The Spirit World

Chapter 714: End of the Episode Never Owe You
The lights were dim. A man turned over, yawned, and glanced at those who had not rested yet.

"Brother Yufeng, you haven't slept yet? Are you telling that crappy story again?"

He muttered a little loudly, rubbed his eyes and stood up from the quilt.

"How can you talk like that, Zhang Bo!" A man kicked the man named Zhang Bo hard on the leg.

Zhang Bo rubbed his eyes to get rid of the sleepiness. He was kicked and made a snort with his lips pouted.

"Tsk, only an idiot like you would believe it!" Zhang Bo yawned again, rubbed his stomach, got off the big bed that could accommodate several people, and slowly went to the kettle next to him to pour water: "Can you believe that story? If you can believe it, I'm the emperor! Boring."

"Zhang Bo, shut up!" The man patted the storyteller next to him and consoled him, "Yu Feng, don't listen to his nonsense. Your story is so wonderful... Even if it's fake, it's still very interesting... It's just that they don't have good eyesight."

“No, I just spoke too badly…”

Chang Yufeng pulled the quilt up and placed it around his waist.

He was extremely thin, so skinny that he hardly looked like a human.

"Were you really killed by the Lin you mentioned?" the man asked. Chang Yufeng looked at him and smiled comfortably.

"Yes." Chang Yufeng tilted his head, put his hand on the side of his face, and looked at the man quietly: "I didn't beat her at the Dragon Assembly... Her inner demon got out of control and she accidentally killed me..."

His voice sounded relieved, free and easy, quiet and somewhat lonely.

"No, that's not the way to say it. It's just that I didn't want to give up. It would be more accurate to say that I didn't want to give up saving her, and she didn't want to give up saving her sisters, so in the end, we fought for our lives."

"Ah... If that's the case, how did you end up here? Have you been reborn?" The man became excited and also smoothed the quilt.

They slept in the same quilt.

Chang Yufeng talked about the past...some old things.

He was the only one who knew how much of these old stories were true and how much were false, so there was nothing more to say.

"What reincarnation?" Zhang Bo finished drinking the water and sat on the edge of the bed. He lifted his quilt, rolled it up, and wrapped himself tightly. He also came over and said in a disbelieving accent: "I am the reincarnation of the king of heaven. Do you believe it? Ah? Hahaha~"

He said this more than once. Chang Yufeng smiled and let Zhang Bo be naughty. However, he was a little unwilling to see Chang Yufeng being mocked, so he bumped Zhang Bo's shoulder. Zhang Bo understood, shrugged, pouted indifferently, and whispered: "Just spoil him, I am your biological brother, he is not your biological brother!"

"Zhang Bo, if you want to listen, then listen. If you don't want to listen, Brother Yu Feng didn't make a lot of noise. Did he annoy you?" The man, Zhang Bo's brother, Zhang Yi snorted, impatient with his brother's nonsense: "You should either go to sleep or stay here."

"I want to see what kind of gods and ghosts he can come up with." Zhang Bo twisted his body and straightened his quilt.

He looked at Chang Yufeng. Apart from being thin, Chang Yufeng was indeed quite special. He had a gentle and majestic appearance, and was delicate, which might attract the love of women.

But he was too thin. Under the light, his pale and thin complexion made it clear to everyone that he had suffered a lot. The vicissitudes of life had forced him to turn his delicate appearance into a sharp edge.

Chang Yufeng's hair was disheveled, his temples were gray, and his jet-black hair had turned white. The coarse linen clothes made his thinness even more obvious.

He also had a slight cough, and from time to time he had to avoid the two brothers and go to a deserted place to cough.

If it weren't for the brothers Zhang Yi and Zhang Bo, he would most likely have died in the snowy night.

When Zhang Yi saw him, he was shivering in the snow, and the snow had covered his whole body. Zhang Yi and Zhang Bo were coming back from the street after exchanging goods when they were tripped by the shivering Chang Yufeng. They then took the dying Chang Yufeng back home for treatment.

Zhang Yi and Zhang Bo asked him where he came from and where he was going.

Chang Yufeng always shook his head and said he didn't know.

He was not really talking nonsense, but was describing his past in a clear and organized manner. This traveler wandering the world never revealed any emotion when he spoke anything.

In his memory, everything about him was peaceful and quiet, whether he was an enemy or a friend.

