Upon hearing this, Yu Chenming frowned, and the worry in his eyes was real.
"Are you okay then?"
Hua Lingjiu suppressed the severe pain in his heart, swallowed the blood in his throat, and pretended to be calm.
"It's okay, I'll just transform into my original form and stay in Luo Qi's pocket..."
How could she be okay? The young men around her saw the sadness in her fox eyes and subconsciously clenched their fists. They were not strong enough, so they needed their junior sister to clear the way for them and get hurt.
They are useless!
Luo Qi hugged her even tighter. The boy who used to bicker with Hua Lingjiu now had bloodshot and misty pupils.
"...Okay, then you, you should have a good rest." He stroked the little fox carefully, his clear eyes revealing shock and heartache.
Huai Jin looked at Hua Lingjiu in the crowd. His dark pupils narrowed, revealing confusion. Judging from Hua Lingjiu's previous performance, she should have known that there would be something in this place, but why?
Still have to come, still have to take risks...
So stupid!
But right now, there are more urgent things to do.
then.
Yu Chenming glanced at Luo Qi and said, "You stay in the middle and protect your junior sister well."
Luo Qi took out the emergency life-saving pill that Sheng Wu had given him before, and without hesitation fed his own pill to Hua Lingjiu, and then nodded solemnly.
"Okay!" His voice was almost trembling.
Hua Lingjiu had closed his eyes, subconsciously swallowed the medicine in his mouth, and then stopped moving.
But Luo Qi did not put her in his pocket, but held her carefully.
Afterwards, the group of young men packed up their magic tools and moved forward again.
It seemed that no one mentioned the corpse on the ground just now.
Something has been quietly changing.
In fact, if the two black-robed men were dead, the people in the tower would have noticed it, but unfortunately, their master Sheng Wu was there to erase all traces for them.
Naturally, the black-robed man in the tower could not notice anything.
So Yu Chenming and his group arrived at the foot of the tower smoothly and quickly.
This tower is built with earth and stones. It is about ten meters high and requires ten people to hug it. It is quite huge.
"This tower actually has no door."
Yu Chenming looked around and found that there was no entrance to the tower.
Hearing this, Huai Jin frowned slightly. He had only heard about what happened back then and was not directly involved, so he didn't know the details.
Everyone also raised their eyes and frowned, observing in the dark night.
At this time.
"This, this tower has no door. You need to...enter through a window above..."
Hua Lingjiu suddenly spoke weakly to the little fox lying dazed in Luo Qi's arms.
She opened her dim light grey fox pupils and looked at the tall tower in front of her, a hint of sadness lingering in the depths of her eyes.
Luo Qi immediately asked, "How are you? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
Yu Chenming, "How do you know?"
"fine."
Hua Lingjiu shook her head slightly and answered Yu Chenming's question.
"I guess..." After a pause, she raised her eyes, her desolate eyes filled with a look that others could not understand.
"I don't know if you've heard that babies who died in infancy weren't allowed to have tombstones or graves erected, let alone burials in ancestral tombs. They were simply buried in a random mound of earth. Later, to provide a place of comfort for these poor babies' souls, people began building baby towers, where deceased babies could be buried, giving them a place of rest."
Upon hearing this, everyone's brows twitched slightly. Some of the young people had heard similar rumors at home, but some had never heard of it.
Hua Lingjiu continued, his voice weak and hoarse, "But later, people's hearts changed. What was originally written as 'Baby Tower' gradually became the 'Girl Baby Tower.' More and more baby girls who died prematurely were sent there by their parents. Even due to natural disasters or because they felt that baby girls were less useful than baby boys, many heartless parents would throw their still-living baby girls... right out that window."
Having said that, Hua Lingjiu lowered his eyes, which were filled with a hint of resentment and sarcasm.
"Some people heard the cries of baby girls at night and feared retribution, fearing the baby girls would hold a grudge against them, and even more afraid that they would crawl out and expose their unbearable sins. Therefore, the towers of baby girls were built higher and higher, with no entrance at the bottom and only a high window at the top, so that the baby girls could never escape."
These words, every word, were filled with a chilling horror.
The young men present all frowned and looked unhappy when they heard this. They didn't expect that there would be such a ridiculous thing!
Suddenly, Yu Chen thought about what the storyteller had said before, and suddenly understood something.
"So, Chengye Village was originally a village of dragons and phoenixes, with both sons and daughters. Later, when they couldn't support so many children, they secretly threw all the newborn baby girls into this tower. That's how Chengye Village came to be, where only baby boys were born and no baby girls were born!"
Although this is a world of immortal cultivation, ordinary people in the mortal world still believe that boys are more important than girls, especially families that need to make a living. They feel that men are the pillars of a family, and women will eventually get married.
Luo Qi's pupils trembled, and he felt a chill and fear, "So, in this tower, there are the bodies of those baby girls..."
Even when they were at home, they had seen the phenomenon of favoring boys over girls, but they had no idea that some people could be so cruel!
That was a baby girl who had been born alive! Tossed from a tall tower like that!
And those people were actually proud of their fake birth of only male babies and flaunted it everywhere?!
How disgusting can these foolish human natures be...
Everyone was shocked, and beneath their surprise was a chill at the evil of human nature.
As Huai Jin listened, his focus was on why Hua Lingjiu knew so much...
And when she talked about this, even though she was in animal form, he could see a hint of inexplicable hatred in her pupils.
Could it be...
But now is not the time to dwell on these things.
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