I hadn't felt this kind of fear in a very long time.
It wasn't the fear I'd felt when the heavens of the future world had their eyes on me and my life was threatened. This was another kind of fear, one that welled up deep inside me and grew like mad. It was pure fear: fear of the unknown, fear of the supernatural.
My consciousness had returned to reality, but my mind hadn't.
It felt as though the side effects of an ability had erupted. But what I'd seen wasn't some extreme hallucination conjured by my consciousness. Those scenes were real. They were Chai Ying's experiences.
Back in college, that woman had encountered a supernatural incident, sought help from Greenleaf, and submitted a request for help. That was when Yao Nie had caught Greenleaf's attention. They'd dealt with the whole matter cleanly. But when she graduated, all her classmates had been bewitched, each followed by a blue-faced ghost. Terrified, she'd fled overseas.
The scene I'd just witnessed was the supernatural incident she'd experienced, playing out all over again.
But it hadn't been real. It was only an illusion conjured by the Ghost King.
She'd been scared to death.
She'd died just like that...
I couldn't bring myself to judge her. At that moment, our consciousnesses had been completely linked, and I'd been entirely affected by her.
That heart-stopping terror had been real.
The illusion had pointed straight to the thing she feared most, the thing she'd hidden deep inside.
My hand tightened around the windowsill.
"Did you find anything?" Chen Yihan asked.
I really had found something.
There was another force inside me now.
"Xue Jingyue's ability has passed to me," I said with a bitter smile.
Ye Qing must have done it.
Xue Jingyue's ability had transferred to