Chapter 4 Strange Tale: Three Hundred Years of Solitude
According to the usual practice, Zhu Bing parked his red Santana taxi on the side of the road in Taoyuan Community, and looked at his watch. It was only 6:20, and he arrived ten minutes early.He knew the other party's habit of being punctual, so he turned on the radio in the car, listened and waited patiently.Sure enough, at 6:30, Zhou Ying walked out of a building on time.
Zhu Bing has always hoped to have his own taxi, but now he can only work for others. Zhou Ying, the owner of this taxi, hires him to drive during the day.
Zhou Ying's salary is very generous, and she never cares about car repairs, gas costs, etc., so Zhu Bing cherishes this job very much.He never played tricks with his employer on the fare like other hired drivers, and he respected Zhou Ying in his heart.
Seeing Zhou Ying coming down, Zhu Bing quickly jumped out of the car: "Brother Zhou, have you had dinner yet?"
"Yeah." Zhou Ying seldom talked, and while receiving the keys and money from Zhu Bing, he said, "You can go back and rest."
At this time, a piece of news on the radio caught Zhu Bing's attention. He frowned and said, "Brother Zhou, there is another taxi robbery murder case! This is the eleventh case! These robbers have been rampant recently, and our car has There is no anti-theft net, no, I will install one tomorrow, right?"
"Also."
Zhu Bing bid farewell to Zhou Ying, and after walking a few steps, he turned around and said, "Now there are only two people in the car at night, Brother Zhou, why don't you go out by yourself? It's too unsafe. Otherwise, I'll accompany you tonight. with you?"
"Ah..." Zhou Ying hesitated for a moment, "Are you two?"
Zhu Bing smiled wryly: "Although the robbers have guns, even two of them would be killed if they met, but having someone to accompany them can always strengthen your courage. It's not easy to do our job."
"I see. Since everyone is going out by two, I will find a friend to accompany me. You should go back and rest earlier."
"Okay, Brother Zhou, I'm leaving."
On the street at night, the neon lights and street lights complement each other, the red Santana taxi is driving slowly along the road, and the news of "robbing and killing the taxi driver" is playing again on the radio. "Ah..." Liu Di yawned a lot, leaned on the seat weakly and moaned, "Is that why you drag me out of the car with you?" "Ok." "There is something wrong with you! There are nearly 10,000 taxis in the city, but those robbers will come to you? They can't be so unlucky. I haven't slept since yesterday, please, let me go back..." "It's not because of the robbers." Zhou Ying said, "Because everyone left the night train alone." "So you're going to be like everyone else?" "..." "Please, learn to be a 'human' and don't just learn those things that follow the trend. Human beings are now paying attention to the pursuit of 'individuality'! Do you understand individuality?" "You are the only one after that kind of thing, right?" Zhou Ying looked at Liu Di's attire - long dyed golden hair, tight T-shirt, weird necklace and ring... The recent appearance of this "ground wolf" is really It's getting more outrageous every time. Liu Di sighed resignedly, and gave up resisting. Sometimes Zhou Ying's mind couldn't turn a corner at all, and he was very stubborn. It was difficult to reverse his thoughts.Liu Di began to look around, hoping that his car could pick up a young and beautiful female customer to comfort his wounded heart. A middle-aged man who is so drunk that he can't even tell his address; a man and a woman who are still kissing each other in the car, and they don't know if they are lovers; ... "Ah... I want to get off the car! I want to go home!" Liu Di finally couldn't bear it anymore. Zhou Ying gave him a blank look, thinking that he was suffering from intermittent nervous attacks, and ignored him at all, and parked the car in front of the waving guests on the side of the road. Four young people waved to stop the car, they looked at Liu Di sitting in the car through the car window, and one of them said to Zhou Ying: "Master, ask this guy to make way, there is no room for so many of us. " Zhou Ying looked at Liu Di apologetically. Liu Di retreated back, squinting and asked, "What are you looking at? You're not this kind of person, are you?" "I'll be right back to pick you up." Liu Di looked outside, at a remote road with no people and no street lights, folded his arms and said, "Okay, force me to come out to work with you, and then throw me away after using it, you are really loyal you!" Zhou Ying said apologetically, "I'll be right back." Liu Di was embarrassed by his sincere apology. He pushed open the car door and said, "Okay, okay, I'll just get out of the car, and you don't have to pick me up again. I'm going to drink with a beautiful woman. And..." He looked at the four unkind young men, and leaned into Zhou Ying's ear and said, "If this is the group of robbers, you can't eat it all by yourself, you have to leave half for me." "Go, go, go. If it's true, there is no place for you, I am not enough." Huo'er, who had been dozing on the back of the seat, opened his eyes immediately when he mentioned eating. Liu Di shrugged, got out of the car, made a "please" gesture to the four young men, stood on the side of the road and watched the red taxi drive away.He began to whistle leisurely, while thinking about which nightclub he would go to for a night. The road he was on was at the edge of the city, with newly built residential buildings on one side. The buildings with lights in twos and threes were close at hand, but they seemed to be standing far away.On the other side is a field that has been abandoned for a long time, covered with high and low wheat and weeds, the autumn night is bleak, and the half-day cold moon.Liu Di walked in casually, looked up, and realized that he hadn't seen a starry sky without neon lights for a long time. "Go live in the mountains for a few days to relax?" Liu Di suddenly had such an idea, so he thought about what food to bring, what kind of cigarettes and alcohol, which woman could take it with him, as well as unfinished TV series and unfinished TV series. After playing the game, do you want to bring the TV and computer with you... "Oh...forget it, I am more suitable to live in the city." Liu Di sighed quite self-consciously, putting his hands in his pockets Walk back and forth. A shadow suddenly came running from the distant road, jumped a few times, and disappeared into the grass.Although it was a glimpse, Liu Di could still see clearly that it was a small fox with snow-white fur and nine tails. "Well, ah." Liu Di said to himself, "This kind of goblin has never appeared in this city, and this fills in a gap. It's really gratifying." He followed the place where the nine-tailed fox disappeared. Go, want to see what happens. Nine-tailed fox's native place is the country of Qingqiu in the north of Chaoyang Valley, which is a country located in another dimension, far away from the human world.Nine-tailed foxes are very family-loving, and they seldom appear outside their hometown. Since the ancient Emperor Zhuanxu cut off the connection between the human world and other walks of life, the nine-tailed foxes are even rarer in the human world.Although there are many legends about "fox demons" since ancient times, they are all ordinary wild foxes becoming demons. The real nine-tailed fox family and even monsters rarely see their true colors. When Liu Di was young, he met a friend of his grandfather's nine-tailed fox. The old man was very kind to Liu Di, and even taught Liu Di the illusion technique himself, so Liu Di has always had a good impression of this race.He knew that the nine-tailed fox had always lived in groups as a family. This kind of goblin with a strong sense of family would never let a child run around alone. He estimated that there must be a big family somewhere nearby. "A family of nine-tailed foxes has moved in." Liu Di thought for a moment, excitedly wanting to say hello to them.
Zhou Ying had always spoken very little, let alone chatting with passengers, so there was silence in the car, and the four men didn't even talk to each other.The man sitting next to Zhou Ying smoked one after another, filling the car with smoke.Through the reflector, one can see the three men in the back row all sullen, staring at the road ahead.Their clothes are all bulging, obviously hiding a guy. "Wait a minute." When they were about to reach their destination, the man sitting in the front row suddenly said, "I won't go to 'Meifan' anymore, go to No. 72 Guimin Road." "Guimin Road..." That is the most remote street in Lixin City.Zhou Ying repeated the address he said, and turned the car around without saying anything. "Hey, the driver is very brave today. I thought the taxi wouldn't dare to go there after so many things happened." A man said suddenly, but his companions glanced at him and obediently closed his eyes. mouth. Zhou Ying sighed secretly in her heart, wouldn't she really be hit by Liu Di's crow's mouth?Could it really be them?Then they are really not ordinary unlucky people, they will take a fancy to their own car.He turned his face to look at Huo'er, Huo'er had already put his drowsiness to the wind, and was standing on the back of the chair looking at the man in the front row repeatedly, comparing his mouth from time to time, as if he was thinking about how to speak.Seeing Zhou Ying's profile, the man thought he was looking at him, and cursed: "What are you looking at! I think there are too many eyeballs!" Even Zhou Ying couldn't help rolling his eyes, and turned his gaze out of the window. After the car arrived at the destination, several men got out of the car and closed the door heavily, but there was no other action that Huo'er expected. "Hey, the fare is 49 yuan, thank you." Zhou Ying reminded them of what they had "forgotten". "You are really brave enough." The man who "praise" Zhou Ying in the car just now turned around, stared at Zhou Ying fiercely, pulled out a machete from his waist, and slapped the window hard, "Ladies, take a car!" Never give money! You are courting death!" "Ying, can we deal with it in the old way?" Huo'er, who was a little disappointed at first, regained his energy and asked eagerly.The biggest disadvantage of living in the city is that there are too few opportunities to show his skills, which often makes him feel that heroes are useless. "Sixth, don't get me wrong." The man who looked like a leader stopped the man with the knife, took out a hundred-yuan bill and stuffed it into the window, saying, "Don't look for it, get out!" After speaking, the four walked away . Zhou Ying shook the banknote, looked at Huo'er who was extremely disappointed, and asked thoughtfully, "Should this kind of person not give money?" Huo'er said angrily: "Exactly, why do you think they will give money? Why should they give money?" Zhou Ying looked at the direction in which the four people disappeared, and asked in a murmur, "What makes them prefer to pay rather than delay?"
Liu Di wandered around, but completely lost track of Nine-Tailed Fox.He scratched his head: "I'll be lost too? Could it be that the tracking skills have regressed? Forget it, as long as they are still in this city, they will meet again." He immediately chose to give up, shaking his hands and said, "Go back Find a place to drink." After walking a few steps, there were a few noises in the night wind.Liu Di raised his head vigilantly, and he smelled a faint smell of blood at the end of his nose.Liu Di bowed his body, sank into the ground, and ran towards the direction of the wind. Under the moonlight, in the wild grass, two strange animals are fighting.The huge one is a fox-like monster. It has nine tails like a nine-tailed fox and claws like a tiger, but it has nine heads. It is roaring and attacking its opponent.The one struggling and resisting under his claws was the little nine-tailed fox that Liu Di had just seen.Of course, the little fox was no match for an enemy whose stature was several times different. He was covered in scars and struggled to hold on.The big monster had no mercy for this weak opponent, swung its claws fiercely, knocked the little fox into the air, and then threw itself on it again. A hand suddenly stretched out from the ground, firmly supporting the sharp claws he slammed down on the little fox.The big monster took a few steps back, watching the hand with sharp claws slowly rising from the ground - long hair, pointed ears, fangs, black claws... "Ground wolf." "." The two big monsters looked at each other and called each other's name. Liu Di threw the little nine-tailed fox into the distance, pressed his knuckles and said to his nephew: "Want to fight? Then don't bully the little one. I'll come, I'm bored." The nephew looked at the ground wolf in front of him.In his consciousness, the ground wolf is not a powerful monster. He has always looked down on this kind of shady, sneaky and underground race.But the ground wolf in front of him was different, with his calm attitude, although he didn't try his best just now, he held his own blow very casually. "I... don't fight uncertain battles." The nine nephews laughed together, looking at Liu Di with piercing eyes. "So it only bullies the weak." Liu Di continued to provoke. The nephew was not angry, but still smiled and said, "That's my strength." "Haha..." Liu Di laughed loudly, "I like you guy, let's have a drink together?" "Another day." Nephew Yun nodded slightly to Liu Di, "We all live in this city, so we don't have to worry about not seeing each other." After speaking, he disappeared into the grass and soon disappeared. Liu Di folded his arms and watched him leave, and said to himself, "He's a troublesome guy, now he has something to do." He knew that nephew must be chasing the little nine-tailed fox.He reached out and picked out the little fox that he had hidden in the grass, and asked, "Why did he attack you?" The little nine-tailed fox looked dying, opened his eyes reluctantly, glanced at him, and closed them again. It turned out that he was injured more seriously than expected, so Liu Di hurriedly put him down to check his injuries.As soon as the little nine-tailed fox landed on the ground, it suddenly bit Liu's finger, and quickly ran into the grass and escaped. "Oh." Liu Di shook his bitten finger, "As expected of a fox, he is so cunning at such a young age." Although the nephew is similar to the fox in appearance, he is the old enemy of the fox.It seems that these two kinds of creatures appeared at the same time in this city, isn't it just a coincidence?Liu Di shook his head in confusion, licked his injured finger and thought: How did the parents of that little fox discipline the child?He treated his savior like this.When you see them, you must have a good talk with them about children's education.
