After sorting through his thoughts a little, Sikong Jing asked with a grave expression...
"Ningsui, little sister..."
"Did that big sister specifically choose me, or did she mean that whoever erected gravestones for your parents would receive the fragment toy?"
The doubts in Sikong Jing's heart deepened.
He wanted to know whether that big sister had specifically chosen him, or whether it was something else.
The difference between the two was enormous.
If he had been chosen, it meant the big sister Shen Ningsui spoke of had specifically wanted to give him Sword Enlightenment Fragments.
If not, then she had merely wanted Shen Ningsui to repay a kindness.
Shen Ningsui tilted her little head, seeming to struggle to remember something, before she finally said...
"I remember the big sister saying that three people would come looking for me very soon."
"She said those three people might send me to see my father and mother, or they might take me away and look after me."
"If those three people were willing to take care of me and erect gravestones for my father and mother, I was to give them the second fragment toy."
"Then the big sister hid the second fragment toy inside my cloth doll and disappeared."
"After that, Uncle came."
It was confirmed—he had been specifically chosen by that big sister...
Thinking back to what had happened earlier, when he had first arrived at Frost Sky City, he had sensed nothing. Yet not long after leaving, he sensed the aura of living people and immediately turned back.
Then he saw Shen Ningsui standing eerily amid the corpses.
That big sister must have appeared the instant he first left Frost Sky City.
That big sister had watched him arrive, then watched him leave...
Waves churned in his heart as a