85. Chapter 5: Change of Heart
I was stunned for a moment, and then I immediately thought of Zhou Shun’s two shadows.
"Is the extra shadow that comes from you the soul of that middle-aged uncle?" I asked in confusion.
Zhou Shun nodded and said to me: Yes, it is his. Although I have the soul of my wife in my body, it is the soul of a woman after all. If I use it for a long time, I will become neither male nor female.
I looked at Zhou Shun strangely and waited for him to continue talking.
"After the death of the second courier, I guided his soul into my body. In this way, I not only have the souls of two people, but also will not become neither male nor female. Everyone understands the truth that there is gain and loss. Although I have the souls of two people, I will not become neither male nor female. But my body cannot bear the pressure of two souls at all. Now the internal organs in my body have become aging. You look like I am in my forties, but in fact I am in my thirties. By the same token, you look at me in my forties now, but in fact my internal organs are already in their 70s and 80s, so... I have no time."
After listening to Zhou Shun's words, I immediately thought of Zhou Shun's previous saying that he would not live long.
I looked at Zhou Shun in shock and opened my mouth and asked: How long can you live?
"According to the previous budget, I can live for at most one year. But today after you used the pot ash to destroy the soul of the second courier, I think I can't see the sun tomorrow."
I sat on the bed with a thump and said in shock: You...you can't live tomorrow?
After blurting out this sentence, a feeling of guilt that I had never felt before spread deep in my heart. If I hadn't scattered ash on Zhou Shun's shadow, Zhou Shun could have lasted for another year.
It’s not much in a year, but there are many things you can do.
For example, for immortality.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look up at Changsheng in the distance. Changsheng seemed to know all this, and it seemed that he knew nothing. He raised his head and opened his mouth slightly at me.
At this moment, I suddenly felt that immortality was not terrible.
Fake Lan Xiaoqi!
I gritted my teeth in my heart, wishing I could swallow the fake Lan Xiaoqi and peel it off alive.
I exposed the conspiracy of the fake Lan Xiaoqi, and she would definitely hold a grudge, so she proposed a way to burn the pot of ashes. Zhou Shun was a knot in my heart. It was not a day or two that I wanted to solve this mystery, so she was sure I would do it according to her.
If I did it, Zhou Shun would not live long, so he might think that I deliberately harmed him and might even kill me directly.
Poison! The most poisonous woman’s heart!
This fake Lan Xiaoqi is definitely not a good thing. If you meet her in the future, you will definitely not be able to bypass her easily!
Fortunately, this fake Lan Xiaoqi made a mistake.
There is an old saying that plans can never keep up with changes. The fake Lan Xiaoqi planned this plan, but he did not expect that Zhou Shun did not kill me at all. It’s just... it may have become a fact.
"The ash of a pot is made of burning yang wood from a fire, and is the most yang thing. The soul of the second courier is in my body, not in his own body. From a certain perspective, he belongs to a ghost. The ghost is contaminated with the ash of a pot, and you also apply the ash of a pot on my hands." Zhou Shun smiled bitterly at me meaningfully.
When I heard the following words, I was immediately embarrassed, and at the same time said in confusion: Brother Zhou, since you know that I have smeared the ash on your hands, why don’t you wipe it off? If you wipe it off, you will definitely not die.
"It's useless." Zhou Shun shook his head and said, "The two souls in my body are about to consume my internal organs. Although I will have one year of life, the pain I will experience in this year is even more uncomfortable than death. It can be said that life and death are worse than life and death. If you apply the ash on my hands, maybe this is fate."
"I had already changed my destiny a few years ago, and the consequences were self-evident. Destiny was determined by heaven. I didn't want to change it, and I couldn't change it..." At the end of the day, Zhou Shun's eyes were filled with melancholy.
I sighed, lit a cigarette, and deliberately changed the question: Where is the third courier? What's going on with him?
"After two days of work, the third courier found something strange, and he also proposed to resign to me. My mother-in-law advised him to continue doing it because I knew that if he resigned, he would definitely die. But he couldn't listen to my words at all and wanted to resign. What I didn't expect was that he was already crazy before he resigned." Zhou Shun took a deep breath of cigarettes, spit out smoke, paused for a while and continued: "However, I heard that he died not long after entering the mental hospital."
I know the death of the third courier Cai Shanquan, and I was still by my side when he died. Fang Xiang was there at that time, and Fang Xiang said that the cause of Cai Shanquan's death was murder. After saying this, some people had no intention of letting Cai Shanquan live.
So who is this person?
"After the death of the third courier, two couriers had died one after another in Zizhulin. Including my words, three were already dead. I didn't want to continue watching one person's life disappear, but for the sake of immortality, I could only bite the bullet and continue to recruit people." At this point, Zhou Shun's eyes burst into deep guilt: "But, the Zizhulin caused a death toll, and almost everyone living nearby knew that no one was willing to come to Zizhulin to deliver express delivery. In desperation, I had to raise my salary again and again until the fourth courier appeared."
"The fourth courier is a girl. I didn't want to recruit her because I knew that recruiting her means that the god of death had arrived by her side. But the girl was a little strange. She insisted on staying, as if she had some purpose. She insisted on staying, and I had no reason to drive her away, so she let her stay. Who knew that the girl disappeared after being done for a few days. She disappeared for no reason and disappeared without a trace."
