Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

He wanted to sneak into Fang Bailu's dream and blend into the huge red tree. At this moment, he could not think of any other way, so he did it.

The first things to disappear were the facial features—eternal red replaced his original vision; the lack of oxygen caused by the disappearance of the mouth and nose caused Xin to spasm slightly for a moment.

puff-

With a slight damp sound, like a bubble being popped, the last part of Xindi's body disappeared in an instant:

Only the tree of flesh and blood remained where it was.

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Chapter 323: The Ten Unforgivable Crimes (Part )

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In a strange and confusing world.

There was nothing in the sky, no sun, moon, stars or clouds; only a thin layer of mist hung above. But there was still light coming from nowhere, illuminating the pale earth and the endless river: everything was like this as far as the eye could see.

On both sides of the turbulent river, there is a sea of ​​flowers made of bright pink, vermilion and white. Under the buds made of swollen cysts, slender and winding blood-red branches extend all the way into the dark white land. And the ground is also shrinking and pulsating.

But there was no fragrance of bouquets or freshness of grass; instead there was a faint fishy smell, representing the smell of new life and the remains of death.

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And it was at this moment that “it” realized its own existence—as if it had just awakened from a long period of absent-mindedness:

It found itself at a strange angle, observing everything - floating diagonally above and behind a man, as if entangled with his wandering soul; drifting with him in this blood-red river, up and down.

There is no doubt that this is not the perspective it is accustomed to; nor is it a perspective that any human is familiar with.

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"who am I?"

In a trance, it asked itself this classic question - and from somewhere far away, it seemed to receive a response:

new.

"I am... Shin? Who is Shin?"

"me."

Snap!

In the daytime, which was cloudless and only covered with a thin mist, there was a sudden roar of thunder.

In the mist, someone called his name——

"You are...you are the 'Xihe Girl'? Are you still in my consciousness?"

The trance was shattered at this moment: it opened its eyes and looked down at the young man who asked it the question.

Its memory was empty, and its head was rumbling - its body had unknowingly turned into a vine growing from another man's spine, coiling like a long snake: unknowingly, it had turned into a strange shape that looked like both a plant and an animal, parasitizing on this man's back.

His face looked familiar, but it was hard to tell what it was - the place where memories should be stored was empty.

It tilted its head slightly and looked around at where it was: everything seemed familiar to it - although it could not remember where it had lived before, it remembered that the world was so ordinary, dim and without light.

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The head with a blurred face unconsciously answered the questions raised by the host:

"Of course not. This is just a dream you had. Are there any strange illusion entities in the way of immortality? I don't know. And I'm not an electronic ghost or an afterimage left in neurons - sorry, it seems you haven't learned biology very well - I just have a little imagination. I guess you figured it out to entertain you."

This was not like his usual conversation - had he ever been so nagging before? These words flowed out of his mouth naturally, like vomit after being drunk.

But the four words uttered by the nameless man still linger in its heart.

"Xihe Girl... is that her name? That's weird."

"I remember - I remember... I have another name. Some people... don't call me that..."

But what was the name? The strange thing called Xihe Girl could not remember it after all.

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Time passes slowly: and the dream - remains a dream all the same.

The water in the Red River remained the same: no matter how turbulent the waves were, the positions of the Nameless Man and the West River Girl did not change at all.

They seemed to be trapped in the cracks of time and could no longer make any progress.

And this is not the only trouble for Anonymous...

Since the last conversation, the Xihe girl has never spoken again; although she did not have a mouth in the literal sense.

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It seemed that only ten minutes had passed - or it seemed that a hundred years had passed. There was no sunrise or sunset, no hunger or thirst: due to the stagnation of the physical body's transformation, the nameless person could no longer tell how fast time was passing...

He and the Xihe girl had already exhausted all topics worth discussing, from the fishy-smelling flowers and plants on the shore to the temperature range of the river water.

"Hey, Xihe girl! Why are you silent? You look so boring."

Anonymous did not hear the answer behind him.

"Eh? Where is the person?"

He wanted to turn his head - the vine-like body of the Xihe girl was already slender, and it grew in the spine of the anonymous person: every time he turned his head, he could only see the extremely turbulent but powerless waves behind him.

If it weren't for the vague weight that could be felt at the back of her head, Anonymous would have thought that she had disappeared like a bubble.

