Soul Returning to Life, Abyss Binding the Body

"Hurry and kill me! Aren't you a Bizarre who acts according to the rules? What are you waiting for!!!" Li Mo grabbed Bizarre Kiana's shoulder and shook it, shouting tremblingly, trying to provoke Bizarre Kiana's killing intent.

The next second, tears flowed from her empty, lifeless eyes. The tears were like a pool of stagnant water, and two conspicuous tear stains were drawn on her pale cheeks.

"I don't want you to go... I don't want you to go..."

Bizarre Kiana was like a child, repeating the same sentence aggrievedly.

"If I kill you... you'll be gone..."

"I don't want you to leave... Mo... don't leave me..."

"It's like this every time... it's like this every time..."

Li Mo's pupils contracted, and his movements came to an abrupt halt. An incredibly terrifying thing had happened. He saw a living person's expression on Bizarre Kiana's face, the same aggrieved look that Kiana had shown in his memories.

"..."

All the actions of the Bizarre strictly followed the rules. They would never, like humans, be able to defy their biological instincts to a certain extent and do irrational things. The Bizarre could not violate its own rules.

"Kiana... is that you...?" Li Mo was lost in confusion, and his hand that was tightly gripping her shoulder suddenly loosened. But the next second, he grabbed it again.

He had to leave.

The voice of the ghost of misfortune in his mind gradually became smaller, and the rule of disappearance at the end was rekindling. If the curse of the ghost of misfortune stopped, he would disappear immediately.

"Mo... I'm Kiana, I'm Kiana... don't go, okay?"

Bizarre Kiana's body trembled slightly, she gently stroked Li Mo's cheek and looked straight at him. Her scarlet eyes were full of Li Mo's figure.

This change might be due to the Soul-Ferrying Passage, but Li Mo no longer had the leisure and time to think.

"Kiana, I love you, so please... no, I'm begging you to kill me."

Li Mo stepped forward and hugged Kiana.

"No matter how long it takes, I will find a way to save you. I will bring you back to my side and make you laugh happily like before."

"At that time, everyone will be by our side to bless us. You don't have to worry about the Honkai anymore. We will have a small family."

"I won't let you wait too long..."

"But now, kill me."

Li Mo grabbed Kiana's wrist and placed it on his own heart.

"I love you."

As his voice fell, with a "rip," a hole appeared in Li Mo's chest.

The curse of the ghost of misfortune completely disappeared, and the rule of disappearance crashed.

In a state of first death, approaching a state of second death, Li Mo could not withstand fatal injuries to his heart, brain, and other vital organs. The source of the damage was the extremely complete Bizarre Kiana.

Therefore, when the rule of disappearance tried to offset the concept of death and trace the source of the injury, it collided with Bizarre Kiana's rules.

"Thud—!"

At the same time, the dead souls in the Soul-Ferrying Passage fell one by one, like dominoes, falling quickly and in an orderly manner. And the moment they fell, their flesh and blood rapidly decayed, and after a short while, only a white skeleton remained.

Then, the white bones turned into sand and merged into the Soul-Ferrying Passage.

The ghosts born in countless cycles were all fighting against Bizarre Kiana. One by one, the white bones that turned into a handful of sand offset Bizarre Kiana's rules, but this was far from enough.

"No..."

Bizarre Kiana subconsciously took two steps back. Her mind was in chaos, and the Bizarre's instincts and the remaining humanity were constantly colliding.

In the end, under the conflict of the rules, the Bizarre's instincts prevailed. Bizarre Kiana once again showed a morbid smile and walked towards the fallen Li Mo. But she could not take a step forward, at least not before the rule of disappearance ended.

Bizarre Kiana desperately wanted to walk towards Li Mo's position. The speed at which the dead souls in the Soul-Ferrying Passage fell became faster.

"Ngh..."

Li Mo, who had been pierced through the heart, struggled to get up and murmured, "Did I succeed..."

Li Mo turned around and walked towards the other world at the end, stumbling like a centenarian, pausing for a long time with every step.

Li Mo clutched the missing piece of his heart. The Bizarre power was healing, but it still needed some time. He couldn't wait, he couldn't wait any longer...

"Thump... thump... thump..."

Unlike before, Li Mo's steps were unsteady and without rhythm, like chaotic raindrops hitting the eaves. With every step, he exhausted all his strength to move forward as fast as possible.

Seeing that Li Mo was about to leave, Bizarre Kiana frantically urged the power of the end, wanting to freeze all the time in the Soul-Ferrying Passage. However, Li Mo still didn't stop, including the other dead souls in the Soul-Ferrying Passage.

