Chapter 157

Li Zhuiyuan didn’t know who he was, at least, the current Li Zhuiyuan didn’t know.

But the boy could get an extremely strong feeling of familiarity from the vague human figure in front of him, as if he had once spent day and night with him.

However, no matter how hard he searched the corners of his memory, he could never find any trace of him.

The boy took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He now confirmed one thing:

He must have amnesia.

“Brain fog” covering memory can provide more operating space for the dream. It is a kind of shackle, trapping you and then torturing you.

Normally speaking, with the dream ghost’s level and its possessed state, the “brain fog” in the dream it creates is almost unsolvable.

Li Zhuiyuan’s advantage lies in the fact that he won’t become depressed and numb during punishment, but will actively try to overcome and adapt.

This kind of opponent requires the dream ghost to expend more energy to deal with.

But in fact, if he could see this vague person every time in this dream, the impact would be enough to pry open the shackles of brain fog.

Even if only a tiny gap is pried open, with the boy’s intelligence, he can quickly analyze, calculate, and deduce more things, thus breaking free from the entire set of shackles.

After realizing that he had amnesia, Li Zhuiyuan just stood there and began to think.

He began to re-examine his place in this world, the people and things here.

His mother, the old man on the pirate ship, the girl in the bumper cars, the four scenes in the haunted house that could touch his heart – what exactly did they symbolize?

When self-awareness begins to appear, the dream no longer has perfect immersion. When self-awareness is strong enough, it is the beginning of the dream’s collapse.

Many times before, whenever it reached this stage, the dream ghost would pull Li Zhuiyuan out of this dream and then “deliver” him back in.

This was its successful path dependence. No matter how stubborn someone was, after being thrown in multiple times and enduring it, their edges would slowly be ground down.

This is also the reason why Li Zhuiyuan could clearly perceive the gradual formation of “brain fog” and the gradual covering of memory when he first entered the amusement park.

The set of shackles on his body was constantly being put on and constantly being pried open. The more times this happened… the looser the shackles naturally became.

The person sitting on the chair lowered his head and looked at the boy, saying:

“You’re starting again.”

Li Zhuiyuan opened his eyes with difficulty, while continuing to think intensely, and asked:

“Can you help me stop it?”

“Tsk.”

The vague figure let out a tsk sound. Every time he actively spoke to the boy, the boy could extract information from his tone and content and ask different questions.

The first time he asked: Who are you?

The second time he asked: Where is this?

The third time he asked: Am I dreaming?

……

This time, he directly asked him to take action.

The figure knew what stage the boy in front of him was in. His dream memories were not connected, and every time he saw himself, it was the first time. However, he was truly relying on his own words to superposition and analyze.

This boy defaulted on the responses he had made so many times in the past.

This way of thinking was unexpectedly rational.

However, this boy would soon disappear.

Just like many times before, the boy would disappear immediately every time he started to become enlightened, and then after a while, he would walk in front of him again.

But the boy’s next action made the figure subconsciously sit up slightly.

“Pa!”

The boy slapped his forehead hard and then shook his head.

Other people do this to force themselves awake, but the boy did this to interrupt his own awakening.

He interrupted his own thinking, no longer analyzing the current environment, and forcefully maintained the immersion of being here.

Deliberate confusion.

“Hehehe…”

The figure let out a laugh. He felt that this child had become interesting.

Li Zhuiyuan then began to breathe deeply. He forced his thinking not to diverge any further, allowing his brain to slow down as much as possible and not think too much.

The boy turned his head again to look at the vague figure and asked:

“What should we do next?”

The strong feeling of familiarity made Li Zhuiyuan subconsciously consider the other party as one of his own.

The figure counter-asked: “Why ‘we’?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “I don’t know.”

Figure: “I may not know you.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “I don’t remember you either.”

Figure: “So, what relationship do we have?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “We should have a relationship.”

Figure: “Child, you shouldn’t casually recognize relatives.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Aren’t you going to do something?”

Figure: “Do you think I need to do something?”

“For example, leave here.”

“Oh?”

“You seem to dislike appearing here yourself.”

“No.”

Li Zhuiyuan asked again: “Then you dislike that you can actually appear here?”

