dogma

Chapter 109 Malice

It was three days ago that I left Serenshal Mountain.

After taking the bones, Nie Cai did not intend to stay at all.The base camp was disbanded on the spot, and each team found a way to return to the base, while Nie Cai and Liu Yushan went to Joffrey's guardianship, intending to bring back the newly born child.

Rao Xinghai found that he was still under strict surveillance.He wanted to go with Nie Cai and Liu Yushan, but they obviously didn't intend to bring anyone else, so they directly handed him to Xiao Luo.Xiao Luo was carrying Rao Xinghai's car, it was still the same car and the same people as when he came.

Neither Kang Song nor Rao Xinghai knew how to drive. Guan Li and Xiao Luo took turns driving. Three days later, they entered Shanxi.

The town is not big, and the place is quite small.Xiao Luo and Kang Song planned to stay in the town for one night, they told Guan Li to be optimistic about Rao Xinghai, and then went out to find entertainment.Rao Xinghai slept peacefully, and when he got up, he found that it was already evening, and Guan Li was the only one left in the room, watching a TV series.

As soon as he turned over, Guan Li immediately noticed and turned his gaze.Rao Xinghai was about to talk to her when, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a scorpion lying beside his pillow.

He didn't dare to make a sound.

Both the black mamba snake and the golden python looked like village snakes that had never seen a scorpion before, with two heads, one big and one small, staring at the scorpion curiously.The scorpion was black and red, obviously covered in venom, but it remained motionless, maybe it was asleep.The black mamba slowly stretched out its tail to poke it, but the golden python hissed a few times, and it retracted again.

"It won't attack you." Guan Li said, "Don't worry, I have a measure."

Rao Xinghai: "...then you put it away."

Guan Li put away the scorpion, and after Rao Xinghai washed his face, he took him out for dinner.

The condition of the small hotel is average, but there are many restaurants around.Guan Li has already walked into a ramen shop, but Rao Xinghai still wants to go on: "Look again, this shop doesn't feel good."

Guan Li: "..."

If she wanted to look at Rao Xinghai, she could only follow his wishes.

The two wandered around the street, and after walking two streets, Rao Xinghai stopped in front of a shop selling beef noodles.

"Here it is." He said and walked in.

Guan Li looked at the greasy curtains, tables and chairs, wiped the table with table paper for a long time before sitting down.

The beef noodles do not kill customers, and the portion is so large that Guan Li is speechless.Rao Xinghai ate half of the bowl in one sitting, and then used his chopsticks to pick up the two thin slices of beef floating on the surface of the bowl and asked, "Have you ever been to RS Cafe?"

Guan Li: "I haven't been there."

Rao Xinghai continued as if chatting: "Although the werewolf boss is not very good-natured, his steak is good. It is definitely the best beef I have ever eaten. It is tender and tasty."

Guan Li was completely unmoved.

"...Even Adam said he wanted to eat it." Rao Xinghai sucked in a chopstick of noodles again, pretending not to notice Guan Li's stupefied.

After saying this, he lowered his head and ate the noodles, and finally Guan Li couldn't bear it anymore.

"Adam still telling you this?" She whispered, "You and him...don't have much contact?"

"I didn't know he was my younger brother at the time, I just thought he was strange, but he was good to talk to." Rao Xinghai gestured on his face for a while, "Didn't he always wear that mask? I said the signature dish in the cafe is steak , He said he wanted to eat, but he refused to take off his mask, so he didn’t eat anything in the end.”

He licked his mouth, seemingly unintentionally: "Actually, think about it, it's quite pitiful. Although he grew up in the Yuanxing Club, he didn't receive any good treatment."

Guan Li bit his chopsticks and looked at him silently.

Rao Xinghai struck while the iron was hot, and while taking out the broken noodles from the soup, he said, "If I hadn't known you, I wouldn't have known what he meant by what he said."

Guan Li finally took the bait.

"What did he say?"

