I just wanted to become an immortal and was forced to open a harem

She didn't know about Lin Hezhen's family situation until she read the revelations on the school forum.

The junior student must be very lonely. Both his parents were killed and he was alone at home every day. He was also ostracized and bullied by his classmates at school.

Under this situation, he still cared about and helped himself so much. Even if his words were offensive, as a senior, I shouldn't lose my temper with him.

Mai Sakurajima finally understood why she could feel a sense of closeness to Lin Hezhen, because they were the same kind of people.

Mai Sakurajima's parents are still alive, but they have been divorced.

Her mother is very career-minded. Compared to her daughter, she seems to treat and train Sakurajima Mai more as an artist, and she also hopes to make her mother happy and work hard to pursue her acting career.

From the beginning, I was ignorant and followed orders, but later I fell in love with acting. I became more and more famous, and everything went smoothly.She feels that her mother is the best mother in the world, giving her maternal love and a lifelong career.

However, her mother betrayed her agreement, and the two clashed, quarreled several times, and eventually parted ways.

In this way, Sakurajima Mai lost her only relative. She had never made friends and was not accepted by her classmates. She was like a kite with a broken string, not knowing where it came from or where it was going.

In this way, she drifted and fell until Lin Hezhen grabbed the kite string and met this boy who was as lonely as her.

Neither of them said a word, allowing silence to fall.

When the tram arrived, they followed the crowd into the carriage.

At this time, there were many students returning home from club activities, and many migrant workers coming off work. The trams were crowded with people, all kinds of smells were mixed, and the air was a bit stuffy.

Sakurajima Mai was not in the "invisible" state at this time. Many people recognized her in the car. All kinds of eyes from the men around her were always directed at her intentionally or unintentionally. Although she was used to it, Sakurajima Mai still frowned. He frowned.

Although there are not many reports of tram Chihan, they have never stopped.In order to avoid accidents, Lin Hezhen took Sakurajima Mai all the way to the corner of the carriage and stood against the wall.

He grabbed the roof ring with one hand and supported the carriage with the other, using his body to isolate the crowd. He protected Mai Sakurajima and stood in the corner of the carriage, looking like he was "banging" Sakurajima Mai.

Her face turned slightly red and her eyes were a little evasive as she said, "Thank you."

"You're welcome."

The two were so close that they could clearly hear each other's breathing.

Mai Sakurajima looked at the other person's neck and collarbone exposed in his white shirt, his smooth and strong arms, his sculpted face, his dark and deep eyes... and suddenly felt panicked.

In order to break the awkward atmosphere, she took the initiative to stir up the topic: "Recently, the school forum has been talking about you. Rumors are flying everywhere, and your personal information and family situation have been openly exposed. It's really scary."

"There is no way. With the Internet, anyone can hide behind their accounts and speak freely, or even deliberately guide public opinion. People don't care about the truth and just want to vent their emotions."

"You don't seem to care."

"The sun, the moon, and the stars have existed forever. The fleeting moments of life are all phantoms. A few idle words are just dust in the wind and fog on the river. Do you need to care?"

"Rather than clarify the facts, do you choose to surrender without a fight?"

"It's just not necessary. I, Lin Hezhen, have been doing what I do all my life. Why do I need to explain to others!"

Mai Sakurajima looked up at him. Lin Hezhen's indifferent eyes were filled with aloof indifference. He really didn't care what others thought.

After a pause, he suddenly said: "By the way, Mai, come to my house later."

"Huh?" Mai Sakurajima looked like she had seen a ghost.

"Is there anything wrong with your mind?"

"No, I formally invite you to my home while I am awake. Don't worry, there is no one else in my home."

"How can I be relieved? It's too early, no, why should I go to your house?"

"I want to show you something good." Lin Hezhen said seriously.

"..."

Mai Sakurajima was speechless. She thought of the jokes popular among female artists in the entertainment industry.

When a producer or director says to an actress in private, "Come to my room tonight, I want to discuss the script with you," this sentence basically has the same meaning as the red sofa placed in the audition room.

However, based on her understanding of Lin Hezhen, although they had not been together for a long time, he did not give her the impression of a frivolous person.

That's not what he meant, right?

Chapter 25 Talismans

Mai Sakurajima followed Lin Hema in an uneasy mood and watched him take out the key and open the door.

It looked like a pet cat that had never been outside before, cautiously trying to enter the door of a new world.

"Please come in." Lin Hezhen put on slippers at the entrance and took out a pair of women's slippers and handed them to Sakurajima Mai.

Mai Sakurajima didn't answer, her suspicious eyes lingering between Lin Kazuma and the women's slippers.

Lin Hezhen explained: "These are my aunt's slippers. She is now my guardian. However, she is very busy at work and rarely comes here. The slippers are almost unused."

