Chapter 134
The wounds blossomed on his pale skin, like bloody roses, with blood flowing out from the depths of the petals, appearing particularly striking in the pale blue ice cave.
“Shen Xin!”
Song Yue threw down her things and knelt in front of Shen Xin who was lying on his side.
His eyes were tightly closed, his brows were furrowed, and in his bloody right hand he held a fruit knife, with winding streaks of blood running across the knife.
——Shen Xin cut himself.
——But why?
Song Yue didn't understand, so she had to use her left hand to pull the fruit knife out of his hand.
The people on the ground opened their eyes wide instantly.
The ink color covered the entire eyeball, leaving no white in the eye, only thick, dark black.
Song Yue's hand trembled, but she still pinched the blade with two fingers, pulling it out while whispering tentatively: "Chen Xin, it's me, Song Yue, I brought breakfast back, get up and eat~"
The pair of glass-like inorganic eyeballs stared at her, as if they were very interested in what she said.
But the next second, Song Yue realized that the other party was not interested in her words, but in her as a person.
Chen Xin's head slowly tilted to one side, the corner of his mouth curled up into an arc, and his pair of black eyes didn't blink. He looked like an SD doll, delicate, flexible, yet weird.
Suddenly, Song Yue saw his eyeballs rolling wildly in his eye sockets!
No, that's not right!
It's not the eyeball that's rotating, it's the thing inside the eyeball!
Song Yue's heart skipped a beat.
What's this?
Why does it appear in Shen Xin's pupils?
Could it be that Shen Xin used the knife just now just to deal with it?
But the problem is that this damn thing is attached to his eyeball, she...she can't just stab it with a knife!
As if hearing her inner thoughts, suddenly, an extremely cold hand grasped her left wrist, and a dry voice was squeezed out of her throat with difficulty.
"…cut it off…"
Song Yue stared at the pale-faced Shen Xin in disbelief, her lips trembling slightly: "Do you know what you are saying? Shen Xin, those are your eyes!"
However, the man below him remained unchanged, and his tone even became stronger: "...I said...cut it off...now...!"
Song Yue's head was buzzing, and he held the knife in his left hand, trembling and unwilling to take action.
Perhaps sensing her resistance, the person beneath him gritted his teeth and spoke fiercely and laboriously, "...it's very interested in you...if you don't gouge it out...the next one to suffer...will be you!"
"...It's just an eye...that's all...I won't die...hurry up and do it..."
She'll be the next to suffer...
Just eyes...
Get started...
Song Yue had never felt her mind so confused. Her face was tense and she dared not breathe. Her palm holding the knife was soaked with sweat.
"...Hurry up! What are you still hesitating about!"
"...Do you want us all to die here...?"
No! She didn't want anything to happen to Shen Xin at all!
A powerful electric current rushed from her heart to her limbs and bones. Song Yue felt an unprecedented courage and strength. She hardened her heart and pressed Shen Xin to the ground!
She knelt at his waist, her upper body seemingly sitting on her abs, her empty right wrist pressed against the lower half of his face, her left hand raised with a knife.
The tip of the knife pierced into the eye socket and penetrated deep into it.
As she moved, the person under her twitched violently due to severe pain.
Song Yue had never felt such pain in her heart. It seemed as if the knife was not cutting out his eyes, but her heart.
Tears slid down her cheeks and gathered into crystal tears at the tip of her chin.
The man under her reached out and touched her face. Even though she was in so much pain, he still tried to comfort her.
"...Don't cry... tears won't look good... you'll look like a little cat..."
Song Yue forced a smile, trying to distract him from his pain with conversation: "What do I look like when I'm not crying? A little white cat? Or a big-faced cat?"
I could feel the chest beneath me rise and fall a few times, and a weak laugh drifted out of his mouth: "...like a pretty cat..."
My heart suddenly tightened.
At the same time, the knife in his hand rose and fell quickly.
Puff, puff!
She gouged out two bloody eyeballs, which rolled to the ground.
The black thing inside made a faint chirping sound, then quickly disappeared like a wisp of smoke, leaving no trace.