Zhou Ying stopped the car and looked at the place where the four men walked in from a distance. There were a few words written on the mottled door plate - Lixin Institute of Biology. "What does the Institute of Biology do?" Huo'er asked puzzled. "Studies biology." Zhou Ying replied. "I know this too." Huo'er was very dissatisfied with his answer, and asked again, "I don't know what kind of creature Bifang is?" "In human's classification of creatures, we monsters don't exist at all." Zhou Ying answered truthfully.When he first arrived in the city, he once thought of studying biology in a human school, but he dismissed the idea after reading some biology books.He already knew most of the things in the book, but what he wanted to know was not in the book. "Could it be that we wouldn't exist if they didn't classify us?" Hearing Zhou Ying's words, Huo'er cried out angrily, "I want to classify Bifang into the highest category and human beings into the lowest category." kind!" "Humans only admit what they can explain, and what they can't explain. Even if they see, hear, or experience it, they still think it doesn't exist." Zhou Ying said thoughtfully, "But it's because of their habit. , we can live so comfortably in their society."
In this biological research institute, a middle-aged woman is silently sorting things out.She put stacks of materials into a cardboard box, and when she picked up the group photo of a family of three on the table, she finally couldn't help but shed tears.A boy about ten years old was sitting obediently next to him, with bundles of books tied with ropes. When he saw her crying, he ran over and wiped her tears with his hands: "Mom, don't cry, Xiaorui helps daddy to accompany mommy." Mom, don't cry..." The child was crying big and big, but trying to comfort his mother. "Xiao Rui!" The woman hugged her son and sobbed.The materials and books in his hands were scattered all over the place. This research institute was established by her and her husband alone, and it condensed countless painstaking efforts and sweat of the husband and wife, but today, all this has to come to an end.She hugged her son even harder, not knowing whether she was sad or confused. This woman was called Lin Qingping. On the photo in her hand, a gentle and fair man was smiling with his arms around her and their child. That was her husband Lin Hai, and the one crying in her arms was her son Lin Rui. Misfortune was always with the family, as if played by the god of misfortune.At first, Lin Qingping and Lin Hai first met in university and fell in love at first sight, but they almost broke up because Lin Hai's parents opposed "marriage with the same surname".The traditional and superstitious old rural couple could accept the marriage of their cousins, but they could not accept that their son fell in love with an unrelated person of the same surname.Lin Qingping and Lin Hai went through twists and turns before they finally became husband and wife.Soon after they got married, they devoted all they had to set up this biological research institute, hoping to develop their strengths.After more than two years of hard work, the research projects and various businesses of the institute were gradually on the right track, and their son Lin Rui was born at this time.These days are the happiest moments in the family's life.But all this is just the calm before the storm. In March this year, Lin Hai died suddenly in a car accident.With a wave of fate, all the happiness of this family was completely dumped.It was a very delicate car accident. Although Lin Hai died, he was found to be mainly responsible for the car accident and had to pay a huge amount of compensation. Lin Qingping endured the grief of losing her husband and all kinds of unreasonable accusations from her husband's family.For the compensation, she gritted her teeth and wanted to mortgage the research institute to the bank, but was surprised to find that her husband had mortgaged the research institute before his death and borrowed a large sum of money from the bank.When was the money borrowed?Where is it used again?Lin Qingping didn't know anything.But at this time, a credit company with gangster background came to the door again——Lin Hai even borrowed a large sum of money from this underground bank while taking out a mortgage from the bank. How many things does the husband still hide from himself?Lin Qingping had to think so.Why did he hide such a big thing from himself?Lin Qingping endured the pain of losing her husband, and at the same time suffered from her husband's dishonesty to her.But crying and grieving all the time didn't help.She first took out all her savings, then sold the house, and paid off the compensation; the bank loan was paid off by the research institute; but she was unable to repay the money from the underground bank, so she could only beg the other party for an extension.It's just that these people with underworld backgrounds are different from banks, and the price for obtaining an extension from them is higher interest, which Lin Qingping cannot afford.
Lin Qingping kissed her son's face, wiped away his tears, and hugged him tightly.Now her only wealth is Lin Rui, and she must face all this bravely and firmly for the sake of her son. "Boom!" The door was kicked open suddenly, and four fierce young men rushed in. Lin Qingping hurriedly protected her son and asked, "Who are you? What do you want?" "Repay the debt, you talk a lot of nonsense!" The leading man raised his foot and kicked over a chair, "I heard that you have money to pay back to the bank, but you have no money to pay back to our boss?" They were from the Black Credit Company, Lin Qingping understood immediately.She panicked and said: "I didn't pay back the money to the bank, I just mortgaged the research institute to them. Please rest assured, I will definitely find a way to return the money to you as soon as possible." "Mortgage..." The man sneered, and with a wave of his hand, he pushed a row of test tubes to the ground, and the glass test tubes shattered to the ground, scaring Lin Rui into his mother's arms.The man's eyes fell on him, and he said maliciously: "Then, it's reasonable for us to ask for a little collateral, right?" Lin Qingping protected her son with both hands: "Don't mess around!" "Don't worry, I promise to take good care of your son and don't beat or scold him. At most, if you procrastinate for too long and don't pay back the money, we will cut off one of his fingers. Little brother, do you think it's okay?" He stretched out his hand Lifting Lin Rui's chin, Lin Rui was so scared that he cried out. "Don't touch my child!" Lin Qingping screamed and slapped his hand, "I will try my best to pay back your money!" "But speaking of it..." Another young man looked at Lin Qingping, licked his lips and said shamelessly, "Although this eldest sister is a bit older, she still looks very 'delicious'. As long as you want, get money There are not many ways, do you want me to teach you little brother?" Lin Qingping picked up a stack of books and threw them at them, pulling Lin Rui up and running outside.The four men followed behind confidently, and they were not in a hurry to chase. Anyway, there was no one around here, and even a taxi could not be seen at night. Where can a woman run with her child?But when they followed to the door, they clearly saw Lin Qingping's mother and son getting into a taxi and speeding away. "It's the car we were in just now, and that kid didn't leave." "Bah!" The leading man cursed, "Do you still remember where that woman lives? Go to her house, if you don't believe her, she won't go home. Damn it! That bastard driving a car, I better not let me meet him again! "
Sitting in the car, Lin Qingping turned her head frequently in shock. After finally confirming that they hadn't followed, she calmed down and thanked Zhou Ying. "It's nothing." Zhou Ying's rescue of their mother and child was indeed out of nowhere. If it wasn't for preventing Huo'er from burning down the biological research institute that "has not classified Bifang to the highest level", he would have gone back to pick up Liu Di long ago. "Mr. Zhou..." Lin Qingping looked at him for a while, then suddenly asked, "Are you Mr. Zhou who lives upstairs?" "..." Zhou Ying looked at her. "I just moved downstairs from you the day before yesterday, and you even helped me carry the furniture." After Lin Qingping sold her original house, she rented a house in the low-rent Taoyuan Community.When she moved, because of bargaining with the moving workers, those workers dropped the last few pieces of furniture and walked away.Thanks to Mr. Zhou, who lives upstairs, for helping her lift things up.At that time, there were many neighbors who came and went, but this man was the only one who was willing to help, so Lin Qingping had a deep impression on him. "Oh..." Zhou Ying remembered.He went to help at that time because the woman had a child with her. Zhou Ying looked at Lin Rui from the mirror. Lin Rui's cheeks were flushed, and he frowned slightly, leaning on his mother's shoulder, looking drowsy. Sure enough, it was that child.Zhou Ying sighed silently and asked, "Where are you going?" "Taoyuan Community, let's go home." Lin Qingping said as she hugged her son, but found that his body was hot, "Xiao Rui, what's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?" "He seems to have a fever, should we take you to the hospital?" Zhou Ying reminded kindly. "I just have a cold. I don't need to go to the hospital. I'll just go home and get some sleep." Everyone could see that he was suppressing the pain, but this child was so well-behaved that he didn't want his mother to worry. "Go to the hospital! Let's go to the hospital!" Lin Qingping screamed. When the car arrived at the gate of the hospital, Zhou Ying confiscated Lin Qingping's money. "Neighbors should help." He watched Lin Qingping's mother and son walk away, and sighed again. "Ying, is that little guy dying soon?" Huo'er asked loudly. "Yeah." Zhou Ying nodded, "His soul has already started to dissipate, and there won't be many days." "Human beings are so pitiful. They will die immediately. They will die if they get a disease, they will die if they are hit by a car, they will die if they are burned... That's why they should be classified as the lowest class." Huo'er was still talking to each other. Biological classification is a matter of brooding. Zhou Ying watched the crowds coming and going from the hospital, sighed again, and started the car: "Let's go back and find Liu Di."
Zhou Ying drove back to the place where Liu got off the car and stopped, but Liu Di had long since disappeared.Huo'er complained: "How is it? I said he wouldn't stay here and wait for us, he's already gone, right?" "No... let's go..." Liu Di dragged his voice, with a gloomy expression, staring, sticking out his tongue, and came out of the ground with his hands drooping on his chest, screaming miserably, "Still ...I... ordered... to come..." "Pretending to be a ghost to scare monsters, you're too boring." Huo'er rolled his eyes at him. "At least pretend to be scared and coax me." Liu Di imitated the appearance of zombies in the movie, jumped over with his arms outstretched and asked, "Didn't you say you don't come to pick me up? Why are you back?" "But I said I would come to pick you up." Zhou Ying didn't know how to be flexible in this kind of thing. "Wouldn't it be a waste of time if I left?" Zhou Ying said, "I've been back anyway, it's up to you whether you go or not." "Hey...your head is still so dull." Liu Di sat on the side of the car and said, "If I hadn't seen them, I would have left. Guess what monster I saw just now?" "What is it? Is it delicious?" Huo'er was most concerned about eating. "I just saw..." The red taxi drove away slowly.In the grass by the roadside, the little nine-tailed fox stuck its head out, its eyes widened in disbelief: "Bifang? I saw a Bifang just now! How could it appear in this place?" He looked at Zhou In the direction of Ying's car, after looking around for a while, he quickly followed.
Huo'er had been sleeping on a tree in the park during the day, and only flew back when it was almost dark, preparing to accompany Zhou Ying to work. "Hi, Bifang." Huo'er looked around and saw a little snow-white nine-tailed fox lying on a human child's forgotten ball and greeting him, "Come and play with me." "Dinner delivered to your door." Huo'er narrowed his eyes, "There are still monsters in this city who won't run away after seeing me. I'm lucky today. It's a pity that they are a little small, so they may not be able to fill their stomachs." He flew over and landed on the leather ball, looked up and down the little fox, "How should I eat it? Barbecue or raw?" "Let's play." The little fox suggested recklessly, "Come and play with me for a while." "I don't play with food." Huo'er said disdainfully, "I want to eat you." "Then who are you playing with?" the little fox asked innocently. "We are all children, and children should play with children." "Who am I playing with?" Huo'er turned his head and thought for a while, it seemed that he had been playing by himself all this time, not to mention other monster children, even the big monster probably ran away when he saw him.Zhou Ying seems to have never "played" before, but Liu Di's "playing" items... "Bah, bah, I don't want to play with him." "Let's play. Let's throw the ball." The little fox rolled the ball and ran to the field.Huo'er thought for a while, and followed. "Is there still time to eat after playing? He can't run away anyway."
