Big breaker

"...'Foot Jing slave', what exactly is it?"

Staring at Fu Li's back, Hua Fei hesitated and asked in a low voice.

He had heard similar words from Xie Miao.But at that time, the other party looked like he didn't want to talk more, and Fu Li was still lying down, so Hua Fei didn't ask any more questions.but now……

He vaguely realized that this should be a very important matter.

"It's 'Chuqing stroke...'" Fu Li turned around, and spoke to him a long series of pronunciations supplemented by strange gestures, followed by a lot of syllables, but Hua Fei only had time to hear the words in front of him. three tones.He now understands a little bit that the word "Zu Jing Nu" is probably a transliteration of the first few pronunciations of the original name, just like Fu Li's and their names.After hearing his guess, Fu Li just shook his head.

"It's not just a transliteration." Fu Li said to him, "A slave with thorns, there are thorns on his feet."

"It's transliteration plus free translation." Hua Fei nodded in understanding, and had some guesses in his mind.He thought of the crown of thorns that Jesus once wore, and felt that the thorns here should somewhat mean punishment, humiliation, and pain.And soon, these guesses were confirmed by Fu Li—because he really didn't know how to express it, Fu Li simply pulled out another picture from his memory and showed it to Hua Fei.It was a series of images, engraved on a thin tablet of stone.The first picture shows a man killing people with a knife, the second picture shows him being grabbed and pressed to the ground, the third picture shows him lying on the ground, looking dead, and the fourth picture shows him being put in a On the board, he was completely naked, and people were wrapping some thin, long, spiked things around his feet. It took Hua Fei a while to recognize them, which were probably thorns.

In the fifth picture, the man stood up again, but the color of his body was different from before.It turned out that his body was green like everyone else, but now it was painted purple.Hua Fei guessed that it should be a sign that this man has become a ghost, or spirit body.The man walked along a purple path strewn with thorns.At the end is a group of purple people who are drinking, and he walked in that direction expectantly, his feet stepped on the thorns, and there was a long trail of blood behind him.

"The thorns are punishment." Fu Li said in a timely manner, "Whoever is alive and has killed someone will step on the sharp thorns to the end when he is dead."

"The end...is that what you call the world of afterlife?" Hua Fei asked.

Fu Li shook his head: "It's not a place to be reborn. It's a place to rest. If you die, you're dead, you won't be reborn, you can only rest in peace."

Hua Fei nodded lightly, lowered his head and hesitated for a moment, then asked cautiously: "Then your mother, she..."

"She has killed people before." Fu Li said in a deep voice, "She used to guard the Shiyi Temple. The words of ghosts started to kill people. She used words to confuse people and killed many magicians, including Xue Nanyao's father. Later, she was also killed, and the teacher told me that I dug it from her corpse. from."

He lowered his head: "That's why other people don't like me. They don't bully me because I don't have a family, but they think I'm unclean. My mother is a sinner, and I'm a sinner's child, an egg born from the mud. Just unclean. That's what they hated on me, and I should have known."

"I know your size." Hua Fei couldn't help saying with a twitch of his cheeks, "Isn't it even more sick to exclude you because of this kind of thing? What did you do wrong? You didn't choose a good position when you were born? The previous generation What can you do? Is it possible to convict you because of this? "

"I am indeed guilty." Fu Li said seriously, "The teacher told me that I gave the language to Shi Yi in order to offer sacrifices to the gods. But I know that he is just lying to me. I am not offering sacrifices, but offering sacrifices to the gods. God made atonement. God judged me to be guilty, my mother killed people in the language given by the gods, so I have to pay back in my own language, that’s how things are.”

He tilted his head to look at Hua Fei, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry. You didn't lie to me, but I lied to you."

Hua Fei was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he was apologizing for not telling him the truth, and hurriedly waved his hands: "There is nothing to lie to or not to, it's up to you whether to tell or not to talk about this kind of thing." As he spoke, he paused, and a look of embarrassment flashed across his face, "I... well, it might be a bit strange to mention this now, but I still want to ask again, Fu Li, where is your god?"

"I don't know." Fu Li shook his head hesitantly, then lowered his head again, "This kind of thing is not important in the first place."

He spoke calmly, spread out his right hand, and Hua Fei followed his gaze, only to realize that his palm prints were much lighter than his own.After thinking for a while, he stretched out his finger and poked lightly on the edge of the palm.

