Chapter 221

"Auntie, how is it?"

"It's resolved, child. Your mom and dad will never deny you again."

The girl froze, then ran into the house in ecstasy.

The house was empty; her parents weren't there.

"Auntie, where are my parents?"

The elegant lady smiled at her and lightly licked her lips. The girl suddenly trembled, her pupils dilated, and she saw a smear of bright red at the corner of the lady's mouth.

"That's not some elegant lady, that's a man-eating demon! A monster!"

The lady looked at the young girl with a gentle smile, her eyes filled with tenderness. "Child, look, aren't adults all awful? They always think children's ideas are naive, they never understand children, and they always offer what they think is love—this excessive protectiveness, children don't need it. That's just how adults are. Wouldn't it be better if they just kept their mouths shut forever?"

"Crunch--Crunch--"

"Crunch--Crunch--"

"In the darkness, the girl listened to strange noises all night long."

As dawn broke, the girl discovered that her city was—so empty.

"The girl felt it was so noisy. Even though the city was so empty, why were her ears constantly ringing? What was that sound? Creak--creak--"

The child burst into tears, while the girl smiled brightly, unwrapped a candy, and began to chew it, crunching away.

"Baby? Baby! You're here! Why did you run off like that? We've been looking for you everywhere!" A couple rushed over in a panic. The mother scooped up her child in her arms. "Why are you crying? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Mommy's here. Don't cry."

The couple carried their child away, and the crying faded into the distance.

The girl, holding flowers and chewing on candy, stood up, stretched, and hummed a song as she walked out of the square.

"The weather is so nice today! Mom is so hungry! Delicious lunch, here I come!"

"Ugh, my ears are so noisy."

The girl walked into an alley, lingering at the entrance. Half a month ago, she had harvested a Phalaenopsis orchid here. It was truly a beautiful Phalaenopsis orchid, crystal clear and pure white, flawlessly fragrant. A dreamy expression appeared on the girl's face as she rubbed her feet against the ground, closing her eyes and sensing something.

"You're here!" A male voice rang out in the alley, and a dejected man ran over from the other end. "I've been waiting for ages, I thought you were lying to me!"

The girl opened her eyes at the sound, and a bright smile instantly bloomed on her face, "How could that be? I promised Uncle!"

The dejected man revealed a relieved expression. "That's good, that's good, it's good that you didn't lie to me."

"I won't lie, but..." The girl looked behind the disheveled man, "Uncle, did you come alone?"

Upon hearing this, the dejected man immediately showed a speechless expression. "They don't want to! I've tried to persuade them, but they're out of their minds; they insist on following the Ability Control Bureau! They say the Ability Control Bureau is the only one they can trust!"

The girl's smile faded slightly, but the man didn't notice.

The man was one of the unfortunate citizens pulled into time and space by the Watch Mountain Range. Fortunately, he was found by the Bureau of the Ability Control Bureau quite early. He was initially happy when he was found, thinking that he would soon be able to escape time and space. Little did he know that what followed was an endless series of time travels, ending one time and space only to jump into another, endlessly.

More and more people gathered around him, but the panic didn't lessen. How much longer would he have to wander in this chaotic spacetime?

The man was unaware that the world he was in was a fictional illusion; he believed he was wandering through time and space. Although he had fellow countrymen with him, he still felt terrified.

By chance, he overheard a conversation between the two people from the Ability Control Bureau. It turned out that they had already found a way to escape time travel, and now they were traveling from one timeline to another in order to find the missing citizens!

The man was furious. How could they do this? Couldn't they have sent him out first before continuing the search? How could they sacrifice his time to find the others?

Although the man was furious, he dared not confront the people from the Ability Control Bureau. Frustrated, he escaped the annoying group to clear his head. While he was talking to himself and complaining, someone overheard him—a passing girl who was also a transmigrator.

The girl was a superhuman, and the man needed superhumans. He made a deal with the girl, telling her how to escape time and space, and she would take him away. The girl agreed, but with one condition: she asked the man to ask other people if they were willing to go with them.

Another pushover!

The man mentally groaned, annoyed by these pushovers, but he went back to ask anyway. The result left him speechless: no one wanted to go with him. Those ignorant citizens only wanted to believe in and follow the Bureau of the Ability Control Bureau Ability Control Bureau! How could people be so stubborn?!

The man returned alone to the alley where the girl had made their promise.

