"Hello."
Chi Shen greeted softly.
Zhong Yi on the side looked at him in confusion, as if he didn't understand the meaning of his greeting. Saying "hello" to a broken ghost seemed to be a useless effort.
Yuan Yiping was a little curious, he knew Chi Shen had a method to communicate with ghosts, this was the first time he saw Chi Shen use it, or in other words, it was also the first time he saw someone communicate with ghosts seriously without the help of any magic tools.
Normally when they ask questions about ghosts, especially those about evil spirits, they would burn incense and ask the underworld for protection and also prepare various magical instruments to suppress ghosts before they dare to ask the ghosts. This was also the reason why Zhong Yi said that ordinary people could not be allowed in. They did not expect Chi Shen to communicate directly without any preparation and in this everyday way.
Both of them had a question in their minds: does this kind of communication really work?
After greeting each other, both of them looked at the paper man eagerly. As they expected, the paper man did not respond at all.
Zhong Yi glanced at Yuan Yiping, and that look in his eyes meant: Are you sure this person is reliable?
Yuan Yiping didn't understand his hint. He just looked at the paper figure with some worry.
Chi Shen had expected the paper man to have no response, but one should be polite, so he still had to say hello first. Then he stretched out his hand and gently stroked the paper man's head as if he was stroking the most expensive silk.
This action made Zhong Yi's mouth widen slightly. He seemed to want to stand up, but was pushed back by Yuan Yiping. He could only say: "Is there really no problem? That's the soul you separated with great difficulty!"
Yuan Yiping also looked worried, but he still said, "I will take responsibility if there is any problem."
Only then did Zhong Yi give up persuading him.
Chi Shen felt the pain coming from the soul. Ordinary evil spirits usually have violent and bloody desires, and the pain is also manic. The pain trapped at the time of death will drive them to kill and devour, but the pain coming from this soul is a little different.
He could feel the fear coming from inside. She wanted to hide, to go to a place where no one could find her. She wanted to... disappear, disappear like she had never existed.
Chi Shen "looked" at those soul fragments, and his eyes became deep.
Pieces of shattered images surged towards the depths of the pool like a tide, and he saw faces on them. It was Bai Ran's face.
Ghosts are made up of obsessions. Every part that is broken into fine sand contains her obsession. These white faces are also her obsession.
This time, Chi Shen did not use "empathy" to sweep through the ocean of ghost's obsession. He chose to walk into that painful ocean of memories and salvage the ghost's memories piece by piece.
At this time, the paper man emitted a faint black air, and Zhong Yi's eyes showed a little surprise. He was obviously a little confused. Does saying "hello" really work?
Yuan Yiping was quite nervous. Although he didn't know what Chi Shen had done, he knew that this initial communication was a success. He didn't know whether the follow-up would be smooth.
Those broken pictures were all of Bai Ran, smiling, silent, talking, indifferent... all kinds of Bai Ran. Chi Shen saw Bai Ran at every stage from middle school to university.
Like putting together a puzzle, Chi Shen sorted the fragments belonging to Bai Ran, swept them aside, and then continued to salvage the larger fragments.
He first felt the girl's fear. In such fear, she opened her mouth and bit a man, that was Lu Xiangyang.
Her instinct made her want to eat Lu Xiangyang, but her reason was crying deep in her soul. She closed her eyes and covered her ears, refusing to see or hear what was happening.
He put the fragment on the other side and looked at the other fragments again.
These fragments recorded intermittently the people or ghosts she had eaten over the years. She resisted at first, but swallowed them out of instinct. Later, she became numb and hid herself and cried.
She doesn't want to hurt anyone, but her instinct to pursue her own corpse makes her appear next to ordinary people every time. Her own corpse will cause her to lose her mind and be controlled by the instinct of a ghost, devouring the people around her corpse.
Chi Shen lowered his eyebrows and looked at the reef in the ocean of pain. That was the most painful memory.
He stretched out his hand and touched the reef. Fear, crying, regret, all kinds of negative and complex emotions surrounded him in an instant.
The first person that caught my eye was Bai Ran.
At the same time, the talisman papers in the room moved without wind, and a painful scream came from the paper figure. Ghostly energy stretched out from the paper figure like sharp claws, waving painfully in the room that trapped her. Wherever the talisman papers passed, the blue flames suddenly ignited.
"What did he do?!" Zhong Yi was stunned. He reacted quickly, stood up immediately and wanted to go and stop Chi Shen.
Yuan Yiping did not stop him this time. He did not expect this situation to happen. If the room that trapped the evil spirit was destroyed and the evil spirit that had eaten countless people was released, the consequences would be disastrous.
