Chapter 640 Truth 2

Chapter 640: The Truth (Part 2)

"Due to the experiments of the Red Moon Association, unexpected changes have occurred in the Face Forest."

Through the puppet named "Yao," by borrowing the power of the Puzzle, those eyes, far away in Mist Mountain, watched Su Bai, who stood in the forest, through the curtain the Director set up.

He remembered it very clearly. Back then, he still saw Su Bai as a task his friend had left him, a rare companion in his long, lonely days. Although he had already come to care deeply for Su Bai at that time, he had been lonely for so long that he couldn't say for sure whether it counted as affection, let alone understand what he was feeling.

The him of today would never have let Su Bai head into the Face Forest alone without thorough investigation.

Even if that area appeared ordinary on the surface, even if the Evil Ghost Puzzle by Su Bai's side was sufficient to handle any threat, he wouldn't have let Su Bai walk into that forest alone.

But back then, he realized it way too late.

The very instant he lost contact with Su Bai, a crushing, suffocating panic hit him, throwing everything off course. For the first time in his existence as the Ghost Witch, he truly panicked.

He ripped through space, sparing no effort, taking only three minutes to reach the Face Forest where Su Bai had vanished.

But he was already too late.

The Ghost Witch showing up in person set off alarms for the Red Moon Association. Even though he didn't hide his purpose and made it absolutely clear he didn't care about their experiments, that he had only come to take back a human who meant the world to him—

Those scum from the Red Moon Association simply wouldn't listen.

They still chose to block his path, as if they were scared the legendary Ghost Witch would screw up their secret plans.

Fueled by a sudden, inexplicable fear, Wu Hang struck without a second thought. He took down everyone in his way at an insane speed, fighting his way deep into the forest.

...

But in the end, he was still too late.

When that special contract brought Wu Hang through the Face Forest, when he saw the once-vibrant human lying there motionless, his long-forgotten heart suddenly slammed in his chest, like it was about to burst out of his chest.

A pain he had never felt before pierced his entire body, and the world in front of him turned a sharp, blinding red.

At that moment, Wu Hang could no longer hear any sound.

The Red Moon Association refused to believe that the legendary Ghost Witch had personally come just to retrieve a human. All they did was send wave after wave of Eerie Entities lunging at him. But he seemed completely numb, didn't even have the reflex to fight back anymore, standing there motionless.

He only knew one thing—

His own world had shattered right in front of him.

That person, the one who meant the most to him, lay there before him, utterly still.

In that instant, Wu Hang finally understood. Su Bai was never just a responsibility entrusted by a friend, nor merely a rare companion that had appeared in his life. He was the one and only obsession of his life, and at that moment, he became the whole reason the Ghost Witch existed.

Deep within his originally dormant body, a nearly destructive power started churning inside him, like a volcano about to blow—uncontrollable.

He didn't care if he died, or if the whole area got wiped out along with him.

Even if he went down with everything around him in the next second, he wouldn't have given a damn.

That pain had robbed him of the ability to think, to be rational, or to distinguish friend from foe.

He just wanted the whole world to burn with him.

It didn't matter.

Nothing mattered anymore.

But...

Just before that force was about to erupt, a familiar voice spoke up from deep in his mind.

It was Su Xuan's voice.

The final message from the guy who stubbornly called him "friend," the one who constantly shoved photos of his little brother in front of him, and who, at the end of his life, begged him to take care of Su Bai—

"I'm sorry. In the end, I couldn't find a way to fix all of this. But someday, I saw Su Bai's fate of being drawn under the Red Moon. The last thing I can do is leave a faint glimmer of hope for my last remaining family. My friend, if one day he truly walks into a dead end, use the method I left behind to give him one more shot."

...

Taking that chance, Wu Hang told him everything that Su Xuan had done in the previous life.

Su Bai listened in silence, taking in all of Wu Hang's words.

Although he had recalled his encounter in the Face Forest, Su Bai had no knowledge of what had happened outside the Face Forest in his past life, let alone imagine what Su Xuan suffered in that past life.

"So... there was never any rebirth."

After a long silence, when time itself froze across the entire Face Forest, Su Bai stared at the red moon over the stage and muttered to himself.