Chapter 36 The Real Test
The bloodstained girl had blood oozing from the corners of her mouth and two bloody holes on her arms. She
was obviously in pain and her eyebrows were furrowed, but she still held the red wedding gown tightly, as if it was more precious than her life.
The blood stained the wedding gown red, making it look even more translucent and charming.
Liu Jianan walked up to her: "Are you still going to stop us, Miss Chang? Or should I call you, Sea Monster Lady?"
Chang Siqin shook her head and laughed: "The name of Sea Monster Lady is not very nice. Okay, okay, I admit defeat, you win."
She looked at Liu Jianan, her beautiful eyes full of pleading: "Before you get the reward from Jialin River, can you meet one of my requests?"
"You are a defeated general, and you still dare to make requests?" Duan Haiping blocked Liu Jianan behind him, his eyes cold.
Chang Siqin was stunned, and shivered and crawled back twice.
Liu Jianan patted Xiao Duan's shoulder: "Don't be so fierce, be gentle to girls."
He ignored Duan Haiping's dissatisfied eyes and helped Chang Siqin to sit on the wooden box: "You talk."
"Let me tell you a story." Chang Siqin sighed softly, his eyes gradually drifting away.
"A long time ago, there was a small village called Heqi Village on the bank of Jialin River."
"The people in the village believe in the river god for generations, and every twelve years, a river sacrifice girl is selected."
"On the surface, it is said to be the daughter-in-law of the river god, but in fact, it is just a sacrifice to the river god."
The girl's tone was very flat, as if she was just telling the life of someone else, but she didn't know that every pause and every emotional fluctuation had betrayed her.
It turns out that Chang Siqin's original name was Wang Yunmei, Wang Gui was her father, and Wang Yunshan was her sister.
Her mother was the last witch in the village, but she was killed by the husband of the witch because she identified the river sacrifice girl.
The husband of the river sacrifice girl also died, leaving behind an orphan girl who was only ten years old.
The orphan girl used some unknown means to become the most beloved disciple of the new witch.
And asked the witch to designate Wang Yunmei as the next river sacrifice girl.
"When will the grievances be paid back? When Wang Yunmei learned that she had become a river sacrifice girl, she calmly accepted her fate."
Chang Siqin shed tears of blood: "But she never expected that her compromise would bring an extremely miserable end."
That year, Wang Yunmei had just turned 18 years old, and it was only the second year since she was designated as a river sacrifice girl.
The current witch used the drought as an excuse to deceive the villagers and force her into the coffin.
She put on the wedding gown that her mother had made for her before she died, and was sent into the coffin amid the cries of her father and sister, and was left to drift with the current.
The river water flooded her mouth and drowned her eyes.
She desperately slapped the coffin lid, but she forgot that it was an airtight human sacrifice coffin with 49 wooden screws!
How could a weak woman like her have the strength to break free?
Endless darkness swallowed her, and she gave up fighting in despair, walking towards death bit by bit.
If it had ended there, it would have been fine, but the witch rushed to kill everyone and found a coffin exactly like hers from somewhere.
It was said that the coffin had returned to the world of the living, but nothing was known about it, and that she missed her loved ones.
Wang Gui and Wang Yunshan were sent into the river together to reunite with the new bride of the river god.
Unfortunately, her sister, who was only nine years old, was also sent into the human sacrifice coffin and lost her life.
Hu Jianye had already burst into tears after hearing this: "Why didn't you tell us earlier? Why would we fight if you had told me earlier? I'll help you with anything you want me to do!"
Wang Yunmei shook her head and smiled bitterly: "You have your rules, and we have ours."
Suppressing the sympathy in her heart, Liu Jianan asked her: "What do you want us to help you with?"
Wang Yunmei looked at the hole behind her: "After my father and Shanshan were killed, I found that I had some unusual abilities, such as the ability to attach myself to other creatures and coexist with them."
"Among many marine creatures, I chose a giant squid. I used it to find my father and Shanshan's coffins. At the same time, I created a shipwreck when the witch and the orphan girl went out to sea."
"I avenged my family, but I also lost the qualification for reincarnation because of killing."
"I wanted to free my father and Shanshan, but I didn't expect that the soul-breaking nail embedded in the coffin was a treasure passed down from the witch's family."
"If you want to open the coffin and send their souls into reincarnation, you must first go through a test."
Hearing this, Hu Jianye's mouth couldn't close.
His eyes were full of surprise: "Do people really have souls after death? Does reincarnation really exist?"
Liu Jianan didn't know how to answer his question.
Duan Haiping sneered: "Even the end of the world has appeared, what else is impossible? It may not have existed before, but it is hard to say now."
Linking Wang Yunmei's story together, Liu Jianan finally realized: "It turns out that this is the real test of Jialin River's gift."
Wang Yunmei nodded slightly: "You are really smart. Yes, everything in the past is my father and I screening the candidates for participating in the test."
"He is a kind-hearted person. He doesn't like fighting and killing, and he doesn't want anyone to sacrifice in vain to save his and his little sister's trapped souls."
"I originally thought that no one would pass the screening for a long time, but we found the candidate we liked just when the end of the world came."
Hu Jianye scratched his head embarrassedly: "There's no way, he's just so good."
Wang Yunmei looked at him with amusement: "Well, Mr. Hu, you may have misunderstood, I mean Liu Jianan."
"Ah?" Visible disappointment.
In order not to hurt Hu Jianye's feelings, Wang Yunmei also praised him: "Your ability is really amazing. You caught me off guard on the first day."
"In order to deal with you, I can only let my father add some powder developed by my special ability into the food to guide you to hallucinate and think that your younger sister is me."
She patiently explained: "Jianye, you are simple-minded and lack experience. This test is not suitable for you."
"You must know how dangerous this test is. Once you fall into it, you will never wake up again."
"Otherwise, my father and I wouldn't have hesitated for so long, and only decided to let you take the test after you came knocking on our door."
Disappointment quickly turned into worry. When Hu Jianye heard that this test could actually put his life in danger, he subconsciously wanted to persuade Liu Jianan not to go.
"I am willing to take the test."
Liu Jianan's eyes were more determined than ever before.
Hu Jianye's words were stuck in his throat.
"Old Hu," Liu Jianan put his hand on Hu Jianye's shoulder, "don't worry, I will definitely come back safely. Don't forget, we still have the martial soul fusion technique!"
Hu Jianye nodded heavily: "That's right, don't let my supernatural powers be weakened, kid!"
Liu Jianan waved his hand, followed Wang Yunmei into the cave without looking back.