Soul Trigger

Chapter 214 Open the door

Noon in the hospital.

Following the nurse's instructions, Ji Li came to the door of a ward, where a middle-aged woman with many medical devices was sleeping.

Her face was haggard and she was so thin that she looked like skin and bones. It was obvious that she had been lying here for a long time.

"This is it... Excuse me, who are you to her?"

"We are acquaintances. Can I be alone with her for a while?"

"Okay, I'll be leaving first. If you need anything, just press the nurse's bell at the bedside."

The young nurse left with a little disappointment. She wanted to chat more with this attractive-looking boy.

With Ji Li's current "affinity" attribute, he often has a special appeal to ordinary people who do not have spiritual core abilities.

Although it won't directly transform into a male succubus, it will inevitably be much more convenient when doing things.

He found the hospital and just spoke. The nurse attentively showed him the way, so he didn't even have to take out his ID.

The woman on the bed was Li Zhanxiang's mother. Although Li Zhanxiang did not leave any information for Ji Li, with the help of the photo and the Special Management Bureau's huge hidden network system, he still found the whereabouts of the other party's family members.

His father is missing and his mother is seriously ill. Currently, the only person who is still free is his younger sister, who comes to the hospital to visit her mother almost every day.

But Ji Li felt a little puzzled. Li Zhanxiang had been a Reflection Walker for many years, but he still hadn’t raised enough money for his medical expenses?
Or maybe, because he works for the Magic Mirror, he can't have any financial dealings with his family, leaving more evidence behind...

Ji Li thought about it, put aside what he was holding, then gently placed his hand on the woman's exposed shoulder and activated the Soul Mach.

……

The girl looked at herself in the elevator mirror, holding an empty envelope in her hand.

All the hard work of the past half month was gone in an instant.

When will this end...

She watched the elevator rise with lifeless eyes, her thoughts gradually drifting back to half a month ago.

The scene where the young man, who looked not much older than himself, killed the Heihua Street gangster with one sword.

She didn't know why she had the courage to lead the other person even though her legs were shaking with fear.

But if not for this, she would not have seen the scene that impressed her the most, where the other party cut through the air and drilled into it.

She couldn't help but think back to how she did it.

Did it cut through space? Was it a dimensional slash?

And what the other party said: "If you are not this kind of person, you can't learn it."

She covered her shoulder bag, where the dagger given by the other party was hidden.

She came today to deliver the medical expenses.

That day, after she came out of the hospital in a daze, she somehow ended up on Heihua Street again.

She thought that perhaps she subconsciously wanted to seek help from someone, but she didn't know who to ask. The only person who came to her mind was the young man who was called an Onmyoji by the gangsters.

But when she arrived at Heihua Street, it had been blocked by police.

After disappearing for a while, the gangsters from Heihua Street came looking for her again, but they only sent her harassing text messages once and never appeared in front of her again.

The loan shark may not have to be repaid, but my mother can’t hold on for much longer.

Thinking of the sky-high medical bills that would follow, she felt that the future was bleak.

"Let's save some money on food today. I think there's a box lunch for sale at the door. It's only HK$8 a bowl..."

"No, what should we do tonight? We might as well stay until the evening. At noon, we can see if we can find a lady from the next ward to stay with us..."

"I heard that the hospital's medical examination cafeteria often has leftover bread and milk that others don't eat. I wonder if I can ask the nurse to help me get some..."

She muttered to herself, feeling her eyes sore.

"A gambler and an unfilial son... Dad, brother, you two really deserve to die... Just die outside!"

"An Tong...?"

A familiar voice brought her back to reality. She was startled and realized that she had walked to the nurse's station. The nurse behind the station looked astonished.

"I didn't say anything weird just now..."

"An Tong, what's wrong with you?" the nurse asked with concern.

Of course she knew the girl. She came to visit her seriously ill mother almost every day and was very filial, so she left a deep impression on the nurses here.

But the auntie might not be able to hold on for much longer. Thinking of her poor family background, the nurse's eyes were inevitably filled with pity, and she said in a gentle tone:
"Are you under too much pressure? Come, have some bread."

"…Sorry, I was thinking."

Li Antong glanced at the bag of bread the other party took out and swallowed his saliva imperceptibly:
"I...I'm not hungry."

"Take it."

