no puppet

After that, Xie Cong suddenly had an ugly humanoid puppet beside him.It can't speak, but it can roughly understand human speech. Because the skin around its body was corroded by the fire, its daily life became extremely difficult, and Xie Cong almost took care of his daily life.

Xie Cong asked Fang Yan: "Did you find me a surprise, or trouble?"

Fang Yan said, "What do you think?"

Xie Cong sneered, but never answered.

"For living people, time is not eternal. Everything in front of us has a beginning and an end, and what is gained is bound to be lost." Fang Yan said, "But I am different from them. I am tired of the precious things around me constantly flowing away. Gone. I just want to leave behind all the best things, even if they are only for a short moment."

Xie Cong said, "What is the most beautiful thing?"

Fang Yan sighed, and Fang led Xie Cong to the gardenia field outside the wooden house. In a blink of an eye, the ground was full of flowers. Fang Yan said to Xie Cong, "Look, isn't this the most beautiful?"

When he tilted his head, the flowers withered again, Fang Yan then said: "They will wither one day."

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand, and in front of Xie Cong, a wide and shimmering enchantment was unfolded——Xie Hengyan could clearly see that the ring-shaped flower garden outside the wooden house was forcibly divided under the urging of Fang Yan's smart hands It is divided into two parts. It is clear that he and Xie Cong are standing at the same place. The flower field under Xie Cong's feet is instantly scorched and turned into fallen petals on the ground, while the snow-colored flower shadows around Fang Yan are a vast expanse of whiteness. , It is the charming eyes that are in full bloom.

"This is..." At that moment, not to mention Xie Hengyan who was at the side, even Xie Cong, who was always calm, was shocked by it, "How did you do it?"

Fang Yan didn't answer, he just asked Xie Cong: "How? An eternal existence like this... Do you want it?"

Xie Cong was in a daze, and opened his dark almond eyes wide, but failed to give any response for a long time.At this time, Fang Yan took his hands, pulled them into the air, and cut them apart inch by inch from the snow-white flower shadows in the sky. There were countless copies of different sizes, Xie Cong watched the gardenia field in front of him, like a piece of completely frozen drawing paper, every picture from blooming to withering stayed in front of him for a long period of time.

"Time is always lost. Only the absolute stillness of space can make time go forever." Fang Yan said, "Over the years... I have always been used to leaving the best moments and keeping them forever in the Wherever you go, you will bring it all the way - in this way, the best will always be the best, no matter how poor your life is, what you can foresee in your eyes will be what you once hoped for looking forward to..."

Fang Yan showed an amazing ability to control all the space and time around him. He could completely divide everything in front of him, every grass and tree, every flower and every tree into countless static parts—and then lead them into the space carefully. In the enchantment, cast spells to seal it and save it. When you want to remember it in the future, you can reopen it to have a look. In a sense, this cannot be regarded as lost.

"But once you do this, isn't it equivalent to living in the past?" Xie Cong asked, "You have exhausted your energy to make these illusory enchantments—to put it bluntly, it is just to permanently freeze the past scenery in the closed In the space, just watch it all the time.”

"That's different." Fang Yan said.

Xie Cong raised his eyebrows and said, "What's the difference?"

"These are all barriers I built with my own hands... To me, they are like paintings that have been painstakingly completed in a certain period of time-they belong to my works." Fang Yan said with a smile, "Maybe It is difficult for you to understand the different emotions, but in my own eyes, no matter in the past or in the future, they have existed vividly, and they still exist today-because this possession can make me feel infinitely satisfied .”

Xie Cong frowned slightly. Obviously, as a normal person, he couldn't understand Fang Yan's complex thoughts that were almost insane.Of course, Fang Yan also realized this. He took Xie Cong's hand and said suddenly, "Follow me."

Xie Cong said, "What are you doing?"

"Let you see my past 'works'."

When the words fell, Xie Cong opened his eyes again with a thin light in Fang Yan's palm, and in front of him was no longer the gardenia fields scattered all over Tongjing Island, but in a small, completely unfamiliar corner. There was an extremely weak and thin figure, with its knees bent at that time, its eyes were slack, and it tried its best to curl up its body in a dark place without light.

Immediately after there was a commotion from all directions, several tall and fierce strangers suddenly emerged, all of them were holding sticks, and some of them were carrying buckets of cold water. Their eyes were cold, and they approached the curled up weak figure in front of them.

After that, it was a stormy beating.There were more than a dozen people, including men and women, old and young, and they surrounded the person in a corner, and their ruthless sharp weapons brushed against her thin and weak body, accompanied by loud and loud curses——

"This little hoof, who was born but not raised by a mother, steals things from our house every day, you want to die, you..."

"I was caught once last time, but I don't have a long memory, and I dare to do it again... beat me, beat me to death!"

"A bastard with dirty hands and feet!"

Amidst the swearing one after another, everyone's weak persuasion sounded like a discovery of conscience: "Come on, don't really be beaten to death by her. If you don't die, you will be half disabled."

"Stop it, people will die in a while, it's not easy to explain to the government..."

"That's right, let her steal it next time, it's not good to just break her hands and feet!"

The crowd suddenly dispersed, leaving only the lonely figure of the man at the beginning, now dripping blood all over his body, and his clothes were cut several times, the whole person was in an indescribably miserable state.

She lay motionless on the spot, and after struggling to breathe for a long time, she slowly propped up the corner of the wall with her hands, and barely stood up from the side—it was through this angle that Xie Hengyan could clearly see the blurred facial features of the man His face was already bruised and swollen, but he did not conceal his agility and stubbornness at all.

