CW: vomit, urine, blood, death
“This shuai ge, please get in line,” someone said, dissatisfied.
Chi Jiayan smiled ruefully, an expression of, “And what’re you gonna do if I don’t?” written across his face.
The stranger continued to mutter bitterly about what a dog he was for cutting in line. Chi Jiayan didn’t pay attention to this at all; all the bad comments about him fell on deaf ears, and he continued to act as he did. The giant pendulum ride was a must-go in the amusement park, and since the park was so new, there were many people lining up.
Not long after Chi Jiayan had gotten there, all the visitors of the park who had interacted with him in some way or another also lined up behind him.
Except for the pregnant woman, everyone had chosen to go on this ride.
The air was full of screams. Some people cried out in fright and some people screamed from the thrill. The people in line all had their heads raised attentively. Everyone thought it looked exciting.
After half an hour, it was finally their turn.
Everyone got on the ship-shaped pendulum in order, and the staff members fasted the safety belts of each person one by one.
The parent of the child whose cotton candy had been snatched by Chi Jiayan was also on the ride, waving to the child outside the fence. The couple from earlier was in the row behind Chi Jiayan. The girl was acting like a baby in front of the boy, saying that she was scared so the boy would comfort her patiently. It looked like they had reconciled. The pregnant woman’s daughter and her husband were next to Chi Jiayan. Somewhat conversely, the father looked very scared while the daughter looked excited. The middle-aged woman whose pants ripped was in the first row. When she saw Chi Jiayan, her face darkened.
From the front to back, there sat twenty-four people.
The death aura in the air skyrocketed.
The Grim Reaper had long since discreetly disappeared, hiding among them.
He remained silent, expressionlessly observing what would be the final moments of these dying people.
None of these people knew that their supposedly long lifespans would come to an abrupt end this afternoon.
After a short beep, the pendulum started to slowly move.
Some people were so nervous that they grabbed the handrails tightly, and before the ride had really even started, closed their eyes in fright.
The expression on Chi Jiayan’s face was one of satisfaction.
His side profile was delicate. As the pendulum moved, he would occasionally stare up at the blue sky, occasionally down to overlook the earth, as if he was indifferent and devoid of fear. Perhaps he needed this kind of stimulation, or else he would be no different from a puppet without a heart.
The giant pendulum was swinging faster and faster, the arc of its movements getting wider and wider. Feeling a surge of adrenaline, many of the passengers, just like the previous ones, began to scream without holding back.
At that moment, there was an audible click that everyone heard clearly.
“The clamp is breaking!” someone shouted, who turned out to be that boy from the couple earlier.
Everyone looked up, and sure enough, the clamp at the top of the pendulum was breaking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Ah—”
“Help!!”
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Death was so close to them. Just a little more, and they would all die without a doubt.
“Dad…Dad!” the little girl cried, clutching her father’s hand. “Dad ahh—”
The father’s face was as white as paper, his whole body shaking like a leaf. He muttered incoherently, unable to speak.
In the midst of the giant pendulum’s deadly sway, the girl from the couple also cried out. “Help me, I don’t want to die, ah!!!”
Chi Jiayan’s expression was also ugly.
“Ahhh…”
“Help me!! Stop this now!”
“I don’t wanna die, save me, save me!!”
The parent on the ride was so afraid to the point of going as far as to try to unbuckle the safety belt in an attempt to jump off the pendulum!
“Stop! Don’t be stupid! We’re not going to die!” Chi Jiayan quickly yelled, but nobody was listening to him. “You’ll die for sure if you jump down now!”
Some people couldn’t bear the situation and began to vomit violently. The stench of vomit and urine circulated high and low.
Amidst the screams and howls, Chi Jiayan closed his eyes.
“The clamp won’t disconnect,” he said softly.
Click. The clamp cracked yet again, leaving an iron plate dangling.
At the same time, a terrifying stream of blood gushed out from Chi Jiayan’s nose.
The Grim Reaper regarded him coldly.
No one in the world could change a natal chart’s fate.
This was useless.
“The clamp definitely won’t disconnect,” Chi Jiayan said again, a little louder.
Immediately after, he kept getting louder and louder until blood almost sprayed out from his mouth. If he continued, he would be repelled by the speech spirit and die.
For a person like him, shouldn’t he cherish his life very much?
Nobody around noticed anything wrong with him.
Chi Jiayan was reaching the end of his battle. He closed his eyes, blood starting to flow from his ears.
Somewhere, there was an invisible force contending with him.
“Whatever,” Chi Jiayan said with a sneer on his face.
Nobody knew if he said it out of self-deprecation or out of mockery towards those about to die.
The golden embroidered totem on the Grim Reaper’s body became violently agitated, emitting a soft howling noise.
It was the final moment.
At this point, the Grim Reaper heard a voice—”Press the stop button.”
It was Chi Jiayan. He already understood that he could not control the clamp that was destined to be disconnected, but he could control the people below who operated the machine.
Chi Jiayan murmured, “Notice that something’s wrong here, and press the stop button immediately. Please.”
