The silent night is also a chaotic night. There are more and more people on the street, and the noise is getting louder and louder. People who have closed their doors and turned off the lights are startled and run out to observe the situation. Then everyone works together to kill the crazy person. He was subdued, but the person who was attacked never opened his eyes again.
The silence at the end of Zhenxi Street continued, and even Gu Chen and Yang Chan, who were watching from a distance, felt heavy in their hearts. Yang Chan was suddenly grabbed by a jade hand.
"master!!"
Yang Chan exclaimed, with some panic in her eyes. The woman let go of her, turned her head and looked at the woods in the west of the town, taking in the situation at the end of the street, but she only glanced at it lightly, and then stopped paying attention. , just seeing a stain on Yang Chan's shoulder, he frowned unhappily, glanced at Gu Chen's greasy hands, and Gu Chen lowered his head with a guilty conscience.
The woman snorted coldly and said to Yang Chan, "Go back."
Yang Chan pointed at Gu Chen and said, "Master, it's already so late, can you let him in too?"
The woman's voice became a little colder, and she said, "What happens to others? What does it have to do with you?"
"But……"
"What does it have to do with me?"
Yang Chan's words were blocked, and she didn't know what to say. She just looked at Gu Chen, a little worried, and then noticed that there were traces of blood on the stomach of Gu Chen's white clothes. She couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Ah! Why are you bleeding? Are you okay?"
Gu Chen quickly waved his hands and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I just accidentally... fell."
Yang Chan wanted to say something else, but she was already pulled back by the woman who was obviously impatient. She frequently looked back at Gu Chen, her eyes full of worry. Gu Chen smiled at her, stood up and turned around in pain, signaling She was fine, so she didn't have to worry, and watched Yang Chan being pulled into the inn by her master.
He was suddenly the only one left in the dark corner again. The night wind blew in, bringing a slight chill. Gu Chen tightened his dirty clothes. It turned out that there was one more person and one less person around him. To that person, The feeling called "warmth" has a great influence. Thinking that the clothes on the left and right were already very dirty, he wiped his greasy hands on the clothes, and the clothes suddenly became dirtier.
Gu Chen's handsome eyebrows twisted slightly, and he patted the stains on his clothes with some disgust, but he couldn't pat them clean. He only felt the night breeze was slightly cold, and his hands and feet were cold. He hugged his knees and huddled up.
People walked back from the end of the street in the west of the town, sending the unfortunate person back, and then went home. Passing by, they looked at Gu Chen who was huddled alone, shook his head and sighed, but no one came up to talk to him. Just go away in a rhythm that slows down and speeds up.
Gu Chen was stunned, feeling even colder, and buried his face in his knees.
…
The wind was blowing around his ears, and there were faint sounds of footsteps. Gu Chen looked up and saw that the street was already quiet. A person came from the east side of the street. He was an old man.
It was now midnight, and everyone had gone to bed. Even those who couldn't sleep would not go out at this time. Gu Chen looked blankly at the old man who was getting closer and closer. Seeing that the old man was walking crookedly, he kept looking around. Xi looked around, seeming to be looking for something. He made sounds of crying or sighing from time to time.
When the old man saw a child huddled in the corner, he was a little excited. He quickened his pace and came over to take a look. After seeing Gu Chen's face clearly, he shook his head in disappointment, and then asked with hope: "Child, grandpa wants to You ask about someone."
Gu Chen nodded, thinking about the people he had seen since arriving here today.
"A child about your age, a girl."
Gu Chen naturally thought of Yang Chan, and then he thought with hindsight that Yang Chan seemed to have said that she was thirteen years old. Wouldn't that mean she was one year older than him? He was secretly glad that Yang Chan didn't ask him how old he was, otherwise he would have been embarrassed to tell him. Although he didn't know why he felt that he was one year younger than his age, he decided not to give Yang Chan a chance to ask him his age.
"That's grandpa's granddaughter. She has a faint cyan birthmark on the left side of her forehead. It should be round... No, it seems to be square..."
Gu Chen got rid of Yang Chan in his mind, because when he first saw Yang Chan, he looked carefully and saw that the girl with bright eyes and white teeth did not have any birthmarks on her face, whether round or square.
