Chapter 291: Chapter 289: A World Of Death
Chapter 289: A World Of Death
Qin An was dumbfounded at the sudden disappearance of his comrades but he quickly raised his guard and scanned his surroundings. There was no sign of anyone around him. It was as if the comrades he had just popped like a bubble and didn’t even leave any single trace saying they really came here with him.
If it weren’t for the internal wounds inside him and his knowledge about what’s happening, any person would think that what happened earlier was a lie, an illusion.
It’s just he knew better than anyone else that that was the reality and what’s in front of him is the lie.
The evil spirits on this planet are way more powerful and dangerous than he expected, but afterall, this is a dead planet where everything else had long been withered and dead. Even the air has the lingering dark energy that formed mental pollution, obviously deeply contaminated.
There was only silence around him. Even the screams from earlier disappeared with the wind. He also couldn’t feel anyone around him but that only raised his guard. Qin An wanted to use his spiritual power to break this illusion but stopped himself. His body is getting too weak. If he abuses his spiritual energy again, this body may not take it anymore. For now, he has to conserve energy and find everybody.
Qin An was breathing lightly and didn’t dare to relax.
This unusual atmosphere is more dangerous than earlier. What’s more scary is the unknown than facing the obstacle in front of you.
Qin An tightens his grip on his sword. He has to find others. Su Jinxi and others couldn’t use their spiritual power yet but Ji Wen and others are something that he needs to worry about because they don’t have the ability to fight at all.
And He Li...
The young man paused. He suddenly remembered the last thing that he saw before he disappeared.
He Li has the deep red color of his eyes. It was darker and deeper red that resembled blood which made him look more eerie and chilling.
It was the same eyes that he knew from his past life, the eyes of a high-level devil.
It was not ordinary because those colors won’t appear unless the devil is stimulated over something that disrupts his emotions.
Thus, he also understands that the devil lurking inside the Marshal’s body awoke. But that’s even more dangerous.
That devil could control He Li’s body and given the fact that the latter’s mental pollution index is already red, He Li is now in a very dangerous situation.
Qin An paused a bit and narrowed his eyes, flashing a hint of coldness.
He would not allow that devil to possess the Marshal’s body completely at all. From what he saw, he knew that for now, the man’s body had been taken over. It’s already dangerous but from what he knew, the longer that devil controls a human body, the more the health of that person deteriorates.
So he must find him as soon as possible and use his spiritual energy to bring him back. But where can he start? Where are they?
Qin An tries to walk in an attempt to check his surroundings and the peers but it feels like no matter how long he walks to move forward, he actually never reaches any stops. The rough road in front was endless and everything is still the same.
"...." For a while, Qin An felt an irritation inside him. He was not someone who easily feels this way but at this moment, he was quick to lose his temper and get irritated.
Why? Is he frustrated? Is it because he couldn’t see anyone? Is it because the road never ends?
He stopped walking and took a deep breath. He needed to calm down—
"Why is it so painful?"
He stilled. He just heard a voice again.
"Why am I dead? Why did I experience this death?"
"What did I do wrong? Why did the world become like this when I just want to live my life?"
"Why did this happen?"
From one to an endless question from different voices starts to resound around him. The wind blew cold and he saw those familiar dark mist forming various individuals again.
And this time, they didn’t appear as shadows and spirits but Qin An saw their original appearance as a human. However, they were in that state when they died.
A man with a huge wound on his stomach, a woman with her head bleeding badly, a teenager with his arm cut, an old woman without one leg, and even children who have large wounds in different places.
What appeared in front of him was like a world of death where the people who died from destruction became visible.
All of their eyes are black, even the scleras were the same color. All the souls looked very eerie and could send shivers to anyone.
Qin An’s face remains calm though because he is used to it.
What affected him was the voices from them.
The endless sufferings— how they died, how it was too painful that time, how they were scared when the danger was in front of them, how they pleaded for mercy and how they felt in denial of his cruel fate that bestowed on them.
And these were also the parts that the past Senior No.444 Grim Reaper would never care about. Back then, he stood motionless, stoic and heartless about the things around him.
He felt no pain for them, he didn’t feel any empathy towards them.
Qin An stayed so indifferent and lifeless that he didn’t know what to say. Because that’s what he is.
He doesn’t care about the world around him, if they destroy nor bloom. There was only indifference inside him.
Yet standing in front of him now were the souls that never claimed justice. The people who were merely living ordinary lives until destroyed without mercy.
Qin An is a grim reaper. In his past life, he believed that his job was just to merely allow them to do the unfinished business and send them away.
There were no connections nor anything anymore after their death.
But as he looked at the situation right now, the once without heart grew a heart that beats at this moment.
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