Volume 2: Memories of Yonghui (Part 1) Chapter 9 What is Love in the World?
When talking about the Ruoye people, we have to mention the species composition of the Xuming world.
Although the continent of the Void Underworld is still dominated by humans, there are also some creatures that have long been extinct or no longer exist in the modern world.
The Ruoye tribe probably belongs to such a category of creatures.
Different from the races living on the continent of the Void Realm, although they have different beliefs and personalities, in terms of species, they are all pure human beings, and there is no essential difference between them and us in the present world.
The Ruoye people are fish people, or mermaids, which is more understandable.
In short, they are hybrid creatures with human bodies and fish tails, regardless of gender. So they live on the coast of the South China Sea in the Void Realm all year round.
They are a kind of transcendent existence to the people of the Void World. Not to mention that they are different from humans, their lifespans are often thousands of years, and even the environment they live in - the ocean - is still a vast and unknown area for the humans of the Void World.
Even the brave Nayu people could not fight their way to the bottom of the sea to fight to the death with those fishmen.
What’s more, the most terrifying thing is that the fish people of the Ruoye tribe can transform themselves into humans on the mainland by growing legs.
Although most of the Roye fishmen can only transform into legs for one or two hours before they have to return to the sea.
However, it is not ruled out that there are some fishmen with extraordinary talents and profound skills who can transform into two feet and live on land all year round, looking no different from ordinary people.
The so-called Ruo family is probably a rare outlier among the Ruoye tribe’s fishmen.
After all, they transformed into human form and stayed in Yonghui City for three years without being noticed.
What was their purpose in leaving their homes and taking risks to come all the way to Yonghui City?
Thinking back to what Wei Shucheng had mentioned before about a strange elixir that could make fish grow legs, the answer became obvious.
They came for the medicine!
How did they know that there was someone in Yonghui City who could make this kind of medicine?
Did the medicine fall into the hands of Ruo’s family?
Where did the family end up? Did they return to the South China Sea? Or were they hiding somewhere else?
However, if they succeeded, they could just walk away without any worries. Why would they go to so much trouble to create an illusion of a fire to confuse everyone?
What are they afraid of? What are they hiding?
Countless whys kept rushing through Yao Ji's mind, but she had no clue.
Even though Yao Ji's "Living Soul Secret" can read some past memories by feeling the breath of all living things and guess the true identity of the Ruo family, the memory of the Ruo family of all living things suddenly stopped at a certain critical moment, as if it was cut off by a knife! Yao Ji now knows nothing about the whereabouts of the Ruo family.
She actually had no idea what the secret was, or rather, she felt vaguely that she seemed to know something, but could not connect the confusing information together.
The information she could read was only some scenes before Miss Ruo set fire to her own boudoir and jumped away on the night of the fire. But after the fire started, the image became blurred. She didn't know where Miss Ruo went who she went with.
As mentioned before, there seemed to be a more powerful force in the dark that prevented her from continuing to read the "Life Secret", and where did this strange power come from?
Is it the Ruo family? Or the Ruoye tribe? No, if they did something and deliberately concealed these things, why didn't they just cut off all the clues.
Yao Ji knew that if she took action, she would be able to erase the memories of all living things without leaving any trace.
The people of the Ruoye tribe must not be fools. They must have planned everything carefully. But why could I read some of my previous memories and guess their identities and motives? Moreover, the fire was definitely lit by Miss Ruo herself. Why was that?
Could it be that someone deliberately left some clues behind? To guide me to discover the truth? But why did they cut off the memory in the middle? Could it be that they were hiding something?
Or, Yao Ji boldly speculated in her heart, the disappearance of the people in Ruo's family might not be their own will, but another accident... Could it be, could it be, this is a scene of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind?
Suddenly, Yao Ji's brows knitted slightly, as if she had thought of the key to the matter. She leaned over and stared at the plain-clothed young man Wei Shucheng, who was paralyzed on the ground by the shocking truth, with a serious expression: "Where's the medicine? Where is your medicine?"
The other party now looked dazed, looking back at Yao Ji indifferently, as if he had not yet recovered from the blow just now, or he simply did not believe what Yao Ji said. How could the considerate Miss Ruo family...
Wei Shucheng didn't believe what Yao Ji had just said from the bottom of his heart, or rather, he just didn't want to believe it from the bottom of his heart...
However, Yao Ji shattered his self-deception without hesitation. She grabbed the other person's collar and asked, "Do you still have the medicine?" Although the other person did not realize the importance of the medicine, Yao Ji knew it!