"I was being kind enough to take them away, not asking for anything in return, and what did they do? They're so ungrateful! Stupid!" The man complained, then realized the girl was a pushover. His expression twisted, and he reluctantly tried to smooth over his harsh words. "Let's leave them alone. Let them go with the Ability Control Bureau. With the Ability Control Bureau knowing how, their departure is only a matter of time."

The girl stared at him silently. The man felt uneasy, realizing he had spoken out of turn. His complaints might seem improper and would displease the girl.

Just as he was about to say something in his defense, a bright smile returned to the girl's face. Seeing this, the man breathed a sigh of relief. So she wasn't angry after all. That makes sense; kind-hearted people usually don't have much of a temper.

The man looked around. "We're going now..."

prick--

A crack appeared, and the man paused. A few seconds later, he looked down in a daze. Below, the girl's hand had pierced through his chest, and her silvery laughter rang out.

"Don't want to go with Uncle?" The girl's voice was clear and innocent. "Ah~ Uncle is so useless~"

After saying that, she easily withdrew her hand.

Black blood splattered, and the toxins quickly corroded the hole in the man's chest, turning it black and festering. Only then did the man seem to realize what was happening, clutching his chest and glaring at the girl in a twisted expression. "How... how... don't you... want to know... how to escape...?"

The girl smiled and said, "No."

"Flutter--"

The man coughed up a mouthful of black blood. He couldn't believe it. How could he not want to?! This is impossible! He refused to believe it!

The girl looked at him, puzzled. "If this is so much fun, why should I be in a hurry to go back?"

Man. "!!"

Madman!

The poison spread, the man convulsed, collapsed and died, his eyes wide open in death.

Once he stopped moving, the girl blinked and exclaimed, "Oh dear, I've ruined Mom's food again!"

"It's okay, it's okay, Mom won't be angry. Mom won't like such useless food~"

"Useless food can only barely serve as rotten soil~"

The girl figured it out and revealed an excited expression. She grabbed the man's hair, dragged the corpse, and jumped onto the roof of a nearby residential building, throwing the body onto the roof.

Clang.

The body fell to the ground, half of its body hanging outside the roof. Bright red bougainvillea quickly sprouted from the hole in its chest, branch after branch bursting out of the chest, overflowing from the roof, cascading down and blooming like a waterfall.

The foreground is a field of blooming flowers, while the background is the grotesque death of humankind.

*

As the last expert left the room, Xiao Pei slipped into the archives room, easily found her way to the archives, and reached for the documents in the cabinet.

when.

A noise rang out in the room. Xiao Pei abruptly left her spot and hid behind a cabinet. Peeking through the gap in the cabinet, she saw that there was no one outside. It seemed that the noise she had just heard was just her imagination.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Still, no one appeared in her sight.

Something's not right!

Xiao Pei frowned, glanced at the documents she hadn't received, and made a quick decision: she would leave first, not looking at the documents anymore, and would deal with them later.

She had just stepped out of the closet when a figure suddenly blocked her way. Startled, she instinctively tried to retaliate, but upon seeing who it was, she stopped abruptly.

"..."

"What are you doing here?" Xiao Pei's lips twitched as she asked the person in front of her in a low voice.

Ye Jiang held a lollipop in her hand, not looking at Xiao Pei, wondering whether to eat it or not.

The lollipop was given to her by Ye Yanran to comfort her after she accidentally transformed into a disabled child. Ye Yanran ultimately failed to help her find her non-existent parents and had to send her to the police station. Ye Jiang left the police station as soon as she was gone, and transformed into her human form three hundred years in the future. Then she returned to the hospital to find Xiao Pei. The "clang" sound just now was from when she moved into the house and the lollipop accidentally bumped into something inside.

Ye Jiang found Xiao Pei without using the search function. For the past month, Xiao Pei had been staying on the hospital rooftop, occasionally gliding down to sneak into the hospital's archives to peek at the experts' research notes. Xiao Pei was very curious about the special Polluted and had been constantly spying. Although these things happened in the front of the hospital building, Ye Jiang, who was in the back of the inpatient ward, "saw" them all, but she wasn't interested in Xiao Pei's actions.

At this moment, Ye Jiang looked down at the lollipop, stared for a while, and then made her choice.

She didn't eat it; she put it in her pocket.

After putting it away, she looked up at Xiao Pei and said, "Let's talk outside."

After saying that, she ignored the other person and walked away first. Xiao Pei's eye twitched, and she followed her. In the blink of an eye, the two arrived at the rooftop of the hospital where Xiao Pei often stayed.

Once they reached the rooftop, Xiao Pei couldn't help but ask, "Ye Jiang, weren't you going to find that woman who tricked you? Why are you at the hospital?"