“Did you discover anything?” Gao Ming was excited. He didn’t think he’d get an answer from Yan Xizhi. While he was worried about her, he was curious too.
Yan Xizhi didn’t answer immediately but took a serious look at Gao Ming as if to confirm he was the same Gao Ming she knew.
“Why? Did you see other Gao Mings in the black mist?” Gao Ming was discomfited by her stare.
“How can you say something like that, especially at a time …” Yan Xizhi pointed at the wounds on her body. “The black mist has a consciousness. It is like a conglomeration of soul ashes or maybe like the manifestation of a special will.”
“I don’t understand what you mean. I’m more interested in knowing who injured you. What danger is hidden in the black fog?” Gao Ming was anxious. His important friends were trapped in the black fog. If Yan Xizhi were injured, how could Granny Shen and the rest survive?
“I can’t tell you what hurt me. Once it hears that and sees you, it will hunt you down and kill you.” Yan Xizhi revealed important news to Gao Ming.
Yan Xizhi didn’t shake or nod her head. She rambled to herself, “I did enter the black fog, but I didn’t leave Han Hai. I was injured when I was about to leave Han Hai.”
Gao Ming instantly grasped her meaning. One would only be attacked when one was leaving Han Hai?!
“Humans and ghosts who came from Han Hai are imprinted with some kind of unknown memory. When we come into the black mist, our bodies, minds, and souls will be diluted by the black fog. Dilution is a strange descriptor, but it’s the closest to the truth. We’ll be diluted until we become a part of the black fog.” Yan Xizhi’s wounds leaked out black fog. She couldn’t mention certain things, so she could only go about them in a roundabout way. “Therefore, it’s also easy if you wish to move about freely in the black mist. You only need to actively embrace the mist and let it enter your body. Do not expose any power that normal humans couldn’t understand.” Yan Xizhi told Gao Ming the way to survive. This was something the investigation centre didn’t mention.
“Pretend to be a normal person?”
“That’s right. Strength means nothing there unless you are stronger than them. Before that, you have to pretend to be a dummy. Once you expose any anomalous characteristics, you’ll be attacked by the black mist and that will attract the attention of the scarier existences.” Yan Xizhi said sternly, “Do not try to resist it. At least not now. The black mist is the fate’s…” Yan Xizhi couldn’t finish the sentence because black mist suddenly billowed out of her wounds. To protect Gao Ming, Yan Xizhi sent Gao Ming flying out of the headmaster’s office. The wooden door shut.
Before the door closed fully, Yan Xizhi gave one last warning, “They can’t wait anymore! You have to find the new blood city…”
“Is she talking about the blood city owners?” Looking at the closed door and listening to Yan Xizhi’s scream, Gao Ming bowed at the door and turned to leave. He initially wanted to get Yan Xizhi to help him, but she was already injured in the black mist.
“Do I know any other helpers?” Gao Ming thought back to his memories of death. There were many ghosts and people in each of his future. However, Gao Ming was too fast this time. This meant that the initiation of the tragedy was pulled forward. Many helpers he would have hadn’t gotten the time to grow yet.
“In the past, every rebirth I had led to despairing situations. However, this cycle appears to be the most oppressive.” Gao Ming looked up at the sky. “The past, memory and the sky are probably all fake.”
Gao Ming didn’t stay any longer. He carried the three seeds of the flesh tree to Piety Safety Town. At midnight, a lamp was placed on the station closest to Piety Safety Town. A few people stood next to the abandoned seats. They paced about nervously.
A honk came from afar. Everyone turned to look. Black vehicles that looked like moving coffins eventually paused beside the station.
“Is everyone here?” The feminine voice caused everyone to shiver. They immediately moved to the cars.
“Gao Ming is still not here.” The investigator in plainclothes lowered his head. “Will he stand us up? After all, we’ve scammed him before.”
“If he doesn’t come, we’ll enter the place without him.” Jing Tuoshen tossed away his dirty gloves and looked at his severely bitten fingers. The nearby investigators looked away.
“My hands are covered in bleeding pus. It doesn’t matter how many pairs of gloves I use and abandon.”
No one dared to say anything. A braver member silently glanced at Jing Tuoshen. The man’s perfect and beautiful face had a tiny scar on it. A ghost tattoo that the member had not seen before appeared under the man’s supple skin.
Did Jing Tuoshen obtain his own ghost tattoo?
The craziest researcher finally chose his tattoo?!
The investigator’s eyes wandered and moved down Jing Tuoshen’s chin until he saw Jing Tuoshen’s clavicle. The ghost tattoo became clearer. However, the tattoo appeared to be missing an eye.
The world turned red. The investigator felt a sudden pang of pain. He screamed and fell to the floor. His eyes couldn’t stop bleeding.
“Shut him up.” Jing Tuoshen ordered coolly. He picked up the only lamp at the station and walked into the distance.
The black mist was about 600 metres away from the cavalcade of cars. Jing Tuoshen remembered that when he came here yesterday, the mist was more than 1000 metres away. “It’s getting closer.”
With a cough, two security members pushed a modified cart over to him.
The black cloth on the cart was pulled back to reveal Wan Jie.
“How far can your eyes see into the mist?” Jing Tuoshen adjusted the cart to right Wan Jie’s position.
“Very good. After we deal with this, the headquarters will let you all go and undo the curses on you,” Jing Tuoshen promised half-heartedly.
Wan Jie didn’t even believe him one bit. “Are you sure you won’t just kill all of us?”
“No.” Jing Tuoshen still wanted to say something more, but the ghost tattoo on him, and he turned to look at Han Hai at the same time.
The full bus slowly moved towards them. The driver was none other than Gao Ming.