Lord of Deception

Taking one step forward, all the sheep around him disappeared, leaving only Yu Ziqing standing alone on the path.

The right side is still the same, but the dead trees on the left are not so dead.

The woman poked her head out from the hole behind a dead tree, with a hint of unbearableness in her eyes. She hesitated and called out to Yu Ziqing.

"Go this way, it's dangerous over there."

Only this time, her image was a little different. Her cheeks were sunken, her face was withered, she was skinny and skinny, her hair was like hay, she was wearing a dirty, thin gown, and she was covered with straw curtains and tree bark.

Without waiting for Yu Ziqing to answer, he saw where Yu Ziqing was, a skinny woman who was also dirty walked out and shouted with a hint of surprise.

"There really are people."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw several men rushing out from the hillside not far away.

Several people were stooped and running very fast, their eyes were red, and their mouths were unconsciously opened to reveal their fangs.

They laughed and ran towards the woman on the hillside.

The woman's expression changed slightly, and she immediately realized that she had been fooled. She turned around and ran out from behind the dead tree, which also revealed a swaddle in her arms.

When the men saw this, they immediately burst out laughing, looking like crazy and salivating.

"There is also a little kid, hahaha."

The woman's expression was full of despair and fear. She tightened the baby in her arms, turned around and ran away. When she reached the end of the hillside, she seemed to remember that there was a cliff hidden here. Looking back, she saw a thick An irreversible feeling of despair penetrated Yu Ziqing's eyes.

He knew that this was just an illusion, or a former illusion.

He stood there and caught a glimpse of a white-feathered arrow, which appeared from nowhere and suddenly pierced her chest. She staggered to the ground, gritted her teeth, and with the most desperate expression, used her last strength to hold the baby in her hand. Throw it into the bottomless abyss behind.

At this point, he completely fell to the ground and became motionless.

The woman's figure also turned from real to virtual, and slowly dissipated. Then in just a few breaths, the woman's figure turned from virtual to real again, appearing on the hillside.

She poked half of her head out of a dead tree again, hesitated, and shouted unbearably.

"Go this way, it's dangerous over there."

And the guy who was also a woman but appeared as bait also appeared and shouted in surprise.

"There really are people."

It is indeed a replay, but it keeps replaying and will not play the next one.

Yu Ziqing knew that if he couldn't deal with this woman who didn't know whether she was a ghost or something, he really wouldn't be able to get out.

Unfortunately, I know too little information now. I looked down at the dagger, but there was no movement.

His ability, as far as it can be explored so far, can only be activated in a targeted manner after knowing some necessary information about the opponent. As long as it is triggered, he will definitely have the power to kill the opponent.

To be more precise, this only includes the enemies we have encountered so far. We don’t know who are stronger.

But if he didn't know anything, he would now be an ordinary person who couldn't eat enough all day long and was about to starve to death.

But now, he doesn't even know the other person's last name.

Yu Ziqing tried his best to recall the scattered information that he had overheard before, then took out the recipe book and looked through the complicated and fragmented information that was recorded in order to prevent forgetting.

Unfortunately, not at all. Those strong men never mentioned the strange situation here.

The most likely possibility is that the last time those people came here, they didn’t have these things.

The weirdest thing on the right is the quicksand-like leaf litter, which looks like the mouths of evil beasts waiting to be fed.

And the woman on the left probably understands it now.

Most likely it is a ghost with deep obsessions. From the current point of view, it will not take the initiative to harm others. It is just that the resentment and obsession are too deep, and it has fallen into the abyss of despair and cannot extricate itself.

She is bound to this place by herself, and will only experience her most desperate moment over and over again, which is quite typical.

And the phrase "It's dangerous over there" is not a lure at all.

That statement was just pure compassion.

Thinking about it, this was what she regretted the most.

When I saw a weak and lonely woman, and was about to step into the locust tree forest on the right, I felt compassion for a moment and reminded her, who would have thought of harming me.

Now that Yu Ziqing is trapped here, the other party doesn't do anything to him. The only thing that can be said to be dangerous for the time being is not to die of thirst, starvation or freezing.

When it was played back for the third time, Yu Ziqing couldn't help it.

"Girl, what's your surname? Can you tell me your name?"

"If I build a monument for you, I have to engrave a name on it, right?"

"Sister, it's useless for you to trap me here. We have no grudges in the past, and we have no grudges in recent times. Moreover, I have never eaten the same kind of people. Ever since I came to this hellish place with cold weather and cold weather, I have not even had any grudges. I gave up my favorite mutton!”

The other party remained silent and ignored Yu Ziqing at all. He just fell into the abyss of despair over and over again.

Yu Ziqing was almost desperate.

To be honest, he never thought that ghosts would not show their claws and cause harm to people, but would ignore them, which would make people even more desperate.

"Sister, what's the use of messing with me? What's the use of staying here and being unable to extricate yourself? If you're really resentful, go kill your enemy.

Take a step back and say, even if you can't get out, if you let me out, if I meet your enemies, I will be a good person and do good deeds and kill them for you, which is better than you trapping me.

If you take a step back and say, you are afraid that I will fall out when I go out, then it is still possible for me to remember this incident. It won't do you any harm to take a gamble.

What if?

What if I am a good person, what if I happen to meet your enemy, what if I am merciful and avenge you, chop off their heads and give them to you. "

Speaking of this, Yu Ziqing paused for a moment, almost not believing it...

After an hour, Yu Ziqing was shaking all over. He touched his arms and found only a few strips of beef jerky hidden under his body, which were life-saving resources at the bottom of the box.

