Chapter 373 Shadow God's Chess Piece

Mu You continued to check the experimental records on other pages. Suddenly, he felt some movement coming from his body. He looked down and took a backpack from his waist.

This was a storage backpack he kept for entering the door. It could only be opened in the Star Spirit Realm.

At this time, a "knock on the door" sound came from the backpack.

Among the people he knew, only Ye Rumeng could do this.

Mu You opened the backpack, and sure enough, the little girl's head immediately popped out of the backpack.

"Mu You, are you going to find my sister soon?" Ye Rumeng looked at Mu You expectantly and asked.

Mu You was stunned: "How did you know?"

"I don't know, I just felt so sleepy just now, and when I woke up, I was already in this backpack..."

The little girl crawled out of the backpack and looked around in confusion: "Here... feels so familiar, I seem to have been here before..."

The little girl kept walking around while talking, observing everything nearby, and soon became more and more certain of this. She looked back at Mu You in surprise: "Yes, it's here, the last time I saw my sister was here... I remembered that my sister and I were once locked up here... It's just in front!" The little girl suddenly pointed to the darkness connected to the front of the platform.

"Mu You, my sister must still be here, let's go save her!" Ye Rumeng hurriedly looked back at Mu You and begged.

However, when she looked back, she found that Mu You was looking at her feet with a dazed expression.

"What's wrong?" Ye Rumeng was puzzled.

Mu You shook his head: "Nothing, lead the way."

"Oh... follow me, it's right here!" The little girl didn't doubt him, took out a flashlight from somewhere, shone it into the darkness in front of her, and rushed in directly, turning back and waving, signaling the two to follow quickly, and her shadow stretched into a long line behind her.

"Mu You, this is..."

Lin Xue had also noticed the little girl's change at this time, and looked at Mu You in surprise.

Mu You shook his head at her helplessly, and Lin Xue also realized something quickly. Without asking any more questions, the two followed silently.

In the Gu pool below, the shadow ghost who was slapping insects also noticed something, paused, looked up at the platform, and when he saw the figure of the little girl rushing into the darkness in front of him, he immediately hummed, no longer caring about the insects, and hurriedly climbed up the platform and chased after the three people.

Ye Rumeng ran into the darkness alone, trotting through the dark path with ease, and came to a floor of a hospital.

Looking at the double dormitories on both sides of the corridor, more and more familiar things appeared in front of him.

"Yes, it's here..."

Ye Rumeng's eyes lit up. The familiar environment made her recall more and more lost memories, the things she had experienced here, and also the room where she and her sister lived together, at the end of this corridor.

Ye Rumeng hurriedly looked deep into the corridor. Sure enough, on the door of the deepest room, there was a familiar pillow logo carved.

The little girl's face was full of joy. She rushed over impatiently and pushed open the door.

"Sister, I'll save you..."

The voice stopped abruptly.

The room was not as clean and tidy as she remembered, and it was filled with all kinds of children's toys and supplies.

It had become an empty ruin, with earthen tiles collapsing, glass fragments scattered all over the floor, and all objects covered with dust. It was obviously abandoned for a long time.

The little girl looked at this scene in a daze, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a while.

If her sister was not here, where could she be?

"Roar!"

At this time, a roar came from the side.

Ye Rumeng turned her head subconsciously and saw a three-meter-tall ghost standing in front of her on the other side of the corner corridor. When she found the living person here, she immediately exuded a strong killing intent.

The next moment, the ghost rushed towards Ye Rumeng with its fangs and claws.

"Ah!"

Ye Rumeng was startled and stepped back subconsciously, but was tripped by the door frame and fell to the ground.

The ghost in front of her arrived in an instant, waving its claws, with bloodshot eyes. The extremely oppressive height and monster-like body made Ye Rumeng close her eyes instinctively.

However, just as the ghost's claws were about to fall on Ye Rumeng, another roar sounded from behind.

Then a bigger black shadow rushed from behind the little girl, and it came first after the little girl, and directly threw the ghost in front who was about to attack to the ground, clawing at the ghost with great anger.

This ordinary shadow ghost was obviously no match for the box shadow ghost. With the box shadow ghost's anger, the ordinary shadow ghost under it was soon torn into pieces, leaving only a group of wriggling shadow residues.

The little girl stared blankly at the shadow ghost protecting her, but she had no time to speak, because there were more intensive roars in front of her.

"You finally came back here, No. 14..."