As Gu Chen shook his head, the old man looked sad because of disappointment, and murmured: "You didn't see it either... Why did everyone say they didn't see her? My granddaughter..."
The old man staggered away, but towards the woods in the west of the town. Gu Chen couldn't help but worry when he thought of what Yang Chan said to him.
"grandfather……"
Hearing this title, the old man turned around almost subconsciously and stared at Gu Chen. For some reason, Gu Chen was stared at so hard that it was not until the old man slowly realized that the person calling him was not his granddaughter. When it turned out to be a boy, he cried and laughed all of a sudden, in a strange way.
Gu Chen suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and said softly: "You can't go there, there is danger in the woods."
The old man turned around tremblingly and said in a hoarse voice: "It's okay, it's okay. I won't go in, just take a look. Just take a look."
As the old man slowly walked away, Gu Chen let out a long breath, patted his chest, and wondered if he had been scared just now. He suddenly realized that this was the emotion of fear.
In the past twelve years, he has only been able to cultivate immortality without fear.
Speaking of which, what will he do in the past twelve years?
He won't be afraid, guilty, hungry, cold, lonely, know what's in the steamed buns, what greasy chicken legs taste like, or what money is. Something that won't make your clothes dirty.
Oh, what a blank twelve years. He knows nothing except cultivating immortality. Even now, he doesn't know what else he knows except what he just thought of, because he doesn't know what else is there in this world.
His thoughts were complicated and he was flustered. He suddenly felt a weight on his back. All the cold wind was blocked out. His body warmed up all of a sudden. Then he felt something on his back slipping. He subconsciously grabbed it. It was a piece of clothing. blanket.
He looked at Yang Chan and saw that she had changed into a red outfit. She was very conspicuous in the night. He couldn't help but ask: "Why did you run out again? Does your master know?"
Yang Chan stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "It's so late, master must be asleep, and it's so cold outside, I have to give you a blanket, otherwise you will get sick."
Oh, by the way, I won't get sick yet. Gu Chen silently added one more thing to the things he didn't know in the past, then shook his head and said: "Your master should be an immortal cultivator. Immortal cultivators don't need to sleep."
I hesitated in my mind whether to add the item "not being able to sleep" to the things I couldn't do in the past twelve years, but when I remembered that I seemed to sleep every day before I started practicing, I consciously crossed out this item.
Yang Chan was surprised and said: "Can people not sleep?"
Gu Chen explained: "Of course people have to sleep, but your master is a cultivator of immortality."
Yang Chan's eyes widened and she lowered her voice and asked, "Isn't Master a human?"
Gu Chen opened his mouth, feeling that their conversation was developing in a weird direction, but the source of the mistake seemed to be on his side. He was silent, thought of an explanation that should make sense, and said: "People can become Immortal cultivator.”
"Then are you a cultivator?"
"Previously."
"Then why aren't you now? Can immortal cultivators also become human beings?"
Gu Chen was a little confused and felt that he couldn't continue talking. The more he talked, the more questions it seemed to raise, so he finally gritted his teeth and said to Yang Chan: "Immortal cultivators are human beings too."
Yang Chan nodded, as if he understood. Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and Yang Chan asked again: "Since we are human, why doesn't the master need to sleep?"
Okay, the question has come back again. In order not to repeat the previous question meaninglessly, Gu Chen patiently said: "The immortal cultivators spend their sleeping time meditating. This can improve their cultivation and at the same time also It can restore your energy and the effect is better than sleeping, so there is no need to sleep.”
Gu Chen spoke in detail, and Yang Chan listened carefully, so she wanted to ask more questions.
"Meditate? Meditate? What is that? What is cultivation? Do you mean that if you don't sleep, you can feel better mentally?"
Gu Chen scratched his head for a while, thinking that if the discussion continued like this, he might not be able to finish it until dawn, but then he heard footsteps, and the old man walked back slowly, and the moonlight pulled his shadow in front of Gu Chen and Yang Chan. , the two turned to look.
The old man also looked over, his eyes swept across Gu Chen's face, and then fell on Yang Chan. He was stunned, and then became excited.
