“Make me the foundation of your house here. Let me look after it and protect your courtyard as a payment for transportation and the cemetery.”
Because of his strong vitality, after the head was separated from his body, his mouth still opened and closed. But without the assistance of the trachea, he could only silently express his last words.
The scarlet eyes were wide open, with a hint of arrogant smile hanging at the corner of his mouth.
It was the last expression on the demon’s face.
Besides being crazy, his smile also looked a bit smug.
Ah! He successfully borrowed money from his friend again! The transportation fee he promised to the assassin, he didn’t have that much money at all….
The black-haired demon stood there without moving for a long time.
The rain keeps falling.
His body was soaked with rain.
The body of the demon covered in blood on the ground was also washed clean.
Even the head held in the hands of the black-haired demon was also washed clean, revealing his original appearance.
If you ignore the crazy expression and scarlet eyes, it was actually a cheerful-looking man.
The soil in the yard thirstily absorbed the rainwater falling from the sky until it became too saturated and the mud turned into mire.
Then, the black-haired demon in the courtyard started to move.
Well, it wasn’t his body that moved, but his lips.
A lengthy and awkward text emerged from his half-rotten lips, and Ji Huan saw a peculiar golden pattern gradually appearing on the half of the demon’s body that had originally fallen on the ground. The colour of the entire body also gradually changed from its original bronze colour to dark gold. When Ah Jin’s lips closed again, the demon had already become a metal casting.
At this moment, there was a change on the ground.
As if suddenly turning into a swamp, the originally muddy soil suddenly began to bubble up from the ground. The body of the demon on the ground seemed to be sucked in by it, gradually sinking, and the black soil engulfed his hands, feet, legs, and forearms…the body gradually disappeared under the soil.
Then, the black-haired demon threw the head in his hand.
Watching the black soil gradually submerge the back of the head, ears, cheeks, facial features…
When the last tip of the nose disappeared, the black ground was already clean and dry, as if nothing had happened. The soil that had been turned over from the ground replaced the original soil on the surface. Not only the body, but also the pool of blood that the demon had originally left on the ground disappeared without a trace.
The taste of water;
The taste of blood;
The smell of soil;
And…the smell of body decay…
Various smells spread to the nose through the waterfall caused by the rain. The black-haired demon reached into his arms, pulled out a packet of seeds, and then threw it towards the spot where the body had sunk.
“This is the seed of ‘millennium old heart’.”
“This kind of flower only grows on steadfast flesh and blood. With loyalty as its nourishment and forgiveness as rain and dew. If you say that you did not betray me, and you did not take the initiative to tell others those words, then——”
“Just show me the flowers.”
The green seeds glowed in the dark night, flowed like gemstones in the rain, and then scattered into the black soil, as if chasing after the freshly forgotten flesh and blood, and finally disappeared.
As early as when the rain got heavier, Ji Huan held Hei Dan and stood under the eaves to hide from the rain.
Although it was a dream, it was truly terrifying. In just a few seconds, Ji Huan’s body was already wet. If it were only him, he wouldn’t be afraid, but isn’t there Hei Dan?
Although Hei Dan’s job as a hot spring water dispenser requires him to be the first to soak in cold water every day, and even though Hei Dan doesn’t seem to be afraid of the cold, Ji Huan still has some traditional concepts in his heart that he wants to adhere to.
Fearing that the little demon would be drenched in heavy rain, Ji Huan stood under the eaves with Hei Dan in his arms.
At first, Hei Dan was scared, but after a while, he took the initiative to poke his head around.
When he saw Ah Jin throwing out those green seeds, he couldn’t help but stretch out his little paw.
“Ah!” The green, shiny thing perfectly matches the preference of the little demon.
Ji Huan knew what Hei Dan wanted to catch, but from a distance, if anyone could see Ji Huan and Hei Dan right now, it would seem as if Hei Dan was reaching out towards the black-haired demon in the courtyard.
As if hearing something, Ji Huan saw the black-haired demon in the yard suddenly turn his head in their direction.
His appearance was so terrifying, completely different from what he looks like now, but——
In Ji Huan’s eyes, the black-haired man in the yard now completely overlapped with the Ah Jin he knew.
His whole body was soaked, his face was expressionless, and he stood there stiffly, looking so… so…
“Hei Dan, hold me tight. I will go in the rain for a bit. Hide in my clothes and don’t come out.” As he spoke, Ji Huan lifted up his t-shirt and stuffed Hei Dan in, and then ran into the pouring rain without a care.
Looking at the black-haired demon standing there stiffly, Ji Huan didn’t know how to pull him under the eaves.
The rain was so heavy.
Before his brain could think, his body already moved——
Stretching out his hand, Ji Huan accurately grasped Ah Jin’s left hand under the cloak.
The next second, the stagnant black eyes were accurately aimed at Ji Huan’s equally black eyes in the air.
When he was stared at by those eyes, for a moment, Ji Huan almost thought that he would turn into ashes under the other person’s gaze——
That is an extremely dangerous feeling.
