Weird collapse, chasing husband crematorium

"Akazen Sakura wielding Yaezakura and chopping off my head is a really strange description."

"You said the same thing at St. Freya's College: I am dying and will soon be reborn. This is also the second most frequent sentence you've said. The first is - My name is Li Mo."

"Then I performed ritual suicides, though each time I was resurrected without incident."

Li Mo paused for a few seconds, because this self-destructive behavior is like walking on a tightrope, and it would be the end if he was not careful.

The purpose of the notebook is not yet clear, and Li Mo dare not make a final conclusion on whether its predictions will come true.

Especially when the notebook is keen to offer advice.

"Yae Sakura said I'm special and her alter ego has seen me."

"She said - no matter how many times it happens, she's willing to be my sharp blade."

"You said—I hope I can change something this time, or maybe, in fact, I can never change the established course."

"You, you...what exactly do you want to tell me?"

The notebook did not respond. Li Mo seemed to be talking to himself, speaking to a notebook in the surprised eyes of everyone.

It is very simple to break the script. Just wait for the three-day festival to end before going to the castle tower.

But you may also miss your only chance to know the truth.

Go forward or go back.

The problem of the haunted house world comes to the fore again.

But Li Mo had already given the answer.

——Advance by any means necessary.

Chapter 29: Jealous Bug and the Weird End (5k)

As night fell and the rain began to fall, the houses of the village were scattered along the winding path. The dim moonlight filtered through the windows, exuding a lonely and sad atmosphere.

A faint glow fell on Li Mo and the broken shadow.

Raindrops pattered on the village's cobblestone pavement, making a crisp sound, yet no one was walking along the path. Occasionally, the sound of wind blowing through the treetops could be heard from the lonely steps.

This is the stairway leading to the Yae Shrine. The surrounding bamboo forest is swaying, but the dim view is exceptionally clear in Li Mo's eyes.

It was so clear that there was only a patch of blood-red.

The road ahead was silent, with no laughter or smoke rising from cooking fires, only the sound of raindrops hitting the roof echoing in the air.

And there was the sound of bells that shouldn't exist at all, like a ceremony in a tall Western bell tower for a dead person, or someone who was about to die.

The lonely moonlight flickered in the rainy night, casting mottled shadows. The lush bamboo forest stood quietly in the rain, like a witness to loneliness, silently recounting the heaviness and regret that choices must bear.

Li Mo seemed to be forgotten on the edge of time. Loneliness and desolation intertwined together, forming a mysterious picture.

"The castle tower."

Li Mo looked at the building that was dozens of meters high in front of him and read out its real name.

According to Bai Tian's speculation and Yaezakura's tacit agreement, once he enters the castle tower, he will become the next shrine master, for unknown reasons.

But it's most likely because of what will happen inside.

The sacrifice cannot quell the source of the strangeness. Perhaps this is the true ritual of Yae Village.

But at what cost?

Is it the death of a person? Or the destruction of a person?

Is it possible to let in any outsider, any living person, so that the ritual can be completed and the source of this strangeness can be eliminated?

"Do not……"

"There's only one chance to try and fail, and it might not be the real ceremony, just a cover. The real ceremony is most likely still a sacrifice, but with different requirements."

Li Mo said firmly, took out his notebook and casually asked, "Right?"

The notebook turned to page seven, without directly answering Li Mo's question.

Instead, it repeated what was said before.

My name is Li Mo. I sob and lament.

【With this sword, you will never be defeated. 】

But I know that great power comes at a price.

Li Mo closed his notebook, his face gloomy.

The current rule for answering in the notebook is one page at a time. The first page can suppress the page numbers of other notebooks, but it is also the most mysterious and is suspected to be the main idea core of the entire notebook.

To use a human analogy, it is the majority of the human brain.

The rule on the second page is to keep your body alive, regardless of whether your soul is intact.

Page 4 will reveal many absurd futures, but... judging from the example of Shigure Kirara, one of its predicted results must be accurate, but the process has been distorted and exaggerated.

Page 6 describes those regrettable futures and gives hints.

This time it was the seventh page. Li Mo had a vague feeling that most of the time it was not predicting the future, but describing the past.

"The current Lord of the Eightfold God, with the assistance of the Seed of Sorrow, wrote an obvious law."

"This rule only applies to two moments: the moment I enter the castle tower, and the moment I become a sacrifice and am beheaded after I exit the castle tower."

"This means that even if I leave the castle tower, the law will not disappear. The ritual is not completed. The real ritual is probably--"

"—my death."

Li Mo recalled the word "special" that Yaezakura repeatedly mentioned.

Compared with ordinary outsiders, he is indeed special.

But the special point is not special in terms of weirdness, so this specialness is likely not derived from a strange object, a certain law, or a certain ability...

But it is because of the definition of "I am Li Mo".

"Maybe it's a trap, but I don't have any better choice."