"He said he had an older sister who was very kind to him and took him with him to protect him since he was a child." Rao Xinghai recalled, "He told me that a teacher often punished him because he didn't do well. Every time he punished him, He is very scared, but fortunately every time he returns home after punishment, there is always a sister waiting for him. It is you, that sister."

He took the half-eaten noodle bowl in front of Guan Li and continued to gobble it up.

"... At that time, he was very young, only a few years old, and about the height of this table. Teacher Nie always said that he was too stupid and ignorant, and he couldn't understand many things that should be learned." Guan Li said, "Nie The teacher will punish him and let him walk the mountain road alone at night and then turn back."

Rao Xinghai listened without stopping his movements, as if he didn't care.

The same thing, what Adam said and what Guan Li said gave him a very different feeling.

Young Adam walked through those dark and spooky mountains alone, at first with only his black mamba by his side, and soon after, his own spiritual body-a fluffy green firefly-finally appeared.

Nie Cai's black bear always follows Adam. He is part of the source of Adam's shadow, and also the source of the fireflies that can only be released at night.

But Adam didn't know that after the black bear, there was another Guan Li.

She was not very old at that time, a girl in her teens didn't dare to carry a lamp, and she didn't dare to let others accompany her. She was only worried about her young brother, so she quietly followed her. Wherever Adam went, she followed him, and when Adam was about to return home, she left first, boiled hot water first, and prepared a cup of warm tea for him.

There are not many children of the same age in the Yuanxing Club. Except Adam and Liu Yushan can live together, the rest live in the same room. Adam likes to stay by Guan Li's side. Guan Li is the one who protects him from naughty children like Xiao Luo or Kang Song, his sister, and his protector.

"...Why didn't you tell him?" Rao Xinghai asked, "He was frightened by the black bear, and his mental body couldn't be revealed during the day."

Guan Li was taken aback: "How do you know?"

Rao Xinghai: "We met each other when Adam went to New Hope to watch the sports meeting. He did not reveal his identity and refused to take off his mask, but he told me a lot about him."

Guan Li stared at him, doubtful: "Do you know where Adam is now?"

Rao Xinghai: "Nie Cai and Liu Yushan don't know, how do I know?"

The doubts on Guan Li's face were not completely dispelled, but Rao Xinghai's next sentence diverted her attention: "Actually, I always thought that Nie Cai and Liu Yushan must know the whereabouts of Adam. Why didn't they go find him?"

"...They don't want Adam anymore." Saying this sentence seemed to take a lot of effort, Guan Li pursed his lips, and it took him a long time to say the next sentence, "Because you came."

Rao Xinghai: "..."

He silently put down his chopsticks.

There were quite a few people in the small store, and everyone was talking and laughing loudly in dialects they didn't understand, with friends and people in the store.It was too lively, but Rao Xinghai's heart sank more and more.

It was almost an intuition, he was eager to share his feelings with Guan Li - and he knew that Guan Li could understand him and would keep the secret.

"It was he who suffered what I should have suffered." He whispered, "I have heard everything from Nie Cai. He was the one who was taken away, and I was the one who stayed. I was the one who was punished." , I have to be afraid all the time, I have to wear a mask forever, there is no name, only a code name."

He didn't hear Guan Li's answer, but the woman in front of him focused her eyes and didn't move her eyes away.

"I have a lot of things I want to tell him, but... I may never have the chance. I don't know what you mean by not wanting Adam, completely abandoning him? Or ignoring him no matter what happens? Or..." Rao Xinghai looked at Looking at Guan Li, "If you knew that he might reveal the secrets of the Yuanxing Club, would you kill him?"

"Don't use 'you'." Guan Li said in a low voice, "Not everyone in Yuanxing Club thinks the same as Mr. Nie."

"Is it because Nie Cai doesn't want Adam anymore?" Rao Xinghai couldn't understand, "He and I are so-called new types of human beings. Wouldn't it be nice to have one more person?"

Guan Li licked his mouth, the secret he was about to reveal seemed to make her extremely displeased.

