Chapter 5

In the photo, there is no scenery, no childhood, no parents, only two terrible ghost fires burning there! So real, it seems to be gushing out of the photo. No one will be more familiar with it than I am, I have seen it countless times in the mirror in the dark night, my eyes.

Who will it be? What did you shoot this with? I jerked back, my body shaking.

"It can't be...... It is impossible for a human camera to leave this picture...... The world of solitary spirits has always been a secret to humans, a secret guarded by all spirit tamers and solitary spirits, and if the secret is leaked, it will be executed...... Who left this ......," An Yin said nervously, staring at the photo.

"Destroy it! Destroy it! Destroy it! ”

I'm repeating these three words like crazy, and I have to destroy it! My hands were shaking violently, every cell in my body was trembling, I was afraid, I wanted to hide and not continue this horrible night. But my body no longer seemed to be under the control of my consciousness, and I picked up the picture again, and for the first time, I activated the destructive power that a spirit trainer possessed.

I heard a loud bang! I felt the frames in my hands shatter, and from the center of this frame, this photograph, burst a force to shatter them, as if someone was giving them an invisible and irresistible command, and they had to obey unconditionally, and end themselves in the most tragic way. Immediately after, everything else around me began to shatter, the bed, the table, the lamp, the window, and the innocent-looking teddy bear...... Everything around me was rapidly shattering into invisible powder, and everything here, including all memories of this place, was shattering like crazy. I saw a little girl crying in this crazy explosion, she wanted to pick up the teddy bear on the bed, she wanted to sit on that little chair, she wanted to lie down on that little bed...... But she could only watch everything disappear, disappear forever, and eventually disappear along with her. I reached out to keep the girl, but I didn't want to cause more destruction. If I continue like this, I will destroy the whole house, and even the whole city.

I looked at the little girl in a daze, and it seemed that at some point I had become the little girl crying and despairing. My tears surged uncontrollably across my face, mercilessly engulfed by a choppy sadness.

"Calm down! Don't be afraid! It was An Yin's voice.

I turned to look for him, but I couldn't see anything, just felt the world spinning, everything around me slowly melting into the darkness, as if a huge wave was coming towards me, engulfing me whole. A powerful force pressed against my chest, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, I reached out to grab something, but I couldn't grasp anything, like stepping into the air and falling into the deepest cliff, the only thing I could do was to wait for death!

I gave up struggling and waited in despair.

Is there light?

How can I see the light?

One hand...... Whose hand is it? It reached out to me, as if to take me away from this eternal darkness...... It is large and generous, and it looks warm and powerful...... Who will it be? Are you here to take me away?

Vaguely, I seemed to see the owner of this hand smiling at me, this smile melted into a piece of sunshine, I couldn't see clearly, I couldn't catch it, but I felt very warm.

I raised my hand and placed it in the palm of its hand. That hand held my hand with great tenderness, and with just a slight force, the feeling of pressure around me quickly faded. This hand, so warm and familiar, must have come from someone closest to me.

Who is it? Is it Mom or Dad? Or is it a hidden place? It doesn't seem to be a ...... Who the hell is it?

I was pulled up by that hand and stepped back onto land. It was the first time I fell in love with this land so much, and stepping on it gave me a sense of steadiness and stability that I had never felt before. I opened my eyes and looked around, and in front of me it was Qi Yan. One of his hands held mine, the other hand opened and developed a faint fluorescence, his eyes were no longer pure black in the daytime, but silver, so pure silver, I was scared and fascinated. He looked at me with a smile, and in spite of those terrible eyes, he could still feel a distant and intimate tenderness. Everything in the room was back to normal, except for the picture in the frame, which was gone, as if it had never been there, standing quietly at the head of the bed. The moonlight poured down, and the room was hazy and quiet, like a dream.

This scene seems to have happened once, a long, long time ago, or far, far into the future. I suddenly wanted to hug him.

"Are you alright?" An Yin's voice sounded behind me.

I turned around, he was standing behind me looking at me, I felt an inexplicable sadness in him, I even felt tears on his face. I immediately felt sad.

I shook my head and asked, "What the hell was going on?" ”

"It's the fluctuation of spiritual power before awakening, don't be afraid, it's okay, every soul tamer will experience it." Qi Yan gently patted me on the shoulder and explained. At this time, his pupils had returned to their daytime appearance, and the fluorescence in his hands had gradually dissipated.

"What about you? How did you end up here? Who are you? I couldn't help but back away, trying to get away from him, looking at him alertly.

Qi Yan smiled quietly and said, "You don't have to be so wary of me, every soul trainer's adulthood needs a judge, I am ordered by the Lord to complete your adulthood and test whether you are qualified." I'll leave once I'm done, and I won't stay if you ask me. ”

"What does it mean to pass the test?" An Yin asked.

"Some spirit trainers have to be executed because they can't control their powers, they can cause harm to the human world, and they will reveal the existence of lone spirits and spirit tamers. My task is to determine whether your master, Meng Yishi, is safe," he said with a smile, "Don't be nervous, if she is safe, I will naturally not touch her in the slightest." ”

"That picture...... Why ......" I asked, looking at where the frame had been before.

I could feel a flash of anger in Qi Yan's eyes at that moment, but it quickly reverted to those smiling eyes, so quickly that I even suspected that what I had just seen was just an illusion.

"Maybe it's a prank by some boring person, I've disposed of that picture, it doesn't exist anymore, so it never existed. You've forgotten about it. ”

Who could have been so bored as to come up with such a terrible joke?

My heart fluttered and I looked at An Yin, but I didn't speak.

The three of us stood in silence in this small room, each with our own thoughts, and the sound of the clock ticking in the living room was maddening.

"It's coming." Qi Yan said, still smiling lazily.

I could feel a strange qualitative change taking place in my body, as if something was growing rapidly in my body, and was about to break through my body and burst out. I remembered the frame that had just been shattered in my hand, and I felt like I was about to tear apart, just like that frame. I felt a fire burning in my eyes, and it burned more and more, almost setting my whole body on fire. Some strange images flashed in my mind, from a long, long time ago, to the far, far future, with a woman's slender hands, a flying gown, a reflective watch, a falling stone, and a gushing blood...... The pictures were confused, the sounds were mixed, and for that moment I seemed to see nothing, hear nothing, but mechanically let those images intertwine and collide in my mind, and finally disappeared into darkness, eternal darkness.

Suddenly, the whole world was silent, as if I was the only one left. I could hear my own heart beating, breathing, even the sound of blood flowing, and the power was surging in between. Suddenly, I felt like I had been pulled back into the real world by someone, but this world was different from what it used to be. I closed my eyes and heard the sound of grass growing, the sound of running water in the distance, and the clock at zero o'clock in the city center. By hearing alone, I can pinpoint the exact location of everything in the room. When I opened my eyes, the world became so clear, so clear that it was unreal, that my second vision could stretch far, far away, and I could see the tiniest things. All the secrets, no matter how deep they are hidden, are just a piece of cellophane in my eyes, and they can be broken at the touch of a poke.

I know, I'm an adult.