Chapter 26 Mom Loves You (5)
Fengdu, the Dragon King's Palace in the West City.
The dark palace was somber and elegant, with carved railings and painted beams everywhere you walked. At the end of the main hall, a dark and mysterious aura swelled up.
A handsome man leaned back on a huge dragon-patterned throne, his black hair reaching his waist, his features both handsome and wicked, his slender fingers casually tracing a floating water mirror.
The reflection in the water mirror showed Lin Chujiu's tear-streaked, flustered face, and the ID she regarded as her hope—Hanyu.
"Oh."
Mingdu chuckled, his mockery undisguised. His slender fingertips lingered lazily on the water mirror, his dark golden pupils swirling with amusement and disdain.
"Jiang Chaoyu..." he murmured the name, a mocking smile on his face. "When did our Jiang Dagongcao, this high-and-mighty flower, become so leisurely as to become a backer for a mere ant?"
Upon hearing this, the servant standing nearby immediately smiled obsequiously and said:
"Yes, Jiang Chaoyu appears to be well-behaved and aloof on the surface, but who knew he would be so fond of pleasure-seeking behind the scenes? He shouldn't have been given the position of Gongcao!"
He spoke with righteous indignation, but Mingdu merely raised his eyelids slightly after listening, without even glancing at him.
Knowing he was being frivolous, the servant pursed his lips, lowered his head, and went to lie low to the side.
You won't be happy if I tell you, and you won't be happy if I don't tell you.
That living dad is so hard to please!
The servant tucked his hands in his pockets, thinking to himself.
Looking at the scene on the water mirror, Mingdu felt a little bored, so he lay down again. His black hair cascaded down the throne with his movements, making him look lazy and adding a touch of mystery.
He looked at Lin Chujiu's excessively beautiful face in the water mirror, a hint of understanding flashing in his eyes, which then turned into deeper contempt.
“I see,” he scoffed. “It’s just a dodder flower, yet you’re paying so much attention to it.”
He looked at the crying ant in the water mirror and felt that she was useless except for her face.
However, this face vaguely overlaps with the face in my memory, but it doesn't quite look the same.
That's true; there are plenty of people in the world who look somewhat alike.
However, that person was just too important to him, which is why he was so sensitive to any similarity between others and him, Mingdu thought.
He seemed to have lost all interest, casually flicking his wide sleeves.
The water mirror shattered upon impact, turning into specks of dim light that dissipated in the dark hall.
The light from the water mirror disappeared, and Mingdu's face was hidden in the darkness, making it impossible to see his expression.
——
Meanwhile, in the live stream room...
The eerie creatures had already arrived in front of Lin Chujiu. They all had distorted faces and limbs as thin as withered branches, but their bodies were very fat, making them look extremely disproportionate.
The pig demon led all the strange creatures, a sinister grin on its grayish-blue face.
It seemed to have the ability to control the eerie creatures and the stall owner; after it stopped, all the eerie creatures stopped behind it as well.
All the stall owners were now looking at it, as if waiting for it to give them a command—
It pointed at Lin Chujiu and said, "Grab her and tear her to pieces!"
Tear it into pieces?
Lin Chujiu subconsciously looked at her mother, her eyes blurry with tears.
The mother stopped struggling at that moment, her eyes were empty, and at the instant Lin Chujiu saw it, her lips moved slightly.
"don't want......"
She uttered two syllables indistinctly, and Lin Chujiu strained her ears to listen, but she couldn't hear anything.
After hearing the pig demon's instructions, all the monsters and marbles turned to look at Lin Chujiu, their eyes filled with undisguised killing intent.
Lin Chujiu felt like she was being pricked by those gazes!
She held her mother's hand and pleaded in a pitiful voice, "Mom, it's me, Jiu Jiu. Don't you remember me?"
When she spoke, her voice was filled with a heavy sob, as if she were weeping blood.
Hesitation and struggle flashed in Mom's eyes, followed by intense pain—
The strange creatures and the stall owners didn't care about any of that. They all rushed towards Lin Chujiu, forming a dense, dark mass that seemed to be the most solid cage in the world.
Surrounded by enemies on all sides, only mother is someone I can rely on.
But Mom didn't react at all.
Lin Chujiu closed her eyes unwillingly, awaiting the final outcome.
I'm sorry, Mom, I didn't manage to save up that 3 million.
From now on, you may have to walk that road by yourself.
Lin Chujiu resented the capriciousness of fate, but in the end, she hated her own uselessness.
Her eyes were bloodshot, and her eye sockets were crimson.
However, the expected pain did not come—
A sound of flesh being torn apart rang out. Lin Chujiu thought it was her own, her teeth chattering, but she felt no pain. Confused, Lin Chujiu opened her eyes—
A bloody, mangled body blocked her way.
Lin Chujiu looked at the clothes on the garment and it took her two seconds to barely recognize them.
That's... Mom.
The world of horror... Mom...
That woman, who was usually gentle and even considered weak by the world, stood in front of her like an unbreakable wall.
She suppressed her urges, and her maternal instincts took over.
She was being torn apart in a bizarre way; the fat covering her body fell off, flesh and blood tore off, intestines were ripped out, and blood stained the ground crimson...
Lin Chujiu gasped, staring at everything in disbelief—
My mother's short-sleeved blue shirt was completely covered in blood, and the original color was no longer visible.
Countless monsters rushed forward, tearing at her muscles and shoving her body, attempting to break through her barrier and shatter the treasures behind her.
"Mom—" Lin Chujiu cried out, wanting to go forward, but knowing she was powerless to help, she sat helplessly on the ground, looking at the ground, hating herself for her uselessness once again.
She wasn't one of those superhuman warriors with excessive fighting power, nor did she possess an exceptionally brilliant mind. All she could do to get here was cry and whimper and cling to powerful figures.
But the person she was clinging to was just an ordinary person—
Even though it was just a phantom in a horror story, the mother still sacrificed herself to give her daughter hope for life.
Lin Chujiu was heartbroken and filled with pain and helplessness. Then, the flash of inspiration that had crossed her mind before she arrived at the market resurfaced—
In an instant, she knew the key to solving everything...
Motherly love and inheritance.
Mothers are the greatest people in the world; they would give up everything to ensure their daughters live.
If she could, her mother would bear all the pain for her...
A daughter is the apple of her mother's eye. She will do everything in her power to protect her daughter's innocence and purity, and will never let her suffer any harm, even if it means sacrificing her own life.
Therefore, the mother will continue to entangle with the pig spirit after death, and the mother in the illusion will be willing to die to protect her.
The key to solving all of this is Mom...
The boss of this instance is the mother, not the pig demon. The pig demon only represents danger, but it is not the reason for the illusion.
The key to leaving this place is to awaken the mother inside the pig demon's body, so that she can fight against the pig demon and rescue the player.
Although this method is cruel, it is the key to unlocking this ghost story.
Even if you manage to survive peacefully in the dungeon for seven days, during the final terrifying battle royale, you still have to push your mother to fight against the pig demon.
The way to activate a mother's emotions can be cruel: it involves making her see her daughter being hurt.
That way, she would risk everything to fight for her daughter.
One life for another.
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