"An Luan, choose for yourself. Will you leave Wansheng and come home with me and our daughter, or keep letting them force you to become a monster, neither human nor ghost?"
"Don't listen to this woman! She's an agent of the Municipal Council Hall. Everything that happened between you was scripted in advance!"
Zhang Yan's voice and the woman's rang out from opposite ends of the carriage. An Luan sat between them, his body trembling more and more violently, until even the subway train was affected.
Bones collided inside his body. In the tunnel, the train seemed to be scraping against something, and a viscous liquid seeped into the carriage. Gao Ming had not activated forbidden zone vision, so he did not know what it was. Beside him, Ci Nian was already screaming and burrowing under Gao Ming's clothes. "I told you not to ask! I told you not to provoke him! You just wouldn't listen! We're finished, finished! Filth blood is seeping in!"
"What's filth blood?"
"You're still curious at a time like this?!" Ci Nian's face was deathly pale. He was still young, after all. Once he had vented his anger, he rattled off an explanation as quickly as he could. "The poison left to fester by the dead inside a forbidden zone, the festering sores of memory—in short, the most painful stuff there is!"
"So An Luan is in the most painful state possible right now. Is he the master of the First Forbidden Zone? But his condition is completely different from Afterglow's. It's like he's trapped in the past and can't escape." Gao Ming raised his head, and a drop of filth blood landed squarely on him. It happened so abruptly that it almost seemed like an ambush planned long ago.
A slit tore open in