Friends from the past
Although Ji Yunding didn't understand what the entanglement between the two people was, she understood that now was probably the best time to fulfill her promise.
"Blood..." Ji Yunding tilted his head and stretched out his hand to Xie Yian, "Do you have a knife?"
Xie Yian hesitated for a moment, then angrily took out a needle. Just as he was about to grab Ji Yunding's wrist, he was hit on the hand by the handle of a knife that Ji Liuxing took out from somewhere.
"Don't touch the girl's hand. Do you have any manners?"
Xie Yian felt somewhat embarrassed after being slapped like this, but he had no chance of winning a fight with Ji Liuxing, so he could only endure it.
Ji Yunding stretched out his hand and felt the silver needle piercing the blood vessels in his wrist. As the silver needle turned red, Ji Yunding felt his eyelids getting heavier.
Just when Ji Liuxing was about to speak up to remind Ji Yunding to stay awake, he saw Ji Yunding simply raised her hand and slap herself, making her cheeks turn red.
When the silver needle was pulled out, it had turned a brighter red than the blood gushing out of the artery. Ji Yunding felt a little dizzy and stood half leaning on Zheng Nuo.
The redness on his face from the beating he had just caused gradually faded, replaced by a bloodless paleness. Ji Yunding felt as if his fingertips were touching ice, and the chill gradually spread from his fingertips to his limbs.
Fortunately, it was still bearable. Ji Yunding took some body temperature from Zheng Nuo, while Zheng Nuo was staring at Xie Yian and observing Ji Liuxing's expression from time to time.
Xie Yian twisted the end of the silver needle, squatted down, took a deep breath, and used the tip to write and draw on the ground. After a while, a bloody formation composed of countless complex geometric shapes took shape.
This formation requires a huge amount of blood. If it is drawn by bloodletting without the help of silver needles, it will not just cause dizziness.
After drawing the last curve, Xie Yian thrust the silver needle hard into the center of the magic circle. Then the silver needle, which had turned light red, began to explode from the tail end, splashing the remaining blood all over the exquisite magic circle that had just been drawn.
As the floating blood drops touched the ground, a bone-chilling draft blew in instantly.
Ji Liuxing stood up, looking a little solemn.
Xie Yian stared at Ji Yunding nervously, muttering to himself: "It won't be wrong, as long as I take good care of her in the future..."
This is the best opportunity for him to restore the glory of the Ghost Tamer lineage.
When they first met, he saw that Ji Yunding had an enviable affinity with the weird power. Subsequent tests further confirmed his idea - the weird dormitory manager would even mistake Ji Yunding for a member of the weird.
The evidence is the phrase “It’s a really good way to handle sourness.”
Even Ji Liuxing might not know this. To monsters, human flesh is sour, but people who have been in negative emotions for a long time - stress, anger, fear, and so on - will have a fatal attraction to monsters.
Xie Yian learned from the weirdos in his group that people who were soaked in negative emotions were very delicious and could even help nourish the weirdos' power.
"A move?"
Ji Yunding lowered her head and looked at the zombie dog in front of her, which was as tall as her waist, with exposed bones and flesh, and green light in its eyes.
The appearance was completely different, but Ji Yunding could feel from the blood connection that this was her former friend.
Its fangs were exposed due to the wound on its mouth, making it look a bit ferocious. However, when Ji Yunding stretched out his hand, its tail wagged rapidly.
"Ji Liuxing, I've wanted you to see it with your own eyes for a long time." Xie Yian let out a long sigh and looked at Ji Liuxing with satisfaction, "Look at your arrogant and mean prejudice."
"Then I'm really underestimated." Ji Liuxing was not moved at all, "Do you think I will agree to your plan to summon the souls of the investigators? Make them into monsters? As long as I live, don't dream about it."
Ji Yunding half-knelt down and reached out his hand to touch this former friend, but he didn't know how to start - it was covered with wounds and constantly oozing green sticky blood.
Its tail was raised and wagging, and its head, as big as a basketball with its skull exposed, rubbed against Ji Yunding's palm without any scruples.
"You..." Ji Yunding looked at it and was about to say something, but found that it whimpered and seemed a little aggrieved.
The summoning blood connected Ji Yunding to its thoughts, but how could a dog understand what was happening to itself.
It just felt very hungry, uncomfortable and in pain, but it was also very happy to see Ji Yunding.
"You've grown up again, and you're even more different than the last time I saw you." Ji Yunding took a deep breath and smiled.
Zheng Nuo never thought that Ji Yun would make such an expression that was neither smiling nor crying - this roommate's emotions always gave people a mechanical feeling, as if she adjusted her expression after considering how to behave at this time.
"Please let my friend leave me... again." Ji Yunding lowered his head and wrapped his arms around the neck of the terrifying giant dog.
