162 Running Water and Questioning
His brain was groggy, the faint sound of water wafting into his ears, and the ubiquitous feeling of wetness also made the sleeping Charles feel uncomfortable. Vertex Says X 23 U OM
"Water...... I'm by the river? β
"Why the riverside?"
Scattered thoughts turned subconsciously, but he always felt that something was wrong.
"That's not right...... Wrong! A spirit, Charles suddenly opened his eyes.
Pitch-black hair fluttered in front of him, and the deep and quiet water in front of him made people look in a trance.
Turning his head to look around, the sluggish sense of obstruction made him move slowly, but what was even more amazing was the environment he was in at this time!
Up and down, left and right, all surrounded by water, faint, with a little bit of cyan water!
It was as if he had suddenly fallen into a lake and was drowning in water, but strangely enough, he could still breathe!?
Charles was stunned by what he encountered, but after a long pause, he hurriedly looked down at himself.
"That's right, I just ......"
A faint golden light appeared on the surface of his body, reflecting the flowing water around him, which also proved his state at this time. This made Charles a little abrupt, and his spirit state naturally did not need to breathe.
It's just that he didn't think much about this kind of small problem, but was bothered by another question, and right now, he couldn't even see his "attribute bar"?
"What happened?"
Charles was stunned.
He clearly remembered that he was in the place where he was promoted, but suddenly an unknown energy appeared, and after that, he passed out.
How did you get to such an inexplicable place right now?
What happened after the coma?
Unbeknownst to Charles, he scanned his surroundings except that water was water, and when he looked up overhead, he didn't see the slightest trace of the presence of water.
It's like a world made of water.
An inexplicable light shone on the world, not darkening the sight and allowing Charles to see his surroundings clearly.
However, this was no different from being invisible, because there was nothing else around him.
No animals, no plants, not even people......
Only himself, and the water that fills the whole world!
Wu was confused, and I don't know how long it took, but suddenly a ripple appeared in the water in front of him.
"Is there a situation?"
Charr's gaze froze, and the long stay made him sensitive to everything around him.
So he stared at the change without blinking, and before long, an old man appeared in front of him.
The old man, dressed in his nightgown, looked to be at least seventy or eighty years old, hunched over, his face full of wrinkles, and as soon as he appeared, he looked at Charles with his cloudy eyes with loose bags under his eyes.
Charles thought that the first thing he said would be an opening introduction, or an inexplicable chatter, but what really appeared was as if he was "chattering".
"Child, I told you a long time ago that life is very hard to serve the gods, but you just won't listen......"
"What are you talking about?" Charles frowned.
The other party did not respond, but chattered on his own, with an angry face: "Your mother and I are looking forward to you returning to the territory to inherit the family property day and night, you know, I am just a son like you, but you are so naughty, you would rather choose to wander around than come back to see us, as a result, what have you gained?" β
Before Charles could reply, the surface of his body that emitted a faint golden light suddenly trembled, he was shocked at first, but then he reflected it, and his face couldn't help but change.
His ghost mask is crumbling!?
"Your mother is paralyzed in bed, your father and I have been fooled by servants all year round, how we wish you could come back to us to support everything, but in exchange for only your disregard again and again, now it seems that you are dead, right? What happens after you die? Have you seen your gods? β
When these words fell, Charles's "whole body" trembled even more intensely.
In this regard, the old man finally made up for it.
"Did you see that? You should have seen it, but are you seeing the ruthless gods or the cruel devil? β
Click!
As if the glass was shattering, and as if the strange sound of wood breaking appeared in his ears, Charles was dazed to find that the "skin" on his body that emitted a faint golden light had really turned into a broken light and drifted away!
The fierce heat on his forehead followed, and Charles hurriedly raised his hand to caress it, only to touch a ravine, as if something he had originally owned on his forehead had been burned away.
"This ......"
Charles was shocked.
His ghost mask, he relied on the ghost mask to exist and the mark of the seven gods, and it actually dissipated!?
Why is this happening?
Who is this person in front of you? Or rather, what is he?
Unfortunately, as his mask dissipated, the hunchbacked old man disappeared as ripples of water, without giving Charles time to question or observe.
Charles was left alone, floating silently in the water, bewildered.
At this time, his state was very different from before.
A thick black mist swirled around him, his face was covered by another face, and occasionally hideous skulls appeared in the black mist and roared silently.
Make him look like a demon from hell.
This state lasted for about four or five minutes, and the water shimmered again, and under Charles's wary gaze, a figure reappeared.
This time, it was the same old man, an old man who was slumped in a chair, older than the one just now, with sparse hair on the top of his head, loose teeth, thin lips, and a snarky face.
