Chapter Fifteen Usage Methods

  After my emotions had calmed down a bit, I walked out of the grass thicket. The sky was already dark and the city's lights were shining like stars. When I passed by an accessory store, I noticed that it was already 6:30 in the evening. In winter, the sky gets dark quickly, and now the city is pitch black. I touched my pocket and found a 100-yuan bill and some coins, which was all the money I had left from home.

  After some thought, I decided to go back to the well and find that woman to ask about the hypnosis method first. As long as I can use hypnosis smoothly, all problems will be solved easily. As for Smoke's death, I still can't tell Ah Xue for the time being.

  After thinking clearly about the next plan, I went to the street stall and bought a flashlight, prepared batteries, saw several Xinjiang people buying sliced cakes on the road, spent over 10 yuan to buy a bag, also bought two bottles of mineral water, and in the grocery store, bought dozens of meters of long rope, made all preparations, then took a taxi to find that well in the afternoon.

  Finally returned to the side of that old well. At that time, the sky was already completely dark, the north wind howled, the cold air pressed in on people, and the desolate suburbs were even more eerily quiet.

  When I got off the bus, the driver asked me inexplicably what a person was doing coming to such a remote place. I didn't answer anything and just thanked the driver and paid the fare.

  After the driver left, I confirmed that there was no one around and pulled out a 100-meter long rope wrapped in a burlap sack. With the illumination of the flashlight, I fixed one end of the rope to the trunk of an old locust tree next to the ancient well, and tied a dead knot at intervals of about five centimeters on the rope, so that it would be easier to climb with the knots as support.

  To tell you the truth, I'm also a bold person. After throwing down the rope, I took some food and water with me as I went down into the well. That woman had hinted at this beforehand.

  This is my second time down in the well. The damp air enveloped me, and following the passageway on the wall of the well, I returned to the cavern once again.

  The cave was just as quiet and still as when I left, the silence was so loud that it made my ears ring. The only difference was the smell of blood in the air, reminding me that there were two dead bodies at my feet.

  I held my breath and moved forward, trying not to look at the corpses on the ground, but instead using my flashlight to scan ahead.

  As the white flashlight beam slowly swept across the cave in front of me, a perfect female body with clothes that barely covered her appeared before my eyes.

  Long hair flowing down like a waterfall, snow-white body, a slender waist like a water snake, and six fox tails nailed to the back.

  It's her.

  I carried a piece of tofu and mineral water, took a deep breath, and walked forward slowly.

  "Hey, you... are still alive, right?"

  I walked up to the woman and asked in a low voice.

  The woman hung her head, her long hair covering her face, as if she hadn't heard my voice. I called out to her several times, thinking she was already dead. Suddenly, she moved slightly, and the raven-black hair covering her skull slowly lifted up. Under the flashlight's beam, I saw a breathtakingly beautiful but extremely pale woman's face.

  Under the flashlight, I found that this woman's eyes were so bright, like two black diamonds, with countless broken stars twinkling in her pupils.

  When I saw the woman's eyes, I was taken aback for a moment, but quickly came back to my senses.

  "...water..." The woman looked at me with a weak gaze and spoke in a hoarse voice.

  "I'll... feed you." I pulled out a bottle of mineral water from the plastic bag, so that the woman could see the water in my hand. When she saw the water, her eyes showed a hint of thirst, but both of her hands were locked up by iron chains and couldn't reach for it, so she had to rely on me to pour it into her mouth.

  The girl cleverly opened her lips slightly, and it was only then that I discovered this woman's lips were extremely beautiful and very soft, but due to dehydration, the lip color was a bit pale.

  I aligned the bottle mouth with the woman's mouth, then gently lifted her chin with my hand and slowly poured it in.

  The woman closed her eyes

  She leaned against her instincts, gulping and drinking, her snow-white throat undulating in waves, and before long, more than half a bottle of mineral water was swallowed by her.

  "That's enough..." The woman turned her face away, coughed twice, and I quickly pulled back the mineral water.

  After drinking water, the woman took two deep breaths and slowly came back to herself. She turned her face towards me, a pair of eyes that seemed to see through my soul sparkling with vitality.

  "Eat... " The woman said weakly, "... you feed me."

  This woman didn't stand on ceremony with me either, directly letting me feed her.

  I forced a smile and broke the bought mochi into small pieces, stuffing them into her enchanting little mouth, letting her swallow slowly.

  At first, the woman saw me hand her a piece of cake and seemed to not know what it was, furrowing her brow, even using her straight nose to sniff it carefully, until she confirmed that I wasn't feeding her poison, then she opened her mouth and let me feed her.

  The girl bit down on the soft cake with her white teeth like a shell, and then slowly swallowed it.

  But I guess this woman was really starving, at first she was still chewing slowly, but later on, her eating speed became faster and faster. The two pieces of palm-sized sponge cake I bought were swallowed into her stomach in no time.

  "It's gone." I looked at the woman's hungry eyes and helplessly shook my head, shaking the empty bag.

  The woman suddenly showed a disappointed expression.

  She cleared her throat and ate something, seeming to have recovered some strength, with a bit more sparkle in her eyes.

  "Are you giving me... steamed buns for worshiping gods?"

  Is that a Manchu or Qing dynasty emperor's food? Why is this woman asking me this?

  The girl's words left me stunned for a moment.

  I smiled and said: "No, it's a kind of pastry from Xinjiang called qiegao. I don't know if you know what that is."

  "I don't know." The woman replied faintly, but compared to her previous weak voice, the woman who had eaten something seemed to have more energy. I found that this woman's voice was very pleasant, ethereal and empty with a hint of coolness.

  "Is it...?"

  Because of the girl's faint reply, for a moment, unable to find common topics, both of us fell into an awkward silence.

  After a while, the woman stared at me with her two black bead-like pupils, moving up and down, and after a moment, she slightly opened her red lips and spoke to me in a voice as gentle as a silver needle falling to the ground:

  "You can come back. It seems you still have a few grains of conscience left." After pausing for a moment, the woman continued to look at me and said, "How about it? The skill I taught you?"

  My heart skipped a beat, and I threw the empty plastic bag aside.

  "It's very useful. I should thank you." I pursed my lips and said to the woman, "I'm not entirely clear on how to use it yet. For now, I've just figured out a few points, listen: First, when casting the spell, you must look into the opponent's eyes. Second, it can be cast through objects like glass. Third, the duration is very long, and from what I know so far, this spell lasts for at least over two hours. Fourth, the effective distance is within ten meters. Fifth, if someone has already been affected by the spell, they cannot receive new commands."

  As she listened to my description, the woman looked at me steadily, her eyes revealing a hint of either approval or astonishment.

  "You're so clever... able to use it so smoothly in such a short time..."

  "You're saying this, which means all these ideas of mine are correct?" I said.

  "...... Right. Very right."

  The girl's ethereal voice made me realize that my previous guesses were all correct. I felt a thrill of excitement in my heart.

  "But there are also problems." I took a deep breath and asked the doubts in my heart, "Including the two times used at the bottom of the well, after I came out, I used that spell on several people. The first three were successful, but the later ones... all failed, why?"