no puppet

So Yin Zhu bit the bullet and said it again: "...I'm sorry."

This time, still no response.

In fact, Yin Zhu is a very proud person.He was willing to lower his face and sincerely apologize to a puppet in front of him, already exhausting his greatest courage.

Unfortunately, however, the puppet ignored him at all.

"I've said everything I need to say." Yin Chun turned his head away, and said rather coldly, "If you don't listen to me, then forget it."

In fact, after saying this, Yin Zhu had been expecting him to give some answers.

But no, Xie Hengyan was lying in the corner from the beginning to the end, with his back facing him, trying to curl his body into a ball, as if he was using his soft shell to resist all sounds from the outside world.

— he is in pain.It really hurts.

It was so painful that I didn't even have the strength to tremble.

The bone needle pierces the heart, but the puppet has no heart, so what it wears is skin and flesh, the meridian and bone marrow connecting the deepest part of the body.

Even if it is wood, you will feel boundless pain.

"……feeling bad?"

Yin Chun reached out and tried to break apart Xie Hengyan's cooked shrimp-like body, but it was of no avail at all. The two of them were in a stalemate, and finally Yin Chun exerted some force to dig Xie Hengyan out of the corner of the wall again until he hugged him. Get back on your legs, and lay down firmly and firmly.

However, at this time Xie Hengyan didn't even have the strength to struggle for the last time, he was like a doll at the mercy of others, with his head drooping, his whole body falling apart in Yin Chun's arms, his breathing was low, his eyes were blurred and blank - that was the result of being forced The quietness and gentleness that comes from being twisted.

Yin Chun felt indescribably depressed and anxious.But he has never been able to speak, and he is not gentle when hugging people. At that time, he grabbed Xie Hengyan and stuck him to the position closest to his heart, just like hugging a wounded animal. I don't know where to start .

"sorry."

After all, it's still those three words.

"sorry."

"...I'm fine." Xie Hengyan said.

"sorry."

"Stop talking." Xie Hengyan lowered her eyelashes, "Are you apologizing to yourself?"

"I...not." Yin Zhu said frankly, "I'm apologizing to you."

Xie Hengyan laughed, very lightly.

He was silent for a while, probably gathered enough strength, and finally said: "Yin Chu, I could have killed you."

Yin Chun didn't speak, but shifted his gaze slightly, and then stared at Xie Hengyan's soft and delicate thin lips.

There, there are two deadly fangs—the one broken by the puppet himself has been completely repaired now, and judging from the traces, it is probably artificially put together.

"You need to be clear, I'm still unwilling to kill you...it's not because you are special, or I like you very much...or something else." Xie Hengyan closed her eyes, and said almost out of strength, "I've been here for a few years. Before leaving the island, until now, I have met many unreasonable and strange people like you, but I never thought of hurting them."

Yin Zhu always felt that he might be belittling himself on purpose when he said this, but because the current situation was not very optimistic, Yin Zhu did not refute.

Xie Hengyan: "Do you know why?"

Yin Chun: "You want to explain...because you are kind."

"Because I want to be a person." Xie Hengyan said every word clearly, "I... want to be a person."

Yin Chu paused for a moment, then thought of something, showing a strange and embarrassed expression.

"If it is said that the 'Mark of Karma' represents a sin that cannot be washed away, then those people who massacre and take away life and death under the pretext of the Mark of Karma are not 'karma'?" Xie Hengyan lifted his weak hands What I saw was not the seal, but the narrow and airtight window above my head, "In the final analysis, are they killing 'karma', or... are they creating 'karma' over and over again?"

Yin Chun asked him, "Who are you referring to when you say this...?"

"I'm not referring to anyone alone, I'm just stating a phenomenon." Xie Hengyan said slowly, "I didn't think about this before. When I haven't fully realized, hunting and killing living people by instinct, this is the law of the jungle. Just like your master, who trampled on the corpses of monsters all the way to get to where he is today."

But in the hearts of most human beings, killing demons is justice, even if it is cruel, vicious, or dehumanized, it doesn't matter - as long as everything that opposes it can be eradicated in the end, that is the greatest selfless hero in everyone's heart.

"Before Xie Cong adopted me, during the period when the ban on demons in the capital was in vogue. I was hunted down and escaped all the way. On the way, I ran into a slow-moving woman with a big belly." Xie Hengyan said, "That should have been me. I was hungry for several days, the only food I saw... But my karma seal was damaged at that time, and it was almost to the point where it was completely shattered."

Yin Chun's eyes moved slightly, and soon he showed a somewhat unbelievable expression.

"She knew I was a puppet, but she didn't report to the police. Instead, she found food and water, and tried to live with me peacefully for five days."

Yin Chun asked, "Then did you kill her?"

"No. She was in a bad state at the time and kept repeating to me that she was guilty and that she didn't deserve to live in this world—I wondered what she was guilty of at first, until she lifted her hair and let me see The Karma seal on the scalp." Xie Hengyan took a deep breath, then looked away, and looked down at Yin Zhu's generous and strong palm.