It wasn't until noon that Zhou Ying saw Huo'er coming back slowly, and before Zhou Ying asked him where he had been all day and night, he yelled, "I'm starving, I'm starving! Hurry up and cook for me, I'll have some more later." Go out and play." Zhou Ying helped him cook a pot of meat, he ate it all in one go, and disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye. Huo'er would sometimes go out and run around by himself, but it never happened that he didn't go home for several days like this time.And since that day, he stayed outside all day, and occasionally came back just to find something to eat, and flew away again immediately after eating.Even Zhou Ying couldn't help but start to worry. "Children will have such times when they grow up. Maybe they fall in love, or surf the Internet all night, join a gang or something, and they won't go home right away. It's useless for parents to worry." Liu Di lay on the sofa , said with a glass of wine.This made Zhou Ying feel that she really found the wrong person to discuss with. "Hey, why don't we follow him and see what he's doing?" Liu Di suggested excitedly. "No, he won't be happy if he finds out." Zhou Ying immediately rejected his crooked idea. "Then ask him. It's no use guessing here, since you won't be allowed to follow him." "Okay, I'll ask him next time." Zhou Ying answered hesitantly, picked up his coat and said, "Let's go, it's time." "Do you want me to accompany you to work? I have been with you for five full days!" Liu Di exclaimed. "But I only have one friend like you, who will accompany me if you don't?" "Please, don't stop me. I'm going to find those robbers and eat them now, or I'll go crazy." "Let's look for it tomorrow, and work first today." "Help...I don't want to go...Zhou Ying, let's break up our relationship..."
Zhou Ying hid behind the tree, watched Huo'er flying over excitedly, and hurriedly followed.Although he knew in his heart that it was not good to do so, he flatly rejected Liu Di's proposal at the time, but when he asked Huo'er where he had been these days, and Huo'er only dropped the words "go to play", he still decided to say this. I made a bad decision. Huo'er didn't seem to suspect that anyone would follow him, and hurriedly flew to an empty park.Still muttering in his mouth: "I'm sorry, I'm late." "Excuse me?" Zhou Ying opened his eyes wide.Huo'er would also say these three words to others?He looked carefully, and saw a little white nine-tailed fox standing on a swing to meet the fire: "What are we playing today?" "Go rowing." "I want to go bowling again." "Row first." "Play first." "It's decided by finger guessing." "Baggage, scissors, hammer!" "I won!" "You're too slow to come out, shameless!" "You're just cheating!" "It's obviously you!" "Ping pong pong..." Huo'er and the nine-tailed fox wrestled together, causing dust to fly.But when Zhou Ying wanted to walk over nervously, their fight had stopped, and they sat on the ground together and laughed. "Why don't we steal the chicken?" Nine-Tailed Fox suggested, "The grilled chicken was good last time. How about we eat fried chicken this time?" "I'm tired of eating chicken all the time. Why don't you catch a monster and eat it?" Huo'er suggested, "Have you seen any delicious monsters recently?" "I... still want to eat chicken." "Well, I'm not hungry anyway." Huo'er tolerantly made a concession, "But I'm going to go boating after eating." "Then go play." "And go on the swing?" "Then go play the game console..." "Then……" They ran away while planning.Zhou Ying looked at them and smiled. It turned out that Huo'er just made a friend. Huo'er and Zhou Ying have always lived together. From the mountains to the city, he has always been alone. Other monsters are just afraid when they see him, and no one dares to make friends with him.Although Zhou Ying herself was withdrawn, at least she still had Liu Di as a friend.Huo'er doesn't have any friends, he always plays alone and has fun alone.Although he usually looks very proud and looks down on other monsters, in fact, he really wants a friend and a playmate in his heart, right? This must be the nine-tailed fox that Liu was talking about. He is so courageous that he is not afraid of fire.It is precisely because he is an innocent and innocent child that he doesn't know how to be afraid, right?It seems that Huo'er has made a good friend.Seeing this, Zhou Ying secretly smiled and left quietly.
Huo'er and Little Fox sat side by side on the stone bench in the park, each holding a fried chicken and eating it.Huo'er said he wasn't hungry, but he still got rid of his own one, squinting at the little fox's one.He found that the little fox didn't eat at all, but stared blankly ahead. "You don't want to eat? Come, give it to me, don't waste it." Huo'er, who has a good saving virtue, immediately snatched his fried chicken away. The little fox didn't even argue with him, but just stared blankly ahead. "What are you looking at?" Huo'er asked vaguely while eating. In the children's area of the park, a child was playing on a slide. When he was sliding down, a woman next to him stretched her arms and nervously protected him.When he slipped down, the woman picked him up and put him on top, letting him slip again. "Mom, hehe, mom..." The child smiled happily and waved to her on the slide. "It's just two humans, what's so interesting about it." Huo'er muttered. "Huo'er, what is your mother like?" the little fox asked suddenly. "I don't know, she threw me away when I was still an egg." Huo'er continued to eat, not interested in this topic at all, "I've never seen other Bifang, I heard they all live in Kunlun boundary." "But that's your mother. You don't want to know who she is? What does she look like?" "I don't want to. It was the shadow that hatched me. I just need to know the shadow." This is the characteristic of their family. Whoever accepts the aura when hatched from the eggshell is recognized as the parent. "But how can someone else replace mom! Mom is, mom is..." The little fox exclaimed excitedly, but couldn't find the right words, "I love you more than anyone else, take care of you, teach you, and do things for you." Mom is the only one responsible for everything, why don't you care at all?" "But she didn't treat me like that, but threw me away." Huo'er didn't understand why he was so excited, "And all the movies you mentioned have been done, what do I want my mother to do?" "Really..." The little fox lowered his head, "Then we are the same now, we are both children without mother's love..." Huo'er ate the fried chicken in big mouthfuls, thinking: Mom?I don't want that kind of thing, Ying is better than "Mom".By the way, didn't he follow me just now?When did you disappear?He dropped the chicken bone and looked around.That's weird, and he disappeared without saying what he was looking for.The little fox beside me was crying big and big...
"Ying, do you know what a mother is?" Huo'er, who rarely came home, asked suddenly while eating the meal Zhou Ying cooked for him. “妈妈？”周影皱起眉，“就是母亲，生育者，雌性……”他是连性别都没有的影魅，父母对他来说只是名词而已。 “可是他不是这样说的……”火儿回忆着小狐狸的话，“不过算了，影和我一样，根本没有妈妈，所以一定也不会懂。” “火儿，你是不是想寻找自己的妈妈？”周影忧虑地问。自己果然无法取代他的亲生父母，火儿终于也开始考虑这件事了。 “我才不想要呢。”火儿奋力伸着脖子把一大块肉咽下去，“是小狐狸昨天说到妈妈的事，然后就哭了，我才想知道妈妈是什么。” 周影故意问：“小狐狸是谁？” “你昨天不是一直跟着我吗？你没看见他吗？他是我的朋友。”火儿自豪地宣布。 “……”周影尴尬地张着嘴，不知道说什么才好。原本躺在一边装睡的刘地毫不掩饰地大笑起来。 “对不起，火儿，我不是……” “嗯，饱了。”火儿一抹嘴，根本没听周影的话，丢下一句，“我出去玩儿了”就飞走了，临走之前还没忘了在狂笑的刘地头上踩上一脚。 “哈哈哈哈哈哈……”火儿的一脚也没能止住刘地的大笑，他抱着肚子在沙发上滚来滚去，笑得越来越厉害。周影难堪得站也不是，坐也不是。“你的表现，你的表现……哈哈……简直……哈哈哈哈……和人类的父母……哈哈……一模一样……哈哈哈哈……” “我只是怕他去闯祸。”周影找借口。 “反正他天天都是在闯祸，哈哈哈哈……” “别笑了。”周影终于恼羞成怒，抓过盘子丢在他头上。 刘地终于艰难地止住了笑，问道：“怎么样，他交了个什么朋友？” “狐狸，九尾狐。” “这么巧，该不是我看到过的那只吧？”刘地自言自语道。他这几天一直在寻找九尾狐的下落，却没找到它们在哪里落脚，本来还以为它们只是路过，已经离开了这座城市，没想到火儿倒先和它们扯上了关系，“它们住在这座城市里，我居然会找不到？这太奇怪了。倒是那只蠪侄一直老老实实地住在城里，除了吃过一次人以外没有什么大举动。” “你好像很关心九尾狐的事？”周影看着刘地，以前他对别的妖怪不是这么关心的。 “我欠那个种族一个人情，总想还给它们啊。”刘地承认，“喂，带我去见见火儿这个朋友行不行？” “先问问火儿吧。”周影不想再做出不尊重火儿的事了。 “好啊，我们现在就去问，好不好？” “你明知道他现在就和那只小狐狸在一起。” “我怎么知道那么多。走吧，走吧。我们去问问火儿，可不可以见见他朋友。” 周影摇摇头，他拿刘地这家伙一点儿办法都没有。
因为周影坚持过人类的生活，不到关键时刻不施用法术，所以他们不得不步行去那个公园。刘地张着双手，做出要飞的样子，站在路沿上跳着往前走。周影的视线却落在路边一个人的身上。 路上车流繁忙，林青萍呆呆地往前走，周影及时地一把把她拉了回来。一辆大货车从她刚才站着的地方驶过，司机丢了一句：“没长眼啊！” 林青萍花了好一会儿才认清眼前的人，喃喃地道：“周先生……” “你这么走路很危险啊。”刘地笑嘻嘻地插嘴道，“要小心一点儿哦。”只要是和女性有关的事，他是怎么也要插上几句的。 “小睿他，得的是白血病……”林青萍看到了认识的人，号啕大哭起来，“可怜的孩子，可怜的孩子……” 周影叹了口气，他早就知道那个孩子得了不治之症，第一次看到他就发觉他的魂魄已经开始飘散了，他的母亲终于还是知道了。 “我一定要治好他的病，就算卖血、卖器官我也要救他！”林青萍与其说是说给周影听，还不如说是在坚定自己的信心。当她振作起精神，尽量迈着平稳的步子往回走时，身后的两只妖怪同情地看着她──同情，但是无能为力，人的魂魄一旦飘散了，就连周影和刘地这样的妖怪也无能为力。不过当林青萍走远之后，周影和刘地已经把这件事放到了脑后，在人类的城市里，这样的事每天、每分钟、每一秒都在发生，如果因此而同情他们的话，就连妖怪也会受不了，妖怪也有妖怪们自己的烦恼要处理。
火儿和那只小狐狸在玩着一个简单的游戏：小狐狸蹦来蹦去地躲闪着，火儿就去抓他的尾巴。小狐狸有九条尾巴，但是火儿只有一只爪子，这样说起来好像也算公平，所以他们就乐此不疲地这么玩儿着。 刘地看了一会儿，说：“真是我看见的那只。” 周影也看着玩儿得兴高采烈的火儿。这只九尾狐是谁对他来说并不重要，重要的是火儿得到了一个好朋友。 “九尾狐应该是家教很严的啊，怎么会放任一个小孩子整天在外面玩儿？”刘地嘟囔着，“而且我根本没有发现他的家人，他的家在哪里……”
