Chapter 99 Guilt
Chapter 99 Guilt
into the night.
The maid outside the house did as Liu Xi said and went back as soon as it got dark. However, she was still polite. At least she had basic manners. She respectfully asked for permission outside the house before leaving.
This shows that people are not particularly stupid.
inside the house.
Liu Xi was fiddling with his storage ring. To be precise, he was clearing out the space in the storage ring, which was several cubic meters in size, which was full of gold coins that he had taken with him when he left the valley with the Little Medical Fairy. Then, based on ten thousand gold coins, he divided it into more than twenty parts, and packed them all in a batch of wooden boxes that he asked the Xiao family for near evening.
Finally, he put it into his ring.
This time when he went to Wutan City, except for a few important things, he left all the other miscellaneous items, including the precious high-grade medicinal materials obtained from the treasure cave, in the valley.
Although the space in his storage ring is not large, it is still several cubic meters, which is enough to hold two or three hundred thousand gold coins.
The reason why I have to be alone in the house and take the trouble to move the gold coins around like this is certainly not for fun.
The string of scarlet numbers on the system's virtual panel made him aware of his remaining lifespan. He had a very strong sense of time and would not waste it.
After tonight, half of the gold coins in the ring will be used up.
"The original body is really worthy of being killed..."
It seemed to have become Liu Xi's habit to complain about the "scumbag" from time to time, but this time's complaints were different from any previous ones.
There was a strong hatred in the contempt.
When he came to this world and integrated into this body, he immediately received the vast memories from his original body.
Those memories were dark, obscene, and many of them often made Liu Xi feel uncomfortable when he thought of them now. Some memories even made him feel guilty.
In fact, this guilt feeling was unfair. He had only taken over this body and received the memory of that scumbag, but he had to bear the torture from the depths of his soul and the condemnation of his conscience.
Obviously, he was not the one who did those things, but those memories seemed to be engraved in his mind and could not be erased, forcing him to passively put himself in the situation and feel as if he was the one who did those things.
If these things were placed on Liu Xi, when he recalled them sometimes, not only would he not be affected, but his dark heart would even feel "excited".
But he can't do that, he is not the scumbag he used to be, he will feel guilty and remorseful because of this!
The consciousness of his original body had disappeared as soon as he entered this body, but because he accepted the memories of his original body, he was deeply influenced by the original body and even had an inexplicable "obsession" with some "things".
For example, the night he shared a room with the "unconscious" Xiao Xun'er.
Obviously, he had always been himself, but at that time he felt that he could not control himself. He said some terrifying words and did some things that he had only thought about but did not put into action.
……
Walking out of the house and leaving the courtyard, it was just after nightfall when Liu Xi headed outside the Xiao family mansion. On the way, he met many people from the Xiao family walking in groups of three or four. When they saw him walking out, they all stopped and after he walked a little further away, they all began to point and talk:
"Did you see it? That's the Liu Xi in the rumors. Hehe, let me tell you, seeing how anxious he is, it's very likely that he has only been in our Xiao family for less than a day. He can't hold back his anger because there are no women around, so he must be going to those brothels in the city..."
"Oh~, really?"
"Haha, it's already dark, what else can he do outside? Do you believe that a man like him who loves sex is going out to do serious work at night?"
"Wow! Look at what you said. Can't I just go there to do something serious? Doing something serious on the couch with those whores in the brothel!"
“Puchi~, hahahaha, brother, you… you are really humorous…”
"Hey, do you think his body can handle doing that every day?"
"Oh, you're still concerned about his health... He's young, and he's an alchemist. Even if he can't handle it, he can just go back and make up for it, right?"
"..."
……
The transformed five senses allowed Liu Xi to hear every word of the gossip coming from behind him, but he did not react much.
No matter where you go, as long as there are people gathering, there will be voices talking about you behind your back. Sometimes you don’t hear them, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Of course, this actually also shows Liu Xi's presence from the side.
He had only been at the Xiao family for half a day, and almost everyone knew about his coming. His popularity among the younger generation of the Xiao family today had overshadowed that of the Xiao family's pearl.
Although the topics discussing him were not very good...
After half a cup of tea, they arrived outside the Xiao family. Suddenly, Liu Xi's sharp senses detected that there seemed to be a few people who followed him out of the Xiao family.
He frowned, not knowing whether this was an arrangement by the top management of the Xiao family or a "prank" by some people. He walked for a long time, but the people behind him were still following closely.
On the way, he was unsure of the situation, so he just used some means to shake off those "tails" temporarily, but he guessed that it was most likely a "prank" by the younger generation of the Xiao family, because those people's ability to track people was very poor.
As for who had played the prank, he was not in the mood to think about it.
Xiao Yu who was teased by him in the market that day?
Or was it Xiao Ning who was taught a lesson by him?
Or is he an admirer of Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yu?
In short, it’s nothing more than these people.
Apart from these people, he had no conflicts with other members of the Xiao family, and no one else would risk offending an alchemist by playing such a prank.
……
When Liu Xi walked out again from a secluded alley, his appearance had changed.
This is Mr. Song, the shopkeeper of Wanyaozhai in Qingshan Town, what he looks like now.
"I believe there are few people in Wutan City who know someone who looks like this, right?"
Muttering something, he strode towards a nearby place in his memory.
As night fell, even if he was unlucky enough to meet someone who knew the shopkeeper Song from Qingshan Town, it would not be a big deal, as he could not see clearly. If he did not want others to recognize him as Liu Xi, there would be no need for him to change his face into someone else's.
But there was no way. The places he was going to tonight, and the people in those places, I was afraid that even if he turned into ashes, they would be able to dig him out.
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In the east of the city, in an ordinary house located in a slum alley.
"Mother, please turn off the lights. That...that incident has already passed. Turn off the lights. I am not afraid..."
The speaker was a young girl in her teens. At the moment, she was wrapped tightly in quilt and spoke to her mother who entered her room in a calm voice.
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(End of this chapter)