"Did you see those female guides during the days at Serenshal Mountain?" She said, "If nothing else happens, one of them...or all of them will be the mother of your child."

Rao Xinghai was completely stunned.

"...I will not form a partner with a woman." He was firm.

Guan Li smiled: "In the Yuanxing Society, your thoughts, or each of us's own thoughts, are the least important. Everyone must abandon their own narrow ideals and serve the Yuanxing Society and The future of the Sentinel guide pays everything."

When she said these words, the brows of her raised slightly, suppressing her disdain and disgust.

"You know that Nie Cai looked for female guides before? At the beginning of this year." Guan Li asked, "Guess what these female guides are for?"

They are containers for new human embryos, and like Rao Xinghai's mother Su Xiaoqin, they were tricked into the Yuan Xing Club with various reasons and means, and gave birth to a child with a giant bone gene for the Yuan Xing Club.

"Nie Cai only wants boys and sentries. He wants to create the strongest and best male sentry, and then let him combine with a female guide to give birth to a new generation of human beings through natural reproduction." Guan Li said, "This is his The way of dreams, natural reproduction, natural continuation."

Rao Xinghai suddenly realized belatedly: "...Is this also the reason why you want the palace merchant?"

"Yes." Guan Li nodded, "At that time, Teacher Nie thought that there was only Adam as a new type of human being, and Adam was the guide, but there was nothing he could do. He wanted to control Gong Shang and let Gong Shang and Adam give birth to the second generation of new human beings. Observe whether the gene of the giant skeleton or the spirit of the black mamba can be inherited by the second generation of new humans."

The chill passed over Rao Xinghai's skin, he lowered his head.

"...Adam is the guide and you are the sentinel." He said, "Isn't he the most suitable person for you?"

This time Guan Li did not answer immediately.Stirring what was left in the noodle soup with her chopsticks, she murmured after a long time: "Teacher Nie doesn't think so."

Rao Xinghai: "...you've said so much, but it confuses me even more."

Guan Li let out a "hmm".

Rao Xinghai: "You don't think Nie Cai's idea--"

Guan Li immediately interrupted him: "Stop talking."

Rao Xinghai: "This is not normal."

"Don't say it." Guan Li reprimanded again, "Don't think like that."

There were so many things that were wrong, he even felt that if he thought about it carefully, all members of the Yuanxing Club should realize how wrong Nie Cai's so-called ideal was.But people who are in a puzzle, who are bewitched, often don't wake up so easily.

Rao Xinghai didn't continue this topic anymore, he asked another question instead.

"Do you want to see Adam?"

Guan Li suddenly raised his head.She stared at Rao Xinghai as if there was a scorching fire in her eyes, and Rao Xinghai was almost stabbed by her penetrating and piercing eyes.

The fire light gradually dimmed, she smiled and shook her head: "I don't want to."

Rao Xinghai didn't believe it at all: "You are lying to yourself."

"I really don't want to see him." Guan Li said, "It's impossible for me to leave the Yuanxing Society. If we want to see each other again, we will have a chance when he returns to the Yuanxing Society."

Her voice lowered, softly.

"...I don't want him to come back." As if she had accumulated enough courage, she once again looked straight into Rao Xinghai's eyes, "I don't want you to come to the Yuanxing Society either. Rao Xinghai, this is not a company that can make your wish come true." place. I admit, I can't disobey Teacher Nie's order... because I'm afraid of him. But you are different, you have a choice. If you have the chance, don't stay. Go."

For a moment, Rao Xinghai couldn't tell whether Guan Li was telling the truth or testing himself.

"I believe what you said is true. You care about Adam, and you love him dearly." Guan Li grabbed Rao Xinghai's hand. Everything is impossible to leave. We have been away from this world for too long, and when we return to normal life, we will have no friends, no one to talk to, we can only choose the Yuanxing Club, and we can only stay in Teacher Nie Beside you. You are different, Rao Xinghai, you have to think clearly..."

