Chapter 197: Lingering Regret

The moment he was locked by those pupils, Ji Jue in the car felt his hair stand on end, his whole body cold.

But immediately after, he fell into a daze... *You chased all the way here, pouncing on the window like a ghost seeking revenge, and then invited me to have a meal together? *

*What meal? *

Then, he felt something was wrong.

Everyone in the car turned their heads silently and looked at him, including Lu Feng beside him, who, in shock, instinctively moved out a bit, his eyes suspicious:

—You guys are in the same gang?

*Wait, could it be that you were the one who led the ghosts here? *

*No... *

Ji Jue glared in grief and indignation, *I finally managed to join the team, how did I suddenly become a mole? *

Faced with this sudden slander, he hadn't even had time to refute it loudly, and someone was already impatient.

On the roof of the car, Ji Liu, who had been waiting for the signal for a long time, descended from the sky the moment he received Tong Shan's signal.

"—Drop the screw!"

A distance of only two meters, but it was like a meteorite falling from the sky, stomping!

Instantly, the weird figure that pounced was stepped under his feet; clearly it was just a stomp, but it set off a desolate red tide, spreading, causing everything around to distort instantly from the impact.

Blessing·【Wind Sweeps the Fallen Leaves】!

Immediately after, blood fire flowed and surged, covering his right hand, reaching forward, grabbing the figure's neck, pulling it up from the ground, and smashing it down!

The spiritual quality that turned into flames sprayed out, instantly swallowing the twisted and wriggling figure!

It was like pouring a layer of gasoline; the blood fire was like a maggot on the bone, spreading rapidly, and wherever it passed, everything turned to ashes.

Such an astonishing spiritual quality fluctuation, and even the terrifying destruction against all tangible things, was not just the inherited technique, its foundation was another crucial high-level blessing of the Great Crowd—【Destroying the Rotten and Breaking the Dry】!

In just a flick of a finger, the screaming and wriggling figure disappeared without a trace, leaving only ashes drifting down from Ji Liu's hand.

"What kind of thing..."

Ji Liu snorted disdainfully.

But immediately after, his expression changed drastically, and he turned around abruptly.

Then, he discovered that the weird doorway with the broken curtain had appeared behind him at some point. Behind the curtain, an outline exactly the same as the face just now poked out, smiling weirdly, and a hand was already reaching toward him.

Wanting to drag him into the door.

"Come sit, come sit, come in..."

Ji Liu's figure retreated violently, moving fast, but the doorway followed him closely. Until a roar erupted, an invisible force in the air appeared, and the terrifying pressure above the Sea Abyss descended, locking the doorway.

Tong Shan finally made a move.

In Ji Liu's hand, a curved blade appeared out of thin air, slashing down from the top, cutting the laughing figure into two sections from top to bottom. Under his sister's cover, he flipped back into the car.

The split figure actually grew rapidly in mid-air, turning into two, and pounced again with a desolate laugh.

Then, it suddenly stalled.

It was as if a nail had suddenly been nailed under their feet, causing the split weird shadows to convulse violently, the high-pitched laughter sounding like hissing and roaring.

That was a line of silver light.

Just as others were preparing to make a move, Ji Jue, who had reacted, waved his hand, and from behind the crack of the car window, flicked out a grain of mercury. After injecting a large amount of spiritual quality, the mercury, under the ejection of "Hand of Heaven," was comparable to a bullet, flying through the center of the two afterimages, and thousands of fine rays spread out like spider silk.

The ones that fell on Ji Liu snapped instantly in the blowing wind, but a few silver threads that landed on the two weird shadows tightened and contracted instantly.

Tough as steel cables.

An invisible spiritual quality vortex erupted from the mercury, like an invisible big mouth, pulling the afterimages, and the storm was sucked in!

The two weird shadows stiffened in place, their movements slowed down rapidly, flickering violently, but what made Ji Jue frown was that the afterimages seemed to have taken root, and the gravity of solid alchemy simply couldn't pull them into the shackles of mercury.

Something's wrong!

Completely wrong!

Even in a hurry, for the sake of insurance, Ji Jue had used double the amount of mercury after estimating the volume.

According to past experience, such residual spirits, let alone two, four or five would have been handled.

But now, they couldn't be pulled at all.

It was as if he had just bent down to pull out weeds, but when he pulled the roots hard, he found that a deeper and larger root system was hidden underground.

That weirdly laughing afterimage was just a manifestation; behind it, some behemoth was hidden, so it could be reborn as soon as it was destroyed, and even if it was burned to ashes by "Destroying the Rotten and Breaking the Dry," it could reappear rapidly, lingering and entangling.

But under the shackles and pulling of mercury, in a moment of entanglement, Tong Shan had decisively stepped on the accelerator and galloped away.

Just two seconds later, the mercury burst and evaporated, but the weird figure that was lingering and entangling could no longer find its target. No matter how it searched, it couldn't smell the breath and traces of the outsiders.

