanked, thanked and bloomed in a daze, as if he was quietly waiting for final death.

Until one day, when he opened the door outside the steps, he unexpectedly discovered that at some point in time, a wooden box that he had never seen before suddenly appeared in the flower garden. The heavy force brought by it almost crushed most of the newly sprouted flower roots in front of my eyes.

Around the box lock, there is an obvious "phoenix" character engraved.

Xie Cong guessed that it was Fang Yan's plaything left here, so he hesitated for a long time, Fang took a step forward, stretched out his hand with extra vigilance, and opened the lid of the box with a thin crack——

But at the bottom of the dark box cover, lying there was a humanoid monster whose whole body was scorched black, and its whole body was almost burned to the point of festering and cracking.At that time, a fragmented light mark above his head was curling up weakly in the dark corner of the wooden box, desperately breathing the air that surged around him.

Xie Cong only glanced inward, facing the completely burned face of the monster, the black skin with a serious rotten smell, and a pair of eyes with a fierce red light. At this moment, a large area was burned away, and the wound stretched all the way from the eyes. Spread to the fragile neck.

Xie Cong noticed that apart from the shattered demon mark on the top of the monster's head, there was another crumbling complete light mark on his left chest, close to the human heart.

But when Xie Cong raised his hand and tried to touch the monster's injured heart, the extremely vigilant monster turned around and bit Xie Cong's pale wrist, blood dripping with horror...

"Father!" Xie Hengyan's eyes widened suddenly, and she couldn't help asking questions—that ugly red-eyed monster whose body was burned to rot...

"That's me?" Xie Hengyan couldn't help but said, "That ugly monster...is, is it me? How could it be me...When did I look so ugly?"

Immediately afterwards, he saw Xie Cong's face darken, he suddenly closed the lid of the box, and covered the bleeding wound, backed up, backed up, kept backing up, with an expression as if he had seen a ghost, and clung to him all the way. Back to the edge of the threshold.

And Yan Yan's voice piercing through the air from behind suddenly resounded in his ears: "As a thank you gift for saving me last time, this is a surprise for you."

Xie Cong said coldly: "Are you sure you're not scared?"

"Didn't I ask you before, do you believe in the theory of eternity?" Fang Yan said relentlessly.

Xie Cong said: "I didn't say it before, I don't believe it. People have life and death, and monsters have life and death. The same is true for monsters. It's just that one has a long life and the other has a short life... After all, there is not much difference."

Fang Yan said, "But it's different."

Xie Cong raised his eyebrows and said, "Which 'it' are you talking about?"

Fang Yan stopped talking, and when Xie Cong blinked, he appeared next to the wooden box, raised his hand wantonly and lifted the lid, and dragged out the shivering wooden figure curled up in a dark corner, and displayed it on the wooden box. In the blinding sun.

This time, Xie Cong finally saw the monster's burnt face, the bluish-black skin that was close to being festered and cracked, and the frail arms that were struggling under the light and shadow, and finally fell down helplessly. He clenched his fists tightly while trembling uncontrollably.

"I worked so hard to bring this child back from Tongjing Island. It is itself a puppet, but as you can see, it has been affected by the chaos of war... It is now just about to take its last breath. If you don't If you keep it, it's going to die." Fang Yan narrowed his eyes, his expression was dark and unclear, and then he showed the playful and treacherous smile at the beginning.

Xie Cong said indifferently, "What does it have to do with me?"

Fang Yan said, "I think you need him."

Xie Congfang turned around and said without looking back, "I don't need it."

And Yan Yan's fierce and powerful palm at the back suddenly clamped forward on the monster's thin neck. With a little force, the sound of bones breaking could be heard from the depths of its fragile body.

"Are you sick?" Xie Cong looked sideways, and said in a cool voice, "You brought it back here, and you want to kill it in front of my house?"

"No, you're wrong." Fang Yan said with a smile, "It won't die."

Xie Cong didn't speak, but his eyes shifted slightly, turning to the dying monster.

"People will die, animals will die, only puppets will not."

"It's just a humanoid puppet, an ordinary dead thing, without a name, and the past and future are blank." Fang Yanru said, "The only difference from a dead thing is that it will always be by your side and be your most loyal The most caring relatives."

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