CH 107.2

With each look, their faces grew uglier.

“Is that circle, the brazier?”

“Are those four shadows, the four maids?”

“Are those four maids warming themselves by the fire?! Fuck…are these humans or ghosts? Why are there only shadows and no people in sight!”

“Are we in the world of the living or the dead? I’m not afraid of going to war and fighting, but I’m born afraid of this stuff, wuuu.”

“But it’s just the shadows moving, it shouldn’t affect us, right? We’ll be fine, won’t we?”

The soldier’s words hadn’t completely dissipated when Bai Lixin caught a hint of a strange smell in the air.

The smell of burning charcoal.

The moment he smelled it, the system alert rang out.

[Ding! Hallucinogenic toxin detected, anti-toxic passive skill activated.]

[Detoxification successful. The detoxification will continue because of your continued immersion in the toxin.]

It seems that the shadows were a replay of the scene back then.

Although the reason was unknown, it was clear that the painting world and the scene replay had completed a partial fusion in their respective realms, so the scene replay that was supposed to be just shadows could affect the painting world as well.

Bai Lixin looked in the direction of the doorway and then at the shadow in the middle of the room.

So this brazier was able to make its way into the room because he had just opened the door, giving the maids the opportunity to bring it in?

The brazier had a hallucinogenic toxin, and it appeared that someone had put it in.

This explained why the four maids died horribly.

Perhaps even in death, they did not realize that death was near, but thought they were dreaming.

The dream was real and horrific, so the four died horribly.

Overhead, the four shadows had begun to tremble.

They were staggering as if they had been drinking alcohol.

And on this sides, the condition of the two soldiers was not right either.

Their went into a trance as their eyes stared blankly. Suddenly, their faces showed an expression of horror as they each grabbed their necks, strangling themselves while screaming at the top of their voices, “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me.”

The classic I-kill-myself.

But Dijia was fine, and was standing by Bai Lixin’s side steadily.

Bai Lixin glanced at Dijia and pointed at the two soldiers.

Dijia immediately understood. He reluctantly walked over and carried the two soldiers, opened the door of the room and directly walked out

Pa! Pa!

The sounds resounded through the air.

Bai Lixin: “……”

‘Well, they are quite pitiful.’

A minute later, Dijia entered the room as be casually shook his sleeve. “They’re unconscious.”

Bai Lixin gave Dijia a meaningful look and gave a soft “mmm” before walking to the chair next to him and sitting down. He also took the four fox cubs at his feet into his arms.

Having done so, he continued to look overhead.

Dijia’s eyes went to Bai Lixin’s arms and whispered, “Give those cubs to me, you must be tired from holding them.”

Bai Lixin glances at Dijia. “No, they seem to be a bit afraid of you.”

“They shouldn’t be afraid either,” Dijia coughed lightly and his voice softened as he stretched out his hand to beckon them. “Come here, come to me, okay?”

Bai Lixin was looking overhead, but the corner of his eyes fell on the interaction between Dijia and the fox cubs.

The four fox cubs that used to be very afraid of Dijia yelped at each other a few times, then clamored to climb out of Bai Lixin’s arms and eagerly crawled along the square table in the middle of the chairs to Dijia.

Dijia gently held the fox cubs into his arms, and even thoughtfully caressed them.

Bai Lixin fidgeted and gripped his right wrist quietly.

Dijia held up one of the fox cubs and looked at it carefully: “I told you they weren’t afraid of me. You didn’t believe me.”

Bai Lixin chuckled and his attention was once again drawn to the agitated shadows overhead.

More and more smoke came out of the brazier, and the movements of the four maids became more and more exaggerated as they strangled themselves. Their heads were thrown back, their mouths were wide open, and their bodies leaned back like fish starved of oxygen.

The Madam on the bed rolled over and then began to thrash about in pain.

Bai Lixin looked at the Madam’s shadow overhead which was doing the same.

He walked over to the bed and saw that the Madam’s expression was at times pained, and at times relaxed, the eyeballs in their sockets moved about even more rapidly.

Bai Lixin tried to shake her awake, but no matter how hard he tried, the Madam continued to follow her script.

“She seems to be having some kind of alternating dream,” Dijia had quietly come behind Bai Lixin at some point. “Her expression is pained when it’s a nightmare , and relaxed when its a beautiful one.”

“To switch between two emotions so frequently and in such a short period of time would drive even a normal person crazy, let alone someone who is asleep.”

“How pitiful.”

Dijia said so, but his voice had a subtle hint of joy.

Bai Lixin turned to look at Dijia and pursed his lips, “Is this your revenge?”

Dijia froze for a moment, “I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

Bai Lixin chuckled and looked Dijia up and down. “Actually, you are quite similar, there isn’t single flaw if one looks at the face alone.”

“However, when Dijia left the room, it was summer, it is impossible for him to find any snow. Instead, there was a thin layer of snow on your shoulders when you walked in. You even shook your shoulders to shake it off.”

“Secondly, Dijia has always called these fox cubs ‘little beasts’, but of course this is only a verbal term of endearment and no denigration or disrespect was intended, please understand.”

“Thirdly, Dijia wouldn’t call the fox cubs as patiently as you did either, don’t underestimate a man’s jealousy.”

“Fourth, and most importantly,” Bai Lixin lifted his cuff to reveal the beast tattoo at his wrist. The black had turned pale gold at some point. “I have a contract with these four little ones, I can feel their emotions through the contract. “

“I hurt when they are scared, and my wrist gets warm when they are happy.”

“No matter how much you disguise yourself, the bond buried in your bones and in your blood will not be severed.”

“You should be their father.”

Seeing that his disguise had been seen through, “Dijia” threw his head back and laughed loudly, and his whole body began to morph like a gel.

A few moments later, ”Dijia” disappeared and was replaced by a man in a long black robe.