“Tsk.”

This was the second time the figure had let out a tsk sound.

A child with covered memories could still be so smart.

Most people in this world, when they look back at their childhood selves, will feel a sense of being silly and cute.

Figure: “How old are you?”

Li Zhuiyuan raised his hand: “I can’t think about this matter now.”

If he thought about it, he would disappear, and then see this figure again, and everything would start over.

The figure reached out and touched his face. This question was actually not very profound, because no matter how old this child’s real age was, even if he was an old man in reality, it could not change the fact that he was already extremely smart in his childhood.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth again and said: “Why don’t you hope that you can appear here?”

Figure: “Why do you think I will tell you?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “If you didn’t want to chat, you wouldn’t have actively spoken just now.”

Figure: “Um… I originally thought I was already dead, but being able to appear here proves that I’m not dead yet.”

“You’re not dead?”

“What, do you think I should be happy about this?”

“No…” Li Zhuiyuan reached out and covered his chest, “I feel sad about this.”

“What does that mean?”

“I don’t know, but it seems that if you died, it should be a very happy thing.”

“Indeed, for me.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “No, it’s for me.”

The figure was silent.

Li Zhuiyuan continued: “Why aren’t you dead?”

“Um?”

“What’s wrong with you, why aren’t you dead, why didn’t you just die properly? You should die!”

The figure lowered his head and carefully examined the boy.

The boy’s loss and regret didn’t seem fake.

But it was hard to imagine that a little guy with incomplete memories would feel sad at this moment about being alive, and from the heart.

Figure: “Sorry, I disappointed you.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “I should be the one apologizing, I unreasonably hoped you would die and cursed you.”

The figure shook his head: “No, this is a blessing.”

Immediately, one big and one small, one clear and one vague, two people, each fell into silence.

This time, it was the figure who actively broke the silence. He asked:

“What’s your surname?”

“Li, my name is Li Zhuiyuan. But I’m not sure if my name here is accurate.”

“Oh, surname Li.”

“Are you worrying about something?”

“No.” The figure waved his hand, “Because I definitely didn’t leave any descendants, I’m very sure.”

“Very inexplicable?”

“If you live long enough, or rather, exist long enough, you will also have inexplicable thoughts like this.”

“Living too long is meaningless, it will wash away all the beautiful memories of the past.”

“Agree.” The figure said with a laugh, “Hehe, look, your real age should be quite old, if not eighty, then at least seventy.”

“Should be.” Li Zhuiyuan knocked his forehead again, interrupting the instinctive thinking process, “I also feel a strange feeling when chatting with you, as you said, I should be very old and can resonate with you.”

“Actually, no matter how old you are, in my eyes, you are just a little guy.”

“Based on what?”

“In this world, there are those who have existed longer than me, but even those who are the same age as me or many generations younger than me shouldn’t be stuck here like you are now.”

“Oh, a very novel way of thinking, how long have you actually lived?”

“Can’t measure, can you give me an accurate chronology?”

“Sorry, I can’t.” Li Zhuiyuan spread his hands, looking at his tender white palms, “As you can see, I, such an old person, have become a child.”

“Um. But then again, for most of my life, I’ve been thinking about how to die.”

Li Zhuiyuan continued to look at his hands: “But I seem to still want to live.”

“Are you sure?”

“Sure, I seem to only hope you die, but I have no suicidal thoughts, I should still quite want to live.”

“Little guy, you actually paved the way for so long for this sentence?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Give me a hand.”

“Based on what do you think that I, who initially refused to help you, will change my mind and choose to help you after chatting with you for a while?”

“I don’t know.” Li Zhuiyuan shook his head, “But I seem to do the same.”

“Um?”

“If it feels interesting.”

“Hehehehehe… hahahahaha.”

The figure first laughed normally, then laughed louder and louder.

He felt a wonderful sense of comfort and understanding when chatting with this boy. Others only flattered him, but this boy seemed to constantly touch his heart.

Figure: “Okay, I’ll help you.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Thank you.”

The figure stood up, left the chair, pointed outside, and said: “Actually, this place should have collapsed long ago, but now, it has unexpectedly stabilized again.”

