In the living room of the old house, a bonfire was lit. An old-fashioned kettle was hung on a shelf. Under the licking of the flames, steam gradually began to emerge.
Although the house was old, it was cleaned up very well. The furniture was neatly arranged. Some old-fashioned daily necessities were placed on a wooden shelf on the table.
A tattered kerosene lamp hung on the wall, but it couldn't be lit at all because there was no kerosene. It was more like a decoration.
Li Xiang and Amy sat in front of the bonfire, looking at the boy who was eating a sandwich and a fried steak on a plate taken out of the RV.
The fish bones left after eating the fish meat were in an empty bowl on the floor in front of them.
The boy ate with great relish, but he did not eat ravenously. Instead, he ate slowly. Amy's eyes were full of pity.
The child's name was Eugene.
He seemed to be a mixed-race, with a signature Asian face and skin, but his hair was golden and his pupils were black.
He was twelve years old.
His father and mother died when he was one year old.
He grew up safely with the help of an old couple from a neighbor's house.
As he grew up, the remaining population in the town either moved away or died of old age because they were unwilling to leave their homes. The mounds on the cross streets were dug by the old couple and the other old residents. The couple had sent away the last old man who died of natural causes.
Two years ago, the old couple also died. They were the ones whose house Li Xiang and Amy had first explored. They were also a group of lazy old people who smoked opium that had expired for an unknown period of time.
Their mental state had long been abnormal. One night, a few old lunatics broke into the old couple's home, killed them, and even tried to kill Eugene, but Eugene escaped at the critical moment.
Eugene was very sad. Although he was young, he was determined to seek revenge. But perhaps it was retribution. The old lunatics eventually died from the expired opium.
Eugene buried the old couple and ignored the bodies of the lunatics.
He was the only living person in the town. He lived alone for two years. When he lacked food, he would walk to a large natural lake more than ten kilometers away. The old couple had often taken him to fish there with a fishing net.
Until today, he met Li Xiang and his wife.
The child was very calm when he told these stories, even when he talked about the old couple being killed, he seemed to have no emotional waves.
Could it be a lack of emotion?
The blond boy Eugene, who had finished the last bite of steak, looked up and saw Li Xiang and his wife. His calm and beautiful eyes seemed to be able to see through their minds. He spoke, perhaps because he had not communicated with people for a long time, his words were a little stuttering.
"The Buddhist scriptures say, 'How can life be born? How can death be dead?' Originally, life and death, death and life are all in the same cycle. Death is the beginning of life, and life is the starting point of death."
"The Buddha said, 'Destiny is created by oneself, appearance is created by the heart, and all things in the world are transformed. If the heart does not move, all things will not move. If the heart does not change, all things will not change.'"
"Suffering is the norm in life. The death of my grandparents made me suffer, but I will not be immersed in pain forever. Looking to the future and living positively are the best rewards for my father, mother, and grandparents."
Li Xiang and Amy were a little in disbelief. Could this be said by a twelve-year-old child who had lived alone for two years?
"Do you like reading Buddhist scriptures, Eugene?" Li Xiang glanced at some Buddhist scriptures placed on the table not far away and asked.
"I like to think, so my grandparents gave me these Buddhist scriptures. There is wisdom and thinking that people don't know in the Buddhist scriptures. I often read them." Eugene nodded, put down the empty plate, then stood up and picked up the boiling kettle and poured three cups of hot water.
He took two of the cups and handed them to Li Xiang and Amy.
The two took them and thanked him politely. Eugene was stunned for a moment, then smiled. Although his skin was a little sallow, his facial features looked very delicate.
"Thank you. I had delicious food today."
Eugene turned around and picked up an old Buddhist scripture and handed it to Li Xiang and Amy.
"For you. My grandparents said that this is the Buddhist scripture that my father liked to read the most, and it is also my favorite Buddhist scripture."
"This is precious." Amy didn't reach out to take it.
"The Buddha said, 'Only when you know how to be grateful can you have it.'"
Eugene whispered, "Thank you for all the encounters, and thank you for the food you gave me."
"You little guy, you're talking in a practiced way."
Li Xiang laughed dumbly, and then under Eugene's pure eyes, he took the Buddhist scripture and said seriously, "I will read and collect it carefully."
"Do you believe in Buddha very much?" Amy asked curiously.
"Belief or not, it's just about the heart. When you believe, Buddha exists, and when you don't believe, Buddha doesn't exist," Eugene said calmly.
"Okay, then Eugene, are you willing to leave this place? I can send you to a safe place to live."
"Yes." Eugene answered directly without hesitation.
"Do you believe in us very much?"
"I believe in my feelings." Eugene touched his heart. He could feel the strong throbbing, and this throbbing drove him to agree.
"Okay, you feel very good."
As soon as the voice fell, a golden vortex suddenly appeared in front of them, and a figure walked out. Li Xiang and Amy were a little surprised by this gorgeous scene. They were not surprised by the scene itself, but by their son's appearance at this time.
Eugene's expression was very calm, as if nothing could shock him.
Leon came out wearing a turtleneck sweater, a black jacket, and jeans. "I'm sorry to disturb your dinner, Dad, Mom."
"Did you miss us?" Mother Amy stood up, walked to her son, and gave him a big hug.
Li Xiang patted his mother's shoulder, let go of her, and looked at Eugene.
"Eugene is the only child left in this town. I feel he is very special, Leon. I think..." Li Xiang started, but was interrupted by Leon before he finished speaking.
"Yes, he is very special."
