After hugging her, Xu Mu grabbed Tong Guoguo's shoulders and stared into her eyes, saying, "Others may be fake to you, but I am sincere. From now on, I am willing to bear half of your burdens."
[Favorability +20]
Xu Mu was secretly alarmed when he saw the favorability rating appear above Tong Guoguo's head again.
As expected of the female lead whose favorability rating has just been improved, the justice value she gives is domineering.
However, justice is only one aspect; Xu Mu was originally a man of strong emotions.
Seeing everything before him, and hearing Guoguo's wailing and crying, he felt a little uneasy.
Xu Mu looked at the staff and asked, "Why are there only children? What about those who weren't selected?"
"They will...they will be killed. The people above say that you can tell a person's future from the age of three and their character from the age of seven. By the time a person is three to six, their physical indicators are almost stable."
The older woman replied, "Those who are deemed useless by those above should not waste food."
Upon hearing this, Guoguo's gaze grew even colder.
Her breathing became increasingly rapid, and she could barely stand.
"Guoguo, take a deep breath, calm down, and recall everything in your memory. Was Wang Hun really good to you?"
Xu Mu supported Tong Guoguo's arm.
He wiped away Guoguo's tears, then looked up at the high place.
She was originally a king's soul, a hybrid created through various methods, but due to congenital defects, she was thrown here.
In her memory, she had her blood drawn every now and then, from childhood to adulthood.
People told her it was just for a medical checkup.
Now she understood that it was about whether they were useful.
She was lucky; Wang Hun took her back, and because of her constitution, he cured her eyes through surgery.
She was implanted with a white jade heart-guarding wood, and she survived and was taken by the king's soul.
Wang Hun said she was the greatest masterpiece, but she was just making empty promises to Tong Guoguo.
He succeeded; all these years, Guoguo and he had longed for the King's Soul.
Guoguo would agree to any order given to her without thinking.
Besides helping Wang Hun kill and capture people, he also used his own flesh and blood to cultivate those experimental subjects.
Not long ago, the Heart-Guarding Wood was implanted into Tong Guoguo's body again.
The body's rejection and incoordination caused her excruciating pain, but Wang Hun did not stop the surgery.
What he wanted was new flesh and blood like Guo Guo, and he wanted to cultivate experimental subjects with stronger physiques.
"It turns out that he has been using me all along. From the time I was born until now, I have been his experiment."
Tong Guoguo took a deep breath and tried to stay calm.
She originally thought that Wang Hun was her benefactor who rescued her from the pigsty.
Unexpectedly, it was Wang Hun who threw her into the pigsty back then.
It's ironic that I've been grateful to him for so long.
Xu Mu also learned from these people that the ancient martial arts practitioners outside the door were all people who had taken poisoned wine.
He must drink alcohol once a month, or he will die.
So those people are very loyal; they've been here for twenty or thirty years.
As for the women in the orphanage, they did not drink the poisoned wine because ordinary people's bodies are not strong enough to withstand the poison.
There are seven or eight of them in total, working in shifts for one month at a time.
They receive a salary, and it's not a low one.
However, the Immortal Life Research Institute keeps records of their family members, and if these records are leaked, their families will be destroyed.
They were told that they could retire when they were in their forties.
So for them, this is considered a good job.
Besides, they didn't do anything bad; their job was simply to take care of these children.
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