Barrier of Light

Strictly speaking, this is not the first time Gu Shen has "killed" an extraordinary person.

But this time, the Rule of Truth had much less influence on decision-making.

From the beginning to the end, every minute and every second, Gu Shen was in absolute sanity.

This was the first "killing" in a conscious state.

The girl and the shadow hugged each other and fell into the dirty mud. The pretty face gradually lost color, and a narrow hole opened between the pale eyebrows. Warm liquid gurgled from it, like a sleeping bird. , hibernating bird.

After confirming the disappearance of the breath of life... Gu Shen then exited the state of "The Ruler of Truth". The weightlessness of falling from the peak suddenly hit his heart. He slowly squatted down. The whole world was spinning. All with strong willpower, he I can still hold on to the last glimmer of clarity in my heart.

The first thing Gu Shen did was to check the silver scissors. The silver scissors in the pool of blood no longer shone brightly, but became dim. His previous guess was correct. This was not a sealed artifact. It was only because of the ability of Qu Shui that it could cut the shadow. After Qu Shui died, the scissors became a mortal thing.

Then, he silently stared at the sleeping girl and dialed Hu Danian's number.

"...Hello, who is this?"

Hu Danian, who had not had a good night's sleep for a week, was in a deep sleep and was woken up by a phone call. He was obviously not in a good mood.

"It's me. Gu Shen."

"The insomnia of Su Mu Stone Carving and the serial murder case of Jiangtan are two separate cases." Gu Shen said calmly: "That serial murderer... is here with me."

"What???" Hu Danian suddenly woke up.

It took him another five seconds to react.

Trying to digest the huge amount of information in Gu Shen's short sentence, Hu Danian quickly asked: "Are you... okay?"

"Well... still alive." Gu Shen glanced at the scene and said: "But my situation is not good, I can't last long, I need you to deal with the scene... I am currently in Cave No. 97 under the river beach... …”

Although this place is located in a remote place, no one will pass by in the middle of the night.

It's hard to tell once it's daylight.

I have used the Rule of Truth twice, and my mental strength is already on the verge of collapse... If I hold on harder, I can hold on for ten minutes at most, half an hour?

After a brief exchange of information, Hu Danian said anxiously: "Hang on, I'll come right away!"

hang up the phone.

Gu Shen took another deep breath. The feeling of overdrafting his energy for the second time was very bad... It was like a black hole had been opened on the top of his skull. His willpower and spirit were being sucked into the black hole. He had the erratic illusion of being drunk. Gu Shen felt like he was drunk. Shen felt that he might be broken at any time.

No!

Can't sleep!

Gritting his teeth, he summoned the blazing fire again. When the warm firelight dispersed the darkness, his whole body felt much warmer.

In order to clear his mind, Gu Shen began to force himself to think.

"Extraordinary source..."

This word springs to mind.

While solving the case of group insomnia, Gu Shen felt the extraordinary essence that Chu Ling mentioned for the first time.

His own blazing fire is an extraordinary ability with strong growth potential, but it is still very small now, and he needs to rely on absorbing the source of energy to strengthen his body... However, the extraordinary source of the Sumu Stone Sculpture is really limited, and he relies on hypnosis to remove his spirit again and again. The benefits brought by branding are too small.

After all, it is just a mark of differentiation of a D-class sealed object.

For the purpose of delivering the task, Gu Shen was not prepared to take the risk of extracting the extraordinary essence of the stone sculpture itself... This sealed object would most likely be carefully inspected, and at the moment he did not want to expose his extraordinary ability to outsiders.

At this moment, under the blessing of the blazing fire, the color of the vision changed.

The world on the shore of the river beach is no longer dark, but is divided into groups of colors, and the most conspicuous one... is the curved water.

When the world fades from darkness, the girl becomes the only black one.

A small dot of ink lies among the colorful colors, as if it has absorbed all the darkness in the world.

"Is this the... source of extraordinary beings?"

Gu Shen looked at the dead girl in the fiery world.

In the real world, after Qu Shui died, blood flowed from the center of his eyebrows, forming a pool of blood, and in the field of vision covered by blazing fire, there were wisps of shadows gathering towards her like snakes. Those shadows were the attraction of her ability to spread out independently. The result...but now she is dead, her shadow washes back and forth in the pool of blood, but she cannot be contained.

Some shadows have begun to dissipate.

Judging from this sign, it won't be long before all these extraordinary sources of energy will dissipate and no longer condense towards her.

"The essence of extraordinary beings...will dissipate into this world after their death."

He concluded silently.

"No... dissipate isn't the right word."

Even though he was extremely tired, Gu Shen's mind was still running very fast.

