Chapter 93 Chapter 93 Another Him

Ji Chu closed his eyes.

She originally thought that it would be impossible for her to fall asleep after such an intense "physical and mental stimulation".

But who knew that as soon as I closed my eyes, my consciousness was pulled down by fatigue.

The aura around her was so reassuring that she had no intention of resisting the sleepiness and fell asleep with her neck tilted.

Ji Chu's head kept shaking back and forth, making people worry that she would break her neck.

Meng Yuci reached out and lifted her drooping head, leaning it against himself.

Ji Chu was still in a dream. He sensed a familiar breath and subconsciously rubbed his face on his clothes, finding a comfortable angle for himself. His breathing soon became slow and peaceful.

He lowered his eyes and stared at her sleeping face quietly for a while, and the inexplicable heat in his heart gradually subsided.

He raised his hand, his fingertips lightly touching her cheek. After hesitating for a long time, he didn't put his finger down. Instead, he gently helped her tuck her drooping hair behind her ears.

Then he turned his head, his eyes suddenly became indifferent and cold, and the gentle expression that he only had when facing Ji Chu disappeared completely.

Beneath the ice, the pitch-black demonic energy gradually moved towards him, eventually converging into a dark mass beneath him that resembled his own reflection.

Meng Yuci looked coldly at the things under the ice, and also saw the coldness in his own eyes from the reflection of the ice.

He cheated on Ji Chu.

He did not see the scene of Chu's death in the previous century in a fantasy, but saw "another him".

——Another Meng Yuci who has been possessed by a demon.

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Ji Chu had just fallen asleep for a while when he saw Zhongli Bai in his dream.

Ji Chu had already accepted the fact that he would contact him through dreams. He didn't even bother to show any surprise and asked directly about his situation.

"I'm fine."

Zhongli Bai said "fine", but he actually didn't look well at all. His face was pale and his spirit was depressed. He asked her nervously:

"Ji Chu, you didn't kill Brother Meng, did you?"

Ji Chu was surprised:

"How do you know... um, I killed him..."

Zhongli Bai took a breath and heard Ji Chu say:

"But I stopped in time. There's something wrong with my memory of my past life."

She briefly recounted the illusion she had encountered and what she knew.

Zhongli Bai took a deep breath and kept repeating:

"As expected, as expected!"

"Then God is truly a piece of shit, using such a vicious method! He almost killed us all!"

Ji Chudao:

"What about you? When I broke through the illusion, I saw someone who looked very similar to you near the golden eyes. Speaking of which, why are all the other people who were also sucked into the secret realm gone? Where did everyone go?"

Zhongli Bai: "That person is me."

"We have all been captured by the Last God."

Ji Chu was shocked:

"Why are you just telling me now?! I'm going to save you now!"

Zhongli Bai held her back:

"Don't worry, Ji Chu, do you still remember the Tianhe River you saw?"

Ji Chu nodded:

"Of course I remember. There were many balls of light inside, and you were in there too. What were those things?"

"It's an unhatched egg."

Zhongli Baidao:

"We previously oversimplified the matter, believing that by killing the Last God, we could completely stop its conspiracy. But now it seems that the Last God is the agent of the Gods' remaining consciousness. Its purpose from the beginning has been to revive the Gods."

"Now, many cultivators are trapped in the secret realm, and all of them have become bodies that hatch the remaining consciousness of the gods."

"Even if you can kill the Last God, you can't kill so many remnants of the Gods possessing the monks. For safety's sake, you can't fall into the trap, let alone come to save me."

"What do you mean?"

Ji Chu suddenly raised his eyes and looked at him:

"Zhongli Bai, you don't want to live anymore, right?"

"I'm not! Of course I want to live!"

Zhongli Bai was irritated by her question, but then he turned around and became depressed again:

"...But I hope you're alive."

"The Tianxuan Secret Realm is a giant incubator. There's no way out. The torture of illusions here, layer upon layer, will eventually drive everyone mad. I'm only able to maintain my sanity with the help of the Four-Direction Compass... But you're different from us. You're destined to find a way out..."

Ji Chu interrupted him:

"Don't talk so much nonsense to me! I can't get out of here by myself. Either you and I can solve this together, or we can just pretend we've never been reborn!"

Zhongli Bai was anxious:

"How do you want to solve this? Do you want to kill everyone before they are trapped and turned into eggs?"

“…”

Ji Chu gritted his teeth and said:

"...So what if they were all killed?"

Zhongli Bai was helpless:

"Don't say those angry words, Ji Chu. You can't do it... Could it be that you can bring yourself to kill me right now?"

Killing someone who hasn't become a demon yet, just because he might become one...

Ji Chu knew he couldn't do it.

"Are we just going to watch the Last God's conspiracy succeed?!"

Ji Chu felt like he was holding back some air, unable to breathe.

"Do you want me to stand here and watch you get possessed and die?"

"no."

Zhongli Bai said honestly:

"You can't just stand here and watch. You have to find a way to leave. I told you a fortune. It's a narrow escape from death, but there's still a glimmer of hope. Go out first, and then find a way to kill the god..."

"I'm not leaving."

Ji Chu interrupted him harshly:

"I can't get out. I'm trapped in the secret realm."

Zhongli Bai's figure became ethereal, and he seemed to be unable to hold on to the dream. His tone became more and more anxious:

"I'm serious, Ji Chu, you are my last hope..."

"I'm serious, too."

There was no smile on her face, and she said viciously:

"If you die, I'll die right away! I just saved my life anyway, so why not just let the gods kill everyone!"

Zhongli Bai was stunned and moved his mouth to say something, but before he could make a sound, his figure disappeared.

