Chapter 222: The Song of Oblivion
Jasmine had just woken up from her wandering, and Yuna was gone, the light of the flashlight illuminating her dark pupils, which she used to stare into the darkness.
"Yes...... You're going to bury me!"
"I seem to be singing your songs too. Jasmine tried to repeat the song the woman had sung.
"Girl, where did you hear this song?"
"...... in warm water"
At this time, there was the sound of water drops in the next room, and Jasmine lowered her gaze slightly and listened carefully. Her consciousness became clear as she was guided by the sound of water, and stepped into the pitch-black room 204.
When she walked into the room and looked around, she noticed that the dΓ©cor was not as small as the standard single room in a hotel. From the outside, it could not have been such a strange-looking space, with only candlelight at equal intervals, and a half-open bathroom mirror in front of the dresser.
What does it taste like? It's an illusion. There was a strong, sweet smell that she didn't like, and the moment she felt it, the bathtub in the mirror overflowed with a web-like liquid, and everywhere she went, it turned black.
As the darkness spreads, the candle flame becomes more and more unstable, the flashlight appears to be in poor contact, and Jasmine can't help but scream in horror under the flickering bright light.
The woman in the mirror is not like herself at all, she synchronizes Jasmine's every movement with limbs that are sewn together, and those eyes are like two round black buttons.
No...... Wrong...... This is not the real me. Jasmine wanted to take her eyes off the mirror, but she couldn't, and the mirror seemed to have a magnet magic that made her legs stick to the ground and unable to move.
The mirror world soon fell into darkness, while the hidden realm continued to erode, and the black liquid flowed down the dresser and began to spread throughout the room, until even the candle flame went out, and the flashlight became the only source of light.
She struggled to pull her feet off the floor, but the door was locked by an unknown force that made it impossible to knock it open. And once it is stained with black, the severe pain of childbirth will hit the whole body.
I'm going to die this time...... Father...... Mother...... I'm sorry. The light of the flashlight was getting weaker and weaker, and Jasmine had no way out, and when the darkness was about to wrap around her ankles, the door in the mirror opened, and a swarm of blue fireflies flew outside the door, and then her doppelganger in the mirror stood still.
Although Jasmine turned her head at the same time as herself in the mirror, she was unaffected, and she could only open the door until the darkness had receded and everything was back to normal.
But where did the fireflies that flew upstairs come from? Are they unreal?
They guided Jasmine to the third floor and disappeared in front of Room 301 at the corner of the stairwell, Jasmine entered the room and saw a large hole that took up almost all the floor space, and as she stood on the edge of the subsidence, she felt the cold wind blowing downstairs, and she rubbed her cheeks to make sure she wasn't dreaming.
The wall material is very different from the other rooms, using kiln brick instead of lime, and a line of text is carved on the wall near the door:
Those who confess will be blessed, and those who indulge in lies will fall forever.
- The Covenant of Creation
Looking down, a prayer sounded in the dark abyss, and Jasmine knew that she was having a conversation with Lan Yifan with her father through that special name.
Godmother, I don't blame you for your use of me, I'm not even sure you'll help me, guilt has tormented me for years, weakness has sunk me to this day.
And betrayal...... You're going to pay for it in the future.
I tried to play the role of a good brother and go about my daily routine in the hope that one day I would be cured of his illness, but when all my efforts were to no avail, I was crushed by the responsibilities of being the heir to the family, I did not have the courage of Meiyue, nor was I as strong as Parady, and it was a matter of choice to betray them.
Now that you're remorseful, why not try to make a change?
Of course, my love for my brother is real, and I also cherish the pure friendship of my two friends, but in order for the family to continue, I have to make a choice, so I can only force myself to accept the reality with indifference, and many tragedies have arisen because of this, I am too selfish to ask for forgiveness.
If that's what you're telling the truth, you should tell her......
Where is she? What did you do with her?
This is the end of their conversation, followed by an unpleasant, eerie sound that draws Jasmine to room 302 next door.
As soon as she turned to the center of the room, she finally saw her father, Molong, who was sitting in a wooden wheelchair, his hands tied with ropes hanging from the torture rack, and the placket of his shirt was covered with blood, apparently beaten by the Tianzhao cultists.
"Daddy!" Jasmine shouted, rushing forward and trying to break the shackles on Jasmine's hands.
Her daughter's call made Molong raise her head weakly and sighed, "Jasmine, you can't save me, you have to leave the hidden world." β
"Don't order me, I'm going to get you out anyway. β
"This is my punishment, you don't have to bear it, you have to live for our family. Mo Long's eyes glowed red, and his voice was still low.
"I didn't find my mother...... What's the point of being alive?" Seeing that she couldn't break the shackles, Jasmine passively let go of her hand.