Xie Yian's face showed a look of surprise, but before he could speak, he felt a pain in his neck, and then his vision went dark.
Ji Liuxing grabbed him by the back of his collar to ensure that he would not suffer a concussion from fainting, lowered him a little and then let go, letting him fall.
Generally speaking, Ji Liuxing thinks it is very stupid to impose his own ideas on others, but when he sees someone making a decision he thinks is right, he doesn't mind using some means to prevent certain people from making disruptive remarks.
"It told me that it was very scared. It said it felt like killing me at any time. It said it wanted to be a good child forever." Ji Yunding's voice had lost its ups and downs, but was subtly hoarse.
"I'm sorry, you and I are on different sides." Ji Liuxing spread his hands and sighed, "I can't empathize with you. After all, I've dealt with too many weird things."
Of course, this also includes tragedies caused by weirdness.
"……Yeah?"
"Yes. I personally believe that only living beings have 'rights', not them. And, I hope that one day you will think so too." Ji Liuxing squatted down and stretched out his hand, gently touching the zombie dog with his fingers, "But at least this time, I can assure you that it won't hurt."
"Thank you. It shouldn't have to endure more pain because of me." Ji Yunding held its face with both hands, looked into its shining eyes, and smiled, "Who is the good dog?"
"Woof!"
Its voice was suddenly full of energy. Ji Yunding would always coax it like this when he secretly took it for injections with the money he saved from working.
It was just a little painful, but Ji Yunding would always smile at it, and it knew it was a good thing. And every time after the injection, it always felt much better.
Before leaving that "home", Ji Yunding was allowed to have very few things, including love, communication, and the puppy that was abandoned due to illness.
They needed to use the puppy, which was only slightly taller than the heels at the time, to announce to Ji Yunding that she didn't deserve anything.
While Ji Yunding was narrating calmly, the other two people who were awake remained silent.
Ji Liuxing had to admit that even he had never seen such a despicable "victory".
Its tail did not stop wagging until it disappeared, and it happily stayed by Ji Yunding's side until the last second.
"Yunding, you...I have some tissues here." Zheng Nuo searched his pocket and handed over a pack of tissues.
"I'm sorry, but I can't cry." Ji Yunding stood up slowly, avoiding the dizziness caused by standing up suddenly after losing blood. "I'm just a little out of breath, I'll be fine soon."
Ji Liuxing tactfully carried Xie Yian a little further away - in this situation, it would obviously be better to let her more familiar roommate comfort her.
He tested out Ji Yunding's true character, made Xie Yian suffer a setback, and also recruited two very promising newcomers to his research group. In theory, he won a great victory, but Ji Liuxing was not in a good mood.
Weird things don't bother him - to Ji Liuxing, no matter how pitiful they appear, they are still monsters that can get out of control at any time. At most, they are carriers of the residual echoes of the deceased. It is an insult to treat them completely as the deceased themselves.
But Ji Yunding, this freshman who does things very much to his liking, has problems that are far more serious than he imagined.
The psychologists in the group don't know whether they are good at resolving childhood trauma. After all, they face adults whose spirits are destroyed by weird things every day.
While Ji Liuxing was thinking, two students came towards him. Ji Yunding was staggering, and he was obviously a little dizzy.
"Are you alright?"
"There's something strange coming over there." Ji Yunding pointed at the cafeteria window - the window was closer than before, and dark shadows could be vaguely seen moving.
At some point, the creaking sound of the iron door disappeared. Upon closer inspection, the place where the door should have been was all wall.
How come these weirdos can't read the atmosphere...
Ji Liuxing rubbed his head irritably and walked straight to the window, but he felt that his fingertips that had just touched the zombie dog were a little hot.
Ji Liuxing looked down at his hands and sighed: "I have to admit that you were indeed a good dog when you were alive."
I just wanted to prevent Ji Yunding from being deceived for no apparent reason, but how did things turn out like this...
Never mind, it's not a big deal anyway. Since it wants to protect its owner, let it go.
"These reverberations... are really uncomfortable." As he said that, Ji Liuxing raised his hand and pointed to the window, watching the huge force rushing into the dark door behind the window leading to the kitchen.
However, Ji Liuxing swore that he would never show mercy to any monsters again - until they were reduced to ashes.
Never again.
Thinking of the wrong things he had done, Ji Liuxing felt a little heavy-hearted. He turned around and met Ji Yunding's eyes.
He still didn't understand why he felt that inexplicable fear when they first met. After thinking about it, Ji Liuxing could only blame himself for misjudging her.
As long as you ignore her occasional stiff and awkward words - in fact, she is also trying to improve this aspect - Ji Liuxing feels that she can be described as a sincere and friendly person.
"Team leader, we have just been enrolled for three days. Are we going to be expelled again after joining the investigation team?"
…and hit the nail on the head.
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