But at this moment, there was a knock on the door of the study room called "dong dong dong...".

Ren Jie's expression froze. Besides himself and Yi Chuan, who else could be here?

After the knock on the door, there was a loud bang, the door to the study was deformed, the door handle shook rapidly, and the dark evil energy seeped in through the cracks in the door.

Hearing the "squeak, squeak, squeak" sound of the terrain changing, Ren Jie's scalp went numb, the whole study room was shaking, and books on the bookshelf kept falling.

The experimental instruments on the desk were also shaken here and there, as if there was an earthquake here.

"Grandpa Yi..."

Yi Chuan was seen looking at the door, a cold look flashed in his eyes, and he raised his hand to point at the door.

"Hmph~ I snatched his prey, so are you getting anxious?"

With a "boom", the deformed door was forced back, and the vibrations in the study gradually faded away, except that it was a mess.

"Sorry, I scared you...so should I call you Ren Jie, or Third Demon?"

Ren Jie's face froze, and he looked at Yi Chuan helplessly: "Sure enough... nothing can be hidden from Grandpa Yi..."

This is his memory palace, and Ren Jie's consciousness is pulled in. As long as he wants to, Ren Jie will not have any secrets.

At this moment, Yi Chuan looked at Ren Jie with eyes filled with admiration, but more importantly, he felt distressed...

"I'm sorry...I checked your memory. Everyone says that a hero comes from a boy...but we don't know what kind of hardships a boy must go through before he can become a hero in the eyes of others..."

"In just a dozen years, the life and death you have experienced is equivalent to the journey that ordinary people travel in a lifetime."

"Do you want to keep walking?"

Ren Jie smiled lonely, spread his hands and said: "You know, from the moment I decided to start, I couldn't stop..."

Yichuan put down his work and stared deeply at Ren Jie. When he first met Ren Jie, he had no such plan...

But now, he wants to do this...

I saw Yi Chuan looking at the door and smiling kindly:

"There is still some time, would you like to listen to me, an old man, tell some stories that may be a bit cliché?"

Ren Jie was startled and couldn't help clenching his fists. He thought of Gua Gua, the folding fan, the inkstone, and even Ye He...

He knows what this means...

Agreeing may mean taking on a responsibility and a promise that must be fulfilled.

Ren Jie instinctively wanted to refuse...

But looking at Yi Chuan's gray hair, the hope in his eyes, and the beautiful sea of ​​flowers he saw when he first arrived in the Pure Land...

Ren Jie still relented.

I saw him bowing deeply to the puppet master:

"Junior... I would like to hear the details..."

Yi Chuan smiled: "Thank you..."

He raised his head and looked at the bookshelf, and picked out a yellowed and worn-out notebook from the vast sea of ​​books, just like a dusty memory, stained with dust...

The two of them sat on the floor around the oil lamp. Yi Chuan's eyes were full of nostalgia...

He raised his hand to open the title page of his memory, and endless light and shadow rushed out of the notes, just like old film. It... was the old time that belonged exclusively to the puppet master.

In the picture, two children, a boy and a girl, were holding hands on the grass on the hillside, running wildly, laughing happily, until they reached the top of the mountain.

The biting mountain wind blew away the little boy's hat and messed up the little girl's hair.

I saw the girl holding the panting boy, her big eyes full of sparkle.

"Brother Xiaochuan, Xiaokui will be your bride when she grows up. She is not allowed to like anyone else, but she can only like me. We have agreed."

The girl was very tall, half a head taller than the boy. Looking at her, the boy's face was redder than a ripe apple with embarrassment.

"Then...it's settled, we pull the hook and hang ourselves, and we won't change it for a hundred years!"

The little fingers of the two people hooked together, and the girl pouted: "One hundred years is not enough, it takes a thousand years, ten thousand years, and it is not allowed to change forever!"

"Hahahaha, that's too long, isn't it?"

"I don't care, oh~ just say it quickly, say it quickly~"

"Okay, okay, I said~ When I grow up, I want to marry you as my bride, Lagou, and you are not allowed to change for the rest of my life..."

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Looking at the scenes in the light and shadow, Ren Jie's heart felt worse than a knife cutting him. He clenched his fists silently and his eyes turned red...

He knew very well that the girl in that picture... was the Iron Bride guarding the tomb...

Yi Chuan looked at everything in the picture with a smile, his eyes full of hazyness: "Her name is Xia Kui, my neighbor. We are the same age. I have been skinny since I was a child. I prefer to study voluntarily, so I am always the one who gets bullied.

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"Xiao Kui is very tall and older than other children of the same age. Every time I am bullied, she is always the first to stand up and protect me. She is my childhood sweetheart."

"The two of us had a great time, so when we were young we made a promise on the hillside that when we grew up, we would marry her to be my bride..."

As I flipped through the pages of the notebook, time flew by like a film, never to be looked back.

"We went to the same elementary school, junior high school, high school, and even university. Wherever I am, there must be Xia Kui. We are inseparable..."

"When I was in high school, I accidentally opened the genetic lock, awakened the ability of the puppet master, and became a genetic warrior. This made Xiaokui very worried."

"After all, genetic warriors and ordinary people may face two completely different life paths. She is afraid that after I become stronger, I will have less and less interaction with her, and eventually I will not want her..."

"But in fact, my talent is not very good. How could I not want her? She is the only treasure in my heart..."

"We got into trouble because of this and even had a big fight. During that time, Xia Kui was never very happy..."

"Until one night, she came to me excitedly and told me that she had made a contract with the Honkai Demon Spirit and became a Demon Contractor. We can walk together in the future."

Having said this, a helpless smile appeared on Yi Chuan's face:

"This silly girl, she doesn't know what it means to be a devil. She has to endure endless eye rolls, abuse, and even malice and disgust from strangers..."

"But she knew that only in this way could she continue to be with her, just like she was when she was a child, inseparable..."

"I was so angry that I beat her head a dozen times, but she just held her head and stuck out her tongue at me, laughing..."

"How can I still be angry? Even if she is a contracted demon spirit, she doesn't want to be left behind by me. I love her even more. I swear silently in my heart to protect her wholeheartedly and give her the future she wants..."

Ren Jie looked at the picture in the light and shadow, his nose was slightly sore, demons are always like this, breaking into your life when you need strength the most.

It can fulfill your wishes, but it may also destroy your life inadvertently...

Yi Chuan looked at the smiling girl in the light and shadow, his eyes full of memories.
Chapter completed!