Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 35
Sure enough, that's right!

Xin Lailai lay on the stone bed and exhaled comfortably, feeling that her body and mind had never been more relaxed.

God knows why I had to put aside so many worries before. I was just a novice. Faced with this desperate situation, I could just sit back and wait for death.

Thinking of this, Xin Lailai closed his eyes happily, but not long after, he opened his eyes again, looked at Ling Yuzi beside him, and sighed:

"I said, if you do this, I will almost feel uneasy if I sleep peacefully."

No one answered.

I saw Ling Yuzi huddled in the corner, staring blankly ahead, with a look of confusion on his little face.

——She has been in this state after listening to Xin Lailai's self-righteous remarks.

"Tsk, why does it look like I cruelly abandoned the little girl after playing with her feelings badly?"

Xin Lailai looked at the expression on Ling Yuzi's face and complained to himself. In the eyes of outsiders, the situation in the cave now looks like this:

A disheveled 1.9-meter tall man was lying on the stone bed with a happy face, while a little loli with a doubtful face and dull eyes was huddled pitifully in a cold, damp corner.

"I can't even explain why it feels like someone is coming in."

Xin Lailai shook his head, sat up, stretched out his right hand, gently placed it on Ling Yuzi's head, and sighed softly:
"Okay, stop squatting here and talking, sit down and talk."

"Talk...chat?"

Ling Yuzi felt the temperature coming from the top of his head and raised his head blankly.

"Yeah, let's chat and talk nonsense. Although I don't know what inexplicable expectations you had for me when you asked me before, but squatting like this is really annoying."

"So, get up first."

Xin Lailai said, stretching out his palm. Ling Yuzi was startled for a moment, silent for a while, nodded, took Xin Lailai's palm, and was about to stand up...

boom!
Without any suspense, with a strength gap of up to 11 points, even though Ling Yuzi didn't exert much force, Xin Lailai was still dragged off the stone bed by Ling Yuzi like a delicate bird.

"..." Xin Lailai.

The air suddenly became subtle.

"Otherwise, you'd better get up by yourself." Xin Lailai said awkwardly.

"Pfft." Ling Yuzi burst out laughing looking at Xin Lailai's embarrassed appearance, but his expression returned to normal in the next second.

"Ahem, um... can you help move me back?"

Xin Lailai coughed twice, with a slightly embarrassed expression:
"That moment just now, it seemed like I broke a bone."

The physical attribute of 2 points was more fragile than he thought.

Hearing this, Ling Yuzi was stunned. Then he waved his little hand and a shadow emerged from the ground. He directly supported Xin Lailai and others' bodies and placed him gently on the stone bed.

After doing all this, the two of them stared at each other in silence for a while, then burst out laughing in unison.

"Pfft, hahaha, I can't do it anymore, human being, you're too weird. You can't even walk, but you keep talking about where you want to go and what you want to do."

"Hahaha... Indeed, I suddenly realized that I seem to be talking big words. If this continues, I'm afraid my legs will be lame before I even get to Flower Street, let alone women."

The cheerful laughter continued in the cave for a while. When the laughter gradually subsided, Xin Lailai turned his head and glanced at Ling Yuzi lying beside him.

"Do you feel better now?"

"...Hmm." Ling Yuzi responded softly, his red pupils reflecting a dark scene.

"Human, what did you mean by chatting just now?"

"The literal meaning is that you can say whatever you want to say in your heart, without thinking or without any modification."

"This approach sounds so strange."

"Who calls people a very strange thing in the first place?"

"But we are obviously already ghosts."

"That's a question. Let's put it another way. Who says human nature is such a strange thing?"

"You mean, even ghosts are human?"

"As for this... I think it's probably not possible. After all, it's precisely because you abandon your humanity that you become a ghost."

"Then why..."

"I haven't finished yet. It's precisely because a ghost has abandoned its humanity. Therefore, the moment it regains its humanity, it is no longer a ghost."

A brief silence.

"Human nature... is really weird." Ling Yuzi murmured.

"Rather than saying it's strange, it's more of a contradiction. But then again, the most indispensable thing in this world is contradiction."

