The Spirit World

Chapter 279: Immortality Will Return
【The future is already the past.】

Vast fields, tall buildings, the center of the world.

The afterglow of sunset covers the tall buildings.

"Ah... he's finally coming..." A man pushed his hat down, not sure whether he was indifferent or expressing emotion, his golden eyes narrowed into a slit, staring at the person in front of him.

He was wearing a shirt with his hands in his pockets, his shoulders slumped leisurely, looking totally unrefined. The man in front of him was wearing a suit and tie, his hands crossed on his chest in awe as he faced the setting sun.

Through the sunglasses, their faces were incredibly handsome, without even a single flaw.

"so what?"

The man was wearing a straight suit, and when he looked at him, some fiery red wrinkles appeared in the gaps, which made him look a little hostile.

"He didn't come back to give you a certificate, why are you so excited?" The cigarette flew from the side sleeve of his suit to the edge of his mouth. He flicked his right hand twice, and the flames burned the smoke, which rose into the air and lingered with the afterglow.

"Am I excited?" He showed his slippers, which had a cute white rabbit on them. He shook them and raised the corners of his mouth unconsciously: "See, I'm very leisurely, right?"

"Stop fooling around, [Yu], a new era is about to begin. We must also take action."

As soon as he pulled his suit, his shirt was exposed. A cigarette passed across his chest, and white dust formed a thick fog from his mouth: "Has Liuli's matter not been settled yet?"

"【Liuli】? Sorry, I really don't know why you sent her down there. She has never changed in all these years."

Yu twisted his waist, stretched strangely, and then squatted down. His eyes fell on the tall building. The lightning rod pointed straight up to the sky, like a sharp sword cutting through the afterglow of the sky, leaving a deep afterimage.

"You can send Changge to follow her, and don't let anything go wrong..." Yu held a piece of wild grass in his mouth and whistled a little tune.

"Liuli can handle it all by herself. Such a small matter..."

He looked at the crouching Yu, but unexpectedly Yu slowly raised his head, which made him pause. Instead of speaking, he put his hands in his trouser pockets and lay in the arms of the clouds like leaning against them.

"Hmph, anyway, you believe Liuli can do it alone, right?" Yu turned around and touched the big white rabbit on his shoes.

"Heh~ Since you already know, why bother asking?"

He hummed slowly and cast his gaze towards the tall buildings in the distance again. There was a bright light between the buildings. It was a neon-like light, bright and dazzling.

Yu was silent, and slowly sat down, lying back in the clouds behind him. His expression was too serious, and his sunglasses covered the brilliance brought by the neon lights.

Sometimes he didn't know whether he saw them or not.

His gaze slowly moved downwards, and a wisp of unextinguished cigarette slipped from his fingertips like a butterfly flapping its wings and dying. The unextinguished cigarette rolled and fell into his sight, and then rolled hotly in the colorful clouds.

It rolled and burned the clouds, piercing through the layers of darkness, and it was like a fickle thunder that struck down, swallowing up thousands of light spots.

Darkness, blue sky, dark clouds, flying birds, it all came one by one, suddenly appeared before the world, with rolling thunder, like fire and flames, burning the sky covered by the moon.

It fell gently to the ground and was then seen by a sharp-eyed person.

"What is this...Skarner..."

Pylos settled Koluna down, covered her with a quilt, and picked up an ordinary cigarette butt next to the campfire.

"The cigarette butt... is still hot..."

He hurriedly looked around. There was only a huge ice crystal scorpion corpse and no other movable creatures.

Skarner was bandaging the wound on Redeld's arm and looked sideways towards Pylos, but Yue's body was lying peacefully on the simple straw bed they had built.

"Pylos, give me some red medicine, this wound is still bleeding..."

Skarner called out to the paused Pylos, who grabbed the cigarette butt, put it in his pocket, and responded loudly.

"Okay! Pylos! I'll be right there!" He took out a bottle of red potion from the backpack at his feet and ran towards Skarner.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know it would turn out like this..." Redel looked at Kolona with regret. Kolona looked extremely uncomfortable after fainting, with tear marks on her eyes, and she looked very haggard.

