Chapter 50: Rebirth in the Fire
Under Thanatos's operation, the white soul was spun into lifelines one after another under the loom. Thanatos did not have Atropos's scissors, so he could only use the huge sickle of death to cut the thread. The scene was comparable to Guan Gong embroidering. As the last lifeline was spun, the divine blood returned to the body, and Thanatos finally got rid of his weak state.
Fortunately, the energy consumed was not much, but it was so troublesome because there was no loom. Thanatos connected the lifeline to the lifelines of the seven people who died in the bomb attack. He carefully checked the connection and found that it was quite good, so he was relieved. It seems that He was too timid. This authority was indeed given to Him completely.
Thanatos thought about it, and tried to connect the extra lifeline to Anton Yayoi, but failed.
"Hmm... Is there no way to extend the lifeline of the dead? Can they only be reincarnated?" But there is no underworld in this world, so how can they be reincarnated? Even the soul cannot survive for too long.
While Thanatos was thinking, he suddenly saw a shadowy figure appear on his right. It was probably the soul that died before, which had disintegrated to the point where it was no longer in human form. It came out of nowhere, attracted by the noise it made, and flew over uncontrollably. Anyway, it was already made up, and there was no point in holding it. Thanatos thought about it and chained the extra lifeline to this soul.
The shadow suddenly solidified, revealing the face of a young man. His blue eyes revealed a confused look, and his lips moved, but Thanatos heard nothing.
Hmm... a little better, but not enough. It seems that the lifeline can work on dead people whose souls still exist, but the effect is not as effective as when they are alive. So the lifeline works on the soul? Because the soul of the dead is broken, it is impossible to absorb all the world and divine power in the lifeline, resulting in the inability to restore to human form? Doesn't that mean that the so-called "creation" is a super castrated version of "creation". It can only prolong life, not resurrect, let alone creation?
Thanatos hesitated for a moment, and cut his arm again. He wanted to try how much divine energy and souls were needed to "resurrect" the dead. As time passed, Thanatos spun more and more lifelines. He fed all the lifelines to the souls around him regardless of the cost, but he gradually became weaker.
"Please stop weaving. I'm much better now." The blue-eyed soul was finally able to speak and tried to dissuade Thanatos.
Thanatos' face was pale and he was sweating profusely. He had obviously reached his limit. He had already fed most of the white soul energy he had accumulated over the past two months to this soul, but the result was that apart from making the other party look complete, there was no other change at all.
Thanatos was not a god who got carried away easily. He looked like he was about to faint because he had lost too much blood for too long. He also knew that if he continued to feed the blood, there would probably be no change, so he could only sigh and take the blood back. The lifeline he had spun was enough to save a hundred or eighty people, but the souls in front of him were like a bottomless pit.
Well, he should have calculated the world line first, he made a mistake. For those who have died, their life line is automatically disconnected from the world line, and even if they are resurrected, they will not be connected to the world line. But there is an exception, that is, even if the other party is dead, they are still connected to the world line, so they are not allowed to be resurrected.
But the feedback from the world line is very subtle. It does not say that the other party is not connected, nor does it say that the other party is connected. It only says that it has been connected.
Thanatos: ...No, in this world line, can you still be like this?
The world line is not something that He can interfere with at His level. What can He do? He can only say "OK, everything you said is right."
Although weaving lifelines does not require much energy, weaving so many and visiting world lines consumes a lot of energy. He Jing Yayoi was visibly weak, and even the recovery speed of the wound on his arm was much slower than the first time. He could control the speed of his injury recovery, but it required energy, and he did not have any extra energy to allocate to the injury.
"Are you okay?" The soul instinctively wanted to support Kazuya Kazuki, but it passed through Kazuya Kazuki's body. He felt that the existence in front of him was rapidly absorbing his energy through the contact point. The soul immediately became transparent and could no longer maintain its thinking and human form.
Jing Yayoi also felt it at the same time, and immediately took a step back. He didn't want the soul he had saved with great effort to be swallowed up by him accidentally. But this time, he was inevitably affected by the backlash, and a trace of bright red blood oozed out of his mouth. He raised his eyes and saw that the other party had retreated to the ethereal state at the beginning. He was so angry that his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and stomach hurt. Is this what humans say about the sunk cost being too high that they are unwilling to let go easily?
Well, he felt that the human's summary was correct. He was now like a game geek who had waited for three hours and finally downloaded the game to 99%, but suddenly, with a "pop", the computer crashed. No matter whether this game was fun or not, he had to download it today! No matter how much energy it took, he had to save the people!
So He Jing Yasheng wrapped the energy he had just absorbed with the remaining energy in his body and sent it back to the other party, and finally added a top-level protection of the god level to the other party. Such a huge consumption made He Jing Yasheng unable to control and spit out a mouthful of blood. Of course, it was not the blood of the gods, but just a symptom of the collapse of this body.
