No matter from which point of view, Lin Sanjiu couldn't find a reason to believe in Li Zhijun.

First of all, Occidentus was born from "Fuxiluo", right? What did he do, would Li Zhijun not know at all? How did Occidental react when he almost wiped out the entire group?

Secondly, isn't "Li Zhijun" a comic character? What is going on with this point is also a mess... In short, how could he not know that he is actually "Fu Xiluo" before today?

After many years, he suddenly met Kurosawa Ji again, and after meeting himself again, his greatest hope turned out to be just to be a companion... No matter how I think about it, he seems to take himself too much for a fool.

However, reason, reason, common sense... All kinds of solid and reliable rebuttals, but they still can't drown out another small, clear intuition in Lin Sanjiu's heart: What Li Zhijun said is indeed the truth.

It's strange, but it's not strange.

She has seen the carelessness and disbelief on people's faces when they are illuminated by light and hope.

She has also seen the loneliness and longing when a person sinks and floats alone in the dark waves, looking at the lights on the other side... The difference is that Sibaan has been silently waiting. At this moment, he may be just like in the past, curling up his body without saying a word, enduring the torment of every heartbeat.

But Li Zhijun is tough and almost greedy: if he wants to be a companion on the boat, he will be like a hunting beast, and he will bite the neck of the prey unexpectedly, and when there is no sign of struggling to leave, he will Only then would he loosen his teeth slowly, licking the wound he bit out by himself one after another, begging it softly to stay.

Lin Sanjiu was not stupid, she didn't show her intuition at all.

"I don't believe it." She said coldly, "implanting memories... is that how you treat relatives and friends?"

"No...but I gave us a chance to be friends."

Li Zhijun sighed, and slowly slid along the locker to sit down. It looked like he really wasn't going to make a move at all; his legs stretched limply, his posture spread and loose.

Even for a person with high combat power, it is not an easy task to protect themselves in this posture.

"What choice do I have? The first time you found out that I was Fu Xiluo, you already regarded me as an enemy. With the shadow of Occidentus, no matter what I say, even if I have the opportunity to say, you Could it be that he can accept me without any grievances? When Kuizeji realized that his long-time friend was not who he thought he was at all, he...he would have done well if he didn't kill me."

He smiled wryly and scratched his hair a few times. "I don't know how to make you believe me. There is a part of me that wishes Orcius was still alive...if I fought against him, got wounded, or even lost a foot or a hand... you'll believe me, won't you?"

"To gain my trust, maybe you can start by answering questions."

Lin Sanjiu stared into his eyes and compared him from top to bottom. "You—who are you now? What's the matter with 'Li Zhijun'? You tell me from the beginning."

Even if she wanted to ask, there were too many things that confused her, and she was afraid that the more she asked, the more confused she would be.

"It's a long story."

Li Zhijun's gaze seemed to be drawn into the depths of time and space by her words, and a bit of hesitation appeared on his face. "I haven't thought about my identity as 'Fuxiluo' for a long, long time.

"I also forgot...that was how many years ago. As if overnight, my home world was ended by the doomsday, and I, like thousands of other surviving evolutionaries, was thrown into In the doomsday world. At that time, I was still Fu Xiluo."

Lin Sanjiu remembered the graphic novel in Pina's hands, and held back not to interrupt him.

"I soon discovered that I seemed to be swept up by the heavens. Whether it is the speed of evolution, or the power, quantity, or type of evolutionary ability, I am far beyond ordinary people... This is not me boasting, you I have seen the product of my ability."

"Orcius is a product of your ability?"

Lord Li—perhaps he should be called Fuxiluo—shrugged his shoulders.

"In a sense, yes. But I'll go step by step in chronological order, because it's too much to jump forward now when it comes to Orcius."

Lin Sanjiu nodded. She must always remind herself not to relax along with her; she believes that Fuxiluo is telling the truth, but before she gets the whole truth, she still has to be prepared for a war.

"I'm not the only person like me who is especially favored by the heavens for some reason, right?" Fuxiluo smiled and said, "But I can assure you that among such people, the same feelings as mine have emerged. There will be none of them."

When he said this, he turned his head to the side, avoiding Lin Sanjiu's gaze, as if he was somewhat—a bit ashamed.

"What kind of mood?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help asking.

"I remember the me at that time, in almost any post-apocalyptic world, I would not encounter any dangers and hardships. Survival soon became no longer an issue...for me, even a visa is a matter Dispensable things. But it’s very strange,” Fu Xiluo smiled lightly, “People who don’t need it are more welcomed by it.”

