Artifact Report

Chapter 251: Chasi: The Consequences of Choice

The strange thing was that no matter how he walked deeper into the darkness, he could never get close to Han Liuyue.

"Why can't I get through?" asked Chai Si.

He always felt a little uneasy because he couldn't hold Han Liuyue's arm with his own hands.

She wouldn't get lost, would she? It was pitch black, and without her hand, how could she possibly get back with him?
"Why can't I get to your side?" Chai Si asked.

Even when walking, June still squatted on the ground, her legs like wheels, turning in circles forward. When she heard Chai Si's question, she mumbled something. She kept covering her mouth, and sometimes her voice was too soft to be heard clearly.

"What did you say?"

Han Liuyue raised her voice. "What I'm saying is, you've asked me this question more than a dozen times, and I've answered you several times. And you keep asking me again. I'm getting annoyed."

Chai Si was stunned. Is that so?
It must be the doubt of "Why can't I walk to her side" that floated back from the darkness and bumped into him again and again; every time the doubt bumped into Chai Si, he would ask the same question again.

But the memory of Han Liuyue's answer did not float back.

"Really?" he said blankly. "...I'm sorry."

Han Liuyue sneered: "Isn't it? In every aspect, you really have let me down. You must remember this. Don't forget that you feel guilty towards me."

"...Okay, I won't."

He always remembered the guilt he felt towards Han Liuyue, and it never left him and seeped into the darkness.

Taking another step forward, Chai Si whispered, "Why can't I walk to your side?"

In the deep darkness, Han Liuyue suddenly stood up.

"I'm so fed up, so fed up, so fed up. I'm so fed up with asking myself this question over and over again. Is that question so important to you? If you thought about it less, it wouldn't keep coming back to you. I'm so fed up."

She turned her head, still covering her face with her hands, and strode towards Chai Si.

Even though countless things had been peeled off and drifted away from Chai Si, his animal instinct for survival remained, albeit dulled and slowed. Just as he was about to fight back in self-defense, he realized that Han Liuyue's target wasn't him.

Han Liuyue placed one hand across her face, blocking the center of her face.

The other hand spun and waved above the shoulder like a windmill, as if desperately striking and dispelling the invisible thoughts in the darkness.

There was still a distance between her and Chai Si that seemed to be forever unbridgeable. She screamed, "Get out! If you fall off him, get out! Come back and I won't be polite. Just disintegrate. Disintegrate. Disintegrate. Disintegrate. I don't care whether you will melt away with your master in the end."

Han Liuyue's way of speaking is really unique, as if a large amount of pus spurted out after a cyst and blood blister were stepped on.

Chai Si really wished he could remember whether Han Liuyue used to speak like this.

When Han Liuyue stopped, she covered her face with her hands, stood motionless in the dark for a while.

what happened?
"Hmm... It suddenly occurred to me that these things that have been separated from you, besides being annoying, can also be useful..."

She turned around, facing Chai Si with her head, and lowered her hands.

If he could walk over, he would be able to see her face and know whether she was Han Liuyue - ah, he forgot that Han Liuyue's appearance had long since drifted away in the darkness.

"Protecting the Kai family, think carefully about your determination to protect the Kai family... Yes, that memory is nearby, I just saw it... Think about it more, and it will come back..."

Chase gasped.

Yes……

He had just followed Han Liuyue into the darkness and they did not get separated at first.

Chai Si remembered that he had been running in the darkness, closely chasing the shadow that was constantly retreating and shrinking - it didn't matter where he rushed into; it didn't matter why he could still know Han Liuyue's direction even though everything was dark.

No matter where this place is, no matter what happens here, he must take Han Liuyue out again.

Only Han Liuyue is the only meaning in this endless darkness.

At that time, Chai Si did not realize that the more violent the movement, the more things would fall off his body and float away.

He is like a biscuit soaked in water. If the biscuit is stirred vigorously, the tiny crumbs will dissolve faster—and the water will penetrate deeper.

As the darkness and Chai Si spread and penetrated each other's bodies, he ran and suddenly forgot what Han Liuyue looked like; the memory of her appearance just happened to fall away and wander away during the running process. But this did not slow Chai Si down.

