Gao Ming, Yan Xizhi, and Weird Wish—the three Dream Ghosts from Hanhai—each had different abilities, and their methods of infiltrating the dark city after descending upon it differed as well.
This was the first time Gao Ming had sensed Weird Wish's presence.
"No wonder everything went smoothly for me before I turned seven. All my calamities fell on you instead." Whenever Ci Nian told Gao Ming to go east, Gao Ming insisted on going west. The child had completely lost his composure, but he was no ordinary person. Even now, he had not given up on saving himself. He took a small bottle from beneath his white pastor's robe. It seemed to contain refugees' tears.
Pushing aside the pastor who was trying to protect him, Ci Nian opened the bottle and splashed all the tears over himself.
Wisps of black smoke rose as the Forbidden Zone memories that had quietly seeped into Ci Nian's clothes dissolved into nothing. He promptly took out an exquisite little box containing two pure-white pills that looked like eyeballs. Gao Ming noticed that the pills gave off an aura much like the eyeballs in the Forbidden Bottle.
Although there were two pills, Ci Nian had no intention of sharing them with Gao Ming or the pastor. He swallowed one and clutched the other tightly in his hand.
The entire subway train was undergoing mutation, yet Ci Nian remained unaffected. His body slowly faded, as though he was forcing his way back to reality.
Blood streamed from his three pupils, and Ci Nian's expression grew increasingly savage. He swallowed the other pill as well. Just as his body was about to fade completely, dead limbs growing out of An Luan crawled toward him. The dead fingers scuttled over one another in dense swarms, like centipedes of