The knife mark on the chest healed silently, and a radiant white light overflowed in front of Bai Shuangxing's eyes.

The light cluster quickly dispersed, wrapping her quietly, and in the stagnant time around, it seemed that only she was left, and the dark green and almost black snake on her shoulder.

Bai Shuangxing calmed down: "You...why did you appear in the white night?"

"It's a long story."

Black Snake replied: "Humans and ghosts live in two completely different worlds, separated by a barrier - you know about this?"

Bai Shuangxing nodded: "The Goddess of Light told me."

The little snake smiled: "In the final analysis, the so-called 'gods' are actually just creatures with more power, and there is no essential difference from human beings. They will be sad and happy, and have their own selfishness and ambition."

Having said that, it paused for a moment: "For example... the evil god."

It originally planned to blurt out the name of that god, remembering the taboos related to him, and deliberately skipped those few words.

The name is tainted with the power of evil gods. If the current Baishuangxing heard it, it might be seriously polluted.

Bai Shuangxing didn't speak, but listened quietly.

"Everything the village chief said to you during this white night is true."

The little snake said: "Hundreds of years ago, the evil god was unwilling to stay in just one world, and wanted to break through the barrier."

hundreds of years ago.

Bai Shuang pursed her lips.

At that time, human beings could only use cold weapons such as swords. Once they were attacked by ghosts and monsters, they could only die.

... History has not clearly recorded the catastrophe related to it, which shows that the evil god's first invasion plan must have failed.

"From birth, my duty is to guard the barrier."

Black Snake said: "In the world we live in, ordinary ghosts don't know the existence of the barrier. Even if they knew, they couldn't resist me—until he moved his mind."

"Ghosts are the consciousness of human beings after death. The power of us 'gods' also depends on people's beliefs."

"For thousands of years, although He has been absorbing fear continuously, gradually, he feels more and more unsatisfied."

Bai Shuangxing listened and nodded slightly.

Greed is the nature of all things, and God is no exception.

Fear and faith are the source of his strength, as he used to do step by step, the power he can get in the end is far less than the result of coming to the world and indulging in killing and cruelty.

"So, he tried to pass through the barrier."

Black Snake blinked his eyes: "He is very strong, and with the sudden attack, I couldn't stop it for a while, causing a gap to be broken in the barrier-for this reason, there was the mutation that the village chief said a hundred years ago."

The gap is so small that the evil god itself cannot pass through it, but the ghosts and resentment can.

Bai Shuangxing was thoughtful: "So, the pollution came to this village?"

"The location of this village happens to be at the junction of the barrier."

Black Snake said: "It was first polluted and was almost occupied by endless ghosts. It was at that time that I saw the human consciousness for the first time."

It seemed a little ashamed, and its black peas-like eyes drooped slightly.

"I fought to the death with the evil god within the barrier. He was stronger, and I broke off a part of my tail."

When mentioning the broken tail, the little snake smiled nonchalantly: "That's when... I saw that power."

The existence of human thought aggregates is hardly known to anyone.

Before that, it didn't know about it either.

Until meet it in person.

"This is not difficult to understand. Since human emotions such as fear, hope, malice, etc., can all be transformed into the power of gods, then the purest will of 'faith' can naturally form a kind of power."

Moreover, it is an incomparably strong and heavy force that has lasted through thousands of years.

"It joined hands with me to defeat the evil god. That guy was seriously injured and escaped very quickly."

Black Snake said: "In order to repair the barrier and prevent the spread of ghosts, we have no time to catch up with him, so we can only go through the gap and come to this village."

The black snake is the supervisor of the barrier and has the qualification to travel between the two worlds.

There is no entity in human will, and it can easily cross the gap.

"After fighting the evil god, we are all in a bad state."

The little snake said softly: "It is so weak that it will dissipate at any time, and I am also covered in blood and on the verge of death. After solving the ghosts wandering here, I used my last strength to restore the barrier."

Bai Shuang suddenly realized.

That's why the ancient books in the village recorded that Hydra died in the chaos.

When it came to the village, it was already covered with scars and bloodstains, and after repairing the barrier, it exhausted what little energy it had left.

after that

Bai Shuangxing smiled lightly: "After that, did it become like this?"

The little snake met her four eyes with crooked eyes.

"Well. In order to eliminate the remaining ghosts in the village, I chose to stay in this world. Because of the lack of strength, it is difficult to maintain my shape—"

It paused: "It has become what you see now."

