When the moon is dark and the wind is high, sometimes it may not necessarily be a murderous night.
These two people are a bit sneaky, but that's relative. When a normal person sees two shadows carrying bags and whispering in the forest, their first reaction is to flee the scene and report to the police as quickly as possible.
However, no one lives in this kind of wilderness, let alone anyone to report their suspicious behavior.
In fact, they are not that suspicious.
"What I can find is really limited." The man standing was carrying something on his back and a heavy bag in his hand. "I have asked all my animal friends who can help."
"It's okay. Thank you Jiyue-kun."
"It's no secret that we have been friends for so many years."
The man who was sitting did not stand up. It seemed that the two of them had a good relationship and there was really no need for extra courtesy. He sat on a flat stone, took the bag, opened it and looked at it.
"It's really just a small part."
"There is no way, it is too scattered. We are doing our best to find all relevant clues."
"Apart from physical objects and clues, I'm afraid there's no need to look for them deliberately. This is something that is easy to speculate on."
"You mean..."
"I'm afraid something happened to my spiritual veins to be so broken. If you think about it carefully, it hasn't been too long since I came back from the South Country. Just one night, the corpses were scattered all over the river and lake. Why?
I think they all encountered accidents in the chaotic spiritual veins. And Lord Ruyue does not have the form that a human should have, everything about her is so 'gently' connected, and it is easy to become like this."
"The other six impermanences have done their best, but..."
"I know it will be worse in the end." Shi Wuqi shook his head and said, "There must be some parts that cannot be found. The smell of her body, although it will not be eaten by wild beasts, can be easily eaten by Gu insects. I'm afraid there are many more.
It permeates the spiritual veins and strays into other ways."
"..."
In the moonless night, Lord Jiyue just stood there, "watching" Shi Wuqi in the darkness. Of course he couldn't see him, but he knew that he was there. Shi Wuqi opened the bag and started to
He took out a very short forearm and looked at the fracture. The bones were still black, and the muscles and skin were attached to them in turn, and they were firmly glued together. This small piece of hand
The arm is already the largest piece among these fragmentary objects. Ruyue-kun's body is so stiff and compact. If an ordinary human being is broken into this, the bones and blood must be separated. But she is so fragile. Compared with her, ordinary people,
On the contrary, it is better able to withstand the impact in the spiritual veins, but she cannot. After all, how can a body that has lost its vitality be compared with a living body?
"I'll make up for it with other bodies."
"Excuse me, this is what the Lord wishes."
"I will do these things even if the Lord does not entrust me with this."
Mr. Jiyue hesitated to speak, always feeling that there was something else he wanted to ask clearly. On the one hand, he felt that they had known each other for a long time and had long-term contacts in life and work. From this point of view, they knew each other very well.
Yes. But on the other hand, Lord Jiyue felt that he didn’t actually understand him. Or rather
, in fact, the Hundred Skeleton Masters don’t know themselves that well. They are always cautious in their dealings, and everything they say and do is businesslike. Even when chatting in private, they will only avoid those tacit topics.
They both talked superficially about the topics that were most likely to cause ambiguity and never went into depth.
"I have a question for you."
"Say." Shi Wuqi raised his head and looked at him. Although this action was redundant, Lord Jiyue couldn't see, so this kind of eye contact etiquette was not required. However, he would still do it.
"You...uh, who do you think did this?"
"What do you think?" Shi Wuqi asked back.
"That entangled woman. It should be said that she is now a banshee."
"Indeed, she is the most suspect. But we cannot just lock her in so easily."
"Well, you are very calm. It's a bit rare." Mr. Jiyue finally introduced the next topic, "Miss Tao bothered you again and again... you are not angry now."
"What can I do if I'm angry? No matter how much I bother her, I have to reason with her and provide evidence."
"Kisaragi-kun...is it still her?"
Shi Wuqi stopped.
"I don't understand what you want to ask."
Lord Jiyue was a little hesitant. He knew what he was concerned about, but he was not sure how to ask the question in the most appropriate way. After all, his question about Lord Kisaragi might seem like a question to Lord Bai Skeleton.
"What I mean is...ordinary humans, if they want to live, they need to keep some parts of themselves." He slowly considered the words, "But, for the monsters who belong to the corpse class, any part is fine.
Replaced. Kisaragi-kun is missing her original body. If you piece it together with other corpses, will she still be the same as before? Will she lose anything, or gain something, if every original part is replaced one by one?
How can she retain her consciousness if replaced?"
"I don't know." Shi Wuqi answered frankly, "I can only tell you that corpses are indeed not like living people, who rely on their brains to remember and define themselves. Each part of the body may indeed carry different memories."
"You also seem to be born from the combination of different corpse parts - different bones?"
