The Haunted

Chi Yan had a dream. He dreamed that when he was just an adult, Ye Yingzhi was sitting on a park bench, holding him on his lap, and talking to him in his ear.In the garden of the temple, there are large tracts of snow-white, light pink, and light purple double-petaled flowers. There are two tall sacred trees beside the benches. There are also clusters of snow-white flowers blooming on the sacred trees. A gust of wind blows by. Then there were many residual flowers falling on them and the benches.

He could vaguely realize that he was dreaming, but he couldn't help but miss his lover in the dream, and softly called out the other's name in his heart...

Then he heard his lover whisper in his ear: "Little idiot, you have been trapped by a monster, if you don't wake up, your teammate will die."

Chi Yan suddenly woke up from the dream.

That's right, he is still on the Horton Wasteland, among the deserted ruins, he was on his way with four teammates, how could he suddenly fall asleep?

His body was groggy, his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't open them, as if he was trapped in a nightmare, Chi Yan struggled to open his eyes, and he was stunned after seeing the scene clearly - they were in an underground stone room in the abandoned fortress. In the hall, there were dilapidated walls on all sides, and all four of his teammates fell to the ground, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep, and a vine made of black air was wrapped around them, trapping them firmly.He lowered his head to look at himself, and as expected, a black air vine almost as thick as his upper body was wrapped around his waist, and after a circle, it meandered downwards, binding his calves together.

Chi Yan could distinguish the devilish energy in it. This devilish energy was unusual and seemed to have the effect of confusing people. The reason why they fell into a deep sleep should also be related to this devilish energy.

He turned his head to look at Carritan who was closest to him. The always resolute earth magician frowned at this moment, with a grim expression on his face, as if he had seen something extremely painful in his dream.Freida, Lei Yun, and Xueli were not close to Chi Yan, and there were abandoned stones blocking them, so Chi Yan couldn't see their state clearly, but it would not be much better.

He turned his head to look to the other side, and the black air formed an ellipse, and the middle of the ellipse condensed into a mirror-like thing, but at this time the mirror was foggy, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Chi Yan thought of the voice he heard just now, was it Ye Yingzhi who found out that they had fallen into a trap, and was reminding himself?

He remembered what Ye Yingzhi said at the altar that night, "I protect you only because you are still too immature, too young, and haven't fully grown up yet...".

The other party knew all of this, but only gave him a reminder, leaving the rest to him to do by himself.

Ye Yingzhi was watching him grow up slowly.

The black vines on his body seemed to have sensed something, and they became more and more tightly entangled; Karitan's expression on the side became more and more painful; the three teammates in the distance did not respond.

The situation could no longer be delayed, and the only way Chi Yan could think of to save everyone was to quickly and completely destroy this thing that trapped them.

He closed his eyes and concentrated on feeling the familiar and vast divine power.Although it is said that he is relying on himself, in the face of the immediate crisis, he still has to rely on Ye Yingzhi's strength.

The principle of this is the same as that of the gods. The gods have the breath and blessing of the gods, so they can borrow the power of the gods, but the breath of the gods they are contaminated with is limited, and the power they can mobilize is also extremely limited. Even so, ordinary people would not dare to easily offend those favored by the gods; and Chi Yan's evil spirit was extremely strong, and if he wanted to, the power he could mobilize was almost comparable to the presence of evil gods in person.

Ye Yingzhi once said "You are an existence equivalent to half of me", and it was not just a sweet talk to deceive people.

With his eyes closed, Chi Yan could feel the familiar power wrapping him warmly, gradually pouring into his body, as if Ye Yingzhi was gently hugging him, gradually becoming one with him...

He slowly opened his eyes, his whole body was filled with the aura of evil gods and divine pressure, his black eyes were somewhat gloomy, with a faint golden glow.

The vine wrapped around him felt something was wrong and loosened a bit, as if it wanted to withdraw, but Chi Yan didn't give it this chance.He covered the black magic vines with his left hand in the air, and slowly poured power inward—all the vines were fixed in place in an instant, but in an instant, it seemed like a long time, just listening A mournful howl resounded in the stone hall, and in the next second, the devilish vines started from the position under Chi Yan's palm, and the dominoes continued to shatter like falling dominoes.

The split vines turned into black smoke, and gradually condensed into a human figure; just as the human figure was condensed, it began to shatter and tear from the heart, and finally completely turned into black smoke and dust, which fell on the ground, and was blown away by the wind.

After Chi Yan confirmed that the crisis had been completely resolved, he let out a sigh of relief, gently closed his eyes to let the power of evil spirits in his body dissipate slowly, stood up and walked towards his teammates, waking them up one by one. .

He vaguely explained the danger just now, and only said that they were bewitched by a monster. He happened to wake up in time to get rid of the bewilderment, and saw the way to deal with this monster, so he was able to repel the opponent.Freida was worried over and over again to make sure that he was all right and whether he was injured in dealing with monsters; Karitan thanked Chi Yan with his sonorous voice, praised him loudly for his quick response, and his big hand patted his shoulder sorely; Lei Yun reminded They had to be more careful and urged their teammates to get on the road quickly; Xue Li didn't seem to have recovered, she didn't say a word, and only looked at Chi Yan occasionally.

