Chapter 13: Blank Centuries
I got out of bed and turned on the light in my bedroom. When I came to the mirror, sure enough, the color of the [Chain of Green Ghosts] became darker than the day before yesterday, and it looked particularly strange under the reflection of the light, and the blue purple that covered the skin before gradually spread to both sides, and the color also changed from blue and purple to dark purple. While thinking about it, I found that the top of the [Chain of Green Ghosts] was actually wet, was it my sweat? As I spoke, I stretched out my hand and wiped it, and I was surprised to find that it was actually blood. Could it be that when I was asleep, the [Chain of Green Ghosts] sucked my blood? No, is it alive? I took off the [Chain of Green Ghosts] and put it aside, carefully observing whether there was a wound on my neck, but after looking around, I didn't find any skin trauma, where did the blood come from?
At this time, I suddenly felt a tingling pain in my hand, I looked down and saw that the [Witch's Ring] actually emitted a red light, and the ring was indeed dark purple, just like the skin on the neck, and there were blood stains around the ring, seeing this, I raised my hand to try to see through the light to see if there were any scars on the skin under the ring. As the light shone on, I found that there were many places under the ring that were bleeding outward, as if it had been burned by the sun, but the strange thing was that even though the wound was bleeding, the blood did not drip down, but was absorbed by the ring at a speed visible to the naked eye, and as the more blood was absorbed, the ring became more and more red, and the skin around the finger became more and more purple, and the burning sensation became more and more intense.
I was stunned by what I was witnessing in front of me, and at the same time, I was terrified that the [Chain of Green Ghosts] and the [Witch's Ring] were absorbing my blood and consuming my life at the same time. So if one day my blood is absorbed and dried up, and my whole body is dark purple, what will I become, I will definitely not die, will I become the evil self in my dreams? Why did I create such an evil thing in the first place?
The next day, my mother went to work as usual, and when she left, she told me to come back early if I went out at night, and I nodded my head in agreement. Now that I was left at home, I turned on the TV to see if the news continued to report on the missing child's developments. I remember Mu Zichen telling me last night that he would release those children. After turning on the TV, I found a replay of last night's news, but the news did not mention the progress of the missing children, that is, the missing children have not gone back, is Mu Zichen lying to me! If that's the case, I plan to go to the Long March community again in the evening to see if I can meet Mu Zichen again.
After turning off the TV, I took out a piece of paper and planned to organize and write down the information I knew, and maybe I would make a new discovery. I'll be sure to go back to that house on the hill in a few days and ask Kazui in person!
I wrote down on the paper what He Yi told me about his experience, my experience, what I saw and what I dreamed about at my father's house, the first time I had murderous intent, I met Mu Zichen, and finally what I dreamed about last night. In these contents, I circled what I thought was the main point, so the paper now has the following contents: Heyi, Dragon, Dragon and [Chain of Green Ghosts], Inhibition, Confession, Me, Creation, Green Ghosts, Vampire Ancestors, [Chain of Green Ghosts], [Witch's Ring], Strength, Kindness, Killing Intent, Blue Purple, Skin, Devouring, Mu Zichen, Soul, Evil, Blood, Burns, Absorption. Other words.....
After lunch, I lay on the bed and looked at the keywords I had sorted out, and I felt more and more uneasy in my heart, blank for hundreds of years, and I would look the same in hundreds of years, was all this fate or a conspiracy that had been planned for a long time, and what was the purpose? Before I knew it, I fell asleep, and as I expected, the dream struck again. But unlike ever, this time I dreamed of myself five years ago. Five years ago, I was an ignorant girl, like ordinary children, who went to school and played every day, without any worries, and was full of curiosity about the world. A lot of things can be changed in five years, even if I am still a child from age, but I have experienced more things, and I have become mature, not that the thinking of adults must be mature, and the thinking of children must be naïve and simple, but the things experienced are different, and the perspective of seeing things is also different, so in fact, everyone is right.
I saw myself five years ago, waving at me, and I walked over and found that she was asking me to play with her. I saw a disc on the table in front of me, and on the disc were the same person, only with different expressions, but with only two expressions, sad and cheerful. That's when I said, "Let's play the turntable together." I said, "Okay, how do you play?" "It's just that I turn around, you turn around again, and see if it's more sad or HAPPYEND in the end." "Okay." I said.
At the beginning of the game, I used to spin around, only to see the disc stop in a sad pattern after a circle. I saw that her expression was visibly lost, but then, as if she had become accustomed to it, the expression of loss was swept away. The next thing I did was spin, and after the disc had turned around and still stopped in front of me, there was a sad pattern. Then I was who I was, then I was, and then I was.....
We have been playing with this disc in the dream, but we have not turned to HAPPYEND once, but it is all sad patterns. At the end of the game, the result is still the same "sadness"! I saw that I used to hide my face and start crying, I comforted: "It's okay, it's just a game, there's no need to cry, you see I've always been a sad pattern, which means that we have a draw, no one has won, and the next time I play, there will definitely be HAPPYEND." After saying that, I looked up and my eyes were full of tears. I looked at her quietly, and after a while she said, "There is no next time, and you are also sad, because we are one, you are me, and I am you, and the end is already destined to be a tragedy." I suddenly felt something and asked, "What is this turntable called?" I used to say: "Wheel of Fortune"!
Suddenly I woke up, drenched in sweat as always. That dream.... Is it an omen? The Wheel of Fortune? I gasped for air, things kept going for the worst, couldn't it really get better? At this time, I suddenly thought of "He Yi has repeatedly emphasized to me, to be kind", when he said this, his expression was so sad, did he know what I would go through? He Yi must know the seriousness of the matter, otherwise he wouldn't have shown such a sad expression, since he knew that these things would happen if I brought the [Blue Ghost Chain], why did he give it to me in the first place? I didn't dare to think about it anymore, so I took a deep breath, turned around and got out of bed, turned on the TV and tried to distract myself, I would really go crazy if I continued like this.