Huo Wuling was still smiling when he mentioned that half of his heart had been gouged out, as if he had no intention of blaming Ji Ning.
Herinos paused when he heard the words, and looked at Huo Wuling with scrutiny eyes. Ji Ning didn't answer, Huo Wuling also had an expression of indifference, turned his eyes to the phantom, raised his eyebrows and said: " Oh, that's where it all started."
The image in the phantom had already been transformed. It was a place that Ji Ning was very familiar with, but in the world of infinite flow, he had never seen it before. It was only after the planes merged that he knew the existence of this place.
Just like Huo Wuling's spiritual world, this is the grocery store.
The phonograph was playing melodious music, the lights were dim, and the goods were everywhere, which seemed peaceful and warm. However, at this time, a lot of blood was spattered on the floor and walls of this hut, giving off a strong smell of blood.
There was a corpse lying on the ground, it was a middle-aged man, and the other corpse was lying on the sofa, its belly was dismembered, its face was hideous, and the broken internal organs flowed out of the opened stomach.
"Tick, tick..."
The kitchen knife emitting a cold light was held in his hand, and blood was dripping continuously. The black-haired boy stood in the pool of blood, his body was sprayed with blood, and there was a piece of intestines hanging on his clothes. He lowered his head, and his face was hidden. There was no expression in the shadows.
The strong fishy smell made Ji Ning a little dizzy. He remembered what Huo Wuling had told him before, that he was picked up by his adoptive father from the orphanage. The man who robbed the store was killed, and then Huo Wuling killed the man again.
But Ji Ning didn't expect that Huo Wuling had blood on his hands at this age. At this time, he looked only seven or eight years old. Then the picture suddenly twitched and distorted, and changed into another scene. the street outside the grocery store.
Compared with the streets in the spiritual world, which are shrouded in rainy nights, the scenes in the fantasy world are much more normal. The setting sun is falling, pedestrians are in a hurry, and cars are coming and going on the street, exuding the smell of dust and car exhaust.
The black-haired boy was walking on the sidewalk with a schoolbag on his back. His back looked thin and lonely, out of tune with the hustle and bustle of the city. He was not accompanied by his elders, nor did he have any peers around him. He has only himself.
The children who wore the same school uniform as the boy ran over with a laugh, but when they saw the boy, they all froze and walked past him with their heads bowed in fear, and they didn't even hesitate to walk around a lot. Circle, avoiding him is like avoiding the plague.
There was no expression on the boy's face, and he walked forward calmly.
When he passed the window of the bakery, he stood outside and watched for a while, but the clerk of the bakery couldn't sit still. He quickly put a piece of bread in a bag, put it outside the store, and sent the boy to leave quickly, even Even the money was taken because he didn't want to say anything to the boy.
"… "
The black-haired boy was still quiet, picked up the bag without saying a word, and stuffed a little money under the door.
He went back to the door of the grocery store, opened the locked door with the key, and turned on the gramophone. Accompanied by a cold female voice, he curled up on the sofa, drank a little cold water, and ate half a loaf of bread, then remained motionless. Sitting on the floor until late at night, the figure was completely immersed in the night.
The screen continues to jump, the boy has grown up, he is tall and straight, wearing a refreshing school uniform, with beautiful and gentle eyebrows and eyes, he is a rare handsome boy, with a faint smile always on his lips, whoever sees him. He needs to look twice.
The girl in the same school confessed to him, the boy took the love letter, swept his eyes on the envelope casually, raised the corners of his lips, and said meaningfully, "You like me..."
"Crack... huh..."
But in the next second, he tore the envelope. Under the incredible gaze of the girl, he laughed, spread his hands innocently, and said, "Give it up, like me—"
His voice became very soft.
"You will die."
The girl's face turned pale, and the friend who was standing with the girl from a distance saw this scene, and immediately rushed forward to hug the girl and scolded the boy loudly, but the boy just smiled and put his hands in his trouser pockets. He turned around and left, leaving only a light sentence.
"Be careful these days. All of you."
A few days later, the girl fell down the stairs and fractured her ankle. Her friend was also hit by a basketball in gym class and suffered a slight concussion.
The friend cried and told her boyfriend that they were all cursed by the teenager. The boyfriend was so angry that he brought a group of people to teach the teenager a lesson, but he never thought that they were not the opponents of the teenager. But the young man just clapped his hands lightly and looked down at them condescendingly.
"Shouldn't you be thanking me?"
He said, "If I hadn't tore the letter, she would have died. And you, don't trouble me again, or you will end up the same."
Two days later, the teenager sat in the grocery store with his legs crossed, sipping coffee while browsing news on his mobile phone, and inadvertently saw the news that the boy had been seriously injured and fell into a coma because of his courageous actions.
The young man sneered and swiped the page, but at this moment the screen suddenly fell into darkness, and a line of bright red blood-like words appeared on it, saying—
"Congratulations on becoming a new player in the game."
A bloody hand suddenly stretched out from the screen, grabbed the boy's neck, and pulled him in. With a "pop", the phone fell to the ground, and more words rolled out.
"New round of players: Huo Wuling."
The ensuing picture became more chaotic, with apparitions overlapping, and even the figures and scenery became distorted and blurred.
In the many phantoms, the young man traveled through one world after another and completed various death missions. The people around him kept changing, some wanted to befriend him, some were using him, and even betrayed him, Calculated against him, but no matter what thoughts they had about the boy, they all died in the end, and only the boy survived alone.