For the first time, Ji Huan realised the true meaning of the sentence “Ah Jin is terrifying” that Abu and others had secretly talked about in private.
But he didn’t flinch.
Holding Ah Jin’s hand stiffly, Ji Huan felt as if he was holding a piece of bone… with rotting flesh on top, half slippery and half dry…
Ji Huan tightly grasped what was in his hand tightly, and then he felt his hand being forcefully held by the other party’s backhand.
“Who are you?” The black-haired demon, who was almost a head taller than him, lowered his eyes and suddenly asked him.
The voice was neither sad nor happy, very calm.
“I…I am Ji Huan.” Although he was wearing clothes, Ji Huan felt as if he was standing naked again in front of the other party. He was a little flustered, but in the end, he said his name.
Then the black-haired demon opposite narrowed his eyes, as if recalling the owner of this name.
“The rain is too heavy, we need to take shelter.” Ji Huan opened his mouth and finally said this sentence, then he pulled Ah Jin and walked towards the house behind him.
At first, there was no pulling, but it was just for an instant, and soon Ji Huan felt Ah Jin move.
The black-haired demon was pulled by him like that until he entered the house.
Ji Huan took out the keys from his body, opened the door, and turned on the light switch in a very familiar way. With a “snap”, the room suddenly lit up.
The furnishings in the house have hardly changed from what they are now, except that it looks a little messy, indicating that Ah Jin did not spend any time on this house.
Ji Huan pulled Ah Jin to sit at the dining table, then went to the kitchen to boil a pot of hot water. While boiling the water, he walked to the bathroom and took out all the towels in his arms in a familiar manner.
He took Hei Dan out of his arms and stuffed the smallest towel into his hands. Hei Dan grabbed the towel and wiped himself.
Ah Jin had no intention of wiping himself at all.
Seeing this, Ji Huan was stunned, and finally picked up the largest towel.
However, to wipe Ah Jin, he had to lift the cloak on his head. Ji Huan stretched out his hand and hesitated for a moment before cautiously touching the edge of the cloak. Seeing that Ah Jin had no objection, he lifted the dirty cloak in one go.
A face that was so rotten that it was impossible to see its original appearance was exposed to Ji Huan’s eyes at such close range.
The owner of the face looked at him calmly, with a cautious gaze.
However, Ji Huan’s reaction was very normal, as if the face in front of him was just a regular face. He picked up a towel and started to wipe the other person’s hair.
Soon, the towel Ji Huan was using to wipe not only became dirty black, but also bloody red, and a bit yellow with a strange smell.
That is the pustule from the wound.
Ji Huan calmly treated the wounds on his face.
His hand was very steady, and particularly gentle when wiping a few unbroken pustules.
When the rainwater on his body was almost wiped away, the sound of a kettle suddenly came from the kitchen.
“The water is boiling. Wait for a bit, I’ll go get the water.” Ji Huan lowered his head and looked into the dark eyes of the black-haired demon with a calm expression.
Then he turned his head and looked into Hei Dan’s white-ringed eyes.
“You also wait here.” He asked Hei Dan to sit on the table and wait.
It’s true that Hei Dan is afraid of Ah Jin, but after seeing him a lot, his reaction is now very normal. Letting these two people stay together for a while… It should be fine.
Anyway, this is a dream.
Thinking this in his heart, Ji Huan quickly picked up the kettle. He was a nimble man, and after a while, he found a bottle of sugar in the cupboard. He stretched out his fingers and took some out to taste it: It tasted fine, so he put it in two cups and made some sugar water.
Ji Huan prepared a large basin – the same basin he now uses for washing clothes. It turns out that it was there from the start. After sprinkling an appropriate amount of salt into the water, Ji Huan made a large basin of light salt water.
After taking these things out of the kitchen, Ji Huan first placed the two cups on the table.
“Sugar water.” The words are concise, but Hei Dan is very familiar with these words.
The little black demon took the initiative to crawl towards the cup. Of course, he was not strong enough to pick up the cup, so he lowered his head and stuck out his little tongue to lick the sweet water inside, just like a kitten.
Noticing that Ah Jin was still sitting motionless, Ji Huan stuffed another cup into his hand.
Then he soaked a new towel in the salt water, wrung it out, and started treating Ah Jin’s wounds again.
“It will hurt a bit.” After saying that, his hands moved.
The black-haired demon glanced at the young man who was carefully treating his wounds, then lowered his head to look at the steaming cup in his hand, and finally glanced at the little demon who was still licking the sweet water there.
Lifting the cup, he took a sip.
So sweet——
His dry throat was moistened by the warm sweet water, and he let out a long sigh.
Now that the inside of his mouth is starting to rot, this glass of water is the only beautiful taste he has tasted recently.
The black-haired demon remained silent and allowed Ji Huan to treat his wounds. He just held the cup and drank the sweet water sip by sip.
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