Chapter 1321 The Returnee's Notes 395
Song Zhi heard the crisp sound of the mirror shattering, and then black energy surged out from the shards of the mirror on the stone platform. The baby's cries grew louder and more piercing.
"Waaaaah—"
The clumps of black energy coalesced into several ghostly infants.
Upon seeing this, Jing Shui immediately sat down cross-legged and shouted, "Form ranks!"
The others also went to their seats and sat cross-legged. The soul umbrellas on their backs flew out and spun in the air. Wu Hui made a hand seal, intending to summon lightning, but suddenly met the eyes of the ghost infant.
A baby with clear, bright eyes is like a blank sheet of paper; it knows nothing, only instincts.
"Waaah~" The baby blew out a small bubble, then giggled and reached out its tiny hand to hold Wu Hui's finger.
Wu Hui's hand trembled, and he seemed to return to the day of the trial. He encountered an infant abandoned in a mountain valley. Clothes were still valuable, so the child lay naked among the bones.
She seemed to have seen him, and then reached out to ask him to hug her.
Wu Hui had heard many stories. In the past, the outside world was different from Qing Shi Town. There were few people in Qing Shi Town, and every child was cherished.
Unlike before, the instructors at the workshops would talk about female infants, who were abandoned, and female infants were the most affected.
The pit was littered with bones, almost all of them the remains of infants. Wu Hui knew that his exit was probably on the baby girl, so he rescued her, returned her home, and gave her money.
He believed that the family couldn't afford to raise another child, which was why they abandoned the child.
But as time passed, he saw the child again in the pit. She was now emaciated, wrapped only in a few large leaves, lying quietly in the pit.
Her yellowish hair, resembling withered grass, foreshadowed the passing of her life.
Looking into the child's still clear eyes, Wu Hui didn't mention sending her home again.
This time, however, the girl spoke up herself. She said, "God, can you cure my illness? If I get better, I can go home."
She took root there.
Wu Hui remained silent, confused. He felt he shouldn't send the girl back.
But she wanted to go back, and Wu Hui didn't understand why she would have such thoughts when she was abandoned again.
In the end, Wu Hui still sent the girl back according to her wishes. A healthy child brought more joy to the family, not for any other reason than that the girl was already able to do things.
And it can be sold for money.
The third time she was abandoned, she wasn't thrown into the pit by her family; she jumped in herself.
"It's safe here, I like it here."
Wu Hui had been keeping an eye on her. Not long after he sent the girl back, she was sold to a family as a servant, but she did not live a good life.
A slave is merely an object.
In the end, she ran away and never went home.
Looking at the girl who looked to be in her teens, Wu Hui felt a sense of wonder. He had indeed been paying attention to the girl, but it was like a fleeting glance, and he did not know much about her life.
This time she had a set of clothes, but such simple linen clothes were obviously no match for the winter wind.
She's going to die.
Wu Hui looked at her pale lips and came to this conclusion, while he waited for the girl to continue speaking and ask him for help.
The girl did not beg for life; instead, she took off a layer of her own clothing and wrapped it around a stiff baby girl who had been thrown there at some unknown time.
In the end, she didn't resent anyone. She just curled up with the baby girl in her arms, saying, "It's so cold outside, but it's warm here."
Wu Hui didn't encounter any terrifying ghosts, but he remained silent for a long time after leaving the trial.
The lecturer was a sharp-tongued man; he said that people are maggots of self-interest.
Wu Hui still didn't understand, but he stopped arguing.
Finally, he reached out and hooked his hand around the baby's little hand, thinking to himself that if he had held the child a little longer at that moment, perhaps he could have given him a little more warmth.
That deep pit is full of bones and rotting corpses, how could it be warm?
Wu Hui was in a daze, but Jing Shui and the others were not. However, they were in a defensive formation and could not free their hands.
"Senior brother!"
Song Zhi also saw Wu Hui holding a ghost baby, and could clearly see that the ghost baby was absorbing something from Wu Hui, like a wisp of blood-red energy.
She didn't understand, so she fired directly at the ghost baby.
It's a pity that the bullet that could have annihilated the Mirror Spirit with a single shot before can only hurt the opponent now.
The ghost baby's shrill screams made Song Zhi's ears ring. "Wu Hui!"
Actually, Wu Hui had already woken up even without Song Zhi calling him.
"Nine Heavens Respond to the Origin, Thunder Spreads Universally, Hurry!"
"Boom—"
Jing Shui's eyes widened, and she quickly changed her hand gestures, joining the others in taking advantage of the ghost infant's weakness to store it in the Soul Umbrella.
They had just discovered that this ghost infant was different from the previous mirror spirit; it couldn't die at all. However, with the Soul Umbrella, it could still be subdued.
So, does that mean it's broken?
"A small breach has been made here." Wu Hui clutched his aching chest, then instructed the liaison officer to contact Xie Ning.
"We need to blow this place up, just like the thing that just smashed down, to widen the gap, then the core of the formation will become unstable, and the formation will collapse."
Wu Hui looked down at the red ropes surrounding the stone platform. The person who set up the formation was truly brilliant, but it was a pity that it was ruined by those few people just now by mistake.
"good."
Xie Ning responded and then began to operate the device, waiting for Wu Hui and the others to leave the building before it could be blown up.
But for some reason, she felt uneasy.
"Wheat, what's the situation with the patrol?"
"Team One has not found anything unusual, Team Two has detected an unusual signal and is on its way."
They were indeed on the run; fortunately, I had borrowed quite a few people from them.
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