Floating to your side (19)

"An An?" The old woman held a baby tightly in her arms and wanted to stand up from the chair, but her frail body could hardly support her movement. She could only stay where she was and look at the ghost baby floating in the air, tears slowly filling her eyes.

"What's going on?" Shen Tang stood at the stairs. She didn't expect that the old woman could actually see the ghost baby. Could it be that the other party had the same yin-yang eyes as her body?

"Do you know what's going on?" Shen Tang turned his head to look at Wen Ting, but the man did not show any joy at the scene not far away. Instead, he looked solemnly at the old man and the ghost baby who approached.

"For ordinary people, being able to see souls can only mean one thing," Wen Ting frowned, crossing his arms lightly across his chest, "that person is about to die."

"That old woman is different from you. She can't see us like you do. The reason why she can see the ghost baby now is because her life is coming to an end," Wen Ting said in a light tone, and his expression when looking at the ghost baby was full of regret. "I didn't expect that this guy would meet the person he was looking for, but the person was about to die."

Shen Tang paused, "So, this mother-in-law is really the biological mother of the ghost baby?"

An old woman with a yellow and wrinkled face, it was hard to connect her with the ghost baby in front of her that had recovered to the appearance of a baby. However, the ghost baby became completely harmless when it saw the other party. The eye sockets that were previously full of pupils now returned to the appearance of a normal child's eyes, and the sharp teeth in its mouth disappeared completely.

The ghost baby that floated in front of the old woman slowly came into her arms, like a newborn baby, and began to cry loudly. The old woman looked at the baby in her arms. Although she was stunned for a while, she soon began to coax the child to sleep. Her cloudy eyes tried to see the child in her arms clearly, and she was still murmuring slowly, "An An, be good, An An, it's time to go to sleep."

Thinking carefully, it has been several decades since the incident in Gushi Village. Although the woman in front of me has grown old, her memory remains in that time. At that time, she was still a young woman, and the child was still healthy in her belly.

Just as Shen Tang was about to get closer to the ghost baby and the old man, Wen Ting stopped him with his hand.

"Wait, don't think that boy is well-behaved now. The evil spirit in his body will be released soon," Wen Ting explained to Shen Tang in detail. If they want to help the ghost baby reincarnate, resolving the resentment left over from its life is a necessary step. Even if the ghost baby now does not show any malice towards the woman, it is difficult for a soul that cannot remember the cause of death to not be controlled by the evil spirit in its body and vent its resentment on innocent people.

"What should we do? You also said that the old lady doesn't have much time left. If she is hurt by that child again, I'm afraid there will be no way to end it peacefully." Shen Tang frowned, looking a little confused. If possible, she hoped that the matter between the ghost baby and the old lady could be resolved smoothly.

After thinking for a while, Shen Tang looked back at Wen Ting with some surprise, "No, that's not right. If this ghost baby will hurt its biological mother, then you..."

Shen Tang did not finish her words. In her memory, Wen Ting had not shown any signs of wanting to harm her before she sent him to reincarnate during the last mission.

"Well, who am I, and who is it? How could I, such a kind and righteous person, do something to hurt you?" Wen Ting whispered maliciously in Shen Tang's ear, and quickly added, "Since you want to help this guy back so much, then I will help you."

After he finished speaking, he pointed his finger in the direction of the ghost baby, and a hint of murderous energy slowly flowed into the ghost baby's body along the boy's fingertips.

After the evil spirit entered the baby in the old woman's arms, the original evil spirit began to spread uncontrollably. It took a lot of effort for the baby to recover to the appearance of a normal baby, but the balance was broken by the evil spirit. The gray air soon filled the ghost baby's body again.

"What are you doing? Didn't you just say that this ghost baby can't control its evil spirit and might hurt people? Why are you sending evil spirit into its body now? Do you want to kill them?" Shen Tang angrily stretched out his hand to hit Wen Ting, but his hand passed through the cold air again.

"Hey, listen to my explanation first, don't hit me." Wen Ting sneaked behind Shen Tang innocently, resting his head on the girl's shoulder and spoke slowly, "If I don't send the evil spirit into its body, this ghost baby will never find out the real cause of its death. If it doesn't know how it died, how can you send this guy back?"

As the young man finished speaking, Shen Tang watched the ghost baby in front of him begin to float away from the old man's arms. Its body floated quietly in the air, and its dark eyes stared straight at the old woman below.

The evil energy in the ghost baby's body slowly floated towards the old woman, but before the evil energy had a chance to enter the old woman's body, Wen Ting grabbed it tightly in his hand like grabbing a doll. The strong evil energy floated in Wen Ting's palm, and if you didn't look carefully, it could easily be mistaken for a ghost fire.

"Atang, I will teach you again what you forgot before," Wen Ting curled the corners of his lips slightly, and hit the old woman in the wheelchair in the stomach with the evil spirit swirled in his hand.