“我这几天一直会跟踪火儿和那只小九尾狐。”刘地宣布道。周影听完一下子跳了起来：“你为什么这么做？” “你听我说完就明白了。”刘地难得认真地说，“首先，没有九尾狐家庭，来到我们这里的只有那个小孩子而已……” 周影一时还不了解刘地的话意味着什么。 “火儿和小九尾狐分手，各自回家。我本来一直守在旁边，想看看九尾狐到底住在哪里。可是发现那只小九尾狐绕了个圈，竟然又悄悄地跟在火儿后面。然后，有一只蠪侄──就是我说过的那只──又跟在了那只小九尾狐后面，他们就这样一个跟一个，一直到了你家楼下。火儿回了家，九尾狐就在楼下的冬青丛里藏着，蠪侄则在远一点儿的地方。直到火儿出来了，他们就又重复一遍刚才的行为。快到公园的时候，九尾狐抢先跑到里面去，装成在等火儿的样子，而这时蠪侄已经走了。这几天以来，他们每天都是这样，甚至有几次小九尾狐跟火儿跟得不够紧，蠪侄立刻就开始攻击他，一副要置他于死地的样子。那只小狐狸倒也真机灵，好几次都在千钧一发的时候逃了过去。” “为什么是这样呢……”周影不解地自言自语，他原本以为那只小九尾狐只是某一个妖怪家庭的孩子跑出来跟火儿玩耍，就像人类的孩子相互交朋友一样。九尾狐和蠪侄是什么关系呢？他这样接近火儿，又是为了什么？ “事情不那么简单吧？”刘地明知道周影心里在想什么，偏偏要再问一次。 “他想要火儿干什么？”周影的脑子并不是一直那么单纯的，至少涉及到火儿，他的思维就会变得很敏锐。 “现在还看不出来，不过可以肯定一点，火儿现在成了那只小狐狸的护身符。没有他，小狐狸一天都活不下去。” 那只蠪侄和小九尾狐是敌人吧？周影心想。小九尾狐刻意地接近火儿，多半是想利用他对付那只蠪侄吧？周影倒不担心火儿对付不了蠪侄，只是那只小九尾狐这样费尽心机结交火儿，却是为了利用他，这种行为让他不舒服。这是火儿第一次交朋友，周影不希望他被人利用。“我要去跟那只九尾狐谈谈。”周影站起来说道，“如果可能，让他离火儿远一点儿。” “你这个样子简直像个在为子女发神经的父亲。”刘地指着他下结论。 周影才不管自己像什么呢，匆匆出门去了。 “去跟那只小狐狸谈谈，怎么谈啊？他这么笨嘴笨舌的，不会是想……喂，周影，再怎么样也别向小孩子动手啊！”刘地叫着追了上去。
周影躲在一边，等火儿离开了才走出来拦住小九尾狐。小九尾狐先东张西望一番，确定后面没有跟踪者后，才转过头警惕地看着周影。周影虽然有一肚子话要说，但真正面对着他，又不知道怎么开口。 “你就是火儿总提起那个影魅？”小九尾狐先开口问道。他前半身低伏在地上，双眼眨也不眨地盯着周影的眼睛。 周影近距离看着小九尾狐，他显得很憔悴，华丽的皮毛也缺少光彩，只有一双眼睛寒光闪闪，一点儿都不像小孩子的眼睛，那眼神中有种东西，使周影隐约觉得一股寒意。周影向他鞠了一躬，礼貌地说：“请你不要再来找火儿了，你们并不适合做朋友。” 小九尾狐后退了半步，尖声尖气地叫道：“你凭什么管我们交朋友？你又不是火儿的父母！” “如果你们只是交朋友，我当然管不着，可是现在……火儿虽然强大，但很单纯，我不希望他第一次交朋友就被骗。必要的时候，我会不惜使用武力的。”周影说完，头也不回地走了。他还想赶在火儿到家之前回去，无论如何不能让火儿发现这一切，剩下的事儿就交给刘地去办吧。 “哼！”小九尾狐看着周影的背影不服气地撇撇嘴，好不容易事情有了进展，怎么可以因为这个影魅的威胁放弃呢。他四下看看，又向火儿飞走的方向跑去。
蠪侄一直跟在小九尾狐后面，等到周影走了之后，他抓住时机追上去。但是不等他走出几步，刘地从面前的土中冒了出来：“嗨，好久不见，一起去喝一杯吧。” “地狼。” “还记得我啊，真荣幸。”刘地嬉皮笑脸地说，“又想去欺负那只小狐狸吗？” “我在这里住了一阵子，已经听说过你的大名了，这里的妖怪都很怕你，所以我不想得罪你。你找我有什么事？请直接说好了。”蠪侄不卑不亢地说道。 “那我就不拐弯抹角了。”刘地抱着手臂说，“我想请你离开这里。” "leave?" “对，离开这个城市，永远别再回来。”刘地好像一点儿都不觉得自己的要求过分。 “……”蠪侄沉默了片刻说，“行，给我三天时间。” 对方明明已经做出了让步，但刘地依然不依不饶：“就三天，三天之内不准再去找那只九尾狐，三天以后别让我再看到你，永远别再回来，不然……”他吹了声口哨，不怀好意地打量着对方。 “地狼，你应该明白我并不怕你，只是强龙不压地头蛇。我会走的，而且保证永远不再回来，但是请你不要再提其他的要求了，我已经对你表示了最大的尊重。”蠪侄说完，隐没在公园的树丛中。 “地头蛇？”刘地自言自语，“我喜欢这个称呼，也喜欢这个家伙。这么有趣的家伙却要赶他走，真是太可惜了，本来可以跟他好好玩儿玩儿的……周影啊，看看我为你做出了多大的牺牲，我真是太讲义气了。”
小九尾狐没跑出多远，又被刘地拦住了去路，他“呼呼”地叫着，盯着刘地。 “你就是火儿的'朋友'？”刘地笑眯眯地摆出一副人贩子拐带儿童时专用的温和表情，“我请你吃糖好不好？” “傻瓜。”小九尾狐不屑地白他一眼，想绕过他继续走。 刘地一把抓住他的几条尾巴，把他拽了回来，拎得和自己头部一样高：“小孩子不要拒绝长辈的好意哦。” “放开我，你要干什么？”小九尾狐四肢乱抓，气愤地叫着。 “你就别再演戏了。”刘地伸出左手捂住他的嘴，“同样的花招对我用两次可没用。”小狐狸狠狠地瞪了他一眼，把念了一半的咒文咽了回去。刘地却不放开他，看着他的眼睛。他们想互对视了一阵子，刘地才又说道：“真是的，小孩子家，那是什么表情啊。” "none of your business." “我明白，我明白，被那只蠪侄欺负的嘛。不过你放心，那只蠪侄很快就会离开这里，到时候你就安全了。” “什么？”本来一门心思想着怎么脱身的小九尾狐一下子睁大了眼睛，“你说他要离开？” “高兴吧。”刘地得意洋洋地说，“我在这个地方可也算是地头蛇呢，要赶走一两个妖怪是很简单的事。你以后可以放心地在这里住下去，也可以回青丘之国去──那里才是九尾狐的故乡，你的亲人们应该都在那里吧？如果你想继续和火儿做个玩伴，我和周影也不反对，但是小小年纪就学着对朋友耍心机可不好！”刘地的声音一下子变得很严厉，“虽然是为了自保而出此下策，但是一开始就抱着利用的心态去交朋友，你的妖品会越来越差。这样下去你长大后会变得跟我一样狡猾、恶劣了，像我这样的妖怪有一只就够了。你最好记住我的话，我这可是为你好！”说着举起手，重重地在小狐狸屁股上打了几下。 小九尾狐原本脑子里只想着“他要离开这里了”这句话，一直到刘地的手打在他身上才回过神来。“哎呀！”他叫了一声痛，气呼呼地嚷起来，“你竟然打我？” “这叫爱之深，责之切啊。你看我是多么关心你啊，乖乖，好孩子。”刘地像摸小狗一样摸摸小狐狸的头，当小狐狸一口咬过来的时候，又在他牙上弹了一下，才把他放在地上，挥挥手说，“蠪侄三天以后就会离开这里，也承诺了不再找你麻烦，你安全了。别再骗火儿，听见了没有！不然下次我还会打你屁股的。” 小九尾狐站在原地，直到刘地的身影完全消失了才挪动步子，向相反的方向跑去。
“我想要游戏机。”火儿一边吃饭一边提要求，“还有，我要带朋友回来玩儿，他喜欢吃鸡肉。” 周影又给他添上一盆肉，问道：“你很喜欢他？” “那当然，他是我的朋友。”火儿毫不犹豫地说，“我们在一起玩得很高兴。” “是吗？”周影终于还是没有开口。 “我吃饱了，我要出去玩儿了。”火儿扔下饭碗就想走。 “火儿，你想什么时候带他回来？” “什么时候都行，你要多准备些鸡肉啊。”火儿只是急着要走。 “火儿！”周影提高声音叫住了他，“你不要去了，那只九尾狐不会在那儿等你了。” “？？？”火儿头上冒出一大堆问号。 “是我不许他在那里等你的。” “什么？”火儿瞪大了眼。 “我认为你们不适合做朋友。”周影本来可以不说这些的，但是他不想欺骗火儿，或许让他知道真相才是最好的选择。 “影，你！”火儿身上的火焰一下子从明红色变成了金黄色，气呼呼地飞过来，“你说了什么？你干了什么？” “他并不想和你做朋友，有一只蠪侄在追杀他，他只是想利用你来保护自己。我并不是说他想要自保不对，只是，我无论如何也不愿意看到你被利用。” “不信！”火儿大叫一声，“我不信！” “……”周影低下了头。 “他没有必要骗我！我随时可以帮他杀一两只别的妖怪！” “如果他一开始就告诉你想让你保护他，你还会跟他成为朋友吗？” 火儿皱起眉头，努力地思索着，这些日子他一直忙着和小九尾狐玩耍，一点儿也没考虑过别的事情，现在认真地想了又想。
小九尾狐刚刚从草丛里探出头来，就看到蠪侄已经转过身来等着他了。 “那只地狼逼我答应不去找你，他一定想不到，一直以来不是我要对付你，而是你非要对付我啊。那些自以为是的家伙。” 小九尾狐发现已经无法脱身后，勇敢地摆出了攻击的姿势，愤恨地看着蠪侄。蠪侄挥动一下利爪，说道：“这次你能找上必方试图对付我，下次就能再找来别的什么。看来还是早一点儿解决你这个祸患的好，今天你就认命吧。” 小九尾狐毫不示弱地吼道：“今天我就要你给我妈妈偿命！” “又是这一句，你跟踪了我近一百年，说来说去都是这一句。我吃过的狐狸那么多，怎么知道哪只是你妈妈。”蠪侄眯起眼睛说，“你还是自己到我的肚子里一只一只地认吧。” 小九尾狐全神贯注地做好攻击准备，一百年来他跟在这只蠪侄后面，走遍了数十个空间世界，为的就是有朝一日能报仇雪恨。但是他知道自己的法术、能力比起这只蠪侄来还差得很远，所以他一直尽量避免被对方发现，耐心地等待着机会。本来直到今天为止，他从来都没打算和仇人拼命，但是看现在的情形，也只能背水一战了。 “妈妈……”小九尾狐喃喃地叫出这个词，“不是为您报仇，就是我去您身边。”
青丘之国，位于朝阳谷北面，是个四季如春，物产丰盛的地方。在这里的山林之间居住着九尾狐，由于青丘之国的居民把九尾狐视为吉祥的象征，所以这个种族在那这里有很高的地位，过着安静祥和的日子。这只小九尾狐的故乡，就在那一片有着温柔曲线的丘陵之间。 不像其他的九尾狐家庭，祖祖孙孙好几代，多的能达上百口居住在一起。他的家里只有他、母亲和外婆，但这并不妨碍这个家庭的和谐和美满。直到那个凶手突然来临之前，这只小九尾狐一直认为自己是天下最幸福的九尾狐。 他还清楚地记得那是个阳光明媚的下午，他就坐在门前不远的草地上，边晒太阳边摆弄玩具。 蠪侄是从树林中走出来的。 小九尾狐侧着头看对方，只以为那是一只比较特别的狐狸。 “别碰我的孩子！”当蠪侄将要触及小九尾狐时，他的母亲尖叫着冲过来把蠪侄撞开，之后，双方交错的法术耀花了小九尾狐的双眼。在这场战斗中，小九尾狐明白了两件事：一，蠪侄像狐狸，但是狐狸的仇敌；二，自己的幸福生活永远结束了。 袭击他们的这只蠪侄并不是很强大，他不敢去对付大的九尾狐家族而是选上了这个三口之家。也是因为这个原因，小九尾狐才有机会被自己的外婆推进密林，逃过一劫。 母亲和外婆的残骸，已经夷为平地的家，满是鲜血的草地……这一切都在小九尾狐心中留下了深刻的记忆。 小九尾狐没有听外婆的话，到有亲威关系的九尾狐家族中寻求庇护，而是选择了另一条路。 “我要报仇！”当脑海里浮出这个念头时，小九尾狐也同时想到，为了避免九尾狐们的报复，蠪侄不会在青丘之国停留太久。如果他离开了，即使自己找到帮手，但天地这么大，他不论去哪一个空间世界，都将难以寻找。所以，小九尾狐当机立断，决定跟上他。 这一跟就是近一百年。 一百年来对手并没有给他任何机会，小九尾狐不论力量还是智慧都还不是蠪侄的对手，他原本以为自己还要等上更久的时光。但当火儿出现时，他惊讶于自己的发现──一只生活在人间界的必方。他对于必方的畏惧很快就变成一种渴望——对必方那强大力量的渴望。在必方的眼中，一只蠪侄和一顿已经摆上桌子的饭菜大概没有什么区别。 他冒着被吃掉的风险接近火儿，发现自己的判断是正确的——外表强大、霸道的火儿还是个单纯的孩子，最重要的是他需要朋友，小九尾狐很顺利地便成了火儿最要好的密友。 当小九尾狐觉得时机已经成熟，准备向火儿提出帮忙的要求时，周影出现了。 “是的，我早该想到了。我是什么亲人都没有了，可是火儿有，他有一个像父亲、兄长一样关心他的人。谁的父母都不愿意看到自己的孩子被别人利用的。所以，自己的事还是要自己面对。”他看看满脸杀气的蠪侄心想。
小九尾狐满身是血，动作迟缓，但是眼睛里的寒光丝毫没有减退。蠪侄迎着这种目光，每一击都又重又狠，他急于了结这个对手──火儿赶来时，看到的就是这副情景。 蠪侄举起爪
On the street at night, the neon lights and street lights complement each other, the red Santana taxi is driving slowly along the road, and the news of "robbing and killing the taxi driver" is playing again on the radio. "Ah..." Liu Di yawned a lot, leaned on the seat weakly and moaned, "Is that why you drag me out of the car with you?" "Ok." "There is something wrong with you! There are nearly 10,000 taxis in the city, but those robbers will come to you? They can't be so unlucky. I haven't slept since yesterday, please, let me go back..." "It's not because of the robbers." Zhou Ying said, "Because everyone left the night train alone." "So you're going to be like everyone else?" "..." "Please, learn to be a 'human' and don't just learn those things that follow the trend. Human beings are now paying attention to the pursuit of 'individuality'! Do you understand individuality?" "You are the only one after that kind of thing, right?" Zhou Ying looked at Liu Di's attire - long dyed golden hair, tight T-shirt, weird necklace and ring... The recent appearance of this "ground wolf" is really It's getting more outrageous every time. Liu Di sighed resignedly, and gave up resisting. Sometimes Zhou Ying's mind couldn't turn a corner at all, and he was very stubborn. It was difficult to reverse his thoughts.Liu Di began to look around, hoping that his car could pick up a young and beautiful female customer to comfort his wounded heart. A middle-aged man who is so drunk that he can't even tell his address; a man and a woman who are still kissing each other in the car, and they don't know if they are lovers; ... "Ah... I want to get off the car! I want to go home!" Liu Di finally couldn't bear it anymore. Zhou Ying gave him a blank look, thinking that he was suffering from intermittent nervous attacks, and ignored him at all, and parked the car in front of the waving guests on the side of the road. Four young people waved to stop the car, they looked at Liu Di sitting in the car through the car window, and one of them said to Zhou Ying: "Master, ask this guy to make way, there is no room for so many of us. " Zhou Ying looked at Liu Di apologetically. Liu Di retreated back, squinting and asked, "What are you looking at? You're not this kind of person, are you?" "I'll be right back to pick you up." Liu Di looked outside, at a remote road with no people and no street lights, folded his arms and said, "Okay, force me to come out to work with you, and then throw me away after using it, you are really loyal you!" Zhou Ying said apologetically, "I'll be right back." Liu Di was embarrassed by his sincere apology. He pushed open the car door and said, "Okay, okay, I'll just get out of the car, and you don't have to pick me up again. I'm going to drink with a beautiful woman. And..." He looked at the four unkind young men, and leaned into Zhou Ying's ear and said, "If this is the group of robbers, you can't eat it all by yourself, you have to leave half for me." "Go, go, go. If it's true, there is no place for you, I am not enough." Huo'er, who had been dozing on the back of the seat, opened his eyes immediately when he mentioned eating. Liu Di shrugged, got out of the car, made a "please" gesture to the four young men, stood on the side of the road and watched the red taxi drive away.He began to whistle leisurely, while thinking about which nightclub he would go to for a night. The road he was on was at the edge of the city, with newly built residential buildings on one side. The buildings with lights in twos and threes were close at hand, but they seemed to be standing far away.On the other side is a field that has been abandoned for a long time, covered with high and low wheat and weeds, the autumn night is bleak, and the half-day cold moon.Liu Di walked in casually, looked up, and realized that he hadn't seen a starry sky without neon lights for a long time. "Go live in the mountains for a few days to relax?" Liu Di suddenly