He also won the favor of the game's top management, and nominated him to enter a higher-level game copy.
In this game, the young man killed a lot of people and was chased by many people, but his expression did not change from beginning to end, he was still full of smiles, but when he was alone occasionally, there would be a hint of faintness between his eyebrows and eyes. Low color.
Later, he raised a black cat, which he randomly picked up from a certain world. Since then, he began to develop the habit of picking up small animals. He picked up a lot of animals one after another and put them in his own space. It was kept in the house, but it didn't live long, and it always died inexplicably. Only this black cat persisted tenaciously.
"Oh, so boring..."
The boy put his legs up on the table, the black cat walked around him, put his hands on the back of the sofa, looked up at the ceiling for a while, and suddenly muttered to himself.
"Why don't you pick up a ghost and come back to play?"
So he came to the Ten Thousand Ghosts, caught a glimpse of Ji Ning among the countless ghosts, and brought him back.
Although Ji Ning didn't stay in Wangui Pit for a long time, his soul was also damaged. He almost lost the ability to speak. He could only pronounce simple syllables, and he couldn't even say his own name.
The young man teased the pale and slender Specter, slid his fingertips across his chin, and said with a smile, "Can't speak? Then I'll call you a little mute?"
Ji Ning shook his head and wanted to tell the boy his name by writing, but the boy didn't seem to care what his name was, just pretended that Ji Ning didn't say anything, smiled and clapped his hands, "That's it. It's settled, I'll call you little mute in the future, I like this name."
After bringing back the ghosts, the young man checked the feeding method and said that the ghosts had to eat human flesh to regain their strength, so he killed a few people who were wrong to him and brought them back to the space, and threw the stumps at him. In front of him, he said, "Eat it."
Ji Ning shook his head vigorously again, of course he couldn't eat people, but the young man thought he just didn't like eating dead flesh, so he caught a few more living people, but Ji Ning still wouldn't eat it.
After being repeatedly rejected, the young man's smile finally faded, and he stared blankly at his Specter for a long time, until Ji Ning showed a little scared expression, then he finally laughed again and reached out to pat Ji Ning's face. Hair, said very nicely.
"It's really a little dumb who can picky eaters."
He cut his own wrist, let out a gushing blood, and put it to Ji Ning's lips, coaxing him patiently, "Drink it. I'll use my blood to feed you, so you shouldn't complain, right?"
This time, Ji Ning finally had no way to refuse, so he slowly leaned in and drank it. The young man stroked his hair and back of his neck with satisfaction, as if he was grooming a pet.
Later, the young man brought back quite a few ghosts. They were not as obedient as Ji Ning, all of them were very vicious and violent.
After going down several times, these ghosts finally learned to be obedient and learned to listen to him. At the same time, they had to listen to Ji Ning. Although Ji Ning was not the strongest among them, he was Huo Wuling's favorite. He wanted them to They must all listen to Ji Ning's words.
But I don't know if it was because of the excessive gathering of Specter and the heavy Yin Qi. The black cat who had been accompanying the boy finally died, and his death was ugly. He stuck his tongue out, his whole body was stiff, and his limbs twitched into strange shapes.
"Looks like you won't be around long..."
The boy picked up the black cat's corpse and opened a strange space. Inside was a gloomy cemetery with no end in sight. He walked in with the black cat's corpse. Ji Ning and the other ghosts followed behind him, forming a circle. Watching him bury the black cat's body in the soil.
"Let's play a game."
The black-haired boy clapped his hands, and when he stood up again, a smile appeared on his face again. His gaze swept over the surrounding Specter, stayed on Ji Ning for a few more seconds, and then spoke.
"Hide and seek, I'm going to be a ghost, you're going to be caught by me, now I'm blindfolded and count to a hundred, you can hide wherever you want."
As he said that, he raised his hand to cover his eyes, and counted down the countdown. The ghosts around him stood still for a moment, some began to disperse around, and some had evil intentions and wanted to sneak attack on the boy, but the moment they got close. It was gone in ashes.
So the rest of the ghosts dispersed, and Ji Ning also turned to leave, found a large tombstone, and crouched down behind the tombstone.
"Three, two, one..."
Counting to the last count, the young man opened his eyes and looked around. Under the gray sky, there were densely packed tombstones, but no one was there.
He tilted his head, but didn't start looking. Instead, he closed the space and left without reluctance.
For a long time, this space was not opened again, until more than two months later, the teenager dragged a few skeletons and opened the door, but was startled when he entered here.
A pale ghost hid behind the large tombstone, slender fingers clawed at the edge of the tombstone, like a cat, carefully revealing half of its beautiful face.
He met the boy's eyes, walked out slowly, and spit out a few words in a hoarse voice: "Now, do I win?"
"..." The boy said nothing, looked at him for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Why didn't you leave?"
"I'm here," Li Gui said slowly, "wait for you to find me."
"...Sorry, I've been looking for too long." The boy raised his lips, a gentle smile appeared in his dark eyes, stepped forward to hold Li Gui's icy hand, and said, "You won, my little boy. dumb."
After speaking, he paused and smiled again: "You have learned to speak a long time ago. I shouldn't call you that anymore. I haven't asked your name yet. What is your name?"
"Ji, Ning. My name is... Ji Ning."
"Okay, Ningning." The boy held his face and put a kiss on his forehead, "I'll call you Ningning in the future."