readsfreenovel Chapter 504 Bad Taste
Chapter 504 Bad Taste
(Underground Forbidden Area·Third Storage Room)
Lin Ci'an's fingertips stroked the mottled marks on the stone wall. The runes that had been deliberately erased glowed slightly under the perception of the dark power.
He squatted down and took out a sealed glass tube from the secret compartment - it was filled with dark red liquid, which was the "blood of the Son of God" that Chu Ziyu "poured" into the sealing array several months ago.
But at this moment, under the shining of holy light, the edge of the liquid was glowing with a strange blue light.
“It’s not blood…” Lin Ci’an whispered, “It’s a potion mixed with the essence of holy light.”
He suddenly remembered something and took out another fragment from his sleeve - it was the blood-stained dagger fragment found under the bed in Chu Ziyu's room.
The blood on the blade has long dried, but if activated with dark power, the remaining memory scenes can still be seen -
(Memory Recall: Bloodstained Dagger)
In the knight's bedroom late at night, Chu Ziyu sat alone by the bed, the tip of the dagger against the brand on his heart. His breathing was terrifyingly steady, his wrist did not tremble at all, the blade slowly cut open the skin, and dark red blood dripped along the blade into the crystal bottle below.
"Sampling for the 17th time..." He whispered to himself in a hoarse voice, "Hold on a little longer..."
The screen flickers and switches to another night——
Chu Ziyu dipped his fingertips in his own blood and drew a miniature magic circle on the floor under the bed. In the center of the magic circle was the crystal bottle, and the blood in the bottle was resonating with the pattern of the array, emitting a faint golden light.
"Use blood as a guide to reverse the resonance..." He chanted the ancient spell, resting his forehead on the cold stone ground, "At least... make him feel less pain..."
(Reality returns)
Lin Ci'an's fingertips trembled slightly.
Those scars from "self-harm", those blood sacrifices done alone late at night... Was Chu Ziyu using this method to share the pain of the backlash of the forbidden technique with him?
He clenched the fragments fiercely, his emerald pupils shrinking violently.
Chu Ziyu leaned against the stone pillar outside the forbidden area, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the scar on his heart that had not yet healed.
The system light screen was suspended in front of his eyes, clearly reflecting Lin Ci'an's appearance at the moment - the man's knuckles turned white as he clutched the blood-stained fragments, his eyelashes cast tiny shadows under the illumination of the holy fire, and even his breathing became light and slow, as if he was afraid of breaking something.
"6872" He chuckled in his mind and turned the clarity to the highest.
Ding! 4K ultra-high definition mode has been turned on
Tips: Pupil contraction is detected to be 300% greater than normal
On the screen, Lin Ci'an was staring at the scene of Chu Ziyu mutilating himself.
When the dagger in the flashback cut his skin, the Son of God in reality suddenly raised his hand and pressed his heart, as if the blade was also cutting him at the same time.
"Tsk," Chu Ziyu licked his canine teeth and deliberately pressed his latest wound with his fingertips, "Show him the seventeenth blood drawing clip again - yes, the most embarrassing one for me."
System thoughtful replay: In the memory, Chu Ziyu knelt on the cold stone ground, his fingertips trembling due to excessive blood loss, but he still stubbornly dipped his fingertips in blood to draw the magic circle.
Lin Ci'an's breathing stagnated outside the light curtain, and he suddenly reached out to touch the illusory picture, as if he wanted to grab the bruised and battered person across time and space.
Chu Ziyu laughed muffledly, looking at Lin Ci'an's emerald eyes glistening with water in the light curtain.
The man's usually restrained expression now cracked open, revealing the vivid pain inside.
"It's worth it." He stroked the crisscrossing scars on his body and said to the system in his mind: "This idiot finally understood - my blood was not shed in vain, I love to see it."