Chapter 119: Tail Ship 37
There was no way to question anything. The voice they had been hearing, the voice of the well-behaved and sensible little girl, came from this piece of rotten meat whose original shape could not be identified.
Tong Mian's voice trembled a little from the back, "What...what is that thing?"
"Oh my God, save me! Save me!!" The collapsed mass of flesh was still screaming.
Some long-lost memories were awakened.
...I've never been out, can you take me out?
…It’s so dark here and I’m all alone. I’m so scared.
The rising anger was about to overflow from Jiang Yuelu's chest. He was unable to calm himself down. He turned his head to look at the blue-eyed baby. He knew that his expression was definitely not friendly, but he could not control it.
"Hey, hey, why are you looking at me like that?" The baby laughed strangely.
"I wasn't the one who locked her up. If you really want to settle this account, you should go find Jin Muxi. Oh, it just so happens that he's here too."
As he looked, he saw that the ship had turned into ruins in the collapse just now. Walking slowly along the road in the middle was a young man covered in jingling gold ornaments and dressed in extremely gorgeous clothes. He was no longer waving a golden folding fan, but rather taking the trouble to tap the fan head in his hand again and again.
"It's really you." Jiang Yuelu recognized it.
They had met on the ghost ship at sea. The young man had told them a lot of "hearsay" information at the time. Jiang Yuelu was originally wondering why he knew so much. But after they got on the ship and separated, they never saw each other again. Jiang Yuelu also slowly let down his guard and forgot about this person.
It was not until he heard Rongrong mention the name Jin Muxi that he remembered it.
Jin Muxi looked like he had nothing to do with the malicious ghost, but because he was the Lord of the City, no one dared to ignore him. Tong Mian and Leng Wenhan both stood next to Jiang Yuelu.
Facing several vigilant gazes, Jin Muxi smiled nonchalantly, "I never thought we would meet under such circumstances. This is really beneath my dignity."
"I originally thought that sending the wanted criminal of the Ghost King to the Ghost Market and auctioning off that unusual tear would create some sparks, but I didn't expect you to go so far. You even destroyed my boat." Jin Muxi said mischievously, "It's not easy to repair such a big boat."
"And Rongrong, do you know how long I have to coax her into this state?"
There was nothing dangerous in his complaining tone.
He even looked at the screaming piece of meat "Rongrong" with pity. Jiang Yuelu looked at him, feeling unbelievable in his heart, and felt that it was too fucking cut.
"You locked her up?"
Before Jin Muxi could answer, the blue-eyed baby said sinisterly, "Who else could it be but him? He was the one who made the ship measure things in terms of pain and happiness, and he was the one who separated despair from happiness. He was the one who set the damn standard of judgment! My ghosts didn't have such things before, they just used paper money for the dead!"
He talked for a long time but Jin Muxi didn't respond.
The baby yelled, "Say something, you bastard!"
Jin Muxi wondered, "Who are you?"
"You...you...don't go too far!"
Jin Muxi was even more depressed. "Although I have friends all over the world, I really don't recognize a baby. Uh... Did you recognize the wrong person? It's strange, although my brother and I are twin brothers, we don't look alike at all."
The baby was furious, "You admit your mistake...ah...I admit my mistake!"
"Wait. You said, your ghost city?" Jin Muxi was surprised. "So you are the former city master. You are nothing like before. You used to be quite powerful."
"...Damn it. Why on earth am I wasting my breath talking to you!" The baby cursed bitterly and cast an undisguised violent gaze at his children. Ever since he told them to die, they had become idiots.
"I need you to activate the formation."
He said coldly: "With this formation, I can kill him and get my Sky-reaching Ship back."
After hearing his words, Ajin was the first to kneel down and said, "I am willing to obey your orders and give you everything." He threw something out carelessly, and it fell to the ground with a bang.
Jiang Yuelu looked over and saw a vermilion umbrella, which was his only weapon.
The baby nodded, "Very good. You are worthy of being my most loyal child. What about you, Gurian."
"Of course I'll follow your instructions, old man..." As soon as Gurian finished speaking, his figure suddenly flashed, as if a disconnected video was bursting with sparks, and his cunning voice came with it, "Dad, I'm embarrassed to eat your food and drink your drinks, but I've worked hard for you, and we're even."
