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Published at 3rd of May 2023 06:31:33 AM


Chapter 51

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Fight

The wind born in the depths of the forest

Passing through the field, gently shaking the upright elm tree

The wind blows through the treetops

That is the path of the wind

The wind born in the depths of the forest

Gently shaking the wheat with invisible hands

The wind that travels to distant lands

Serves as a guiding sign on the road for you who walks alone

……

A soft humming sound resounded in the maze-like open field.

It was 《 The Path of Wind 》, so it should be sung in a crisp and sweet voice, but now there was only a hoarse sound.

Will Gege find it unpleasant to listen to?

Gege will not find it unpleasant, Gege will never ever dislike her.

However, such a good Gege got lost in the amusement park and couldn’t find his way back.

Even though she sang like this until she lost her voice, until her voice became hoarse, the wind did not show her Gege the way home.

It doesn’t matter. That is why she came in person.

No matter what it is, the obstacles that stand in the way of Gege’s return home will be eliminated.

A petite and cute girl, wearing a boy’s straw hat, squinting and humming in a hoarse voice, holding a knife dripping with blood in her hand.

Behind her, there was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Whether it was a man with a gentle and friendly expression, a pale and frightened girl, a victim who had been killed thousands of times, or a grinning and arrogant ghost, they all lay stiff and shattered on the ground she walked on.

The petite and lovely girl like an angel, walked a loop in the peach blossom forest as she sang, slowly and carefree, relaxed and unhurried, looking at the hideous evil spirits hanging on the trees.

She looked stunned, as if she was frightened. Her face was pale and she swallowed nervously, then she curled her big eyes and smiled cutely. “Hello ah, you must be so exhausted ba, let me help you.”

One at a time, the peach trees that bound the evil spirits were ignited where she walked. The black flames burned bright.

She didn’t care about the maze in front of her; every step she took was in a short straight line. The path she walked was burned to the ground, turning into a barren, withered and dead wilderness.

“The wind that travels to distant lands serves as a guiding sign on the road for you who walks alone,” she sang.

Look, after the trees burn, the fire will bring the wind.

“Wind ah, wind, tell me, where is my Gege?” 

The snow-white skirt was stained red with blood.

She hummed the song as she walked.

She met a man pulling a woman’s hair, she met a boy with a smile who hid sulfuric acid behind his back, she met a bad guy who tricked her into falling in love.

But it didn’t matter, they all died in front of her.

However, she just couldn’t see her Gege.

She looked at the two shivering girls in front of her, smiled like a good girl, and asked politely, “Big sisters, have you seen my Gege?”

Watching the petite girl rip apart a grown man in an instant, Faye and Chen Qianqian were paralysed in fear.

“Have you never met him? That shouldn’t be right ah.” The girl looked at them, disappointedly and dissatisfied, and her ‘good girl’ expression began to change, as if she was about to cry, but the shadows in her eyes were gloomy and terrifying. “Think about it carefully ah, you should have seen him before. If you haven’t met him, there is no point in living ah.”

There is no point in life, was she talking about them?

Faye and Chen Qianqian faced each other in horror, looking at the blade in her hand with despair.

The girl didn’t give up yet. She was anxious to cry, but she still drew a picture in the air patiently. “Gege is a very good-looking boy, tall, with super warm eyes, as clear as the summer morning wind, you would definitely keep him in your memory if you have met him once. Please, I’m begging you, think about it carefully ah.”

“Your big brother…what is his name?” Faye bit her lip, still wanting to resist a little.

“Gege is Gege ah, are you two hiding him on purpose so that Yaya won’t find him? Why are you guys so mean?” The girl’s weeping expression turned ferocious and resentful.

“I really haven’t met your brother!”

“Impossible, you must have. Gege is the best person in this world.”

The sound of footsteps and panting came from behind her.

When Faye and Chen Qianqian saw it for the first time, they let out terrified screams before their surprised expressions had time to take over their faces, and Faye even fainted on the spot.

The girl turned her head back.

Yin Xiaoyu, who looked like a ghost, clutching her almost severed neck, looked at her with a crooked head, smiling as she said, “I know where your big brother is.”

She stumbled over, staggering over as she fell to the ground, and crawled over to the girl and grabbed her leg. She looked at the girl from bottom to top, and smiled resentfully. “Your big brother, has been hidden by Mo Fei. Follow Mo Fei, kill Mo Fei, and you will be able to see him.” 

The girl’s numb face was dead silent, and then her eyes suddenly curved, smiling as cute as an angel, and earnestly said to Yin Xiaoyu who had completely merged with the evil spirit, “Thank you big sister, you are the most beautiful and kindest woman in this world, I wish you happiness!”