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"Cluck, cluck."

Anonymous heard a strange sound as if his trachea was blocked, and also a choking sound like someone was about to swallow a foreign object.

“Ku…Ku.”

Another sound——

The anonymous person suddenly discovered that the Xihe girl behind him was making bouts of dry heaving, like the strange sound a cat makes before vomiting a hairball.

He was somewhat anxious, but he was powerless to do anything about what was happening behind him:

"What's going on?! Are you poisoned? Don't die!"

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"Wow!"

Although accompanied by a horrifying and disgusting scream, the Xihe girl's mouth did not spew out the filth that Anonymous imagined.

Ding!

A crisp sound:

A tiny foreign object with long, sticky, shiny strings popped out of her throat and landed right in the palm of the anonymous person.

"what?"

The anonymous person held the "vomit" in front of his face: it was not covered with sticky body fluids, but was dry and clean - it seemed to be a handmade product made from roughly processed waste materials, and it was not very delicate; a long, thin rope was passed through the drilled hole.

Snapped!

With a slapping sound, the leaves of the Xihe girl swept across the palm of the nameless person and snatched the necklace away:

It was still the same face without any bumps or depressions, as if covered by a veil, and no expression could be discerned - but it was completely different from a moment ago. It seemed that what it vomited out was not a crudely made ornament, but a part of its soul - and this changed it permanently.

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"Eh? Why did you spit out something like this?"

Even in such a bizarre world, Nameless still felt puzzled: He had already adapted to the normal state of this world, and this sudden change made him feel vaguely uneasy...

Something is going to happen.

The Xihe girl wrapped the necklace up and down with leaves; like a human clasping his hands together. He stretched his body forward to face the Nameless One - and then he spoke:

"...Old...Boss. Fang Bailu."

There was no lightning striking from the sky to light up the light bulb in the nameless man's mind: although the name seemed familiar, it only made him feel slightly familiar.

The Xihe girl's hazy and strange face came closer:

"You should wake up."

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Chapter 324: The Ten Unforgivable Crimes (X)

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“Fang—Fang…”

He repeated unconsciously along with the words of the Xihe girl -

The familiar feeling of déjà vu was growing bigger and bigger, until it filled his body and mind; and this thought was like a tangible barbell pressing down on the anonymous person.

"I should wake up."

Wake up from what?

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The Nameless Man lost the strange balance that he had been floating on his back on the Red River for who knows how long.

call!

It seemed as if an invisible hand had pushed the nameless man's back viciously: in an instant, he was upright, with his waist as the center, and his head was like a paddle scooped into the bloody water, while his legs fluttered randomly on the water.

This sudden disaster seemed to be like the lightning that struck before, symbolizing the sudden inspiration that the Nameless One had gained.

The pain of lack of oxygen did not last long. After a brief moment of unconsciousness caused by suffocation, the anonymous person turned over again.

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When he finally surfaced again and smelled the fishy, ​​damp smell in the air again:

Fang Bailu remembered everything——

Yes, he had a name: it came from his parents; but now it belonged to Fang Bailu himself. More and more surging thoughts emerged from the depths of his heart and rolled into his brain.

And so came the many answers to the questions he had asked himself when he was still anonymous:

This is a dream, an illusion, a tide gathered in the mind—

It is the breath of a turtle after swallowing the way to immortality.

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The river water was churning, and waves were rising: bubbles jumped from the bottom to the surface of the red river, bursting with a gurgling sound; the bright red river was no longer as calm as before...

The hands of time seemed to start turning again.

Fang Bailu, who had found his own name again, felt the movement of the water: it pushed him forward, carrying his naked body forward——

He knew what the end of the road was... Fang Bailu had seen it before.

At the edge of his vision, he could already see the edge of the abyss - the waterfall composed of blood-red river water fell into the bottomless place; but there was no dispersed mist rising.

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But this is not the point now - he raised his hands and slapped his cheeks fiercely to get rid of the confusion after the shock.

Then, Fang Bailu suddenly raised his hands, grabbed the vine that broke through the skin at the back of his neck, pulled it down, and dragged it to his face——

Unconsciously, he suddenly shouted loudly:

"You're not - you're not the Xihe girl! Damn it, what Xihe girl? You're Xin!"