The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 120: Youthful Nature

Li Cu suddenly felt like such a scene was familiar. After his father discovered his hidden test paper, he would have the same attitude when talking to Li Cu. The first time he lied, his mind was blank, his face turned red, his heart beat faster, and his answers were incoherent.

He soon learned the trick, however. The most advanced way to lie was to be calm on the surface even when others discovered the flaw. No matter what you were feeling, you absolutely could not reveal it to them.

This is quite difficult, because it's impossible to control your micro expressions unless your heart is completely twisted inside.

Li Cu just so happened to be that kind of person, which meant he would never feel as if he'd done something wrong. At the same time, in his own subconscious, he was too busy despising the punishment that came afterwards.

His first reaction after he did something wrong was that his dad would beat him to death. But Li Cu didn't care about being beaten, or his father's disappointment. All he cared about was how annoying it was.

He wasn't willing to face his father's long lectures, so if he said what he really thought, then he could jump straight to the punishment. If he didn't have a lot to say, then he would tell his father that he didn't want to do the right thing, he didn't want to be a useful person, and he didn't understand why his father was trying so hard. He just wanted to be a child who nobody paid attention to, nobody cared about, and of course, most importantly, nobody would judge.

If no one judged him and forced him to listen to those lectures, then he felt like he could bear being beaten once a day.

With this state of mind, he could keep a completely calm face when others exposed his lies.

This time was slightly different, however, because he had put Wu Xie's trust in him in a very important place in his heart. When he made a mistake, he could no longer convince himself with the kind of "I don't want to cooperate with your plan" mentality he used before to highlight his arrogance and cover up his stupidity.

It wasn't completely hopeless, though, as he reflexively chose to find an excuse.

If something's revealed, it's not my fault. Wu Xie, it was your own decision to put me in this situation. You didn't discuss it with me, so I'll have to do something, or end up making mistakes that will ruin your plan. If that happens, you asked for it, and even deserve it. I'm even more pitiful than you. I'm the victim here.

But after Li Cu made an excuse this time, he was instantly alert, and suddenly realized the naivety of that line of thinking.

It wasn't a warning from his heart, but the inspiration Wu Xie's words had given him when he spoke in this system.

[Yes, I'm Wu Xie. Yes, I'm a bad guy. I forced you into this scheme without consulting you, so what? When I was making this plan, I never thought about guilt. To get you into such a situation was my goal from the start.

But I also gave you a choice, Li Cu. You and I have very similar mindsets. I don't care whether you can succeed or not, and I don't care if there are any mistakes in my plan because of you.

So you don't have to count on it. If I see that you've failed— and caused my plan to fail— I'll cry bitterly and regret it, but that just means I made a wrong judgment in this area.

Failure is failure.

I bound my interests with your life, believing that you were a normal person who lives for yourself, and not someone who strives to prove that everything you've experienced is the fault of others.

If your heart is so weak that you need to prove you're not wrong, and prove that everything is someone else's fault, then you're only a poor loser who can't even care about his own life.

If that's the case, then go ahead and try your best to achieve your theory of social identity!

When you think that you don't want to be the person your father wants, and you don't want to get some social recognition, all you'll end up doing is wanting to prove that I have my own theoretical system, and I don't care about you. The subtext is simple: it's all your fault and you shouldn't use such an unsuitable system to judge me.

If you're accustomed to this way of thinking, then you should just die as soon as possible, drowning in self-pity.]

I can't do this, I can't give up, because Wu Xie tied his plan to my life. I'll live anyways. His mistake has nothing to do with whether I live or die.

Even if it was really someone else's fault, what must be done must be done. Blaming someone else wasn't an excuse to give up.

In his mind, the idea of giving everything up, telling the whole story, and even disclosing everything about Wu Xie to the other party in detail, arose like lightning. It was a refreshing feeling of revenge, but he immediately abandoned the idea.

He began to act like he was facing his father, and continued to maintain his previous expression without any change. At the same time, his mind was quickly thinking up ways to deal with it.

The first thing to think about wasn't how to answer the question, but how to delay and postpone it, as if you wanted to answer immediately, but couldn't.

Delaying would reveal its importance, and make others believe that the matter you wanted to talk about was more important than the previous question, as if both sides were related.

Li Cu said: "Oh, you figured it out. There's one thing I didn't tell you. It has something to do with what you're doing here. But since you're behaving completely differently from before, I think you misunderstood what I was asking."

The black-clad person looked at Li Cu, ignored him, and repeated: "Answer my question directly."

Much smarter than dad, Li Cu said to himself. But this time, he had much better cards in his hand.

"Uncle, do you think I'm joking?" Li Cu asked the man. "Are you trying to tell me that if I don't answer your question directly, you'll think I have a problem and kill me, no matter how important I am?"

Wu Xie had told him a key detail: the other party's behavior was very logical, so if they thought he was very important, they would never blackmail him, pretend to kill him, or anything like that. If the other party said they wanted to kill him in twenty seconds, then he wouldn't be alive at the twenty-one second mark.

Therefore, he shouldn't speculate against the other party. If he was sure of their change in attitude towards him, then he might as well ask them directly.

"No, your ability has been proven. I won't kill you, but I suspect you're hiding something. I don't like being lied to, so you'll suffer a lot." The other said. "So, answer my question. I want to confirm whether you lied to us just now. If it's proved that your motives and behaviors are full of deception, then everything you say in the future will be treated more cautiously. You're very young. If you can lie and hide some things under such circumstances, then either you were trained, or you have a personality problem."

"Whether you're really machines or not, what's the point of living if you're thinking like that?" Li Cu asked. "I'm a difficult child, do you know what that means?"

The other side frowned, "You can't outwit me, you'd better not try."

"Bye-bye." Li Cu fell into a nearby mine shaft, his whole body instantly rolling in. He fell three or four meters through the air before he was caught from behind.

He was a little surprised, and after being lifted up, he was thrown to a place with relatively few mine shafts.

"Don't do that a second time." The other side said. "Our skills aren't that good."

"I'm a difficult child. Definitely experienced in this regard. It seems that you still don't know what it means to be difficult?" Li Cu started to hit his head on the stone behind him with a lot of force, cracking it twice, and making a huge cut on his skull.

No one would pity him, and he didn't want to die, but he had to be crazy enough. Wu Xie had said that the first step was to find ways to make them restless all the time.