"Lifespan! Is it actually such a heavy price?"
The bearded man opened his mouth and half of his still-unlit cigarette fell to the ground.
He suddenly felt guilty, after all, the talisman was something that Ping An Chen had traded his life for, and he bought it away for 100,000 dollars?
At that time, Ping An Chen should not have known what value this talisman had.
Putting it that way it seemed as if he was deliberately cajoling.
"Then how did you know that the cost was life expectancy? I remember that you should not have known that this talisman could be used before, right?"
Chen Pingan had long prepared the wording, dripping with water, said, "It is true that I did not know before, about how I determined that the cost is the lifespan ..." He fished up his pants leg to reveal the dense bone tumors for the bearded man to see.
"To tell the truth I am a terminal cancer patient, but a week ago I was in the middle stage."
The bearded man looked at the osteosarcoma on Chen Pingan's leg and said in a confused manner, "So, because you exchanged the talisman, your cancer has worsened?"
"Yes, the doctor said that the speed of my cancer cells spreading was unprecedented in my life, and the cancer worsened just after I exchanged the talisman."
"So, how long will you live then?"
"Who knows?" Pingan Chen smiled, "Half a year for a slow death, and a month for a fast death."
The bearded man's brain was confused, it was hard to imagine that this handsome man with a sunny smile in front of him was already a dying man.
But the osteosarcoma on his leg told him that it was true.
The teenager was indeed dying of terminal cancer.
'I deserve to die!'
He slapped himself hard in his heart.
As the head of the Heavenly Prefecture District's Demon Beheading Division, he had actually deceived a patient with terminal cancer and cheated away a talisman that precious with a mere one hundred thousand dollars! Not to mention the fact that he himself could not live with it on his conscience, if this matter was known by the Demon Beheading Divisions of other districts shall not die behind the back of the district area?
"Old brother Ping An, I'm sorry."
In order to clear his conscience, the bearded man hurriedly apologized to Pingan Chen.
"Older brother should not have coaxed away a talisman from you before."
"Harm, it's fine~" Ping An Chen waved his hand, "Don't I have more talismans here? Originally, I was already terminally ill and bound to die, so consuming some more of my lifespan won't make any difference."
The bearded man looked at Chen Pingan in silence, his heart became even harder.
"I'll transfer another hundred thousand dollars to you!"
"Good." Chen Pingan opened his cell phone to show the collection code in a swift manner.
Beard: "..."
After transferring the money, the atmosphere between the two was obviously more sincere.
"Old brother Ping An, what are your plans for the future?"
"Intentions ...," Chen Pingan and the bearded man looked at the oncoming traffic together. His intention was actually to continue making money to fill up the game. He was willing to charge before when he didn't know that the 'Electronic Girlfriend' was a companion spirit, but now that he knew he was even more willing to charge, in case the game issued a prop that could cure his cancer one day.
Also, is the world within this game real or not?
If this game is fake, why is his electronic girlfriend so vivid?
But if this game is a real world, with the level of civilization in that world, it will not be a street of the Earth Star? After all, the power of a mortal Thunder and Fire Talisman is already terrifying like this, what if it is an immortal talisman? There are other more advanced talismans, that is not randomly a power comparable to missiles or even nuclear bombs?
In that case, it made even less sense.
The three-dimensional world was above the two-dimensional world, which was obviously unreasonable.
Secondly, this world also had the so-called main quest, the so-called plot, and the ability to choose dialog.
How could he manipulate the direction of a real world?
If he really wanted to be that powerful, he would have become an immortal by now.
The Cang Yun Realm was more like a game world no matter which way you looked at it.
Therefore, Pingan Chen was certain that the electronic girlfriend game in his cell phone was the 'companion spirit' that the bearded man was talking about.
As for whether the Immortal Cultivation World in the Electronic Girlfriend was real, he still maintained a skeptical attitude.
As the saying goes, seeing is believing.
