Chapter 147 The Ouija Board (24) "I don't like what you say..."
Behind the twelve-foot observation point was another stairwell in this corridor. Su He had deliberately left an opening to lure him into a trap, then sealed it off with wind, leaving him no way out.
But Lu Jinzhao suddenly appeared, and his wind not only failed to stop him, but also failed to convey even the slightest warning to him.
It melted away silently, without him even noticing.
Su He tried to send a signal to Observation Ten using the wind that was drifting in the corridor, but instead encountered an even stronger gust of wind and missed. He sensed something was wrong, turned around, and his eyes widened in shock—Observation Ten had turned and run away without a word!
The ghost bride moved closer to the center of the array, but without the watchful eye of the observer, she could not maintain her position and quickly dissolved into the invisible incantation that spread from the club building and throughout the campus, just like a takoyaki jumping into a deep fryer.
"I..." Su He's words of profanity were stuck in his throat, unable to come out. He looked at Lu Jinzhao with hostility, but the kid was looking at him innocently, which made him even angrier.
Pretending!
This kid lives across the hall from Xie Tan, goes to and from school together, and is always glued to him. He must have fooled Xie Tan by pretending to be like this!
He thought, in a completely twisted way, that this kid was definitely living across from Xie Tan on purpose!
What's wrong with Xie Tan? Isn't he supposed to be incredibly clever, able to manipulate everyone like pawns? How come he didn't even realize that this kid has ill intentions?
Was he bewitched by this face? How foolish! He likes good-looking people; just look at yourself in the mirror!
Su He looked at Lu Jinzhao again as if she were a wicked concubine who brought ruin to the country.
"What's wrong with him?" Su He asked, pointing the tip of her knife at the motionless Observation Twelve, her expression displeased.
Lu Jinchao wasn't angry at all about his attitude, and sighed softly, "Ah, have you already put yourself in the role of my father-in-law?"
"What nonsense are you spouting..."
"Didn't you say you're not good at using your brain?" Lu Jinchao interrupted him, a bright smile on her face. "Then just do what you're good at. If you want something, just give it to me. Why are you thinking about him?"
Su He sensed something different.
He suddenly said to Twelve, "Get up."
Suddenly, the limp Twelve regained the strength to stand up straight, staring blankly at him like a puppet awaiting his next command.
Su He immediately changed her posture, narrowing her eyes: "Aren't you responding to his wish?"
“But I also know your wishes. Wouldn’t it be better to grant both at once?” Lu Jinchao said innocently yet cruelly.
He was serious.
This trait is either found in children.
It's either God.
"Just as I thought, when I was checking Observation 2, I was thinking, Sun... should I call you 'God'?" Su He was like an old wolf with all its fur standing on end.
Lu Jinzhao: "Hmm?"
“She used this ritual back then, and the mountain almost collapsed. The old man couldn’t stop it and was furious with impotence, so he tried to drag others down with him and deliberately disgusted her… But she fell for it. Some innocent passersby on the mountain were caught in the crossfire, and she… asked me to save them. You were among the group of people I chased away.”
Lu Jinzhao's memory was much better than his: "Hey? You were too lazy to save people, so you just used the wind to casually sweep those people away and ran back, right? I was the one who caught a few of them hanging in the trees. You still remember me?"
"Don't talk like you're so kind." Su He sneered, "Those people were scared out of their wits, like they'd lost their souls, and you still have the nerve to laugh. Even a quick glance can tell you're not right."
"You only remembered now?" Lu Jinzhao's purely curious expression seemed more like sarcasm to Su He.
"You said it yourself, who cares about you, and what does it have to do with me? Do you think I'm like her? Or like her little brat?"
Upon hearing Xie Tan's name, Lu Jinzhao became more serious: "You mean A-Tan? Ah, this ceremony..."
Su He, with ill intentions, suddenly changed her attitude: "He refined all your friends." Then she observed his expression.
"I see."
"That's it? You don't consider them friends, or you don't know they're dead?" Su He lied.
