novelaction Chapter 216 You are hope
Chapter 216 You are hope
As soon as she finished speaking, some images uncontrollably flooded into Chu Yu's mind. She seemed to see a helpless girl being kidnapped by a group of vicious people and locked up with a group of children of similar age.
The girl was taken to a family. She fought hard, but failed to escape again and again for various reasons. She suffered a lot and died in despair...
Seeing all this, Chu Yu could no longer remain calm. This was the memory that the ghost baby showed her, but it made her shout out in reality:
"I'm going to kill them!"
Then Chu Yu suddenly opened her eyes, breathing slightly. The memory was so real that she couldn't help but tear up.
Is this what Embroidered Shoes experienced before her death?
"You want to kill them?" The ghost baby sneered in a childish voice and said disdainfully:
"Then let me tell you, you are late."
"Xiu Huaxie dealt with them personally, including those who trafficked the children. All of them died in humiliation."
"Embroidered Shoes' obsession was to kill these people, and she did it."
“But she’s still in pain.”
"To prevent her from escaping, the family used glue to stick together sharp gravel and covered the woodshed where she was imprisoned, and did not allow her to wear shoes."
"Even if she became a ghost cultivator after death, it is inevitable that she will maintain the condition she had before she died. Her feet will always bleed and hurt."
"I made her a pair of shoes with the softest material, so that she could go wherever she wanted freely. However, I still couldn't make her forget the pain of being unable to escape because of her injured feet. She always left bloody footprints, and every step she took was painful, but she enjoyed it."
"Miss Chu, tell me, what should we do with her remaining pain?"
"I can block the pain so that she can't feel the pain in her foot. I can use secret techniques to make her forget this memory temporarily. But every time she gets stronger, she will remember her past life again. The wounds left before her death will reappear on her body, and the wound on her foot will open and bleed again. Why is this happening?"
"She killed all her enemies with her own hands, but she is still in pain. Tell me, how can I relieve her pain?"
When the ghost baby was emotionally unstable, Chu Yu could feel the sound of countless children crying in his ears, which was heart-wrenching.
As if realizing that something was wrong with his condition, the ghost baby suppressed his emotions, turned around and looked at the sea, and fell into another memory:
"When the tomb keepers realized that they and their foremen were buried alive, they tried to escape from the tomb they had built."
"The tools in his hand were taken away by a small foreman, which made the tomb keeper realize that he had been betrayed."
"Even though his men were already in despair, he was still looking for a way to break through the thousand-pound stone wall."
"The burial objects were all gold, silver and soft objects. He searched for a long time and finally found a handy dagger inlaid with gems, and immediately started digging."
"They had no water or food, and they didn't know how much time had passed. The air in the sealed tomb became thinner and thinner. He didn't realize that his brother had collapsed due to suffocation. He was the only one left, still struggling against the stone wall."
"That was the most perfect tomb he had ever built. It was solid, gorgeous, perfect, and secret. He never thought that he would die there. He only hated himself for accepting orders from the rich and powerful. In order to prevent their tombs from being disturbed by future generations, those rich and powerful would order the builders to be buried with them."
"He hated the man who ordered them to be buried alive, and the laborer who abandoned the team and ran away with his tools alone."
"But what can he do? The person who ordered them to be buried alive is the owner of this mausoleum, but that person is already dead. His body is lying flat in the largest tomb chamber. He feels that breathing is getting more and more difficult, but only a little bit of the shell of the hard stone wall has been knocked off."
"Then he was ready to give up and wanted to take one last look at his final work. Just as his eyes went dark, he saw an even more desperate scene in an inconspicuous tomb."
"The worker who betrayed him was hiding in the most inconspicuous corner. His body was stiff. He was poisoned. He was still holding tools in his hands. He had no time to escape. The worker carried him on his back and left an exit for him to escape, but that exit had been blocked tightly."
"The tomb keeper didn't know whether to cry or laugh. He actually saw useless hope at this moment of death."
"If your enemy dies before you, and you have no place to avenge yourself, what should you do?"
"Miss Chu," the ghost baby came to Chu Yu with a serious tone and formally put forward his request:
"I know you have a special physique. Embroidered Shoes saw you use my curse to resist the magician's attack."
"You have absorbed the power of Sect Leader He, so you should be able to use his power, right?"
Seeing that the ghost baby finally got to the point, Chu Yu thought about it again and again in embarrassment, and finally chose to tell the truth.
At this juncture, deceiving the ghost baby would be seeking death.
"I did draw strength from both of them."
"But... I can't feel the existence of that power. It may be that I don't know how to use it yet. If you want me to use that power to help you, I may... not be able to do it for the time being."
Feeling the stagnation of the air, Chu Yu knew that the ghost baby's expression was not good. The oppressive feeling of the evil spirit came over him, and Chu Yu quickly added:
"But that kind of power usually appears with demonic energy. Sect Leader He and Liu Yunhuan both have demonic energy to varying degrees."
The ghost baby's suppressed breath instantly subsided when it heard the word "demon".
"Demon?" The ghost baby frowned, his eyes filled with a depth that was inconsistent with his appearance. He seemed not to have thought of this.