Ji Chu bent down with his head lowered, furious with Zhongli Bai.

She pounded her chest and took a few deep breaths.

She didn't believe that things were irreversible. Even she could get out of the illusion, so why couldn't Zhongli Bai? Why couldn't others?

Ji Chu looked up and found that he was not in the ice crack where he fell asleep, but in an unfamiliar place.

This dream has layers upon layers, and it seems that it has not yet completely ended.

The air was chilly, unlike the chaos in the dream of Zhongli Bai. This place was more like the bottom of a frozen lake, surrounded by translucent ice.

Looking out through the ice, one can only see cracks in the gaps between the ice layers and the faint light reflected by the ice.

It's just ice.

Not a single living thing.

"Where is this?"

As soon as Ji Chu opened her mouth, she found that her voice seemed particularly loud in this silent world, which scared her.

There was not even the sound of any living thing breathing in this place, only endless silence, so any movement would be magnified infinitely.

It was not the ice crack where she fell asleep. It was deeper and quieter here, but it did not make people feel cold.

After staying for a long time, you may even feel that all the irritability and anxiety have disappeared, as if you have turned into a piece of quiet ice, without sadness or joy.

"How can I get out?"

She lowered her voice and talked to herself, but it still sounded like she was using some kind of amplifying device, which was particularly abrupt.

No one answered, so Ji Chu shut up and patted the ice next to him, trying to find a way to leave the dream.

Suddenly, a cold breath came from behind.

Like water mist, soft and invisible, yet impenetrable, it instantly enveloped her whole body.

Ji Chu froze and felt a cold touch on the back of her neck.

She was startled by the cold air and shivered.

When I turned around, I saw my senior brother.

There were no wounds on the senior brother's body. He looked much colder than the senior brother in real life, and his whole body exuded a solemn and lonely aura.

Her long eyelashes drooped slightly, her eyes were deep, and her knuckles were pale and slender, and they froze in mid-air as she turned around.

This is still a dream.

Ji Chu thought.

She seldom dreamed of her senior brother in the past, and her senior brother would never come to her through dreams.

If it wasn't an illusion, then the senior brother in the dream was really a bit strange.

The look in his eyes when he looked at her was not as calm and peaceful as usual. Instead, it held a deep meaning that was hard to explain. If one looked closely, there seemed to be a faint glint of water.

Ji Chu always felt that her senior brother looked at her with sad eyes.

Puzzled, she reached out and tugged at her brother's sleeve:

"Brother? What's wrong with you?"

This was like turning on a switch, and Meng Yuci felt that his heart, which had stopped beating a long time ago, suddenly started beating again.

His longing, which had been suppressed for so long, finally received a response.

He wrapped Ji Chu's hand with his five fingers and felt her warm touch and beating pulse, which flowed through his fingertips into his blood vessels, making his heart beat again.

"Ji Chu..."

Finally I felt her warmth again, it was real, not an illusion.

He raised his hand, pulled her into his arms, and hugged her tightly, as if he wanted to hold her whole body in his arms.

The voice was low and hoarse, like a sigh. In just a few words, it seemed to express endless longing and sadness:

"I miss you so much."

Ji Chu was a little surprised.

She also remembered a saying that dreams are mostly projections of human psychology.

And the senior brother she dreamed of had tears in his eyes and was holding her, about to cry...

No way, no way?

She looks like a decent person, but what is she thinking about on a daily basis?!

Ji Chu was held by his senior brother. After feeling awkward for a while, he quickly accepted the situation.

We have already kissed in real life, so what’s wrong with hugging in a dream?

It's normal to have some weird fantasies about your senior brother occasionally... right?

Besides, this was her dream, who would know?

She nodded in her heart.

Then he raised his hands to hug his senior brother's waist and touched him a few times openly.

The senior brother's body froze, as if he didn't expect her to do this, and even his breathing began to tremble.

Ji Chu encouraged himself for a long time, but in the end he only mustered up the courage to touch his senior brother's waist and chest a few times.

The senior brother did not resist and let her do what she wanted.

Ji Chu found that his senior brother in the dream was not injured, so he rubbed his head against his chest again, and said goodbye:

"Brother, don't miss me too much. When I wake up, we can meet in real life!"

The hand around her waist suddenly tightened its grip.

“Don’t go!”

The senior brother who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke.

He first subconsciously refuted, then repeated it in a lowered voice, his eyes seeming to be begging:

"Ji Chu, don't go..."

Ji Chu was stunned for a moment, as if he heard some unusual emotion in his words.

The senior brother in her dreams always looked sad, and she almost softened her heart and agreed to him.

But reason told her that now was not the time to dream, as the issue between Zhongli Bai and the End God had not been resolved yet.

So she refused:

"No, Brother, although I don't want to leave you, I have to go save people now! I really can't sleep anymore!"

"Besides, this is just a dream, isn't it?"

Meng Yuci lost strength in his hands.

She successfully escaped from his arms, looked around, selected a spot, and then rushed towards the ice.

With a "bang", the expected pain did not come. Ji Chu's head shook forward heavily and he opened his eyes suddenly.

It was bright daylight.

The fire in front of them had gone out. The senior brother held her in one hand, his eyes closed, breathing shallowly, as if he was still in a dream.

Ji Chu subconsciously slowed down his breathing.

She stared at her senior brother's cold and extraordinary beauty for a while, and suddenly thought of her senior brother in her dream, and felt guilty again.

I always feel like I'm doing something bad...

She quickly looked away.

Unexpectedly, when she lowered her head, she suddenly saw a dark shadow floating under the ice.

A pair of dark and delicate eyes in the middle of the shadows met her gaze through the thick ice.