Chapter 193: Ghost Groom

Wen Renjing was already on the verge of death.

Facing the terrifying ninja, all his actions couldn't cause any effective damage.

In fact, his sequence had long since failed.

But he could feel that the ninja hadn't left yet and was still bound by him.

But the next second, he suddenly had another feeling; it wasn't that the ninja hadn't left—

But that the ninja couldn't leave anymore.

A kind of strange power, which even he, as someone with no combat power, could feel, was filling the world.

In March, the night in Hujiang always came especially early.

At this time, however, a sun suddenly appeared in the sky.

Strange sunlight fell on Wen Renjing, and his consciousness actually began to recover slowly from a shattered state.

On the contrary, the ninja he used his life to trap was melting like chocolate.

"This... what on earth is going on?"

"My body should have reached its limit."

Vitality was recovering visibly to the naked eye. And the sun in the sky was still constantly expanding.

In the basement.

Morita Hitomi was surprised to find... his body was not only not further twisting, but was shedding the "Heavenly Eye God" state at an extremely fast speed.

He was turning back into a human.

"Why is it like this? Sister Xiaoxing, why am I getting further and further away from the Heavenly Eye God?"

Akiyama Xiaoxing seemed to be enduring extreme pain.

Misfortune and suffering never disappeared but were transferred to Akiyama Xiaoxing.

Those black eerie energies seemed to be sucked away by Akiyama Xiaoxing. Morita Hitomi only felt countless ant-sized black particles constantly being transferred; they were densely packed together, as if conducting a great migration.

But what made him puzzled was that once these black substances entered Akiyama Xiaoxing's body, the next second they would rapidly transform into some kind of golden substance.

They gathered toward Akiyama Xiaoxing's body in the form of black particles, but eventually, they were like steaming golden mist, ignoring all obstacles and flying toward the sky.

Akiyama Xiaoxing gritted her teeth and squeezed out a smile. Under the huge pain and misfortune, she smiled quite ugly:

"My happiness... is the hope that you, Hitomi, will no longer be hurt by others. My happiness... is the longing for you to obtain happiness too."

"Longing for this world, for all the people who love us to obtain happiness."

"Longing for this world, for all the kind people to be taken care of."

Blood seeped from the corners of Xiaoxing's mouth; not only the corners of her mouth, but her eyes, nose, mouth, and ears were all seeping blood.

One could imagine the pain she was enduring had begun to ravage her body.

But soon, her body was repaired by some power.

Morita Hitomi was stunned.

Many pieces of information appeared in his mind.

They were memories that didn't belong to him. He seemed to suddenly know everything.

A large number of conversations, a large number of fragments, made him impacted by huge sadness, and the whole person was at a loss.

"That child? No, that's not a child at all; that's simply a container for storing evil."

"Everyone's misfortune is a kind of evil thing. Do you see it? He is feeding on our misfortune; he is turning into some kind of evil object."

"Immortal Sentian, you must kill it in the end; it's such an ugly thing!"

"Immortal Sentian, that ugly thing has nothing to do with you, right?"

"Devil, that is definitely a devil! It's just sealed by Immortal Sentian!"

Countless similar words drifted across Morita Hitomi's mind like a barrage of bullet comments.

In his eyes, the light suddenly dimmed.

But next was what truly made him despair.

"Yes, this is a ghost, a ghost that swallows others' happiness, but it has been refined by me. Now, it can swallow your misfortune."

"It is becoming uglier and uglier; it is evolving toward the Heavenly Eye Evil God."

"But everyone, rest assured, I will kill it."

"It has nothing to do with me, of course; it is just an ability I use to show my arts."

"Although I don't know where you heard it from, that I have a younger brother... but I'm sorry, I am all alone."

"Don't be afraid. I know it made you feel disgusted, but that is a thing of the lower world; it was born ugly, and now, it will become even uglier, but you will become happy."

The light in his eyes disappeared completely, and two silent tears hung on Morita Hitomi's face.

So everything was fake.

So in his eyes, I was just a tool.

He, and they, had never loved me.

The scene hadn't ended yet.

When fate sweeps you to the bottom, it also means fate will lift you up again.

"That child... is a true angel. We must save him."

"Must let him recognize Morita Yu's true face."

"I want to save him, please, you must save him."

The memories of Wen Renjing, Wen Xishu, and Akiyama Xiaoxing appeared bit by bit.

Compared to the previous sweeping curses and loathing, the memories from these three people were not many...

After all, everything appeared only in March, far from covering his previous ten-plus years of life.

But in Morita Hitomi's eyes, there was light again.

"He can give many people happiness, but he cannot give himself happiness. How can we make him get rid of misfortune?"

"So I... I should change the source of my misfortune."

"Yes, Xiaoxing, this is the most critical step in our battle plan."

"My misfortune is Hitomi's misfortune. When my misfortune... is that Hitomi cannot obtain happiness, Hitomi absorbs this part of misfortune, and he can obtain happiness. In that way, those who make Hitomi unfortunate will find it very difficult to control Hitomi again."

