Quadruple split.

Chapter 2388 Gu Xiaole (II)

Three waters and nine stars are a kind of destiny.

Although from a scientific point of view, both "fate" and "luck" can be summarized as nonsense, but in the field of metaphysics, the severity of [Three Water Stars] is at the level of heaven-defying that even strangling the child to death would not be excessive. After all, that can really save you some suffering.

Just as the mysticism in [Boundary of Innocence] can indeed trigger all kinds of wonderful powers, the worldview outside the game is very materialistic for most people, but in addition to those "masters" who are good at swindling, there are also many freaks who can truly observe, use and even enslave "metaphysics".

Among those truly useful metaphysical concepts, the fate of those who are born under the three water stars of Mingchi, Yuyu and Quanyou is much more miserable than those who are born under the [broom star], [death star], [death star] and [sky-killing star].

First of all, this fate will make the person's birth date and eight characters all dead. In addition, there is also a sinister side effect of being born with a Taiyin body.

Unlike many third-rate novels that randomly use a word, the real "Taiyin" is never a good physique. To put it in more popular terms, children with Taiyin body are born with poor immunity. They are weak, exhausted, weak, palpitating, and congested from the inside out. Not only are they prone to illness, they also attract all kinds of so-called unclean things -

Therefore, the Taiyin body alone can almost guarantee that the premature death rate of those who are born under the Three Water Stars will exceed 99%. And if by chance the child lives past the age of six and the body grows to a level that is barely strong enough to compete with the Taiyin body, then the eight characters of birth that are all destined for death will begin to take effect and cause disasters.

To put it simply, during this stage, the child's luck will be extremely bad, from tripping while walking to being led by the butterfly effect to eat in a restaurant with a gas leak. It may seem like just bad luck, but as time goes by, this bad luck may even cause him to encounter continuous and highly targeted accidents similar to those in the 'Final Destination' series.

In the end, if the person survives the Eight Gates of Death, then the three water stars [Mingchi], [Yuyu], and [Quanyou] will directly exert their power to lead everything around them to the "result" that will cause their death, and will even gradually ignore the "process" and "steps". As far as Gu Xiaole knows, there is only one person who can successfully survive the above three links.

That's herself.

In the past dozen centuries, only two people in the world have encountered such a fate.

It's a pity that the other person's luck was not as good as Gu Xiaole's. Although she is now a famous figure who can make all abnormal people around the world tremble with a stomp of her feet, but according to her aunt and uncle, the [Ghost King of the Underworld] was indeed an unfortunate girl when she was alive. Even if she had achieved what she has now, it was because her life was successfully taken away, which was a result of the disaster.

Only Gu Xiaole himself, with the help of countless people, successfully escaped from [bad luck] and freed himself from this fate that was almost destined to torture him to death from the very beginning.

Because the Gu family insisted on standing on the right side during the great changes that year, and he was the first descendant among all the related parties, so with the help of countless collaborators such as the previous generation of fortune tellers, the current fortune tellers, the three generations of the Gu family heads, the two generations of the Yi family, etc., he was finally able to eliminate the "karma" inherited from the previous generation, overturned the table before the script that was destined to be a tragedy began, and won the future.

but--

During the years when Gu Xiaole was still young but had already officially begun to practice as an Onmyoji, she had nightmares almost every day. She dreamed that she died alone, madly, and desperately in various ways. Although the ways of death were different, in the end, the ending was always one of unforgettable coldness.

Gu Xiaole knew that was the temperature of death.

Gu Xiaole also knew that those so-called "nightmares" were never real, nor were they stories from another world line, but rather the fear that was difficult to suppress and even grew in his dreams after he truly understood the "Three Water Stars".

His father, the patriarch of the Gu family, did not choose to hide the truth from his daughter, because under the premise that she was destined to become an "abnormal person", it was absolutely necessary to let Gu Xiaole cherish her life more and let her know how hard this life was to come by.

