Chapter 103 The Woman in the Team

Shi Yu looked at me and said, "My way of entering and exiting freely is simple. I know zombie techniques, allowing me to be in a state of living corpse for a short time."

"Zombies are also a kind of ghost, so it's not strange that I can go back and forth in the corridor."

As Shi Yu spoke, his joints made a strange rattling sound, and a lifeless paleness appeared on his face. When his eyes turned bloodshot, I could clearly see a layer of fine fluff growing on his face.

A white-haired zombie!

No, Shi Yu is still alive. However, he is using corpse energy to conceal his living aura.

When Shi Yu spoke again, his voice had become extremely hoarse: "A trivial skill, forgive my poor performance."

"Admirable!" I said, and the yin energy on my body surged, instantly concealing my figure in the heavy yin energy, with only my eyes still emitting a bloody light.

"A half-ghost body!" Shi Yu was slightly startled at first, then shocked: "No! You have a yin life constitution. Are you from the underworld?"

I smiled faintly, forcefully suppressing the doubts in my heart.

I myself can't figure out my own fate and constitution. Shi Yu was able to call it out in one breath, he must know something? But now is not the time for me to ask him.

If I speak, I will fall into a disadvantage. If I want to get secrets out of Shi Yu's mouth, I can only do it after the mission is over.

Just as I was thinking about how to capture Shi Yu alive, he turned to look at Lin Sihan, and I subconsciously turned my head as well.

Lin Sihan was already so frightened that her legs were weak: "You... how can you be... are you dead or alive?"

Shi Yu and I looked at each other, and at the same time grabbed Lin Sihan's wrist, forcibly dragging her out of the door: "Go up the stairs, all the way to the room with the word 'death' written on it. We'll follow you!"

"No... I dare not..." When Lin Sihan wanted to beg, Shi Yu and I released her wrist at the same time and retreated to the side.

As long as Lin Sihan isn't a术士 (shùshì, Taoist priest/sorcerer), she won't be able to see two people shrouded in yin energy and corpse energy in the dark corridor.

The two of us retreated, which was equivalent to her being left alone in the corridor.

Lin Sihan couldn't see us and cried with fear: "Li Po, Shi Yu, come out! Don't leave me behind... I'm scared... I'm really scared!"

Lin Sihan cried and shouted in the corridor, but I remained indifferent. In my opinion, would a person brought out by Shi Yu be afraid?

If she is really afraid, I will only find it ridiculous. It's as ridiculous as someone telling me that a 术士 (shùshì, Taoist priest/sorcerer) is afraid of ghosts.

Lin Sihan shouted for a long time, but neither Shi Yu nor I responded. She could only stick to the base of the wall and slowly walk towards the stairs.

I only followed a few steps when Lin Sihan in front turned around and walked quickly towards the stairs.

After I followed a few steps closely, Lin Sihan suddenly said, "Do you treat me like this because you think I have no other use besides attracting ghosts?"

"I don't know magic, and I don't know martial arts. What can I do in danger other than be abandoned?"

Lin Sihan's voice was faint, and it inexplicably pained my heart.

After the stinging pain, endless self-blame surged into my heart.

Lin Sihan is just a weak woman. When she was thrown out of the duty room, she didn't even have a chance to resist, and could only cry and beg me.

But I threw her out again. Just to use her as bait.

Is it unkind to do so?

No, it's not a matter of kindness, I'm killing someone.

I didn't use a knife, but I'm killing Lin Sihan!

Lin Sihan continued, "I remember there was a psychological test where you were walking in the desert with five animals. The five animals were a tiger, an elephant, a monkey, a dog, and a peacock. You were asked to choose to abandon four animals in turn, leaving only one to accompany you through the desert. Which one would you abandon first?"

"More than 80 percent of the people who took the test would choose to abandon the peacock first. Because, apart from being beautiful, the peacock cannot bring any practical help to the traveler."

"In the answer to this question, the peacock represents the wife."

"Perhaps, she should represent the woman in the team!"

"When you are not in danger, the peacock is a pleasing existence to you. When you encounter danger, you will not try to protect the existence that should be protected the most."

"It is human nature to abandon the peacock without mercy."

"I shouldn't blame you. If it were me, I would also choose to abandon the peacock first. It's human nature. The farther you abandon it, the less you will see the peacock struggling to death in the desert."

"It places all its hopes on one person, and when it is abandoned, it becomes the most pitiful and helpless person. However, she cannot have any opinions, because she is too weak. Too weak to speak for herself."

"Actually, the peacock also wants to survive!"

Lin Sihan suddenly stopped speaking: "Are you listening to me?"

Lin Sihan's rhetorical question was like a heavy hammer, hitting my heart hard.

Heartache and self-blame almost tore my heart in two.