The little girl and the shadow ghost both looked up and saw a transparent cylindrical device at the end of the corridor in front of them, which was filled with some kind of liquid. At this time, a person was soaking in the device, with a respirator connected to his mouth and nose, and various hoses inserted into his body.

Outside the cylindrical device, there are a large number of shadow ghosts densely scattered, at least hundreds of them. Each shadow ghost is bound by a black chain, and the other end of the chain is all connected to the device. , like a row of tied up vicious dogs, guarding the central device.

At this time, the person in the cylinder had opened his eyes, and it was him who made the sound just now.

When the shadow ghost saw the figure appearing in the distance, he became even more furious, but he did not rush over without losing his mind.

It's not because it's afraid of a circle of shadow ghosts in the distance, but because the little girl is standing behind it and it can't leave casually.

"I thought you would escape further."

Mu You and Lin Xue also walked out from behind at this time.

Mu You looked at the person sealed in the cylinder in front of him. He was a bald, short, fat, middle-aged man. Although his appearance had changed, he was very sure that this guy was the man behind the scenes who had escaped from Sky City before. Just one of his 'skin' images.

"It's just the winner and the loser. I lost this time. There's no point in escaping. I just didn't expect that you would have the power to suppress the Shadow God..." The middle-aged man in the device looked at the three people in the distance. Open your mouth.

Lin Xue rang the death knell twice before, detonating the extremely outrageous sin value on his body. Although most of the curse effects were borne by the Shadow God, the Shadow God died before the sin value returned to zero, resulting in residual The power of the curse still affected him.

The power of that curse can suppress even the level of the Shadow God, let alone ordinary people.

He couldn't escape because at this moment, his level had been directly reduced to the lowest level, and his attributes had all dropped to the lowest point. If he hadn't got into the device in front of him in time that could continuously relieve pain, he would have been cursed continuously. Suppress and die until the life span is exhausted and disappear completely.

"It's you!"

Ye Rumeng seemed to recognize something at this time, and suddenly pointed at the middle-aged man in the device in front of him and shouted: "I remember, the bad guy who kidnapped me is you! Tell me, where is my sister?"

The middle-aged man ignored her shouting and looked at Mu You's feet.

In his shadow, half of the shadow pom-pom is quietly emerging from his head, secretly observing the world around him.

"It seems that Shadow Pom Pom has chosen you to be its new host." The middle-aged man said.

"Yes." Mu You nodded.

"Then you have to be careful. When it grows up, it will have the power to bite back the host. Be careful that you will encounter the same ending as me in the future." The middle-aged man sneered.

"If you don't feed it, how can it be backlashed? In the final analysis, it's not you who covets the power of God? That leads to the backlash." Mu Youyou said.

A low-level shadow pom-pom obviously has no ability to resist its host, but as its level increases, its abilities will continue to improve, and its wisdom will gradually increase until it has self-awareness, which will lead to the possibility of backlash. Therefore, the safest approach is not to feed it any shadows, or to only feed it a limited amount of shadows, keeping it at a lower level and using it as an auxiliary pet.

"You are right. When I first got the shadow pom-pom more than a thousand years ago, I thought the same thing. However, how many people can tolerate getting a shadow pom-pom that can grow infinitely? Do you want to cultivate it?”

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said: "At that time, I was just an ordinary fisherman in the Cook Islands. I didn't have any qualifications to practice magic. I was destined to make a living by fishing for the rest of my life. I lived at the bottom of society on the edge of my lifespan every day. One chance. By coincidence, I picked up the Shadow Pom Pom and became its host."

"When I found out that this was the shadow of a god, I was shocked. I was terrified every day, fearing that God's consciousness would revive. A low-level pariah like me had no power to resist God."

"But as time went by, I gradually discovered that this thing had no signs of attacking me. Instead, it provided me with a variety of magical abilities. I thought that I could use its abilities to improve my life, and I began to try to steal other people's shadows. Feed it carefully to gain more strength..."

"Six months later, I became the richest man in the entire Cook Islands, but I was no longer satisfied with this. I became obsessed with studying the power of God. In the name of 'God', I formed the Society of the Undead and gathered a large number of sects. The crowd became more and more wanton in grabbing more people's shadows... Facts have proved that human greed has no limit, and by the time I realized something was wrong, it was already too late. "

"The grown-up shadow pom-poms gradually escaped my control. They often broke away from my shadow and ran out to actively devour other people's shadows. They grew automatically and grew faster and faster."