She jumped up and down, then walked away happily.

She, of course, knew how to find Mo Fei.

The big villain Mo Fei who hid her Gege.

The girl’s figure disappeared in the scorched peach blossom forest, then appeared tens of metres away quickly after, then disappeared, then appeared, and then gradually drifted away.

She didn’t know that her body was lying on the second floor of the villa, and her soul forever trapped in this maze of peach trees.

Her heart only had the thoughts, I will find my Gege immediately, and we will go home together ba.

“The wind that travels to distant lands serves as a guiding sign on the road for you who walks alone.”

An ethereal singing echoed through the maze.

……

Mo Fei sneered fiercely, looking at Ye Zun in front of him.

“You want to fight me? Come at me ah!” he said, and quickly burst into happy laughter, thinking that this way of playing was also very interesting.

He held the knife, circling around Ye Zun, raising his eyebrows. “You can’t kill me.”

Ye Zun looked at his pale face soaked in cold sweat, and the bandage oozing with blood similarly wrapped around his right arm. “Are you hurt as well?” “

Mo Fei laughed arrogantly. “It is more than enough to deal with you. You’ve never fought with anyone, have you? Except for me, you’ve probably never experienced the taste of hatred, never experienced real anger and wrath, and nothing that you’ve really hated, no one that you wish to shatter their corpse into a thousand pieces, have you? But killing people requires this hostility!”

He smiled, looking at Ye Zun with raised eyebrows, a totally indifferent and underestimating attitude.

There was no unnecessary expression on Ye Zun’s face. He looked handsome and at peace, without the aura of violence and destruction that made people afraid.

He was just quiet, very, very quiet.

He ran towards the woods at his side, his eyes staying on Mo Fei.

“Want to run? The game has begun, I guess I’ll just follow your rules.” Mo Fei immediately followed him and ran parallel to his movements.

They quickly moved away from the place where Ye Zi’s body lied.

Ye Zun didn’t reply and ran to an area with more difficult terrain.

Mo Fei held a knife, but he had to raise his hand to wave away the endless peach branches obstructing his way.

Ye Zun and him were both thin in stature, and their speed was not slow. In the chaos of flowers, they couldn’t see each other’s position clearly.

An attack brought the breath of the wind. The corners of Mo Fei’s lips rose and he immediately dodged, leaning back as he made a counterattack. 

“Are you here?”

But what hit him was only a peach branch that sprung back, not a person.

After he turned sideways, the real attack came from above.

Mo Fei’s body was hit with a strong force by a peach tree branch. The hand holding the knife raised to stop the swinging branch as he pulled Ye Zun’s collar, closing the distance between them.

His face revealed an aggressive smile. With a twist of the hand, the blade turned and stabbed into the branch, sliding towards Ye Zun’s hand.

Ye Zun didn’t evade, didn’t avoid, didn’t look at the blade sliding towards him, only staring into his eyes, raising his knee and striking his abdomen.

Mo Fei immediately dodged to the side, and the knife turned to chop off the peach tree branch in Ye Zun’s hand.

The cut tree branch was sharper at one end. Ye Zun did not drop it, but reversed his posture of holding the branch, and pierced Mo Fei’s neck like he had a broken blade.

Mo Fei seized his wrist holding the branch, and he grabbed Mo Fei’s hand holding the knife. The two of them were in a stalemate and fell to the ground together.

They quickly broke away from each other and stood up again.

Mo Fei was still laughing wildly, without any sense of crisis. “Ah, I usually don’t take this way of fighting people hand-to-hand, it’s too rude. I prefer to use this when killing people.”

He pointed to his head.

Ye Zun also climbed up from the ground and dodged around a tree to hide. The bandage started to seep blood from the fight just now, making his face that was drenched in cold sweat become paler and clearer.

But the same could be said for the other side.

Mo Fei cackled presumptuously, his eyes brightening. “I like you more and more, I’m serious, before you, I never thought that one day I would face someone in this way. It’s so fucking thrilling!”

Ye Zun looked at him cautiously, and said calmly, “I’ve never thought I would either.”

Mo Fei laughed happily with an open mouth, raising the knife in his hand. “That was just a warm-up, now it’s my turn to attack! Be careful ah.”

“Ahhh!” He roared menacingly, stomping heavily on the crooked tree trunk next to him, rebounding like a wild beast to attack Ye Zun with no hindrance.

Ye Zun dodged to the side of the tree beside him, but the other man had already changed course because of the action just now. This little cover could not stop the other’s approach at all.

This time it was his turn to fall heavily backwards, hitting the peach tree. Branches with flowers on them scratched over his face and body, leaving scratches and pain of varying shades.

