Under the burning of the soul fire, Grandpa Xie was like a wax figure on fire. His body was distorted and changed. His ruddy face gradually turned pale, his lips turned purple, and the festive red clothes looked like mourning clothes on him.
Xie Yunting, who was standing aside, lost his blood color and vitality, and his gentle and jade-like temperament suddenly became as gloomy as ice.
Tangning didn't hesitate. He threw out the Soul Fire with one hand and snatched the head from Grandpa Xie's arms with the other hand, "Si Tai!"
When Si Tai heard Tang Ning's call, he ran out of the door without hesitation, carrying Tang Ning on his back.
"Go left!"
Li Haoyuan pointed the direction based on his intuition. Just after the three of them turned left and took a few steps, a strange figure appeared silently on the right side of the corridor.
That was Grandma Xie holding a kitchen knife. She stood on tiptoe at the end of the corridor and stared at Tangning and the others with a sinister look as they left.
"There is danger ahead!" Li Haoyuan took out a talisman. The next second, a bloody piece of meat suddenly leaped up and hit the talisman, letting out a shrill scream.
Tang Ning saw that the piece of meat could open its mouth, revealing its fangs.
It's a skinned stoat!
Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a black shadow rushed up like the wind from a distance. Si Tai hurriedly and forcefully shook the soul-calming bell. He had already shaken it once today, but it was his first time and he almost couldn't stand steadily.
Li Haoyuan immediately carried Tang Ning on his back, and they quickly walked around the strange giant turtle, flew down the stairs, and rushed out of the Xie family's gate. From a distance, they could see the surging river water under the heavy rain, as if it was raining heavily in the sky and on the earth at the same time.
"We can't go there!" Li Haoyuan decisively avoided the road where the river was. He took Si Tai and Tang Ning to make a sharp turn and took another road. After walking a few steps, they saw huge trees and a motionless figure hanging on the branches.
There was a prayer belt that would not be blown by the wind because there was a corpse hanging on it.
The next second, the corpse shook slightly, turned its head, and looked straight at Tang Ning!
"Let's go!" Li Haoyuan couldn't carry Tang Ning anymore, so he handed Tang Ning back to Si Tai who had just recovered a little.
Tang Ning lay on Si Tai's back, holding his head with one hand and struggling to keep the fire of his soul burning with the other hand. No matter how heavy the rain was, it could not extinguish the flame. It was because of his soul fire that those things did not catch up with him one by one, but stayed where they were in fear.
But Tang Ning could hardly hold on any longer. His body was too weak, almost as weak as when he was in a delicate and frail state.
Li Haoyuan and Si Tai were very supportive. They did not let Tang Ning down in this critical moment and continued to rush forward with Tang Ning on their backs.
They ran through rain, darkness and mud.
Suddenly, Li Haoyuan stopped.
This was the only way out for them.
When Li Haoyuan stopped, Si Tai, who was in command, also stopped and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"
The cold rain poured down on each of them. Li Haoyuan stared at a certain place in the darkness. "There is a very scary existence... It..."
"It disappeared?" Li Haoyuan's tone was a little surprised, but he tried to sense it again and indeed did not feel that dangerous aura. This time Li Haoyuan did not have time to think about it, "We can go now!"
Si Tai immediately carried Tang Ning on his back and prepared to rush forward.
"Wait a minute." Tangning called out weakly, "Put me down."
"It's okay, I still have strength now." said Si Tai.
"I'm coming down," Tangning reiterated, raising her voice.
Although Si Tai didn't understand, he still let Tang Ning go out of trust.
The ground was very slippery and Tang Ning almost lost his balance because of someone.
"Let me do it." Li Haoyuan prepared to carry Tang Ning on his back.
Tangning shook her head, "You two go first."
"What?" "What!" Si Tai and Li Haoyuan said almost in unison.
"I have some things to do here alone." Tangning didn't explain. He urged, "If you don't leave now, it will be too late."
"What's the matter?" Si Tai asked anxiously, "What is it that requires you to stay alone?"
"I think I found him." After Tang Ning said this, Si Tai and Li Haoyuan, who were hesitating, looked at each other. They did not refuse and quickly turned around and left.
As for the prince, Li Haoyuan and Si Tai were very self-aware and knew that they could not be of any help and that staying here would only cause trouble.
Soon, Li Haoyuan and Si Tai disappeared into the rainy night. Tang Ning waited for a while, and after figuring that they should be able to escape from the Xie family, he finally said, "Now that there are no outsiders, why don't you show up?"
The rain poured down in torrents, the sound loud enough to drown out Tang Ning's hoarse voice.
Tangning looked up and asked, "I'm dying now, so don't you miss me?"
The heavy rain soaked his entire body, from head to toe. He took off his shoes and shook them out, and half of his shoes were filled with water.
Tang Ning felt extremely cold. He thought he must be in a miserable state. Not only was he soaked to the skin, but he was also an elderly soaked to the skin.
But suddenly, the rain above my head stopped.
