"What, are you trying to persuade me to be a good person now?"
Xiaobai's words were very rude, which made them feel a little uncomfortable. After she said this, she bared her teeth slightly, not as a threat, but because the injury on her lower back ached a little. Although it should have been patched there.
Shan Hai felt that the conversation would be smoother if the "unlanded" person was present. But when they stayed up late at night and sneaked into the dog farm to cause trouble, it wasn't just for her.
"Although I really want to explain it to you and apologize seriously again. I shouldn't have made the promise so confidently at that time. I took it for granted and it was my fault. But please believe that since you also We have made our own choice, and we...will not interfere anymore."
After Shan Hai finished speaking, Dai Luan whispered: "I almost don't recognize her anymore... She is very different from before."
"What was she supposed to be like? Who has the final say?" Kari Goutuo spread his hands and smiled as always.
Mu Wan looked at Tan Ge beside him. She and Zhang Changgong stood together, forming a subtle triangle with Kari Gongduo and Miss Bai. Mu Wan said to Tan Ge:
"We are here this time to help the fox demon from the past two days. I offended you when I disturbed you last time. But I hope you can understand that we are not bad people with malicious intentions. I heard you have a wish before. I don't know. Can you tell me, it would be best if we could help you."
"What does it have to do with you?" Tan Ge didn't appreciate it.
Zhang Changgong sighed heavily.
"Don't be offended, girl. This child has been waiting for someone..."
Mu Wan had an idea. This must be talking about the enemy who killed her parents back then. In Liang Yuejun's narration, the little girl they imagined was frail. However, twenty years later, when she actually stood in front of them, the violence that was coming out of her body made them feel uncomfortable...it couldn't be said. The discomfort is just unexpected. That's fine, this is how you should protect yourself when living with monsters.
After all, so many years have passed.
Even so, Mu Wan still wanted to try to reason with her. Because there was a familiar feeling about her, it felt like... her senior brother, the man named Wu Yuangui.
The man who grew up in hatred.
Although she suffered the same misfortune as he did, and had people who were kind enough to raise them. But Tange was lucky enough to meet such a gentle person - or a monster. And what walked into Wu Yuangui's life was a complete monster, a real monster. The dog demon raised her because of the instinct of repaying kindness and motherly love, while the snake demon, driven by profit and troublemaking, shaped him into the... disgusting person he is now.
However, they are also very different.
At least the person who adopted her was not her enemy.
"We've heard about you... You won't have nowhere to go. You can follow that fox demon. Although he can be a bit annoying at times, he is... very good."
Mu Wan persuaded somewhat feebly, and he had no position.
Kari Gondo was still smiling with his eyes narrowed. After hearing their conversation, he clenched his jaw and thought for a while. He took a step closer to Tan Ge, which made Zhang Changgong feel bad. He hesitated to speak, and wanted to reach out his hand to hold Tan Ge, but he retracted.
"If you're staying here to...find your murderer, right? The one who killed your adoptive mother?"
The tone was strange and made everyone feel uneasy.
"What do you want to say...?" Tan Ge stared at him and took a slight step back.
"It's nothing. I know about you... we know everything. If you can get the answer to this question, will you leave here? By then, will you fight for any insignificant benefits for these guys who work together? ?"
Tan Ge raised his head and glanced at the workers. They were her subordinates and her friends who stayed with her day and night. Almost everyone has a family and at least one child. Some people's children's mothers died early, but they dare not bring their children to a place like this, so they run back and forth from here to home all day long. They are afraid to tell their neighbors where they work. Although making a living in such a lucrative place sounds like a decent thing, in reality it doesn't cost much more, and it's not pleasant to deal with monsters every day and have an animal-like stench. Some people rarely go back because they are afraid of embarrassing their wives and children.
The dog farm is the execution ground for many monsters, but it is also their home.
"I don't know," she said matter-of-factly.
"What about you?" Kari Gongduo looked at Changgong, "Are you willing to let her know?"
Tan Ge suddenly turned around and looked at her adoptive father.
"...You know? In fact, you have always known who killed her?"
Zhang Changgong frowned slightly, which was connected with the wrinkles on his face. His weather-beaten face looked a bit old, but at this moment it was more vicissitudes than ever.
"Yeah. I know."
"Then why didn't you tell me?!" Tan Ge said loudly, "You still lied to me to stay and work here? So short of manpower? Since you know who it is, you still want me to maintain order and maintain... Maintain order in the backcourt! If you disobey monsters, you will be punished and beaten. Do you think I am happy with it? Not every young master is willing to whip someone with a whip!"
Zhang Changgong opened his mouth slightly, his eyes a little dazed. He didn't know what to say, or maybe he thought it was useless.
