The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 40: One Starry Street (6)

All the insect eggs hatched, and they gathered together to form a giant blue-gray hand, grabbing Su Ninglong's ankle.

The whispers turned into thorny roots, constantly piercing into Su Ninglong's mind and eroding her heart.

"Do you smell the iris? Behind you lies eternal spring, the vibrant natural world. Everything you desire is here."

"Shuyi adopted you, but in order to have more slaves to do the hard labor, she only treated you as a dispensable laborer and could abandon you at any time."

"Xiao Liu is a small-time thug, but his crime doesn't deserve the death penalty. It's Zou Shuyi who should die. It's her fault that she didn't give him a chance to live. It's her fault that you came here. Why do you want to go back?"

Su Ninglong wanted to laugh, but she couldn't lift the corners of her lips. Her facial muscles were covered with gelatinous particles, just like the bumps on a toad's back.

The Shadow Crawler is not a very smart creature, and its seductive language is weak and soft.

The spiritual fire burned all over her body again, and the giant hands on her ankles let go of her. They rustled around, wanting to attack but being afraid.

A pair of small hands pushed open the wardrobe, and the girl limped and stumbled towards the desk.

The sun was shining outside, and the mold in the closet behind me disappeared completely, as if I had returned to the real world.

Su Ninglong turned off the mental anchor, but the pain did not disappear. Her vision gradually became blurred, and a feeling of suffocation came over her.

The door of the room was suddenly opened, and the girl with pigtails ran in and grabbed her wrist.

"Sister, run away."

Su Ninglong looked up and saw that it was the daughter of the owner of the house. She had an innocent face, like a little angel who knew nothing about the world.

"Sister, come with me. You are in danger now. Don't stay here."

Su Ninglong shook off her hand and went straight to the desk.

"I really didn't lie to you. Believe me. Don't stay here, or you will die."

Su Ninglong said nothing.

The little girl couldn't wait to show Su Ninglong what she was suffering in reality.

She drew a circle, and inside the circle, clips of reality were played.

In reality, the earrings lost their spiritual power supply, and Su Ninglong also lost the protection of the spell.

Xiaoliu's split little head completely gained the upper hand. He grabbed Su Ninglong's neck and lifted him into the air.

He grinned and said, "Little brat, if I sacrifice you and let me inherit your abilities, I will be able to leave here."

Su Ninglong in that world had his limbs hanging down, his face was blue and purple, and he was close to death.

"See? Your situation is really dangerous. Let's go downstairs. I can take you away from here." The girl took her hand again and said to her with a smile, "You should be able to feel that I won't hurt you. Come on, follow me."

Su Ninglong could indeed feel that the girl was very warm and sunny, and the signals she gave off were harmless, undoubtedly giving people a feeling of closeness and trust.

But Su Ninglong had already walked to the table, her hands on it. At this time, her eyes were completely blind, and the growths on her cheeks completely covered her eyes.

She groped for the edge of the table, and after losing her vision, the table became slippery and sticky, as if it had become alive.

An ominous aura was transmitted to her mind through her fingertips, and boundless pressure continued to erode her will.

For a moment, Su Ninglong wanted to give up resistance and join the secret spirit.

The double torture of body and mind almost made Su Ninglong lose consciousness.

"It's dangerous here, sister, we..."

She held on, raised the lighter and smashed it hard against the desk.

The engine oil flowed out and soaked the diary. Su Ninglong used the remaining spiritual power to set the table on fire.

"Ah...what are you doing? What are you doing?"

Su Ninglong was pushed down hard.

The girl pounced on Su Ninglong and revealed her true form.

The half-melted bluish-white face looked like a terracotta figurine baked by high temperature. The left side of the face retained the outline of a child, while the right side was waxy and drooped to the jaw, revealing the inner layer of chitin skeleton.

Where the whites of the eyes should be, there are tiny compound eyes, and each pupil reflects the scene in a different space.

Twelve pairs of legs covered Su Ninglong's head, and within its transparent third abdominal segment were suspended fragments of the memory of the person it had devoured.

In the fragmented memory, there is a little girl holding her father and mother's hands, smiling happily, and they slowly sink with the bubbles.

"Disobedient child." Su Ninglong's arm was injured by the piercing of his walking leg.

It wanted to put out the fire, but the spiritual fire was not an ordinary flame, and with the oil spilled, if it rushed in, it would only burn itself back.

