Invade the World

  Chapter 79 Sinister

   "...Finally, it's coming."

  Zhu Qingyue said to herself.

  After leaving the clearing, she fell into the intricate roadway like a spider web, surrounded by residential buildings, so she felt lost at first. However, after the girl asked a few nearby residents and pedestrians passing by, she quickly found her way out.

"When I go back at this point, I must be late for class. After that happened to Teacher Yang, it really doesn't matter. When he is away, I don't know how the students in the class will react? It is noisy. Or is there another cram school teacher to replace? The school should panic, because they will soon find out that Teacher Yang can't be contacted here. After all, I didn't expect that Teacher Yang is the one... …"

"Ah!"

  She unconsciously exclaimed.

  There was a mess of thoughts in her head, which made the girl who was lost in thought almost hit the telephone pole in front of her.

  Zhu Qingyue stopped and stroked her forehead.

  In front of you is the road facing the commercial street, and when you turn a corner, the cram school is located. The noisy voices can already be heard from a distance.

She believes that Lin Xingjie and Xu Xiangyang can handle this matter well. This is not only a feeling of trust, but also from a rational point of view. The messy scene seen in the classroom that night is proof that Teacher Yang is not Lin’s at all. opponent.

  In other words, she can finally get out of the shadow of the monster, she should have felt relaxed...

  But the big stone in my heart never fell.

  Zhu Qingyue sighed.

  Is it because I have been the monitor for too long, and I have become accustomed to unfounded worries?

  Of course, the most important thing right now is that even if I worry about it, I can’t do much.

  Think carefully, does she have a way to help those two people?

Call the police? Not to mention whether ordinary people can handle this kind of supernatural event. Based on the previous exchanges, she feels that the two people probably don't really want their secrets to be exposed.

  Furthermore, when Xu Xiangyang let himself leave that place, he actually explained his thoughts silently:

   "——Don't come in."

  ...Yes, she'd better not interfere.

  In the eyes of people around, girls have always been a perfect symbol of unwavering and infallible; and as if to respond to this, Zhu Qingyue always allows herself to follow all seemingly correct choices.

   But if that’s the case, what is the emotion that is lingering in her heart--

  "……"

  Zhu Qingyue's ear moved slightly.

   Before she had time to sort out her chaotic thoughts, she heard a strange and slight noise coming from behind.

  Zhu Qingyue came from that direction just now, so it is clear that there is an unmanned alley there.

Is    a mouse? Or a plastic bag that was rolled up by the wind?

  The girl couldn't help turning her head to look.

  Not out of curiosity, but for some unknown reason, she got goose bumps all over, and her hands and feet were cold.

  Behind her is not a mouse or a plastic bag.

  That is an old man.

  The old man is tall and thin, wearing a dark black Chinese tunic suit, and standing straight, giving people a spirited impression.

  His hair is gray, his face is covered with the traces of the wind and frost, and there is a smile on his face. It is the kind of smile from the older generation to the younger generation. The wrinkles on his face are unfolded, and he looks quite kind.

  But Zhu Qingyue was stunned. She could barely support her body only by supporting the telegraph pole beside her without falling down.

  ——In the deep-set eye sockets of the old man, the eyeballs are missing, only two black holes are left.

  He is "watching" her.

  Zhu Qingyue's inner thoughts are chaotic.

  She suddenly remembered what Student Xu had said to herself that day. He mentioned that after encountering an eyeless old man, Lin Xingjie and Xu Xiangyang had special abilities that surpassed ordinary people.

  But, didn’t Xu Xiangyang say that the old man “lived” in that haunted house?

  Could it be... came out?

  In the narrow alley, I don’t know when the wind started.

   is not an ordinary wind, but a gloomy wind that seems to invade the bone marrow.

   Wan Lai was completely silent, and only a fierce heartbeat could be heard by the girl’s ears.

  The old man took a step forward...No, to be more precise, it was drifting away.

  The place he passed, whether it was a road or a wall, was slowly fading and becoming blurred, as if the light passed through this space, and then it appeared distorted.

