Chapter 363
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Chapter 363: The Note’s Author
Seeing Chu Jiang frozen in place, Jade thought he hadn’t heard, so she tugged at his arm this time.
Unexpectedly, Chu Jiang placed his hand over her mouth and quietly said to her, "If you don’t want to die, leave first."
Jade shook her head repeatedly, indicating that she wouldn’t leave. So, Chu Jiang told her to retreat to the back and not disturb his actions.
Jade understood and stepped back. Then Chu Jiang turned his attention back to the false god.
At this moment, the false god obviously "saw" the nun, but it ignored her and continued its work.
The tall false god stood in front of a round control panel. Instead of using a keyboard or buttons, it inserted its hands into two black holes.
It seemed to be exchanging a lot of data with the core server. Blue data streams flowed into its body while streams of data entered the server.
In fact, the false god didn’t even glance at the nun, as if it didn’t care about the arrival of the two strangers at the door.
"Have you found God?" the little girl asked first.
Chu Jiang could see that it was indeed the face on the false god’s chest that was speaking. It looked both chilling and strange.
"Not yet, but I unexpectedly found you," Chu Jiang replied after thinking for a moment.
The little girl was pleasantly surprised and her weak voice grew a bit louder, "No wonder I felt your voice close to me. Can you save me? I feel like I’m dying."
Chu Jiang didn’t give an answer at first, he just asked, "Can’t you open your eyes?"
"Well, at first I could still open them, but later I felt really tired all over and gradually couldn’t open them anymore…"
"Okay," Chu Jiang continued in a soothing tone, "Do you remember how long ago your parents drove you to this city?"
"Forgot, I forgot. It seems like just a few days ago, but sometimes it feels like a really long time has passed." The girl’s tone revealed confusion.
"Is it that when you first came to this city, the people here were still normal? But later on, everyone started behaving strangely, like standing still, having silly smiles, not eating or drinking."
"Hmm."
Upon hearing this, Chu Jiang could deduce one piece of information: The little girl is an outsider, she didn’t originate from the consciousness of the false god.
Because the citizens of El Paso City only recently started having widespread issues. Before that, the little girl was clearly free.
Of course, it’s also possible that the consciousness that recently emerged from the false god created a false memory for itself.
But Chu Jiang always felt that the chances of this happening were very low because based on the two conscious ghosts he had encountered, whether it was Ghost Diary or Sleep Talking, neither of them showed such human-like behavior as a little girl.
"You’ve helped me a lot on this journey, so of course I will rescue you. But it might not succeed, because… you are with God."
"I saw you inside God, did it swallow you?"
Hearing these two sentences from Chu Jiang, the tightly closed eyelashes of the little girl trembled! Her face also twisted in pain.
At the same time, the featureless face of the false god raised its head to look towards the nun, then turned and looked towards the direction of the door.
Chu Jiang drifted in silently, allowing the nun to enter the dial again. In the upcoming battle, the nun’s role will be very limited.
At the same time as the staring match with the false god, Chu Jiang completed the highest-level Chu’s Jiang transformation, with only his head retaining a human appearance, while the rest of his body turned into a dark zombie-like figure, giving a strong sense of death and oppression.
At the same time, a circle of black Sun Wheels appeared around Chu Jiang. It can be said that at this moment, he raised his own state to the limit! All to prevent a crash when they first meet.
However, the false god seemed to have no immediate intention of attacking Chu Jiang, and it was unclear what the rules for its killings were.
Suddenly, a lot of data flowed from the "mouth" of the false god.
These data flows formed a blue dialogue box in front of it, and then a lot of language codes appeared inside the dialogue box.
The cursor continued to jump and finally selected the Simplified Chinese character encoding in UTF-8 format.
After the encoding was selected, the data stream changed from a garbled mess to two complete texts, which were displayed in the dialogue box:
[Do not open this diary.]
[Unless you are mentally prepared for something terrible.]
Chu Jiang’s pupils shrank! When he got the Ghost Diary, there were two notes stuck on the cover, and this was the content of the second note.
And Chu Jiang also remembered that the text on this note was written crookedly, as if the writer wrote it with extreme anger and pain, giving a strong sense of discomfort.
Later, Sister Bel from the Holy Word Religion confirmed that Sleep Talking had left hints in the diary.
At that time, Chu Jiang was wondering if both notes were left by Sleep Talking? Or did a ghost leave one note?
Now it seems that the guess behind is the correct one.
However, Chu Jiang never in his wildest dreams thought that the beautifully written and gentle handwriting was actually left behind by Sleep Talking. Surprisingly, it was the twisted and aggressive handwriting that was left by a false god.
Because Chu Jiang instinctively believed that the essence of Sleep Talking should be even crazier.
Moreover, Sister Bel explicitly stated that Sleep Talking leaves behind "warnings," but the content of the first note is clearly a temptation:
If you had a diary that can predict the future
How would you use it?
Now looking at it, it can only be said that it’s an old saying, "The prettier the woman, the more likely she is to deceive you."
Or rather, the more evil the ghost, the more it will disguise its true intentions, deliberately showing a harmless appearance, even a "gentle and kind" side.