Leon's voice was very calm, but his parents, who had lived together for many years, noticed something. The couple frowned and stopped talking.
"Who gave you the courage to look for my parents?"
"Because of your father?"
There was no fluctuation in his tone, but Leon's gaze was full of invisible oppression, as if the world was about to collapse.
Eugene, a twelve-year-old boy, remained calm.
"I don't know what you are talking about, sir."
"I don't care what you know."
Boom!
Instantly, a terrifying golden light ripple exploded and swept across the town. The terrible power destroyed all materials: the ground, houses, wooden boards, kettles, mottled old kerosene lamps, and everything was annihilated and dissipated.
In this terrible scene of destruction, Li Xiang and Amy saw that time seemed to flow back. It was still the same town: the old couple, those crazy people who smoked expired opium, the figures digging graves with shovels, and the figure wearing a purple suit who stepped into the town.
A black fog enveloped the town, and everything was subtly changed under the fog.
The man disappeared at some point, but there was a person who had never been there before, who was the boy named Eugene in front of him.
All the images were annihilated, the whole town was destroyed, and there were only weeds and the bright moon hanging in the sky around them, and of course, the luxury off-road RV.
This child Eugene, who was originally encountered by Amy and Li Xiang, was finally no longer so plain.
Under the moonlight, he was gloomy, his eyes were rendered black, weird, and terrifying.
"You are greater than what my dead father described."
"Eugene" raised his hands in a gesture of surrender and said slowly.
But his pretentious performance was met with Leon's cold eyes.
He stretched out his fingers, and a surging, terrifying energy suddenly burst out.
Death came. "Eugene's" face changed, and he snapped his fingers suddenly.
In an instant, the whole earth shook and cracked, and a touch of heat bloomed from these cracks.
It seemed that there was a flame, and an army was about to explode.
"Eugene" was entangled in the mist and rushed straight into the sky to escape, but Leon didn't even look at him, and pointed his right-hand finger to the sky on the left.
Boom!
The sky and earth suddenly turned golden, as if the sky was collapsing and the earth was sinking.
The golden sky was pressing down with terrible pressure.
Under the surging and terrifying sacred power, the figure of "Eugene" appeared under the empty sky.
He looked up at the golden sky that had already pressed down.
His face was full of disbelief.
Then his whole body was like spontaneous combustion, accompanied by wisps of black smoke, and was completely annihilated and dissipated.
When "Eugene" died, the cracked and shaking ground returned to calm and recovered.
The golden sky turned into golden particles and dispersed, and everything returned to calm and darkness.
"Wow, look at how cool my son is, so cool."
Before Leon could put down his finger, the old lady rushed over, squeezed Leon's cheeks with both hands, and looked at her handsome son with admiration.
He was full of security, handsome, and good at fighting.
Leon was a little helpless. Who dared to do this to him now?
Only these living ancestors in the family.
There was no other way. His mother had to be spoiled even with tears in her eyes.
Fortunately, the old man couldn't stand it anymore, so he grabbed his excited wife and asked, "What was that just now?"
"A demon?"
"A smart fool, but he must have been tricked by his father and wanted to lurk by my side through you," Leon looked at his father gratefully and then said.
"Is that guy dead?"
"No, this is just a puppet he created through flesh and blood magic and black magic. The destruction of this puppet can't hurt him."
"He thought that the human created in this way could confuse me, but he was too weak."
"What a sinister guy," Li Xiang couldn't help but complain. If it hadn't been for Leon, he would have thought that this kid was just a poor man, and his pretentious attitude made him admire him a little.
He even wanted to take him to Madrid Port for training.
"I won't disturb your next trip."
The golden vortex channel suddenly emerged, and a hint of red could be seen faintly over there.
After saying that, he walked directly into it and disappeared.
"Uh, that place is the Earth?" Seeing his son leave, Li Xiang looked at his wife strangely.
His wife couldn't help laughing. "You don't think Leon let that guy go, do you, honey?"
Hiss... "Okay, I know what he is going to do. I'm sure he must have inherited your temper." Li Xiang guessed what Leon was going to do and sighed.
But just after sighing, he realized that something was wrong. His heart trembled, and he looked at his wife. Sure enough, what caught his eyes was Amy's half-smile expression.
"Honey, we have to talk about my temper tonight. How about it?"
"You are a little too sensitive, honey. You know I don't mean that."
Under the moonlight, you can see the miserable man excitedly explaining something to his wife, but unfortunately, his wife said nothing and dragged him into the RV.
A continuous war of attrition was about to start, and it would never end.
In the Hell Dimension, the Lord of Hell, Mephisto, stayed comfortably in his castle.
On his throne, he played with a special soul that he had plundered with his own hands.
Demons always like to play with souls. Torture makes them feel happy. Mephisto was no exception. What made him even happier was that his ambitious and stupid son had been tricked by him into going to Earth.
Being targeted by that terrible guy, he believed that his son would be in a mess.
Mephisto sighed with joy.
Since he had accidentally met the human boy who interested him on Earth, a few years had passed. He was originally thinking about how to trick the boy into hell or trick him into signing a contract to subdue him.
But before he could implement his idea, the boy had grown to an incredible level.
Even not long ago, the former God King of Asgard, the Great Serpent, was defeated by this boy, and he had trained a large number of powerful warriors, which made his original idea disappear.
Leon's name had already become quite well-known in the Hell Dimension to a certain extent.
This popularity was definitely limited to the demon lords.
Ordinary demons couldn't find out what had happened inside Asgard.
(End of Chapter)
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