had such an idea, so he thought about what food to bring, what kind of cigarettes and alcohol, which woman could take it with him, as well as unfinished TV series and unfinished TV series. After playing the game, do you want to bring the TV and computer with you... "Oh...forget it, I am more suitable to live in the city." Liu Di sighed quite self-consciously, putting his hands in his pockets Walk back and forth. A shadow suddenly came running from the distant road, jumped a few times, and disappeared into the grass.Although it was a glimpse, Liu Di could still see clearly that it was a small fox with snow-white fur and nine tails. "Well, ah." Liu Di said to himself, "This kind of goblin has never appeared in this city, and this fills in a gap. It's really gratifying." He followed the place where the nine-tailed fox disappeared. Go, want to see what happens. Nine-tailed fox's native place is the country of Qingqiu in the north of Chaoyang Valley, which is a country located in another dimension, far away from the human world.Nine-tailed foxes are very family-loving, and they seldom appear outside their hometown. Since the ancient Emperor Zhuanxu cut off the connection between the human world and other walks of life, the nine-tailed foxes are even rarer in the human world.Although there are many legends about "fox demons" since ancient times, they are all ordinary wild foxes becoming demons. The real nine-tailed fox family and even monsters rarely see their true colors. When Liu Di was young, he met a friend of his grandfather's nine-tailed fox. The old man was very kind to Liu Di, and even taught Liu Di the illusion technique himself, so Liu Di has always had a good impression of this race.He knew that the nine-tailed fox had always lived in groups as a family. This kind of goblin with a strong sense of family would never let a child run around alone. He estimated that there must be a big family somewhere nearby. "A family of nine-tailed foxes has moved in." Liu Di thought for a moment, excitedly wanting to say hello to them.
Zhou Ying had always spoken very little, let alone chatting with passengers, so there was silence in the car, and the four men didn't even talk to each other.The man sitting next to Zhou Ying smoked one after another, filling the car with smoke.Through the reflector, one can see the three men in the back row all sullen, staring at the road ahead.Their clothes are all bulging, obviously hiding a guy. "Wait a minute." When they were about to reach their destination, the man sitting in the front row suddenly said, "I won't go to 'Meifan' anymore, go to No. 72 Guimin Road." "Guimin Road..." That is the most remote street in Lixin City.Zhou Ying repeated the address he said, and turned the car around without saying anything. "Hey, the driver is very brave today. I thought the taxi wouldn't dare to go there after so many things happened." A man said suddenly, but his companions glanced at him and obediently closed his eyes. mouth. Zhou Ying sighed secretly in her heart, wouldn't she really be hit by Liu Di's crow's mouth?Could it really be them?Then they are really not ordinary unlucky people, they will take a fancy to their own car.He turned his face to look at Huo'er, Huo'er had already put his drowsiness to the wind, and was standing on the back of the chair looking at the man in the front row repeatedly, comparing his mouth from time to time, as if he was thinking about how to speak.Seeing Zhou Ying's profile, the man thought he was looking at him, and cursed: "What are you looking at! I think there are too many eyeballs!" Even Zhou Ying couldn't help rolling his eyes, and turned his gaze out of the window. After the car arrived at the destination, several men got out of the car and closed the door heavily, but there was no other action that Huo'er expected. "Hey, the fare is 49 yuan, thank you." Zhou Ying reminded them of what they had "forgotten". "You are really brave enough." The man who "praise" Zhou Ying in the car just now turned around, stared at Zhou Ying fiercely, pulled out a machete from his waist, and slapped the window hard, "Ladies, take a car!" Never give money! You are courting death!" "Ying, can we deal with it in the old way?" Huo'er, who was a little disappointed at first, regained his energy and asked eagerly.The biggest disadvantage of living in the city is that there are too few opportunities to show his skills, which often makes him feel that heroes are useless. "Sixth, don't get me wrong." The man who looked like a leader stopped the man with the knife, took out a hundred-yuan bill and stuffed it into the window, saying, "Don't look for it, get out!" After speaking, the four walked away . Zhou Ying shook the banknote, looked at Huo'er who was extremely disappointed, and asked thoughtfully, "Should this kind of person not give money?" Huo'er said angrily: "Exactly, why do you think they will give money? Why should they give money?" Zhou Ying looked at the direction in which the four people disappeared, and asked in a murmur, "What makes them prefer to pay rather than delay?"
Liu Di wandered around, but completely lost track of Nine-Tailed Fox.He scratched his head: "I'll be lost too? Could it be that the tracking skills have regressed? Forget it, as long as they are still in this city, they will meet again." He immediately chose to give up, shaking his hands and said, "Go back Find a place to drink." After walking a few steps, there were a few noises in the night wind.Liu Di raised his head vigilantly, and he smelled a faint smell of blood at the end of his nose.Liu Di bowed his body, sank into the ground, and ran towards the direction of the wind. Under the moonlight, in the wild grass, two strange animals are fighting.The huge one is a fox-like monster. It has nine tails like a nine-tailed fox and claws like a tiger, but it has nine heads. It is roaring and attacking its opponent.The one struggling and resisting under his claws was the little nine-tailed fox that Liu Di had just seen.Of course, the little fox was no match for an enemy whose stature was several times different. He was covered in scars and struggled to hold on.The big monster had no mercy for this weak opponent, swung its claws fiercely, knocked the little fox into the air, and then threw itself on it again. A hand suddenly stretched out from the ground, firmly supporting the sharp claws he slammed down on the little fox.The big monster took a few steps back, watching the hand with sharp claws slowly rising from the ground - long hair, pointed ears, fangs, black claws... "Ground wolf." "." The two big monsters looked at each other and called each other's name. Liu Di threw the little nine-tailed fox into the distance, pressed his knuckles and said to his nephew: "Want to fight? Then don't bully the little one. I'll come, I'm bored." The nephew looked at the ground wolf in front of him.In his consciousness, the ground wolf is not a powerful monster. He has always looked down on this kind of shady, sneaky and underground race.But the ground wolf in front of him was different, with his calm attitude, although he didn't try his best just now, he held his own blow very casually. "I... don't fight uncertain battles." The nine nephews laughed together, looking at Liu Di with piercing eyes. "So it only bullies the weak." Liu Di continued to provoke. The nephew was not angry, but still smiled and said, "That's my strength." "Haha..." Liu Di laughed loudly, "I like you guy, let's have a drink together?" "Another day." Nephew Yun nodded slightly to Liu Di, "We all live in this city, so we don't have to worry about not seeing each other." After speaking, he disappeared into the grass and soon disappeared. Liu Di folded his arms and watched him leave, and said to himself, "He's a troublesome guy, now he has something to do." He knew that nephew must be chasing the little nine-tailed fox.He reached out and picked out the little fox that he had hidden in the grass, and asked, "Why did he attack you?" The little nine-tailed fox looked dying, opened his eyes reluctantly, glanced at him, and closed them again. It turned out that he was injured more seriously than expected, so Liu Di hurriedly put him down to check his injuries.As soon as the little nine-tailed fox landed on the ground, it suddenly bit Liu's finger, and quickly ran into the grass and escaped. "Oh." Liu Di shook his bitten finger, "As expected of a fox, he is so cunning at such a young age." Although the nephew is similar to the fox in appearance, he is the old enemy of the fox.It seems that these two kinds of creatures appeared at the same time in this city, isn't it just a coincidence?Liu Di shook his head in confusion, licked his injured finger and thought: How did the parents of that little fox discipline the child?He treated his savior like this.When you see them, you must have a good talk with them about children's education.