"Hey, big sister, please let me go now. Just bet that what I say is true. You won't suffer any loss anyway.

If you delay it any longer, you may never be able to get your revenge. This is absolutely true. "

His persuasion was useless, the other party still ignored him, but after reading it over and over again, Yu Ziqing lost his words and no longer wanted to persuade the other party to let him go.

He just felt that he was freezing to death, and this world was full of despair.

Despair has no room for compassion.

This is not right, nor should it be.

Shouldn't...

Yu Ziqing's mind suddenly moved, and he forced himself to calm down. When the new playback started, he quietly felt it and quietly took part in it.

Especially when the woman threw the baby off the cliff, the feeling of despair was like the sea water coming from all directions in the deep sea, suffocating him.

Feeling and thinking again, Yu Ziqing realized that he seemed to have gone astray from the beginning.

From the beginning, he thought the ghost was in the wrong place. From the beginning, he felt that this female ghost was going to trick him.

If this premise itself is wrong, then everything that follows may be wrong.

This female ghost may not have intentionally trapped him here, nor did she intend to harm him. It is a very normal psychological issue to think about from the perspective of a normal person.

No one would want to expose their most desperate scars to others over and over again, and force others to see them.

Since she didn't want to harm anyone and even ignored the visitor, she couldn't really be one of those rare perverts with a twisted mentality. She didn't look like it.

Therefore, if the other party is not trying to trick him, the purpose from the beginning is to remind him that the woods on the right are dangerous and it is safe to go this way.

That……

Yu Ziqing shivered and shrank his hands, kept moving in place, trying not to freeze to death, while continuing to think.

Since it's not the female ghost who wants to harm him, then it's the problem of the place under his feet.

Looking up and catching a glimpse of the cliff at the end of the hillside, Yu Ziqing suddenly had a guess.

The place under your feet is like an abyss, an abyss of despair. Anyone who steps into it will fall in and be trapped here, including the female ghost. She is trapped by the abyss of despair that she has inadvertently created.

After thinking about this, when the new playback started, Yu Ziqing took out a small cloth bag half the size of a palm from his arms. After opening it, he took out a piece of beef jerky that was no longer than the length of his little finger and tremblingly rushed to the woman. Next to the ghost, he stuffed it into the opponent's hand.

The woman was slightly startled, looking down at the beef jerky in her hand, lost in thought.

"Take it, eat some, you'll definitely get through it."

The surrounding environment also changed at the same time. The change was not centered on the female ghost, but on Yu Ziqing.

There was something unexpected and complicated in her eyes. The next moment, water-like lines spread out with Yu Ziqing as the center.

Yu Ziqing felt a slight weightlessness. In the blink of an eye, everything returned to its original state. He was standing on the hillside. The female ghost had disappeared, and the sheep at the foot of the hillside also appeared again.

The feeling of despair that weighed heavily on my heart and made it difficult to breathe also disappeared.

There was something complicated about Yu Ziqing's body, and he sighed secretly. It was just as he had guessed. The illusion that kept replaying was an abyss of despair, a ghostly place that could not tolerate a trace of compassion.

Before he was overwhelmed by despair, he felt a little bit of compassion that he didn't know if it was sincere, but it was spat out.

Lao Yang stood next to Yu Ziqing and kept nudging him with his head, pulling Yu Ziqing back from his trance.

"Old sir, I'm fine, let's go."

After taking two steps, Yu Ziqing stopped, paused for two breaths, turned around decisively, took out his dagger, walked to the dead tree, and carved a few crooked characters on the dead tree.

In the tomb of Xian Xian, Zi Qing was established.

After thinking about it, Yu Ziqing added another column next to it.

The tomb of the son of Xian Xian was established in Qing Dynasty.

"I don't know your name yet. I almost don't have the energy to speak, let alone dig stones to make a monument. I'll give you a nickname. I'll use a dead tree to make a monument. The meaning is there. Don't dislike it."

"Look, no, it will happen just in case I said it would happen."

"Also, don't blame yourself. Your child definitely doesn't blame you, really."

Unless she does something, Yu Ziqing always feels unhappy. This broken place cannot tolerate the slightest compassion from others regardless of whether it is true or false, but it still wants to torture her with compassion. If she is really completely black If he melted, he might have escaped long ago.

What a broken place this is.

If ghosts don’t harm people, it’s all humans who harm them.

Yu Ziqing turned around and left. Lao Yang stretched his neck and looked at the writing with a strange look in his eyes. In the end, he couldn't bear to look directly at it, so he shook his head and walked along.

Yu Ziqing was a little angry.

"This word doesn't exist in the text you taught me. I'll change it to something with a similar meaning. What's wrong?

Besides, it’s not my fault that the writing is ugly. I’m cold, hungry, and my hands are shaking. "

Lao Yang shook his head, indicating that that was not what he was talking about, and nuzzled Yu Ziqing's chest.

"You say I'm stingy? The smallest one? What do you know? This is my lifeblood. My life is given by these few beef jerky..."

Seeing that Yu Ziqing didn't seem to understand, Lao Yang stopped signaling and just grinned, listening to Yu Ziqing's exasperated explanation.

By the time Yu Ziqing and the remaining sheep gradually drifted away, they disappeared on the trail.

From the tree hole behind the dead tree, the woman floated out, gently touching the newly engraved handwriting with one hand, and holding the small piece of beef jerky left by Yu Ziqing in the other hand, and looked at it quietly for a long time.

A moment later, when the abyss came again, the woman held the beef jerky tightly in one hand and was dragged into the abyss again.

This time, it seems a little different.