It seemed like it was tempting Chu Jiang to open the diary, but its real purpose was to make him feel afraid.
"False god" is a more straightforward way of saying it, a clear warning not to open it.
I think both ghosts want to get hold of this diary. If someone opens it, takes it away, and seals ghosts inside, it will make the Ghost Diary more powerful, which is not good for them.
Of course, Chu Jiang still opened it. Back then, he was a stubborn high school student. Whether it was a direct warning or a subtle discouragement, he would open it without hesitation.
After showing Chu Jiang this text, the false god spit something out of its mouth again, but this time it wasn’t a stream of data, it was a slightly yellowed page.
The paper was blank, as if it had been kept for many years.
This made Chu Jiang furrow his brows again. What was the intention behind this? Was it trying to tempt him or challenge him, to clearly say that if he had the ability, he should come and take it himself?
Just then, the little girl’s condition changed again. She struggled to open her eyes.
Gasping for breath, she said in pain, "I, I remember now. The god grabbed a corpse from its chest and threw it away, then stuffed me into its own body… Am I already dead?"
Hearing the weak and confused voice, Chu Jiang took a deep breath and said, "You’re not dead yet, I will save you."
In the next moment, the heartless false god extended its hand and stabbed towards the chest, piercing the little girl’s face and roughly grabbing onto her skull, pulling the young human out of its own body.
Blood immediately gushed from the girl’s face, and she was almost too weak to scream, only managing to gasp for air with great difficulty…
Chu Jiang clenched his fist, his face darkening, as the black Ghost Domain instantly covered the area.
Chu Jiang teleported in front of the false god, his right fist burning with black flames, and punched the ghost’s face!
This punch combined the power of interfering with reality, it could be said that it was a joint attack by the ghosts Chu’s Jiang and Black Sun; most of the ghosts that Chu Jiang had encountered until now would find it difficult to withstand this punch, becoming completely powerless to fight back.
At the same time, Chu Jiang’s other hand reached for the false god’s wrist, attempting to prevent it from completely killing the little girl.
However, to his surprise, the false god just threw the little girl away as if she was trash.
As for Chu Jiang’s punch, it didn’t hit its mark, as countless streams of blue data transformed into small electronic locks, tightly binding his fist.
As his finger was about to touch the false god, the fierce attack was suddenly stopped in its tracks and came to a halt.
Chu Jiang forcefully broke the lock/chain and then stepped back instead of continuing to attack. He took the little girl who had been thrown out and held her in his arms.
The false god, with a hollow black hole appearing in its chest, found it "very interesting".
The dialogue box appeared again, but this time the text on it changed:
[Analyze the target, logical error, prioritize the diary as the second target; increase the value of the abandoned utility, temporarily list it as the first target]
[The core system requests retrieval of the target, asking the deity to absorb it, analyze its thoughts, acquire its knowledge, and trace its memories]
[Beep beep, an error has occurred, the target is highly threatening, retrieval request canceled, proceed with the original plan]
Chu Jiang looked up at the words and then focused on checking the condition of the little girl.
The little girl was barely breathing, in a state nearing the end of her life. Even if she were sent to the best hospital in the world right now, it’s unlikely her life could be saved.
Even though her head was covered in blood and had a scary wound, and her eyes couldn’t open at all, the girl could still manage to smile when she felt herself being held in someone’s arms.
She wanted to say thank you to her big brother for saving her.
But she couldn’t say anything. She felt the surroundings getting darker, colder, and more and more gloomy. It felt like she was falling deeper and deeper…
Chu Jiang felt helpless as he watched this little life about to fade away.
At the moment, he only had control over the power of "death" and hadn’t mastered the power of "life" yet. He couldn’t even help this little girl whose name he didn’t even know to stay alive.
Should he use time to restart? But even if he only restarted the time for the little girl alone, she would continue to return to the false god’s body, and her situation might become even worse.
No, wait! Time doesn’t necessarily need to be restarted.
Thinking of this, Chu Jiang solemnly extended his finger and gently touched the girl’s forehead.
Immediately, the girl’s body froze. It was as if Chu Jiang had sealed her in the amber of time, forever freezing her in this moment. As long as time didn’t continue to flow for her, she wouldn’t die.
Of course, this would bring a great burden to Chu Jiang, because it is one of Black Sun’s main abilities. As long as Chu Jiang doesn’t cancel this effect, the pressure from Black Sun will keep getting bigger.
Actually, Chu Jiang didn’t really need to do this. After all, even if he didn’t need the little girl’s help this time, he would still be able to reach here in the end.
But Chu Jiang always felt that he couldn’t just stand there and watch her die in front of him. She wasn’t an ant, and he wasn’t some superior being. Humans have empathy…
Temporarily freezing the little girl in time, Chu Jiang expressionlessly looked at the false god.
It was impossible to grasp the true purpose of this guy. It just stood there quietly, watching Chu Jiang, with one hand still inserted into the electronic control panel.
It seemed like nothing could stop the false god from continuing its current work, no matter what happened.
And Chu Jiang discovered that the false god seemed to possess a special ability. It could absorb humans into its own body and gain their thoughts, knowledge, and memories.
This must be the reason why it became a ghost, able to self-evolve and even become a digital deity.
