Chapter 741
The burning flames kissed the woman who had been forgotten by everyone. She struggled to get up from the ground and tried to pull the closed door, but the red-hot doorknob burned her hand and made her pull back.
But she soon realized that if she didn't open the door despite the pain, she wouldn't be able to leave here alive today.
She gritted her teeth and tried to grab the doorknob, only to find to her despair that the door was locked and she was not strong enough to open it.
Unable to open the door, the woman finally realized and went to look for the window inside the house.
Unfortunately, it's too late.
The fire outside was spreading very quickly, and one of the corridors led directly to this window.
The flames landed on the curtains, then shot up to the ceiling, igniting documents and instruments throughout the room.
The woman tried to back away but was nearly hit by the falling shelf, and eventually had to retreat behind the door.
The area outside the window was completely engulfed in flames, and the heat emanating from the door behind them indicated that the hall had fallen.
The woman was trapped in a space of less than two square meters, looking at everything in front of her with nothing but despair.
If we're talking about the most painful way to die in the world, nothing beats being burned alive.
Every inch of his flesh was ravaged by the raging fire. He was filled with despair, pain, and a desperate desire to escape, but he was ultimately helpless and could only watch as he was swallowed up by the scalding flames.
The woman was not burned to death, but suffocated from the thick smoke.
In her final moments, she was even somewhat relieved, relieved that she would finally no longer have to live such a painful life and endure such cruel torture.
The moment the fire started, Zou Yiluan and the others were drawn into the woman's perspective.
They personally witnessed the woman's agonizing struggle before her death, and in the instant of her passing, they felt a surge of hatred welling up within them.
Her hatred for the fire and for those who locked her in the house and watched her die.
The woman's intense hatred, unsurprisingly, turned her into a vengeful ghost.
Instead, they retaliated against the victims who witnessed the fire but remained silent, and who took advantage of the chaos caused by the fire to escape the area.
After killing one person after another and devouring their souls, the woman's malevolent aura surged, transforming her into an extremely terrifying Asura Demon King.
Having personally experienced everything that happened after the woman's death, Zou Yiluan and the others' resolve began to waver slightly.
Just then, a bright white light flashed, blinding them and causing the ghosts that had clung to them, trying to drag them down to hell, to scream and vanish instantly.
Upon hearing the scream, Zou Yiluan and the others shuddered, and their muddled minds cleared.
Looking up again, I saw two people standing at the end of the light.
"Miss Ye, Mr. Jiang!"
"Concentrate and calm your mind, don't let your mind wander."
Zou Yiluan and the others, still somewhat shaken by what had just happened, breathed a sigh of relief and anxiously asked, "Miss Ye, what exactly happened here...?"
"We have entered the Ghost King's Ghost Realm."
"The Ghost King's Ghost Realm?" Zou Yiluan was stunned. "That woman? She really is the Ghost King? Then what just happened here..."
“It’s all true.”
Upon hearing Ye Wanxi's words, everyone's expression changed once again.
It was actually true! The pain from being burned by the flames still seemed to linger on their bodies, and the group subconsciously shrank back, not wanting to experience that torment that was worse than death again.
Ye Wanxi saw through their thoughts at a glance: "Pity her?"
Zou Yiluan and the other two looked at each other, nodded, and then shook their heads.
"She certainly deserves sympathy. The birth of a Ghost King is often accompanied by overwhelming resentment. She died with such despair and unwillingness that she was able to transform into a vengeful ghost on the spot, and a powerful one at that. But..."
Ye Wanxi paused for a moment, and Zou Yiluan and the others also pricked up their ears at the opportune moment.
"But after she killed so many people and devoured so many souls, she has gone from being a victim to a perpetrator and is no longer worthy of sympathy."
As soon as Ye Wanxi finished speaking, a black aura suddenly appeared behind them and rushed straight towards Ye Wanxi.
Unfortunately, before he could even reach Ye Wanxi, Jiang Lin pinned him down.
Zou Yiluan and the others widened their eyes upon seeing this, especially Zou Yiluan, who had been eager to recruit Jiang Lin into his family because of his computer talent.
Unexpectedly, not only was she skilled with computers, but her ability to catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits was also comparable to Ye Wanxi's.
The heart that had finally settled down immediately started itching again, itching to get that person into its own bowl.
Ye Wanxi naturally noticed the black aura and knew that the Ghost King wanted to teach her a lesson.
Unfortunately, the other party had chosen the wrong target. Since Ye Wanxi had already seen through her disguise, why would she take such a newly emerged ghost king who had only been around for a few years seriously?
In other words, besides these people, she also harmed many innocent people!
Zou Yiluan and the others finally understood what Ye Wanxi meant when she said that he didn't deserve sympathy.
What Ye Wanxi said next completely extinguished any remaining empathy they had for women.
"After the Ghost King forms a Ghost Domain, she will pull anyone who accidentally wanders into this place or the vicinity into her territory. Then they will experience what you just went through. If you empathize with her, sympathize with her, or feel resentment towards those people like she does, you will be assimilated by her and then naturally devoured by her to expand this Ghost Domain."
Zou Yiluan and the others felt inexplicably nauseous after hearing this. So, all this fuss was just to turn them into nourishment to expand the Ghost Domain.
In particular, this person's actions completely exploit people's sympathy and empathy for the weak to drag them into a quagmire.
How is her behavior any different from that of the villains who killed her?
Just as Ye Wanxi said, former victims have become perpetrators, and their sympathy will become a knife that hurts them.
After a moment of stunned silence, Zou Yiluan and the others were all somewhat indignant.
The Ghost King, whose true nature had been exposed in just a few words, finally couldn't hold back any longer. He tore off the facade, rushed out, and with his long fingernails brimming with malevolent energy, he reached out to grab Ye Wanxi.
(End of this chapter)
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