Song Yue pulled away from Shen Xin and was finally able to breathe deeply.
She threw the knife aside and walked to Shen Xin with her weak body: “I’ll go find medicine for you, hold on!”
Unexpectedly, the other party grabbed her and forced a smile: "...No need...Just stay with me...I will be fine..."
She's not a magic pill! How can she just be there for her?
Song Yue wanted to scold him, but the next second, when she met his empty, bloody eyes, her heart softened.
Her throat choked, and she finally lay down obediently, lying on her side, curled up beside him.
"Okay, I'll stay here with you."
You must get better.
The ice cave was extremely quiet, and soon the only sounds were the steady breathing of her and Shen Xin.
But Song Yue knew that her breathing was deceiving.
She was not calm at all, on the contrary, she felt heartbroken.
She and Shen Xin were lying face to face. Shen Xin couldn't see her, but she could see Shen Xin.
Chen Xin is very good-looking. This good looks is not because of how stunning his facial features are, but because every part of his body is just right. He has the handsomeness that absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the beauty of a landscape painting.
Few people can perfectly combine the two at the same time, but Shen Xin can see them at the same time.
His beauty comes more from his bone structure and temperament. No matter where he stands, you can't take your eyes off him.
This also explains why Ran Yan and Yuan Ling admire him so much.
He is so clear and straightforward, clean and cool, and he is so patient and gentle towards the investigators below him. Coupled with his outstanding abilities, he is a leader in the investigation bureau.
Song Yue felt that it would be difficult for anyone not to notice him.
However, such an outstanding person fell from heaven to hell.
He lost his eyes, which are the basis for human survival, leaving only a pair of empty and bloody eye sockets.
Song Yue bit her lower lip, tears welling up in her eyes.
She had tried very hard to control her breathing, but she didn't expect that Shen Xin still noticed it.
He smiled and raised his thin lips: "It seems that you still want to be a little cat~"
Song Yue smiled and sniffed, trying hard to suppress her bitterness: "I think the little cat is pretty too!"
Ana Shen reached out his hand, slowly touched her head, and rubbed it gently: "Well, they all look good."
Song Yue turned her head slightly, letting the last tear flow, then took a deep breath and asked something else: "What is that black thing?"
Evil spirit? Evil spirit? Or some kind of virus?
Ana Shen withdrew his hand, his face calm: “It’s nothing.”
Song Yue:?
Shen Xin: "We don't have an exact name to describe it, but there is a term that specifically explains this state - mental decline."
"You can understand it as a kind of inner demon."
"The more often an investigator comes into contact with evil, the more likely they are to fall into sanity."
Song Yue clenched her fists: "Is there a solution?"
"No."
Song Yue was unwilling to give up: "Then is the bureau turning a blind eye to your situation?"
An investigator risked his life to bring peace to the world, only to be plagued by a negative state and unable to seek treatment? Is this reasonable?
Hearing the anxiety in her tone, Shen Xin comforted her: "It's not that we turn a blind eye, but there is really no cure."
"The influence of evil on human sanity is irreversible. The Bureau has been established for hundreds of years, and countless investigators like me have fallen. The Bureau has exhausted its resources to seek treatment for everyone, but all the results have failed, and it has even accelerated the investigators' downfall."
"Since then, we've known that once you get this condition, there's no cure."
Shen Xin said it lightly, as if this life was not his.
Song Yue was angry and helpless, and her eyes turned red again in anxiety.
Damn, was the original owner a crybaby? Why does she burst into tears at the slightest emotion?
Song Yue was angry at herself for not fighting back and wiped away her tears fiercely.
She gritted her teeth, thought about it, and suddenly an idea came to her mind.
"Chen Xin." She looked at the person in front of her, her eyes full of heartache.
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
——What if I say, I can find a solution?
She muttered to herself.
There was a faint smile on his face: "Nothing, I just wanted to call you."
With Shen Xin's current condition, Song Yue would not let him continue to be exposed to those black lines.
In his words, the more frequent the contact, the faster the fall.
