Artifact Chapter 30: Blacked Out

 

Chapter 30: Blacked Out

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Jing Mo’s eyes were slightly red and he turned his head to look at Lu Ming and choked up, “Brother, you won’t be killed, will you?”

Lu Ming was slightly stunned, and then his eyebrows widen and he walked forward to hug Jing Mo’s shivering body, patted his back and said softly, “How could it be? These are just your illusions, don’t be afraid.”

Jing Mo stretched out his hands and hugged Lu Ming tightly, hot tears fell on Lu Ming’s neck, sobbing in a low voice. Lu Ming listened to his heart, and did not know how to comfort him.

After a long time, Jing Mo said, “If this becomes true one day, I will kill that person for you.”

Lu Ming patted his head in amusement and scolded, “I told you this is an illusion, come out with me, okay? Forget about everything here.”

Jing Mo easily stopped crying and said in a muffled voice, “I don’t know how to get out, those people in the village just now, they all shouted your name and said they wanted to unite to kill you, I got angry and killed them all.”

Lu Ming was stunned and remained silent for a few seconds before speaking, “So, you killed all those people?”

Jing Mo raised his head and looked at Lu Ming aggrievedly, his eyes still contained crystal tears, deflating his mouth, “They were all bad guys, if I didn’t kill them, brother would be besieged by them.”

Lu Ming smiled, his expression couldn’t help but be serious. Although killing people in the illusion would not cause anyone’s death, but Xiao Mo so carelessly said such words as killing people, with not even a little fear as if it were normal.

No, if this continued, this child’s psychology would sooner or later go wrong. In case he grew up to be a pervert like Sang Wusheng, it will be too late. It was time to give him a good lesson on youth mental health.

Lu Ming thought so, and wanted to leave the illusion urgently. He dragged Jing Mo towards the road he came from, went down Sleepless Mountain and came to the village, but found that all the corpses on the ground had disappeared. The village was so quiet that there was no sound, as if everything that just happened was an illusion.

Lu Ming said while walking, “Xiao Mo, you must remember that everything that happened here is your own illusion, no matter what you see or hear, don’t pay any attention to it. Hold on to my hand, don’t let go, just follow me.”

Jing Mo heard such words, and his heart trembled. An indescribable feeling gradually filled every inch of his body, as if immersed in a hot spring, calm and warm. Trapped in the illusion, he only experienced sadness and pain and it all instantly dissipated. He gripped Lu Ming’s hand tightly and nodded gently, his eyes shining like stars.

Lu Ming walked up to the tall red lacquer door, took a deep breath, pushed the door open and looked inside.

The long corridor appeared in front of them again. Lu Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that Xiao Mo’s mind demon had been removed, the way gradually built up, so that the two of them would soon be able to go out.

At that moment, a black shadow suddenly and quickly flew in front of the two.

Lu Ming was startled and hurriedly pulled Jing Mo back a few steps to look at the person in front of him.

The man was dressed in black huafu, his eyebrows were cold and handsome, but his body exuded a detached and cold aura that almost made people afraid to approach. This person is actually the adult version of Sang Wusheng who dueled with He Qingci on Sleepless Mountain just now.

Jing Mo saw the other party, a trace of panic immediately flashed through his heart, looked at him and said angrily, “Get out!”

The other was not angry, just hooked up the corners of his mouth to look at him, sneering, “I did not expect that I was so bad as a child.”

Jing Mo was so angry that he was shaking, and his grip on Lu Ming was tightening.

Lu Ming looked at him worriedly, then said comfortingly, “This is an illusion, don’t believe it.”

Jing Mo took a deep breath, smiled lightly at Lu Ming, and said, “Brother, don’t worry, I can handle it.”

Before Lu Ming could react, he quietly poured demonic energy into his hand and slowly channeled it into Lu Ming’s body.

Lu Ming, who was standing on the sidelines, didn’t know what was going on and suddenly felt a wave of tiredness coming on. He said, “Xiao Mo, this is an illusion, don’t.”

Jing Mo hurriedly reached out to catch Lu Ming and gently picked him up and put him on a stone to lie down, not forgetting to take off his shirt and cover him up, fearing that he might catch a cold.

The man saw this and immediately snickered, “So afraid that he will find out your identity, Sang Wusheng?”

Jing Mo touched Lu Ming’s silent sleeping face with his hand, then stood up, looked coldly at the person in front of him and said, “It’s none of your business.”