"You want me to work for you like Ah Jin? Dream on!"
The baby snorted and laughed: "Is this your choice?"
As he spoke, his hand dropped gently, and Gurian immediately returned to normal.
His figure stopped shaking, and everyone could see that he was dragged back to the scene by his father. As if he had anticipated his own death, his lips kept trembling, trying to beg for mercy.
But the green flames that swept in from the baby carriage instantly engulfed him, along with his words of begging for mercy, "Daddy... please let me go..."
Ajin, kneeling on the ground, remained unmoved as his old friend died beside him.
The child from before was killed by himself in the blink of an eye, and the baby did not change at all.
Jiang Yuelu thought, they were truly a perfect match for each other.
"Okay, it's your turn, Derek."
The baby glanced into the distance. Jin Muxi hadn't made any move yet, maintaining the leisurely and elegant posture of tapping the umbrella, but he knew there would be no more time. "You should make a choice."
"I..." Drake was confused.
The next moment, the crisis came. His spirit was constantly struggling and wavering, but at the moment of confrontation, the person who was doomed to die would definitely be as indecisive as him. Jiang Yuelu watched his fluorescent headband slowly melt into the flames. It used to be so shining.
Just then, a sharp pain attacked his brain.
His mind once again recalled the pain of being connected to Shugao Girls' High School and the female high school students.
But this time the pain was not as intense as before and it disappeared quickly, like the tide gradually receding, revealing the deep emotions inside.
When Drake and Gurian died completely, he seemed to see the scenes they cherished in the past, the lively scene of enjoying lunch in the castle, and finally the infinite satisfaction and happiness that surged in his heart when his father picked up Drake from the garbage dump.
"Come on, kid."
"From today on, you have a family."
…
In the cold flames, the pair of eyes that were looking at him disappeared.
After devouring three powerful ghosts, the evil formation seemed to be full, but it did not immediately emit a blazing light. Instead, it was filled with a low, dark red blood light. When Jiang Yuelu saw this blood light, he covered his eyes in pain, and Tong Mian behind him did the same.
Leng Wenhan seemed to be much better. His extremely sensitive eyes seemed to have other protections that would not allow any other forces to interfere or covet them.
The baby laughed wildly: "Hahahahahahaha!"
"I have waited for this moment for so long! So long!"
He stared at Jin Muxi with resentful eyes. Many years ago, he had stood in the same place and humiliated him in front of everyone and took away his boat!
"Do you know what kind of life I have lived these years? I played the game of father and son with a dozen lunatics for decades! Every night in despair, I couldn't sleep peacefully, because I thought that I was standing here - the place that was taken away by you -"
He roared, "It was supposed to be mine!"
As he roared, the formations on the ground melted one after another, and the spell along the outermost circle turned into blood, flowing towards his baby carriage. The flesh and blood condensed again, like a giant red foot that suddenly grew out, grabbing all four legs of the baby carriage, and with a "boom" it broke through the wooden board, and the materialized flesh and blood tightly connected to the baby's lower body.
He looked like a red, deformed monster with a light head and heavy feet.
Two eyeballs dripping with brown juice were aimed at the boy in the golden shirt. The clear blue was soon stained. Jin Muxi finally recognized him, "Oh, it's you. You actually changed into the body of a child like this. The damage you suffered was so great? I remember that you didn't use much force."
His mumbling was undoubtedly another humiliation, and Jiang Yuelu shook his head secretly.
While they were confronting each other, he lowered his voice and said, "Go see Rongrong and see if you can get her... out."
Leng Wenhan nodded and quickly disappeared.
Just as he was about to turn around, Jiang Yuelu suddenly felt something and heard Tong Mian shout, "Be careful!" He had already quickly rolled to the side.
"Bang!"
The ground where I had just stood was instantly shattered.
The deformed red baby monster roared, sounding even more unpleasant than the howl of a wild beast. It indiscriminately attacked everything in front of it, and its overflowing hatred made it want to tear everything apart.
Fuck! Jiang Yuelu was terrified.
Is this guy named Jin Muxi deliberately trying to stir up hatred?
Jiang Yuelu got up from the ground and was even more furious when she saw Jin Muxi's golden shirt was still clean and his posture was still exceptionally elegant.
