The King of Curses

Chapter 281 The Real Guy

The two lovers, a man and a woman, went on a spontaneous trip.

While driving, Cen Dongsheng wondered how much time had passed since the last time he and his elder sister went out alone. After careful recollection, he realized that in fact, he had never gone out alone even once.

They usually act together only when something happens somewhere.

Sometimes it is the reborn who pursue fame and fortune, sometimes it is women who do it for work, including this time.

……

Of course they had a way to get to their destination faster, but both of them tacitly did not mention it. Instead, they went to the airport and chose the ordinary way of travel.

Only Cen Dongsheng and An Zhizhen were chatting in the first class cabin.

"The last time my sister came to San'in City, she came by train."

"Doesn't she have the ability to travel through space? Ah, to experience life?"

"Haha, that's right. Sister Zhizhen knows her very well."

The woman took a book out of the luggage rack, leaned against the window, and read quietly.

Cen Dongsheng had nothing to do. He soon got tired of the blue sky and white clouds outside the porthole, and it would be better to appreciate the beauty of the world right in front of him, so he simply kept staring at her.

"What's wrong, Dongsheng?"

An Zhizhen naturally noticed someone's burning gaze, and she raised her eyes with amusement.

"nothing."

Cen Dongsheng shook his head.

"I just felt a little emotional. I never thought that one day I would be so obsessed with someone."

In his previous life, he rarely imagined himself having a lover. Even when he was just reborn, he thought he would live a life similar to that of a lone wolf in his previous life.

Also, the fact that he had plural lovers was completely beyond his expectations... He did occasionally dream about himself and a woman with a blurred face getting married and starting a family, but he had never thought about becoming a scumbag with women everywhere. It can only be said that it takes a lifetime to get to know oneself.

"Oh, I didn't expect Dongsheng to start saying sweet words." An Zhizhen held his chin with one hand and said with a smile, "Are you still scared from before and are thinking about pleasing me now?"

"Ah ha ha."

Cen Dongsheng could only smile bitterly.

"Actually, so do I."

She closed the book with her hands and placed it on her knees, her expression becoming more serious.

"From the moment I confirmed my ideal, I thought I was destined to be alone. Even if I might marry and have children with a man in the future, there would be no feelings. It was you who changed my mind, Cen Dongsheng."

Judging from the experience of the future philosopher king, what my elder sister said is undoubtedly true...

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After getting off the airport and driving to the destination, it started to drizzle.

This is a country town like you’d expect to see anywhere.

The early winter raindrops were wrapped in the chilly wind, sweeping across the rows of blue tiles and white walls. The man walked up the mossy stone steps, and the smell of humus and leaves penetrated his nose. At the end of the mountain road, the stone tablet at the entrance of the village was covered with ferns, and the words "White Deer" could be barely discerned.

Before coming here, An Zhizhen had already sent people to investigate this place. She did not go deep into it, but deliberately mixed it with other collection work, and only a few people knew the process.

Although with Tiankui Quanshou interfering with people's hearts, it shouldn't be so troublesome, but An Zhizhen still wanted to make sure that everything was foolproof.

The two arrived at the small town and asked around but no one knew the answer. In the end they had to rely on their own abilities to solve the problem.

"Feng Shui... Feng Shui Master..."

An old man was turning over the dried mugwort with a bamboo rake. He had been mumbling that he didn't know, but at a certain moment, his cloudy eyes suddenly fixed, as if he suddenly remembered everything.

Memories that had long been forgotten and abandoned in a corner were forced to come to mind under the influence of my power.

"Yes... I remember... there was a Feng Shui master who adopted a group of orphans... People in the town would go to him when they encountered problems... Later he... they..."

Having said this, the old man's lips trembled, his brows were furrowed, but his pupils were blank and he couldn't say the next sentence.

No matter how exciting it was, he couldn't remember it anymore; and they had encountered this phenomenon several times among the older townspeople.

"You don't have to think about it anymore. Just tell us where we can find the traces they left behind."

The old man raised his finger, which was like a dry branch, and pointed to the mountain behind.

……

"There really is something fishy going on."

"Well, the memories of everyone who had any impression of this sect and the old Feng Shui master have been tampered with."

