"I... remember..."
In the dark cave, there was a sudden silence. After a while, Fang Luo, who was sitting silently on the side, finally raised his head, opened his lips with difficulty, and spit out a sentence.
His face was pale for a while, and he no longer had the rosiness before, but instead revealed a faint grayness, like a dead thing that had been drained of its vitality and vitality. The lips were even less blood-stained, pale to blue.
He stared straight at Yuan for no reason, his eyes were deep black, with no white, strange and deep, as if he was looking at the empty space in front of him.
"I remember now… "
In the hoarse voice, one word after another seems to be squeezed out of the throat, and it is like countless ghostly voices superimposed together, echoing in the cave.
"… I am already dead."
Lu Jing and Lu Jing were startled by his sudden change, and they subconsciously distanced themselves from each other, showing signs of alertness. With their rich experience as investigators, they had vaguely guessed something, and their tone was startled: "You..."
However, Fang Luo seemed to turn a blind eye to everything, and just muttered a few words to himself, the expression on his face became more and more cold, gloomy, and terrifying.
As if the leaf that was in front of me was finally torn away, the dusty memories were suddenly lifted, the graduation trip four years ago, friends who died one by one, and being let dry on the altar With blood all over his body, the self who died as a living sacrifice... All the memories came back, but the joy and pain of the past, and all the emotions of being a human being also disappeared.
He suddenly laughed, and repeated coldly again:
"So, I'm already dead—"
In an instant, a violent gust of wind blew up in the entire cave, and an extremely thick and eerie aura spread from Fang Luo. He didn't know when he had stood up, his pupils were icy cold, and large patches of blood oozed from his body.
It was as if all the pain and suffering he had suffered before his death had all been restored at this time.
Viscous blood dripped down his forehead, between his eyebrows and his chin, and more bloodstains seeped out from his chest, arms, and his whole body bit by bit, staining his clean shirt. and trousers, the whole person seems to have crawled out of a pool of blood.
Blood pooled on the ground along his trousers.
He just looked down at the three of them coldly.
The emotions that belonged to humans quickly faded from his eyes, but instead the natural malice of the dead surged wildly towards the living. In the blink of an eye, a living person who looked so vivid and clean turned into a bloody, heartless, heartless ghost!
The next moment, he rushed forward.
The expressions of Lu Jing and the two of them changed in shock, and they were about to make a move in the first moment, but unexpectedly, there was a person who was faster than them.
boom!
There was a loud bang.
The two only felt a blur in front of their eyes.
The evil ghost, who was full of aura just now and seemed to have a terrifying aura, flew back at an unbelievable speed, and hit the rock wall heavily, with countless strands of black smoke densely entangled His limbs are like a series of chains that firmly imprison him.
And at the other end of the "chain", wisps of black air eroded deeply into the mountain wall, almost causing the solid mountain wall to emit blue smoke.
Both Lu Jing and Lu Jing who were about to make a move were startled, and when they recovered, the flashing image just now finally played out slowly in their minds.
——At the moment when the evil spirit rushed out, countless jet-black smoke suddenly burst out from around Yuan Buwei's body, rushing towards the evil spirit in a gust of wind and rain. Thousands of strands of pitch-black smoke spread slowly like a large net, and the evil ghost was like a moth that had voluntarily bumped into a spider web. Instantly, it was engulfed by endless smoke, like being washed away by a surging flood. It hit the rock wall all of a sudden.
The whole process was too fast for people to react.
The two played back the scene just now in their minds, and then turned their attention to Fang Luo again.
Hoarse and distorted roars spread throughout the cave, and the evil spirit bound to the rock wall was like a flying insect trapped in a spider's web, struggling with all its might. But the more he struggled, the tighter the restraint of that pitch-black smoke became.
Lu Jing suddenly took a step forward, raised her hand and shook it.
The brooch pinned to her chest flickered for a moment, and a multicolored luster shot out from between her fingers, shooting straight towards the face of the struggling evil spirit, turning it into an illusory and invisible fire that enveloped it. .
