she said scornfully, as if she were enjoying the whole thing. If all this was true, why didn't it possess me in the past? After all, I had never raised any objections.
"You're too pathetic, mocking the Rune Ward. I've spent more energy protecting you here. I don't think we see eye to eye here. Fine, you can do it…I care about whatever you do from now on.”After she said this, I heard her stand up and walk to the door. But before she closed the door and left, she left me with one last question."But do you really want to waste everything that Xiang Qingxia sacrificed for you, Xiang Qingxia Ruiji?”
Because she liked to ask questions about my past, I couldn't give an answer, and my evasion only made me feel that I was missing something, something I still couldn't find the reason for.
Night fell, night fell in my room. Tonight, there were no footsteps in the corridor outside, and the silence was as dutiful as in the mountains. In my mind, I kept repeating my conversation with the healer, especially her parting words.
Why did you replace Xiang Qingxia, Xiang Qingxia? This question echoed in my mind, but Xiang Qingxia didn't answer it. Why did you disappear? What can you get in return? You always liked to dream, always liked to sleep. However, on that rainy night, you threw it away and died. You're the me I'll never meet, the me I'll never meet
I slowly drifted off to sleep, racking my brains for memories. Any scene would explain why he did it. As usual, there was no luck.
The door to my room creaked. Someone was opening the door. The slow and heavy footsteps were getting closer. A nurse? No, it was already past midnight. Is there a guest? But who could possibly come at this late hour?
A hand wrapped around my neck affectionately. It felt cold. In an instant, the power entered my neck, squeezing and suffocating. My neck began to be crushed bit by bit.
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Under the pressure, Xiang Qingxia panted painfully for a moment. She could feel the air in her throat slowly being cut off as her fingers tightened and caressed her. Xiang Qingxia could only observe sarcastically.
With this guy's speed, my neck will be crushed. I haven't even caught my breath yet.
Although she couldn't see it, Xiang Qingxia tried to get the attacker to look at her face so closely that she could smell it. No matter what this thing was, judging from the smell, it was not something that was still alive. Xiang Qingxia could feel the corpse looming above her, and its grip did not relax for even a second. She grabbed her arms, trying to catch it, they tried to avoid them, but it was no use, the difference in strength was obvious.
But wait, Xiang Qingxia thought, Isn't this what I've always wanted?
She stopped resisting and stopped breathing. If I choose to die, I might as well make it as fast as possible. After all, not having a truly 'living' existence was the worst thing you could do to anyone. My disappearance was the only correct thing to do.
When she turned herself in, her strength began to decline. Although only a few seconds had passed, it seemed to be painfully extending for Xiang Qingxia. A cold wooden hand reached into her skin. His muscles were torn apart, and warm blood oozed out as proof of his life.
I will die, just like Xiang Qingxia.
I want to throw this life away like garbage.
This thought made Xiang Qingxia pause for a moment.
Did Xiang Qingxia really want to die? I never thought about it. Of course he didn't want to die! But he had to. To protect something. He wouldn't want me to die either. After all, death was a lonely and futile thing. Darkness and ominous were more terrifying than anything else.
"No!" Xiang Qingxia couldn't help but cough. After a while, she regained her resistance, grabbed her arms as before, and put one foot on the attacker's stomach. "Nothing can fall there again!”
She used all the strength that her leg could withstand to kick the corpse up. The blood and skin on Xiang Qingxia's throat made a wet sound because the hand holding her slipped away. She stood up at once and left the bed as quickly as she could lift her feet, but the body followed closely behind. Its hands struggled in the dark room, trying to find something solid on Xiang Qingxia's body. Xiang Qingxia tried to grab her again.
Xiang Qingxia could tell that the corpse was that of an adult man, two heads taller than her. She groped as hard as she could in her blindness, but she found it hard to resist, and her hands busied themselves around the room, touching herself as though she were avoiding the attack of a corpse. She retreated, and retreated again, until she brought herself back to a wall.
The light tap on her back reassured her: it was a heavy blow to the window. As the corpse approached, Xiang Qingxia heard the sound of its arm cutting through the air. Xiang Qingxia tried to block it with her arm, at least for a while. The window was behind her, and the body was in her place. Everything was going according to the plan she had come up with in a hurry. There was one last point that made her hesitate. Which floor was this?
