The bell never stopped ringing, and the rainstorm became more intense.
But the black shadows are decreasing one by one.
A few times in the middle, a few drops of red rain seemed to fall on the back of my hand.
I was shocked, but the red mark quickly dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye and melted into my skin.
There was a faint smell of blood in the air.
is blood.
But whose blood?
Unreasonable annoyance spread all over my body. I wanted to vent, but there was nowhere to release it.
I was annoyed when the bell invaded my mind at an inappropriate time.
My heart is as clear as ever.
I briefly lost consciousness for a few minutes or dozens of minutes.
By the time I rubbed my eyes again, I was already in a completely new realm.
I don't know how I got here.
I don’t even know how I got out of that bottomless alley.
In front of me is the mysterious golden clock. The bell tower is majestic, and I can't open my eyes because of the golden light.
I found that the weird cold burning sensation I had felt in my body had disappeared, and now I was filled with a longing: to get into that bell.
This idea is not without origin. I recall the clues when I came here, and it seems that everything is based on it.
As I was thinking about it, my memory had gaps again.
I have always been like this, especially in the past two years. I really hate others interrupting my thinking.
So this time, I woke up with anger.
The moment I opened my eyes, the scene around me was so shocking that I forgot everything, and only four words remained in my mind: magnificent.
I looked out of place in black.
Strangely enough, when I entered here, the anxious longing in my heart disappeared completely, as if I had finally returned to the place where I should have stayed.
But I can't stay here any longer, after all I am...
What am I going to do?
Why am I here.
I am... Am I Kirihara Sawa or Watanabe Tsubasa? ...Or, another person.
I shook my head and closed my eyes in pain.
Then I decided not to worry about these issues anymore. Now, we can only cross by ourselves if we find a way out.
I first searched around the wall and knocked it with my hands. The sound coming from the wall was always muffled. It seemed that the wall of the tower could be expanded outwards and become ten or twenty meters thick.
After going around, my knuckles were red from knocking, and I didn't find any clues.
I kicked the wall furiously. A muddy shoe print immediately appeared on the bright wall.
At the same time, there was a small crackling sound behind me.
"Who is acting arrogant here?"
The sound was somewhat pleasant, with a sinking ending and a slightly decadent tone.
Moreover, it is very familiar.
My body stiffened inexplicably and I looked back.
A young man with messy green hair, wearing a white robe with gold embroidery on the cuffs, walked away from me.
His steps were slow, and from the moment he appeared, the light in the golden bell seemed to be focused on him alone.
If I hadn't thought of everything the moment I saw him, I would have really thought that he was a god who came to punish sin.
"Kafka Asagiri." I tilted my head, and the cold and hot feeling appeared again.
Chao Wu raised his eyebrows at first, his shock was not pretending, and then he said: "Do you know me?"
Then he knitted his brows together again, lowered his head slightly, and whispered to himself: "Yes, these past few years... it's all filth... accidental... and normal..."
The strange feeling became stronger and stronger, almost taking away my five senses. In addition, his voice was low, so I could only vaguely hear a few words.
Chao Wu smiled, with a slight sarcasm on his lips.
I didn't see it at the time, otherwise I wouldn't have followed him obediently after he said something to relieve my pain.
I later discovered that every time that strange feeling occurred, it took away some of my sanity.
And this feeling is exactly what those shadows have endured.
This is what I deduced afterwards.
However, at this moment I really opened my legs and started walking.
Chaogiri led the entire bell tower and me.
It's really like a god's mansion.
A god with a confused origin and covered with thick fog.
Even he himself doesn't know where he is or when he is, he only knows that he is how he should be.
It turns out that the pain on my body has indeed eased, but my eyes and ears are still foggy.
Chaogiri took me to a huge door.
The door is also engraved with golden patterns. They overlap each other and shine brightly, overflowing with a sense of sanctity.
Chao Wu raised his hand and was about to push the door open when he heard a crash from behind.
I saw Chaowu's expression suddenly change.
He turned his head and hurried back to the hall.
At this moment, my consciousness returned to me. I was stunned on the spot, and then I ran to follow him.
Go to the lobby again.
The lights here are dimmed a bit. Directly opposite us, there was a huge door connected to the ceiling.
At this moment, the door was being violently impacted from the outside to the inside.
"What's out there?" I looked at Chao Wu, and it was obvious that he knew something.
"It's them..." Zhaowu turned pale and muttered to himself in vain.
Seeing that there was no conclusion, I took a few steps forward and prepared to push the door open a small opening to find out.
Unexpectedly, Chaogiri grabbed my forearm, causing me pain.
"Don't! They will come in!" he said hoarsely.
"What?" I had an inexplicable thought in my mind, "Are they some black shadows?"
Chaogiri nodded.
Having come to such a conclusion, I really don't dare to act rashly at this moment. If I were a human, I could win by surprise.
But what came was a group of ghosts, and I couldn't guarantee that my bullets and daggers could land on them steadily.
As I was thinking about it, I saw the vibration of the door getting more and more severe, and I saw that it was in danger of collapse.
I asked Chao Wu to retreat while I blocked the door.
Chao Wu lowered his eyes and took less than three steps back.
I looked at his disheveled green hair and felt like I had forgotten something, but I couldn't remember it no matter how hard I scratched my head.
Now that the situation is urgent, I gave up after simply thinking about it.
Finally there was a hole in the door.
I expected that the two doors would be knocked down directly, and the wind and rain outside would pour in.
But as soon as a ghost figure got in, the door was like a flexible barrier, and it returned to perfection in the blink of an eye.
When the black shadow entered the hall, it seemed as if it had suffered a terrible blow. It was lying on the ground, squirming in pain.
It looks like the two shining white spots on the facial organ are also wrinkled together.
Me: "It hurts."
Chaogiri's face was buried in the shadow: "They sometimes come back at night, and they have become more and more frequent recently."
"How do you deal with them every time they come?" I asked.
The ghost's struggle gradually subsided, and its figure gradually became blurred.
Chaogiri didn't respond to my words. His sharp eyes were directed towards the ghost figure.
I turned my head away unnaturally, and Chao Wu's eyes seemed to say: Don't worry about it, they have their own hardships.
So why were you so nervous then?
I hesitated to speak.
