Chapter 132: The True Meaning of Death
Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel both thought Yu Sheng had gone insane.
"She died an hour ago!" Rapunzel stared wide-eyed. "All the organs in her body—including her heart and brain—stopped showing any signs of life long ago! We examined her. Of course she's dead..."
"No, she 'hasn't' died. At least, not yet." Yu Sheng still shook his head, the confusion gradually fading from his face as his expression grew resolute. "I don't know how to explain it to you, but I can feel it... She's still on the side of the living. She hasn't crossed over yet."
As he spoke, he reached out and touched the bloodstains on the girl's neck again.
In a fleeting black-and-white-gray hallucination, he felt as though he had "understood" something, but the sensation vanished in an instant. When he reached back to grasp it, it was already gone.
Little Red Riding Hood seemed to think of something. "You... can't perform 'communication with the dead' like you did in the museum? So you think she's still alive?"
Yu Sheng hesitated, then nodded.
Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened. She instinctively doubted Yu Sheng's judgment, yet some unrealistic hope seemed to linger deep in her heart. "But..."
Yu Sheng waved his hand forcefully, making both her and Rapunzel, who was about to speak, fall silent.
"You don't understand. It's not just because I can't perform 'communication with the dead.' I... can feel that she's still here." As he spoke, he began examining the wounds on the girl's body. Then he suddenly pulled a small knife from his pocket. Under the horrified gazes of Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel, he slit open his own palm and smeared his blood over the fine cracks on the girl's arm. "Do you