A month ago, New Year's Eve.
Chi Shen squatted in his bedroom, reached out and pinched Ji Xingchen No. 2's face, and spoke in a cold voice: "Tell me, how to save him."
Behind him was Ji Xingchen, with his eyes closed and covered in blood.
At that time, Ji Xingchen had just learned his real name, and all kinds of wounds suddenly appeared on his body. Blood flowed out from all over his body and could not be stopped no matter what he did.
——【My heart.】
Lines of bloody words appeared on the wall.
——【Take it out.】
——【If it were you, you would definitely be able to do it.】
Chi Shen looked at Ji Xingchen No. 2's chest, and blood was dripping from the heart pierced by the chain.
He stretched out his hand towards the chain on his chest. Just when he was about to touch it, he stopped and looked at Ji Xingchen No. 2: "What would you do if I took out your heart?"
There was a moment of silence in the bedroom, and then a line of words was slowly spelled out.
——【He will remember some things, and I will forget some things. 】
"Do you want to forget that? Or do you want him to remember that?"
——【I don’t hope so.】
——【But you want to save him.】
"You talk as if you and he are not the same person." Chi Shen's tone became calm. He reached out and grabbed the chain on Ji Xingchen No. 2's chest and pulled it hard.
Blood suddenly gushed out from Ji Xingchen No. 2's chest, and almost at the same time, the scenery in Chi Shen's bedroom suddenly changed.
A scarlet river of blood spread out under Chi Shen's feet. Chi Shen stood up and turned around. The bedroom disappeared and a bloody full moon hung high in the sky. This was the scene of the death game he had experienced before.
When Chi Shen first met Ji Xingchen, he had also seen this scene. It was the pain contained in Ji Xingchen's ghostly aura that affected him, causing him to see again the scene that was once filled with the remains of evil spirits.
This does not drag him back into the death game, but rather visualizes the memories.
The river of blood under his feet suddenly surged, and all the blood gushing from Ji Xingchen No. 2's chest fell into the river. The river water began to boil, crawling towards the bottom of the pool like a snake, climbing up his legs and waist, as if wanting to wrap him up and devour him.
Chi Shen touched the blood splattered on his face and found that the scene here had become real. He suddenly smiled.
"The things that bind you should disappear."
He stretched out his hand, and a strange knife appeared in his hand. He didn't care about the river of blood that was entangled with him, but waved his hand and stabbed into the heart of Ji Xingchen No. 2.
Ji Xingchen No. 2's heart left his body but was still beating slowly. Every time, more blood could be squeezed out of the heart. This was naturally not the blood in Ji Xingchen No. 2's body. This was just the result of Ji Xingchen No. 2's pain, generated by the rich ghost energy.
With just one strike, the heart was turned into pulp, and the chains were shattered into dust.
After the heart was shattered, the scene of the river of blood disappeared quickly like a rolled-up scroll. Chi Shen stood in the bedroom again. He looked at Ji Xingchen lying on the bed. Ji Xingchen's wound had stopped bleeding, but the situation had not improved.
He looked at Ji Xingchen No. 2's chest again. It was empty, with no blood flowing out. Instead, it turned into a pitch-black hole. Ghostly energy was rapidly dissipating from that place, and the blood that had flowed out before was also slowly turning into smoke and disappearing.
"It seems a little too empty and doesn't look good. I have to put something in it." Chi Shen looked at his chest and touched his chin. He looked around and saw the candy he had reserved for Ji Xingchen on the windowsill. So he naturally grabbed a handful of candy and stuffed it into Ji Xingchen's chest No. 2, and then found a piece of paper and covered Ji Xingchen's chest.
After he finished doing all this, he looked at Ji Xingchen on the bed again. Ji Xingchen was still sleeping, but the wounds on his body were slowly healing.
"It seems my guess is right," Chi Shen thought. He seemed to be talking to himself, but in fact he was talking to Ji Xingchen No. 2. "You will feel what you put in your heart. The heart I put before was full of pain and hatred. Now I have replaced it with candy. Do you feel better?"
Ji Xingchen No. 2 did not answer him.
Chi Shen didn't rush him to answer, but just tilted his head and looked at him with a smile: "Do you know what sugar means?"
Ji Xingchen No. 2 remained silent.
