On the floor, the ghost mother stepped on him and strangled his throat tightly, watching the boy's futile struggle and his gradual suffocation.
But for a moment, the trance in the young man's eyes ended.
He finally woke up from the nightmare, raised his eyes, and stared at the Ghost Mother, but his eyes passed through her and fell into the void, just like looking at those high-ranking faces in the upper city.
"Do you still remember me?"
His bloodshot pupils seemed to have lava swirling in them: "—I'm not dead yet!"
He clenched his fists. He reached out his hand and squeezed her wrist tightly. Blood flows from the wound, bringing hot pain:
"I'm back… "
At that moment, the ghost mother looked into his eyes and was stunned.
She felt that the boy's hand seemed to have lost its flesh and blood and turned into something harder, and she could no longer feel the soft touch. She tightened her grip on his wrist like an iron pincer, and there was an unshakable determination in the frail strength.
In the smoke-filled hallucination of fear, the boy's appearance was distorted and quietly transformed.
It was as if she turned into an evil ghost in an instant. She was clearly being strangled by the neck, but after grabbing the ghost mother's wrist, she felt that she had no way to escape. This damn bastard is particularly rational, and his eyes are like wells leading to the world of fire, with burning light.
"Are you still scared?"
Ye Qingxuan's voice was like scrap metal rubbing against each other, so hoarse. He pulled away the ghost mother's hand and punched her in the face.
"I'm used to it!"
"Damn it, what are you going to do? Are you..."
The ghost mother roared and struggled hard, but the boy didn't care about her, he just raised his hand and punched her! One punch! One punch! One punch! The skin feels broken, but I can't feel it. The pain in the phalanges seemed too small to be noticed.
The ghost mother was screaming and saying something... but he couldn't hear clearly. He was silent. He was immersed in the murmurs of those hallucinations, like mechanical punches.
The world seemed to have become quiet again. Ye Qingxuan listened absentmindedly to the cries lingering in his ears and watched the faces appear in front of him.
For a long, long time, the ghost mother went from struggling wildly at the beginning to being completely silent at the end.
Ye Qingxuan let go of his hand, threw her to the ground, and stopped looking at her, even though she seemed to still be alive.
The hallucinations lingering in his mind became more intense. The ethereal ghosts and madmen were hovering around him, pulling at him, as if they were dragging him into hell.
But he staggered forward, and there was something more important there.
"Bai Xi."
Ye Qingxuan stared at the girl's face, looking at her pale face—the long hair clinging to her cheeks, dim and messy. She was struggling in the nightmare, as if she was still soaked in fear and struggling desperately.
She had woken up, but her dull eyes showed that her consciousness was still in pain.
"it hurts… "
She looked at Ye Qingxuan blankly, her lips trembling, and asked softly: "Am I dead?"
Ye Qingxuan didn't answer, but a trace of disappointment flashed in her eyes, as if it was a pity.
"I'm sorry." He picked up Bai Xi and murmured softly.
Only at this time did Ye Qingxuan realize how hypocritical he was. He saved Bai Xi not because she was pitiful, but because... she looked so much like him.
When Lao Fei brought her back that night, Ye Qingxuan chose to pull her in the door. Later, Bai Xi once asked him why he wanted to save himself. Ye Qingxuan told her that he saved Bai Xi because of the look in her eyes, but that was not the case, not at all.
That kind of sad and sad look is actually saying: Leave me alone, don't come close to me, and...
-Don't save me.
Maybe she already knew that anyone who had anything to do with her would be pulled into the quagmire.
She was afraid to be with anyone. Because she had known for a long time that this day would come and those people would eventually find her. Because on this day, everyone who has loved her will begin to hate why they have anything to do with her...
She was always afraid.
"Do not be afraid."
Ye Qingxuan hugged her: "I will not abandon you."
…
In the smoke of fear, he staggered out of the door, struggling to find the exit in the fog. The layers of hallucinations were suppressed by pain, but his sanity still remained.
But for a moment, I felt something wrapped around my neck, as familiar as a noose.
It's an invisible ghost...
In the thick fog, the form of the invisible ghost is slowly condensing again.
He turned his head in astonishment and saw the ghost mother with a twisted face in a pool of blood, murmuring in a low voice and with a twisted face. Her old face was showing signs of decay, and her body was rapidly drying up.
But the invisible ghosts in the frenzy seemed to be reined in again, and at her silent command, they reunited...
On that old and twisted face, the runes were crawling like reptiles.
The runes once etched into the flesh by the alchemist's forbidden magic were awakened.
They drew blood and gained strength, causing the teeth in the hag's mouth that looked like distorted facial features to scream, calling for the ghosts. In the scream, invisible demons emerged from the ether.
