The King of Curses

Chapter 19 "Let me be your slave."

The bedroom is spacious and clean, the interior environment is very tidy, and the furniture exudes a warm feeling, showing the owner's meticulous care.

The gauze curtains were half drawn, and the bright sunlight cast an oval golden spot on the red solid wood floor. The breeze was like a woman's gentle hand, occasionally moving a corner of the curtain.

The breeze and sunshine together create a bright and comfortable atmosphere.

Although it can be seen from various details that this is a girl's bedroom, a young man is lying quietly on the soft and comfortable big bed in the middle of the room.

The young man had his eyes closed, his expression peaceful, and was falling into a long, deep sleep.

After a while, I don't know if it was the sound of wind or sighs.

"Aha……"

Cen Dongsheng opened his eyes and saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

The experience he accumulated while serving as a specialist in the Exorcism Department has enabled him to develop a certain instinct. Driven by this instinct, his first reaction after waking up was not to think, but to check his physical condition.

The flow of true Qi is unimpeded, but at the physical level...

He quickly recalled what had happened before, including his awakening of the "Immortal Bones" and the end of the battle.

His head was a little dizzy, it seemed that the aftereffects had not yet passed and he was not in the best condition; but after a long rest, he regained his ability to fight, which was enough.

As he looked inward, his true Qi flowed; beneath his internal organs and flesh, his diamond-like skeleton was clearly visible. Cen Dongsheng had a strange feeling, as if he was no longer a flesh and blood body, but a Terminator robot.

There is no doubt that he has become stronger.

Cen Dongsheng sat up from the bed and found that he was wearing pajamas. He clenched his fists and checked his injuries.

The wound was carefully treated and disinfected, but no bandages or plasters were applied.

Considering his condition before he fell into a coma and the room he was currently in, the person who helped him treat his injuries must be Sister Zhizhen.

She must have noticed that her body was recovering at an abnormal rate during the hibernation process, and if she treated her injuries like ordinary people, it would inhibit growth, so she did this.

"By the way, where's Sister Zhizhen...?"

Cen Dongsheng looked around and was about to get out of bed and leave the room to look for it, when he found that the quilt covering him seemed to be pressed down by something -

When he looked down, he saw the person he wanted to see lying on the edge of the bed. He was probably tired from taking care of him halfway, so he simply fell asleep.

Her face was covered by thick black hair. The bright sunshine shone on the woman's hands and neck. Her skin, as white as the first snow, sparkled in the morning light. She looked so peaceful and beautiful.

He breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed completely, and couldn't help but smile.

……

An Zhizhen heard the laughter and woke up. She shrugged her shoulders and then slowly raised her face.

The hair that was pressed down was messily stuck to the face that was still in a sleepy and confused state. I have to say, it was very cute.

An Zhizhen saw him at first sight, and her sight quickly refocused on Cen Dongsheng.

The woman's eyes were clear and bright, like a pool of autumn water, reflecting his shadow, as if he was the only one left in her world.
"You're awake, that's great."

After the surprise, she smiled happily like Cen Dongsheng.

"Thank you for taking care of me."

"This is what I should do."

"I'm clean and my clothes have been changed..."

He made a joke.

"So, Sister Zhizhen also helped me with the underwear?"

"You ask even though you already know the answer. How annoying." Sister Zhizhen slapped his thigh in a stern tone, then said seriously, "I'm a doctor. It's normal for me to help take care of patients. Don't think in the wrong way."

"You said yourself that you are more like a lab technician than a doctor... You have never taken care of a patient before, right?"

"Really? Don't expose it!"

……

"By the way, how long have I slept?"

After joking, Cen Dongsheng started to get to the point.

"Including that night, it was one day and two nights in total."

An Zhizhen described to Cen Dongsheng the condition of Xiaokang Building after he fell into a coma.

After the haunted house disappeared, they returned to their rooms as if nothing had happened.

"One thing I found a little strange was that before the collective return, all the residents fell asleep. At first I thought they were tired, but then I found that there was not a single person awake..."

"Oh, this is normal."

A haunted house is a place where Yin Qi gathers. For ordinary people who do not have true Qi, just living in such a place is a burden; if they are unable to leave for a long time, they may even die due to the dissipation of their vitality.

In the process of the haunted house disappearing and returning to the human world, the human body will automatically produce a stress response. In order to replenish energy, people usually sleep soundly and eat and drink a lot after waking up.

"Then...will they still remember?"

"It may be regarded as a nightmare. Of course, some people will remember it more clearly, but this is not our concern."

