Xia Nuo, “……”
He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came up with a guess: “This can’t be another game you set up, right?”
The boy’s brows slowly frowned, and his dark eyes looked at the man in front of him without blinking.
The man laughed dumbfounded, and he replied without guilt: “Of course not.”
It’s just that he had long expected that he would be attacked by a python at night, at most… it would be regarded as taking advantage of the fire.
“Hmm…” Xia Nuo groaned inexplicably, with an inexplicable look on his face, “Let me think about it.”
He obviously believed the man’s words, because he knew that a man would never lie, he just liked to mislead others with words and actions, making others believe the ‘truth’ they saw, but he can stay out of the matter and be innocent, this is his consistent style.
The python outside the window was not so considerate enough to give him time to think about it. He only heard a ‘crash’, and a python hit hard, and the glass on the window shattered into pieces and fell to the ground.
Xia Nuo was taken aback, and turned his head in surprise, only to see that the python, which was about to climb in through the hole in the window, was strangled by the suddenly sprouting vines, and made a struggling ‘hissing’ sound.
No, it should be said that those vines were originally born there, but they have been hidden in the shadows and never showed their presence. Now, countless spikes have grown on the seemingly harmless vines, piercing the sand-spotted python’s body. The scales were firmly embedded in its skin.
Xia Nuo vaguely recalled that it was said in ‘Monster Encyclopaedia’ that the scales of the sand-spotted python are as hard as magic ore, and magic ore is already the hardest stone in the game world, and the scales of the sand-spotted python are comparable to it. The hardness of the scales can be seen.
——And these vines piercing the scales of the python are no more difficult than piercing a piece of tofu.
“You can think about it slowly, don’t worry.” The man said with a smile as if to prove to him that he didn’t mean to force him.
“……”
Xia Nuo was silent for a while, but suddenly asked a seemingly completely irrelevant question: “In your eyes, what kind of existence is a human being?”
“Humans…” The man paused for a moment, as if he was a little surprised by this question, and seemed to be thinking about how to answer. After thinking about it, he replied, “Human beings are so contradictory. I will probably never be able to understand the complex emotions that arise in humans.”
“Small and humble, great and lofty, indifferent and ugly, warm and kind…all human beings.”
“I have seen people who have gone through fire and water for their friends and finally chose to betray because of a trivial benefit, the devout believer exults in ecstasy when the god falls, the brave man unable to pick up the sword turns to his enemy… This is human. “
“I have also seen cowardly little people rise up against oppression for their wives and children, order the generals who slaughtered the city to risk their lives to save the babies who are about to be crushed, and the two opposing sides have a good drink before the final battle… This is also human beings.”
“Complicated and contradictory, like a polyhedron refracting light, if it is not turned over, you will never see its true face clearly.”
Xia Nuo looked at the expression on the man’s face. When he said this, he was calm and objective, like an outsider who was completely out of it, commenting on things that had nothing to do with him without emotion.
Involuntarily, he let out a long, long sigh in his heart.
No matter how much a man looks like a human on the outside, he is still not a human on the inside. It is almost impossible to get him to think from a human point of view.
Just like now, the man apologised to Xia Nuo. It wasn’t because he realised he was wrong—perhaps in his mind, he would never feel that he had done anything wrong—but because he felt that Xia Nuo wanted him to apologise, so he made this move.
——Just as he promised, he is willing to fulfil all of Xia Nuo’s wishes.
In his cognition, he is definitely not a debtor, but a giver. His apology was not from his heart, but from Xia Nuo.
That’s why he was so surprised after Xia Nuo refused to accept his apology—it was like sending a gift but being rejected by the other party. He didn’t understand why the other party said to him “No.”
But it doesn’t matter, no one stipulates that the ‘gift’ can only be given out once, and he knows that Xia Nuo still wants this ‘gift’, so he chooses to change the method and hold this ‘gift’ in front of Xia Nuo again.
If Xia Nuo refused again, the man would find a more roundabout and gentler way to deliver it to him next time, unless Xia Nuo really didn’t want it.
After he figured it out, Xia Nuo even wanted to laugh a little, but he finally laughed out loud, his brows and eyes crooked, his thick eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, and there was a layer of white mist in his eyes.
The man didn’t know why, but he was involuntarily immersed in this smile, his eyes followed the boy’s shining eyes, the faint dimples on his cheeks, and the tip of his tongue faintly revealing from his snow-white teeth…all of them made him fascinated.
Maybe it’s superfluous to say anything now, the man doesn’t want to ask him why he is smiling, he just wants to kiss him fiercely, eat this smile down to the bone, and arbitrarily take it as his own, preventing others from seeing it.
——Such assumptions made him almost unable to extricate himself.
But Xia Nuo didn’t give him this chance, the words he said abruptly interrupted the man’s thoughts, he said: “I’ve thought about it——I forgive you.”
The man hadn’t come back to his senses, his mind was blank for a moment, and he was still thinking after hearing this sentence: What are you thinking about? Forgive what?
Then he slowly woke up, and with the blankness on his face, he still subconsciously raised the corners of his lips: “This is really great.”
However, he still felt a little empty in his heart, probably because the bright smile disappeared from the young man’s face after he finished speaking.
Now that the boy’s reply has been received, there is no need for those pythons outside the window to exist. The man manipulated the vines and strangled them neatly one by one. The smell of blood permeated the air, and the ground was full of python corpses and scattered scales. Then he slowly cleaned them up with the vines.
Xia Nuo had been watching all this quietly, and suddenly asked a question: “You said you couldn’t understand human feelings, but you said you liked me…is this a lie?”
