Volume 1 Poppy Flowers Chapter 2: Legend of the Suzaku Curse
Only after confirming that the other party had really disappeared did the young man named Mo Yi breathe a sigh of relief, and the emerald green sword disappeared from his hand again as if by magic.
"Do you still think that everything you see now is a dream?" He turned around and said this to Ying Lili with an expressionless face.
This sentence hit the nail on the head, breaking Ying Lili's previous self-deception. She fell silent, her eyes fell on the back of the other's hand again. The mark of the Vermillion Bird glaringly reminded her of some facts that she was unwilling to face.
She didn't want to live in that endless nightmare forever, nor did she want to be entangled in things that she couldn't understand, so she felt that she must know the so-called truth.
Thinking of this, she looked up and stared into the other person's dark eyes, and said word by word: "Then please tell me the whole truth. I want to know why I have been having that strange dream since I can remember, and why the person in the dream appeared in reality, and why he wanted to kill me. Also, who are you? Why do you want to help me?"
"You heard it just now. My name is Mo Yi. You and I, including him, are not ordinary people. Perhaps it should be said that we are not people who belong to this world."
This young man named Mo Yi has a pair of deep eyes that do not match his young face, as if he has experienced countless vicissitudes of life, but this is not what a young man of this age should have.
And what he said made Ping Lili feel a little bit unbelievable. She widened her eyes, and her brain was unable to digest such a shocking statement for a while.
"You should also have the same Suzaku mark on the back of my hand, right? This is actually the mark that we are cursed."
The story told by the young man sounded like a fairy tale to Ping Lili.
"Nayu, we are all from the Nayu tribe. According to legend, this tribe is protected by the God of Mohe River, so all the tribe members are gifted and have some extraordinary abilities. Therefore, the Nayu tribe is very warlike and kills people everywhere. Later, in order to compete for the hegemony of the virtual world, they slaughtered the Shamo City separated by a river, which finally angered their great wizard. The wizard knew that the Nayu tribe had a fatal weakness, which was that the population was not prosperous, so the other party adopted the method of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and cursed the young people of the Nayu tribe to not live beyond the age of 18. If you want to continue to live, you can only kill your own people. For every one you kill, you can live one year longer."
"How can there be such a perverted curse! It's too cruel..." Ping Lili shook her head in disgust and exclaimed.
"That person said that this is retribution for us Nayu people. We killed people everywhere in order to fight for the hegemony of the virtual world. Our sins are too deep, so we must live in this kind of self-killing for generations to repent for our previous sins."
He paused, but there didn't seem to be much resentment in his tone.
"This curse will accompany us for generations, and once the cursed person is killed, he can no longer be reincarnated into the Netherworld, but can only fall into the present world, which is the time and space we are in now. No matter how many times the curse is reincarnated, it will not disappear. If the cursed person does not kill his companions, he will never live past the age of 18, but if he kills 49 of them, he will gain eternal life... immortality ..."
When he heard about eternal life and immortality, a trace of doubt appeared on his face. Is this a curse or a blessing? Isn't eternal life something that everyone in the world dreams of?
Mo Yi seemed to notice her doubts: "In fact, the so-called eternal life is not as beautiful as you imagine. That is the ultimate hell, which will make you live in your own repentance and sins for hundreds or thousands of years, and you can't even free yourself..."
When Mo Yi said this , a trace of pain and despair flashed across his face.
Ping Lili suddenly remembered what the man had just said. He said that Mo Yi had gained eternal life, so, had he killed 49 members of his tribe?
Then why did he come to save himself?
Shouldn't he still be in the Netherworld? Why did he appear in this world?
And what about my previous life, did I also die at the hands of my tribe members?
Could it be that the cursed person will only live with the fate of being killed or killing others forever?
And what about the entangled hands in the dream?
Countless questions tangled in her mind...
Suddenly, she remembered something more important: "You said that the cursed people can't live past 18? But, I'm already 20 this year... and I've never killed anyone."
"It's strange to hear you say that. For hundreds of years, since I accidentally fell into this world, all the cursed people I have seen either rely on killing to prolong their lives or cannot live past the age of 18, without exception. If it is really as you said, then you are a miracle..."