There is no time for him to care, he must get up and fight immediately.

Mo Fei gripped his collar, swinging him into the tree over and over. “Do you give in? Do you give in?”

He deliberately grabbed Ye Zun’s shoulder through the bandage, and smiled with evil intent as he watched the man clench his teeth, trembling all over from the pain. 

“It hurts, doesn’t it? Do you still want to take revenge now? Ah?“

He pinched Ye Zun’s painfully tense jaw presumptuously. “Don’t hold it in ah, you can cry out in pain, beg for mercy ah! Say you are wrong, beg me to let you go!”

Mo Fei’s eyes shone like snow, like light reflecting off a glacier, cold and bright.

“Say it ah, beg for mercy ah! Hurry up ah! I’ll let you beg for mercy!”

While threatening violently, he gripped Ye Zun’s shoulder and slammed him into the tree trunk like a madman.

“It…”

The pale and stubborn young man frowned, finally releasing a broken trill from his clenched teeth.

Mo Fei laughed for a split second and leaned in to hear. “What?”

“It…hurts…”

Of course, Mo Fei knew that he was in pain. The body he was pinching under his fingers was thin, so thin that he could touch the bones, and cold sweat seeped out at a touch. His skin was so pale it was almost transparent. No one knew this better than Mo Fei.

Because, your pain was inflicted by me ah.

But it was not enough, it wasn’t nearly enough.

The young man didn’t beg for mercy. These pains and fears weren’t enough for him to be obedient.

Mo Fei grinned and raised the knife in his hand.

Ye Zun watched him through half-open eyes, like he had lost his resistance as he died, but at this moment, instead of fleeing, he seemed to have gathered enough strength to jump up and slam into him heavily.

The two toppled to the ground together.

Mo Fei’s reaction was also very fast. After all, he knew how to kill people better than Ye Zun.

He rolled over and immediately changed from someone who was suppressed to someone suppressing another, kneeling on Ye Zun’s body.

“Ahhh!” A violent shout accompanied the rising blade in his hand, then it stabbed down heavily.

Ye Zun tried his best to dodge. The blade hit the ground against his neck.

Mo Fei’s mad laughing face was directly above him. The other didn’t care for what outcome the first stab resulted in, and once again lifted the knife for a downward blow like breaking bamboo.

Ye Zun raised his hand and grabbed the wrist connected to the hand with the knife using all his strength.

“Beg for mercy ah! Say you are wrong!”

Mo Fei laughed arrogantly, resisting the shaking hand. The blade continued to lower slowly, almost touching Ye Zun’s eyeball.

“Beg me ah! Beg me to forgive you! Say it! Say it!”

He only held the knife in his left hand, and grabbed Ye Zun’s shirt collar with his free right hand, ripping off his bandage and squeezing his wound.

“Do you want to die? Have you forgotten the taste pain? Do you want me to help you recall memories?”

Ye Zun remained silent, sweating profusely. His bangs were so drenched that he almost looked like he had been fished out of water.

The trembling hand was still in a stalemate with Mo Fei’s hand holding the knife. He stared at the tip of the knife hanging above his left eye.

“Why aren’t you speaking? Just say you’re wrong, and I’ll forgive you. As long as you listen to me obediently, I will still like you very much. Say it ah! Hurry up and say it ah!“

“I will…kill you!” Ye Zun’s shaking voice spoke softly, with no fear, with no dread.

“Ha!” Instead of being angry, Mo Fei smiled. He held his slender neck with his right hand, and gently rubbed the pad of his thumb over the bump on his throat. “Where should I put this knife? How about I stick through an eye? Or maybe an arm?”

Ye Zun endured the pain with a steady expression, not panicking from beginning to end. His trembling voice softly and calmly said, “Don’t talk big, you are also in a lot of pain, aren’t you? This knife may not be able to come down. Trash talking won’t work on me, I know that, you are also reaching your limit.”

Blood flowed down Mo Fei’s arm continuously, dripping on his right hand.

The blood even smeared onto Ye Zun’s neck following Mo Fei’s actions just now.

Ye Zun was not wrong. Mo Fei’s injured right arm had snagged onto a small cut branch, causing the wound on his injured right arm to bleed and tear again.

It was for this reason that Mo Fei had to switch to holding the knife with his left hand, which was why he was unable to suppress Ye Zun’s resistance for a long time.

This injured and trembling right hand, applying just a pinch to Ye Zun’s neck, stimulated the wound on his shoulder.

“Ha,” Mo Fei laughed, with cold sweat running down his face. There was no discomfort to being exposed at all. “Not bad, calmer than I imagined.”

