The camera turned to the hospital, where a girl wrapped in bandages lay on the bed. Her entire body was severely burned, with only a pair of eyes, nose and lips exposed.
She used to have beautiful white hair, but now she has only a bald head.
"This is the victim of the case, an elf girl named Stella, who was harmed by the magic circle drawn by Sique. Now let's ask her opinion on the case." The reporter handed the microphone to the girl.
The girl seemed to be unconscious, staring blankly at the camera, repeating over and over again:
"I want to... go back... and plant flowers and grass..."
“Mother Tree…I want to go home…I will never write again, never write again…I will work honestly…I will never chase dreams again…”
The reporter sighed, wiped his tears and said: "This child has been harmed by the evil magic circle and has lost his mind. Si Que is so cruel that he can do such a thing!"
Hearing this, Stella's eyes seemed to light up slightly, and she barely regained some consciousness, and said with all her might:
"No..." It wasn't Si Que who did it...
She was about to defend Si Que, but the camera cleverly cut everything off, and her voice was drowned out by the fragmented images, like the sound of crying under countless pieces of paper...
Yamada Machiichi suddenly remembered what Si Que said.
…
A gifted person like me can boldly pursue his ideals, but a little storm can destroy the life of an ordinary person...
…
Stella is an ordinary person whose life was destroyed.
She used to be such a beautiful elf, with an elegant temperament and a harmonious family. If she went back to plant flowers and grass, she could live a very comfortable life. But because she followed Si Que's creation, she was involved in this kind of thing, and was seriously injured, her face was ruined, and she might even be silenced.
The storm came... and in an instant it destroyed their expectations, their ideals, their lives...
At this moment, Yamada Machi heard a sound coming from outside the door.
"I...I did everything you said! I slandered Si Que, I said he was the one who tampered with my daughter's medicine, and I cooperated with you to cover up the truth of today's incident! You...you should fulfill your promise and save my daughter!"
This voice is exactly the same as the crying man on TV, and his name is Mo Chenqing.
Another voice came, with a bit of contempt and teasing: "I know, I know, I will help you tonight, okay? Well, you sit outside, I have something to do, don't worry."
Then, the door opened and a blue-haired boy walked in with a smile.
He looked at the closet accurately and said with a smile:
"Scale... no, Yamada Machichi."
"I'm sorry to drag you into this. My only goal is to destroy Si Que's reputation and bring him to the bottom. This matter has nothing to do with you. I'll let you wait for a while. I'll let you out tomorrow when it's over."
"Originally, I wanted to trick Mo Yan into killing you so that Mo Chenqing would have to help us in order to protect his son. But I didn't expect Mo Yan to refuse to kill you, so I had to just massacre the civilians and make the matter even worse."
The moment Yamada-cho saw Wuyi, he calmed down, even though he didn't know why Wuyi hated Si Que so much. He calmly asked, "What's so special about Mo Chenqing that you chose him?"
Yamada Machiichi seemed to have never heard of this person before and didn't know who he was.
Wu Yi raised his eyebrows slightly, shrugged, and gave an unexpected answer:
"There's nothing special about him, he's just an ordinary guy."
"It's just because, in this storm, we randomly picked an ordinary person."
"So he's lucky that he didn't lose everything like someone like Stella."
"So he was also very unfortunate. In order to save his daughter, he was forced to give his personality to the devil."
"You know what? When we found him, he was standing outside Bai Qiu's house, waiting for something expectantly. However, we told him that the person who tampered with the medicine was Bai Qiu's sister, and Bai Qiu would never help him."
"His old face suddenly turned pale, like a wrinkled lizard."
"On one side was Bai Qiu, who was known for being cold-blooded, and on the other side was the official councillor who came to see him. It was easy for him to choose who to trust. He knelt down crying and begged us to save his daughter... Well, that cry was really heartbreaking. A poor old father had no dignity at all in the face of the torrent of the times. He had to grab the fallen spider silk with thorns and climb up."
"Middle-aged people like him who are swept up in the vulgar short video culture are the easiest to deceive. The officials only need to say a few words of comfort to bluff him. He just stood on the TV screen and in front of the camera, crying heartbreakingly like a puppet."
"Heh... who knows why he's crying? Is he pretending to cry for his job, or is he crying about his own sad life? Is he crying about his poor daughter? Who knows."
The slanting raindrops came in from the window.
Faintly, inside and outside the screen, one can hear the cries of many, many people...
"He will never know that if he had waited a few more minutes, Bai Qiu would have come out of the house and helped him save his daughter."
(End of this chapter)
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