The First Gospel Chapter 57: Double Vision
"Gu Yun, I need to talk to you."
Wang Lu randomly found a flower bed opposite the school, sat down and lit a cigarette. In fact, he had this idea after the last time they worked together to deal with the ghoul.
He finally understood Gu Yun recently.
In addition to the obvious characteristic of being a good fighter, he found that Gu Yun was not a bad person, and was even a kind-hearted person, but he was very straightforward and would say whatever he thought or saw directly to his face without any concealment.
"You can't just go and tell someone to their face because you saw something."
Wang Lu himself was also deeply affected by this.
When they met for the first time, he said that An Ling was in danger. Before he could react, Gu Yun went directly to An Ling and sold him out. He had to explain in the security room for the whole afternoon. It was not until the evening that the security guard reluctantly believed that he was not a pervert who intended to follow An Ling and let him go.
"If you don't tell them to their faces, how will they know?"
Gu Yun asked back.
Being treated as a psychopath was commonplace for Gu Yun, but he felt that the real fools were those people - not only were they completely unaware of the dangers around them, but they also did not know how to be prepared for danger and take precautions in advance.
"You can't say that, and you can't save people like that."
Wang Lu blew out a puff of smoke. "Come, let me tell you a true story. When I realized how different I was, I wanted to be a hero who saved the dying and healed the wounded, just like you..."
The story Wang Lu told happened more than 20 years ago, when people still lived in bungalows and the Internet era had not yet arrived. In their spare time, people would go out of their houses and gather in the yard to play chess and brag. Neighborhood relations were much closer than they are now, and basically everyone in the yard knew each other.
There was an old man in the compound who was very good at playing chess. When Wang Lu had nothing to do, he would go and pester him to learn how to play chess .
The old man was a good man. Not only did he teach Wang Lu everything he knew, but when he got tired of playing chess, he would invite Wang Lu to his home for a meal.
"But one night, I found out that the old man was dying."
As he spoke, Wang Lu looked up at the night sky. It was the first time he saw the existence of black energy. "That day when I was learning chess, the old man was followed by a white-faced woman I had never seen before. I didn't think much of it at the time, thinking she was the old man's relative. But later, the old man went home and locked the door, but the white-faced woman went straight in through the door."
" and after?"
Gu Yun was quite interested in the topic of evil spirits.
Later, of course, he became furious and smashed the evil spirit to pieces with one punch and started on the path of an evil spirit hunter from then on.
Of course, these are plots that only exist in Wang Lu's fantasy.
"In fact, I knocked on the door and told the old man what happened to him."
The old man smiled at him kindly and didn't take it seriously. "But I made a lot of noise in his house, and finally probably irritated him, so he called my mother over. My mother didn't say a word, she dragged me home by my ears, and locked me in the room all night. The next day, the old man really died at home."
"died?"
Gu Yun was a little surprised. He thought Wang Lu was talking about the glorious deeds of him subduing evil spirits with his bare hands.
"Dead. At that time, I thought, now they will believe what I said is true, right? I didn't believe it, so I told others about it. But they not only believed that the old man died suddenly at home due to a heart attack, but also thought that I was mentally ill. From that day on, people in the compound stayed away from me. When I went home from school, people often pointed fingers at me. Later, my parents couldn't stand the pressure and moved away soon after."
Wang Lu didn't take the criticisms of others to heart, but there was one thing that bothered him all the time: "My mother didn't believe what I said until the end."
To this day, twenty years later, people still firmly believe that the old man died of a sudden heart attack.
In Gu Yun, Wang Lu vaguely saw his former self - Gu Yun had a younger sister, and had never believed in the existence of supernatural events in this world.
"The main reason may be that you are too weak."
Gu Yun put himself in his shoes and thought about it. If it were him, the old man would not die, because the moment the white-faced ghost tried to sneak into the old man's house, she would have been a corpse.
"That's true, but not everyone is as strong as you, like someone from another planet."
Wang Lu spoke in the same Gu Yun style as always, but this time, he did not yell at the other party. "Because I am weak, I encountered similar incidents several times later, and the results were almost the same. So I realized that this is a thankless job."
His purpose was to save people, but he didn't get any thanks in return. Instead, he was treated as a madman.
Sometimes when lying in bed, Wang Lu would think maliciously: when those people are about to die, will they regret pushing themselves out the door?
But he was destined to never get an answer.
"Gu Yun, actually, being an ordinary person is not that complicated. On the contrary, it is quite simple." Wang Lu paused and continued, "You just need to say nothing, do nothing, and just pretend nothing happened when you saw the evil spirit. In this way, people will naturally believe that you are an ordinary person until they die."
After understanding this truth, no one regarded Wang Lu as a madman anymore. Instead, most of his friends thought he was a good person.
Anyway, people die every day in this world. He is just an ordinary person, and becoming a hero is just an unrealistic fantasy of his youth.
"No, I'm not going to fight evil spirits just to make them thank me."
"Gu Yun, you are really a... fool."
Wang Lu put out his cigarette.
However, it was precisely because Gu Yun was hopelessly stupid that this old man, who was almost a generation older than him, felt ashamed.
He ignores their slander and will not be shaken by his family's misunderstanding. At the same time, he possesses the power to fight against evil.
Looking at Gu Yun, Wang Lu felt as if he saw a self that existed only in his ideal.
"So, coordinating with ordinary people is totally not suitable for people like you. Since you don't like it, let me do it, and you just need to do what you are good at." Wang Lu took a deep breath, "Although I am not very good at fighting, I know how to deal with people."
"I don't care."
Gu Yun nodded. He didn't like dealing with other people in the first place. The only thing he could talk about was the battle with evil spirits.
"Okay, for future commissions, just stay aside and say nothing."
Of course, Wang Lu would never know Gu Yun’s true thoughts.
It is not for the purpose of saving people, nor is there any intention of helping the world.
To protect his sister's safety, nipping all threats in the bud is just one of the reasons.
Another reason is that Gu Yun likes the tense and exciting feeling of fighting.
But in this world...
Beating people is illegal.
It is not illegal to fight evil spirits.