Ye Zun’s left hand trembled weakly from the pain under the repeated stimulation of the wound on his left shoulder. After holding that position for a long time, it finally fell down from exhaustion.

Only his right hand was left holding Mo Fei’s left wrist, which carried the knife. He turned his head suddenly, so that his hand and the falling blade were fixed on the side of his neck, so that the man could not lift it to stab him again.

Mo Fei was also losing his strength a little. He continuously panted heavily, stared at him with a wicked smile on his face. “I’m a little embarrassed because of you. Will you really not consider cooperating with me? Everyone else is dead anyway.”

Ye Zun didn’t speak, just looked at him quietly, and rested for a few breaths. His left hand that held no power slowly touched his waist.

“Do you know? I have always been afraid of walking at night. I have always felt that there would be some terrifying existence hiding in the dark, that would suddenly appear and attack me. So, ever since the evening self-study period in high school, I would hang a little tool on my keychain.”

The keychain was usually hung on the side of his pants under the cover of his shirt. Now, the keychain was unclipped by his trembling left hand. What he held in his hand was a small, folded and exquisitely crafted knife.

It would be a bit difficult to open using the left hand, but because it was a tool that was frequently played with, there was no unfamiliarity.

Ye Zun raised his left hand, with the knife in his grasp, and stabbed it at Mo Fei’s throat.

Because the hand Mo Fei held the knife in was grabbed by his right hand and pressed to the ground by the side of his neck, it caused Mo Fei, who was kneeling above him, to maintain a posture that lowered his head slightly towards him.

And so, the position of his neck was very close, within the attack range of the knife.

Mo Fei reacted and immediately grabbed Ye Zun’s left hand with his bloody right arm, gritted his teeth, standing in a stalemate with him.

Ye Zun’s left hand holding the knife also shook, but the expression on his face was very calm, and he said slowly and steadily, “Now, the two hands that determine our life and death are both injured. You and me, who lives and who dies, we will know in an instant.”

“Psycho!”

This was the word Ye Zun used to call Shen Yuan, and now Mo Fei, who gnashed his teeth, returned it to Ye Zun himself.

Ye Zun was slightly taken aback.

Mo Fei gritted his teeth, the muscles on his face tightening, his appearance showing how much strength he was using. “Does it have to be like this?”

Ye Zun made a sound of confirmation.

His expression and voice were very steady, but he was also doing his best.

The situation at this moment was extremely tense for the two of them.

Ye Zun’s left hand clinging to the knife was in a stalemate, shakingly approaching Mo Fei’s neck little by little. As long as Mo Fei’s bleeding right hand loosen just a little, letting him take another step, the small knife would be inserted into Mo Fei’s neck, piercing the flesh in an instant.

Similarly, the blade in Mo Fei’s left hand was also on the side of Ye Zun’s right neck, deadlocked with Ye Zun’s right hand. As long as the balance was slightly disturbed, Mo Fei’s blade would slice out his arteries in an instant.

Cold sweat rolled down Mo Fei’s pale face and the expression on his face was extremely tight. The desire to survive made his veins bulge visibly.

Ye Zun was just as pale. Cold sweat wettened the bangs on his forehead, covering almost all of his skin, but there was a calm expression on his face.

That face, from the beginning to the end, never had the desire to kill, never thought that it was necessary to kill, never had the desire to live at any cost, and never had an attachment to being alive.

He looked at the expression on Mo Fei’s face. His eyes seemed to be slightly absent-minded.

The small knife in his hand did not exert force to stab into the throat, hovering so close to him.

——He killed Ye Zi, with no hesitation. The tip of the knife passed through the neck from behind, and pierced Ye Zi’s throat. Ye Zi must have been hurting so much. 

Ye Zun knew this, so he must kill him.

——He wanted to live. Even though he had lived such a lonely life, he still did his best to stay alive. Even if he was alone, even if he had to kill many innocent people, he could still live on with a smile. He wanted to live.

The expression on Mo Fei’s face was full of vitality and desire.

The knife was pressed against the right side of Ye Zun’s neck. It seems to have broken through the skin a little bit, and coldness of the blade could be felt.

“I’ll count one, two, three, and we’ll take them back at the same time!”

“No,” Ye Zun said.

“You lost! Move it away!”

“No,” Ye Zun said flatly.

He may lose, but before that, the knife in his hand will definitely puncture Mo Fei’s throat.

“Psycho! Lunatic! Do you want to die with me?”

Ye Zun’s eyes were clear and peaceful. Even if he didn’t frown, he had a faint and indescribable mist around him, like the wind on a summer morning.

Because the sun had not yet come out, there was always some crystal-clear ignorance*.