If these words had come from someone else, perhaps Ping Lili would have turned around and walked away, even adding a comment that the person was crazy. However, these words from this person made Ping Lili feel a strange sense of pity from the bottom of her heart.
She wondered in her heart, did this person really kill countless companions to gain the so-called eternal life? However, to spend hundreds of years in such loneliness must be more painful and cruel than death, right?
"Then how do you all know that I am the reincarnation of the Nayu people? You should not have seen my mark."
"This mark is not seen with the eyes, but felt. All cursed people will have this mark, but in childhood, this mark will remain dormant in the body until around the age of 10, when the mark will begin to awaken on its own, and then the memories of the previous life will awaken together. Only after the awakening mark will it call its companions, and companions can sense each other's existence by feeling. People who are not companions cannot see this Suzaku either."
Mo Yi closed his eyes and slowly raised the back of his hand. The Vermillion Bird mark on the back of his hand seemed to have life, flickering, as if it was about to jump out of his hand.
At this moment, Ping Lili felt his shoulders starting to burn, and it felt like something was about to rush out of his body. This familiar feeling was just like the one he had just had on the subway.
Is this what they call a call between companions? No wonder they all targeted me at the same time.
"You are a girl, so your mark should be on your shoulder. As soon as you appeared at the subway entrance just now, I felt you, but I also felt that you were a little special, different from ordinary tribesmen, so I kept following you. And the person who wanted to kill you just now probably also felt you through the call of the mark."
"Then how did you know he wanted to kill me in the first place? Maybe he had the same motive as you."
Ping Lili retorted somewhat stubbornly.
"Murderous aura. From the moment he sensed your mark, the murderous aura on his body reached its peak. Your mark probably just awakened not long ago, so he didn't feel anything." Mo Yi slowly withdrew his hand.
Miraculously, the burning sensation on Yinglili's shoulders disappeared immediately, as if nothing had happened...
"What is this awakening you're talking about? Why did my mark suddenly awaken today?" When asking this question, Ping Lili suddenly felt sad for her Marxism professor. The materialistic view that he had instilled in her with great difficulty had completely vanished into thin air at this moment.
"This is also strange. Normally, after reincarnation, the power of the Suzaku Mark will automatically awaken before the age of 10. Then, it will attract or summon companions and begin to repeat our cruel fate, killing or being killed. But you, as you said, your mark just awakened today! It's incredible! And your mark seems to be a little different from that of ordinary tribesmen. I can't tell exactly where it is different. I think the reason I helped you is because I am curious about your mark."
Although what Mo Yi said were ironclad facts, she still felt a little disappointed when she heard the reason why he rescued her. She couldn't help but sneer, "Oh, I thought you suddenly felt guilty and did something good, but it turns out you were just curious."
"I've lived for hundreds of years. To be honest, I'm really tired of living. This kind of eternal and unchanging life is really driving me crazy!" When he said this, Mo Yi's expression became a little hysterical, and he slapped his cheeks fiercely.
"Look, I won't even age. I will always stay the same as when I was 18 and gained immortality. Don't you think this ending is crueler? I would rather have been killed and continued to fall into reincarnation..."
When hearing these words, Gong Lili really had the urge to slap someone. Is this what people say? Most people in this world are looking for the secret to immortality and eternal youth, but this person is complaining that he will never grow old!
And the man in front of me who was looking for a beating was still continuing his topic of looking for a beating!
"You know, I have been trying to find a way to lift the curse for hundreds of years, but to no avail. However, you have given me a glimmer of hope. If what you just said is true, then you have changed the curse a lot. Maybe you can find a way to lift it!"
"Can I refuse?" Hearing the other party state his purpose so bluntly, Ping Lili actually felt a strange and irritated feeling in his heart.
"Do you want to be killed or do you want to kill someone?" The other party bluntly pointed out that she actually had no better choice.
Ping Lili was speechless for a while, then decided to make the best use of the situation: "Okay, I agree to cooperate with you. But before I find a way to lift the curse, you have to be my bodyguard and make sure I don't get killed or kill anyone."
