Killing a person is not torture.
Death is just a mont.
But watching "death" descend, step by step, finally pressing you to the extre... this is the most despairing thing.
When Gu Shen slowly brought Mu Wanqiu to the holy platform.
Virgil couldn’t even hold his gun anymore; he desperately pulled the trigger, the bullets were spent, his elbow propped on the table, supporting the powerless, violently trembling shell of his body... snot and tears gushed forth.
"The Light Society will bring you justice..."
"Abomination..."
"Abomination..."
Virgil stared at the black mist, wanting to shout curses; those were the words that had floated in his mind, but at this mont, he couldn’t utter a single word; his last ounce of strength was re glaring at the black mist...
Gu Shen stood still, no longer moving.
He passed the chance to kill "Virgil" to Mu Wanqiu.
But nothing happened in the church.
"Bang."
A few seconds later, Virgil... just fell backward, heavily hitting the ground.
"..."
Gu Shen silently watched the man lying on the ground.
Was the Judge really that terrifying?
Virgil was scared to death.
"Wait—"
At this mont, Gu Shen realized sothing was wrong... he didn’t know how Virgil had died in Mu Wanqiu’s real experiences; this manner of death seed sowhat bizarre.
But before Virgil died, he had been staring at "himself."
"Logically... this Dream should have ended after ’Virgil’ died..."
Gu Shen quietly stood, he lifted the little girl, allowing the hoisted "Mu Wanqiu" to slowly turn back.
The two of them locked eyes.
Gu Shen looked at the little girl in front of him, from beginning to end, his spiritual power enveloped this church, just to ensure no tragedy would occur.
Virgil died.
Zuo Wu also died.
Ai Li was still alive...
"The cause of Mu Wanqiu’s ’nightmare’ was her awakening going out of control, accidentally killing ’Ai Li’ while killing these scoundrels... But now the Dream continues... Did I overlook sothing? Did I guess Mu Wanqiu’s ’nightmare’ incorrectly?"
Gu Shen squinted his eyes, feeling sothing was amiss.
"Creak."
The small door of the wooden cabin slowly opened.
Aunt Ai, pale-faced, entered the church hall; she took back the Jade Talisman from Zuo Wu’s corpse and, holding the Jade Talisman, approached the holy platform shrouded in black mist.
"Xiao Qiu..."
She looked at the blood-splattered holy platform, her voice trembling, though fearful, she still slowly approached.
Gu Shen turned around.
Aunt Ai’s gaze was very similar to Virgil’s... they both were looking at "himself," but their gaze actually pierced through "himself."
They... couldn’t see him.
The despairing woman, clutching the Jade Talisman, said with difficulty, "Wake up... Xiao Qiu... don’t be controlled by ’evil ghosts’..."
The rolling black mist, like octopus tentacles, crawled over the church’s arches and pillars.
The Judge, high above, watched this woman.
Upon seeing Aunt Ai, Gu Shen imdiately realized what was "wrong."
It was the Jade Talisman.
The talisman Ai Li carried with her, used to repel the "Judge Black Evil"... this Jade Talisman, in reality, had no effect of "warding off evil," it was rely a beautiful-looking talisman with a bit of Extraordinary Essence, nothing more, it didn’t have any special function.
In theory.
The Jade Talisman had no way... to protect the host, to resist the [Judge].
So later, even when Zuo Wu obtained the Jade Talisman, the outco was the sa... even if he didn’t intervene in the Dream, [Judge] would have brutally killed him in the tiny cabin just now.
Since the Jade Talisman was useless.
Then why had Aunt Ai remained safe for six years...
Gu Shen could only think of one possibility.
Nurous black mists surged toward Aunt Ai; he released the hand restraining Mu Wanqiu, and in an instant, the girl flew into Aunt Ai’s embrace... No scene of [Judge] killing occurred, the black mists almost swelled into a sea, but they retreated on their own around Aunt Ai, the essence of the Jade Talisman emitting a faint glow.
It seed like the Jade Talisman dispelled the calamity.
But in actuality.
The calamity never dispersed.
The calamity was rely tightly controlled by its master.
The big and small ones, embraced together.
Aunt Ai held the child tightly, crying her heart out.
"Rumble..."
The entire Dream World began to tremble at this mont.
Gu Shen slowly walked to the door, he looked out the church’s floor-to-ceiling windows, from afar ca the deafening chanical roar, the "Light Aura" he had first sensed was also gradually descending... countless flocks of crows flew around the church, wildly dancing, screaming, celebrating.
Torrential rain, the Heavenly Curtain rolled back, a ray of fiery "Holy Light" fell from the distance.
The Saints riding the church’s white horse, the Holy Judges, followed the heavenly light and arrived before this crow-surrounded, decaying church.
The tall man at the forefront, draped in a red archbishop’s robe, with a magnificent long sword inlaid with Purple Silver at his waist, circled the white horse, loudly reading out the cris.
"In the na of Light, arrest the sinners—"
"Mu Wanqiu, Ai Li, in the year 616 of the New Era, north of Qiaxike Town, committed murder, killing seventy-four, fled multiple places in the Northern Continent Frontier to escape punishnt, their cris were unforgivable, today they shall be executed!"
The red-robed Archbishop drew the sword, held it high.
The church, surrounded by crows, inside and out, was shrouded in black mist.
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