Matsumoto smiled smugly and gently lifted her chin with one finger: "Now, let me see your beautiful body, Yuqi. You have to take off your clothes yourself, one piece at a time, and slowly show me your beautiful body. That way, I'll enjoy it more. Of course, while I'm enjoying your body, I'll temporarily release your consciousness so you can fully experience the power of an ability user. You definitely won't be disappointed."
As he spoke, Matsumoto took a step back and nodded. The girl, with a blank expression, slowly raised her arm, preparing to take off her clothes. Although it was the cold winter of December, the temperature in Hong Kong was still above 25 degrees Celsius. The temperature difference between day and night was a little chilly, but the air conditioning in the ward kept the temperature stable at 25 degrees Celsius. Yuqi had already taken off her coat when she came in, and was only wearing a purple pearl shirt underneath. After unbuttoning it, she was only wearing a bra.
As the girl slowly unfastened the first crystal pearl clasp beneath her snow-white collarbone, revealing a small patch of jade-like skin on her neck, Matsumoto couldn't help but let out a soft gasp. His desire surged rapidly, and he couldn't resist reaching out to touch his already swollen lower body.
A strange light suddenly flashed in Yuqi's eyes. She rushed forward and grabbed Matsumoto's throat with her icy jade hand. With a slight exertion, Matsumoto was immediately plunged into a deep state of suffocation.
Chapter 222 Goodbye, Gu Xiaorou
Xiao Rou's hands trembled uncontrollably, her beautiful face deathly pale from shock. She didn't know when it happened, but the dark Gu Xiao Rou, whom she had pierced through the chest with her telekinetic spear, slowly transformed into another person. Her graceful figure and unparalleled beauty were gone, replaced by a pale-faced young man with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. The familiar eyes and face made Xiao Rou clench her teeth, yet she still couldn't help but tremble.
She could be ruthless to herself, but she couldn't be ruthless to the boy she cherished most in her heart. The sudden change almost caused Xiaorou to collapse.
A sarcastic smile appeared on Ling Yun's lips, his expression, streaked with blood, looked eerily strange. Even though his heart had been pierced by Xiao Rou's mental energy field, he remained unfazed: "What's wrong? Xiao Rou, I see your hand is trembling? You just said I was the person you cherished most, and then you shot and killed the man you loved most. Is this how you show your love—heartless and cruel?"
A look of heartache crossed Xiaorou's face. She suddenly felt a wave of dizziness; she knew the Ling Yun before her was just a phantom, yet her heart had involuntarily taken him for the real Ling Yun. Trembling, she reached out her flawless left hand, wanting to touch that beloved face, as if in a dream. Her slender fingertips were less than an inch from Ling Yun's face when she finally stopped, her grip tightening. A voice inside her kept telling her: That's not Ling Yun, that's not Ling Yun, stop!
"You... are not him." A struggle appeared on Xiaorou's face, and she shouted these words with almost all her might.
"Then who am I, my dear Xiaorou?" Ling Yun grabbed the gun barrel and slowly pulled the gun tip out of his chest, as if the body wasn't even his own. As the gun was pulled away, the wound on his chest healed rapidly. "Look at my appearance, look at my self-healing ability. Apart from vampires, what other ability user has such power? If I'm not your Ling Yun, then who am I?"
His left eye suddenly turned an eerie blood red, while his right eye turned a shimmering green. "I remember telling you that I copied his eye genes from Blood Eye. His left eye is blood red and can release corrosive bloodlines containing special substances, while his right eye is emerald green. In addition to drawing energy from the heavens and earth, it can also balance all harmful forces and even extend life to some extent. You were very surprised and shocked at the time. There can't be a second Blood Eye in this world. His master, Blood Eye, is dead. Only I, Ling Yun, truly possess the Blood Eye's abilities."
With a hiss, the telekinetic spear disappeared from Xiao Rou's hand, and the silver light of the mental energy field that had appeared around her also subsided. Xiao Rou waved her hands in a state of panic and helplessness. At this moment, she was completely convinced that the man in front of her was Ling Yun. Otherwise, there would never be another boy in the world who looked exactly like Ling Yun.
In her heart, Lingyun will always be unique and perfect.
"I'm sorry, Yun, I didn't know it was you," Xiaorou said in a trembling voice, her tone filled with regret. "I didn't know how she could impersonate you. Fortunately, I didn't hurt you."
Ling Yun smiled gently, "I won't blame you, Xiao Rou. As long as you stop ignoring me, that's fine. You know I can't live without you."
"Yun, is it really you? Why are you here?" Xiaorou called softly, the confusion in her eyes quickly turning into surprise. "You know what? I was very angry with you at the hotel." Although the girl still said she was angry, the gentleness in her tone meant she had already forgiven her beloved lover.