His calm attitude dispelled Mai Sakurajima's doubts. She still joked with a mischievous attitude: "Who knows? Maybe you often bring girls home, so you always keep a pair of women's slippers, pretending to be a guardian. of."

Lin Hezhen stared at her with his bright black eyes and said, "It never happened before. Now, you are the only girl I take home. If you want, I can buy a pair of slippers, specially for you." You prepare alone."

Sakurajima Mai's face suddenly turned red: "Who wants you to prepare slippers specially for me? I don't plan to live here! Don't get me wrong, I just agreed to your invitation to be a temporary guest, and I may never come again in the future. "

"I know. Anyway, come in first." Lin Hezhen made an invitation gesture.

"excuse me."

Mai Sakurajima hesitated, but finally put on slippers and walked into a stranger's house for the first time in her life.

Because they belong to the same apartment building, the apartment layout here is similar to hers, but the decoration style and layout are simpler.

The room was not like she imagined. There were no clothes scattered everywhere, the corners and furniture were not covered with dust, and the trash can was not filled with suspicious paper balls. The whole room was so clean and tidy that it could be said to be sparkling.

"It overturned my imagination. I thought the rooms of boys living alone were very messy." She looked around, not missing a corner.

"Sorry to disappoint you." Lin Hezhen opened the refrigerator and took out wheat tea and poured two cups of it, then made tea.

He likes to keep things in order, and with handy little spells like "Clean", keeping the room tidy isn't too easy.

"Thank you." Mai Sakurajima took the barley tea.

The two sat on the sofa in the living room.

Sakurajima Mai composed herself and asked, "Is there anything you can tell me now?"

"Well, as I said before, I have something to show you."

Sakurajima Mai looked weird, no, no, he doesn't really want to show me that, does he?

Lin Hezhen stood up from the sofa and reached under his body.

Sakurajima Mai was so frightened that she jumped up and covered her face with her schoolbag in panic. She turned to look at the wall, her face as red as a boiling kettle.

"What are you going to do? Disgusting, obscene, shameless!" she screamed.

Lin Hezhen: "Huh?"

He bent down and opened the drawer under the sofa, took out the yellow paper, cinnabar and brush, and placed them on the coffee table.

"This is it."

Mai Sakurajima maintained her posture and closed her eyes tightly, saying: "It is illegal for you to do this. I will call the police immediately. I hope you will not ruin your entire life because of impulsiveness."

Lin Hezhen looked confused: "What are you talking about? I just want to draw a talisman and give it to you."

"Amulet?" Mai Sakurajima opened her eyes in surprise.

When she saw the things on the table clearly, she undoubtedly understood that she had made a big mistake. She was so ashamed and angry that she wished she could crawl into a crack in the ground.

Lin Hezhen nodded and said: "Although you refuse to reveal the truth, I guess you made a wish to some false god, which caused your sense of existence to gradually disappear."

Mai Sakurajima was in a state of shock. With almost no clues, Lin Hezhen's guess was almost exactly the same as the actual situation.

"If you don't intervene, the situation will continue to get worse. Everyone will forget you, ignore you, and cannot observe you. Eventually, you will be abandoned by the entire human society. You will not get treatment when you are sick and injured, and you will not get assistance when you are in danger. , a person lives a difficult and lonely life until he dies silently in a corner. Are you willing to accept such a future?"

"I..." Mai Sakurajima was speechless.

The future described by Lin Hezhen was too scary, completely different from her original wish.

Although her experiences these days also made her realize that the situation was a bit bad, she really didn't expect that it would turn into such a bad ending in the future.

Just when she was in confusion, Lin Hezhen continued: "If you want to completely solve the problem, you must find the false god you made a wish for and take back what you lost."

Mai Sakurajima smiled bitterly and said: "It's easy to say. The guy you keep denigrating as a false god is a powerful existence that can easily interfere with reality, change human cognition, and deprive the concept of existence. What qualifications do we have to negotiate with it? To return what has been taken away by it?”

Hearing this, Lin Hezhen smiled slightly: "This is exactly what I want to prove to you."

After saying that, he spread out the yellow paper, picked up a brush and dipped it in cinnabar, and wrote mysterious incantations on the yellow paper with smooth strokes.

The spiritual power was injected into the yellow paper through the medium, and the mantra connected with the laws of heaven and earth. The pen followed the dragon, snake, gold hook and iron painting. After writing the last stroke, a golden light suddenly lit up on the talisman.

Sakurajima Mai looked at this magical scene and couldn't hide her surprise: "What is this? How did you do it?"