"Don't hesitate!" She told herself and did her best to release the corpse's arm. Immediately, they pointed their guns at her throat again, but Xiang Qingxia ran even faster. She opened the window with her free hands. Under the power of the corpse's grab and approach, both of them fell out of the window and entangled with each other.
In the blink of an eye, the corpse and I walked out of the window into the open air. In the next moment, I grabbed its shoulder and forced it down, twisting our position. With him below me, my fall is softened, and we descend together. A second or two later, it hit the ground. I felt the impact, but there was no lasting pain. I jumped away from it, and the hands and feet that supported my landing scattered some soil in the hospital courtyard.
Judging from the sound of the leaves before it fell, the body fell on the flower bed about one meter away.
If I say so myself, it was a stunning landing. Surprisingly, my body was already frozen. It was very likely that I had not recovered when I fell three floors. The smell in the wind was the smell of fresh leaves and trees in the courtyard. Compared to the excitement of the last few seconds, the night was dead silent. I didn't move, only feeling the throbbing pain in my throat. It told me I was still alive.
As for the corpse…well, whatever it was, it wasn't finished yet. If I don't want to die, then I know what I need to do.
Kill. Before it kills me.
With this thought, the emptiness that had gripped my heart until not long ago disappeared. All my doubts and worries disappeared in an instant.
"Is that all?" I whispered. Only then did I wake up. This time it was real. How foolish and foolish I was to think as I did, and all the while the answer was so beautiful and simple.
"In more than one sense, isn't it?”A voice came from behind Xiang Qingxia. She recognized that it was the healer's voice. Xiang Qingxia didn't turn around to see her. She was still shocked by the fall.
"You're here again?" Xiang Qingxia asked. It's a little late for treatment, don't you think?”。
" I'll let you know that I'm standing guard," the self-proclaimed mage replied casually. "All of this must happen tonight, before you come out, no matter what. These ghosts want your corpse, but they can't get it, so they have a corpse to solve this problem.”
"Please don't tell me this is all because of that strange stone you left in the room.”
"Oh, hehe, she remembers. No, it wasn't the rune's fault, but I admit that it was a mistake I hadn't foreseen. I built a ward that was supposed to keep ghosts out, but then they found themselves a body to escape. They're usually not that smart, and they're not that smart about the body, or they're stubborn about wanting you. My mage giggled, as if this was a grand game she was playing with another of her kind, and she had just made a small tactical mistake.
"Alright, now is your chance to correct this. Why won't you let me see the magic in your sleeve, wizard?”
"Don't mind me doing this." After saying that, the mage broke a finger. In the air, her hand moved as if she was directing an concerto. She used the cigarette in her hand to describe a symbol made of straight lines in the air. Suddenly, she found herself projected onto the body that was still swaying. This was the Runic Script, her channel to arcane power. Through it, she ignited her rotten body and ignited the flames from afar. " My Ansuz is too weak to do this," she complained, sounding disappointed. The reason soon became clear.
The flames hugged the corpse, but it only started to stand up, ignoring its current state. The bones in its legs were obviously broken, but once it stood up, it would continue to move forward, dragging its feet towards Qing Xia. Soon, the flame would extinguish itself, and so would the power that had filled it with life.
"You mean he's still standing? Are you a real mage or are we at the place where you want to sell me the bridge?”
"I think I like you more meek. This is very difficult and definitely not my specialty. If it was an ordinary person, the story would end here. But since it was a corpse, it didn't really care if it lost an arm or a head. You'll need an incinerator to stop him, or a particularly devout monk who can-" To make a long story short, you can't do it." The mage cast an angry look at Xiang Qingxia. Seeing what she had just said, her pride was forced to yield to her incompetence.
"Don't think your newfound talent will save you from that for too long. It was already dead. Although you can kill, you still have a long way to go before you can destroy death. We'll retreat now." The mage took a step back. However, Xiang Qingxia remained motionless, even though she was not hurt by the fall. She only smiled, as if this ridicule alone was enough to stop the approaching enemy.
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