Chapter 139 Night Candle Rules 17 Coincidence.
The news came as a complete shock, leaving everyone stunned.
The room was dark. Yu Wanyan was locked inside, and Huo Wei had been put to a deep sleep by a prop. The four of them sat facing each other, with only the faint light emanating from the suspended screen, which made each of their faces look as pale as ghosts.
No one could believe their eyes. Mo Gui blinked frantically, Wei Chongru rubbed his eyes hard, and Nanmen Jue looked at Ying Yao.
"Because of some reason, they are trapped in the cycle of reincarnation... like in this case?" she asked softly.
“…I didn’t expect there would be such a small reincarnator in this space,” Ying Yao said.
Yes, who could have imagined this? Who would have wanted to? Even with the two living examples of Yu Wanyan and Mo Gui, who show that there is no law protecting minors in the Reincarnation Space, and that even minors will be dragged into this cruel game, but... judging from the appearance of that strange boy, he looks to be no more than ten years old!
This isn't a minor; this is clearly a child.
If you drag a child like that into the cycle of reincarnation, what can he do besides become cannon fodder?
And yet, such a young child could conceive of a despair powerful enough to be captured by the cycle of reincarnation...
Nanmen Jue suddenly felt that every word in the diary was extremely glaring.
“So, all the rules in this field can be explained,” Wei Chongru said in a low voice. “Every family must have a child because he feels that he is not expected. He wants to live in a world where every family is required to have a child, so that he can live legitimately.”
“He doesn’t even ask his parents to love their children,” Mo Gui murmured. “As long as he has a job and can support his children, that’s enough.”
“And… no wonder he cares so much about domestic violence.” Wei Chongru glanced at Nanmen Jue. “If this community wasn’t built in a bizarre way, and people don’t die so easily… you could say it’s very child-friendly.”
Yes, because that's the boy's wish; he wants to live in such a world.
After a brief silence, Nanmen Jue's eyes flickered slightly, and he turned to the next page.
The handwriting on the next page became noticeably messy. At this point, the child was already in a cycle of reincarnation, but it was uncertain whether it was the current one.
"I don't know what month or day it is, it's cloudy. This is a very scary place, with many scary monsters and scary people. They fight all the time, and people are dying all the time. Maybe I won't know when I'll die either."
"I don't know the exact date, it's cloudy. If I die, will my parents shed a single tear for me? Probably not, they'll be happy that this burden of mine is finally dead. Thinking like that, shouldn't I just die already?"
With a bang, Mo Gui slammed his fist heavily on the table.
"Damn parents, if you didn't want him to live, why did you give birth to him? What kind of parents are they! What kind of family are they if they want their child to die!"
His suppressed growl was filled with deep pain. Among those present, only Nanmen Jue knew his background and how he entered the world of reincarnation, but the other two were not fools either, and they both understood what he meant. Wei Chongru comforted him by putting his arm around his shoulder.
"I don't know the exact date, but the weather turned from sunny to cloudy. I broke an arm, and it hurts so much, more than any time my dad has ever hit me. I think I might really die, but Sister Xiaoru is still protecting me. She wants me to live. She's the first person who wants me to live, and I don't want to make her sad."
The next paragraph uses an ominous brown ink, making it hard not to wonder what it was written with.
“Yin. Sister Xiaoruo is dead. They took her body, saying they wanted to exchange it for points. I'm just a kid, I couldn't take it back, but I picked up Sister Xiaoruo's coat and buried it.”
An even heavier atmosphere filled the air. No one spoke, and Nanmen Jue quickly turned to the next page.
“Yin. I gradually understood what they were saying. It turned out that those terrifying monsters were called Weirdos. They seemed to have no way to deal with Weirdos. People were dying every day. At first there were ten people, but now there are only four left.”
Seeing this, we can finally confirm that this is the first reincarnation world the boy entered, and as we all know, his young life was left here forever.
Wei Chongru couldn't help but say, "But this child hasn't mentioned any special feelings for any particular place, so we still don't know where the anchor point is."
Nanmenjue continued flipping through the pages.
The next few entries were very short, all saying that they were in a lot of pain, but without mentioning any other injuries, until three or four pages later.
“Yin. They say that no matter what, you must not enter the ‘Judge’s’ realm of evil, for no one who has gone in has ever come out alive.”
A few days later.
“Yin. They say this is the Judge’s realm of evil.”
The diary ends here.
"Judge," Nanmen Jue murmured the name, then looked up at the others. "Have you heard of this title before?"
Although Nanmen Jue was the strongest in terms of individual strength, she had the least seniority among those present. She hoped someone could provide some clues, and her main inquiry target was a certain president who wished to remain anonymous.
Sure enough, Wei Chongru and Mo Gui both shook their heads blankly. Ying Yao thought for a while and said, "The survival rate in this world is very low. It's hard to find people who can get out alive. I've heard this name once. It should also be a rule-based supernatural entity. It will judge the things that everyone who enters the supernatural realm has done. I don't know what it will judge specifically."
