The darkness in front of him faded away, gradually revealing Ethan's worried expression. He slowed down his breathing and realized that he had returned to the real world.
"How are you?"
An unexpected voice sounded, and Jiang Chenchuan turned his head and saw Ballas' figure appearing in front of the mansion.
He bent down and picked up the kitten on the ground, and touched the black cat's head. He probably said his cordial greeting just because he cared about the cat.
"How did you come?"
"It's nothing. It feels too uncomfortable to be numbed by this."
Barras shook the chain on his hand and explained to Jiang Chenchuan that the fact that he could come here also meant that the people from the museum were also there.
Sure enough, when he turned around, he saw Andre and Yas walking towards them. It was not a fight. He helped Jiang Chenchuan staggering.
The diviner who was half-kneeling on the ground let out a cry of pain, like a crying baby. After a while, some special lines appeared on her face.
"Help...help me...please...help me."
The fortune teller struggled and cried. She hugged her face, but the curse was slowly devouring her body. Time seemed to be accelerating on her body. Her originally young body was aging rapidly, and her skin became shriveled, like A withered corpse.
It was as if her life force had been drained by some mysterious force. No one here knew how to break this curse. They could only watch her die while struggling and begging for mercy.
Slowly, she fell.
"I do not want……"
A hoarse, dry voice was squeezed out of her throat, blood seeped from the corners of her mouth, and she stopped moving.
"They..."
Before Yas could be surprised, he saw Andre stop him.
"Is it over? Captain."
Andre turned his head and looked at Jiang Chenchuan. When he saw Jiang Chenchuan nodded weakly, he organized Yas to take action.
The long illusion finally ended, and he seemed to have returned to reality. The witch did not wake up, but slept in the illusion forever.
Perhaps this was a relief for her.
But……
Although the person died, the coming disaster was not resolved. Suddenly there was an inexplicable tingling sensation in his head, as if something was about to break out of the cocoon.
It seemed that the relic had an influence on him, sensing his existence and invading his consciousness through a strange way.
"Evel, are you okay?"
The body was being disposed of, and Barras was playing with the black cat in his arms. Only Ethan noticed something was wrong with Jiang Chenchuan.
Jiang Chenchuan wanted to say something, but the words came to his lips but he couldn't. It was a strange feeling, as if he could hear the sound of waves hitting the rocks, echoing in the empty world.
"Hey! Can you still hear me...Evel!"
Ethan asked anxiously. It could be seen that Jiang Chenchuan's face was terribly pale, as if he was about to fall to the ground, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support him.
It was like riding a high-speed roller coaster. The scene in front of me kept changing. Finally, it slowly stopped. It was a familiar scene.
The sky was as dark as ever, with only a dim light shining in the distance, swaying in the wind, as if it might go out at any time.
"Evel's condition is very bad, Andre, come and help me and get him to the car."
Ethan led Jiang Chenchuan towards the carriage. As soon as he helped people get into the carriage, he heard a strange noise and the carriage suddenly started to move without warning.
The stagnant blood seemed to be flowing again, and something was snatching consciousness from the chaos. Cold currents spread throughout the body along the limbs, and Jiang Chenchuan gradually woke up.
Soon, he felt the bumps of the carriage and Ethan's angry roar in the icy night wind. All the chaos quickly left his body, and then he sat up from the carriage.
"Are you awake? Are you okay?"
It was hard for Jiang Chenchuan not to wake up from that slightly teasing yet familiar concern.
"Early winter?"
There is some temptation in the affirmation.
"I didn't expect that you really succeeded."
It could be heard that there was some joy in Chudong's tone, but also some disbelief.
"What?"
"Witch, I don't know what you have been through, but you really killed the witch and you are simply the savior of Ronark City."
Hearing Chudong say this, he felt a sense of rejection from the bottom of his heart for a moment, and even wanted to say a few words in rebuttal, but this was really not Jiang Chenchuan's style.
"No one is born a bad person."