“Why?”

“Because too many people came in. Originally, only one person was needed to come in for this place to collapse, but the problem is, including me, three people came in this time.

The three sides each had their own scruples, and instead formed a pattern of a three-legged tripod.

Or rather, they were all too lazy to deal with this matter, feeling that they couldn’t lose face, and all hoped that the other side would handle it here.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Sorry, I made you lose face.”

“It’s alright, there was a time when I did value face quite a bit, afraid of dropping it on the ground and being stepped on.

Now, I’m indifferent.

However, what kind of thing did you provoke, not just that little ghost outside?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Are you going to see it through?”

Figure: “It’s easy, if I put you out and you get caught again, wouldn’t my effort be in vain?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “I should have no enemies.”

Figure: “Then are others looking for trouble?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Should be.”

Figure: “Then what do you think you should do?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “If possible, I still hope not to have enemies.”

Figure: “Look, you’re also a ruthless and decisive little old thing. Your descendants probably wouldn’t even dare to breathe in front of you.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “I really want to see them.”

“Meaningless, if you have idiotic children, you’ll feel annoyed just looking at them, feel like they’re dirtying your eyes.”

Li Zhuiyuan thought about this for a while, and his heart actually felt a kind of resonance.

He couldn’t stand his child being an idiot.

But on second thought, if his child was very smart, he would feel very repulsed again.

Li Zhuiyuan: “I should have no children.”

“Are you sure?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Because I don’t like children.”

Figure: “Me neither.”

Li Zhuiyuan looked up and looked at the figure who had walked in front of him, asking:

“So, that’s why you didn’t actively intervene many times before when you saw me come?”

The figure didn’t answer.

“Did you hate me at first?”

The figure still didn’t answer.

“Or, do you hate the past you?”

This time the figure finally spoke. He said: “Don’t say it, I’m already starting to feel nauseous.”

“Sorry, I made you feel disgusted.”

“It doesn’t matter, that was before. Chatting with you now feels quite good.”

“After leaving here, can we still continue chatting?”

“Probably not, you can’t find the place I’m in.”

“That’s really a shame.”

“Let’s get you out first.”

“Okay.”

The figure stretched out his hand, and Li Zhuiyuan put his hand into his.

One big and one small, two people, holding hands, walked out of the corridor.

Li Lan was still there answering questions.

Answering the third question, she held a brush and was constantly airbrushing.

Figure: “Who is she?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “My mother.”

Figure: “Is your mother omnipotent in your perception?”

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: “She’s just very smart.”

Figure: “Do I need to say hello again to leave here?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “If I don’t go, I’ll feel nauseous, and so will she.”

Figure: “Quite good, mother and child are connected.”

Holding Li Zhuiyuan, the figure walked all the way through the unmanned amusement park, and finally came to the ticket gate.

“That thing has tried to alter this place several times, but because I’m here, it can’t alter it.”

“Thank you.”

“No need to thank me, it didn’t go and alter those two places, but only altered me. If it had really altered it, where would I put my face?”

“I’m very curious, who are those two places? Do you know?”

“Don’t tell me, I really know those two people.”

Immediately, the figure suddenly burst out laughing again, “Hahahahaha!”

Li Zhuiyuan: “The point of laughter is that one of them is not human, and is still something with a strong presence in traditional culture?”

Figure: “How good it would have been if you were born a thousand years earlier, that way you could have come with me whenever I wanted to commit suicide. Even if suicide wasn’t successful, having someone to chat with wouldn’t be so boring.”

“I shouldn’t live that long.”

“There are too many ways to live a long time, but the price is, you’ll become neither human nor turtle.”

“Is that a turtle?”

“Correct. I’ll give you a piece of advice, after you’re old, arrange your affairs early. Life needs death to be complete.”

“Received the teaching.”

The figure let go of Li Zhuiyuan’s hand. He walked towards the ticket gate and walked out.

On the bridge in front of the ticket office, the dream ghost’s eyes widened, and the candle flame in its hand began to flicker rapidly.

It had actually been waiting for that coming blow, and the operation of deflecting the disaster had been simulated in its mind countless times.