Xin Lailai shook his head and smiled to himself.

"Spear... shield?" Ling Yuzi repeated in confusion.

"Yes, it's a contradiction." Xin Lailai turned his head, looked at Ling Yuzi, and said, "Just like you and me, we were obviously in a relationship where we were digging each other's hearts out not long ago, but now we are lying together here and being heartless. Chatting on the ground is also a contradiction."

"It's so complicated." Ling Yuzi tilted his head, seeming to be distracted by Xin Lailai's words.

"The world of adults is so complicated." Xin Lailai waved her hand and spoke in an understatement.

"Human, you are saying strange things again."

"It's just a joke, don't take it too seriously."

"Gun?" Ling Yuzi showed a confused look.

"It's almost like a joke. I won't explain the details, otherwise I feel like I'll be stuck in this cycle tonight."

"I can't figure it out."

"Don't think about it if you can't figure it out. Then you'll figure it out naturally. Speaking of which, you might as well tell me how you rescued me, such as how you injected ghost blood into me. Was it kissing or something like that? Right?"

Xin Lailai said, touching his chin and looking at Ling Yuzi curiously.

Hearing this, Ling Yuzi showed a thoughtful expression, and then replied seriously: "Head."

"?!" Xin Lailai.

"Bite a bite of the head." Ling Yuzi.

"Wait, tell me again what you bitten?" Xin Lailai was directly shocked by Ling Yuzi's answer.

"It's delicious." Ling Yuzi continued, his red pupils showing a hint of desire.

"...Are you serious?" Xin Lailai asked expressionlessly.

"Yes." Ling Yuzi nodded vigorously, the expression on his little face was full of sincerity, and he looked at Xin Lailai eagerly: "Among the humans I have ever eaten, you are the most delicious one."

"..." The ghost told him the fact that he tasted delicious in front of his face, but even with his brain circuit, he couldn't keep up with the rhythm for a while.

"Why don't we talk about other topics? It's a little too curious to hear other people's opinions about how they taste."

Xin Lailai changed the topic stiffly. Ling Yuzi looked at Xin Lailai's unnatural expression, blinked his eyes, and burst out laughing.

"It's so strange. I obviously don't want to laugh, but... when I see you like this as a human, I just can't help it... Hahahaha!"

Ling Yuzi held his stomach and kept laughing.

Xin Lailai looked at Ling Yuzi who was laughing so hard that his calves were pushing against him. He touched himself with some embarrassment. At the same time, he quietly stretched out his other hand. The remaining mana in his body began to condense, and then he flexed his fingers. One flick.

boom!
"Ouch!" Ling Yuzi screamed in pain, covered his head, and glared at Xin Lailai fiercely: "Human, what are you doing!"

"What happened? I was distracted just now." Xin Lailai tilted her head as if nothing had happened and whistled leisurely.

Seeing Xin Lailai's nonchalant expression, Ling Yuzi pounced and pounced on her.

"Ah!"

Following the bite, Xin Lailai's expression suddenly froze, she instinctively took a breath of cold air, and the muscles on her face twitched violently twice.

"Hiss... I said you are abusing patients. If you continue like this, you will die!"

Xin Lailai shouted righteously. Hearing this, Ling Yuzi glanced at Xin Lailai and let go.

Seeing this, Xin Lailai breathed a sigh of relief, but the next second, Ling Yuzi pounced again.

"Ah!"

"hiss--!"

The sudden attack gave Xin Lailai a shock.

"Are you a dog? You can only repeat this move!" Unwilling to admit defeat, Xin Lailai shouted while holding back the pain in her arm.

"Ah woo!" Ling Yuzi said.

"...Ahem, why don't you let go first and talk about what you have to say?" Xin Lailai.

"Ah woo!" Ling Yuzi said.

"I give up, I shouldn't have hit you on the forehead!" Xin Lailai said.

"Ah woo!" Ling Yuzi said.

"..." Xin Lailai.

So, a few minutes later, I saw a proud-looking Ling Yuzi sitting on Xin Lailai on the stone bed, with the corner of his mouth slightly raised, and his little face was full of pride, like a little wolf that had caught its prey.

