Chapter 267 World Fragments: The boy is here...
Seeing that the boy was in charge here, Sang Zhitao turned her questioning gaze to him.
The boy licked his lips, glanced at the four strangers, focusing his attention mainly on the three adults. After a long while, he quietly opened the door.
"You don't mind if I come into the house, do you?" Sang Zhitao asked.
The boy nodded helplessly and agreed, "Whatever, we're already inside anyway."
Sang Zhitao turned her head and glanced at Ou and Kane: "Dad and I will go in."
Leo narrowed his eyes, looking displeased: "What are you trying to hide from us?"
Kane stood silently to one side, silently supporting Leo's words.
Lin Mo looked at the two of them coldly: "Not everything needs to be known by you."
Kane silently walked to Leo's side.
Sensing an internal conflict among the four, the children silently moved to the side and watched quietly.
For a moment, the four of them stood there frozen in place.
Lin Mo and Sang Zhitao naturally didn't want the two of them to come along, but the two of them didn't seem like they would compromise.
A gust of wind blew into the yard, making the leaves of the Virginia creeper rustle.
After a long while, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but sigh: "Fine, if you want to follow, then follow."
Actually, she wasn't afraid of those two trying to steal the World Fragment, since the World Fragment wasn't really of much use to them.
In the world she experienced, most of the world fragments existing within the human body are themselves connected to world consciousness.
The two people in front of them did not appear to be reincarnations of the world's consciousness.
Led by the boy, the four of them walked to the entrance of the villa.
Upon entering, a beautiful maximalist living room came into view.
What attracts their attention is not the exquisite paintings, nor the artistic works, nor the flowers in full bloom.
Instead, it was a glowing crystal stone, only the size of a soybean, floating in mid-air.
"What is this...?" Leo felt as if his heart was being gently caressed by his mother's hand, making him want to shed tears for this warmth that he had lost for who knows how long.
Kane stood beside him, his hand unconsciously resting on his chest.
“This…” The boy frowned, looking troubled.
"What's wrong?" Sang Zhitao looked at him strangely.
The boy sighed softly before saying, "Actually, I don't know either."
As he spoke, he touched his chin: "To be precise, I never even noticed this thing was here."
Sang Zhitao and the other three looked at each other, not reacting for a moment.
"You mean this obviously glowing object is floating here, and you haven't noticed it? How long have you been here?" Leo looked at the boy with disbelief.
The boy shrugged and said nonchalantly, "We don't know how long we've been here, but every day it gets dark and then it gets light again."
"What about food and drink?" Sang Zhitao frowned. She couldn't find anything in the courtyard that could provide them with food.
The boy asked curiously, "Don't these appear on their own?"
Sang Zhitao twitched her lips, feeling that her worldview was crumbling.
However, considering that my very existence was enough to shatter my worldview, I stopped caring.
Lin Mo had amnesia, and since it had nothing to do with his daughter, he naturally didn't care.
But for Leo and Kane, it was simply unbelievable.
Just then, they watched as Nannan took a plate of cake from the table, ate it, and when she put the plate back on the table, the cake reappeared.
"This..." The two of them looked at each other, and the next second they rushed to the table, looked at the food on the table, carefully took a plate of cake, ate a few bites and put it back, and then saw that the chipped cake was restored to normal.
Sang Zhitao paid no attention to the two shocked adults. She gently opened her hand and raised it...
The tiny fragment of the world, no bigger than a soybean, floated gently into her hand.
Sang Zhitao looked down at the fragment of the world in her hand, before she could see it fly into her body and merge with her as usual.
You can see the fragments shrink rapidly, just like ice cubes meeting hot water.
Sang Zhitao watched helplessly as the fragment shrank to the size of a mung bean, and the scattered specks from the fragment disappeared into the air.
Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the testing equipment next to her and discovered that the set of blue numbers on it had once again reached a new level.
A fragment of the world, the size of a mung bean, trembled and flew into her body. Sang Zhitao immediately felt the presence of the jade pendant on her chest.
Unbeknownst to her, at that very moment, beyond the heavens, the black barrier enveloping this world suddenly cracked open...
"Ouch! It hurts!" The children who were eating nearby suddenly collapsed to the ground, clutching their chests and crying out in pain.
Lin Mo and Kane rushed over immediately and helped the children up one by one.
Leo stood silently to the side for a long time before stepping forward to help at Kane's urging.
Unfortunately, the children were in so much pain that even after being helped up, they rolled back onto the ground the next second.
"Them!!" Leo stood helplessly to one side, letting out a gasp.
Sang Zhitao had just finished absorbing the world fragments when she heard the exclamation and opened her eyes to look in this direction.
Lin Mo and Kane also took a few steps back, looking at the children on the ground without daring to make a move.
Sang Zhitao silently walked to their side, her pupils shrinking involuntarily as she stared in shock at the children in front of her, who seemed to have been under some kind of magic, growing into adult sizes in just a moment.
"Hmm..." The eight-year-old boy was now a twenty-eight-year-old young man, and he became the first person to wake up.
