Mu You continued to check other pages of experimental records, and suddenly felt some movement coming from his body. He lowered his head and took off a backpack from his waist.
This is a storage backpack that he keeps specially for entering the house. It can only be opened in the star spirit world.
At this time, there was a "knocking on the door" sound from inside the backpack.
Among the people he knew, the only one who could do such a thing was Ye Rumeng.
Mu You opened the opening of the backpack, and sure enough, the little girl's head immediately came out of the opening of the backpack.
"Muyou, are you going to find my sister soon?" Ye Rumeng asked Muyou expectantly.
Mu You was stunned: "How did you know?"
"I don't know, I just felt sleepy all of a sudden, and when I woke up, I was already in this backpack..."
The little girl climbed out of the backpack as she spoke, looking at the surrounding environment with confusion: "This place... feels so familiar, as if I have been here before..."
As the little girl spoke, she kept walking around, observing everything nearby, and soon became more and more certain about this. She turned back and looked at Mu You in surprise: "Yes, this is it. The last time I saw my sister was here... I remembered that my sister and I were once imprisoned here... right in front!" The little girl suddenly pointed to the darkness connected to the front of the high platform.
"Muyou, my sister must still be here, let's go rescue her!" Ye Rumeng hurriedly turned back to Muyou and begged.
However, when she turned around, she found Mu You looking at her feet with a dazed expression.
"What's wrong?" Ye Rumeng was confused.
Mu You shook his head: "Nothing, just lead the way."
"Oh... follow me, it's right over here!" The little girl didn't doubt that he was there. She took out a flashlight from somewhere, shined it into the darkness ahead, and rushed in. She also waved back, beckoning the two of them to follow quickly. Above, the shadow stretched into a long line behind her.
"Muyou, this is..."
Lin Xue had also noticed the change in the little girl at this time, and looked at Mu You in surprise.
Mu You shook his head helplessly at her, and Lin Xue quickly realized something. Without asking any more questions, the two of them followed silently.
In the Gu pool below, the shadow ghost who was swatting bugs also noticed something. He paused his movements and looked up at the high platform. When he saw the figure of the little girl rushing into the darkness in front of him, he immediately let out a low voice and then Ignoring the bugs, he hurriedly climbed onto the high platform and chased after the three of them.
Ye Rumeng ran into the darkness alone, trotting through the dark path with familiarity, and arrived on the floor of a hospital.
Looking at the double dormitories on both sides of the corridor, more and more familiar things appeared in front of me.
"That's right, it's right here..."
Ye Rumeng's eyes lit up. The familiar environment reminded her of more and more lost memories, the things she had experienced here, and the room where she and her sister lived together. The room is at the end of this corridor.
Ye Rumeng hurriedly looked deep into the corridor. Sure enough, there was a familiar pillow symbol carved on the door of the deepest room.
The little girl's face bloomed with joy, she couldn't wait to rush over and opened the door.
"Sister, let me save..."
The sound stopped suddenly.
The house was not as bright and clean as she remembered, and it was filled with all kinds of children's toys and supplies.
Instead, it has become an empty ruin, with tiles disintegrating and broken glass scattered all over the floor. All objects are covered with dust and have obviously been abandoned for a long time.
The little girl looked at this scene blankly, unable to recover for a while.
If my sister is not here, where can she be?
"Roar!"
At this time, a roar came from the side.
Ye Rumeng subconsciously turned around and looked. On the other side of the corner corridor, a three-meter-tall shadow ghost stood in front of him. After discovering the living person here, his whole body suddenly exuded a strong murderous intention. .
The next moment, Shadow Ghost rushed towards Ye Rumeng with his teeth and claws open.
"ah!"
Ye Rumeng was startled and subconsciously stepped back, but tripped over the door frame and fell to the ground.
The shadow ghost in front of him arrived in an instant, waving his sharp claws, his eyes were scarlet, and his oppressive height and monster-like body made Ye Rumeng instinctively close her eyes.
However, just when the shadow ghost's claws were about to fall on Ye Rumeng, another roar sounded from behind.
Immediately afterwards, an even bigger black shadow rushed from behind the little girl. It came first, passed by the little girl, and directly threw the shadow ghost in front of him who was about to attack to the ground. He clawed at the shadow ghost with great anger. Tearing at the body.
This ordinary shadow ghost was obviously no match for the box shadow ghost. With the help of the box shadow ghost's anger, the ordinary shadow ghost underneath him was soon torn into pieces by it, leaving only a squirming mass in place. Shadow residue.
