Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 37 Rare leisure

……

The golden-red sunset is gradually fading with the setting sun, and the dark night spreads all the way into the distance along the line of sight.

"Huh, this feeling of sleeping until dark is really a long time gone?"

Inside the cave, Xin Lailai stretched out refreshed and glanced at the sky outside the window, feeling particularly comfortable.

Then, Xin Lailai looked at Ling Yuzi, who was still sleeping peacefully, and saw Ling Yuzi's small body leaning tightly against his side, with a peaceful sleeping look on his little face.

Although they agreed to wake each other up, it was better to let her sleep a little longer.

Xin Lailai thought and gave up the idea of ​​waking up Ling Yuzi.

"Looking at it from this angle, it's pretty cute, right?"

Xin Lailai muttered, gently poked the pair of small corners on the opponent's forehead, and covered the quilt that had been kicked aside by the opponent again.

The quilt was included in the gift package for beginners. Before going to bed, Ling Yuzi was surprised for a while when he watched him conjure a quilt out of thin air like magic.

"However, it is really unexpected that it will develop like this."

Xin Lailai recalled everything that had happened before, and was in a trance without realizing it.

After an unknown amount of time, a somewhat confused murmur sounded, and Ling Yuzi woke up at some point, interrupting Xin Lailai's thoughts.

"Lai Lai?"

"Huh? It's Ling Yuzi, you're awake."

Xin Lailai was stunned when he suddenly heard someone calling his name. Then he remembered that he told Ling Yuzi his name before going to bed in the morning.

"Is it already dark?"

Xin Lailai glanced outside the cave and suddenly realized that the sky had completely darkened.

"Lailai, were you thinking about something just now?"

"Well... rather than thinking about it, it's better to say that I'm a little bit emotional."

Xin Lailai looked at Ling Yuzi who was lying quietly aside and looking at him curiously, and replied:

"If you think about it carefully, reality is really a magical thing."

Xin Lailai put his hands behind his head and stared at the sky outside the cave.

"In terms of stance, not long ago we were sworn enemies who almost took each other's lives."

"In terms of identity, not long ago one of us was a human, and the other was an evil ghost who had eaten countless people."

"Normally, it would be incredible no matter how you look at it, but it actually happened."

"What's even more incredible is that just a few hours ago, I actually agreed to accompany a ghost to fulfill its dream. To be honest, it's hard for me to imagine that such a clichéd plot would happen to me."

"If this was a darker story, I guess there would be as many people as the heavens complaining that I am a Virgin."

Xin Lailai complained in a helpless tone. This development has indeed exceeded his imagination.

"Incredible...?"

Ling Yuzi muttered to himself, recalling his own memories in his mind, and tilted his head slightly: "But, this should be normal, right? Lailai, didn't you say that many things in the world are inherently contradictory?"

"..." Xin Lailai didn't know how to continue.

——Yesterday, those were just a few simple sentences that he habitually muttered while chatting and talking, and it looked like that, okay?

"Ahem, you're right, Ling Yuzi. There's really no need to worry too much about this issue."

Xin Lailai coughed twice and was about to think about how to change the topic when his eyes suddenly moved and he said suspiciously:

"By the way...Ling Yuzi, have you grown a little taller?"

"Have it?"

Ling Yuzi was stunned, touched his little face, lifted up the quilt in confusion, looked at his body, then crept up from the bed, stood in the corner and gestured for a while, and said in a somewhat excited tone:
"It seems like you are really taller than before. Can you continue to grow taller after becoming a ghost?"

"Normally speaking, it should be impossible, right?"

Xin Lailai touched his chin and pondered:

"Perhaps it's because you escaped Wuhan's control, which may have caused some unknown changes in your body."

"From the characteristics of ghosts, growing up probably means that they are no longer immortal. Therefore, your current situation should be that the ghost blood in your body has been severely weakened by ultraviolet rays, which directly makes it lose the ability to keep the body young forever. Ability."

Xin Lailai analyzed it carefully, and at the same time seemed to have thought of something, and asked Ling Yuzi:

"By the way, Ling Yuzi, do you see any changes in my appearance and height?"

"It seems not?" Ling Yuzi looked at Xin Lailai carefully and shook his little head.

"I guess so. After all, I can still feel whether I have grown or not."

——Although it is actually judged by the personal panel.

Xin Lailai touched his chin, showed a thoughtful expression, and guessed:

"Even if growth is restored, it is obviously not normal to grow one year older after just sleeping. Therefore, I guess there is a high probability that your body is not simply accelerating aging, but is repaying the years it 'owed' , so the phenomenon of secondary growth occurs.”

"Well, if you look at it this way, maybe the principle of ghost blood that keeps people immortal is not that it really makes people immortal, but that it forcibly locks the body in a fixed state. Once this lock is destroyed, the body will Suffering from accelerated aging?”