The little snake blinked her eyes, and snaked down her body, while crawling lightly, said in a warm voice:

"As for the other force, it has been greatly damaged and is sleeping near the junction of the two worlds."

It turned out to be like this.

Bai Shuangxing thought for a while, and asked curiously: "Then what happened to Bai Ye? It should be a collection of consciousness that endows humans with exclusive skills?"

Black Snake glanced at her.

"You are very smart."

It said: "A hundred years have passed, and the evil gods have broken the barrier again. As the cracks in the barrier gradually spread, more and more ghosts have entered the human world-if they are allowed to run amok, this world will soon be over."

Bai Shuangxing nodded without retorting.

They can barely fight against monsters with flesh and blood, but once they encounter illusory ghosts, most human beings will be helpless and become shackles.

Little Snake explained patiently: "So, the consciousness aggregate intends to imprison them in another independent space."

Bai Shuangxing was startled: "Consciousness aggregate? It's not..."

Halfway through, she suddenly understood.

And the little snake smiled warmly: "Even if most of the power is dormant here, the will of human beings will always exist—as long as there are people, there will be an endless stream of new beliefs."

It spat out a message: "It's just that the newborn's faith is limited and suppressed by the evil gods. The white night is the result of their mutual checks and balances."

The aggregate of consciousness wants to trap the ghost and create a space.

Evil gods and ghosts covet human flesh and blood, turning the space into a purgatory full of killing and blood, occasionally breaking the bondage between the two worlds, and dragging innocent passers-by into the white night.

Thinking about it this way, everything becomes traceable.

The exclusive skills, Baiye Mall, and the regulations of "there is no dead end in Baiye" are from the hands of the conscious body.

It wants to keep humans alive.

Malicious systems, cruel survival challenges and endless ghosts are the pawns of evil gods.

He wants to extract the fear and despair of mankind through the cruelest torture.

Bai Shuang Xing: "White Night No. 000, was it arranged by you?"

The little snake nodded.

"The barrier is being destroyed day by day, and the power of ghosts and evil gods is too strong for us to suppress."

It said: "This is our last resort... use all the remaining power to invade the main system, strive for the dominance of a White Night, and select the person who has cleared the White Night the most times in 50 regions around the world."

Although White Night No. 000 is dominated by them, it is inevitable that the power of the evil god has also infiltrated.

Such as the pollution in the forest, and believers who are crazy and kill for fun.

The selected challengers are more familiar with White Night, and have a higher chance of survival than newbies who don't know anything about it.

"As I said before, most of the collective will of human beings is sleeping here."

The black snake climbed up to the ground and looked up at her: "If you want to wake it up, you must use the same fiery and strong belief."

As it spoke, it tilted its head, its eyes shifted, and it looked at the blood-colored boulder floating in mid-air.

God dust.

The conditions for clearing White Night No. 000 are very harsh.

In the first round of "Concretization of Fear", the challengers will be divided into three groups, with two to three people in each group. Only by cooperating with each other can they survive as safely as possible.

The second round of "hunting" is a time to test teamwork and human nature.

If the team splits, there is a high probability that the team will be wiped out if everyone is blind, deaf, or missing arms and legs.

The most difficult thing is the third round of "battle".

Thinking of this, Bai Shuangxing looked dark.

Everyone should not be selfish.

Any challenger who touches the god dust cannot continue to live, and therefore, has to face two difficult choices——

Either pass on the hope of living to another person before death, or destroy the god dust and drag everyone to be buried with him.

Sacrifice requires great courage.

And betrayal is often an overnight thing.

After completing three rounds of trials, the pollution from the divine dust was absorbed, and it seemed that everything was settled, but the white night was far from over.

——This is the most obscure step.

The lucky one who should have survived had to risk his own life in order to save others without any certainty.

A team, seven people, everyone can not have selfishness.

Everyone must have beliefs far beyond ordinary people.

The surroundings fell silent for a while, and Bai Shuangxing saw the little snake wagging its tail.

"I originally thought that it was impossible for someone to pass the customs on No. 000 White Night."

It let out a low sigh, with a light tone: "Humans... are indeed a strange race."

Small but great, despicable but selfless.

Even the gods who are far away in the sky will subconsciously favor them.

"Your skill is called [Ghost House], right?"

After a long time, Black Snake looked at Bai Shuangxing with a gentle and firm expression: "Do you want to sign a contract with me?"

The halo in front of his eyes circulated, and Shen Chen, who was floating in mid-air, swirled leisurely.

Bai Shuangxing bent down and lowered his head, covering the little snake's cold cheek with his right hand.

