Chapter 140 The Ouija Board (17) "So, good child, for..."
[That's right! Jumping through time requires a pointer. What happens to the pointer if Xiao Ai dies? The leader can take her place!]
[Malicious intent! I knew the cult leader was up to no good!]
Wait a minute, could this also be part of Atan's plan?
In the comic, Sun Enze was tricked into the club building by the cult leader. When he arrived at the entrance of the chess club, his heart was completely broken.
They met Xie Tan right here, so what else is there to doubt?
The cult leader threw the Ouija board paper onto the chessboard, obscuring the reflection of the Guanyin statue.
"bring it on?"
They recited the incantation to summon the spirit once more.
Sun Enze remained quiet, and after the pen entered his hand, he asked that crucial question.
It would be good to take one last look at Sister Xiao Ai, but she would probably blame him.
Forget it, nothing matters anymore.
Is this the feeling that person has always had?
As he thought this, he felt a burning sensation, and the smell of burning filled his nostrils. He looked up and almost screamed.
Chang Mingai's smile remained unchanged, her gaze towards him was the same, and her entire demeanor remained the same. So when she was covered by the Ouija board, it looked as if she had been burned.
However, on the next square of the charred, terrifying face, the chessboard suddenly shifted, and one of the clasped hands was missing.
The pen slammed onto the chessboard, making a crisp sound.
Countless incantations, like honey flowing downwards, melted into the white squares of the chessboard, floating in the world of reflections.
[What the hell?! How could he be a cult leader?!]
[I'm terrified! My child wanted to see Xiao Ai one last time, but it turned out to be this monstrous thing!]
It's too yin (inauspicious).
What's more terrifying than ghosts are the cult leader's mouth and Ah Tan's brain.
[There's no need to worry about whether the spirit in the Ouija board is real or not; it's not.]
Wait, isn't it supposed to be a rotation system? I'm confused.
If they didn't become spirits through a Ouija board, where did the missing person go? Did they just die?
[To die directly, to have friends tricked into dying together, and to be unable to tell whether it's worse than being trapped in a Ouija board]
All I can say is, Ah Tan, you have a cruel heart.
As the forum speculated, if it were just the cult leader's one-sided story, it would be fine; it would be his deception of Sun Enze. But when the cult leader found Xie Tan, their attitudes towards each other suggested that it was premeditated.
【!! Ah Tan, you really helped the cult leader steal the pointer?!】
Wait a minute, everyone thought Ah Tan was just helping Xiao Ai survive, could the truth be the opposite?
[Yeah, the previous daily blind boxes... were actually Ah Tan leaving time for the leader to parasitize the pointer? ???]
[From beginning to end, he was merely a bargaining chip in the negotiations between Ah Tan and the cult leader...]
I was worried the cult leader would cause trouble for Ah Tan, but it turns out I was the clown myself.
[Enze was completely reckless, and Atan said no, I thought a turnaround was coming, but it turns out it was just to be on the safe side, afraid that there wouldn't be enough time today, and I withered away.]
[Ah Tan, wake up! How could this guy possibly be genuinely helping you avenge Mommy?!]
[Wake up, upstairs! How could Ah Tan not know? It's all about mutual exploitation.]
They're really resorting to any means necessary, sigh.
[The leader is right about one thing: Ah-Tan isn't the kind of person who repays evil with kindness or is easily moved by others. He's different from Mommy. (P.S. This isn't to say that Ah-Tan is like the leader.)]
[Agreed, Uncle, stop trying to scam people.]
But to be honest, they do get along better because they can be completely uninhibited with each other.
In the comic, the cult leader kept rambling on and on, and even when he mentioned Xiao Liu, Xie Tan barely paid him any attention. The cult leader then called out "the other half of the ritual" and skipped upstairs.
The boy didn't care about being left behind. He acted as if he hadn't even seen the person. His figure entered the brightly lit club building, where he was blurred by the light and gradually disappeared into the distance.
At the same time.
In the video, Sun Enyou suddenly opens his eyes.
Everything was plunged into darkness, leaving only a few floating bubbles.
[God, I feel your grace!]
[So it wasn't just the young lady who woke up; Eun-woo ran off first?]
[Is Eun-woo the other half of the ritual? Representing the black squares on the chessboard?]
[Could this be considered a dual-soul entity?]
It should be one body, one soul. The essence of grace is blessing, it's just the outward manifestation of desire.
Why the two of them?
To be honest, based on the format of this ceremony, I thought it would be Lu Lu?
One black, one white; one body, two souls; good and evil—that is indeed the case.
[Ah Tan won't even include Lu Lu...]
"The chainsaw and the axe are gone." Xia Wujin walked out of the inner room, holding a toy gun in his hand, but inside was a talisman disguised as Xi Rui's. "I saw you when I woke up, so Enyou was here too? Where could he be?"
Xie Tan thought Sun Enyou wouldn't wake up today, but according to the comics, Sun Enyou might be the first person to wake up on the 29th, and he left after the leader and he arrived at the club building.
Where can he go?
“The swimming pool,” Xie Tan said.
Those bubbles... he was probably in the water. And in the group chat before the jump, Jinzhao mentioned that the swimming pool had been drained.
When Xie Tan arrived at the entrance of the swimming pool, he suddenly felt that the sky was similar to the first day he met Sun Enze—gloomy and oppressive.