"Extraordinary source matter...should always exist in this world, just like air. It is invisible to most extraordinary people, but it actually exists. When the extraordinary breathing method is operating, they are absorbed, Contained, they are released when the transcendent dies.”

"When an extraordinary person dies, the source of the essence will not dissipate, but will return to the invisible 'void', and then go through a certain cycle to another place that can accommodate it... So even if it is a sealed object without life, as long as it is If you meet the conditions for containing the essence, you can also possess the extraordinary essence."

"If I want to strengthen the Blazing Fire... I need to absorb various sources. The source of my own breathing method, the source of sealed objects, and the source of extraordinary beings can all become the 'food' of the Blazing Fire."

As soon as this idea came to his mind, Gu Shen's eyes fell on Qu Shui.

"According to this situation, Blazing Fire... should be a spiritual extraordinary ability. But how should I seize her essence?"

Gu Shen thought for a while, and it seemed that he only had one option left.

Immerse the fiery fire into the spirit of the bending water.

Logically speaking, the girl is dead, her consciousness has dissipated, and she naturally has no spirit.

But removing the stone carving marks several times before made Gu Shen familiar with his blazing ability.

Different from ordinary spiritual supernatural beings, Blazing Fire seems to have an incredible power of induction. It can sense the spiritual fluctuations carried by objects and living bodies... These mental fluctuations can establish order with the blessing of Blazing Fire. Then build it into a dream that has a reflective meaning.

In Zhou Yexin's case... Chihuo saw the dream that had remained for more than ten years.

"The shadow on her body still has very strong mental fluctuations... If I want to absorb the source of essence, I can only try this way." Gu Shen wiped his cheeks vigorously, cheered up, and decided to give it a try, while he Haven't lost consciousness yet.

"Buzz!"

The small wisp of fire attached to the center of his eyebrows slowly broke away under the control of Gu Shen's will and landed on the center of Qu Shui's eyebrows. The wound with a bloody hole was burned by the blazing fire. Gives off a faint burnt smell.

Although Blazing Fire currently only displays the hypnotic power of the spiritual system, after all, there is still a physical flame with extremely high temperature.

Except for the owner Gu Shen, everyone else who comes into contact will be burned by the fire.

Since there is temperature, physical objects can be burned.

This also means... if this small flame can one day grow into a fierce tide that burns all ghosts in the "Ghost Cage", then burning down a city will only be a matter of seconds.

Just two seconds.

The blood hole on Qu Shui's forehead no longer flowed with blood. As the blazing fire descended, the extremely high temperature directly evaporated the blood flowing out.

On the bank of the colorful river beach, the small black shadow finally came into contact with the blazing flames.

The world returns to darkness.

The river roared.

Gu Shen sat in front of the muddy stone wall of Cave No. 97, lowered his head slightly and fell into a "sleep."

…

…

very tired.

Very tired, very tired, very tired.

I'm so tired that I don't want to open my eyes... I want to sleep like this.

The body is like a waterweed, being hit by waves weighing ten thousand kilograms in the sea, and being crushed repeatedly by invisible undercurrents.

Falling.

Falling.

There was a loud "pop" and it exploded like thunder.

Gu Shen suddenly woke up.

He was picked up from the bathtub by a big hand, and his left cheek felt a burning sting. Before he could react, another slap fell on his right cheek.

"Pig!"

The man carrying his body was a skinny man. His elegant round glasses were filled with moisture, but his face was full of ferocity. After two slaps, Gu Shen regained consciousness... The blazing fire soaked into the curved water and remained. in a dream.

Although the original owner is dead.

But Gu Shen still couldn't move his body freely.

The feeling now is extremely real.

He could feel that his limbs were as if they were filled with lead at the moment. Similarly, his spirit was also extremely tired, which was completely different from the overdraft feeling caused by overusing the Rule of Truth - what was surging in his mind all the time was a feeling that was close to despair. , give up your spiritual consciousness at any time.

This is... Qu Shui's father?

He felt that the man's face at this moment was vaguely overlapping with the silhouette he saw in the profiling world... very similar.

This realization has just emerged.

"Snapped!"

The third slap came so hard that Gu Shen was so dizzy that he couldn't help but want to vomit... He was immersed in the perspective of "Qushui".

The girl was beaten until she fell on her back and half of her body rolled out of the bathtub. At this moment, Gu Shen saw "himself" in the mirror, a thin and unattractive body with scars all over her body and several streaks of bright red blood on her wrists. After being cut and soaked in cold water, the flesh and blood were revealed and looked shocking.

These scabbed wounds on Qu Shui's wrist...were they left at this time?

Out of the corner of his eye, he also caught a glimpse of a body... dismembered and scattered in pieces, with its beautiful long hair wet with scarlet blood.

