Chapter 2160: Welcoming (2)
"Mom..." A child's voice rang out, choking with sobs before finally bursting into loud wails.
Another figure passed through and stood beside the first, opening their arms and drawing the other close.
"Dad..." he called again, his crying unabated.
They bent at the waist and leaned toward each other, as if gently holding something in their arms.
I turned around and looked behind me.
I didn't see the small figure I'd expected.
Turning back to look at the man and woman, their adult silhouettes, my eyes began to sting.
Their figures slowly faded before my eyes, and the path, too, gradually turned into a sky full of petals before disappearing.
The child's cries fell silent.
The chains in the sky vanished.
Darkness surrounded us.
Qin Shu seemed to have been holding his breath for a long time. Only now did he speak, asking in disjointed words, "Just now... how could the city guardian..."
I looked around and vaguely made out more paths.
They appeared in a strange, translucent form, sometimes turning black and giving off light and a faint aura.
I felt the power flowing within me.
Instinctively, I knew these paths were the Yellow Springs Road.
The road leading to the underworld.
The underworld was gone...
As the thought surfaced in my mind, I felt other kinds of power flowing through me.
I heard children laughing and crying, heard them calling for their dads, moms, grandmas, grandpas... Their voices overlapped, and the emotions in them seemed to seep straight into my soul.
I also felt another emotion.
That, too, was a complex feeling made up of many emotions blended together.
It was as if my heart had softened because of it.
I felt an impulse I couldn't control, and struggled to contain the power within