Chapter 493

Chapter 493: Enjoying a Ruthless Life, Looking for a Job

On a country path, two young men were walking slowly.

The young man at the front was wearing animal skin clothes and had a necklace made of animal teeth.

If you looked closely, you would find that this young man seemed distracted, as if he was thinking about something.

Behind him was another young man with a pale complexion, carrying a large bundle of items on his back.

Among those bundles was a black, flat fire stick.

Suddenly, the young man in animal skin stopped in his tracks, and the pale young man became alert.

“Is something going on?”

“No, I just don’t know how to navigate the road ahead. Do you know?”

“Elder Brother Changsheng, you don’t know?”

Hearing this, Chen Changsheng tilted his head and looked back at Zhang Yusheng.

“I am in a dazed state; how would I know how to walk this way?”

“You are a local; don’t you know?”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yusheng scratched his head awkwardly and said, “My grandfather doesn’t let me wander too far, and he never told me what the Crimson Realm outside is like, so I really don’t know.”

“How about we go back and ask?”

“Forget it; it would be a bit embarrassing to go back now. Let’s just keep moving forward.”

“But we don’t know where Dragon Tiger Mountain is.”

“How do we know if anyone knows? We can just find a populated place to ask. After all, we aren’t in a rush.”

After saying this, Chen Changsheng stepped forward and continued walking, with Zhang Yusheng silently following behind.

However, after a few steps, Chen Changsheng impatiently stopped again.

“Kid, can you say something if you have anything to say? Keeping it bottled up like this seriously disrupts my mood.”

In response to Chen Changsheng’s complaint, Zhang Yusheng looked aggrieved.

“Elder Brother Changsheng, I’m not saying anything.”

“I know you’re not talking, but your curiosity is bothering me. If you have something to ask, hurry up.”

Seeing that Chen Changsheng agreed to his questions, Zhang Yusheng immediately became excited.

“Elder Brother Changsheng, were you powerful before?”

“I should have been powerful, but I can’t recall how powerful exactly.”

“Where do you come from?”

“I don’t know.”

“Then how did you end up here?”

“By walking.”

“No, I mean, are you just walking aimlessly without a goal?”

“No goal, at least I haven’t thought of one yet. Just going wherever the road takes me.”

After hearing Chen Changsheng’s response, Zhang Yusheng fell silent again.

Seeing this, Chen Changsheng said, “Why do you look so troubled? A person’s life is only a hundred years at most.”

“If you always look so glum, won’t it be too regretful when the day comes that you d*e?”

Faced with Chen Changsheng’s words, Zhang Yusheng forced a smile and replied, “I also want to be as optimistic as Elder Brother Changsheng, but I just can’t do it.”

“Why not?”

“I haven’t seen the vast world outside, nor do I have any grand ambitions.”

“My existence is nothing but a Disaster Star; I caused the d*ath of my parents at birth, and I will likely cause more people’s deaths after I’m gone.”

As he spoke, Zhang Yusheng’s mood sank a bit.

Noticing this, Chen Changsheng smacked his lips and said, “Your way of thinking is wrong. I think you should change it.”

“Elder Brother Changsheng, the matter of life and d*ath is not so easy to set aside.”

“No, no, no!”

“I’m not trying to make you see through life and d*ath.”

“I want you to let go of personal qualms and enjoy a ruthless life.”

Zhang Yusheng: ???

Chen Changsheng’s words left him puzzled.

“Elder Brother Changsheng, what do you mean by that?”

“Just the literal meaning; I’m telling you not to care too much about others’ feelings.”

“To put it bluntly, since you’re going to d*e anyway, why care about what others do?”

“The meaning of life is not about how high you ascend or how far your end point is.”

“But rather how many sceneries you’ve seen and how many experiences you’ve had on the way to that end point.”

“Just like me, I’m not even sure who I am right now.”

“I might be a great demon lord, or perhaps a savior of the world, or I could be an incredibly powerful person who has been framed.”

“But no matter what my identity is, it doesn’t affect my enjoyment of life right now.”

“As the saying goes, when you’re poor, you focus on your own character; when you’re prosperous, you help the world.”

“Right now, we are just two clay statues crossing a river, barely managing to look after ourselves. We should just focus on living well without worrying about others.”

“If you want to avoid hurting others, the first thing you need to do is stay alive. Don’t you think so?”

After hearing Chen Changsheng’s words, a light appeared in Zhang Yusheng’s eyes.

“Elder Brother Changsheng, I think I understand your point a bit now.”

“Let’s hurry on; I’m eager to see what my future life has in store for me.”

Chen Changsheng calmly waved his hand and said, “No hurry; we have another big matter to attend to.”

“What big matter?”

“Finding a way to earn money and fill our stomachs.”

“Huh?”

“Huh what? Among those belongings your grandfather gave you, there’s everything except for food.”

“If I remember correctly, there’s no money in there either.”

“Without money and food, what are we going to eat?”

“Elder Brother Changsheng, how did you survive before?”

“How else? Starved for three days and ate every nine meals!”

“Am I supposed to go to your family’s house to mooch off pig trotters?”

Zhang Yusheng: …

Before Zhang Yusheng could react to this huge contrast, Chen Changsheng grabbed his hand and ran to the side.

“Whatever you want to say, wait a while. It seems there’s food up ahead, follow me.”

……

“Ah～”

“How could you just leave our whole family here?”

In the wealthy household, tears were flowing as a group of people cried solemnly.

Chen Changsheng was in mourning attire, crying dramatically, while Zhang Yusheng, dressed similarly, looked around awkwardly and felt a bit embarrassed.

“Elder Brother Changsheng, is this what you meant by food?”

“Is there a problem?”

“I just talked to them. We have to cry here for seven days, during which they provide food and lodging, plus some money.”

“If it weren’t for the fact that they think we’re too young, they probably wouldn’t even let us have this good deal.”

“Stop slacking off and hurry up and cry.”

After whispering a few words, Chen Changsheng started crying again.

Seeing his familiarity with this act, Zhang Yusheng twitched his mouth and began to follow suit.

Thus, as the two young men cried in unison, the sun gradually sank behind the mountains.

……

In the firewood room.

“Hurry up and eat; I specifically chose this chicken b*tt for you.”

Looking at the roasted chicken that Chen Changsheng handed him, Zhang Yusheng asked in confusion, “Elder Brother Changsheng, where did you get this food?”