She looked at Ke Yue again. The motionless body was sleeping peacefully on the straw bed. She couldn't bear it, so she closed her eyes and cursed herself with gnashing teeth: "If I knew... If I knew... it would be like this... I would never..."

"My condolences." Pylos handed the red potion to Skarner. Skarner spoke and slowly opened the red potion.

"I...I..." Redelde was about to collapse, but he could only grab his face with his other hand, using the pain to prevent himself from crying.

"It's not your fault..." Pylos sat next to her and patted her back gently. Her white hair was messy and dull, and there was only sadness in Pylos' eyes.

"However, the only thing that is worthy of suspicion is that... when you came here, Keyue might have already lost consciousness..." Pylos comforted Redelde and said in a very light voice: "I speculate... because her body... I'm sorry... her body has been stiff for a while... It doesn't look like she just died..."

"What?" Redeld stopped crying.

"Excuse me for asking, um... it seems like you are not aware of this..." Pylos noticed something wrong with Redeld, paused for a moment, then stood up and walked towards the cold corpse.

"That is to say, you... don't know?!"

Pylos hurriedly knelt on the edge of the straw bed, quickly opened Ke Yue's upper eyelid, observed Ke Yue's eyes, and soon confirmed his judgment.

"Although I'm not a doctor, I can't be wrong... Her body has been inactive for a long time... This doesn't look like someone who just died."

He turned around and looked at Skarner who had already stood up. He looked at him with a complex expression of confirmation and confusion, and said in a low voice: "Hey, come and take a look..."

After saying that, he hid aside like a duck.

Skarner was also puzzled and glanced at Reddle. His yellow and blue eyes were frighteningly bright in the early morning light. He glared at Reddle, and Reddle quickly stood up and ran towards the straw bed.

“How is it possible! Didn’t you see it?” Redelde also knelt on the ground and gently lifted up Ke Yue’s head. The dew on the grass bed was fishy. Perhaps because there were too many scorpion corpses around, she frowned unconsciously and wanted to vomit. She suppressed it and said, “If Ke Yue…if Ke Yue had already…why should we…be so sad now?!”

"Sorry... That's not what I meant..."

Pylos hurriedly explained, waving his hands like a small fan. "Let me do it." Skarner took a deep breath. Redelde's crying and the fainted Koruna's emotions were definitely not fake. The two of them also felt compassion when they heard it. If this was fake, then they would not have to come out to travel all over the country to do archaeology.

"I simply can't understand how such a thing could happen..." Redelde watched Skarner carefully place his hand on Ke Yue's face and slowly lift her upper eyelids.

Ke Yue's eyes naturally no longer reacted, but her once lively pupils were dull like dead fish, which made Redelde unable to bear to look at them anymore.

Skarner mobilized some [magic power] and spread the blue light all over Ke Yue's body.

"Skarner used to be a guard for Fran and has systematically studied criminal investigation magic. His words are more trustworthy."

Seeing Redelda turned away, Pylos couldn't help but comfort her: "We are sorry, Ms. Redelda. At present, few people can understand this situation, not even us... but... okay... sorry..."

Pylos pursed his lips and blinked uncontrollably. What he said was getting more and more off-topic, so he could only shut up. He was not very good at comforting strangers he had just met, and a joke that suddenly popped up in his mind made him feel inappropriate. He could only watch Skarner release his brilliance obediently.

"How about it……"

He was the first one to ask, and Redeld was interrupted by him, as if he was the one who cared about Ke Yue the most, so he looked at Redeld and scratched his head embarrassedly.

"It is indeed as you said... This little girl has lost her vital signs for a long time... I don't know what happened... But from what I can see now, the person you have been communicating with along the way... is probably not the little girl herself... or some different soul..."

"How...this..." Redelde was shocked. She looked at Ke Yue. No matter how she thought about it, she could not have imagined that this situation would happen!

"Does she... have any strange behavior?!" Pylos placed his hand on Ke Yue's hand and rubbed it gently twice. The cold corpse was stiff, but it was elastic as if it had been hit by a collision.

"For example... he speaks strangely? He has a strange personality or something, if you can notice it..." Pylos pinched Ke Yue's fingers and confirmed the elastic feel of his touch.

“If you put it that way…” Redderde recalled everything about Keyue. She was normal in other places, except in the car…her expression, her behavior, and even her eyes were a little weird…

It can be said that it is not her at all...

