double - Chapitre 32
Song Tian, a little frightened, shifted his body slightly backward, but to his disappointment, not a single blue dot appeared in my palm! Had I made the gesture too quickly? Let's try again… no use! Still no response!
"What's going on?" I shouted at Lin Yuyan. Is there some other trick to it?
"Haha~~~~! Since you like this gesture so much, go do it in hell!" Song Tian suddenly rushed towards me, and red nails with a red glow grew out of the tips of his fingers.
"Watch out!" Lin Yuyan, who was still weak, immediately jumped up and pushed me away before Song Tian's nails could pierce my body.
"No!" I roared, but I could only watch helplessly as Song Tian's fingernails pierced through Lin Yuyan's—no, I should say Lin Yiyi's—body. No blood splattered, but the pained expression on Lin Yuyan's face horrified me. Her entire face was contorted, her eyes bulging out. And at that moment, her body was still firmly impaled on Song Tian's long fingernails, like a rag doll.
"Get out of my way!" Song Tian flung Lin Yuyan away forcefully, sending her flying straight into the Purgatory Blood Pool in the sewers.
"Damn it!" I cursed under my breath, but I had already jumped over there.
"Grab me!" I shouted, grabbing Lin Yuyan's hand with my right. Unfortunately, she was falling too fast, and I fell to the ground due to inertia as soon as I grabbed her.
"Let go!" I pulled Lin Yuyan to the side of the sewer, her small body dangling in the air above the sewer, while half of my body was also above the ground. I desperately used my left hand to support myself so that I wouldn't fall any further, or I would really fall into the Hellfire Blood Pool!
"Hold on tight!" Although I don't know if Lin Yuyan is related to me by blood, things have come to this point, and I can't let go no matter what!
"If you don't let go, you'll fall too!" Lin Yuyan said anxiously. "Anyway, I'm going to die, but you're still alive."
"Falling down is better than being drained of blood by ghosts!" I struggled against the ghostly figures in the blood pool for Lin Yuyan's body, but their strength was immense, and they could easily pull me down as well.
"Then you can let me suck you dry before you go down, hehe!" Song Tian sneered, and his middle fingernail suddenly curled up, turning into a thin, long tube that stretched towards me.
"Let go!" Lin Yuyan cried out in worry.
"No!" Sometimes I can be as stubborn as a bull, a bull being sucked blood by leeches! The thin red tube pierced my neck with a snap, a feeling like being bitten by an insect, not very painful, just numb and itchy! Then I felt the blood being drawn out of my body, and gradually felt a painful sensation of being sucked onto my skin.
My body began to weaken, my eyelids grew heavy, and my grip on Lin Yuyan's hand gradually lost its strength. I could feel the thin tube continuing its insertion into my body; the sensation of a foreign object invading my flesh made me gag, and I felt dizzy and lightheaded. Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through my chest—the thin tube had reached my heart! A sweet, metallic taste filled my throat, and when I opened my mouth, I vomited blood.
Damn it! I'd rather die than let Song Tian take advantage of me! With that thought, I mustered my last bit of strength and smiled at Lin Yuyan. Lin Yuyan looked at me with pity, and I knew she understood what I meant. In the end, she nodded and peacefully closed her eyes.
I'm sorry, Fang Lei, I don't have the chance to love you anymore!
Li Yang, it looks like I won't have a chance to argue with you anymore!
Li Hai, I still owe you a Sichuan meal!
And Ah Bao and my older sister, I really can't bear to part with you, but now it's all too late!
Taking a deep breath, I mustered the last of my strength and twisted the thin tube off my neck.
"What?" Song Tian exclaimed in surprise, as another thin tube was already being extended.
I rolled down the sewer, and my entire body plummeted downwards, falling with Lin Yuyan into the infernal blood pool. Suddenly, everything around me turned red, countless ghostly figures swirled around me, and countless hands touched my body. At that moment, my chest suddenly burned, not just from the surface of the jade pendant as usual, but a heat emanating from deep within my heart, as if my entire heart had become a red-hot iron.
