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Chapter 812 Ten Different Fates

"Kill yourself, offer yourself as a sacrifice..."

Gao Ming took a picture of the god Jing Tuo from the grave and mourned him every day, giving the soul of the deceased Bu Sha a place to return to, so that he was no longer a homeless orphan.

If you are patient and attentive, you will find that, like Xia Yang's frenzied paintings, a certain power remains in Bu Cha's portrait.

Gao Ming tried to pull it away; the force was like a jumble of lines, filled with chaos and death.

"This is another road."

Following the address provided by Xuan Wen, Gao Ming went to check the addresses of the other candidates. With the abilities of the Lord of Blood City, he easily found the threads of fate entangled on those candidates.

Unlike the threads of fate on normal people, the threads of fate on these guys are completely messed up, deliberately disrupted.

"The threads of fate are the puppet strings that control all living beings. They fall from the long river of time and run through a person's entire life. However, these threads are twisted and morbid. Some are tied into dead knots, some have broken, some have turned into poison that spreads towards fate, and some have usurped the threads of fate of others to hide themselves."

Looking at his palm, Gao Ming saw that each of his fingers was wrapped with the threads of a candidate's fate, like wearing colorful and strangely shaped rings.

These threads are not only "weapons" that can cause some damage to destiny, but they also allow Gao Ming to track down Lu Zang's aura.

Including him, all ten candidates showed signs of interference from Rokuzo.

"It's time to go see the last person."

As the midnight bells rang, Gao Ming walked along the corridor of the Seventh Special Hospital of New Shanghai. The wards here are divided into semi-closed and fully closed types, making it the most mysterious hospital in New Shanghai.

The heart beat with a special rhythm, and dream patterns, invisible to the naked eye of ordinary people, meandered out from under Gao Ming's feet, like a giant octopus crawling out of the abyss, greedily entwining everyone's dreams.

“Ventilators, gastric lavage machines, urinary catheterization kits, shock treatment equipment… Every piece of equipment and every place here bears traces of Situ An. It’s as if he tore himself apart and scattered his remains throughout the hospital.”

Xia Yang's painting is stored at the Sky Hotel, Jing Tuo's portrait is buried in the public cemetery, and the traces left by the other candidates are relatively concentrated. Only Situ An is consciously hiding clues. Even if no "person" can find these clues, and even if they are found, no "person" can understand them, he is still very cautious.

By reviewing the dreams of doctors and patients, Gao Ming extracted images related to Situ An and saw something that shocked him greatly.

Situ An was the only candidate among all the candidates who wanted to kill Lu Zang. He tried all sorts of methods, but all of them ended in failure. In the end, in order to force Lu Zang out, he even wanted to drive himself crazy and try to understand that crazy world from the perspective of a madman.

In the eyes of doctors and patients, Situ An was a complete lunatic, but from Gao Ming's perspective, all of that guy's crazy behavior could be explained. You have to know that Gao Ming is now the Lord of Blood City, while Situ An was just an ordinary person back then.

“Using the deaths of patients to test them, using the rules of the hospital to attack them, Situ An hid himself among the vulnerable patients and played all sorts of ‘crazy games’ with Lu Zang.”

Situ An never won, but he did earn Lu Zang's respect. Among all the candidates, Lu Zang valued Situ An the most.

The collected dream traces came together, and Gao Ming gradually made his way to the depths of the hospital.

In the solitary confinement cell numbered four, Gao Ming saw strings of numbers and symbols handwritten on the wall, densely packed and covering it. There was a certain pattern among them, as if it were a completely new language system, complex and chaotic, not conducive to dissemination and memorization, and ordinary people could not understand it at all except for the person who wrote it.

"Is this Situ An's handwriting?"

In order to kill Situ An, Gao Ming became the person who knew Situ An best in the world, and was very clear about his handwriting and speaking habits.

Sitting in the confinement room, Gao Ming ran his fingers over the words. He couldn't understand their meaning, but he could feel the emotions contained within them and the tightly intertwined threads of fate.

As the power of dreams is activated, scene after scene is interpreted.

Situ An was also a candidate chosen by Lu Zang, but his birth and past were erased by Lu Zang. This guy was also taken into other human worlds by Lu Zang. He did not kill his other selves like Xia Yang, nor did he collect his dead selves like Jing Tuo Shen. Instead, he contacted his selves in different branches of fate.

He was an extremely confident person. He firmly believed that no matter how fate changed, if the other party was also Situ An, they would definitely be able to find a way to survive and decipher the message he left behind.

Without ever meeting, through various hints and clues, Situ An, in different branches of fate, connects with each other across the long river of time, constructing a vast spider web.

In order to avoid being exposed, some Situ An will silently follow the script of fate, while others will even commit suicide to hide their secrets. They are confused by fate, looking for opportunities, and accumulating strength in different worlds.

Unlike the other candidates, Situ An extended his reach to other human realms. Situ An in the deep world of the vast ocean failed, but Situ An in other human realms did not give up. They were like endless ants, building their own anthills in other rivers of fate, cultivating monsters that could control their own destiny.

The Blood-Clad Demon God and other unknowable beings have placed all their bets on the deep world, using it as a starting point to manipulate destiny. However, Situ An followed the path Lu Zang had taken and drifted into the river of destiny.

"No wonder I couldn't sense his presence; that guy must have been taken to another human realm by Lu Zang."

The characters on the wall were washed away by the dream, transforming into threads of Situ An's destiny that wrapped around Gao Ming's left little finger.

As long as these threads of fate remain, Gao Ming can find Situ An, and through Situ An, he can find the mysterious Lu Zang.

"Hide? Where can you hide?"

Given the chance, Gao Ming would not hesitate to kill Situ An and take back everything Situ An possessed. If he didn't have that chance, he wouldn't be in a hurry, because both Situ An and Lu Zang stood on the opposite side of destiny; they wouldn't become Gao Ming's friends, but they would certainly be his enemies.

The last symbol on the wall disappeared, and Gao Ming used the power of dreams to reconstruct it, quickly deducing a rough location—New Shanghai Blood City.

"Lu Zang took Situ An into the Blood City of New Shanghai. Is there really a passage to other human realms hidden there?"

With his fingers clenched, Gao Ming firmly grasped the twisted threads of fate: "It's time to go to the Blood City of New Shanghai. This world isn't chaotic enough. We need to find a way to call back the saviors and trigger a new Blood City war."

Looking up, the night was deep and dark, with no stars or moon in sight, but Gao Ming's gaze seemed to pierce through the clouds, seeing the fate that was covered with chains higher up.

(End of this chapter)