You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"It's not her. Don't wrongly accuse that little girl." Xiao Yao glanced at Yu Luying and lowered his head to fix his nails. "I was wondering when I was listening outside just now. You said we couldn't find you. Who gave you the confidence? Fish Leong?"

It seems that what Fish Leong gave was courage? Never mind, it doesn’t matter.

As Xiao Yao spoke, he looked at the "butcher" in front of him.

What I saw before me was the image of a handsome little boy in junior high school, but he was wearing black waders and a leather apron whose color was difficult to tell.

His face was covered in bright red blood, and he looked as terrifying as a demon, with a hint of evil between his eyebrows. His eyes were like deep pits, dark and ruthless, flashing with cruelty. His ruddy lips were covered with a layer of blood, revealing a weird smile.

His slender but pale fingers were stained with blood, like the blood of the creatures that had lost their lives at his hands. The rotten nails exuded a pungent stench, full of the breath of death.

The butcher's clothes on his body were filled with blood and the smell of decay. The blood had penetrated every inch of the clothes, forming disgusting patterns.

The most horrifying thing was his right hand—in fact, he didn’t have a right hand at all. His entire right arm was cut off from the elbow and replaced with a prosthesis. It was called a prosthesis, but it was actually just a metal rod with a big iron hook attached to it.

Xiao Yao's eyes dropped to the slaughtering table in front of the butcher.

He saw a young girl who was tied up.

She was wearing a light-colored sweater, what seemed to be a light blue skirt, and what seemed to be white socks and sneakers - the reason why they were all "seemed" was, of course, because her clothes were now soaked with blood and the color had become unrecognizable.

The girl's face was pale and she looked unconscious. Her hair was scattered on the slaughter table and stained with blood, making the black hair sticky and heavy.

Her hands were tied tightly behind her back, bound together with rough ropes, and blood flowed down the ropes and dripped onto the ground.

The girl's eyes were closed, and the edge of the bloodstained slaughter table was covered with rusty chains and pliers.

"Let her go. I'll only say this once." Xiao Yao raised his head and ordered, "Xiao Pingguo, stand next to me."

Chapter 395 The missing son?

2023-12-01

Her hands were tied tightly behind her back with rough ropes, and blood flowed down the ropes and dripped onto the ground.

The girl's eyes were closed, and the edge of the bloodstained slaughter table was covered with rusty chains and pliers.

"Let her go. I'll only say this once." Xiao Yao raised his head and ordered, "Xiao Pingguo, stand next to me."

Yu Luying looked at Xiao Yao expressionlessly and stood there without moving.

Xiao Yao changed to a more amiable tone and said, "Ping, come here~"

Yu Luying glanced at Xiao Yao, then at Zhang Zhengkai's shadow, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

The butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai complained: "Didn't you just say it once?"

Xiao Yao returned to his icy expression: "The only thing I said once was 'let her go'."

"Look," Zhang Zhengkai's shadow said, "This is the second time I've said this."

Are you a fucking idiot hired by a monkey? Xiao Yao got even angrier.

"Stop it, A-Zu." Xiao Yao resisted the urge to leap forward and said, "You should know that you are no match for me. I don't need any quick steps to kill you. Even the Fly King Belzebu is no match for me..."

"No need to brag about your achievements," the shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai nodded, "I know I can't beat you."

"Then what else can we talk about?" Xiao Yao said tiredly, "Let's end this quickly. We have been living in this nightmare for too long."

"Nightmare?" The shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai laughed dryly: "I see, you are enjoying it quite a bit."

"When people fall asleep, they will dream," Xiao Yao nodded and said, "When it's time to wake up, you should wake up."

"What if I don't want to wake up?" The butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai gently placed the hook in his hand - or rather, the hook that replaced his right hand - on Shen Jie's neck on the slaughtering table.

It was said to be gentle, but in fact it was as fast and precise as a ghost, without anyone noticing. Xiao Yao wanted to rush over to stop it, but it was too late.

"Put down your weapons!" the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai shouted sternly.

"Is this the only dirty trick you have left?" Xiao Yao sneered nonchalantly, "It's just a puppet. Do you expect to use her as a hostage? I have already found the real Shen Jie."

Of course Xiao Yao knew that the person lying on the slaughter table was not "just a puppet", he said so on purpose.

"What?" The butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai was slightly startled: "You think you are talking nonsense--"

"She was a six-year-old girl," Xiao Yao continued, "and before she recovered her memory, she also had the personality of a little brat."

