Yin Yang Lantern Man

Chapter 164: Flowers on the head, fire in the bones.

"We have obtained three black shadows in total. We are still far from reaching the level of qualitative change."

Deep inside the prison dungeon, the light of the blood-red lantern flickered beside Chen Ning'an, and he was carefully feeling himself.

The members of Group 105 around them looked at the man in front of them with awe. He was half-bent over, with his two-headed soul standing upright at the spine.

He took off half of his body as if taking off his clothes and closed his eyes.

The special substance in the black shadow allowed his soul to continue to condense. This feeling was very familiar, just like the first time he had eaten the Red Candle Cemetery Fruit.

When his physical body weighed ten thousand pounds, it underwent a qualitative change, turning blood into Qi and shedding his mortal body. Would his soul also undergo a qualitative change as a result?

To cultivate immortality, one must also cultivate the spirit. Chen Ningan tentatively believes that this spirit is the primordial spirit. The soul needs to be matched with the body.

"Perhaps, my coming to Mucheng is the opportunity."

He opened his eyes and scanned Charlie's face.

"Charlie, what level of Night Good can you access?"

"Master, I have been using my personal account to check on my phone. Many things on Ye An will be sent to our team leader's phone."

Charlie quickly took out his cell phone. Just now, he was thrown into several cells. If his master hadn't saved him in the end, he would have died.

The talisman changed their thinking to some extent.

But the instigator of all this had already gotten used to it. He picked up his phone, and when he held the lantern there was basically no signal, he took a look and returned it to him.

Now is not the time to check, he has other things to do.

"You guys should finish holding the lanterns first and get out. I'll be out later."

He instructed the paper people, "I'll give you one day. After one day, go to Room 501, Unit , Building , Jiang'an Community to wait for me."

He left his address, but the time to light the lantern had actually come.

If he hadn't forced them to stop, these people would have left long ago.

Now Chen Ning'an withdrew his Qi, the lingering blood mist dissipated, the lantern light disappeared almost instantly, and endless darkness spread over in an instant.

His red candle also burned out at this moment.

The entire prison immediately became silent, as if all the senses had left the body. If it were any other resident of Mucheng, their S value would probably be reset to zero at this moment.

But Chen Ning'an was like a dragon swimming in the sea. He walked in the darkness, and only the sound of his footsteps moved in the silence.

"Da~da~da~"

The sound was slowly increasing, and if you looked closely, you could see the cell doors opening and closing around him with every step.

He was examining the things imprisoned in the deep prison. They were basically at the black fog level, and occasionally he could see dark blue.

This is just the first level of the prison.

Chen Ning'an could be sure that there was another layer under his feet. Interestingly, there was a light realm within a light realm.

He couldn't find a way down from the thing under his feet.

"Boom!"

The ground cracked, and he tried to break through the floor with violence. He dug for more than ten meters, but the soil above almost buried him and he still couldn't find a way out.

“The physical way doesn’t work.”

Chen Ning'an looked into the deep darkness and said, "Night Watchman, you are amazing."

This prison was so cleverly designed that he estimated that he wouldn't be able to find out more even if he continued.

Finally, he chose to return to the human world. At least this surface prison could make up for the supplies he had lost for a long time.

"Someone comes out again!"

Accompanied by the familiar atmosphere of the present world and the noise.

The night boats by the lake lit up bright lights, illuminating the entire lake, and small boats floated on the lake to guide the lantern-carriers.

"Quick! Go get him!"

Accompanied by rapid shouting, three small boats approached Chen Ningan at the same time.

"Friend, are you okay?"

A small boat came by, and there was actually a man holding a lantern on it to provide protection to prevent anyone from losing control due to reduced S value.

“You’re a hero!”

They brought hot wine on the boat: "You've worked hard, come and have a sip, we have a special car that will go and reduce the S value right away."

Such enthusiasm was even spicier than the hot wine in his hand. Chen Ningan felt that all the evil spirit in his body had been diluted.

"It's troublesome."

He remained aloof, looking at the lake and the noisy shore.

A variety of delicious food and wine has been set out, and every lantern holder is welcome.

This reminded him of the time in Zhongcheng, when he finished holding the lantern, all he faced was Ye An's disgust, aversion and fear.

But here, the warm atmosphere made him feel uncomfortable all over, as if he was bitten by Mr. Liao's beetle.