Gu Xiaole, who was indeed frightened by this fate, did not dare to go out for a long time, did not dare to talk to strangers, and was even frightened by the glaring light and the cold wind. She only kept company with TV and animation every day, and this was also the opportunity for her to initially get into otaku culture!
In order to make up for his mistake, Gu Xiaole's father had no choice but to finally decide to send his daughter back to her sister and brother-in-law in her homeland to stay for a while. After all, the two were otaku culture enthusiasts who shared a common language with their daughter, and there was also a son in the family who had just been taken back from an orphanage and was about the same age as Xiaole.

If it were them, maybe they could get their precious daughter to open her heart again!

With the above expectations, Gu Xiaole's father sent him back to his motherland. Gu Yanyue and Yinan took care of him for a long time. Yi Dong, who was not much younger than Gu Xiaole, left a deep impression on the little Xiaole.

Well, all bad impressions.

There's no way. Perhaps the Gu family's genes have some problems, just like the aunt who almost scared her uncle to death with a primary school photo. Although Gu Xiaole is now undoubtedly a super beautiful girl who will never become a background board even if she stands next to Ji Xiaoge, she was really ugly when she was a child.

To put it nicely, it's like "like a monkey", but you can imagine how unpleasant the words are.

Yidong, who had just returned home for a few years at the time and was wild and unruly, with a huge gap between him and his parents, was a not very polite person who was obsessed with looks.

Considering that each of us is more or less obsessed with looks, the focus of the matter is naturally the fact that Yidong was a little impolite.

From a side perspective, Mo Tan, who had the best relationship with Yi Dong at that time and still has the best relationship with Yi Dong now, often pointed at a passerby on the street and said to Yi Dong when he was in a state of 'chaotic neutral' -

"There are two types of people I hate the most in my life. One is the one who dresses very fashionably but looks very ugly. The other is the one who dresses very tacky and looks very ugly."

Obviously, although he did not agree with his friend's "violent words" in a specific situation, the clever young man inevitably made some principled mistakes when he was young, such as - because of dissatisfaction with his parents' behavior, he took his anger out on his ugly relatives and verbally bullied them.

Even Yi Dong, who now has relatively correct values, feels that what he did back then was very wrong, very excessive, and very damnable when he occasionally recalls it.

You know, Gu Xiaole's physique was extremely sensitive at the time, so Yi Dong's parents didn't dare to use their abilities at home. In this case, it would be difficult for Yi Dong to detect his verbal attacks on him when the two were alone. In addition, Xiao Xiaole was a taciturn person back then, and he would not say anything even if he was bullied, so Yi Dong's evil deeds were even more difficult to detect.

Fortunately, however, Yidong's bad behavior did not last too long and was corrected long before it caused serious trauma to Xiao Xiaole.

The person who corrected him was called Mo Tan, Yi Dong's best friend. He was also a good boy loved by his parents, who wanted to adopt him as their godson.

Admittedly, for Mo Tan, the evaluation of "good boy" is probably only one-third accurate. But even so, his "good boy" side really made him notice the clues after being invited to visit Yi Dong's house several times. After some questioning, he confirmed his friend's bad behavior and taught him a profound lesson.

The lessons can be summarized as follows:
Fat beating.

A fat beating.

A severe beating.

A good beating in front of Gu Xiaole, which was very satisfying. But for Xiao Xiaole at that time, she was not happy to see the person who spoke ill of her being punished, because the precocious girl could vaguely sense that her "brother" did not hate her, but just felt uncomfortable with this "family" itself.

But this doesn't mean that Xiao Xiaole was not happy at that time. On the contrary, when he saw that skinny and childish boy using simple fighting techniques that "looked fierce but wouldn't get hurt, just hurt" to teach his younger brother a lesson; when he was frightened because he noticed the temperature of the thermos in his arms, fearing that he would be burned; when he scratched his hair and told himself that if no one married him, he would marry him -

It was like a beam of warm light, shining into the girl's heart that was gradually cooling and closing due to fear.

