"You're asking for death!" Cunning Ghost's expression abruptly turned cold, and he flew at Miao Yue, claws outstretched.
Controlling thousands of Gu insects at once had already left Miao Yue at the end of her strength, so she naturally had no power left to defend against anything else. Cunning Ghost's sharp claws drew closer, their shadow growing larger and larger in her pupils-
She could not help wondering, Were my parents' lives taken by those same hands?
Miao Yue had been very young when Miao Jianye and Yue Nanxing died, with only a hazy understanding of many things. The most she understood of death was that, one after another, the uncles and aunties from the Anomalous Affairs Bureau who had given her snacks and presents stopped coming to their house.
She had asked Miao Jianye why the uncles and aunties no longer came to see her. Did they like other children better now?
Miao Jianye had merely turned away and stroked her head, telling her, "Of course the uncles and aunties like you, Yueyue. They've just gone somewhere very far away and can't come back to see you."
So when the teenage Lin Hanzhi came to Miao Yue's house that day and stood in silence, unable to say a word for a long time, Miao Yue vaguely sensed something and asked, "Have Mom and Dad gone somewhere very far away too, where they can't come back to see me?"
Later, Miao Yue took up her parents' final wishes, and after joining the Anomalous Affairs Bureau, she finally saw the files that had been sealed away all those years ago. According to the files, her parents and a close friend had gone to a small border town to handle a C-rank mission. None of the three had taken it seriously;