Chapter 25: True or False

"When he heard these two words, Lu Qingjiu felt an unusual aura that was difficult to describe, as if it was a taboo to utter them from his mouth.

"Yes." Bai Yuehu held the picture in his hand, a look of intense interest in his eyes, the first time Lu Qingjiu had ever seen him look like this, and at first glance it looked like he was jumping at the chance.

"But what is the difference between a fierce god and a normal spirit or monster?" Lu Qingjiu continued to ask the question in his mind.

"Naturally, it is different." Bai Yuehu said, "For a god to live, he needs faith. He explained to Lu Qingjiu in a slow voice, very patiently, "A spirit can also become a god if it has gained faith, have you read the Journey to the West written by humans?"

"I've read it." Lu Qingjiu nodded, mentioning the Journey to the West, he also probably understood the hidden meaning of Bai Yuehu's words, "You mean Sun Wukong was also a spirit monster before he became the Buddha of the Dou Sheng Zhu, a spirit monster can become a god, then a god can fall into a spirit monster"

"No." Bai Yuehu said, "A god may be fallen, but he is still a god, only his nature may become twisted and he may even become an evil god." He said, "So when you see a shrine on the roadside that you don't know, don't worship it."

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "Naturally not." He was not the kind of man who was interested in gods, and then Lu Qingjiu turned his attention back to the photograph and said, "So it was a fallen god who did this."

"Depravity is not necessarily the case." Bai Yuehu laughed, his smile with a touch of satisfaction, like a beast that has found its prey, even with a touch of longing, "but fallen or not, this taste of God must be very good."

Lu Qingjiu: "It's edible"

Bai Yuehu said, "Yes, I can."

Lu Qingjiu with mixed feelings: "Is it good?"

"It's definitely delicious." Bai Yuehu sounded decisive.

At his words, Lu Qingjiu knew he must have eaten them before, and most likely more than one.

Bai Yuehu said, "I'll go out tonight and see." Let's see if we can just eat it.

Lu Qingjiu was relieved that since Bai Yuehu was so interested in the god of evil, he would not continue to kill people and Hu Shu was relieved of the pressure on them.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay, what do you want to eat tonight?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Let's eat meat."

His obsession with meat is still not diminished in the slightest.

The meat was cut into small pieces and then stir-fried, then put into the pot with the potatoes. The fat of the meat was stir-fried and became very elastic, with a good balance of fat and leanness. Lu Qingjiu knew that the two of them had a big appetite, so he made a lot of them, and after Yin Xun had finished, he soaked a big bowl of rice with the gravy and devoured it all.

After eating, Bai Yuehu went to wash the dishes and then left the courtyard. Lu Qingjiu knew he was going to look for the evil god, so he didn't ask him, but only urged him to be safe and to return early.

But after he said that Bai Yuehu gave him a strange look in his eyes, which made Lu Qingjiu puzzled: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Bai Yuehu said, "No one has ever told me to be safe."

Lu Qingjiu: "" he was silent for three seconds and added in a whisper, "I mean, pay attention to food safety and don't eat badly."

Bai Yuehu nods, satisfied, and walks away.

Lu Qingjiu looked at his back and thought, "It's amazing that I could satisfy him.

"Hey Bai Yuehu, where is he going?" Yin Xun emerged from the house at some point and said, "Isn't he always immobile except for food?" "Why does he have the leisure to go out for a walk today?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "He went out to look for food."

Yin Xun scratches his chin: "Looking for what?"

Lu Qingjiu shrugged his shoulders and did not reply.

Yin Xun was not particularly interested in Bai Yuehu's whereabouts, so he immediately changed the subject and said, "Well, when will our watermelons ripen?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Soon, I think, when Bai Yuehu comes back I'll open two and try them." Their fruit is usually ripe earlier than others and of good quality. The watermelons in the field have already borne fruit, all big and round, with a crisp sound when tapped, so they must taste good.

"Okay." Yin Xun said, "I'll go back first, take care of yourself at home, yesterday I heard from my aunt next door that three people died in the town, it's not peaceful lately."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay, I know, so do you."

Yin Xun nods his head

, gone.

Lu Qingjiu played with Xiao Hua Xiao Hei in the courtyard for a while and watched the chickens return to their pen before going to wash up and go to bed.

Bai Yuehu said he would be back the night after tomorrow, so there should be no need to cook so much in the next two days, although Yin Xun eats a lot, it is still a normal amount of food.

