The Imperial Guard was truly driven to desperation. One appeared from the wall on the left, another from the wall on the right, one crawled out from behind the bookcase, two stood outside the window, and two more blocked the doorway.
He couldn't fly. How was he supposed to escape?
In his despair, he would rather kill himself and hope he could reincarnate than be captured and turned into a shadow.
As it happened, the stories Adams had told Kublai Khan had been passed on by Kublai Khan to his trusted subordinates. Hatu was one of them, and he had taught some of these Imperial Guards as well.
Of the few stories he had heard from Hatu, he hadn't understood much, but at this very moment, one possibility suddenly occurred to him.
Would the White Cloth Ghostly Shadow still take away his head after he killed himself?
What if his head was damaged as well?
Among the stories passed down from Adams, there was one example. Although an effect that caused permanent, absolute deafness had no cure, there was one way to prevent it in advance: do it yourself and deafen yourself first.
Although that incurable deafness was more thorough than ordinary deafness, the effect would not activate on someone who was already deaf.
Thus, if one didn't want to be deafened by a Mysterious Object, one could deafen oneself first.
The story was novel, and after hearing it, the Imperial Guard committed it to memory.
Now that he faced certain death, he would rather die than become a monster's shadow. Thus, he thought of this and manually pierced open his own skull.
He could only hope that the White Cloth Ghostly Shadow wouldn't want a damaged head, or that they only collected heads they had divided themselves.
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