After Chi Shen finished speaking, he began to tidy up the bloodstained bed. After he changed the bedding and returned to the bedroom, he suddenly said, "If you disappear, will you also disappear with his pain?"
Blood slowly climbed up the wall from the corner of the room: "Yes."
Chi Shen didn't say anything else after that. He made the bed, fed Ji Xingchen some things that ghosts liked, and finally went to the Bai family's old house, brought back a piece of chain, and pierced the chest of Ji Xingchen No. 2 again, put the chain back, and painted the white paper on the chest, making Ji Xingchen No. 2 look no different from before.
——
The surging ghost energy seemed to stop at this moment, and Wen Qin was stunned looking at the candy in his hand.
"Without a heart, how can you still maintain this state?" Wen Qin's voice became a little crazy. "What did that kid, that Chi Shen do to you? What is this candy? Why can it replace your heart?!"
No one answered him.
"It's not that there is no other way." Wen Qin threw the candy in his hand on the ground. The wound on his face was still bleeding, but he didn't feel any pain at all. He took out a handful of talismans and a handful of paper money from his pocket.
Those talismans are exactly the same as those that were previously affixed to Ji Xingchen's No. 2 chain, but if you look closely, you will find that some parts are upside down, which is opposite to the effect that the talisman that sealed Ji Xingchen before can play.
Wen Qin stood in a pool of sticky blood. The blood controlled by Ji Xingchen No. 2 bound his legs, but he did not move. He squatted down, looked at Ji Xingchen No. 2's face that looked like him, and lit the paper money in his hand.
"I have spent my whole life just wanting to see another world, so it doesn't matter even if I die." Wen Qin looked at the paper money burning in his hand, his eyes fierce, "Aren't you curious about what is outside the world?"
He sprinkled the ashes of the paper money in his hand into the sky, and then stuck the talisman in his hand on Ji Xingchen No. 2's body one by one, first on the limbs, then on the torso, and finally on the forehead.
At the same time, violent ghost energy surged out of Ji Xingchen No. 2's body, and Ji Xingchen No. 2's body, which looked like a living person, quickly shrank and withered.
Under the baptism of such strong and violent ghost energy, Wen Qin's body felt as if it was in a world of ice and snow. His hair and eyebrows quickly turned into white frost, the blood from his wounds stopped dripping, and his entire body solidified into a white statue.
Even with Zhou Xun's ability as isolation, things in the room were shaking under such violent ghost energy. The cabinets were creaking from being washed. The cabinet ghost knocked on the cabinet door in fear, but found that it could not be opened at all. He could only hold his head and tremble.
In the living room, Zhou Xun was not feeling well either. He tried hard to maintain his abilities and isolate himself from the outside. If he was affected, he felt that he would probably die here today.
"I knew that calling me would be bad news," he muttered quietly, "If I hadn't come, this building would have collapsed. I'm so useful, I'll have to talk to Brother Shen and ask him to give me some benefits."
——
boom--
On the other side of the port city, the building really collapsed.
Amid the falling debris, a pale face flashed left and right. Looking at the rubble on the ground, he exclaimed with great pride: "That's all. You still want to hit me? I am - ah!!!"
A huge rock fell from the sky and hit Gui Lian on the spot. He let out a scream, but the scream was a little small and was drowned out by the rumbling sound of the building collapsing.
At this time, Chi Shen was moving quickly between several fallen pieces of rubble. The originally fallen stones became his stepping stones. He swung a few more swords very quickly and slashed Fang Man, who was trying to escape, in mid-air.
The rubble settled, and Chi Shen stood on the ruins. He was still half human and half ghost. The ghost half held a knife, and the human half had fingers together as a sword. In the broken wall under his feet was Fang Man crawling on the ground, and the remains of dolls were scattered all over the ground.
All the limbs that Fang Man had reattached to her were cut off, revealing her original appearance. She was just an ordinary person with two hands and two feet. Her soul was dissipating. During the shattering process, she looked at Chi Shen with her eye sockets without eyeballs, still muttering: "I curse you with my remaining soul. You can't leave this building. You will always be my doll in the building... Always accompany me..."
Chi Shen looked at the ruins on the ground and said in a very inquiring tone: "As expected, as long as the building is demolished, the curse will no longer take effect? Then the curse of the previous room should also disappear. Hmm... what about the drowned ghost?"
