Chapter 268 Finally, all the fragments were obtained, following the usual pattern...
In accordance with the Spiral Tower's usual practices, they would forcibly bring these children into the tower and raise the children with negative emotional abilities separately from the children with positive emotional abilities.
One will be carefully raised and brainwashed into being loyal to you, while the other will be raised casually and then kicked out of the Spiral Tower at the age of fifteen to fend for themselves.
As she spoke, Sang Zhitao looked at Leo, who was constantly mocking her from the side: "Where is your Shadow Council?"
Leo's face turned green, and he immediately stopped saying anything.
If the Spiral Tower still had a human-like facade, then the Shadow Council was utterly inhuman.
They would pretend to take all the children away and raise them together until they formed a close relationship. Then, they would design different events to target the abilities of each person with negative emotions, forcing their emotions to be amplified infinitely.
It's fair to say that neither of these two factions is any good.
These two questions silenced not only Kane, but also Leo, who was standing nearby.
"Are there other people like you elsewhere?" After the two of them shut their mouths, Sang Zhitao looked at Aoki and asked.
Aoki shook his head: "I'm not very clear. After the director took the children away, he asked us teachers to seal ourselves away, but he didn't say anything else."
Sang Zhitao rubbed her fingertips together, thinking that if she were the original headmaster of Xin Hui Xiaozhu, she would definitely seal away all of Xin Hui Xiaozhu.
No! Sang Zhitao couldn't help but shake her head in her heart. She wouldn't seal it all, but would seal a small part and leave the majority to the outside world, so that they could destroy it and create the phenomenon of Xin Hui Xiaozhu completely disappearing.
"I understand, thank you." Sang Zhitao nodded to him, already having made up her mind.
"What will you do after this?" After a short rest, the group decided to continue their journey to other places. Before leaving, Sang Zhitao was a little worried about Aoki and the others.
Aoki gazed at the mutated grassland, which had returned to about a meter high after the fragments of the world were recovered: "This grassland, because of the special power you mentioned, had an extraordinary size but no power. Now it has returned to its normal size. I think this place is very suitable for children to live in."
As he spoke, he looked at the other teachers who had already packed their bags: "We will go to other places and bring back those abandoned children."
"Xin Hui Xiao Zhu will give every child a home."
“Then I look forward to Xin Hui Xiao Zhu becoming a shining pearl in this world again, just like it used to be,” Sang Zhi Tao said to him with a light laugh.
Aoki stood at the entrance of No. 1 Courtyard, watching his companions walk in different directions, his gaze finally settling on Sang Zhitao.
He could sense that this child would bring new life to the world...
"Are you going to other places with us?" Sang Zhitao asked, looking at Leo and the other person with a question in her eyes.
Leo nodded without hesitation: "I'm usually free, so this is a good time to take a vacation. I still have six months of annual leave left."
Kane glanced at him before nodding: "The Tower Master told me to follow you."
Sang Zhitao nodded after hearing this and didn't ask any more questions. She opened her arms for her father to hug her and pointed in a direction: "Let's go that way first!"
They walked a long way before finally seeing the readings on the testing equipment change again.
"Here!" Sang Zhitao called out to the group of people holding the sensing equipment in the distance.
During this time, Jenna sent them several more pieces of equipment, increasing the detection range from 100 meters to 1,000 meters.
"They're here!" The group of people in the distance quickly packed up their equipment and ran over.
Just like what happened at No. 1 Courtyard, Sang Zhitao also found a pea-sized fragment of the world here, and the teachers here have also returned from children to adults.
Upon learning that the teachers from No. 1 Courtyard had already gone to various places to rescue children, and that they hadn't even stayed overnight, they were about to pack their bags and leave on the spot. It was only after Sang Zhitao's repeated persuasion that they gave up and decided to wait until the next day to prepare before leaving.
The group continued their journey, stopping and starting, until four years later when they finally arrived at their tenth home, Xin Hui Xiao Zhu.
However, unlike the other houses, Xin Hui Xiao Zhu is no longer located deep within the mutated plants, heavily protected, and has not suffered any harm.
The area surrounding Xin Hui Xiao Zhu has been turned into a battlefield.
Sang Zhitao could clearly feel that as the war dragged on, that aura she loathed was rolling in from afar.
"We need to stop them!" Sang Zhitao looked at Leo and the other man with a grim expression.
As the readings on their testing equipment, especially the green readings, continued to climb, the two of them instantly understood what Sang Zhitao meant and quickly contacted their superiors.
After an unknown amount of time, the two returned with grim expressions.
"Can't you stop them?" Sang Zhitao asked.
Kane shook his head: "We stopped them."
Leo nodded in agreement.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but seeing that the two of them still didn't look well, she couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
Kane didn't reply to her, but Leo, who was standing next to her, spoke up instead: "Our boss said... the war can stop, but this Heart Painting Abode will..."
"He can't possibly want the territory of Xin Hui Xiao Zhu, can he? Is your Shadow Council so short of territory?" Sang Zhi Tao raised an eyebrow and asked curiously.
Leo slowly shook his head: "No, he wants people."
“You’ve met the people from Heart Painting Abode. Not only are they uncontaminated, but their abilities are also stronger than most people in the outside world. They also possess some superpowers that you don’t know about.” Sang Zhitao thought of the superpowers that Qingmu had shown her, superpowers that could not even be called emotional superpowers.
Leo also thought of the scene Aoki had shown, which was a combination technique created by different superpowers and different frequencies.
He fell silent instantly. Thinking of what his boss had told him to bring people to stop them, he couldn't help but twitch his lips. With his abilities, he was no match for those superpowered monsters.
