190 Human Shadows
Selma Payne’s POV:
“It’s only been an hour.” I followed the second hand and counted the ti. “Why does it feel so unbearable long?”
“Let’s wait for a while. It’ll be over in two hours.”
Thus, while I chatted with Dorothy, I was also harassing Maxine in my mind.
“Why don’t you go to sleep? It’s already nightti anyway,” Maxine said. “You should go to bed early and wake up early. You can spend more ti exploring the ruins of the witch clan tomorrow, can’t you?”
“I don’t want to sleep. I still want to wait for the werewolf grandmasters’ results. No one is sleeping. I can’t sleep alone.”
“... can you let go to sleep? I’m so sleepy.”
“Why are you sleepy? You didn’t do anything the entire day. You just slept.”
“I don’t know how to describe it to you, but I’m very sleepy, especially since your ntal suggestion failed. I want to sleep the whole day but can’t get enough sleep.”
I imdiately beca nervous. “Did the reconstruction of your body cause you so side effects? We have to ask the werewolf grandmasters to examine us.”
“Perhaps there’s no need for that.” However, Maxine rejected . “I have an inexplicable intuition that you are the one who caused this. Co to think of it. Sotis I even wonder if there’s a third party in us that we don’t know about. Otherwise, why would you not know about what you’ve caused?”
“A third party?” I shivered at her description. “That’s not funny. Are you sure I’m the cause of your fatigue?”
“Yes, and it’s not the kind of fatigue from overusing energy. It’s like an alarm clock sets when we should go to sleep and when we should wake up,” said Maxine.
Before I could finish my sentence, she fell asleep. No matter how I called her, she didn’t respond.
If it weren’t for the fact that I could still feel her presence, I would have thought that she had disappeared!
I tried to free Maxine from this strange state, but before I could put in much effort, Dorothy suddenly shook hard.
“Be on the alert, Selma. An accident has happened!”
I followed her hand and looked out the window. A pale ghost was staring at us!
“What the hell is this thing?!” I subconsciously jumped up and pulled Dorothy to the corner away from the window.
Dorothy observed the ghostly figure, then said in a serious tone, “This is a ‘person’... a ‘person’ that existed in the past.”
“Who would look like this? Is this a new race in seclusion for thousands of years?”
“No, it appears like this because it is a shadow from soone’s life in history.”
“So, one day in the past 300 years, a peeper appeared among the witches and peeked at soone’s window in the middle of the night?”
“Of course not. Human figures don’t have consciousness and won’t stare at living humans.”
Dorothy suddenly pulled up the stairs, ran into a room, and slamd the door shut. At the sa ti, she bit her finger and drew a dispelling rune on the door.
An ominous premonition welled up in my heart.
Indeed, Dorothy said, “There can only be one explanation for this situation. First, a mistake has occurred, causing the figure to be confused! Any place within the Quicksand Fog area can produce these chaotic figures. We must create an enclosed space to ensure no figures can invade.”
I mimicked her and drew runes with blood. Thanks to the Moon Goddess’ grace, the Goddess’s gift did not require any magic. I asked, “So, there might be people in our rooms now?”
“That’s the problem.” Dorothy was not sure either. “The research information on human shadows is very limited. So far, no one has understood their production chanism. However, one thing is certain. Chaotic human shadows have most of the negative attributes given by history. They have no rationality, are aggressive, and cannot be destroyed. They will only disappear after the collapse of history.”
At this mont, the door of the room was suddenly slamd hard!
My hand trembled, and I almost crooked the seal pattern.
“The worst-case scenario has happened. A figure has also appeared in the room.” Dorothy sped up on her drawing. “Hurry up. We have to finish drawing the runes at the corner of each wall before the human figure in this room is ford.”
From the corner of my eye, I could see a faint white mist gathering in the room. This was probably the sign of a human figure forming.
Finally, we used runes to connect the eight corners of the room. The silver moonlight imdiately dispersed the incomplete figures.
However, before we could even heave a sigh of relief, we heard screams from outside.
It was the other team mbers!
I cautiously observed the outside of the window and asked Dorothy, “Are we the only ones who know this?”
Master Mary had given everyone training in advance. If anything happened, dispelling runes was the most ti-saving, energy-saving, and efficient thod. Everyone should know about it.
“But knowing is knowing. Whether or not we have the ti to finish drawing is another matter.”
Dorothy nodded in silence.
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