Chapter 100: A Place Without Restraints

Hearing Xu Yiling’s cries, a faint smile curved at the corner of my lips as I stood up and simply looked at her.

Xu Yiling lay on the bed, gasping heavily, her entire body trembling as she stared at me.

I spoke, “Next time, don’t treat your mother that way. You clearly know she’s your family. What’s the point in causing harm?”

“You… who are you to lecture me? You know nothing…” she retorted.

I smiled slightly. “What am I teaching you? I don’t want to teach or understand anything. I just want to know what happened three days ago.”

There was no concealment between us—I told her plainly about her being possessed by a malevolent spirit.

“Xu Yiling,” I said, looking at her strangely, “I feel like you don’t care about the possession at all.”

I paused for a moment before continuing, “Do you actually know you’re possessed?”

“My affairs aren’t any of your business,” Xu Yiling said as she reached for her phone. Glancing at the time, her expression suddenly changed. “No… I have to find them…”

Struggling, she sat up, but soon collapsed weakly again.

I furrowed my brows, eyes darting as I said, “So, you know you’re possessed, and you want to find them? You’re not the only one who knows? There are others?”

Taking a deep breath, I warned, “You better clarify exactly what’s happening to you, or you’ll die.”

“Hmph…”

Xu Yiling completely ignored my words, closing her eyes as if pretending to know nothing.

“Creak…”

At that moment, the door opened, and soon Song Zhong appeared beside me.

He said he was worried about me and left Xu Nan downstairs to enjoy the sun while he came up.

“How’s it going?”

I shook my head. Just as Song Zhong was about to speak, he noticed the fruit knife in my hand and immediately snatched it away. “What are you doing? We’re here to solve the problem, not to threaten a little girl.”

I thought better of arguing—after all, he was the chief instructor of the 800,000 Yin Soldiers. I held my tongue.

“Xu Yiling, do you remember me? I’m Brother Song Zhong. We met a few years ago…”

“I don’t have a brother! Don’t try to get close to me!” she snapped.

Song Zhong was met with a cold shoulder, looking a bit awkward.

I patted his shoulder and tilted my head toward Xu Yiling. “Xu Yiling, you’d better tell me honestly what’s going on.”

“Otherwise…”

“Bang…”

Before I could finish, the door slammed against the wall, making me instinctively turn to look.

Xu Nan came rushing in, panic etched on her face, nearly collapsing in front of the bed, trembling as she held her phone.

“Yiling… you have to tell me… tell your brother… what really happened. Do you know… your three close friends from school… they’re all dead…”

At those words, Xu Yiling, who had been tightly closing her eyes, opened them wide.

Her eyes were filled with disbelief as she stared at her mother.

Xu Nan shook her head and held the phone in front of Xu Yiling. “Mom isn’t lying, this is real… look…”

It turned out that while she was outside enjoying the sun, she overheard people downstairs talking about something happening at her daughter’s school.

She searched online and found that Xu Yiling’s three close friends had all perished tragically at home.

Two boys, one girl—all died in the same manner.

According to the news, before they died, they had been locked inside their homes for four days, then suddenly died on the fourth night.

“They… they… they really died?”

Fear filled Xu Yiling’s eyes.

“Impossible. It promised us it would take us to a world without restrictions. They’re dead!” Xu Yiling shook her head incessantly, muttering to herself, “I don’t want to die, I want to live. Why did it lie to us?”

I frowned slightly. “Who is ‘it’? What kind of world without restrictions?”

Now utterly lost, Xu Yiling laid everything bare.

The three who died were her classmates, her closest friends, all of whom troubled their parents.

They shared another trait: rebellion.

None wanted to be controlled by their parents; all longed for the freedom their age deserved.

According to Xu Yiling, one night as they were preparing for an all-nighter, they suddenly encountered a man.

This man, an old fortune teller, called out to the four of them and seemed to know their innermost thoughts.

He said he was destined to meet them and that if they followed his instructions, they could go to a world without restrictions.

The four children were amazed and didn’t think much of it, but his words were alluring.

Just as they were about to leave, the old man suddenly appeared before them again, holding four yellowed photographs.

He told them that if they dripped fresh blood on the photos at midnight, they would reach the world without restrictions.

Apparently, Xu Yiling and the three deceased children all followed through.

So the world without restrictions was, in truth, death...

Chapter 100: The Place Without Restrictions.