But ironically, it couldn’t provoke any of the three sides, but these three sides unexpectedly stopped there tacitly.

The feeling of waiting to be slaughtered was more painful than being slaughtered.

Now, one of them came out.

While the dream ghost was afraid, it also breathed a sigh of relief.

It wasn’t going to kneel, because it knew that no matter how much it knelt, kowtowed, and begged for mercy, what it had done was meaningless.

But it still knelt.

When that person appeared, it knelt down in the dream that was its home ground.

Some beings, their eyes, even if very vague, only need him to really pay special attention to you, and your so-called “bones” are fundamentally unable to support your knees.

“How did you drag me into this…”

There was one thing the figure didn’t understand.

Previously, he was immersed in the huge sense of decadence that he was still not dead. Now, he actually had the spare energy to explore a little, how this little thing could drag him into the dream.

Moreover, he didn’t just drag himself in, but also the other two.

This was like a small rich man in a rural village holding a simple banquet, but the result was that three imperial relatives were invited.

But the figure’s words were not finished yet, when he discovered that he was dissipating.

The first thing to dissipate was his feet. In just a moment, he had already dissipated up to his waist.

He waved his hand again, and his arm also dissipated.

The figure was not only not panicked, but instead overjoyed.

“Hahahahaha!”

This laugh scared the dream ghost kneeling on the bridge.

It was a dream maker, best at making bizarre dreams, but that didn’t mean that it, this ghost, also liked to be messed with like this.

But when the dream ghost mustered up the courage to look ahead again, it was astonished to find that the terrifying vague figure had unexpectedly disappeared.

For the first time, it wanted to try to modify Li Zhuiyuan’s dream.

It couldn’t modify it.

This dream was still out of its control.

Then, would that youth be pulled out of the dream again?

But this time, that youth wasn’t awake in the dream, so it seemed there was no reason to do so.

Moreover, that big figure came out and disappeared without doing anything to it.

The east and west sides of the bridge also didn’t continue to invade.

Although it was still like sitting on the mouth of a volcano now, as long as the lava didn’t completely erupt, the best thing for it was… to do nothing.

This was its “home”, but when those three came in, it, the master, could only kneel by the side.

The figure disappeared in front of Li Zhuiyuan, and then the figure appeared in front of Li Zhuiyuan again.

It was broken badly, but it was quickly recovering. The missing arm and foot were gradually growing back.

Li Zhuiyuan: “Is it very dangerous outside?”

The figure’s tone just now was very confident, as if solving this matter was easy, but seeing him come back with missing limbs and broken legs, it didn’t seem to be the case.

Figure: “Let me tell you a piece of good news, I’m already dead!”

An inexplicable joy rose from the bottom of Li Zhuiyuan’s heart.

“Congratulations!”

Figure: “Same joy, same joy.”

Li Zhuiyuan stood in the original place for a while, then sat down.

The figure was so happy that he sang and danced. He jumped for quite a while.

Although still vague and unclear, his dance style was elegant, with a scholarly demeanor.

Finally, he stopped.

“I’m dead.”

“Um.”

“I’m not the real me now, because the real me is already dead, successfully dead.”

“I know, but we should talk about serious matters now.”

“Serious matters are very tricky.”

“Um?”

“Because the real me is already dead, the current me is possibly just some scraps of chicken that I left in this world.”

“Chicken scraps?”

“I left quite a few of these things. You know, sometimes suicide fails, and you always lose something. No wonder, I always felt that not only you, but even I seemed to have forgotten some things. So that’s how it is.”

“A bit complicated.”

“Simply put… you can’t do what you could have helped me with before?”

“You summarized it very accurately. If I walk out of here, I will disappear.”

“Then…”

“Then there’s no way, but you don’t have to rush. You can wait, wait for one of those two sides to lose their patience first, and casually wave their hand to break this place open.”

“Very negative.”

“Indeed.”

“Is there no other way?”

“I’m only a figure now, what can I do?”

“Can I help with anything?”

“You?”

“Yes.”

“Did you learn arrays?”

“Arrays? That kind of pattern and arrangement often seen in books and ancient tombs?”

“Think again.”

