"What can I do?" she called out tentatively.
He raised his head slightly, but his hands were gripping his clothes tightly, and the veins on his arms were bulging. He seemed to be enduring great pain, and he said through gritted teeth, "Didn't I tell you not to come out?"
Feng Guang was startled by his cold tone, which was the first time he had used it so icily, and she took a step back, at a loss for what to do.
He paused slightly, then lowered his eyes. His expression was not visible in the dim light, but he knew that he looked... both terrifying and disgusting.
"I was worried about you...that's why I came out. Don't be angry." She cautiously approached him.
He looked up again, watching her approach step by step, his heart filled with mixed feelings. He said coldly, "Don't come any closer."
"You... what's wrong with you?" Feng Guang had no choice but to stop three steps away from him.
"Don't come any closer... I'm terrifying right now."
“I’ve seen far more terrifying things, and it was you who took me to see them.” She thought of the female ghost and the eighteen levels of hell, and felt that the scene in front of her now was too mundane to evoke any fear in her.
She tried to approach him again, and this time, he didn't stop her.
Finally, Feng Guang squatted down in front of him and saw his appearance clearly. Apart from the snake tail, green demonic patterns appeared on his face. These patterns spread to his neck and disappeared under his clothes. It was conceivable that he also had demonic patterns on his body. His eyes, which were usually as black as night, had become green vertical pupils, like the eyes of a venomous snake hiding in the night, sinister and eerie. Being stared at by him was like being stared at by a highly venomous snake. Perhaps the next second, you would die.
An ordinary person would be frightened upon seeing him, and Feng Guang was also instinctively afraid, but she also noticed his pale face and the cold sweat on his forehead. "Naihe... you are in a lot of pain right now, what can I do to help you?"
He had assumed that after watching him for so long, her first question would be why he had become like this. However, to his surprise, her first question was how he could help him. His gaze shifted slightly, and he slowly said, "This is divine retribution. There's nothing we can do."
"So you're just going to have to endure the pain like this?"
“I’m used to it.” Since he was seven years old, he has had to go through this kind of pain every seven days, and he has indeed gotten used to it.
Feng Guang frowned. "Then...how long will this hurt?"
"It'll be alright after midnight..." A sharp tearing sensation struck again, his nails digging into the flesh of his palms, and the black snake tail slowly slid across the floor, smashing the table in the room to pieces. "Go away... I'll be fine soon..."
He was afraid he would lose control and hurt her.
Looking at his restrained appearance, Feng Guang suddenly thought of Yun Ji when his mask fell off that day. She didn't know where she got the courage, but she grabbed his hand, closed her eyes, and began to chant the Heart-Cleansing Mantra. This was the only spell she had properly learned, because the Heart-Cleansing Mantra could not only calm the mind and soothe the nerves, but also relieve pain and cure illnesses. When she was a child, she was often sick and her health was poor, so this spell was very useful to her.
But as he listened to her chanting the incantation in a clear, melodious voice, he couldn't help but slowly grasp her hand in return...
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