She took the bread from the nurse blankly and said reluctantly, "...Thank you."

The nurse suddenly said, "By the way, there was a young man here today. He's not much older than you and he's quite good-looking. I wonder if he's your brother."

Li Antong was stunned: "My brother?"

Over time, she became familiar with the nurses here and would chat with them when she visited her mother.

Everyone knew that she had an older brother who ran away from home to escape debt.

Li Antong was suddenly delighted, but then she thought of something, and a gleam of anger ignited in her eyes: "Where is he?!"

Her mind was filled with the words "your brother" and she completely ignored the fact that the nurse mentioned that he was "quite good-looking".

"It seems you are still in your mother's ward. Haven't you left yet?"

The bread wrapped in the plastic bag fell to the ground with a "pop". Li Antong turned around and rushed to the ward, leaving the nurse who was calling out softly behind.

When she rushed to the door of the ward, panting, she saw that it was empty, with only large and small packages left at the bedside.

She walked in quickly, rummaged through the package, and saw some gifts, fruits, and food inside.

So she turned around and rushed back to the nurses' station:
"What about that person?"

The nurse was a little stunned: "It was still there just now?"

"Surveillance, I want to see the surveillance!"

The girl was very emotional. The nurse was a little embarrassed for a moment, then she sighed and invited the girl in. At the same time, she also felt a little dissatisfied with the handsome man just now.

But unexpectedly, there was nothing on the surveillance video, as if the short half minute that the young man appeared was erased out of thin air.

The nurse panicked:
"But, he clearly..."

Li Antong seemed to have thought of something, and his excitement suddenly calmed down:
"What does he look like?"

"He...is very handsome?"

The nurse said this with an embarrassed look on her face.

Mainly, it was difficult for her to explain the feeling the other person brought to her. Li Antong seemed to have thought of something, and quickly said goodbye to the nurse and returned to her mother's ward.

Although her brother had disappeared for a long time, she was still able to remember what he looked like.

He definitely doesn't look good.

As for the most beautiful person she had met recently, in her memory...

It was the man who saved her life on Heihua Street.

Although it made no sense for the other party to appear here, she really hoped that this was the case because that was the first "Onmyoji" she had ever seen.

After looking around, she fixed her eyes on the bedside table on the other side, walked over quickly, and grabbed something on it -

It was an old pocket watch. After pressing it gently, one could see a photo inside the watch cover that was stained with traces of time. Li Antong instantly fell into a trance.

"how come……"

She looked at the photo with a sense of loss and fell into a state of trance for a long time.

Why is it such a thing?
What does it mean?
Is it really my brother who is back?

Why...after so much time has passed, there is only one thing like this?
The complex emotions ignited anger in her heart, and she frantically wanted to find some other clues to answer the doubts in her heart and dispel the resentment and grievance in her heart.

She turned the pocket watch over and over like a madman, trying to take it apart. If there was any information left on it, it would be behind the photo.

Finally she tore the photo out and saw an address and a string of numbers written on the back.

At this moment, a hoarse female voice suddenly came to her ears:

"...An Tong?"

She was shocked, and the pocket watch in her hand fell to the ground with a "click". Her head turned slowly like a rusty spring.

The woman who, in her memory, had been lying in bed for who knows how many years, now opened her eyes and gave her a weak look.

Tears as big as beans filled her eyes:

"mom……?!"

Below the hospital, Ji Li's five senses, enhanced by his spiritual essence, heard faint crying coming from above the inpatient building and paused for a moment.

"That's all I can do, Brother Rat."

After all, Li Zhanxiang's family are just ordinary people. It is impossible for him to have much contact with this family. The dagger he gave to the girl was just a coincidence without knowing the other party's identity.

"I have done what I promised you. What remains is to wait for the magic mirror to appear next time and send him to be buried with you."

Ji Li was playing with the silver mirror fragment left by the magic mirror in his hand, and his own appearance was reflected on it.

……

Today is the weekend, and Ji Li returned to the quiet Aries College.

Xiang Yu's Overlord Group did not completely evacuate. Before leaving, Silly Dog left behind a cowdog and a few younger brothers with better character.

The reason is that these stray dogs are not very good at fighting, so they might as well stay in school and enjoy the good times with the little girls, and at the same time relieve the boredom of Lao Da.

