Chapter 40: The Mysterious Woman in White
In the gray world without color, without sky, and without earth, the blue flame that Ah Yi turned into floated in it, becoming the only color in this world, the only substance that is not stationary.
The blue flame is the soul fire of Ah Yi, and after the death of any living being, its soul will turn into a blue flame that is invisible to the naked eye.
No one knows where the blue flame will end up.
"What kind of place is this? Is it hell? ”
Ah Yi didn't know how long he had been wandering, everything he saw in front of him was gray, and he felt like he hadn't moved at all, always standing still in one place.
Without a body, Ah Yi is also very uncomfortable, and it is extremely inconvenient to move.
The world is very quiet, there is no sound, and it is frighteningly quiet.
"Are all the dead creatures coming here? Why don't I see a being like me? ”
Ah Yi is full of doubts about this world, no matter how long he wanders, he can't see the soul fire other than himself, as if he is in a world of nothingness, there is nothing.
After some time, he began to get bored with this world and wanted to leave it.
But he wandered for a long time and did not find a way out of this world.
Ah Yi, who has no concept of time, begins to drift tirelessly in one direction, firmly believing that he can always leave this world.
In this way, he kept drifting, maybe a century passed, maybe a year passed, maybe only an hour passed, and finally the world without sound and color gradually made him feel lonely, and gradually made him forget the sound.
Ah Yi's spirit began to become unstable, and he seemed to be about to collapse when he was tormented by this world. I'm crazy inside, I'm screaming, desperate to find an existence similar to myself.
Sometimes loneliness is a chronic poison that can slowly destroy a person's psyche and finally torture a person to death.
Eternal loneliness is far more terrible than it, in this world, Ah Yi can't extinguish the fire of his soul, it seems that he will wander in the lonely world forever, suffering from mental torture.
He drifted aimlessly, like a lonely little wooden boat in the sea, directionless, drifting with the wind.
Gradually, Ah Yi forgot even the color, and only gray was in his mind, and he didn't know what other colors looked like.
Finally, he couldn't bear the loneliness anymore, and his spirit began to collapse, and the blue flames beat violently, and his mood fluctuated greatly.
But at the next breath, Ah Yi, who was having a mental breakdown, suddenly saw a woman in white standing in front of him in this gray world, which was particularly conspicuous.
"Someone! Someone! ......”
Ah Yi was extremely excited in his heart, and finally saw a person in a world where there was nothing, as if he had seen a ray of light in the endless darkness.
He tried his best to control the blue flames and approached the woman in white, and his spirit seemed to have received an antidote, and he no longer collapsed.
The face of the woman in white was very blurry, and Ah Yi couldn't see it clearly no matter how he looked at it, but he didn't care and kept moving forward, because this was the only person or thing that was not commensurate with this world.
As the blue flame slowly drifted forward, he soon found that there was something abnormal where the woman in white was standing, no matter how he approached forward, the woman in white always kept a certain distance from him, as if he was in a place that he couldn't reach, always separated by a layer of sky, out of reach!
Ah Yi tried to shout, hoping to call the woman in white, but he turned into a blue flame, and he couldn't make a sound, and finally could only look at the woman in white, indifferent.
The woman in white seems to be imaginary, beautiful but blurry, like a puppet, no matter how long it has passed, she has not moved, as if she has been standing here since ancient times, like a picture frozen in eternity.
"Does time stand still in this world?"
This thought suddenly popped up in Ah Yi's heart, and he couldn't help but shock himself.
But he quickly dismissed the idea, and if time really stood still, he should not have been able to move, or he had been wandering for a long time but had never actually moved.
The woman in white, on the other hand, could see it at the beginning, and shouldn't have been seen by him now.
Ah Yi pondered, and the blue flames danced regularly with his thoughts, as if playing silent music, only rhythm and no sound.
The woman in white in front of him was too magical, which made him puzzled, but it was precisely because of the appearance of the woman in white that he slowly regained his composure, which was equivalent to hanging a trace of his sense, otherwise his spirit would probably completely collapse and become a soul fire without self-awareness.
But if this continues, the spirit will break down again, and then it is estimated that there will be no more magical things to stop his collapse, and thus become out of control.
"What is this world? Where does my soul go? ”
Ah Yi began to meditate and sense the aura around him, trying to find a way to leave this world from the aspect of aura.
Soon he was disappointed, and he didn't sense the aura around him, as if there was no such thing as aura in this world.
"Won't it work?"
Ah Yi was a little unwilling, and didn't want to lose himself and lose consciousness in a lonely world like this.
He glanced at the woman in white, released his consciousness, and meditated again, this time not just sensing the aura, but sensing everything in this world, hoping to sense some energy that would help him.
Unconsciously, Ah Yi's consciousness went deep into it, unable to extricate himself.
In the gray world, there seems to be a mysterious force that attracts his consciousness and wants to merge his consciousness with this world.
By the time he reacted, it was too late, and his consciousness could no longer break free from the attraction, and was melted by it little by little.
"Damn! How so? ”
Ah Yi was completely panicked, he didn't expect this to happen, the result of the integration of consciousness and the world and the mental breakdown are the same, and eventually the consciousness will disappear and cease to exist.
He struggled, but the mysterious power was like a quagmire, and the more he struggled, the stronger the attraction became, and the faster it melted, and despair grew in his heart.
"It's time to go back to your own universe!"
Suddenly, Ah Yi heard a gentle voice, like a heavenly sound, lingering in his heart, instantly dispelling the despair in his heart.
Immediately after, the mysterious power that melted his consciousness vanished with its voice. Consciousness was immediately liberated and returned to the soul.
Ah Yi subconsciously looked at the woman in white, her figure had disappeared, like a cloud of white smoke, the wind came and dispersed, without a trace, very mysterious!
He always felt a little familiar with the voice just now, as if he had heard it before, but he couldn't remember whose voice it was, and staying in this world for too long made his memory a little confused.
The next moment, Ah Yi felt that he was surrounded by a mysterious force that was completely different from before.
His power felt very familiar to him, as if it was calling him back to the world he was supposed to go to.
Ah Yi decisively responded to the call, desperate to go back, he had had enough of the loneliness this world brought him, and his spirit was almost tortured to the point of a complete collapse and forever unconscious.
A crack passage appeared out of thin air in the gray world, and the blue flame was carried into the passage by this force in the blink of an eye, leaving the world.
It was pitch black in the passage, but Ah Yi saw a shocking picture in it.
He saw Lingxi stab his body with his sword, end his life with his own hands, and finally end in disgrace.
At this moment, his heart seemed to be stabbed, his memory was no longer confused, he remembered everything that had happened before, and looked at this picture in disbelief.
In the dark passage, the picture lasted for a moment and then disappeared, Ah Yi didn't have time to be sad and angry, and a large number of memories before waking up in the Hundred Beast Forest suddenly poured out of his mind, making him unable to bear it all of a sudden and losing consciousness again.