Redelde's eyes were shining as she looked at Skarner and then turned to Pylos. One of them was solemn while the other was confused. She seemed to be hesitant to speak, not knowing how to tell the story.

"What's wrong? It does, right?"

Pylos stood up and looked around. The morning breeze lit up the place, which was slightly cool. This place was very close to the small stove. The soil was loosened by the scorpions and was full of holes. There were also some traces of fires left by previous people, which made it seem a little lonely.

"Yes..." Redeld's emotions were obviously much more stable.

"I've seen such a case in a small town in the south of the principality." Pylos wiped his nose and the dust on it was smoothed out. Although it was only this one spot, it gave people the feeling that he was now dirty.

"It has a resounding medical name... [Maria Resurrection Syndrome], which is what we now call [Immortality Disease]..."

"Immortality... disease..." Redel looked at Ke Yue again, shocked and trying in vain to utter the words "how is it possible".

Of course she had heard of this disease, but...how could it be possible! Ke Yue should have never left her and Koluna, if it was her, why would she be safe and sound...

Although this was impossible upon closer thought, she could only turn her gaze to Skarner.

Skarner could only nod silently.

"I'm sorry... Now that I think about it, you should know how terrible the undead disease is." Pylos covered his chin and said, "It will corrode the human body, and then slowly rot into a skeleton without any consciousness."

"Before that, the patient must face himself decaying day by day, and die without a burial place."

"Sorry, that's not what I meant." Pylos spread his hands to Redeld.

"Immortality is beyond the common understanding of death. This is not a summoning, nor is it a soul exchange, nor is it a resurrection. This is a different kind of death..."

Pylos crossed his hands, his expression solemn: "I don't know where you have been... but... this disease is not what you think it is contagious... so, don't worry..."

"Strictly speaking, getting this disease is... destined by heaven..." Pylos pointed to the sky.

While he was explaining immortality to Redeld, the sky was quietly brightening, and birds were singing in the morning, flying over his head and flying from one tree to another.

"It's destined..." Redelde didn't quite understand what Pylos meant.

"Well... how should I put it? If a person catches a cold due to carelessness, then getting this kind of serious disease is destined. If you get it, you get it, and if you don't, you don't get it. This is not an infectious disease... so..." Pylos took a deep breath, covered his mouth again, and wiped it: "I once saw a skeleton that escaped from the [Church District]. He told me that he didn't recognize his own body at all, so..."

His face was now covered in dirt and dust, and only his deep eyes could clearly show that he was a human being.

Perhaps he didn't care about his appearance, so he stood calmly in front of Redeld, not showing any fear of immortality.

"From a certain point on, the person you were talking to was no longer this little girl." Pylos opened his arms and stretched. "As for why she suddenly fainted again... it's hard to say."

Having said that, it’s basically the end. The only conclusion is that Ke Yue is no longer Ke Yue.

"The undead disease appeared near Wenti County instead of the Cathedral District. It's actually quite troublesome because the area has been blocked. The army is attacking and it's in chaos." Skarner was also worried: "Wenti County may very well become the next Cathedral District, Pylos."

"I know, I know. I'm trying to figure it out." Pylos pointed to his head and said, "Do you see my head? I'm trying my best not to connect these two things together."

And at this moment, two blue souls appeared beside him.

Chang Yufeng was still a young man. He slapped his forehead. Although no sound came out, he still leaned back.

"Oh... Shit... We seem to have gotten into some trouble..."

Ke Yue's soul stood quietly in front of him. Chang Yu Feng was talking to her, so she pursed her lips and looked at Chang Yu Feng quietly, but her eyes kept glancing left and right, one was the unconscious Ke Luna, and the other was her own body covered in grass and wood debris.

Her eyes were much brighter when she looked at Chang Yufeng, but dimmed when she saw this scene. The small sheep-tip necklace on her neck was emitting a clear light as she looked around.

Maybe it's the sun coming out, orange dust, dawning life.

I went to catch up on EVA and watched some puppet shows... To be honest, it was beyond my imagination.

Thinking about it this way, I have been in a bad state for too long. It is inspiring to do something even though you know it is impossible.

Refuse to delay updates, start with me!
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(End of this chapter)