There was a girl on the boat looking at him with pity, thinking that Chen Ningan's S value had dropped significantly.

"Little brother, hold on, I'll help you find the fastest car, I have a car dealership at home."

She immediately took out her cell phone and made a call, and a vehicle that had been prepared outside came over quickly, honking its horn.

"Hurry, hurry up, everyone, get out of the way, someone here has a very low S value!"

As her nervous shouts came, the vehicle arrived almost as the boat docked, and Chen Ning'an was almost carried one step closer to the car.

"Oh my god, your hands are so cold."

The girl's eyes flashed with anxiety: "Hurry, driver, hurry up, go to the nearest S value recovery point!"

The driver didn't dare to delay and quickly stepped on the accelerator and drove away.

"Don't be scared, stay calm and everything will be fine soon."

She comforted Chen Ning'an like a mother comforting her child, and her words brought peace to people.

Chen Ning'an didn't answer. He looked down and saw a doctor's business card in the girl's opened bag.

Chen Duwan.

Psychological counselor?
No wonder he felt so relieved. Her tone was very similar to that of Wang Ma. If the S value really existed, Chen Ning'an felt that his S value must be rising.

"Which group are you from?"

Seeing that Chen Ning'an had not spoken, Chen Duwan found a topic to talk about. Once the lantern bearer finishes holding the lantern, he will often show some emotional fluctuations.

It is normal to cry, laugh, shout, or have your body tremble constantly.

The abnormal ones either directly show the desire to attack or simply lose their reason. At this time, the lantern warriors who have been prepared in advance need to take action.

There are only two situations in which one can be as calm as Chen Ningan.

Either the S value is very stable, and the person has a stable personality.

Or the S value drops to an extreme and gradually loses the emotions that humans should have.

Love, hate, passion, desire, sadness, happiness, etc. are all disappearing.

Chen Ning'an's hands were too cold.

The fingertips that had been holding on were so numb that she could hardly feel the cold or heat.

It really looks like a corpse. And not just any corpse, but a frozen corpse in the cold winter.

"Hurry up, driver, please go faster!"

Chen Duwan urged them and they actually arrived at the nearest S value recovery point in just over ten minutes.

"We're here, let's go."

She got off the car first, her hands, which had lost touch, still tightly grasping Chen Ningan.

Here you can see walls that are more than ten meters high. From the outside, it looks like a decoration drawing of an architectural building, but inside, it is instantly filled with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.

There are various rooms of different sizes located here.

Some look like thatched huts, while others look like sea view villas.

The faint scent of gardenia lingering on the tip of his nose made people feel peaceful, and the girl took him directly to the door of a thatched hut.

"Oh no, it's not in here." "Don't panic, let's look for it again. Someone must have used it and didn't have time to repair it."

In fact, Chen Ning'an didn't even see clearly what was in the thatched hut.

She led him to open the door of a wooden house and said in surprise, "This one hasn't been used yet."

"Go in quickly and eat that flower first."

Chen Ning'an finally saw the furnishings in the wooden house clearly.

There was a bonfire burning, and not far away there was a wild flower on the ground emitting a faint fragrance.

Light fragrance?

He should not be able to smell anything at this distance, but he felt his sense of smell was recovering, which was a good thing, proving that he was becoming more and more in harmony with his upper body.

The heat from the bonfire was gradually warming his body.

Can this restore the S value?

He used the Qi-gazing technique, and the pain instantly dispelled the warmth. In the cold, the campfire seemed extremely bright in his eyes, but it soon dimmed and slowly went out.

And that wild flower is also withering.

The scent of the flowers gradually faded, and he smelled a hint of something unusual.

Chen Ning'an reached out and broke off a wild flower and put it in his mouth, half holding it in his mouth and tearing the wood under the flower.

The flower grew out of the cracks in the wooden house, and he kept tearing the wooden floor apart while chewing the petals that tasted like honey.

Accompanied by an unpleasant "crackling" sound, the things below gradually came into view.

The petals entered his stomach, and the warmth warmed his body again, and his mood actually became cheerful.

This was different from the previous time when he dealt with the last culprits in Zhongcheng. It was another very unfamiliar kind of pleasure.

"happiness?"

A word came out of his mouth, so strange, so strange.

Then he followed the roots of the flower and saw the truth.

There is a person buried underground.

Flowers grew on his head, using his brain as nutrients, and he held a photo frame in his arms.