After the strong wind passed and Ethan was left behind, Chudong gradually slowed down the carriage.
"Evel, are you speaking for the witch?"
In a short period of time, there were different changes, which surprised Chudong.
"You can take it as you please."
Jiang Chenchuan's eyes looked into the darkness in the distance, and there was no light in the dark pupils. This feeling of calm suffocation was despairing, as if he had become a different person after not seeing him for a few days.
"What's wrong with you? Ivel."
Chudong stopped the carriage, turned his head and asked curiously.
"..."
"Are you...sympathizing with the witch?"
Chudong asked in silence.
She saw Jiang Chenchuan's expression clearly, as if she saw his pity, but they were obviously hostile and did not know each other.
^0^ This kind of emotion is very strange.
"your eyes……"
Before Jiang Chenchuan could finish asking, Chudong quickly covered her eyes with her hands. She came in such a hurry that she didn't even have time to put on the blindfold.
The number of silver moons in her eyes increased again. Only then did Jiang Chenchuan notice that there were some scars and bruises on Chu Dong's face, even some inconspicuous places, and the open wounds were still there. Blood oozes from the residence.
"It's nothing. I violated the rules of the sect. It's good that I wasn't killed. It was just some punishment from the witch. Fortunately, a member helped me, and the witch has not been here these days, so I can do this. Escaped successfully."
Chudong explained to Jiang Chenchuan.
………
Jiang Chenchuan started running. Now he was racing against time. A faint blue light lit up in the distance, as if giving the world a layer of cold color.
Close.
What is the truth that the witch wants him to see...
ocean?
He seemed to see the ocean, a real ocean. This was not his illusion. It seemed that some force was affecting the scene in front of him, and the collapse of time and space stopped at this moment.
The complete scene unfolded in front of him. He saw Dorothea's shadow slowly approaching the ocean. Every step seemed to be in despair. In a trance, he heard a low voice singing, surrounding his ears. Next, the song was full of sadness, as if mourning something.
The waves surged, one after another, covering Dorothea's ankles and spreading to her waist as she moved.
"Dorotea!"
Jiang Chenchuan instantly understood what she wanted to do, but no matter how loud he shouted, Dorothea couldn't hear his voice and continued walking deeper into the ocean.
Another wave crashed over, slowly covering Dorothea's head.
"Dorotea!"
It was as if millions of hands stretched out from the shadows and grabbed Jiang Chenchuan's neck, and his steps to move forward had to stop.
It was indescribably beautiful. The raging waves rose, and there seemed to be something hidden in the sea, as the waves gradually approached the coast.
Wow——
The next second, Dorothea was sent back to the shore.
"Cough cough cough."
Severely choked by the sea water, Dorothea sat up and coughed crazily. What was washed ashore with her was something like a box.
But speaking of it being a box, it would be better to say it is more like...
coffin.
The dark coffin was placed so casually on the beach, and was mottled by the sea water, bearing traces of ancient times.
"What's this?"
Obviously, such a large coffin naturally attracted Dorothea's attention.
"Wait, Dorothea!"
Jiang Chenchuan wanted to interfere with her actions, but what was different from before was that Dorothea could not hear Jiang Chenchuan's call, and he could no longer touch her.
"Just memories?"
Seeing his palm penetrate Dorothea's arm, Jiang Chenchuan noticed that his body was also decomposing bit by bit.
It was almost time to leave, and Dorothea had just approached the coffin when something seemed to tremble.
"Huh?"
Dorothea made a confused sound, and with just a slight touch, the chains on the coffin fell off and scattered on the ground with a crash.
Her fingers stained with fine sand tried to open it. It was her destined fate. She opened the blind box of the Storm Lord and brought disaster to the earth.
There was a skinny corpse lying in the coffin. The upper part still looked like a human, with eyes closed tightly and the face was pale. However, the lower part of the corpse looked like a fish, with smooth scales covering the fish's tail. It sparkles like sparkling waves under the light.