On the empty street, it laughed miserably and screamed, crying, but in the end, in the doorway behind the broken curtain, a hand reached out and waved at it.

Amidst the wailing and laughter, it was like a mad dog tied with a rope, dragged into the darkness.

The curtain danced slightly in the wind, and finally, disappeared with the broken doorway.

Or perhaps it just returned to silence, waiting for the next visitor to deliver themselves to the door.

"What exactly is that thing?"

In the car, Ji Jue, who had come back to his senses, wiped his sweat; in less than ten minutes of entering Quancheng, he had already broadened his horizons twice.

The seemingly ordinary shadow was a projection of a weird thing, and the weak residual spirit that lingered was impossible to kill, lingering and not dispersing.

"Have you seen horror movies?"

Ji Xue sighed: "Just treat it as the fierce ghost inside; once entangled, it will be endless.

Sometimes you're lucky and find a way to restrain it, and you can expel it. But if you can't expel it, a pioneer exploration trip will be written off, and it might even lead to casualties.

You both read the security manual, right? If a stranger you meet inside asks you, don't talk, don't pay attention, leave immediately. Teammates who leave your sight must also be verified for identity; who knows if they will be impersonated in the blink of an eye.

The Second Team of Ship City suffered; when they were discovered, there were already three more people in the team, and they couldn't tell them apart, so they could only trouble Master Tao to take action."

Ji Jue looked at their appearance as if they were used to it, and felt a little cold: "This thing... are there many?"

Ji Xue was silent for a moment, turned back to look at him, and said softly:

"Everywhere."

When Quancheng fell decades ago, Master Tao made a decisive decision, advanced to Heavenly Human, and like a pillar of heaven, supported the entire Quancheng for two hours, leaving a glimmer of life for all citizens.

But except for the survivors who escaped Quancheng in the first time during those two hours, there were a large number of victims who could not escape due to accidents and various unexpected events.

They fell with the entire Quancheng, and in the dark fall, they struggled to survive. Some of the lucky ones were found by subsequent rescue teams, and others, long before that, had been completely alienated and mutated, or, died.

Flesh rotted, weathered, turned into dust, souls twisted, broken, or dissolved into unrecognizable appearances during the aberration.

Those countless lingering regrets, madness, hatred, and despair scattered with the wind, and in this long time, they had long since merged with everything that had changed beyond recognition.

In the end, many years later, a tiny fraction, under the catalysis of the Evil-Transforming Sect, formed a tumor that bred sin-things, drifting toward Yacheng...

Ji Jue was silent, sighed silently, and had nothing to say.

On the roof of the car, there was a rhythmic knocking sound.

Tong Shan waved his hand, so Jiang Xuan stood up supporting the seat and got on the roof, while Ji Liu fell down, his expression twitching, sucking in cold air: "Mom, something's wrong, little sister, help me take a look."

Saying that, he stuck out his butt.

"Get lost!"

Ji Xue was furious, just about to kick over, and then saw a pitch-black fingerprint on the protective clothing on his butt...

Xu Zhao couldn't help but laugh, "Big Liu, you were touched on the butt by someone? Do you want me to crown you the First Butt of Yacheng?"

"Get lost." Ji Liu rolled his eyes, gritted his teeth and took off the protective clothing, only to see the clear fingerprint on his snow-white butt.

Then, everyone couldn't laugh anymore.

Sin-tainted pollution.

No, more like a mark.

If it stays, who knows when that ghost thing just now will come to the door.

"As it is, there is no other way." Ji Xue's expression changed, revealing a painful smile, and pulled out a dagger from her boot, ignoring Ji Liu's shocked and fearful expression: "Only dig it out."

"Holy crap, wait..."

"Delay will lead to changes, can't wait!" Ji Xue glared: "Don't worry, I will definitely give you a quick one, mine is big, brother, bear with it."

Watching the bright knife repeatedly gesturing on his butt, Ji Liu was more and more terrified, and before he could stop it, Ji Xue's hand was grabbed.

Ji Jue.

"Sister Xue, don't be anxious, it may not be so tragic."

He pushed the dagger back, and Ji Liu immediately beamed with joy: "Oh, Little Ji is still a kind person... I'll be damned!!!!"

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw Ji Jue pull out a bone short knife that was even more exaggerated than the dagger just now, and then neatly and cleanly, stabbed it into his buttock.

"Hiss—"

The sound of sucking in cold air sounded in unison.

In the whole car, everyone's butt felt a phantom pain.

Before Ji Liu could struggle, he only felt his butt cool, and then, the original burning pain disappeared. Ji Jue pulled out the knife, wiped the non-existent blood on the blade with mercury tin foil like paper, and sheathed the knife: "Alright."

"Huh?"

Ji Liu turned his head stiffly, looking at the reflection of the mobile phone screen, and found that the pitch-black fingerprint on his butt had disappeared without a trace; not only that, there wasn't even a knife cut on his body, and everything just now seemed like a hallucination.

It's alright! ===== CHAPTER 198 =====