[T/N: word for word translation, but makes no sense, sorry]

When the light shines, it will be diffused into a gorgeous and illuminating brilliance with help of the water vapour in the wind.

However, there was no light in the amusement park, only an endless darkness and dull grey.

“Then we’ll die together.” The knife in Ye Zun’s hand was pressed against Mo Fei’s throat. The eyes that looked at him were steady. “I’m sorry, I know you really want to live.”

He didn’t care about the knife on the right side of his neck, and didn’t think about whether it would kill him.

“I really don’t have an extremely strong hatred or disgust towards you, I don’t need the killing intent to support me in doing so. I just, need to kill you.”

Mo Fei was still struggling with all his might, but he also took some of his attention to look into his eyes.

“I know. There were several opportunities for you to kill me, but you didn’t. No matter what your reasons are, logically speaking, I should give you such a chance.

“But,” he blinked, “I really don’t like not being good at this kind of thing, so, I’ll give you a chance to kill me. In this relatively fair stalemate, if you kill me first, you can live. If you are slow, we can die together.”

Indeed, he really wasn’t sure that he could win against Mo Fei, so he didn’t have any hope of surviving from the very beginning, so he didn’t have any fear, and didn’t beg for his life.

Mo Fei laughed mockingly, eyes directed straight at him. His eyes were black and clear, like an innocent boy.

As if bewitched, the paranoid gnashing of teeth, the violent desperation of survival, the cynical loneliness, the arrogant unwillingness, they all slowly disappeared, turning into dispensable serenity.

“Okay ah, let’s go together ba.” Mo Fei gave an absent-minded smile, with a slight gentleness to it,  and looked at him as he said peacefully, “One, two, three, we’ll let go at the same time.”

The same words were spoken again. This time, with the agreement to release their hands together; not the hands both sides had gripped around the knives, but the hands that desperately blocked the blades, the hands that kept them alive.

Ye Zun closed his eyes, then opened them. “I don’t trust you.”

“You can trust me just this once.” 

“I can’t trust you.”

“My credibility is not that bad.”

“I know, I just, any person wouldn’t trust you. I’m sorry.”

Mo Fei smiled and was the first to act, stopping the knife that was heavily poking into the side of his neck. “That’s right, I just remembered, you are also the kind of person who would envy ordinary people, like me, someone with a bad life and a bad family. We could have been friends.”

“In the next life ba.” Ye Zun clenched the knife in his hand, accumulating strength.

“If there is one.” Mo Fei raised his head and exposed his neck, took a deep breath, released his resisting hand, and waited for him to run the knife through his neck. At the same time, the knife on the side of Ye Zun’s neck had gathered all its power.

Ye Zun paused, and in that moment, hesitated slightly.

But then, he thought of the picture, where the blade passed through the neck of that frail and beautiful young man, and the knife that stopped, slowly moved forward.

“Urk!” A soft sigh escaped from Mo Fei’s throat.

Ye Zun froze. The knife stopped on the surface of his throat, and all strength was relieved.

Mo Fei’s body moved forward. The left hand that pressed the knife to the side of his neck loosened. Fingers lightly held onto Ye Zun’s shoulder, while his right hand wrapped around Ye Zun’s hand that held a blade to his neck, supporting his own body.

There was an everflowing stream of blood from the corner of his mouth.

Ye Zun’s eyes widened. He looked at the man, stunned, and followed Mo Fei’s gaze down. He saw the white shirt soaking with blood, where his heart was.

A petite finger peeked out from behind Mo Fei’s shoulder, grabbing him firmly.

A hoarse laughter sounded, low and happy.

In time with the laughter, another bright red splotch appeared on the white shirt.

The sound of a knife entering the body, one after another, after another.

Mo Fei turned his head back and caught a glimpse, then limply fell onto Ye Zun, lying beside him with empty eyes wide open.

Eyes that looked into his, smiling.

“You, don’t need to kill anyone.”

Ye Zun turned his head and faced the person who killed Mo Fei.

Behind Mo Fei’s fallen figure, he saw the familiar little girl.

A girl in a white dress stained red by blood, wearing a boy’s straw hat, with big round eyes, a high-rising smile on her mouth, and a thin blood-stained knife in her hand.

Smiling like an angel, she looked at Ye Zun with soft and loving eyes. “Gege! Yaya finally found you!”

It was the girl who was pulled into the array by him.

“Gege, the bad guys have all been beaten away by Yaya, let’s go home ba!”

Ye Zun struggled as he backed away, trying to stand up, but his entire body was weak. “I am not your brother.” 

The girl’s face puffed up and her mouth pouted pitifully, like a spoiled baby, looking like she was about to cry. “Gege doesn’t want Yaya? Gege, you are my big brother ah.”