Following the winding mountain path upwards, they came to a cemetery and saw rolling hills and stone tablets everywhere.

"There's really a nice atmosphere here," said Cen Dongsheng.

"Haha. I didn't have high hopes, but now it seems..."

An Zhizhen laughed softly.

"We might actually gain a lot this time."

……

It was dusk when they arrived, and now after walking around the mountain for a few times, night fell, and the tombs were scattered like scattered chess pieces. Cen Dongsheng noticed that there were more than just human tombs here, it seemed that this place itself was a relic.

The moonlight happened to cut through the clouds, and in the bluish-white light, half of a broken tombstone appeared. It didn't look like a tombstone, and the words on it had long since weathered away.

"Can you find their graves?"

An Zhizhen shook his head.

"It seems that it is not possible. The master and fellow apprentices who were killed by the Dragon Slayer should have been 'burned'..."

The woman suddenly stopped talking.

After waiting for a moment, she grabbed his hand. Cen Dongsheng subconsciously shook it back and listened to the reminder in his ears in shock.

After a while——

"Hello you all."

The voice of a strange girl sounded not far away, as clear as porcelain falling to the ground, with a frightening sense of brokenness.

"I didn't expect that after decades, there are still people who remember this place. It's really not easy."

A young girl in a white dress suddenly appeared in the cemetery, which was empty except for them.

She was sitting on the broken tombstone shrouded in moonlight, her bare feet dangling in the air, the jingling of the silver bells on her ankles sounding so clear and pleasant in the silent cemetery.

The white skirt was soaked with night dew, but there was no trace of mud on it. In her dark hair, there was a camellia that was about to fade.

Her appearance was very abrupt and strange, and she appeared in the cemetery on the back mountain. She was like a ghost. Even an ordinary person would have noticed something was wrong and wanted to turn around and run away.

However, there was an aura about the girl that was not even slightly eerie or spooky. She was as bright and pure as the flowing moonlight, which made people subconsciously like her and attracted to her unconsciously.

"who are you?"

Of course, Cen Dongsheng was not so distracted by the charm. After being surprised, he frowned and asked coldly.

"Aren't you here to see me?"

The girl laughed. "The leader of the Super Working Committee, An Zhizhen, and her lover, Cen Dongsheng, who even the special curse master cannot kill. The two are very famous in this world."

She fell from the stone tablet barefoot and floated in the air.

"I didn't expect to be targeted by such a big shot. I just woke up from a big dream and am trying to learn the etiquette of this era. If I have offended you, I hope you will forgive me."

She didn't even have the slightest intention of hiding anything.

What was even more unexpected to Cen Dongsheng was that he and Sister Zhizhen were originally just following clues to find out the truth in case of emergency, and never thought that they would actually encounter the "evil god".

That’s right, the man was almost certain that the girl in white dress before him was the conscious clone sent by a certain sleeping evil god.

He had already shared the relevant information with Sister Zhizhen. Judging from her sister's attitude, she had obviously come to the same conclusion.

Because the other party said the key words such as "sleeping" and "awakening" without any hesitation.

"What the hell are you?"

An Zhizhen said.

Although she had learned about the evil god from the reborn person a long time ago, it was impossible for her to reveal this information to the other party.

"Well, it's really rude to call a noble person the word 'thing'..."

She raised her finger and tapped her chin, looking puzzled.

"Didn't you come to this place because of the 'Soul Returning to Heaven and Earth Method'? Don't you want to ask some more valuable questions? For example, how did I hand the things over to the Feng Shui master?"

"He has been killed by his own apprentice."

"I know."

The girl in the white dress replied with a smile.

"That disciple is dead too."

"I heard about it." The girl in the white dress sighed, with deep regret in her tone, "What a pity, he is a man of great talent, perseverance and determination. He was already very successful, but greed still got the better of him and forced him to go down a dead end."

No hiding, no hesitation.

This evil god clone who suddenly appeared, in a friendly manner, told Cen Dongsheng and the others all the information they wanted to know, just like chatting with a friend:

She was the one who taught the secret art of "The Soul Returns to Heaven and Earth" to the Dragon Slayer Master decades ago, and she knew everything about the family's subsequent experiences and the Dragon Slayer's own achievements.

