Before long, Enna appeared before the huge hole, staring warily at its entrance, unable to make up her mind. She was injured too, with her left leg wrapped in bandages.
After hesitating at the entrance for a while, she eventually followed them inside.
Not long after she entered, White Tiger rushed in after her. He did not hesitate in the slightest, clearly extremely familiar with this sort of environment.
Soon, Lin Xin appeared behind him. Looking at the huge hole, he seemed deep in thought.
"According to the intelligence, Tuo Erwa was a pretty little girl who liked toys, candy, and music. But before she was **killed, no one knew she was actually mentally ill. So where had the external force she relied on come from?
It seemed this White Tiger, along with the people who had entered earlier, knew the situation very well..."
By instinct, he felt that the source of Tuo Erwa's external power might help him on the road ahead.
Looking at the huge hole in the wall, Lin Xin did not waste another word and strode straight inside.
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Yang Songyu carefully followed behind Wei Bing. Behind this powerful Source Energy User specially dispatched from the imperial capital, she felt an overwhelming sense of security.
Wei Bing seemed to understand everything and know everything.
After entering the huge hole, everything around them was pitch-black. Only the flashlight beams in their hands lit up a small patch of the surroundings.
Though there was no sense of direction at all in the darkness, Wei Bing could still walk firmly in one direction without the slightest hesitation.
The others followed closely behind him without any hesitation either.
Clearly, they were familiar with this place.
"Where... is this?" Yang Songyu could not help asking.
"This is a special space isolated by Tuo Erwa, but it has been contaminated by the power of the Millennium Fragment."
The bespectacled Source Energy User explained gently.
"So we're looking for the Millennium Fragment now?" Yang Songyu continued.
"Yes. As long as we find the fragment, the source of Tuo Erwa's power will disappear. Once stripped of that source, she'll be nothing more than an ordinary little ghost."
The bespectacled Source Energy User seemed somewhat bored as well, so he simply started chatting with Yang Songyu.
After all, she was a beautiful young girl. Talking with her was at least a way to pass the time.
"We've handled quite a few cases like this. This one is just stronger than the previous ones, which is why Captain Wei personally led the team here. Once you've seen enough of them, you'll get used to it." He smiled.
Suddenly, the group came to a stop.
Wei Bing raised his flashlight and shone it onto the wall to their right.
There was a line of writing on it.
'Mommy loves you.'
A line written in blood.
"Something's wrong." Wei Bing frowned slightly. "If it were only a fragment and a ghost, then even without the statue, Wen Shenmin should not have been killed."
A trace of vigilance appeared on his face. Something did not feel right.
"Does anyone know what Tuo Erwa's mother did?"
He suddenly turned around and asked.
The group exchanged looks. No one knew.
"Damn it!"
Wei Bing sensed trouble. Things had gone beyond his expectations. On the surface, the line appeared to be mere writing, but it was actually the manifestation of another kind of power.
"I know."
Enna's voice came from the darkness.
She hurried over from behind.
"Tuo Erwa's mother, Shayela, was a severely mentally ill lunatic, and she worshipped a heretical god called Meng La."
After stopping some distance away, Enna answered Wei Bing's question seriously.
"A mentally ill lunatic? Meng La?" Wei Bing's expression changed. "Then how did she become entangled with the Millennium Fragment?"
He scrutinized Enna carefully. Yang Songyu had mentioned this woman to him before, and he knew she was also one of the survivors here.
Enna shook her head.
"I don't know. I only found out that Tuo Erwa herself was mentally ill as well. Just not as severely as her mother."
"Fuck!" Wei Bing's face immediately darkened.
Entering a special space created by a mentally ill person when they knew absolutely nothing about her—was there anything more dangerous in the world?
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Lin Xin slowly walked over.
There was nothing inside the black hole. It was simply a winding cavern passage.
There seemed to be brackets for torches on the walls, but no torches had remained there for a long time.
He took out his phone for light and walked forward calmly.
In the darkness, he could sense neither time nor distance.
He had no idea how long he had walked.
Lin Xin suddenly stopped and turned his face slightly backward.
At some unknown point, a vague little girl clutching a rag doll had appeared behind him.
The little girl's complexion was rosy and fair, her skin delicate, and her eyes large—but utterly devoid of life.
She wore a pure black dress, with white tights covering her legs. On her feet were red leather shoes.
A large black bow was tied in her waist-length black hair.
"Big brother, do you like Tuo Erwa?"
The little girl spoke softly.
Lin Xin turned around and looked at the little girl who had suddenly appeared behind him.
It was strange. She was clearly only an eleven-year-old child, yet merely standing there, Tuo Erwa gave people an endless urge to commit sin.
She merely stood there, with her exquisite little face, waist-length hair, slender waist, immature little breasts, and long legs wrapped in white tights.