Just as Zhong Yi took a step forward, the dark shadow in Chi Shen's shadow turned into a man wearing glasses, standing in front of them and looking at them: "You can't help."
A pale ghost face also popped out from Chi Shen's back. Although he didn't have enough energy to speak, he still stood in front of Zhong Yi and Yuan Yiping and shouted loudly, "No, you are not allowed to go over there!"
It was obvious that Zhong Yi was not prepared to listen to what the two ghosts said. He just hesitated for a moment and looked at the two ghosts, trying to estimate their strength.
Ji Xingchen ignored Zhong Yi and looked at Yuan Yiping: "You are the one who invited him, so trust him."
Yuan Yiping looked a little hesitant. He glanced at the ghost face and thought of the ghost aura it emitted that night, so he called out to Zhong Yi.
"Brother Yuan?" Zhong Yi called him with some confusion.
"I'm responsible for all problems." Yuan Yiping said in a deep voice.
Zhong Yi was silent for half a second, then said: "I will set up the formation first, just in case."
Yuan Yiping nodded: "Okay."
The black claws formed by the ghost energy that stretched out from the paper man's body were still scratching in pain. For some reason, although the ghost claws had destroyed the talisman paper on half of the wall, they did not affect Chi Shen and the person behind him at all.
Looking at this situation, Zhong Yi showed a hint of confusion in his eyes, but safety was the most important issue. He did not hesitate and quickly took out cinnabar from his bag and drew talismans in all directions.
In the ocean of soul pain, Chi Shen only felt a sense of calmness. Even in these memories, there was the happiness of a little girl.
She likes Bai Ran.
Bai Ran was in the same class as her. She was usually dull and gloomy, and was not popular. She was ostracized by her classmates and ignored by her teachers. But Bai Ran was different from those people. He would talk to her with a smile. Although they were all insignificant daily conversations and his tone of voice was no different from that of other classmates, she still couldn't help but fall in love with Bai Ran.
She didn't say it, but just paid attention to Bai Ran silently. Soon she discovered some of Bai Ran's little secrets.
Although Bai Ran had learned how to put on a false smile in middle school, he had not yet learned how to hide his uniqueness. She discovered that Bai Ran could see ghosts and knew some methods to exorcise them.
She kept this matter as a secret between the two of them and carefully confirmed it with Bai Ran.
Bai Ran was a little surprised at first, then he smiled and said that she had discovered it and asked her to keep it a secret. He then told her that if she came to the river to find him on the weekend, he could share more secrets with her.
She went.
She is dead.
Bai Ran watched coldly as she was dragged into the river by the water ghost. She heard that it was a deal between Bai Ran and the water ghost. The water ghost did things for him, and he helped the water ghost find a suitable scapegoat.
She became the new water ghost and also the new ghost to help him.
The first thing he asked her to do was to eat the puppy downstairs that would rub against her calves every day on the way to school.
She is crazy.
At the end of this memory fragment, there was Bai Ran's cruel smile: "I knew that although you are annoying to look at, you will be a qualified evil spirit. They refined Bai Wan, and I refined you. Don't you like me? Then go and eat those people I don't like for me."
Ghost energy exploded in the small room, and all the talisman papers burned in an instant. Zhong Yi's pen moved as fast as a dragon, casting talismans in four directions. He had already completed two directions, and he had to complete all four directions before the ghost completely exploded!
The scattered ghost energy suddenly stopped like floating clouds in the wind. Zhong Yi looked at the paper man again and found that the expression of the paper man written in red pen also slowly changed from pain to tranquility.
Chi Shen pieced together the salvaged memory fragments one by one, and inserted Bai Ran from each stage into those fragments, and that was it.
But there is still some gap.
Chi Shen looked at the bottom of the ocean of pain, where there were submerged fragments of memory.
He walked into that ocean, searching among countless desperate emotions.
Injury, illness, beatings, hunger.
Countless emotions surged towards him, but he was not affected. He simply groped on the seabed and soon found the remaining fragments.
Why did Bai Ran fall for her?
Chi Shen placed that handful of memory fragments at the forefront of all his memories.
Among those fragments was only a crying little girl.
When her mother remarried, she was disliked by her stepfather, often beaten and scolded, and even not given money for meals, often going hungry at school. The abnormal family environment made her sensitive and inferior. She was always cautious when facing others, and even afraid to get along with others. She became a dark and unpleasant person in the eyes of her classmates. She continued to be excluded and disliked in school, and even suffered vicious jokes from her classmates.
It was her painful first half of life that made Bai Ran fall in love with her.
This is the life of this evil ghost who followed Bai Ran to do evil.
Chi Shen looked at the little girl who was still in tatters after he had pieced her together. He did not smile kindly as usual, but was silent for a moment and asked her a question: "What is your wish?"
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