Chapter 21: Things Happen for a Reason
The moment I fell into the green pool, the coldness of my back reached my scalp, and I thought to myself that it was over, the wind and waves had come, but I didn't expect to capsize in the small gutter.
All of a sudden, the icy water poured from my mouth and nose, and instinctively, I still struggled to thrash, and after a long while, I found that my body did not feel the pain I expected.
As I swam swiftly to the surface, I couldn't help but wonder if this disgusting pool could make ghosts feel no pain at all while turning them into flesh.
Is there such a cheap way to die in this world?
But if that's the case, then those souls shouldn't have howled so much when they were first put into the green pool.
"Sure enough, it's you."
When I choked on the water and finally splashed to the surface of the green pool, I saw the black leather-clad male ghost who was rescued from the iron cage by me at the end, and he was full of kind smiles that were leisurely and contented like a spring breeze.
"What the fuck are you sick with?!"
It was the only complete sentence I could utter after I came ashore, despite the discomfort of choking on the water and the interference of coughing.
At that time, after the other souls in the cage were released by me, they had already run and crawled away from the pool, which almost turned them into fleshy green water.
So the one who was able to push me into this damn pool while I wasn't prepared was definitely this man in black leather who didn't run away!
I just saved him, and he unthankfully pushed me into the green pool, and he dared to look at me like a nobody?! Thinking of this, I couldn't help but have a boiling fire rising in my cold body.
"If you saved me, how could I harm you?" The man in black leather turned to me with an unchanged face and asked, "Do you know why they put all their souls into this green pool?" β
I took the strip of cloth handed over by the trembling girl, wiped a handful of green juice from my face, grabbed a finger from my hair that seemed to be half melted by a ghost, and frowned, "The devil knows what bad taste they have...... Melt it and put it in a jar to make marinated meat puree and eat? β
I don't really believe in the words of this black leather man, while answering him impatiently, but in my heart I am thinking, when I breathe this breath, Lao Tzu promises to screw his head off!
Seeing that my attitude was not good, the black-clothed male ghost shook his head lightly with a smile: "I thought that since you were able to discover the female ghost on the stage, it was the key to controlling this pool of green water and iron cage, even if you have some brains, you should be able to think about why they put these souls into this pool of green water." β
I kept coughing because of choking, and my brain was a little dizzy, and the black man in leather was the object of my head to be wrung off for a while, and his words came into my ears completely in the left ear and out of the right ear.
Besides, I don't think I need to explain so much to this man in black and leather, so I don't bother to talk to him for the time being.
The flower-faced girl on the side finally came to her senses at this time, but she couldn't understand what the black leather-clad male ghost was playing with me.
From the blank look of the flower-faced girl, I could clearly see the number of numbers in her little brain.
She probably couldn't figure it out, if the man in black leather was in the same group, and he just took advantage of my distraction to push me down the green pool to harm me, then why did he bother to pull me up from the pool?
Isn't it an extra move to let the tiger return to the mountain?
The flower-faced girl couldn't see it, so her big eyes, covered in heavy makeup, were also a little overwhelmed and swirled back and forth on the two of us.
After turning around for a long time, the flower-faced girl still lingered on the vigilance in her heart, stared at the black leather man and said, "You-you stay away from us!" β
When I saw that the timid flower-faced girl came to her senses, she must have understood that it was I who saved her, and the souls released from the iron cage would protect me like this, and I was a little relieved.
Seeing that I didn't have anything abnormal for the time being except for choking and coughing, the flower-faced girl looked at me cautiously and asked, "It's strange...... They have also been soaked in this pool of green water, why are you the only one who is fine? β
The flower-faced girl's question made my hand pause when I was pulling out the second piece, the unknown piece of flesh wrapped in my hair, and I was suddenly stunned.
"Maybeβit's because I've been soaking for a short time?" The moment these words were spoken, even my own felt far-fetched.
First of all, although the time I spent in the pool was not long, it was not a short time, but my intact body firmly told me that the green water of the pool did not cause me any visible damage.
Thinking of the question that the man in black leather asked me just now, a strange conclusion suddenly flashed in my chaotic mind, and I looked up in the direction where the man in black leather was standing just now, and said in confusion: "Liar, right?" You mean, it has something to do with me??! β
But when I didn't notice, the black man walked up to the fat ghost in the flower shirt who was knocked unconscious by me, squatting and not knowing what he was studying.
Seeing that I finally realized something, he smiled at me again, his eyes fell on the sinking green water, and then turned to look at me: "They believe that the ghost they are looking for will not be melted by the green water after being put into this green pool....... Do you still think it has nothing to do with you? β
"It won't be melted away by the green water...... I muttered the words of the man in black skin, feeling that my mind was really messy, and I couldn't figure out what subtle connection I could have with this disgusting pool of water.
I looked down at the green water flowing peacefully like ordinary water droplets on my palm, but my mind suddenly flashed to the 'me' with the same face as me in the dark illusion created by the fat ghost in the flower shirt, but with an expression I had never had before, that mysterious and evil smile.
"I-am special?" I couldn't help but muttered to myself, and I didn't know if I was asking the man in black leather or myself.
I think if there's anything special about me, it's because I'm particularly unlucky!
"You're saying that the special ghost they're looking for is actually me? ...... And these souls were melted away, and it turned out that I became like this?! β
The black-clad man continued to smile at me without saying a word, making himself look like a hidden master in the mountains, and from time to time he had to let me ponder the idea of fate sublimation.
But when I thought about it carefully, I always felt that something was not quite right, and I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows and question: "Then how can you be sure that I am the person they are looking for?" Just throw me into the pool? Who gave you the confidence??! β