we are just monsters

36 Genius
"What what? What does it mean not to have a previous life?" Xia Xiaoman regained his energy.

"It literally means that there is a new life when it dissipates, and a new soul is like a newborn bud."

"Oh~"

Xia Xiaoman was thoughtful, it seemed that Gu Cheng regarded her as dead very early.

Gu Cheng pulled on his mask. When someone passed by in front of him, he stopped talking. He bought a deep-fried ice cream on the side of the road and ate it while walking.

Xia Xiaoman could only watch helplessly, she really wanted to eat.

Haven't tasted what this stuff tastes like yet.

Gu Cheng obviously has no idea of ​​sharing, and there is no condition for the dead to share outside, so he can enjoy it alone.

Xia Xiaoman said angrily: "I'm not dead, how old are you still eating this kind of child's food!"

Gu Cheng took a bite of the ice cream. It was hot on the outside and icy on the inside. It was cool and sweet, and said: "Nowadays people are more and more able to enjoy it. I have lived for so many years to wait for this kind of era. Why should I suffer myself? On the contrary, you, Once you open and close your eyes, you can be a human being and enjoy life.”

"Hmph! Immortal!"

"In such a beautiful world, what's so good about being a ghost?"

"Only you think it's beautiful."

"Well, maybe it's because I've lived too long."

Holding the box, Gu Cheng looked like a young man who was bored and bought an ice cream on the street. Human beings can always do a lot of tricks on food, and there are still many things he hasn't tasted.Walking around a corner, I arrived at the old alley, just finished eating and threw the box into the trash can, put on the mask as if I hadn’t done anything, and stopped in front of Yixuange’s shop.

There are not many shops in the lifeless old alley. Internet celebrity shops and snack bars cannot continue to open here. There are only tea, calligraphy, calligraphy and painting, and Zhou Xiaotian's business relies on word of mouth and old customers. It is just right for the flow of people to attract customers, quiet and low-key.

Lilith inside was flicking her tail in boredom. Seeing Zhou Xiaotian clicking the ballpoint pen, she noticed Gu Cheng's figure, and her tail stopped immediately.

Zhou Xiaotian also raised his head, propped his chin with one hand and did not move, originally he wanted to greet a guest, but after knowing that he was traveling with him, he didn't bother to move, just sat behind the table and watched what he was going to do today.

"Shenfeng Tongkao, written by Zhang Nan in the Ming Dynasty. Surprisingly, his theory of disease medicine became a very important system later, and Ren Tieqiao in the Qing Dynasty was also deeply influenced by his theory."

Seeing the "Shenfeng Tongkao" opened by Zhou Xiaotian, Gu Cheng said while looking at the calligraphy and paintings hanging in the shop.

Zhou Xiaotian: "Are you sick?"

"..."

"Hahahahahahaha!" Xia Xiaoman didn't hold back, and stood beside him laughing.

Relying on the fact that I have lived for a long time, I see that everyone wants to teach me a few times. If I am an old man, it is almost the same, and I want to pretend to be so young at such a young age. Now that I have failed to pretend, Changsheng is not omnipotent.

Gu Cheng didn't care, he tickled Lilith's chin with his finger and teased the cat, "Aren't you playing Liuyao? It looks like you've got a little bit of everything now."

"There are always some geniuses in the world." Zhou Xiaotian lay down on the table without any modesty.

"Indeed, talent cannot be fully utilized, it is tantamount to wasting."

Gu Cheng turned his head to look at Xia Xiaoman, and Xia Xiaoman turned his head to look elsewhere.

"When you meet friends, it's time to have a good chat, not to sit and talk, but to exchange ideas with each other. Why do you seem so resistant?" Gu Cheng took a serious look at Zhou Xiaotian, this girl is indeed a bit young, It is not easy to have this kind of spirituality, I only worry about being distracted by mediocre masters.

Perhaps her master's death is not a bad thing. If it is a mediocre teacher, it is better for her to read ancient books and walk steadily on this road.