"It's useless for you to hurt me here. Everything you do is in vain because your space is already collapsing."

As the diary burned, amazing spiritual power emanated from above the desk. Su Ninglong took a deep breath, and the abundant spiritual energy suppressed all her pain.

She continued to absorb and use spiritual power to repair her body.

But she needed time, she needed to delay until the repairs were complete.

"Do you know why you failed? Do you know how I discovered your conspiracy?"

The mouthparts of the shadow crawler hung on Su Ninglong's neck. This was its lair, a subspace transformed by it, where the secret spirit had a high degree of freedom.

The Shadow Crawler has the ability to recreate tragedy, and naturally can also glimpse a corner of the human heart.

But it couldn't see through Su Ninglong, and it really didn't know where it failed.

"You haven't been able to succeed until now because they stopped you. From the very beginning, you tried to mislead me, misleading me into thinking that they were a violent family."

"The mother is mentally ill, the father is violent, and the child born will also be sick. But it's not true. It's the child who is sick, and the mother is desperate and tried all kinds of treatments, so she welcomed you into the family."

"You are that diary, living in objects, coveting the human world and distorting their cognition."

The diary that Su Ninglong saw was actually incomplete. A lot of the content had been deleted by the Shadow Crawler. It only wanted to show Su Ninglong what it wanted to show her.

It never thought that Su Ninglong could uncover its conspiracy from the clues in the diary.

The diary was actually written by two people. The front part was written by the mother of this family.

She loved her daughter so much that she gained unknown powers from the Shadow Crawlers and helped her wheelchair-bound daughter stand up again.

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. After being happy for a while, she found something wrong.

It should be said that she thought she was happy for a while, but in fact the time was very short, maybe one or two days, or maybe one or two weeks.

Direct contact with the source of contamination meant the infection lasted only a short time, definitely no longer than a month. Because of this cognitive bias, they couldn't sense the passage of time, so their diaries couldn't record dates.

The mother loves her daughter very much, so she hopes to give birth to her again and give birth to a healthy child.

After going through a distorted world, she thought she was going to be pregnant again.

That's why there's that monster on the first floor.

When they are not becoming part of the secret spirit, the children become strange. The shadow crawler makes the children become its host, infecting everything around them.

The husband began to have cognitive errors, lost control of his temper, and beat his wife violently.

When his wife and daughter completely became part of the mysterious spirit, he regained consciousness for a brief moment and regretted what he had done. He went to see a doctor, but the doctor said that he just had a psychological problem.

After returning, he read the diary.

He also fantasized about becoming his wife, and later tried to write in a diary, hoping to call his wife back through the false situation of "daughter Ningning".

But on the way to find his wife, he also got lost and was further infected, and regarded the diary as an important person.

Until he became a part of the secret spirit, he had not succeeded in finding his wife and daughter, and was blocked by the space created by his wife and daughter.

Why can't he wear the skirt? It has so many wrinkles. Because he is a man, with such a big frame. Even if he cuts off a few layers of flesh, he still can't wear it.

There was something that Su Ninglong was confused about. The man said that Ningning tried to destroy "you", which meant she tried to destroy the diary.

How could a person who was severely polluted have the idea of ​​destroying the secret spirit? He did burn the table with a lighter at the last moment, and that was the reason for the fire in the bedroom.

Why can't the lighter return to reality? Because the reality has been burned and it cannot exist in reality.

The same goes for the diary. It no longer exists in reality, but it can still remain in the subspace. As long as the subspace itself is not destroyed, the shadow crawlers will continue to exist.

Su Ninglong only understood this when she entered for the third time.

The red light on the man and woman is not produced by the search for children, but represents their unextinguished humanity.
The red light can repel the mold, and it is they who suppress the secret spirits and prevent outsiders from entering the shadow crawler's subspace.

The love they pour into their daughter is best reflected in her paintings and bedroom decoration. Indirectly, they make all children a special presence in the space, and they want to give them the opportunity to leave.

However, they were only half successful. The Shadow Crawlers took advantage of the loophole and pulled the "innocent" child into the special space.

After listening to Su Ninglong's explanation, the shadow reptile showed a strange smile on his face.

"So what? We don't covet the human world. It's because humans covet our power that we came here. You destroyed my true form, but that doesn't mean you can't do anything to me. They have already become secret spirits. They will soon become me, and I can become them. And you, too, will become a part of me."

