Chapter 15: Skinning
I don't remember what happened to me when I lost my mind, and by the time I woke up again, I was stripped naked and soaked in a deep pool.
The water in the pool is black and cold, although I have been solved the acupoint, but it has also been cold to the ice sculpture unable to move and unable to make a sound, only the head is exposed to the water.
The deep pool is located in a large stone cave formed naturally, and the stone cave outside the deep pool is covered with spiky stalagmites, and the green liquid that constantly seeps out on the tips of the bamboo shoots emits green fluorescence.
I couldn't see the old woman as far as I could see.
The thin emerald snake that had wrapped around her wrist was directly in front of me beyond the deep pool, coiled around the stalagmite, and kept spitting snake letters at me.
Where is this?
How can I help myself?
When I came to my senses again, I suddenly made a slight gurgling sound and rippled in the deep pool, as if someone had thrown a small pebble into the pool, breaking the calm of the pool.
The emerald green snake raised its head even higher, no longer swallowing its snake letters, and then as it meandered away from its place, the ripples in the pool became faster in vain.
The entire waterhole seemed to come to life in an instant, and the ripples spread outward in a circle.
I followed a buzzing sound in my head, as if someone had whipped me in the head, and I couldn't recover for a while.
When I came back to my senses a little, scenes slowly appeared on the surface of the dark pool.
Those scenes were as vague as a dream, but they made me feel like I was bewitched and immersed in them, and I began to soar uncontrollably.
The ever-changing scenes are a collection of the gloomy experiences I had from the time I had memories to the time I was thrown into the sea.
The scene doesn't stop after I'm thrown into the ocean, and the last scene is a kneeling figure sitting in the depths of the sea.
Even though everything was like a layer of mist, I recognized it at a glance as I grew up.
When I grew up, I knelt and sat with my hands hanging down like a stone statue, my soaked dark black suit wrapped around my body with a heavy gloomy feeling, my long hair was wet and sticky to my neck, lining the skin around my neck, pale and bloodless, with a kind of gray with a dead air.
Large patches of blood spread from my chest and waist, as if they were endless, staining the sea around me red.
As the scene came to the end, my heart shook, and a fierce spirit broke out of the misty scene.
I kept my eyes open for a long time before the buzzing in my head gradually dissipated, and the sound of heavy and rapid breathing was faintly heard.
By the time I realized that the sound of breathing that had awakened me from a nightmare came from me, the dark pool was as calm as a mirror, and all the scenes had disappeared.
"Strange, how could it not have worked?!" the old woman's voice, clearly annoyed, came from behind me at this time.
I woke up instantly, and the old woman swam right behind me in front of me.
She didn't care about it, her eyes were gloomy and her face was displeased, and the cold of the pool seemed to have no effect on her.
"What do you want?" I could make a sound, but my body still couldn't move.
"What did you just see?!" the old woman skipped my question, pinched my chin, and brought her old face close to the tip of my nose, her eyes fixed on mine.
"Your mouth stinks. The smell from her mouth was worse than the smell of a corpse, and I couldn't help but hold my breath.
"......" she was stunned.
"Really. I'll make sure shortly.
A hint of embarrassment flashed in her eyes, and she let go of my jaw and swam to the shore of the waterhole as far away from me as she could, and then asked me what I had just seen.
I still didn't answer her question, and asked her to tell me first what she was trying to do with me captive here.
She smiled darkly, and the answer she gave was to change her skin.
She was in the twilight of her life, and she wanted to find a young body to continue living.
She's been looking for a new body lately, and she's drawn to the smell of the Shaded Corpse as she passes through villages and towns.
So she followed the smell and went into the store, but she didn't expect to see me.
To put it simply, if she wants to change her skin successfully, in addition to using the pool itself here, she must continue to induce the anger of the person who has been changed as much as possible.
And I, even though I was asleep, was surrounded by anger, and I was a natural skin-changer.
Moreover, I have already passed the second line of Rendu at a young age, so for her, it is naturally even more impossible to miss it.
So, she brought me here.
"What happens when I get a skin? I'm an old woman?" I asked, trying to move my body but not moving.
"You're thinking too much. After a successful skin change, both you and the old woman will die physically. She laughed out loud and cocked the orchid finger to pluck the red flower at the back of her head.
She gave another answer and asked me what I had seen before, wondering how my anger could suddenly collapse at the critical moment.
I couldn't help but think of the last scene I saw in the illusion, kneeling in the depths of the sea, yes, dead?
Did he kill or kill himself?
Was it foresight or how?
"You think I'm going to answer your question now? You're funny. I quickly collected my excess emotions and sneered softly.
"If you're not the best choice for changing skins, I really like you to be my apprentice......" She was not only not the slightest annoyed, but more pleasant, feeling that I was evil and evil at a young age, and it was simply demonic possession, a category she had never seen.
"Master!" I interrupted her.
"......" she raised her eyebrows slightly in surprise, and then couldn't help but be happy, "It's a pity, it's late." ”
"It's not too late. Master, I will do my best to help you find a better body as soon as possible. "I have no other way to protect myself than to try to protect myself by lip service.
She then abruptly stopped laughing, stared at me coldly for a few seconds, lowered her eyelids, and then slowly turned the red flower in her hand to fall silent.
Got a play?
Seeing her reaction, I continued, screaming one by one, sure that she would definitely find a better body, count the advantages of herself, and say that I would definitely be loyal to her in the future.
But before I could finish speaking, and before she could raise her eyelids again, the sound of the stone wall collapsing came from the right behind me.
She immediately raised her eyelids to follow the voice, then narrowed her eyes and threw the red flower in her hand at the same time.
The red flower came straight at me.
My eyes were suddenly blood-red and I couldn't see anything around me clearly, and if my ankle was pulled by someone strongly, my body quickly fell straight to the bottom of the pool.