“I can’t think again. If I think again, I might have to start from the beginning, but I can be sure that before this age range, I didn’t really come into contact with these things.”

“Feng shui?”

“Didn’t learn.”

“Spells?”

“Didn’t learn.”

“Some other mysterious things, can you do them?”

“Didn’t come into contact.”

“Then it’s still a mess.” The figure also sat down, “No way, let’s wait for those two sides to make a move.”

“Then you’re stuck in the middle, aren’t you a stabilizing force?”

“Um, correct.”

Li Zhuiyuan changed his kneeling posture, facing the figure in front of him, and asked:

“You said I can’t do any of those things. Then can you teach me?”

Figure: “Learn now?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Yeah!”

The figure beckoned to Li Zhuiyuan.

Li Zhuiyuan crawled a few steps forward, closer to the figure.

“Pa!”

The figure gave Li Zhuiyuan a sharp tap on the head.

“Pain.”

The figure laughed and scolded: “Little old thing, learning now, do you think you are me?”

“My brain is still capable.”

“That’s true.”

“So, can’t I learn a little?”

“What’s the point of learning these things? Just wait for someone to help you break the situation.”

“But who knows how long we’ll have to wait, and what if the real me doesn’t have that much time to wait?”

“Your worry is not without reason, but your method is not feasible.”

The figure stood up, seemingly waved a vague sleeve, and then walked back.

Li Zhuiyuan also stood up and followed behind him.

“What if?”

“There’s no what if. Even if I’m in this position, I can’t do this what if. The time is too short, it’s fundamentally meaningless. Rest assured, those two will be in a stalemate for a while longer, but one side will definitely not be able to hold on.”

“After all, being dragged in here is a very embarrassing and inexplicable thing.”

“I want to learn.”

“Do you know what I hated most in my life?”

“Teaching people?”

“Correct, that’s right, every time I want to teach others something, I have to first mash, chew, crush, and then cook it into a taste he can swallow, and then hold a spoon and feed him spoonful by spoonful.”

“I can hold a spoon myself.”

“Heh.”

“Anyway, you don’t have anything else to do now.”

“I’d rather we sit down and chat than hold a lecture.”

“I don’t even know what I’m like in reality, and chatting with you will lack immersion.”

“Didn’t you chat quite well before? Just wanted to coax me to help you?”

“Correct.”

“Even the word ‘correct’ is to make me happy, isn’t it?”

“Correct.”

“Heh.” The figure walked into the corridor, his gaze sweeping over the table for the third question, which required completing a painting. “You might really have some talent.”

“I said, I learn things very quickly.”

“But this field is different from learning other things. It’s fundamentally not the same thing. Moreover, you have no foundation at all now.”

“That means I have a lot of room for improvement.”

“You’re quite annoying.”

“Sorry.”

The figure drew on the ground with his foot. Soon, a complex casual pattern was outlined.

“Come, find the array eye position for me.”

After the figure finished speaking, he sat back in his chair.

As soon as he sat down, he saw the boy already standing inside the pattern.

The figure suddenly stood up.

Because the position the boy was standing in was exactly where the array eye was located!

Figure: “Explain the reason.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “No reason.”

Figure: “Make one up.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Follow the feeling.”

Figure: “A very good reason, there is a type of person who is born intimately connected with arrays.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Are you talking about me?”

Figure: “But often this kind of person finds it very hard to reach the level of a true array master.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “My professor said the same. He said that we children are too smart, haven’t suffered much hardship in learning, and will easily become arrogant and ignore the role of the platform.”

“Your professor is quite good. In this world, nine out of ten people fundamentally don’t need to rely on talent, just effort is enough.

Only that small group at the top of the pyramid needs to rely on talent, and that group is often more effortful than others.

Do you understand?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “I understand, you’re praising yourself.”

The figure bent down and outlined with his fingertip on the ground. Soon, a more complex array pattern appeared.

After finishing drawing, the figure clapped his hands.

Li Zhuiyuan: “It’s not complete.”

The figure continued to clap his hands: “Correct, I’ll let you complete it.”

Li Zhuiyuan picked up a stone, squatted down, and began to complete it.

Completing it literally, without thinking, without hesitation, he just drew.