"Mermaid?"
At first glance, I recognized that this corpse was an abnormal creature, but this was not a normal world. It was normal for races other than humans to exist.
Jiang Chenchuan could accept everything he saw before him, but he didn't understand where the disaster started. xqqxs8.
His eyes fell on the corpse again. I don't know why, but if I look at it a few more times, I feel like I will be swallowed by this corpse.
But Dorothea obviously didn't feel this way. She curiously touched the bloodless skin of the corpse and felt the strange coldness.
"A person like a fish?"
Dorothea murmured in a low voice, but she did not notice that a strange pattern was slowly crawling up along the fingers she touched, as if someone was writing, appearing bit by bit. .
Jiang Chenchuan, who had been staring intently at the corpse in front of him, noticed something strange about Dorothea. Her eyes lost the clear light and became chaotic and dark. It seemed that there was an invisible force affecting Dorothea. mind.
It was a kind of pollution that belonged to the ocean. It entered Dorothea's body in the form of a curse and began to spread like a plague.
In this disaster that almost no one survived, only the members of the Witch Cult survived.
"In other words, the mermaid's curse... can actually be lifted by the witch."
What a terrible fact.
It feels like when everyone's fate is held in one's hands. He can climb to a high position by stepping on other people's bodies, and use his life as a threat to help her do all the bad things.
"Neither do I
^0^I don’t want to think about it either, sir! But if I say one more word, I will lose my life, sir. "
It was as if someone else's voice was ringing in his ears. Only then did Jiang Chenchuan see Dorothea lifting the mermaid's body up. It was obviously a strange scene, but there was another inappropriate voice speaking.
"There is no reason. Tell me how to wake them two up. Otherwise, I will kill you with one shot! You will always choose between dying now and possibly dying later, right?"
This familiar tone and style suggested that Ethan was trying to save him.
Jiang Chenchuan sighed helplessly. Although there was nothing wrong with this method, it always sounded weird.
Dorothea carried the mermaid on her back, as if she wanted to take the body away, without even noticing it. Her face was filled with paranoid madness.
"Yes, that's right, this is mine...no one can take it away."
Dorothea murmured in her mouth, the mermaid just leaned on her back, her pale face seemed to have some blood, and the corpse seemed to have come back to life from a state of death, just leaning against Dorothea. Lotia.
For a moment, Jiang Chenchuan seemed to see the corpse's lips move slowly, as if he was saying something.
"Okay, I'll take you away. Wait, I'll find you a place to stay. Don't worry, just trust me."
Dorothea murmured in reply.
"He just...really spoke?"
How incredible, that means it was not Jiang Chenchuan's illusion just now, the corpse... really spoke.
"Is it a living relic?"
Evil, highly contaminated, disaster-level relics.
I can’t help but wonder, with the museum’s capabilities, can it really recover relics of this level and ability?
"The power of the spell is fading fast!"
A female voice sounded in reality.
"What's the meaning?"
"It's them...who are about to wake up."
As the dialogue in reality continued to be heard, the scene in front of him began to fall apart, everything ceased to exist, and only the back of Dorothea leaving with the body was left.
That was the initial mistake. Later, the witch continued to explore the desires of others, probably to pay the price of using the relic.
Finally, the illusion completely collapsed.
All the pictures disappeared from Jiang Chenchuan's eyes, and he fell into endless darkness again.
It was as if his soul had returned to his body, and the feeling of real life suddenly became extremely clear, including the conversation between Ethan and the fortune teller next to him, all of which reached his ears word for word.
The consciousness is awake, but the body is still in a deep sleep state.
"Wake up, Ivel, wake up!"
I felt like something was being slapped randomly on my face, but now I felt better, and my body even woke up.
"I hope there will be a gentler approach next time."
Slowly opening his eyes, in order to allow himself to adapt to his body faster, Jiang Chenchuan opened his mouth and said as soon as he woke up.
Dear, this chapter is finished, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^