The little girl stared blankly at the shadow ghost guarding her, but she had no time to speak because there was already a denser roar ahead.
"You finally came back here, on the 14th..."
The little girl and Shadow Ghost both looked up and saw a transparent cylindrical device standing at the end of the corridor ahead, filled with some kind of liquid. At this time, a person was immersed in the device, with a connection between his mouth and nose. Wearing a respirator, his body is covered with various hoses.
Outside the cylindrical device, there are a large number of shadow ghosts densely scattered, at least hundreds of them. Each shadow ghost is bound by a black chain, and the other end of the chain is all connected to the device. , like a row of tied up vicious dogs, guarding the central device.
At this time, the person in the cylinder had opened his eyes, and it was him who made the sound just now.
When the shadow ghost saw the figure appearing in the distance, he became even more furious, but he did not rush over without losing his mind.
It's not because it's afraid of a circle of shadow ghosts in the distance, but because the little girl is standing behind it and it can't leave casually.
"I thought you would escape further."
Mu You and Lin Xue also walked out from behind at this time.
Mu You looked at the person sealed in the cylinder in front of him. He was a bald, short, fat, middle-aged man. Although his appearance had changed, he was very sure that this guy was the man behind the scenes who had escaped from Sky City before. Just one of his 'skin' images.
"It's just the winner and the loser. I lost this time. There's no point in escaping. I just didn't expect that you would have the power to suppress the Shadow God..." The middle-aged man in the device looked at the three people in the distance. Open your mouth.
Lin Xue rang the death knell twice before, detonating the extremely outrageous sin value on his body. Although most of the curse effects were borne by the Shadow God, the Shadow God died before the sin value returned to zero, resulting in residual The power of the curse still affected him.
The power of that curse can suppress even the level of the Shadow God, let alone ordinary people.
He couldn't escape because at this moment, his level had been directly reduced to the lowest level, and his attributes had all dropped to the lowest point. If he hadn't got into the device in front of him in time that could continuously relieve pain, he would have been cursed continuously. Suppress and die until the life span is exhausted and disappear completely.
"It's you!"
Ye Rumeng seemed to recognize something at this time, and suddenly pointed at the middle-aged man in the device in front of him and shouted: "I remember, the bad guy who kidnapped me is you! Tell me, where is my sister?"
The middle-aged man ignored her shouting and looked at Mu You's feet.
In his shadow, half of the shadow pom-pom's head was quietly emerging, secretly observing the world around him.
"It seems that Shadow Pom Pom has chosen you to be its new host." The middle-aged man said.
"Yes." Mu You nodded.
"Then you have to be careful. When it grows up, it will have the power to bite back the host. Be careful that you will encounter the same ending as me in the future." The middle-aged man sneered.
"If you don't feed it, how can it be backlashed? In the final analysis, it's not you who covets the power of God? That leads to the backlash." Mu Youyou said.
A low-level shadow pom-pom obviously has no ability to resist its host, but as its level increases, its abilities will continue to improve, and its wisdom will gradually increase until it has self-awareness, which will lead to the possibility of backlash. Therefore, the safest approach is not to feed it any shadows, or to only feed it a limited amount of shadows, keeping it at a lower level and using it as an auxiliary pet.
"You are right. When I first got the shadow pom-pom more than a thousand years ago, I thought the same thing. However, how many people can tolerate getting a shadow pom-pom that can grow infinitely? Do you want to cultivate it?"
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said: "At that time, I was just an ordinary fisherman in the Cook Islands. I didn't have any qualifications to practice magic. I was destined to make a living by fishing for the rest of my life. I lived at the bottom of society on the edge of my lifespan every day. One chance. By coincidence, I picked up the Shadow Pom Pom and became its host."
"When I found out that this was the shadow of a god, I was shocked. I was terrified every day, fearing that God's consciousness would revive. A low-level pariah like me had no power to resist God."
"But as time went by, I gradually discovered that this thing had no signs of attacking me. Instead, it provided me with a variety of magical abilities. I thought that I could use its abilities to improve my life, and I began to try to steal other people's shadows. Feed it carefully to gain more strength..."
"Six months later, I became the richest man in the entire Cook Islands, but I was no longer satisfied with this. I became obsessed with studying the power of God. In the name of 'God', I formed the Society of the Undead and gathered a large number of religious believers. The crowd became more and more wanton in grabbing more people's shadows... Facts have proved that human greed has no limit, and by the time I realized something was wrong, it was already too late."
"The grown-up shadow pom-poms gradually escaped my control. They often broke away from my shadow and ran out to actively devour other people's shadows. They grew automatically and grew faster and faster."