It was enough to ignite raging flames of lust in any man's heart, making him want to rush forward madly, lift her skirt, tear open her stockings, and force himself inside her.
"You're Tuo Erwa?" Lin Xin smiled. Naturally, he would not be affected by such a trivial mental influence.
"Don't you want to play with me, big brother?" Tuo Erwa asked in a soft voice, opening her eyes wide.
"You..." Lin Xin narrowed his eyes. "Is this how you seduced those security guards and got them to kill you?"
"Tuo Erwa can bring you happiness." The little girl spoke earnestly. "Tuo Erwa is an angel of happiness, an angel who can bring happiness to everyone."
"Tell me, what is the source of your power?" Lin Xin stopped wasting words and asked directly.
"Big brother, do you like Tuo Erwa?"
As though she had not heard his question, the little girl repeated her first question again.
"What a waste of time."
Lin Xin stretched out his hand and clenched it lightly.
Buzz!!
Tuo Erwa's body suddenly exploded, turning into a cloud of blood mist.
The darkness around them also shook violently, as though it could barely withstand that terrifying power.
"Mm... I used a little too much force. It would be bad if I destroyed this place. It wasn't easy finding a chance to come in." Lin Xin withdrew his hand only after realizing it.
If the Tuo Erwa murder case had initially been nothing more than a simple case of a thief being **killed, it had now become increasingly baffling.
"Indeed, no matter how beautiful Tuo Erwa was, several security guards should not have committed **murder together.
If it had been one person, that would have been one thing. But with so many people involved, if anyone disagreed and leaked it out, this was a murder case. They would be shot for it."
Lin Xin had also discovered the inconsistency in it.
"And if the Tuo Erwa who appeared just now was what she had looked like before her death.
Then whether this murder had been an accidental crime or deliberate seduction was impossible to say..."
Lin Xin continued forward at greater speed.
As he went deeper and deeper, strange blood sigil formations gradually appeared along the inner walls of the cavern passage under the light of his phone.
Complex formations of square, triangular, and circular symbols appeared one after another.
Lin Xin could not understand what the symbols in those formations meant. Many of them looked like nothing more than random graffiti.
Cackle! Cackle!
A shrill cry suddenly came from ahead, seemingly the scream of some animal.
Lin Xin took one step forward and instantly crossed a great distance, appearing where the sound had come from.
A prison cell was embedded in the cavern wall amid the darkness.
Behind the black iron bars was an ostrich with a human head.
The ostrich's feathers were white, marked by traces of blunt-force blows and blood. Its head, however, was the face of Tuo Erwa, who had appeared earlier.
Cackle!!
The human-headed ostrich screamed at Lin Xin. Her eyes were pitiful, and large tears continuously rolled down her cheeks.
She seemed to be begging Lin Xin to let her out.
"What do you represent? Tuo Erwa's fearful, shrinking side?"
Lin Xin observed the strange creature with interest.
"If I'm not mistaken, you represent Tuo Erwa's timid and weak side.
That is why you were imprisoned here, turned into an ostrich's body, and left unable to communicate with people."
Lin Xin looked around, and soon found another line of bloody writing on the inner wall of the cell.
'Everything Mommy did was for my own good.'
"The hint is obvious." Lin Xin snapped his fingers. "Your mother is the source of everything."
Cackle!
The human-headed ostrich cried out a few more times.
"Even if I let you out, what use would that be?"
Lin Xin shook his head.
He turned his face slightly. Behind him, the little girl Tuo Erwa whom he had blown apart and killed appeared once more.
"Big brother, let's play a game..."
The little girl Tuo Erwa wore a shy, sweet smile on her face.
"No matter what you do, Tuo Erwa will satisfy you."
"What a cute little thing." Lin Xin's lips curled slightly as he reached out and grabbed.
Bang!
The Tuo Erwa behind him exploded again. Countless pieces of flesh and blood flew everywhere, along with fragments of her remaining clothes scattered across the ground.
The human-headed ostrich was frightened and hurriedly shrank into a corner of the cell, trembling all over.
Smiling, Lin Xin continued into the depths of the darkness.
He could sense that the auras of the two groups who had entered before him were no longer ahead.
Clearly, Tuo Erwa had deliberately led him in another direction.
"Interesting."
He paused slightly.
He suddenly walked a few steps to the right, then continued forward.
The prison cell disappeared.
The surroundings fell into darkness once more.
Soon, another line of bloody writing appeared on the left cavern wall beneath his phone's light.
'Mommy was right. As long as I make Daddy happy, Daddy will like Tuo Erwa.'
Beneath the bloody writing was a happy smiley face. The smile made from three curved lines had likewise been drawn in blood, appearing especially sinister in the darkness.
"How tragic." Lin Xin shook his head slightly.
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