"No, it's precisely because they are different from you that they are easier to get rid of. And if you underestimate this old ancestor, you will suffer." Su Ninglong has recovered his strength, and the raised tissue on his face gradually disappeared under the burning of the spiritual fire.

With a click, the Qiankun Shrine opened and hit the face of the Shadow Reptile.

When the Shadow Crawler wasn't paying attention, Su Ninglong made his plan.

The shadow crawler retreated in panic, but its body still began to disintegrate involuntarily.

The new secret spirits are the weakest. They have also entered the real secret spirit world and cannot escape the temptation of the shrine.

"This kind of thing can't trap us."

"Ten seconds ago, I really couldn't trap you, but now I can." The earrings exerted force again, spiritual fire rose, and Su Ninglong's aura continued to soar.

With the nourishment of rich spiritual energy, Su Ninglong's momentum continued to rise, breaking through from the third level of Qi Refining Stage, the fourth level of Qi Refining Stage... to the seventh level of Qi Refining Stage.

The spiritual fire burned the space, and the flames illuminated Su Ninglong's eyes. She saw the true state of the shadow crawlers, which was indescribable and could not be seen directly, but could only be understood.

It transformed into a girl, then into a worm. The tracheal valve in its throat opened, and it imitated the voice of a little girl, "Please don't leave me, please, sister, please give me a hand... please."

"Ningning, we still have our humanity. Let me out. Take us out."

"We can help you escape from Xiaoliu's clutches. He wasn't contaminated by me. You can't deal with him alone. I can help you..."

The compound eyes repeatedly replayed the scene of Su Ninglong dying in Xiaoliu's hands. As long as Su Ninglong showed a trace of pity, they would find an opportunity.

But Su Ninglong was always cold-blooded when it came to her enemies. She sneered, "How disgusting!"

The spell tightened the body of the shadow crawler. Although the family of three was pitiful, the secret spirit was still a secret spirit and would never be allowed to cross the door and enter the human world.

The newly born secret spirit has never come into reality and has weaknesses everywhere.

Su Ninglong absorbed spiritual power crazily and then channeled the spiritual power into the earrings. The spell collided with the ominous aura, dissipating the secret spiritual power.

"Ding." After the secret spirit was absorbed, Su Ninglong took out the secret order he had picked up and stuck it to the bottom of the Qiankun shrine.

She's quite clever! I'll have to thank the principal for giving her the chance to practice.

The restless and shaking Qiankun shrine returned to calm.

The space continued to collapse, and in the void, the white shadows of a family of three appeared. They smiled silently, waved to Su Ninglong, and mouthed the word "thank you".

Su Ninglong turned indifferently and walked into the bright road behind him.

Returning to reality doesn't mean it's over.

There is still a fierce battle.

With her neck being strangled and her feet hanging in the air, Su Ninglong's throat was burning and her body was very cold.

Su Ninglong, who had just been replenished with pure spiritual energy, opened his eyes, exerted force on his waist, raised his feet, grabbed Xiaoliu's arm, and twisted it upwards.

The dislocation sounded extremely loud, and Xiaoliu could no longer hold his hand tightly, and was forced to let go of Su Ninglong.

"Cough cough cough..."

"Sacrifice, sacrifice." The ferocious little head shouted. Most children would have run away by now.

Su Ninglong: No, she holds a grudge.

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Two police cars arrived outside No. 1 Xinglaier Street. They were shocked by the black sky rising from the house. A black sky appeared in this mysterious spiritual place that had always been judged by professionals to be of extremely low risk.

A graceful woman got out from the back seat of the police car behind. Her hair was messy and stuck to her cheeks. She looked at Hei Tianmu, who seemed to be able to absorb the light in front of her.

His eyes were ablaze with fire.

Zou Shuyi clenched her fists tightly, her nails digging into her flesh, and tried to calm herself down. If she hadn't been convicted of damaging public property, she would have overturned the sidewalk.

With nowhere to vent her anger, Zou Shuyi cursed out the three hundred curses she had been holding back. "You bastard! Are your parents stupid enough to give birth to a heartless bastard like you? You're useless and you even kidnapped my daughter. How can a hunter have a loser like you? If even one of her hairs is damaged, I guarantee that when you die, even your marrow will be knocked out and boiled and fed to the cockroaches..."

She is such a beautiful woman standing there that she is a sight to behold, how come she can curse so fluently?

(End of this chapter)