God of Pets

Chapter 779 The Story of Two Boys and One Girl
"Who are you?" Chen Guan asked, staring at the person in the shadows.

"You don't need to know who I am, you just need to know that I'm here to kill you," the man in the shadows said.

“No, you didn’t come here to kill,” Chen Guan said, shaking his head.

"You think that just because I didn't attack you from behind, it means I wasn't here to kill you? If you think that, you're sorely mistaken. I didn't kill you from behind because I disdain such acts," the person in the shadows said coldly.

“Of course you wouldn’t stoop to killing someone from behind, or rather, there’s no need for it at all. For a powerful cultivator from the Great Cave Heaven to kill a Sixth Awakening cultivator, there’s absolutely no need for such trouble,” Chen Guan said.

"This is inside a grotto-heaven, how do you know I am from a great grotto-heaven?" The person in the shadows looked at Chen Guan with slight surprise and asked.

“Because within this grotto-heaven, no one can stand behind me without being discovered. If you can do that, then you must be from a great grotto-heaven, and not just any ordinary one,” Chen Guan said confidently.

The person in the shadows laughed: "You're really confident, talking as if you're invincible."

“You can remove the ‘seems’ part; I am already invincible within the cave realm,” Chen Guan said to him. “Of course, my invincibility does not include someone like you who can enter a cave realm with the body of a Great Cave Realm expert. Now, can you tell me who you really are?”

"You're so smart, you can guess who I am," the shadowy figure said with a half-smile.

“You’re not from the Ancestral Court. If you were, you wouldn’t be talking to me like this. You should have made your move long ago when you were behind me.”

Chen Guan paused and then said, "You're not one of the ten great families either. The ten great families only have two attitudes towards me. One is that they see me as a thorn in their side and wish they could get rid of me immediately. The other is that they see me as a friend or a partner with investment value. Such people wouldn't have such a condescending attitude towards me, because friends wouldn't see me that way, and people who need me wouldn't treat me like this."

"Then who am I?" the figure in the shadows chuckled. "I can't possibly be your elder, can I?"

“I don’t have any elders from the Great Cave Heaven in my family, and you certainly can’t be either,” Chen Guan said to him. “The way you look at me means you’re of higher status than me, but not in terms of position. You’re not my enemy, yet you’re wasting your time here talking to me so much. If you meet these conditions, there’s only one possibility.”

"Oh, what possibility?" the man in the shadows asked.

"You are not related to me, but you are also related to me. You are not my elder, but you feel like you are my elder."

"So, is it related or unrelated? Is it related to an elder or not?"

“It’s hard to say. If my wife still acknowledges her adoptive father, then you are related to me and may even be my elder. If she doesn’t, then you are someone who has nothing to do with me,” Chen Guan said.

“You are indeed very smart. If you had been born twenty years earlier, or even ten years earlier, perhaps the Heavenly Army would not be in its current state, and he wouldn’t have had to work so hard.” The man said as he stepped out of the shadows.

Even though he had already stepped under the lamp, Chen Guan still couldn't see his appearance clearly. His whole being had a hazy quality, or rather, it wasn't a feeling, but rather a kind of power that made it impossible for outsiders to see his appearance.

"My name is Zhong, and I am Ji Beizhu's talent," the man said slowly as he looked at Chen Guan.

“You are… Ji Beizhu’s talent…” Chen Guan stared blankly at Zhong as if he had seen a ghost.

“Yes, just as you think. I am Ji Beizhu’s innate talent. My name is Zhong, the Zhong of ending.” Zhong said with a smile.

Chen Guan had never heard of anyone whose talent was actually a living person, and a living person with extraordinary wisdom at that.

"So, why did you come to me, or rather, why did Ji Beizhu send you to me?" Chen Guan asked. "You need to hear a story from me." Zhong said, and without waiting for Chen Guan's willingness to listen, she began to tell the story: "This story begins with a boy's dream."

“There was a boy who longed to become a hero since he was a child. He wanted to become a peerless hero. He was determined to do great things like the Emperor Ancestor. So he studied and cultivated diligently from a young age.”

However, this child's talent was not particularly outstanding. On the contrary, another little boy, his best friend, was very talented. He could learn everything quickly and master everything with ease.

Even if this boy only works sporadically, his achievements will far surpass those of a boy who aspires to be a hero.

The boy did not give up, nor did he feel resentment towards the tragedy or his friends because of it.

On the contrary, he encouraged his friends to work hard with him and become heroes who would save the world in the future.

The talented boy was moved by him, and from then on, the two cultivated together, grew together, became stronger together, and moved step by step towards glory, constantly moving towards their dreams.

Until one day, when they were young adults, they met a girl, a girl who had stepped out of their childhood.

The girl they liked together when they were young has grown up and is still just as beautiful, lovely, and innocent as she was when they were kids, almost like she's been enlarged to the same size.

By this time, the gifted boy had become a well-known young talent, and could even be considered a local hero.

The boy, however, is far less famous than him and is now merely a subordinate of the gifted boy.

But the gifted boy knew in his heart that the boy was a very charismatic person, and if he wanted to win in the competition with the boy, he had to do his best.

"So, in the end, the gifted boy got the girl?" Chen Guan asked curiously.

"You could say that, or you could say that it isn't," Zhong said. "In fact, the boy was single-mindedly focused on success. He didn't care about the girl's future, nor did he ever think about competing with the talented boy. He just wanted to achieve something."

"But humans are such strange creatures. Boys don't care about girls, but girls fall in love with them. Boys want the ability to change the world, but their talents don't match their desires, while talented boys can easily have everything they want. Talented boys like girls, but girls like ordinary boys."

"People are just strange sometimes," Chen Guan nodded.

"These three people have been entangled in this world for hundreds of years, and the strange creatures of humanity have also changed over time."

"Boys from hundreds of years ago aspired to be heroes, but boys from hundreds of years later suddenly yearn for peace and quiet."

"The gifted boy from hundreds of years ago had nothing to do with anything, as if he was born to possess the whole world. But the gifted boy from hundreds of years later seems to have become the boy from hundreds of years ago, wanting to accomplish his grand ambitions."

"A girl from hundreds of years ago liked boys, but hundreds of years later, she likes a gifted boy."

"Humans are truly unfathomable creatures," came the final conclusion.

"Is it possible that the girl has never changed, and that she has always liked the man who wants to become a peerless hero?" Chen Guan pondered.

(End of this chapter)