"Why are you all looking at him?" Li Si sensed something was wrong and turned to look at Chen Jing.
Zhang Taoying said somewhat fearfully, "He... he went to that place you said was a place of certain death, and he came back..."
Chen Jing noticed that they were all looking at him, especially Zhang Taoying, who showed obvious fear.
“I didn’t sense any malice in him,” He Lili said.
“If he had malicious intent, we would all be dead. For a period of time, he was the only one keeping watch,” Dao Nan said.
Li Si stared at Chen Jing, and said thoughtfully, "What did you see there?"
Chen Jing said, "I was just about to say that, and when I went in, I saw..."
Chen Jing began to describe the scene in the tavern, and then he described entering the officers' quarters. Just as he was about to describe the condition of the quarters in detail, Chen Jing suddenly saw that the human skull used for "tortoise shell divination" had cracked, and He Lili's expression changed drastically, revealing a look of utter terror.
"No, don't say any more!" Li Si and He Lili shouted almost at the same time.
Chen Jing stopped immediately, half puzzled and half wary: "Is there something wrong with what I said?"
“No… there’s something wrong with what you’re about to say,” He Lili said. “It gives me a very frightening feeling.”
"Is there a problem with what I'm about to say?" Chen Jing pondered for a moment, then suddenly remembered the moon on the wall when he entered the officers' dormitory.
The moon outside the window is so beautiful... Chen Jing was momentarily lost in thought until the source of darkness within him slowly stirred, pulling him out of his fascination.
This... Chen Jing felt a surge of fear. He now understood that if it weren't for the protection of the source of darkness, he would probably still be staring at the moon drawn with a pen, and there might even be other terrible changes.
That chalk-drawn moon is weird!
Then, Chen Jing thought of the last entry in the diary he had seen.
That diary entry contained only one sentence: "The moonlight outside the window is so beautiful."
Li Si said in a neutral voice, "You're possessed."
"Possessed by an evil spirit?" Chen Jing asked.
"In short, you have been infected by some kind of evil energy, and your behavior will become abnormal." Li Si carefully put away the cracked skull and said, "According to the divination results, if you express such words or behaviors, you will also infect us."
Chen Jing broke out in a cold sweat: "It's a bit hard to understand."
“Some people can hear sounds that others can’t hear, and see things that others can’t see. In short, they see things that don’t exist,” He Lili said. “Then, if these people become strange, mentally unstable, or even suffer misfortune because of seeing or hearing these things…”
“I heard a rumor about a classmate of mine. She and her boyfriend went to a village for a rendezvous. They came across a dry well, and since they were bored, they started chatting by the well.”
"After a while, the girl nudged the boy and asked him if he had heard anything."
"The boy felt a chill run down his spine because he hadn't heard anything. He grabbed the girl and ran back home. After that, the boy thought everything was fine, but the girl gradually started experiencing strange things. At first, she was normal, but later, she would ask everyone she met, 'Did you hear anything?' She would ask everyone she met, and eventually, she couldn't even speak normally anymore."
"The people she asked were first the boy, then her friends and relatives, and gradually she also started to occasionally ask others, 'Have you heard any sounds?'"
He Lili's story frightened Zhang Taoying, who was afraid that someone would suddenly appear and ask her, "Did you hear anything?"
Chen Jing felt a chill run down his spine and asked, "And then what?"
“Later, a practitioner came to handle the matter,” He Lili said. “When they arrived near the girl, everyone who saw the practitioner asked him if he had heard anything.”
Chen Jing felt a chill run down his spine and asked, "Hasn't the source of the possession been found? How did the cultivators who came to deal with it handle the possession?"
He Lili shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either, but Li Si said, "It's the spirit of words."
Chen Jing and the others looked at her before she continued, "As far as I know, high-level cultivators of the Qi of Words possess spells with similar effects. This kind of possession spell requires symbols, words, scenes, or other items that can transmit information to affect others. However, cultivators of other spiritual energies may also create similar effects, but I cannot be completely certain. In addition to cultivators, demons and monsters may also create possession effects."
Symbols, words, scenes... Chen Jing thought of the window and moon drawn in chalk, and almost fell into a daze again.
"I understand," Chen Jing said. "Is there any way to break this?"
“First, find cultivators of the Qi of Words and have them exorcise the evil influence,” Li Si said. “Second, find cultivators with the ability to exorcise evil spirits; perhaps that can also exorcise the evil influence. Third, rely on yourself to endure the effects, just like a person who doesn’t seek medical treatment endures an illness. The higher your cultivation level, the easier it is to endure.”
"...So, we don't have any options right now?" Chen Jing asked.
Li Si thought for a moment and said, "Going out won't help either. As far as I know, there are no cultivators in Ash City who can solve this situation. Remember, don't reveal what you're possessed by, or I will kill you."
Uh… Chen Jing nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, trying his best not to think about the moon drawn in chalk. But the more he tried to think about it, the more he couldn’t help but think about it. In the end, he even used meditation techniques to force himself back into a state of focus.
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