"Is this why the aging medicine in the original work can be effective on Wu Kai? After all, if it is truly immortal, even aging for millions of years will theoretically have no effect, right?"

Xin Lailai lowered his head and murmured to himself as if he was possessed by a demon. It was not until Ling Yuzi carefully pulled the corner of his clothes that Xin Lailai suddenly came back to his senses.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I accidentally committed an occupational disease again."

Xin Lailai raised his head and said with some embarrassment, while Ling Yuzi shook his head and turned his head away with embarrassment.

"What's wrong?"

"No... nothing!" Ling Yuzi shook his hand in a panic, with a blush on his face. He avoided Xin Lailai's sight and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito's moan:
"I just feel that the way you looked just now, Lailai, was... very tempting. I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself if I continue like this."

"?!"

Xin Lailai was stunned by Ling Yuzi's answer for two seconds before he recovered. He looked at Ling Yuzi's immature face, which was about 14 years old, and asked hesitantly:

"Can I ask, what do you mean when you say you can't control yourself?"

Hearing this, Ling Yuzi suddenly became even more shy. She buried her face in the quilt, glanced at Xin Lailai quietly, and said hesitantly:

"Eat...eat you."

"Literally eaten?"

"Um……"

When Xin Lailai heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. After silently reciting his sin twice in his heart, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"No, I've become a ghost. Why do you still think about eating me?"

"But...but, after turning into a ghost, Lailai..."

Ling Yuzi blushed, and there was a gurgling sound in his belly.

"It becomes more fragrant."

"..."

After hearing the other party's answer, Xin Lailai silently opened the skill panel, and after confirming that he did not have any magical passive that increased the deliciousness of the body, he fell silent.

After coming here for a while, Xin Lailai suddenly thought of something and asked with a strange expression:

"I said you, you bit me so many times yesterday, could it be to satisfy your greed?"

"It's not... it's not!"

"Really?"

"no!"

"It's not a good boy to lie."

"I...I'm not a child, I've lived for more than 70 years!"

"It's more than 70 years old, right?"

"me……!"

"Hahahaha!"

Seeing Ling Yuzi's speechless expression, Xin Lailai laughed loudly. When Ling Yuzi saw this, his mouth bulged, and he rushed forward with a whimper regardless of the situation.

"Ah!"

"Hi——! Do you only know this trick?"

The cheerful laughter echoed in the cave, forming a sharp contrast with the silent night outside the cave.

……

"So, are you really not going to fill your stomach?"

Xin Lailai asked casually as he looked at Ling Yuzi, whose stomach kept rumbling.

"It's only a few days anyway, it doesn't matter if you don't eat people, and..."

Ling Yuzi looked at the night outside the window. After being silent for a while, he continued:

"I don't want to eat people anymore."

After recovering the memory of his time as a human, do you instinctively feel aversion to cannibalism?
Thinking about it this way, it's really disgusting for a guy like him to accept cannibalism to survive without any objection.

Xin Lailai laughed at himself in his heart, and at the same time looked at Ling Yuzi, who looked a little depressed, and continued:

"Although I understand your feelings, I still want to tell you that atonement that can only satisfy yourself is meaningless."

"Whether you want to eat people or not, it doesn't change the fact that you have eaten so many people before, so even if you stop doing this now, you are only making things difficult for yourself."

After all, if it is only seven days, it can be spent by relying on the bodies of accidental deaths at the bottom of the cliff, without adding more victims.

"I know, it's just... I still want to do it."

"Lailai, didn't you also say that the most important thing about showing off is to make yourself happy?"

Ling Yuzi sat on the edge of the bed, swaying his little feet, looking down at the floor, and whispering.

"Do you want to make yourself happy...I really can't say enough about you."

Hearing this, Xin Lailai shook his head helplessly, walked over to Ling Yuzi, took his little hand, and walked out of the cave.

"In that case, let's go."

"Where are you going?" Ling Yuzi asked with some confusion.

"Go find something to eat." Xin Lailai said matter-of-factly.

"But, I don't want to eat anymore..."

"Fool, who told you that you were going to eat people?"

Xin Lailai hit Ling Yuzi's forehead hard. Ling Yuzi tilted his head in confusion, while Xin Lailai's eyes twitched unnaturally.

Why is Nima's head with a 7-point defense bonus so hard? It hurts his hand after knocking it. "In short, even if you don't plan to eat people, you still have to find some way to fill your stomach, otherwise it will be difficult to sleep with the noise."

During the two years of training at Kirigakure Mountain, he experimented with wild ghosts. Although ghosts cannot use animal flesh and blood to satisfy their hunger for human flesh and blood, they can indeed digest these flesh and blood and absorb energy from them, even if they are non-meat foods. Only garlic and a few other things can cause strong nausea.