The person Zhou Shun talked about was Lan Xiaoqi. I don’t understand why Lan Xiaoqi disappeared. The only thing I know is that Lan Xiaoqi, like me, had his soul taken away by Wu Niang, and his body was also cursed.
Zhou Shun is almost dying, and this conversation is probably the last time he chats with him.
I took a sip of cigarette and said in a depressed manner: I saw the fourth courier, and her name is Lan Xiaoqi.
"Did you see her?" Zhou Shun said with some surprise.
I nodded, and then told Zhou Shun everything that Lan Xiaoqi had asked me for.
What Lan Xiaoqi said to me is not a secret, it is just little known. In addition, Zhou Shun has no lifespan, and we have already said everything, so I am not wary of Zhou Shun.
"If you say so, only by entering the underworld can you lift the curse on the courier?" After hearing me, Zhou Shun suddenly grabbed my shoulder and asked me excitedly.
I don’t know why Zhou Shun became like this all the time, and his hand was quite strong, so it hurts me to pinch it. I nodded and said to Zhou Shun that maybe this is the only way under the current situation.
"Hahahahaha!" Seeing me nodding, Zhou Shun let go of my arm and laughed without warning.
The laughter came so suddenly that it scared me. Not only me, but also Changsheng was also scared by Zhou Shun's laughter.
Changsheng immediately stood up, ran to Zhou Shun's face, grabbed Zhou Shun's clothes with his little hands and asked worriedly: Dad, what's wrong with you?
"There is saved, there is saved! Changsheng is saved!" Zhou Shun laughed and hugged Changsheng, then took it into his arms, and continued to laugh, full of relief in his laughter.
I was a little confused and said to Zhou Shun in a low voice: Brother Zhou, what's wrong with you? Don't scare the child.
"How could my son be so scared? He has seen all the ghosts, but he is still afraid of this?" Even though he said that, Zhou Shun still restrained his smile and touched Changsheng's head with his hands indulgently, asking him to continue reading.
Changsheng ran to the desk obediently and continued to hold hundreds of thousands of people to watch.
Zhou Shun took his eyes back from Changsheng, and then looked at me again, his eyes full of smiles, completely no longer as depressed as before.
"Fortunately, I have not been on guard against you for so long and have not harmed you, otherwise I would have really been seeking death."
Zhou Shun didn't harm me, I knew it. But my words and reaction just now made me very puzzled.
I frowned and said: Brother Zhou, it’s time, just say anything if you have anything to say.
"I said before that changing the blood of Changsheng can only allow him to live for five years. This year, Changsheng is ten years old, which means Changsheng can only live to fifteen years old. Wu Niang promised me to save Changsheng, and did it." Zhou Shun paused for a moment and continued: "Replacing the blood of the sacred tree for Changsheng is just a slow-moving strategy. If you want to truly save Changsheng, you can only exchange your heart for Changsheng!"
"So heart change?!"
My eyes widened and my face was incredible. The blood exchange was difficult to understand enough. Now I still have to change my heart?
"That's right, it's just a heart change." Zhou Shun said to me seriously: "Wu Niang said that this heart is in the underworld, and only when you reach the underworld can you find this heart. After exchanging this heart for immortality, immortality can live like a normal person."
I see.
I understand why Zhou Shun was so happy after listening to what Lan Xiaoqi told me.
From beginning to end, he never worried about his comfort, and his eyes were full of immortality. Now that he knew how to save immortality, he would naturally be happy.
Before I could speak, Zhou Shun knelt in front of me with a "thump".
This made me foolish. I hurriedly went up to help Zhou Shun up and said: Brother Zhou, what are you doing? Get up quickly.
"Alang, you know what you have always been to you. I found you when you followed me the first time. The reason why I never said that I knew you were confused by the villain was that I found a way to let you enter the small foreign building. Finally, I put a bottle of fake sacred tree blood to help you get rid of the people who use you. I have never thought of harming you, so you will help me once this time?"
Zhou Shun shouted Changsheng, and Changsheng ran over immediately. Zhou Shun pointed at me and said to Changsheng: Changsheng, kneel down!
Changsheng knelt down at me without saying a word.
I naturally know that Zhou Shun said so much and did so much.
If I want to break the curse on my body, I must go to the underworld. And the heart that can save the immortal is also in the underworld. Zhou Shun wants me to save the immortal!
"Brother Zhou, do you have anything to say, okay? I should be embarrassed to kneel down." After saying that, I felt that I was not speaking enough, so I added another sentence in the back: "If you don't get up again, I will kneel down to you."
Seeing me say this, Zhou Shun then helped Changsheng stand up.
"Alang, I really have no other way." Zhou Shun touched Changsheng's head and sighed and said, "If I had a year's lifespan, I could still go there myself, but now I don't have time."
Zhou Shun's words are very obvious. I blame everything for everything. If I don't sprinkle the ash on the pot, Zhou Shun will not die. Since she won't die, she won't bother me.
This is also what I feel most guilty about. Although Zhou Shun's tone was a little blameless, I knew he was really forced to force him.
I said: Brother Zhou, I will ask you a question, and you will answer me honestly.
"Just say it, I will definitely tell you what I know." Zhou Shun replied without hesitation.
I nodded and said: Have you ever thought about harming me?
Chapter completed!