Is this also what Nie Cai taught them?Rao Xinghai thought to himself.Why can't I live a normal life?None of them have really lived in an ordinary world, who told them not to leave the Yuanxing Club or Nie Cai?

Guan Li didn't say any more, and the two were relatively silent.Rao Xinghai took out his phone and looked at it: "It's getting late, let's go back."

He put his phone and wallet on the table and reminded Guan Li, "You watch for me, I'm going to the toilet."

There is no bathroom in the store, so the boss instructed him to go through the small door in the back kitchen and go to the store next door to solve the problem.Rao Xinghai turned out the back door according to what he said, turned around and pushed the small door against it, guarding the situation inside the door.

He took out a mobile phone from his trouser pocket, a black straight old phone with a small screen and big buttons.

This was the mobile phone of the old man who dozed off at the cash register. When Rao Xinghai was ordering food, Guan Li didn't pay attention, so he took it away.His own mobile phone was under Guan Li's eyes, and he could only recall the number in the text message disguised as a business advertisement from memory.

He pressed all the numbers in the text message and waited.

After a while, someone really answered on the other end: "The exclusive customer service is at your service."

"I'm Rao Xinghai." Rao Xinghai said quickly. As soon as he said this, the person on the other end of the phone changed immediately, "I have a report."

Ou Yine's voice came: "Say."

Hearing his voice, Rao Xinghai relaxed for no reason.

"Mr. Ou, I have left Inner Mongolia now, and I am currently in Shanxi, and I am going back to the new base of the Yuanxing Club. Please track the location of my mobile phone later." Rao Xinghai spoke quickly, telling the things he found out one by one. Ou Yinye, including the purpose of Nie Cai, the purpose of the Yuanxing Society, the strangeness of Liu Yushan, the connection between Nie Cai and Joffrey, and the child who was born.

Ou Yinye was very interested in Liu Yushan's weirdness.He told Rao Xinghai that both he and Shen Chunlan believed that Liu Yushan and Nie Cai's personalities seemed to have slowly reversed at a certain stage: Liu Yushan took Nie Cai as a learning object, learned to behave like Nie Cai, and put himself Pretending to be another gentle and popular Nie Cai.

But Nie Cai was just the opposite. His personality changed year by year, and he became the withdrawn and stubborn Liu Yushan back then.

And the one who can do all this is undoubtedly Liu Yushan.

But they still don't know Liu Yushan's purpose in doing all this.Revenge on Nie Cai?Or do you want to take away the Yuanxing Club?Why did he tell Gao Tianyue about the Yuanxing Club and Nie Cai under the guise of the non-existent "Oasis"?

"Is everything going well?" Ou Yino asked, "We are very worried about your safety."

"It's going well." Rao Xinghai said truthfully, "Guan Li is indeed the breakthrough point. We talked about very in-depth matters. She is the most likely person to rebel."

"I will track your number in the future." Ou Yinye asked again, "Do they suspect you?"

"There should be no doubts." Rao Xinghai confessed, "But I have no chance to get in touch with Nie Cai and Liu Yushan's real core. These two people often talk in secret, avoiding everyone..."

Ou Yinye: "...Send a message immediately after arriving at the base. Rao Xinghai, remember, you have two goals, one is to take that child away safely, and the other is to find Nie Cai, Yuan Xingshe and Joffrey The link between them. The latter can be relinquished when necessary.”

Rao Xinghai: "I understand."

Ou Yine: "You have done better than I imagined."

Rao Xinghai: "It was Nie Cai's superstition towards me...that is, the new type of sentinel, who gave me a chance."

Ou Yine: "Is there anything you want to say to Adam? I can pass it on."

Rao Xinghai thought for a while: "Study hard."

He said goodbye to Ou Yiye and hung up the phone.The conversation with Ou Yine lasted only a few minutes. After hesitating for a moment, Rao Xinghai turned on the phone again and dialed another number.

The first time he dialed, he hung up after only ringing for a while.

Immediately afterwards, he dialed again.This time, Shen Chunlan really answered the phone.