Zhang Yi found it magical that this man could not explain life and death, pain and joy, love and hate clearly and understandably, as if they were entangled together. He was very interested in all the women that Brother Yufeng talked about, because the women in his words were different from those he had met.

Granny Wang from the next village is always gossiping about other people and helping them to find a date. Xiaohua from the village always looks down on him because he is a hunter. And Chuncao from the next door always seems to want to marry the handsome guy at the head of the village. As for the ugly ones, they not only don't even look at them, but even insult them.

Also, those village women who are always cursing their mothers and grandchildren and making jokes about their reproductive organs are not the ladies of wealthy families.

The women that Brother Yufeng talks about are all kind to others. At the very least, they don’t use foul language and are cute in nature.

That was something he couldn't imagine, because he felt that perhaps in a village, he had only seen all the women he could find, and there wouldn't be any more diverse appearances.

But Zhang Bo was dismissive. No matter how big or small the principles were, they were all bullshit unless they were put into practice.

He doesn't need anyone to tell him that, hey, the conflict between classes is determined by his parents, and he doesn't care about the classes divided by money at all.

Now he just wants to find a young wife. Xiaohua at the entrance of the village is not bad, beautiful, beautiful, and still beautiful. He doesn't care who Xiaohua likes. He only knows that if he saves enough money, he can marry a beautiful wife. If he works hard, he will be satisfied.

What class, what god, what ghost, who are they talking about? They are talking about ghosts.

Zhang Yi likes to listen to Brother Yu Feng talk about his life experience. No matter it is true or false, he just listens to it as a story. Zhang Bo is different. He sometimes takes it seriously.

He would feel that the Locke, Lin, and other ghost things that Chang Yufeng mentioned seemed to have a logic that she could not quite understand.

How can anyone be so bad? How can anyone be incapable of resisting?
What kind of people called Monica are they related to Lin? If they died, they died. It was really stupid to be threatened by others for such irrelevant people. This stupid logic made him very uncomfortable.

So he always listened intermittently.

"I was not reborn, because I did not die, but the Heart of God blocked my death once. After that, my Heart of God was completely shattered."

Chang Yufeng touched his heart, which was burning and full of real blood.

thump--

thump--

thump--

"Didn't she say that! Is that Victoria also a god? Why didn't she help you? Didn't she know you in the last reincarnation? And she also said that she was your mother's friend...right?" Zhang Yi was not a rough man. He was not ugly. He learned a few words when he was young and could understand some books. When he was a child, his teacher praised him for his good memory, but now that the teacher was dead, no one said that he had a good memory anymore.

You don't need a good memory to chop wood or hunt in the mountains.

"Victoria is indeed my mother's friend, but she has no obligation to help me." Chang Yufeng shook his head slowly. He looked at the rare glowing crystal here, and when he saw it, he became unimaginably calm.

"What's wrong with asking relatives and friends for help?" Zhang Bo also joined in the fun. He loved to find fault with details like this.

"Hey... There's a saying that goes 'It's better to die than to have no contact with each other.' Have you forgotten those relatives who think we are poor? Haven't they never come to see us?" Zhang Yi frowned and glared at Zhang Bo. He didn't like Zhang Bo finding fault.

"How can that be compared? Didn't he say he was very rich? Wouldn't everyone want to curry favor with him? Ah? Just like Brother Wang at the entrance of the village, he is rich, has a wife, and three concubines outside, isn't he still surrounded by a bunch of women?" Zhang Bo looked up with envy, as if he really saw Brother Wang's four beautiful wives: "Isn't it because he is rich? Being rich is better than anything else."

"I didn't help, but you're the one who talks too much."

"That's right. The law says monogamy, but there are more people who keep a pig outside than in the name of a wife. It's like raising a pig. They just keep one outside for breeding."

The two brothers were arguing, and Chang Yufeng looked at them calmly.

One was as thin as him, and the other was a strong man.

"She didn't help me because I wanted to figure it all out on my own."

Chang Yufeng said this calmly. He was very thin and only about 1.75 meters tall. He had to live in the open air and it was a blessing for him to be able to grow taller.

"But you didn't solve it, right? You were defeated by Lin at the Dragon Expedition... I actually heard about the Dragon Expedition in a book. It's very important to the people of the Principality..." Zhang Yi shrank his neck.

"Yes, I just said it, I was defeated by Lin."

"I have no way to fight against Lin, she is too strong." Chang Yufeng smiled, as if he had won again.

