Should I kill her or not?
Wei Yuan pondered the sharp question before him.
Whether to kill or not, there are reasons that make sense, and there are also concerns that cannot be done. If it is to behead, then the daughter of the Tian family is already a painted skin, a monster rather than a human, and it is natural to kill the evil; and if it is to let her go, then this monster has not harmed innocent people after all, and what it did is just revenge.
But reasons are just reasons after all.
There is often no necessary connection between sufficient reasons and how to make decisions.
And many things in the world, whether to do them or how to do them, have nothing to do with reasons. Without personal experience and being at the scene, the words and decisions made are just the perspective of bystanders, how can they be compared with the parties involved?
Wei Yuan looked at the shadow of the ancient Sili school lieutenant next to him and sighed in his heart.
Judging from the fact that the Painted Skin Demon could appear in the world, the Sili Captain did not have the heart to kill the demon at the beginning. Wei Yuan did not give an answer for a long time. The shadow of the Sili Captain said calmly: "It seems that she is still a newcomer. It is normal to hesitate in the face of such a situation."
He paused and said in a complicated voice: "I did not kill her immediately."
"Her parents were in poor health at the time, and they had no children. The eldest daughter married far away, and she was the only one by her side. If she died, the two old people would have no one to take care of them. I am afraid that they would be lonely and cold in their old age. She begged me to give her time, so that she could fulfill her filial piety before coming to die. . "
"Filial piety comes first among all virtues," she said sincerely. I was only 10 years old at that time, but I was a demon hunter under the command of the Sili School Lieutenant. I was impulsive and agreed to seal her. Later, with her help, I found evidence that the lazy man of the Li family murdered his wife and brought him to justice. "
"After that, the capital city had another urgent call, so I rushed to other places to track down the demons. "
"It took more than ten years to go back and forth."
In the calm narration, the shadow of the Sili School Lieutenant slowly dissipated, and the scene in front of Wei Yuan changed.
......
More than ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
The demon hunter was already 40 years old. He suppressed demons everywhere, accumulated experience, and was awarded the title of Sili School Lieutenant.
During the war years, there were war disasters everywhere.
Resentment was full of depression, and demons were everywhere.
In front of those truly terrifying and ferocious monsters, the painted skin was almost forgotten. Only occasionally, when he was killing monsters and taking a breath, he would think of the beautiful lady who knelt in front of him and swore to the sky with tears in her eyes.
He sent his demon-hunting envoys to check.
The report said that the Liu couple lived in harmony, and the Tian daughter managed the family. She was gentle and elegant, and was respectful and filial to her parents. In the past two years, her parents were old and sick, so she took them in and took good care of them. There were hundreds of acres of fertile land in the family, pavilions and towers in the mansion, and she was kind and often helped the victims of disasters.
She also gave birth to a smart son for the Liu family.
The Sili school lieutenant suddenly realized something was wrong.
The Tian daughter was already a bone girl with painted skin. Her flesh and blood were gone, and only a pile of bones remained. How could she give birth to a son?
He felt uneasy and even put down the important tasks in his hands and rushed to the outskirts of the small town.
Where are there any fertile fields and mansions?
There are only desolate wilderness and graves.
He rushed into the town again, and did not go to see the local officials. He rode his horse straight to the Liu family's mansion, and ordered the servants to disperse with the crouching tiger waist card. He asked the lady who was looking after the children in the backyard, and immediately walked away without the maid's obstruction, holding the sword in one hand, and looked into the house.
At one glance, his eyes were bloodshot.
More than ten years have passed, and the appearance of Miss Tian is the same as it was back then, and has hardly changed. Even her skin is as delicate as a girl. Now she used a pair of black scissors to tear off a piece of slightly yellow and withered skin on her face, and then walked to the bed, where many things were stacked.
It looked like clothes, but when it was shaken open, it was the skin of a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old.
The woman cut a piece of skin from the girl's face with scissors and carefully pasted it on her own face.
There was also a little boy of about six or seven years old on the bed.
He was swinging his legs while using a knife to cut open his chest, looking angrily at the bones and the rotten flesh between the bones, pointing at his white spine, and pouted: "Mother, mother, I should grow up. The other students in the school are taller than me, and they all laugh at me."
Daughter Tian pointed at the child's forehead and said:
"Okay, okay, today I will remove your father's bones and add a section for you."
The little boy clapped his hands and cheered happily.
Then he pointed to his belly and said innocently and cutely:
"And, mother, the county magistrate's liver is fine."
"The heart of the private school teacher has turned black and rotten after being placed here."
"Well, the heart of a living person should be rotten after six months of use."
"What should we do?"
"Don't be afraid, there is a big official from the capital outside."
"His heart and liver are better."
The Sili Xiaowei was shocked and angry, and suddenly turned back to look.
The maid, the cook, the old farmer selling vegetables, the teacher, and the man in official uniform all stood behind him expressionlessly, crowded together, without saying a word.
More than a hundred people in this house have turned into human skin.
......
Si Li Xiaowei stood beside Wei Yuan and said slowly:
"When I killed Mrs. Tian in the end, I found that there was nothing under the human skin. It was just a skin bag. The real painted skin had disappeared long ago. Maybe it had noticed something wrong before and had escaped."
"Abnormal things in the world are monsters, the spirits of things are spirits, the souls that do not disperse are ghosts, and the abnormal things are monsters."
He whispered slowly and looked at Wei Yuan:
"Remember, if it is a spirit ghost, you can still deal with it separately according to different situations."
"The two monsters, anyone who is Si Li Xiaowei will be killed when they see it, especially those who transform into monsters and monsters in human bodies. They must not be let go."
"Abnormal is a monster , abnormal and strange. "
"Becoming a monster from a human has long been contrary to human nature. The delicacies in your and my mouths are like yellow mud and dry grass in their mouths, while human flesh and blood are extremely sweet to them. The kindness they show on the outside is just the last part of being a human being. "
"But this kindness is like a tree without roots and water without a source, which will disappear with the passage of time. "
"And the strange and vicious nature of monsters will increase day by day. "
"If there is injustice, we should report it and uphold justice, but those who need our protection and compassion are those who died because of injustice, not the monsters born with the obsession of the corpse. They themselves..."
The voice of the Sili school lieutenant paused and looked at Wei Yuan's eyes.
"If you are not of my race, you should be beheaded without mercy!"
"On the three-foot sword edge of you and me, the world is clear and bright, and there is no room for personal feelings!"