Fresh blood spilled from his nose and mouth. His spiritual power was surging like crazy, like his body was going to explode. But he kept talking, repeating himself over and over. Even if he was on the verge of death alone, he wanted the people on the pendulum to live.
“Blood! So much blood! I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die……!!!”
Chi Jiayan’s blood had gotten on the body of the parent who’d scolded him, who was now sitting in front of him. Thinking it was their own blood, the parent immediately cried out.
“Shut up,” Chi Jiayan said with difficulty. “If you want to live, shut the fuck up!”
Even up till now, his face held a reverent expression, his lips still moving in mumbles.
The Grim Reaper descended in front of him and said coldly, “If you keep talking, you’ll die.”
Chi Jiayan opened his blood-smeared eyes. When he saw the Grim Reaper, surprise flashed through them. He smiled calmly. “That’s right. I’ll die.”
“Don’t you want to take anyone else down with you?” The Grim Reaper’s voice resonated through his conscience. “They’ll all die, anyways.”
Chi Jiayan’s head drooped.
“One versus twenty-three. I’m not losing out on this deal.”
Ten seconds later, the giant pendulum stopped.
An ear-piercing squeak signaled the end of the death instance.
The ride attendant ran out and looked up only to be frightened out of his three huns and seven pos. If he had been a little slower, these people would’ve all died in his hands! He wasn’t paying attention to his job, choosing instead to play Snake on his cellphone as soon as he started the machine. At the last moment, he had suddenly heard a cry on the pendulum, pressing the stop button on accident.
The Grim Reaper levitated in the air. The golden totem on his black robes jumped into the air, and in an instant, a huge black wolf appeared out of thin air. With a deep roar, the death aura around Chi Jiayan immediately condensed into a bead, which was then held in the wolf’s mouth.
People were still in shock, practically unable to walk upright. All of them descended the pendulum with quaking legs, each one of them sobbing.
All twenty-three people were saved.
“There’s one more person who didn’t come down!” someone shouted from the crowd.
“Did he faint from the fright?” said someone else.
As everyone was chattering, the attendant stepped onto the ride to raise Chi Jiayan’s drooping head, immediately becoming spooked, backing far away.
The attendant slumped into a sitting position on the ground. “He—he died!”
Those who had guts also came over to prop Chi Jiayan’s head up, only to find that the seven orifices of his handsome face were fleeting. His complexion was terrifyingly purple without any indication of life left whatsoever.
“Someone’s dead!!”
Shrieks came from all around, erupting into a chaotic mess.
Chi Jiayan was dead.
He had known death would come for him and that he could only save others but not himself, and he still chose to say that last sentence.
This speech spirit had chosen his own death.
“Cang Feng.”
The Grim Reaper stretched out his palm. That giant wolf crouched down and lowered its head, obediently spitting out the spirit bead that had come from Chi Jiayan.
The black bead was heavier and blacker than any other spirit bead the Grim Reaper had ever seen.
It was often said that the purer the soul, the more transparent it was, which was true. After a person died, the soul would naturally form a spirit bead, which would be inputted into the natal chart to begin the next cycle of reincarnation. The Grim Reaper had seen many beads from evil people before. The majority of them were gray and off-black, but never pure black.
This speech spirit’s spirit bead was darker than even the most evil person.
However, there was a faint light within the blackness.
In this chaotic world, the range of possible human emotions and the survivors of calamities were none of the Grim Reaper’s business.
The young couple turned their heads to see that Chi Jiayan was still on the giant pendulum. Seeing someone die in front of their own eyes made them weep in each other’s arms, but they were unaware that this annoying young man was the one who had saved them.
The Grim Reaper’s gaze was attracted to the light within the blackness. With a little force, he split the spirit bead in two. His pupils dilated immediately, because the Grim Reaper had never seen a spirit bead with such a clean and pure inside!
The inside of the speech spirit’s spirit bead was actually transparent!
What a strange soul, one he’d never seen before!
Below, Chi Jiayan’s body had been unbuckled from the seat. People had still called an ambulance to carry him onto a stretcher. The parent covered the child’s eyes, the couple was nowhere to be seen, and the middle-aged woman who was covering her ripped pants with a shirt was looking around in disbelief.
Chi Jiayan’s head was tilted, and it was only because of this that the Grim Reaper noticed a tattoo in the shape of a cloud behind Chi Jiayan’s pale ear. It looked familiar.
The watch on the Grim Reaper’s wrist rang.
The natal chart had issued a new order. The Grim Reaper had to go back to the past, choose the death instance with the least impact on the future, and erase Chi Jiayan’s existence in advance.
Very interesting thanks for translating
The plot is getting thicker. I can’t wait to see how this develops in the next chapter! Thank you so much for the translations! I like it <3
Wow, they wanna straight up erase his existence? Not if Jiajia has anything to say about that though lol XD
I can already feel Mr. Grim Reaper’s incoming headache hahaha
So interesting ☺️ Thanks ❤️
Ohoho! Gosh I love the whole complexity of human beings trope