Styx Doll (15)

The river was dark, and the peach wood nails given by Shanzha came in handy.

The peach wood nail actually began to glow in the water, a layer of faint golden light that was more useful than any waterproof flashlight. Youyi slid the hand holding the nail into the water, and the baby heads floating around began to hide to the side.

Peach wood is indeed a treasure. From now on, my favorite flower will be peach blossom, and my favorite fruit will be peach.

Youyi was thinking all these things in his mind to relieve his tension and fear. He swam hard towards the direction where Chen Mengze fell into the water.

After grabbing the other person's hand, before he had time to feel happy, he felt a pain in his back, as if he was bitten by something.

You Yi did not have time to look at what was happening, and he grabbed Chen Mengze and tried to swim upstream, but at this moment something grabbed his feet and began to drag him down.

Being caught off guard by the strong pull, You Yi's hand almost let go of Chen Mengze's arm. The other party's body was now limp, like a lifeless puppet, allowing him to manipulate it.

At this moment You Yi couldn't help but hesitate for a moment. He could hardly see anything in the water. Even so, he couldn't help but glance at Chen Mengze.

He knew that if he let go of Chen Mengze at this time, it would be difficult to pull him out, so he struggled and carried him to the surface of the water.

I really owe you something. It's my fault that I came to you on my own.

Before You Yi had time to take a look at the situation on the shore, he felt a stronger pull on his feet. He pushed Chen Mengze toward the shore and was dragged back into the water.

This action consumed most of his physical strength. He struggled with the will to survive, but he felt his body getting heavier, as if something heavy was gradually tied to him.

At this point, I can't say I regret taking this trip.

He gently loosened the peach wood nail that Youyi was holding tightly in his palm, and the nail broke into two pieces. The last bit of golden light was also swallowed up by the river of blood.

I'm a little unwilling...

However, this thought also became light and vague, like a puff of smoke, and was about to disappear along with his life.

Suddenly, a white light broke through the air, and the head floating on the blood river let out a sharp wail.

Someone jumped into the water, reached a hand into the river, firmly grasped Youyou's wrist, and forcefully dragged him out of the river.

"Student You Yi, Student You Yi..."

Youyou heard a voice in a trance.

Is it He Guang?

He didn't die, but instead ran to the river to die. No one else can do that.

"I'm here, nothing will happen to you."

The voice had its usual innocent sincerity, and somehow it sounded very reassuring.

Youyi was really out of strength, so he lost consciousness peacefully.

Twenty minutes ago.

He Guang walked out the door and returned to his room, but he kept frowning.

[Anchor, what happened to you just now? You scared me.]

【We thought you were infected】

[Yeah, it's okay.]

He Guang said, "Just now I was in the corridor and felt the power fluctuations of those things. And for some reason, my eyes suddenly went dark, as if all the lights were turned off.

I thought they were here, so I ran to Shen's room to check. I was so anxious that I even forgot to knock on the door.

Alas, if this had happened in the past, it would have been disastrous.”

[It seems to be a false alarm. Maybe you are under too much pressure.]

[No matter how bad it is, I can't do anything to you]

"Maybe they'll even ask me to marry them?"

He Guang seemed to remember something, and smiled with a bit of embarrassment, "A friend of mine told me that in some places, unmarried men and women have to wear veils. If they are accidentally seen by others, they have to marry that person. Then I asked what should be done if one party does not want to?"

[Did your friend say that if he didn’t like it, he could only kill the other person?]

[Anchor, you may have some misunderstanding about your gender]

[The anchor looks very aggressive, it's not wrong to say she's going to marry him]

[If there is such a strange place, wouldn’t it be miserable for people who never get married in their lifetime?]

【Wouldn’t it be nice to be a quiet fat house?】

[Are you serious, friend? Only a simple anchor would believe such words.]

"So, they were teasing me?" He Guang tilted his head, suddenly realizing, "No wonder they laughed so strangely at that time, they were so mean. I won't buy them flowers this year."

[Ah, the host's reaction time is really long]

[People with simple personalities are really cute]

[System 0007: Like a little squirrel that fell from a tree, stupid and cute]

[Is that the one in front of me the system?]

[Hahahaha system you are such a wonderful person, no, wonderful system]

[In the same year, how good are you?]

She was teased again, but He Guang felt much more relaxed. She simply washed up and planned to rest for a while. After all, she still had a lot of work to do in the second half of the night.

He Guang lay on the bed for a while, but didn't dare to really sleep. She changed into a black sportswear that was convenient for movement, and waited for a while. When she heard no more sound outside, she opened the door and walked out.

She walked up the stairs and that subtle feeling came back to her.

"I feel like...something's wrong."

He Guang said softly, "System-kun, what do you think?"

The system responded after a few seconds, "Host, what do you think is wrong?"

"I..." He Guang frowned and thought for a while, "Is there any force interfering with you?"

The system said, "No, host, do you suspect that the thing in the river has come again?"

He Guang nodded, turned around and walked back to the corridor, and pushed open the doors of the two boys' rooms again.

They all turned off the lights and rested. You Yi seemed to be startled by He Guang's action again. He sat up suddenly and asked, "Who?"

[The anchor broke into someone's bedroom at night, twice, and will be beaten]

[Pfft, what a fucking boudoir]

[Stop making trouble, the anchor is doing business]

He Guang threw the Wu San in his hand over without saying a word.

Wu San emitted a faint golden light, which hit You Yi's body, causing his body to quickly turn into a black mist.

The system, like the audience, was also shocked by the scene before its eyes. "Host, is this an illusion?"

"If it was an illusion, it was just an illusion directed at me alone. It won't affect you. You and I will see different things. If it was an illusion just now, maybe in your eyes, I was talking to the air."

