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Chapter 679: Shadow of Friends
"My friend, Doctor Liu, promised Lan Xin that he would help them find their respective bodies so that they would no longer use the same body."

"He actually never cured Lan Xin's abyss disease, but he reached a consensus with both Lan Xins."

"He used his promise to cure the incurable disease..."

"However, after Lan Xin was discharged from the hospital, he was transferred to the city patrol team, and then encountered the abyss invasion. He failed to fulfill his promise and thus left an obsession."

"Maybe it's because you look a lot like that little girl, so those obsessions are constantly stimulated, causing nightmares."

The young man walked with Li Luo into the dim corridor while he finished talking about Dr. Liu.

Li Luo listened carefully, but he still felt something was wrong.

“Why do these descriptions sound like his personal experiences?”

Not only is the description very detailed, but sometimes even the subject is vague, as if he is not telling the story of his friend, but his own...

"Liu Ying." Li Luo called softly.

The young man whose name was called was stunned for a moment and turned his head: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay... You and him both have the last name Liu?"

"Yes."

……

Passing through the winding pipes, Li Luo returned to residential area No. 13.

Liu Ying also apologized to Li Luo: "I can't do anything about the obsession he left behind. You can try to use pain-removing tablets to transfer these obsessions to other places, or try to use other relics to solve it..."

After sending Li Luo to the residential area, Liu Ying left. Before leaving, she gave Li Luo a few words:

"Don't go to the Zero Residential Area again, little girl. It's very dangerous there."

"There are still many undeveloped areas in the pipeline fortress. Don't wander around randomly."

"If you need anything, just contact the staff here and they will be happy to help you."

His tone sometimes sounds young and sometimes becomes old-fashioned.

With the hood on, the figure looked like a sturdy middle-aged man, with slow and steady steps, just like a knight in a martial arts movie, with the temperament of different ages embodied in the same person.

Even after watching him walk away, Li Luo did not get rid of that strange feeling.

"Contradictions, conflicts, weirdness..."

This young man named "Liu Ying" seems to have the shadows of many people on him. Those shadows overlap, as if each one of them is him, and as if he has nothing to do with these people. He is just himself.

It was unknown whether what he said was true or not. It seemed that he just happened to appear in room 0122 and then constructed a "reasonable" story for the pain-reducing tablet...

Li Luo took out the electronic screen and tried to look up the information of "Liu Ying".

She didn’t know if it was due to permissions reasons, but she couldn’t find any relevant content at all.

"How come this person happened to be in room 0122? And he happened to be a friend of Dr. Liu? Moreover, he was the former owner of the pain-reducing pills..."

Li Luo always felt that there were some coincidences, but he couldn't think of the answer, so he could only return to his room and casually flip through the books collected from room 0122.

"Eat", "The Legend of the Magic Mountain", "Where the Eyes Cannot Reach", "Mystery Vision"...

"Adventurous Finger Bugs", "The Glory of Ear Flies", "Smell Solidification"...

and also……

"From the Shadow."

Li Luo picked up the book and flipped through it curiously. He was surprised to find that the book was actually a martial arts novel. A martial arts novel that tells the origin of "shadow"...

……

An evil skill has appeared in the world. By practicing this skill, one can give birth to another powerful self inside the body.

The other self has great martial arts skills and superior thinking. If one practices this evil skill, once faced with danger, he can summon the other self to face the crisis on his behalf.

But no martial arts is perfect. If this kind of evil martial arts is practiced for a long time, another self will replace the main body and take over the magpie's nest.

However, the martial arts world is dangerous and any martial arts method has side effects. This evil method can quickly improve strength, so it is naturally respected in this martial arts world where one's position is uncertain at any time.

As more and more people practice evil skills, many "evil demons" possessed by another self have appeared in the world.

Those evil demons took away the six senses and seven orifices of the original owners, and there is no difference in their appearance.

Fortunately, they act illogically and cannot communicate. They are easy to distinguish because they have human bodies and do inhuman things.

If they had normal desires, they could control these evil demons through their desires, but they do not have the seven emotions and six desires of normal humans at all, like a "puppet" that is completely out of control.

Talk to the soil, bend your arms into bows and arrows, collect leaves and throw them at passers-by...

The actions of the evil spirits are simply incomprehensible, and because of their powerful martial arts and sharp thinking, they cause huge harm to ordinary people. Most people can do nothing about these evil spirits and can only stay away from them.

As the evil spirits spread, people in the martial arts world also realized the harm of this evil skill and regarded it as a forbidden method. They also issued a bounty for the evil spirits and encouraged people from all walks of life to kill the evil spirits.

But the evil demon with great martial arts skills is not so easy to kill. With a huge reward, there are also brave men who want to give it a try, but they return empty-handed.

Just when people thought that they could not deal with these evil spirits, someone developed a "Shadow Sword Technique" that was specifically designed to restrain the evil spirits.

This Congying Sword Technique was also written based on that kind of evil skill.

However, the Shadow Sword Technique does not create evil spirits, but rather places the other self on one's own shadow, and then instills thoughts and behavioral logic into the shadow, turning the shadow into an "obedient evil spirit."

Although this will make the other self weaker, and with logic there will be flaws, but these shadows are very effective against evil spirits. Moreover, with the shadows in the front, the casualties caused by the evil spirits can be reduced to a great extent.

After the emergence of the Shadow Sword Technique, people in the martial arts world had a way to deal with evil spirits. They cooperated with their own shadows, exerted the Shadow Sword Technique's restraining effect on evil spirits, and eliminated many evil spirits.

However, those martial artists who practiced the Shadow Sword found that their shadows became more and more like themselves. They imitated their behavior and had "humanity" different from that of demons. Their behavior was no different from that of humans.

They were afraid and worried that the evil incidents would happen again.

Compared to the "inhuman" evil demons, they are more afraid of these "human-like" shadows. The illogical evil demons will only cause chaos everywhere. Although they have human bodies, they can be distinguished at a glance. However, after the shadows become humans, they are no different from humans...

So, in order to prevent this from happening, people began to get rid of the donkeys after they had done their work and eliminate the shadows of those who once struggled together.

The shadows did not resist like the demons. They were killed cleanly by their original masters without any defense...

Gradually, the evil spirits were completely eliminated, the shadows were put to good use, and peace returned to the world.

The crisis was resolved, the protagonist of the story became the leader of the martial arts world, and those partners who fought against the evil together also became overlords of their own regions.

The martial arts world praises the bravery and wit of the martial arts leaders and overlords, as well as the cruelty and terror of the evil spirits. The storytellers in the tavern describe the process of the battle of wits and courage vividly, but never mention those shadows.

There were flashes of swords, blood and gore... As the storyteller told the story of the evil skill, the people listening to him in the tavern clapped and cheered.

After three rounds of wine and five kinds of dishes, those ordinary people talked about the strength of the masters, as if they had experienced the battle personally...

As for those shadows?

"It seems that no one in the martial arts world has mentioned the Shadow Sword Technique anymore, and all records about the technique have disappeared, as if those shadows had never appeared..."

(End of this chapter)