Chapter 196 Giving and Gaining

Chapter 196 Giving and Gaining

“Theft of what?” Fu Yusheng asked, although he had heard of people trying to steal other people’s ID cards, and maybe some strange cases where someone impersonated someone else, but he had never expected that someone could even steal a person’s entire existence.

"This is the darkest of all magic." Song Yan said as she tried to recall the 'Life Stealing Ritual' that Gu Yujin had told her. "It requires the blood of the person you want to steal, as well as his birth character, and a hint of the identity of the person you want to steal. These things can be easily lost once they are in the hands of the culprit. During the rest of the ritual, no one will even know what happened, not even the person whose identity was stolen, because the ritual will not harm any party, so nothing will happen until the whole thing is completed. In other rituals."

"No matter who the owner is, they will perform the life-stealing ritual on the darkest night when the moon rises, using human blood and the natal talisman to create a mask that is so fine that it looks like someone has been skinned. Once this mask falls into the hands of someone who wants to steal someone else's existence, he only needs to put it on, and the mask will do the rest of the work."

"Can't they just get plastic surgery?" Fu Yusheng asked after listening to Song Yan's words. "I mean why go through so much trouble, right? Just get the surgery done?"

Song Yan shook her head and patiently explained, "You underestimate the power of the mask. It changes not only a person's facial features, but the entire identity of the person. A plastic surgeon, no matter how good he is, will change a person's appearance. "It still can't mirror everything from top to bottom. There are also other factors such as height, weight, and body shape... Even if the face-changing is successful, it can't change these factors, right? Unlike the ritual of stealing existence, it will not only change a person's facial features, but also everything else, until the person is completely transformed into another person. "

The whole thing sounds simple, but the simpler it is, the scarier it is - especially for Fu Yusheng, who had his identity stolen several times and even had a little blood from the attackers a few times, which was really scary. Fortunately, his security team was able to resolve these problems almost immediately, otherwise who knows what would have happened to him.

"What about the people whose existence was stolen? What will happen to them?" Fu Yusheng asked as he carefully recalled whether he had screwed up and lost too much blood.

"Nothing." Song Yan looked at the road that was slowly getting darker as the sun set. "They won't feel anything. If the other person impersonating them wants to leave them alone, they have the opportunity to do so, but they won't, because the stolen identity mask is like a modern smartphone. It needs to be recharged again and again, unless it needs blood, otherwise it will lose its power. Secondly, there is a rule that the person wearing the mask can never come into contact with the person whose identity he has stolen, otherwise the mask will lose its power. "Almost immediately. They wouldn't want that, would they? So, it's best to keep the person whose identity was stolen as close to them as possible. "

After saying that, Song Yan shrugged and added: "But I didn't expect this to happen. After all, the stolen existence ritual also requires the culprit to make a great sacrifice."

"What sacrifice? Didn't you say that people won't be hurt?" Fu Yusheng asked Song Yan, who smiled and said, "It's true that life isn't bitter, but you forgot my explanation at the beginning, it's black magic, without black magic there is no purpose for giving and taking. The wearer of the mask will eventually be able to take over everything they want, but at the same time they will also begin to lose their own existence, the mask will distort their face and everything else until the wearer becomes nothing. But an inhuman shell, who needs to rely on the mask every time they look in the mirror, because the mask will slowly ruin their face until their face begins to look like a victim of a fire accident."

"Does anyone else want to use it?" Fu Yusheng asked in a somewhat horrified voice. Although he could understand the greed behind wanting to get the mask, the consequences of doing so were too cruel. Who would want to live like this?

"For some people, fame, power, and money are more important," Song Yan shrugged. "They are willing to take risks. After all, they may think it is better to be rich and ugly than poor and beautiful. Masks are an extremely easy shortcut to rely on other people's hard work and efforts, so why not?"

Thinking carefully about what he had learned, Fu Yusheng's eyes sparkled. It seemed that he had to start taking better care of himself, and also - he needed to send someone to track down the current head of the Song family, because he smelled a fishy smell.