At this moment, severe discomfort surged from all over the body.

Finally squeezed into the stomach.

The girl couldn't help but let out a "wow" and wanted to spit something out...but there was a burst of acid reflux in her throat, maybe because she hadn't eaten for too long, and she retched and only vomited some scattered acid water. .

"dad……"

Broken cries came out from the girl's throat. She curled up and begged for mercy: "Don't..."

No one saw it except Gu Shen.

In the bathtub, a dark shadow grew larger and larger, like a shark that might jump out of the sea at any time.

This is not a dream... but a reality that is truly recorded by the extraordinary source of matter... This is the scene when Qu Shui awakens to the extraordinary.

A man who has lost his mind.

And the girl who is struggling to support herself.

This broken and painful dream fully bloomed at the moment when the black figure in the bathtub propped up his figure and broke through the water.

The man's shocked and frightened face was instantly submerged by black shadows. Countless black shadows entered from his eyes, nose, and lips, almost bursting the body. He was hit by the huge impact against the wall, and slid down softly. The girl still maintains a curled up posture... There are always poor people in this world who are fooled by fate. At the moment of awakening to the extraordinary, due to severe mental stimulation, they directly become out of control.

She is one of the lucky ones, but also the one who suffers.

At this moment, Gu Shen felt that he suddenly regained his freedom... After enduring the severe pain, he was no longer imprisoned in the girl's small body, but slowly stood up, his illusory ideology, It turned into a blazing fire.

As a third party, he came to this real and transformed dream.

The blazing fire surrounds and condenses the entity.

Gu Shen looked at the girl huddled in the corner of the bathroom in silence, and then glanced at the unconscious man.

Blazing Fire guided himself... to watch this dream, which was the purest spirit remaining in the extraordinary source of Qushui.

Once out of control, extraordinary beings have no reason at all, and everything they do is guided by the source of matter.

And in this essence, all Gu Shen felt... was only suffering, only torture.

That's why her behavior is so surly and crazy.

His father killed his mother and was about to kill himself... In this kind of despair, even if he didn't have a transcendent awakening, Qu Shui would still have a mental breakdown.

Blazing fire appeared in front of Gu Shen again.

It moved slowly, sending out a clear spiritual wave.

Gu Shen looked at the huddled girl. In this dream, the "extraordinary essence" he wanted to absorb should be here.

Do you have to kill her again to seize the source of essence?

Gu Shen was silent.

After a long silence, he stepped forward.

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…

"Cold...cold..."

The girl shivered and hid at the edge, folding her arms.

She didn't dare to look at anyone, and every pore in her body was trembling... Thousands of black shadows surrounded her, trying to form a big cocoon.

The whole world went dark.

All light disappears and all darkness sweeps away.

Until a huge clean bath towel was draped over her body.

Qu Shui's body stiffened for a moment.

She raised her head with difficulty, only to see a vague outline of a human figure. The person's body was covered in dark garbled characters, and a tiny but warm flame hung between his eyebrows.

"Put it on...it will feel better."

The voice of that figure fell on the trembling girl's ears, as if a wisp of fire suddenly appeared, illuminating the dark world. Thousands of large shadows swept together, blocked by a tiny wisp of flame and turned into a cocoon.

Looking at the trembling girl, Gu Shen sighed softly and said to Chi Huo: "If I have to kill her again... to seize the source of essence, this kind of thing... I can't do it."

Kill Qu Shui because she is out of control.

Tonight on the river beach, either you die or I live.

And the poor girl in this dream now is a sufferer wandering in a dream of nothingness.

He would show no mercy to his enemies...but Gu Shen could not make a move against such people.

Even in his dream, he could not deceive himself into acting contrary to the rules.

Blazing fire seemed to understand Gu Shen's words and swayed a bit, moving slowly.

After Gu Shen made his choice... the surroundings of this dream began to collapse, the color faded again, and the extraordinary essence attached to Qu Shui's body gradually began to dissipate on its own due to her death.

"So be it."

Gu Shen said calmly: "There will be opportunities to absorb the essence in the future."

He looked back again...preparing to leave this dream completely.

Suddenly a voice stopped him.

"Big brother……"

In the collapsed dream, the tearful girl's voice slowly bloomed as the mirror shattered, "Thank you..."

The extraordinary source that symbolized madness, rage, and anger suddenly calmed down.

"The fire between your brows... is so beautiful... I fell in love with it the first time I saw it..."

The dream collapsed.

The girl smiled softly and stretched out her palm.

In the pale palm lies a small black cocoon.

Today I suddenly got a notification that it would be put on the shelves.

The release time is at 12 noon on Friday, so the update tomorrow night will be moved a little later, and there will be an update at 12 noon on Friday.