This is like a family reunion dinner during the New Year, held in someone's home rather than a restaurant.

After the relatives and friends have celebrated, the excitement has passed, the children have laughed, and the elders have rejoiced,

then,

everyone leaves,

leaving only a mess on the floor,

and the… helplessness of facing the task of cleaning the entire room while washing dishes and pots.

Inside the altar,

peace was finally restored,

doubt, suspicion, rebellion, choice, trust,

all sorts of factors that test human nature, frantically colliding and rubbing against each other in a short period of time,

and then,

collectively transformed into a wisp of green smoke,

rising gently and slowly dissipating.

In literary terms,

you could say it was sublimation,

more directly,

you could also say it went to heaven.

With a "plop,"

Yingying knelt down,

collapsing to the ground,

her eyes slightly open,

muttering:

"Boss…"

That figure's back was directly crushed by the wind that Mount Tai had transformed into; the rest became a legacy left for Yingying.

In the words of "A Bite of China," this was a gift from nature to mankind.

The little boy staggered back a few steps, his back against the wall, holding "Garfield" in his hand.

The black shadow remained there, not leaving.

Zhou Ze turned around,

looking at the black shadow.

One was resolved,

here,

there was still one more,

and this time, the original purpose of coming to Rongcheng was actually him.

Zhou Ze walked up to the black shadow,

without speaking,

without acting,

just quietly watching.

"What, you've come to show off your power?"

The black shadow spoke first:

"You've been dormant for so many years, and now you have the ability to come out and breathe again?"

"Finally found an opportunity to regain some face in front of me, to take back what was lost?"

"Annoyed? You hate me a lot, don't you? Very angry, right?"

"Come on, come on, say it, say something, hurry up and say it!"

"Say something, you must want to ridicule me, no problem, come on!"

"Hurry up, be quick about it!"

Zhou Ze looked at the black shadow in front of him,

frowning slightly,

and then,

slowly said:

"Who… beat… you… up… like… this…"

"…" Half a face.

Inside the altar,

silence returned once more; the person who had been babbling incessantly earlier was no longer speaking.

The little boy grabbed Garfield's leg, calming the baleful aura within him.

Lawyer An continued to be unconscious beside him;

Yingying was still lying on the ground, recovering her strength.

That wisp of blue wind circled around the altar, and then disappeared back into Zhou Ze's body, like an old man returning home after a walk.

Because no one was disturbing them, the silence was able to last a long time, lasting so long that it seemed a little too affected to continue, before someone finally couldn't help but break it.

It was like when a young couple first moved in together; the one who did the housework and cleaned the house wasn't the more diligent one, but the one who had lost the competition to tolerate a dirty and messy living environment.

"Hoo…" The black shadow exhaled a long breath, even though he was unable to make this gesture, he still struck the pose. "Who else could it be?

"I just wanted to see how much the bunch of guys who made you fall from grace back then were really worth.

Right?

Having beaten you in your prime like that, if I could destroy them, wouldn't it make me seem even more awesome?

And then when you find out, would you be pissed to death? I'm asking you, are you pissed? Are you pissed? Are you pissed?

But unfortunately, that bunch of bastards are too shameless.

But I didn't lose face either,

I seemed to have killed one, crippled a few, and then, I was scattered by them, turned into this state.

Hey, it's been thousands of years in a flash."

Zhou Ze pointed his finger towards the passageway,

and said:

"You… go… away…"

The black shadow still didn't leave, asking with some amusement:

"Are you really willing to let me go?"

Zhou Ze didn't speak, tacitly agreeing.

"Okay, then I'm really leaving? Don't regret it."

"Thirty… breaths… later… I'll… catch… you… back…"

"…" The black shadow.

The black shadow didn't leave; he continued to remain in place. Thirty breaths, how could he run?

Wait for a *fanyun*?

In Zhou Ze's eyes, a deep look flickered,

he had once said he would give him a dignified departure, give him freedom,

but he hadn't believed it,

an opportunity,

there was only one,

miss it, and it was missed.

"Hey, why don't you just swallow me up, no, no, let's compromise, okay? Let the owner of this body, let this junior dog of mine, swallow me?

He and I are, after all, from the same root, the meat will rot in the pot."

Zhou Ze's eyes slowly closed.

"Even if you swallow me now, if I forcibly resist, how much can you swallow? Fifty percent? Or thirty percent?

If I actively eliminate my self-awareness and let him swallow me, he can slowly inherit my combat experience and the techniques I've created.

What,

weren't you guys just making it so touching?

One was willing to directly destroy the princess who was the boss back then for him,

one was willing to be captured without resistance rather than detonating Mount Tai and perishing with you.

Damn,

it's making me want to cry!

What about now?

Continue with the sentimentality!

Do you dare?"