Although the girl said that she "just woke up from a dream", the amount of information reflected in her words and her understanding of the human world are obviously far from limited to decades ago and the present. I'm afraid she has always been paying attention to this world.

The only ones who can do this are the sleeping ancient gods and demons.

Cen Dongsheng's guesses were all correct, he just didn't expect to actually meet the real thing at this time.

"I have seen that method before, and now I am more interested in you."

An Zhizhen smiled.

"You don't look like a human, but you don't look like the ghost I met..."

"Huh? Ah, by the way, you've never met me and my kind, right?"

The girl clapped her hands.

"My past name is not worth mentioning. Now just call me 'Loujia'. As for my identity, well..."

She assumed that thoughtful pose again, tapping her chin with her finger.

“As for me, I am actually God.”

"Really? That sounds amazing."

"It's really amazing. It's not a god in fictional stories or religions, but a super life form that really exists on this planet."

The girl in the white dress nodded slightly, as if she was not the one being talked about.

"I am a god and devil who has lived from the ancient times ten thousand years ago to the present day. Your ancestors originally called me 'God'..."

An Zhizhen listened quietly. Her tone and expression did not show any surprise, and she did not think that what the other party said was a fantasy.

This reaction was obviously unusual, but because it was An Zhizhen, the girl in the white dress didn't think there was anything wrong - she obviously had some knowledge of several special-class spell-binding masters.

Facing an evil god with tens of thousands of years of experience and lifespan, perhaps only a human like my elder sister, who has been outstanding in every era, can remain calm and get to the bottom of the matter without revealing any flaws.

Cen Dongsheng knew his own level, so he tightened his face and remained silent.

"You just mentioned 'the same kind'. Could it be that there are more than one ancient god and devil like you?"

"That's right. Moreover, one of them is about to awaken, and there are others like me who are working hard to prepare for awakening. Even if you are very powerful, I'm afraid you will be outnumbered by then."

"I can rest assured that."

"Hey, rest assured?"

The girl in the white dress widened her eyes in surprise.

"What did I say just now that reassures you? I was reminding you that a disaster is about to happen to the world, okay?"

"Let's assume that what you said is true. The fact is that the ancient gods and demons all think that I am 'very powerful' and that I have to rely on the advantage in numbers to win, right?"

An Zhizhen responded calmly.

"...Yes, you are very powerful and can be called a difficult person. If you were born in the era of the great war between gods and demons, you would probably be remembered in history and regarded as a figure in myths and legends, and passed down for thousands of years."

The evil god's incarnation seemed to be thinking about something.

"This era is indeed unexpected. I originally thought that the order of heaven and earth would regress to a time thousands of years ago when we dominated the earth. I didn't expect that among the weak humans, there would emerge strong people who can reach the top level, and there are more than one or two..."

"Let's get down to business."

At this time, Cen Dongsheng finally spoke, and he asked in a deep voice:
"What is your purpose in appearing before us?"

"intention……"

Lou Jia's gaze moved away from An Zhizhen and fell on the man's face.

Her gaze slid from Cen Dongsheng's eyes to his nose, and then from his nose to his mouth, with strong interest flashing in her clear pupils.

The girl in front of me looks as bright as the moonlight, but there is a sense of alienation in her expression and movements. Combined with her lazy movements, she gives an impression of inhuman charm that is fascinating.

But Cen Dongsheng, who had already realized that he was a philandering and lustful man, was not moved at all.

On the one hand, for him, only intimacy in a relationship can bring about a change in his mentality. Unless they really become intimate one day, he will still be able to control his desires.

On the other hand——

The woman in front of me who calls herself "Loujia" is just an avatar used for communication and to inquire about information. Who knows what her real body looks like.

In his impression, the true forms of ancient gods and demons were all gigantic monsters, which were completely different from human aesthetics of the opposite sex.

"Cen Dongsheng, I have always been curious about you."

The man heard her ask with a smile.

"What is so special about you that could make one... no, maybe more than one special-class spell-forbidden master take a liking to you?"

(End of this chapter)