Chapter 1076: Conflicted Mood

Ash put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, looking at the skyline hidden in the steel jungle, and the branches with dead leaves were covered with snowflakes.

There was a bookstore in front, and Ash glanced at it, his eyes lingering on the poster for a moment.

The poster showed a mysterious person sitting on a high chair wearing dark Gothic clothes. She lowered her head and held a chain in both hands. Her age and gender could not be seen from her appearance. Behind her were hundreds of ghost giants sitting on spiked benches. The ghosts were festering all over and looked terrified. Without exception, they were shackled on their hands and feet. The chains of the shackles gathered together and connected to the chains in the hands of the mysterious person.

Ghost Handbook: There is always evil without reason in this world, and there are always demons that go against the way. J.

Ash retracted his gaze, thinking that this was unexpectedly quite consistent with Vichy's true image. After all, she really had a soul-locking spirit.

Vichy is a bad person, a demon in human skin, he said silently in his heart.

After losing a quarter of his soul, Ash felt that he had lost a lot of memories, including all the memories about Vichy.

He simply forgot everything about Vichy, and all traces of her in his memory were deleted. Even if Ash had discovered that there were inexplicable gaps in his memory, he couldn't fill Vichy into those broken parts... and he didn't know what role she had played in his past.

But he couldn't say this. If it was revealed that he had sold a quarter of his soul in hell, Sword Princess and the others would never allow him to continue to take risks in the Sixth Hell. He actually knew that the girls didn't believe his words, at least they definitely didn't believe that there was no risk in picking up trash in hell.

It's just that Ash insisted on being strong and seemed to be safe, so they were willing to follow Ash's wishes.

Fortunately, only he could enter hell, and fortunately, it was the illusory soul that was sold, otherwise it wouldn't be just Ash who would be troubled.

It's not that Ash didn't want to rely on the girls. In addition to the soul trading, he told them almost all the truth. But since they are destined to be unable to help with some things, what's the point of saying it out except to increase their self-blame and troubles?

The Sixth Hell must be visited, and the soul trade at the critical moment is helpless. What else can they do except being annoyed at their powerlessness in reality?

In the Star Cage, on that night of chasing the speeding train, Ash has chewed the four words "powerless" over and over again... If he can really rely on them, Ash will never sacrifice himself alone to move himself. He doesn't like those tragic dramas; but if he can't share this responsibility, then this trouble should belong to him alone. After all, he can't go to the Sixth Hell to fight hard, and return to reality to appease the emotions of Sword Princess and others, right?

Ash feels like a terminally ill patient. Going to hell is to fight the disease with Death Maniac, and returning to reality is to rely on Sword Princess and others to heal the body and mind.

However, compared to the one-quarter soul that was sold, Vichy is the source of Ash's troubles now.

Because he has no knowledge of Vichy, Ash can only ask about Vichy's situation from other people. In addition to Sword Princess, he also secretly found the Witch and Silver Lantern in the past two days, but the attitudes of the three of them were unexpectedly consistent.

It's OK to use the ghost prophet.

It's OK to play with the devil maid.

But trusting Vichy is absolutely not OK.

The witch used the gospel spirit to help Ash search Vichy's past resume. Even if it was just the tip of the iceberg extracted from the ghost manual, the crimes in it were shocking enough.

T Killing and refining souls is Vichy's way of practice, and it is also her most crazy sin. You must know that even the worst necromancer only kills people and takes corpses, while Vichy not only kills the enemy, but also refines their souls, using the desperate energy that bursts out when they are in pain as the material for casting spells. Not only can the dead souls not return to hell, even if they are tortured to the last moment, they cannot be freed.

Borrowing a famous saying from the "Ghost Manual", death is not the end of despair, but the beginning of a nightmare. J.

Silver Lamp didn't say too much to Ash. She just mentioned a small thing in the gap between being intimate with Ash: the end of Senluo and her sacrifice. Although the main reason was the three gods of white pigeon, fire cat and blue bird, it did not prevent her from being full of disgust for Vichy.

The three gods wanted to exterminate Senluo out of despair, and she was blameless, but Vichy came to seize the gods completely out of personal desire. This demon not only pushed the doomsday to come, but also almost killed them both on the 18th floor of the Spiral of Silence!

If Ash could not completely control Vichy, and if Vichy's value was indeed great, and she helped Ash a lot, if any of these three conditions were missing, Silver Lantern would not accept Vichy to continue living.

"I don't mind serving you with her," Visser said last night, holding Ash in her arms, with a gentle and sweet voice.

Of course, Vichy is not only evil, otherwise she would not stay with them. At least during the period when Ash controlled Vichy, Vichy did help Ash a lot, such as the secret poison of hell, such as the plan to break through the cage of stars, such as the demigod promotion ceremony... Vichy and him live and die together, no less than other operators.

So Ash was so depressed.

The way to manage Vichy is very simple, that is to treat her as a dangerous tool, use her when necessary, destroy her when useless, and any feelings towards her will become a loophole in her corrosive shackles... She is not a human, but a ruthless natural disaster, a demon of chaos, and a synonym for cruelty.

From the attitudes of others, it can be seen that Ash himself managed Vichy in this way before, vigilant and fearful), although cautious but at the same time determined to die together. There are some people in this world, the more you know them, the stronger the murderous intention becomes in your heart.

However, Ash lost those memories.

Wariness, fear, and determination, these complex emotions are all packaged together with memories and sold to the madman. In Ash's heart, there was only a simple emotion that he didn't want to admit, but was helpless.

In front of the traffic light, Ash sighed softly, exhaled a breath of white mist, and followed the flow of people across the highway.

There was an outdoor cafe on the sidewalk opposite. Ash took one look at it and immediately raised his eyebrows. He walked over and said hello: "Why are you here?"

Felix held the hot coffee in her hand and drank it in small sips, but it seemed that it was still too hot and she couldn't help but stick out her tongue and blow on it. She looked up at Ash and said, "I'm lazy, I don't want to leave."

"Did you pass by here too?"

"Well," Felix took out a map from his navy blue windbreaker, looked at it and said, "Look, my and your search areas overlap here."

"Ash nodded, and then he looked at the traffic outside in the wind and snow, not knowing what he was thinking. Felix ignored him and moved her nose. She smelled the aroma of baking in the cafe. She looked around. Then he raised his hand and said: V, please have a piece of lava core cake."

"Is there any sweet drink here?" Ashus suddenly asked, "It's not bitter at all."

Felix glanced at him, "Only sweet milk meets your requirements... Are you a child? You can't even drink coffee?"

"One sweet milk, one lava cake." Ash didn't mind being called childish at all. He sat across from Felix, lightly clasping his fingers on the wooden table, holding his cheek with his left hand, staring blankly at the falling snowflakes. .

There was silence for a while. After the drinks and desserts were served, Felix suddenly said quietly: "If you don't want to talk, can you go to the next table? This will make me quite embarrassed..."

Ash struggled for a while before he made up his mind and said, "I want to ask you a question."

"I actually really don't mind if you go to the next table..."

"If there is a person whose outlook and behavior you are completely disgusted with and find it unacceptable from the bottom of your heart." Ash poked the lava core cake with a spoon and said, "But you fall in love with that person for some reason, what would you do? '"

Felix held the coffee cup in both hands and looked at him with dazzling eyes, speechless for a moment.