Chapter 36: Eternal Prisoner
Ayu took the book again.
"It's not finished yet." Feng Yishu whispered, "This thing is quite slow to get. Because when you encounter something you can't find out, you have to check the information or ask the masters in the department."
"Yeah." A Yu replied softly.
She turned the pages and made a slight sound. Feng Yishu looked at Ayu turning page by page, watching her fingers gently brushing the annotations he wrote in his own hand. It felt like a butterfly stopped in his heart. The brief and slight sound of flipping the book was the butterfly flapping his wings.
He was both happy and sad, and two completely opposite moods rushed in his heart. He couldn't tell the reason, but suddenly felt a little confused and melancholy in his heart.
Soon, Yang Yi came back. After sitting down, he approached the fire to keep warm, and looked at Feng Yishu and Ayu who was flipping the book.
"The rain is getting heavier and heavier outside, and I guess it won't stop tonight." Yang Yi said as he yawned and checked his injured right hand next to the fire, "Let's sleep here tonight and leave tomorrow."
Feng Yishu looked in the direction of the entrance of the cave, and from the sound of rain aroused a slight echo in the cave, he had already heard the changes in the rain outside.
At this moment, Ayu closed the book, and she looked up again, "It's a very interesting book."
"...You accept it." Feng Yishu whispered, "I originally wanted to return it to you."
Yang Yi was listening to this conversation, feeling that the scene in front of him was extremely inconsistent - in the evening, the girl drew her sword at Feng Yishu, but he was worried about Feng Yishu at that time...
"Thank you," Ayu held the book in her arms, and she raised her head, "How to repay you?"
Feng Yishu waved his hand quickly, "No need to see you like this, after all, we are... friends."
Ayu tilted his head slightly and looked at Feng Yishu's side face thoughtfully, "Do you... want to divine?"
Before Feng Yishu could answer, Yang Yi on the opposite side had already answered, "You can tell divination?"
Ayu looked at Yang Yi and nodded silently.
“…What can I ask?”
"It depends on your question." A Yu answered in a low voice, and she repeated the rules of the question again. Yang Yi was dumbfounded when he heard it, but when A Yu asked him whether he was concerned about the question, Yang Yi sighed lightly and shook his head.
"There may not be a chance to divine tomorrow." Ayu whispered, "but today I can answer a question. If you want to divine, it is best to ask me questions before today."
"I have one." Feng Yishu suddenly raised his hand.
Ayu looked over, "Hmm?"
"No, it's not that I want to divine," Feng Yishu also turned around and looked at A Yu, "You took it for me once. At that time, I asked you, within three days, who would encounter danger among the people I knew, you told me that it was my sister and brother-in-law. My brother-in-law was indeed in danger that night, but my sister did not-though that night, she did stay with a very dangerous person."
Feng Yishu paused, "Do you still remember this?"
Ayu shook his head, "I don't remember."
"Then..." Feng Yishu didn't know how to continue asking.
"You are trying to ask why your sister is safe?" Ayu asked softly.
"Yes!" Feng Yishu nodded. As soon as he said that, he felt something was wrong and quickly added, "I don't mean to doubt that you are not sure..."
Ayu smiled.
"Most of this situation is because they made temporary changes - this change is so strong that it completely deviates from their original intentions that it also changes the previously foreseeable fate. Although this is rare, it does exist."
"Wait..." Yang Yi was stunned, "You mean, can the future you predicted change?"
Ayu nodded again, "What's the use of predicting it that cannot be changed?"
"What is the price?" Yang Yi asked.
“What’s the price?”
"That's..." Yang Yi blinked quickly, "You can help some people see their future, see the possibility and ending of some things. This always comes at a price. I think you have never opened the breath of spiritual consciousness on you, and you should not be a monk. So how did you do it..."
"So it means this." A Yu's eyes fell, and he understood what the person in front of him was trying to ask.
Feng Yishu was slightly stunned near him - he had never thought about this question before.
"Is there a price?" Feng Yishu asked in a low voice, "I thought it was a talent... just like my sister was born to subdue demons."
"Yes." Ayu replied in a low voice.
“What is it?”
"life."
Feng Yishu's face changed, "What..."
A brief silence.
In the subsequent question, Feng Yishu finally understood what the sentence "lifespan" means.
Every time Ayu sinks into meditation during divination, she will enter another time and space to see what will happen in the future. All the time spent in meditation will be multiplied by ten thousand times and deducted from the rest of her time.
In other words, if she stayed in meditation for a whole day, the rest of her life would be deducted from nearly thirty years of life.
"But I won't stay in it for too long, and the longest shouldn't be more than a moment," Ayu whispered, "because there, time will not pass as slowly as it is now, but solidified sections one by one, and I can quickly move them..."
One moment.
Feng Yishu had a quick calculation. One moment was one eighth of an hour. Even if it was only one moment, it would be such a long one hundred and four days after conversion - nearly one third of the year.
Feng Yishu's cheeks were pale, and he frowned, "Then how long does your life now... have you left?"
"Don't worry about me." A Yu replied lightly and indifferently, "Every time my life is approaching and my body becomes weak, I have a way to make me do it again, so I don't have to... feel scared."
Feng Yishu reacted, "Sir, does Xiaying mean?"
"Um."
Only then did Yang Yi realize it, "...Are you a spirit-sacrificing person?"
"Um."
The two young men fell into great shock one after another, although it was for completely different things.
But now he can finally understand many things that Feng Yishu once noticed.
For example, why did Ayu just sit in a wheelchair before, but when he met again, he not only forgot most of the past, but also returned to normal with his feet.
He suddenly remembered a question that Ayu had asked him seriously earlier.
At that time, the two sat in the wing room of the Li family courtyard and watched "Taiping Yulan" together. Feng Yishu introduced to her the difference between water erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile
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