Chapter 150 The Ouija Board (27) "This ritual is a..."
"I'm glad to see that my paper wasn't torn up and thrown in the trash," Xie Tan said calmly.
“That’s how it was supposed to be,” Su He said. “But looking at it now, thankfully, it’s not.”
"Don't act like I've convinced you. You brought this piece of paper here, wasn't it all for this moment?"
Xie Tan wasn't so foolish as to not think of this in such a confined space and eerie atmosphere.
Su He grinned, completely ignoring the unusual behavior of the Ouija board: "This arrangement is just right. I also want to see another possibility for that worker, or rather, the fate he was originally destined for."
Xie Tan was puzzled. What could Su He and Xu Jinbo possibly have in common? They seemed to have absolutely no connection.
But the only person Su He truly cared about from beginning to end was him. Even if it was him, it was only because of Xiao Liu's influence that she was favored by him.
So Xu Jinbo and Xiao Liu are also related?
I'll have to wait until I read the comic to find out.
However, if it comes to the point where Su He has to choose between avenging Xiao Liu and protecting him, he believes Su He will ultimately choose the former.
This is also why Xie Tan can trust him.
All he needed to do was emphasize "killing Su Huang" over "his own safety." The only thing that could shake Su He's resolve was Xiao Liu.
If it were Xiao Liu, he definitely wouldn't want to see Su He trapped here and taking risks.
Since using the Ouija board can help them erase bad timelines and kick out the ritual, it wouldn't be bad for him to fulfill his responsibility as the mastermind behind the scenes.
"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."
After she started writing, Su He remained silent for a long time.
Xie Tan: "It's a bit pointless to regret it now."
Su He: "I have a question. Is the Ouija board's answer absolutely correct?"
Xie Tan looked at him quietly.
Su He sensed something, suddenly smiled, and said, "Ouija board spirit, Ouija board spirit, will the person sitting opposite me die during the ritual?"
Just then, Cat No. 7 woke up, but perhaps in its drowsy state, it didn't choose the right coordinates and appeared out of nowhere on Xie Tan's head.
It yawned, leaped down, and jumped onto the table.
Suddenly, a kitten landed in his field of vision, causing Xie Tan to instinctively grab Su He's hand and tighten his grip on the pen.
As Su He looked over, Xie Tan preemptively struck, his tone laced with a hint of mockery: "Why ask me when you can ask the Ouija board?"
Since he's the mastermind behind everything, if he can't answer, he'll just be the riddle teller.
Before he could finish speaking, Su He clicked her tongue in frustration and quickly replied, "Ouija board spirit, how can I save you?"
The white paper turned red instantly, as if it had fallen into a pool of blood.
Su He loosened her grip, and a dark red flame shot up from her palm. In Xie Tan's vision, the person opposite him suddenly became Xu Jinbo, who was staring at the flame in horror.
But those eyes were a sea of fire, the whole mountain was red, and the Four Seasons Mountain seemed to have entered autumn prematurely.
Su He said to catch the alternating trigger words, and logically Xu Jinbo should be in his position, but for some reason he appeared opposite him.
Xie Tan stared intently at him, but couldn't find any difference between the Xu Jinbo opposite him and the Xu Jinbo he usually knew.
Xi Rui's eyes and Sun Enze's broken leg are obvious at a glance, but is this still miserable office worker in front of us really an "if" scenario?
Cat number 7 looked left and right, seemingly afraid of blocking his view. The host was in the middle of a crucial role, so it sensibly jumped away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Xie Tan felt the heat of the fire, but couldn't help leaning forward, his gaze penetrating Xu Jinbo's iris, which was illuminated by the firelight, and reaching his small black pupil.
The pupils were moving.
Trembling with unease.
No……
That's not a pupil.
It was a tiny human figure!
It's that figure moving!
It's too small, I can't see the figure clearly...
The figure remained motionless.
As if drawn by his gaze, she remained still.
The person in Xu Jinbo's eyes was looking at him.
Xie Tan seemed frozen, unable to break free from this gaze that might not even exist, or perhaps it was a hallucination caused by his pheromones going out of control again, something he couldn't escape.