Of course he hoped that Fang Qingzhi was real.
But there were times when holding on to too much hope wasn't a good thing.
That meant that once reality was contrary to expectations one had to pay a heavy spiritual price.
When the bearded man saw that Chen Pingan did not speak he thought that Chen Pingan was confused about where to go from here, which he understood very well. Many revivals would be at a loss when faced with this question, so he patted Chen Pingan's shoulder:
"This world will become more and more chaotic, and everything we guard will shatter at any time."
On the sidewalk, elementary school students who had just gotten out of school held hands and sang children's songs.
On the park bench, a couple hugged and kissed passionately.
The sunlight followed the old man carrying a vegetable basket, and the takeout boy looked at the slow old man stopping his car hopelessly.
As Pingan Chen looked at all this in front of him, the voice of the bearded man rang in his ears:
"Why don't brother Ping An join the Demon Beheading Division? I can help you contact some revivals with healing abilities to see if I can solve your cancer problem, the Demon Beheading Division now is not the same as it used to be, do you know about the Spitting Method? It's similar to the feats in novels, able to absorb the aura of heaven and earth for its own use, currently only our Demon Beheading Division has it."
"Of course from my perspective, I don't want you to join the Demon Beheading Division for these benefits, I want you to do it for the mission!"
"The mission of guarding your home, guarding humanity, and guarding a peaceful life!"
The bearded man finished, glancing at Pingan Chen with his afterimage.
This set of sayings were the words of the Demon Beheading Division's training.
Usually at this time, as long as the reviver listened in, more or less his face would be a bit moved.
Especially young people like Chen Pingan loved to listen to this kind of hot-blooded words the most.
However ...
The bearded man realized that Chen Pingan actually had no expression on his face!!!
"Thank you for saying these words to me, and thank you for the invitation."
Pingan Chen scratched his head, still smiling, only the words that came out were not very funny.
"How can I say this? Did you know. My parents died in a forest fire and were supposed to be compensated with 200,000 dollars in pension, but only 20,000 dollars were left in my hands for various strange reasons.
I've had a hard time over the years, and just when I thought I'd be able to make it through college and wait for graduation, I found out I had terminal cancer. The hospital just asked me if I had insurance and if I had any money, and if I didn't, I had to raise the money first or I wouldn't be treated.
My girlfriend cuckolded me and kicked me out when she found out about my cancer ..."
The bearded man looked at the teenager bathed in sunshine, and said in a hard voice: "Do you think this world is unfair? So ..."
"No, I think the world is fair." Pingan Chen shook his head, "It's reasonable to wait for death if you don't have the money for treatment, it's normal for the pension not to be issued for various reasons, isn't it understandable for the girlfriend to run away when the boyfriend gets cancer?"
"And you?"
"I just feel like the world didn't embrace me when I was at my most desperate.
If I were to immediately turn around and embrace the world now, I would be disgusted."
Pingan Chen looked at the bearded man, the light in his eyes dimming and fading.
The bearded man, however, also felt that this teenager sitting under the sunlight, it seemed, emanated death all over his body.
"Uncle, what you are guarding, is [your] world. But [my] world, [yet] is not worth guarding."
...
At the end of the street, the figure of Chen Pingan dragging his suitcase faded away.
He turned back and waved goodbye with a smile, then turned around again and blended into the crowd like that multitude of people.
The bearded man sat silently at the edge of the steps, smoking cigarettes one after another, his ears seemed to echo with the words that Pingan Chen left behind when he left.
"I won't join the Demon Beheading Division, at least now I can't find a reason to join the Demon Beheading Division, and I can't see the mission in your mouth. But you can find me if you need help, although I don't know if I can help."
The red light turned green.
The bearded man stubbed out his cigarette and blended into a crowd as well.
He hadn't returned to the Demon Chopper Division because he wanted to walk around.
To see people who lived under the same sky but existed in different worlds.