The road of the house owner of the pig in the Chanyuan

When Naozai walked out of the shopping mall, carrying the woman in one hand and Xia Youjie in the other, he found that the outside of the shopping mall was surrounded by people dressed as police officers, and even cordoned off the cordon. , seemed to be discussing something, with a serious look on his face, but they were taken aback when they saw him come out.

"Master Patriarch!" Zhong Xinying was the first to react, trotting to catch up with worry, "How are you, sister Zhenwang wants us to rush over with the people from the Metropolitan Police Department, saying that there is a suspected curse Spirits are haunting, we need to be careful outside... who is this?"

"This is Xia Youjie, a student of the high school of conjuration, he is my friend. As for this one..." Naoya looked solemnly at the woman who was barely supported by him, with tears still hanging from the corners of her eyes, and said in a deep voice , "Her daughter was killed by a curse spirit, and she was too emotional, so I let her sleep first for the time being."

"Has anyone been killed yet?" Xinying frowned, "Master Patriarch, have you been injured anywhere?"

"I'm fine, it's just that the curse spirit ran away. I will record its detailed characteristics later, and you and the Metropolitan Police Department should pay more attention. By the way, even if you find something that looks like this curse Just tell me the whereabouts of the spirit, don't act, just tell me," Naoya frowned, and couldn't help but recall the scene before the little girl was killed by the curse spirit, when Xia Youjie had just picked up the little girl, and the curse spirit Ling held the little girl's hands, but did not let go, and then the little girl was... Naoya's lips were tightly pressed, and he said solemnly, "It seems that it can change a person's body through the touch of both hands, and it cannot be restored. It is very dangerous. Even if you fight against it, remember that you must not fight in close quarters."

"Yes!" Seeing Naoya's solemnity, Xinying couldn't help but feel tighter, and immediately responded, "Master Patriarch, do you have any plans after this, and this mother..."

"...I'll leave her to you to take her to the hospital first. As for her daughter...it's on the first floor of the shopping mall, and there should be surveillance records there. After you deal with the scene, remember to extract all the relevant videos."

"Yes, Master Patriarch, what other orders do you have?"

"After that..." Zhizai looked back at Xia Youjie worriedly. The other party had never said a word from before to now, and he seemed to be a normal person with a calm complexion, but Zhizai knew that this was just the surface, "... Then help me arrange a psychiatrist in the office."

"Yes, I understand, Master Patriarch," Shinsakura nodded and stopped asking, "The office's special car is parked at the corner in front of the street. I'm sorry that I can't take you back in person." He took the woman, bowed slightly, and then left with the woman.

Zhizai turned his head and glanced at the shopping mall behind him, his eyes were deep, brewing the calm before the storm, but these, seeing Xia Youjie who was like a puppet who was indifferent to everything outside and almost only indulging in his own world, felt like Everything turned into helplessness and worry.

No matter what Xia Youjie will be in the future, the Xia Youjie in front of him now is just a teenager who is still in adolescence. This should have been one of the most brilliant and beautiful years in his life, but he faced such a tragic situation. screen.

It wasn't those cursed spirits who had been exorcised, but a living person, about the same age as Xiao Hui, whose eyes were full of thorough and pure childlike innocence, just like that, disappeared in the most cruel way before his eyes.

Standing far away, Zhizai, who is over a hundred years old, is still a bit hard to accept, until now I still feel a dull feeling in my heart, let alone Xia Youjie, who is only in his teens.

That little girl might even have the talent to become a conjurer, and this...maybe one of the reasons why the conjurer must kill her.

Thinking of this, Naoya sighed, stopped going to the mall, and took everyone together into the car.

On the way back, Xia Youjie was still silent, looking at the scenery outside the car window expressionlessly, wondering what he was thinking, while Naozai pursed the corners of his mouth and wanted to speak, but he didn't know that the current situation made Xia Youjie Wouldn't it be better to stay alone for a while like this?

"Jie," finally, Zhizai endured it for a while, but still couldn't ignore Xia Youjie like this, looked at Xia Youjie's condensed and lifeless side face, and said in a low voice, "I remember, when I was in the high school You once said to Wu that as a conjurer, one should eliminate the strong and help the weak."

Xia Youjie didn't respond.

Seeing this, Naoya pursed his lips, and had no choice but to continue, "Jie, I didn't ask why you became a conjurer, but because of this sentence, I take it that you became a conjurer for the sake of your heart." Giri is to protect the weak. But Jie, have you ever thought that there are many people in this world, of all shapes and sizes, and you alone cannot save and protect them all... .”

Hearing this, Xia Youjie finally had a reaction, he licked his lips, as if he wanted to say something, "...but she is right in front of me...just a little short..."