This flame seems to have no lethality, but the paralysis control effect is extremely strong. The struggling ghost was immediately frozen.
A Yu, who cooperated with him tacitly, took this opportunity to rush out, and suddenly there was an object in the shape of a fairy stick in his hand.
"Come on, look here!" His expression was contorted, and he seemed to struggle for a while, and then he waved the "fairy stick" shamelessly, and the time was shining all over his body, gorgeous special effects appeared out of thin air, and the BGM sounded with him. It's like playing Magical Girl Transformation.
And the frozen ghost turned his gaze over uncontrollably, unable to look away no matter what.
Even if the invisible fire disappeared after three? seconds, he didn't continue to struggle and settled down completely.
"... Huh?" Yuan Buwei? showed surprise.
At the moment when this special effect appeared, for some reason, he suddenly had the illusion that the whole world went dark, and only this figure waving the "fairy wand" was shining. It seemed that this person at this time It is the center of the world.
—As if there was some kind of invisible and hidden force that drove his eyes to fix on the other party, and at the same time made him subconsciously ignore everything around him.
Just change it to someone whose mental resistance is not high enough, and you will be recruited immediately. For Yuan Buwei, such an impact is just a breeze. It's just that watching a tall and burly man performing the transformation of a magical girl next to him is really a visual shock.
At this moment, it wasn't because there was only one thought in my mind.
… There is such a sealed item, I really know how to play~
He was surprised for a moment, then turned his eyes to Lu Jing who turned away early and said, "I'm a little curious, it's just the consciousness that came in this dream, how did you bring the sealed item in? "
Lu Jing was stunned for a moment: "Don't you know?"
Seeing her reaction, it doesn't need her to say, why not? I have already understood: "It seems that this method of bringing the sealed item into the dream does not come from a secret special sealed item, it should be the secret service of the Special Affairs Bureau? This abnormal incident The general means prepared, every investigator can do it, right?"
Lu Jing nodded: "Then why..."
Yuan Buwei spread his hands: "Because? I didn't accept the task, but came here directly." Naturally, I didn't get the general method handed down by the Bureau of Special Affairs.
Lu Jing opened her eyes slightly? She couldn't believe it.
Even though there have been so many unimaginable supernatural phenomena in this world, human beings are still ordinary and fragile. Without the sealed item, the investigators themselves don't have any special powers. When they encounter danger, except for their higher spiritual perception and mental resistance, they are not much different from ordinary people.
Therefore, she really couldn't believe that someone would dare to break into the source of the mutation without bringing any sealed item. What's more, what didn't you do just now didn't look like you didn't use the power of the sealed item.
But why not? His expression is calm, his attitude is calm, and his attitude is very frank and upright, making it impossible not to believe his words?.
Although she was puzzled, Lu Jing didn't worry too much. She took out a piece of chewing gum from her pocket and handed it to Yuan Buwei, explaining:
"Just eat this, and the Sealed Artifact in reality can temporarily manifest in the dream—but every minute of realization will consume the sugar in the body in reality. The same Sealed Artifact can be manifested many times, Consumption is superimposed. According to the test, it is best not to exceed thirty to ten minutes, otherwise excessive sugar consumption may be life-threatening.”
Why not? After taking the chewing gum, his eyes lit up.
… consuming sugar? Is this simply a sealed item tailor-made for him, to lower blood sugar for free
Not to mention why not? How many interesting thoughts have turned in his mind, and at this time the attention of the three of them has returned to Fang Luo. Just now, he changed from human to ghost in an instant, which was extremely terrifying, but he was handsome for only three seconds, and he was seamlessly controlled by the original three people with a set of three combos. What does it look like? Poor.
only…
Lu Jing was full of doubts in her heart: "Ghosts and evil spirits have no feelings. This is proved by countless facts. These dead people were stripped of all their emotions in life at the moment of death, and they only have feelings for the living. Instinctive malice, even the relatives and lovers who once depended on each other for life, once they die and become ghosts, they will no longer have half the old feelings. What's the matter with him?"
