Chapter 454: Transaction of equal value, using soul as bargaining chip
Standing on the wooden table on the seventh floor, with the abyss behind him, Han Fei had no way to escape and nowhere to hide.
This was the first time he was forced to this point after entering the memory world of the shrine owner.
The shadow is like the rising sea, trying to submerge his only island that can touch the moonlight. Soon there will be no light in the mall and all the bright things will be lost.
“I know that you have also encountered such a thing, but if you don’t change, the tragedy will continue to happen again, and no one can break this curse.”
There was a splitting pain in his legs, and his blood-stained fingers grabbed the edge of the table. The insects crawling out of the rotten skin were biting Han Fei's legs.
There are too many terrifying things hidden in the darkness. Even if Han Fei has lived in the deep world for so long, he still cannot describe the ugliness and bloodiness of the monsters in the mall.
“Are you all crazy?”
Han Fei can feel that all the shadows in this mall are not perfect, they are incomplete, and they lack a lot of things in their bodies or souls. .
Some people have no brains and their skulls are filled with sawdust. Some people have acquired superb cooking skills, but only use people to cook. There are also countless people in the deli on the fifth floor. The diners are extremely cold and selfish. Although they retain their human appearance, they have lost their human heart and warmth.
"What's wrong with you?"
The shopping mall ribbon above his head has turned into black hair, and huge eyes are staring at Han Fei. He is the only sober person in the shopping mall.
But when the whole world is full of monsters, sobriety becomes a sin.
Darkness invaded and spread crazily. Han Fei was forced to take another step towards the table. He was closer to the fence on the seventh floor!
“Boom!”
The bells echoed in the shopping mall shrouded in darkness, which seemed to be the Hades bell of the underworld.
The jumpers standing in the square on the first floor slowly dispersed, the expressions on their faces became extremely pious. The old man with his head filled with sawdust fell to his knees, clasped his hands behind his back, and put the His face was pressed to the ground; next to the old man was a long A sweet-looking girl, she is tall, but her brain seems to have some defects, her expression is very dull, her hands and feet are tied with ropes, like a puppet; behind the girl is a drunkard, he is covered in mud, The clothes are covered with long hair.
“Boom!”
Another bell rang, and blood oozed from the huge advertising banner hanging in the center of the mall. As the blood solidified into black, the huge advertising banner of more than ten meters was like a piece of The black cloth covering the world slowly slid down!
“Boom!”
The moment the black cloth fell, a black shrine appeared on the first floor of the mall.
The incomparable solemnity of the shrine overcame all the darkness, and no figure dared to look directly at it.
In the dull sound of the bell, the dark wooden door of the shrine opened little by little, the screams and wailing stopped, and behind the dark door, the arms imprisoned inside stretched out. .
It was like a world composed entirely of arms, opening like a flower. Wrapped in countless palms, an arm engraved with a human face slowly stretched out from the deepest part of the shrine.
The face on the skin gradually turned into Han Fei's. When the hand was raised, all the darkness rushed toward Han Fei!
The shopping mall was trembling, Han Fei's world was collapsing, his soul and consciousness were grasped by that hand, and an invisible force brought him closer and closer to the abyss!
Unable to resist, when a person completely collapses, all words are redundant, no one can save him, all persuasion and comfort are ineffective, and death may become the only way out at this moment.
I moved my steps and stepped on the edge of the railing. My body began to tilt slowly, and I was about to fall with the world!
The hand stretched out from the shrine grasped Han Fei's heart and penetrated into his head. The fingers stained with blood and sin pierced his soul fiercely.
“Boom!”
The sound of the bell was shocking, and when Han Fei felt that he was about to be dragged into the shrine, the memory in his mind actively separated part of it.
I don’t know whether it was a decision he made subconsciously, or whether his three souls had their own thoughts. The actively divided memory left his mind with his most unfortunate and negative emotions, and crashed into the hand. Palm.
An evil and cold soul was caught by an arm painted with a human face. With the sound of death knell, the evil soul jumped from the seventh floor instead of Han Fei!
Han Fei watched his other self fall with his own eyes. The other man's eyes were full of evil and madness. Rather than being taken away, it was more like he took the initiative to embrace all the darkness and despair.
“The shrine took away one of my souls!”
Han Fei did not make any transaction with the shrine, but the transaction was completed under compulsion.
The evil soul was grabbed by countless hands, and they tore him wildly, integrating him into the boundless darkness inside the shrine.
The absurd and morbid world is still alienating. Countless arms in the shrine are spreading around, and no one dares to raise their head.
Just when the shrine's attention turned away from Han Fei, a soft sound suddenly came from his arms.
Looking down, Han Fei found that the child puppet he had hidden in his pocket was full of cracks. Tears were streaming on the puppet's face, and its hand was pointing to Han Fei's left side.
Turning to the left, a thin arm quietly stretched out from the darkness, grabbed Han Fei, and pulled him out of the package of countless shadows.
"Uncle, keep running to the left."
A familiar voice sounded in your ears. At this time, the shrine in the center of the mall seemed to realize that something was wrong, and countless arms crawled upward quickly again. .
At the critical moment, Han Fei did not dare to stop at all. He ran to the left like crazy.