"How did you...how did she...No, you guys..." The shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai muttered to himself, "So she was the one who brought you to see me...? She recovered her memory? No wonder she also suddenly...No, you don't understand, that's just a part of her, a part of her, she is just as important to you..."

The last "she" obviously refers to the girl on the slaughterhouse.

"She is also very important to you," Xiao Yao repeated in a slightly slower tone, "I know you love her and are even willing to sacrifice your life for her."

"Don't give me that!" The butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai grinned.

"And love, as I understand it, should not be putting a butcher's hook through the other person's neck." Xiao Yao said as he took a step closer calmly: "Just like Yu Luying just told you, this is not love."

The "hand" of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai's shadow tightened, and he pushed the tip of the hook closer to Shen Jie's throat: "If you dare to take another step forward, don't be afraid of regretting it in the future."

Xiao Yao took a look at the ferocious face of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai, stopped, and raised his hands: "OK, OK, FINE."

"Don't talk nonsense to me about love," the shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai grinned, "I know you can understand why I was forced to this point. You can understand it - you and I are the same kind of people."

After hearing this, Yu Luying glanced at Xiao Yao uncomfortably.

Your mother, you want to sow discord in person, right? You can do it.

"A woman who is unfaithful to her husband and abandons her family and children deserves to be killed by everyone!" The butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai continued to say incomprehensible words.

"No," Xiao Yao laughed dumbly, "If you insist on saying 'abandoning a husband', that's fine, but abandoning a son is outrageous, brother."

“You don’t understand,” the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai gritted his teeth and said, “Master Shi Hui told me that in the original timeline, she and I would have a son.”

Xiao Yao: “???!!”

Yu Luying: “!!???”

Xiao Yao roared, "You are lying! Or that old bald donkey is lying!"

"And you," the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai ignored Xiao Yao and just said to himself, "Because of your appearance and disruption, my son is gone now - you and she murdered him together."

Xiao Yao felt a little dizzy for a moment.

He soon realized that he had lost his composure, which was exactly what the enemy wanted to see.

Or perhaps, the other party deliberately speaks nonsense and confuses the audience in order to achieve this goal.

As for whether Shadow itself would lie, Xiao Yao didn't have time to think about it at this moment.

"In that case," Xiao Yao continued, following the words of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai, "you should not kill her - otherwise, what will happen to your son?"

"Humph, idiot," the shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai said grimly, "How can I explain it to you so that you will understand? This is a reshaping and a rebirth."

"You came to the real plane before and assassinated her in the alley," Xiao Yao asked sternly, "was it also for the purpose of reshaping and rebirth?"

Zhang Zhengkai opened his mouth to speak, but before he could make a sound, Xiao Yao continued to persuade him: "You should especially not hurt Shen Jie, because I have been in contact with her, and she is loyal to you."

"What?" said the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai.

So, Xiao Yao exaggeratedly described the neutrality and kindness of Shen Jie, who was wearing a blue dress, towards her "fiancé".

He was satisfied to see that the hook of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai's shadow loosened a little bit subconsciously.

"Even after she saw your perverted parking...relaxing...room full of voyeuristic photography photos," Xiao Yao added slowly, "her first reaction was not that you were perverted, but that you loved her very much."

"Is everything you said true?" asked the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai.

"Of course it's true?"

"What a pity," the shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai sighed, "If she hadn't suddenly remembered it for no reason..."

Before she could finish her words, Yu Luying turned the back of her hand, and a thin piece of ice shot out from between her fingers, knocking the hook that had already been loosened enough by the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai's shadow off course. Then she kicked hard, and the thin and long heel of the crystal shoe pierced into the muscle of his upper arm.

"Hah!" The butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai screamed, and Xiao Yao had already jumped over. He stretched out his sword to cut the hemp ropes that bound Shen Jie in the blue skirt, and then swung the sword to chop the iron chains.

"Are those things you just said true?" The butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai was lying on the ground with his back facing the sky, and Yu Luying's knees in her long skirt were pressed against his neck, but he still cared about this.

"Of course it's true?" Xiao Yao cut off all the chains, leaned over and held the unconscious Shen Jie in his arms: "At most, it's a little bit of literary narrative, uh, artistic processing with a tendency?"

"I can't breathe!" protested the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai.

Xiao Yao supported Shen Jie's body with one arm, and pointed the sword with the other arm at the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai lying on the ground: "Tell me, how can we reunite the soul of Shen Jie that has been split into two?"

"Do you really think she was only split in half?" The shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai laughed miserably, "Do you really think that the residents of this city outside are just projections of thoughts?"