"... Rao Xinghai?"

The moment he heard Shen Chunlan's voice, Rao Xinghai felt a sense of loss of strength.The call quality of the old man's mobile phone was not good, and Shen Chunlan's voice was a little distorted, losing details, but the volume was very loud.Rao Xinghai pressed the phone tightly to his ear, as if he could get closer to his teacher.

"Yes." He replied in a low voice, "Mr. Shen."

The two didn't speak for a while, and could only hear each other's breathing and panting.

"...Where are you?" Shen Chunlan broke the silence, "Didn't you go to Inner Mongolia to find the bones?"

Soon he added: "Wait, don't tell me what you can't say. Are you safe now? Are you injured?"

"It's safe." Rao Xinghai squatted against the wall, covering his face, "... Tell me more, teacher, I haven't heard your voice for a long time."

Shen Chunlan seemed to have gone to a more secluded place: "I want to know about your situation."

"Don't worry about me." Rao Xinghai said, "I'm safe now, I just contacted Teacher Ou. How about you?"

"Adam is pretty good. Cao Hui and Gong Shang come to teach him every few days. Bo Wan is going to restart the Yuanxing Club..."

"What about you?" Rao Xinghai asked stubbornly.

It took a long time to hear Shen Chunlan's reply: "...I miss you very much."

Rao Xinghai responded with a "hmm".Just these four words are enough to stir up a storm in his heart, but they are also enough to comfort all the anxiety and hesitation in his trip.

"I had all kinds of dreams, good or bad..." Shen Chunlan said in a low voice, "You can take care of yourself, right? You will come back to me safely, won't you?"

"Yes." Rao Xinghai said word for word, "I will definitely do it."

There was still a thousand words left to say, but he couldn't waste any more time.After hanging up the phone, Rao Xinghai stayed in place for a while.Hearing Shen Chunlan's voice unintentionally gave him courage, but compared with the situation he was in, this courage seemed too weak.He couldn't stand up, he longed so much for Shen Chunlan to be in front of him, within reach, so that he could hold him, kiss him, or be hugged by him, and listen to him say something in his arms complaints.

He never knew that he was so eager to spend the ordinary, repeated days with Shen Chunlan.

Wanted to go home, to New Hope, to his lovers and friends.

But he immediately grabbed his hair and bit his lip, reminding himself to be unshakable.When he pressed the phone's off button, Rao Xinghai seemed to lock the fluctuating emotions at the moment into the gradually darkening screen.

Putting the phone in the inner pocket and putting it away, he returned to Guan Li.Guan Li didn't have any doubts at all, and pointed to his mobile phone: "Ms. Nie was looking for you just now."

The two walked back to the small hotel, and Rao Xinghai called Nie Cai back.Nie Cai and Liu Yushan had already picked up the child at the guardianship center. They seemed to think that Rao Xinghai could share his joy with him, and his tone was unusually cheerful.

"When is he still so happy?" Rao Xinghai asked Guan Li later, "I always thought he didn't know how to smile normally."

Guan Li: "When I was young, Teacher Nie was not as difficult to deal with as he is now."

Rao Xinghai nodded.The contact with Ou Yinye gave him a lot of information.He vaguely understood the meaning of personality reversal, and at this moment, in his opinion, Liu Yushan was more suspicious than Nie Cai.

The car was carrying several people, bumping non-stop on the road.After nearly ten days of stop and go, they finally returned to the so-called new base of the Yuanxing Club.

The new base is in southern Guizhou, near the border with Guangxi.The mountains became a natural cover, and the houses left by the mountain people after they left their homeland and moved to the town became the place where everyone from the Yuanxing Society settled.

Rao Xinghai suppressed the complicated feelings in his heart: he never thought that he would return to his hometown in such a way.

Ronaldinho and Kang Song played and played around along the way, arriving later than the others.The two of them were fearless along the way, but they dared not get off after the car stopped: "Guan Li..."

