Chapter 61: The coquettish ghost has the best fate. Su Huaiwang is in the foggy world...
Su Huaiwang was panicking and at a loss in the foggy world.
Grayish-white flocs floated in the air, sometimes kissing her cheek, sometimes falling at her feet, combusting without wind and turning into ashes.
My solar plexus aches dully, like the aftereffect of lack of sleep.
Not a single person.
Whether behind the supermarket counter, in front of the instant noodle water dispenser, or in the toilet, there was no one in sight, only ashes.
It was as if the world had been engulfed by a fire, wiping out all traces of people.
No matter how much Su Huaiwang hypnotized himself, it was of no use.
This place is not normal, and Lin Jue is not normal either.
Her lungs felt hot and her steps felt heavy as if they were filled with lead. Su Huaiwang almost felt that there was some toxic substance in the air that caused her to hallucinate.
The elongated shadow was cast at her feet again. The girl was facing away from the light. Su Huaiwang could not see her pretty face, but could only hear her voice:
"Where are you going?"
The voices entered her ears, as if many Lin Jues were talking, overlapping and invading her nerves.
Su Huaiwang gasped, took a step back, turned around and ran without hesitation.
The monster that looked like her lover was very patient and stood there motionless.
This has happened many times before.
But Su Huaiwang could always see her again at the next corner.
The rhetoric is the same every time.
"Where are you going?"
"Stop running, okay?"
The last bit of trust in Su Huaiwang's heart was completely wiped out.
That's not Lin Jue.
It was just a monster that resembled her.
Su Huaiwang ran, and the fog moved away from her.
She was extremely anxious and repeated the string of numbers that Lei Yinyin had given her before in her mind for countless times.
After running around the corner, the figure appeared again, with an inexplicable and unspeakable sadness.
Along with the trust, the fear also faded away. Su Huaiwang already had a vague feeling that the other party would not hurt him.
She snorted and tried to change direction.
But this time, the monster's words were different:
"it's useless."
Su Huaiwang subconsciously stopped.
"My little world is not something they can break into. Even if you keep trying to contact them, it won't do anything. They can't even receive messages."
The woman turned her head, sweat running down her forehead:
"……What's the meaning?"
The monster still stood there motionless, only lowering its head slightly, as if admitting its mistake. At this moment, it looked a bit like Lin Jue.
"If I don't agree, no one can get you out of this place."
Su Huaiwang looked at her:
"So you've locked me up here?"
The monster raised its head and took a step forward.
Su Huaiwang subconsciously took a step back in sync with her action.
The monster saw this movement and froze in place, retracting its outstretched foot.
She looked lifeless and listless, and Su Huaiwang felt a little pity for her, as if she had done something wrong.
"I don't..." The ghost considered his words carefully: "I don't have the intention of locking you in now."
In this situation, Su Huaiwang calmed down a little: "Then what do you want to do?"
I don't know what the situation is outside now. Was she dragged in physically or mentally? If Lin Jue and the three little ones find anything unusual about her, how worried they will be.
Hearing her frank words, Guimei lowered her head sadly again, and Su Huaiwang suspected that she was about to cry.
The thought only flashed through his mind. Worrying about a monster crying? This idea was a bit too strange to say the least.
It must be that this monster was using Lin Jue's skin, which made her soft-hearted.
"I just wanted to talk to you two. Didn't you ask me to be honest with you? I just wanted you to see the real me. Now that you've seen me, do you hate me?"
The more Su Huaiwang listened, the more she felt she didn't understand. She frowned and said, "What? What are you talking about? When did I..."
As she spoke, she froze, realizing a possibility she didn't want to admit.
Su Huaiwang closed his mouth and remained silent for a long time before speaking:
"……Who are you?"
"Lin Jue."
The other party admitted it without any hesitation. A hazy mist flowed across her face, revealing a few pale edges.
Lin Jue’s face, Lin Jue’s eyes, Lin Jue’s expression.
"We met a year ago, but you just don't remember it."
It was an extremely obvious clue, and it was impossible for Su Huaiwang not to recall it. Everything that had happened during this period was caused by it:
"Nanguan Village?"
"It should be Beiguan Village." Lin Jue smiled, and her bloodless lips curved into a faint arc. She didn't have the scary feeling of a living person, but her eyes carefully glued to Su Huaiwang from top to bottom, just like her usual expression of doubting that she had done something wrong.
The contradiction between strangeness and familiarity in Lin Jue gave Su Huaiwang a sense of unreality.
She even began to suspect that it was just a nightmare.
"Beiguan Village..." She lowered her eyelashes and muttered softly, "That's right, Lei Yinyin accidentally said before that I was going to Beiguan Village... So I took the wrong road? That's why..."
Lin Jue was right in front of her, and Su Huaiwang couldn't say the words "sticky with dirty stuff".
The words rolled in his throat several times, and the final words that emerged were much friendlier than their original appearance: "...Just met you. What kind of...creature are you?"
Su Huaiwang looked at Lin Jue with a conflicted and complicated look.
But Lin Jue didn't care about this little detail.
She was already very happy that Su Huaiwang was willing to talk to her.
Black charcoal-like spots appeared on the ghost's hands, and he used his fingers to extinguish the ghost's true form one by one due to excessive excitement.
"I'm a ghost."