"As the level of the Shadow Pom Ball increases, the Shadow God's consciousness gradually awakens, and he begins to try to resist my orders and take the initiative."

"I was finally scared at that time, and at the same time I also understood God's conspiracy: It turned out that this was the way for the Shadow God to resurrect itself, and I was just a pawn, a tool to help it resurrect. Even without me, there would be others who would act as this person. character. I was horrified and angry because I needed a shadow that I could fully control, not be a puppet of the shadow.”

"In order to stop it, I built this underground factory and sealed myself deep underground. All the people who approach me usually have no shadows, making it difficult for the Shadow God to find a shadow to devour nearby. , in order to slow down its growth as much as possible.”

"I threatened it with suicide and made it fall into a deep sleep. It was not strong enough at that time, so it could only agree and entered a long deep sleep. But what I didn't expect was that even in deep sleep, it could still automatically absorb the shadows of living people in the entire archipelago to grow secretly."

"While it was sleeping, I began to study the method of suppressing the shadow ball. It is true that the shadow ball is the nemesis of shadow creatures, but its ability is only ineffective against self-conscious shadow ghosts. Therefore, as long as a self-conscious shadow ghost is created and merged into my main shadow, the shadow ball can be completely suppressed through this shadow ghost."

"However, the shadow ghost is a collection of negative emotions. In theory, it is impossible for it to have self-consciousness, but I don't believe it, because since the description of the shadow ball mentions the word "self-conscious shadow ghost", then this thing must exist. After a long period of research, I finally found a way to create a conscious shadow ghost: soul synchronization!"

"In the same In one plane, the souls of all new humans are unique and there is no possibility of synchronization, but in two planes, there is no such restriction. "

"Find the person with the most synchronized soul in the two worlds, and by sinking them into the shadow together, there is a certain probability that an ordinary shadow ghost and a controllable shadow ghost that can be possessed can be generated at the same time. If the souls of the two people are compatible enough, and the ordinary shadow ghost generated is strong enough, when it is close to the limit of the shadow ghost, there is a chance to give birth to self-awareness, and the other controllable shadow ghost will become a 'commander', allowing the corresponding ordinary shadow ghost to completely obey me. "

"Since then, I have been looking for soul synchronizers in the two worlds, but this process is not easy. The success rate of making a shadow ghost is much lower than I thought, and it is even more difficult to make a perfect shadow ghost. Moreover, actions in the forgotten land also need to be cautious. It took me four years to finally create the first perfect work! "

"No. 14?" Mu You asked.

"Yes." The middle-aged man looked at the little girl beside Mu You with a fanatical look.

"No. 14, you were originally an experimental subject that I didn't think highly of. From the first day you were captured, you showed extraordinary rationality and mental maturity comparable to that of an adult. Generally speaking, such experimental subjects are unqualified, because previous research has shown that one of the two souls in sync must be a child with a simple mind, the purer the better."

"What I didn't expect was that the child I brought to you later actually made such a big change in you! The two of you have completely synced souls, and this is the first time."

"What are you talking about? Mianmian is my sister, where did you hide her?" Ye Rumeng looked at the middle-aged man with some doubts. The other party was obviously talking to her, but he seemed to have mistaken her for his sister.

The middle-aged man ignored her doubts and continued to stare at the little girl and said: "It was then that I realized your specialness...or rather, it was not you who was special, but another child, the girl named 'Mengmeng'."

"I am Mengmeng..." Ye Rumeng couldn't help correcting again.

"...Because, in the previous thirteen successful records, all the children of the Star Spirit Realm chose to endure the pain and save the children from the Forgotten Land, but your group was the opposite..." The middle-aged man spoke to himself.

"So what are you talking about? It's obviously me..."

Ye Rumeng wanted to refute, but suddenly felt a hand covering her shoulder.

Ye Rumeng looked back and saw that it was Mu You who stopped her.

Mu You sighed and shook his head at her: "It's useless to continue to escape. It's time to remember..."

"Remember... what?" Ye Rumeng looked at him puzzled.

"Here, there is no one you need to save... Mianmian."

Mu You said, looking down at the shadow under her feet.

Ye Rumeng also subconsciously looked over, and was stunned when she saw it.

The shadow projected on the ground was no longer her appearance, but a taller girl with straight long hair and a headband on her head.