Slightly aggrieved and slightly sarcastic words came from Lao Itchi's mouth.
Wu Xie frowned, and there was a clear feeling of displeasure between his brows, "Haha, don't you think I don't feel uncomfortable? I treat you like a brother... You actually lied to me, treated me like a fool, and used me
!”
Lao Itch laughed, "Lying to you? Taking advantage of you? You think--it's too complicated. I---in addition to making money, I also---have a private purpose for coming to Qinling... This
Private --- private purposes have nothing to do with you, and they --- won't affect you."
"So I--I didn't--didn't tell you, can--can this be called lying to you or taking advantage of you?"
Lao Itch has reason and evidence and refutes it all.
Wu Xie didn't buy it and said with a sarcastic tone, "What's your personal purpose? Just to come here and secretly dig out such a broken stick?"
Lao Itch ignored Wu Xie's sarcasm and nodded solemnly, "Yes!"
Wu Xie expressed disbelief and sneered, "If that's true, given our friendship, why did you do it secretly? Why couldn't you tell me? Are you afraid that I would steal the stick from you?"
Lao Itch didn't answer immediately and became silent and confused.
After struggling for a while, Lao Itch finally spoke up again, "This matter - things are a bit complicated. This - this stick is actually - my old cousin from Jiangxi..."
"There is a detail that I - I didn't - didn't tell you before..."
"Three years ago, my old cousin sawed off a branch from the green bronze tree..."
It's always itchy.
After Wu Xie heard this, the anger on his face weakened slightly, "What you dug out was the branch he sawed off?"
"Well," Lao Itch responded and continued, "My old cousin treats --- this bronze branch as --- a treasure, and even --- doesn't even give me a look..."
"Later, I--I found that he was getting more and more weird, and his whole person became--becoming neurotic..."
At this point, Lao Itch's tone suddenly changed, and he asked Wu Xie in a perceptive tone, "Old Wu, do you - do you believe that there are - there are yin people in this world?"
Wu Xie was stunned: "o((⊙﹏⊙))o"
After being stunned for several seconds, Wu Xie shook his head and briefly explained his understanding of Yin people, "I have heard of Yin people. It is said that Yin people are people who work for the King of Hell in the Yang world..."
Bah bah bah bah.
After saying it once, Wu Xie gave a negative answer: "You ask me if I believe it, and I can only say that I don't believe there are any sinister people in this world."
Lao Itch didn't care about Wu Xie's disbelief and said directly, "My old cousin has become nervous ever since he got this bronze branch..."
"Later, when we walked out of the mountains, he said that he had become a Yin person..."
After hearing these words, Wu Xie raised his eyebrows and said, "As far as I know, hallucinations and auditory hallucinations are most likely a sign of schizophrenia."
Lao Itch did not comment on this and smiled lightly, "Actually, my old cousin, before that, was already a little abnormal..."
Lao itchy, la la la la, briefly talked about his old cousin’s abnormal behavior.
When Wu Xie heard this, his expression changed slightly, and he looked a little frightened.
The appearance of this frightening meaning shows that at this moment, Wu Xie has more or less believed in Yin Ren's statement...or, in other words, somewhat believed in Lao Itch's explanation.
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'Interesting.'
Realizing this, Ding Ze muttered something silently. At the same time, he couldn't help but think of a movie called "The Master Key" that he had watched before traveling through time.
In that movie, there are two big guys who need to use a strange witchcraft to change their bodies every few decades to ensure that they can continue to live.
The two bosses carefully selected the target, and then, because of the strange body-changing witchcraft, the prerequisite for its success was that the target really believed in the existence of witchcraft...
So, the two big guys, through little details, slowly instilled in the target the idea that "witchcraft really exists and is useful"...
When the thoughts are successfully instilled, the two bosses can successfully perform that kind of witchcraft and complete the replacement of the body...
After quickly recalling the general plot of the movie, Ding Ze felt more firmly that the lies Lao Itchy had told Wu Xie again and again along the way were indeed the same as those in "The Master Key" in a sense.
The behavior of the two big guys in the movie is similar, they are instilling an idea into Wu Xie...
‘So, Lao Itch’s current series of lies is to give Wu Xie a preliminary understanding of the ability of the Bronze Sacred Tree?’
Ding Ze asked himself in his heart.
At this time.
Wu Xie spoke up and asked Lao Chu, "You mean, your old cousin's schizophrenia was caused by this bronze branch?"
When Ding Ze heard this, his thoughts returned to reality. He stopped thinking about all the messy things for the time being and continued to listen quietly to the conversation between the two people in front of him.
Hearing Wu Xie's question, Lao Itch turned his head, looked at the backpack with bronze branches next to him, and said: "I'm not sure, but three years ago, I came with my cousin
Fall here----fight upside down..."
"Except for this green---bronze branch, everything he--he has touched, I--I have touched..."
"So, I--I think that my old cousin's mental problem, even if it cannot be said that it is definitely--caused by this bronze branch, should--should be related to--
It has nothing to do with it."
"It's precisely for this reason that I didn't dare to let you touch it just now."
Wu Xie said nothing and looked confused.
Lao Itch glanced at it and continued, "Three years ago, when my old cousin and I came back, our last stop was this shack..."
"I woke up in the middle of the night and found out that he was missing. I went out to look for him and found the place where I dug out the bronze branch not long ago. At that time, he was already filling in the soil..."
Bah bah bah bah.
Lao Itch explained it smoothly, and then, without waiting for Wu Xie to say anything, he suddenly changed from passive to active and asked Wu Xie, "Old Wu, if I--I told you this in advance, would you
----Will you allow me to dig up this green---bronze branch?"
Wu Xie was speechless and did not say a word. However, his expression gave a negative answer.
Lao Chi saw it and smiled. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and said with a smile, "I know your character well, so I dug it out secretly.
.”
"I--the reason why I did this is actually the opposite of what you scolded me for. I didn't--I didn't want to lie to you, do you understand?"
Wu Xie: "..."
Ding Ze: "..."
At this moment, what should be said should not be said. Even though he knew that this plot would be staged, Ding Ze couldn't help but admire Lao Itchi's acting skills.
'Absolutely textbook-level acting!'
‘You’re awesome, don’t don’t want it!’
'Comrade Wu Xie, you will be fooled around, and you are not unfair at all.'
Ding Ze thought that if he was not the original author and listened to Lao Chi's clear and logical explanation, he would definitely be deceived.
Therefore, I was quite emotional for a while.
With this emotion, Ding Ze moved his eyes and looked at Wu Xie.
I saw that when the time reached this point, just like in the original plot, Wu Xie had basically accepted Lao Itch's explanation, his brows were almost relaxed, and there was almost no anger on his face.
Wu Xie was speechless for a while, and after dozens of seconds, he moved his mouth, "Although what you said does make sense, but..."
Wu Xie couldn't finish what he said.
Because at this moment, Lao Itch suddenly made a very natural move and pulled out the homemade pistol from his waist. Then, bang... he started a fire and lit the cigarette.