Zhou Ying stopped the car and looked at the place where the four men walked in from a distance. There were a few words written on the mottled door plate - Lixin Institute of Biology. "What does the Institute of Biology do?" Huo'er asked puzzled. "Studies biology." Zhou Ying replied. "I know this too." Huo'er was very dissatisfied with his answer, and asked again, "I don't know what kind of creature Bifang is?" "In human's classification of creatures, we monsters don't exist at all." Zhou Ying answered truthfully.When he first arrived in the city, he once thought of studying biology in a human school, but he dismissed the idea after reading some biology books.He already knew most of the things in the book, but what he wanted to know was not in the book. "Could it be that we wouldn't exist if they didn't classify us?" Hearing Zhou Ying's words, Huo'er cried out angrily, "I want to classify Bifang into the highest category and human beings into the lowest category." kind!" "Humans only admit what they can explain, and what they can't explain. Even if they see, hear, or experience it, they still think it doesn't exist." Zhou Ying said thoughtfully, "But it's because of their habit. , we can live so comfortably in their society."
In this biological research institute, a middle-aged woman is silently sorting things out.She put stacks of materials into a cardboard box, and when she picked up the group photo of a family of three on the table, she finally couldn't help but shed tears.A boy about ten years old was sitting obediently next to him, with bundles of books tied with ropes. When he saw her crying, he ran over and wiped her tears with his hands: "Mom, don't cry, Xiaorui helps daddy to accompany mommy." Mom, don't cry..." The child was crying big and big, but trying to comfort his mother. "Xiao Rui!" The woman hugged her son and sobbed.The materials and books in his hands were scattered all over the place. This research institute was established by her and her husband alone, and it condensed countless painstaking efforts and sweat of the husband and wife, but today, all this has to come to an end.She hugged her son even harder, not knowing whether she was sad or confused. This woman was called Lin Qingping. On the photo in her hand, a gentle and fair man was smiling with his arms around her and their child. That was her husband Lin Hai, and the one crying in her arms was her son Lin Rui. Misfortune was always with the family, as if played by the god of misfortune.At first, Lin Qingping and Lin Hai first met in university and fell in love at first sight, but they almost broke up because Lin Hai's parents opposed "marriage with the same surname".The traditional and superstitious old rural couple could accept the marriage of their cousins, but they could not accept that their son fell in love with an unrelated person of the same surname.Lin Qingping and Lin Hai went through twists and turns before they finally became husband and wife.Soon after they got married, they devoted all they had to set up this biological research institute, hoping to develop their strengths.After more than two years of hard work, the research projects and various businesses of the institute were gradually on the right track, and their son Lin Rui was born at this time.These days are the happiest moments in the family's life.But all this is just the calm before the storm. In March this year, Lin Hai died suddenly in a car accident.With a wave of fate, all the happiness of this family was completely dumped.It was a very delicate car accident. Although Lin Hai died, he was found to be mainly responsible for the car accident and had to pay a huge amount of compensation. Lin Qingping endured the grief of losing her husband and all kinds of unreasonable accusations from her husband's family.For the compensation, she gritted her teeth and wanted to mortgage the research institute to the bank, but was surprised to find that her husband had mortgaged the research institute before his death and borrowed a large sum of money from the bank.When was the money borrowed?Where is it used again?Lin Qingping didn't know anything.But at this time, a credit company with gangster background came to the door again——Lin Hai even borrowed a large sum of money from this underground bank while taking out a mortgage from the bank. How many things does the husband still hide from himself?Lin Qingping had to think so.Why did he hide such a big thing from himself?Lin Qingping endured the pain of losing her husband, and at the same time suffered from her husband's dishonesty to her.But crying and grieving all the time didn't help.She first took out all her savings, then sold the house, and paid off the compensation; the bank loan was paid off by the research institute; but she was unable to repay the money from the underground bank, so she could only beg the other party for an extension.It's just that these people with underworld backgrounds are different from banks, and the price for obtaining an extension from them is higher interest, which Lin Qingping cannot afford.
Lin Qingping kissed her son's face, wiped away his tears, and hugged him tightly.Now her only wealth is Lin Rui, and she must face all this bravely and firmly for the sake of her son. "Boom!" The door was kicked open suddenly, and four fierce young men rushed in. Lin Qingping hurriedly protected her son and asked, "Who are you? What do you want?" "Repay the debt, you talk a lot of nonsense!" The leading man raised his foot and kicked over a chair, "I heard that you have money to pay back to the bank, but you have no money to pay back to our boss?" They were from the Black Credit Company, Lin Qingping understood immediately.She panicked and said: "I didn't pay back the money to the bank, I just mortgaged the research institute to them. Please rest assured, I will definitely find a way to return the money to you as soon as possible." "Mortgage..." The man sneered, and with a wave of his hand, he pushed a row of test tubes to the ground, and the glass test tubes shattered to the ground, scaring Lin Rui into his mother's arms.The man's eyes fell on him, and he said maliciously: "Then, it's reasonable for us to ask for a little collateral, right?" Lin Qingping protected her son with both hands: "Don't mess around!" "Don't worry, I promise to take good care of your son and don't beat or scold him. At most, if you procrastinate for too long and don't pay back the money, we will cut off one of his fingers. Little brother, do you think it's okay?" He stretched out his hand Lifting Lin Rui's chin, Lin Rui was so scared that he cried out. "Don't touch my child!" Lin Qingping screamed and slapped his hand, "I will try my best to pay back your money!" "But speaking of it..." Another young man looked at Lin Qingping, licked his lips and said shamelessly, "Although this eldest sister is a bit older, she still looks very 'delicious'. As long as you want, get money There are not many ways, do you want me to teach you little brother?" Lin Qingping picked up a stack of books and threw them at them, pulling Lin Rui up and running outside.The four men followed behind confidently, and they were not in a hurry to chase. Anyway, there was no one around here, and even a taxi could not be seen at night. Where can a woman run with her child?But when they followed to the door, they clearly saw Lin Qingping's mother and son getting into a taxi and speeding away. "It's the car we were in just now, and that kid didn't leave." "Bah!" The leading man cursed, "Do you still remember where that woman lives? Go to her house, if you don't believe her, she won't go home. Damn it! That bastard driving a car, I better not let me meet him again! "
Sitting in the car, Lin Qingping turned her head frequently in shock. After finally confirming that they hadn't followed, she calmed down and thanked Zhou Ying. "It's nothing." Zhou Ying's rescue of their mother and child was indeed out of nowhere. If it wasn't for preventing Huo'er from burning down the biological research institute that "has not classified Bifang to the highest level", he would have gone back to pick up Liu Di long ago. "Mr. Zhou..." Lin Qingping looked at him for a while, then suddenly asked, "Are you Mr. Zhou who lives upstairs?" "..." Zhou Ying looked at her. "I just moved downstairs from you the day before yesterday, and you even helped me carry the furniture." After Lin Qingping sold her original house, she rented a house in the low-rent Taoyuan Community.When she moved, because of bargaining with the moving workers, those workers dropped the last few pieces of furniture and walked away.Thanks to Mr. Zhou, who lives upstairs, for helping her lift things up.At that time, there were many neighbors who came and went, but this man was the only one who was willing to help, so Lin Qingping had a deep impression on him. "Oh..." Zhou Ying remembered.He went to help at that time because the woman had a child with her. Zhou Ying looked at Lin Rui from the mirror. Lin Rui's cheeks were flushed, and he frowned slightly, leaning on his mother's shoulder, looking drowsy. Sure enough, it was that child.Zhou Ying sighed silently and asked, "Where are you going?" "Taoyuan Community, let's go home." Lin Qingping said as she hugged her son, but found that his body was hot, "Xiao Rui, what's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?" "He seems to have a fever, should we take you to the hospital?" Zhou Ying reminded kindly. "I just have a cold. I don't need to go to the hospital. I'll just go home and get some sleep." Everyone could see that he was suppressing the pain, but this child was so well-behaved that he didn't want his mother to worry. "Go to the hospital! Let's go to the hospital!" Lin Qingping screamed. When the car arrived at the gate of the hospital, Zhou Ying confiscated Lin Qingping's money. "Neighbors should help." He watched Lin Qingping's mother and son walk away, and sighed again. "Ying, is that little guy dying soon?" Huo'er asked loudly. "Yeah." Zhou Ying nodded, "His soul has already started to dissipate, and there won't be many days." "Human beings are so pitiful. They will die immediately. They will die if they get a disease, they will die if they are hit by a car, they will die if they are burned... That's why they should be classified as the lowest class." Huo'er was still talking to each other. Biological classification is a matter of brooding. Zhou Ying watched the crowds coming and going from the hospital, sighed again, and started the car: "Let's go back and find Liu Di."
Zhou Ying drove back to the place where Liu got off the car and stopped, but Liu Di had long since disappeared.Huo'er complained: "How is it? I said he wouldn't stay here and wait for us, he's already gone, right?" "No... let's go..." Liu Di dragged his voice, with a gloomy expression, staring, sticking out his tongue, and came out of the ground with his hands drooping on his chest, screaming miserably, "Still ...I... ordered... to come..." "Pretending to be a ghost to scare monsters, you're too boring." Huo'er rolled his eyes at him. "At least pretend to be scared and coax me." Liu Di imitated the appearance of zombies in the movie, jumped over with his arms outstretched and asked, "Didn't you say you don't come to pick me up? Why are you back?" "But I said I would come to pick you up." Zhou Ying didn't know how to be flexible in this kind of thing. "Wouldn't it be a waste of time if I left?" Zhou Ying said, "I've been back anyway, it's up to you whether you go or not." "Hey...your head is still so dull." Liu Di sat on the side of the car and said, "If I hadn't seen them, I would have left. Guess what monster I saw just now?" "What is it? Is it delicious?" Huo'er was most concerned about eating. "I just saw..." The red taxi drove away slowly.In the grass by the roadside, the little nine-tailed fox stuck its head out, its eyes widened in disbelief: "Bifang? I saw a Bifang just now! How could it appear in this place?" He looked at Zhou In the direction of Ying's car, after looking around for a while, he quickly followed.
Huo'er had been sleeping on a tree in the park during the day, and only flew back when it was almost dark, preparing to accompany Zhou Ying to work. "Hi, Bifang." Huo'er looked around and saw a little snow-white nine-tailed fox lying on a human child's forgotten ball and greeting him, "Come and play with me." "Dinner delivered to your door." Huo'er narrowed his eyes, "There are still monsters in this city who won't run away after seeing me. I'm lucky today. It's a pity that they are a little small, so they may not be able to fill their stomachs." He flew over and landed on the leather ball, looked up and down the little fox, "How should I eat it? Barbecue or raw?" "Let's play." The little fox suggested recklessly, "Come and play with me for a while." "I don't play with food." Huo'er said disdainfully, "I want to eat you." "Then who are you playing with?" the little fox asked innocently. "We are all children, and children should play with children." "Who am I playing with?" Huo'er turned his head and thought for a while, it seemed that he had been playing by himself all this time, not to mention other monster children, even the big monster probably ran away when he saw him.Zhou Ying seems to have never "played" before, but Liu Di's "playing" items... "Bah, bah, I don't want to play with him." "Let's play. Let's throw the ball." The little fox rolled the ball and ran to the field.Huo'er thought for a while, and followed. "Is there still time to eat after playing? He can't run away anyway."
It wasn't until noon that Zhou Ying saw Huo'er coming back slowly, and before Zhou Ying asked him where he had been all day and night, he yelled, "I'm starving, I'm starving! Hurry up and cook for me, I'll have some more later." Go out and play." Zhou Ying helped him cook a pot of meat, he ate it all in one go, and disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye. Huo'er would sometimes go out and run around by himself, but it never happened that he didn't go home for several days like this time.And since that day, he stayed outside all day, and occasionally came back just to find something to eat, and flew away again immediately after eating.Even Zhou Ying couldn't help but start to worry. "Children will have such times when they grow up. Maybe they fall in love, or surf the Internet all night, join a gang or something, and they won't go home right away. It's useless for parents to worry." Liu Di lay on the sofa , said with a glass of wine.This made Zhou Ying feel that she really found the wrong person to discuss with. "Hey, why don't we follow him and see what he's doing?" Liu Di suggested excitedly. "No, he won't be happy if he finds out." Zhou Ying immediately rejected his crooked idea. "Then ask him. It's no use guessing here, since you won't be allowed to follow him." "Okay, I'll ask him next time." Zhou Ying answered hesitantly, picked up his coat and said, "Let's go, it's time." "Do you want me to accompany you to work? I have been with you for five full days!" Liu Di exclaimed. "But I only have one friend like you, who will accompany me if you don't?" "Please, don't stop me. I'm going to find those robbers and eat them now, or I'll go crazy." "Let's look for it tomorrow, and work first today." "Help...I don't want to go...Zhou Ying, let's break up our relationship..."
