Chapter 176: The Rotten Wood of the Nine Dead Wasteland

Chen Tao really didn't figure out the current situation of Anubis High School, so he directly responded to Tianyu's appointment and took Liye to the rooftop of the teaching building.

As soon as he went up to the rooftop, before he could say a word, Chen Tao felt a sharp pain in the back of his head, and then fainted.

Tianyu walked over, took out the hemp rope in the bag, tied Chen Tao firmly, and broke his legs and arms for the sake of insurance.

"Why don't you just kill it?" At this time, Tachino's eyes also turned a strange scarlet.

"Once Chen Tao is killed, Yechen's mission is complete, and now we haven't even found her residence. ”

"That's right." Tachino nodded, indicating that he understood.

After dealing with Chen Tao and making sure that he didn't have any ability to resist, Tianyu said: "This person will be handed over to you, I will mobilize the remaining students in the school to go out to search Ye Chen's whereabouts, and when we find Ye Chen, we will kill him immediately." ”

At this time, Yechen was still hiding in a rented house, chatting with the members of the school committee about the school situation through the Internet. In order to conceal his whereabouts as much as possible, Yechen never went out after moving in. The reason why the mandatory requirement of "not leaving Anubis High School for 24 hours" was not violated was mainly due to the excellent location of this neighborhood.

This neighborhood is some distance away from Anubis High School, but it is counted as part of Anubis High School, which Yechen learned from a trialist. Later, she also checked the information, and at the beginning, this community was also bought by the founder of Anubis High School, and the plan was to build several teachers' apartments. As a result, the demolition issue was not resolved, and the construction of the apartment was put on hold indefinitely, but in the documents, the neighborhood was part of Anubis High School. So living here will not be considered to have left Anubis High School.

In order to reduce the risk of leaking his whereabouts as much as possible, Yechen has eaten all the dry food he had stored here in the past few days. Thick curtains are drawn all day long, and you can't see the inside from the outside. Although this house was rented by Yechen very early, no one moved in, and Yechen couldn't find someone to live here, so the house was always empty. In order to prevent anyone from detecting the traces of human activity in this empty house through water and electricity, she didn't even dare to use the gas, the faucet, and even the electricity used by the computer was a wire that she had secretly connected from the next room before. Yechen has lived here for more than ten days, and not a single number on the water and electricity meter has jumped.

With such a careful arrangement, it was difficult for Mu Xi and them to investigate Yechen's specific address. But because of this, Yechen has almost cut off all contact with the outside world, and she can only get information from the members of the school's school committee through the Internet. Yechen has a guess that among the members of the school committee who contacted her, there are definitely hidden ghosts, and maybe there are undercover agents arranged by Chen Tao, but she believes that through the cross-comparison of various information, she can still get a more authentic report.

It's not like the members of the school committee are all ghosts!

In fact, Yechen's speculation is still too conservative, and now, all the students in the entire Anubis High School have been scattered and investigated from house to house, just to find out Yechen's whereabouts.

Thousands of people have been investigating day and night, and no matter how good the covert means are, they are useless. On the 4th of January, Tianyu knocked on the door of Yechen's residence.

Bang bang, Tianyu slapped on the blastproof iron door, and the sound reached Yechen's ears, her hand shook, and she almost threw the mouse off the table.

The worst happened, Yechen didn't know what went wrong, but the truth was that even with such careful concealment, she was still found.

To be found means to die.

Yechen froze there, not daring to move.

The single ghost Yechen didn't care, but it was certain that at this time, those ghosts wouldn't play anything alone, and a group of ghosts rushed over, and they didn't have any chance of winning at all.

Holding on to the last hope, Yechen looked at the task panel again, the target trainer was still alone, and Chen Tao was still alive now.

I've come to the ...... Wall? Ye Chen asked in his heart. No! There is no dead end in this world, Yechen forced himself to calm down, as long as it is not the last moment, everything is possible, and he must not give up lightly.

Yechen didn't open the door, and there was no squeak, just waiting, wanting to see what the other party would do next.

