Chapter 1659
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In the endless darkness, the familiar feeling of falling enveloped Lin Qiye once again. He kept his eyes tightly shut, his face filled with anxiety and anger, as if still trapped in some nightmare.
A touch of white, like ink spreading, diffused through the blackness, and a small boy who appeared to be only six or seven years old slowly floated out from it.
He didn’t wake Lin Qiye, but instead carefully examined him.
His gaze moved up along Lin Qiye’s body to a pale green progress bar floating in the darkness.
“Lin Qiye treatment progress: 49%”
“This time the speed… is a bit faster than usual,” the little boy pondered.
Just then, Lin Qiye, floating in the darkness, suddenly contorted his expression. His eyes snapped open, and his form dropped from midair, hunching over on the nonexistent ground, breathing frantically.
“Cough cough cough cough cough…”
The little boy watched Lin Qiye gasping and coughing violently, his eyebrows slightly raised. “He actually woke up on his own…”
Lin Qiye coughed on the ground for a full half minute before a hint of color returned to his pale face. He looked around, saw the little boy standing in the endless darkness, and suddenly froze.
“This again… I died again?”
“Yes… I seem to have died…”
Lin Qiye appeared to remember something, his expression growing complex. He slowly stood up and looked at the little boy who resembled him greatly, asking with confusion:
“Who exactly are you? What relationship do you have with me? Why are you inside my body? Is the patient in the last room of the hospital you?”
Since his last awakening, Lin Qiye had been pondering the little boy’s identity. He had searched through all the Night Watchmen headquarters but found no information about him. He had kept these questions bottled up, and had even considered deliberately dying to come here and ask him…
Now seeing him again, he couldn’t miss the chance, and blurted out all his questions at once.
“You have too many questions,” the little boy shook his head. “Rather than these, you should be more concerned about yourself…”
“Me?”
“You’re about to die.”
“Don’t I always come here after I’ve already died?”
“If you were dead, how could you see me?” The little boy’s expression remained unchanged. “Right now, you’re in a ‘dying’ state. The previous times I could help you return, but last time I told you that was the last time I would help you…
So this time, you can only rely on yourself.”
“Rely on myself? What should I do?”
“Reclaim what belongs to you. Only then will you have a chance of survival.”
“What belongs to me?” Lin Qiye thought for a moment, as if realizing something. “You mean… my Forbidden Domain?”
The little boy nodded slightly.
“But I can’t feel it now, and it has never appeared… Even when I used the ‘Ghost God Inducer,’ it wasn’t activated.” Lin Qiye’s face was full of confusion. “Does it… really exist?”
“Of course it exists. The ‘Ghost God Inducer’ can’t activate it because it’s too vast. Drugs simply can’t awaken it, and the probability of natural awakening is close to zero.”
Hearing this, Lin Qiye’s expression became peculiar.
No wonder he hadn’t awakened his own Forbidden Domain until now… it was because it was too powerful? And both he and the Ghost God Inducer weren’t qualified?
“If that’s the case, how do I awaken it?”
“Ordinary methods would hardly be effective, but now, you have a helper.” The little boy extended his hand, pointing at Lin Qiye’s head.
Lin Qiye looked up and saw the familiar progress bar, freezing in place.
The progress bar had actually followed him here? And it didn’t seem to be flickering like in the outside world. In this pitch-black space, the panel was unusually stable.
“You mean… the lottery?” Lin Qiye asked with some concern. “The Gods’ Mental Hospital isn’t here, can I still draw?”
“Yes.”
“But the treatment progress is still 1% short…”
The little boy stared at Lin Qiye, silent for a long time, then beckoned to him.
“Come.”
Lin Qiye was startled, but despite his confusion, he stepped toward the little boy. He walked through the boundless darkness around him, his feet stepping into that pure white domain, standing face to face with the little boy.
This was the first time Lin Qiye had observed the little boy at such close range. He only came up to his waist. Looking down, Lin Qiye could clearly see every detail of the other’s face.
Looking at him, Lin Qiye felt like he was looking into a mirror from his childhood. It wasn’t just a resemblance… Lin Qiye was almost certain that this was exactly how he looked as a child.
“Sit down,” the little boy spoke again.
Lin Qiye made a sound of agreement and sat cross-legged. The little boy then sat down as well.
In this boundless darkness, two Lin Qiyes sat on a bright patch of white, facing each other.
“Tell me about yourself.”
“What?”
“Your experiences. I want to hear them.”
“My experiences?” Lin Qiye thought for a moment. “Which part do you want to hear?”
“All of it.”
“That’s a very long story.”
“It doesn’t matter. Here, we have enough time.”
Seeing that the little boy wasn’t joking, Lin Qiye didn’t refuse. “Where should I start?”
“Start from when you were seven, when you went to your aunt’s house.”
“Alright.” Lin Qiye nodded. “I don’t remember much from my childhood, so I can only tell you a few simple things… When I arrived at my aunt’s house, Ajin was still in swaddling clothes…”
Lin Qiye carefully recalled his past, recounting it steadily. The little boy sat in front of him, propping his head with one hand, listening very attentively.
Here, time seemed to have no meaning, and there was no one to disturb them, leaving only Lin Qiye’s voice echoing continuously.
“…Later, I met that man. His name was Zhao Kongcheng. Our first meeting was on my way home. There were two ghost-faced people at the time…”
“…Squad 136 was the place I missed most after becoming a Night Watchman. Our captain was called Chen Muye…”
“…Cangnan was fake. The people living there all existed because of me. After my aunt died, I went crazy. I received treatment at the Fasting Institute for a long time. Later they found me, and we planned to escape from there together… We were the only ones who successfully escaped in nearly a hundred years. Perhaps from the moment we stepped outside those walls, our fates were already connected…”
“…Our name was [Nightfall]…”
A reminiscent look appeared in Lin Qiye’s eyes. After becoming a Night Watchman, his narrative became more detailed. He told the little boy how they had broken through the “Human Circle” and Takamagahara, how they had escaped from Heaven and Hell alive, how they had destroyed Asgard, how they had fought side by side at Chennan Pass…
The little boy quietly listened to his story. In those calm eyes, rare emotional fluctuations appeared. His lips curved slightly upward, as if he was immersed in the tale.
Meanwhile, neither of them noticed that in this deathly silent black world, the progress bar above Lin Qiye’s head had silently moved forward one notch.
“Lin Qiye treatment progress: 50%”
