Chapter 22: The Stars and the Deep Rain
"Be careful!"
Huangfu suddenly shouted, Shangguan Mian reacted immediately, her body moved quickly, looking behind her, but there was no one behind.
Looking at the sky again, the "spider web" formed by countless hairs also disappeared.
Receiving death threats from Shangguan Mian, it was said that her possession of guns and bombs in the Moon Shadow Pavilion was not widely known to the residents, and Li Yin and Midnight both thought that she might be a killer of the underworld organization or something, and of course they didn't expect the terrible background behind her. Therefore, Huang Fu was also taken aback by her skills and the gun in her hand. However, compared to ghosts, there is nothing anymore.
There are too many incomprehensible phenomena, and the nerves that have long been numb to his surprise.
Shangguan Mian did not let up in the slightest, she continued to walk through the woods, constantly alerting her surroundings, and at the same time, constantly preparing to use her latest bomb once a ghost appeared.
And Huangfu couldn't catch up with her at all, and her light figure disappeared completely in the shadows of the vast trees after a while.
He immediately took out his phone and called Sayoko Kamiya. He was anxious to know what was going on and why Shangguan Mian was here! Also, isn't the ghost who wants to kill them a white-haired old woman, how did she become a black-haired and black-clothed caracal?
At this time, Sayoko Kamiya was also in a very terrible crisis. When she saw the change on the other side of the bridge, she immediately ran away. Although she didn't know how far she could escape, her instinct told her that this time the blood letter indication might have fallen into a state of loss of control, and many situations could not be recognized using the usual blood word rules!
Due to running too hurriedly and panickedly, she suddenly tripped over the roots under her feet, and the whole person fell heavily to the ground, and her palm was broken, but she didn't care about bleeding and pain at all, she shouldn't have run more than a kilometer, so close distance, she couldn't have a sense of security at all! Although it is impossible to say that there is no place in the entire No. 6 forest area that is completely safe, it is always better to stay away from some!
She raised her right hand, trying to grab the tree next to her, and stood up, but her right hand suddenly grabbed an extremely cold hand!
"Pick it up, pick it up!"
Huangfu called Kamiya Sayoko's mobile phone over and over again, but the other party didn't call back!
"What's going on?"
At the same time, in a tree about a kilometer away from the current location of the Huangfu Gully, a person was looking at him in amazement.
"This ...... Where is this? ”
This person is none other than Pu Feiling!
She was also painted by the deep rain, and Li Yin and Midnight went to look for her picture. So, she was not immune.
Finally, there was another person who was also sent into the No. 6 forest area.
It was deep in the woods, inside a cave under a hill.
Suddenly, stepping into this dark place from the bright dean's office, Li Yong had no way to comprehend what was happening. It felt very damp around me, and as soon as I stood up, I felt like I was hit the head.
He was also once painted by the deep rain. In the past, Shen Yu once painted the scene where Li Yin hid the fragments of the contract in his home, and he also drew Li Yong's face.
The painting of Deep Rain was cursed by the soul of Pu Miling from the beginning. This curse is very similar to the notebook in the comic "[***]" that can write a name and kill a person. The painting of Deep Rain is similar to the Grim Reaper's notebook, as long as the person who is drawn on it, he will be cursed, and every year on May 1, he will be killed by Pu Miling once. Under normal circumstances, Deep Rain will always erase the memory of Pu Yuling's soul afterwards.
By the way, although Xia Yuan was also painted by Shen Yu, the reason why he didn't die was because he stayed in the apartment on May 1 of those five years. Although the spirits of Pu Miling can kill the cursed without exception, they have no way to enter the apartment.
In that apartment, only humans can survive, it is an absolute forbidden area for ghosts, and once you step in, you will be sucked into that black hole, and you don't know what kind of place to go.
Therefore, from the moment Xia Yuan and Shen Yu made an agreement, he was already destined to die. Even if he had completed ten bloody departures from the apartment, he would have been killed by May 1. There is no way to change this.
Speaking of which, these people, I don't know if it's bad luck or fate, they didn't stay in the apartment! Otherwise, Pu Yiling couldn't help them. Silver Night and Silver Feather moved out of the apartment, temporarily lived at home, and returned to the apartment once before forty-eight hours arrived; Shangguan Mian trained knife and marksmanship outside; Feng Yuxian practiced running in the gym; Midnight went to Zhengtian Hospital, and Li Yin went to find her; As for Murong Mirage...... Needless to say.
But there's no point in staying in an apartment. Even if Li Yin and the others fled back to the apartment today, Pu Miling was not a ghost they encountered during the time period when the blood character was executed, so even if they returned to the apartment, the curse would not be eliminated. Even if you leave the apartment in the future, you will face the fate of being cursed and killed on May 1. Even if you kill Deep Rain, this will not change.
Although the people in the paintings die every year, because the residents of the apartment themselves face death all the time, Deep Rain does not notice this feature at all. Because of the terribleness of the curse itself, it balances the life-saving effect of the Prophetic Painting in the blood letters, so the apartment does not interfere with the existence of the Prophetic Painting.