“I know, Xiaorou…” Ling Yun said gently. He took a few steps closer, opened his arms, and wanted to hug his girlfriend. “I won’t make you angry again. Please forgive me, darling?”
Xiao Rou looked up at him and nodded vigorously, her charming eyes filled with the mesmerizing starlight. However, when she saw Ling Yun's arms reaching out to embrace her, she instinctively took two steps back. For some reason, deep within her heart, she always maintained an inexplicable clarity. Although Ling Yun was very close to her, in that clarity, he seemed very far away.
A fleeting, almost imperceptible chill flashed in Ling Yun's eyes, but it quickly transformed into a gentle, warm smile. He seemed oblivious to Xiao Rou's avoidance, smiling nonchalantly: "What's wrong with you, Xiao Rou? It's only been a short while, and you've already distanced yourself from me? Or do you simply not trust me?"
"No, it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that this place feels too eerie. Don't you feel that this place doesn't belong to reality, and there are some strange changes?" Xiaorou said softly. She felt her mental fog growing stronger, or rather, her nerves becoming increasingly numb. Many things that seemed particularly strange and initially astonishing suddenly seemed perfectly reasonable upon reflection. It was as if she had suddenly acquired a less flexible mind, capable of accepting any bizarre and fantastical scene changes.
This isn't hypnosis or any form of mind control; rather, it's a problem with the very source of consciousness. The evil spirits and the dark Gu Xiaorou are merely constructs born from this source of consciousness; they don't actually exist, and therefore aren't powerful. The real danger lies in the vast, boundless dark space. Seemingly empty, it's actually subtly and significantly influencing her consciousness, increasingly assimilating her spirit until it becomes a part of this space.
Xiao Rou had already vaguely sensed something. Although her mental field wasn't as strong or as sensitive as Ling Yun's, after the fourth simulation, its strength and sensitivity had increased significantly. While she couldn't be said to have minute details about changes in the spatial environment, she could still roughly perceive them. Clearly, this nameless dark space was unstable. From the bar entrance to the aurora borealis, the appearance of the space remained unchanged, but that was only because she was in it. In reality, subtle changes were constantly accumulating, and every hour or so, quantitative changes would give rise to qualitative changes, much like the four seasons in reality, only at a much faster pace. These changes would affect everything within the space, just like gravity. Perhaps an increase of only 0.01 Newtons wouldn't be noticeable, but when the increase significantly exceeded the threshold of perception or an anomaly was detected, the abnormality would become obvious.
Although Xiao Rou appeared calm on the surface, she was gradually becoming anxious inside. Her mental energy field had not been able to find the exit of the space or the invisible hidden structural point, which meant that she would never be able to find a way out. The result would be either assimilation into the dark space or being trapped here to death because her mental energy field was exhausted.
"Don't worry, Xiaorou, I'm here. We'll definitely find a way out." Ling Yun said calmly. The flickering aurora reflected on his face, making him appear unpredictable and creating an unreal feeling, like a dreamlike twilight. Behind Xiaorou, the aurora cast his shadow on the ground, which had turned grayish due to the high temperature, revealing a hideous demonic shadow.
Xiao Rou looked back at him, her inner conflict and struggle boiling over like water. She had accepted Ling Yun emotionally and in terms of feelings, but the clearest part of her mind kept reminding her not to get close to her lover. However, her mind did not give any reason, which made Xiao Rou feel very confused.
When she reached Lingyun, her strength vanished. She couldn't help but want to lean on her boyfriend's broad chest. Xiaorou suddenly realized that she was actually very fragile. The life-and-death experiences of the past twenty years seemed to be just a dream. It hadn't really changed her delicate nature. It was just that when there was no one to rely on, she could only choose to be strong. But once the person she had been searching for in her life appeared, her true nature as a woman was involuntarily exposed.
"Yun, do you have any ideas? By the way, how did you get here?" Xiao Rou had her back to Ling Yun, staring blankly at the huge aurora shooting out from the ground in the distance. Suddenly, she thought of a very important question: her mother's last words were transmitted to her in the form of mental energy field fluctuations. How could Ling Yun know that?
She shook her head again, suddenly realizing that she seemed to have forgotten what had happened just moments before. How exactly had Ling Yun appeared? She only had a vague, abstract impression in her mind, but she could no longer recall it clearly, as if some invisible force had erased her memory from moments before. However, since the mental field of a superhuman is strong, the memory loss was not complete, so Xiao Rou could still vaguely recall a little bit of the situation from moments before, but it was already filled with a hazy feeling, and this haziness was spreading at a terrifying speed.
Xiao Rou suddenly sensed something was off about the aura behind her. She turned around abruptly and was shocked to find that Ling Yun seemed to have disappeared into the darkness, blending into the entire space. Only a pair of eyes, glowing with blood-red and emerald light, were watching her in the dim darkness.