  Zhu Qingyue didn't dare to turn around and flee, because her legs were already weak, and she really didn't know what would happen when she escaped, so she could only watch the opponent approaching.

  This is not even the worst. A sense of dizziness from nowhere hit her; pain, intense pain, sudden pain-like a hot iron piercing straight into the back of the brain, making the girl want to scream, but she But only a silent and weak gasp burst out of his throat.

  Blink.

  Her vision is already on the verge of shattering.

  Blink.

  Her eyes turned black for a while, and the surrounding scene turned around.

  When she blinked for the third time, the old man had passed her by, and was close at hand.

   "Hoo..."

  It's like someone is lying on her shoulders, blowing a breath of cold air into her ears.

  The biting chill runs down the head and neck all the way up and down the whole body.

  Zhu Qingyue finally couldn't hold it anymore.

  The girl clutched her chest, slumped slowly and feebly, and closed her eyes.

  She didn't look back, but she could feel the old man leaving behind her, and she didn't mean to stay for a while.

  Maybe the old man didn't want to kill her, maybe because the ghost thought she was not threatening, so he simply ignored her.

  However, the influence left by the old man did not disappear. Witnessing the stimulation of the ghost made Zhu Qingyue's head hurt like it was about to split.

  The scenery of the real world shattered into thousands of pieces like a mirror falling on the ground before her eyes; while the dark, real world gradually revealed itself behind the mirror.

  Like facing an iceberg on the sea bottom, people can only see the tip of the water surface; only the warriors who dared to jump into the sea can feel the greater true face of the sea.

  The false veil was lifted, and the naked and painful truth gradually unfolded before him.

  Glistening tears could not stop falling from the girl’s eyes.

"mother……"

  While she was confused, she closed her eyes and yelled softly.

  Not long after, the girl felt something sticking out of the invisible darkness.

  As if being embraced by a pair of warm arms, Zhu Qingyue felt relieved for a while, and finally lost consciousness completely...

  *

  A few minutes later.

   "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"

  Xu Xiangyang opened his eyes abruptly, panting heavily.

  His hands and feet danced wildly for a while, and he didn't stop until he was finally held down by someone.

  The soft sky shone on the surface of Xu Xiangyang's pupils.

  The light is not bright, but he still feels dazzling.

  This incomparably clear experience is a clear proof that he has escaped from the "spiritual world" and returned to reality.

  He narrowed his eyes again and rested for a while before daring to open it.

   "You, are you okay?"

  A familiar voice came from the top of the head.

  He raised his face in shock, and what caught his eyes was a beautiful face.

  It turned out that it was Lin Xingjie who put her head on her lap.

   His long black hair fell down, and his fair and beautiful face and correct facial features seemed more perfect at this distance. Those black jade-like eyes were full of anxiety and anxiety, staring straight at him.

  This seems to be the second time he has looked at his friend from this angle...

  As soon as this thought emerged from Xu Xiangyang’s mind, it was interrupted by Lin Xingjie’s panicked words

"You, what's the matter with you? You won't be stupid?" The girl's voice was almost crying, "Tell you not to do such dangerous things. It's someone else's thing to be possessed by monsters, and it's just like you. It doesn't matter!"

  Speaking of which, Lin Xingjie saw Xu Xiangyang just staring at herself blankly, without any reaction at all.

   She gritted her teeth, made up her mind, and slowly raised a hand.

  It wasn't until this time that Xu Xiangyang reacted. He quickly raised his hand to cover his face, and said loudly:

"do not hit me!"

  "……"

  Lin Xingjie put down her hand and grabbed his collar in surprise.

   "Are you okay?! Really?"

"I, I'm okay...cough cough, don't hold it so tight, I can't breathe anymore," Xu Xiangyang grabbed the girl's palm and prevented her from exerting strength on her neck. "Just woke up...no, He just came back from the'psychic' state, a little bit unrecovered."

"In the end what happened?"

