I collect cultural relics in the human world

Chapter 214 Hunting (I)

"For..." This time, He Si also hesitated.

She had been pushed forward by unclear illusions and endless accidents, and had no time to stop and think carefully. What caused the fire that started from Xiaojiu's little firefly and gradually grew into a raging fire?

But Qin Jian took advantage of her moment of daze and gave her the answer: "For you."

"I?"

It seems that when they first met, she insisted on going to find Xiaojiu, where the skeleton of the little monkey was, Qin Jian also asked her this question - Have you ever thought that this might be a trap for you? At that time, she didn't know the ingenuity of the world, so of course she didn't react. She didn't understand what she had that was worth the other party's efforts to take a life. She just thought that Mr. Qin was old-fashioned and alarmist. She didn't realize the danger. For her promise and Xiaojiu, who made her feel different for the first time in a long time, she decided to go into danger.

By the way, Qin Jian at that time had not yet revealed his true face to her. He earnestly played the role of an elder who was tough on the outside but soft on the inside. He seemed helpless on the surface, but actually went with the flow and went into this situation with her - the soft-hearted part is still debatable, perhaps because of the filter of He Si's later relationship with him.

But now, she was shaken. Perhaps it was just as Qin Jian said, this trap was not aimed at Qin Jian from the beginning to the end, but at herself.

The words that the person she just faced said in the illusion were half true and half false, but He Si felt that one thing was true - she had the ability to see through the spirits of cultural relics, and this ability was what the other party coveted. Let's call that person the Mirror Demon, He Si thought to herself, for this Mirror Demon who relied on the soul bottle to transform, her ability was very important.

But the problem lies here. Just as Qin Jian said, the other party obviously knows that she is capable, otherwise they would not set up a trap to force out her potential. In this case, why not just attack her directly and let her meet, know, and even fall in love with Qin Jian...

The logic was wrong. The Mirror Demon was obviously hiding something. He Si frowned and looked at Qin Jian who was also in deep thought.

But before she could come up with an answer, the Mirror Demon's previous words appeared in her mind again - it would be more convenient to take your life directly than to collect those cultural relics.

why?
Could it be that human life also has the ability to maintain human form like the spirit of cultural relics? But if so, why must it be me... and Song Zhaoxuan?

Could all this be related to the bond that happened thousands of years ago? Do Song Zhaoxuan and I, the two former owners of the mirror, have a special connection with this mirror demon?

But this still couldn't answer why the mirror made her and Qin Jian meet. Her thoughts went around in circles, but there was no turning point, and He Si fell into a dead end.

"Because he lied."

He Si heard Qin Jian's confident tone. She knew that the Mirror Demon's words could not be fully believed, but she didn't know which part was true and which part was false. She could only look up and stare at the person in front of her, waiting for his next words.

"He can't transform." Qin Jian thought for a moment and added, "At least, he didn't use the stacked barn jar to transform." "That's right! You told me that Xiao Shitou can transform with the help of the stacked barn jar because he is like a soul bottle. He can give life and accept the supernatural power. He accepts the obsession of cultural relics and shapes his own soul. What's more..." He Si also suddenly woke up. Everything that was dangerous just now was like a dream, so that she lost her judgment of the different fates of the two Qin Jians. The person who met Xiao Shitou was the Qin Jian in front of her, which means that Xiao Shitou evolved from a spine beast to the boy he is today. All the hard work of accompanying, caring for, shaping human form, and breaking the inner demon came from this Qin Jian, not the mirror demon. The stacked barn jar was in Qin Jian's hands from beginning to end, and the mirror demon had no ability to use it. His so-called coveting of her ability was naturally a lie.

Seeing that he had figured it out, Qin Jian said, "Think about it carefully. In all this time, have you ever seen another me in real life?"

He Si first breathed a sigh of relief, then shook her head seriously: "Don't forget, if he couldn't transform, how could Xiao Shitou be taken away under Director Deng's nose."

"Since it is a mirror, it naturally has the ability to create illusions. I think that what appeared in front of Little Stone was not his real body, and it could only exist for a very short time. Otherwise, Little Stone would not have been rescued so easily by us."

"So... could it be that what I just saw was the scene of your birth?" He Si gradually sorted out the context of the two illusions. "The first illusion was the birth of the mirror demon. After the girl lay on the chest of the general with the mirror as her pillow and died, he was born, and somehow he took on a human form. In the illusion just now, after the female doctor and her Mr. Song died in each other's arms for unknown reasons, you were split off and occupied his body, so you have no memory of your transformation."

"Female doctor and Mr. Song?" Qin Jian's face was filled with doubt again, "Did you see the scene of my birth?"

He Si then realized that Qin Jian did not participate in the first half of the illusion. When he arrived, the memory had already ended and the plot had fast-forwarded to his battle with the mirror demon, so he recounted the illusion to him in detail from beginning to end.

"I thought he just trapped you in an illusion, but I didn't expect there would be such a relationship."

He Si didn't expect that the person in front of her was still thinking about jealousy at such a moment. She looked at Qin Jian with some resentment, but found that his brows were furrowed even tighter. Obviously, this sentence was not because of romance.

Sure enough, Qin Jian continued, "Ah Si, from your description, you and Song Zhaoxuan in this illusion seem to be of different generations. Although you are not biological father and daughter, in the eyes of people at that time, your relationship is against human ethics. But is the man lying on the ground the same face as Song Zhaoxuan when he was young?"

"This..." He Si also felt that something was wrong. She recalled the scene when she saw the true face of the man on the ground. She thought that she had finally controlled the dream. Could it be that the mirror demon was the one who really controlled the dream? Did he intentionally let her see Song Zhaoxuan's face?

But why?

He Si couldn't figure it out, and Qin Jian obviously couldn't give an answer either. Her thoughts were hushed in the winter sun, and finally He Si spoke first: "He designed so many things just to awaken my memory and abilities, and then... use the bond between the three of us a thousand years ago to regain this body?"

"Are you afraid, He Si?" Qin Jian did not answer. It was obvious that the other party was going to deal with him, but he asked He Si in a soft voice - Are you afraid? He Si did not know how to answer for a moment.

Qin Jian didn't need her to answer and continued, "Don't worry, he has already lost the initiative, and now his plan has been discovered by us. He used you as bait, but now he is hunting us. Besides, this body is still under my control, and I will never let him hurt you in the slightest."