Ye Zun watched her quietly. The girl’s black eyes were covered by blood stains, devoid of consciousness. Those were no longer eyes that belonged to a human. 

“I’m so miserable.”

“Wu wu, Gege doesn’t like Yaya anymore…”

“Since he is the most important existence in my life, why do I still treat others as if they are him? Am I deceiving myself, or have I been deceived?” 

The girl sobbed loudly, but no tears flowed. Only, the eyes were growing more and more terrifying. Black and red vines of resentment gradually crawled over the eye sockets.

“Why did you remind me? Why did you wake me up?”

She clutched her eyes, revealing a pair of blood-curdling eyes through her open fingers, glaring at Ye Zun with a mournful and resentful gaze.

“Why did you make me remember, that Gege is already dead?”

Ye Zun was taken aback. “So actually, he is already dead?”

“That’s right ah, my Gege, the best Gege in the world to me, was killed by your lot!”

Ye Zun shook his head. “This is my first time playing a multiplayer game, I did not kill him.”

“What’s the difference? Entering this game, sooner or later you will become like this man, killing people with no hesitation. Gege was killed like this, killed by such a person.”

Ye Zun watched her approach him step by step, ferociously and resentfully. He leaned against the peach tree, looking into her eyes. “Does your brother kill people too? “

“Gege did it to protect me, Gege killed the bad guys who wanted to kill us! Gege is the best person in the world!”

“What is his name?”

“……”

Ye Zun calmly said, “Maybe after I am killed by you, I might see him. When I see him, I can tell him for you, that his little sister has been looking for him all this time.” 

The girl cried silently, with tears of blood streaming down her cheeks. “Gege is Gege. I don’t know his name, we met in the first instance. Gege protected the useless me, and formed a team with me. We worked so hard together, and made an agreement for the day we were meant to leave the Demon God’s Amusement Park, to meet in the real world and to live together. But, when we were so close to getting a ticket to leave the Nightmare Border to go to a new world, we were targeted. Gege protected me, Gege was… Gege… I will never forgive you people!”

Tears of blood froze in the eye sockets, overshadowed by deep resentment.

“Yaya doesn’t want to go to the new world anymore, Yaya will stay here forever, and kill all of you! Kill every single one! The pain you brought us, all of you will experience it, every person here will experience it. Don’t a single one of you think you can leave this place alive!”

“Ah,” the dying Mo Fei laughed once, with death on his breath. “I remember him…I have met…your brother.”

That’s right, they met each other in the very first instance.

The girl’s eyes changed in an instant, glaring at him eagerly and fiercely. She rushed towards him and pulled at his neck. “You’ve seen Gege! Tell me quickly, hurry! Is Gege not dead? Where is Gege? Did Gege get lost because he couldn’t find Yaya?”

“He, he gave me something…and…had me send…some words to you.” 

The girl trembled nervously, her lips muttering, “What, what words are they?”

“He said…said…” His voice was fragile like a gossamer.

The girl’s ears immediately nestled close to his lips to catch them.

“…said…you also turned into the people who killed him.”

Mo Fei pinched the girl’s chin with great force, stuffed the exorcism beads into her mouth with all his strength, and laughed madly. “Aren’t you also already dead? What, didn’t you see him? That must be because there were too many murders.” 

The girl let out a shrill scream, her whole body burning up.

She shrieked, waving the knife in her hand and wildly stabbing at Mo Fei, impale him with no end.

In great pain and with his death in sight, Mo Fei smiled. His eyes fell on Ye Zun, and slowly lost the last gleam of light.

“He is dead. That is enough.”

“Ahhhhhhhh!” The girl was still in a rage, venting her resentment towards the corpse.

Ye Zun stood up by supporting himself with the peach tree. He remembered the first ghost he saw in the novice trial, Lin Youlin, and what the girl said before she disappeared. “Are you already dead? I see. People who die in the game will become ghosts, who will stay in the instance forever, and kill new people. Only when you are killed can you detach yourself.” 

The girl was burned to the point where she became more and more horrifying, with only half of her eyes left to stare at Ye Zun resentfully. She immediately fell into a state of insanity. 

“Gege, Gege! Don’t leave Yaya, Yaya knows she’s wrong, Yaya shouldn’t run around, Yaya will be obedient.”

She grinned and walked towards Ye Zun.

“Yaya will protect you, Gege, stay here, stay with me ba! We, will be together forever and ever, no one will ever separate us.”

Ye Zun looked behind her.

Beside the tortured corpse of Mo Fei, a tall and slender boy in a white shirt had crouched by it at some point, who seemed to be observing the condition of the corpse after its death with great interest.