Only Seele Vollerei outside the end was motionless, but the next second her time was restored, but there were a few more wisps of confusion in her eyes. The Soul-Ferrying Passage was created through Seele Vollerei's name. The main body was her. Bizarre Kiana only needed to freeze the time when Li Mo exchanged the names of Seele Vollerei and Kanagawa Yume to freeze this place.

But the Bizarre couldn't think. She would only act according to the rules. Therefore, Bizarre Kiana could not freeze the end.

Blood gushed from the hole in his heart, dyeing half of his body red. Li Mo clutched his heart, his right hand looking as if it had just been taken out of a pool of blood, without a single trace of human skin color. Fresh blood flowed from between his fingers, dripped onto the ground, and faintly flowed into the sea.

Right in front of him, Li Mo only needed to take one more step to return to the outer world.

Finally, Li Mo couldn't help but look back at Bizarre Kiana. In an instant, the frantic Bizarre Kiana suddenly quieted down and stared at Li Mo in a daze.

"Eternal sleep is not the end, the deceased will return."

The next second, Li Mo stepped forward. In an instant, the surroundings were pitch black, and even breathing became extremely difficult. He only felt the bitter and salty seawater constantly pouring into his mouth and nasal cavity.

Five nights return of the soul, Li Mo is reborn.

"Ngh, ngh, ngh..."

Li Mo opened his eyes. He couldn't see his hand in front of his face. He couldn't see anything. A pressure squeezed his fragile body, and... he was held tightly by a pair of hands.

It was Shigure Kira.

With his reason restored, Li Mo quickly judged that this was the bottom of the sea, and that he had been falling for too long, causing the pressure of the seawater on his body to be too great. He couldn't stay!

Li Mo easily broke free from Shigure Kira's embrace, because she had already lost consciousness.

So cold...

Li Mo fumbled around and touched Shigure Kira's face and arms. The warmth of a living person had long since disappeared.

A sharp pain continued to come from his heart, but Li Mo couldn't care less. He grabbed Shigure Kira and swam in the opposite direction of their fall. His physical fitness after the first death had surpassed human limits. Even so, Li Mo still couldn't swim out of the sea after three minutes of persistence.

But he could vaguely see the continuous moonlight on the sea surface.

In the fifth minute, Li Mo successfully pulled Shigure Kira out of the sea. Without a moment's rest, he immediately swam towards the beach. High-intensity swimming was a very physically demanding thing, not to mention carrying a corpse. Li Mo after his first death was obviously unable to support it.

The Bizarre power was repairing the hole in his heart, with no time to worry about the torn muscles and the tired and sore muscles. Every stroke, it seemed he could hear the wailing and moaning of his cells.

Under the dual pressure of his will and his body, Li Mo touched the ground with his feet at the last moment when his physical strength was exhausted.

"Heh... ah... heh..."

Li Mo wiped the seawater from his eyes, immediately placed Shigure Kira flat on the beach, and then performed CPR on her according to his shallow medical knowledge.

Rest? Li Mo didn't have that much time.

Saving someone who has drowned is a race against time. Because after a person drowns, their breathing stops, and the oxygen stored in their body is limited. Most people can only maintain their life for about 5 minutes temporarily. If the time is too long and breathing is not restored, it may cause brain death due to lack of oxygen.

Once the drowning time exceeds 10 minutes, or even longer, the brain death rate is extremely high, and it is almost impossible to save them.

Li Mo didn't know how long it took him to bring Shigure Kira out of the water, but from the moment Shigure Kira fell into the sea to the moment he walked out of the end, the time definitely exceeded ten minutes...

Li Mo's arms trembled uncontrollably, and he couldn't use any strength. He could only bite his lip and press desperately.

Her chest still wasn't rising and falling, and her carotid artery wasn't beating. He pressed again and again, and gave artificial respiration, but the situation did not improve.

In fact, the effect of CPR can be seen in a few minutes. If you don't see any effect, it can only mean that the other person is already brain dead, and no matter how hard you try, you can't save them.

Li Mo persisted for half an hour in his exhaustion, and finally, he stopped. He looked at the peaceful Shigure Kira on the beach and said nothing. The seawater had soaked her clothes and wet her sky-blue hair. Without a hair tie, Shigure Kira's hair was scattered, not at all neat.

Her lips were as pale as snow, and her chest no longer rose and fell. No heartbeat, no breathing. Under the starlight, she was like a beautiful corpse, her soul seeming to have returned to the brilliant river of stars flowing outside the sky.

"..."

Li Mo took out his Bizarre handgun. The magazine had only recovered one bullet.

"Bang!"