"Hey." He said sternly, "Look at me."

Fu Li raised his eyes in a daze, Hua Fei took the opportunity to raise his hand and knocked on his forehead gently: "Now, listen to me."

He put his hand down, grabbed Fu Li's wrist, and put it back to Fu Li's side, then raised his head, looked into Fu Li's eyes, and said word by word: "Fu Li, I still say that In other words, you didn’t do anything wrong, it’s just bad luck. No one can blame you for this, not even God. What’s more, where is that God? I haven’t seen it, I haven’t felt it It, from your narrative, I didn't notice its existence either - a god who never knew whether he was there from the beginning to the end, what qualifications does it have to point fingers at his believers?"

Fu Li raised his eyes hesitantly, his tone full of uncertainty: "What if it is really there?"

"That's not the reason for it to convict an innocent person." Hua Fei said slowly, "Fu Li, do you still remember what happened to Mei Dao? Mei Dao's parents also did something wrong, so according to your logic, Meijima is also guilty? Only those who really violated something can be convicted, and only those who are really guilty need to blame themselves and atone for their sins, which one are you?"

He raised his hand and patted Fu Li's forehead again: "So what if it came out of the mud? As long as it's not damaged inside. Wipe the eggshell, isn't it still a good egg?"

Fu Li stared at him, the corner of his mouth twitched, as if he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.

The corner of Hua Fei's mouth also moved, and he took his hand off: "Of course, I'm just speaking from the perspective of a bystander. It's up to you how to look at this matter. But no matter what, don't Because of this matter, do you feel that you are a dwarf? You are no worse than them before, and you don’t owe them anything. Tolerated..."

When he said this, he stopped for a moment, and the corner of his mouth suddenly twitched: "Speaking of which, is there something wrong with this direction? Shouldn't you come to reason with me, why now I'm pouring chicken soup for you? "

"...It's fine, it's fine." As Fu Li said, the corners of his mouth moved again.He really laughed this time, the corners of his lips raised slightly, giving a very small smile.However, this smile didn't last long, and soon disappeared with his turning around.

Turning his head to look at the dead tree behind him, Fu Li lowered his voice: "The teacher told me that if you become a great contract breaker, you are qualified to move your mother's graveyard and remove the thorns from her feet. But I don't know Whether I can do it myself, I don’t know if it’s good—what if she’s already reached it now?”

The smile on his cheek faded, Hua Fei opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, he hesitated but held back, just stretched out his hand, and patted his shoulder comfortingly.

"If saying this can make you feel better...I can tell you that you will really become a great contract breaker in the future. Really, you believe me."

Fu Li turned his head and looked at him puzzled.Hua Fei smiled, and opened his mouth to say something to him, when he suddenly felt the entire space he was in shake violently.

The dry branches began to fall one by one, and the ground began to fall off and collapse.The stones rolled chaotically like bowling balls, and one of them happened to hit Hua Fei's frantic legs, smashing his whole body into the huge gap in front of him.Hua Fei screamed in panic, and looked up to find Fu Li's figure, but all he saw was a sudden darkness.

He began to fall.It is said to be falling, but it seems to be rising.It seems to float from reality to dream, and it seems to float back to reality from illusion.

Time seemed to pass extremely fast and seemed extremely long, until consciousness gradually returned to where they should be.The eyeballs hidden under the eyelids rolled unconsciously, and Hua Fei opened them as if awakened from a start.

The first thing I saw was Fang Zheyou's pale face.

One of his hands was resting on Hua Fei's forehead, and there was a white light shining on his finger.Seeing that Hua Fei woke up, he let out a long breath: "Oh my god, I'm back... Who did you date? The communication was so deep that you couldn't wake up even if you shook it, so you forced me to On the spell..."

He murmured and complained, he didn't even care about raising his orchid fingers, retracted his fingers and began to slide down.Hua Fei was scared out of his wits, and hurried to help him up: "You, what's wrong with you? Are you okay? Why don't you lie down here? You..."

Halfway through the conversation, he couldn't continue asking.At the end of his sight, he saw that Fang Zheyou's shoulder was bleeding, and his black clothes were deeply stained.

"Why am I here? Why am I here to slap my face..." Fang Zheyou seemed to smile, but Hua Fei preferred to understand that as a short and weak muscle twitch. He heard Fang Zheyou say , "I don't know who else to turn to, I can only turn to you. Please, Hua Fei, help me."