The young man stood up. The corners of his lips lifted, and the slightly evil and arrogant smile was exactly the same as the deceased Mo Fei.

Sure enough, Mo Fei also turned into a ghost.

Mo Fei placed his finger on his lips, motioning for silence to Ye Zun who saw him. With a hand holding the knife behind his back, he walked leisurely towards Yaya’s ghost.

Ye Zun only felt a chill overtake him.

The first time the knife went in, Yaya reacted to it, but she didn’t care about her injury and immediately fought back against Mo Fei’s ghost.

Mo Fei dodged it with ease, shaking the knife in his hand, and smiling arrogantly. “Sure enough, it’s more interesting to become an evil spirit ah. I must thank you for making me die so painfully.”

He grabbed the girl’s hair, stabbed the knife into her eye and twisted the knife cruelly, while looking at Ye Zun with raised eyebrows and a smile.

“Don’t worry, I won’t treat you so roughly. I will be very careful, make you into a special existence, just like me. This world will be controlled by us. It is also a very interesting way to play games ah. I like what I am feeling right now, and you will too.”

Ye Zun’s eyes widened and his pupils shrank in an instant. The muscles in his throat froze, and he almost lost the strength to breathe.

He supported himself against the peach tree with his fingers, gathered his strength, and ran away suddenly.

Yaya screamed and retaliated in a desperate craze. The two ghosts fought each other.

Mo Fei couldn’t make a quick decision for a while, and frowned. “Stronger than I imagined ah. That person is about to get away, so how about this ba, so let’s go after him together first, and we can talk about the grievances between you and me after.”

Thus, after he became a ghost, he still retained the ability he had when he was alive, and easily persuaded other people to form a team in cooperation. Even ghosts were no exception.

The two ghosts chased after Ye Zun together, and very quickly surrounded him.

Ye Zun leaned against the peach tree, watching the ghosts approaching from left and right in the dark red mist.

The tragic appearance of the female ghost was a ghastly sight.

The male ghost was clean and elegant, maintaining the appearance of when was alive, it’s just that his wicked smile was covered with a strange coldness.

“Stay, be with us forever ba.” 

The two ghosts smiled and approached him slowly.

Even though Ye Zun could overcome his fear of ghosts, he couldn’t overcome the fear of becoming like them, losing himself, leaving only the remnant urge to slaughter, dominated by resentment, his appearance turning into something else entirely.

If he dies and becomes a ghost who only knows how to kill, one day, when the priest passes by this world for a business trip, will he appear in front of Lin with a hideous and terrifying appearance, screeching resentfully and attacking him, to make that person stay forever?

When that time comes, what kind of eyes will Lin look at him with, him who is beyond recognition?

As soon as he thought of such a future, he began to fear, and began to despair.

A slightly cold hand, reaching out from behind, gently covered his eyes.

His heartbeat stopped in fear, but soon, it began beating again.

——It’s a familiar breath, a familiar embrace.

In the darkness, the boy’s voice was the same as before, clear and quiet, a voice that made people want to protect him. “Don’t be scared, I’m here.” 

In the darkness where nothing could be seen, Ye Zun’s heartbeat was very steady, and he was not afraid.

“Ye Zi.”

He closed his eyes, not wanting that person to notice the moisture in his eyes, his trembling eyebrows and wet chokes. But, nothing could stop him from noticing.

“En, I’m here.” The cold and melancholy voice sounded deep in the darkness. It was an obviously chilly voice, but it was inexplicably warm. “I don’t want you to see a frightening appearance, so, can you close your eyes, and don’t look.”

He nodded, and nodded again, keeping the sounds of tears out of his voice. “O, okay ah.”

He definitely wouldn’t look, but when an image appeared in his eyes and came to his mind, the image of the young man when he was killed, his heart began to ache.

He wanted to ask, are you in a lot of pain.

He wanted to say sorry, that he didn’t protect him as promised.

However, nothing he wants to say at this moment will help.

That person’s hand slowly left his eyes and hugged him from behind, with a slight reluctance. “Go forward, keep running and running, then you can leave this place. Don’t look back, don’t stop.”

“Ye Zi!”

The hand gently pushed his shoulder.

It was as if the wind was grabbing his hand, taking him to run all the way forward.

He opened his eyes, only wanting to see that person again, but when he thought of the person’s instruction just now, he gritted his teeth and restrained the desire to turn back. Tears overflowed unceasingly.

The maze-like peach forest, twisting and turning like spectres, moved out of his way one by one.

He choked up and ran, not daring to stop, nor did he dare to look back. He just called Ye Zi’s name lightly, as if he could guide the other person to the way out, so he won’t get lost.

