Although there was a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, in the end, Zhou Yu had to let Chen Wei enter his home.
After entering the door, Chen Wei consciously stopped in the living room and had no intention of visiting the kitchen or bedroom. Based on this alone, Zhou Yu felt that the irritability in his heart was relieved a little.
"You can use the kitchen and bathroom, but you have to wash your hands first."
Because of his experience with Hong Ye, Zhou Yu specifically emphasized: "Pull up your sleeves and wash your hands up to your wrists. Use hand sanitizer once and rinse with water three times."
"...Did you ask this for all your previous tenants?"
"No, in that case I would wash it five times by myself, and I rarely use the living room. But you didn't pay to live in it."
Chen Wei shrugged, took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and entered the bathroom. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Yu inspected the entire living room to make sure there was nothing that needed to be hidden. After he found the key to the bedroom, Chen Wei happened to come out of the bathroom.
"Is this qualified?"
Chen Wei stretched out his white and clean hands for inspection. Only then did Zhou Yu realize that this guy's hands were really well maintained. If you just looked at the hands, it was almost impossible to tell the gender of the owner.
"Don't you usually write?"
"Sorry, I prefer to use electronic manuscripts. Also, if you are wondering why my hands don't have calluses, I can only say that it is a physical problem. I wrote a lot when I was in middle school and high school, and there were also cases of bleeding from scratches, but that's it. No cocooning."
Hearing what he said, Zhou Yu stopped delving into it and just said lightly: "You are really not suitable for sports at all."
"Sports is okay, at least you can play table tennis a little bit. What's really not suitable is string instruments, because they will bleed if you play them a few times hard, and you can't make up for it by growing calluses. There is really no way, so I finally had to learn something bad. It hurts my hand.”
"Do you play any instruments?"
"Yes, and it's a pretty practical instrument. I used to perform it often in formal occasions."
"Piano?"
"No," Chen Wei said with a smile, "I can play suona very well. I can play both joy and sorrow. Do you want to listen?"
"...That's it. I'm going to take a shower. Good night."
Zhou Yu walked into the bathroom as if he hadn't heard anything. After he finished washing, Chen Wei had already fallen asleep on the sofa with his clothes on.
He observed for a while to make sure that the other party was not faking sleep, then walked into his room and locked the door.
After so many days of continuous action, Hong Ye had not much left of Mu Meng Xiang. If calculated according to the most generous eight hours of sleep, I am afraid that even two nights are not enough to support it. And if the consciousness is switched to Zhou Yu, then the development of the situation will be difficult to control. Not to mention rescuing Zhang Mumu, even Zhou Yu herself may be in danger.
In other words, act as quickly as possible.
He sat quietly on the bedside for a while, then took out the voice recorder he found earlier from his shirt pocket and plugged in the headphones that had not been returned to their original owners. The recording that was accidentally interrupted before was still paused in the middle. After pressing the play button, the still conversation continued to play.
"……I do not think so."
The female voice in the recording, suspected to be that of 'Little Red Riding Hood', casually picked up the topic that had been interrupted for several hours.
"Madam, if we exist entirely as food, there is no need to build this city. According to you, most of the consciousness field is composed of demonic soil, rather than the manifestation of collective consciousness, then I have The reason is that this place was built due to more complex causes."
"You always complicate simple things. The specific form of the small vortex is determined by the original species itself, and it is completely arbitrary. In addition, the Lord of the snakes is also a weird guy among his kind, and he can design It’s just a whim.”
"This obviously does not explain the existence of 'Lords'."
"There's nothing hard to explain. Even normal people have the concept of main course and cold appetizers when eating, right? Unlike that simple-minded earthworm, the snake's human form just likes to play such complicated and meaningless games. This is what people were told during their lifetimes. The guy called the 'Mad King', do you think you can expect him to act rationally?"
"We can keep the dispute on this point. I insist that the selection of lords follows certain rules. Ms. Zhou, out of my understanding of you, I think you came here for some reason. Last time you did not give me a formal answer, but today I think we’d better make an explanation in case anything unexpected happens.”
The voice belonging to Zhou Yu seemed to be sighing softly out of helplessness.
"...You really believe what that fake prophet said. I've already told you, that guy is definitely a mystical stickman. The only people who can retain the power of prophecy in this city are the Sybils, who have the same origin as snakes. All other fortune tellers are liars.”
“That said, it’s always helpful to have backups.”
"It's up to you. In short, the reason why I came in is not complicated. It's just because I don't want to die. I was killed randomly like a chicken or a dog, and the organs that needed to be used were taken away and then abandoned. I can't accept this feeling in a sunny place. However, as a suicide victim, I'm afraid you can't understand it, right?"
Zhou Yu said in that almost cold tone again.
"In short, I don't want it to end here and lose what I already have inexplicably. I will choose to enter here just to continue living in an ignoble way."
When he heard these words, Zhou Yu's heartbeat suddenly increased.
Why? Obviously unable to understand the meaning of Zhou Yu's words, he felt strong emotions stirring in his chest. The pain even made it extremely difficult for him to breathe. He pressed his chest involuntarily, bent over and gasped violently.
"Don't you think there is any way out?"
"Yes, in our situation, unless we eat the entire city like the Earth Eaters, we will be eaten. In these two cases, there is absolutely no possibility of rescue. But it doesn't matter to me. . My wish... is just to let him know. As long as I keep waiting, one day someone will use the ritual and enter here by mistake, and then the news can be spread. This is the only way under the current situation."
"This is obviously an extremely unlikely event."
"It's better than just admitting defeat. Similarly, I have to imitate earthworms to crawl and eat dirt. I haven't fallen to that level yet. So whether it's a saint or a relic, we have to get rid of him anyway."
"The question is, what to do? I have noticed the performance of the Earth Eater when jumping over high-voltage electrical equipment, and it is really unforgettable. So by extrapolation, I think he is also immune to most conventional physical means... …”
"It's all. No matter what method you use, whether it's electric shock or fire, as long as it still falls within the material concept of earth, water, fire, and wind, it won't be able to hurt him who is close to the original species. As for my eyes, although they can indeed be hurt But unfortunately, when I use my eyes, I will spontaneously understand the symbols of "Law of Tao" - after all, it is an anti-law weapon created by that gentleman. With my nature, I can look directly at its symbols. If it lasts more than three seconds, I’m afraid there will be no bones left.”
"It seems we are at our wits' end."
"No, there is a way."
When she said this, Zhou Yu's voice gradually became lighter. The sound lingering in my ears was like a butterfly fluttering under the moon.
"It is enough to be free from harm other than material things - that is to say, the so-called enemy of Buddha does not need any special magical powers, as long as he has a desire that is enough to devour people. Whether it is greed for 'gain', or ' Regardless of the hatred of loss, the entity that can manifest the emotions in the heart is the so-called desire realm. As long as you find a way to materialize desire, it is easy to kill him before he is formed. "
"I hope you can forgive me for my stupidity, but your theory is too obscure for outsiders. I hope to get more practical explanations. Based on your current statement, I guess I can only hire a few sex workers to try to assassinate .”
Zhou Yu laughed softly.
"It's useless, that's just sending him a few female students. Have you heard of the story of Mordenga Girl? It is an easy thing for him to infect a few mortals. Well, because he and As you understand, the 'monk' in the ordinary sense is different. Like Bo Xun in the story, interfering with him with low-grade love will never have any effect. The desire of the body transcends the body. It will be easily overcome when you have a concept. The so-called desire requires a concept that is broader than the physical needs... Or rather, it requires a devil's heart."
