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Chapter 81 The Heart is Life
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"Old woman, you said you'd atone for my sins, does that mean I'll be fine after you atone?" Lu Xiao asked Wu Xiumei, enduring the pain in her mouth.
"It's not that easy." Wu Xiumei was already a little sleepy after dinner. She sat on the earthen platform in front of the old house to cool off, holding a palm-leaf fan in her withered hands, not afraid of the darkness in the distance at all.
"Throughout the process of atonement, I paid for it myself, I showed my kindness, and what the victim received was only compensation, not the disappearance of the harm."
"You are merely the perpetrator; you have not participated in this process of atonement."
"You don't even have genuine kindness; you're just afraid, so now you're trying to atone for your sins."
"Naturally, there is no way to gain any atonement."
Good and evil cannot cancel each other out; good is good, and evil is evil.
Many things won't get better just because you do good deeds.
Therefore, atonement does not eliminate cause and effect, but rather introduces new possibilities, thereby bringing about change and preventing the fate brought about by cause and effect from overwhelming one.
The heart is life.
If one's heart remains unchanged, one's fate will not change. Even if Wu Xiumei helps Lu Xiao obtain forgiveness from all the victims, it will be of no use.
Since Lu Xiaoren is still the same person, the outcome will naturally not change.
Lu Xiao didn't quite understand the deeper meaning behind this, but he understood one thing: Wu Xiumei spent millions to atone for his sins, but it was of no use to him.
In the past, Lu Xiao would probably have cursed out loud and then physically assaulted the person.
But now, Lu Xiao no longer has that strength.
After a long and eventful day, ever since he met Li Shi, he had been either running away or encountering various dangers. Now, with his mouth injured and his ankle twisted, he no longer wanted to do those meaningless things.
He leaned against the wall of the hut, looking at the darkness that was about to engulf him, feeling utterly exhausted.
On the other side, Li Shi felt the lingering itching on his body, but he was actually holding back a lot of anger.
He's supposed to be the main character, but right now he's practically a bug.
He had never suffered such a great loss before.
He must retaliate, and he will definitely retaliate!
As Li Shi fell asleep, Li Yu woke up. He also focused his attention on the other two people in the room, preventing them from escaping.
Li Yu only fell asleep after they had fallen asleep and were breathing evenly.
After everyone's worries had faded into sleep, the night gradually passed, and remarkably, nothing unfortunate happened throughout the entire night.
Apart from an owl that snatched a bat and wandered into the room causing a ruckus, there were only some annoying mosquitoes.
When it was fully light, Li Shi, who hadn't been sleeping soundly, immediately woke up.
When I got up, I felt sore all over; the earthen bed in this old house was just uncomfortable.
In the past, he could dominate the battlefield as long as his second personality appeared, so he didn't need to work hard.
However, the current situation forces him to start clearing out the surroundings and setting traps along the way.
But soon, Li Shi narrowed his eyes and realized that Wu Xiumei had disappeared.
Lu Xiao was still lying in the house, and judging from her breathing, she was still asleep.
Li Shi got up and went out of the house, checking whether his arrangements from yesterday had been damaged while searching for Wu Xiumei's whereabouts.
The cabin is located halfway up a low hill.
A few houses can still be seen in the distance, but they are all abandoned.
A road covered in grass, winding its way down into the distance.
This is an abandoned little mountain village.
Twenty years ago, there might have been a few families here, but now that the road is impassable and transportation is inconvenient, naturally no one wants to live here anymore.
The old man's small house is the only residence here.
The cabin is located on a slope.
Beyond the earthen platform in front of the house is a slope covered with many fir trees.
To the left of the cabin was a rolling forest.
Li Shi and Lu Xiao sneaked over from this side.
To the right is a vegetable garden, where many vegetables are planted.
Behind the house is a nearly vertical hillside covered with all sorts of weeds and ferns.
Li Shi spent most of yesterday clearing the slope behind the house.
Because you never know when a big rock might roll down from here and kill you.
I have to say, if it weren't for the inconvenience of living there, living in the mountains would be really nice.
The air is fresh, and all you can hear is the wind, the water, and the birdsong; there's none of the hustle and bustle of the city.
However, Li Shi had no energy to appreciate the tranquility at the moment; he just sensed that something was wrong.
He had cleaned up everything around him and become familiar with his surroundings. Based on past experience, Li Yu had already begun to remind him that his luck was about to soar.
But this time it didn't happen.
All of this made Li Shi somewhat uneasy.
However, Li Shi soon spotted Wu Xiumei in the vegetable garden not far away, where she was weeding.
"Old woman, breakfast is here—" Li Shi is usually cowardly and incompetent, but he is quite adept at bullying the weak.
He didn't dare to speak loudly to people who were taller or more well-dressed than him.
But he was full of confidence in an old woman; he believed that by not killing her, he had saved her, and she should cook for him.
Before Li Shi could finish speaking, he felt a gust of cold wind rushing towards him.
The sunlight on the earthen platform gradually disappeared before his eyes.
By the time Li Shi walked over, there was no sunlight left.
The sky had turned gloomy without anyone noticing.
The eerie wind did not end; instead, it intensified.
The trees swayed, and a rustling sound echoed throughout.
The whole scene didn't look like a morning at seven or eight o'clock; it looked more like evening.
Upon seeing this scene, Li Shi instinctively shuddered.
Before he could say anything, Li Yu appeared and took control of his body. Looking at the darkening sky, he exuded an arrogant air, as if to say, "I'm standing here, waiting for you to come and kill me."
After a full night's rest, Li Yu felt that his luck had not yet returned to its peak, but he was no longer the same person he used to be.
Previously, he had focused all his energy on how to escape from the mental hospital, and he was only narrowly defeated by Lu Shiyou's unpreparedness.
Now that he knows of Lu Shi's existence, the other party will only be defeated by him like a villain.
The protagonist will eventually defeat the BOSS!
The next moment, with a cracking sound, a cedar tree not far away suddenly broke.
The broken tree branch struck a makeshift rope trap below.
This is the trap that Li Yu and Lu Xiao set up yesterday.
The trap was covered with a layer of dead leaves, but under the influence of metaphysics, these things became a side effect.
The trap was triggered by the impact, and one of the wooden wedges used for fixing it was pulled violently. The trap itself also had a spring-loaded mechanism formed by the bending of the wooden stick, so at this moment, that wooden wedge became like a hidden weapon.
Amidst the howling wind, almost no sound could be heard.
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