Although the formula book of the original book once stated that ghosts would be unable to digest human food and vomit it out, it is obvious that this setting was limited to a very small range when it was derived into reality.

After all, no matter how you derive it, you must respect some basic laws. The digestion of human meat and pork is essentially a process of hydrolyzing protein. But you are asking others to create pepsin that can only digest one kind of human meat. This is too embarrassing for the world. .

……

Two 10 minutes later.

"Lailai, can you just throw this away?"

In front of a fast-flowing river about ten meters wide, Ling Yuzi looked at the fishing rod in his hand and the bait on it with some confusion, and asked curiously.

"Theoretically, yes, but in practice, the knowledge involved is very complicated."

Xin Lailai said seriously, looking at the folding fishing rod that came in the novice gift bag in his hand, a look of sacredness appeared on his face.

"Ling Yuzi, listen to me, the point of fishing is not to take the bait, but to test one's character during the fishing process. This is a process of understanding the philosophy of life. When you throw the fishing rod, Moment……"

"But isn't our goal to fill our stomachs?"

"Ahem, we can try this for a while first, and then let you catch it if you really can't catch it."

"Oh." Ling Yuzi nodded in understanding, then threw the fishing rod in his hand, and the fishhook made a splash on the water.

"Ling Yuzi, you can't catch fish like this, you have to act like this."

Xin Lailai said, and made a standard throwing motion seriously.

……

After half an hour.

"Lailai, I caught it again!"

Ling Yuzi's excited voice rang out as she held a fish as long as her forearm and shouted.

"Shh, be quiet, I feel like I'm about to get hooked."

Xin Lailai made a hissing gesture with a serious expression.

Hearing this, Ling Yuzi looked at Xin Lailai, then at the empty side of the other party, and said with some confusion:

"But, Lailai, that's what you said just now?"

"..."

Xin Lailai fell silent. He opened the imprint interface and took a look at Ling Yuzi's luck score of 5 points, and then at his own luck score of only 2 points. After thinking for a while, he made a decision.

"Praise Lailai!"

Xin Lailai recited it silently in her heart until the prompt appeared:
[Team skill: 'Praise Lailai' is activated successfully, the contractor's luck +2, the remaining duration is 59 minutes and 59 seconds]

very good!

Seeing that his luck score had reached 4 points, Xin Lailai's eyes suddenly lit up.

……

So, an hour later.

Xin Lailai looked at the fishing rod in front of him and fell into deep thought.

The difference in luck value is 1 point. Will the difference be that big?
"Haha, hahahaha!"

Ling Yuzi beside him was almost rolling on the ground with laughter.

"Lailai, you caught something!"

The answer was a leather shoe, two empty bottles, and four rotten wooden boxes. There was no treasure in the wooden boxes, only a pile of rags. Unfortunately, he thought a big fish had taken the bait several times.

"Okay, stop laughing. The growl in your stomach is almost louder than your laughter. And don't keep rolling on the ground. It's very dirty."

Xin Lailai sighed, pulled Ling Yuzi up from the ground, bent down and patted the dirt on him.

"But ghosts don't get sick."

"You have to pay attention to that, and your ghost blood has lost the ability to maintain the body's immortality, and Bao Buqi's resistance to viruses and bacteria has also dropped a lot."

"What are viruses and bacteria?"

"A tiny creature that you can't see with your eyes, and they are responsible for most of the illnesses that make humans sick."

"Then what do they look like?"

"Bacteria are mostly spherical, while viruses are all kinds of weird."

"I feel like you know a lot, Lailai."

"I have no choice but to be forced by life. If possible, I would like to be a garden dog who knows nothing about it. It will eat well and be fed by rich people."

The two of them chatted one by one. Ling Yuzi squatted next to Xin Lailai, holding his chin with his small hands, and watched carefully as Xin Lailai skillfully cut open the fish she caught one by one, and cleaned them with The branches penetrated and inserted to the side.

The pungent fishy smell filled the air. Xin Lailai didn't feel anything about it at first, but after a while he thought of something again. He took out a scarf from the storage space and handed it to Ling Yuzi with a magic chip.

"If you feel the smell is unpleasant, you can use this to cover it up. I was not used to it when I smelled the fishy smell for the first time."

Hearing this, Ling Yuzi was slightly startled. He looked at Xin Lailai who was still focusing on cooking the ingredients. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he took the scarf and carefully held it in his arms.

Time passed bit by bit, as Xin Lailai lit the fire, cooked the cut fish in the pot, sprinkled the seasonings, and finally put it on the foldable simple grill, the alluring aroma began. Gradually floating in the air.

"It smells so good...it feels almost half as good as Lailai's!"

