"You're confused. Maybe they just look alike."
An Zhengzheng couldn't be sure if it was the same person, but the only person she had ever seen walking like that was her junior sister, whom she had only glanced at briefly.
She continued watching.
The woman, her body ablaze with flames, rubbed her arms as she approached the tower keeper.
Just as we were getting to the crucial part, the mirror suddenly disappeared, turning into a black screen.
"……broken?"
She shook the mirror left and right and tried to repair it with magic, but she wasn't a weapon repairman; it wasn't her area of expertise.
The mirror still didn't reflect anything.
This wasn't the first time An Zhengzheng had used a mirror, but it was definitely the first time she had encountered this situation.
Soon, the darkness dissipated, and the device was back to normal operation.
But the scene changed; the villagers suddenly began killing each other, some with knives, some with poison, and some with hoes.
A gust of wind, from who knows where, blew in some sparks, and the entire village was set ablaze, burning to a pile of charcoal amidst screams.
Another strong wind came, almost to the level of a tornado, blowing everything away and scattering it, and the land began to grow weeds again.
Only this abandoned baby tower remains at the end of the village.
"...So, this isn't the village entrance?"
An Zhengzheng immediately realized what was going on.
No wonder she had only seen this one building after walking for so long; she subconsciously thought it was the entrance to the village.
How could a baby abandonment tower be placed openly at the entrance of a village?
She stood in front of the tower without looking inside.
An Zhengzheng could sense that the infant spirits inside were gone, and she didn't know where they had gone.
Awei rushed over and asked, "Master Zheng, what is that girl...?"
She had only cultivated for a few years and couldn't see through the inner workings; she only felt that it was strange.
But she also felt a pang of sympathy for the girl, who was about the same age as her.
An Zhengzheng said, "I'd say it's a ghost. It's been around for at least eight hundred years."
He added, "And I, even with diligence and talent, have only cultivated for less than two hundred years."
She turned to ask Awei again, whose face had already turned pale.
Are you scared?
"……Afraid."
"What are you afraid of?"
An Zhengzheng wanted to say that the baby girl inside was, in a sense, their sister.
Awei gave An Zhengzheng a different answer.
She said, her face trembling, "I'm afraid of people."
“Master Zheng, I’m not afraid of ghosts, I’m more afraid of people.”
Humans are more terrifying than ghosts.
An Zhengzheng remained silent for a long while.
She told Awei, "This village has been abandoned for more than ten years. I guess the villagers didn't know about it before, and they didn't dare to come back to see it."
In other words, there's nothing they can do here.
According to An Zhengzheng's plan, she came to help these souls find peace and to take away some baby girls depending on the situation.
She even cleared a mountain specifically for this purpose.
She also had some food and fabric stored in her bag. If this situation continued, she wanted to exchange the baby girl for someone else.
But since the ghost had already cleared the place, there was no need for An Zhengzheng to stay.
"Let's turn back. There are still some towns and villages we haven't visited yet."
An Zhengzheng turned to leave.
When I turned around, I saw Awei put two pieces of candy at the tower gate.
An Zhengzheng doesn't let her eat too much candy, so these are the only two pieces she has left.
Let's go.
Actually, there's nothing here anymore, not even a soul, so there's no point in putting anything there.
But An Zhengzheng did not stop her.
The master and apprentice remained silent the entire way.
Awei couldn't help but ask, "Master Zheng, how come you're always so calm?"
She remembered that when An Zhengzheng first arrived in their village, it wasn't entirely like this.
An Zhengzheng stroked her head.
"Because I have very important things to do."
"That's a big deal."
She still cries out for the world.
"Is something bigger than my revenge?"
An Zhengzheng asked her, "You're seeking revenge for those two?"
The young girl had the audacity to want to take revenge on the gods, but An Zhengzheng neither mocked her nor stopped her.
Awei said, "Yes."
An Zhengzheng just smiled faintly.
"I have more than just those two."
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