This is the truth of everything.
That's why the deep rain will say "certain death". Li Yin and them are already certain to die. Even if he escapes this day, there is no way to remove this curse in this life. The stars are the same, and the ghost they encountered in the blood letter this time is the white-haired old woman, not Pu Miling.
When Deep Rain drew Kamiya Sayoko, Huangfu Gully, and Bian Xingchen, this curse was also fulfilled on these three people. Eventually, the soul of Pu Miling finally appeared and began the annual killing. It's like ...... At the beginning, he killed Ying Qingliu, who was once drawn by Pu Yuling himself, and Ying Qingli!
And today, Pu Miling will once again erase the memory of Deep Rain, change back into her right hand, and then continue this curse. And after Li Yin and the others died, the contract fragments could no longer be reunited, and no one would be able to seal the Demon King.
This curse, which took fifty years to finally end completely, will make the Demon King-level Blood Word Indication become a truly unsolvable task!
Is this the will of the apartment? Or is it the will of the Demon King? Or is it fate in the dark?
Nobody knows.
At this moment, Xingchen was carrying the deep rain on her back, and the more she ran, the more tired she became, and finally had to put her down and lie down under a tree to rest. Originally, finding that straw man, thinking that he could kill the ghost old woman in a way similar to a witch Gu would be equivalent to the success of the execution of this bloody word instruction, but he never dreamed that everything would come to such a terrible turn!
It's impossible to know what kind of terrible ending all this will become, but ...... After all, can't you avoid it?
Until the end of his life, he could not surpass his brother. There is no way to get the real approval of the mother. The stars began to despair, and that despair began to eat away at his heart like the darkness in the right eye.
"You ......" Xingchen looked at the deep rain in front of him, his last straw: "Do you know why your right hand became like that?" What is ...... of your right hand?"
"I don't know." At this time, Shen Yu was also shocked by the sudden change just now and almost lost his ability to judge: "I didn't know that my right hand was such a terrifying thing, I really don't know!" I'm definitely not going to be able to draw a premonition, and I don't have any premonition in my mind, no! That's all, the right hand that brought it to me, the right hand! ”
Isn't there anything she can do to restrain that ghost? Is there really no hope?
"You'll know!" Xingchen still didn't give up: "I asked everyone in the orphanage where you live!" They all say, you have been drawing those ghosts and ghosts since you were very young, you, you have owned this hand for almost twenty years, don't you know any secrets? Anything is fine, tell me, what's the way, what's the way! Tell me...... Please......"
At this point, tears began to welled up in his eyes.
"I don't want to die...... I don't want to die......"
Shen Yu looked at his painful and remorseful expression, stretched out her only remaining left hand slightly, and stroked his shoulder, she wanted to comfort him with some words, but she couldn't say anything in a thousand words.
Deep in the woods, everything is covered in darkness.
At this moment, this place is hell!
"Painting ......" Xingchen suddenly seemed to remember something, and said to her, "Those paintings, will there be any secrets?" What the hell is that ghost? ”
"I don't know, I don't know......" she said incoherently, "I don't know what it is, I really don't know!" Nothing like this has ever happened before. ”
"You absolutely know!" Suddenly, Xingchen grabbed her and said, "Didn't you say 'him' before?" You know, you know what he is! You know! ”
Shen Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I, I don't know, I just, instinctively, feel that it's dangerous, I feel dangerous, that's why I say that." Before, I had a premonition that this dark shadow had appeared in the Crowning Pavilion and the Moon Shadow Pavilion, and 'he' was painting there......"
Xingchen was stunned.
Li Yin deduced that Pu Yuling was the "demon" mentioned in the original communication between the two ghosts. So, is that ghost the dead Pu Miling? And the daughter [***], the demon who gave birth to the deep rain?
"He's ...... Your father? ”
Father?
Hearing this familiar and unfamiliar word, Shenyu seemed to fall into a kind of silence.
Father is the one who gave her the title of "Son of the Devil", the one who Ling Min hates her to the core, and the root of everyone's cold eyes on her and regards her as a heretic.
But...... It is also the root of her ability to appear in this world, to breathe, to think, and to live!
Also, perhaps the only person in this world who has ever loved himself. The only person who has ever given himself the value of his existence. She had hoped to meet Pu Feiling before, and she wanted to know, what mood did her father have in order to give her birth? Did he wish he had been born? Can he tell himself that it was a good thing that she was born in this world?
"You mean...... The right hand became the ghost, which is my ...... Father? ”
At this point, deep rain is unimaginable. But in hindsight, perhaps it was. Because, as Min mentioned, my father also had the ability to draw a person who could predict scenes!
Really? Is it really him? Can the value of her survival be answered from that population?
In a world where no one needs her, no one identifies with her, equates her with sin, is he the only one who can give himself the meaning to live?
"My ...... Father? ”
Tears began to well-up in the eyes of the deep rain.
