Chapter 406: Lingering Ghost

In the afternoon, under the overcast sky, the wind from the distance blew in endless dark clouds.

The foul smell in the sewer spread in the sweltering air. Behind the iron wire fence covered with repair marks, the open space was full of weeds and thick pipes with peeling paint.

The water pumps and water purification equipment in the huge pool were still emitting sharp noises.

And between the equipment and the water pumps, on the huge iron bridge, there was only a stumbling figure like a walking corpse.

"Finally found it..."

Wen Wen pulled out the key of the motorcycle expressionlessly, looked up at the sign of the water plant: "Source of Infection."

Now in the Beishan District, no, the source of the spread of all spiritual plagues in Yacheng...

Seeming to be on guard against the tracing of the Ether Chosen, the masterminds behind the scenes made many feints, leading them to different places, but they often returned empty-handed, until Tong Hua struggled for a week and finally pieced together the final direction from countless clues.

Who would have thought that the source of pollution would be a water plant that had long been scrapped and disappeared from everyone’s sight?

And, it happened to be located on the edge of the Beishan District.

Songxiang Water Affairs, a tap water company that went bankrupt decades ago, lost the support of the City Hall due to the scarcity and delay of the municipal budget, and went bankrupt, having long since been delisted. But without a tap water company, people still had to drink water, especially the massive number of undocumented residents and immigrants in the shantytowns of the Beishan District...

Naturally, there were gangs that took over the abandoned water plant, and after a messy cleanup, they started a business that was profitable. It couldn't be called sweet and delicious, but after filtering a few times, it wouldn't kill people if boiled.

One day, becoming the source of an infectious disease seemed to be a matter of course.

But who could have thought of it?

Or rather, the strange thing was that no one thought of it, no one remembered it, and it was ignored... so much so that until the massive amount of fragmented clues and information were completely pieced together, pointing to this only possibility, the darkness hidden under the lamp appeared before everyone’s eyes.

Mind-Pivot or Mirror?

Perhaps both... perhaps...

Her mood became increasingly heavy, and her expression gloomy.

"Don't you need me?" Xiao An asked blankly in the channel.

"You come to protect Hua Hua, wait for my signal."

"But..." Xiao An hesitated, looking at the old man dozing in the car, wasn't there still Uncle Zhang?

"No, I want to take a nap."

Old Zhang yawned, patted his head, and didn't explain much: "You have to protect us well."

"Ah?"

Xiao An nodded, not understanding: "Oh, okay."

Old Zhang lowered his eyes, as if sleeping.

Only in his breathing, he sighed silently and long.

BOOM!

With a casual push, the dilapidated iron gate flew backward, like a cannonball, lifting a strong wind, swirling and embedding itself obliquely into the cement ground.

The footsteps were low, but like thunder. Visible ripples spread from Wen Wen’s feet, covering the entire water plant. The other thick pipes shook violently, the rusted screws cracked, the pipes fell off, and the foul-smelling sewage sprayed out from them, falling on the ground, mixed with a large number of moths that had not yet finished incubating, wriggling in the mud, their residual wings flapping in vain.

Then, in the ripples of trampling, they were crushed into powder!

Without concealing her tracks and killing intent.

Wen Wen, drove straight in.

The rustling sound rang out. From the corners, shadows, and crevices of the dilapidated buildings in the water plant, those mutated spiritual essence moths and even rotting, distorted corpses emerged, like a tide, screaming and closing in!

Heaven and earth were covered by shadows.

Wen Wen continued to move forward, without any hesitation, and even, with disdain...

Just in the process of moving, she coldly raised her hand and clenched it. The crystal spear appeared between her five fingers, growing out, gorgeous and cold.

Casually, she stabbed toward the earth at her feet!

Piercing like iron and stone.

Then, countless hair-raising breaking sounds rang out from the entire factory area. As the crystal spear pierced into the earth, ten thousand times the sharpness erupted from the deepest part of the earth. Countless sharp crystals pierced out from the ground, covering the earth, piercing the sky, long or short, turning the entire factory area into a sharp and ferocious crystal forest.

Even the building directly in front had countless cracks, and sharp crystals pierced out messily!

It was not contempt or arrogance, but an all-out effort in anger!

——Circle Realm, unfold!

The power of Minerva covered everything, turning everything into indestructible crystals, freezing all development, stagnating all changes. From then on, everything, under the illumination of the gorgeous and strange crystal light, welcomed true eternity!

In fact, it couldn't even be called a blow, just a natural transformation, which annihilated all the small fry and scraps that were useless except for quantity.

Then, directly in front of Wen Wen, the building split from the middle.

Following her waving action, the walls peeled off and rolled, the matter moved on its own, unfolding a path, revealing the entrance leading to the deep underground.

In the darkness, there were specks of dream-like brilliant starlight.

Massive amounts of distorted spiritual essence overflowed...