Lin Hezhen explained: "This is a paper talisman. It is a talisman made using spiritual power and mantras. When you wear it on your body, it can suppress evil spirits. Before the spiritual power in the talisman is exhausted, others can See you normally."

"As for how I did it, it's because I am a cultivator."

"Cultivation person?" Mai Sakurajima was very unfamiliar with this term.

"You can understand it as a person with magical powers like an Onmyoji." Lin Hezhen didn't intend to delve into this topic.

Mai Sakurajima picked up the paper talisman on the table, ran her fair and slender fingers over the incantation on it, and felt a faint rush of heat.

The originally fragile and ordinary yellow paper now felt like cloth, and the divine incantation written in red cinnabar seemed to have a halo flowing on it.

Mai Sakurajima couldn't help but have the illusion that she was in a dream, but everything she saw, heard, and felt reminded her that it was all real.

"Go and try it, you will believe what I say." Lin Hezhen suggested.

As if sleepwalking, Sakurajima Mai walked to the tram station with her talisman, and successfully bought butter bread from the old woman who had long since lost sight of her.

"Hey, little girl, I think I've seen you on TV. You're not that Sakurajima Mai, are you?" the old woman asked in surprise.

"Yes." Mai Sakurajima felt mixed emotions.

It was obvious that this old woman had not been able to see her before, but she was recognized all of a sudden with this talisman. Could it be that this fellow student was really a master with magical powers.

Both a false god and a cultivator, Mai Sakurajima feels that the outlook she has spent more than ten years shaping is beginning to collapse, and the hidden truth of the entire world is slowly being revealed to her.

Chapter 26 People from different worlds

"Thank you." Mai Sakurajima held the butter bun with a smile as bright as a rainbow after the rain.

Lin Hezhen replied calmly: "You're welcome, it's just a trivial matter."

The girl shook her head: "It may be a piece of cake for you, but for me it is a life-saving rope in the quagmire of despair."

During this time, she appeared to be very calm and calm on the surface. She went to and from school as usual every day, and even deliberately put on a bunny girl costume to test whether people could see her or not.

But in fact, fear, uneasiness, fear, and hesitation, when alone, these negative emotions will slowly erode her heart like crude oil leaking into the sea.

And Lin Hezhen, this unique young man, the only young man who can see himself when he is "invisible", is the only bright color in this dark world.

Now, he has shown miraculous power again, using talismans to return himself to people's recognition and save himself from a world that is constantly collapsing.

She was really grateful.

Lin Hezhen waved his hand and said: "Don't be too happy too early. The talisman is time-sensitive and will no longer work once the spiritual power is exhausted. Therefore, the radical solution is to find the false god as I said before. Take back what you lost.”

"Yes." Mai Sakurajima nodded. Now she was convinced that Lin Hezhen had the ability to change her bad situation.

Who else can I trust besides him?

So, she cleared her mind and recounted what happened from the beginning.

"At first, I saw an urban rumor on the city forum. There is a statue of a cat that was sacrificed on the hill of Ipponsugi. It is called the Unsmiling Cat. It is said that it has divine power. As long as you offer sacrifices to it, you will You can fulfill your wishes and take away things you don’t need.”

"I was in trouble at the time. Even though I had completely quit the entertainment industry, I was often recognized by people because of my high profile and was treated differently everywhere. As a result, I couldn't integrate into normal people's lives."

"At that time, I thought, should I give it a try? It's just a relatively large wooden sculpture of a cat. It doesn't matter if I pray for it in a joking manner. It's just like going to a shrine. Even if my wish doesn't come true, Nothing will be lost.”

"This idea kept spinning in my mind, and I couldn't forget it. As a result, on the first day of spring break, by some strange coincidence, I went to the hill of Ipponsugi. The tree on the top of the mountain was not very tall. Under the cedar tree, I made a wish to the Smiling Cat."

"After that, I found that the rabbit hairpin I usually wore disappeared. It was a bit strange at the time. I thought I had lost it accidentally. I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. Now that I think about it, it must have been taken away by the Laughing Cat as a sacrifice. Bar."

Revealing the secret that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time, Sakurajima Mai couldn't help but feel relaxed, as if a heavy stone from her heart had been lifted. Her whole body felt light and her spirit was very high.

"Is Ippongsugi's Laughing Cat?" Lin Hezhen thought thoughtfully, "Is the URL of the city forum still there? I want to see that post."

"I saved the original post on my phone and will send you the link."

The two took out their mobile phones and realized that they had not added friends and could not send links at all.Therefore, the two could only exchange email addresses and add each other as line friends.

Lin Hezhen used to be an unpopular otaku. His friend list was deserted, with only a few relatives. His only male friend was Kamigo Yoshihiko, whom he shamelessly insisted on adding to Lin Hezhen's list yesterday.