Lu Jinchao said matter-of-factly, "Even friends will die one day. Everything in the world is like that. There is destruction before there is birth. No one is exempt from this because of any special bond..."
"Including Xie Tan?"
Lu Jinzhao's smile was like a brilliant sun being swallowed up in an instant, plunging the world into the darkness of a solar eclipse.
He looked at him emotionlessly and said, "I don't like what you're saying."
He was like a child... like a god, indifferent to external reactions, announcing his own feelings.
The outside world offered no response whatsoever; under this terrifying pressure, the only option was to submit.
Su He heard the ghosts trembling and wailing inside the building and even further into the campus. As the one facing this oppressive feeling, he stared at Lu Jinzhao for a long time, but suddenly laughed.
His expression relaxed a bit, and he became less hostile towards Lu Jinzhao.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said with genuine concern, "Then you have to be careful. That child is just like her... being like her is not a good thing."
Although she is the best.
"He is the best."
Su He suddenly heard Lu Jinzhao speak calmly, as if stating a universal truth, an unchanging law governing the universe. For a moment, he thought his innermost thoughts had been revealed.
"Are you worthy of him?" Su He scrutinized him without any reverence for God.
It seems that if the answer doesn't satisfy him, he'd even dare to draw his sword against a god.
Lu Jinzhao seemed to finally notice him, and suddenly, he smiled, a smile more radiant than any Su He had ever seen.
He held out his hand, revealing a handmade DIY silver ring on his ring finger, engraved with half a sun.
"Oh dear, didn't you know?" Lu Jinzhao said, "We're together now."
The subtext is: Your opinion doesn't count, anyway, Ah Tan thinks they're a perfect match!
>w<
Su He suddenly remembered that Xie Tan didn't have a ring on his hand, but there was indeed a necklace under his collar. When he helped him up, a corner of the ring, which was through the chain, peeked out from the gap in the button.
His heart was entirely focused on Xie Tan's condition, so he didn't think much of it and just regarded it as a trendy decoration for a child.
The tense standoff and undercurrents crumbled in an instant. Su He's eyes widened, like a distraught father: "What?!"
A loud crash came from the stairwell, like someone had been startled and fallen.
The two had already noticed someone coming upstairs, but Su He ignored it, stubbornly glaring at Lu Jinzhao, her eyebrows twitching.
Lu Jinzhao turned around and waved with a smile as Xu Jinbo limped out of the stairwell, his ring gleaming.
"You guys... are you done chatting?" Xu Jinbo chuckled awkwardly, met Lu Jinzhao's gaze, and then habitually exclaimed, "I saw it, it's a really beautiful ring... wow!"
Su He's knife clattered to the ground, startling Xu Jinbo so much that he sprang back and crashed into the wall, staring at him in terror.
"Let's go." Su He said with a dark face, after ordering Twelve to follow, she said to Lu Jinzhao, "You come with me too, please, pen, immortal."
Lu Jinzhao glanced upstairs.
"Brother Xu, why don't you go with Mr. Su He?" Lu Jinchao clasped his hands together, his eyes pleading. "A-Tan is upstairs, I'm worried about him..."
Her amber eyes were watery, like shimmering waves in the sunlight.
Xu Jinbo, who was completely unaware of the situation, immediately hardened his eyes: "Okay, then I'll go."
Su He's face darkened even more: "Who wants you..."
He looked directly into Xu Jinbo's face and suddenly fell silent.
“Mr. Su,” Xu Jinbo said with a professional attitude, “interfering with young people’s love is an adult’s behavior without any sense of boundaries. Please know your place.”
Su He looked at him silently, then at Lu Jinzhao behind him.
The black-haired youth had a deep, enigmatic smile, like something painted on his face... beneath which lay only darkness.
This is one of the passersby he chased away back then, and also the guy who left a deeper impression on him than Lu Jinzhao.
That kid did it on purpose.
But when Su He thought about the ritual of summoning the spirit, he did have something he wanted to see in this migrant worker.
Su He remained expressionless, grabbed Twelve's cloak, and said, "Enough talk, follow me."
Although he was extremely displeased with Lu Jinzhao, the most urgent task was to refine Twelve.