The human subconscious mind will process supernatural events as dreams; but when the information about ghosts and taboo masters surfaces, this will no longer happen, because people at that time have already accepted the existence of supernatural phenomena in their subconscious mind, so they can remember it clearly.

"So, Sister Zhizhen, do you still remember everything?"

"……Eh?"

For some reason, she seemed to hesitate for a moment, but finally nodded.

"Yes, I remember it very clearly."

"I see."

Cen Dongsheng folded his arms, nodded slightly, and looked thoughtful.

"Any questions?"

She blinked and asked cautiously.

"Nothing, it's a good thing."

He smiled.

"Since the environment inside the haunted house doesn't have that much impact on you, it means that your body is gradually adapting to it. Maybe you will be able to become a curse master soon."

It is certainly not easy for ordinary people. Even if they have the qualifications to refine true Qi, they still need to obtain the curse - but as the future "ancestor", Sister Zhizhen is probably not far from awakening her own destiny, he added in his heart.

"Really? That's great!"

Sister Zhizhen clapped her hands and said happily.

"It's really frustrating and annoying to be able to only watch you fight, Dongsheng, but not be able to help you."

Cen Dongsheng just smiled.

I think it will be my turn to hold your thigh from now on.

A protection can be exchanged for a bright future. There is no more worthwhile deal in the world.

However, he still wanted to confirm this relationship.

"Sister Zhizhen, do you remember our conversation by the flower bed a week ago, the afternoon before the 'haunted house' happened?"

"Hmm! Did you mention...the need for like-minded partners?"

"I don't know what kind of 'partner' you need, but I think with Sister Zhizhen's intelligence, you should be able to see what kind of huge changes will be brought to human society if things like what happened in Xiaokang Building happen everywhere." Sister Zhizhen nodded as she listened, obviously agreeing with what he said.

"So far, most people have been kept in the dark; but sooner or later, the truth will come out. By then, the world will be turned upside down... The storm is coming."

Cen Dongsheng's expression turned serious.

"I hope to become your partner in the future."

He said.

He is not only a partner for cooperation, but also a teammate who can fight side by side. Even in desperate situations, he is still someone you can rely on and trust wholeheartedly.

"The kind that only has one in a lifetime?"

Cen Dongsheng was stunned for a moment, but when he saw Sister Zhizhen's expectant eyes, he slowly nodded.

"Then would you?"

"Of course I am willing!" The other party replied with a smile, "Rather, I am relieved that I can still rely on you in the future."

…The one who should really feel relieved is me.

Although he had expected it, at this moment Cen Dongsheng still felt as if a huge stone had fallen from his heart.

finally--

He finally had a sense of reality and couldn't help but clench his fists, as if he was holding his future in his hands.

——Since rebirth, the feeling of changing one's own destiny and even the entire world.

He did not hide his excitement. Seeing the young man's excited look, he was like two different people from the calm and courageous soldier in the past week. An Zhizhen couldn't help but laugh.

"You seem happier than me, your sister. It's so strange. I'm the one being taken care of."

She cupped one of her cheeks and murmured.

"Is it really that worth being happy with me..."

An Zhizhen covered her hot face with her hands. At this moment, she suddenly seemed to have thought of something and took out a small object wrapped in a handkerchief.

"Oh, right! There's also this thing. Because I don't know what effect it has, I don't dare to touch it, so I hid it."

When she uncovered it, there was a small red ball inside.

"It fell from you."

"This is……"

It is the forbidden item that Kong Yinlian and Deng Rong have been pursuing.

Cen Dongsheng put the trophy red ball into his hand, closed his eyes and felt it for a while.

As the true Qi flowed in, the forbidden object immediately reacted. Fine and regular cracks appeared on the surface of the sphere, and then it split into several petals and spread out, like a small lotus blooming in the palm of his hand.

His expression suddenly became strange.

“…It turned out to be this thing.”

In the past, Cen Dongsheng didn't even have a forbidden item of his own, and of course there was no such thing as a "forbidden item expert". He was just like any other ordinary person and had heard of those items that were famous in the world of forbidden masters.

But I don’t know if I should say “there is no coincidence in the world”, this thing happens to be one of them.

In fact, compared to those special forbidden objects with great powers, what it is truly famous for is not its ability, but the anecdotes related to it.

This thing is called "Blood Contract Medium". As the name suggests, it is a magical medium that uses blood ties to establish contracts between people. It is a unique thing in the world.

"I didn't expect that this life would fall into my hands..."

