[Buddha's Heart Passes on the Lamp] Wu Song Receives Spiritual Empowerment; the [Emergency Headband] Is Developed! (Continued)
Rather, he had died a horrible death at the cold lake gate, his body turned into a porcupine.
The brutality of his death ranked among the worst of the one hundred and eight Liangshan Heroes.
This was Zhang Shun's nightmare.
It was also the obsession he could never let go of.
"Brother..."
Zhang Shun slowly turned his head and looked at Lin Chen.
His usually unruly eyes were now completely bloodshot, their whites webbed with crimson veins.
He clutched his chest, as if intense pain were tearing through it.
"I can feel it...
Down beneath the water...
It's as if the arrows from back then are still lodged in my bones.
It hurts...
It damn well hurts..."
This was not physical pain.
It was agony carved into the imprint of his soul.
Even after becoming a card spirit, even after living another life...
When you stood once more before the place that had killed you, that despair and helplessness would still surge over you like a tide and drown you.
Ruan Xiaoqi watched from the side, unable to bear it, and cursed:
"Brother Shun! What's there to be afraid of?!
Back then, it was that old bastard Fang La's soldiers cheating!
Now all of us brothers are here. I, Xiao Qi, will tear this broken gate apart with you!"
But Zhang Shun seemed not to hear him. He merely stared fixedly at the pitch-black water gate.
It was as if countless bows and arrows were aimed straight at his heart inside.
Lin Chen knew that ordinary comfort was useless at a time like this.
This was a heart demon.
It required a powerful remedy.
The true way to overcome fear was to face it head-on.
"Zhang Shun."
Lin Chen's voice suddenly became calm and forceful.
He stepped forward and seized