Li Mo pointed the Bizarre handgun at his forehead. With a gunshot, he returned to a minute ago. The restart would send him back to the most recent relatively safe period in his self-awareness. Walking out of the Soul-Ferrying Passage, leaving the sea, and returning to the beach, this was a relatively safe period.

"It's not enough."

Li Mo once again took out his Bizarre handgun. There was still only one bullet in the magazine. With another gunshot, Li Mo returned to a minute ago.

This time, Li Mo did not take out his Bizarre handgun, but stretched out his Bizarre Mei Left Hand. After three deaths, he could use "Usurp," but "Usurp" had usage restrictions, exchanging for things in his memory at the same price. Whether it was a physical object or a concept.

Love was never equal from the beginning, and neither was life. Li Mo could not exchange for life, because his knowledge of medicine was very shallow. He had another way.

"Abyss Flower..."

The black and white hazy halo was like scattered smoke. The aura of death and life spread to the sand and the jungle not far away. The wet sand shriveled, and the grass and trees withered.

He who gazes into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back. This is an objective law.

No one can always be on guard. Li Mo ultimately couldn't be like a righteous knight with a protagonist's halo, forging ahead without fear, cutting through thorns and still moving forward. People will always fall, and are always falling.

Reason will not last forever, and there will be a day when it collapses.

"Schariac Holy Blood..."

With two exchanges, Li Mo obtained the Abyss Flower and the Schariac Holy Blood respectively.

"Abyss Flower, Holy Blood Release."

After three deaths, Li Mo's tone was calm, only leaving behind peace.

He slowly closed his eyes and held the Abyss Flower high for Shigure Kira in front of him. Like starlight, it fell on the tip of the spear, intertwined with the mottled white light, accumulating a mysterious and vigorous vitality.

Illusion, thoughts, virtual... Li Mo had seen many people in the continuation of his dream.

A non-empty set does not have an empty set. The person you truly love should not only exist in your dreams.

The tip of the Abyss Flower landed on Shigure Kira's forehead, and the white light seeped into her skin bit by bit. At the same time, Li Mo's hand holding the spear began to bleed, dyeing the coast red at a terrifying rate.

Unlike previous holders of the Abyss Flower, Li Mo didn't have to worry about bleeding to death at all. The Bizarre's healing ability was enough to make him live on.

As an ordinary person, the power of the Abyss Flower was enough to awaken Shigure Kira. It was just a matter of time... every exhausted gene felt the nourishment of the Century Orchid and re-expressed its genetic information, like a withered tree meeting spring, bursting with vigorous vitality.

The pale complexion gradually became rosy. The yellowish sand turned scarlet.

The Abyss Flower dissipated, and Li Mo half-knelt on the ground, holding Shigure Kira in his arms, and walked calmly towards the haunted house.

The price?

I don't know... perhaps the price of exchanging for the Abyss Flower and the Holy Blood would not be demanded of his current body, or perhaps they had already turned into rules, imprinted in Li Mo's thoughts.

Its name—「Abyss」

Only kills, not saves.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Li Mo came to the haunted house with the sleeping Shigure Kira in his arms. He remembered very clearly what Seele had said: if he missed Seele, he should wait at the orphanage gate at eight o'clock in the morning.

After waiting for a while, a few figures walked out of the haunted house. It was Kanagawa Yume and her classmates.

"Li... Mingyue! You're not? Wait, who is the girl in your arms?"

"We were walking and found that the fourth floor had changed. The stairs were broken, but there was still an elevator! So we took the elevator to the fifth floor and stayed in the last room until we found that the fog had dissipated, so we came out."

Kanagawa Yume said excitedly as she walked forward. The classmates behind her had a look of relief after a disaster, supporting each other. Some couldn't even walk properly.

Li Mo looked up. The haunted house had lost all its Bizarre rules, and the ritual was complete. The final person to ascend to the fifth floor was Kanagawa Yume and a few ordinary people.

"She is my wife," Li Mo replied casually, his eyes cold, like a frozen flame.

After a simple exchange, Li Mo and Kanagawa Yume went their separate ways. Perhaps they would meet again in the future, but that was a matter for another time.

Li Mo just wanted to take Shigure Kira home quickly now.

At nine o'clock in the morning, two hours had passed since the best time to cross over. Li Mo walked in a dark cave with Shigure Kira in his arms. In the dim and gloomy air, his steps were stiff, yet light.

"It's so cold."

"..."

"I'm kidding, it's actually very warm."

"That's a lie."

"Then... what if I say I love you? Is that the truth?"

"I love you too."

Shigure Kira stuck out her pink tongue, although Li Mo couldn't see it.

"Hehe! So cunning. But... thank you for choosing me."

Li Mo turned his head and murmured softly, "I don't understand."