After patting the door for a while, there was no movement inside, and Tianyu shouted: "Sister Chen, open the door, it's me!" ”

Oh my God! Yechen's eyes widened, she thought it was Mu Xi, or Liye, but she didn't expect that it was Tianyu who tracked down her.

It's all up to this, and it would be self-deception to be an ostrich again, Yechen walked over, opened the wooden door, and looked at Tianyu through the iron fence of the explosion-proof door, and said with a complicated expression: "I didn't expect it to be you." ”

Tianyu smiled and said, "I didn't expect me to be a ghost? ”

Yechen nodded.

Tianyu explained: "The biggest characteristic of ghosts that distinguish them from other soul bodies is not how vicious they are or how hateful they are, but how powerful they are obsessed. If you have a strong obsession, you may become a ghost. ”

Yechen thought for a while and said, "Your obsession is Qingqing's death?" ”

Tianyu nodded and said, "Yes, I'm obsessed with what Qingqing died for. ”

Yechen said: "Regarding the real cause of Qingqing's death, you have investigated for more than two years, what's the matter, have you gained anything?" ”

Tianyu didn't hide it, and said directly: "According to the information you gave me, it was Chen Tao who forced Qingqing to death, but from Liye, I heard a different version, and the culprit is you." ”

Yechen asked, "Then which version do you believe?" ”

Tianyu said: "Combining these two versions, plus other information I found, it is basically certain that Qingqing died in the power struggle between you and Chen Tao, and you are all murderers!" ”

Qingqing is an important founder of the school committee, and Liye is the key cultivation object of the student association, and the love between the two made Yechen and Chen Tao see an opportunity. Although there was no exact covenant, and they didn't even meet at all, and a message was transmitted, the two did push the matter forward together, causing a lot of trouble, and finally forced Lino away and Qingqing to death.

Yechen was silent for a while, and said, "What's the use of talking about this now? ”

"Useless?" Tianyu looked at Yechen mockingly and said, "I want to avenge Qingqing!" As he spoke, Tianyu took out a pistol, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at Yechen.

Seeing that Tianyu took out a gun, Yechen hurriedly wanted to close the door, but it was too late.

There was a bang, and Yechen couldn't believe it, and the corpse fell to the ground with a hint of self-deprecation on his face. A very important reason why she chose Tianyu to deal with Chen Tao is that Tianyun's family is a police family, and she can easily get a firearm that poses a great threat to ordinary people, as long as she targets Chen Tao for revenge, it will be difficult for him to escape. Unexpectedly, it was himself who was shot in the end.

Killing Yechen and helping Qingqing avenge her, Tianyu suddenly lost her strength, she felt a strong sense of exhaustion, but her heart was full of joy. Yechen died, avenged Qingqing, and finally liberated.

At the last moment when he was about to disappear, Tianyu took out his mobile phone and saw a message on it that he had just received a few minutes ago: Chen Tao had been killed.

Well, that's good! Tianyu smiled, and the figure gradually became illusory.

There was a dead silence.

After more than ten minutes, in the living room of the house rented by Yechen, a door of light casting slowly emerged, a girl who was extremely similar to Yechen, but with a pale face and a serious illness that had not healed, walked out of the bedroom, staggered into the door of light casting, and returned to the seventh space.

……

"Are you ......" returned to the seventh space, lying on the bed in the bedroom of the private room, Yechen looked at the sick girl in front of her in surprise, and asked curiously, "Are you...... New soul shards? On the side, Han Shui also looked curiously at the new companion.

The sick girl coughed lightly and said, "Yes, my name is Rotten Wood, and I am a soul fragment that has just awakened. ”

Yechen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thanks to your ......"

Being able to pass the advanced quest is indeed thanks to the rotten wood.

With each rank promoted, Yechen will awaken a soul fragment. At that time, it was Chen Tao who died first, and Yechen was shot by Tianyu. After Chen Tao's death, Yechen had actually completed the advanced task, but he didn't have time to return to the seventh space, the second soul fragment, the rotten wood awakened, and was directly "normalized" by the seventh space into a girl. So even if Yechen was shot and killed by Tianyu, as long as the rotten wood was still alive, she, as a trialist, would not be considered dead. Eventually, the rotten wood returned to the seventh space through the Gate of Light Forging, and Yechen completed the advanced task.

