Crown of Silence

On the floor, the ghost mother stepped on him and strangled his throat tightly, watching the boy's futile struggle and his gradual suffocation.

But for a moment, the trance in the young man's eyes ended.

He finally woke up from the nightmare, raised his eyes, and stared at the ghost mother, but his eyes passed through her and fell into the void, just like looking at those high-ranking faces in the upper city.

"Do you still remember me?"

His bloodshot pupils seemed to have lava swirling in them: "——I'm not dead yet!"

He clenched his fists. He reached out his hand and squeezed her wrist tightly. Blood flows from the wound, bringing hot pain:

"I'm back……"

At that moment, the ghost mother looked into his eyes and was stunned.

She felt that the boy's hand seemed to have lost its flesh and blood and turned into something harder, and she could no longer feel the soft touch. She tightened her grip on his wrist like an iron pincer, and there was an unshakable determination in the frail strength.

In the smoke-filled hallucination of fear, the boy's appearance was distorted and quietly transformed.

It was as if she turned into an evil ghost in an instant. She was clearly being strangled by the neck, but after grabbing the ghost mother's wrist, she felt that she had no way to escape. This damn bastard is particularly rational, and his eyes are like wells leading to the world of fire, with burning light.

"Are you still scared?"

Ye Qingxuan's voice was like scrap metal rubbing against each other, so hoarse. He pulled away the ghost mother's hand and punched her in the face.

"I'm used to it!"

"Damn it, what are you going to do, are you..."

The ghost mother roared and struggled hard, but the boy didn't care about her, he just raised his hand and punched her! One punch! One punch! One punch! The skin feels broken, but I can't feel it. The pain in the phalanges seemed too small to be noticed.

The ghost mother was screaming and saying something...but he couldn't hear clearly. He was silent, immersed in the murmurs of those hallucinations, like mechanical punches.

The world seemed to be quiet again. Ye Qingxuan listened absently to the cries lingering in his ears and watched the faces appear in front of him.

For a long, long time, the ghost mother went from struggling wildly at the beginning to being completely silent at the end.

Ye Qingxuan let go of his hand, threw her to the ground, and stopped looking at her, even though she seemed to still be alive.

The hallucinations lingering in his mind became more intense. The ethereal ghosts and madmen were hovering around him, pulling at him, as if they were dragging him into hell.

But he staggered forward, and there was something more important there.

"Bai Xi."

Ye Qingxuan stared at the girl's face, looking at her pale face - her long hair clung to her cheeks, dim and messy. She was struggling in the nightmare, as if she was still soaked in fear and struggling desperately.

She had woken up, but her dull eyes showed that her consciousness was still in pain.

"it hurts……"

She looked at Ye Qingxuan blankly, her lips trembling, and asked softly: "Am I dead?"

Ye Qingxuan didn't answer, but a trace of disappointment flashed across her eyes, as if it was a pity.

"I'm sorry." He picked up Bai Xi and murmured softly.

Only at this time did Ye Qingxuan realize how hypocritical he was. He didn't save Bai Xi because she was pitiful;

Just because...she looks so much like me.

When Lao Fei brought her back that night, Ye Qingxuan chose to pull her in the door. Later, Bai Xi once asked him why he wanted to save himself. Ye Qingxuan told her that he saved Bai Xi because of the look in her eyes, but that was not the case, not at all.

That kind of sad and sad look is actually saying: Leave me alone, don't come close to me, and...

——Don’t save me.

Maybe she already knew that anyone who had anything to do with her would be pulled into the quagmire.

She was afraid to be with anyone. Because she had known for a long time that this day would come and those people would eventually find her. Because on this day, everyone who has loved her will begin to hate why they have anything to do with her...

She was always afraid. perform

"Do not be afraid."

Ye Qingxuan hugged her: "I will not abandon you."

-

In the smoke of fear, he staggered out of the door, struggling to find the exit in the fog. Layers of hallucinations were suppressed by pain, but his sanity still remained.

But for a moment, I felt something wrapped around my neck, as familiar as a noose.

It's an invisible ghost...

In the thick mist, the form of the invisible ghost is slowly condensing again.

He turned his head in astonishment and saw the ghost mother with a twisted face in a pool of blood, murmuring in a low voice and with a twisted face. Her old face was visibly decaying, and her body was rapidly drying up.

But the invisible ghosts in the madness seemed to be reined in again, and they reunited under her silent command...

On that old and twisted face, the runes were crawling like reptiles.

The runes once etched into the flesh by the alchemist's forbidden magic were awakened.

They drew blood and gained strength, causing the teeth in the hag's mouth that looked like distorted facial features to scream, calling for the ghosts. In the scream, invisible demons emerged from the ether.