"Jie..." Zhizai frowned, with an expression of impatience, he put his hands on Xia Youjie's shoulders, trying to give him some support.

"...Her mother grabbed my hand tightly and said I was a monster... oh, monster..." Xia Youjie let out a chuckle as if feeling emotional, but his hands tightly covered his eyes, He bent down and propped himself on his thigh, like a statue, fell into silence again.

There was no sadness, no resentment, no indignation, just without saying a word, Xia Youjie sealed his heart tightly, and endured all this alone.

Although this is a way of self-protection, it also cuts off the helping hands of outsiders.

Seeing this, Zhizai couldn't say anything, he could only put his hand on Xia Youjie's shoulder, and glanced out the window, his frowning brows never relaxed at all, the scenery outside the car window was receding rapidly, becoming more and more familiar, until a building The building finally appeared in his field of vision.

The office has arrived.

Bringing Xia Youjie back to the office, and pushing open the door, he thought he would see Naoya who was the first to see Makoto, but it was Gojo Satoru who hadn't seen him for a long time who didn't want to greet him behind the door.

"Naoya!" Gojo Satoru yelled, with exaggerated misses after being apart for a long time, his whole body was like a big bear, wanting to pounce on Naoya with a sudden stab, "I miss you so much!"

To be honest, apart from the fact that Gojo Satoru got tooth decay because of his gluttonous candied haws, and he "voluntarily" hid Naoya for a month, this is the first time since the two were forced to separate for such a long time, and there was no communication at all during the period-in the past, even because of handling affairs No matter how busy he is, Gojo Satoru can chat with Naoya a lot by teleporting or sending text messages to complain.

However, unlike Gojo Satoru's enthusiasm, after seeing him, Naoya couldn't help but feel happy on his face. He also felt extremely relieved and happy about Gojo Satoru's return, and the anxiety in his heart was also temporarily relieved because of him. Relieved, just about to raise the corners of his mouth.

But then, facing the familiar face that kept approaching, Naoya's mind began to involuntarily recall the strange dream full of charming atmosphere in the past few nights, the heat at that time seemed to pass through time and space and illusion , Sprayed to the sensitive part of his neck, causing his body to stiffen, facing Gojo Gona's bear pounce that he should have been accustomed to, subconsciously turned his body sideways, and just dodged it.

"???"

Gojo Satoru, who had flung himself to nothing, froze in place. He looked at his hands in disbelief, and then turned his head to look at Naoya who hid aside. The shock and grievance in his eyes were as real as they were, and they all poked at Naoya's face. Conscience, as well as the embarrassment of the body's subconscious reaction, he even dared not look directly at Gojo Satoru, so he coughed twice pretending to be calm, and diverted his attention, "Well...what's the matter later? Tell me again, what about true hope?"

"Master, I'm here," Zhenwang hurried over, and a few strands of hair that had been neatly arranged at the sideburns also flew out in a mess. Standing in front of Naoya, he bowed and said, "I'm very sorry for bringing Xiaohui back to work." Afterwards, because I was really worried about the young master, I asked Xin Ying and the others to rush to the scene without authorization, and blocked the shopping mall together with the people from the Metropolitan Police Department.

"It's okay, since you have contacted Xinying, you should also understand the general situation," Naoya nodded, calmed down, stopped looking in the direction of Wujo Wu, and turned to Xia Youjie who was beside him to gently push Looking at Zhenwang, he asked in a deep voice, "Is the psychologist from the firm ready?"

"Yes, it's ready." Zhenwang replied.

"Go, Jie," Zhizai glanced at Xia Youjie, and said softly and forcefully, "Wu and I are waiting for you outside."

Xia Youjie seemed numb, and didn't react too much to the outside world. After hearing Naoya's words, he just nodded slowly, and then followed Zhenwang to the depths of the office.

After seeing the person walking away, Naoya took a deep breath, looked at Gojo Satoru again, and stretched out his hand to interrupt all the words the other party wanted to say, and asked first, "When did you come back?"

"It didn't take long, and it's about the same as you." After finishing speaking, Gojo Wu glanced at Xia Youjie's back who had gone away, and asked with a frown, "What's wrong with Jie?"

"No wonder you don't know anything." Naoya sighed, pinched the bridge of his nose with some headaches, and then explained everything that happened in the mall to Gojo Satoru concisely.

"..."

After listening to Naoya's words, Gojo Satoru didn't speak, but from the momentum and the strong dangerous aura emanating from his body, one can imagine how turbulent his mood is now.

