Chapter 1108 - You Were Not Supposed to Be in This World 2 in 1 (2/2)

“A brilliant choice if I do say so myself.” The ghost face on Wen Qing’s body laughed wickedly. “Now, I need you to…”

Before it finished, it realized something was wrong. Wen Qing, who was carrying multiple curses on her, had already crawled to the edge of the building.

“What are you doing!”

The blood capillaries surfaced on all parts of her body. Wen Qing, who had been tortured until she had lost a basic human shape, did something that no one expected. With a final glow of determination in her eyes, Wen Qing jumped over the edge of the rooftop of Jin Hwa Apartments Block A!

“I do not know what you have done in the past, I also do not understand why you have become the way that you are now, but I am always ready to trust you, to accompany you, and to protect you.” Wen Qing voluntarily jumped into the Past’s open mouth. Along with the faceless doctor’s last remaining face, she fell into the monster’s maw. When she fell, she kept her eyes on Xiang Nuan, who was bound at the monster’s head.

“Because… you are my son.”

Wen Qing, having been cursed by the Demon God, had her life in the faceless doctor’s control. She did not want to be the chip that was used to control Xiang Nuan. Even if Xiang Nuan had turned into a monster, even if a normal human was nothing more than a piece of dust in the presence of a Demon God, she had found a way to protect Xiang Nuan. All forms of love in this world pointed toward the need to stay together. Only a parent’s love could bear the pain of separation.

When the Past’s mouth closed, the faceless doctor and Wen Qing fell into the Past’s body. Other than the ghost fetus, no one knew what was inside the Past’s body. The people present only saw that the faceless doctor had been swallowed earlier. A mere ten seconds had passed, and his body had become much weaker than before. He appeared to have suffered greatly from that attack. The Past’s stomach appeared to be the guillotine that the ghost fetus had prepared specifically for Demon Gods. It was a place where even a ‘God’ could be digested. So, what would happen to a normal human?

The pouncing of the heart inside the world that was shrouded in the black fog travelled far and long. The Past’s stomach bloated and expanded. The faceless doctor appeared to be resisting as much as he could, but ultimately, the resistance slowed. The sound of that heartbeat became louder and louder. All the Specters and monsters inside the door were affected. It felt like their hearts were about to explode.

Chen Ge went to hide at the rooftop of Jin Hwa Apartments Block A, but he was still unable to avoid the influence brought upon by the heartbeat. He looked down the building. The red sea had enveloped the dual-colored heart. The buildings inside the red city had punctured the blood vessels that were hidden underground. Zhang Ya had already shattered the crust that had formed over the surface of the heart earlier, and now she was using the whole city to clash against the Past’s heart. She was forced to do that, or else the ghost fetus, who had consumed the faceless doctor, would kill everyone there!

The cold, hard shell of the heart was broken, and the black and red heart was being smashed into pieces by the red city!

Blood rain fell from the sky, and the ground split open. The blood vessels snapped one after another. The location where Xiang Nuan’s heart was started to leak blood as well. The more he moved his hands to slow the bleeding, the more the blood continued to flow. The blood riddled with curses turned his shirt into a dark red color. His body was slowly peeling away from the Past’s giant body. His eyes were no longer soulless. Instead, there was a cocktail of complicated emotions. It was not sadness, nor was it despair. Perhaps the boy himself did not know how to identify this feeling he was experiencing.

With his hand over his heart, Xiang Nuan made a very difficult decision after a long time. He did not heal his wound or chose to attack anyone. He used the last ounce of his energy to start to suck in all the black blood and the curses from inside the Past’s body!

Many strange wounds and curses appeared on his body. He had taken on all the sin again. Xiang Nuan’s body was slowly sinking. All the tragedy, all the pain, and all the despair from the past had sedimented inside the boy’s body. The Past’s gigantic body was changing at the same time. The core of this giant monster was the ghost fetus’ past, the past that Xiang Nuan had decided to carry from now on. So, once the core had shifted, the Past no longer looked as scary as it originally did.

The clamped mouth broke open again. The Past’s stomach was filled with past versions of himself. Children that were made from curses and negative emotions tried their best to stop the faceless doctor from escaping. Some of the children, meanwhile, were protecting a woman who was dying. The Past was a creature that the ghost fetus created to kill a Demon God. It had never wondered what would happen to a normal human after they had been swallowed.

Curses were still travelling and growing on the woman’s body. Her life was entering its final countdown. The children helped to move the woman to the head of the Past, the location where Xiang Nuan was bound to earlier. After all of this had been done, Xiang Nuan, who now carried all of the sin, walked to the Past’s heart that had been shattered.

The Past’s upper body was like a cicada while the lower body was like a heavy shell that dragged it down. The heart was right in the middle. One half of it was red, the other half black. Currently, Xiang Nuan was standing at the part that was black. He lifted his head to look at the dying Wen Qing.

“It is time to bid farewell to the past now.”

Raising both of his hands, Xiang Nuan grabbed the Past’s upper body while his feet were standing on top of the Past’s heavy shell. Once again, he had started to consume the sin that was originally inside the Past’s body. This time, he did not hold back at all. He had transferred all of the bad things that had happened to him to his own body. His legs grew into the heavy shell because the amount of sin consumed continued to increase. The Past’s lower body became scarier and scarier looking. It was covered with spikes and needles, and many screaming faces started to fill up the surface of the shell.

However, in contrast, since all the sin and bad things had been taken by Xiang Nuan, the Past’s upper body became softer and fuller. The broken wings started to repair themselves and became firmer in existence. Wen Qing, who was dying, slowly regained consciousness. The pain that was brought on by the curse was lessening.

“I am unable to save your life. This is the only way I can help you. Everyone fears me because I am a Demon God, but I am actually no more than a lonely ghost.”

The voice of ghost fetus came out of Xiang Nuan’s mouth. They were one and the same from the very beginning. The sin was amplifying. Xiang Nuan’s body and legs were sinking and joining with the shell underneath him. His skin was also gradually turning into the appearance of the Past’s shell.

“My heart is dirty and muddled, filled with pain and dirtiness. I have been searching in the raining night, envious of the sun in other people’s eyes. I have reached out in hell, but no one came to save me until the day you appeared in my life. But at the same time, I was worried of dragging you into the abyss with me.

“I know what you have been anticipating of me, but I would rather be a patient isolated from the world than have you step into my world. You were not supposed to be in this world behind the door.”

By taking on all the sin, Xiang Nuan’s consciousness started to flag. Over the past ten years, the Past had consumed too many things in the black fog, and now Xiang Nuan was going to shoulder all the sin on his own. His consciousness was weakening. His body joined together with the thick, heavy shell, and he would not be able to tear himself away from it anymore.

When Xiang Nuan sucked away the last shred of the Past’s sin, his consciousness reached its limit. His body was completely joined to the dark shell. He would never leave this world surrounded by black fog anymore.

At the same time, the Past’s upper body opened its wings. Its winged body was soft and gentle, like a miracle in this black and hopeless world. When Xiang Nuan released his hands, it started to float into the black fog. But it never intended to leave. It fluttered about the boy like a whale protecting a deserted island.