The figure’s hand-clapping action stopped.

Li Zhuiyuan stood up: “Completed, should be correct, right?”

Figure: “Continue?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Okay.”

The figure began to draw in front, and Li Zhuiyuan completed it behind.

At first, the two were in a state of one in front and one behind in this corridor.

But drawing took more time, and completing was very fast. Gradually, Li Zhuiyuan began to be parallel with that figure.

When the figure was drawing an array, Li Zhuiyuan didn’t wait for him to finish the topic. He followed the figure and finished drawing the topic together.

The two people drew from one end of the corridor to the other.

Finally,

One big and one small, two people, straightened up their waists together, and clapped their hands together.

Figure: “There’s a problem.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Did I draw something wrong?”

Figure: “You didn’t draw anything wrong, I mean, you have a problem.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “So, did the real me research arrays?”

Figure: “Not only.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Does the real me have a high level of array attainment?”

Figure: “Not only.”

“Then what?”

“No matter how high your real array attainment is, even affecting this place, you couldn’t possibly see an array I created myself and immediately know how to do it, and even draw it with me!”

“Did you leave behind any works?”

“I wrote some books.”

“Then I must have seen them, so I remembered them?”

“Memory can’t be brought in here, you absorbed it thoroughly.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Thank you.”

Figure: “Sorry.”

“What does this mean?”

“It means we can proceed to the next step. Can you walk the Yin path?”

“No.”

“I’ll teach you.” Saying that, the figure lifted his hand and flicked Li Zhuiyuan’s eyebrow.

“Bang!”

Li Zhuiyuan’s whole body began to retreat backwards. After stopping, he felt very light, as if he could float up.

“Is there anything uncomfortable?” The figure walked over.

“No.”

“Can you go back?”

“End this state?”

“Correct.”

Li Zhuiyuan heard the words, raised his right hand, he didn’t know why he wanted to raise his right hand, it should be some habit in pushing, then he snapped his fingers.

“Pa!”

When he opened his eyes again, he was back.

The figure was still standing in front of him.

Li Zhuiyuan: “Is this walking the Yin path? Similar to the soul leaving the body recorded in strange tales novels?”

“Almost.”

The figure turned around and picked up a pen from the table.

“How did I just do?”

“So-so.”

Saying that, the figure waved his hand, and a grotesque scene appeared in front of the two of them, with various light rings alternating and evolving.

“How do I do this?”

“Try to organize it.”

Li Zhuiyuan began to follow his feeling and constantly adjusted with both hands in front of him. Soon, streaks of meteorological patterns with special meanings appeared in front of the two of them.

Figure: “You should have used this method to teach people before, teaching people how to look at Qi.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Does that mean the real me also had disciples?”

Figure: “This may not be a happy thing worth being happy about.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Indeed.”

The figure held the pen and quickly drew a black leopard in front of them. The leopard let out a roar and pounced towards Li Zhuiyuan.

Li Zhuiyuan began to run.

“Why are you running? Use a spell to hit it!”

“I don’t know how!”

“Continue to follow your feeling.” The figure drew another leopard, attacking from the front and back.

Li Zhuiyuan fell to the ground, then reached out and patted the ground.

“Buzz!”

Streaks of black mist surged out from under the feet of the two black leopards. Immediately, the two black leopards were steadily suppressed.

The figure’s eyes showed doubt: “What is this?”

Li Zhuiyuan climbed up, pointed at them, and asked: “I actually know how to cast spells?”

Figure: “You can do arrays, feng shui, and walk the Yin path, how can you not know how to cast spells? How can someone who can write poetry not recognize characters?”

“But if I couldn’t do it, would you yell at them to stop?”

“You know I wouldn’t. That’s how you can stimulate your potential.”

“This is very dangerous.”

“You’ve already done more dangerous things.” The figure waved his hand, and the two black leopards dissipated, leaving streaks of black whip marks on the ground. “I said, how did you get involved with them?”

“Huh?”

“I’ve seen his descendants, but they use something like the twelve methods.”

“Is that the kind I just used? Is that family surnamed Li?”

“Not this surname, and what you used is better than their family’s descendants.”

“Why is it like this?”