Xiao Rou suddenly felt a sense of unfamiliarity she had never experienced before. She took a step back in fear and asked, "Yun, what are you doing?"
A gentle voice came from the darkness: "Xiaorou, I think I've found a way to break free from this space. It's about shutting down your own consciousness and merging with this space. That way, you'll escape from it. Otherwise, this space has neither an exit nor an entrance. We'll be trapped here forever!"
"To merge into one?" Xiaorou hesitated. This space gave her a bad feeling, and she didn't know how to merge with it. But since Lingyun said so, he was obviously very confident. "Are you sure this method will work?"
"Of course, don't you trust me?" Ling Yun continued gently, "Xiao Rou, give me your hand, I'll take you out."
A pale hand reached out from the darkness and slowly beckoned to her. Xiao Rou hesitated for a moment, her clear mind frantically telling her not to touch it, but she still reached out and grabbed Ling Yun's hand. No matter how wary her clear mind was, she could not help but trust Ling Yun. Long ago, when this young man almost gave his life to retrieve the Holy Healing Technique for her, her life no longer belonged to herself, but to the person she loved most.
The moment Xiaorou grasped Ling Yun's hand, she immediately felt an icy mental field transfer from Ling Yun's palm to her own. However, the mental field wasn't aggressive; it seemed to be simply the nature of Ling Yun's mental field. She couldn't help but shiver: "Yun, your hand is so cold. This isn't the natural attribute of your mental field. What's wrong?"
"This is indeed not the inherent attribute of Lingyun's mental force field, but your own." Lingyun's tone suddenly changed as he was completely hidden in the darkness. His voice was cold, resolute, and ruthless, and the beautiful notes were filled with a chilling coldness that could freeze everything.
A slender figure stepped out from the shadowy void, her hand tightly gripping Xiaorou's wrist, and then she channeled a chilling cold of minus one hundred degrees into Xiaorou's body.
A beam of aurora shone directly on her face, the silvery light reflecting a smug yet menacing smile on her stunningly beautiful face. Her body, which had just been pierced through the heart by Xiao Rou, had somehow completely returned to normal.
"I have never changed. You think you killed me, but that's just your illusion, Gu Xiaorou. I've found your weakness." Dark Gu Xiaorou put away her smile and silently looked at herself, who was so close to her, and said.
Xiao Rou was frozen stiff. She was still conscious, but unable to move an inch. The extreme cold brought all movement to a standstill, including her thoughts, which were slowing down. Under the influence of the high-level ice rays, a layer of crystalline light quickly appeared on her body surface, a sign that all the moisture had condensed into thin ice. In just a moment, the wisps of cold air had turned into a huge, transparent ice stone, freezing her inside, as if Xiao Rou were imprisoned inside a transparent crystal.
“You have conquered yourself, but you cannot conquer Ling Yun. He is even more important to you than yourself. So, Gu Xiaorou, you have lost.” Dark Gu Xiaorou said softly.
She raised her flawlessly sculpted face, looking at the real body inside the ice crystal, her expression indescribably complex: "You can stay here. I told you, I would replace you, but I will not fall in love with Ling Yun in your place. Love made you strong, helping you overcome yourself, but at the same time, love also made you weak, because you overcame yourself but could not overcome the one you loved. In the end, you still lost to me. There can only be one Gu Xiaorou in this world."
“Once I get out, I will kill him. I won’t let myself repeat your mistakes, so I won’t create any opportunity for myself to develop feelings,” Dark Gu Xiaorou sighed.
She suddenly raised her incredibly delicate hand and drew a silver streak from left to right, flashing across the ice crystal.
Goodbye, Gu Xiaorou!
The ice crystal remained silent for a moment, then suddenly shattered into countless fragments and collapsed with a roar.
Chapter 223 Witchcraft
Matsumoto's face was flushed red, his eyes bulging out like goldfish, and the muscles in his face twisting involuntarily with pain. His head was held stiffly upright. However, his arms and legs remained limp, an overwhelming force binding his limbs and mental energy field, imprisoning him like a fish on the chopping block.
As a superhuman, Matsumoto doesn't need to breathe to survive. Even using only the pores on his skin, superhumans can obtain sufficient oxygen. Not to mention some powerful individuals who can challenge the limits of heaven and earth, they can survive for extremely long periods in a vacuum without food or water using only their mental energy field. The power of superhumans is transcendent, and the higher the level of the superhuman, the greater the gap in transcendence. Although there hasn't yet appeared in the world a person with the destructive power to instantly overturn rivers and seas and destroy a city, people like Tang Tiejin could easily recreate the dramatic scene of planes crashing into buildings during the 9/11 attacks.