Chapter 951 Chapter 13: Birthplace
"Don't worry, I will send these two children home. I still have to give this little bit of face, but it's not for you..."
The pipe hit Mengmeng's shoulder lightly.
"It's to give face to the parents of these two children, and you, little thing, you are nothing in front of me."
Snap——
Just when Mengmeng was biting her lip, not knowing how to answer.
A hand suddenly reached out and slapped Frost Moon's pipe away.
"Old woman, that's enough. I've really put up with you for so long..."
Xia Lingyue stared, protected Mengmeng, and stared at Shuangyue.
"Lingyue..."
Mengmeng could see that Xia Lingyue was very scared, but she still stepped forward and stood in front of her.
So Mengmeng quickly held Xia Lingyue's shoulders and held her in her arms.
"......Lingyue, be obedient and go home with Lingsheng first. I'll take you out to play next time."
"What a joke!"
Xia Lingyue broke free from Mengmeng's hand and said.
"This woman is just bullying you for being honest! Sister Mengmeng! I don't believe a word she says!"
Then Xia Lingyue pressed Mengmeng's shoulders instead.
"What's wrong with you, Sister Mengmeng? I bullied you in the Special Management Bureau, but now anyone can bully you outside, right? Stand up! After all, you're the team leader!"
Li Lingsheng also walked over and said at this moment.
"Sister Mengmeng, don't treat us like children. We can help you."
"That's what I'm saying! I, I, I, although I'm timid, my brother can take a beating!"
“...Sister, you...”
Looking at these two children, Mengmeng couldn't help but tear up.
She nodded while sobbing: "I, I am so useless that I need you to care about me... But this is not possible... I can't take you with me."
At this moment, Shuangyue raised her hand with a smile, and the pipe that was knocked away returned to her hand.
"It's so touching. I also want to see how far you can go."
After saying that, she took a deep breath of smoke and then exhaled towards the three people.
Purple mist gradually lingered between the three people, causing them to cough continuously.
"You, you, do you have any sense of public morality? Secondhand smoke is harmful!"
"Your sister, if this happened at school, I would definitely tell the teacher."
"Wait, wait, Senior Shimotsuki! Don't let them both get together! Please!"
But as soon as the three people finished speaking, the fog seemed to have some kind of magic, and gradually turned the figures of the three people into smoke and dust. Finally, the smoke and dust swept into the sky and turned into a purple mist that slowly fell down.
Master Yun walked up to Shuangyue and whispered.
"President, we shouldn't have involved those two kids."
"Why, are you afraid of Li Muhan too?"
Master Yun sighed and said.
"You and I are both not young anymore. It's not like we're really afraid of anyone, but... Li Muhan isn't a bad person, and neither is this Nightmare Demon. Why did President Shuangyue speak so harshly to her, and even implicate two younger generations?"
"This is her fate. She'll have to face it sooner or later. Do you think, with her personality, if we keep dragging it out like this and let her know the truth when it's too late, will she still be able to survive?"
"Oh." Master Yun sighed.
“It’s a sin, it’s a sin…”
....
...
At the same time, when Li Lingsheng and Xia Lingyue opened their eyes again.
They found themselves at the entrance of a deserted and dilapidated mountain village.
This place feels like a land that time forgot.
The desolate scene unfolded slowly before the eyes of Li Lingsheng and Xia Lingyue like a faded scroll.
They stood at the entrance of the small mountain village, surrounded by dead silence, as if even the wind was unwilling to stay here.
The land is cracked, and the cracks are like wrinkles on an old man's face, deeply engraved in this lifeless earth.
Perhaps there once were fertile fields here too.
But now only withered and yellow weeds are left, swaying weakly in the wind, as if telling the sorrow of this land.
The houses in the village are dilapidated, and the paint on the walls has long since peeled off, revealing the bricks and stones inside.
The tiles on the roof were broken, and some had fallen off, revealing dark holes.
However, in the center of this desolate village, there stands a towering tree. Its trunk is thick, but upon closer inspection, one can see that it has very little vitality left.
The leaves have almost fallen, having lost their former green and turned yellow, as if they will fall at any moment. The trunk is covered with traces of time, the bark is dry and cracked, and in some places the wood is exposed.
"Sister....Look over there."
Li Lingsheng grabbed Xia Lingyue who wanted to get closer to the big tree, and then pointed at the tree.
Xia Lingyue stopped and looked up.
Then I saw that the fruits on the tree were all black, of different sizes, and densely hung on the branches.
But these fruits are not a symbol of a good harvest. They look shriveled and covered with cracks, like water drops that are about to dry up and may fall from the tree at any time.
"...What kind of place is this?" Xia Lingyue couldn't help but feel a little nauseous.
There was an air of corruption everywhere, as if the whole world was dying silently.
“It’s where I was born.”
Just at this moment.
A voice came from above.
Both of them looked towards the tree.
The girl with silver hair and purple eyes had been sitting on the treetop at some point. She gently raised her hand and stroked the black fruits on the tree.
He said this with a hint of vicissitudes and helplessness in his tone.
“And these are my family.”
The moment her fingers gently stroked the pitch-black fruit, the fruit seemed to be touched by something and began to wriggle.
Although in the eyes of Xia Lingyue and Li Lingsheng, this scene was extremely strange.
But it made Mengmeng feel a heart-wrenching pain.
"......sorry."
She held the fruit gently, afraid that it would fall.
"It's my fault... I never thought that I hadn't spread the nightmare, but in return I would have caused the destruction of my people..."
"No, it's not your fault, Sister Mengmeng. Even if your clan is small, it's impossible to put all the responsibility on you alone." Xia Lingyue shouted under the tree.
"Because I am the first bloodline of this Nightmare Demon Clan, I am the mother to these children who are eagerly awaiting their birth."
Mengmeng's words surprised the two children below.
"It turns out Sister Mengmeng has so many children, even more than her mother."
"Shut your mouth! Just now I thought you were getting smarter, and now you're stupid again! This is totally different from human breastfeeding!"
Then Xia Lingyue looked at Mengmeng above and shouted.
"Even so, but, but you didn't harm anyone, Sister Mengmeng. If the condition for the birth of these fruits is that you spread nightmares and pain, tormenting everyone who falls asleep, then... wouldn't that make you... just like that old woman?"
Mengmeng sighed, then gently floated down from the tree. After landing on the ground, she smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly.
"But we are the same, silly child... No matter how I package myself and make myself look harmless, I am still just a nightmare demon. In a sense, we are worse than the Tara tribe. The Tara tribe relied on war to conquer the world, and we..."
She slowly stroked the tree trunk with her hand.
"We feed on the world itself, corrupting it bit by bit."
At least now, Mengmeng finally understood something.
Why did she have a good impression of Li Muhan, and why did she want to get close to the giant tree and the man standing under the tree.
Because that is the target of my parasitism.
Looking up at the sky that was almost never peaceful, Mengmeng said as if she accepted her fate.
"Even though I don't remember, my body's instincts are still pulling me closer to the World Tree. I want to parasitize the heart of the world, spread nightmares and fear, and corrupt the core of this world. Only in this way can my people grow. This is how it should be... But I forgot all of this. Not only did I not bring back any nutrients, but I completely drained the energy of my people, exchanging it for endless dreams for others."
I'm such a hopeless creature...
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