"That's such a pity...you've been working so hard..." Zhang Yi felt sympathy for Brother Yu Feng.

"It's not a pity at all...it's just the difference in strength..." Chang Yufeng smiled. He didn't feel it was a pity at all.

"How can a six-year-old who has never held a sword be so strong?" Zhang Bo raised this doubt.

"She is extremely talented." Chang Yufeng praised Lin.

"I do not believe……"

Zhang Bo's left eye clenched. He really didn't believe it. A woman holding a sword? Could she beat a man?
How can it be? !
How can a woman hold a sword? Isn't it enough to just find a man to marry? Does a woman who marries well need to go to the battlefield? Need to show her face in public? Need to go to the highest institution of learning?

This strange logic really made Zhang Bo confused.

"I think... I can beat her, and I must beat her, because she is being threatened by someone... I know this... So, she is also trying her best to fight me." Chang Yufeng repeated it again.

"Why did you lose?" Zhang Bo asked.

"Because I can't win. Lin'er fought for the innocent people. Those innocent people will die silently because of her loss... They are sitting on the stage, looking at their savior... This made Lin'er try her best. I couldn't resist at all."

"I also practiced swordsmanship like crazy one month later, but I know that Lin'er was also practicing swordsmanship like crazy..."

"Psycho...you two are both psychotic..." Zhang Bo laughed disdainfully: "If they die, they die. It's not you who caused it. What does it have to do with you? Huh? Right...they died, it has nothing to do with you...do you care?"

"I didn't defeat Lin'er... because I knew that I couldn't defeat Lin'er anymore... even if I could, I couldn't do it..."

Chang Yufeng was calm, calm, so calm that it was unimaginable.

"Were they rescued in the end?" Zhang Yi was concerned about this question.

"No……"

Chang Yufeng slowly gave the answer.

"The day after I lost, their bodies were dumped on the street. They died horribly for anyone who passed by to see."

That might be the day that Chang Yufeng least wanted to recall.

The sight of a person dying tragically on the street is not very pretty, and it is hard to describe. Thirty bodies were lying on the street, covered in blood and flesh.

"I was killed by Lin'er."

Chang Yufeng slowly tilted his head: "But there is no way... I can't beat her..."

"Won't this cause public outrage?" Zhang Yi was furious.

This kind of failure seemed too humiliating, and Zhang Bo frowned and looked at Brother Yu Feng.

"No one knows who killed him. There is no way to find out."

"We still don't know who killed him?!" Zhang Yi and Zhang Bo said in unison.

"do not know."

Chang Yufeng shook his head calmly.

"Why!"

"How can it be!"

When Zhang Yi and Zhang Bo heard that so many innocent people had died, they cursed loudly.

Zhang Bo said that those were innocent people and their deaths had nothing to do with him.

"I just don't know, because Locke held a funeral for thirty people to mourn the dead children, and told everyone in Wenti County that he would definitely find the murderer and never forgive the murderer."

"what?!"

"what?!"

Zhang Yi and Zhang Bo spoke in unison, unable to say anything. They looked at each other, speechless.

"At their funeral, I saw Lin'er with a silent face. She also looked at me, and I could see the resentment in her eyes..."

"What? Why does she resent you?"

Zhang Bo was furious. He covered himself with the quilt, retracted his neck, and then stretched it out again.

"She hates herself. I hate myself, too."

Chang Yufeng touched his nose.

His thin face was like a chisel, carving time.

"..."

Zhang Yi wanted to say, this has nothing to do with you...

The death of those thirty girls should have nothing to do with you...

But they died...

Death in the hearts of others does not hurt...

No one knows their names...

Maybe their parents knew, but their parents sold them out.

Maybe Lin'er knew, because Lin'er accompanied them and they met in the last few days of their lives.

In the stands of the Dragon Assembly, when Chang Yufeng knelt on the ground and vomited blood, when he was pierced by Lin'er's novice sword, he was just... a...

I just want to see Lin'er smile...

But Lin'er didn't laugh.

Lin'er didn't laugh because she won the game...

Only then did he realize that Lin'er already knew their ending.

Whether he defeated Lin'er or not, they would die...

This is their fate and they can't escape it.

Chang Yufeng looked at Zhang Yi and Zhang Bo.

Comforted them.

"Don't dwell on the past... No one owes anyone anything..."

(End of this chapter)