The woman, whose eyes were uncontrollably glued to the other person's hand, suddenly looked up.
"Strictly speaking, it's a vengeful ghost, a ghost born from resentment." The other person's eyes were clear, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him. "Since a long time ago, Beiguan Village has had the custom of drowning infants and trafficking people. Most of the women in the village were trafficked. These resentments gathered together and became me."
The look in Su Huaiwang's eyes opposite him changed.
Lin Jue had never felt this way when recalling the content of his nightmare. His chest was filled with a swelling, not pain or hatred, but other emotions born out of Su Huaiwang.
Even if it was just a little bit, Su Huaiwang felt sorry for her.
"'Lin Jue' was the last victim, and the largest component of my consciousness. As a collection of resentment, I hold the memories of all the resentful souls, but they are only fragments. Only her memories are the clearest and most numerous.
"She was kidnapped while traveling. Before that, she was a student at the Capital Academy of Fine Arts. She had loving parents, a bright future, and a comfortable life."
During the decades he had nightmares in Beiguan Village, Lin Jue always liked to watch these scenes over and over again.
The resentful soul only left her a little, but it was the sweetest part.
"She didn't want to be trapped in Beiguan Village, so she resisted and tried to escape again and again, but each time she was caught and beaten black and blue. Until the last time, she successfully escaped to the mountains, but just before she was caught, a forest fire broke out.
“She died in the wildfire along with the villagers who chased her, but the others are still alive.
"Her hatred was the trigger, and I was born along with that wildfire.
"I am 'Lin Jue', but I am not 'Lin Jue' either. Besides 'Lin Jue', I am also mixed with the resentment of many other people, but I still decided to become 'Lin Jue'."
The ghost's eyes were sincere. "Now, I have completely confessed to you who I am. There is a reason why I didn't tell you this. Can you forgive me?"
Su Huaiwang was still standing there processing the huge amount of information.
She now feels more and more that this is just a nightmare, but is the setting in the dream really so perfect?
After a long time, she looked up at Lin Jue.
The other person had been looking at her for who knows how long, his eyes were misty, his beautiful eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and he looked fragile.
Su Huaiwang opened his mouth but couldn't say anything, and his eyes moved away first.
Lin Jue noticed her hesitation and took a step forward: "Can I hug you?"
Su Huaiwang was panicked and stood there, neither knowing whether to move forward nor to retreat.
Until Lin Jue walked up to her, put his arms around her waist, and put his cold head on her chest.
The resentful ghost let out a long breath.
The flesh under his ears stiffened because of her touch, but his heart was beating honestly, as if it wanted to bring her back to life.
She nestled in Su Huaiwang's arms and began to confide in him softly with grievance: "Actually, before I met you, I had nightmares every day - I was alone in this place, replaying the wildfire and those tortured memories over and over again." There were also scenes of torturing the perpetrators to death one by one, but Lin Jue didn't want to say this.
Su Huaiwang moved, and Lin Jue was afraid that she would push him away, so he hugged her tighter.
Unexpectedly, Su Huaiwang just raised his hand, placed it on the back of her head, and comforted her again and again.
Lin Jue opened his eyes wide, and the tears that had been lingering in his eyes fell uncontrollably for some reason.
She hurried to evaporate them to prevent them from staining Su Huaiwang's clothes.
"What happened next?" Su Huaiwang rested his head lightly on Lin Jue.
Maybe it was because she had returned to her own little world, but Lin Jue felt much colder, more like a corpse, and her teeth ached from the cold.
Looking down, he saw sparks and burn marks constantly appearing and disappearing on her body, sometimes on her dress, sometimes on her skin.
Su Huaiwang frowned and sighed.
"Then I met you!" Lin Jue didn't notice where she was looking, and his tone suddenly became cheerful.
"A year ago, in Beiguan Village?"
"Nanguan Village." Lin Jue smiled and nuzzled the woman's soft chest. "Nanguan Village is also my territory, but I didn't pay much attention to them. They wanted to capture you and use you as a scapegoat to free themselves from my nightmare. I found out and brought you to Beiguan Village."
"So I should thank you?"
Lin Jue said nothing, with a guilty expression on his face.
Su Huaiwang knew something was wrong and asked, "What happened a year ago? Why did I lose my memory? What did you do to me?"
Lin Jue raised his head, his amber eyes meeting hers.
"Do you really want to know?"
Su Huaiwang was puzzled: "If you lost your memory inexplicably, everyone would want to get it back, right?"
Lin Jue hesitated to speak: "But what if... you hate me after you know it, what should I do?"
"Are you still worried about this now? If I were really that kind of person, shouldn't I have pushed you away when you said you were a ghost?" Su Huaiwang was suspicious: "Did you do something bad to me?"
In an instant, many x-novels and comics she had read before about people being toyed with by non-humans flashed through her mind.
The woman's fair face suddenly turned red and her eyes were wandering.
Lin Jue didn't know what she was thinking. She was really worried that Su Huaiwang would hate her because of this, but she couldn't go against Su Huaiwang's wishes.
The girl spoke pitifully and reluctantly.
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Author's words: Lin Jue: My love! Me!
Su Huaiwang: When faced with bad temptations, be brave enough to say all in. What should you do if you run into a ghost? First think about what the other person can do. A pervert will never suffer any loss.
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