Mr. Jiyue was not so much asking about a fact, but more like asking about his willingness to continue the topic. Shi Wuqi nodded and took over the conversation:
"Indeed, my origin also caused me to feel great confusion at the beginning of my birth. It was with the help of that witch that I gradually coordinated the different parts of myself, reached reconciliation with myself, and finally unified. However,
I took it upon myself to let Lord Kisaragi win
Being given this form of life made her repeat the pain I had suffered, and once again experience the anxiety I had brought to that person. During this process, I could do nothing to help. Now facing this
The disaster that befell her was so useless."
These words were a bit harsh. Lord Jiyue shook his head and retorted:
"You don't need to blame yourself. It's their sin that causes trouble and causes harm to others. It's their sin, not yours or mine. If you want to talk about responsibility, the responsibility of being an impermanent person in the six realms is even greater. We will investigate it soon.
Why did this unexpected disaster happen? Don't be too impatient or push yourself too hard."
"I'm not in a hurry. I know in my heart that I'm not helping the person I wanted to reach out to at the beginning, but - do more good deeds in life?" Shi Wuqi smiled and responded in a relaxed tone,
"Didn't you help me a lot back then? Ah, but in the end, you still made people sad when you showed that you are different from a human being to a monster in front of the mountains and seas."
Lord Jiyue was silent for a long time. It wasn't that he didn't expect that his original actions were indeed hurting Master Bai Skeleton's feelings. Rather, what Shi Wuqi admitted was something he had expected. He knew that what the other party had always cared about was
Regarding this matter, Shi Wuqi looked at his expression with disdain and then added:
"It's sad to be sad. I've figured it out a long time ago. You didn't do anything wrong. Shan Hai... He is a person who wants to achieve enlightenment and ascend. It should be like this. But to this day, he is still bound by the world of mortals."
"I should understand him. Even if I want to warn him, I can't influence the path he takes." Lord Jiyue laughed and sighed, "Oh, you said if I had known this, why would I have broken you up in the first place? It's better not to let you go.
It was emotionally damaging at that time.”
"It doesn't matter. Everyone, whether they are monsters or monsters, must experience something at every stage of their existence in the human world before they can become their current selves. This is the truth that I should know best."
"You are a person who understands life, I believe you." Lord Jiyue pointed out, "So Lord Ruyue, what do you think..."
Shi Wuqi interrupted him. His tone became serious:
"I can't guarantee that even if she regains her mobility later, it's up to you to think of a solution. What if she loses her mind again, not to mention that she can no longer be competent in the six realms of impermanence, and it is impossible to say that she will lose these memories so far.
thing."
Lord Jiyue sighed softly.
"We are naturally mentally prepared, so there is no need to worry. But what I wanted to ask you just now may be a little more offensive: Do you think that, to be fair, there is really no connection between Lord Ruyue and the person in your heart before? Someone
These annoying people must have said this many times, but I want to hear a real answer from your own mouth."
He didn't wait right away. Shi Wuqi half lowered his head, playing with the parts of the human body in his hands, but without much thought, as if he was absent-minded. His silence lasted for a while, and Lord Jiyue waited quietly.
Finally, Shi Wuqi finally spoke and calmly told this old friend:
"To be honest, I really can't say anything about this. But - does it really matter what I think of her? For her, for more objective judgments, and even for me, this kind of
Real thoughts are no longer that important. No matter how similar she is
Everyone is just another person wearing a skin; no matter how much I think about someone, it is clear that that person will only live in my memory forever. Even when I think back to my state of mind at that time, I have to ask myself, before I practice
When I was making the soul-reviving incense, I really didn’t have any
Did I foresee all the bad possibilities? No, I have already thought about it, but... maybe I am just unwilling, my thoughts are not clear, and I am young and energetic, so I just go my own way and make a desperate move. It is not good to get one.
The result is
The price I should bear for this. I irresponsibly created a person who did not belong to this world, so everything in the future is a remedy. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an atonement. Including the painstaking efforts now,
That’s probably the same meaning.”
There was silence in the dark woods. After his calm ending, even the wind seemed to have left. Only Ji Yuejun sighed softly, like the lonely wind blowing by. Shi Wuqi had nothing to say anymore, Ji Yuejun said.
Yue Jun didn't know what he should say or whether he should say anything. He held up his sleeves and raised his head slightly. Maybe there was a good moonlight somewhere tonight, but in any case, it didn't shine here, so he couldn't let him
see.
After a long time, Bai Skeleton Master raised his head and broke the silence:
"I have an idea. It's a bit risky, but it might be the way to lose the least."
"Want to hear the details?" Mr. Jiyue cheered up.
"This idea may involve some... taboo things." Shi Wuqi described it conservatively, "But Lord Yingyue has already done this, hasn't he?"