The Ruoye tribe was not an easy race to deal with. It was just that their members' bodies could not adapt well to the Xuming Continent, so they had been dormant on the coast of the South China Sea and could not cause much impact on the Xuming Continent.
However, once they possess the medicine, or master the formula of the medicine, then Yao Ji is almost certain that there will be a shocking turmoil in this continent of Xu Mingjie!
It can sweep across the continent of the Void Realm when advancing, or retreat back to the vast ocean when retreating. This medicine is like adding wings to a tiger for the Ruoye tribe.
Yao Ji didn't believe that the purpose of those Ruoye people was simply to envy humans and grow legs. Perhaps there was a greater desire hidden behind this... Yao Ji didn't dare to think about it too deeply.
The most important thing now is to know the whereabouts of the medicine. As for what to do after knowing it, Yao Ji herself is actually not sure. She simply relies on her own judgment and knows that the first priority now is to find out where the medicine is, although she has little hope for this.
Although the Ruoye tribe had been preparing for this for many years, and suddenly disappeared mysteriously, Yao Ji had a strange feeling that perhaps they had not succeeded, otherwise, the Ruoye tribe in the South China Sea would not have remained silent until now. The Ruo family had disappeared for quite some time. Moreover, Wei Shucheng did not mention that the medicine was stolen just now.
At this time, the eldest son of the Huan family and the young lady of the Shen family naturally thought the same as Yao Ji. They all frowned and understood the seriousness of the matter. Shen Chenyu picked up Wei Shucheng who was slumped on the ground, and Huan Shu touched him all over and searched him openly!
"You, what are you doing!" The young man in plain clothes, Wei Shucheng, came to his senses at this time. Seeing that these people were searching him rudely, he was filled with grief and anger!
Yao Ji, who always believed in being kind to others, could not care about so many things at this time. Countless doubts and worries gathered in her heart, and her tone became tough: "If you still want to see Miss Ruo again, you'd better tell us honestly where the medicine is!"
But in Wei Shucheng's mind, he only vaguely heard the words "Goodbye, Miss Ruo". His heart was like a bolt of lightning, and it exploded.
The many cruel truths he had heard before did make him feel sad and angry, and he felt like he was being played around by someone.
However, he just heard the news that Miss Ruo was still alive, and he might even see her again. This made him more excited than all the deception and betrayal!
It turns out that love has already taken root in my heart.
Even if the other party approached him for other purposes, even if the other party was not a human being but a merman, so what?
The woman who once smiled at him, encouraged him and supported him silently, actually existed. The days he spent with her were the warmest times in his life. All these are memories that he will never be able to erase in his lifetime.
He loved her, so he felt that he could forgive all the mistakes she made.
As long as she is alive, it is better than anything else...
Thinking of this, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Yao Ji, with some extravagant hope in his eyes: "Then Miss Ruo, how is she now?"
Yao Ji was stunned when she didn't expect the other party to ask such a question. She just blurted out that sentence, in fact, she just wanted to deceive him by pretending to be Miss Ruo and get important information out of him. But she didn't expect that the other party actually took it seriously and was so concerned about the whereabouts of Miss Ruo. Perhaps she didn't expect that after such deception and betrayal, this person would still be so obsessed, or in other words, deeply in love.
Yao Ji seemed to have forgotten her original intention. She looked at him with strange eyes and blurted out subconsciously: "Why are you still thinking about a woman like that? Haven't you been deceived enough?"
But the other party smiled sadly: "No matter whether she is sincere to me or not, I will always and that is enough."
"Even if the other party is just playing around?" After saying this, Yao Ji felt vaguely regretful. She didn't know what was wrong with her and why she blurted out such sarcastic words. Perhaps, for a girl like Yao Ji who has a clear distinction between love and hate and is just beginning to fall in love, she cannot accept such a tangled relationship, or even understand it.
The plain-clothed young man Wei Shucheng's eyes became unusually gentle at this moment, as if he didn't hear the sarcasm in Yao Ji's mouth. He looked at Yao Ji's eyes that were full of doubts but unusually clean and clear and smiled: "Little girl, you are still young. There are some feelings that you may not understand now. But one day you will understand that no matter what some people do, whether they deceive you or hurt you, you can't hate them. Because in your heart, all you can recall are their goodness."
Yao Ji stared at him with her cold eyes for a long time, her lips opened and closed, but in the end she said nothing.
She felt sad in her heart, wondering what kind of magic the young lady from the Ruo family had cast to make the man in front of her miss her so much that even after suffering such a tragic betrayal, he still only remembered her good side.
She didn't know that she was secretly envious of the Ruoye woman.
If someone could treat her like this in this life, she would be willing to go to the ends of the earth...