Xia Nuo, “……”
He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came up with a guess: “This can’t be another game you set up, right?”
The boy’s brows slowly frowned, and his dark eyes looked at the man in front of him without blinking.
The man laughed dumbfounded, and he replied without guilt: “Of course not.”
It’s just that he had long expected that he would be attacked by a python at night, at most… it would be regarded as taking advantage of the fire.
“Hmm…” Xia Nuo groaned inexplicably, with an inexplicable look on his face, “Let me think about it.”
He obviously believed the man’s words, because he knew that a man would never lie, he just liked to mislead others with words and actions, making others believe the ‘truth’ they saw, but he can stay out of the matter and be innocent, this is his consistent style.
The python outside the window was not so considerate enough to give him time to think about it. He only heard a ‘crash’, and a python hit hard, and the glass on the window shattered into pieces and fell to the ground.
Xia Nuo was taken aback, and turned his head in surprise, only to see that the python, which was about to climb in through the hole in the window, was strangled by the suddenly sprouting vines, and made a struggling ‘hissing’ sound.
No, it should be said that those vines were originally born there, but they have been hidden in the shadows and never showed their presence. Now, countless spikes have grown on the seemingly harmless vines, piercing the sand-spotted python’s body. The scales were firmly embedded in its skin.
Xia Nuo vaguely recalled that it was said in ‘Monster Encyclopaedia’ that the scales of the sand-spotted python are as hard as magic ore, and magic ore is already the hardest stone in the game world, and the scales of the sand-spotted python are comparable to it. The hardness of the scales can be seen.
——And these vines piercing the scales of the python are no more difficult than piercing a piece of tofu.
“You can think about it slowly, don’t worry.” The man said with a smile as if to prove to him that he didn’t mean to force him.
“……”
Xia Nuo was silent for a while, but suddenly asked a seemingly completely irrelevant question: “In your eyes, what kind of existence is a human being?”
“Humans…” The man paused for a moment, as if he was a little surprised by this question, and seemed to be thinking about how to answer. After thinking about it, he replied, “Human beings are so contradictory. I will probably never be able to understand the complex emotions that arise in humans.”
“Small and humble, great and lofty, indifferent and ugly, warm and kind…all human beings.”
“I have seen people who have gone through fire and water for their friends and finally chose to betray because of a trivial benefit, the devout believer exults in ecstasy when the god falls, the brave man unable to pick up the sword turns to his enemy… This is human. “
“I have also seen cowardly little people rise up against oppression for their wives and children, order the generals who slaughtered the city to risk their lives to save the babies who are about to be crushed, and the two opposing sides have a good drink before the final battle… This is also human beings.”
“Complicated and contradictory, like a polyhedron refracting light, if it is not turned over, you will never see its true face clearly.”
Xia Nuo looked at the expression on the man’s face. When he said this, he was calm and objective, like an outsider who was completely out of it, commenting on things that had nothing to do with him without emotion.
Involuntarily, he let out a long, long sigh in his heart.
No matter how much a man looks like a human on the outside, he is still not a human on the inside. It is almost impossible to get him to think from a human point of view.
Just like now, the man apologised to Xia Nuo. It wasn’t because he realised he was wrong—perhaps in his mind, he would never feel that he had done anything wrong—but because he felt that Xia Nuo wanted him to apologise, so he made this move.
——Just as he promised, he is willing to fulfil all of Xia Nuo’s wishes.
In his cognition, he is definitely not a debtor, but a giver. His apology was not from his heart, but from Xia Nuo.
That’s why he was so surprised after Xia Nuo refused to accept his apology—it was like sending a gift but being rejected by the other party. He didn’t understand why the other party said to him “No.”
But it doesn’t matter, no one stipulates that the ‘gift’ can only be given out once, and he knows that Xia Nuo still wants this ‘gift’, so he chooses to change the method and hold this ‘gift’ in front of Xia Nuo again.
If Xia Nuo refused again, the man would find a more roundabout and gentler way to deliver it to him next time, unless Xia Nuo really didn’t want it.
After he figured it out, Xia Nuo even wanted to laugh a little, but he finally laughed out loud, his brows and eyes crooked, his thick eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, and there was a layer of white mist in his eyes.
The man didn’t know why, but he was involuntarily immersed in this smile, his eyes followed the boy’s shining eyes, the faint dimples on his cheeks, and the tip of his tongue faintly revealing from his snow-white teeth…all of them made him fascinated.
Maybe it’s superfluous to say anything now, the man doesn’t want to ask him why he is smiling, he just wants to kiss him fiercely, eat this smile down to the bone, and arbitrarily take it as his own, preventing others from seeing it.
——Such assumptions made him almost unable to extricate himself.
But Xia Nuo didn’t give him this chance, the words he said abruptly interrupted the man’s thoughts, he said: “I’ve thought about it——I forgive you.”
The man hadn’t come back to his senses, his mind was blank for a moment, and he was still thinking after hearing this sentence: What are you thinking about? Forgive what?
Then he slowly woke up, and with the blankness on his face, he still subconsciously raised the corners of his lips: “This is really great.”
However, he still felt a little empty in his heart, probably because the bright smile disappeared from the young man’s face after he finished speaking.
Now that the boy’s reply has been received, there is no need for those pythons outside the window to exist. The man manipulated the vines and strangled them neatly one by one. The smell of blood permeated the air, and the ground was full of python corpses and scattered scales. Then he slowly cleaned them up with the vines.
Xia Nuo had been watching all this quietly, and suddenly asked a question: “You said you couldn’t understand human feelings, but you said you liked me…is this a lie?”
