Tang Yuanyuan looked at the huge old book of life and death in front of her, and quickly recalled in her mind what No. 4 had told her before she came here.
Before she entered this strange space, No. 4 had told her how to seek answers from the Book of Life and Death. It is said that the Book of Life and Death records the birth and death of all living creatures in the world, and also remembers countless times called "history".
For most living beings, the life and death book itself is a witness of "time" and "existence", so any answer about the person being recorded can be found from it, as long as the person and time being recorded can be captured from history. If you have a close relationship, you can find traces of the other party.
To do this, some special conditions must be met, that is, the person who opens the book of life and death must be a "living" spirit who "history is still flowing", and the reader must have strong spiritual power, so that he can Carrying the backlash of time.
That's why she was chosen to do this... But as for the consequences of doing these things, no one can know...
At this point in his thoughts, Tang Yuanyuan sighed silently, thinking that he would definitely not do such hard and risky work next time.
Thinking about it this way, isn’t it a bit of a loss for you?
Just when she felt this way, she suddenly thought about it. No. 4 helped her once and also saved her life. It seemed that it could barely be regarded as an equal transaction.
Forget it, after thinking too much, Tang Yuanyuan shook her head slightly and stood in front of Shengshengbo. She put her hand into her pocket, and then she took out a small bottle of light golden translucent substance that No. 4 gave her from her pocket. .
She once again squeezed the vial in her hand and looked at it briefly for a while, then turned to look at the thick book of life and death, reached out and patted its cover.
The moment the cover of the Book of Life and Death was flapped by her, the entire book suddenly trembled without any warning. Tang Yuanyuan was frightened and thought something had happened, but the Book of Life and Death quickly returned to calm.
After looking at the heavy book for a moment again, she finally opened the cork with confidence and poured the pale golden translucent gas onto the Book of Life and Death.
Those strange substances that were originally translucent were shaken out of the bottle, and when they landed on the book body, they disappeared unknowingly.
After another short wait, the thick thin book of Life and Death suddenly shook violently. Tang Yuanyuan instinctively noticed something and frowned and took two steps forward. The next second she looked at the book in front of her that had been closed. The thick book of rebirth and death began to turn pages automatically, slowly opening in front of her as if it were alive.
When the Book of Life and Death was first opened, the pages were turned very quickly, but this speed soon slowed down as more and more pages were turned, and it didn't take long for the pages to completely stop on a blank page. on paper.
Tang Yuanyuan glanced at the white roll of paper stopped in front of him and couldn't help frowning again, and murmured in a low voice with some surprise:
"Strange...the record about 'her' is...blank?"
This situation was completely different from what No. 4 told her. She could not read any information from this clean piece of paper with no content.
"If the Life and Death Book is an instrument for recording history...could it mean that the person No. 4 is looking for does not exist or has been erased by something?"
Tang Yuanyuan stared at the hundred pages for a while, looking at the Book of Life and Death, which seemed to have no intention of moving anymore, so he hesitantly stretched out his hand to touch the white paper that was so clean that it was contrary to common sense.
And just when her fingertips touched the surface of the book of life and death, the book of life and death that had settled down suddenly shook suddenly, and the pages that had been suppressed in it suddenly began to turn irregularly on their own. , the entire thick book of life and death seemed to be in some kind of chaos, making a somewhat harsh scraping sound on the pages.
But what is unexpected is that no matter how restless the other pages in the book of life and death are, the white roll of paper that looks so flimsy and fragile is still pressed motionlessly on the top layer in the middle of the book of life and death, flat and quiet. Abnormal.
Before Tang Yuanyuan had time to figure out why the life and death book had changed, he saw strange dark red lines gradually appearing on the originally spotless white paper.
Those dark red lines are like ink flowing freely on the paper, saturating and condensing the paper surface, but when they gather, they just form the word "Yuan" and then disappear in an instant.
In just a moment, the bloody words that finally appeared spread out for no reason, and the red lines soon soaked the entire page of paper again.
Tang Yuanyuan was a little confused. She was completely unprepared for this series of completely unplanned changes.
Originally, she had already come to the life and death book to complete her transaction, but in the end, she did not see the name of "her" mentioned in the fourth instruction on the life and death book, nor did she see the location of her soul.
There was nothing in the book of life and death. The mutated scroll paper had quickly returned to its original state, and until she watched the book of life and death close in front of her and disappear, she was unable to find any meaningful information.
In other words, this was a useless journey, and she did not find the whereabouts of "her".
