The consciousness is falling, with no chance of recovery.

It is said that when a person dies it is like a lamp being extinguished. When a lamp is extinguished, there is no light, no brightness, no clarity, and no substance. Everything is more empty than nothingness, as if God is taking everything back, including the pain, fatigue, and discomfort just now, the interweaving of the five senses and physical and mental emotions, all are disappearing, perishing, and becoming empty.

It is also said, "If you lose the true realm of a ghost, what comes to you is just a stinking skin bag." The human body is just a stinking skin bag, and when you die, everything is clear, there is no injury, no pain, the body is as light as smoke, free and at ease, this may be what death feels like.

As I was falling endlessly, I suddenly saw a layer of gray smoke and sand floating in this dark consciousness. It sometimes dispersed and sometimes gathered, like clouds and fog, and it seemed like a human figure. Not long after, it gradually gathered in front of me and became the same human figure as me. It opened its mouth, revealing a pair of dark eyes, and slowly stretched the formed hand shape towards my face.

I felt it merging with me, and I gradually stopped falling. However, the fusion was not attachment to my body, but replacement. To be precise, it was devouring and transforming my spirit, just like destroying my original soul and creating a new body for me.

"So that's how pirate ghosts come about." I muttered.

I can't break free from the smoke and sand. In this world of death, they are invaders and I have no resistance.

It's so frustrating that he was bullied by a pile of smoke and sand even after his death!

But at this moment, I could suddenly hear faint dragon roars all around me, and the sounds were constantly echoing in this dark space. With a roar, the smoke and sand left my body and turned back into scattered ashes, gradually fading until they were no longer visible. At the same time, I felt myself being lifted up by a strong yang energy and began to rise again. I could vaguely feel a dragon shape moving beneath me.

With a whoosh!

The darkness disappeared completely. I could vaguely hear Yunwen crying and feel the weight of her lying on me. Then I opened my eyes and a golden light shone in. Then the halo dispersed, and I could see the blue sky and white clouds, trees, flowers and grass again, and feel the special coolness of my body when the breeze blew and the grass leaves moved.

Yunwen's tears have soaked my clothes. Her eyes are red and swollen from crying. She is crying so hard that she can't stop. Her fair and pretty face is full of tear marks. She is still saying words of regret. I feel that if I don't wake up, she will faint from crying like this.

So I raised my hand and gently touched her face, wiped away the tears on her face, and said, "Don't cry, you will faint if you cry any more."

She opened her eyes wide and looked at me in great surprise. She was stunned for a long time, but then she burst into laughter and said, "You are not dead?"

I coughed and said, "It seems like I died, but some force helped me to free myself from the bardo body and brought me back here. So to be precise, I died first and then resurrected. This is probably the process."

Her eyes were full of tears, and she was laughing and crying. When I sat up, she immediately hugged me tightly. It was so sticky, like the feeling of malt sugar, sweet and sticky, but I have liked eating these sweet things since I was a child.

"That's great! It's good that everything is okay, it's good that everything is okay. I thought I would never see you again in my life." Yunwen said in a crying voice.

"Aren't some people still thinking about their engagements? If I die, won't you still be able to fulfill your wish?" I asked.

She let go of me, pouted, and said with sad eyes, "I have already admitted my mistake to you, but you still won't let me go. Isn't that to make you care about me more? Who knew that you really planned to ignore my life or death and run away by yourself, leaving us girls to fend for ourselves."

"If I keep you here, you will be considered as an obscene person who insults our military spirit. You refuse to listen to my explanation. What can I do? The only way to protect the reputation of all the leaders who have cultivated me is to reduce the possibility of you insulting our military camp." I said seriously.

She tugged at my sleeves, nodded, lowered her head, and swayed like a child who had done something wrong, saying, "I'm sorry. From now on, I will listen to you, trust you, and never doubt you again. Please forgive me, okay? Come back with me later. We can't live without you. We will never say anything insulting to you and the soldiers again."

"My comrades-in-arms fought for the motherland. Some of them risked their lives to fight with drug dealers at the border, and some of them fought wits and risked their lives with cunning villains in the country. Every one of them was ready to die for the people and the country, and never slacked off. Every one of them deserves the honor of the Beacon Wolf Battalion and the cultivation of the motherland. Although I have retired, I cannot listen to others insulting them. I can do that, but I cannot accept scolding the Beacon Wolf Battalion as well," I said.

Yunwen stared at me pitifully with her big eyes, shaking my sleeves with her hands, begging for forgiveness, not daring to say a word.

I sighed, thinking that I had survived another life-threatening crisis, so I should be happy. It would be too serious and harsh to Yunwen, so I pulled her into my arms. She snuggled up to my chest, muttering "I'm sorry" several times.

However, all the mistakes were not caused by the girls. They were just the fuse. The real reason was the thing that made my body out of control. It was the gray sand smoke I saw in the realm of death just now. It was the same as the itchiness I felt when I was sleeping before, and my skin was covered with gray powder when I touched it. In addition, it seemed to want to swallow up my spirit and replace it just now, so I knew it had some intention.

I lost control of my body, and it seemed that it was closely related to the gray powder.

At this time, Yunwen suddenly got up from me and said, "Zhou Bo, you feel very hot. Is it because I make you shy? Or are you thinking about those things?"

Fever?

I quickly untied the dragon-seeking robe and touched my stomach, which was indeed hot like a teppanyaki grill. When I fell down just now, I had a lot of scratches on my body, which were recovering rapidly. My pocket was even hotter, and when I took it out, I found that it was the dragon scales that were emitting heat, as if it were a freshly roasted sweet potato, extremely hot to the touch.

Suddenly I remembered that just now in the darkness of death, the sound of the dragon's roar scared away the gray sand and smoke that was eroding my spirit, and then the dragon figure under me lifted my spirit back to the body, allowing me to regain consciousness, break through the bardo again, return to this world, and come back to life. It turned out that it was the Dragon Soul Scale that helped me.

I remembered that Ye Bailu's throat was also cut, and he used this dragon soul scale to help heal the wound. And I thought that my internal organs were shattered and my ribs and spine were broken before, and I was doomed to die. But with this dragon soul scale, I was able to recover.

"Hehe, I'm not thinking about that. It's the Dragon Soul Scale that is repairing my body. That should be the principle. Otherwise, why are both it and my body generating heat? It shows that one is the effect and the other is the source." I said.

Yunwen nodded, but after looking at me for a moment, she told me not to move. She used her tender hands to gently stroke my eight abdominal muscles. It was like a tease, and made me blush. I didn't expect that she was still thinking about these at this time. It seems that abdominal muscles are still attractive to girls.

But then she raised her palm, placed it in front of me, and said, "Is this the gray powder you were talking about?"

I coughed and it turned out that she had discovered something. I was wondering why she was so indecent.

When I looked closely at her palms, I saw grey powder on them, just like the one I scratched on my body when I slept.

"Yes," I said.

"It seems that it has invaded your body and is being excreted through sweat. I just observed that your body is hot and sweating, and there is a gray component in the sweat, which shows that it has penetrated into it." Yunwen said.

Finally the truth came out, and I couldn't help but say, "Is this enough to prove my innocence?"

She nodded and said a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. How about I make it up to you and you forgive my ignorance, okay?"