Haru's eyes were determined as he ran through the fields towards the Foggy walls, very a little bit more confident.
Yes. With his papers, he should be okay, no?
~Swish! Swish!
He jumped, ducked and did all sorts of movements to get past the sneaky vines and come this far.
And soon, he was just a few inches away from his goal.
But of course, how could it be that easy?
~Grip! Grip!
What?!!
His hands had been seized by 2 separate vines.
Haru looked at the wall just a few fingertips away with unwillingness.
He was so close!
~Scree. Scree!
As if jubilating, the vines began singing in overly high-deafening sounds that could make one's ears vibrate in pain.
Haru distorted his face as the ringing in his ears was a little bit too much to bear.
These vines seemed to be either happy or mocking Haru instead.
Either way, he had to do something fast!
Luckily, the moment he understood that these vines could think, he did start making his own unique backup or plan B, like they, as Bodyguards always do.
Sorry. Old habits die hard.
~Rumble Rumble.Rumble
The ground underneath him trembled slightly, and Haru instantly knew that another set of vines would probably reach for his legs soon.
So if he had to act fast!
With that, Haru quickly did a backward somersault while pushing the hidden paper he kept around his sleeves towards his hands.
~Thrup.
Like a magician, the cards on both sides of his sleeves were in his hands.
Success!
~Screeeeeehhhhh!
The vines were so shocked when they ended up getting burnt by the blue flame.
How could this be?
Heh.
The now free Haru couldn't help thanking his former self for learning card tricks.
He liked card tricks and could make cards appear on his hands with the flick of his wrists out of thin air to others, but the trick was that he typically kept it in his sleeves.
And today, he felt proud!
Remembering how the other guards would tease him, saying it was lame.
Heh. Who's lame now?
Okay. Okay.
He admitted that he got lucky.
Yup!
He was lucky that the vines had gripped him around his lower arm rather than his wrists.
Or now, no matter what he did, he wouldn't be able to escape.
.
With his newly gained freedom, Haru dared not waste time anymore and quickly pressed the talisman paper on the walls
The Master said he should place all 12 of them in 4 columns close to each other, according to the order given to him.
Haru knew that the vines wouldn't give up this easily, so he began pasting the papers on the foggy walls just as he was told.
And from time to time, he would turn around to destroy any vines coming his way.
~Pah! Pah! Pah!
He placed the papers fiercely in 4 columns as requested and realized that all 12 pieces combined now formed a massive circle with those strange symbols.
And within the massive circle were other smaller circles of symbols as well.
~Pah!
The moment he placed the last paper, the entire set started glowing.
Eh?
Haru watched as the glowing paper seemed to cause the fog around the wall to move in the opposite direction to the way it spun earlier on.
Looking at it, Haru had a deep thought in his mind.
Could it be that this was to reverse the situation?
Butler Sheng and Bewoh, who had completed their own tasks on the wall before Haru, had long noticed this as well.
.
~Woosh! Woosh! Woosh!
The fog began spinning like crazy in the opposite direction.
And soon, a massive light shot out from Haru's Set of talismans, going towards the directions of Butler Sheng and Bewoh.
Likewise, the other papers with the duo did the same thing as well.
And now, there was a giant triangle of light formed by these 3 sets.
But this was just the beginning.
~Woosh! Woosh! Woosh!
The fog changed from black to its original Milky white appearance.
And while transforming, the golden streaks of light that had been stolen from everyone returned to them.
The dazed zombies spread their hands open and started trembling while absorbing it all in.
Yes. The bony, pale, mindless zombies started looking youthful again.
Their skin tone returned from that pale bluish tone earlier on, and their bone-like cheekbones had now begun filling up at a visible rate.
Again, even though the crowd stayed like zombies, if one had paid attention to their eyes earlier, they could've seen true despair in them, but now, their eyes started getting warmer and warmer instead.
.
It was simple.
When these people had their Yang drawn out, they soon found themselves trapped in horrifying dreams filled with negative energy.
The dream seemed so real that they forgot they were still in the fields.
Some found themselves as children who were beaten, locked up, tortured, stabbed and even crippled.
But the most daunting thing was always psychological pain.
The fears deep in their hearts took root.
And those who were orphans got to meet their dream-like parents who kept abandoning them, selling them, or showing them the darkest parts of humanity.
Some ended up crippled and got betrayed by their parents, girlfriends or anyone they truly loved.
And the more Yang got drawn out, the more helpless they were.
Of course, they could only persist for so long because they still had yang in them, which was still being drawn out.
Typically, the moment they gave up meant that their blackening rate was completely 100%, with them having no ray of sunshine or hope in their lives.
It also meant that all their Yang was gone, leaving only Yin behind.
The darkness clouded them before the reversal. But now, things changed!