A huge sense of guilt arose.

Morita Hitomi suddenly felt he was very useless.

So there was no Heavenly Eye God; so the Heavenly Eye God was just a lie. The moment he became the Heavenly Eye God was the moment he died.

What was ridiculous was that he gave Sister Xiaoxing hope time and time again, thinking he could save her unfortunate life.

But in the end, the one who bore all the pain and crossed the obstacles of fate to save himself was Sister Xiaoxing.

Morita Hitomi hugged Akiyama Xiaoxing tightly.

"I'm sorry...

Akiyama Xiaoxing shook her head slightly:

"Actually... it is precisely because of you that I realized, perhaps they were wrong, and perhaps even I can be gifted happiness by someone."

"Xiaotong, you have nothing to apologize to me for. The ones who truly owe us an apology are those who hurt us."

"Now... let us turn everything around!"

Countless misfortunes make countless people happy.

But these happinesses are all stolen happiness.

Those misfortunes never disappeared; they simply covered Morita Hitomi, torturing Morita Hitomi.

But as it happens, this world still possesses a power that can truly transform misfortune into a certain rule.

The former District 20 was baptized by this power, and thus the rule of Pain Currency appeared.

But now, a new rule, more powerful, more absolute, and with a wider coverage, has appeared.

Hujiang Grand Hotel.

Wen Xishu—or rather, the Ghost Groom—whose consciousness had been completely swallowed by resentment, had by this moment bloodied the entire Hujiang Grand Hotel.

Originally, because he was suppressed by Wen Xishu's will, the Ghost Groom's strength could not be fully unleashed, and he had been deliberately avoiding excessive slaughter.

But now, the Ghost Groom had no more restrictions.

And his red figure finally arrived outside the grand hotel.

This was one of the most prosperous areas in all of Hujiang.

Hujiang at night was brightly lit, with neon lights alternating, dazzling and vibrant.

The Ghost Groom walked on the street, looking nothing like a monster with the power to destroy the world.

His attire could even attract quite a few onlookers.

They did not know that death had already arrived.

At this very moment, in the distant District 19, a golden ball of light rose—

But it would take some time for it to shine here.

And within this time, it was enough for the Ghost Groom to blood-wash the most prosperous area of Hujiang.

"Oh hey! Your outfit is so unique, can I take a picture with you?"

A girl in a cute costume walking a puppy tried to take a picture with the monster that had completely lost its humanity.

The Ghost Groom just tilted his head and glanced at the girl.

The puppy suddenly let out a whimper, ignoring its owner, and began to tremble.

And its owner, in the span of a breath, saw her eyes turn scarlet, and she suddenly began to attack the passersby around her like a madwoman.

The Ghost Groom continued to wander, and he suddenly looked up, seeing the advertising airship in the sky.

The next instant... the Ghost Groom disappeared again.

A trail of red mist dissipated, and when it condensed again, he had already appeared inside the airship.

Countless blood and organs coated the airship's cockpit.

The airship began to crash toward the ground, and the Ghost Groom's figure had already appeared in a game store in the distance.

"Wow, dressing like that to play video games?" a Hujiang-specialty delinquent youth mocked.

Following a red mist covering the entire room... the delinquent youth suddenly saw a hallucination.

The green-skinned electric lion from Street Fighter actually crawled out of the game console, just like Sadako crawling out of a TV!

And at this moment, outside the game store, the huge airship was about to crash into the park.

Inside the game store, a group of people were screaming because they had entered a hallucinatory state and were being beaten by various game characters.

The lucky ones were just being beaten by low-martial-arts-style characters like those from Street Fighter. The unlucky ones were being beaten by the fused form of Sun Wukong and Vegeta.

The Ghost Groom was originally a pure entity of resentment; logically, wherever he went, it should have been indiscriminate killing.

Waist-cutting, beheading, dismemberment—that was his style.

But although Wen Xishu's personality was completely covered by resentment, there was still another personality within his body.

A somewhat foolish child personality; under the combination of resentment and the child personality...

A devil with astonishing murderous intent, yet who loved to tease others, was born.

After pranking the game store, the Ghost Groom's figure suddenly appeared in the shopping mall.

His speed was extremely fast; he could be on the ground one moment, on an airship the next, or in a trendy toy store one moment and at a distant luxury mall the next.

The blood-red mist exploded instantly, and the mall with the highest foot traffic turned into a Shura hell in an instant.

But only the chain restaurants located inside the mall, usually arranged on the third or fourth floor, did not feel anything unusual.

This was another of the Ghost Groom's abilities, and also his ability to tease his opponents: mental attack.

He could create powerful illusions, making the opponent believe they had entered another world.

His figure arrived in front of a rather exquisite ramen shop that piled up ingredients to charge expensive fees.

Then, without speaking, he just pointed his finger at the advertisement for the signature ramen hanging on the wall.

The clerk seemed to have lost consciousness, like a puppet, saying "Please wait" without any emotion.

