The moon is dark and the wind is high, and sometimes it may not necessarily be a murderous night.
These two are a little sneaky, but that's relative. When a normal person sees two figures 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 you can find is really limited." The man standing was carrying something on his back and a heavy bag in his hand. "I've called on 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 person who was sitting didn't stand up either. It seemed that the two of them had a good relationship and there really was no need for unnecessary politeness. He sat on a flat stone, took the bag, opened it and looked at it.
"It's really a very 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 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 Southern Kingdom. 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 'lightly' 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 corpse, although it will not be eaten by wild beasts, can easily be 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 he was there. Shi Wuqi opened the bag, took out a short forearm from inside, and looked at the fracture. The bones are still black, and the muscles and skin are attached to them in turn, sticking together firmly. This small piece of arm is already the largest piece among these fragmentary objects. Lord Ruyue's body was so stiff and compact. If an ordinary human was broken into pieces like this, his bones and blood would have been separated. But she is so fragile. Ordinary people are better able to withstand shocks in their spiritual veins than she is, but she is not. After all, how can a body that has lost its vitality be compared with a living body?
"I'll make up some with other bodies."
"Excuse me, this is what the Lord wishes."
"I would have done these things even if the Lord had not so entrusted me."
Mr. Jiyue hesitated to speak, 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 a long-term relationship in life and work. From this point of view, they understand each other very well. But on the other hand, Lord Jiyue felt that he didn't actually understand him. In other words, in fact, the Hundred Skeleton Master doesn't know himself that well. Their interactions are always measured and everything they say and do is businesslike. Even when chatting in private, they would only avoid those topics that were tacitly understood. They would only talk briefly about topics that were most likely to cause ambiguity between each other, and never go into depth.
"I have a question for you."
"Say." Shi Wuqi raised his head and looked at him. Although this action is redundant, Lord Jiyue cannot see, and this etiquette of eye contact is not required. However, he will 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 she cannot be locked in so easily."
"Well, you are very calm. It's a bit rare." Jiyue Jun finally wanted to introduce 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."
Mr. Jiyue was a little hesitant. He knew what he was concerned about, but he was not sure how to ask the question appropriately. After all, his question about Lord Kisaragi may 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 family, any part is fine. Replaced. Kisaragi-kun is missing her body, and if you piece it together with other corpses, is she still the same person? Will she lose anything, or gain anything, 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 is 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 Kisaragi-kun gain this form of life, but it made her repeat the pain I had suffered and experience the anxiety I had brought to that person again. In the process, I could do nothing. Help, now she is so useless in the face of such a disaster that has befallen her."
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 by showing 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's not like he didn't expect that his original actions were indeed hurting the feelings of Bai Skeleton Master. Rather, what Shi Wuqi admitted was something he expected, and he knew that this was what the other party had been paying attention to. Shi Wuqi looked at his expression 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 destroyed 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 will no longer be able to cope with the impermanence of the Six Paths, 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 you."
He didn't wait right away. Shi Wuqi lowered his head half-way, fiddling 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 - what do I think of her? Does it really matter? For her, for more objective judgments, and even for me, this kind of Real thoughts are no longer that important. No matter how much she looks like, she 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 Looking back on my state of mind at that time, I had to ask myself, when I was refining the soul-returning incense, did I really not anticipate all the bad possibilities? No, I had already thought about it, but... I might just not be willing to do so. I didn't have clear ideas, and I was still young and energetic. I just went my own way and made a desperate move. Getting a result that was not a good one was the price I should bear. I irresponsibly created a person who does not belong to this world. , so everything in the future is a remedy, or to say it is an exaggeration, it is an atonement. Including the current painstaking efforts, this is generally the meaning."
There was silence in the dark woods. After his calm ending fell, even the wind seemed to have left. Only a very light sigh from Lord Jiyue was left, like the sound of lonely wind. Shi Wuqi had nothing to say, and Lord Jiyue 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 good moonlight somewhere tonight, but in any case, it didn't shine here and he couldn't see it.
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 least costly way to do it."
"Would you like 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?"