"Ahhh!" The intense pain made me cry out, and the red light before my eyes was suddenly replaced by a white light. The white light grew stronger and stronger, and in a daze, a pair of slender, jade-like hands quietly appeared in the scene shrouded in white light. They were fair and soft, as if they were the most beautiful hands in the world. A feeling of familiarity mixed with strangeness made me want to see clearly the owner of the hands. But apart from these hands, everything else was hazy, as if a person was standing behind a thick veil, with only these hands extending from behind it.
The jade-like hands began to move, clasping together, then rotating, and then forming a rather strange gesture. It resembled the gestures Lin Yuyan had taught, yet it was different, seemingly more complex. Could this be the true hand gesture of the Soul Refining Technique? Thinking this, my own hands moved as well, expertly following the movements of the jade-like hands before me. It felt so familiar and natural, as if I had been born with it!
Tiny specks of blue light emanated from my palm, multiplying and growing brighter! Finally, they coalesced into a dazzling spectacle, like the Milky Way, while the surrounding red light vanished. In the darkness, only my blue light shone brilliantly, flying towards one place: Song Tian!
Is this the true power of the Soul Refining Technique? I felt myself suspended above the sewer. Song Tian was firmly enveloped in a blue halo, and within it, his soul was being gradually extracted from Yang Tianxing's corpse. The faint red shadow must be Song Tian's soul; he was struggling desperately, but the blue light slowly rose, simultaneously pulling the red soul from the body like a seedling being uprooted. Then, the red shadow was compressed by the blue light until only a tiny red dot remained, which flew towards me.
My eyelids grew heavy again, my mind went blank, and only the gentle, smiling faces of Lin Yuyan and Lin Yiyi appeared before me, magnified infinitely...
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When I regained consciousness, I was in a hospital room. Fang Lei and the others stood beside me, looking very worried. Unfortunately, my older sister was nowhere to be seen. It turned out that I had been found by the shore of Heart Lake, and the person who dared to go there was Fang Lei. She said it was because of a telepathic connection; she vaguely felt that she would encounter someone there, someone who would make her worry.
Is that so? I smiled softly. Everything should be in the past now, right? As I held Fang Lei's warm and soft body in my arms, as I so truly felt that I was still alive, I thought to myself.
"Do you know what we found in the woods by Heart Lake later?" Fang Lei wiped away her tears and asked me.
What have I found? I'm just smiling faintly; it doesn't matter to me anymore, does it?
"We found a skeleton, it should belong to Lin Yuyan! Because there's an ID card next to it!" Li Yang revealed the secret when he saw that I didn't say anything.
Lin Yuyan, you've finally seen the light of day again! You've been waiting for this day for so long, haven't you? Looking back out the window, the sun is shining brightly, and the sky is a beautiful blue.
"Alright, now you should tell us what happened!" Li Hai waved his hand in front of my face and said, "Don't tell us you collapsed there from exhaustion after swimming in Heart Lake!"
"Hehe!" I chuckled and said, "This is going to be quite a long story! And I've always been a terrible storyteller, so I'm afraid you'll fall asleep while listening!"
"Listen to stories? I love it! Tell me, tell me!" Mischievous Abao plopped down next to me and said excitedly.
Want to hear the story? Perhaps this can only be told as a story—a story filled with questioning of humanity, an obsession with immortality, an understanding of hatred, remembrance of the dead, and a warning to the living. Regardless of how many people believe it or how many simply laugh it off, it is a true story.
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On the day I was discharged from the hospital, I heard two more shocking pieces of news: Vice Mayor Zhu Zhenhua suddenly died of a cerebral hemorrhage at home, and a fugitive, who was also a professional killer, was found dead in a garbage dump in the suburbs, with the cause of death unknown.
Is this karma? I looked at the clear sky and left the hospital. But those magical, jade-like hands were already deeply imprinted in my mind.
Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you, the flower on that strange black jade ring has started to glow red in the dark night, but it's just a single petal!
The story of Guanxin Lake has ended, but my story has only just begun!
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