Chapter 2: The Stripping Ceremony of the Abyss Sanctuary
Class Crack: Arrogance in the Garden
The moment Ska stepped on the flip-flop, the air in the corridor seemed to freeze. The almost brutal pressure not only suppressed the shadow of Lin Che's runaway, but even the golden chain in Irene's hand made a slight buzzing, as if it was afraid of some kind of breath emitted by the man.
"Mr. Ska, you have violated Article 14 of the College Safety Regulations again." Su Lian pushed the monocles, and her tone was as stable as ever, but there was a trace of helplessness in her eyes. "It is strictly forbidden to bring the 'original source of infection' into the teaching area without disinfection and registration."
"Rules are reserved for those who have no ability, Su Lian." Ska poured a sip of wine and wiped his beard carelessly. His turbid but sharp eyes stared at Lin Che. "There is a 'fierceness' hidden in the shadow of this boy's body that I haven't seen for a long time. It's a shape that has been stepped on in the mud for too long, and even the soul has been sharpened.
He suddenly pulled Lin Che's collar and lifted him up like a chicken.
"Let's go, kid. Take you to see your 'cemetery'.
Just as they turned to the end of the corridor, a crisp sound of horses' hooves - or a kind of rhythm of metal hitting the marble floor - came from the arch of the garden villa area.
"Tutor Ska, I have to remind you that your habit of collecting 'garbage' is lowering the whole St. Erinius."
Lin Che reluctantly turned his head and looked through the scattered fog.
A teenager in a pure white military uniform is standing by the fountain. His golden curly hair shimmered with almost dazzling brilliance under the artificial light source, and an extremely gorgeous fine sword was hanging around his waist. He looked at Lin Che in his eyes, not like he was looking at a person, but as if he was looking at a pile of mud stained with gorgeous carpets.
"That's Leonardo von Saxony." Irene reminded in a low voice in Lin Che's ear, with a hint of complexity in her tone, "This is the strongest 'Embers of Light'. Stay away from him. His light is very poisonous to you now.
Leonardo sneered contemptuously, and his slender fingers brushed the golden family emblem at the neckline: "The shadow can only wriggle in the corner where the light can't shine. Tutor Ska, if you plan to stuff this civilian into my team, I will consider using the family's veto.
"Let's talk about your rights when you can survive three moves from me, young master of the Saxon family." Ska waved his hand without looking back and directly dragged Lin Che into the deepest shadow of the church.
Under the sanctuary: the sound of gears and runes
If the church on the ground is a sacred work of art, then the "sanctuary" deep underground is a cold butcher.
As the heavy mechanical elevator slowly descended, the light disappeared completely. Lin Che felt that the air became sticky and heavy, and the feeling of being bullied came again, but this time it was more physically oppressive.
"Boom--"
When the light came on, Lin Che was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he was speechless.
This is a huge circular underground space with a diameter of more than 100 meters. The surrounding walls are not rocks, but countless precisely fitting and slowly rotating bronze gears. The surface of these gears is engraved with dense and sparkling blue runes.
In the center of the circle, there is a black stone altar suspended in the air, and below it is a bottomless void.
"This is the 'Yubin Decompression Module'." Ska threw Lincher on the altar, acting rudely as if he was dealing with a bag of garbage. "Your shadow is now a hungry mad dog. It wants to swallow you and use your negative emotions as fuel to completely appear in the real world. And what I want to do is to teach you how to bite off its neck in reverse.
Lin Che was lying on the cold black stone, and he could feel that the shadow under his feet was beating wildly. With the flickering of these runes, his shadow unexpectedly began to grow upwards from the plane, turning into countless black tentacles, climbing up his ankles and calves inch by inch, and even touching his neck.
It was an extreme cold, like a thousand ice needles piercing into the pores at the same time.
"Tutor... He is talking to me..." Lin Che's teeth trembled and his voice was hoarse.