“It’s not strange, but getting too entangled with him is not suitable.”

“Does he have a bad temper?”

“Not just bad. Let’s not mention this first, heh, shouldn’t you also be fated to commit suicide?”

“I didn’t raise turtles, at least not in my current memory.”

“Those turtles hold grudges, they are all difficult characters to deal with. I was unwilling to get involved with them before. Hiss, that’s not right, it shouldn’t be. Those two places shouldn’t be related to you.

It’s not that you dragged all three families over. It’s not because of you, those two families have their own traction.”

“Traction?”

“Bloodline, curse.”

“Then, are you… me?”

“I didn’t think it was you at first, but now, I suspect it is you.”

“Are you sure you didn’t leave any descendants?”

“No.”

“Then if it’s not bloodline, is there no third option?”

“No.”

“Then doesn’t that mean I am you…”

“Did your parents teach you not to read improper books?”

“I’m a bit confused now.”

“Write down your birth date, and I’ll calculate it for you.”

Li Zhuiyuan immediately wrote down his eight characters. The figure held the pen and drew on the paper, but he didn’t lower his head, but stared at Li Zhuiyuan’s face.

“Hua!”

The paper on the table suddenly burned up, and incidentally burned the figure’s right hand. He didn’t hesitate to turn his left hand into a hand knife and cut off his right palm with a “Pu” sound.

“Ai yo.” The figure looked at Li Zhuiyuan again, “Hehe, ai yo.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Ai yo, what does this mean?”

Figure: “Little old thing, you are walking… you are on the ship.”

“Is this some kind of euphemism?”

“Directly saying it is inauspicious.

But you are really ruthless, absolutely ruthless, and you play so skillfully, hahaha!”

The figure laughed and laughed, lifted his head, and looked at the sky above the amusement park.

“I still don’t understand…”

The figure lowered his head and looked at Li Zhuiyuan, saying word by word:

“You don’t need to keep pretending to be pitiful here, and you don’t need to seek any protection. This is a pit you dug yourself. The three of us are all bastards you dragged over.”

Li Zhuiyuan’s face showed pain. He forcefully grabbed his hair, forcing himself not to wake up.

“No need to resist anymore.” The figure sighed, “You are safe. This time, they will be played to death by you.”

“If I wake up, I’ll have to start over and won’t remember you?”

“Um.”

“I still want to talk to you for a while.”

“Just want to talk for a while, that’s it?”

“Otherwise?”

“Putting myself in your shoes, what I want is only more, I believe you are the same.”

The figure said and looked at his right arm. That hand had not recovered yet, it was still broken.

“Damn it, this water is still so fierce.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Do you think I’m still lacking something?”

“I’m not you.”

“You just said you can put yourself in my shoes. If you were me, what do you think is still missing?”

The figure reached out and pointed to the east and west sides: “Those two are too reserved. I feel that they lack liveliness.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Then I should feel this way too.”

The boy lifted his head and looked at the figure’s face. Although the other party was still vague, he could still capture the other’s gaze.

Figure: “Then let’s add another fire?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “You teach me.”

Figure: “If we follow the normal rhythm, eventually one of them will get impatient and casually wave their hand to wipe away some things. But how can that be enjoyable?

We have to make one of them furious, enraged, and determined to be that knife at all costs!”

The figure lowered his head again and looked at his already lost right hand:

“How is just breaking one hand enough?

At least, you have to chop off limbs, poke out eyes, cut off tongue, cut off ears, gouge out nose, and then find a fresh manure pit to provide a good supply.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Can it be done?”

Figure: “Your ability is definitely not enough, but rest assured, I’m here.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “You teach, I’ll do it.”

Figure: “First, choose one of the two, which one to anger.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “You help me choose.”

Figure: “Actually, no matter which one you anger, it will bring you bigger trouble in the future, but I suggest leaving that turtle alone for now.

Because the other one at least still has a human form, and he is restricted and cannot leave that place.

Most importantly, I suspect that the other place is pulling him over because of bloodline.

This also means that his bloodline descendants are on your side.

He definitely doesn’t care about extinction or not, but having a descendant follow you means you can at least chat a little in the future, and when choosing how to die, you can pick one that’s slightly more refreshing.”