In less than a second, she heard a familiar system tone.

"Congratulations to the challenger, the contract was successfully signed."

"Get Family: Hydra"

"Family file: The god guarding between the two worlds, is extremely powerful, rumored to be murderous, huge as a mountain, and ordinary people must never approach."

Bai Shuangxing couldn't hold back, and glanced at the little black snake the size of a palm on the ground.

The other party opened his round eyes and tilted his head, looking innocent.

["Hydra" skill introduction]

"judgment"

"The supervisor's exclusive function can gather all the power at the junction of the two worlds and use it for oneself."

"Duration: One minute

Number of uses: only once per white night"

The moment the system sound fell, it was as if a certain switch had been activated.

For a moment, the breeze caressed the treetops by the window, and in the condensed air, there was a rustling sound——

And so time started running again.

In the white night, in the huge temple, the thin woman guarded the two children behind her, staring at Bai Shuangxing's profile from afar with a startled expression.

At the same time, in front of every screen around the world, people of different ages, genders, skin colors and identities are watching the central picture together.

The white light is flowing, and the night is scattered.

The blood-red boulder spun endlessly, shooting out more and more intense white light, finally overturning the surrounding fields and sweeping across the sky——

A huge black shadow suddenly rose from the halo, with one tail and nine heads. The body of the snake was as thick as a mountain, and the long tail sprang up, bringing out a cold and fishy wind.

Half of the beams collapsed suddenly because of it, and the sand and dust dispersed for a while, light and shadow were like weaving, and the extreme bright colors enveloped the extreme darkness of the resentful night, roaring like thunder.

When it lowered its head, its eyes were clear and gentle.

As far as the hydra could see, between the overlapping of light and dark, stood a young woman upright.

Her front was soaked in blood, and her black hair was lifted by the night wind. She stood there silently, as if she was stepping on the surging darkness under her feet.

Shenchen's light shrouded the entire Bai Ye, and being in it, Bai Shuangxing suddenly asked without thinking: "Will history be affected when Bai Ye ends?"

Hydra looked down at her, all nine heads blinking at the same time.

The pupils are round, no longer like little black peas, but bright jade beads.

"Will do."

it says.

So Bai Shuangxing's eyes overflowed with a smile.

All the mysteries were thus solved, and she finally understood the question that had been bothering her for a long time.

——About the three "family members" who accompanied her and saved her life during her childhood.

No wonder in this white night, when she saw this character's mother for the first time, she felt inexplicably familiar.

Looking up, the facial features of the woman standing in the temple and protecting the two children gradually coincided with one of the ones she saw when she was a child.

Two women and one man.

A mother with two children, a boy and a girl.

It turned out to be them.

Through Bai Ye, she came to this village a hundred years ago, and saved their lives by sacrificing herself.

A hundred years later, they, who were dying of old age and turned into ghosts, went to Bai Shuangxing's side.

When piercing the chest with a knife, Bai Shuangxing told them, "Live well."

Reunited again after a hundred years, when Bai Shuangxing was guarding beside his mother's corpse, he also planned to end his own life——

They comforted her, accompanied her, hugged her, looked into her eyes, and said to her earnestly: "My child, live well."

In an instant, the sky was filled with white light.

When Baishuangxing's sacrifice is answered, as the rules say, all evils will recede, and the dead will return to the underworld.

In forests and villages, the bodies of the dead reunited and opened their eyes that had been silent for a long time.

They showed confusion, stood up in a trance, and looked up at the sky.

The thoughts belonging to human beings are slowly recovering.

Bai Shuangxing lowered his eyelashes and smiled in relief.

For thousands of years, maybe it was intentional, maybe it was a coincidence, but no matter what, human beings have always continued.

I remember the first time met a family of three, the two children excitedly held her hand and took her to see the newly planted trees and flowers in the yard.

Just like that seed.

Only by being buried in the earth can one gain real new life.

This is the meaning of "sacrifice" and "inheritance".

There was a loud noise from the sky, the black mist receded, and the ghost howled and turned into flying smoke. At this moment, the white night came to an end.

Having experienced death, desperation and labor pains, now that she is at the end of the road, she finally has a glimmer of life.

"Get ready, I will take you through the barrier."

There was a strong wind blowing in her ears, causing countless evil spirits to lower their eyes and bow their heads in fear. They wrapped her tail gently with their tails carefully.

The scales grazed the back of his hand, causing a slight itchiness.

Hydra said, "He...here comes."