He sat up, glanced at Sang Zhitao and then at the other three people, before rubbing his temples and saying, "I'm sorry, this place has been subjected to an isolation ability, and we've also been subjected to a confusion ability."
"Confusion? Isolation?" Leo and Kane exchanged bewildered glances, asking, "Why have we never heard of such abilities before?"
The man rubbed his cheeks and said embarrassedly, "This is a hybrid ability that our Heart Painting Abode developed back then. It requires the simultaneous use of more than a dozen emotional abilities."
"So who are you? Why do you use these superpowers? Why are you hiding here?" Sang Zhitao asked, frowning.
The man glanced at his still unconscious companions and explained, "You can just call me Aoki."
After he finished speaking, he sighed: "Actually, I don't know the specifics very well. I only know that one day three hundred years ago, the dean suddenly told us that we needed to use a special sealing ability to completely seal the Heart Painting Pavilion."
"Where is the dean?" Sang Zhitao asked.
"She left after making the arrangements, saying she had other things to do."
"The dean said that the force has returned. She feels that something is wrong with it and plans to find someone to deal with it." The girl called Nannan, who had now transformed back into a twenty-six or twenty-seven-year-old woman, sat up and explained.
"The dean said that Xia Guo has always been mysterious, so perhaps there is a way."
"I wonder how Xia Guo is doing," another man, who had been a chubby boy and had been restored to manhood, couldn't help but sigh.
"It seems that the Xia Kingdom disappeared three hundred years ago, and it also seems to have been isolated by a barrier." Sang Zhitao recalled what Yas and the others had talked about before.
"Oh...it seems we failed. What's the situation outside now?" Nannan looked at Sang Zhitao and smiled gently.
Sang Zhitao took a step back and said, "I'm just a four-year-old baby."
Seeing that Nannan's eyes were looking at Lin Mo, she quickly added, "My father has amnesia."
He then pointed to Leo and the other man: "They know a lot."
Nannan turned her gaze to the two people.
Leo and Kane were about to refuse, but they hadn't yet recovered from the performance of the magic trick.
But looking into the eyes on Nannan's baby face, which held an undeniable air of authority, for some reason, both of them subconsciously thought of their homeroom teacher from their school days, and instinctively dared not refuse.
"Your father has amnesia? What's the reason?" Aoki asked curiously as he approached Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao briefly described Lin Mo's condition.
Aoki stroked his chin thoughtfully: "Perhaps I have a way."
"Really?!" Sang Zhitao looked at him in surprise.
Aoki nodded and touched his temple: "I remember now."
As he spoke, he quickly went upstairs and soon came down with another collar.
"This is an emotional stimulation collar. Since the amnesia is due to emotional abilities, we can try stimulating that emotion, starting small and gradually increasing it, so that the person can accept it little by little."
"Didn't you say that the method the big tree gave was based on the idea that he could regain his memories by accepting the past? I think that makes a lot of sense."
Sang Zhitao frowned as she looked at the silver necklace in his hand.
She still remembered the first time she met Lin Mo. Lin Mo was wearing a worn-out restraint collar around his neck. She didn't know how many years Lin Mo had worn that collar, but she knew it must have been a very long time.
She thought that if it were her, she would definitely refuse to wear this symbol of restraint and control again.
Just as she was still hesitating, Lin Mo silently reached out and took the collar from her.
“Dad?!” Sang Zhitao couldn’t help but reach out and press his arm.
Lin Mo smiled and patted her head: "I'm also very curious about what my past was like."
How can a person live without memories?
This was something Sang Zhitao had never dared to imagine before.
What would Lin Mo feel every time he opened his eyes after using his special ability, looking at the unfamiliar environment and listening to strangers tell him things he should know but didn't?
She couldn't help but sigh.
Lin Mo saw through her thoughts and smiled as he pinched her cheek: "Don't worry, I'm fine."
Meanwhile, Nannan also learned about the current world situation and the conflict between the two from Leo and the other person.
"I never imagined that just a few years of hiding would result in so many changes in everyone," Nannan sighed softly.
“Spiral Tower…” Aoki paused, glancing at Kane, “Does Spiral Tower still intend to treat those with negative emotions this way?”
Kane paused for a moment before saying with difficulty, "I cannot decide matters at the top."
"Their Spiral Tower can snatch babies directly from their parents and throw them into the quarantine zone." Leo, seemingly unaware of what he had just experienced, suddenly looked at Kane with a mocking smile.
Kane didn't argue with him, but looked at Aoki and said solemnly, "Perhaps the Spiral Tower did make some mistakes at the beginning, but we have been changing over the years."
“Yeah, at least you Cleansers aren’t just arresting every single person with negative emotions you see anymore.” Leo rolled his eyes from the side.
"You!" Kane's face turned somewhat ugly, but for some reason, he couldn't bring himself to say anything in response.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Alright, you two have been sworn enemies for hundreds of years, how can you explain it in just a few words?"
However, Sang Zhitao still looked at Kane and said, "If Aoki and the others don't restore Lord's appearance, what will your Spiral Tower do?"
Kane fell silent instantly.
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