Inside the photo frame was a family of five, his parents, his wife, him and his child. He was holding them in the soil with a smile on his face.

If you grow flowers on a happy person, will the person who eats it also feel happy?

Chen Ning'an turned his head to look at the campfire. The flames had gone out, revealing only corpses.

Only with people as materials can fire drive away the cold.

At this moment, Chen Ning'an felt great irony.

This curtain city, as its name suggests, is a huge curtain covering up the real ugliness.

What's even more ironic is that the flower in his mouth made him feel sick and nauseous about the corpse.

"absurd!"

He spit out the flowers in his mouth. He didn't need any S-value recovery. He, Chen Ning'an, didn't need such a thing at all.

He snatched the photo and used the fire talisman to let it burn in his hand. The family of five twisted in the flames, and as soon as the photo was taken away, the man's body turned black.

Lid spots appeared on his body, and he quickly rotted away, soon turning into a pile of white bones.

Exactly the same as the one burning on the table.

"Tsk." Chen Ning'an sneered.

Almost at the same time, in the office building of this S value recovery point.

"The S-value recovery person in cabin 166 has been detected dead. Materials for making a campfire can be collected."

One person's quick report soon reached the ears of the management.

"No. 166, I remember he was settled in just a few days ago. He has the best of everything, a beautiful and caring wife, parents who gave him a warm childhood, and cute and sensible children. He was made into a recovering person at the happiest time."

"Logically speaking, it would take at least ten times for it to be officially consumed. It shouldn't be used up so quickly."

"Did you see it wrong?"

The manager came to the computer and saw that the restoration work of Cabin 166 had been completed.

"This is difficult. The largest output resource in nearby Zhongcheng has been destroyed. Where can we find people to restore our health?"

In a city with a population of one million, the normal death toll is two hundred people per day.

For a city like Mucheng with a population of tens of millions, the normal death toll is around 2,500. Even if unnatural deaths are included, it does not reach 5,000 people per day.

But there are so many people carrying lanterns, and almost every time they carry a lantern they need to be restored, so this huge gap in numbers will become larger and larger.

"No, we have to report it to the higher-ups, otherwise we won't have enough materials!"

He turned and went to the office to call his superior.

I still remember that it took him four or five days to apply for the restorer of cabin No. 166. In the past, people were directly transferred from above to fill the vacancy.

Soon a reply came from above.

"Please wait. We are trying to find a solution and will be able to send you a reply soon."

…………

When Chen Ning'an came out of the recovery point, he didn't expect that Chen Duwan was still waiting for him.

"Now that you're out, are you feeling better?"

Her eyes were full of concern, and the special vehicle had been parked outside for a long time.

Well, there's also a parking ticket on it.

"Thank you."

Chen Ning'an thanked her anyway and found that the latter's right hand had turned black.

He took out a wooden talisman from his pocket and folded it into a triangle: "Wear it for a day, and your hand will be almost healed."

Ordinary people don’t know how to use the wooden talisman, but the evaporation of his Qi alone can make the condition better.

"what is this?"

Chen Duwan studied the talisman, but still put it in her arms: "I'll wrap it in a bag and wear it when I get home."

She asked Chen Ning'an: "Where are you going? I'll take you there."

"Jiang'an Community."

Chen Ning'an left his address, which made the girl even more curious.

“There’s no club for relaxation in Jiang’an Community.”

"I go home."

Chen Ning'an corrected himself, and when he finished saying this he noticed that the girl's eyes were glowing.

Is there anything special?

In fact, Chen Duwan was very excited at this moment. He was the lantern bearer, who risked his life for the city and did not play around. It would be great if she could marry him.

So, she insisted on sending Chen Ning'an home, and was finally driven away and had to leave.

"People in Mucheng are all mentally ill to some extent."

Chen Ning'an ignored it and waited until the next day, when Charlie and others also came.

The main purpose was to contribute the mobile phone so that Chen Ningan could check the information and learn about Mucheng.

But it also brought bad news.

Xiao Shen from our group was investigated and was arrested this morning. It was found that his S value had been reset to zero, and it seemed that he was controlled by something. "

These words made Chen Ning'an narrow his eyes.

Xiao Shen cannot be controlled because he is his own paper man and he knows his body best.

"You wait."

He closed his eyes and descended upon Xiao Shen. He was not dead yet.

(End of this chapter)