He is the backbone of the Investigation Bureau, and Song Yue can't let him risk his life again.
Anyway, she dodged quickly and the black lines hadn't finished regenerating yet, so she felt that she was not without a chance of winning.
That night, the blood in Chen Xin's eyes had all dried up, and the knife wounds on his body had mostly healed.
"This is my passive skill, healing." Shen Xin didn't intend to hide it from Song Yue and said it bluntly.
Song Yue hummed twice and understood why Chen Xin didn't let her find herbs during the day, because he could recover on his own.
It made her feel relieved.
"Don't worry about the black lines. Once my wounds are fully healed, I'll stop their regeneration."
Song Yue's eyes flickered slightly, and then she smiled: "Okay, I understand."
Soon, she supported Shen Xin and let him go to sleep.
In the early morning, a blizzard blew outside the ice cave, and the cold wind was howling outside.
It just happened to cover up the sound of Song Yue's footsteps going out.
Song Yue felt that she should have awakened more than one skill.
She didn't notice anything during the day, until night fell, when she noticed something was wrong.
On the vast ice field, darkness enveloped everything, the sky was covered by thick clouds, and neither moonlight nor starlight could be found.
The scene that should have been completely dark was now as clear as daytime in Song Yue's eyes.
She could see the snow-capped mountains in the distance, the vertical ice shelves, the glaciers floating on the sea, and the black threads slowly wriggling on the ice field.
There are a lot more black lines than three days ago.
However, perhaps because they did not obtain enough energy from the ocean, they have not yet been able to regenerate into complete individuals and still remain in a linear state.
Song Yue took a deep breath and took a step forward.
The hungry black lines smelled her scent and all showed greed. They reversed direction and rushed straight towards her.
Song Yue was not afraid. She just stood there with a bitter smile on her face.
Thinking of the scene where Yan Zhuo was torn into pieces by them, Song Yue asked himself countless times.
If she had reacted faster, would her brain not have regenerated at all?
If she had been more decisive and ignored her right wrist that was cut by the black line, and decisively picked up the laser and started again, would Yan Zhuo not have died?
But there are no ifs.
Yan Zhuo is dead.
Yuan Ling was also disabled below the knees.
Chen Xin lost his sanity and had his eyes gouged out due to frequent contact with evil objects.
All the tragedies originated from her.
She couldn't accept everything that was happening now with peace of mind.
As the black line was about to arrive, Song Yue's expression suddenly changed.
The wry smile disappeared in an instant, replaced by unshakable determination.
He drew a few symbols in the air with his fingers, and paused deliberately when he was about to finish.
An orange-red halo suddenly appeared behind him.
The black line rushed towards us.
Song Yue's lips curled up into a smile.
Finger painting the final pattern.
Stretch out your arms and lean back straight.
The aperture swallowed her, and at the same moment, the black lines that rushed towards her were also breathed into the aperture!
The black line is very long and connects to the brain in the camp.
But the aperture doesn't care. As long as anything touches it, no matter its size or length, it will be absorbed.
With a bang.
The orange-red aperture disappeared on the spot.
Only a pair of footprints and thin traces on the ground can prove what happened here.
Shen Xin suddenly woke up from his sleep!
A rapidly beating heart suggests a certain uneasiness.
He got up and was about to ask Song Yue if she was okay.
But in the next second, he found that there was no one around!
The person is missing!
Ignoring the raging snowstorm outside, Shen Xin felt the wall of the cave and stumbled out.
He had lost his eyes and could not see the road ahead, but years of investigative experience and his intuition about danger told him that the black lines that had been lurking around them no longer existed.
Song Yue has no attacking skills and cannot possibly defeat the black line.
But the black line actually disappeared.
If you ask what method she used to resolve the crisis, Shen Xin thought, probably, there is only that one method...
A pair of fists clenched tightly.
Shen Xin frowned and “looked” at the windy and snowy night ahead.
Why!
Didn’t you tell me that you chose this career because you had no choice?
Isn’t being an investigator just a job for you to support your family?
Then why do you want to risk your life at all costs!
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