Is this how you touch it?
While he did touch it, he even hugged it, what a loving scene, if one were to ignore the blood seeping from the Dragon Bird's wound, staining Jiang Si's tailored dress red.
However, putting aside these points, Zheng Fan had more or less confirmed a few things.
It was quite interesting that Jiang Si said he could touch it if he touched it.
Also, there was more than one or two dinosaurs.
Just from the previous attack scene, the differences in some bite marks indicated that two dinosaurs had attacked those students.
And now, after seeing the Dragon Bird, it was even more certain that there was more than one type of these dinosaurs.
The attack marks on Dongding Road could not have been made by such a small creature, and this little Dragon Bird was not something like Toast, which had accumulated a lot of Violent World points; its body was so small, and its strength was only mediocre, so it was hard to say if it could even scare those students.
The Dragon Bird struggled in Jiang Si's arms but could not move an inch, only pulling at its wound and causing itself pain, so it chose to be quiet.
"So well-behaved."
"He has no choice but to be well-behaved," Zheng Fan said.
Even when the red thread was retracted, the Dragon Bird only trembled slightly, not daring to move much.
"I want to keep it!"
Zheng Fan said directly, "You might not be able to keep it for long."
"Even for a little while is fine." Jiang Si seemed easily satisfied, but Zheng Fan felt she was just acting on a whim.
"Does a Killing demon like small animals?" Zheng Fan found it somewhat amusing.
After all, there was still a group of wild cats and dogs nearby whose corpses were hard to complete. Although Zheng Fan didn't feel anything about wild cats and dogs either.
"Yes, I used to raise a few cats with Xi Cai," Jiang Si replied with an unusual tone.
"I see." Zheng Fan nodded, then turned and walked away.
Jiang Si waited for a while but heard no further words. She looked back to find that Zheng Fan had already walked some distance, so she quickly followed, saying, "Hey! Aren't you going to ask what happened to those cats? And this is the first time I've mentioned her name, how can you have no curiosity at all?"
"From your tone, I knew it wasn't a pleasant thing, and the name Xi Cai is also easy to guess who it is, so I was too lazy to ask." Zheng Fan tilted his head and gave her a side-eye.
"Wasn't I clearly trying to start a conversation?"
"Then you speak."
"The mood is gone..." Jiang Si was speechless.
She walked with the Dragon Bird in her arms and Zheng Fan in the heavy rain, and after deliberating her words, she said, "I killed those cats."
Lightning illuminated their faces, followed by a booming thunder, startling the Dragon Bird in Jiang Si's arms and making it retract its neck.
"That opening was a bit unexpected." Zheng Fan looked at her, but her rain-soaked hair hung down, obscuring her eyes, making it hard to see clearly.
"I actually got to know her through that opportunity. We were originally strangers who raised a group of cats together in one place, and then because I killed the cats, she got very angry."
"It's hard not to be angry, if it were me, I would definitely chop you up and throw you in the microwave." Zheng Fan narrowed his eyes.
"I don't understand." Jiang Si looked up at the rainy night in front of her, "In the Violent World, the boundary between violence and love."
Ah.
Zheng Fan suddenly remembered.
Jiang Si's family was a family that maintained love through violence, and most residents of the Violent World were like this.
Although the Violent World was not only violent, it also contained everything that the surface reality should have, but precisely because violence became the primary expression, red permeated everything, and this layer of crimson also tainted too many complex things.
Love and affection were too often overshadowed by violence.
Some simple likes, or preferences for certain objects, might still be within a controllable range. But once it reached deep emotions, especially emotions for other lives, the stronger they were, the deeper the infiltration of violence became. The expression also became more distorted.
If it weren't for the fact that the violent residents were all "naturally gifted" and incredibly resilient, that place, where they constantly fought to the death, would probably have few people left.
An unbalanced world brought unbalanced emotions.
When Jiang Si's family expressed their concern and love for family members, it was mostly through violent acts, with only a final layer possibly left for "love."
But even if they accidentally caused the death of a loved one out of love, they probably wouldn't care.
They outputted love, and the person receiving the love simply couldn't bear it.
Jiang Si was the same; the cats were just too fragile. It was a very normal thing in the Violent World, especially for the daughter of a major gang leader.
However, the other girl Jiang Si mentioned didn't seem to think so.
"I couldn't beat her back then, and she pinned me to the ground and beat me, conveying pure angry violence. At first, I was very confused, I loved that group of cats more than her, why was she so angry. But as she kept hitting me, she started to cry."
"The Violent World had no color for tears, I was very puzzled and felt strange. Then she told me that violence could not be an expression of love."
Zheng Fan said nothing, continuing to listen.
"I might have hesitated a bit too. Although my other siblings did very well, only I felt fear and sadness when my parents hurt me, even though I could feel the love within it." Jiang Si reached out and gently placed her hand on the Dragon Bird's neck.
The Dragon Bird's fragile neck, Jiang Si could twist it off with just a slight force.
The little Dragon Bird felt something was wrong and instinctively let out a faint hiss.
"But it's so hard to understand, it's like looking through a thick fog, as if I can understand a little, but in the end, I still can't grasp the key. According to Xi Cai, it's like learning mathematics." Jiang Si sighed.
She looked at Zheng Fan, her tone gradually becoming serious: "I still don't understand much even now, but before I could understand, Xi Cai left, taken away by something I couldn't see clearly but could vaguely feel its existence."
"Illusion," Zheng Fan interjected, and cruelly pointed out, "After so many years, it's hard for someone favored by an Illusion to still be alive, or rather, even if they are alive, they wouldn't be the person who could still teach you normal emotional expression."
"Is Evil Mr. also conveniently tearing down his own stage?" Jiang Si, however, was not discouraged, but instead laughed playfully.
"It doesn't matter, the stage is already set, you won't have a chance to get off it even if you want to," Zheng Fan said casually, turning his gaze.
"That's true. But I still want to find her, as my father often says, 'see the person alive, see the corpse dead,' at the very least, I have to find that Illusion in the end." Jiang Si laughed.
Zheng Fan walked down the road still spotless, clean and dry in the rain: "Why did you suddenly think of saying this?"
When they first met tonight, he felt that Jiang Si's emotions seemed a bit melancholic.
However, as soon as he asked, Zheng Fan remembered the mansion where Jiang Si was when they met.
The room where Jiang Si rested at the time was the room of the youngest and purest girl in that dirty family.
Seeing the scene brought back memories...
"Never mind, none of this is important to me, and loosen your hand, the little dinosaur is going to suffocate."
"Ah!"
Jiang Si only then reacted, quickly loosening her grip. The Dragon Bird struggled, letting out a sharp cry, and gasped violently. It finally caught its breath, having thought it was going to be choked to death.
What profound "love" it was.