“How can it be none of my business?” The man smiled lightly, with a trace of mockery on his cheeks, “I am you.”

Jing Mo said in a cold voice, “You are just my illusion.”

The person smiled, suddenly laughed, and then said, “Do you think that everything you experienced was an illusion? Then you are very wrong. This is the real world, a forgotten memory that you have hidden deep inside, and everything that just happened is part of your personal experience.”

Jing Mo heard the words, his heart seemed like a thunderbolt. He stared at the man who looked almost exactly like himself and said with a trembling voice, “No, I don’t believe it.”

“Do you really think he is really that pure and good He Qingci?” The other him coldly smiled, eyes flashing a flash of inexplicable light, then said, “Have you ever really known him? He stayed with you every day, but he still carried countless secrets that you did not know, but never explained to you, did not he?”

Jing Mo’s body shook, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes. Although he had always convinced himself not to think about it, the doubts in his heart had long been heavy, and today he was suddenly uprooted by this man, how could he not panic?

The other him saw his panic, then said, “He never speaks the truth to you, just treats you as an outsider. In a few years, or decades, he will one day marry and have a family of his own. And you, just a sad outsider, will only be completely abandoned by him. To him, you are just a dispensable brother. If later he knows that from the beginning you were lying to him, pretending to be his simple and kind brother Jing Mo, but hiding your demon identity, then he will not hesitate to drive you away, tell you to get lost, disappear completely from his life, and never see each other again in this life.”

“Stop it!” Jing Mo clutched his head, the intense pain seemed to be tearing his every nerve, those words were like a magic spell, making his whole body lose control. His demonic energy began to run amok, the dark lines on his cheeks slowly emerged, his appearance gradually changed from Jing Mo to Sang Wusheng, a pair of red eyes full of pain and despair.

When the other him saw his appearance, he gave a cold snort of disdain and said, “What a loser.”

Jing Mo could not hear the other’s words at this moment, but his mind kept replaying the scene of Lu Ming’s bad words to him. Even in the end, Lu Ming was already indifferent to him to the extreme, the warm smile had long since disappeared, every time he looked at him, there was a look of utter disgust, wanting him to die immediately.

Jing Mo was covered with great fear, his brain buzzing, darkness before his eyes. A trace of blood slowly dripped down the corner of his mouth, his eyes were red, he had completely lost his mind. Only boundless hatred and anger filled his brain, making him feel as if he was in a sea of fire, suffering from the torment of burning fire.

At this moment, a faint voice suddenly appeared in Jing Mo’s heart. The voice whispered in his ear, as if with a boundless temptation, “Since you don’t want to lose it, let it become your own.”

“Become my own…” Jing Mo’s heart trembled, as if he had grabbed a lifeline, and asked eagerly, “What should I do?”

The voice at the bottom of his heart, with a hint of compulsion, laughed lightly and said, “Get all the power, so that he can no longer fight against you, and then confine him to your side, so he cannot escape in life and in death.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, a bright light suddenly appeared in front of Jing Mo’s eyes, as if tempting him to go there. The voice continued, “Go ahead and inherit all the demonic power inside you so that you can do whatever you want and no one can resist you anymore, including him.”

Jing Mo lifted his feet, his eyes were lazy, and he approached the light source, but the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up into a strange smile, and as he walked, he whispered, “As long as I get the power of the demon race, brother will never leave me again.”

The light was getting closer and closer to him, and finally, Jing Mo’s whole body was covered by the intense light. The light seemed to be able to penetrate his body, and gradually all of it went into his body.

The dark lines on Jing Mo’s cheeks became more and more profound and clear, a pair of red eyes shone with a chilling light. Long black hair was blown by the wind, and he was gradually wrapped up by the sudden black demonic energy. He closed his eyes, handsome cheeks slightly raised, as if he was undergoing a baptism and metamorphosis.

Jing Mo slowly opened his eyes, his pair of red pupils no longer existed, replaced by the pair of obsidian-like black eyes.

Jing Mo slowly walked towards Lu Ming and bent down, with his hair hanging gently over the sleeping man. He reached out and lovingly caressed Lu Ming’s peaceful sleeping face, quietly looking at it for a long time, before using his chin to lovingly rub Lu Ming’s cheek, and then came close to his ear and whispered, “Brother, Wusheng will never let you go again in this life.”

The sleeping Lu Ming felt a little uneasy, his brow was slightly wrinkled, his body involuntarily shrank a little, and it could be because of the cold.

 

 

 

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