Due to the downfall contract, Shen Muci was expelled from the school, just because his fate was "the evil star" - whoever gets close to him will be unlucky. When he was desperate, he took over an abandoned manor and planned to make a comeback by using contracted spirit beasts as infrastructure workers. However, summoning spiritual beasts consumes one's lifespan, and peering into one's destiny will poison one's eyes. He backhandedly launched "fate insurance": others are afraid of looking at your fortune, but he insists on helping you appraise it for a fee. Then engage in "spiritual beast labor dispatch" and let the war pets work to pay off debts. When Judge Li crossed the threshold with the extermination order, Shen Muci had already used steam machinery to raise a pack of steel wolves and turned the manor into a hedgehog fortress. The truth hidden behind the fate pattern is about to tear apart the cruel laws of the entire continent.
The smell of rust from the garbage dump mixed with the smell of rotting vegetable leaves was like an invisible hand grabbing my throat.
Shen Muci squatted next to the two-meter-high scrap pile, flipping his fingers between the greasy cardboard, and the gaps between his fingernails were filled with black mud. He hadn't eaten for two days, his stomach was so empty, and his head felt dizzy.
"Stop turning over it. The leftovers in this piece have already been licked clean by wild dogs."
Next to him, an old beggar wrapped in a ragged cotton-padded jacket grinned, with air leaking from his missing front teeth. There is a group of light gray patterns floating on the old beggar's head - it is as blurry as a newspaper soaked in water. You can barely make out the word "hoe", and the edges are intermittent like dotted lines. That was his destiny, which meant that he would spend his whole life farming and not even have a piece of his own land when he was old.
Shen Muci ignored him and continued to read. Refer to