"That's enough." When the huge red baby carriage leg flew over, Jin Muxi gently grasped it. Her thin and white wrist seemed to have a thousand pounds of strength. No matter how loudly the baby carriage roared, it could not move an inch.
Jin Muxi sighed, "It was indeed a trouble to keep you here in the first place."
"What did you say? Leave me behind! Bullshit! I ambushed your ship by myself. Have you ever discovered my whereabouts in all these years?"
Jin Muxi's ears were stained by the series of dirty words. Unable to bear it, he turned his head away and said with a hint of disgust: "How do you know I didn't notice it?"
The stroller froze for a moment, then stopped like a red hill. "...You know?"
"Haha...you're lying to me, you wouldn't know."
"Have you ever come back in these years?"
The baby returned to normal and sneered even harder, "Have you forgotten the ridiculous rules you set yourself? Why did you force the dead Jiang Rongrong to stay and waste the ship's power on other things? Have you forgotten everything? Haha, there's no point in saying more."
"You and I each have our own opinions. Someone should come and testify."
The baby's blue eyes looked over and Jiang Yuelu was startled.
What are they going to do?
"The Ghost King has a special relationship with him, so he is the most suitable person to witness it." Before Jin Muxi could try to stop him, the baby waved his hand and tore a crack in space.
A huge tearing force came from it, grabbed Jiang Yuelu's ankle and dragged him in.
…
"Hey, hey, wish."
Jiang Yuelu felt someone patted her face twice.
He opened his eyes and saw a little blonde girl, "...Rongrong?"
Soon, he was shocked by the sound he made, because he was clearly calling Rongrong in his heart, but the sound he made came out as two sounds -
“Woof, woof!”
He tried twice more, but the dog was still barking.
Can't he speak anymore?
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuelu's neck was suddenly gently pulled by someone. He lowered his head and saw a red collar tied in a ball of white fur. The other end of the rope was tied to the girl's hand. She pulled Jiang Yuelu and slowly walked past the mirror.
Even though he was prepared, he was still shocked when he saw himself in the mirror.
A white puppy.
He turned into a dog?
What was this, the baby's revenge on him? No, he clearly said he wanted to be a witness himself.
Jiang Yuelu slowly calmed down.
There is no magic that can turn a person into a dog, that is too incredible. And what he saw now was a living Rongrong, which was totally against reality. So, he should have been sent to a fantasy world... Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth twitched.
Turning himself into a dog must be the baby's bad taste.
Since you are here to be a dog, then be a dog with peace of mind.
Jiang Yuelu gradually calmed down, acting like a docile pet dog, following his master through the long corridor. He shook his head left and right, and found that this was not Mansion No. 1.
Rongrong felt the rope swinging and turned back in surprise, "You seem to be in a good mood today, Yuanyuan."
This name really...sounds like "Yueyue". Jiang Yuelu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
As soon as he walked out of the corridor, he saw a figure emerging. Jiang Yuelu subconsciously rushed to the girl, but heard a cheerful voice: "Surprise!"
"Brother!" Rongrong said in surprise, "You're back!"
elder brother?
Is this Will's son?
Jiang Yuelu looked at him curiously and found that he was older than she thought, about fourteen or fifteen years old. Sons of ocean families often take charge of the family at an early age, and boys of this age are probably already following Will around.
"Today is your birthday, how could I not come back?" The round-faced boy said with a smile, glancing down at the motionless little white dog on the ground, "Why has your dog become so quiet?"
Rongrong lowered her head, "He is a little strange today..."
Jiang Yuelu: “…”
He shouted joyfully twice.
Rongrong's brother touched the dog's head and said, "Hey, your dog is so stupid. Didn't he recognize me just now?"
"Don't say such things in front of Yuanyuan, brother!"
Jiang Yuelu looked at the boy's face carefully and frowned. He felt like he had seen this face before... Logically, he had a photographic memory and should have an impression of everyone he had seen, but he just couldn't match the face.
"Have you come back to see mom and dad?"
"They definitely don't want to see me." The boy pouted. "Dad must be so anxious on his way back. He must be in love with Mom right now. I won't bother them."
Rongrong nodded, not quite understanding.
"Okay, let's go check out your birthday present first. In addition to the goodies dad brought you, I have some too."
“Yeah!”