Ling Yuzi squatted aside, watching the grilled fish gradually turning golden brown on the simple grill, his red eyes filled with eagerness.

"I think this kind of compliment is unnecessary."

Xin Lailai complained, took out two wooden bowls, filled them and handed one of them to Ling Yuzi.

"Let's have a bowl of soup first. If you want to grill the fish, it will take a while."

"Yeah!" Ling Yuzi nodded his little head excitedly, holding the wooden bowl in his little hand, and poured tons of it into his mouth.

"..." Seeing Ling Yuzi finish a large bowl of fish soup in the blink of an eye, Xin Lailai's eyes twitched slightly.

Although he gave up cannibalism, it was obvious that the other party's eating habits had not changed.

"It's so warm..." Ling Yuzi touched his abdomen and whispered.

"Is this what it feels like to eat food after it has been cooked?"

"Even when I was a human, I never experienced it."

Hearing Ling Yuzi's muttering to himself, Xin Lailai's expression moved imperceptibly, but he didn't say anything more. He just smiled and touched Ling Yuzi's head, and said softly:
"You can eat as much as you want. No one will stop you now."

"Is it really okay to have as many as you want?"

"Well... there is still an upper limit. After all, I don't have enough physical strength to cook here all the time."

"Then...do you have ten bowls?"

"With the amount of this pot, I think doubling it would be enough."

"Then I want another bowl!"

"I am happy to serve you, my dear Miss Lingyuzi."

"Speaking of which, Lailai, how on earth did you conjure up so many things?"

"Just think of me as someone with special abilities similar to Wagoni's vampire magic."

"That's right, Lailai, you are really awesome!"

"It's an honor to hear a compliment from you about something other than my taste."

Under the night, the warm fire light dissipated the cold night. Two ghosts, one big and one small, sat by the fire, and cheerful laughter kept ringing between them.

It wasn't until the fire burned out that the two of them suddenly realized that a whole night had passed, and then they hurried back to the cave.

……

"Huh! I had a lot of fun tonight."

In the cave, Xin Lailai lay down on the stone bed covered with quilts, looking at the white sky in the distance, stretching his limbs lazily.

"I feel that human life is so interesting. Lailai, are we going to go fishing tonight?"

Ling Yuzi also said excitedly. She was lying on Xin Lailai, holding her head in her hands, and her two little feet were swinging regularly in the air, as if she were paddling.

"Fishing... Although it is indeed interesting, if you spend the remaining few days doing repetitive things, it would be too much of a waste no matter how you think about it."

Xin Lailai thought for a while and shook her head slightly.

"It seems to be the same..."

Hearing this, Ling Yuzi nodded his head, his red eyes showing a thoughtful look. Then, as if he suddenly thought of something, Ling Yuzi's eyes suddenly lit up and he said excitedly:
"Then...how about we go to the brothel Lailai you mentioned before! Lailai, didn't you say you must go there once?"

"Cough cough, cough cough!" Xin Lailai choked and coughed violently when he heard this. He quickly denied: "This is not okay, it's just me talking nonsense, don't even think about it!"

If he really took the 14-year-old Ling Yuzi to visit a brothel, he felt like he would not be able to escape even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

"Is that so..."

Ling Yuzi lowered her head in disappointment, obviously a little sad that her proposal was denied.

"Lailai, what do you think a happy life looks like in the eyes of humans?"

Ling Yuzi looked at the ground made of cold rocks and talked to himself.

"The answer to this is quite complicated, but to put it bluntly, for most people, they don't have to worry about life or their future all day long. They can have fun when they are alone, and they can have fun when they are with their family. If we can live in harmony, this should be considered a happy life.”

As Xin Lailai narrated, he looked at the rock wall above his head, feeling as if scenes were being projected on it.

"Family..." Ling Yuzi repeated the word from Xin Lailai's mouth, tilted his head, and Xin Lailai's face was reflected in his red eyes. After thinking for a while, his eyes lit up again.

"Okay, Lai Lai, I thought of what else to do!"

Ling Yuzi got up and touched Xin Lailai's eyes, looking down at him with excitement on his little face.

This guy……

Xin Lailai looked at Ling Yuzi's eagerness to give it a try and smiled helplessly. From Ling Yuzi's reaction, he had roughly guessed what the other party wanted to say.

family?
Thinking about it carefully, it seems impossible to experience the feeling of being a brother in the last moments of your life...

"Let's get married!"

Ling Yuzi shouted excitedly, and Xin Lailai's expression suddenly froze.

"what!?"

……

　I feel that splitting the chapters will reduce the reading experience, so I posted them together. Also, I wish single readers a happy 520 (●—●)
　　PS: One last reminder, readers who don’t like emotional drama suggest skipping to chapter 31.

　　
　
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