"Give up..." A voice exactly like him echoed in my mind, "Give me your body... Those who bully you, I can peel off their skin piece by piece... You can fly... Fly away from this dirty world..."
The first dialogue of the shadow personality: the replay of the illusion
"He is tempting you, right?" Ska stood on the edge of the altar and lit a cigarette. Mars flickered and dimmed in the dark. "It will give you strength and freedom. But the price is that when you open your eyes, you are no longer 'Lin Che', but a shadow monster who can only kill.
"What should I do if I want to...?"
"Close your eyes and sink in. Go to your 'heart' and pull it out and beat it up. Ska's voice became extremely cold. "Remember, Hayek said that order is formed spontaneously, but your order must be forcibly established by your own will. If your 'rationality' can't suppress your 'instinct', then you deserve to be eaten.
The world in front of Lin Che collapsed in an instant.
He found that he was no longer on the altar, but returned to the reservoir on that rainy night.
"Run? Why don't you run away?"
Wang Hu approached with a fierce smile, and the bat in his hand drew a vicious arc in the rain. It was surrounded by the ridicule of the followers.
This time, the fear is a hundred times stronger than in reality. He could feel his body trembling, and the humility and cowardice in his bones were about to drown him like a tide.
And in his shadow, the voice was laughing wildly: "Look, you are still that waste! Let me... Let me kill them!"
Lin Che's fingertips grew black sharp claws, and his eyes began to be covered with ink. His spine arched due to severe pain, and two black fogs rolled violently at his shoulder blades, as if something was going to tear the skin and turn into black wings and break out.
That is the temptation of "flying" and the omen of destruction.
"No..."
Lin Che suddenly bit the tip of his tongue, and the bloody smell made him regain a trace of clarity.
He looked at Wang Hu and then at his disappearing hands.
"If you want my life to take revenge, what's the difference between you and these beasts who bully me?"
He roared in his heart.
Instead of choosing to accept the shadow, he suddenly turned around and stabbed his hand directly into the shadow under his feet!
Stripping and Contract: The First Shackle
"Ah!!!"
The sad screams echoed in the underground space.
Under the monitoring of Su Lian's tactical glasses, Lin Che's vital signs are declining rapidly, but the strange "shadow fusion" is being pulled back.
In the hallucination, Lin Che turned his will into a shackle and strangled the black personality who looked exactly like him. Instead of destroying it, he forcibly tore the shadow into countless pieces in this inhuman pain, and then re-sewed it little by little.
On the altar of reality, the black shadow personality roared unwillingly, and finally turned into a black light and re-entered Lin Che's spine.
Lin Che fell heavily to the ground, sweating profusely, and his whole body was as if he had just been fished out of the water.
But he found that those shadows no longer took the initiative to attack him, but obediently stuck to the surface of his skin, like a layer of black light armor.
"Not bad." Ska spit out a smoke ring, and a trace of praise flashed in his eyes. "Unexpectedly, he did not choose the most effort-saving 'integration', but chose the most painful 'taming'. Boy, you are barely an 'apprentice' now.
He took out a black badge from his pocket and threw it in front of Lin Che.
"This is your identification. Starting from tomorrow, we will gather at the church training area at five o'clock every morning. Erin will take you to know how to kill.
Ska turned around and walked to the elevator, and the sound echoed in the empty ground:
"In addition, stay away from the one named Leonardo. Although your shadow is obedient for the time being, it is a collection of 'negative energy'. His 'light' will be like a magnifying glass roasting ants, angering the shadow personality in your body again. You are not qualified to fly in front of him until you learn 'shadow wings'.
Lin Che lay on the altar, looking at the bronze gear slowly rotating above his head, and felt a strange burning heat from his spine.
He knew that the "shadow" had not disappeared. It was just waiting for the next chance.
But he clenched his fist.
In this world full of fog, killers and nobles, he finally grasped his first weapon.