Lord of the Tricks

Chapter 3 The Heart of Compassion
With one step forward, all the sheep beside him disappeared, leaving only Yu Ziqing standing alone on the path.

The right side is still the same, but the dead tree on the left is not so dead.

The woman poked her head out of a hole behind a dead tree, with a hint of impatience in her eyes, hesitated again and again, and called out to Yu Ziqing.

"Go this way, it's dangerous over there."

Only this time, her image was a little different, with sunken cheeks, haggard face, skinny skin and bones, hair like hay, wearing a dirty thin long gown, straw curtains and bark on her body.

Before Yu Ziqing could answer, a skinny woman who was equally dirty came out from where Yu Ziqing was, and shouted with a hint of surprise.

"There are still people."

As soon as the voice fell, a few men rushed out from the hillside not far away.

They were stooped, but they ran extremely fast, their eyes were red, and their mouths opened unconsciously, revealing their fangs.

They laughed and ran towards the woman on the hillside.

The woman's complexion changed slightly, and she immediately realized that she had been fooled. She turned around and ran out from behind the dead tree, which also revealed a baby in her arms.

Seeing this, the men immediately laughed out loud, looking like they were insane, salivating.

"There's another kid, hahaha."

The woman's expression was full of despair and panic. She tightened the swaddling baby in her arms, turned around and ran wildly. When she reached the end of the hillside, she seemed to remember that there was a cliff hiding here. Looking back, the thick An indelible sense of despair pierced Yu Ziqing's eyes.

He knew that this was just an illusion, or a former illusion.

He stood there, and saw a white feather arrow appearing from nowhere, piercing her chest suddenly, she staggered and fell to the ground, gritted her teeth, swaddled the baby in her hands with the most desperate expression and with the last strength Throw into the bottomless abyss behind.

At this point, he fell to the ground completely, without any movement.

The woman's figure also changed from solid to hollow, and slowly dissipated, and after a few breaths, the woman's figure turned from hollow to solid again, appearing on the hillside.

She poked out half of her head from a dead tree again, hesitated, and then yelled unbearably.

"Go this way, it's dangerous over there."

And the guy who was also a woman but appeared as a bait also appeared and shouted in surprise.

"There are still people."

It is indeed a playback, but it keeps playing back, and the next one will not be played.

Yu Ziqing knew that if he couldn't handle this woman who didn't know if it was a ghost or something, he wouldn't be able to get out.

It's a pity that there is too little information now, so I looked down at the short sword, but there was no movement.

His ability, which has been explored so far, can only be stimulated in a targeted manner after knowing some necessary information about the opponent. As long as it is triggered, he will definitely have the power to kill the opponent.

Strictly speaking, only the enemies encountered so far are included, and the stronger ones are not known.

But if he doesn't know anything, he is now an ordinary person who can't eat enough all day long and is about to starve to death.

But now, he doesn't even know the other person's name.

Yu Ziqing tried his best to recall the scattered information that he had overheard before, and then took out the recipe book, looking through the complicated and fragmented information that was recorded in case of forgetting.

Unfortunately, not at all, those strong men never mentioned the weird situation here.

The biggest possibility is that when those few people came last time, they didn't have these.

The one on the right is the weirdest, those layers of fallen leaves that are like quicksand look like mouths of beasts waiting to be fed.

And the woman on the left probably understands now.

It is probably a ghost with deep obsessions. From the current point of view, it will not take the initiative to harm others, but the resentment is too deep, the obsession is too deep, and it falls into the abyss of despair, unable to extricate itself.

She is bound here by herself, and she will only experience her most desperate moments over and over again, which is quite typical.

And the phrase "there is danger over there" is not at all a temptation to come.

That statement was pure compassion.

It is also this sentence that she regrets the most.

When I saw a lonely and weak woman about to step into the locust tree forest on the right, I felt pity for a moment, and reminded me, who would have thought of harming myself.

Now that Yu Ziqing is trapped here, the other party has not treated him well. What can be called dangerous for the time being is just not to die of thirst, starvation and freezing to death.

During the third replay, Yu Ziqing couldn't help it.

"Girl, what's your last name? Can you tell me your name?"

"If I set up a monument for you, I must engrave your name on it, right?"

"Big sister, it's useless for you to trap me here. We have no grudges in the past, and we have no grudges in recent days. Moreover, I have never eaten the same kind. My favorite mutton is all quit!"

The other party was silent and ignored Yu Ziqing at all, just fell into the abyss of despair, over and over again.

Yu Ziqing was also almost desperate.

To be honest, he really never thought that if ghosts don't show their teeth and claws to hurt people, they ignore him, which makes people even more desperate.

"Sister, what's the use of you messing with me, what's the use of you staying here, you can't extricate yourself, what's the use, it's really hard to get rid of the resentment, so go and kill your enemy.

Take a ten thousand step back and say, even if you can't get out, you let me out, if I meet your enemies, I will be a good person and do a good deed, and cut them for you, it is better than you trapping me.

Take another [-] steps back and say, if you are afraid that I will turn against you if I go out, then I may still remember this matter. It won't do you any harm if you take a gamble.

What if?
What if I am a good person, what if I happen to meet your enemies, what if I show mercy again, avenge you, cut off their heads, and give them to you. "

Speaking of this, Yu Ziqing paused for a moment, he almost couldn't believe it...

But for an hour, Yu Ziqing was trembling all over, and touched his bosom, only a few pieces of beef jerky hidden next to his body were left, the life-saving resources at the bottom of the box.