It was as if, having left the realm of matter, entering a beautiful world like a dream, the night sky that shouldn't exist was full of stars, countless illusions emerged and dissipated in the rainbow light, broken dreams were messily pieced together, piled up in a topsy-turvy way, turning into a face-changing appearance.

And right in this underground water purification plant area, the machines were still buzzing, transporting the spiritual plague to the silt that no one cared about.

Those distorted and strange figures, some had completely merged with the machines, growing together, giggling and muttering to themselves.

The distorted figures soaring in mid-air like fish cheered and laughed.

And the withered outlines that were like coral reefs, full of holes and floating dense tentacles, seemed to become fossils, emitting choked echoes in vain, and one spiritual essence tentacle after another stretched and swallowed like sea anemones...

Dense figures gathered together, and no one was similar!

The only thing that was the same was that they were all immersed in their own dreams, without noticing the arrival of outsiders at all, cheering, wailing, cursing, or muttering something confusedly.

"I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry... it was all Dad’s fault... it was me..."

"Kill, kill, kill! All die! All must die! All must... die!!!"

"You adulterous couple, I knew it, I knew it, I, I... why!!!"

"Mom, don't be afraid, we’ll go see a doctor right away... don't worry about money, there’s still plenty in the card..."

"Hehe hahaha, I knew it, it was all fake, fake!!!"

The figure wriggling in mid-air danced and cried: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it’s fake, as long as you let me see... please, let me see again..."

Wen Wen was silent.

The palm she raised froze in place.

If what she saw before was wild grass growing wildly, then what was in front of her now was a potted plant carefully built and deliberately dressed up.

All were transformed into seedbeds for Dream-Loss Syndrome...

In the entanglement of countless spiritual essences, in the deepest part of the pool, rotting and swollen corpses had completed fusion. On the water surface and in the eye sockets of the rotting corpses, the wings of one moth after another opened and closed silently like scales.

This area, where massive amounts of complex spiritual essence gathered and eroded reality, had actually completed internalization, forming large-scale distortion. If left alone, I’m afraid that after another period of time, more terrifying disasters would erupt from here!

Such a hand...

In the dead silence, she raised her head and looked at the foul-smelling pool, and finally saw the drifting figure like a mirage, the white-skirted girl standing on the water.

So strange, but the eyebrows were so familiar.

"Sister, long time no see."

The girl tilted her head, smiling happily, winking playfully: "Did you miss me?"

"...It really is you, Wen Su."

Wen Wen stepped forward expressionlessly, one step, another step, crushing all the carefully created specimens, and came to the front of the phantom, staring at the smiling face that didn't exist here: "You guys are really... lingering ghosts."

"So annoying, sister."

Wen Su pursed her lips, water mist of grievance appearing in her eyes, "Since you left home, I’ve cried for a long time, missing you.

Afraid you wouldn't eat well, wouldn't sleep well, living in poverty...

But I also hoped you wouldn't live well outside. Perhaps, that way you would come back."

Just like sisters who had been separated for a long time reunited, holding hands and looking at each other, the illusory phantom reached out, wanting to touch her cheek, but couldn't break through the obstruction of the stasis field, untouchable.

"Look at you now, sister, how could they treat you like this?"

Wen Su looked at those eyebrows with pity, wanting to touch her cheek: "Chained, locked in a cage, spine broken...

Just like a dog."

She said, "So pitiful."

"This again?"

Wen Wen was indifferent, with no reaction, and no emotional ups and downs, only a coldness and indifference like iron.

The disturbance of the Mind-Pivot could not shake the rock.

Just, looking on coldly.

Thus, that young face full of expectation gradually stiffened, hard to hide the disappointment.

"Don't be like this, sister, we are sisters, at least give some reaction, okay?" Wen Su pouted: "I went to great lengths to prepare such a big surprise for you.

Unfortunately, that bunch of trash from Bai Bang couldn't be used at all. Instead, these little things I brought over secretly had a great effect. How about it, these are all for you!"

She spread her arms, proudly showing off the hell she created: "Do you like it?"

BOOM!!!

In that instant, hell disintegrated.

Everything in sight vanished into thin air, turning into dust. Cries, laughter, murmurs, and accusations were all gone. Desire and despair were annihilated, leaving no trace.

Like waking from a dream.

Without mercy, she smashed the gift her sister gave her into pieces!

In fact, she reached out her hand again.

Breaking through the deflection of the phantom, breaking the boundary between matter and spiritual essence, she grabbed that drifting, illusory figure, pinching her neck.

Tightening inch by inch!

"Yes, just like this, this is the real you!"

Wen Su’s eyes lit up, not caring at all that her neck seemed to have been grabbed, cheering: "Cry when you should cry, laugh when you should laugh, if you want to lose your temper, just vent it to your heart’s content, don't hide, don't pretend, just like the sun!"

The phantom in Wen Wen’s hand disintegrated!

Wen Su appeared again, reaching out, hugging her intimately, sticking close to her chest:

"I just like you so much!"