"So, you're a python?"
After listening to Deng Chen's story, Tan Wenbin looked at him curiously, reaching out to lift the other's sleeve, trying to find snake scales.
Deng Chen smiled wryly and rolled up both sleeves himself, allowing the other to touch and search freely:
"The black python is my spiritual form, but I've never had an actual python body, nor have I ever eaten a rat."
"Then this body of yours is?"
"Soone else's, he suddenly had a heart attack at the ti and was actually dead. I borrowed his body to live."
"Is it like a spirit possessing a body?"
"Sort of... yes."
"Since you are called Deng Chen, does that an the previous body's owner had the last na Chen?"
"No, the original owner of this body was surnad Deng, called Deng Chen. Deng is his father's last na, Chen is his mother's last na. At his grandmother's house, he was called Deng Chen, and at his maternal grandmother's house, he was called Chen Deng."
"Oh, you seem quite familiar with his family?"
"Yes, we've been together for many years. Previously, the Dragon King... "
"We're chatting privately, let's not be so formal, it seems too distant."
"Previously, Brother Xiao Yuan...?"
Deng Chen rembered that Tan Wenbin referred to the Dragon King in this way.
"Mm." Tan Wenbin nodded, praising, "You're much smarter than your Ah You."
Thinking of Lin Shuyou made Tan Wenbin feel a bit frustrated. Even though Brother Yuanzi had already taken care of things and the story was reaching its climax, he was supposed to make it in ti to make an appearance before the event concluded.
Tan Wenbin wasn't trying to co over to flatter Brother Yuanzi. Given his relationship with Brother Yuanzi, there was no need to deliberately do such things anymore.
He wanted to realize his own life's value. Every end of a wave is like the curtain call of a stage play, where the main actors co up to bow and thank the audience.
Initially, he was about to navigate through the white mist, and he would've made it in ti.
However, Lin Shuyou ca in, shouting, "Brother Bin, I'll take you in," and then he followed Lin Shuyou through the thick fog, wandering off further. By the ti the fog cleared, they almost ended up on another street.
He rushed over to offer support, but ended up almost turning into a "deserter" because of this communications officer Lin Shuyou.
Deng Chen didn't respond to these words, knowing that as an unnatural being, surviving in front of the Dragon King was already a stroke of luck. He didn't dare get involved in the terrifying power struggles of the Dragon King family.
"You continue talking."
"The first ti Brother Xiao Yuan ca to take pictures, after developing them for him, my eyes bled a lot. I had to flush it with water for a long ti to get clean.
I knew then that I had encountered a frightening person.
After Brother Xiao Yuan left, I went to the credit union, withdrew all my savings, and took them to my... Deng Chen's parents' house."
"And then you ca back?"
"Yes, Brother Xiao Yuan seed to know I would co back."
"Makes sense, for my Brother Yuanzi, that's not difficult." Tan Wenbin asked again, "But the books say that possessing a body will cause the body to keep having issues, like corpse spots or decay. Why do you still look smooth-skinned?"
"The body indeed has problems." Deng Chen laid his left hand open in front of him and slapped the back of his head with his right hand.
"Diddo!"
Two eyeballs popped out from their sockets and fell into his hand.
Tan Wenbin: "Damn!"
Deng Chen offered his two eyeballs to Tan Wenbin.
Tan Wenbin wiped his hands on his clothes and asked, "Uh, do I need to wash my hands?"
"It's fine, I can wash my eyes."
Tan Wenbin took the eyeballs in his hands, gently flicking them with his fingers, and they could move on their own, quite amusing.
After playing with them for a bit, Tan Wenbin returned the eyeballs to Deng Chen.
Deng Chen received them, took out a cloth, wiped the two eyeballs, and then inserted them back into his eye sockets one by one.
Tan Wenbin: "This is much more convenient than wearing glasses."
"This is the mutation in my body, so far, it's only appeared in the eyes."
"That's not really a mutation, much milder than what's docunted in books. I see that fourth uncle you ntioned, probably the white centipede you talked about, also demonstrates very sensitive ears. He can't see, but he can cook using his hearing, and the dishes are quite good.
It seems that the white centipede must have also borrowed a recently deceased body, possessing it."
The reason is simple, if you really randomly take over a body, who would willingly choose a blind person?
Deng Chen nodded, "That's probably the case."
"Haven't you been in touch earlier?"
"No, actually, when our consciousness awakened and each of us turned into a spirit, we were already split. Among the five of us... it's now four, there's no emotion.
Maybe, there's only a tiny bit of shared mory, like about that sketch, which I already offered to Brother Xiao Yuan.
If we were truly in contact, we wouldn't all be living in Jinling, wouldn't that give the pig a chance?"
"That's true."
"I was also quite surprised that all four of us ended up living in the sa city."
"Don't be surprised, it's the flow of the river driving you."
"The river?"
"You don't need to understand this, because my understanding is only partial too."
"Yes, understood."
Tan Wenbin walked to the counter, inspecting the yellow cloth package, sealing three little darlings inside.
This seal clearly is Brother Xiao Yuan's handiwork, using a blood seal.
"Hiss..." Tan Wenbin suddenly clapped his hands.
"Wha... what happened?" Deng Chen asked in confusion.
"Is Brother Xiao Yuan injured?"
Deng Chen imdiately rubbed his eyes, "Yes, his right hand is injured. I saw it in the image in my eyes."
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