Guan Li dragged Rao Xinghai out of the car, ignoring their cries for help.Nie Cai was waiting at the entrance of the village. When he saw Rao Xinghai and Guan Li, he smiled, but when he turned his eyes to Xiao Luo and Kang Song, he was terribly cold.

"Go to Doctor Liu." Nie Cai said to Rao Xinghai.

Liu Yushan and Nie Cai lived in a small two-story building, and when they came downstairs, Liu Yushan just walked out the door with water in his hand.

He was affectionate and happy: "Rao Xinghai, go see your brother."

Rao Xinghai was stunned.He wasn't used to having an extra brother.

"Guan Li do me a favor." Liu Yushan said, "Rao Xinghai can just go by himself, it's on the second floor."

Not long after the baby was born, he still had a red and wrinkled face. He was sleeping after eating and drinking, and his hands were clenched into small fists.

Rao Xinghai had seen such a baby in the orphanage before.They were all babies who had just been brought back from the hospital, and were held in the arms of Dean Rao, and then Rao Xinghai knew that he had another brother or sister.

The black mamba got out from Rao Xinghai's cuff.It was wrapped around the railing of the crib, its small black bean-like eyes stared at the child on the bed, and finally turned to look at Rao Xinghai.

"My brother." Rao Xinghai said, "Is he cute?"

The Black Mamba shook his head.

Rao Xinghai: "I guess he will be as handsome as me when he grows up."

The Black Mamba shook his head again.

Rao Xinghai moved the stool and sat beside the crib, staring blankly at the baby.Some weird thoughts popped up in his mind, for example, if Shen Chunlan could have children, maybe their children would really look like this.It's a pity that it's too small to see what it looks like. Its hair is sparse and soft, and there are blue blood veins on its big forehead. It is the most vulnerable life.

Rao Xinghai reached out to touch his eyebrows, but quickly withdrew them, wiped his hands on the front of his clothes, and said to the black mamba, "I didn't wash my hands."

The black mamba boldly touched the child's soft fleshy face with its tail.He pursed his lips in the dream, and the black mamba brushed his little nose again.The golden python was very dissatisfied, flicked the snake's tail, pushed the black mamba to the ground, hissed and stuck out its tongue threateningly, as if warning him to keep him away from the baby.

Nie Cai stood outside the door, looking at Rao Xinghai with a smile on his face.

"Raising a child is fun," he said. "It's like making a clay figurine. You can make him whatever you want."

Rao Xinghai: "Teacher Nie."

Both snakes slid away and disappeared. Nie Cai walked in with a complex expression mixed with laughter and regret remaining on his face.

"Can I speak to you alone?" he asked.

Nie Cai has a room exclusively for himself in this base.He called it a study room, but after pushing the door and entering, Rao Xinghai found that the layout of this room was very similar to Shen Chunlan's office.The desk, the bookshelves, the windows, and the rug on one side of the room, and the black chairs on the floor.

There was a lamp hanging on the chair. Rao Xinghai was sitting on the chair. When the lamp was on, he couldn't get used to it for a while, so he couldn't help squinting his eyes.

The curtains were thick and dense, and the light enveloped him. He heard the sound of Nie Cai walking around, but he couldn't see Nie Cai's figure.Nie Cai's spiritual body is as thick as suffocating smoke, permeating this space.

Rao Xinghai's heart was pounding: this is the prelude to the training.

A glass of water was handed to Rao Xinghai, and Nie Cai motioned him to drink it.

Rao Xinghai's heart was pounding: he remembered the bottle of water he drank in Serenshal Mountain.It was still the weird astringent smell, and there was medicine in the water, which made him light and dazed.Rao Xinghai had no choice but to pinch his palm again to remove the scab that formed on the wound.If it is a drug to assist training, he must try his best to resist.

"Can I see your mental body?" Nie Cai asked softly while hiding in the darkness, "Two."

The golden python jumped up from Rao Xinghai's body, its shape was much larger than before, Nie Cai smiled and said: "No, don't double it yet."

