Chapter 36: The Well of the Soul
The aroma became thicker and fatter, pulling my body out of my control, and I involuntarily walked towards the well. The well was pitch black, and you could faintly see the ripples of brilliance, like the white scales of a fish's belly, flashing through the darkness.
I wanted to speak, but I couldn't make any sound, and an undercurrent of unfathomable darkness surged as if to invite me somehow. I felt that I should wake up, from the unknown, from the absurd, but a terrifying force forced me to look down at the deep well, and I instinctively feared, instinctively wanted to escape, but to no avail.
"Zhao Youyi, is that you?" As I struggled mentally, the water in the dark well gathered and took on colors at some point, and under the filter of ripples, the picture of some folds gradually became clear. I saw Zhao Youyi, yes, the person in the well is myself, younger, younger, they are like slides playing rapidly, distant and unfamiliar.
I was alive then, and I was once high-spirited, freshly dressed, blindly and surely, believing that death was too far away from me, and enjoying my splendid youth without any payment. At the other end of the deep well, I saw myself as a toddler, a short trip with my girlfriend after the college entrance examination, a smile and a photo with my best friend on the day I graduated from college, and then drank and talked until late at night - these are the moments I can never go back to, and I can even say that I will never be able to go back. I miss those days of peace and quiet, even if it was disappointment and disappointment, but somehow, the desire to live is stronger than ever, as if I was able to embrace the flowery life of the past again.
I felt something break free in my body, an invisible and savage force coming out of it, trying to escape from my body, falling eagerly into the well like a waterfall. Through the pain of being pulled away and torn, I could only hold the wellhead with both hands to prevent myself from falling without warning.
Am I going to die again? I recall the moment of my last death, the brief and intense pain and the afterlife, and then the thought is magnified infinitely, more and more clear and real. It was no longer frightening to me, but a long period of emptiness, helplessness, and loss, and I could only passively wait for everything to peel off from me again and flow back into the well.
Just when my pain was about to reach its limit, those invisible forces seemed to be under some kind of resistance, unable to continue falling, and could not help but tear again, so they had to retract back into my body. They bounced back like marbles controlled by rubber bands, and a loss of speech hit my body—and it was because of the pain that I woke up from my unconsciousness.
In a blur of vision, I saw a pair of slender white hands rubbing against my chest, faintly fluorescent through the candle flame. I endured the severe pain in my body, grabbed her wrist hard, and sat up with my other hand on the bed. It's like walking through the ghost gate and returning to the world, I feel disgusted by the sweet and cloudy aroma in the house at this time, and I can only gasp for breath anxiously.
Ayu took off her gloves at some point, and she was in a hurry to withdraw her hand, but I didn't know where I got the strength to clamp her with my right hand. In the flickering candlelight, I could see that she was wearing a sparkling ring on her index finger, and the silver setting was set with gemstones. This is the ring that Guan Linlin has been wearing.
Could it be - I was mistaken for a while, but Ayu broke free from the restraint, and when I tried to hold her hand again, she deftly dodged it. When I got closer, she had overturned the stool and stepped back, half a meter away from me.
"Ayu, no, what should I call you, call you Guan Linlin?" In an instant, too many questions flooded into my mind, and I had to intermittently state my guess first, "Or rather, I should call you Guan Linlin's corpse." ”
Combined with the talismans, formations, and the ring in front of me found in the abandoned factory, I have reason to believe that the female ghost who attacked me and Li Lu that night was possessing Guan Linlin's corpse at this moment, doing a manicure for me, and almost killing me.
The woman didn't reply to me directly, just slowly took off her sunglasses and mask, and then looked up and stared at me faintly. Behind the secret is indeed Guan Linlin's face, she is still beautiful, although there is no breath, but it is more beautiful than when she was arrogant or scratching her head in her life. Her skin was terrifyingly white, and her two delicate lips had a beautiful heartfelt affection, but she could no longer say those sweet words. At this moment, she is less like a corpse, but more like a delicate puppet.
"If you hadn't known her, I wouldn't have had to wear these things to hide the beauty of this body," the low female voice was gone, replaced by a high-pitched voice that I had learned when I was in the abandoned factory. "Who made me only use a body for three months, what can I do, do you say yes? Under the attachment of the female ghost, Guan Linlin's corpse gradually took on the appearance of a living person, she stroked her face with her hand, but her eyes were resentful and vicious.
"So you recognized me as soon as I came in?" I thought I hadn't seen her and she hadn't seen me last time.
"Hiss-your taste, the sweet taste of the Heavenly Master, how could I forget-" When she mentioned me, she deliberately stuck out her tongue and licked her fingers, her eyes were red, and she looked very greedy. As a celestial master, he was evaluated as sweet by evil ghosts, and he didn't know whether he should be happy or not. "But I didn't expect that not only did you have no essence to suck, but you could also escape the soul well—your soul is gone—"
Although I didn't know what kind of trick the well in her mouth was, I still felt palpitations when I thought of the hallucinations and the intense pain that could be felt just now. If I had been ingested by that well, I guess I wouldn't be able to stand here now.
"You evil ghost, you harm people's lives, take people's bones...... and try to eat me in vain - today we must follow the right path of our Heavenly Master and arrest him." I pulled out a stack of yellow talismans in my pocket, pulled out one of them, and began, "...... This kind of hurtful nature and reason, and he is not obediently restrained. ”
"As far as your ability is concerned, it's not like I haven't seen it", the female ghost took advantage of Guan Linlin's face to show a mocking look, the fingers of both hands were bent and raised, and a cloud of green smoke gradually appeared from between her fingers. As she moved, a strong wind blew out of thin air in the room, the candles flickered, and the bottles and cans on the table clanged.
"Hey-", my business level has also improved recently, besides, although I didn't detain you last time, I also injured you, so I really don't remember to eat. I pinched the mantra and pinched the yellow talisman to hit Guan Linlin, but I didn't expect the green light in her hand to flash, and she easily tore the talisman into pieces. Immediately, the foul-smelling smoke rushed straight at me, and I couldn't dodge it, so I took a hard shot.
Holding myself on to my crumbling body, I resisted the intense dizziness and threw out another talisman.
Three or five pieces down, yellow talisman fragments are everywhere, and I don't seem to have found the most suitable one. Ancestor bless, although I was fortunate enough to avoid the female ghost's subsequent spell damage, but if this continues, I will definitely have to die again. Looking at Guan Linlin, who was getting closer and closer, the smoke in her hand twisted and swirled into a cyan python, hissing and spitting letters at me.
The last talisman must be right.
I pinched the only precious rune left in my hand, and with a desperate determination, I pinched the trick and recited the spell.
"The Combatants are in front—"