Yin Yang Lantern Man

Chapter 95 Giant Shadow
"So, I'll know the answer tonight?"

Chen Ningan's expression was half-smile: "Come here and help me."

He pointed to the open door and looked outside.

Look outside?
Yu Shengzhuang quickly closed his eyes: "Brother, please let me go, I don't want to die, I just made a small mistake!"

"I just asked you to look outside, I didn't ask you to go and die."

"I don't like to force others." Chen Ning'an picked up the butcher knife:

"Think about your companion. Do you want to see it yourself, or do you want me to cut off your eyelids for you?"

Yu Shengzhuang thought of the miserable appearance of his former colleague. He did not dare to resist and could only look outside bravely.

My companions had seen it before, and it was fine as long as we stayed in the house.

But Chen Ningan picked up the butcher knife and gently placed it on his waist: "Go out."

"Big brother!"

Yu Shengzhuang said in a sad tone: "I want to live, please give me a way to live."

He turned around and knelt down towards Chen Ningan: "I kowtow to you!"

The soil on the ground made a clanging sound, but Chen Ningan remained unmoved.

"It seems that I still have to cut it off for you."

"No!"

He jumped up from the ground and fired at Chen Ning'an's face.

Without waiting for it to end, he closed his eyes again and rushed outside!
Run! Run farther away. He doesn't dare to chase you. Even if he chases you, he will close his eyes and may not be able to catch you!
Yu Shengzhuang was so panicked that he got up immediately after falling down and ran for who knows how long.

Finally he was tired of running and lay on the ground to avoid being discovered.

"Did you get rid of it?"

The fear in his heart was gradually replaced by relief.

"Haha, he ran out, he doesn't dare to chase after me!"

Yu Shengzhuang was proud of his own cleverness. From the moment he kowtowed, he opened fire and escaped, all in one go. If he had hesitated for a second, the outcome would have been different.

"Haha, hahaha!"

He couldn't help but chuckle, "Lantern bearer, no matter how awesome you are, aren't you still going to die? Otherwise, why would you be carrying a lantern?"

"What's so great about that? You're showing off and torturing me, cutting my eyelids?"

"I will dig up your ashes with a smile!"

The more he thought about it, the happier he felt, and he couldn't help but want to see the day when Chen Ning'an was buried.

But suddenly, he heard footsteps.

And the nightmare-like voice of the lantern man before.

"It seems that if you look outside from inside the house, you won't be attacked when you go outside again."

Chen Ning'an's voice was more terrifying than the devil in Yu Shengzhuang's ears at this moment. He didn't know where he got the strength to stand up and run away, but soon a hand held him down, stepped on him roughly, and used a knife to slowly cut open his eyelids.

The combination of blood and light gave him endless fear.

Did that little girl feel the same as I do?
He suddenly remembered that day, the beginning of his sin.

But soon, the thought was shattered by the overlapping waves of pain, and incomparable pain came from the eye sockets.

It was as if it was tearing his eyes apart, once, twice, and his vision was rapidly splitting, clarity became blurry, and finally he could not make out anything, only a ball of light.

After that...

"Wow~"

That was the sound of iron chains, echoing in the wilderness.

Chen Ning'an followed the voice back to the house. After opening his eyes, he immediately looked outside the room.

This was the first time he saw the scene in the Light Realm.

Ever since he first picked up a lantern, he had developed an incomparable curiosity about this place.

Outside the house was a wilderness with houses scattered around.

At least a dozen houses on his route were missed.

Some of the houses were damaged, some had collapsed, and some still had people living inside.

Not far in front of their house, several people were staring at him coldly from the window.

Good night.

They saw everything that happened before, but did not make any sound.

Chen Ningan looked back with a smile on his face: "Hey, you guys have to wait for me."

These people looked even uglier.

Chen Ning'an left through the window, leaving half a person in the room.

He ignored it and broke through the wall to observe the situation on the other sides.

Two sides were similar to the wilderness outside the gate, but the third side made him shudder.

A huge corpse that is a hundred meters tall!
It stood in the wilderness, with a tall face and naked body, but its gender could not be determined.

Because the things that kept growing on the corpse challenged the bottom line of human cognition, the fine flesh whiskers, and the round eggs on it...

He saw... an egg burst, and a human-sized corpse walked out of it, almost exactly the same as the huge monster.

Is this the Cold Corpse Realm?

Chen Ning'an admitted that he was shocked, not only by the monster's corpse, but also by some other shadows in the distance.

This proves that it is not the master of the territory.

How dare Ye An and the people from the human realm touch this thing?

Chen Ning'an kept watching the human body talisman feel hot and stinging before he withdrew his eyes.

But he was sure that this giant thing was not something that would cause any abnormality to the eyes. Although it was shocking, it was not terrifying and would not make people scream with fright at just one look at it.

So you still have to close your eyes after going out.