"How can we make her recover?" Xiao Yao put the tip of his sword against the neck of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai. "How can we make everyone wake up from this dream - wake up unscathed?"

"Just kill me, that's all." The shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai said, "Why are you asking when you already know the answer?"

Xiao Yao was slightly stunned.

"Do you dare to kill me?" The shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai sneered, "I bet 50 cents that you don't dare."

"I advise you not to provoke me." Xiao Yao said coldly.

"I dared not to challenge you," the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai's shadow seemed to have a harder mouth than a dead duck: "I know you, Xiao Yao, I know your cowardice, I know your kindness, you are cowardly because of your kindness."

"Just now I said that you, a butcher, and I are the same kind of people," Xiao Yao said coldly, "Do you want to hear what you are talking about? In addition to being kind, I am also just. The sword in my hand represents my justice."

"And your justice doesn't allow your sword to fall easily, does it?" The shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai said, "When I say you are kind to the point of being cowardly, that's what I mean."

"Heh." Xiao Yao said.

The Shadow of Zhang Zhengkai the Butcher: "You know very well that once your sword falls, when you return to reality from this dream, your good friend Zhang Zhengkai will become a big idiot, or die, or become a vegetable. In any case, it will be bad for him."

Xiao Yao: "..."

"You still blame yourself for what happened to your teacher Yao, don't you?" The shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai continued, "Your teacher Song persecuted you to this extent, and you are still reflecting on his death, aren't you?"

"Teacher Song's death has nothing to do with me." Xiao Yao solemnly stated.

"And now, you have been influenced by Christianity, which has strengthened and magnified your tendency," the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai continued chattering, "Your mind is full of salvation, not destruction. Am I wrong? So you don't dare, you don't dare..."

"I understand," Xiao Yao sighed and looked at Yu Luying. "I originally thought this guy had some trump card to threaten me, but after talking for so long, he was just begging for mercy."

"We can't kill him," Yu Luying replied, "otherwise we might be trapped here forever."

"Are you sure?"

"I cancel."

"?"

"I am not sure."

"Can I still trust you now?" Xiao Yao asked Yu Luying.

"You're right," Yu Luying replied succinctly, "How about you come up and hold me down, and I'll leave. You can solve the problem yourselves."

"Kaizi," Xiao Yao carefully placed Shen Jie in the corner, walked around the slaughter table, squatted down, and looked directly into the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai's weird green eyes: "At least you are right about one thing. I plan to give you another chance to redeem yourself."

After saying this, he clapped his hands.

Two people walked in.

One was a handsome young man with blood all over his face and body, and the other was a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes - her hair was a slightly darker shade of blonde, not the translucent blonde like Barbie's, but a blonde with a hint of brown.

The blonde girl was wearing a scarlet dress and dancing shoes, and a small flame was burning in her right hand.

As soon as the girl saw Shen Jie's body lying in the corner, she ran over and threw herself on her.

The butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai had his neck pressed by Yu Luying's knee, and the slaughter table blocked his view, so it took a long time before he could barely see the person coming: "Why is it you again?"

"Sister Yu, please let him go for now." Zhang Zhengkai pleaded, "I mean, let him go for now."

Yu Luying glanced at Xiao Yao, who nodded slightly.

So, Yu Luying stood up.

"Where are you going?" Xiao Yao called her from behind.

"You guys should solve your own problems," Yu Luying said as she pushed the door open without looking back, "I won't get involved."

"Hey..." Xiao Yao watched Yu Luying slip away. It was not convenient to chase her in this situation.

"Xiao Yao, your so-called redemption," the shadow of the butcher version of Zhang Zhengkai slowly stood up, rubbing his neck with his right hand, and then he remembered when the cold iron hook touched his skin, and quickly switched to his left hand: "Is it my shadow?"

"You said he is Shadow? He, is your Shadow?" Xiao Yao laughed in silence.

"What else?" The shadow of the butcher Zhang Zhengkai once again showed that particularly evil smile: "This weak shadow came to provoke me not long ago, but he couldn't beat me. I wanted to kill him, but I was afraid that something might happen... In fact, I was probably soft-hearted, so I threw him into the river, hoping that he would roll as far away as possible. I didn't expect that he would dare to come back. Ah, it turns out that he is just taking advantage of the tiger's power."

Xiao Yao: "..."

The shadow of Zhang Zhengkai the Butcher: "It's really ridiculous to see you call this thing my 'salvation'."

"Shut up, you're talking nonsense!" Zhang Zhengkai was so angry that his face turned red, and the blood stains on his face became even brighter.