Chapter 528 A Tough Heart
People who disappear forever in the Gemstone Flower City have either become food for the King Insect, or they cannot accept their status as monsters and choose to understand themselves.
Ran Ran stood beside the bed, watching the old woman quietly.
Her old face was full of regret, as if she was sorry for the innocent lives lost.
Ke Ranran wanted to tell her that she had done a good job, and the person who should regret and hate herself was never her, but the person who stood behind and manipulated all this.
The old woman gasped hard, and her voice became choppy.
“…Once Anna met a foreign boy at a carnival night…she fell in love with him at first sight.”
“She happily invited him home, dressed herself up carefully, and happily Listening to him tell his story in the living room."
"She was very happy. I haven't seen her so happy for a long time. I prepared snacks and fruits for them."
"The new city leader took office. After that, all the hotels in the city were canceled. He said that he wanted to reflect everyone's hospitality, so he encouraged residents to invite outsiders to stay in their homes. But Anna has always been depressed. That was the first time she invited others to stay in her home."
"I happily prepared the guest room, hoping that the cute boy could spend a pleasant night at our house."
Ran Ran frowned slightly when she heard this, "At that time, you didn't doubt your own weirdness and Is the disappearance of outsiders related? "
The old woman bit her lower lip in pain, tears of regret flowing from her eyes.
“…I don’t know…If only I could have known earlier…”
“I woke up the next night and found…that boy was dead in the guest room! His neck The bitten flesh was bloody, Anna was sleeping next to him with her mouth full of blood, and bright red gems were scattered on the ground..."
"That's when I realized! Those outsiders who disappeared the next day didn't leave here at all, but died here!"
"They were eaten by us"
Tears kept flowing from the old woman's cloudy eyes.
“My Anna completely collapsed...she killed the boy she liked.”
“I want to comfort my Anna, but what should I say? I can’t think of anything to say. We are indeed a group of man-eating demons!”
"She hit the wall in front of me. There was a lot of blood"
"I couldn't do anything. I held her and cried. I wanted to make her get better, but she said..."
[Mom, living like this is no longer a human being. I don’t want to live like this, please give me up.]
Ran Ran’s pupils narrowed when she heard this.
Even if she doesn't understand emotions, she also knows how cruel it is for a daughter to say such a sentence to her mother.
The old woman seemed to return to that helpless moment, and grief swept over her.
"I lost my Anna. My baby, I know all this is caused by the new city lord, I want to find him."
"But when I walked to the square When I arrived, I discovered that... a new round of carnival had begun again! "
"I saw a little girl surrounded by many residents, and they warmly invited her to be a guest. I saw the greed and madness in their eyes. .I realized that everyone has changed. It is impossible for the residents who invited the guests not to know the truth, but they still stay in the square every night."
Ran Ran was silent, her eyelashes lowered, and her weak voice In the light, her expression was complicated and difficult to see clearly. Not everyone can stick to their bottom line as a human being like the old woman and Anna.
The old woman sobbed, "That girl looks so much like my Anna. I thought I could never let her die in this city like this."
"So I He rushed into the crowd and dragged the girl towards the city gate."
"The girl was very scared. She cried and asked me to let her go."
"I wanted to tell her that she would be fine if she stayed here. Death, but I can’t say a word about the truth here, it’s like something is controlling me!” Speaking of which, the old woman’s eyes widened in horror, as if she remembered the feeling of being out of control. .
Ran Ran knew the reason. It was the worms in the old woman's body that controlled her.
The little girl is delicious food and an excellent host for the worm. Letting the little girl go obviously goes against the worm's survival instinct, so the worm in the old woman's body prohibits her from doing such a thing.
The old woman's eyes became red, "I hate it so much, I have never hated it so much! I cried and yelled at the girl, begging her to live, begging her to leave here"
"When I turned around, I saw the city lord. He was standing at the gate of the city, looking at me with a smile, and then took the girl from my hand. He comforted her softly and told her not to be afraid."
"Behind him stood two huge guards."
"I couldn't do anything but watch them leave."
"I was desperate. But when I looked at the carnival around me, I suddenly realized that there was not just one child! There are many like them every day. Children like the little girl died silently in this city"
"I am not someone There is nothing I can do. At least I know the truth. I can do my best to protect them, even if I can only protect a few people..."
The light in Ran Ran's eyes flashed as she listened, and she felt the power of human beings again. Lovely, the things shown in the old woman made her feel that the world was not hopeless.
“Every night after that I went to the square, I invited the children to come to my house, put them in place, locked myself up, and took care of them as much as possible”
"When they have enough fun, I will hint to them to go home quickly."
The old lady sobbed in pain.
“But it’s useless. No matter how hard I try, they can’t escape death in the end. Everything seems to be doomed from the moment they step in.”
“I said I want to Save them, but I never succeeded!”
“I just let them watch the carnival that exists in the city to kill them for a few more days... This is too cruel.” The old woman trembled sadly. , weak and desperate.
"This is also cruel to you." Ran Ran remembered the look in the old woman's eyes when she first saw her. That was another reason why Ran Ran chose her.
That look is so sad.
The old woman covered her heart in pain and ignored the chains. She looked like an ordinary old woman at this time.
But Ran Ran knew that was not the case. The old woman was very strong and she had a tough heart.
She helped people through suffering, even though she herself was almost overwhelmed by the suffering, but she was determined and unyielding, never retreating or admitting defeat.
What she faced was a force she could not defeat, but she never backed down at all.
It is the great courage bursting out from such a small person that makes Ran Ran feel...
It is necessary for the world to survive.