Is it really him? Really, can you meet him?
"Tell me!" Xingchen continued to shout, "What do you know! He, is there a way for him to be restrained! You know, I have to be here until midnight to-morrow! In other words, I can't leave this No. 6 forest area and go back to my apartment! If I don't have a way to live, I can't survive! There's got to be a way out, right? You, you're the way the apartment gave us, aren't you? Isn't it? ”
"He may have loved me." Shen Yu suddenly said: "Maybe, with me, he won't kill you!" He wanted me to be born. Isn't it? It must be, it must be ......"
"He didn't love you."
An icy voice came from behind. Behind a tree shadow, Shangguan Mian appeared. She decided to find Deep Rain from the beginning, so she installed a transmitter on her, so it was so easy to find her. Killers like her are faster than magicians, and no one will find out what she's doing.
"You ......" Shen Yu immediately said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? How do you know ......"
"Of course I do." Shangguan Mian threw a notebook over.
That book had been completely burned by Shangguan Mian, but he didn't expect it to turn into ashes after it was burned, and those ashes turned back into a book of notes. In other words, it's the stuff in the apartment! It is estimated that Pu Yuling obtained something after coming into contact with the apartment residents. This is not surprising, since he can draw scenes related to blood letters, it is not difficult at all to get in touch with the resident and let him bring out a notebook from the apartment. It is estimated that it is because of the preservation problem that I use the notebook of the apartment as a note.
"This book was found in a basement between the Moon Shadow Pavilion and the Crown Pavilion. It's all written on it. ”
Shen Yu immediately opened the book, and she saw the contents recorded in it.
"On February 20, 1991, I was very happy that Min was pregnant with my child.
As the spokesperson of the devil, this blasphemous act is naturally what I am going to do.
I told Min that she had to give birth to this child, or I would definitely kill her.
Moreover, after the child is born, both men and women must name him (her) Shenyu.
Pu Shen rain. My daughter of Pu Ling.
In the abyss, the rain can never be stopped.
This is the curse I have given to this child. She will live as a demon just like me. ”
Endow...... Eternal damnation. And this curse has indeed been fulfilled. From the beginning, she was born to be cursed, to be a curse.
Her father never loved her.
That's it, it's true.
Flipping through the book, her mind went blank.
"No...... No, it's fake, it's you, it's you......"
Shangguan Mian said coldly: "Don't have illusions. You are the only one who is likely to restrain that ghost, tell me everything you know, or I'll kill you right away. Don't leave anything to chance! ”
Shen Yu threw the book on the ground, and her eyes lost any light at the moment.
This is the last way she can be saved. But now, she understood. That right hand, from the beginning, was a curse from the father.
She's just a father, a tool to curse the householders, to curse the world! It's nothing but a "son of a demon" born for the sake of blasphemy!
At this moment, she felt her soul tremble, and her hands clutched her head, constantly gasping desperately.
"I ...... It's just, a curse...... My father didn't love me at all, so what am I? Cursed me, what should I live for in the future? ”
That curse means that she has become a true son of demons, a true evil existence that is not allowed by the gods. In this world, no one can tolerate heresy like her, and there is no place where she can be redeemed.
"Ahh......h At this moment, there was not a trace of blood on her face, like a dead person.
And at this moment, she makes the stars seem to see themselves in the past.
"How can our Bian family have an uncompetitive son like you!"
In the past, the image of his mother grabbing his hair came to mind, and she said to herself, "I don't need you at all!" What I need is Starfire, you know? A child like you will only drag me down, and Xingyan will win the old man's appreciation, so that I can get more inheritance from the old man in the future! I only need Xingyan, you don't need to exist at all, the Bian family doesn't need you! ”
You are not needed...... Mother doesn't love herself. The father only obeyed his mother's words, and would only look at him with pity.
The stars can understand how painful it is for the deep rain. is not loved by parents, and even the meaning of life is deprived.
"Not really!"
Xingchen suddenly hugged Shenyu tightly into his arms and said loudly to her, "No one is born with a curse, no one is born a sinner!" How can human birth be said to be sinful! In this world, it is definitely not that no one loves you and no one needs you! ”
Shenyu's eyes were still numb at the moment, and she didn't understand what the stars meant.
"You're not a demon, and you're not a curse!" Xingchen hugged her tighter and said, "The real demon is not you at all!" ”
Then he grabbed the notebook, tore it up fiercely, and said, "This is nothing!" What if you have the blood of a close relative [***]! Even if you're cursed! ”
"You're still you! You still haven't changed anything! No matter how much dirt is contaminated on the lotus, it will not be polluted! More important than bloodline is the essence of people! ”
"So ......" said this, the stars were already beginning to shed tears: "Don't say anything, you have no meaning to live...... Don't say that......"
The tear ducts of the deep rain finally burst at this moment. She also reached out and hugged Xingchen, who also felt the warmth of her hands in the deep rain...... Wait a minute...... Hands?
Turning around, a terrifying face with black features was smiling at the stars......
(To be continued)