"What's there to talk about with you? I'm a genius, aren't you?" Zhou Xiaotian looked at him and said.

"Maybe?"

"Kun made Gengchen, Gengyin, Yihai, Jichou, what about these eight characters?"

Zhou Xiaotian sat upright and assumed the posture of discussing the Tao, but what he said made Gu Cheng frown.

Xia Xiaoman was waiting to see his joke.

"There is no Geng Yin month in the year of Gengchen." Gu Cheng shook his head, this kind of little trick can deceive laymen at most.

Xia Xiaoman pouted.

Zhou Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his face, "This is Pan Jinlian's horoscope in the records. You are the first to see it at a glance. Some people study it seriously for a long time."

"Naughty."

Gu Cheng patted Lilith on the head.

Lilith:? ?
It's not what I said, you shoot her!
The black cat stared at Gu Cheng resentfully.

"Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng is just a bad book writer, he knows nothing." Gu Cheng said.

Zhou Xiaotian sat behind the table and watched him teasing the cat, "You can take this cat away, I see you like it."

"Huh?" This was Gu Cheng's reaction.

"Meow?!!!!" This was Lilith's reaction, her ears quivered twice, and she looked at Zhou Xiaotian in disbelief.

"My master gave me a dream, saying not to keep this black cat."

Zhou Xiaotian said in a low voice, he finally dreamed of Master, but it was in a mess, telling her to throw away the cat for a while, and telling her to burn some of the little girl's clothes...

Although it was just a dream, she still went to buy some clothes after thinking about it for a long time. Maybe it was just a dream, but what if Master missed her?
"Your master still cares about you." Gu Cheng looked around, but he didn't see any wandering spirits of old men or old women around who refused to leave.

Coming out of Zhou Xiaotian's shop, Gu Cheng wandered around with the dejected Lilith.

"What are you looking for?" Xia Xiaoman, who had been silent for a long time, asked curiously.

"I'll see if I can see her master around here, maybe I know her, and I can give him a ride."

Gu Cheng turned around a lot, and the neighborhood was clean, not to mention old men and women, he didn't even see a young dead soul.

Xia Xiaoman looked beside him with a calm expression.

No results, only to go back.

Xia Xiaoman floated behind him, a cat and a ghost followed Gu Cheng's footsteps.

"You are so good at being a teacher? Are you going to disturb a little girl like a hooligan?"

"Do you know why a genius is called a genius?" Gu Cheng asked.

"If you can't live for so many years like you, what's the use of a genius."

"I've just lived long enough to be smarter than average, but still average at heart."

Gu Cheng looked back at the small shop, and said calmly: "Before Newton discovered gravity, the fruit fell from the tree for thousands of years. Before Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, everyone had been using engraving. Give me 1 years to save me." You can't make a car either."

"But sooner or later someone will find out."

"Yes, sooner or later there will be that person who discovered it. Before that person appeared, everyone was not a genius. Why didn't Qin Shihuang summarize the three laws? Why wasn't Li Shimin curious about the lid of the teapot being lifted by steam? Well, maybe he was curious, Just curious."

Xia Xiaoman: "Uh..."

Isn’t it the same that you have lived for so many years without doing anything?The steam engine was invented by foreigners.

"Well, it has always been those ordinary people who have promoted the development of the world, and the elites of each era, one by one, improved and created from generation to generation. I can't do anything, and I haven't invented anything, because I have no talent, not a genius, Cognition can only be limited to this era, and geniuses are beyond the era. When I was listening to the radio decades ago, I never imagined that everyone on the street now has a mobile phone, and you can meet people thousands of miles away with just one tap , I just hitched a ride with ordinary people, if there are miracles in the world, they must be created by humans, not you ghost, nor me old monster, and not that foolish witch."

Lilith: "Meow?"

"If everyone's talent can be used to the best of their ability, I should be traveling in space now, instead of being stuck on this broken earth with a vampire as my neighbor." Gu Cheng has a dream of stars and oceans.

(End of this chapter)