Zhou Ying hid behind the tree, watched Huo'er flying over excitedly, and hurriedly followed.Although he knew in his heart that it was not good to do so, he flatly rejected Liu Di's proposal at the time, but when he asked Huo'er where he had been these days, and Huo'er only dropped the words "go to play", he still decided to say this. I made a bad decision. Huo'er didn't seem to suspect that anyone would follow him, and hurriedly flew to an empty park.Still muttering in his mouth: "I'm sorry, I'm late." "Excuse me?" Zhou Ying opened his eyes wide.Huo'er would also say these three words to others?He looked carefully, and saw a little white nine-tailed fox standing on a swing to meet the fire: "What are we playing today?" "Go rowing." "I want to go bowling again." "Row first." "Play first." "It's decided by finger guessing." "Baggage, scissors, hammer!" "I won!" "You're too slow to come out, shameless!" "You're just cheating!" "It's obviously you!" "Ping pong pong..." Huo'er and the nine-tailed fox wrestled together, causing dust to fly.But when Zhou Ying wanted to walk over nervously, their fight had stopped, and they sat on the ground together and laughed. "Why don't we steal the chicken?" Nine-Tailed Fox suggested, "The grilled chicken was good last time. How about we eat fried chicken this time?" "I'm tired of eating chicken all the time. Why don't you catch a monster and eat it?" Huo'er suggested, "Have you seen any delicious monsters recently?" "I... still want to eat chicken." "Well, I'm not hungry anyway." Huo'er tolerantly made a concession, "But I'm going to go boating after eating." "Then go play." "And go on the swing?" "Then go play the game console..." "Then……" They ran away while planning.Zhou Ying looked at them and smiled. It turned out that Huo'er just made a friend. Huo'er and Zhou Ying have always lived together. From the mountains to the city, he has always been alone. Other monsters are just afraid when they see him, and no one dares to make friends with him.Although Zhou Ying herself was withdrawn, at least she still had Liu Di as a friend.Huo'er doesn't have any friends, he always plays alone and has fun alone.Although he usually looks very proud and looks down on other monsters, in fact, he really wants a friend and a playmate in his heart, right? This must be the nine-tailed fox that Liu was talking about. He is so courageous that he is not afraid of fire.It is precisely because he is an innocent and innocent child that he doesn't know how to be afraid, right?It seems that Huo'er has made a good friend.Seeing this, Zhou Ying secretly smiled and left quietly.
Huo'er and Little Fox sat side by side on the stone bench in the park, each holding a fried chicken and eating it.Huo'er said he wasn't hungry, but he still got rid of his own one, squinting at the little fox's one.He found that the little fox didn't eat at all, but stared blankly ahead. "You don't want to eat? Come, give it to me, don't waste it." Huo'er, who has a good saving virtue, immediately snatched his fried chicken away. The little fox didn't even argue with him, but just stared blankly ahead. "What are you looking at?" Huo'er asked vaguely while eating. In the children's area of the park, a child was playing on a slide. When he was sliding down, a woman next to him stretched her arms and nervously protected him.When he slipped down, the woman picked him up and put him on top, letting him slip again. "Mom, hehe, mom..." The child smiled happily and waved to her on the slide. "It's just two humans, what's so interesting about it." Huo'er muttered. "Huo'er, what is your mother like?" the little fox asked suddenly. "I don't know, she threw me away when I was still an egg." Huo'er continued to eat, not interested in this topic at all, "I've never seen other Bifang, I heard they all live in Kunlun boundary." "But that's your mother. You don't want to know who she is? What does she look like?" "I don't want to. It was the shadow that hatched me. I just need to know the shadow." This is the characteristic of their family. Whoever accepts the aura when hatched from the eggshell is recognized as the parent. "But how can someone else replace mom! Mom is, mom is..." The little fox exclaimed excitedly, but couldn't find the right words, "I love you more than anyone else, take care of you, teach you, and do things for you." Mom is the only one responsible for everything, why don't you care at all?" "But she didn't treat me like that, but threw me away." Huo'er didn't understand why he was so excited, "And all the movies you mentioned have been done, what do I want my mother to do?" "Really..." The little fox lowered his head, "Then we are the same now, we are both children without mother's love..." Huo'er ate the fried chicken in big mouthfuls, thinking: Mom?I don't want that kind of thing, Ying is better than "Mom".By the way, didn't he follow me just now?When did you disappear?He dropped the chicken bone and looked around.That's weird, and he disappeared without saying what he was looking for.The little fox beside me was crying big and big...
"Ying, do you know what a mother is?" Huo'er, who rarely came home, asked suddenly while eating the meal Zhou Ying cooked for him. “妈妈？”周影皱起眉，“就是母亲，生育者，雌性……”他是连性别都没有的影魅，父母对他来说只是名词而已。 “可是他不是这样说的……”火儿回忆着小狐狸的话，“不过算了，影和我一样，根本没有妈妈，所以一定也不会懂。” “火儿，你是不是想寻找自己的妈妈？”周影忧虑地问。自己果然无法取代他的亲生父母，火儿终于也开始考虑这件事了。 “我才不想要呢。”火儿奋力伸着脖子把一大块肉咽下去，“是小狐狸昨天说到妈妈的事，然后就哭了，我才想知道妈妈是什么。” 周影故意问：“小狐狸是谁？” “你昨天不是一直跟着我吗？你没看见他吗？他是我的朋友。”火儿自豪地宣布。 “……”周影尴尬地张着嘴，不知道说什么才好。原本躺在一边装睡的刘地毫不掩饰地大笑起来。 “对不起，火儿，我不是……” “嗯，饱了。”火儿一抹嘴，根本没听周影的话，丢下一句，“我出去玩儿了”就飞走了，临走之前还没忘了在狂笑的刘地头上踩上一脚。 “哈哈哈哈哈哈……”火儿的一脚也没能止住刘地的大笑，他抱着肚子在沙发上滚来滚去，笑得越来越厉害。周影难堪得站也不是，坐也不是。“你的表现，你的表现……哈哈……简直……哈哈哈哈……和人类的父母……哈哈……一模一样……哈哈哈哈……” “我只是怕他去闯祸。”周影找借口。 “反正他天天都是在闯祸，哈哈哈哈……” “别笑了。”周影终于恼羞成怒，抓过盘子丢在他头上。 刘地终于艰难地止住了笑，问道：“怎么样，他交了个什么朋友？” “狐狸，九尾狐。” “这么巧，该不是我看到过的那只吧？”刘地自言自语道。他这几天一直在寻找九尾狐的下落，却没找到它们在哪里落脚，本来还以为它们只是路过，已经离开了这座城市，没想到火儿倒先和它们扯上了关系，“它们住在这座城市里，我居然会找不到？这太奇怪了。倒是那只蠪侄一直老老实实地住在城里，除了吃过一次人以外没有什么大举动。” “你好像很关心九尾狐的事？”周影看着刘地，以前他对别的妖怪不是这么关心的。 “我欠那个种族一个人情，总想还给它们啊。”刘地承认，“喂，带我去见见火儿这个朋友行不行？” “先问问火儿吧。”周影不想再做出不尊重火儿的事了。 “好啊，我们现在就去问，好不好？” “你明知道他现在就和那只小狐狸在一起。” “我怎么知道那么多。走吧，走吧。我们去问问火儿，可不可以见见他朋友。” 周影摇摇头，他拿刘地这家伙一点儿办法都没有。