"If you don't want to die, don't touch me first." He Jing Yasheng coughed twice fiercely, and with each cough, some tiny pieces of internal organs came out. But it doesn't matter, as long as he is given some time to recover, he can recover by swallowing two souls. Then let him study whether this protection can withstand his absorption. During this period, the opponent can stay as far away from him as possible, because his absorption range is not small.
The recovered soul stood helplessly three steps away from Jing Yayoi, watching the other's blood gushing out from the corner of his mouth uncontrollably. If it was a human, he would probably be close to death.
His memory as a soul was very vague. He only remembered that the other party had been feeding him things. Without those things, he might have dissipated long ago. He knew that the other party was not human, but should be a legendary monster or god. Legend, this description is not quite right, after all, he is now also a member of the urban legend.
Comparing to the edge of survival of this body, He Jing Yasheng burned some divine blood, recovered some energy, and used the energy to heal the serious injuries of this body, and cleaned up the blood on the ground. Burning divine blood is already the source of damage to Him. The body and energy are only external existences. He only needs to swallow a few souls to recover, so He doesn't need to burn divine blood to restore to the best condition in a hurry. Although he looks a little miserable now, he will not die immediately.
He Jing Yayoi jumped down from the tree, but he didn't expect that even this height would make him unable to bear his weight and he fell to the ground. Feeling the huge energy demand coming from his body again, well, he was a little too stuck.
"Are you, are you okay?" Soul looked at Kazukage Yayoi worriedly. The other person's face was pale, and the corners of his mouth were stained with blood again. The wound on his arm was still dripping with blood. He looked seriously injured.
He Jing Yayoi shook his head and struggled to get up, but there were flashing black spots in front of his eyes, and his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand up at all. It didn't seem very good, how about... burning a little more blood? But he had already consumed the divine blood before, and his own soul was also damaged. He didn't want to affect his soul for such a small matter. Although it's not impossible to eat a few souls, it would definitely be best not to get hurt.
At this moment, the sweet smell of candy came, and a gentle male voice with a hint of doubt sounded.
"Wakage-san?" Okiya Subaru didn't expect that he would meet Wakage Yayoi just by taking a casual walk.
"Mr. Okiya." Kazukage Yayoi narrowed his eyes and tried hard to identify Okiya Subaru's pink hair in the flashing black spots. He breathed a sigh of relief. Now he didn't have to burn his blood. He asked the other party to take him back. "Please take me home."
Okiya Subaru lowered his eyes and saw the cut on Kazukage Yayoi's arm. It wasn't deep, and at least the blood loss shouldn't be as serious as he showed. Was he fainting from blood, or was he injured somewhere else?
"Are you injured? Do you need to go to the hospital?" Okiya Subaru walked over, knelt on one knee politely one meter to the right of Jing Yayoi, and stretched out his hand to support her.
He Jing Yayoi was stunned. Yes, he could go to the hospital. There are many souls there, which is also good for his recovery. He had never thought of going to the hospital when he was sick until Okiya Subaru made a suggestion.
"Let's go...to the hospital...hmm..." He Jing Yayoi found that he was indeed too stuck and could no longer stay awake. However, he was very relieved about Okiya Subaru, so he simply closed his eyes and let himself faint.
Okiya Subaru, who was still wondering what was going on with the other person, quickly reached out to stop Kazukage Yayoi. If he hadn't been quick-witted, Kazukage Yayoi would have fallen straight to the ground. Okiya Subaru quickly checked and determined that there were no other injuries. However, the other person's pupils were dilated, his body temperature was obviously low, and his nerve reaction was weak. No matter how you looked at it, the situation was not good. Okiya Subaru did not hesitate, and immediately picked up Kazukage Yayoi and rushed to the nearest hospital.
As soon as he handed Kazukage Yayoi over to the doctor, Subaru Okiya quickly called his FBI colleagues and asked them to collect the blood in the park.
After hanging up the phone, Okiya Subaru couldn't help but smile. He had been secretly approaching Kazaki Yayoi for almost two months, and today was a huge breakthrough.
At first, he was just asked by Conan to find out about Yayoi Andu, after all, they were in the same school. He didn't take it seriously at first, just a suspect, and he didn't have the time to help the Japanese police solve the case. But sometimes, fate is so coincidental. He was investigating a cult case at the time and happened to find Endo Shinzo. Then he knew that Endo Shinzo was the one killed by Yayoi Andu.
He was a little speechless, and didn't know what to say. Now the only insider he could find was killed, and the progress of investigating the cult was also stopped. So Okiya Subaru wondered whether Andong Yayoi was taking revenge on her sister, or was she killing the insider at the instigation of others. He should indeed approach Andong Yayoi, who might be related to the case.
Then, Yasei Ando became a suspect in the case of Congressman Konishi and disappeared.
Subaru Okiya took this matter to test Conan. After all, it was Conan who asked him to investigate Yayoi Andou in the first place. After hesitating for a moment, Conan told Subaru Okiya the truth. So he tried to find a way to reconnect with the other party.
As a result, before the cult's affairs made any progress, he discovered some unreasonable changes in himself.
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