Therefore, Aries College is not too deserted nowadays.

Ji Li returned to his own Lingbo Prison [Giant Structure].

At this moment, the area of ​​the [Megastructure] has doubled. Apart from the spiders and black ice rats hunting down some minor evil creatures, the biggest contribution is actually the black box.

During the previous riot in the Lingbi Prison near the school, relying on the "siphon" feature, all the evil things that the black box solved became nourishment for Ji Li's Lingbi Prison.

Although the area of ​​the [megastructure] is not large enough to invite a football team to play a game, there is still enough space for playing a basketball game or inviting a few girl groups to perform erotic dancing.

After returning to his hometown, Ji Li said hello to Black Box and went straight to the ruins below. According to the procedure, he fought with the little dragon man using his current evil spirit form.

It is worth mentioning that even though Ji Li has reached the peak level of the sixth level, he still cannot gain any advantage over the little dragon man.

Although this guy has superb skills, he is no match for Ji Li, who has been immersed in fighting for hundreds of years.

The key point is that no matter what level Ji Li's current spiritual quality is, this guy's spiritual quality still seems to have no end.

Physically, it felt like he was getting stronger, and this guy was also getting stronger.

But Ji Li knew that this guy couldn't become stronger indefinitely, there must be some kind of upper limit, and his own strength was only allowing the other party to gradually unlock the upper limit, and he was promoting this process of unlocking the upper limit.

I just don’t know what will happen on the day when Brother Long’s numerical monster is officially unblocked.

Ji Li's figure suddenly became ghostly.

He quickly clicked on several points in the side room and came to the flaw behind the little dragon man that would definitely be exposed according to this process. He relied on this mechanism bug to cut off the opponent's head.

"Thanks for the sparring, that's all for today."

After Ji Li skillfully recorded the spiritual circuit in a side room, he regained his human form and came to Henson's body.

After another half month of immersion in the practice of spiritual circuits, by chance, his own rune circuit was born.

Ji Li’s current attainments in spiritual circuits are far beyond what they were a few months ago.

And he was finally able to understand the spiritual circuits around Henson.

At this moment, these things in his eyes were completely different from what they looked like before. They were not things that required learning how to burn before they could be used.

Ji Li walked forward and placed his hands on those spiritual circuits. A touch of spiritual color with a black core and white edges that was unique to him was injected into them. Just like walking through a maze, he started from a point and began to spread out in the complex spiritual circuits on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, his spiritual essence had spread to the entire space where the flesh and blood gate was located, filling those spiritual essence circuits.

His spiritual essence was flowing on the ground, ceiling, and walls, which was quite spectacular.

And Henson's body gradually began to move, and half of his huge palm made a rumbling sound, and then it exploded into a blood mist that filled the sky -

"This part of the main circuit has the property of spiritual reconstruction... Is its actual function to reorganize Henson?"

At this moment, the blood mist in the sky condensed into a thick blood-colored fog, and gradually shrank into a hazy blood-colored giant egg. Something was growing inside it.

And there was also an aura conveyed from it, which was connected to Ji Li himself.

The next moment, the entire ruins began to shake. Ji Li saw his spiritual essence quickly flowing out of this space and flowing towards the entire ruins outside.

In an instant, all the spiritual circuits in the ruins emitted a light that belonged only to him:

"Does this completely belong to me?"

Just as this thought flashed through Ji Li's mind, he felt a subtle uncontrollable change coming from all directions.

The moment he noticed the source of the change, he turned around abruptly and saw a trace of blood flowing out from the tightly closed flesh and blood door behind him——

In an instant, the red light spread throughout the spiritual circuits in the entire ruins, illuminating everything in blood, and the door rumbled open, bursting out with surging light, completely enveloping Ji Li.

He felt that the red light instantly sucked him in, and an endless blood-red desert appeared before his eyes, passing by him at high speed.

His own spiritual essence was being consumed at an uncontrollable speed, and a sharp pain spread throughout his body:
"Why is the flesh gate open?!"
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PS: There was a power outage in the whole city today, and the power was restored around 10:30, so this is all we have for now. It has been slowly returning to normal recently, so I'll make up for it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

This chapter has some deletions and revisions. I don't know if there are any small bugs. I will post it first and then make revisions.

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