"No...... You can't save her. "Because you don't know what she looks like, she left us years ago." β
Jasmine's words made Jasmine very confused: "What are you talking about? We have lived together for more than ten years, and the reason for the disappearance of my mother is clearly the chaos in the town of Fallen Dragon three years ago, and I am here...... Just like you...... In order to find her. β
"Daughter, it seems that you haven't been able to find the Crimson Moon Emblem, and the Oblivion Spell I cast on you is still in effect!" β
Jasmine covered her head, desperately recalling every scene of the life of the three of them, but was shocked to find that her mother had no facial features.
"Forgive me! After your mother left, I had to do this in order to create the illusion that you have a complete family. β
"What the hell is going on? Answer me! Where is my mother?"
As Jasmine questioned him emotionally, an insect-shaped mane emerged from a crack in the wall, its tentacles turning into scythes through Moron's chest, splitting her father in half along with the wooden wheelchair.
She let out a cry of grief, raising her spirit to shoot at the worm-shaped bearded man crawling through her father's corpse, until the purple flames of resentment erupted above its head converged into a human face.
The spirit alone couldn't hurt the bearded man, I saw it approaching, and the space for Jasmine to dodge was getting smaller and smaller, but the other party was like venting, deliberately missing each attack, compared to a pair of "flesh and blood scythes", she had to be more careful of the cement fragments that fell at any time.
At the critical moment, Yuna arrived just in time, she slammed the door open, and pulled Jasmine into the corner, just to avoid a falling rock.
"Are you alright?"
"It's okay...... But Daddy......" Jasmine whispered.
From Jasmine's almost collapsed expression, Yuna knew that the two corpses were Dr. Moron, but unfortunately after so many things, she couldn't save him after all. She picks Jasmine up and decides to wrap the worm-shaped bearded man from both sides, and she is responsible for restricting the movement of the two scythe tentacles, allowing Jasmine to keep shooting at the main body.
Strangely, the worm-shaped bearded man didn't have much interest in Jasmine, and it only attacked the newly arrived Yuna, and every Tenkasa bullet hit on the torso would turn into a bloody handprint, and the sickle tentacles that she shattered would grow out and attack her again.
Seeing that Yuna was in a bitter battle, Jasmine had no intention of helping, and the face on the top of the bearded man's head gave her a sense of intimacy, which made her unable to do it.
At this time, the insect-shaped bearded man turned his blade into a hand, grabbed Yuna's hand with the spear, carried it into the air, and slowly leaned over his head.
"Your mother has died a long time ago, please be sober. Yu Na's words made Jasmine hesitate no longer, and with a few gunshots, a woman's mane spirit exploded from the top of the insect-shaped man's head like a cocoon into a butterfly.
Yuna seized the opportunity and fired two shots at the insect man's vital point, before it turned into ashes in front of the two of them.
The woman's spirit was fading little by little, and Jasmine couldn't control herself anymore, and asked who the other party was, until Yuna handed her the Crimson Moon Badge in her hand, and she remembered everything.
It turns out that the lullaby is the song of forgetting! Although this mother, who has never met before, has become a monster and has no human nature, she still does not hurt her daughter out of instinct, and Jasmine can't help but sigh at the greatness of maternal love.
At this moment, Jasmine had already cried into tears, but Yuna was puzzled, just because she had never had that kind of thing, and good words and comfort were only exchanged for a lonely back.
"Dr. Moron can't die in vain, you have to get out of here. Yuna picked up the hidden mirror from the ashes and handed it to Jasmine, and then summoned a condensation tube to talk to Xue Shaoling, "I'm going to let Jasmine pass, has the door of the hidden mirror been repaired successfully?"
"It's not much of a problem for the time being, but you have to hurry up, the second senior sister's enchantment won't last long. Xue Shaoling's surroundings were full of monsters' roars, making his voice difficult to hear.
However, the teleportation method was accurately conveyed to Jasmine through the mouth of Yuna, and the hidden mirror was facing the wall, and after reciting the incantation, a beam of light shot into the crack in the wall, quickly extending to both sides, forming a light portal.
"Aren't you going with me?" Jasmine took Yuna's hand, but the other party didn't move.
"I can't go...... Someone needs to put an end to this, and that's my mission. Yuna's eyes shone with a divine light.
"Alright, thank you always, if we have a chance to meet again......" Jasmine squeezed out a smile and walked slowly towards the light gate.
When Jasmine's entire body was lost in the light, and all the light was gone, the room returned to its previous silence.
In fact, Yuna wanted to say that she could make this decision, so she expected that she would not have a future...... When she woke up from the syncope, "something" in her memory had been awakened, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she felt a strong discomfort of curling up in the dark.
The undead of the Hidden Realm is one of the reasons for Yuna to go to the Celestial Church, as well as ...... Lan Lingxiang, every time I think of her, I will have a lingering sense of sadness, as thin as green smoke, entangled and stranded in her footsteps.
When I went downstairs, I didn't encounter any emergencies, but the door of the hotel couldn't be opened, and Yuna's hands were just pulled away from the doorknob when she was bounced to the ground by a powerful force.
Please stay...... I have an important matter to entrust to you.
Lan Lingxiang's spirit floated above the door, but he didn't open his lips.