He wasn't sure at first, but Twelve himself said that he couldn't betray the head of the family after becoming an observer, which meant that there were traces of the head of the family in his new life.
Twelve wasn't qualified to be Su Huang's substitute for fate, but even though Su He didn't like to use his brain, he knew that Xie Tan's target was Su Huang, so he wasn't worried during the ceremony.
Given the intensity of this ceremony, even a small part of it would be easy to trace back to the source.
And then there's Lu Jinzhao... With the sun personally involved, there's no doubt about it.
"Ouija board spirit, Ouija board spirit, you are my past life, I am your present life. If you want to continue our bond, please draw a circle on the paper."
Su He and Twelve sat facing each other. He controlled Twelve and spoke at the same time as him.
As these words, which sounded like a spell, landed, the spirit of observation flowed in through the tip of the pen.
It is Observation Ten, the newly appointed Ouija board spirit.
Su He couldn't help but roll her eyes when she thought of how cowardly this guy had run away at the last minute.
“Say that sentence,” Su He commanded.
Twelve's eyes were empty and lifeless, and he opened his lips, which were embedded in the blade: "How...how can I save you?"
Su He plunged a knife into his arm to stay conscious, and then watched helplessly as Twelve was swallowed up by the emerging incantation.
"Sit down." He said to Xu Jinbo, who was staring in disbelief, without even frowning.
Xu Jinbo sat down nervously, feeling like he was about to die.
Su He retorted sarcastically, "You're afraid, yet you still followed? You actually believe him."
Yes, it was Lu who asked him to come along. Xu Jinbo immediately refuted his own thought; Lu wouldn't harm him.
If Xie were the one saying this, he might be thinking about his last words now.
"……ha?"
Xu Jinbo was startled, realizing that he had inadvertently muttered his innermost thoughts.
Su He's face was full of confusion, as if she had heard a fairy tale: "I think you've got it backwards."
Xu Jinbo exclaimed excitedly, "You're not allowed to say anything bad about Lu..."
"So you're going to say bad things about that brat Xie Tan?"
"Um...no, Xie is a very nice guy too, I'm just..." I'm just a little afraid of him.
Somewhat.
Su He looked at him expressionlessly, but she wasn't angry. This was normal; that kid's aura was even more frightening than hers... and it wasn't just his aura. There were some things Xie Tan was really capable of doing. Su He knew what kind of ritual this was.
He witnessed the ceremony firsthand.
...He has to keep an eye on Xie Tan.
“Since you know he’s a good person, then come on over,” Su He said.
He also knew that Xie Tan was helping these people "cleanse their impurities".
He thought the brat was cold-hearted and heartless, and was quite relieved... but in the end, it was still her child.
It doesn't matter, as long as Xie Tan is alright, he will help him.
This weakling in front of her was an innocent passerby she personally asked to take away; she shouldn't leave him around to cause trouble for the little brat.
"read."
Xu Jinbo was startled and said, "Ouija board spirit...! You are my past life, and I am your present life. If you want to continue our connection, please draw a circle on the paper."
The pen began to move.
"Um... how can I save you?"
The person in front of Su He slowly changed.
A teenager sat opposite her; his appearance was so distant that it seemed unfamiliar, and Su He was taken aback.
This is what the Twelve looked like before it was made for observation.
The observer is still far from being a god, but can no longer be considered human; few can completely retain their human form.
For someone like Twelve, who has no talent, whose Black Goat brand has been washed away, and who has no causal relationship with the Smoke Mirror, becoming an observer is even more so.
But he was only momentarily distracted and remained unmoved.
The path you chose, you have to accept it.
What truly surprised him was that this Ouija board spirit had absolutely no trace of Su Huang.
The head of the family is not on Twelve!
Where would that be? Even on a campus open day, which tears open a gap in the closed future, not just anyone can enter. These are people who already have karmic entanglements!
If it's not Twelve, then who could it be?
A thought flashed through his mind and stung him, but before he could be alarmed, a beam of light suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
The Ouija board is burning.
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