After getting rid of this monster, they didn't encounter any major threats, and went back to school to hand in the task smoothly.

The five of them bid farewell, but Lei Yun did not leave, instead, he used the excuse of going back to the dormitory with Chi Yan and followed.

"Chi Yan, you have to be careful and think about how to respond." Lei Yun suddenly said after the two walked a distance.

Chi Yan looked at his teammates with some confusion: "Be careful of what?"

"When you were in the underground ruins, when you woke up, I, Freida, and Shirley were already awake. We could see everything that happened outside, but we couldn't move. That's why we all saw it when you solved the magic vines. .You have the aura and pressure of the evil god on your body. If I guessed correctly, you used the power of the evil god to deal with that monster. And you have been hiding your ability, which for most people Is a questionable, uncertain risk factor. Freida believes in who you are, and she wants to protect you, so she won't say it; I think that you saved my life is more important than what power you use , so I won’t say it. But Shirley is a divinely favored person, and she may pay more attention to this “unstable factor”. I think she has a high chance of telling Mr. Hodge. With Mr. Hodge’s meticulous behavior, He's not going to sit idly by."

Mr. Hodge is Shirley's mentor as a divinely favored person.

"So Chi Yan, you'd better think of a way to deal with it in advance. If necessary, Freida and I are willing to support you; you can try to talk to Mr. Turon first. If the old dean of Turon is willing to believe you, then Things might get better."

In fact, with Qibao protecting him, he woke up faster than Freida and Shirley, so he also saw the flashing scene in the mirror formed by the devilish energy—it was a building he had never seen before. The grand and majestic snow-white palace that passed by, the palace stands high on the nine-layered jade steps, as if overlooking the gods of the world; before the palace, a figure flashed past.

Lei Yun had seen the records about this kind of grievance demon, knew its habits, and guessed that the monster first targeted Chi Yan, so what flashed in the mirror should be the scene where Chi Yan's important people were.He himself is actually the fifth prince of the Lanqin Empire. After the death of his mother, he hid his identity to study at the Mao Business School in order to avoid the assassination. He has seen countless riches and honors in the world since he was a child, but he can't remember where there is such a solemn and magnificent palace. Chi Yan was a little curious about his background.But he himself came here hiding his identity, and he understood Chi Yan's situation, so he didn't deliberately inquire about Chi Yan's identity.

And during their conversation, Shirley really told Mr. Hodge about it.She also vaguely felt that it was not good to reveal the secret of the teammate who saved them like this, but she had been learning from Mr. Hodge, and had heard the rumors before, combined with Chi Yan's aura and divine pressure at that time—she I think this matter should be told to Mr. Hodge for a decision.If Chi Yan really stole divine power from the statue of the evil god, it would be terrible and must be stopped as soon as possible.

After Mr. Hodge heard about it from Shirley, he went to Turon non-stop and reported the news to the old dean.

With no surprise on his face, Turon looked slowly at Hodge who was standing in front of his desk: "I know about this. I gave him a magic weapon that can temporarily borrow the power of the evil god to save his life."

In fact, of course he didn't know about it, but he was not surprised at all when he heard that Chi Yan was able to use the power of the evil god to a great extent.

"How is that possible?" Mr. Hodge murmured unwillingly, "According to Shirley's description, his ability to use divine power is far beyond that of ordinary divinely favored people, and even a divinely favored person who has served God for hundreds of years cannot borrow so much divine power." !"

Of course.Even if it is a god, the amount given to the partner and the believer will not be the same.The partner gets the secondary card, and all the divine power is swiped casually, while the believer gets the two or three coins occasionally thrown by the gods - the adjustable power of the two is of course very different.

Turon himself understood very well, but he didn't know how to explain this to his stubborn vice president.In the end, he could only sigh: "That's what happened. Hodge, I hope you can trust me again, and stop embarrassing that young man."

"...Okay." Mr. Hodge finally nodded.Turon was also his teacher, and has given him many valuable guidance over the years.He believed in the other party's character and integrity, and also believed in the other party's judgment.Therefore, although he was still full of doubts, he still reluctantly held back.

But this is not the first time.He thought in his heart that there were inexplicable doubts about that young man, but the old dean insisted on keeping him.

"Also, Hodge, don't forget that you're going to attend the academic conference in the East Yuan Continent from next week. I'll arrange for Du Jin to teach you temporarily." Du Jin is the theological history teacher of the second graders.

"Understood, I always remember." Mr. Hodge agreed, took his leave and left.Although he had always disliked that nonsense guy in Durgin, there really wasn't any other history of theology teacher in the college who had the time to take his class.And it has to be admitted that the histories of theology classes of that babbler are always more popular than his.

Well, much more popular.

A vulgar, unprofessional bastard who lowered the professionalism of the entire seminary.Mr. Hodge cursed bitterly in his heart.

Thinking of Du Jin, he gradually forgot about Chi Yan.