Lin Sanjiu was reminded of countless memories by this sentence; she silently agreed.

"Without my priorities, my life becomes... boring."

Fu Xiluo bent his legs and wrapped his arms around his knees.

From Lin Sanjiu's angle, he could see his drooping neck; it seemed to be a guarantee that if she had any doubts, she could cut it off at any time.

"Whether it is before the end or after the end, the whole life of human beings...is like a hamster in a wheel. We keep running, moving, and working on this universe...trying our best, just to be able to Stay where you are, stay where you are."

Under the slightly whitish light in the storage room, he stretched out his two palms. His hands were large, with clear and long phalanges.

Lin Sanjiu was vaguely wary of what would appear on those hands, but Fu Xiluo seemed to just want to see his empty hands many years later.

"After eating, you will be hungry again soon. Even if you sleep enough, you will still become tired. Even if you are an evolutionary, with such amazing abilities, you can't avoid any unavoidable things that you have to do as a human being. Don’t do it, do it but feel that it’s meaningless.”

He said in a vague voice: "At the beginning, I was already a very powerful evolutionary...According to the imagination of many people, I must have lived a life as I wanted. But you know that during that period of time, the last What is it that makes me feel ridiculous, unwilling, but can't get rid of it?"

Fu Xiluo himself thought it was funny, snorted, and said, "Wash the pot."

"Huh?" Lin Sanjiu was taken aback.

"As a person, I always have to eat. I use a pot to eat, whether it is heated or cooked... I have to wash it after use, because it is not always possible to find a usable pot in the doomsday world."

He seemed to sense some kind of absurdity, and smiled with crooked eyes: "Apocalypse! There is no wire ball, dish soap, tap water... yet I have to find a way to wash the pot, and I do it again and again. Sometimes food residues get squeezed into the nails, and there will be greasy residue on the pads of the fingers, which is disgusting and annoying. Sometimes it can't be washed cleanly, and the pot will be worn out as soon as you use force, so you have to find another pot.

"I also used others later. However, this has opened up a series of new troubles. Do you use your body to housekeeper? Or catch ordinary evolutionaries? How to control it? What is the best degree of injury? How to prevent him from resisting? How to prevent him from escaping? If it’s gone, I have to find another one. In the end, I found out that it’s not as fast as my own.”

Fushiro shook his head and said: "At that time, I could make people get lost in my voice, implant a memory that was beneficial to me, and collapse a building in an instant... However, the so-called evolution Ability and the doomsday world are like a layer of beautiful candy paper. Under the candy paper, there is still life as a human being—the hair needs to be washed when it is dirty, the nails need to be cut when they grow long, but the nail clippers cannot be found. After eating Need to brush teeth, do laundry, repair equipment, find shoelaces, rub dead batteries on pants, bargain, collect combustibles, heard about a good place to trade, only to find that it has long been deserted, kill A person who betrays you still has to bite the bullet and get to know the next one."

He heaved a long sigh.

"Human beings... don't seem to realize that they are enduring endless, small and tiny troubles, hard, squeezed and boring all the time. However, people who walk barefoot on an endless gravel road seem to have only Me alone."

"And then?" When Lin Sanjiu asked, he also sat down slowly.

"Once I was walking alone on the road with a pointing needle in my hand. I remember I was looking for a place... There was an urgent matter to attend to, but that was not important. Anyway, I took it and walked As I was walking, the pointer slipped and fell to the ground, just like that."

Fu Xiluo suddenly sat up straight, raised his head and laughed almost uncontrollably.

"What, I'm an evolutionary! But sometimes I can't hold things firmly. There are also fragile types of special items, and no matter how powerful they are, they can't find their destination. Because of such boring reasons, I couldn't catch them in time. Wouldn't it be ridiculous to accomplish something that I've been thinking about for a long time?"

Lin Sanjiu looked at him blankly.

I don't know why, knowing that he is the Fushiro who implanted memories in her friends and gave birth to Orcius, but she still has an impulse to hold his hand and tell him that it's okay ——People who are troubled by life must be too tired and lonely?

"I looked down at the piece pointing at the needle, and felt that the world was ridiculous. I didn't know what I was doing, and what was the point of running like this and staying where I was." Fuxiluo calmed down, and continued to narrate: "Then Shortly thereafter, a solution came to my mind."

"....any solution?"

He smiled.

"I turned myself into a body steward. The personality of this body steward is the character I saw in a comic, Li Zhijun."