That is a familiar girl.

Her face could even be called familiar, Xie Hengyan thought, he must have seen her appearance somewhere, until he gradually got over it, he remembered that the person he had met before was probably a senior who was deeply in the Biyu Mansion Looking for Ling.

——That's right, the thin girl who crouched under the corner and was beaten and kicked by others was nearly seventy percent similar to the original Cheng Miling.

At this time, before Xie Hengyan could ask questions, Xie Cong had already opened his mouth, obviously with a hint of sarcasm: "This... is what you said, the 'beautiful' moment? Is this some kind of 'work' worth preserving?"

"You don't understand." Fang Yan waved his hand, waved away the enchantment, and said to Xie Cong, "Probably when I was less than ten years old, the person who brought me into this world gave me nothing. Accompanying me are only three wooden puppets, and this monster-like ability... The man told me that the future was created by himself, but at that time I was just a piece of ignorant blank paper. I don’t know anything, I have nothing, and when I first came to this world, it’s like a game.”

"Game?" Xie Cong said, "You will experience this world in the future as a game?"

Fang Yan said: "Isn't it?"

Xie Cong said: "Then the price you paid for the game may be too high."

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe my gain is far more than what I paid?" Fang Yan smiled, "I have no parents since I was a child, and I have those puppets around me. Since I will dominate all the future, then I will accept I made them my parents, after all, we are all nameless people who come and go without a trace, who cares what our identity is, and what is the purpose of coming to this world?"

After Xie Cong heard these words, it took a long time before he forced out four words.

He said, "...nonsense."

Even so, Xie Cong had no intention of objecting to Fang Yan's crazy words.

"When I was still young, I used to split and reorganize the barrier to try to create a barrier space completely under my control - but I didn't succeed. I set up an island in the sea, and later that island was not mine, it became a home for others to live on.” Fang Yan said, “After I left the island, I was forced to wander in a small remote valley. , a young doctor took me back... I found out later that I was there to help with work. They ordered me to do this and that, and they didn't give me food. , they call it stealing."

Xie Cong thought of the scene he had just seen in the enchantment. It turned out that Fang Yan was beaten because of this.However, Xie Hengyan, who was standing next to him, had a doubt for no reason, and he couldn't explain why, but he felt an inexplicable familiarity with the twists and turns of the other party's ups and downs.

"Where are the two puppets you think are your parents?" Xie Cong asked, "Didn't you say that they have their own feelings? Didn't the puppets rush out to save you when you were beaten?"

Fang Yan said: "...they have been useless for a long time. At that time, there were three puppets by my side, and the two old ones were a bit old. On the way to escape with me, the falcon sent by the court Torn to shreds. This half-worn body is left, as you have seen, it has been burnt to such a state."

Xie Cong's heart moved, and he asked again: "Why did the imperial court send eagles to chase you down?"

"It seems that you live on this small broken island, isolated from the world." Fang Yan asked, "Do you know that there is a ban... called the ban on demons?"

Xie Cong shook his head. Tongjing Island is far away from the outside world. Sea ships have never been able to communicate with each other. The residents on the island rarely have contact with the outside world. For Xie Cong, who is isolated from the world, the ban on demons and the various prohibitions behind it are very important. It's all empty talk.

"I have never lived in a fixed place. I took my puppets along the way and watched them change from three to one. Until later, I came up with an even more absurd idea..." Fang Yan squinted his eyes, and Fang took a little smile. With a self-deprecating expression, he said to Xie Cong word by word, "Maybe the future can be controlled by myself... Even if I try my best, I want to give myself a complete home."

Xie Cong raised his eyebrows and said, "So?"

"so?"

While speaking, Fang Yan covered his face with his hands, and when he turned his head again, he changed into a woman's face with red lips and white teeth, facing Xie Cong's dark and round almond eyes, smiled slightly, and said almost coquettishly:

"So...you probably don't want to believe it. Since I left the valley, married someone, became a wife, and gave birth to a poor daughter the size of a palm, I am complacent about it, thinking that my life has been bumpy and bumpy. It's time to end my fate." Fang Yanchi smiled, his voice tinged with helplessness, "In the end, my husband kicked me out and pointed a sword at my face... scolding I'm an out-and-out monster."

"You said, am I a monster?" In a blink of an eye, Fang Yan returned to his original appearance, and with his masculine voice, he turned his head and said to Xie Cong, "I was originally that girl, if I hadn't been tortured in this world Everyone bullied him, who would want to turn into a heartless piece of wood, a homeless ghost?"

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This is a chapter, a puzzle-solving chapter that will be very heavy if you understand it.

Sort out the plot lines of Fang Yan 20 years ago:

1. Bring the legendary "that person" into the world, and give him three puppets and a strange power to control space

2. Originally wanted to create an enchantment as his independent world, but failed. In the end, only a small island came out (guess which island it is)

3. After leaving the island, I wandered to a certain valley and was severely rejected by the villagers (guess which valley it is)

4. After getting out of the ravine, she married someone and gave birth to a daughter, but her husband kicked her out in the end (mark the key point, guess who she married)

In fact, I have laid the groundwork since about 40 chapters. Someone mentioned that Fang Yan is like a cat scalded by boiling water.

Then Fang Yan has always been obsessed with gender, sometimes he and sometimes she, so we call it "it". In fact, it is not difficult to guess from the full text here that Fang Yan's two most commonly used bodies-one is the main body, and it is a woman.The other is the wooden body of a puppet, which is more powerful and a handsome man.

The spoiler stops here for the time being, this is only part of the puzzle, but it can be regarded as the biggest foreshadowing of the full text! !