Withering, withering flowers.

Ye Jiang stood on the edge of the hospital building, a breeze blowing through her hair. She said, "I came to find you."

"Looking for me?" Xiao Pei raised an eyebrow.

Ye Jiang turned around and nodded to her.

"That's strange." Xiao Pei said curiously, "So suddenly, tsk, what do you want with me?"

Ye Jiang revealed the reason she was looking for Xiao Pei: "Weren't you and Ming Xia looking for missing citizens? How's the search going?"

"What a coincidence, I just contacted Xiao Xia yesterday. She found three people in this illusion, one of whom you know, Wang Zhiqiang. You two worked together in City S." Xiao Pei revealed without hiding anything, then became even more curious, "What? You're still interested in this?"

Ye Jiang asked, "Are the citizens from the other illusions all staying together?"

Xiao Pei: "We're staying together."

Ye Jiang: "I want to see them."

"?" Xiao Pei was confused. "Ye Jiang, are you looking for someone? Do you suspect that the woman you're looking for is in Ming Xia?"

Ye Jiang: "No."

She tilted her head slightly, gazing into the distance, where the city scenery came into view.

She said, "I just wanted to clean up the audience."

"What?"

Her voice was very soft, Xiao Pei didn't hear it clearly.

Ye Jiang did not reply.

The real past, that person's story, has long since ended; now, only a few viewers have arrived.

Ye Jiang simply wanted to get rid of the restless and impolite audience members before the finale arrived.

Xiao Pei didn't know what Ye Jiang was up to, but based on her trust in Ye Jiang, she still took Ye Jiang to find Ming Xia. Ming Xia and a group of citizens settled in an unfinished building. As soon as the two arrived at Ming Xia's place, they saw Ming Xia hurriedly walking out.

Something was wrong. Xiao Pei's expression turned serious as she stopped her and asked, "What happened?"

"Captain Xiao, I was just about to look for you. Something happened to a citizen. He sneaked out, and then..." Ming Xia took out her phone and opened her photo album.

After entering the illusion, all the cell phones brought into the illusion lost their signal, only the camera function was still retained. Opening Ming Xia's photo album, a series of horrifying photos popped up. In the photos, the bright bougainvillea flowers were blooming like a waterfall, but upon closer inspection, they were actually growing on a corpse!

Ming Xia said, "This is a video I took on the large screen in the central square when I went out to look for citizens. I don't know who projected it, but it's being played on a loop there. The people in the illusion are all shocked!"

Xiao Pei remained silent, her hands clenched into fists, veins bulging.

This is definitely the work of an outsider!

And he's a very dangerous outsider!

"I know who did it." A slightly cool voice rang out.

Upon hearing this, Ming Xia looked over. In the urgency of the situation, she noticed that there was another person besides Xiao Pei!

Upon seeing the person clearly, she was both surprised and delighted.

"Teacher!"

Amidst the joy, some memories suddenly flooded back—

Darkness descends upon the town, shrouded only in a thin light. A frail woman reaches out to catch the falling moon, and beneath her feet flickers a strange, blood-red light. The woman's eyes, too, are an unusual color, mirroring the Blood Moon.

Ming Xia's expression was a little strange.

Xiao Pei noticed Ming Xia's expression, paused, and slowly looked at Ye Jiang. Ye Jiang didn't notice; she was still looking at the photos and spoke in a voice colder than usual, "I also know where the flowers bloom."

Restless audience.

This is the first one.

It needs to be cleaned.

Ye Jiang's eyes turned slightly cold.

Ye Jiang led Ming Xia and Xiao Pei into the alley. When they looked up, bougainvillea bloomed overhead, lush and beautiful.

Ming Xia looked up, speechless for a long time, and then said, "Teacher, you say you know who did it?"

Who is it?

Who did such a cruel thing? And why?

The answer to Ming Xia was a dagger that materialized in Ye Jiang's hand. The dagger flew out, and a bougainvillea flower spun and fell into Ye Jiang's hand.

She grasped the bougainvillea, and a blue light screen suddenly appeared, revealing a young girl inside.

Ming Xia and Xiao Pei both looked at Ye Jiang.

Is this a prop?

No, no. Whether someone uses a tool or their own special ability, an ordinary ability user might not be able to tell, but a high-level ability user would never be wrong.

This is a superpower.

Multiple superpowers.

Ming Xia and Xiao Pei: "..."

Their breathing suddenly became heavy.

How... how is this possible?!

Ye Jiang noticed their unusual behavior this time; it was hard not to notice such direct stares.

Ye Jiang hadn't wanted the Ability Control Bureau to notice her true identity, not for any other reason than that she found it troublesome.

But now, when she regained this memory from three hundred years ago in the illusion, she felt indifferent.

To be precise, it was because after regaining her memories, she had a premonition that a huge trouble was looming over her, and neither she nor humanity could remain uninvolved.

So, she stopped hiding it.

