Chapter 148 The Ouija Board (25) It's not like an inhibitor, it's more like A...
The firelight was faint, but in the dimly lit classroom, it shone with a terrifying red light, like a beacon in the night.
Su He realized that the incantation was spoken by Xu Jinbo, so the Twelve's substitute should be sitting here. The little boy opposite was actually a reflection of the will-o'-the-wisp, like a mirror image. The fire had already started burning.
The boy's face, illuminated by the will-o'-the-wisp, appeared even paler than human, and his adoring eyes took on a bewitching light, prompting Su He to dredge up some unrelated stories about the Black Goat from the corners of her memory.
"Uncle, they say you're the strongest in the family! Teach me how to fight! Ouch... don't hit my head, or I won't grow tall!"
"Uncle, uncle, did you come to see me? Oh... I came to see the adults, they're over there. It's okay, just pretend I came to see you!... Ouch, why did you hit my head again!"
"Uncle, are you sad? What happened to this dictionary?"
"Uncle... Waaah, why do I have to leave too? I don't want to leave—I won't listen, I won't listen! You're kicking me out, just because you think I'm useless! I'm not useless! I can stay and help you, help the family, and make that cult pay with their blood!"
“Uncle, I know everything now. It turns out that you colluded with those traitors to kill my parents and so many of our clansmen, almost causing the Black Goat tribe to be wiped out. You are a traitor too.”
"Su He, remember your last name. Don't let me catch you, or... I'll kill you."
He seemed to have only met his adopted nephew a few times, but he couldn't remember exactly.
He has blood relatives, brothers and sisters, elders who place high hopes on him, and clansmen who admire him. However, he has never felt the so-called bond of blood ties and siblings. He only feels that they are all strange in every way, and he can't talk to or get along with any of them.
Just like the old man praised him as a "wolf," but he was just an ordinary wolf who had mistakenly entered a strange flock of black sheep and just couldn't stay with them.
If you really want to say something, she once said in a serious tone, "You sound like a normal person living in a group of fake people. You must be tired," and then, standing on tiptoe, she patted his shoulder like a little adult.
He accepted the statement with ease.
He may not be a normal person, but the black goat is definitely not normal.
Twelve's parents, his blood-related elder brother and sister-in-law, were unadulterated Black Goats. The anti-curse she left behind was only effective on the children of the Black Goat tribe who wanted to break away from it. Logically speaking, Twelve was not qualified to cleanse himself of such filthy blood.
Twelve's parents met their true death during the ritual she lit. So, it was because Twelve always stayed close to him when she was little that she took a part of his karma and was considered "his child" by the anti-curse, thus escaping the mark of the Black Goat.
This is one of the blessings she left for him.
And what was the result? Not only did Mao Sui volunteer to become an observer, but the Black Goat Diagram... was originally developed by Twelve.
Su He sneered when her cheap nephew said he was his stain. Wasn't he his stain too?
He's gone to hell, how could he face her?
But he still wanted to see her.
So, he's already messed up one thing; he can't afford to mess up another.
Her child... Xie Tan, he couldn't watch him die.
Su He lowered her eyes and grabbed the flame with her other hand.
The flame flickered and failed to ignite, only spreading a layer of red light that made the white paper appear bright red.
The paper was drawn by Xie Tan, meaning the ceremony was personally arranged by Xie Tan, so it wasn't that fragile.
So the patriarch hid the fire in the twelve substitutes for destiny, setting them up so that when they used the twelve to summon the spirit of the Ouija board, the fire would burn the paper and ruin the ritual.
The fact that it can hide things in the Ouija board that represents another timeline, ah, that old thing really has become the eye of observation.
The slowly blackening flames rolled in Su He's palm, illuminating his sharp eyes like a quenched knife.
So, where is the head of the family?
Lu Jinzhao walked upstairs without expression.
If the existence of light has a substance, then the existence of darkness is like that of something that exists only to extinguish light; it is "empty."
But on the long staircase, darkness filled the space as if it were more substantial than light, trailing behind him.
He sensed that the noisy, obstructive ghostly figures upstairs had left, which was quite sensible of them.
A faint smell of blood seeped into his nostrils, dancing on his nerves—it was the smell of Ah Tan.
The smell was certainly pleasant, intoxicating the dark creature, but not enough to bewitch him.
That was a useful beacon, allowing him to find the direction of that person.
That person... Xie Tan himself, is the one who truly captivates him.
He stood quietly in front of the door for a few seconds, then pushed it open and immediately put on a bright and cheerful smile: "Ah Tan!"
The windows were wide open, and the wind blew through the empty classroom, smoothing away Lu Jinzhao's smile.
His amber eyes swept coldly toward the dormitory buildings outside the window.
"What a joke!"
Xie Tan opened his eyes and heard the cult leader's exaggerated shouts.
He sat up in bed, still covered with a newly removed quilt that smelled industrial, but not strong.
He was in a two-person dormitory room.
The dormitory looked deserted, empty, with a gloomy feeling of not having seen sunlight for decades. The bed he was on was newly made.
His body temperature had come down, he was no longer hallucinating, and his mind was clear. However, the cold sweat had dried, and he couldn't stop feeling cold after overheating.
But it's still much better than being completely out of it.
Is this a sluggish inhibitor finally remembering what it's supposed to do? The speed is comparable to a sustained-release painkiller capsule.
The second-in-command of the Five Eyes Sect floated obediently to one side, but his mouth uttered the cult leader's voice: "Feeling better? You scared me to death! You have no idea how many demons and monsters pounced on us like madmen on our way to escape!"
It was attracted by his pheromones. Xie Tan glanced out the window but saw nothing.
"Don't worry, those few who were relentlessly pursuing us are gone."