因为周影坚持过人类的生活，不到关键时刻不施用法术，所以他们不得不步行去那个公园。刘地张着双手，做出要飞的样子，站在路沿上跳着往前走。周影的视线却落在路边一个人的身上。 路上车流繁忙，林青萍呆呆地往前走，周影及时地一把把她拉了回来。一辆大货车从她刚才站着的地方驶过，司机丢了一句：“没长眼啊！” 林青萍花了好一会儿才认清眼前的人，喃喃地道：“周先生……” “你这么走路很危险啊。”刘地笑嘻嘻地插嘴道，“要小心一点儿哦。”只要是和女性有关的事，他是怎么也要插上几句的。 “小睿他，得的是白血病……”林青萍看到了认识的人，号啕大哭起来，“可怜的孩子，可怜的孩子……” 周影叹了口气，他早就知道那个孩子得了不治之症，第一次看到他就发觉他的魂魄已经开始飘散了，他的母亲终于还是知道了。 “我一定要治好他的病，就算卖血、卖器官我也要救他！”林青萍与其说是说给周影听，还不如说是在坚定自己的信心。当她振作起精神，尽量迈着平稳的步子往回走时，身后的两只妖怪同情地看着她──同情，但是无能为力，人的魂魄一旦飘散了，就连周影和刘地这样的妖怪也无能为力。不过当林青萍走远之后，周影和刘地已经把这件事放到了脑后，在人类的城市里，这样的事每天、每分钟、每一秒都在发生，如果因此而同情他们的话，就连妖怪也会受不了，妖怪也有妖怪们自己的烦恼要处理。
火儿和那只小狐狸在玩着一个简单的游戏：小狐狸蹦来蹦去地躲闪着，火儿就去抓他的尾巴。小狐狸有九条尾巴，但是火儿只有一只爪子，这样说起来好像也算公平，所以他们就乐此不疲地这么玩儿着。 刘地看了一会儿，说：“真是我看见的那只。” 周影也看着玩儿得兴高采烈的火儿。这只九尾狐是谁对他来说并不重要，重要的是火儿得到了一个好朋友。 “九尾狐应该是家教很严的啊，怎么会放任一个小孩子整天在外面玩儿？”刘地嘟囔着，“而且我根本没有发现他的家人，他的家在哪里……”
“我这几天一直会跟踪火儿和那只小九尾狐。”刘地宣布道。周影听完一下子跳了起来：“你为什么这么做？” “你听我说完就明白了。”刘地难得认真地说，“首先，没有九尾狐家庭，来到我们这里的只有那个小孩子而已……” 周影一时还不了解刘地的话意味着什么。 “火儿和小九尾狐分手，各自回家。我本来一直守在旁边，想看看九尾狐到底住在哪里。可是发现那只小九尾狐绕了个圈，竟然又悄悄地跟在火儿后面。然后，有一只蠪侄──就是我说过的那只──又跟在了那只小九尾狐后面，他们就这样一个跟一个，一直到了你家楼下。火儿回了家，九尾狐就在楼下的冬青丛里藏着，蠪侄则在远一点儿的地方。直到火儿出来了，他们就又重复一遍刚才的行为。快到公园的时候，九尾狐抢先跑到里面去，装成在等火儿的样子，而这时蠪侄已经走了。这几天以来，他们每天都是这样，甚至有几次小九尾狐跟火儿跟得不够紧，蠪侄立刻就开始攻击他，一副要置他于死地的样子。那只小狐狸倒也真机灵，好几次都在千钧一发的时候逃了过去。” “为什么是这样呢……”周影不解地自言自语，他原本以为那只小九尾狐只是某一个妖怪家庭的孩子跑出来跟火儿玩耍，就像人类的孩子相互交朋友一样。九尾狐和蠪侄是什么关系呢？他这样接近火儿，又是为了什么？ “事情不那么简单吧？”刘地明知道周影心里在想什么，偏偏要再问一次。 “他想要火儿干什么？”周影的脑子并不是一直那么单纯的，至少涉及到火儿，他的思维就会变得很敏锐。 “现在还看不出来，不过可以肯定一点，火儿现在成了那只小狐狸的护身符。没有他，小狐狸一天都活不下去。” 那只蠪侄和小九尾狐是敌人吧？周影心想。小九尾狐刻意地接近火儿，多半是想利用他对付那只蠪侄吧？周影倒不担心火儿对付不了蠪侄，只是那只小九尾狐这样费尽心机结交火儿，却是为了利用他，这种行为让他不舒服。这是火儿第一次交朋友，周影不希望他被人利用。“我要去跟那只九尾狐谈谈。”周影站起来说道，“如果可能，让他离火儿远一点儿。” “你这个样子简直像个在为子女发神经的父亲。”刘地指着他下结论。 周影才不管自己像什么呢，匆匆出门去了。 “去跟那只小狐狸谈谈，怎么谈啊？他这么笨嘴笨舌的，不会是想……喂，周影，再怎么样也别向小孩子动手啊！”刘地叫着追了上去。
周影躲在一边，等火儿离开了才走出来拦住小九尾狐。小九尾狐先东张西望一番，确定后面没有跟踪者后，才转过头警惕地看着周影。周影虽然有一肚子话要说，但真正面对着他，又不知道怎么开口。 “你就是火儿总提起那个影魅？”小九尾狐先开口问道。他前半身低伏在地上，双眼眨也不眨地盯着周影的眼睛。 周影近距离看着小九尾狐，他显得很憔悴，华丽的皮毛也缺少光彩，只有一双眼睛寒光闪闪，一点儿都不像小孩子的眼睛，那眼神中有种东西，使周影隐约觉得一股寒意。周影向他鞠了一躬，礼貌地说：“请你不要再来找火儿了，你们并不适合做朋友。” 小九尾狐后退了半步，尖声尖气地叫道：“你凭什么管我们交朋友？你又不是火儿的父母！” “如果你们只是交朋友，我当然管不着，可是现在……火儿虽然强大，但很单纯，我不希望他第一次交朋友就被骗。必要的时候，我会不惜使用武力的。”周影说完，头也不回地走了。他还想赶在火儿到家之前回去，无论如何不能让火儿发现这一切，剩下的事儿就交给刘地去办吧。 “哼！”小九尾狐看着周影的背影不服气地撇撇嘴，好不容易事情有了进展，怎么可以因为这个影魅的威胁放弃呢。他四下看看，又向火儿飞走的方向跑去。
蠪侄一直跟在小九尾狐后面，等到周影走了之后，他抓住时机追上去。但是不等他走出几步，刘地从面前的土中冒了出来：“嗨，好久不见，一起去喝一杯吧。” “地狼。” “还记得我啊，真荣幸。”刘地嬉皮笑脸地说，“又想去欺负那只小狐狸吗？” “我在这里住了一阵子，已经听说过你的大名了，这里的妖怪都很怕你，所以我不想得罪你。你找我有什么事？请直接说好了。”蠪侄不卑不亢地说道。 “那我就不拐弯抹角了。”刘地抱着手臂说，“我想请你离开这里。” "leave?" “对，离开这个城市，永远别再回来。”刘地好像一点儿都不觉得自己的要求过分。 “……”蠪侄沉默了片刻说，“行，给我三天时间。” 对方明明已经做出了让步，但刘地依然不依不饶：“就三天，三天之内不准再去找那只九尾狐，三天以后别让我再看到你，永远别再回来，不然……”他吹了声口哨，不怀好意地打量着对方。 “地狼，你应该明白我并不怕你，只是强龙不压地头蛇。我会走的，而且保证永远不再回来，但是请你不要再提其他的要求了，我已经对你表示了最大的尊重。”蠪侄说完，隐没在公园的树丛中。 “地头蛇？”刘地自言自语，“我喜欢这个称呼，也喜欢这个家伙。这么有趣的家伙却要赶他走，真是太可惜了，本来可以跟他好好玩儿玩儿的……周影啊，看看我为你做出了多大的牺牲，我真是太讲义气了。”
小九尾狐没跑出多远，又被刘地拦住了去路，他“呼呼”地叫着，盯着刘地。 “你就是火儿的'朋友'？”刘地笑眯眯地摆出一副人贩子拐带儿童时专用的温和表情，“我请你吃糖好不好？” “傻瓜。”小九尾狐不屑地白他一眼，想绕过他继续走。 刘地一把抓住他的几条尾巴，把他拽了回来，拎得和自己头部一样高：“小孩子不要拒绝长辈的好意哦。” “放开我，你要干什么？”小九尾狐四肢乱抓，气愤地叫着。 “你就别再演戏了。”刘地伸出左手捂住他的嘴，“同样的花招对我用两次可没用。”小狐狸狠狠地瞪了他一眼，把念了一半的咒文咽了回去。刘地却不放开他，看着他的眼睛。他们想互对视了一阵子，刘地才又说道：“真是的，小孩子家，那是什么表情啊。” "none of your business." “我明白，我明白，被那只蠪侄欺负的嘛。不过你放心，那只蠪侄很快就会离开这里，到时候你就安全了。” “什么？”本来一门心思想着怎么脱身的小九尾狐一下子睁大了眼睛，“你说他要离开？” “高兴吧。”刘地得意洋洋地说，“我在这个地方可也算是地头蛇呢，要赶走一两个妖怪是很简单的事。你以后可以放心地在这里住下去，也可以回青丘之国去──那里才是九尾狐的故乡，你的亲人们应该都在那里吧？如果你想继续和火儿做个玩伴，我和周影也不反对，但是小小年纪就学着对朋友耍心机可不好！”刘地的声音一下子变得很严厉，“虽然是为了自保而出此下策，但是一开始就抱着利用的心态去交朋友，你的妖品会越来越差。这样下去你长大后会变得跟我一样狡猾、恶劣了，像我这样的妖怪有一只就够了。你最好记住我的话，我这可是为你好！”说着举起手，重重地在小狐狸屁股上打了几下。 小九尾狐原本脑子里只想着“他要离开这里了”这句话，一直到刘地的手打在他身上才回过神来。“哎呀！”他叫了一声痛，气呼呼地嚷起来，“你竟然打我？” “这叫爱之深，责之切啊。你看我是多么关心你啊，乖乖，好孩子。”刘地像摸小狗一样摸摸小狐狸的头，当小狐狸一口咬过来的时候，又在他牙上弹了一下，才把他放在地上，挥挥手说，“蠪侄三天以后就会离开这里，也承诺了不再找你麻烦，你安全了。别再骗火儿，听见了没有！不然下次我还会打你屁股的。” 小九尾狐站在原地，直到刘地的身影完全消失了才挪动步子，向相反的方向跑去。
“我想要游戏机。”火儿一边吃饭一边提要求，“还有，我要带朋友回来玩儿，他喜欢吃鸡肉。” 周影又给他添上一盆肉，问道：“你很喜欢他？” “那当然，他是我的朋友。”火儿毫不犹豫地说，“我们在一起玩得很高兴。” “是吗？”周影终于还是没有开口。 “我吃饱了，我要出去玩儿了。”火儿扔下饭碗就想走。 “火儿，你想什么时候带他回来？” “什么时候都行，你要多准备些鸡肉啊。”火儿只是急着要走。 “火儿！”周影提高声音叫住了他，“你不要去了，那只九尾狐不会在那儿等你了。” “？？？”火儿头上冒出一大堆问号。 “是我不许他在那里等你的。” “什么？”火儿瞪大了眼。 “我认为你们不适合做朋友。”周影本来可以不说这些的，但是他不想欺骗火儿，或许让他知道真相才是最好的选择。 “影，你！”火儿身上的火焰一下子从明红色变成了金黄色，气呼呼地飞过来，“你说了什么？你干了什么？” “他并不想和你做朋友，有一只蠪侄在追杀他，他只是想利用你来保护自己。我并不是说他想要自保不对，只是，我无论如何也不愿意看到你被利用。” “不信！”火儿大叫一声，“我不信！” “……”周影低下了头。 “他没有必要骗我！我随时可以帮他杀一两只别的妖怪！” “如果他一开始就告诉你想让你保护他，你还会跟他成为朋友吗？” 火儿皱起眉头，努力地思索着，这些日子他一直忙着和小九尾狐玩耍，一点儿也没考虑过别的事情，现在认真地想了又想。
小九尾狐刚刚从草丛里探出头来，就看到蠪侄已经转过身来等着他了。 “那只地狼逼我答应不去找你，他一定想不到，一直以来不是我要对付你，而是你非要对付我啊。那些自以为是的家伙。” 小九尾狐发现已经无法脱身后，勇敢地摆出了攻击的姿势，愤恨地看着蠪侄。蠪侄挥动一下利爪，说道：“这次你能找上必方试图对付我，下次就能再找来别的什么。看来还是早一点儿解决你这个祸患的好，今天你就认命吧。” 小九尾狐毫不示弱地吼道：“今天我就要你给我妈妈偿命！” “又是这一句，你跟踪了我近一百年，说来说去都是这一句。我吃过的狐狸那么多，怎么知道哪只是你妈妈。”蠪侄眯起眼睛说，“你还是自己到我的肚子里一只一只地认吧。” 小九尾狐全神贯注地做好攻击准备，一百年来他跟在这只蠪侄后面，走遍了数十个空间世界，为的就是有朝一日能报仇雪恨。但是他知道自己的法术、能力比起这只蠪侄来还差得很远，所以他一直尽量避免被对方发现，耐心地等待着机会。本来直到今天为止，他从来都没打算和仇人拼命，但是看现在的情形，也只能背水一战了。 “妈妈……”小九尾狐喃喃地叫出这个词，“不是为您报仇，就是我去您身边。”
青丘之国，位于朝阳谷北面，是个四季如春，物产丰盛的地方。在这里的山林之间居住着九尾狐，由于青丘之国的居民把九尾狐视为吉祥的象征，所以这个种族在那这里有很高的地位，过着安静祥和的日子。这只小九尾狐的故乡，就在那一片有着温柔曲线的丘陵之间。 不像其他的九尾狐家庭，祖祖孙孙好几代，多的能达上百口居住在一起。他的家里只有他、母亲和外婆，但这并不妨碍这个家庭的和谐和美满。直到那个凶手突然来临之前，这只小九尾狐一直认为自己是天下最幸福的九尾狐。 他还清楚地记得那是个阳光明媚的下午，他就坐在门前不远的草地上，边晒太阳边摆弄玩具。 蠪侄是从树林中走出来的。 小九尾狐侧着头看对方，只以为那是一只比较特别的狐狸。 “别碰我的孩子！”当蠪侄将要触及小九尾狐时，他的母亲尖叫着冲过来把蠪侄撞开，之后，双方交错的法术耀花了小九尾狐的双眼。在这场战斗中，小九尾狐明白了两件事：一，蠪侄像狐狸，但是狐狸的仇敌；二，自己的幸福生活永远结束了。 袭击他们的这只蠪侄并不是很强大，他不敢去对付大的九尾狐家族而是选上了这个三口之家。也是因为这个原因，小九尾狐才有机会被自己的外婆推进密林，逃过一劫。 母亲和外婆的残骸，已经夷为平地的家，满是鲜血的草地……这一切都在小九尾狐心中留下了深刻的记忆。 小九尾狐没有听外婆的话，到有亲威关系的九尾狐家族中寻求庇护，而是选择了另一条路。 “我要报仇！”当脑海里浮出这个念头时，小九尾狐也同时想到，为了避免九尾狐们的报复，蠪侄不会在青丘之国停留太久。如果他离开了，即使自己找到帮手，但天地这么大，他不论去哪一个空间世界，都将难以寻找。所以，小九尾狐当机立断，决定跟上他。 这一跟就是近一百年。 一百年来对手并没有给他任何机会，小九尾狐不论力量还是智慧都还不是蠪侄的对手，他原本以为自己还要等上更久的时光。但当火儿出现时，他惊讶于自己的发现──一只生活在人间界的必方。他对于必方的畏惧很快就变成一种渴望——对必方那强大力量的渴望。在必方的眼中，一只蠪侄和一顿已经摆上桌子的饭菜大概没有什么区别。 他冒着被吃掉的风险接近火儿，发现自己的判断是正确的——外表强大、霸道的火儿还是个单纯的孩子，最重要的是他需要朋友，小九尾狐很顺利地便成了火儿最要好的密友。 当小九尾狐觉得时机已经成熟，准备向火儿提出帮忙的要求时，周影出现了。 “是的，我早该想到了。我是什么亲人都没有了，可是火儿有，他有一个像父亲、兄长一样关心他的人。谁的父母都不愿意看到自己的孩子被别人利用的。所以，自己的事还是要自己面对。”他看看满脸杀气的蠪侄心想。
小九尾狐满身是血，动作迟缓，但是眼睛里的寒光丝毫没有减退。蠪侄迎着这种目光，每一击都又重又狠，他急于了结这个对手──火儿赶来时，看到的就是这副情景。 蠪侄举起爪