Facing Xiao Peiming and Xia's gaze, Ye Jiang said calmly, "After this matter is over, I have something to say to your Bureau of Paranormal Control."

But now, she has other things to do.

She tapped the screen, and the girl on the screen came to life. Another person appeared on the screen, as white as a shadow, with snow-white skin, hair, and pupils.

The girl grabbed the snow-white figure's shoulder and pulled him sharply towards her. Her other hand swiftly reached out and pierced through the snow-white figure's chest.

"Elder sister!"

Ming Xia screamed.

Chapter 159 The Fading, Fading Flower.

The Scene Reconstruction method used by Ye Jiang is similar to the illusion created by the Watch Mountain Range, except that the latter is much grander and more realistic. Both require real memories as a basis for accurate construction, and the last time Ye Jiang used the Scene Reconstruction method, she used Cao An's real memories.

But for now, she only used a flower that bloomed from the body of the deceased upstairs. The flower is not a carrier of memories, but some information will remain on it, such as the energy scattered on it. The amount of energy, the distribution of the energy, etc., are all information. She can use this information to deduce the past, but the accuracy may not be enough.

That was enough for Ye Jiang. She didn't want to know the details of the process; she only needed a general understanding. So she used flowers instead of constructing the past by touching the corpses of the dead.

Ye Jiang thought she would witness the flower-selling girl killing a citizen, but instead, she imagined the flower-selling girl killing Ming Chun.

In the constructed scene, the girl's hand pierced through Ming Chun's body, and the putrid poison instantly Pollution Ming Chun's snow-white body. Ming Chun collapsed onto the girl, who caught her and pressed her cheek against the girl's head, as if in an intimate embrace.

The scene is very short, and it ends here.

Ye Jiang realized that the flowers that grew from the body of the deceased citizen not only contained the energy scattered when the flower-selling girl used her supernatural abilities, but also the energy from Ming Chun, thus creating this scene.

"Sister!" Ming Xia cried out in surprise. Her face changed drastically as she rushed forward. The light and shadow vanished before her eyes, as if it were a dream.

Ming Xia froze, standing there helplessly. After a few seconds, she mechanically turned to look at Ye Jiang, her face pale and her lips trembling. "Teacher... what was that? Was it saying... my sister... is she dead?"

This scene was too much of a shock to the genius of the Ability Control Bureau; she had no strength left to hide her sister's existence from Xiao Pei.

Xiao Pei saw Ming Chun, who should have been dead, appear on the screen. She was so shocked that her pupils trembled. This was Ming Chun, the Waiter in her shop and Ming Xia's older sister?

But Ming Chun clearly became S-Rank Polluted and died at the hands of the monster; she saw its mycelium scattered on the ground. Why did it come back to life? Why... why did it come back to life in this form?

Xiao Pei was filled with doubt and uncertainty, but the next second she saw Ming Chun, who had come back to life, die again in front of her. She froze, her doubts stuck, and her chest ached from the stones in the bag.

The light screen disappeared, Xiao Pei looked anxiously at Ye Jiang: "Ye Jiang, what was that light screen...?"

"It's deduction," Ye Jiang said. "It's deducing from events that have already happened."

Xiao Pei was lost in thought. What she meant was that Ming Chun had truly come back to life, but now...

Ming Xia pressed her lips together, tears already welling in her eyes.

"But Ming Chun didn't die." Ye Jiang interrupted their wild thoughts with a blank expression.

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Pei and Ming Xia's eyes widened.

Ye Jiang ignored them and looked up at the sky. Above the alley, bougainvillea was in full bloom, its flowers cascading like a waterfall.

Ming Chun is a special Polluted in Ye Jiang's system. She just sensed her and found that the other person was not dead and was on the roof of the residential building.

Ye Jiang leaped onto the rooftop, followed closely by Xiao Peiming and Xia Xia. The three of them immediately spotted a snow-white figure lying on the roof. She lay there quietly, breathing steadily, with no wounds on her chest. It was none other than Ming Chun, who appeared to have been killed by the girl on the screen.

It's a bit strange. Many high-level Polluted possess high regenerative abilities, but the Mushroom Man doesn't have this ability. What about the wound on her chest?

Perhaps it's because there's still a gap between the deduction and the reality, Ye Jiang thought to herself.

Ming Xia's breathing suddenly quickened. She rushed over, scooped the person up, and checked her over, looking her over to make sure she was alright, that she was just unconscious. Trembling, she pulled her tightly into her arms. She had thought it was her sister...

very nice.

very nice.

Xiao Pei watched this scene with a complicated expression.

... It really will be Ming Chun.

It has no enormous, towering body, no terrifyingly swirling mycelium; it is a human-shaped Ming Chun.

Why is this happening?

Xiao Pei had countless questions in her mind, but seeing Ming Xia holding Ming Chun with a look of relief and joy, she couldn't help but smile.

Seeing their nervousness, she didn't say anything at that moment, leaving the sisters alone, and turned to walk towards the citizens near the building.