They chatted briefly, and only after the people on the battlefield had left and the battlefield returned to calm did they finally set off again for their destination.
"Captain Leo!" A girl's voice called out from behind as I was walking.
The group looked back suspiciously and saw a girl in red running towards them at high speed.
Sang Zhitao was stunned for a moment when she saw that signature smile, and only reacted when the other person was right in front of her.
"Maya?!" Sang Zhitao stared at the girl in disbelief. "What are you doing here?!"
Maya froze for a moment when she saw her and Lin Mo, and at that moment she saw Kane.
"Tao Tao... Captain Kane!" Maya couldn't help but take a few steps back, her bright smile vanishing from her face and turning deathly pale.
Kane nodded nonchalantly.
Leo frowned but said nothing.
Instead, Maya squeezed next to Sang Zhitao as if avoiding two plagues: "How come you're with them?"
"You're doing this mission together?"
"The boss told me to help Captain Leo, does that mean he wants me to go after you guys?"
"I can't beat Captain Kane. I'm just an ordinary emotional architect. I work in an office."
...
Whether Maya was frightened or simply let her true nature prevail, she held onto Sang Zhitao's arm and muttered to herself for a long time before finally giving Sang Zhitao a chance to speak.
"Why ask so many questions? Why don't you just tell me why you went to the Shadow Council?" Sang Zhitao looked Maya up and down at the insignia on her body.
Maya sighed: "It's a long story."
Sang Zhitao rolled her eyes and said, "I have plenty of time."
Maya remained silent for a long time before saying with a melancholy expression, "I just feel that the Spiral Tower is not suitable for me. Anyway, an Emotional Architect can live anywhere, so I'll just find a place I like."
Sang Zhitao was taken aback upon hearing this, then remembered that Maya had hinted several times that she was sent by the higher-ups of the Spiral Tower to seduce Lin Mo, and she fell silent as well.
Maya didn't care about Sang Zhitao's attitude. She shrugged and waved her hand dismissively: "Anyway, at worst I can just leave the council. Isn't there the mutual aid society I can go to?"
“Besides…” she paused before saying, “I can also go to the other two levels of the underground pipes. I heard that there are no restrictions there.”
“Sometimes, rules are not only a constraint but also a protection,” Sang Zhitao sighed and said softly. “Without the constraints of rules, that would be hell on earth.”
Maya opened her mouth, but didn't say anything. After a long silence, she whispered, "Okay, I understand."
“This is the tenth one,” Leo remarked.
They had already learned from the teacher of the previous Heart Drawing Pavilion that the dean had chosen to seal away only ten Heart Drawing Pavilions.
As before, Sang Zhitao used her abilities to break the seal's barrier.
The world fragment here is even smaller, smaller than a sesame seed, making it arguably the smallest fragment she has encountered since transmigrating.
"This..." She couldn't help but twitch her lips. She had just been amused that the consciousness of the previous world had cut the fragments into so many pieces, but the consciousness of this world was not just cut into fragments, it could be described as being pulverized.
"What's wrong?" Lin Mo asked, seeing her staring blankly at the glowing object in her palm.
Sang Zhitao snapped out of her daze, quickly shook her head, and then absorbed the fragment of the world.
Although this fragment of the world is the smallest, it possesses far greater energy than the previous fragments.
The moment Sang Zhitao absorbed the jade pendant, it was instantly summoned.
The others stared in shock at the emerald green jade pendant that emerged from her body, then watched helplessly as Sang Zhitao floated into the air.
"Tao Tao!" Lin Mo rushed forward to grab her.
But Sang Zhitao stopped him, saying, "Don't worry, I'm fine."
As she spoke, she closed her eyes slightly, and then the jade pendant flew back into her body.
The crowd watched as a green light emerged from her body and enveloped her.
"Hiss..." Lin Mo suddenly clutched his chest, his face turning pale.
It was dusk, and the orange-yellow light shone on Sang Zhitao, turning the green light on her body into a bright yellow-green, which was very noticeable on this scorched black land.
As darkness slowly fell, the scorched earth was bathed in the night's glow. Only the faint light from the Xin Hui Xiao Zhu villa and the yellow-green light emanating from Sang Zhi Tao illuminated a patch of land where one could still make out each other's features.
As night fell, everyone noticed a faint light gleaming beneath the skin between Lin Mo's eyebrows.
Just when everyone thought it was an illusion, the light burst out of his body and flew straight into Sang Zhitao in mid-air.
The light was like a secret code, coming from the sky and from all directions, like a shooting star with a long tail, converging in front of them.
Against the dark blue night sky, faint stars gathered from all directions, attracting not only Leo and his companions but also causing the people of the Spiral Tower and the Shadow Council in the distance to look up at the sky.
For a time, they lost count of how many stars flew toward the forbidden zone of life that they had never noticed, and they had no idea what these stars meant.
In the world of pipes, there are the siblings Fengming and Fengchao, Ranfeng, the siblings Yasiruyue, Jenna, and President Hanyue...
Such light appeared on various parts of these people, whether they were familiar with Sang Zhitao or not, and then converged from the sky above the giant crater that collapsed in the eastern district, flying towards the distant Sang Zhitao.
The stars disappeared quickly, and just when everyone thought it was over, bursts of light suddenly emanated from the distant east.
Soon the light illuminated the night sky as if it were daytime.
"This is……"
Those were countless stars, coming from the east and flying straight into Sang Zhitao's direction.
"The Eastern Divine Kingdom, Xia Kingdom!" At the highest point of the Spiral Tower's main tower, a white-haired man stared at the direction from which the stars had come, his face pale. "She succeeded? Impossible!"
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