This is a taboo transformation technology that exchanges lifespan for power. The human body is transformed through alchemy like an instrument, and additional vocal organs are implanted... By transforming the human body to communicate with the ether, even ordinary people who cannot become musicians can awaken Sheet music engraved on her body.

The blood of all living creatures in this place was used as a sacrifice, and the music from the fallen Holy Spirit - "Di Li Che·Prologue" was awakened.

So, the frantic invisible ghosts crawled out of the blood, floating in the air with a trace of blood, wandering around, and finally looked at the ghost woman with dark pupils, staring at her blood representing life, with eager eyes.

The ghost woman coughed violently, took a tube of dark green potion, and screamed again. Then, one after another, the vague ghosts crawled out of the pool of blood.

"Don't worry, there is still a lot of blood here..." The ghost woman's eyes were full of hideousness: "After handing over the little girl, there will be more."

She took out the snow-white ashes from her pocket, which were the remains of the bones after calcination. The ashes were sprinkled into the blood, and then the bodies of the invisible ghosts were filled again, like a quagmire. Some children's faces vaguely emerged among them, and they seemed to be suffocated and drowned in the blood.

So the invisible ghosts were obedient and obeyed her orders.

She looked at Ye Qingxuan's staggering back with a grin, chanting the secret words to control the invisible ghost.

Can't escape.

None of you can escape.

You will all die here.

-

The entire abandoned sewer was now surrounded by blood.

Blood-colored liquid oozed from the wall, with a shrill color. They attached to the stone and moved forward like black water. Wherever they passed, the old moss instantly turned yellow, and spiders and mosquitoes were completely swallowed up and disappeared.

There was a sharp and hoarse voice, and the whistle was like iron wire, scraping the wall and echoing in every corner. Every time it echoed, Ye Qingxuan would feel a bit suffocated,

and the cervical vertebra seemed to be clicking under the strong restraint.

He was exhausted and staggered to the ground.

The screaming sounded again, and countless blurred hands extended from the blood-red, groping in all directions, as if looking for Bai Xi's trace.

Ye Qingxuan hid Bai Xi behind him and silently looked for a place to escape. But this time, he found that there was no way to escape.

In his arms, Bai Xi stared at his eyes in a daze, and suddenly asked softly: "Are we hopeless?"

Ye Qingxuan held her in silence.

"So that's it."

She understood and lowered her eyes dimly.

In the screaming of the ghost mother, countless invisible ghosts crawled out of the blood-red.

They gathered together, like a blood-red torrent suddenly appeared in the narrow space, rushing straight towards Ye Qingxuan.

Along the way, invisible claws stretched out from the blood-red, frantically scratching everything within reach. Walls, wooden boards, iron sheets or other things, all things covered with blood were left with tragic scratches.

Ye Qingxuan stared at it silently as it rushed towards him, and used all his strength to push the girl in his arms away. At least this way, she could still survive.

But Bai Xi held his hand tightly, catching him off guard.

She did not get away obediently, but stood in front of Ye Qingxuan, letting the strong wind sweep her and pull her towards the shattering vortex.

She took a deep breath, and her white hair lit up as if burning.

Facing the bloody rush, the skin on her cheek that had healed cracked again, ansh. c It was as if the power of thunder was brewing in that slender body.

As if he was recalling something, he raised his palm forward and bent his slender index finger.

At that moment, a blazing glow lit up from her fingertips!

The surging power tore the skin of her arm, and the blood veins spread inch by inch, but the terrible power filled her body, as if to evaporate her from the inside out and turn her into ashes.

Then, she pointed her index finger at the blood-colored vortex.

It was like a huge bell sounding again, and a terrifying loud noise followed!

In the roar that made people lose their will, the lightning of thunder spread from her fingertips, flashed for a moment, and sank into the blood of the invisible ghost.

That inexplicable power seemed to awaken for a moment, and lasted only for a snap of a finger.

But in the blink of an eye, the blood-colored torrent was swallowed by the lightning. The light burned the blood, tore the invisible ghost apart, and evaporated it. Those painful evil ghosts roared and turned into ashes.

In an instant, the blood-colored vortex suddenly swelled and exploded. Thick blood mist swept around with the explosion.

But in the end, there was still a shrill blood shadow that penetrated the lightning and rushed towards Bai Xi.

The last impact left by the crazy invisible ghost was to tear this little girl who had no power to fight back into pieces, and her bones and flesh turned into mud! !

In the last moment, Bai Xi stared at it, and a smile appeared on his pale face.

Perhaps, it would be good to die like this. At least... there is still some meaning.