Listening to the heartwarming conversation between the brother and sister, Jiang Yuelu's mind drifted away.
At night, after Rongrong blew out the candles, the Will family released streamers. Looking at the sincere smiles of the family, Jiang Yuelu confirmed that they had not been captured by ghosts at this time, and all disasters had not yet come.
“Hmm…”
Suddenly realizing something, Jiang Yuelu raised his head and looked upwards.
There was an exquisite wooden window inlaid on the red brick and red tile wall. The fluttering curtains and clean surface all showed that it was carefully taken care of by the hostess. However, there was a dark shadow sitting on the window sill. A corner of the shadow's clothes was stained by a little light, flashing a gorgeous golden light.
Golden mignonette?
Jiang Yuelu held his breath and concentrated.
If I'm not mistaken, this illusion should correspond to part of reality, which means that before the Will family was captured, Jin Muxi really appeared beside them? But what exactly did he want to do...
Jin Muxi, who was sitting by the window, looked at the laughing family thoughtfully, with a gleam of surprise in his eyes, and murmured to himself: "Laughter, happiness... this is it."
He did not harm Will's family until the birthday party was over.
When Jiang Yuelu turned her gaze away from the girl who was clapping and laughing, the window was empty.
Only the white gauze curtains were still swaying slightly.
A whisper sounded in my ears, as if it had broken through the illusion and appeared directly.
"You should have discovered it by now, Jiang Yuelu. He was the first to contact the Will family."
"What could have attracted this wandering soul to stop that night?" The baby giggled.
"He didn't let them go out of kindness. Compared to me, the guy in front of you who always waves a fan and looks harmless is the best. His cruelty lies elsewhere. As long as the essence of the twin brothers is touched, they will become crazy and paranoid."
Listening to the ghost's sigh, Jiang Yuelu repeated his words, "Essence?"
An unexpected word.
“I think your academy should have graded us, some gray, some gold… Except for our strength, everything else is just your own assessment. You don’t know anything about us.” The baby sneered.
Anyway, he was mocking the academy, and it had nothing to do with Jiang Yuelu.
He just turned a deaf ear to it.
In contrast, he was more curious about the essence of what the baby mentioned. He had a vague feeling that the answer behind it would be related to big ghosts like Jin Muxi... and Xia Yi.
"Those wizards think that all ghosts are the result of the gathering of souls after death, but they don't know that the regrets themselves can turn into ghosts. Are the gods they believe in also mortals who have ascended to heaven? Why don't they use their brains to think about where the first god came from?"
"If you understand this, you will also understand where ghosts like us come from."
"People have all kinds of emotions, but they are not relatively balanced. The overflow will gather spontaneously, like a rootless ghost, looking for a suitable parasite in the world." The baby glanced down at his body, "We will also have a moment of birth. The first parasite will always be bound to us. My original body is broken and it is broken... Jin Muxi destroyed my first body. I have to wander between different bodies and make choices."
"You don't know that beings like us don't covet living people. They have no attraction to us."
"We care about the moment of death."
He smiled meaningfully.
"Only at these times will people burst out with strong love and hate, and we smell the scent of all kinds of emotions and follow it... I was born this way, and so was Jin Muxi. The four ghosts of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness all did the same."
"I don't know about his brother, but Jin Muxi should have noticed the joy in human nature when he was born, and he has been looking for and absorbing it since then."
Jiang Yuelu was somewhat fascinated by what was being said.
Joy... He pursues joy? So Jin Muxi should correspond to Le Gui?
No wonder he stayed at the Will family's birthday party, maybe he was attracted by the family's contented happiness. Thinking of Jin Muxi leaning against the window with a thoughtful but confused expression, Jiang Yuelu was a little confused again.
Strange... since he pursues happiness.
This ship should be mainly for pleasure, so why is there a place like despair? And those ghosts who can't pay for happiness...
The baby snorted and laughed: "It seems that you have noticed it. This is the sad thing about Jin Muxi."
"How can he understand what true joy and pain are when he is attached to a dead fetus that has not yet been born? He has never experienced anything, so he can't understand it at all."
"Not much more to say... just keep reading."
"You will understand how pathetic he is."
As soon as he finished speaking, a gap appeared under his feet again. The little white dog turned into Jiang Yuelu and soon fell into it again.
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