The scenes on both sides were retreating rapidly, and the door of the safety passage on the seventh floor of the mall appeared in front.
Without any hesitation, Han Fei rushed outside!
But the next second his face instantly became bloodless. There were no stairs or steps outside the security door, only an empty abyss!
Everything of the owner of the shrine is trapped in the mall. There is no way out of this maze, and there is only death at the end.
The body fell downwards, but at the moment when the feeling of weightlessness appeared, an old arm stretched out from the other side of the abyss.
Grabbing the hand with all his strength, Han Fei looked up. The darkness was like falling snow, spreading around.
The scenes seen by his two eyes gradually became consistent, and a face full of wrinkles came into his eyes.
Pain came from all parts of the body. Han Fei stared around with wide eyes. Half of his body was hanging on the outside of the guardrail on the seventh floor. His right hand dropped downwards and his left hand tightly grasped a slender arm.
"Almost died."
After regaining his senses, Han Fei grabbed the railing and pushed upward. He stepped on the edge of the seventh floor and climbed over the guardrail.
Lying on the ground, Han Fei gasped for air. Only then did he have time to look at the old man next to him.
The old lady's face was wrinkled, and a rag bag was thrown beside her, which contained a blood-red sweater.
Even though Han Fei was safe now, the old man still held Han Fei's wrist. I don't know if she was too scared to let go, or if she was worried that Han Fei would continue to do stupid things.
Both of them were speechless now. After a long pause, Han Fei broke the calm first.
"Grandma, thank you."
Han Fei thanked the old man, but the old man was still a little unclear. She looked at Han Fei and kept shaking his head, as if Han Fei's appearance just now made her Thinking of his own son.
There seemed to be a lot of abnormal behavior in the period before her son died.
"I won't go near the guardrail again, don't worry." Han Fei tried to get the old man to let go, but he couldn't pry the old man's fingers away without using force.
There was no way to get the old man to let go, but the seventh floor was too dangerous. Han Fei could only slowly lift the old man up, and then let the other person grab his wrist and take her downstairs.
"Grandma, why are you here?" When he reached the first floor, the old man recovered from his shock, and Han Fei tried to communicate with him.
“I came to donate clothes, a sweater that my son had when he was seven years old, but there was no one in the store... There was a child who said you were on the seventh floor. He was soaked. He took me to you. "..." The old man's hands were trembling, and she let go of Han Fei only after returning to the first floor.
"It was the kid who came to buy toys who helped me." Han Fei took out the children's puppet from his arms. The puppet was full of cracks and seemed to break completely if he squeezed it hard.
“These customers who come to the store may be my hope to break the situation.”
Opening the door of the thrift store, the old man ran to the fake shrine on the first floor alone as he did before. He muttered something to himself, and then handed the bag in his hand to Han Fei.
"Grandma, this shrine is actually..." Before Han Fei finished speaking, the old man left tremblingly. She walked out of the store without looking back and disappeared into the night.
Every night the old man would come over and do a good deed before leaving.
She insists that if she does a thousand good deeds, her son will come back, but in fact, even the shrine she worships at is fake.
"There should be many people like her. They were all deceived by the mall owner." Han Fei looked at the dense wounds on his left hand and thought of the soul he had just lost: "I must Let everyone see the true face of the mall owner! "This hypocritical devil!"
Sitting behind the counter, Han Fei opened the attribute panel. When he saw the old man's face, he had already got rid of the hallucination of the owner of the shrine! , directly received the system prompt.
It was just that half of his body was still hanging outside the seventh floor at that time, so he had no time to look at it.
"Attention, player number 0000! You have completed the shrine random mission - Illusion."
"You didn't get used to hallucinations as I asked, but you found a way to survive that didn't exist. You did what I didn't do. Maybe what you left for me is the right answer."
"The regret in the shrine owner's heart has been made up by 45%! Get a lot of experience rewards! Get it once without paying a price An opportunity to trade with the shrine! "
"Attention! You use your soul as a bargaining chip to gain the opportunity to open your mouth, but the transaction is always equal! Please think about the price of your soul before you open your mouth." br>
After completing the mission after a narrow escape, Han Fei also found that he was getting closer to the core of the world - the shrine.
After completing the mission "I" in Xicheng District, he gained initial recognition from the shrine. Now he has another chance to use the shrine. All the tasks are slowly progressing, torturing him into a devil. At the same time, it made him look more and more like the owner of the shrine.
"My evil soul seems to have been taken away by the shrine. Without his help just now, I couldn't get rid of the illusion." Han Fei was lying on the counter. He didn't know the price of the evil soul and was not interested in using the evil soul to do anything. Deal, he wants to release the remnant soul from the shrine.
"There seems to be a very scary guy living in the shrine. After the evil soul enters, can it still come out intact?"
In fact, this hallucination mission also brought Han Fei There are many hidden benefits. It allows Han Fei to see the things that the owner of the shrine fears, and it also allows him to meet other clerks in the thrift store. Perhaps he can find out the weaknesses of the mall owner from them.
After overcoming the hallucination, Han Fei is no longer ready to continue working seriously. He will start to fight back and use everything to lift the hypocritical mask of the mall owner. (End of this chapter)