On the night when she got the 'marriage promise', the girl still had a nightmare. But when the nightmare was only halfway through, the skinny, young-looking boy appeared beside her, smiled warmly at her, knelt on one knee in an ill-fitting suit...

Xiao Xiaole always remembered the following content, but she never recalled it in detail because she always felt that dreams were like this: the more you think about it, the faster you will forget it.

And when the girl began to look forward to "dreams", she never had a nightmare again.

Not only that, after cherishing that warmth in her heart and returning to Japan, Gu Xiaole's personality has undergone a 180-degree reversal. Although she retains her otaku attributes and her obsession with ACGN culture, she has become a lively, cheerful, thoughtful, intelligent, and smooth-talking... ugly girl.

By the time the ugly girl graduated from junior high school, she had transformed into a beautiful and graceful Onmyoji.

To this day, although she has long since moved on from the "first love plot" and has her own social circle, friend circle and career plan, and even no longer feels a palpitation when she sees that boy again, that warmth is still cherished by Gu Xiaole and hidden deep in her heart, sleeping quietly along with that long dream with an uncertain ending.

but--

"Your 'cause and effect' that had been severed was awakened in the [Realm of Innocence]."

Ming Sakaki turned his head slightly and looked at the equally expressionless ghost witch, and said calmly: "Although based on the underlying logic of this world, your 'person' is absolutely unaffected, but your natal ghost is not protected by the underlying logic. In this case, it is a reflection of your 'natal', so the 'loophole' managed to awaken the cause and effect related to Sanshui Juexing."

Gu Xiaole pouted and complained, "It's Samurai Shodown! Benminggui is the name of the medium!"

"The seeds of despair have been planted in you, the Samurai."

Ming Sakaki still had no expression on his face, but he changed his address to the witch and said calmly, "According to my calculations, although this Samurai seems unable to communicate smoothly now, it will eventually obey your orders reluctantly after your communication. However, the cause of the disaster has been planted, and the consequences are naturally only a matter of time."

Gu Xiaole blinked and said hesitantly, "The bad consequences you mentioned, could it be that... Samurai Shodown will suffer in the future? Like when I was a kid and couldn't sleep well every day?"

"negative."

Ming Sakaki shook his head without hesitation and said sternly: "The so-called evil consequences are that this Samurai will be completely crushed by despair and fall into madness. You will become its first and last victim."

Gu Xiaole didn't seem surprised by Ming Sakaki's words. He just asked curiously, "What's the reason?"

“It’s the possibility of your mistakes, and everything about it is based on you, stems from you, and begins with you.”

Ming Sakaki, who had no idea how to keep people in suspense, answered straightforwardly, "Eventually, it will realize that it was 'wrong', and then it will definitely want to destroy the 'right' one. This way, it will be free, and you, as its master who cannot be harmed from the perspective of a shikigami, will not be truly harmed, you will just lose a character."

Gu Xiaole suddenly realized: "I see! So you mean it will betray me and kill me sooner or later?"

"That's not what I meant, it's my inference."

"I see. I think you're right."

"So, I will deal with it. Of course, this will not make you lose your Samurai Shodown, but it will just reset its data and fix the 'bug'."

"Uh, let's just forget about this, shall we?"

"What did you say?"

"I mean, even though I'm a liberal arts student, I still know very well what 'data reset' means, and I can also feel that she is afraid and she doesn't want to be killed by you."

"I just said it, it will kill you sooner or later."

"You also said that I won't be really hurt, I'll just lose a role."

"But this role in the future is..."

"No matter what important role the character of [Great Onmyoji Gu Xiaole] plays in the future, dear, unless you kill me now, I will not allow you to touch her."

"reason?"

"You don't need a reason to protect yourself."

"It's not you."

"You said it yourself that she is the possibility that I am wrong, so she is me."

"..."

Chapter 2379: The End