But Yin Chu was completely stunned, and after a long while, still seemed unable to understand what he was talking about.

——Rather than not understanding, it would be better to say that he couldn't believe it.

Xie Hengyan asked: "Didn't you think of it? In the year of the war in Feng Town, the streets were full of deformed people like this, with the seal of karma on their heads, but with the characteristics of living people."

Yin Chun shook his head: "...I don't know, Master didn't tell me about this before."

"Of course your master won't say it, because he was the one who joined forces with Rongfu to classify all living creatures with seals as demons and wipe them out." Xie Hengyan said, "Including the woman who was pregnant with the child, and me. It is also the target of the two joint pursuits."

Yin Chun was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "Then did she die later?"

Xie Hengyan didn't answer his question directly, but raised his palm slightly, grabbed Yin's five fingers that couldn't be tightened tightly, and placed it on his left chest, which was no different from a human heart.

——In there, there are countless sharp bone needles pierced, but at the same time, some important thing that is indispensable for the survival of all monsters is hidden.

"That woman, in just five days, gave birth to her child, and then transferred the karma seal on her head to me, saving my last dying life." Xie Hengyan stared intently. Yin Chun's eyes, "My complete karma seal is here, filled by her own hands - just like all human beings, it is equivalent to the place of the heart."

Yin Chun's whole body trembled, because he pressed his palms down against Xie Hengyan's cold and stiff heart, but at that moment he only felt that it had really come alive, and even the delicate and smooth fabric on the outside was emitting a warm and powerful feeling. temperature.

"She told me that she was guilty. But the crime was not just a demon mark on her head—it was because she shouldered a heavy responsibility and gave birth to a young son, but was hunted down because of the existence of the karma mark. In the end, she was unable to put this A new life nurtures an adult... So, she was in great pain and suffering, and even felt that she could not survive."

"However... whether you have the karma seal or not is not a matter that you can control. Some people are monsters that everyone can kill when they open their eyes, but what can they do... they are not willing to become This is a look that attracts people to shout and kill."

"If someone is born innocent, and sins are all acquired by people, in the end, it stands to reason that those perpetrators who seem to be righteous... should be the beginning of all sins."

Xie Hengyan finished speaking such a long paragraph in one breath, his physical strength was almost exhausted, his breath was weak at that time, and he lay limply back in Yin Chun's arms, it seemed that it was difficult to squeeze out a word and half a sentence to continue what he just said. Extend down.

But for Yin Chun who had been listening carefully behind him, what these words brought was more than simple surprise or astonishment, it had clearly reached an unspeakable level of shock.

It is completely impossible to describe how he feels at this time.Because in Yin Chun's eyes, this puppet has always been stupid and ignorant, most of the time it is pretending to be crazy, and it rarely shows a half-serious expression--these words spoken by him now are not like it. As he himself said, everything is close at hand, but it seems to be untouchable and far away, with a cold and strange taste.

"So Yin Chun, I said that I want to be a human being." Xie Hengyan buried her head deeply in his arms, and whispered in a trance, "If the perpetrators themselves have created enough sins, then they and the karma What's the difference between those 'monsters' in the birth seal...?"

What's the difference?

Yin Chun looked up at the sky, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

He grew up by Cheng Daofeng's side since he was a child. Although he cannot guarantee that Bi Yufu's actions must be fair and just, at least in the eyes of all the existing people in Laifeng Town, everything Cheng Daofeng does is for the sake of Keep the surface calm and calm, and continue to pay hard work and hard work.

So few people will pay attention to what kind of crimes he has committed in private.

"There is no absolute right or wrong in the world."

Yin Chu thought for a while, and still patted Xie Hengyan on the back, hoping to soothe his pain with this method: "If it is necessary to discuss who is the ultimate perpetrator... I think justice may stand on the side of a more side of the majority."

"Then... which side are you on?" Xie Hengyan suddenly looked sideways at him.

Yin Chun paused, but was stunned by the question again.

"I'll just ask you..." Xie Hengyan suddenly bowed and sat up, then reached out and held Yin Chun's wrist, "What do you think?"

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To highlight the important point, although the pregnant woman who appeared in this chapter is not an important person, but throughout the whole text, there would be no such gentle Xiaoxie without her.

Then when it comes to the question of guilt or innocence, I am afraid that everyone will be confused, so I will briefly explain:

It roughly means that the karma seal is sinful in the eyes of everyone, but if people kill the person with the seal, it is equivalent to creating a sin. In the end, are they killing the sin or are they constantly What about repetition of sin?

I think there is no answer to this question. Humans think that they are right, and demons think that they are not wrong. Maybe, as Yin Zhu said, justice is on the side of the majority.

As for the pregnant woman who gave birth, her point of view is different from that of most people. Although she feels that she is guilty, the sin is not due to the seal of karma, but her incompetence as a mother.

This person will appear later, I will not spoil the details!