Chapter 123
Chapter 123
Wei Sen took a lamp from her coat pocket. It wasn’t large, and its entire body was a deep purple.
Lin Ze’s eyes brightened slightly.
It was the Soul-Returning Lamp. So this was the method she planned to use…
“What kind of clue is that?” Xia Susu asked.
Wei Sen gave a cold smile, then turned to Lao Wang. “Please hand me the item.”
“All right!” Lao Wang answered, carefully taking a lock of hair from his pocket and handing it to Wei Sen.
The reason he and Huang Xinze had returned to the hot spring pool that afternoon was because they had received a message from Wei Sen.
She said that with a lock of Shu Yue’s hair, she could find out who had killed the sisters!
At the same time, He Xu scanned the Soul-Returning Lamp in Wei Sen’s hand with the Anomalous Artifact identification function and said, “It’s an Anomalous Artifact.”
Wei Sen said, “That’s right. This Anomalous Artifact is called the Soul-Returning Lamp. It can summon the souls of the dead.”
At those words, Xia Susu’s face instantly went pale, and she hurriedly said, “What are you trying to do?! Do you think there aren’t enough Eerie Entities already?!”
“Don’t panic.” Wei Sen struck a match. Warm yellow light fell across her face, tinting her deep eyes with a sly gleam. “It’s precisely because there are too many Eerie Entities that we need to eliminate some of them.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Wei Sen lit the Soul-Returning Lamp, then tossed Shu Yue’s hair into the tongue of flame.
Under everyone’s watchful eyes, after the Soul-Returning Lamp’s flame devoured the black hair, wisps of black smoke began to rise. The smoke coiled in the air, and the vague outline of a person appeared within it.
The figure’s features gradually became clear, finally taking on Shu Yue’s appearance.
Xia Susu sucked in a cold breath and abruptly took a step back.
“Shu Yue!” Lao Wang’s eyes immediately shimmered when he saw Shu Yue again.
“Uncle Wang!” Shu Yue was also surprised that she could see Uncle Wang again. But after looking around, she quickly realized that she was only a wisp of a ghost.
“Shu Yue, tell Uncle Wang. Who hurt you sisters?! I swear I’ll avenge you!” Lao Wang choked out.
At his words, Shu Yue’s eyes gradually turned scarlet. She turned her head, searching among the crowd, until her gaze locked straight onto Xia Susu.
“It was her… It was her!” Shu Yue roared from within the black smoke. Two streams of bloody tears ran directly from her eyes as she bared her claws and lunged toward Xia Susu. If not for the black smoke restraining her, she probably would have already charged over and torn Xia Susu apart.
Xia Susu swallowed. Seeing that Shu Yue’s ghost couldn’t actually harm her, she raised her voice and said, “A ghost’s lies! Don’t you dare frame an innocent person!”
“It was you!” Shu Yue roared. “Even as a ghost, I won’t let you off!”
“What exactly happened?” Lao Wang pressed, his eyes filled with heartache for Shu Yue.
“Before dawn this morning, my sister left the room by herself. I thought something was wrong, so I secretly followed her!
Then I saw Xia Susu waiting by the hot spring pool. After my sister went over, she started mocking her for being stupid!
Then… another Xia Susu came out. She was carrying an ax, and she didn’t give my sister any time to react before…
Before she chopped through my sister’s neck with the ax… I saw my sister’s head hanging from her neck, and her body fell into the snow.
I couldn’t think about anything else. I wanted to avenge my sister! So I rushed out, but… I couldn’t beat them…”
Two Xia Susus?
Xu You and the others were utterly shocked.
“Don’t believe her! What do you mean, two of me? How is that possible?! I never even saw them!” Xia Susu anxiously defended herself, then glared at Wei Sen. “I get it now. You’re trying to clear yourself of suspicion, so you’re using this Anomalous Artifact to frame me!”
Shu Yue’s bloody tears became even more horrifying. She stared coldly at Xia Susu and continued, “Stop quibbling! I saw everything! The other you turned into a white-clothed female ghost! You colluded with an Eerie Entity and killed us sisters!”
Guo Lan looked at Xia Susu with a grave expression. “An Eerie Entity that can turn into other people? Xia Susu, you’d better explain this clearly!”
“I have nothing to explain! Wei Sen killed them! It has nothing to do with me!”
Wei Sen hadn’t expected that even after the victim personally identified the murderer, Xia Susu would still stubbornly refuse to admit it.
