no puppet

"At the beginning, I made three puppets. It was just on a whim. I wanted to see how the girl would be. I didn't expect her to be so capable. She made such a mess for me. There was a mess left that no one took care of. It’s so easy to travel around the world once, and it’s really boring to earn money.”

You Qing waved his hands, sighed and mourned for a while, and said to himself: "It's boring, it's boring, it's really boring."

When Xie Hengyan heard what he said, for some reason, he felt that he would continue to be clear.

He stepped forward, turned to You Qing, and called out in a low voice: "Shenjun, I have something to ask you."

Shenjun sat lazily by the side, busy trimming his nails, and only after a while did he reply, "What's the matter?"

"They said that you went down to earth and saved the life of the orphan Fengzi." Xie Hengyan said, "You gave her three puppet figures, gave her a complete home, and taught her certain abilities. God, the current Fengzi My wife is dead, so I just want to know... You treated her kindly and gave her everything. Now that she is gone, her mind and soul are gone, and you have been with her for decades. When you watched her grow up, did you ever Have a little nostalgia?"

Xie Hengyan said so many words, but in the end, You Qing asked a frivolous and meaningless question——

Shenjun asked his puppet: "...why should I have nostalgia?"

Xie Hengyan was startled, and then said awkwardly: "Then why do you treat her like this?"

"Oh." The aloof god, looking sideways at his dull and ignorant puppet, said arrogantly and contemptuously, "...don't you think this is very interesting?"

Xie Hengyan laughed and said, "Interesting?"

"Under the whole world, all living beings come and go in the world of mortals, life and death, things are different... everything is changing rapidly, and in the end it is just a big dream." You Qing squinted his eyes and explained indifferently, "You see that The most ordinary mortal, once enlightened, thinks that he possesses supernatural powers that can reverse the established fate-but in reality, they are overconfident and create an illusory dream. In this case, let's see them struggling to the death, and they will be able to change their fate. Isn't it a rare and interesting thing to go back and forth without knowing what fatigue is?"

"..."

Xie Hengyan was still in a daze, looking at You Qing's plain face at that time, but it was only for a moment, and then she gradually became overwhelmed——

That's right, You Qing is a god, with a long lifespan of tens of thousands of years, I'm afraid he has already seen all the sufferings in the world, and now the insignificant half life of ordinary people is nothing more than a passing passing moment to him... ...Fang Yan's coming to see in You Qing's eyes, it can only be regarded as a child's play for fun.

In this world, there is no rare thing that can make You Qing stop and look back - if there is anything, probably only You Qing himself can cause him to care.

At that moment, Xie Hengyan suddenly realized that standing in front of You Qing, he suddenly realized how small and humble he was.

The world they envisioned in the eyes of the gods was originally just a group of numb and mechanical puppets, going into the rolling world of mortals, groping, scrambling, and going forward, but they couldn't decide their own life and death after all.

When Xie Hengyan woke up, she couldn't help laughing wryly, and sighed, "It turns out that I'm not the only puppet..."

All of them, Yin Chun who accompanied him in life and death, Rong Shilian who struggled for his fate, Fang Yan who tried to change everything, were forced to endure the reunion of enlightenment for many years... They were all in the ordinary world that You Qing saw. , unremarkable, yet one of the unique chess pieces.

Including Fang Yan's exhausting efforts and countless changes to himself in the past, whether it is the refining seal, becoming a wooden dummy, or creating countless enchantments, this fate is still tightly held by You Qing. hands, and failed to get any kind of reverse.

"What?" You Qing turned around, apparently indifferent to Xie Hengyan's words, so he couldn't hear clearly, so he didn't know what he said, or what he was thinking, so he asked repeatedly: "... What do you mean puppet? "

"It's nothing."

Xie Hengyan came forward suddenly, bent slightly, and slowly knelt down in front of You Qing with his respectful and pious attitude.

"Shenjun, I know...you are supernatural and omnipotent. I am a puppet made by you. Anyway, it is my blessing to be able to live to this day." Dark eyes, with a seriousness that rarely appears, "But now I... am alone, living with nothing, sometimes I don't know whether I am dead or alive, but all the things outside have lost their meaning to me .”

You Qing narrowed his eyes and said, "What do you want to say?"

"I beg God to grant me a death." Xie Hengyan said, "As early as the enchantment, I thought that without the seal, I would never live alone."

"Oh."

Shenjun's indifferent gaze moved slightly.After a while, he walked to Xie Hengyan's side, bent over and squatted in front of him, carefully scrutinizing the puppet's distressed and broken face.

"It turns out that wood can also be emotional." You Qing said with a strange face, "You said that the human man is dead, and you will no longer live."

Xie Hengyan nodded: "Yes. I don't want to live anymore."

You Qing asked again: "Do you love him?"

Xie Hengyan tilted her head, and then replied: "...love."

You Qing said: "Do you know what love is?"

"..."

This time, Xie Hengyan finally fell silent.

But You Qing sneered and smiled softly, then he stood up, raised his sleeves, sighed, and said to the puppet who was still kneeling: "I said, puppet... why don't you come and help me?" Get busy."

Xie Hengyan said sadly, "I don't want to help anything."

You Qing said: "You will be willing to help."

Xie Hengyan said blankly, "What's the matter?"

"Help me...'pay off the debt'." You Qing said lazily.