The next morning Lu Qingjiu woke up early and went to the field first. There was no Bai Yuehu to water today, so he had to do it all himself. I have to say that Lu Qingjiu had hardly ever been in the field before, and when he got there himself, he realised that it was not an easy and pleasant task, as just picking up water was tedious enough, not to mention weeding and fertilising. Lu Qingjiu thought to himself that he would have to treat Bai Yuehu better in the future, as he had taken over the most difficult task in the family.

After the farming work, Lu Qingjiu has little energy to cook when he returns home, so Yin Xun steps forward and offers to watch over Lu Qingjiu and cook him a bowl of egg noodles.

Lu Qingjiu, who wanted to live for a few more years, was touched and turned down Yin Xun and opened the long-lost noodles.

Yin Xun said with resignation why he could not give him another chance.

"Because you only live once." Lu Qingjiu pats him on the shoulder.

Yin Xun :""

Lu Qingjiu: "Or you can eat your own cooking"

After thinking about it, Yin Xun took another bucket of noodles out of Lu Qingjiu's cupboard and ate them together with Lu Qingjiu in silence. The standard of living had plummeted with the departure of the person who loved food most in the family.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun had their fill and then went to take a lunch break.

Around 2pm, Lu Qingjiu, who was still asleep, was woken up by a phone call and picked up the phone, on which he saw Hu Shu's name.

"Hello, Officer Hu, can I help you?" Lu Qingjiu rubbed his eyes, a weary tone in his voice.

"Is that Mr. Lu?" Hu Shu's voice was slightly anxious.

"It's me, what's wrong," Lu Qingjiu said.

"We need you to come to the police station immediately." Hu Shu said, "Something new has come up."

"What's wrong?" Lu Qingjiu heard his tone of voice and felt that something seemed serious, immediately sobering up as he said, "What's wrong?"

Hu Shu said, "There's a new deceased."

Lu Qingjiu said, "The new deceased" he sat up straight from the bed and confirmed, "when did this happen"

"It was around eleven o'clock in the morning." Hu Shu said, "The body was found near the police station."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Can I be of any help to you?" He was only an ordinary man and this case was clearly the work of non-humans, so even if he wanted to do something about it, I'm afraid he would not be able to.

"Please come to the police station, the deceased may have something to do with you." Hu Shu said, "It's not convenient to talk on the phone."

Lu Qingjiu said, "It has something to do with me." In a flash, many possibilities flashed through his mind. According to Hu Shu, after the death of the deceased, his family did not notice anything unusual about him, which means that even if the person was a friend or relative, the God of Evil would have taken on the form of a friend or relative after killing him and continued to hide his identity, while Shuifu Village was so small that Lu Qingjiu had only one human friend.

Lu Qingjiu's arms were covered with goose bumps when he thought of eating noodles with Yin Xun at lunchtime today, but most of all he was worried if something really happened to Yin Xun.

"Okay, I'll be right over." Lu Qingjiu, without further delay, got up and changed his clothes and went out.

He didn't dare to go to Yin Xun to confirm this. If it was really Yin Xun who was in trouble, then going there would be a sure way to alert the snake and possibly even get himself involved.

Lu Qingjiu wants to contact Bai Yuehu, but Bai Yuehu doesn't use his mobile phone, so he has to wait for him to return.

Lu Qingjiu started to drive to town in his minivan.

"Boy, hurry up this time, we're in a hurry." Lu Qingjiu touches the steering wheel and discusses with his minivan, "OK?"

The minivan blares twice, as if to tell Lu Qingjiu that it understands.

Lu Qingjiu happily stroked it twice more. This time the minivan was really competitive, gritting its teeth and running as hard as it could, cutting the usual two-hour journey down to an hour. Racing on a mountain road would have been very dangerous, but the van really didn't need Lu Qingjiu to control the steering wheel, so there was no need to worry about any traffic accidents.

Lu Qingjiu called Yin Xun in the meantime and asked him what he was doing.

"I... I took a nap and I'm out in the field." Yin Xun said, "What's wrong with getting some cabbage seeds ready?"

Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment and said, "By the way, do you remember when we were children and went to the mountains to play?"

"When I was a kid, I went to the mountains," Yin Xun said, "What's wrong?"

"Don't you like raspberries the most," Lu Qingjiu said, "we'll go to the mountains and pick some in the summer. Qingjiu and his family used to pick them when they were young.

"No," Yin Xun said, "You're trying to screw me," but Yin Xun denied Lu Qingjiu's claim, "It's delicious, but it's so prickly, and I'm allergic to prickly things. I'm allergic to thorns, you forget the time I almost ended up in hospital".