Chi Shen looked around for a few times but did not find the ghost face, but he found another person, his biological father, Bai Ximing.
Bai Ximing's head was covered in dust. He lifted up a chair, crawled out from under it, cried out in pain a few times, then took out his cell phone and checked it. When he found that the phone was intact, he immediately trembled and wanted to make a call.
Chi Shen was still some distance away from Bai Ximing, and he didn't even notice this person until Bai Ximing brushed off the dust.
There was no way. Bai Ximing was now the same color as the construction waste on the ground. If he wasn't moving, it would be difficult to find him.
Chi Shen then remembered why he came here, and he walked towards Bai Ximing.
Bai Ximing's hands were shaking as he dialed the number. He murmured anxiously, "Answer it! Answer it quickly! Why not answer it? Wenqin, give me what you arranged—"
Chi Shen was getting closer, and Bai Ximing suddenly came to his senses. He turned to look at Chi Shen, and immediately shuddered. He began to back away using his hands and feet, while he was still shouting into his phone: "Help, help, help me!"
But the ground was covered with gravel, and he missed a step after only two steps and fell down, with his legs stuck between two large rocks.
Chi Shen had already walked to Bai Ximing's side. He squatted down and looked at Bai Ximing. A smile appeared on his human face: "Father, I heard that you wanted to exchange your life with me."
"No, no, I didn't, I just, I just--" Bai Ximing's pupils trembled violently, he didn't dare to look at Chi Shen at all, he used his hands to try hard to pull his legs out from between the rocks.
"Actually, you can discuss this with me," Chi Shen said in a gentle voice, with great kindness, "I am a very generous person. How do I exchange my life? Teach me, and I will exchange with you right now."
Bai Ximing looked back at Chi Shen and saw that half of Chi Shen's body was a skeleton, with no human form. In fear, he suddenly pulled his legs out from the cracks in the rocks. He did not care about his legs that were bleeding from being rubbed, and struggled to climb out.
"I won't change, I won't change! Please let me go, I won't change. I don't want to be a ghost! I don't want to be a ghost, just be your ghost and don't come to me anymore."
Bai Ximing used his hands and feet to climb out. He was unaware of the steel bar piercing his palm. After crawling two steps, he looked back at the depth of the pool and became even more frightened.
Chi Shen sighed: "I'm really easy to talk to, why don't you believe it?"
Outside the collapsed ruins, a circle of cars came and surrounded the ruins of the building. Bai Ximing saw the police as if he saw a life-saving straw, and even crawled faster. Several policemen came over, and Bai Ximing quickly grabbed their thighs: "Quick, police comrades, save me, someone wants to exchange life with me! Oh, no, it's a ghost who wants to exchange life with me! I don't want to be a ghost, police comrades, save me! Save me!"
At this moment, in the ruins of the building, the ghost face lying under the big rock seemed to finally remember that he was a ghost, and ghosts would not be crushed to death by big rocks!
He floated out from under the big rock, looked around, and heard the sirens in the distance. He seemed to want to go over, but then he didn't. He floated in the air for a while, and finally looked at the suburbs of the port city. He remembered that it was sparsely populated, with urban landscape canals, and it was a place suitable for him to live.
The ghost face floated towards the suburbs.
Next to the noisy police car, several policemen looked at Chi Shen. Chi Shen had slowly repaired the half of his body that had turned into a skeleton. At this moment, he looked over with a smile and waved to them.
The policeman bowed to him and took Bai Ximing away. When he was taken into the car, Bai Ximing was still muttering: "Ghost, there is a ghost who wants to exchange his life with me!"
Chi Shen was not in a hurry to leave. He walked around the ruins twice, and the more he walked, the more puzzled he became: "This drowned ghost doesn't think he will be crushed to death by the building, right? Where is the ghost? Where did it go?"
A drop of rain fell and landed on his clothes.
Chi Shen stretched out his hand and picked up the drop of rain, which looked like a transparent crying face.
More rain fell and landed on the newly collapsed ruins. Transparent crying faces burrowed into the ruins. Even the scattered dolls seemed to be sad. Faces of various materials turned into sad expressions.
It's raining.
The clouds that brought down the rain were also sad, and they gathered into a crying face in the dark sky.
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