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As soon as the words left my mouth, I found it hard to believe even myself. I hurriedly rubbed my eyes and looked again.
But upon closer inspection, I realized that the person in front of me was indeed Hu Fang. She was wearing the leather jacket she had on when we set out, now stained with blood, and was panting heavily as she ran towards me.
"Shen Xu! I finally found you..." She reached me, propping her hands on her knees, gasping for breath, clearly exhausted.
"You... how did you end up here..." I asked in shock.
As I spoke, a thought crossed my mind: could this Hu Fang be another fake? Why would she appear now...
Questions flooded my mind, making the person who looked exactly like Hu Fang seem incredibly unreal. "Should I just kill her? Or wait until I investigate thoroughly?"
I kept asking myself these questions from deep within. At that moment, Hu Fang caught her breath and hugged me tightly, a hint of excitement in her voice. "Thank goodness you're okay..."
For a moment, I was at a loss for what to do. I turned to see Yellow Dog beside me, staring at me with its innocent big eyes. It showed no signs of recognition towards Hu Fang, as if it couldn't see her at all.
Just then, I heard the voice of Void Spirit inside me. He questioned me in confusion, "Hey, Shen Xu! What are you doing? Stop daydreaming! Hurry up and complete your plan!"
As his words reached me, I wanted to explain myself, but when I looked ahead again, there was no sign of Hu Fang; only I stood there with my arms open in a gesture of being embraced.
"Wait a minute, I definitely heard footsteps and felt something... how could this be..." I murmured in confusion.
"You must be seeing hallucinations again! Steady your mind and don't pay attention to those things; if you don't hurry up, they'll be here!" Void Spirit's tone was urgent, accompanied by heavy footsteps approaching from afar. Even the blood pooling in the low ground began to ripple.
Seeing this, I slapped my face with the Sheepskin Book in my hand to keep myself alert and then sat down next to Jiang Ling on the ground to start writing.
...
I don't know how long it had been, but the words on the Sheepskin Book gradually increased. The blood-red ink stood out starkly against the yellowed pages.
As I neared the end of my writing, my tense nerves began to relax because I knew that once this story was completed, the monsters born from souls would vanish into thin air.
But just then, someone suddenly tapped my shoulder. Startled from my intense focus on writing, I jumped and quickly turned around.
Standing behind me was Li Zhisheng, his body also covered in bloodstains. His tattered clothes revealed several bleeding wounds.
At that moment, whether it was the illusions and deceptions that had me feeling agitated, I picked up Jiang Ling without hesitation and plunged it into Li Zhisheng's body, shouting, "Stop bothering me!"
As Jiang Ling pierced through, Li Zhisheng did not vanish; instead, he widened his eyes in shock, staring at me as I drove Jiang Ling into him.
Blood began to flow slowly from Li Zhisheng's wound, trickling down Jiang Ling and onto my hand. The warmth of the bright red blood seemed to remind me that this was not an illusion...
I was stunned, my mouth agape and unable to utter a word, simply watching as Li Zhisheng fell to his knees in the pool of blood.
At that moment, Yellow Dog also cried out, and the Void Spirit within him asked incredulously, "Shen Xu... what happened? Why..."
My previously slightly relaxed mind finally shattered at that moment. "He can't be real... Void Spirit, you can't see him, right?"
After a brief silence, the Void Spirit replied, "I... can see him."
"No, this can't be real! This isn't happening! It must be another illusion!" I kept telling myself, as if that would somehow ease my pain.
Just then, blood began to flow slowly from Li Zhisheng's mouth as he smiled weakly at me. "I know you didn't mean it... I... forgive you..." He coughed several times, more blood spilling forth.
"You can't be real! You can't be real..." I mumbled frantically, losing my grip on sanity as I tried to pull Jiang Ling out of Li Zhisheng's body.
But at that moment, Li Zhisheng grasped the hilt of Jiang Ling, blood seeping through his fingers. "Shen Xu... don't blame yourself... it's not your fault..." His voice was faint; before collapsing, he used his last bit of strength to say clearly, "You must live and get out of here..."
With that, Li Zhisheng's hand suddenly slipped from Jiang Ling, and he fell before me.
"I killed my friend who saved my life... I killed him with my own hands..." Staring at Li Zhisheng's lifeless body, I was stunned as hot tears streamed down my face.
I wanted to cry, but no sound would come out. I could only slump down on the ground, the Sheepskin Book falling onto my lap while Jiang Ling dropped to the side.
"Everything I've done was to help my friends escape this nightmare completely. But now... now... Li Zhisheng, I'm going to make amends..."
With that thought, I gripped Jiang Ling tightly and pressed the blade against my neck.
"Shen Xu! Are you crazy?!" The Void Spirit shouted suddenly, unleashing all its power to seize control of my body. "Don't you have other friends?! If you die, who will save them? Are you really this weak?!"
"Calm down!" Void Spirit said, tucking the Sheepskin Book into his embrace.
But at that moment, I could no longer hear his words; all that filled my mind was regret, pain, and Hatred...
As these negative emotions piled up, it felt as if my soul had lost control, with my subjective consciousness gradually taking over completely.
"Weak? Yes, it was my weakness that led me to accidentally kill my friend. It was my weakness that left me powerless to save him. It was because of my weakness that I needed your help... but now... I no longer need it!"
With that, an unprecedented surge of power erupted from within me, instantly reclaiming control of my body.
Intense Black Lightning spread around me in an instant, a dark aura rising from beneath me.
"Shen Xu! Wake up! You will be consumed by Hatred like this! Wake up..."
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