"Sometimes I can't fully control it." Rao Xinghai lied, "Especially when I'm nervous."

"Are you nervous now?" Nie Cai asked, "Do you still need some water?"

Rao Xinghai shook his head: "I will work hard."

The black mamba wrapped around Rao Xinghai's wrist, looking around vigilantly.

The black bear had already solidified, and Rao Xinghai knew that it was right behind him.The golden python was extremely nervous because he felt threatened, and Rao Xinghai still needed to cheer up to deal with Nie Cai. He kept telling himself: black bears would not attack him.

"This position is really uncomfortable." Nie Cai's voice came again, "It feels like you are the only one left in the world, right?"

The light was so strong that Rao Xinghai even felt faintly hot in his body, and the feeling of lightness in his head became more and more intense, which made him even more uncomfortable than what he experienced in Serenshal Mountain at that time.Whether it was the black chair or the carpet under his feet, the strong and weird sense of ritual gave Rao Xinghai the illusion that he was a sacrifice.

--right.He even answered Nie Cai's question involuntarily in his heart.

But his mouth was clenched tightly, and he didn't say a word.

He had to think about something... such as a rat with a big ass, such as the lively venue of the school sports meeting, the butterfly of Gongshang, the frog of Zhou Shifei, the cold metal prosthetic limb of Qu Wu... What finally woke him up was the sentence "I am very happy." Miss you".

Nie Cai seemed to be psychologically prepared for his silence.

"Rao Xinghai, I told you, are you special?"

"Ah."

"No, I don't like to answer like this. You have to say a complete sentence. You say, I'm special."

"...You said that I am special." Rao Xinghai replied.

"You were made by me, right?"

"Correct."

Nie Cai smiled: "Wrong again."

The black bear's paws repeatedly rubbed against the back of the chair.The golden python has slid to the ground.Rao Xinghai knew that he could not attack the black bear, and this was the best chance to gain Nie Cai's trust.

"I was created by you." Rao Xinghai said again.

Nie Cai smiled approvingly, and said in a very gentle and honest tone, "Good boy."

Rao Xinghai got goosebumps on his back.The black bear's paw touched his shoulder.

"In a sense, I'm actually your father." Nie Cai approached him slowly, bent down, pressed his arm, and almost touched his nose, "Rao Xinghai, will you lie to your father? "

Rao Xinghai replied subconsciously: "I won't."

Nie Cai: "You're lying."

Rao Xinghai: "I don't..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a sharp pain suddenly exploded in his head.

This is a pain he is completely unfamiliar with and has never experienced before, as if someone turned him from the inside out, clutching his heart, his bones, flesh and blood, trying to tear out his pitiful wisp from his body soul.

He heard his yelling, his ears were buzzing, and the outside sound was separated by some kind of barrier, so he couldn't hear it clearly.He saw the black mamba jump up in an instant, moving behind him.The breath of the spiritual body wrapped him tightly, and he felt like vomiting, his stomach twitched, his throat constricted, and it was difficult to breathe.

The "Sea Territory" seemed to have been attacked. He was crumbling in the face of strong winds and heavy rain.

"Are you uncomfortable?" Nie Cai supported his chin, "It's so pitiful, is this the first time someone has your mental body torn apart in this way?"

The golden python disappeared without a trace.It faithfully obeyed Rao Xinghai's order, did not resist, did not resist, and allowed itself to be torn apart and scattered by the black bear.

Rao Xinghai gasped for breath, physical tears rolled down his face, he opened his mouth to speak, saliva dripped from the gap between his teeth, his voice was weak as if squeezed out of his throat: "Why... why... I did something wrong what..."

"I didn't do anything wrong." Nie Cai curled up his fingers and wiped away his tears, "I just want you to be sure that I have absolute control over you here. Don't disobey me, don't deceive me, and don't betray me I."