But he knew more than anyone that the boy was dead, and he would never, ever come out again.

Behind him, the person who stayed in the same place tilted his head and watched intently as he left the view of his back.

If Ye Zun turned around halfway, he would find that this person was not the fragile, melancholy, thin and beautiful Ye Zi in his mind.

But rather, a man he was even more familiar with.

Lin was wearing the same white shirt and black suit pants as Ye Zi. Except for his shorter hair, the outline of his appearance was more mature, and he had almost the same demeanour as Ye Zi.

Only when he could no longer see Ye Zun’s back did he retract his eyes. He looked at the two ghosts contemptuously.

The two ghosts also looked at him.

The girl who had lost her mind screamed. “Bad guy, give me back my Gege!”

Lin raised his eyebrows, watching her with dark and dismal eyes, and said in a low and lazy voice, “Look clearly, that is mine ah. As for your big brother, I do know where he is.” 

The girl immediately seemed to receive a stimulus. “Tell me, tell me quickly! I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you! “

Lin looked at her in innocent surprise, his black eyes not fully opened. “You should already know ah. Look at yourself and it becomes obvious. Wherever you die, you will stay in that world forever. If you want to find your brother, if you want to be with him forever, you have to go back to the instance where he died, and die there too ah.” 

The girl froze.

“But it looks like you no longer have a chance. You will never see him again.” 

He looked away unhurriedly, ignoring the female ghost who was having a meltdown, and turned his eyes to Mo Fei, who wanted to escape immediately when he was talking to the female ghost. He appeared in front of Mo Fei in the blink of an eye.

He reached out and grabbed the other’s neck, lifting it up effortlessly. At the same time, his head was lazily raised, with black and dreary eyes, with no waves of deathly aura. “This thing runs pretty fast. I said I don’t like you guys hurting him, why didn’t you listen?”

Mo Fei let out a hoarse yell. Every limb seemed to be snapped by something and his eyes widened in fear, but his face was still smiling.

The man tilted his head, frowning with his brows and eyes. The pure darkness made it difficult to look directly at him. “Why ah? Even I can’t bear to let him be in pain, to let him cry and succumb to me and beg for mercy. How dare you do that to him? En? “

He was panting slightly, his cold eyes extremely bright and staring at him sharply for a moment. Just by looking into his eyes, one can taste the fear and pain of thousands of arrows piercing the heart in one’s soul.

“How should I kill you, hm? You actually… almost became the first person to be killed by him. Something that not even I have managed to get. And you dare to force him like that… I really am too angry. Just killing you like this, is not close to enough.”

He released his hand and the black ghost fell to the ground, his entire body curled up, in unimaginable pain, still laughing emptily and arrogantly, seizing the one in ten thousand chance to escape.

Lin raised his hand and ran it through his hair when he suddenly thought of something. The lifelessness in the dark and gloomy eyes subsided, and he looked at the female ghost at the side.

The corners of his lips raised slowly, revealing an incomprehensible arc of a smile.

“I will give you one chance ba,” he said to the female ghost, as if he was empathetic, “That man who ran away just now, just do what you did before, and kill his ghost as well ba. If he dies, you can become a real resentful spirit, get out of this instance, go back to the world where your brother died. Maybe you can find him then.” 

The female ghost had covered her ears in fear and collapsed. After hearing his words, she slowly stopped shaking, and the body on the verge of scattering gradually condensed and repaired.

She looked at Lin with wide eyes, nodded slowly, and obediently and firmly said, “I will do my best!”

Lin smiled for a split second and the expression on his face slowly disappeared, losing all emotions, empty and bored. “Then work hard ba.” Ghosts cannot completely kill other ghosts, only humans can. Perhaps, she will never be able to succeed.

However, this was very interesting ah, much more interesting than directly destroying the consciousness of that person named Mo Fei with his own hands.

He let out a soft, long, long, sigh.

“I really don’t like when the prepared script is disrupted.”

As expected, after Ye Zi was killed, it was his dearest’s turn to cry and kiss him, to come to terms with his heart.

He just wanted to be kissed and cried over by that person. He didn’t want that person to work hard for him, avenge him, die for him, be hurt for him.

“Just, a single kiss would be enough ah.”

Just love him.

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The wind born in the depths of the forest

Passing through the field, gently shaking the upright elm tree

The wind blows through the treetops

That is the path of the wind

The wind born in the depths of the forest

Gently shaking the wheat with invisible hands

The wind that travels to distant lands

Serves as a guiding sign on the road for you who walks alone

Note… It’s the lyrics for “The Path of the Wind”.

A pure song paired with a horrifying and cruel story, I am the devil.




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