What really made him turn his head suddenly and stop was the layers of chaotic darkness in the other direction - behind that darkness, he "saw" a place that was very familiar.

He had seen many people in the darkness, some of whom he knew and some of whom he didn't; each time, they always appeared with a certain human background.

Even though it only appeared as a background, Chai Si could recognize the Kai family mansion at a glance.

In the Kai family mansion, there was a young woman - he felt that he seemed to have seen her before, but the memory of where he had seen her and who she was had long since drifted away in the darkness.

He was just sure that the other party was definitely not a hunter from the Kai family.

The woman tiptoed into an empty corridor and listened for a while, as if she was on guard against the Kai family. How did she get in?

What was she going to do in Kai's house?
Chai Si's sudden shout was a complete muscle reaction, an instinct - "Someone, come to the first floor library corridor, someone is sneaking in!"

However, the voice fell into the darkness, as if it had become one of countless drifting thoughts and memories, without provoking any response; naturally, no hunter from the Kai family would rush into the corridor to catch anyone.

The woman was still furtive and cautious. She pulled a cell phone from her pocket and took several photos of the corridor, front, back, left, and right, even the ceiling.

...Does she want to find out the internal terrain of the Kai family mansion?
In an instant, several speculations flashed through Chai Si's mind: bombing, assassination, ambush, robbery... One or two of them fell away as soon as they were born, falling into the endless darkness. But the rest were enough to make his nerves tremble.

Completely subconsciously, he walked towards the young woman and raised his hand to grab her cell phone - but it was as if the firewood was just an image formed by countless loose particles, and it passed through her shoulder in one step. He did not grab the phone, but only shook the woman's shoulder slightly.

He stared blankly at his empty hands.

If the feeling when you touch someone normally is 100%, then now it seems to have been washed away, leaving only 1%.

How could he catch that woman with just this little influence? What on earth was going on in this dark place? Did Han Liuyue bring him to—

Han June.

Chai Si suddenly raised his head and could barely make out Han Liuyue's back from the distant darkness; he hadn't delayed for too long and could catch up with Han Liuyue again if he caught up with her immediately.

but……

He turned his head and looked at the young woman beside him who had sneaked into the Kai family mansion with unknown intentions.

The latter seemed to be confused as to why someone touched his shoulder in the empty corridor. He was pale and stood there in a daze.

Chai Si looked at Han Liuyue who was walking away again.

The darkness is endless, as if filled with thoughts.

There are no signposts or directions in the darkness. Once you take your eyes away, you will probably never again... never be able to walk the path you were supposed to take.

The young woman took a step deeper into the corridor of the Kai family mansion. Han Liuyue gradually became smaller as she moved deeper into the darkness.

"...You remember now, right? You see, you gave up on me in order to protect the Kai family. If it weren't for your good luck, you wouldn't have been able to find me."

Han Liuyue chuckled softly, clicking her tongue a few times. "You've got to pay me back what you owe me. So, you have to do whatever I tell you to do, understand? No need to overthink it. Well, you can't overthink it either, you're just a core left."

...It turned out that he was separated from Han Liuyue because of his incompetence.

Chai Si took a deep breath and said, "Okay."

"Besides, what I asked you to do is also good for you. Didn't you see the memory fragment that just swam back? A woman broke into your Kai's house, didn't she? I know who she is, and I also know where she is. Come."

Han Liuyue turned around and motioned Chai Si to follow.

No matter how fast he walked, he couldn't reach Han Liuyue. Without her hand, could she walk back safely on her own?
He was about to ask why he couldn't get through when Han Liuyue stopped first.

She lifted a hand from her face and pointed at a blurry red brick building in the darkness.

"Did you see that? She's right there, about to gather with your Kai family to start the hunter interview. How can this be tolerated? We have to kill her, right? I can teach you how to kill her while she's setting off a move in the trap in the warehouse, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh"

　I! am! tired! out! of! the! residents! face! !

　　From now on I can post as many selfies as I want. Anyone who sees my tired face will fall into the nest and there will be no turning back.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)