You know, Fang Luo was very normal before Yuan did not break the mystery with a single sentence. His emotions were no different from ordinary people, and his emotions were very abundant. This is also the reason why they did not discover each other's identity at all. .
Why not? He was also very curious, and shook his head: "That's what he has to ask himself." After speaking, he looked at the young man who was firmly bound to the stone wall, "What do you think?"
Ayu has already put away the "fairy stick", and the young man who was tied to the stone wall stopped struggling. He slowly opened his eyes, and those dark eyes without eyes seemed to have recovered. There was a faint emotion.
Fang Luo twitched the corner of his mouth stiffly.
"… I said."
He quickly flipped through the pictures in his mind, and the longer-term memories have been blurred. After he died, there was only a vague consciousness left. He didn't remember anything or know anything. Floating near the altar.
At that time, he was so fragile that even a ray of sunlight might melt him.
He wandered like this for an unknown how long, and one day, he vaguely felt that some kind of change had taken place between the heaven and the earth, and this change was beneficial to him.
His dazed consciousness regained consciousness, he only felt that the remnant soul was growing little by little, and occasionally he could get rid of the shackles of the altar and go around every house in the village, and some movements caused by this frightened him many people.
Until three months ago, a foreigner came to Zhenxi Village.
That person was dressed up like a Taoist priest, pretending to be a ghost, talking like a ghost, which made many people believe the other party's nonsense. He also carries a black lacquered pocket altar with him, claiming to believe in the primordial god and devoutly worshiping the god, then his dreams will come true, his troubles will disappear, and he will enjoy all the fun.
In the place where Fang Luo was once sacrificed alive, the "sacred place" of the entire village, the pocket altars brought by foreigners were solemnly placed on the original altars. There seems to be some invisible power in this pocket altar, which is very nourishing for the muddled consciousness.
At that moment, Fang Luo was completely awakened!
——One evil ghost revived.
In the dark cave, Fang Luo lowered his eyes, blood dripped down his pale face, and his chilly voice continued: "At first, not many people believed in the magic stick, and they held the ceremony according to the other party's request. Sacrifice, the sacrificial offering is a little boy, a well-known lone star in the village who restrains his father and mother... "
After offering sacrifices and offering sacrifices to the gods, the faces of those who participated in the sacrifices were indeed radiant every day.
It is said that they enjoy the world's riches and honor in their dreams every night. Things that cannot be obtained in reality can be realized in dreams, which is the ultimate enjoyment. As a result, more and more people joined the sacrifice, and their beliefs became more pious day by day. In the end, the whole village fell.
Everyone has become a fanatic of the original god. They are morbidly obsessed with the dream world, and are increasingly disgusted with reality, and just want to stay in the dream forever.
At this time, the god stick who has been revered as a priest stood up and raised his arms and shouted, and a group of lunatics responded immediately.
They put all the children in the whole village as sacrifices on the altar, just to let them all ascend to the "Kingdom of God" and stay in the "Kingdom of God" of boundless happiness forever.
That night, endless blood stained every corner of the altar. The evil spirits who were originally restrained at the altar were shocked by the sudden influx of powerful force, and suddenly broke free from the restraints. Having lost all his emotions during his lifetime, he killed all the living people he saw before his eyes.
"... And then, when I woke up, I found myself in a white mist. I only remembered that I had just gone on a graduation trip not long ago and lost contact with my companions... Then I met you. Hehe, I thought? I could go home Oh, so, am I already dead..."
Fang Luo laughed self-deprecatingly, his eyes struggled violently, sometimes filled with rich human emotions, and sometimes turned into a cold, ferocious and malicious stare, and his body trembled because of this.
"I don't even know what happened..."
After he finished the last sentence with difficulty, he lowered his head, gave up all resistance, and let himself be slaughtered.
"Since you don't know? Let's find the truth together."
The unexpected voice came from one side, and Fang Luo suddenly raised his head again, and looked straight into a pair of extraordinarily calm eyes.
The owner of these eyes raised the corners of his lips towards him.
"What do you think?"