"As the level of the Shadow Pom Ball increases, the Shadow God's consciousness gradually awakens and begins to try to resist my orders and take the initiative."
"I was finally scared at that time, and at the same time I also understood God's conspiracy: It turned out that this was the way for the Shadow God to resurrect itself, and I was just a pawn, a tool to help it resurrect. Even without me, there would be others who would act as this person. character. I was horrified and angry because I needed a shadow that I could fully control, not be a puppet of the shadow."
"In order to stop it, I built this underground factory and sealed myself deep underground. All the people who approach me usually have no shadows, making it difficult for the Shadow God to find a shadow to devour nearby. , in order to slow down its growth as much as possible.”
"I threatened it with self-destruction and made it fall into a deep sleep. It was not strong enough at that time, so it had no choice but to agree and enter a long deep sleep. But what I didn't expect was that even in deep sleep, it would still It can automatically absorb the shadows of living people in the entire archipelago to secretly grow."
"While it was sleeping, I began to research ways to suppress the shadow pom-pom. It is true that the shadow pom-pom is the nemesis of shadow creatures, but its ability is only ineffective against self-aware shadow ghosts. Therefore, as long as one is created With a self-aware shadow ghost, if you fuse it into my main shadow, you can completely suppress the shadow pom-pom with this shadow ghost."
"However, shadow ghosts are a collection of negative emotions. It is theoretically impossible to have self-awareness. But I don't believe in evil, because since the description of the shadow pom-pom mentions the term 'shadow ghosts with self-awareness', then this If you plant something, it must exist. After a long period of research, I finally found a way to create a conscious shadow ghost: soul synchronization!"
"In the same plane, the souls of all newborn humans are unique, and there is no possibility of synchronization. But in two planes, there is no such restriction."
"Looking for the person whose soul is most in sync with each other in the two worlds, and by sinking them into the shadow together, there is a certain probability that an ordinary shadow ghost and a controllable shadow ghost that can be possessed will be generated at the same time. If two If the individual souls are compatible enough, and the generated ordinary shadow ghost is powerful enough, when it approaches the ultimate strength of the shadow ghost, there will be a chance to give birth to self-awareness, and the other controllable shadow ghost will become the 'commander', allowing the corresponding ordinary shadow ghost to The ghost obeys my orders completely."
"Since then, I have been looking for soul synchronizers in the two worlds, but this process is not easy. The success rate of creating a shadow ghost is much lower than I imagined. It is even harder to create a perfect shadow ghost. Besides, you need to be careful when moving in the Forgotten Land. It took me four years to finally create the first perfect work!"
"No. 14?" Mu You asked.
"Yes." The middle-aged man looked at the little girl next to Mu You with a somewhat fanatical look.
"No. 14, you were originally an experimental subject that I was not optimistic about. From the first day you were captured, you showed extraordinary rationality and a level of mental maturity comparable to that of an adult. Generally speaking, this The experimental subject is unqualified because the previous research process has shown that one of the two parties with synchronized souls must be a child with a pure mind, the purer the better."
"What I didn't expect was that the child I brought to you later made such a big difference in you! Your two souls were completely in sync with each other. This is the first time that this has happened."
"What are you talking about? Mianmian is my sister, where did you hide her?" Ye Rumeng looked at the middle-aged man with some confusion. The other party was obviously talking to her, but he seemed to have mistaken her for Sister.
The middle-aged man ignored her question and continued to stare at the little girl and said, "It was only then that I realized how special you are...or in other words, it's not you who is special, but another child, the one named Meng. Dream' girl."
"I am Mengmeng..." Ye Rumeng couldn't help but correct her again.
"...Because, in the previous thirteen successful records, all children from the Star Spirit Realm chose to endure the pain and save the children from the Forgotten Land. Only your group did the opposite..." The middle-aged man said to himself Gu Zi spoke.
"So what on earth are you talking about? I'm obviously the one..."
Ye Rumeng wanted to retort, but suddenly felt a hand covering her shoulder.
Ye Rumeng looked back, and it was Mu You who stopped her.
Mu You sighed and shook his head at her: "It's useless to continue to escape. It's time to think back..."
"Remember...what?" Ye Rumeng looked at him puzzled.
"There is no one you need to save here... Mianmian."
Mu You said, looking down at the shadow at her feet.
Ye Rumeng also looked over subconsciously, and was stunned at the sight.
The shadow projected on the ground no longer looked like her at some point, but a taller girl with straight long hair and a hairband on her head.
(End of chapter)