In the endless darkness, she instinctively wanted to run after the thick book of life and death that disappeared and disappeared backwards, but no matter how hard she ran, she could not catch anything except herself in the endless void. The fatigue that had been felt for a long time seemed to suddenly hit her heart, making her breathless.
"Wait!! What's going on? Did something go wrong..."
Before she could finish the words, she felt her wrist being pulled by something for a moment.
She suddenly turned her head to look at the red rope that was originally tied to her hand. At some point, the red rope between her wrists had been quietly untied, and then the entire broken red rope suddenly shimmered in the darkness, indicating that In the direction of the exit, the end of the red rope quickly disappeared like a thread in the direction it came from.
"etc..."
Tang Yuanyuan said such a sentence feebly, turned around and glanced at the direction where Shengshengbo disappeared, but in the end he chased the red rope without any choice.
She felt it was weird. She obviously didn't get any useful information in the life and death book, but her "fate" with No. 4 was severed, which meant that there was some rule that her "price" had been completed.
Is this really enough?
Tang Yuanyuan asked himself this in his heart, but no matter how he thought about it, he seemed uncomfortable.
In addition to the pain in her conscience about so-called equal transactions, she always felt that there seemed to be some strange hidden secret in this matter, because ever since she came to this life-and-death detention center, she felt that everything was completely out of order... ..
Chaotic space, familiar feelings, wrong predictions, missing existences, unknown movements...
All of this made her feel that her journey to find the life and death book was somehow arranged. Even at the last moment when the life and death book disappeared into the darkness, she seemed to have escaped from the darkness that was supposed to be endless. In the abyss, he felt a line of sight staring at him from a distance.
But at that moment, she had no time to hesitate. She could only follow the red rope that was the only one visible in the darkness, because this was what No. 4 had repeatedly told her to do. Once the red rope representing fate was disconnected, it would quickly disappear. Dissipated, if she didn't catch up with its traces, she might be trapped in this darkness with no end in sight forever.
Tang Yuanyuan could only run in the empty darkness chasing the glowing red rope. Because she could not judge the distance through vision, she did not know how far she had run in the darkness. While chasing , but she found that the red rope symbolizing the life-saving straw was disappearing faster and faster.
Seemingly not being careless at all, she couldn't help but speed up her pace, running with her eyes fixed on the red rope.
"Slow down... wait..."
The road back seemed to be completely different from the way she came, which did not consume much energy. She soon realized that she was tired from chasing, and her breathing became rapid, but she did not dare to slow down the pace of her steps.
She was afraid that the red rope was getting farther and farther away from her, so when she got closer, she wanted to reach out and grab it again, but she couldn't catch anything after reaching out several times to grab it.
However, I don’t know whether it was because of too many illusions or because she was running really hard. After a chase, the red rope seemed to be getting closer to her. She couldn’t help but look slightly happy, thinking that she was only a little bit away from catching up. As long as she ran within the distance of the red rope, she could not help but feel happy. Within the safety range of the rope, she no longer has to worry about losing it.
But at the moment when she felt comfortable, she suddenly felt that her right leg was grabbed by something.
The already weak body was unable to stop due to inertia. The whole body instinctively fell forward. Tang Yuanyuan fell to the ground so hard that she felt her internal organs being squeezed even when she breathed in.
She ignored the cry of pain and immediately raised her eyes to see the rapidly disappearing red rope. She then tried to stand up, but found that the thing holding her ankle was still motionless.
She had to turn back to look at her ankle, which was grabbed by something. As soon as she turned her head, she saw a bluish-white skinny arm on her leg.
The arm was glowing with faint fluorescence, and its palm was locked between her ankles in a skeletally twisted posture.
Tang Yuanyuan was not frightened by the scene in front of her, nor did she have the leisure to be frightened. She gritted her teeth and shook her legs as she looked at the arm that was so green and white that it oozed fluorescence. She kicked it a few more times, but she couldn't shake her hand. Lose.
She couldn't move at all if she couldn't get rid of this hand, and the red rope that quickly disappeared was getting further and further away from her.
The surroundings that could still be illuminated by the red rope quickly became darker and darker. After Tang Yuanyuan tried hard to break free from the arm several times, her surroundings gradually returned to an empty darkness.
Feelings of powerlessness and despair gradually filled her heart. She looked back to see the direction where the red rope disappeared, but this time she only saw a faint light that was about to disappear into the darkness in the distance.
And in the next second, even the glimmer of light completely disappeared from her vision, and she completely lost the chance to pursue the red rope.
