Chapter 620 - 182: Misfortune and Pain, The Elegy of Hujiang
This voice was already very different from the voice of a little boy.
It was mixed with the resentment of countless people.
There was a difference between calling someone ’brother’ and ’big brother.’
Wen Xishu speculated that Morioka might be the little boy’s brother.
Wenren Mirror said:
"Open it, I’ve already activated the sequence. Even if there’s danger, they won’t attack immediately."
Wen Xishu nodded and opened the floorboard.
An underground entrance appeared before Wen Xishu.
The two of them descended through the entrance quickly.
Morioka’s mansion actually had such an entrance.
Below the twenty-four steps, there was a dark secret room.
It wasn’t completely dark because there was a small desk lamp in the room.
And a lit computer.
There were also some food packaging fragments around, similar to some instant foods from Hujiang, like sushi.
"Who... who are you?" In the corner, a black shadow was wriggling.
Upon seeing this black shadow, Wenren Mirror’s first reaction was encountering a monster, but he remained calm as the monster had no intention of harming them.
"You should leave, my brother will be angry if he finds out. He doesn’t let people see me... I’ll scare others."
The voice was still mixed with countless male and female voices, but it sounded very pitiful.
Wen Xishu tried hard to identify... but eventually couldn’t see any trace of the little boy from the Deceit Tower on this writhing black shadow.
But soon, the black shadow seemed to sense something.
It started to unconsciously wriggle toward Wen Xishu.
At this moment, Wen Xishu and Wenren Mirror could see the truly unspeakable darkness wriggling out from the corner...
It looked like a black octopus with many tentacles, but occasionally, faces could be seen through its surface. Those faces seemed to float and sink in the darkness of the deep sea.
They would appear and disappear. Their expressions constantly changed, but they always alternated between terror, resentment, and anger.
The tentacles would stretch and shrink. Overall, this writhing darkness didn’t seem to have a stable shape.
"I’m... I’m sorry, I must have scared you. I’m sorry..."
His voice even carried a sobbing tone.
"But there’s something on you... that attracts me."
The black tentacle reached out to Wen Xishu. Wen Xishu suppressed his instinct to push it away and allowed the black tentacle to explore.
Soon, the black tentacle found a bottle.
Wen Xishu was slightly surprised that this was what the other wanted?
It was a bottle with a scale. The bottle contained a black liquid.
"Why, big brother, do you have this thing?"
The term "big brother" made Wen Xishu more certain that this black shadow was the little boy he was looking for.
The black shadow looked at the bottle wrapped in the black tentacle:
"I’m sorry... can you give it to me?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"Go ahead."
"Thank you," the black shadow said gratefully.
Then the black shadow opened the bottle containing the black liquid.
A human face suddenly appeared on the black tentacle, and the face began to devour the liquid in the bottle.
At this moment...
The darkness began to recede.
The unspeakable black shadow gradually began to solidify into a shape.
A layer of black receded, revealing a white kimono.
Another layer of black receded, revealing the black shadow’s human contours.
A little boy appeared in the eyes of Wenren Mirror and Wen Xishu.
Around the little boy, countless darknesses continued to wriggle, but the darkness seemed to be void-like, slightly transparent.
"The distortion and weirdness on him have been washed and diluted," Wenren Mirror immediately realized this outcome.
The little boy looked at his own hands, which were covered in black spots.
These black spots spread all over his body, like dense talismans.
It made him look eerie and terrifying, but overall, it was much better than the previous unspeakable form.
"I seem to have changed back into a human..."
"How strange, every time I devour this liquid, I become more like the Celestial Eye God. But this time, after devouring the liquid, I revert to my previous form."
The little boy looked gratefully at Wen Xishu:
"Big brother... thank you. Although my brother says I’m destined to become the Celestial Eye God, I still long to look like a human. I want to see my friends as a human."
Wen Xishu seemed to realize something.
The liquid in the bottle was the "misfortune" he had collected from the Deceit Tower Human Cave.
The little boy in front of him should be the one who warned him not to enter the human cave.
He now recognized the white kimono.
He even guessed that the little boy had become a monster because he had devoured too much misfortune.
But now, after devouring the misfortune he had collected from the human cave...
The little boy had reverted to a human, and the monster form had been diluted.
Why did the same "misfortune" collected have a different effect?
"What’s your name?" Wen Xishu asked.
"My name is Morioka Hitomi." Morioka Hitomi’s voice still contained many mixed male and female voices, but his own voice was also beginning to emerge.
It was like someone who had been poisoned and turned into a monster suddenly receiving an antidote, albeit a partial one.
Wenren Mirror realized the significance of this name.
Hitomi meant "eye."