"Ha, my good grandson, I'm disgusted to see you!"
He also spoke to Charles, who was still puzzled by this, but just like that time, he didn't need anything to respond to this time.
"Maybe I should have thought carefully when I rode your grandmother, why did I give birth to a stupid grandson like you?"
"You have an adulterous affair with your brother and sister-in-law, think I don't know? And little Vada, hell, the more I think about it, the more I think you're no different from a brute? β
"But that's not the main thing!" The old man said tremblingly, staring at Charles with a resentful expression, and the seven orifices gradually revealed thick black blood.
"Did you spend all your energy with the women of the family? Why didn't you notice Rhaegar's anomaly sooner? β
"Why?"
"Why?"
"You were poisoned at a banquet?"
"Or on the territory of our Freys?"
"Why are you so stupid?"
"Why?"
"Why?"
"Answer me, grandson!"
Every word he said made the thick black mist on Charles's body tremble, and as he questioned more and more, the tremor became more intense.
In the end, under all kinds of sharp questioning, the black fog trembled, and it disappeared in all directions!
During this time, Charles tried to attack the old man to prevent this from happening, but unfortunately, his attack only caused ripples in the opponent's body!
The other side is like a real image, or made of water.
In the end, he could only helplessly watch the substitute ghost on his body dissipate.
Yes, for the dead.
Despite the loss of the True Eye, Charles is very clear about the state of his spirits.
The outward appearance is a ghost mask, then the substitute ghost, and finally, his real spirit!
"What's next?"
Charles took a deep breath.
After two encounters, he already had some guesses about the current situation.
The two people who appeared, one was a relative of the Ghost Mask Seed, and the other was also a substitute for the dead ghost.
So what about this last layer? Is it a relative of the original body? Or is it your own?
Under Charles's frown, the water rippled for the third time, and a middle-aged man with a big belly emerged.
The middle-aged man was dressed in a luxurious purple tuxedo, with a round face and thin eyes, a rich face, and his appearance was naturally cordial, and at a cold glance, it seemed that he was smiling all the time. Smiling, it looks very amiable.
However, at this time, the words spoken by this person were not kind at all.
"Lying, bullying your brother, that's how you get my attention?"
As soon as he appeared, he began to reprimand loudly: "Have you ever thought about how much trouble this will cause me and our family? β
"Have you ever wondered how much this can hurt others?"
"Have you ever wondered how much this will affect your brother!?"
"Do you have one?" The middle-aged fat man asked angrily, "You blame me for kicking you away, but who can blame you for this?" β
"You brought it all on yourself!"
"You want me to be proud of you?" He sneered: "But I can only say that I regret your birth very much, and I hate everything you do even more, that's right, these are the truth, haven't you always wanted to hear the truth?" β
"Now that you hear it, how do you feel?"
The middle-aged fat man kept sneering and questioning, but there were no other changes in the spirit body of Charles, which couldn't help but make him secretly relieved.
Now that he is already the last layer of his spirit body, if it really collapses and decomposes, does it mean that he will die because of it?
"Fortunately......" Just as he was thinking like this, the fat man opposite suddenly showed a hint of abruptness.
"By the way, I remember, you're not my son at all, you're just a fake!"
"That's right, fake!"
"What about my son? Where's my son? β
"What did you do to him?"
Charles looked coldly at the person in front of him who was constantly questioning angrily, and his mood did not fluctuate.
may have also noticed that his actions at this time were ineffective, and the middle-aged fat man suddenly smiled weirdly.
Then, under the dark expression of Charles's face, the water waves gradually rippled and changed, and he became another person!
A young man with black hair and black eyes, a tall posture, and a handsome appearance!
It's Charles. Cranston? Or Charles. Cranston?
Charles didn't know that he had even forgotten what he looked like before he took it, and all he really remembered was this face.
However, this was irrelevant, because what the other party said at this time made Charles not think about it at all.
"Playing with other people's corpses, destroying other people's souls, sucking people to dry, and gouging out people's eyes."
The other party said, with a look of disgust on his face, "Why are you doing this?" You have other options, why? β
"To be stronger? To kill? Or is it to get pleasure out of it? β
"I ......" Charles tried to retort, but the other party did not give him a chance to speak, but directly interrupted him.
"Stop talking about self-deception like no choice!"
"Do you really have no choice?"
"That's true at first, but then, when you join the church and have a brighter future, why do you want to be in the company of the dead?"
"Because your disguise spell can't be pulled? Afraid of exposure? If you haven't tried it, how do you know you really can't pull it off? β
"Because you came by snatching up? Who knows? β
"Don't have a choice? Joke! β
"Are you unable or unwilling?"
In the face of this series of questions, Charles was silent.
