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Chapter 575: Third Watch
Promises were contracts of the soul, testaments to love. To Zhang Mingli, his promise was a part of himself he had to reclaim. It stood for everything he was.
Slumped awkwardly in the corner, Fu Shu had already resigned himself to his fate. He closed his eyes, a trace of apology on his face.
Zhang Mingli pressed his hand against Fu Shu's chest. As his hand sank deeper, Fu Shu trembled all over with pain. His face changed rapidly, his hair turned white in an instant, and wrinkles appeared on his skin. He looked twenty years older.
In contrast, Zhang Mingli's eyes grew brighter and brighter. Soulfire blazed wildly, and his will shone like a star, lighting up the night.
A few breaths later, Zhang Mingli withdrew his hand and closed his eyes without a word.
Fu Shu's face reverted to his own, his expression slightly contorted. He looked frail and old, less like a "researcher" than a patient in a psychiatric hospital's isolation ward who had just been injected with a sedative.
"Spend a lifetime fulfilling a promise," Zhang Mingli murmured to himself. After a long while, he opened his eyes again, his gaze utterly resolute. "The Thirteen Transformation Methods represent thirteen ways to become an unspeakable being. I've always feared that the dream would be reborn inside me, so I resisted them fiercely. But now, it seems I have no other choice."
"If you don't want to do it, I can take your place. I'm not afraid of the dream taking over my body." Gao Ming had learned the Dream-Release Method, giving him a chance to turn the Flesh-and-Blood Ghost God into an unspeakable being as well.
"You're too green to know fear." After mocking Gao Ming, Zhang Mingli pushed open the Schoolhouse