Shanhai had a bad feeling. He raised his head and glanced at the ceiling. The broken holes were only partially repaired. Some sparse starlight leaked in and merged into the warm light created by the torch, making it impossible to filter it out.
"So, did you tell her, or did I?"
Kari Gondo's tone was as if he was giving away the power of choice. And they all know that this result will inevitably make people ignore the selection process. A bad feeling came over me, like an animal's instinct for danger. Shanhai glanced at Miss Bai. Her face was calm, and she seemed to be indifferent to everything, but also seemed to be very interested. He had never seen such a conflicting feeling on that young face before.
"I," he said, "I killed her, I killed them."
"..."
Tan Ge looked at him in disbelief. After a while, she let out a weird laugh that changed her tone.
"Are you kidding me?"
"I was still young at that time, traveling around with a bow on my back. You know... you all know." Zhang Changgong pointed to the stands, "I was an onmyoji and a demon hunter. As long as I caught the target, the arrow The arrow leaves the hand and hits the target with a hundred shots. One year, I passed by a village not far from Tanghuan County."
Tan Ge knew that it was not his hometown. In order for her to grow up safely, her adoptive mother took herself away from that sad place. Besides, everyone in the village suspected that her biological parents and other family members were killed by the dog demon, so she herself should be freed from suspicion. So the adoptive mother took some other little monsters, which she had also taken care of, and started a wandering life.
As teenagers, they settled far enough away. It was a mountain near a village. When humans needed some daily necessities, it was easy to get them from there. They lived together peacefully, as ordinary as they had been for the past ten years. She heard some oral stories from humans and learned that the rich man in her former residence who wanted to occupy his land died. Before that, the adoptive mother had come back smelling like blood, and so had the other friends. Although they washed themselves clean in the mountain spring, she, who had been influenced by evil spirits for many years, noticed something strange and asked. The adoptive mother and others just said that they went hunting.
They disappeared for so many days that she almost thought they died outside. She didn't think much about anything, didn't care about anything, she just held them tightly.
"That village had inconvenient transportation and never developed. Later, someone learned about the rules of Tanghuan County: dog farms buy monsters at high prices. They wanted to make money, so they told me about it when I passed by. I was responsible for taking care of the animals. When we come back, they will be responsible for transporting it and just pay according to my price. I did it - the places I shot were not fatal, but enough to immobilize them. I was attacking a dog demon The timing was wrong, and she was more sensitive than any monster. The distance was too far at that time, and she instinctively ran away, but she turned a corner and rushed closer to me. So the arrow that was supposed to hit her front leg Penetrated through the chest.”
"Ah, yes." Kari Gondo said, "I remember it. She was not dead at the time, but she died on the third day after the villagers brought her. The wound was originally infected, and she had a high fever, and she might not be able to survive a day. Somehow she managed to hold on for so long. She wailed three times in the direction of the village and closed her eyes."
"What... you..." Tan Mu was a little incoherent, "I..."
"Yes." Zhang Changgong looked at her, his eyes almost sad, "I felt strange... I followed the direction she ran and found a cave under where I was standing. I walked in and you were inside."
"You thought I was kidnapped and you wanted to save me. I tried to explain to you..."
"I didn't know that monsters were raising human children. I thought you were in danger. It took three days for you to let go of your guard against me and for me to understand what you said. I came to you every day, and you gradually trusted me. Got me."
"On the last day, you said you heard in the village that she was seriously injured... You said she was taken to Tanghuan County by the villagers, and you said you would take me to find her..."
"Yeah." Zhang Changgong sighed again, "I didn't lie to you, but I admit that I hid a lot. It was only on the third day that I convinced myself that I should take responsibility for this matter. I..."
Tan Mu kept shaking his head, as if refusing to accept this reality.
"You, what responsibility have you taken?!"
"I don't know." He said honestly, "At least I can't let you wait for death in the mountains."
"Damn you... I have treated you as my second father for the past ten years, you..."
This conversation made Mu Wan feel extremely uncomfortable.
They are the same... and Wu Yuangui, the same.
But what will she do?
As of now, no one on stage or in Taichung has said a word.
So quiet, so quiet.
Xiaobai suddenly took a breath, and the sound seemed a bit abrupt. People hurriedly looking for a place to look, all cast their eyes on her, including Shan Hai and others.
She became different. There was a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, but it was a light red color. Wherever the sweat scratched, it left light marks. More importantly, those weird lines are glowing, dancing, and twisting, like some kind of conscious life form, trying to stretch its branches and leaves to absorb more necessary and unnecessary nutrients.
Her eyes turned blood red.
"So...he lied to you, right? He lied to you...human beings are all liars, you should know..."
Her tone was unnatural, with a hint of joking that shouldn't belong to her. The demonic energy is even more fragrant, almost making people breathless.
It was so strange, that look... almost reminded them of someone they didn't want to think of.
Red and dark night.