Yes, his body temperature was rising, and his head was starting to hurt again.
Until he heard Su He's mocking voice: "Do you know what kind of fire this is?"
Xie Tan subconsciously replied, "The sun..."
Sunfire.
It is black, yet has a mirror-like reflection, and seems impossible to burn out; it possesses terrifying power—this is solar fire.
"You dare to use it? You haven't even fully developed your Eye of Observation yet, and you think you can control the flames of God."
Xie Tan suddenly realized that the hatred in those words was too intense. Every clench of his teeth felt like sharpening a knife, waiting to tear someone to pieces.
Su He might mock him, but there was no reason for her to hate him. The one who deserved such resentment was their common enemy, Su Huang.
Xie Tan suddenly snapped back to reality and blinked. Xu Jinbo's figure had already disappeared. Su He sat opposite him, her expression a mixture of disgust, resentment, mockery, and pleasure, staring at the Ouija board between them.
The characters on the paper rose up, emerged from the paper, and formed a tower shape. Flames burned inside the tower, which had turned completely black.
A huge, upright, yellowish-brown eye was trapped inside, its uneven iris filled with fine hairs that darted back and forth like a swimming fish.
The eyes of the Black Goat's master.
At the same time, Xie Tan saw that on the window behind Su He, there were dense, bright red kiss marks that appeared out of nowhere, all with a laughing shape—the cult leader had added another layer of protection to Su He.
They were indeed laughing, opening and closing back and forth. Xie Tan heard the noisy laughter; each sound was different, but the tone of the laughter was the same.
This is to prevent the head of the household from running away.
The eye that usually acted gentle finally panicked, crashing into the cursed tower, its pupil trembling violently.
Su He twisted the braid wrapped with the wishing cloth and forced a smile: "I have the curse she left on me, and the hair knots meant for the family were burned by her. Even after returning to the family, I'm too lazy to pretend to be loyal. I wear my displeasure on my forehead and am always on guard against you. How could I know that you've become the Eye of Observation? How could I know that you're still parasitizing me? After all these years, Patriarch, you still like to treat others like fools?"
His eyes darted around, glaring at him with a cold, angry intensity.
"Not pretending anymore? What's the rush? You parasitized me just to enter this ritual and forge the complete Eye of Observation, right? After all, this brat helped you gather all the elements. He's more concerned about his reputation and has more baggage than you. He's unwilling to give up his human form and will inevitably 'fall ill' under the intense sunlight. Without you persisting, you can seize the initiative. Isn't that great? Everything is proceeding according to your plan, isn't it? Can you feel it? You're trapped in the ritual, oh, and in the very center."
The raging anger in that eye surpassed everything else, a look that condemned their treachery and cunning.
Xie Tan was a beat slow to react. Wasn't this the ritual for refining the Eye of Observation?
“This ritual is a hoax,” Su He said. “You say she’s long dead, denying her impermanent nature, but you’re the one who’s most afraid she’s still alive. Stop being so paranoid, old man. Just like you think, she was burned to ashes by the sun’s fire and had her power taken back by the Smoke Mirror—so the truth of this ritual is that once the Eye of Observation is fully forged, it will naturally mend the mirror’s imperfections and return to the embrace of the gods.”
The laughter from the windows grew louder, as people pounded on the glass, celebrating the imminent recovery of the largest fragment for the sun god.
Xie Tan understood, so when the Eye of Observation was fully refined, the person died, turning into a primordial energy body and returning it to the gods.
The patriarch's eyes darted about like a prisoner at the end of his rope, yet everything was mercilessly suppressed by the incantation.
The tower slowly descended, crushing the eye within the core incantation of the ritual, at the very center of the array.
The eye was pressed from three dimensions into a flat surface, merging into the layers of words on the Ouija board that resembled an eye. The red paper became even darker, almost black.
Su He and the lips on the window stared intently at his trapped state, as if years of resentment had finally found an outlet.
Xie Tan was indeed aggravated by the flames, which is why he reacted so slowly.
His most hated enemy has crashed and is about to be annihilated in his desire to become a god. Given his previous obsessive attitude, he should also reveal a hint of pleasure or other emotions.
