boyutpedia Chapter 37 The Black Coffin
Chapter 37 The Black Coffin
The rain continued to fall.
After absorbing the soul power, fragmented memories continued to bombard Su Changming's sea of consciousness.
Absorbing soul power is not just about plundering strength, but also about carrying the strongest obsessions and karmic consequences of the deceased in life.
If someone had a weak will, they would probably have been overwhelmed by these negative emotions and gone mad long ago.
Fortunately, Su Changming has now reached the rank of a high-level cultivator, possessing powerful soul force, further honed by his constant training within the Sword Shadow Stone.
At this point, this level of impact meant nothing to him.
Su Changming was like a calm bystander, flipping through one thick, yellowed old book after another.
The first thing to be opened was the memory of the twin maids.
The scene shifts, initially featuring a warm, yellowish hue.
It was a typical old house in the Jiangnan water town, from a scholarly family.
A pair of exquisitely beautiful twin sisters are playing in the courtyard.
The older sister is named Song Shuhua, who later became the taciturn Xiao Hei, and the younger sister is named Song Shuqi, who always has a sweet smile.
They were born different from others.
My younger sister has albinism, so her skin is almost transparently white, her hair is as white as snow, and even her pupils have a faint pinkish tint.
In this superstitious era, she was regarded as a demon and a white-haired ghost by those around her.
Only her enlightened parents cherished her and taught her to read, write, play musical instruments, and practice calligraphy and painting.
My older sister, Song Shuhua, has been quiet and intelligent since childhood. She is always reading and meticulous in her studies, making her a source of pride for her parents.
Although her younger sister, Song Shuqi, is equally intelligent, she suffers from albinism and cannot be exposed to sunlight for long periods of time. As a result, her personality has become eccentric and she prefers to play under the moonlight at night.
The two complemented each other's personalities, entered school together, achieved top grades together, and both won government-sponsored scholarships to study abroad in England.
That should have been a promising and bright future.
However, the scene changes.
The family fell into poverty, the father passed away, and the family could no longer afford the expenses for the two of them to go abroad.
They could only work part-time, washing dishes in the restaurant and eating cold, hard bread in the library, struggling to make ends meet.
Until that woman appeared.
The scene became luxurious and ambiguous.
It was a high-society dinner party. A tall, beautiful woman, holding a glass of red wine, smiled and walked toward the two sisters who were working part-time as waitresses.
She calls herself Magdalena Rossi.
She was like an angel descended from heaven, sponsoring their tuition, taking them to upscale restaurants, buying them beautiful clothes, and even promising to show them a wider world.
For two naive young girls, this was undoubtedly a warm helping hand reaching out in the darkness.
However, although the sisters were grateful, their inherent pride and wariness made them feel that there was no such thing as a free lunch.
On that rainy night, the older sister, Song Shuhua, pulled her younger sister along, trying to politely refuse this gift that was too heavy for her.
However, what they didn't know was that once the hunter bares his fangs, the prey has no choice.
Rossi tore off her disguise, revealing her ferocious fangs.
She took a liking to her younger sister's special physique.
That albino trait, which is naturally drawn to moonlight and shadow, is the best embryo for transforming into a high-ranking vampire.
"Become my children, and I will grant you eternal life."
The woman declared condescendingly.
But she underestimated the pride of these women from scholarly families.
Fierce resistance, an indomitable will to die.
The conversion ritual failed.
The two sisters, who should have become perfect newborns, underwent a transformation due to the conflict of bloodlines and the struggle of wills.
The older sister grew ugly fleshy wings, and the younger sister tore open her mouth.
They became monsters, somewhere between humans and beasts, their reason twisted, their personalities reshaped, leaving only a thirst for blood and a morbid obedience to their masters.
Rossi, however, only expressed slight regret and kept them as obedient pets.
Then, the screen flashed.
Su Changming saw the huge cruise ship Victoria.
It turned out that they were also passengers on that ship.
Rossi hadn't noticed Su Changming at first, but when he disembarked and saw the cabin full of corpses, he realized that one of his companions was actually a martial arts expert.
So, out of habit, he made a few attempts to test the waters, which is why Su Changming discovered several times that Nightborne were secretly watching.
The end of memory.
It's a rainy night tonight.
The moment the Remnant Snow Sword severed their heads.
Su Changming was surprised to find that at the end of these two memories, their emotions were surprisingly consistent.
There was no resentment, no fear.
There is only one kind of relief.
"If there is an afterlife, I wish to be a sunflower, and never enter the gate of darkness."
Su Changming sighed softly in his heart, slowly dispelling these two heavy fragments of memory.
They were two pitiful people.
……
Immediately afterwards, he probed his consciousness into the remnant soul that belonged to the driver.
Sudden change in painting style.
If the twins' memories are a tragic art film, then the driver's memories are an R-rated film filled with violence, pornography, and filthy desires.
The driver's real name is Ron. He was originally a down-on-his-luck boxer who frequented underground boxing rings. He was simple-minded, physically strong, and believed in the supremacy of violence.
During a night out at a club, he was instantly captivated by the woman in red.
Unlike the twins, who were forced, Ron willingly knelt before the woman in her red dress.
My memory is filled with a lot of action scenes that are not suitable for children.
Ron's obsession and worship of Rossi is almost pathological.
In order to gain power and stay by her side forever, he volunteered to become her blood servant, even at the cost of killing innocent people as a pledge of loyalty.
From the memory of this simple-minded fellow, Su Changming finally pieced together Rossi's complete information.
Magdalena Rossi.
A member of the Western Dark Council, he is respectfully addressed as "Duke Rossi".
According to the rating standards, this should be a genuine seventh-rank Nightborn expert.
Moreover, Nightborne beings are incredibly resilient and unpredictable, making them generally more difficult to deal with than human martial artists of the same level.
Her background also seems to be quite complicated.
In Ron's fragmented memories, Su Changming actually saw several middle-aged men dressed in the uniforms of high-ranking officials of the new dynasty entering and leaving Duke Rossi's bedroom late at night.
Various decadent and decadent music kept coming.
This filled Ron with immense jealousy and anger, yet he was powerless to do anything about it and could only stand guard outside the door like a dog, listening.
Besides that, there was another thing that Su Changming cared about even more.
Rossi's trip to the East this time seems to have a more crucial mission.
That was a shipment that was transported back to the country along with the Victoria.
In the memory, Rossi looked at a black coffin covered with intricate runes with a fanatical and devout expression.
"The black coffin..."
Su Changming suddenly remembered the day he returned to China.
While dining at Taifenglou Restaurant, I saw the black carriage being escorted by the Demon Suppression Division outside the window.
It was pulling a huge black carriage covered with talismans and bound by iron chains.
Could it be that thing?