Xin Lailai, on the other hand, stroked Ling Yuzi's head with a complicated look on her face, feeling extremely regretful about why she touched her hand so hard.

——Why did he forget that the person in front of him was a person who acted based on instinct?
"Speaking of which, wouldn't you be disgusted by humans?"

Ling Yuzi's somewhat confused voice sounded.

"Disgusted, disgusted for what?" Xin Lailai asked puzzledly, and at the same time looked in the direction Ling Yuzi was looking, slightly startled.

I saw that in the corner, corpses that had been eaten down to only a few residues were piled up quietly.

Xin Lailai instantly understood what the disgust in the other party's words meant.

"Eating people... Although I do feel a little nauseous when I think about it, to be honest, I don't really feel much guilt."

Xin Lailai's eyelids drooped slightly, and the palm of his hand stroking Ling Yuzi's head paused slightly, as if he was deep in thought.

Ling Yuzi raised his head and glanced at Xin Lailai, who was deep in thought, but said nothing.

"If you think about it carefully, maybe it's because I have turned into a ghost, but more probably because I am just a selfish ordinary person after all."

Xin Lailai looked at the remains of the corpse in the corner with a somewhat complicated expression and sighed softly.

Yes, he is just a selfish ordinary person. Xin Lailai has always known this.

This does not mean that his feelings for Nintaki Sakonji and Tanjiro are fake. If these two people die, Xin Lailai will definitely be angry because of this, because to him, they are indeed his mentors and mentors. Bye bye brother.

But that's all. He will be angry because of the death of Nintaki Sakonji, and he will have hatred for the murderer because of Tanjiro's death, but these anger and hatred will never reach the level that makes him lose his mind.

Because it's not worth it.

This does not contain any disparagement, because this is the fact. As a contractor, no matter how deep friendship Xin Lailai establishes with these characters, as long as he leaves this world, everything will still disappear under the reset of the paradise. The cloud disappears.

It's obviously not worth spending your life for a character that resets indefinitely.

Including cannibalism.

This kind of behavior can be said to be extremely sinful in theory. When Xin Lailai actually did these things, there was only one real reaction in his mind:
——He didn't pay attention to it at all.

Even if Ling Yuzi hadn't mentioned it, Xin Lailai wouldn't have thought about this issue at all.

Just like now, if he was asked to choose between the scraps in front of him and a few human lives that were insignificant to him, he would choose the former without hesitation.

At least the former can really chat happily with him now.

But if he really chooses to eat people in order to survive, Xin Lailai also knows that he will definitely not take the initiative to kill innocent people indiscriminately, but will give priority to the corpses of accidental deaths not caused by himself to satisfy his hunger.

Because that would make him feel more comfortable.

"Just think of me as a guy who can abandon all bottom lines to satisfy himself."

Xin Lailai looked at Ling Yuzi, smiled, and rubbed his little head.

"Hmm...Human, why do you think your statement is like saying that you are actually an evil ghost in human skin?"

"I can't help it. Who told me that I am such a person?" Xin Lailai spread his hands.

"Is this also a kind of contradiction in your mouth?" Ling Yuzi asked doubtfully, while controlling the shadow to press Xin Lailai's palm back to his head.

"Who knows?" Xin Lailai looked at his palm that was forced back, smiled, and continued to gently stroke Ling Yuzi's short snow-white hair.

Seeing this, Ling Yuzi stopped asking any more questions, squinted his eyes, and peacefully enjoyed the warm touch coming from his head.

"Human, I seem to understand what you mean by showing off."

"Really? Then just enjoy this feeling. We don't have a few days to live anyway."

Xin Lailai said with a smile. When Ling Yuzi heard this, his little head nodded slightly, then he rubbed his hand in the direction of Xin Lailai's hand and purred like a kitten.

Suddenly, Ling Yuzi's head moved slightly and he looked towards the exit of the cave.

Looking out through the narrow opening, I saw a wisp of light starting to appear from the very far horizon.

It's dawn.

　If you don’t like emotional scenes, I suggest you just skip to Chapter 31. I’m not kidding, it’s best for everyone (●—●)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)