"Although that guy ran away, he also endured a lot of Xiaoqing's venom. Before the toxins in his body are completely digested, his strength will be greatly reduced," Naoya squinted his eyes, and his breath was also dangerously heavy. He said, "During this time, I will ask Zhenwang and everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department to work hard and try to find this guy's whereabouts. If there is any news, I will inform you and me as soon as possible."

"Well," it's rare that Gojo Satoru didn't say much, and let Naoya arrange everything, but there were still gaps between his delicate brows, and he looked at Naoya and asked, "That Jie... "

"...Now I can only trust the psychiatrist of the firm and Jie himself, don't worry too much." Zhizai lowered his eyes, the real reason for Xia Youjie's defection has not yet been found, and right now he only hopes that this matter This matter will not become one of the reasons for Xia Youjie's defection in the future, but thinking of Xia Youjie's words and expression in the car just now... Naoya clenched his fists, always feeling that this matter cannot really be relied on Simple psychological counseling.

He had to keep people in the office.

Through these few contacts from shallow to deep, Naozai has gradually understood in his heart that what drives Xia Youjie to become a magician and works hard for it is the principle in his heart of helping the weak without asking for anything in return, more straightforward , In Xia Youjie's mind, as a conjurer on the strong side, it is only natural for him to use his power to help ordinary people on the weak side.

Naturally, Naozai didn't want to deny that there was something wrong with this, but for Xia Youjie who was still in adolescence, adhering to such a concept would be tantamount to completely separating his identity as a conjurer from ordinary people, perhaps Even Xia Youjie himself didn't realize that he was extending his "helping hand" to the people who were attacked by the curse spirit from a high overlooking posture.

If Xia Youjie's process of exorcising the curse spirit is smooth sailing, and the people who have been helped by him also feel sincere gratitude to him, this will naturally not cause any problems for Xia Youjie's growth. Even after the other party matures, they may still find their youthful "childish" mentality and laugh at it.

But the fact is that it is impossible for the conjurer to exorcise the curse spirit, and it is impossible to go on smoothly forever, and the general public who cannot see the curse spirit, and does not know the existence of the conjurer, is also doomed not to understand all kinds of conjurers. Hard work and sacrifice, there will be even a word of gratitude.

If the two parties do not have any intersection with each other, it is still nothing, but if they are in contact, ordinary people who have never learned the truth of the curse spirit will not only find it difficult to understand the magician, but even be afraid of it because of its unknown power. The earth regards it as a scourge.

For example, the 'monster' that the collapsed mother told Xia Youjie in the shopping mall.

Whether it is the person who failed to save the person in front of him from the curse spirit, or the ordinary person who was rescued by himself and called it a monster angrily, with Xia Youjie's personality and the philosophy he upholds, this must be an unlucky one. small shock.

It was precisely because of this that Naoya was particularly worried.

However, judging from Gojo Wu's expression, it should be the first time they have encountered such a thing. Presumably, Xia Youjie will not collapse because of this accident.

But what if there is a next time?Even if it is more serious than this time...Zaozai's brows are frowned, and he can't help but think about it--the clue of Xia Youjie's defection in the future, the fuse, may it be because of similar incidents happened?

"... Naoya? Naoya!"

However, before Naoya could think about it carefully, Gojo Satoru on the side interrupted his thoughts in dissatisfaction, and his slender five fingers dangled in front of his eyes, "What are you thinking? reaction."

"It's nothing..." Naoya paused, and said helplessly, "I'm just a little worried about Jie's condition... By the way, you haven't told me what happened to you on this mission, How come it took so long to come back?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I met a troublesome special magic spirit." Gojo Satoru shrugged. It is the spirit of the spell."

"It turned out to be it?" Naoya was a little surprised, "How did it end up in the suburbs of Tokyo?"

"Who knows, but it's a pity that it was rescued by his accomplices in the end," Gojo Satoru curled his lips, ended the topic as quickly as possible, and said with a tired face, "Forget it, let's not talk about it now , I have been tossing about this task for several days, and I am so tired now, do you want to take a nap with me first?" Saying this, he wanted to fall on Naoya again.

"...Well, I'm worried about Xiaohui and Jie, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well."

As soon as Gojo Satoru's breath approached, Naoya could not restrain himself from recalling the dream in his mind, and his body avoided Gojo Satoru's attack again with the most realistic evasive attitude. Facing Gojo Satoru's unbelievable expression, he just Neng froze the corners of his mouth, stumbled and said in embarrassment, "Wu, why don't you go to sleep for a while by yourself, ha, ha ha..."

After finishing speaking, Naoya fled the scene in embarrassment, leaving Wujo Wu alone, like another statue after Xia Youjie, watching Naoya's leaving back, messed up in the wind.