“The consequences are so serious?”

“Afraid?”

“More interesting.”

“Tsk.”

The figure walked out of the corridor and came to the open space outside.

“I wrote some books in my leisure time before, but they were all quite basic, sorry.”

“Why do you always apologize to me?”

“Because I really am sorry, the original intention of those books I wrote might not have been so friendly, I was still a bit childish at that time.”

“Then what about the current you?”

“I will write down greater malice.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Thank you.”

“Little old thing, you look good. I don’t know how many of my books you’ve read. My memory is not full now either, but I still have some things that are not in the books.

Look carefully, learn carefully, comprehend carefully, just memorizing is not enough.

The cause and effect here are intricate and complex. Those two deities are here again, and after a Nanke dream, the tide washes over, and your memories here will basically be wiped clean. How much you can truly learn is like what you did before, only absorbing that part.”

The figure’s feet began to construct array patterns on the ground, spells formed between his left arm’s waves, and his mouth spit out illusions of meteorological patterns.

This was his comprehension of arrays, spells, and feng shui.

Li Zhuiyuan had a premonition that if he missed this opportunity, he would definitely regret it when he woke up and regained his memory.

But when has a teacher ever taught three subjects at the same time?

Li Zhuiyuan began to use his mind in three ways.

In his memory, he hadn’t tried this before because there weren’t many application scenarios, only occasionally using his mind in two ways to cope.

But somehow, under the condition of using his mind in three ways, it was surprisingly smooth.

The arrays, spells, and feng shui demonstrated by the figure seemed to be divided into three parts by the boy himself, all displayed on three chessboards in front of him.

The external form was not important, he would directly record its essence with black and white chess pieces!

First, grasp the core feeling, the external branches, and wait until he had time to slowly deduce and complete them in reverse.

The figure didn’t stop, and Li Zhuiyuan then quickly placed pieces on the three chessboards, keeping up with the progress.

The boy even had spare energy to distract himself and think about other things:

Look, he seemed to like playing Go very much in the future, and his chess skills felt much higher than now.

At the same time, the boy was still a little doubtful:

What kind of difficult and complex situation would he have to deal with in the future to be able to use his mind in three ways so smoothly?

Time, just like this, slowly passed. Only in dreams would the feeling of time flow speed be distorted.

Suddenly, Li Zhuiyuan let out a muffled groan and fell to the ground, with fresh blood overflowing from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

The figure also stopped teaching.

Li Zhuiyuan lifted his head in astonishment and looked at him, asking in confusion: “Are you trying to secretly control me?”

Just now, he detected a special will trying to control his thinking, and in here, the only independent individuals were himself and him.

The figure was silent.

Li Zhuiyuan continued to ask: “Why, why do you want to control me?”

The figure sighed: “Alas, you actually even learned this.”

“I learned it?”

“I said, only things that are thoroughly absorbed can be displayed here.”

“Then what about now?”

The figure bent down and looked at Li Zhuiyuan, asking carefully: “Little thing, do you have a disease?”

Li Zhuiyuan’s pupils shrunk.

The figure stretched out his hand and patted Li Zhuiyuan’s shoulder: “No wonder, I can be pulled here. I was still thinking about the reason before, heh, I didn’t expect it to be because of this.”

“I don’t understand what you’re saying, I can’t understand.”

“Little thing, since you have that disease, then you are not old. Your real age shouldn’t be big. Perhaps, it’s just a little older than you are now.”

“My real age?”

“Because when I was drawing the array just now, I could see that you don’t have martial habits, you still haven’t practiced martial arts, you shouldn’t be old enough yet.”

“I’m still not an adult?”

“Damn it, you’re a real beast!”

The figure suddenly roared.

This anger made Li Zhuiyuan feel inexplicable.

“He’s still a child, how can you be so beastly!”

“What exactly are you trying to express?”

“It will definitely increase the difficulty for you, it will deliberately compete with you, it will deliberately make things difficult for you, this is not because it has emotions, nor because it has turned bad, but because I came over.”

“Because… you came over?”

“It absolutely will not allow a second me to appear.”

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