At this time, Xu Er's home was still in a mess and had a strong smell of blood.
The stumps on the ground are still in the same position as they were at the beginning.
Li Bowen came all the way to Xu Er's wife's room. At this time, Xu Er's wife had fallen in a pool of blood, her chest was scarlet, and her bones could still be faintly seen. She had obviously been dead for a long time.
Li Bowen sighed slightly, then took out a soul-summoning talisman and placed it on the forehead of Xu's second wife's corpse.
Not long after, a figure appeared next to Xu's second wife. It was the soul of Xu's second wife.
The moment she appeared, sad cries seemed to be heard from all around.
It's just that Xu Er's wife's soul is not like the ghosts I saw before. Her eyes were blank, as if she didn't know she was dead. The moment she appeared, she slowly walked outside the house, seeming to be still shouting
Her daughter's name.
In one day, this whole family was destroyed. It would be unbearable for anyone, right?
Maybe people like me, who have been orphaned since birth, don’t have such deep feelings.
But even so, looking at this scene, I couldn't help but feel some sympathy in my heart.
Li Bowen also sighed: "They have this calamity in their lives and they can't change it."
"The only thing I can do as a teacher is to let him leave peacefully."
After finishing speaking, Li Bowen waved his hand, and a golden light shot out and fell directly on the soul of Xu's second wife.
Xu Er's wife's soul obviously paused, and her eyes that were originally a little dazed suddenly became a little clearer, but the clarity quickly turned into pain, and the sad cries around her became more and more obvious.
"Go ahead."
Li Bowen slowly uttered two words.
The soul of Xu's second wife began to dissipate at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After just a moment, the sad cry disappeared.
Li Bowen just walked out of the room. When he got outside, he started picking up Xu Er's remains on the ground. Although I felt very uncomfortable, I still chose to help immediately.
After Xu Er's bones were pieced together, Li Bowen put another soul-calling talisman on Xu Er's body, and not long after, Xu Er's soul also appeared in the house.
It's just that unlike his wife's confusion, Xu Er's soul looked very painful. When he came out, he cried in despair, and the whole room was "whimpering".
Li Bowen looked at his soul and said, "Those who harmed your lives have been eliminated for you."
"Your wife's soul has also left."
After hearing Li Bowen's words, Xu Erhun's mood seemed to stabilize, and it completely dissipated after bowing to Li Bowen.
Li Bowen then looked at me, but when I thought he was going to say something, he didn't speak. He just looked at me. I don't know why, but I seemed to feel a little disappointed.
Then he began to clean up Xu Er's body and placed his wife's body next to Xu Er. After lighting three sticks of incense for the two of them, he walked out of Xu Er's house.
I followed him until he walked out of Xu Er's house, and he stopped. At the same time, the fire in the room lit up, as if a ball of fire ignited the entire room in an instant.
I was stunned for a moment, and then Li Bowen looked at me again, with a more serious look on his face and said: "I know that although you are a village guard, you have never experienced the suffering in the world."
"And you have admitted this identity."
"But your identity as a village guard is a fate that you are destined to have in your life and cannot escape."
"You can't change it from the moment you're born."
"So even if you don't want to admit it, you must accept this fact, and you must also understand the true meaning of the word 'keep'."
"Because from the moment you were selected as the village guard."
"Your life is destined not to be your own."
"It has nothing to do with the city god."
"This is your destiny."
"Manifest destiny!"
After saying these last four words, Li Bowen left without looking back. It was only when his figure was about to disappear from my sight that he spoke again: "This is the second lesson I will teach you.
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"If you understand."
"Come to the Ghost Tower again to find me as your teacher."
I stood there blankly until his figure disappeared, and his words were still echoing in my mind.
Destiny?
It took me a while before I laughed bitterly.
So what should I do?
What should I do?
I couldn't help but turn around and look at the house that was already blazing with fire. I vaguely saw the bodies of Xu Er and his wife being devoured bit by bit in the fire.
I thought of what Li Bowen did before.
After killing Chenghuang, he did not leave Xiawei Village directly, but chose to come here and use his own method to allow Xu Er's family to leave safely.
It was only after doing this that he said those words.
When I was moving Xu Er's remains, I realized that he seemed a little disappointed in me.
I suddenly understood the meaning of his words.
If it were me, what would I do after killing the city god of Xiawei Village?
Maybe we will leave Xiawei Village directly.
Because I don't really care about these innocent people, I always think about myself.
I left Niang'er Village and searched for the coffin to save my own life.
In Fengling Village, seeing so many people die, I was only slightly touched, but not too emotional, because at that time I was only trying to suppress the coffin, and only the living immortal in the coffin.
The remains of Fengling Village, so after getting what I wanted, I left Fengling Village directly, and I didn’t care what happened in Fengling Village.
Because at that time, I was only thinking about myself.
Then in Tianmen Village.
I knew clearly that there were zombies in Tianmen Village, but I still wanted to not get involved in those things. If I hadn't felt that I couldn't escape, I probably wouldn't have taken action.
Even when I arrived at that tomb, my original intention was not to eliminate Tianmen Village's worries, but because Uncle Hu told me that it was the tomb of the village guard and that there were treasures in it.
Even so, when I met Li Bowen later and learned that there was a flying zombie inside, I just wanted to get out of there. If Li Bowen hadn't told me that there was a dragon-seeking picture inside, I wouldn't have even gone in.
Think about it carefully.
I seem to be such a person.
The only thing I think about is myself.
Even though I knew that I was a village guardian, even if I knew that village guardians were destined to "guard villages and calm souls," I never thought of doing what a village guardian should do.
Because I am rejecting.
But when I was rejecting it, I was taking advantage of some of the benefits that this identity brought me.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh to myself.
I understood it immediately.
Whether it was the first lesson Li Bowen taught me, telling me how to deal with ghosts, or here, the second lesson he taught me, they all told me how to be a village guardian.
No wonder he was disappointed.
But……
I don't want to be a village guard.
I really don't want to.
What is destiny? No one has asked me if I want it since I was born.
I just want to change my destiny.
Is there anything wrong?
I asked myself.
It was also at this time that I suddenly saw a blurry red figure appear in front of me. In the thunderstorm, she looked at me at a loss and said timidly: "Big brother."