As he said this, the Lost Soul suddenly froze, then muttered under his breath, "Who is Ge Junma? Why do I feel like I've seen this person before…"
Sun Tiecheng said, "Let's not talk about Ge Junma yet, let's talk about you first. Are you the toad or not?"
The Lost Soul's expression went slack in waves, and he mumbled, "I'm not the toad, Ge Junma is the toad. I'm most afraid of Ge Junma."
His voice changed, no longer like Zhang Gunli's. It turned sharp and piercing, with a bit of a jumpy tone.
Sun Tiecheng said, "Why're you afraid of him, we're good friends. If he bullies you, we'll beat him up together!"
"Can't beat him, we can't take him," the Lost Soul turned his face to look at Sun Tiecheng. "Who are you again?"
Sun Tiecheng said, "I'm your good friend, your good friend from a bitter background!"
"Good friend from a bitter background," the Lost Soul fell into thought. "Do I even have friends? Don't you all look down on ?"
"I think highly of you, I really treat you as a friend!"
"You treating as a friend is useless," the Lost Soul kept shaking his head. "I'm one of the Lower clan people, I'll be Lower clan people my whole life."
Gui Jianchou stared, so stunned he forgot what he was supposed to be doing.
In the blink of an eye this Lost Soul had beco another person, from Zhang Gunli into soone with an unknown identity.
Zhang Gunli was born poor, went from herding sheep to lending money, and people who knew him always teased him about that.
But now he was saying he was one of the Lower clan people.
"Lower clan" is how they say it in the Inner State. How did he suddenly beco one of the Inner State People?
Sun Tiecheng kept on casually chatting with the Lost Soul. The two of them were talking heart to heart, like they really were friends from a past life.
"What's wrong with being Lower clan people?" Sun Tiecheng punched the Lost Soul. "I'm Lower clan people too, I don't feel like I live lowly."
"You don't feel that way?" The Lost Soul snorted. "What good is that? Do the Upper Clan give you a proper look?"
Sun Tiecheng said, unconvinced, "You think I'm dying for them to look at properly?"
"You're not dying for it, I am! I'm the best fighter among my peers, why should I let them look down on ? I'm going to beco Upper Clan! I have to!"
Sun Tiecheng snorted coldly. "You're gonna beco Upper Clan? You can change your Bloodline or what?"
"I can, I changed it, you don't know, do you!" The Lost Soul looked at Sun Tiecheng. "I've already changed my Bloodline. I'm not called Huang Zenan anymore, I'm not that grasshopper anymore, my na is Huang Zenan! I'm Upper Clan now!"
"Tsk tsk tsk!" Sun Tiecheng looked at the Lost Soul with disdain. "You change a na and that makes you Upper Clan?"
The Lost Soul shook his head over and over, leaned in close to Sun Tiecheng, and said very earnestly, "It's not changing the na, it's changing the stock. I changed my Bloodline!"
"Bloodline can be changed?"
"It can! But you have to do sothing big. If you can't get this big thing done, they'll have to change back."
"What big thing?"
The Lost Soul lowered his head and said, "I can't tell you."
Sun Tiecheng hooked both hands into his sleeves and squatted down next to the Lost Soul. "Aren't we childhood buddies? As close as real Brothers? I only got my start because you lent three hundred Ocean Dollars!"
The Lost Soul stared blankly at Sun Tiecheng as two strands of mory churned over and over in his mind.
There had originally been a clear Boundary between those two strands of mory, but it was as if Sun Tiecheng had taken a spoon and slowly stirred them together.
"We really are good friends?" The Lost Soul looked at Sun Tiecheng. His tone changed again, not as steady as Zhang Gunli's, but not that jumpy either.
"Yeah, you herd sheep, I hunt!" Sun Tiecheng nodded repeatedly.
"Mm, we're good friends." The Lost Soul also kept nodding. The two strands of mory fused together within a reasonable range.
Sun Tiecheng said, "If you've beco Upper Clan, shouldn't you pull up too? What exactly did they have you do? Point to a path too!"
The Lost Soul's voice started getting jumpy again. He spoke mysteriously, "I'll tell you just this one thing, you mustn't tell anyone else. If you want to beco Upper Clan, first you have to put your body into a furnace and burn it."
Sun Tiecheng listened carefully. "And after it's burned?"
"After it's burned, it turns into water, then gets recast."
"And after it's recast?"
"After it's recast, you beco different, you beco another person. Then you burn the Soul again just like the body.
I passed out from the pain. When I woke up, I had beco another person, I had beco Zhang Gunli. I rembered everything about him, really rembered, just like it was my own life."
Sun Tiecheng asked again, "Then your own stuff, do you still rember it?"
"At first I still rembered. Later an Upper Clan person ca, nad Luo Shigang.
You know the Luo Family people, they're Upper Clan, their status is really high. He gave dicine. After I took the dicine, I couldn't rember anymore, I couldn't even recall what my own na was."
"And then?"
"Then I rembered again that my na was Zhang Gunli, I was a moneylender, I was from Puluo State.
At first I thought People of Puluo State lived low, but later I felt it wasn't low, because I was People of Puluo State, I had been since I was little.
I went out to lend money on interest, counting my IOUs one by one, making them pay back.
Other people's money wasn't the main thing, I had to think of a way to get Feng Chongli's money back, I had to get his money back."
The Lost Soul's tone began to steady, as if he had beco Zhang Gunli again.
Sun Tiecheng said, "What's so special about his money?"
The Lost Soul said very seriously, "Special, his money is the most special. If he can't pay it back, he has to introduce into Snowflake Beach.
Once I get into Snowflake Beach, the big job is half done. Then I'll figure out all the intel on Snowflake Beach, and bring our people in to wipe Snowflake Beach out. That'll count as earning great Gong. After that, I'll be Upper Clan!"
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