Not long after, they served a bowl of ramen.

A devil does not need food, but a devil will feel curiosity; after eating a few bites and finding it not very tasty, the red figure flashed and had already arrived at an amusement park hundreds of meters away.

But that shopping mall... completely exploded.

On the Ferris wheel, a man was confessing his love to a woman, but suddenly the woman screamed.

Because the airship in the sky had crashed.

And not long after, the volume of the sounds made by those riding the roller coaster suddenly doubled.

Because the huge shopping mall began to explode layer by layer. On the roller coaster, a head suddenly flew off, and a red figure appeared in the seat next to the corpse.

But the red figure seemed to think the roller coaster was too slow, so red mist radiated, and the roller coaster turned on hundred-fold acceleration mode.

The immense speed made the roller coaster's metal tracks unable to withstand it, and this world-class thrilling roller coaster that Hujiang prided itself on began to completely disintegrate.

"Stop! Stop!"

There seemed to be a voice in his mind, trying to stop the Ghost Groom, the culprit of all this.

But clearly, this voice could not stop him.

At this time, the Ghost Groom had already entered a horror escape room.

This was a Whatever Longxia-themed escape room next door, and a dozen college students were there looking for thrills. To them, this kind of Whatever Longxia-style horror seemed quite interesting.

The NPC bride was applying makeup in front of a mirror when suddenly, a groom dressed in red appeared beside her.

The bride gasped and then said:

"... Did we change the script? Why don't I remember there being a groom in this part?"

The Ghost Groom touched the bride's face and tilted his head, feeling a sense of familiarity.

The first person who could still be alive after the Ghost Groom appeared had emerged.

"Ah... it hurts a bit, those students were scared by me just now and gave me a punch."

There was a bruise on the bride's face.

The Ghost Groom disappeared.

The bride was stunned, because the Ghost Groom had disappeared on the spot.

She suddenly began to feel lingering fear, and goosebumps covered her entire body.

And those college student tourists who were still mocking the escape room for not being scary enough... suddenly began to scream collectively.

They acted as if they had gone mad, bumping into everything like headless flies.

No one knew what had happened.

For the next hour—

The Ghost Groom wandered everywhere in Hujiang.

Not only did he kill indiscriminately according to his whims, but he also killed quite a few of Hujiang's urban legends.

Those qualified individuals who began to awaken strange abilities as the apocalypse approached, or those who mutated under the influence of strange rules.

Were all easily killed in seconds by a red figure.

But just as the Ghost Groom intended to create a wave of serial killings...

The sun from the distant District 19 finally shone its golden light onto the Ghost Groom.

The Ghost Groom suddenly stopped.

Deep within his consciousness, the main personality that had originally been covered and swallowed by countless resentments—finally broke through the blockade at this moment.

He regained control of his body.

As that golden light became more and more dazzling, the red on the Ghost Groom's body slowly faded...

His long hair gradually became shorter, his fingernails gradually became shorter, and the venomous look in his eyes also gradually faded away.

Wen Xishu realized... he had regained the initiative of his body.

And under the influence of this golden light, his body had actually recovered to its healthiest and most normal state.

But what truly surprised Wen Xishu was not just the simple recovery of his body.

After using the original orange consumable "Black Coffin Blood," Wen Xishu would gain immense power and turn into a certain monster form.

Eventually, the effect of the Black Coffin Blood would dissipate, and he would recover. But the price was that he would be unable to move freely for a short time, and would be tortured by resentment for a long time.

And the Black Coffin Blood was only a one-time consumable; once used, it was gone.

But now, Wen Xishu was surprised to find... he had suddenly received a prompt in his mind.

【Obtained: Ghost Groom Personality, already recorded in the Personality Party. When you are in a scene where the Personality Party can be used, there is a certain probability of releasing this personality in an extremely harsh environment.】

Wen Xishu's jaw dropped in surprise; he suddenly understood... what this golden light was.

"Senior and Xiaoxing, they succeeded!"

Wen Xishu was surprised.

This golden light must also be some kind of fate-based power, and those favored by this power... would achieve the best results in everything they did under its influence.

Wen Xishu, who should have received the worst result and paid a huge price, instead obtained a better trump card after using his trump card.

Of course, Wen Xishu also had worries.

"The Ghost Groom's strength feels even more powerful than the Ghost Bride's... but can I really handle this personality?"

"It looks like a personality that is extremely playful and extremely bloodthirsty."

Wen Xishu's thoughts quickly shifted, because that golden sun was still constantly expanding.

Now it could be confirmed that what the golden light covered was no longer just District 19 and District 20.

I'm afraid if it continues to grow, it will cover half... no, more than half of Hujiang.

"This is... god-level power, right?"

The two sequences, Compassionate King's Career and the Suffering Goddess's Kingdom, are both very powerful individually.

But combined, they have even more unimaginable power.

Wen Xishu was very curious... how long would this golden sun last? What kind of impact would it have on Hujiang's future?

(End of chapter)