"...?" Xie Hengyan suddenly became nervous, "What kind of debt should I pay? I don't want to..."

However, before half a sentence could be finished, You Qing turned around and smiled at the puppet—the next moment, Shenjun stretched out his powerful hand, pressed it directly on Xie Hengyan's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Of course it is!" , the people, lives, and debts owed by this god—"

The puppet's dark pupils suddenly constricted, and before it could react at all, it suddenly felt a strong force coming from behind, followed by its body leaning forward, and the whole person staggered, and fell down quickly. go!

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-"

Although it was only a short moment of the crazy and surging feeling of falling rapidly, since Xie Hengyan realized it, it was almost the first time that he felt some kind of illusion called "reincarnation on the ground" - he thought in a daze, if he really fell like this To be smashed to pieces, it can be regarded as a beginning and an end in another sense.

... But it's a pity that You Qing didn't give him a "final" chance.

In the darkness, Xie Hengyan opened his eyes suddenly, and Fang's internal organs trembled when he landed, almost horrified him to cough up a mouthful of old blood - but the puppet didn't have old blood, so he could only cough dryly, and at one point even wanted to swallow three It was not until the sound of the coughing wind that the wind splashed the sky with grass clippings, that Xie Hengyan consciously realized that he was in a sunken haystack, and his body was soft. The warm straw has a faint fragrance after sun drying, which is very comfortable and pleasant to smell.

Xie Hengyan was about to say, whose haystack is this... The next moment, a light was lit outside the haystack. It was late at night, and there were rustling footsteps not far away, with a yawning laziness A female voice floated faintly all the way to my ears: "It's so late...who is it?"

"It can't be a thief." Another male voice said.

Xie Hengyan froze all over, and when she was about to run away, a flash of fire suddenly lit up in front of her eyes. In the dark night, she suddenly met a pair of completely unfamiliar eyes. It was a woman that the puppet had never seen before. She was dressed in the most ordinary peasant women's attire, simple and plain With a long linen dress and a delicate and clean face under the light and shadow, he would light up a lantern and look at Xie Hengyan in the haystack, with a look of panic in his eyes.

"Sorry, I'm..."

Xie Hengyan just wanted to say, I am passing by, I am really not a thief who robs and steals.But before he had time to speak, an unusually familiar voice came from behind the woman. At this time, he took a step forward, walked outside the haystack where Xie Hengyan sank, and turned to the woman, "...Who is it? Why did you come here at night?" Are we here?"

At that moment, Xie Hengyan's breathing became sluggish, and her brain stopped working at the same time - because right in front of him, close at hand, under the illumination of many dim yellow lights, a man with black hair and green clothes, a pair of dark and round almond eyes , with indescribable arrogance mixed with warm eyebrows, and a figure so similar to Xie Hengyan, that is...

"Daddy!!!"

Xie Hengyan burst into tears, turned over abruptly and sat up in the haystack, then staggered towards Xie Cong, crying uncontrollably, "Father, I thought you were dead... woo woo woo..."

For some reason, Xie Cong suddenly showed a very flustered expression: "Hey, hey, you kid..."

Xie Hengyan snotted and burst into tears: "My good father... I will never leave you again..."

"Don't shout!" Xie Cong blushed, his expression when he was so embarrassed and angry was exactly the same as Xie Hengyan's, "... let me go!!!"

Xie Hengyan didn't care about it, and plunged into Xie Cong's arms and rubbed it back and forth, but he didn't yell out his daddy, who was shaking the world and crying ghosts and gods, but the woman beside him suddenly raised his hand and slapped Xie Cong's handsome and delicate face , There was a crisp sound of "pop"!

——For a moment, the air that was originally boiling seemed to slowly freeze from that moment.

Xie Hengyan's crying stopped, she raised her head dully, and saw five extra fingerprints on Xie Cong's face, but before the two of them could say a word, the eyes of the woman carrying the lamp turned red and tears flowed down her face Dripping all over the face.

She fixedly looked at the two faces of Xie Cong and Xie Hengyan, who were extremely similar, and thought of something, and suddenly sobbed with grievance, and tremblingly said to Xie Cong:

"I just knew... I just knew that everyone said that I am not good enough for you, brother Cong. Now that I have gone through a lot of hardships, it is very easy to marry you-you are better, this time the flowers in the family are not as good as the wild ones." Huaxiang, all the wild children who are stealing fish are coming to the door!"

After finishing speaking, he shouted: "Xie Cong, I misread you!" Then he turned around, pulled out a belt from somewhere, hung it on the beam of the house, stepped on the stool without saying a word, and said with tears in his eyes. : "...you go live with your wild child!"

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The sweet plot begins in the second half, returning to the previous daily sand sculpture style.

I'm not going around the corner here. You Qing said that Xie Hengyan should pay back the debt of life because Fang Yan participated in the previous enchantment. The overall fate of the later stage will collapse. If it harms his merits, he urgently needs an honest person to help clean up the mess... As for this honest person, there is only an idiot like Xie Hengyan.

So Xie Hengyan's current space is another world without Fang Yan's participation. You can regard it as a parallel time and space, and Xie Hengyan's airborne time is very early, which is located at the front end of the story timeline.

Regarding Yinzhu, I actually left a foreshadowing, and if there is no accident, it will appear within two chapters~