The black shadow continued to twist and shout:

"Hey, do you think he's smarter than me and trusts you more?"

"Hehe, I don't believe it, oh no, I might think he's smarter than me, but he's definitely not more trusting of you!"

"You know, you think you're very mysterious, you think you're very powerful, you think you have everything under control.

But in reality,

people see right through you!

He understands you better than I do,

and he dares to gamble more than I do!"

Zhou Ze's eyelids twitched,

looking at the black shadow in front of him,

the corner of his mouth outlining an arc,

and said:

"Sowing discord."

"Hey, I'm not sowing…"

The black shadow froze,

and then immediately realized,

pointing at Zhou Ze and saying:

"He's asleep, and you've come up?"

Because he was speaking,

he wasn't stuttering.

Boss Zhou nodded, touched his pocket; damn it, his clothes were all in strips, and he was out of cigarettes. He simply walked over to the unconscious Lawyer An next to him and took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

Then he turned Lawyer An over, so he wouldn't get a numb arm from sleeping on it.

"Snap!"

Lighting a cigarette,

Zhou Ze looked at the black shadow and said:

"When you told me to swallow you, he went down, and I took over. You can try running now; my coffee isn't as long as his, so I probably won't be able to catch you."

"Heh…"

The black shadow suddenly felt so weak,

felt like a balloon,

being directly punctured,

leaking air,

and deflating.

"You have one cigarette's worth of time to consider."

Zhou Ze raised his fingers that were holding the cigarette,

and then raised it up and took several large puffs,

um,

there was only half a cigarette's worth of time left.

"Boss…"

At this moment,

Zhou Ze heard Yingying's voice behind him,

he immediately turned around and helped Yingying up.

The ground was cold; even if Yingying wasn't afraid of the cold, the ground was too hard, and it definitely wouldn't be comfortable lying there.

"…" Lawyer An, who was unconscious beside them.

"Boss…"

Yingying nestled in Zhou Ze's arms,

raised her head,

looking at Zhou Ze's chin,

her eyes looking expectantly,

looking all the time,

as if afraid Zhou Ze would leave.

Zhou Ze reached out and rubbed Yingying's nose, comforting her:

"It's okay, it's all over, it's over."

"Mm."

Yingying buried her head back into Zhou Ze's arms, but quickly raised it again, as if afraid Zhou Ze would forget, pointing at Zhou Ze's fingers and saying:

"Boss, the cigarette's out."

Yes,

the cigarette was out.

Boss,

it was time to eat!

Zhou Ze threw the cigarette butt on the ground, turned sideways, and looked at the black shadow in front of him.

"I really want to hear what's in your heart. Just now, why didn't you detonate Mount Tai?"

The black shadow floated in front of Zhou Ze.

"What's the point of saying all this now?" Zhou Ze asked in return.

"There is. I at least still have a choice now, that is, to be swallowed by you, or to be swallowed by him."

Great freedom, and also m-ocracy, allowing you to choose how you want to die, to choose whose dish you want to become.

Zhou Ze hesitated for a moment,

and then gave his answer:

"Maybe it's because I'm different from you. I don't have any ambitions, and I don't want to counterattack Hell or anything. What I want to do is to be able to lie on the sofa every day, bask in the sun, drink coffee, read the newspaper, and live a leisurely life.

Without having to work hard, without having to worry about money,

I can be decadent, I can be idle, I can be free, I hate everything that is troublesome and tiring.

Even though I've done a lot of things during this time, it's also based on…

based on,

based on my current ability, there's no way to continue guaranteeing and protecting me to live the kind of life I used to live.

Being a hero is too tiring, being an overlord is too troublesome, and being an outstanding person is even more annoying.

I lived too hard and too tired in my previous life. It wasn't until the moment I died in a car accident that I felt like I had lived such a loss.

Now, I have a house, I have many houses.

Mm, although they all belong to my maid.

I reject all chicken soup because everyone is striving, everyone wants to succeed, but if everyone can succeed, then no one can succeed.

Maybe, in the eyes of many people, the life I aspire to, the person I am, would be very unpromising.

But this is my true thought; I think it's very comfortable to live like this, I'm very satisfied with myself, and I think that's enough.

Before, I actually thought about detonating Mount Tai, but then I thought there was no need to; I was too lazy to bother anymore."

Zhou Ze finished speaking,

and added:

"That's probably it."

After hearing these "very unpromising" words, the black shadow fell silent. He suddenly thought of that person; after he had beheaded Chi You, was the feeling he had was the same as this person in front of him who had died in a car accident in his previous life?

They were all tired, were they all tired…

In the distance,

"Garfield" heard these words,

and chirped twice.

"Slap!"

The little boy slapped the ferret's head,

rebuking:

"Salted fish,

are you even qualified to call him that?"