"Kill him..."
My expression changed, and I didn't bother arguing with Vici. I quickly lay down.
"The whispers have started..."
I wanted to close my eyes, but my previous experience told me that if I closed them, the whispers from the mysterious place behind me would be amplified infinitely, to the point where I would completely lose perception of anything else outside.
Therefore, I could only stare with my eyes open at the cold incandescent light on the ceiling.
Damn it, Shepherd, where the hell are you!
I roared helplessly in my heart. Dammit, the last time you scared me, didn't you say that when this hellspawn reappeared, Shepherd would handle him for me!
I could already feel the whispers affecting me more and more. If, the first time they appeared, I could still concentrate and subconsciously ignore them, this time I couldn't block them out at all.
"Kill him..."
Kill him...?
The cold incandescent light emitted a chilling radiance, filling the small room. A trace of blood had somehow surfaced on my face, though I was completely unaware of it.
"What's wrong?"
Even though the whispers had started, I remained very calm, so Vici didn't know the torment I was currently enduring.
Perhaps it was his instinct as a doctor that noticed something was wrong with me, so he looked up and asked.
"N...nothing..."
I forced myself to answer, my entire focus on resisting the invasion of the whispers.
I felt a tickle on my back, making me want to scratch it. Suddenly, it felt like hands were patting my shoulder, yet I was lying on a recliner.
Silas's words in his diary suddenly came to mind, and I immediately understood that these were all tricks employed by the monster emitting the mysterious whispers, designed to lure me into physical contact.
Damn it, I refuse to believe it! As long as I don't listen to anything or think about anything, you can't just jump out of reality and stab me, can you!
I gritted my teeth, my gaze fixed upwards. My hands tightly gripped the blanket on the recliner, veins clearly visible.
"Lu, if you're uncomfortable, say something!"
Even the most carefree person would have noticed by now that my condition was extremely poor.
Vici, holding something that looked like a stethoscope in one hand, looked at me with a worried expression.
"I..."
I was about to look up and respond to Vici when I suddenly saw that the Grand Priest was standing before me!
The Grand Priest still had that unchanging deadpan expression, but unlike before, he was wearing a brand-new white coat.
"Heh heh, now you've finally fallen into my hands!"
My heart leaped, and I instinctively tried to get up, only to suddenly realize that my limbs were all fixed to the recliner, completely unable to move.
"Kill him..."
The ambiguous whispering sound echoed intermittently, tempting the deepest murderous intent within me.
Shit, what the hell is this thing?!
I suddenly realized that the person standing before me was still Vici, but the whispers from behind me had used some means to alter my perception.
If I truly attacked the person in front of me, things would develop in unpredictable ways!
Shit, why didn't Ivys write about this in his diary, that this guy had such tricks!
I watched the "Grand Priest" in front of me slowly bring a blood-stained knife closer to me, suppressing the instinct to fight back, and desperately recalling the contents of Ivys's diary to distract myself.
Speaking of which, after arriving in the Dark City, I had always had a question that remained unanswered.
That is, since I met Ivys here, why did his diary never mention this city before?
According to Ivys's previous diary entries, he seemed to have been wandering in that dark space. But what I couldn't understand was that his diary faintly mentioned that he had come into contact with some things that could help him.
This was something I could never figure out. Would everyone pulled into the dark space be randomly sent to a corner of it, and the Dark City was just a small part of the vast dark space?
And within this dark space, there were even some indigenous inhabitants who were hostile to humans?
These things... I originally wanted to ask Ivys when I went to Richard's house, but then the monster attacked, and Ivys himself became dazed, so I didn't get a chance to ask.
I heard Richard say earlier that Ivys's condition would worsen over time. It seemed that if I didn't ask about this today, I would never have the chance to speak.
As I pondered other matters, the influence of the whispers gradually weakened.
My taut nerves slowly relaxed, and I let out a sigh of relief. The "Grand Priest" before my eyes slowly turned back into Vici's appearance.
Phew... it's finally over!
Unconsciously, my clothes were soaked with the cold sweat pouring from me. I reached out to wipe the sweat drops from my forehead and suddenly discovered that Vici in front of me was actually holding a sharp knife and ferociously thrusting it towards my chest!
In a flash, I had no time to think. My body instinctively lunged upwards!