Rao Xinghai shook his head nervously.Nie Cai didn't finish his sentence yet: "It's hard, isn't it? It's scary when the mental body is attacked and torn apart, right? Do you know what Adam went through? Do you know that his mental body is countless fireflies? ? You don’t know? Then I tell you now, many, many fireflies. Do you want to taste that pain?”

"I didn't...I really didn't...Teacher Nie..." Rao Xinghai cried, shaking all over, unable to imagine how Adam was tortured by Nie Cai.Even experiencing such pain once is enough to make him unforgettable forever, and Adam... hundreds of thousands of fireflies, every time one disappears, this pain repeats itself.

Rao Xinghai didn't fully understand until now why Adam was so afraid of Nie Cai.In his complicated feelings for Nie Cai, fear was the undertone that was heavily painted.

And when he betrayed Nie Cai to rescue the palace merchants, and even confessed to them so many things about the Yuanxing Club, the fear he had to overcome was like a thousand pounds.

"He is very fragile, very fragile." Nie Cai asked, "But you are different from him, right?"

Rao Xinghai nodded.

But in fact, he was yelling frantically in his heart: Adam is not fragile!His younger brother had great courage, courage that Nie Cai would never understand.

"Now tell me why you came to the Yuanxing Club." Nie Cai squeezed Rao Xinghai's chin, "Tell the truth, otherwise, I will repeat what you just went through."

The threat of the black bear still exists, Rao Xinghai dare not relax.

"It's Guan Li... I met Guan Li outside the school, and you came to see me the next day." He replied cautiously.

Nie Cai: "If you lie to me, you know what will happen."

Rao Xinghai shook his head, then nodded immediately.

"Drink water?" Nie Cai asked.

Regardless of Rao Xinghai shaking his head and refusing, he poured a glass of water for Rao Xinghai.

"Again, how did you come to Yuanxing Club?" Nie Cai asked softly, "What is your purpose?"

"The purpose... I don't know..." Rao Xinghai's voice was extremely weak. He knew that his palms were bleeding, but he still pressed his nails into the wound, resisting the frivolous desire to talk, "Guan Li ...She talked to me, and then, the subway...the subway...you asked me about renting a house, you said, you know...my mother..."

The black bear turned into smoke and sneaked back into Nie Cai's body. Satisfied, he released Rao Xinghai.

When the lights finally went out, Rao Xinghai gasped for breath and clenched his palms tightly to hide the pain and blood.

After the curtains were opened, the outdoor sunlight poured in immediately, Rao Xinghai's heart kept beating, until he returned to his room, it still didn't calm down.

He felt weak, floating on water, floating forever, unable to reach the shore.Liu Yushan came to visit him and comforted him, saying that this was the discomfort that anyone who experienced training for the first time would feel, and told him that it was not Nie Cai's malice, but because he was not used to it yet.

Rao Xinghai refused Liu Yushan's sedative, saying he could adjust it.Seeing Liu Yushan holding a syringe, Rao Xinghai felt a terrible shudder for no reason.

Of course Liu Yushan was still smiling, that harmless, gentle smile.

But now Rao Xinghai felt that he was scarier than Nie Cai.

The closed door could not completely isolate the child's cries, and Rao Xinghai experienced another sleepless night.Half asleep and half awake, he stood in the middle of his own sea area, baptized by the rainstorm, and walked aimlessly forward alone.

Soon he knew that this was a dream.

On the rain-washed street, he saw Shen Chunlan holding an umbrella. "... Rao Xinghai?" Shen Chunlan asked, but through the rain curtain, he couldn't see Shen Chunlan's face clearly.

Holding Shen Chunlan's arm, they walked through the rain, passing the endless rain and the sky with rolling thunder.The rain gradually turned into snow, losing its weight and falling lightly on their shoulders and heads.

Rao Xinghai hugged Shen Chunlan tightly and kissed him the way Shen Chunlan taught him.The action was more intense than the first kiss in the dark alley, he wished he could rub Shen Chunlan into his body and make the two into one.

His lips touched the cold flakes, white as frozen tears.Have a nightmare?Shen Chunlan stroking