Yechen rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Let me think about how you appeared." ”

Kuchiki reminded, "On your twelfth birthday......"

With the reminder of the rotten wood, Yechen awakened that memory.

Twelve-year-old Yechen still has to suffer from hunger, but she has learned to find food by herself, so that she will no longer be confused, and a fierce man will plunge into the water.

Behind the orphanage is a wooded area. There were small animals in it, but with Yechen's physique at the time, she couldn't catch any prey, and no one taught her to set traps. You can't catch the prey, but you still have no problem picking it. In autumn, the large berries in the woodland are Yechen's favorite, sweet and sour, especially delicious; In the winter, she would dig up some edible roots, which were well cooked, and although they were very firewood, they could still be eaten if they were a little rotten cooked, and they tasted a little like potatoes; Spring is miserable, there is nothing to eat, I can only find some young leaves to fill in the stomach, but the nutrients in the leaves are too little, and I am not hungry at all.

In the summer of that year, Yechen came to the woodland as usual. It had just rained, and she was targeting fungi this time. Mushrooms are highly nutritious and are a favorite of the night in addition to berries, and they are much tastier than those hard-to-chew roots, not to mention the young leaves in spring.

Yechen held a small cloth bag and hummed a song picking all kinds of mushrooms. She was "lucky" that day, and found a large patch of rotten wood deep in the woodland, and the dead trunk was a good breeding ground for fungi. Yechen screamed excitedly and picked happily.

Caught in ecstasy, Yechen didn't notice that the spores produced by the mushrooms invaded her body with her breath.

After a few days of enjoying a mushroom soup, Yechen fell ill with cough and a dull pain in his lungs, which was getting worse and worse. There was a child who was sick, and the orphanage could no longer ignore it, and as a result, the doctor who came in frowned, and according to his diagnosis, it was a fungal infection of the lungs.

Modern medicine, because of the existence of antibiotics, has better treatment methods for diseases caused by bacteria. But for viruses that are smaller than bacteria, and for fungi that are more viable than bacteria, modern medicine has little to do. Even if there is a special medicine, its high price is not something that Yechen can afford.

A fungal infection in her lungs was a terminal illness for Yechen at that time, and no one cared about her, so she was kicked out of the orphanage in order to prevent it from infecting others. She staggered into the depths of the woods, and when she reached the land of rotten wood, she could not hold it anymore, and fell to the ground, tormented in agony, and finally, on her twelfth birthday, curled up and died on a rotten tree.

That death caused Yechen's soul to split again, splitting into a soul fragment, which was Rotten Wood.

After that, Yechen was resurrected again, and this memory was sealed in the depths of his soul. She returned to the orphanage from memory, and the staff and children seemed to have forgotten about it, so she was able to continue living there.

Now, the seal was lifted, remembering how he had died, and Yechen couldn't help but close his eyes.

It took a while for her to calm down.

It's not a good memory, she said in her heart, pretending to be light-hearted.

Ye Chen gestured, and the rotten wood turned into a ray of light and flew into the bracelet she was carrying on her left wrist. Right next to the blue beads that represented the cold water, one bead turned brown, the color of rotten wood.

In the spirit world, on the opposite side of the cold water pool, a withered woodland appeared, and colorful mushrooms grew happily on the rotten wood.

Yechen sat on the bed and rested for a while, when there was a knock on the door, and the butler elf Fei Feifei walked in and said softly, "Master, dinner has been prepared." ”

"Come in." Yechen commanded.

It's not that Yechen is too lazy to even walk from the bedroom to the living room, but because she is injured again. In the advanced mission, Hanshui was killed, that was actually okay, after all, it was a soul fragment, the key was that at the last moment, Yechen himself was shot by Tianyu, which meant that the main soul was hit hard, and it was all because of the soul fragment rotten wood hanging this life, so he was forced to return to the seventh space.

The damage to her soul has made Yechen in a weakened state again, and what she is most worried about now is what to do with her next mission?

Now I can only hope that the next task is not too difficult, and it is best not to be a survival task that the trialist directly opposes, otherwise the probability of surviving is too low.

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