He Guang caught the rebounding Wu San with one hand, and no longer paid attention to the situation in the house. He turned around and walked to the stairs for the third time.

The system was puzzled, "What is the situation now?"

"Personal territory." He Guang said quickly, "Remember the memory that A-Lin showed me in the open space? That was a small space constructed based on his memories and abilities. It was his territory.

Everyone except him will be subject to certain constraints, and this one is no exception."

He Guang stretched out his hand and gently touched the void, as if he could touch something.

"But he is more powerful than Alin. Alin's domain is his memory, and this person, or this ghost, directly constructed an environment that I am familiar with in his domain and deceived me."

The system said, "Host, you are very good. You noticed it immediately. So, the people or things we saw after you went up the stairs were all fake?"

"Yes, this step is the intersection of reality and the domain." He Guang nodded.

As they were talking, the lights in the corridor suddenly flickered, and a bit of black mist lingered on the ground and turned into a baby. The baby then grew very quickly and turned into a teenager.

When He Guang turned around, he saw a very handsome boy, surrounded by black mist all over his body. The black mist covered him like a wide robe, making him look even more unpredictable.

He Guang stared at the other person and said, "System Master, do you think..."

The system quickly replied, "Host, this ghost baby grew up by absorbing the resentment of wronged souls in the river. It is more powerful than the evil spirits you dealt with before. This one is just a clone, but it should not be underestimated."

"No, I mean his style. Can I take it as a reference? Next time I play the role of a ghost messenger, you can give me a copy." He Guang said.

"Oh, God!" The system's translation voice popped out again because of her anxiety.

"My worrying friend, let's not think about this until we are safe. And what is the quantifier for one portion? Do we need to go to the cafeteria to get food?"

He Guang nodded, "This is also very important! And I feel that you are very nervous, so let's talk about something light to ease your tension."

The system is speechless.

"Where is my friend?" He Guang looked up and looked directly at the ghost baby.

The ghost baby said calmly, "I'll send you to see them right away."

After the man and the ghost finished their conversation, they had no intention of communicating anymore.

He Guang's steady steps turned into a sprint. This time she did not use Wu San, but instead used the peach wood dagger from her exorcist three-piece set.

The mist on the ghost baby's body also wrapped around He Guang like a rope. The peach wood dagger was pressed against He Guang's arm. She raised it and gently slashed it. A white light suddenly appeared and swept across the mist on the ghost baby's body.

The ghost baby waved his sleeves gently, and the black mist and white light collided with each other, making a crackling sound.

He Guang threw the dagger out, and it was about to pierce the ghost baby's chest, but the pale hand gently pinched it, and the dagger made a shattering sound, and at the same time, the mist on the ghost baby's body began to dissipate.

The mist disappeared, and the dagger that fell to the ground turned into powder.

The ground in the corridor suddenly shook, and the surrounding scenery changed. He Guang turned his head and found himself at the Xiaoqing River.

The surrounding scenery is different from before, and the trees along the river bank are much denser.

A man holding a small, still crying baby ran to the river in panic, "Baby! Don't blame us. If you want to blame someone, blame your bad luck for having to be born into a poor family like ours."

The man was wearing clothes that looked very old, and he kept muttering to himself. Then he walked to the river, hesitantly lifted up the baby, then put his hands down, and finally he bent down and put the baby into the river.

The baby was so young that he sank without even opening his eyes.

There were a few ripples on the water, but they soon disappeared.

He Guang walked to the water's edge to fish out the baby, but the man seemed not to see her. He lowered his head and muttered a few words, then hurriedly and painfully dived back into the bushes from where he came.

Before He Guang's hand could reach into the water, the baby floated up by herself like a piece of wood. In the blink of an eye, she looked as if she had been soaked in the river for many days. Her whole body was swollen and rotten, and she emitted a foul smell.

Soon the scene in front of me changed again, but it was still by the river.

He Guang was crying inconsolably as he read the brief history told by Shanzha, in which someone, unable to raise a child due to poverty, had to drown the weak ones.

Some are extremely panic-stricken and talk nonsense, hoping that they will be born into a good family in their next life.

There were also people who secretly drowned their baby girls one after another just because they were babies, without any guilt, as if they were not killing their own children but solving a problem.

There were also naughty children and teenagers who did not listen to their parents and came to the river to swim. They were pulled by the little babies and sank to the bottom of the water forever.

She saw many, many deaths, each of which was a painful struggle, and died unwillingly or in fear.

"You say, are we wrong?"

The ghost baby's figure appeared by the river. He Guang looked back. She knew very well that this was just a memory, and the ghost baby clone that destroyed her peach wood dagger had also disappeared.

So after she spoke to comfort the nervous system and audience, she did not rush into another fight.

The ghost baby was actually one of the first batch of babies who drowned in the Xiaoqing River. He had the deepest and strongest resentment. To be precise, he died in his mother's womb before he was born.

The poor woman was wrongly accused of having an affair with someone else, and was taken to the river without any investigation and water tortured. She and her child died in the river.

The baby absorbed the resentment of other ghosts in the river and gradually grew up. However, even if he could grow up and change his form, he would eventually die. He would forever suffer the pain before death and there would be no relief.

"You are not wrong." He Guang thought about it seriously, "But killing innocent people is wrong."

The ghost baby sneered softly, "You living people will only say these high-sounding words forever. It's not you who drowned. You will never know how painful death is."

"I really don't know." He Guang still answered seriously, "Wanting to live, wanting revenge, wanting to be free, none of these are wrong.

But I am your enemy and I am on the opposite side of your stand, so to me, you are wrong and I want to stop you.

If you really want to find something that is wrong from beginning to end, then it is because there is not enough kindness in the world and there are many helpless things. "