"Wen Ting, you!" Seeing the evil spirit attacking the old woman's abdomen, Shen Tang, who was completely caught off guard, screamed in shock and wanted to step forward to stop it. However, before she could reach the old woman, the evil spirit had already hit the old woman's abdomen.

The murderous aura did not enter the old woman's body. Instead, a ray of light appeared in front of the aura.

"Don't forget, when I was reincarnated, I concentrated all the evil spirit in my body at the bottom of the well, and only then was I able to get the opportunity to reincarnate," Wen Ting said softly, with a bit of sadness in his lowered eyes. He was indeed able to reincarnate later, but the person he wanted to see in this world was gone.

Shen Tang caught the fleeting sadness in the boy's eyes, his lips moved, and somewhere in his heart skipped a beat.

When they completed the task before, it was Wen Ting who taught her how to help him reincarnate. How could she have forgotten this step?

"Sorry," Shen Tang turned his eyes away from Wen Ting and looked back at the ghost baby and the old woman. After the evil spirit of the ghost baby left its body, a reincarnation opportunity appeared in front of the old woman's belly. It seemed that the ghost baby was indeed the child who died in the old woman's belly decades ago.

Just when Shen Tang thought that the evil spirit from the ghost baby had been completely drawn out, thick black air emanated from the small body again and rushed towards Shen Tang like a snake. She looked at the black air approaching in surprise, thinking that she was going to be attacked by the evil spirit, when the old woman suddenly opened her mouth and said something.

"An An, stop making trouble."

The old man in the wheelchair slowly raised his hand, trying to stop the ghost baby's movements. And that also gave Shen Tang a chance to escape, and he immediately avoided the direction where the evil spirit was coming from, allowing Wen Ting to gather the evil spirit again to open the channel for reincarnation.

After making sure that the evil spirit in the ghost baby had been completely controlled, Shen Tang breathed a sigh of relief, watching the strong evil spirit gradually disappear in the vortex of light that appeared in front of the old woman's abdomen, and everything around him seemed to be paused. Shen Tang stood there, watching the ghost baby and the old woman being frozen. Ah Piao, who passed by the window, was also frozen at this moment, but Wen Ting's figure disappeared.

"The real answer lies in the vortex of light that has expanded into a passage ahead."

A clear voice slowly rang in her ears, and Shen Tang asked in surprise, "Little lucky bag?"

Why did this guy show up now?

Although Shen Tang lied to Wen Ting that she had forgotten what happened in the mission, she had seen the scene of being frozen in place when helping someone reincarnate. When she used Liu Ling's identity to help Wen Ting reincarnate, Wen Ting was also frozen in place.

But Wen Ting disappeared from where he was...

Shen Tang lowered his eyes, "Little lucky bag, you came at a coincidence."

"I'm just worried that the host has forgotten the details of the mission, so I came to remind him immediately." Little Fukudai didn't hear anything wrong in Shen Tang's words, and just answered Shen Tang's question stupidly.

"Oh? You care about me so much, will you come to help me if I have any problems?"

"Of course, you are my host," Little Lucky Bag said confidently. Shen Tang just smiled and stopped asking questions.

If they can really do it, then she would like to see if they will appear in front of her at the same time.

Or in other words, only one person will appear from beginning to end.

Shen Tang ignored the noisy voice of the little lucky bag and walked quickly into the passage that was large enough for one person to enter. This was the passage to the afterlife that only appeared in the small world, which was the time of reincarnation that Wen Ting mentioned. Only by finding out the real reason for the ghost baby's death, would the evil spirit completely dissipate.

Soon after Shen Tang entered the passage, everything changed. She stepped on the solid ground and confirmed that she had returned to a certain time in the past. She thought it would not be too far from the place where the accident happened.

She looked down at her body, which looked the same as Ah Piao's. This made it easier for her to see what had happened without causing any impact on her body.

Shen Tang looked around a few times, and finally when he walked out of the house, he saw a familiar figure.

It was the old lady who had shown her the photo before, but this time she still looked like she was young and was muttering something.

Shen Tang stepped forward and finally heard clearly what the other party said.

"It's really strange. Why would someone do heavy work after a boy was killed? What's wrong with this mother-in-law? She has no sympathy!"

After listening to the mumbling of the person in front of him, Shen Tang thought that the ghost baby's home should be nearby, so he controlled his soul to search back and forth in this area, and finally saw the woman with the child in the yard of a house.

Shen Tang floated gently to the other side, looked at the woman's belly, and carefully probed into her belly.

At this time, the child was still intact and Shen Tang could feel the fresh breath in the woman's belly.

The woman at this time was different from the mentally ill old woman in the hospital. She sat on a low stool with a happy face, scrubbing clothes in a large basin, and occasionally reaching out to touch her belly.

But the good times didn't last long, as Shen Tang saw an old woman walking up to the woman with a crutch and a domineering look.