"Do I need to say thank you?" Xie Tan said coldly.
"You're welcome." The cult leader's voice was still cheerful. "But you're thanking the wrong person. I didn't kill them. Just as they were about to climb on you, they suddenly 'whoosh'ed and burned to ashes, almost setting me on fire!"
Xie Tan didn't react much. He found that the leader was a bit like Xi Rui, no, much more annoying than Xi Rui. Ignoring him was the best option.
But then, a flash of inspiration struck him, making him shudder for no reason, and he suddenly looked over.
The second brother in the five-eyed manga has no eyes, only a mouth, and he smiles at him with an ambiguous expression.
"But you should thank me. It was I who took you away in time, knowing that the converter... oh, the sun is there, why go there?"
Xie Tan thought to himself, "What's it to you? I just want to see him."
But he also understood the cult leader's subtext: he had injected the inhibitor in the club building, and the effect was only halfway there. After being in the old teaching building for so long, the symptoms should have subsided by now, but instead, they were getting worse, all because Lu Jinzhao was there.
But he used Chekhov's gun to link the inhibitor with the smoke mirror liquid. When he was with Lu Jinzhao, it did relieve his symptoms a lot... The forum always joked about this.
But now, recalling it, he realized that it wasn't that his pheromones wouldn't go out of control when he was around Lu Jinzhao; on the contrary, the frequency of them going out of control was higher. However, every time there was a hint of it, Lu Jinzhao would calm him down, preventing it from reaching the point of "going out of control."
Looking at it this way, the fragment solution from the smoke mirror doesn't seem to function like an inhibitor; it's more like... an alpha pheromone.
It will both stimulate his pheromones and truly soothe him.
Looking back now, because he used suppressant products since childhood, his estrus cycle was irregular each month, and he was often attacked suddenly, so he had a habit of carrying suppressant products with him.
And after he transmigrated into the comic book world, it turned out that his heat cycles always coincided with the occurrence of a story, that is, when there were fragments of the mirror.
The leader said, "You know that the Eye of Observation can be said to be an eye gouged out of the sun, right? Staying by its side will only allow you to 'see' more, which is a burden for you right now. You were the one who drew up the ritual, and I don't want things to come to this point. This sealed spacetime couldn't hold, and all our efforts were in vain. We are allies, after all."
He drew it? Xie Tan realized that it was the paper for the spirit that he drew based on the forecast, and that was the incantation for the ritual.
The cult leader sighed deeply, looking out the window, seemingly still shaken.
Xie Tan suddenly asked, "What did you just call him?"
The cult leader paused, then asked, "A solar converter?"
"You know perfectly well that he is the sun."
"Are you standing up for him?"
“The Mirror Cult believes in the First Sun, but I don’t see any respect from you. No wonder you’re from the Black Goat family.”
The cult leader pursed his lips, as if his eyes had narrowed slightly, as Xie Tan used the black goat's lie about the presence of a deity in the smoke mirror to satirize him.
“The great god of smoke and mirrors… he shouldn’t look like this. You are the eye of observation, haven’t you seen His true form?”
He was referring to the God of Mirrors.
Therefore, in the eyes of the cult leader, the Mirror God is the deity born from the Smoke Mirror, and is the true first sun.
How could someone with smoke-filled glasses be a sunny, cheerful, and helpful person?
Xie Tan then heard the cult leader slowly say, "This is the only wrong thing your mother ever did. It was after she used this ritual that the sun became what it is now. She 'washed away' the real sun god. I always said she should listen to fewer fairy tales."
In the blink of an eye, the cult leader's mouth curled up again, and he said excitedly, "But thankfully you're here. You've brought the shadow of the sun god back into his body, and he's no longer the ignorant fool he always was. Indeed, only the Eye of Observation can do this. Let's wash away this fake, hmm?"
Whoever that mouth is facing, it has a more terrifying "gaze" than any eyes.
He was observing Xie Tan's expression inch by inch, trying to capture the subtle emotions lurking beneath the surface of the pool.
This guy... really didn't become an observer?
What exactly is he? Is he also a part of the power of the sun god?
“Our alliance should be for more important things.” Xie Tan’s expression remained unchanged and impeccable.
"Oh, you mean that old bastard Su Huang?" The cult leader's tongue swirled like an iris as he continued, "He thoughtfully sent over our inferior Observer Twelve. That old wolfhound went after him, let's see them fight like dogs! But you're really reckless in your delirium, didn't you plan to kill Twelve first?"
"What's the point of killing him?" Xie Tan said coldly, looking at Observer Twelve as if he were a brainwashed pawn.
"Hahaha, you guessed it all along! That old thing really isn't in the Twelve Miles!" the cult leader laughed. "But at least it's the first Black Goat Diagram, and the incantation has been strengthened, so it's not a loss."
The mouth glanced at the time: "It's not necessarily safe here. Should we go back to the clubhouse to find me?"
"Take care, and don't bother seeing me off." Xie Tan fell back onto the bed, refusing to give him another glance.
"You're really not cute. Okay, you should rest a bit more. After all, the fourth day is quite tiring." The mouth muttered, and the exaggerated posture slowly became flat. The second brother, who could see five things at once, breathed a sigh of relief, bowed to Xie Tan awkwardly, and quickly slipped away.
Xie Tan was also checking the time. He had a digital watch in his hand, which the young lady had given him.
It's almost midnight. Since the others have already used the Ouija board, it's almost the fifth day.
He watched as the pointer slowly rotated back to the top.
It's midnight.
"..."
Xie Tan slowly sat up.
The time did indeed rewind to 8 PM.
But the date remained unchanged.
They were still on the 30th, the fourth day of Carnival.
Why?
Knock knock—
Xie Tan looked over.
There was a knock on the dormitory door.
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