Although it was still raining heavily all around, the small space where Tang Ning was located was not wet at all.
Tang Ning did not continue to stand there. He walked back step by step in the mud. His body was very cold and weak. His bones seemed to be frozen. This was the sequelae of excessive use of soul fire and being caught in the rain.
After walking like a zombie for a few minutes, Tang Ning looked at the giant tree where the corpse was hanging.
This time, Tang Ning walked towards the tree calmly. Mother Xie on the tree asked him, "Why did you bring this head out?"
Tangning opened her frozen mouth and asked, "Why can't I take it out?"
Mother Xie said: "The entire Xie family has become a five-dragon lock bead formation. Once we take it out of here, no one will be able to trap it. Do you know what the consequences will be?"
Tang Ning didn't know what the formation was, and didn't want to know the consequences of not being able to trap it. He found the ladder that Xie's mother had set up next to the tree before her death. He grabbed the ladder and slowly climbed up. Xie's mother, who had the face of a hanged ghost, stared at Tang Ning, and a strange smile slowly appeared on her face: "What do you want to do?"
Tangning turned around and gave Mother Xie a polite smile. He said calmly, "I want to hang myself."
The word "hanging" sounded frankly and confidently to him, as if he was expressing condolences or something like that.
Mother Xie smiled strangely and stretched out her hand towards Tangning, "Let me help you."
Tangning's expression remained calm, as if the person standing in front of him was not Xie's mother who had turned into a ghost, but the gentle woman who had taken care of him when he was growing up. "Don't be so anxious. Shouldn't you ask me why I hanged myself?"
He even chatted with the evil spirit.
The hanged ghost's purple tongue stretched out like a snake, wanting to wrap around Tang Ning's neck. Xie's mother asked, "Why?"
Tangning explained in her weak voice, "Because I'm ugly now, I don't deserve to be loved. I can't accept this gap. I can't face this world. When I see myself now, I want to die. So, I decided to die."
After saying that, he swiftly grabbed the prayer belt closest to him. It was a hemp rope stained red with Xie's mother's blood and was very strong.
Tang Ning put his head into the hemp rope without hesitation, and then directly pulled his legs off the ladder!
Anyway, the card he plays today is the Sleeping Beauty card, so he can't die.
To outsiders, Tangning's suicide attempt was as smooth as flowing water. It seemed as if she had rehearsed it countless times in her mind. She had no fear of death at all.
The next second, a cold body hugged him.
Got you!
Tang Ning suddenly opened his eyes. One of his hands tightly grasped the cold body, while the other hand still firmly grasped the head.
He used his hands extremely hard, fearing that the existence in front of him would slip away.
He knew that this guy ran away the fastest. If he failed to catch it when it pretended to commit suicide the first time, it would be useless to catch it again.
Thunder flashed in the dark night, instantly illuminating the headless body that was hugging him.
Tang Ning stared at the headless body, then looked at the head in his other hand.
Another flash of lightning streaked across the night sky.
It was as if a bolt of lightning flashed through his mind at the same time, completely illuminating all his confusions and vague and unclear guesses at this moment.
I see.
No wonder he felt that the Xie family, who had always taken care of him, had actually been stopping him from finding the prince.
If he hadn't almost lost all his strength, Tang Ning would probably be crying and laughing at the same time. He trembled as he moved the hand that was holding his head towards the headless body.
His hands were shaking so badly, and he was so excited that he almost turned his head upside down at first.
Another burst of thunder flashed.
Tang Ning's pupils constricted.
If the head is turned upside down, wouldn't it be that... weird classmate
A great wave of dizziness came over him.
So that's it. So that's it. It turns out that the moment he felt it was right beside him was not an illusion. It turns out that they really had met long ago. It turns out that they were so close that they were in the same school, classroom, and table...
It was awkward to him then.
He was thinking what a terrible monster it was.
With shaking hands, Tang Ning placed the head back on the empty neck. As the heavy rain poured down, the dark lines on the head seemed to fade with the impact of the rain, and the bloodstain on the neck also faded.
"Ahhh!!!" Mother Xie at the side let out a shrill howl. The sound faded away little by little, as if being erased by an invisible eraser.
The thick darkness in the sky dissipated, the rain was flowing back, the light of thunder and the light of sunlight blurred together, the muddy road became dry again, and was covered with fallen leaves, just like the road Tang Ning had walked on when he came here.
The entire area where the Xie family lives has returned to its current state from what it was that night thirty-five years ago.
Tang Ning didn't pay attention to the changes in the surrounding environment. He stared at the person in front of him.
The dense runes completely faded away, and a face that was extremely similar to Xie Yunting appeared in front of him.
When the pair of tightly closed eyes opened, the person next to him could immediately tell the difference between Xie Yunting and the person in front of him. One was daytime, the other was nighttime. One was the prince of everyone, the other was his monster prince.
Tangning couldn't help but smile. His appearance was old and worn, but his eyes were still sincere. He said to the person in front of him word by word, "Welcome back."