The contract requires the consent of both parties; after it is established, neither party can harm each other, but there is still a distinction between "master and servant", with the user being the master and the person being used being the slave.

Although the master cannot kill the servant, he can give orders that must be obeyed absolutely. If the servant disobeys in any way, he will suffer great torture.

As we all know, whether it is a curse or a material ban, there is "hierarchical suppression" - the lower supernatural power, no matter what effect it has, will be greatly weakened when facing a higher one. This can be regarded as a difference in "fate".

But the special thing about blood mediumship is that it acts on the flesh and is a ritual that symbolizes a very ancient and primitive relationship between "blood and spirit" in human history. This "primitiveness" gives it its characteristics.

One of its former owners, a second-class spell-forbidden master, planted a "blood matchmaker" on one of his lovers, who was still an ordinary person at the time.

This person later had another fortuitous encounter and unexpectedly became an elite spell-binding master of the "A3" level (that is, he has fully mastered the three types of A-level spells), far more powerful than his former master.

However, the blood contract matchmaker was still working and was not ineffective due to the level difference. The master was also a bad type. After his lover became successful, he did not restrain himself, but further humiliated the other party. He was complacent about having such a powerful and useful slave, and tried to squeeze the other party dry...

Of course, this slave who made the blood pact eventually killed his former master, but he also paid a heavy price and was left with lifelong disability.

It can be seen from this that it is different from ordinary contract-type spells. If a low-level spellcaster uses it directly on a high-level spellcaster, it will naturally not be effective; but if it is planted before the latter grows up, there is a chance to use the weak to defeat the strong.

There are even people who wonder...that those special-class spell-breaking masters were also ordinary people before they awakened their fate, so would the blood contract medium be just as effective? Such delusions are the fantasies of low-level spell-breaking masters about those who are high above them.

If you think about it carefully, there are many problems. For example, there is only one blood contract medium, and it only appeared in a few private transactions that were not open to the public. It is not something that ordinary spell-binding masters can touch at all. For example, the premise for this forbidden item to be effective requires "mutual consent". Even if the user has ulterior motives, he can only use deception.

And if you really want to defeat the strong with the weak, how can you do it unless you have the ability to predict the future or identify qualifications?

Considering the rarity of this thing, it is obviously a waste to use it on someone weaker than yourself, unless it is someone you really value - this is often not "value" based on strength, but out of emotion, so the blood pact medium has another name, also known as the "lover's pact."

At least, apart from the special case mentioned at the beginning, the subsequent use cases of the Lover's Contract were all between high-level and low-level people. Only in this way can it be guaranteed that there will be no betrayal.

But no one would have thought that someone would really have the opportunity to live their life again.

Because An Zhizhen was right in front of him and the "lover's contract" was in his hand, he naturally thought of the rumors from the past - that's why Cen Dongsheng's expression became so wonderful.

Yes, of course he was one of those people who had fantasized about the effects of blood covenant in his previous life. Although he had never even seen the thing, it was just a fantasy, so who cared.

He had never thought about it after his rebirth. Not to mention whether it had this value, the main reason was that he had no idea where this thing first appeared in the world.

But the world is so coincidental that this thing has fallen into my hands. Could it be that there is really some so-called "fate" guiding me...

He couldn't help but look at the woman beside the bed. An Zhizhen opened her eyes wide, her bright eyes full of curiosity, still waiting for his answer.

What he saw in that was a strong sense of trust.

Cen Dongsheng's breathing stagnated slightly, and then he couldn't help laughing.

The person in front of him is his sister Zhizhen, and she is also the one who will reach the top in the future. If such a person can be controlled by an object, it would be too much of an underestimation of the world.

Even the first-class spell-forbidden masters cannot completely control the blood contract medium, and there is an insurmountable gap between the first-class and the special-class, or even the "ancestor" -

Also, everyone has a [fate], but there is no [destiny] in this world. This is the common sense of the curse master.

"what happened?"

Sister Zhizhen stared at him.

"You've been in a daze for a while. Do you know this thing?"

"……Yep."

Cen Dongsheng calmed down and replied with a smile.

"This thing is called 'Blood Contract Medium'. It is a forbidden item for spell contracts between people established with blood ties. The contract requires both parties to be willing, but there will be a distinction between master and servant..."

He introduced it without hiding anything.

"Hey, then Dongsheng, can you use it?"

"……What?"

Cen Dongsheng was stunned for a moment, and saw An Zhizhen pointing at him with a smile.

"—For example, use it on me and make me your slave."

(End of this chapter)