Chapter 1325 The Returnee's Notes 399
When Yuexin stopped breathing, Xie Ning finally breathed a heavy sigh of relief. However, her tense body still couldn't relax. She felt that she had done so much, and Yuexin's death should have been expected, but when Yuexin actually died in her hands, she still felt a sense of unreality.
Moreover... Xie Ning looked around and saw no trace of Yue Xin's soul, nor did she sense any presence of a soul within Yue Xin's body.
Although the book says that some people's souls do indeed dissipate and return to the world immediately after they die, which is beyond human control, Xie Ning still kept a watchful eye. If Yue Xin's soul still exists in the world... she didn't want to see such a situation where she didn't nip it in the bud.
However, Xie Ning no longer has time to continue the investigation, and given her current condition, she also lacks the energy to continue the divination.
Now, in addition to the pain from some external injuries, she also feels as if all the meridians in her limbs have been drained.
"Zhu Xin."
"I'm here!" Zhu Xin quickly helped Xie Ning up. Her hand had just touched Xie Ning's waist when she felt something wet. But when she saw Xie Ning immediately turn on the communicator on his wrist, she swallowed the concern that was on the tip of her tongue.
"Team Leader Song and I will hand over the duties to the assistant general manager. You can rest now."
The assistant is Yang Hong; Xie Ning was just contacting her.
Through the small camera on the bracelet, Yang Hong also saw Xie Ning's current condition and expressed the same opinion as Zhu Xin: Xie Ning needs treatment and rest now.
"Have Song Zhi lead a team equipped with scanners to search the area and bring out all survivors. If no signs of life are detected within twenty minutes, raze this place to the ground. Also, have Xiaomai connect to the system here and copy everything... This is within the United States. Although we blocked the distress signals sent from here and avoided detection by their satellites, such a large commotion here can't be kept secret for long..."
Before Xie Ning could finish speaking, the medic who had run over to silently bandage her was startled and screamed.
A wisp of black mist emerged from the shattered mirror, revealing Lin Chuan from before. Perhaps freed from his constraints, his expression was no longer as gloomy as when he was a mirror spirit.
But his soul also became more ethereal, and it dissipated.
Lin Chuan looked at Yue Xin's corpse and silently floated over, lost in thought.
After a long while, he finally came to his senses when someone called out to him. Ouyang Lin and Ouyang Xuanxuan had run over at some point, and Ouyang Xuanxuan couldn't help but call out "Uncle Linchuan".
Ouyang Lin was also somewhat surprised, "What is this?"
Of course, she knew Linchuan. Many years ago, her master had taken her and her junior sister to visit some reclusive sects. At that time, her junior sister was still a little kid, while she was a few years younger than Linchuan.
Although Linchuan's sect was not a family lineage, there were only a few people left, and Linchuan was the only disciple of that generation.
Unexpectedly, after so many years, Linchuan has become a mirror spirit being driven by others.
"Ouyang?"
Lin Chuan's eyes brightened slightly, and then he pointed to the fragments on the ground and said, "They are all infant spirits inside. They have not yet dissipated. I would like to trouble you and your fellow disciples to help them pass on to the afterlife. Please also give my regards to Master Xu."
Ouyang Lin nodded, but couldn't help asking, "How did you become like this? Where is your master?"
Lin Chuan's eyes dimmed slightly, and he smiled bitterly, "It was my ignorance and stupidity that harmed my master and myself."
However, many of them are unwilling to talk about it anymore.
Finally, looking at Yuexin's still-present face, he asked himself one last question in his heart: Do I regret it?
He didn't regret saving Yuexin, because he would have saved anyone in that situation. He just shouldn't have fallen in love with Yuexin; she was a madman.
But he wasn't a good person either.
Lin Chuan didn't know why he had such thoughts. He didn't know why he was jealous of his wife, because with just a little guidance, his wife had learned better than him.
Such talent was beyond his reach.
In the beginning, he was superior to Yuexin, but later, due to differences in their strength, their relationship was completely reversed.
At that time, he had already begun to feel resentful.
When he discovered that Yuexin was actually following a treacherous path, he felt a strange sense of balance within himself.
It is precisely because those who follow different paths cannot work together, and those who use deceitful methods... deserve to be killed, not to mention that Yuexin has so much blood on her hands. His act of putting righteousness before family is the right thing to do.
But he himself didn't know how much selfishness was involved.
Such jealousy is wrong, but sometimes people are like that; they know that some things are wrong, but they still can't control themselves from thinking about or doing them.
Perhaps the most innocent among them is their daughter, a child who has neither a father's nor a mother's love.
As his consciousness was about to completely fade away, Linchuan remembered the names of those children, all of which contained the character "Ming".
The light shining on Linchuan is called the sun, and the sun and moon are called brightness.
Seeing Lin Chuan disperse, Ouyang Xuanxuan wiped away her tears, saying, "It was too tragic."
After all, he's an uncle I know.
Xie Ning didn't make any rash judgments. She simply picked up the book and left with Zhu Xin's help. Due to excessive blood loss, her head was still a little dizzy, but she could still barely hear her subordinates' reports.
"...We found 537 women in the hospital, 368 of whom were pregnant, and 608 children ranging in age from a few months to fifteen years old..."
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because there are other districts, and many more children who have been sent away over the years, as well as women who have already passed away, are not included in the count.
Of course, many of the "employees" here are forced to work here because they cannot escape. The number of ordinary laborers alone is already quite large.
In addition to these, there are two special incineration chambers, which are so yin energy that only after Wu Hui cleans them up can others dare to enter.
There is also an old underground power plant that has been renovated and now supplies power to the entire base.
The assistant presented the organized materials to Xie Ning one by one, and finally said with a not-so-good expression, "All the data stored inside has been destroyed, and even Xiaomai was unable to restore the backup."
This means that, apart from the existing statistics on the number of people, it is impossible to record and trace the origins of children who were previously sent out from here, as well as those who were brought in by various means for surrogacy but died or left.
If it were just a child conceived through scientific means, such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF), that would be fine, but it involves gene editing...
Without any data retention, how can anyone know what those children were like?
Are there any hidden problems with children who have had their genes edited? And if such children later have children of normal age, will new genetic problems arise?
But will such a problem have unpredictable impacts on society as a whole?
"Mr. Xie?"
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