This is a forbidden transformation technology that exchanges lifespan for power. The human body is transformed through alchemy like an instrument, and additional vocal organs are implanted... By transforming the human body to communicate with the ether, even ordinary people who cannot become musicians can awaken the inscriptions. Sheet music on the body.
Using the blood of all the living creatures in this place as a sacrifice, the movement from the fallen Holy Spirit - "Dikuri Che - Prelude" was awakened.
As a result, the frantic invisible ghost crawled out of the blood, floating in the air with a trace of blood, wandering around, and finally looked at the hag with its dark eyes, staring closely at her blood that represented life, with longing eyes.
The hag coughed violently, swallowed a tube of dark green potion, and screamed again, and then, one after another, vague ghosts crawled out of the pool of blood.
"Don't worry, there is still a lot of blood here..." The ghost woman's eyes were full of ferocity: "After handing over that little girl, there will be more."
She took out the snow-white ashes from her pocket, which were the remains of the calcined bones. The ashes were sprinkled into the blood, and the bodies of the invisible ghosts became full again, rippling like a quagmire. The faces of some children vaguely appeared among them, as if they were suffocated and drowned in blood.
So the invisible ghost became obedient and obeyed her orders.
She looked at Ye Qingxuan's staggering running back with a ferocious smile, and recited the secret words to control the invisible ghost.
There is no escape.
None of you can escape.
You will all die here.
…
The entire abandoned sewer was now surrounded by blood.
Bloody liquid seeped out from the wall, with a sad color. They cling to the stones and move forward like black water. Wherever they pass, the old moss instantly turns yellow, and the spiders and mosquitoes are completely swallowed up and disappear without a trace.
There was a sharp and hoarse sound, the scream was like an iron wire, scraping against the wall and echoing in every corner. Every time he came back, Ye Qingxuan would feel a little suffocated.
The cervical vertebrae seemed to be cracking under the strong restraint.
Exhausted, he stumbled to the ground.
The scream sounded again, and countless fuzzy palms stretched out from the blood, groping in all directions, as if looking for traces of Bai Xi.
Ye Qingxuan hid Bai Xi behind his back and silently looked around for a place to escape. But this time, he found... there was no way to escape.
In his arms, Bai Xi looked into his eyes blankly, and suddenly asked softly: "Are we hopeless?"
Ye Qingxuan hugged her and remained silent.
"So this is ah."
She understood and lowered her eyes gloomily.
Amidst the screams of the ghost mother, countless invisible ghosts crawled out of the blood.
They gathered together, as if a bloody torrent suddenly appeared in the narrow space, rushing straight towards Ye Qingxuan.
Along the way, invisible claws of beasts stretched out from the blood stream, clawing frantically at everything within reach. Walls, wooden boards, iron sheets, or other things, everything covered in blood had tragic scratches on them.
Ye Qingxuan stared silently as it rushed towards him, and used all his strength to push away the girl in his arms. At least this way, she could still live.
But Bai Xi held his hand tightly, catching him off guard.
She did not leave obediently, but stood in front of Ye Qingxuan, letting the strong wind sweep over her and pull her towards the crushing whirlpool.
She took a deep breath, and her white hair lit up as if on fire.
Rushing towards the rushing blood, the healed skin on her cheeks cracked again, as if the power of thunder was brewing in that slender body.
As if he was remembering something, he raised his palm forward and flexed his slender index finger.
At that moment, a blazing light lit up from her fingertips!
The surging power tore the skin of her arms, and blood lines spread inch by inch, but that terrifying power filled her body, as if it was going to evaporate her from the inside out and turn her into ashes.
Then, her index finger pointed at the bloody vortex.
Just like the great bell played again, a terrifying loud noise erupted!
In the debilitating roar, the lightning of thunder spread from her fingertips, shining for a moment and submerging into the bloodstream of the invisible ghost.
The inexplicable power seemed to wake up for a moment and lasted only a snap of the fingers.
But in the blink of an eye, the bloody torrent was swallowed up by the lightning. The photoelectricity burned the blood, tore apart the invisible ghosts, and evaporated. The painful evil ghosts roared and turned into ashes.
In an instant, the bloody vortex suddenly swelled and exploded. Thick blood mist swept around with the explosion.
But at the end, there was still a shrill blood shadow that penetrated the lightning and rushed towards Bai Xi.
The final impact left by the crazy invisible ghost will tear this little girl who has no power to fight back to pieces, her bones and flesh will turn into mud! !
At the last moment, Bai Xi stared at it, with a smile on his pale cheeks.
Maybe it would be nice to just die like this. At least... there's some meaning.