But he was not too afraid of those "cold corpses". Chen Ningan thought that if he met one again, he would not be as scared as before, but would capture it and study it carefully.

He couldn't help but look at the huge corpse several times. It was so majestic after death, and he wondered what it was like when it was alive.

Tasty?
With mixed feelings, he waited until dark, waiting for the so-called "someone" that night to come and collect the lantern bearer.

The lantern bearer, with only half of his body left, seemed to know his fate. Without saying a word, he took out something from his clothes and started writing.

"What to write?"

Chen Ning'an walked over and took a look, looking down from above. It should be a suicide note.

The man smiled palely and did not refuse, letting him see it clearly.

There weren't any names in the text, just some addresses, noting what was inside.

As big as several thousand dollars, hidden under the pickle jar.

Even as small as a doll placed in a desk drawer, no matter how big or small the matter is.

Finally he mentioned a name in his letter.

"Don't tell Xiaowu."

"Who is Xiaowu?"

Chen Ningan took out a piece of leather and carved on it with blood.

Fire, wind, wood, metal, water, and earth. He mainly uses the fire and wind talismans to attack. Defense is not very necessary. The Vajra talisman to protect himself is enough.

But facing the situation outside, he needed to draw some wooden talismans.

"I'm sorry to make you laugh." The lantern man said weakly. He was seriously injured and tortured badly by the two Night's Friend men.

"Xiaowu is the child I rescued more than ten years ago. She was almost hit by a car and I pushed the stroller away."

The half-lantern man spoke slowly with a smile on his face, as if he saw Xiaowu's face.

"My body was also crushed by a truck at that time."

"Later, Xiaowu's parents divorced and no one wanted to take care of her, so I took her with me and helped her pick up trash and do some manual labor every day."

With what he said, Chen Ning'an couldn't find any reason for the other party to hold the lantern.

Unless you are at the end of your rope and facing death, who would be willing to endure this kind of torture of being neither human nor ghost?
As if knowing what he was thinking, the half-lantern man continued, "Later, in this damn world, Xiaowu got acute leukemia. I had no choice but to come in and hold the lantern to support her and earn money."

When he said this, a sad look flashed across his face: "If I die, Xiaowu will be thrown out of the hospital. At least he will have a companion in his grave."

"You can leave, or at least hide in a nearby room."

Chen Ning'an's suggestion is very pertinent.

"They marked me." The man smiled bitterly, no longer having the strength to resist.

Chen Ning'an looked at it with indifference.

There is too much suffering in this world, and he cannot see or help anyone.

He only wanted to live forever, to become an immortal, and not to be part of the suffering of all things.

The high-level paraplegic lantern bearer strengthened his resolve to follow the Tao.

In the evening, footsteps were heard outside the house.

"Ta-ta...ta-ta..."

The footsteps sounded strange, not human.

Chen Ningan woke up from his rest with a start, and then threw a fire talisman towards the source of the sound.

A "whoosh" sound was heard behind the burning fire talisman, and the figure of the person coming was also reflected.

It was a black shadow, transparent and without substance.

The moment it arrived, Chen Ningan felt the coldness on his shoulder getting worse. This thing is a ghost!
Ye An's actually controlling ghosts.

He had to admire him, but he didn't know what means he used.

The black shadow struggled and screamed in the flames. A shrill howl could be heard, and its whole body became much more transparent. Finally, the flames finally extinguished themselves.

It didn't die, not because its flame was weak, but because its strength was strong.

The black shadow seemed not to see Chen Ning'an and walked straight to the side of the high-level paraplegic. Chen Ning'an looked out the window. If there were other black shadows, he would help them.

But no, there was only this black shadow.

He needs to follow the shadow to find Ye An's people, so...

Respect the fate of others.

The black shadow enveloped the man, and in just a few seconds, he was no longer alive, and his entire body seemed to have lost its color and turned grayish white.

The black shadow stood up and staggered away.

Chen Ningan was bound to chase after it, but this thing made no sound and he couldn't locate it by sound, so he had to find a way to keep following it.

This... requires opening your eyes.

Should I give up or continue?

Glancing at the gray corpse beside him, he realized that this was no longer an ordinary lantern-carrying operation and he was under a lot of pressure.

If you fail, you may never be able to touch this world again.

Chen Ningan made up his mind, gritted his teeth and chased after him.

As soon as he took the first step, he saw something horrible.

It's something that's all over the sky, everywhere.

Unable to understand, he felt that his eyes received a lot of information that did not belong to him.

The eyes of this body began to turn red and swell, and the carved Vajra Symbols also began to burn.

Finally the view was split into two!
Chen Ningan gritted his teeth, unable to stop it. His eyes felt like they were on fire and his vision kept splitting.

He grabbed the black bugs that were wriggling on his face and with only a little vision left, he memorized his purpose.

He locked onto the black shadow tightly, and followed it. The chains on the coffin behind him kept making rattling sounds.

(End of this chapter)