Lu Qingjiu said, "Oh, come to think of it."

Yin Xun said, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Lu Qingjiu said, "You plant the cabbage first, and I'll talk to you tonight."

"Okay." Yin Xun seemed to be busy too, so he hung up without further ado.

The words just now were indeed Lu Qingjiu's way of testing Yin Xun, who had a special constitution and was allergic to many things, the thorns of wild fruits being one of them. If Yin Xun had frankly agreed to Lu Qingjiu's invitation, Lu Qingjiu would probably have had an idea, but now Lu Qingjiu did not find anything strange on Yin Xun.

Lu Qingjiu felt that the matter was becoming more and more confusing.

After another ten minutes or so, the minivan arrived in front of the police station and Lu Qingjiu called Hu Shu, who was seen coming out of the van.

"Let's talk somewhere else." Hu Shu said with a serious expression as he got into the car.

"Where to talk," Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Just the nearby teahouse, I'll show you the way, you drive ahead." Hu Shu said.

Lu Qingjiu thought it was a bit odd and said, "Why not talk about it in the police station?"

Hu Shu said, "It's a mess in the police station right now, I approached you privately, it wouldn't be good if our leaders found out."

There seemed to be some truth in this, and Lu Qingjiu started the car.

Hu Shu showed Lu Qingjiu the way and sent Lu Qingjiu out in the other direction of the town. The town was quite remote and it would take more than half an hour to reach the city, and the road was quite deserted, with only a few inhabitants. As soon as Lu Qingjiu drove out of the town, he had a vague feeling that something was wrong. He looked at Hu Shu and said tentatively, "Officer Hu, may I ask where exactly we are going?"

Hu Shu looked ahead and said faintly, "Keep going."

When he heard this, Lu Qingjiu slammed on the brakes and said, "Officer Hu."

Hu Shu turned his head to look at Lu Qingjiu and said, "Why did you stop?"

Lu Qingjiu took a deep breath as he said, "I don't want to drive any further, so please tell me now if there's anything wrong, and what the hell did the dead man have to do with me."

Hu Shu said, "Would you like a cigarette?"

Lu Qingjiu shakes his head.

Hu Shu didn't mind, he took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it up, taking a heavy drag as he said, "Actually, I'm a loser as a cop."

Lu Qingjiu frowned as he listened to Hu Shu, but his body began to lean towards the door, ready to jump out of the car.

Hu Shu said, "Are you so afraid of me or do you sense something?"

From the moment he met Hu Shu, Lu Qingjiu felt that something was wrong with him, especially his request to go elsewhere to talk to him in detail, which was full of contradictions. Now that he won't say what's going on, it almost confirms Lu Qingjiu's suspicions.

"Your name is Lu Qingjiu, isn't it?" Hu Shu smiled. Hu Shu smiled, his smile filled with a very uncomfortable evil aura, and the look in his eyes at Lu Qingjiu contained a creepy longing as he said, "My name is Hu Shu, and it's nice to meet you."

With these words, he lunged towards Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu was shocked and dodged. The minivan opened the door and Lu Qingjiu jumped out of the car without Hu Shu jumping on him, but Hu Shu looked at Lu Qingjiu outside and smiled coldly. He didn't panic, seemingly certain that Lu Qingjiu had no way out, he opened the other side of the car door, got out of the other side and walked towards Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu watched him move and a thought popped into his head.

Before he could move, however, Hu Shu smiled and said, "I advise you not to do that."

Lu Qingjiu said, "What?"

Hu Shu did not say anything, but with a cigarette in his mouth, he looked at Lu Qingjiu with a smile, while one hand reached into his pocket and pulled out an object.

Hu Shu grabbed the gun, clicked the safety on and said, "See, I didn't lie to you."

Lu Qingjiu said, "You are the fierce god."

Hu Shu raised an eyebrow at that, his eyes a little strange: "How do you know you're not human"

Lu Qingjiu didn't expect that Hu Shu, whom he had just met one day, would meet with such an incident the next day. I'm afraid that the body he had told him about finding in the ditch near the police station was not just a rumour.

"Do you have any last words to say?" Hu Shu took the gun and walked towards Lu Qingjiu, "Say them now while you still can."

Lu Qingjiu and Hu Shu were within three metres of each other, and Hu Shu could punch through him with a single lift of his hand, so Lu Qingjiu's only chance was to head for the minivan, and if he could get inside the cab, he might have a chance.