Lao Wang’s gaze sharpened. He looked coldly at Xia Susu and said, “If you wanted to arrange a meeting with Shu Yun without Shu Yue knowing, the only way would have been through a private chat on the Watch.
But there weren’t any messages left on Shu Yun’s Watch. You wiped them!
Most people only think to clean up the scene, but they easily overlook the clues on themselves!
So, please show me the messages on your Watch!”
When Xia Susu heard that, she instinctively covered her Watch. “I didn’t! Why should I show you? That’s my privacy!”
Hatred colored Lao Wang’s eyes. “Then there’s no need to look. The suspect information Shu Yun left before she died already made it very clear. The ‘2’ in the snow should mean there were two killers! You, and an Eerie Entity!”
Chen Lin pushed up her glasses and suddenly understood. “Everything that happened today was meant to split us apart from the inside. Whether it was accusing Sister Sen of murder this morning, the appearance of Xiaoxue’s Eerie Mother from the last Instance, or what just happened with Huang Xinze…”
As Chen Lin spoke, she turned to Xia Susu. “Shu Yue said the Eerie Entity could turn into Xia Susu. Then maybe it can turn into other people too! It could turn into the mother from Infinite Flight, turn into Huang Xinze, and even turn into any one of us!”
“It’s… the Fetal Ghost…” He Xu’s expression turned especially ugly as she finally understood what had really happened.
Thinking about it now, the person she had run into today really hadn’t been Huang Xinze!
Judging from the way Huang Xinze had just seized Zhou Jie with a counterhold, if he had truly wanted to do anything to her, he could have subdued her by brute force before she ever took out her Anomalous Artifact.
But the fake Huang Xinze had climbed in from the balcony and immediately reached for her hand without saying a word. He hadn’t made any further move. Instead, the moment he saw her take out her Anomalous Artifact, he had fled in terror!
“What is a Fetal Ghost?” Lin Xiaoxue asked.
He Xu frowned. “Fetal Ghosts are vengeful spirits formed from children who were aborted before they fully developed in the womb. I encountered them in another Instance before.
“Their minds are like children’s. They can turn into anyone. They recognize a mother, and once they do, they obey every command their ‘mother’ gives them.”
“So the mother who appeared in the forest was also that Fetal Ghost in disguise!” Lin Xiaoxue cried out.
Wei Sen looked coldly at Xia Susu. “The one who made a wish last night wasn’t Xiaoxue. It was you.”
Xia Susu’s eyes turned frenzied. “I don’t understand what any of you are talking about! What Fetal Ghost? What wish? You’re all ganging up to bully me again! You all want me dead!”
Everyone looked at Xia Susu as if she were a clown putting on a show. The truth was already perfectly clear, yet she was still refusing to admit it no matter what.
The whole matter was obviously that Xia Susu had made some wish to the Aurora and summoned the Fetal Ghost. The Fetal Ghost had recognized her as its mother and begun doing things for her.
First, Xia Susu had arranged to meet Shu Yun, then had the Fetal Ghost use an axe as the murder weapon to kill Shu Yun, intending to frame Wei Sen.
Then she had the Fetal Ghost turn into the mother from Infinite Flight to kill people, record a video, and send it to the main group chat so everyone would suspect that the mother’s appearance had been caused by Lin Xiaoxue Wishing to the Aurora.
Finally, she had ordered the Fetal Ghost to turn into Huang Xinze and harass He Xu, making everyone misunderstand Huang Xinze as a shameless scoundrel.
Xia Susu clearly could have ordered the Fetal Ghost to attack them directly, but she hadn’t done that.
Because her goal wasn’t to let them die quickly. She wanted them to suspect and doubt one another.
She wanted to see whether this group of people could still act united after all this had happened.
She had sworn to destroy their unity, to destroy their revolutionary friendship!
Just then, Lin Ze, who had not spoken all this time, stood and walked to Wei Sen’s side. “I’m hungry. Time to eat.”
After saying that, he bent down and blew out the candle.
“You!” Wei Sen frowned at Lin Ze, not knowing what he intended to do.
After the Soul-Returning Lamp went out, the black smoke slowly dispersed, and Shu Yue, who had originally been bound by the black smoke, also struggled free and crawled out of it.
Wei Sen hadn’t expected the Soul-Returning Lamp could be used like this. So that was why Lin Ze had blown out the flame. She had almost misunderstood him.
The next second, the freed Shu Yue glared with blood-red eyes and lunged viciously at Xia Susu.
“Xia Susu, I’m going to kill you! I’m going to avenge my sister!”