"Hey, big sister, let me go now, just take a gamble that what I said is true, you won't suffer anyway.

If you procrastinate any longer, you may never be able to take revenge, which is absolutely true. "

It's useless to persuade the other party, the other party still ignores him, but after reading it over and over again, Yu Ziqing has no words, no idea of ​​trying to persuade the other party to let him go.

He just felt that he was about to freeze to a dead dog, and this world was full of despair.

Desperate can't tolerate a little compassion.

This is not right, nor should it be.

shouldn't...

Yu Ziqing's mind moved, and he forced himself to calm down. When the new replay started, he quietly felt it, and quietly substituted into it.

Especially when the woman threw her swaddling baby off the cliff, the sense of despair was like the ubiquitous sea water pressing down from all directions in the deep sea, suffocating him.

Feeling and thinking again, Yu Ziqing seems to have realized something, he seems to have lost his mind from the beginning.

From the very beginning, he thought of ghosts in a bad way, and from the very beginning, he felt that this female ghost was going to trick him.

If this premise itself is wrong, then everything that follows may be wrong.

This female ghost probably didn't intend to trap him here, nor did she intend to harm him. It's a very normal psychological problem to think about from the perspective of a normal person.

No one should want to expose their most desperate scars to others over and over again, and force them to see them.

Since she didn't want to harm anyone, and even ignored the person who came, she couldn't really be one of those very few perverted perverts, and she didn't look like her either.

Therefore, if the other party wasn't trying to trick him, it was to remind him from the beginning that the woods on the right were dangerous, and it was safe to go this way.

that……

Yu Ziqing shivered and retracted his hands, kept walking and moving his body in place, trying not to be frozen to death, while continuing to think.

Since it wasn't the female ghost who wanted to kill him, it was the problem of the place under his feet.

Looking up and seeing the cliff at the end of the hill, Yu Ziqing suddenly had a guess.

The place under my feet is like an abyss, an abyss of despair, anyone who steps into it will fall in and be trapped here, including the female ghost, who may be trapped by the abyss of despair that she unintentionally created.

With this in mind, when the new replay started, Yu Ziqing took out a small cloth bag half the size of a palm from his bosom. After opening it, he took out a piece of beef jerky that was no longer than the length of his little finger, and rushed to the girl trembling. Ghost's side, and stuffed it into the opponent's hand.

The woman was slightly startled, and looked down at the beef jerky in her hand, in a daze.

"Take it, eat some, I will definitely survive."

The surrounding environment also changed at the same time. The change was not centered on the female ghost, but on Yu Ziqing.

There was some surprise and complexity in her eyes. The next moment, water-like lines spread out around Yu Ziqing.

Yu Ziqing felt a little weightless, and in the blink of an eye, everything returned to normal. He stood on the hillside, the female ghost had disappeared, and the sheep flock down the hillside appeared again.

The sense of desperation that weighed on my heart and made it hard to breathe disappeared.

Yu Ziqing was a little complicated in front of him, and he sighed secretly, and it was exactly as he had guessed, the illusion that was constantly playing back was an abyss of despair, a ghostly place that could not tolerate a trace of compassion.

Before he was overwhelmed by despair, he moved a little bit of compassion that he didn't know if he was sincere, but he was spit out.

Lao Yang stood next to Yu Ziqing, and kept hitting him with his head, pulling Yu Ziqing back when he was in a daze.

"Mister, I'm fine, let's go."

After taking two steps, Yu Ziqing stopped. After a short pause, he turned his head decisively, took out his dagger, walked to the dead tree, and carved a few crooked characters on the dead tree.

The tomb of compassion, Ziqing Li.

After thinking about it, Yu Ziqing added another column next to it.

The tomb of the son of compassion, Ziqing Li.

"I don't know your name yet. I don't even have the strength to speak, let alone dig a stone to make a monument. I'll give you a nickname, a dead tree to make a monument. Don't be disgusted if you get the meaning."

"Look, no, what I said is just in case."

"Also, don't blame yourself, your child will definitely not blame you, really."

If she doesn't do anything, Yu Ziqing always feels that her heart is not going well. This broken place cannot tolerate the slightest compassion from others, regardless of whether it is true or not, but it will use compassion to torture her. If she is really completely black Melted, maybe escaped early.

These are all broken places.

Ghosts don't harm people, it's all people who harm people.

Yu Ziqing turned and left. Lao Yang stretched his neck to look at the handwriting, his eyes were a little strange, and finally he couldn't bear to look directly, and walked along with him shaking his head.

Yu Ziqing was a little anxious.

"In the scriptures you taught me, there is no such word at all. If I change it to something with the same meaning, what's wrong?
Besides, it's not my fault that the writing is ugly. I'm cold and hungry, and my hands are shaking. "

Lao Yang shook his head, indicating that he didn't mean this, and pouted at Yu Ziqing's chest.

"You say I'm stingy? The smallest one? What do you know? This is my lifeblood. My life is all given by these few pieces of beef jerky..."

Lao Yang saw that Yu Ziqing didn't seem to understand, so he stopped pointing, just grinning and listening to Yu Ziqing's exasperated explanation.

When Yu Ziqing and the remaining sheep drifted away, they disappeared on the path.

From the tree hole behind the dead tree, the woman floated out, gently touching the newly engraved handwriting with one hand, and holding the small piece of beef jerky left by Yu Ziqing with the other, and looked at it quietly for a long, long time.

A moment later, when the abyss fell again, the woman held the beef jerky tightly in one hand and was dragged into the abyss again.

This time, it seemed to be a little different.

(End of this chapter)