My name is Guiren, I got this name when I was twelve years old. Before that, I didn't have a name of my own, and the man called me "No. 3," and he said I was the third.
He is my father, Gui Tu, the head of the Gui family.
For as long as I can remember, I was kept in a dark little house with no windows by my father.
Apart from me, there was only one candle in the house. That candle is special and will burn out after it reaches a certain stage. When the candle went out, my father would come over, bring me a meal, and light the candle again.
A candle can burn for a whole day. It goes out once in the morning and again in the afternoon. And only then can I see a little bit of the scene outside the house and have a little contact with other lives besides me. Yes, my father.
My father usually gave me food and left directly, but occasionally he would talk to me. Through my father, I gradually learned about the outside world.
I asked my father why he didn't let me leave the house, why he didn't let me go outside. My father didn't say anything, he just waved his hand and condensed an oval transparent thing.
The oval object reflected the light, and I finally saw what I looked like clearly. It was then that I realized that my father and I were different from other human beings.
There is a layer of blood-red scales on the right side of my face, which are fine and tight. In the past, I only knew that the skin there was different from other places, but I never thought that it was not human skin at all. My father said they were snake scales.
Then there are the eyes. My eyes are not black like my father's, but dark red with dark red vertical pupils.
My father once told me that vertical pupils are the eyes of monsters, and monsters are the mortal enemies of humans. With my scales and vertical pupils, I would undoubtedly be considered a monster.
At that moment I realized that I was a monster. Monsters cannot meet people...
At the age of twelve, I was taken away from that house by my father and brought into another place, a place that was still closed.
This place seems to be a passage, but one side of the passage is a dead end, and the other side is also blocked by iron railings.
The father said he would open the iron bars after a while and then he would leave and come back in a month. If I had been alive then, he would have let me live as a human being.
Can I live like a human being? At that moment, I felt that life was full of hope. Of course, that was also the beginning of my journey into hell.
My father left and the railing was raised, but I was a little afraid to go out. What's over there? My father said that he would give me a human identity while I was alive. Does that mean I might die? Will something terrible be waiting for me over there?
No matter what, I want to live. As a human being, live with dignity. I stepped out of the passage and came to a larger semi-enclosed building.
It was a circular place, surrounded by walls. But there is an iron railing every other section of the fenced area, and behind the railing is a passage, just like the one I just walked out of. I counted, including my own, a hundred channels in total.
The shape of the top of the field is like an upside-down bowl, but the middle of the bowl is empty. Only there can see the light, the outside, and the sky.
After a while, the railings went up one after another, and people walked out of the passages, one by one, about my age.
Yes, a hundred people including myself. It was the first time for me to meet so many people and I was very happy and we talked to each other. However, I have forgotten what they talked about, and I can’t ask them now because they are all dead.
Those people only chatted for a while before feeling a little bored and no longer wanted to talk to me. I wouldn't ask for trouble, so we all found a place to rest.
But after a while, some smart people discovered a problem. They were only told that they had to live in one place for a month, and the elders did not allow them to bring food.
Now that the place is closed, what will they eat?
The issue was resolved shortly after. Probably when we were all hungry, buns suddenly dropped one by one from the top hole.
There are a hundred in total, just one for each person. Yes, that's how it should be. But there was a little fat man at that time. He ate too much and wanted to eat two, so he tyrannically took away the steamed buns from a thin child.
The skinny kid tried to snatch it back, but was pushed to the ground by the fat man and kicked and beaten. I remember, that little fat guy’s name was Gui Xi. He was the first person to die there, I have the impression. Well, after all, he was the first person I killed...
Then I gave half of my steamed buns to the skinny boy. Just like that, one night passed. The next morning, only ninety steamed buns were left at the entrance of the cave, and a loud voice came:
"This is today's portion, and tomorrow I will eat even less!"
Originally, only a few people went to grab the steamed buns, but now everyone went crazy and rushed to grab the steamed buns one by one.
I didn't grab it, but the skinny little boy went to pick up steamed buns early yesterday. He had one and planned to share it with me.
Just at this time, Gui Xi came over. He looked at the skinny boy coldly and said, "Skinny Monkey, hand over the steamed buns!"
"Don't you have one?" the skinny boy roared with red eyes.
"One of them is not enough. I want two, will you give them to me?" Gui Xi said and was about to take action.
"I'll give it," the skinny boy said through gritted teeth. I could hear his unwillingness, and I saw that his whole body was shaking.
"Hmph!" Gui Xi snorted coldly and took away the steamed bun, "That's right. I have elder relatives. If you go against me, there will be no place for you in the entire Gui Xi family."
"Yes, yes, Brother Xi is right." The skinny boy said with a shy smile. But when he said this, there was an extremely cold light in his eyes.
This light was very faint, and only I who was beside him saw it. As for Gui Xi, she didn't even bother to look at the skinny boy again.
He was holding a steamed bun in one hand, and he immediately took a bite of the steamed bun, as if he was deliberately eating it to show us, and he took a big bite.
At this moment, the skinny little boy next to me suddenly stood up, held down the remaining steamed buns with one hand and stuffed it into Gui Xi's mouth, and pushed him to the ground.
Gui Xi seemed to be choking, her face was red, and she immediately wanted to open the little boy. At this moment, the boy pinched Gui Xi's neck with his other hand.
Gui Xi immediately made a painful sound of "Uuuu" and struggled hard. But the boy held on to him tightly and let him struggle, but he couldn't get away.
But after all, there was a size difference between the two, and Gui Xi also exploded with terrifying power due to the arrival of death. Finally, Gui Xi exerted another force and knocked the little boy over. He immediately pressed on the little boy, coughed a few times, spit out the steamed buns, and then punched the little boy in the face. The little boy's mouth was bleeding.
At that moment, I suddenly felt my blood surge up, and I grabbed the scales off my face. Using the scales as a knife, he stabbed Gui Xi into the back of the head.
"enough!"
…
"Uh, ah..." A deep scar appeared on Gui Ren's chest. He opened his mouth and wanted to shout, but couldn't. He wanted to breathe, but couldn't.
"Ahem..." Gui Ren coughed out a few mouthfuls of blood and felt a little better. Of course, he knew that it was an illusion.
"Why, you are thinking of something so far away..." Guiren's eyes were distracted and he felt weak. One of his hands reached up tremblingly, as if trying to grab something.
"Am I going to die..." Gui Ren's eyes were surprisingly calm.
"Humph, I'm going to die..." A bitter arc appeared at the corner of Gui Ren's mouth.
"That's all." Gui Ren's hand slowly lowered, he closed his eyes quietly, and just left.
But just as he closed his eyes, a loud shout suddenly rang out, followed by more angry shouts.
"Master."
"Master, are you okay?"
"You bastard Ying Lang, if you dare to hurt our young master, we will fight with you!"
"Everyone, rush!"
"Avenge the young master!"
Gui Ren's eyes opened instantly, "A bunch of careless trash! Get out of here! You are no match for him!"