But apparently Hu Shu had already guessed what he was thinking and said, "Don't go into the cockpit, stay put and maybe there's a chance."

Lu Qingjiu takes a step back.

Hu Shu, however, was already in front of him and he said, "Yes, that's it, that's good" He slowly walked up to Lu Qingjiu, but never fired, instead he put the gun against Lu Qingjiu's chin and said, "Do you know why I kill people? Do you?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "How should I know?"

"Because humans are so interesting." Hu Shu cocked his head and slid the gun down Lu Qingjiu's chin, sliding it across his neck and against Lu Qingjiu's chest as he said, "Humans have everything on them, good, bad, what I like, and what I don't, all I have to do is pull the trigger and you're dead are you afraid"

Lu Qingjiu looked at Hu Shu coldly as he said, "No one is afraid of death, are they?" He said this, but there was no fear in his eyes that Hu Shu wanted to see. Hu Shu tsked and said, "You're the calmest one I've ever seen.

Lu Qingjiu said, "What else do you want to do?"

Hu Shu said, "How do you know what I want to do?"

"If you didn't want to do anything, you should have shot me a long time ago." Lu Qingjiu said.

"Smart." Hu Shu laughed, "I just like dealing with smart people." He slowly moved away from the gun and said, "I'm actually a little tired of this boring slaughter, so, how about you and I play a game"

Lu Qingjiu Dao: "The Game"

Hu Shu said, "See this gun? There's only one bullet in it, and one person shoots at the other until the other person is dead."

Lu Qingjiu looked at Hu Shu and did not say anything.

"Playing?" Hu Shu, however, seems to be getting a little impatient with Lu Qingjiu's silence.

"Okay." Hu Shu laughed when he heard Lu Qingjiu's answer, as if he was in a good mood, and said, "You first, or I first."

"I'll go first." Lu Qingjiu said, trying to see if Hu Shu would give him the gun.

What he didn't expect was that after listening to him, Hu Shu actually handed him the pistol very frankly and said, in a gentlemanly manner, "Please."

Lu Qingjiu licked his lips and took the gun in his hand. The gun was cold, the sweat on his hands was hot, Lu Qingjiu gripped the gun tightly, his voice was a little hoarse, perhaps because he was nervous, he said, "Aren't you afraid that I will shoot you several times?"

Hu Shu said, "You can try it."

Normally, when confronted with something inhuman, everyone would be in a state of fear, and it would not be out of the question to take a gun and shoot Hu Shu in the face. Lu Qingjiu thought fast, he felt that Hu Shu's behaviour was full of a strange sense of inconsistency. Lu Qingjiu wondered what he had missed.

"Shoot it." Hu Shu opened his mouth.

Lu Qingjiu pulled the first trigger and there was a soft click, no bullets were fired and Lu Qingjiu was relieved and felt a wave of fear, but he restrained himself from shooting Hu Shu a second time and returned the gun to Hu Shu's hand.

"You really gave it back to me." I didn't expect Hu Shu to take the gun and then come back with, "I thought you were going to keep shooting."

"I'd like to." Lu Qingjiu said, "but you should always have a way to keep me from opening it."

Hu Shu said, "Maybe I'm just lying to you."

Lu Qingjiu looked at him.

Hu Shu said, "Maybe I'm just a crazy person who wants to play a game of chance with you"

Lu Qingjiu sneered, "If you were just a madman who didn't think about anything, then there wouldn't be those four bodies."

Hu Shu nodded rather appreciatively at his words as he said, "You're very clever." He pulled the trigger.

"Click." A cold sweat broke out on Lu Qingjiu's back at the soft click, but fortunately there was no fatal jet of fire other than the soft click this was another empty shot.

"You're lucky." Hu Shu reveals a smile.

Lu Qingjiu let out a breath and held out his hand to Hu Shu to see if he would give him the gun again. But without any hesitation, Hu Shu put the pistol in Lu Qingjiu's hand and he said, "Go ahead."

Lu Qingjiu held the gun, but noticed something more in Hu Shu's eyes than a moment before, something that was neither fear nor worry, but excitement, uncontrollable excitement.

It was obvious that the gun was in his own hand, so why was it Hu Shu Lu Qingjiu who was excited Feeling that he had caught something, he looked at the gun in his hand, and then at the fierce god opposite him, and an unbelievable thought came out of his mind. The thought was so absurd that he wondered a little if he was overthinking it.

"Shoot." The next moment, however, Hu Shu's words confirmed Lu Qingjiu's thoughts.