"Demons are no small matter. Don't try to play tricks on me."
The ghost baby suddenly showed a ferocious look, he felt that Chu Yu was lying.
"It's true," Chu Yu immediately showed a small crystal in his palm:
"This is Liu Yunhuan's aura. I can't possibly lie about something like this."
I don’t know what stimulated the ghost baby, he suddenly became furious, the aura on his body was extremely dangerous, almost suffocating Chu Yu:
"You've gone to so much trouble to tell me that the only way is to become a demon?"
"Who are you exactly?"
"I swear, if I have anything to do with the demons, God will punish me with lightning!" Chu Yu said these words quickly, fearing that he would be crushed to pieces by this ghost fairy if he was a little late.
"That kind of power only appears with demonic energy. I don't know where this power comes from, nor can I sense its existence. But one thing is certain, I can imitate everyone's power. As long as I catch a trace of that power, I will never let it go!"
"I need time."
Chu Yu explained her words clearly and honestly. The ghost baby stared at her eyes for a long time, and when it felt that she did not seem to be lying, it restrained its breath.
The pressure dissipated, and Chu Yu could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Before she could catch her breath, the ghost baby's terrifying voice came from above: "You need time, but I can't wait."
“Wait…” Chu Yu’s back froze instantly.
"Can't wait..." She murmured.
"Yeah, I can't wait. No one deserves to keep waiting in pain."
The ghost baby's cold and emotionless voice sounded, and these words struck Chu Yu's heart like a verdict before a death sentence.
The purple lightning on her body was making crazy "sizzling" sounds, and it was obvious that Li Heng on the other end also felt the murderous intent.
Chu Yu's vision blurred instantly, and she felt that everything in front of her became distorted, as if the force of space was entangled with her and was about to tear her apart.
"This is a black sea of despair. When you realize that what you are waiting for is not hope, your despair will only deepen."
"If I had known you were useless, I shouldn't have let Xiu Huaxie come forward. She has already felt despair, and your appearance has deepened the despair. If Sect Leader He and Liu Yunhuan hadn't been killed by you, things wouldn't have turned out this way."
The ghost baby's face became distorted under the influence of the force of space. Chu Yu instantly felt that she was about to be torn into pieces. Li Heng's power was struggling hard on the other side to save her life.
At this critical moment, Chu Yu turned her head and saw a pair of red embroidered shoes that were blurred by the power of space. Thinking back to the ghost baby's words, she suddenly realized something:
"wrong."
"What's wrong?" The ghost baby didn't expect Chu Yu to be able to speak at this time.
"You are wrong. She has gained hope, but you say she has been in despair."
The ghost baby seemed to have heard some incredible news, and suddenly removed the spatial force that was wrapped around Chu Yu. He gnashed his teeth and said:
"How dare you, a selfish and hypocritical living person like you, who doesn't understand anything, say that?"
Chu Yu, who had a chance to catch his breath, was now dizzy and his brain was aching as if it was being torn apart, but he didn't care about that and continued:
"Just by standing here, you give her hope."
"You never give up on finding ways to relieve their pain. You are their hope."
"Those shoes were already stained with blood. Even though she no longer needed to walk to move forward, she still wore them and refused to change them. Why?"
"Because you gave her the shoes, desperate and painful people gathered together. They were like a family, giving each other warmth and hope, and jointly resisting the harm from the outside world."
"Is that so?" The ghost baby raised its head in confusion and looked at the embroidered shoes, as if wanting to get an answer.
He always felt that he and all the ghost cultivators were living in despair and pain, so he led a group of ghost cultivators to find ways to alleviate the pain.
He never thought that this process would be so delicate and tender.
Embroidered Shoes just gave him a soothing look. Apart from their strength, they were like an older sister gently coaxing a bad-tempered younger brother.
Seeing that the embroidered shoes confirmed what Chu Yu said, the ghost baby slowly calmed down.
"I was deceived by my master and fellow disciples. I still remember clearly the pain of them tearing out my bones and blood while I was still alive."
Chu Yu's words were vague, and he didn't mention the sect in his previous life, but the ghost baby obviously knew the secret that he had died once, so it didn't hurt to repeat what he knew:
"But my current sect is very good, and my fellow disciples and friends are very nice. Although they can be mean sometimes, it is undeniable that I can feel warmth and hope every moment in such a sect."
“The pain didn’t go away, but I didn’t fall into despair because there was a group of people holding me back on the other side.”
"It's the same with you."
“You’re always looking for hope, but you never realize that you’ve already created it.”
After Chu Yu finished speaking, the three people present were silent for a long time.
The ghost baby looked at the endless black sea with complicated thoughts, and Embroidered Shoes stood quietly beside him.
After an unknown amount of time, the ghost baby spoke in a somewhat dry voice:
"I never thought I would hear such words from you cunning living people."
Hearing him say this, Chu Yu didn't dare to breathe a sigh of relief, because this ghost baby likes to create twists and turns. If he says something nice first, then he will definitely say something bad the next second.
Sure enough, the next second:
"But, no matter how good your words are, what's the use? I can wait until you can use that kind of power, but now you must think of a way to relieve the pain of my men!"