Li Mo walked to the door of the castle tower and reached out to push open the ancient door.

Surprisingly——

There was no dust flying everywhere, and the scene inside seemed as if it had never been affected by time. Everything was brand new, as if it had just been built.

"Does it involve the strange laws of time..."

Li Mo took out the strange pistol one step ahead.

Although he promised Mei that he could not treat this gun as a strange object that could be used with impunity.

But when he really reaches the point where he can't retreat, what he can rely on is not the wisdom to avoid triggering the rules, but the ability to resist and bear the consequences after the rules are triggered.

Because some strange rules cannot be avoided without knowing the intelligence.

"Strange patterns have always been related to time, and become more complete as the time the patterns exist increases."

"Fifty thousand years. This time has flashed through my mind several times since I arrived in Yae Village. If the castle tower was built fifty thousand years ago, then any ghosts wandering in that tower would be beyond my reach..."

Li Mo calmly stated the facts while walking step by step towards the depths.

It was a completely unfamiliar environment, and each floor was like a maze. If it weren't for my photographic memory, it would take a lot of time to reach the top.

"Da da da……"

Faint and regular footsteps sounded not far ahead. Li Mo hurriedly retreated to the previous corner, took out his mobile phone, turned on the video, and hid in the corner.

It is estimated that the ghosts in the castle tower have been polluting for 50,000 years, so try to avoid any way that can trigger the law.

On this basis, observe their patterns and abilities.

Otherwise, you will always be in a passive state.

"Ok?"

When everything was ready, there was no sign of a ghost on the phone.

But when the camera was just turned on, I could clearly capture the ghost's figure, although it was only a blurry outline.

Li Mo was stunned, and the next second, he felt a chill down his spine.

Immediately afterwards, the brain suddenly responded with a strong sense of discomfort.

“Crack—Crack—”

Li Mo turned around instinctively, but heard the sound of gears turning.

The sound did not come from anywhere outside, but from his joints.

The knees and right elbow became mechanical joints like mechanisms.

"Oh!"

A dark blue flame shot out from the barrel of the gun, accurately hitting the ghost behind Li Mo.

A white-haired ghost with female physical features, whose eyes were like red gears, did not take his eyes off Li Mo even under the suppression of the Nether Fire.

"Well!"

Li Mo stood up and wanted to go to the second floor, but found that his body was becoming mechanized.

First the joints, then the flesh and skin, even the nerves are changing subtly.

Fortunately, the Nether Fire suppressed the ghost, slowing down the transformation, otherwise he would have turned into an unthinking machine in less than ten seconds.

When Li Mo was leaving, he did not forget to look back and discovered a very horrifying fact.

The other person's eyes can move and change with his position.

"Keep some distance first."

"I don't know when the pattern was triggered, but my body didn't change until it came behind me. Let's try to keep our distance."

Just when Li Mo took a few quick steps and arrived at a relatively hidden place on the first floor in his memory, he suddenly found that his body was changing faster and faster.

But only a few seconds have passed?

The space in the castle tower has become very large due to strange rules, but the speed of movement is definitely not slow. If it were placed on an open flat ground, it would have been several kilometers away.

There was no other way, Li Mo gritted his teeth and tore off his right hand, allowing the strange original law to fight against the ghost's law.

The left hand doesn't need it. The left hand itself is a strange hand. Although it is not as complete as the other hand, it will not be easily changed unless this pattern continues...

Within half a minute, Li Mo had "restarted" almost his entire body.

Whether it is the organs that have become mechanical parts, or the nerves and blood vessels that have become wires, tear them off and shred them, and let them recover naturally.

Mei said that the original law is the most indelible law, even if the two have a great difference in completeness.

The ground was covered with black blood, and mechanical parts with a light blue luster were mixed with rotten, cold flesh and blood residue.

Li Mo clicked on the video to find out what was going on.

When he picked up the phone with both hands to operate it, a blood-red spear suddenly pierced his chest and nailed him to the wall.

"Puch!!"

The Spear of the Archon? No... it's... the Spear of the Uncanny Archon.

Li Mo barely maintained consciousness and recognized the identity of the spear. It was very similar to the Spear of the Sub-Sky, but it was not the Spear of the Sub-Sky.

He smelled a skull with a familiar scent on it, the skull of someone he knew.

Without time to think about where the breath came from, Li Mo grabbed the spear and prepared to pull it out despite the piercing pain.

Suddenly, thousands of bone spurs shot out from the spear, blooming and piercing into Li Mo's body.

In an instant, Li Mo's body seemed to have turned into a sieve, pierced by bone spurs and riddled with holes.

His eyeballs were punctured, his internal organs were crushed, and large holes were pierced all over his body.

Li Mo fell to the ground, his vision becoming extremely blurry.

There was no reaction time, no response measures.

Different from the law of mortality.

This feeling... is like being slaughtered by a more powerful being, with no power to fight back.