"Poor bugs." The other party sighed: "Always make all kinds of excuses for yourself, in fact? You're just cold-blooded. β
"The road to the church is slow, and although it requires you to keep contributing, as long as you keep your feet on the ground, it will be better than your current choice."
"You hate the church holding the nose? Are you afraid that the special treatment of the church will be followed by some kind of conspiracy? It's funny, I find you to be both hypocritical and worrying. β
"Is there really a difference between criminals and ordinary people? I'm afraid it won't stand up to you if you use this to comfort yourself. β
"Think about it, think about it, the real you are just an indifferent, hypocritical, empty maggot, you disregard life, you obviously have the right path to choose, but you choose this evil shortcut."
"It's not that you really don't have a choice, you just don't want to, in your heart, you're not a down-to-earth person!"
"So"
Under the successive questions, the other party sneered disdainfully: "Should I call you the poor Mr. Worm who was forced to succumb to fate?" Or is it a hypocrite who is full of benevolence and morality, but does not hesitate to start? β
"Tell me, what the hell are you? Tell me, you want to climb up, but in the end, you can't even recognize yourself, how can you recognize the road under your feet? β
After he said this, he didn't say anything more, just sneered and stared at Charles.
And the Charles had only silence.
Although these words were just ordinary words, he simply could not ignore them.
He really didn't have a choice?
Is he really unwilling to be down-to-earth?
He really ...... Very hypocrite, very pretentious?
Recalling what happened to him in just a few months, Charles's face was cloudy, and after a while, he suddenly said, "You're right. β
"I can say that I want to improve quickly because I am in a hurry to go home, I am afraid that my parents will have no one to support me, I am afraid that they will be sick in bed and no one will take care of them, I am afraid of everything I should be afraid of......"
"But these are not excuses."
As he spoke, he took a deep breath: "Actually, I'm just cold-blooded, just indifferent, just don't care." β
"I'm hypocritical, I can say that these are from the moral education of the past, or I can say that this is the human nature within me that is struggling, but in fact it ......"
"Fuck humanity, why should I care about those?" Charles gritted his teeth and glared at the other party: "What does it matter to me if someone else dies?" Playing with corpses? Is there a difference in nature between a corpse and the meat you normally eat? Choosing criminals over ordinary people? Hypocrisy? That's right, that's hypocrisy! β
"But I like this kind of hypocrisy, I think he deserves to die, I don't think he deserves to die, I do things based on my own inner moral standards, not being instigated by others!"
"What's wrong with my choice of Necromancy? I'm willing to take this path, there's this path of rapid ascension, who the is stupid. Forced to choose the same turtle to climb!? β
"Are you really here to make me a good tour?"
"Everyone is not a child anymore, and I don't need others to dictate anything, so I am hypocritical, I am hypocritical, I am cruel, cold-blooded and ruthless." As he spoke, Charles's angry appearance suddenly retracted, and instead laughed: "So what? β
"I just want to be myself! Their own moral concepts, their own thoughts of good and evil, and their own paths. β
"I don't need others, I don't need you to point fingers!"
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Listening to these quietly, in the end, the other party looked thoughtful: "So, do you recognize yourself now?" β
"I recognize your uncle." Charles scolded.
When the words fell, the figure on the other side couldn't help but be stunned, but before he could continue to say anything, the sound of running water around him quickly began to sound, and everything in front of him quickly blurred.
Then, under Charles's stunned gaze, a faint golden light was born and gathered in the water, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a piece of clothing and attached to his spiritual body.
Looking down, he found that he had quietly put on another layer of clothing.
The upper body is a white tuxedo, with a black seven-pointed star medal on his chest, white trousers on the bottom, and white leather shoes on his feet.
The clothes were "put on", and billowing black smoke then appeared in front of him, and under the influence of unknown forces, the black smoke shook and struggled, but finally still involuntarily turned into a pitch-black ring, which automatically appeared on the ring finger of Charles's left hand.
At the same time, a special being in Charles's body was also repelled by this strange power, trembling and dissipating into smoke.
It was the tongue of oath that should have been integrated into his spirit.
Finally, a gold-rimmed card flashed and appeared on the placket of the white tuxedo, the chest pocket where the handkerchief should have been placed.
It was as if it were all over, the river dissipated in a trance, the cold touch of the throne emerged from beneath the buttocks, and the dark world came into view again.
Charles looked dazed and stunned by all this, but the prompts were unaffected, and automatically appeared one after another in front of his eyes.
[Your camouflage spell is devoured, and your path to advancement is changed]
[Some hidden dangers in your body are eliminated]
γYou have gained the talent of the Lord of the Long Nightγ
γYou have gained the destiny of talent walkingγ