The priest walked up to Tian Ning, leaned down, and said in a weird accent: "My child, it's okay, I will send you back to college right away."
After hearing this man's words, Tian Ning seemed to suddenly understand something. She lay on the bed and struggled to get up, but was pinned down by the priest and unable to move.
As a last resort, Tian Ning could only yell: "No, no! So you lied to me! That's not true!"
But the pastor said: "No, kid, of course that's true. Don't you want to go to college? Go to sleep. After you fall asleep, you will go to the best university in the capital, and your life will change forever.
Become different."
The next moment, a faint blue light appeared in the pastor's eyes, and when Tian Ning looked at him, Tian Ning, who was still struggling, suddenly closed his eyes as if he was hypnotized.
He lost his eyes and finally lay motionless on the bed.
Seeing the scene in front of me, my heart seemed to be touched, but before I had time to think about it, the situation outside changed again.
After knocking Tian Ning unconscious again, the priest suddenly lay on top of him and opened his mouth at Tian Ning. Lin Qianyi and I thought at first that the other party wanted to molest Tian Ning. Who would have expected that next time, Tian Ning would be molested?
When we came down, we saw that from Tian Ning's body, a golden gas floated out of his mouth and nose. As soon as this gas left Tian Ning's body, it was inhaled by the priest next to him.
When absorbing these gases, the expression on the priest's face was as if he was taking drugs, and he looked indescribably happy.
After seeing this scene, it was as if a light was turned on in my head. Many things that I couldn't understand before were all figured out at this moment!
After seeing what the priest in front of me did to Tian Ning, I finally understood that the priest I had been looking for was actually not a person with the ability to change the world line at all. His real ability was actually to make people
People fall into a dream and take this opportunity to absorb the other person's life force.
What we saw just now, the wisp of golden gas floating out of Tian Ning's body, I had heard of something similar before at Zhang Mo's. This wisp of golden gas, in the parlance of their Longhushan Daomen
, is human essence, and in popular terms, it is human vitality. Among the various strange ghosts that Longhu Mountain has dealt with, some ghosts will maintain their vitality by ingesting the essence of living people.
The purpose of one’s own body.
And because essence is actually life force, people who have been ingested by essence will die on their own soon, and the circumstances of their death... coincidentally, they are the same as those in the serial death case I was originally investigating.
Like the deceased, there is no trace of trauma or poisoning, because the direct cause of their death is actually the exhaustion of their own vitality.
Therefore, the priest in front of us is either transformed by the ghosts I just mentioned, or he is a person with abilities similar to those of ghosts. He can take the opportunity of making people dream and absorb their vitality for his own use.
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After understanding all this, I kicked open the closet door, preparing to subdue the priest and save the dying Tian Ning.
However, the strange thing is that when I walked out of the closet and came to the room, the priest who was not far in front of me suddenly disappeared, leaving only Tian Ning lying on the bed alone.
Lin Qianyi also followed me out of the closet. When she saw that there was no trace of the priest outside, she couldn't help but said: "What the hell? Sijiu, could what we just saw be a ghost?"
"I don't know..." I opened the door, stuck my head out and scanned around the outside. I still couldn't see the shadow of the priest just now. He seemed to have evaporated from the world and disappeared completely.
At the same time, Lin Qianyi came to Tian Ning's side. She first checked Tian Ning's condition, and after confirming that she was still breathing, she tried to wake her up. However, no matter what Lin Qianyi did, Tian Ning always failed.
He had his eyes closed and had no reaction to the outside world.
Seeing this, Lin Qianyi raised her head and said to me: "Sijiu, what did you say happened to her? Didn't she wake up just now? Why can't she wake up now?"
I turned my head, returned to the room, glanced at Tian Ning and said, "Sister Lin, you can't wake her up, because she probably thinks she is studying at Peking University or Shuimu now."
Lin Qianyi was a little confused and said: "This... what do you mean?"
I walked to Tian Ning, bent down and looked at her in her sleep, took a deep breath and said: "It turns out that there is no wish coming true at all, and there is no change in the world line. That guy's ability is just to let you enter the dream.
Then I thought my wish came true.”
While I was talking to myself, Lin Qianyi said from the side: "Sijiu, stop talking nonsense, that priest may come back at any time, let's take Tian Ning to the hospital first!"
Although Lin Qianyi's words were reasonable, at this time, I couldn't care about Tian Ning at all. After saying what I just said, I stopped worrying about anything and turned on the light in Tian Ning's room.
When the light dispersed the darkness, my eyes fell on a corner beside Tian Ning's bed. I don't know why, but this corner gave me a feeling of déjà vu...
Suddenly, it felt as if the wall in my head had been hit hard by someone, and the memories behind the wall that had been sealed by some kind of force were about to break out of the wall.
However, this feeling was also accompanied by a strong headache, which made me sway and almost fall on the bed. Fortunately, Lin Qianyi supported me at this time.
She said: "Sijiu, what's wrong with you?"
I looked at the corner and said, "Sister Lin, if Tian Ning and I encounter the same situation, what should I do?"
"What?"
I pointed to the corner and said: "Sister Lin, if the real me is actually lying there dreaming, what should I do? What the three fat men said are wrong. My world line has not changed. Everything here
, it’s just my imagination.”
"Sijiu, don't be like this, you scared me." Lin Qianyi took a deep breath and said.
I turned my head, looked at her and said: "I'm sorry, Sister Lin, I didn't mean it. But I'm afraid what I just said is not wrong. Before I woke up in this world, I was obviously investigating the serial situation here with Mo Xi.
Death case, but why did my later memories disappear, and why did I inexplicably end up in such a world that completely conforms to my ideals?"
"Although the third fat man said that all this may be due to the change of the world line, the scene we just saw made me understand what the world line changed. I was just hypnotized by the priest and was dreaming! He used his
Ability, like Tian Ning, allowed me to have the dream that I longed for most."
Hearing my words, Lin Qianyi covered her mouth in horror, and then said: "Sijiu, no matter what happened to you, we don't have time anymore, let's go, let's take Tian Ning to the hospital as soon as possible!
"
As Lin Qianyi said this, she reached out to hold my arm.
Before her hand touched mine, I suddenly raised my hand and pushed her away.
While Lin Qianyi looked at me with a puzzled expression, I also said: "Sister Lin, although I don't want to think about it, I'm afraid you are just my dream."
When Lin Qianyi heard this, she couldn't help but rolled her eyes at me, and then slapped me in the face.
"Sijiu, do you feel pain? Tell me when you feel clearly!"
Although there was indeed a burning feeling on my face, I still said: "Sister Lin, don't be fooled by the content in those street stall magazines. You can also feel pain in your dreams!"
"I...I'll go!" Lin Qianyi waved her hands with a speechless expression, turned around in a circle, and then said to me: "Sijiu, can you wake up? Now is not the time for you to play around.
Tian Ning's condition is very bad, if we don't send her to the hospital, it will be too late!"
"Yes, so I have to confirm the truth of the matter now." As I said that, I took out the gun in my clothes, held it in my hand and checked that there were bullets in the gun, and then pointed the gun.