He pushed open the door to the swimming pool.
The room was silent; the water was barely rippled.
The space was still permeated with an unusual blue hue, and it also had a watery chill.
Xie Tan suddenly had an idea. He told Xia Wujin to stay aside and walked step by step toward the pool.
As he stopped at the edge of the pool, a hand suddenly emerged from the water and grabbed his trouser leg.
Sun Enyou looked up in a flustered manner, met Xie Tan's eyes, but couldn't say a word. After a while, he said, "...I can't find him."
His bangs were soaked with water and stuck to his eyes. Xie Tan couldn't see his eyes clearly, but he could actually detect a hint of pleading.
Xie Tan looked at him, unsure how to respond.
What can I say? Sun Enze has become a spirit of the Ouija board? Since you're the guardian deity, why don't you hurry up and die in his place? In this way, the unknown ritual is completed.
Although the leader and deputy leader said that the ritual was left by Xiao Liu, her true intentions are one thing, and whether the cult will misinterpret and exploit it is another.
Xie Tan took a step back and said, "Come out."
Sun Enyou obediently went ashore, followed Xie Tan wet, and asked, "Is this where he met you?"
"yes."
Sun Enyou paused for a moment and said, "He asked you for help, and you responded to him...you saved him."
Xie Tan paused for a moment.
That's right, what he felt just now was a reenactment of the scene, but this time he wasn't completely unaware of anything.
"You're the one who saved him," Xie Tan said coldly. "I'm not his guardian angel."
It's useless to place your hopes on him; everything is a lie and illusion shaping their relationship. He has no ability to save anyone.
But Sun Enyou seemed not to hear him and said, "If you are willing to listen to my plea for help, I hope that my existence can help you without him... if there is still time."
Xia Wujin waited for them outside the door. Sun Enyou walked out of the swimming pool a step ahead of him, turned around, and wiped the wet hair in front of his eyes.
Those eyes were wet, whether from being soaked in the pool or from crying, Xie Tan was subconsciously rooted to the spot by that gaze—it was exactly the same look Sun Enze had given him when he looked up at the police station.
The water glistened in those eyes...like bubbles.
For a moment, he thought it was Sun Enze.
Wait a minute, Xie Tan suddenly realized that Sun Enze couldn't contact Sun Enyou not only because they were on different dates, but also because on the timeline he was before Sun Enyou, and by the time Sun Enyou appeared, he was already gone, so they couldn't share his vision.
After all, they are not the eyes of observation and do not have the ability to ignore the flow of time.
But if Sun Enyou appears during the carnival, will he see Sun Enze's experience?
Was that why he ran away first?
Xie Tan met his gaze and realized that he knew everything.
Suddenly, countless bubbles rose from the still pool, forming a dense array of incantations.
The eerie blue light enveloping the swimming pool was not a reflection of the water, but a magic circle in the water.
The swimming pool is locked.
Sun Enyou closed the door.
Xia Wujin snapped out of his surprise and calmed down: "This can't trap him."
“Of course, of course, so we need to move as fast as possible—” Sun Enyou’s back was to her, his mouth smiling, opening and closing, but no sound came out.
It was that thing talking to him again.
He pursed his lips, ending the silent conversation.
"Young Miss." Sun Enyou's hands were still resting on the door, his head was down, and water was dripping from all over his body. "I want to consult the spirit medium."
He received no response, and his hand slowly clenched. If he couldn't fool the young lady into agreeing, he would have no choice but to go find that... He looked up and suddenly froze.
He met Xia Wujin's gaze reflected in the iron gate, and she saw it all!
He couldn't possibly agree to that. He turned around abruptly, only to see Xia Wujin seemingly lost in thought, and surprisingly answered, "Okay."
Then, without waiting for his reaction, she took a step forward and saw that he was not leaving and was looking at him with a puzzled expression.
They were walking towards the student association building.
"...Doesn't Miss ask me what happened or why?" Sun Enyou thought. He had just locked Xie Tan in the swimming pool, and he felt that although Xie Tan wouldn't mind, she wouldn't have the patience to tell Xia Wujin what had happened in the past two days. Did Miss really know what it meant to use the Ouija board?
"I saw the 'messages' from the club president and Xiao Ai." Xia Wujin waved the toy gun her friend had made for her; she had already seen the talisman inside.
Sun Enze understood, because there was also a talisman tucked into the handle of his axe.
Chang Ming liked to take out the chainsaw, but he didn't use it much. He went into the inner room to leave a message for the people who came later.
However, judging from the text left to them, Chang Mingai only warned them to be careful of Xie Tan, and could not be sure what Xie Tan had done, so Xia Wujin did not know either.
And he already knew it from that mouth.
“Good child, it’s time for you to repay this kindness,” the mouth said.
"If you really conspired with him, then why did you trap him?" Sun Enyou asked underwater before Xie Tan and Xia Wujin arrived.
"He carries a curse, inheriting his mother's flaw. To others, it might be physical and mental torment, but I believe it's the 'beauty' he and his mother share. How can power derived from such an evil being be considered flawed?" the mouth said. "Her true flaw is her heart. If he inherits her soft-heartedness, I'll be very troubled. Those who leave a way out for others often don't find redemption. How can I allow anything that might shake him, causing him to fail at the last hurdle?"
He coaxed with a grin, "So, good boy, die for him."
"Isn't this what you wanted?"
...
"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."
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