But he forgot, or rather, his pheromones were gradually getting out of control, and he couldn't care less; he just stared blankly at the red paper.
A flood of thoughts rushed through his mind, but he was unable to think of anything at all.
The lips imprinted on the window slowly faded away. After the cult leader finished laughing and left with those demonic sounds, Xie Tan finally understood what Su He had said.
Therefore, when Xiao Liu completed the Eye of Observation, the divine power was returned to the Sun God.
Then why are there new eyes of observation?
Ah, the items burned in that ceremony were incomplete.
As the witch interprets, the Eye of Observation ignores any time, so it should also include a "pointer". The structure of the old lady's mansion plus the divination table is a "sundial", and the shadow left by the sunlight naturally represents the pointer, which is also on the "circle" unfolded by the witch.
The ritual Xiao Liu left on the solar calendar stone in the tomb was activated by the pointer, and she must have also taken control of the pointer back then.
Similarly, the eye of observation also includes the missing bone fragment, a word, which Su He refers to as "the multitude of tongues".
The leader of the cult is not refined in the ritual.
What happened? Did he betray Xiao Liu again?
Xie Tan then heard Su He's relaxed and languid voice: "You acted well. I almost thought you were really going to use this ritual to refine yourself into a complete Eye of Observation."
"You did a good job of holding back; you didn't fight with him," Xie Tan said.
Su He realized that Xie Tan was talking about the sect leader, and her face darkened. Xie Tan thought that he was going to be sarcastic or directly curse the sect leader, but then he heard Su He speak again.
"This is the ritual of refining the Black Goat. I am also a Black Goat. Back then, she wanted me to leave, so she begged me to save those ordinary people trapped in the mountains... But what does it have to do with me? I didn't go, I didn't care whether I lived or died. It was that trash cult leader who helped her and kicked me out of the ritual... Who would want to save them? But at that time, I had a vague premonition that it was the last time she would ask me to do something... And she really wanted to save those people. I saw it. The Ouija board spirit, that migrant worker who I didn't save is still unharmed. It could only have been her who saved him, whether she did it herself or asked someone else."
The man raised his head. Time hadn't left many marks on him; the fine lines at the corners of his sharp eyes and the white hair at his temples were the marks left by hatred, resentment, and longing.
"Don't kick me out this time. I don't want to be an immortal old monster. The 'sole black goat survivor' is even more disgusting. This family is the real curse. Disinfecting and cleaning them up would win an environmental award."
Xie Tan: "If you didn't have so many words, you would have finished refining it long ago."
"You little rascal." Su He smiled, then said seriously, "Although he helped her, I don't know what happened afterward... Watch out for that foul mouth of his."
Master, Xie Tan does indeed suspect that guy was behind this.
But he didn't show it; he just listened quietly and then asked, "Are you done worrying?"
"You find me annoying? No," Su He adopted a stern elder's demeanor, "You better stay away from that brat Lu Jinzhao!"
Xie Tan raised an eyebrow: "Does dating bother you, you old fogey?"
"Can you talk about a normal person? That's not human, that's the sun, that's a mirror! You two are both species isolated, you know that? Most importantly... he's a consciousness born from the Smoke Mirror. Even if he's genetically mutated and really is a cheerful idiot, he still carries the curse of 'destruction,' let alone the fact that he's actually..."
“Just as she will always be your regret,” Xie Tan interrupted him, saying calmly, “I will not let her become my regret.”
That deep-seated obsession returned silently to his eyes.
For a moment, Su He was speechless.
What can we do?
The little devil said that Lu Jinzhao is to Xie Tan what...she is to Su He.
So Su He could only offer him her blessings.
Do not repeat his mistakes.
"Your mother is a miracle." Finally, Su He almost sighed, revealing the vicissitudes beneath her sharp words, "Whatever you do, I hope you are also... a miracle."
Xie Tan remained calm and released his grip on Su He's knuckles, saying, "Old man, you should hurry back and drink your health-preserving tea."
In the blink of an eye, Su He's figure was covered by a mirror-like reflection.
He saw Su He's "if" line.
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