He looked at Nanmenjue, "This survivor is the man from Iron Drill."
Iron drill bit.
Thinking of Deng Erhuai, whom she had severely injured in the previous world, Nanmen Jue gave a bitter smile to herself.
She and Iron Drill have formed a deep grudge, making it extremely difficult to obtain any further information from them.
“It seems we can deduce that the boy became strange because of the Judge.” Wei Chongru sighed, his expression somewhat somber. “But we still don’t know where the anchor point is… hmm?”
He suddenly realized something.
“If he’s not at the police station or where he lives, then there’s only one possibility.” Nanmen Jue pinched the bridge of his nose, turned the diary back to a previous page, and fixed his fingertip on the sentence, “But I picked up Sister Xiaoruo’s coat and buried it.”
“I also think it’s here,” Mo Gui said, head down. “This place must be very important to him.”
Ying Yao looked at Wei Chongru, "Are there any suspicious places in this strange realm?"
Wei Chongru frowned, trying hard to recall. At this moment, the crow, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up: "I found a place that looks very similar."
"Um?"
Everyone immediately looked at Him.
"To the southeast, near the border of the Ghost Realm, there is a mountain with a sweet osmanthus tree on it," the crow said. "It's winter here, but the tree is still blooming, which is very strange."
Nanmen Jue asked in confusion, "Didn't you notice the anchor point back then?"
The crow shook its head.
Nanmen Jue became even more suspicious.
"Perhaps the anchor point was hidden too well," Wei Chongru said. "It's possible that Lord Crow didn't discover it."
Nanmen Jue knew that Xiao Nuo was no ordinary crow. When it had enough energy, it could even be used as a scanner. If the anchor point was really there, it would not have noticed.
However, there were too many people here, so it wasn't the time for discussion. Nanmen Jue didn't press the matter further and agreed that Wei Chongru and Wuya would go to that mountain tomorrow to take a closer look. Wei Chongru then took Mo Gui back to the other side without stopping to complete Mo Gui's good student task for the day.
Only Nanmen Jue and Ying Yao remained in the living room. Ying Yao put away the props, and Nanmen Jue picked up the diary again and began to read it.
The only sound in the air was the rustling of papers turning over. Ying Yao didn't make a sound to disturb him, as he had a feeling that Nanmen Jue had something to say.
"The things in this world are getting more and more ridiculous." Sure enough, Nanmen Jue started with a swear word. "I used to think I was very unlucky. I had no parents, and my only relative was a mute who thought he was so great but wouldn't communicate with me. I felt so frustrated. But now I think I'm actually quite lucky. Isn't that ridiculous?"
“Nanmen,” Ying Yao said softly, “calm down, your mental strength has dropped.”
"You even know that? Just how many items have you hoarded?" Nanmen Jue glanced at him with considerable surprise, not denying it, but instead sneered, "If you gathered all the reincarnators together, you could hold a misery contest. There's no limit to how miserable you can be. 'My parents are both dead,' 'My parents want me dead!' 'What are your stories compared to mine? I was born with no one to care for me and I was beaten every day'... Everyone sits in a row, recounting their tragic pasts, and the most miserable one gets sent back to that hellish reality! Hahaha, isn't that hilarious?"
Ying Yao remained silent. He looked at Nanmen Jue and burst into laughter, his eyes crinkling with joy, but his brows furrowed beneath the mask.
Suddenly, Nanmen Jue stopped laughing and stared straight at Ying Yao. "Why did you come in?"
Ying Yao remained silent.
“Others may not know, but you certainly do: the condition for entering this space is the generation of sufficient despair,” Nanmen Jue said. “How did you get in?”
“I have a comrade-in-arms.” After a long pause, Ying Yao slowly spoke, his voice much lower than usual. “He risked his life on the battlefield and obtained valuable intelligence for us, but because of his special identity, it had to be kept secret. He couldn’t go back to see his parents until he was discharged from the army.”
Nanmen Jue seemed to have guessed what was going to happen next. She suppressed her subtle madness and listened quietly.
"However, the day before he was discharged from the army, someone forcibly seized his parents' land. During the dispute, his father was accidentally hit on the head, suffered a brain hemorrhage, and died on the spot. His mother also died in the accident." Ying Yao lowered his head, probably looking at his hands. His fingers slowly clenched, and even without taking off his gloves, one could feel the veins bulging.
“The person who accidentally killed his father was punished, but he believed that the root of all this was the unreasonable developer, so he decided to disregard the law and seek revenge on the developer.” Ying Yao briefly summarized what happened next: “The developer was legally armed, and when I arrived, he was already dead.”
“Everything that developer did was legal, and no one could do anything to him, but my friend’s whole family is dead,” Ying Yao said lightly and coldly.
An unbelievable thought popped into Nanmen Jue's mind.
"Is the developer... Wang Jianye?"
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