  Lin Xingjie took out her little hand a little embarrassedly, and helped him to sit up from the ground.

  Xu Xiangyang was silent for a while.

  The scenes that he had just seen during the psychic process, once again surfaced in his mind.

  Including the vast and dark and deep spiritual world of human beings, including human consciousness, including the process of psychic detachment like snorkeling and rising, and even the chilling scene at the end——

  He did not answer immediately, but instead set his sights on Teacher Yang.

  The weirdo lay there quietly, motionless, as if dead.

   "What's the situation with him?"

  "After you channeled him, this guy was still grinning at first, but after about a few minutes, he suddenly stopped moving." Lin Xingjie glanced at the weird person, "I thought you were successful."

   "I... I did succeed."

   Xu Xiangyang murmured.

   "In Teacher Yang's body, I found the consciousness that belongs to him, but..."

  When he chose to leave the psychic state, Teacher Yang's consciousness was almost taken away from the darkness by him, and Xu Xiangyang thought he was going to succeed.

  But at the last moment, he in the spiritual world still became the tragic situation of losing his eyeballs and still crawling out of the worms in his eye sockets, as if the whole body had become a nest of worms...

  Does this mean that Teacher Yang was out of help at that time?

The results of it? What is the result?

  Xu Xiangyang stared at the weird man lying there quietly, frowned, and repeatedly asked himself, but couldn't get the answer.

  "Am I successful? Or not? Also, Teacher Yang finally told himself ‘Don’t come near!’. Is that warning me to pay attention?"

  He pressed **** his temples.

  There is still a dull pain in the head, which shows that this kind of deep channeling is not completely without negative effects.

   "In other words, you don't know if Teacher Yang's consciousness has been successfully rescued, is it true?"

"right."

   "What about the monster?" Lin Xingjie asked curiously with her chin in her hand, "Didn't you say that there may be two consciousnesses in this body?"

   "I didn't see it." Xu Xiangyang shook his head, "What's more, it's hard to tell whether the possessed monster has ‘consciousness’... But I saw something else!"

  Speaking of this, his fist suddenly clenched.

   "——The old man in the haunted house!"

  Xu Xiangyang turned his face, and said to his friend very seriously.

   "If I'm not mistaken, the reason why Teacher Yang was possessed by a monster is because the eyeless old man made a ghost, just like Shi Hui and the others!"

  "Did you see that old man? In Teacher Yang's inner world?"

   Lin Xingjie stayed for a while, and asked in an inconceivable way.

   "Is that the sight seen in Teacher Yang's memory, or is it...?"

"I'm afraid not."

  Xu Xiangyang shook his head.

   "If it's just a'memory', there can be no way to harm people? But when I was channeling just now, I really felt like I was about to be dragged by him."

  If he did not interrupt the channeling in time, and his consciousness fell into the boundless darkness, what would the result be?

  Fall to death? No, of course not, because the spirit is not flesh and blood. But if the old man intervenes arbitrarily, his consciousness may be imprisoned in that place, unable to return to his body, leaving behind a desperate self...

  He didn't dare to imagine the result.

  "You mean that the old man...or at least part of his power is lurking in Teacher Yang's inner world? If this is the case, he should have noticed your presence as well..."

"More than that," Xu Xiangyang added with a serious expression, "This is a conspiracy against us and even the other students in the school, because whether it is Teacher Yang or the group of gangsters, they are all monsters cultivated by the old man in the haunted house. !"

   Lin Xingjie sighed slightly. There were still wet sweat marks on her face and neck, and her eyes were rather tired. After a moment of silence, the girl said with a wry smile.

   "That terrible old man, shouldn't he show up here right away..."

  She closed her mouth before she was halfway through.

  At the same time aware of a strange atmosphere, Xu Xiangyang and Lin Xingjie looked at the alley in the same way.

  The old man in tunic suit was standing there quietly, smiling, staring at them with empty eyes. The scenery around the ghost became dark and deep, like a photo cropped from an old newspaper.

  This scene is exactly the same as that night.

  (End of this chapter)