Chapter 126. Be careful of Mu Qingtong
“Doctor He?”
“Yes, although Yuanhe Orphanage has become a Calamity Realm and is isolated from the outside world, orphans are still sent in, and ignorant people come here to apply for jobs. Only after they enter do they realize that this is a living hell.”
“Doctor He came here ten years ago after applying as a doctor.”
The old woman’s expression showed recollection. “A few days after she came in, she discovered a loophole in the rules of the Calamity Realm—if the Calamity Realm runs out of orphans, it will collapse and dissipate.”
“Therefore, she secretly gathered everyone in the orphanage and had them acknowledge each other as father from head to tail. This is also a loophole in the rules of the Calamity Realm. As long as one acknowledges the other as their father and the other is willing, then they are no longer orphans.”
“Doctor He was a good person.”
“But unfortunately, there was a traitor in the orphanage. Someone wanted to enter the Garden of the Gods to gain eternal life and happiness.”
“The plan had just begun when it was exposed. Doctor He not only angered all the gods but also angered the Sky God and was punished by them.”
The black-dressed woman furrowed her delicate brows. “Oh? So. is she dead?”
“Dead, well, I don’t know if her current state counts as dead.” The old woman stood up, pulled open the curtains, and looked out into the gray mist world in the darkness with her cloudy eyes.
“Do you see that giant black shadow in the sky? That’s Doctor He.”
The two looked up and saw a giant shadow, hundreds of stories tall, vaguely stretching across the dark sky. They could faintly see its numerous tentacles swaying in the sky like seaweed.
Xia Feng’s pupils widened. This is He Jianzhu?
He had already sensed a very terrifying Calamity Force roaming the sky earlier but didn’t pay much attention, thinking it was some kind of monster from the Calamity Realm.
“She actually became like this through calamity?” Xia Feng frowned. “So she’s not really dead yet?”
Mu Qingtong’s expression remained calm, her eyelids lowered as she seemed to be thinking about something.
“This is the punishment the gods gave Doctor He. If she wanted to be a good person, they made her personally kill everyone she wanted to save.”
The old woman’s hoarse voice was calm. She looked at the giant tentacle monster in the distance with complex, cloudy eyes, then after a moment of silence, she turned around.
“It’s almost twelve o’clock. If you haven’t worshipped the gods after twelve, Doctor He’s tentacles will come for you. You will be forcibly dragged out of the house and enter the amusement park. That is the execution ground for punishing all those who disrespect the gods.”
Xia Feng looked up at the clock. It was half-past eleven, and there wasn’t much time left.
“Do you have any more questions?”
“Mm, I do have a question.” Xia Feng looked at the old woman seriously, paused, and then suddenly asked, “Are you Number 16?”
“.!” The old woman’s calm expression changed slightly.
“Good grief, it really is.” Xia Feng held his forehead. He had suspected it for a long time.
Number 16 from the Life Roulette, who claimed to be a married woman and asked for his help, didn’t tell him the address. However, Number 17’s notes recorded Number 16’s location: a house full of jasmine flowers in the Children’s Playground.
This orphanage used to be the Children’s Playground, and he had noticed several times that the house was indeed covered in jasmine flowers outside, although they had all withered as night fell.
And when he copied Uncle Yun’s spirit artifact earlier, he didn’t sense the teleportation mark from the Life Roulette.
This left only the old woman and the little girl upstairs who hadn’t come down yet.
He initially thought he was overthinking things, after all, how could there be such a coincidence in this world?
But now, it seemed he had indeed encountered it.
But what was the old woman’s purpose? To trick Number 17 into coming here and then ambush him to turn him into a Favor Fruit?
If that were the case, then what she had said earlier seemed unreliable.
Seeing this, Mu Qingtong wasn’t particularly surprised. She knew Xia Feng was participating in a murder game where players were numbered. Seeing Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong’s gazes gradually turn cold, with killing intent appearing, the old woman didn’t seem too nervous, she just shook her head. “My lords, please don’t misunderstand, I have no ill intentions.”
“Oh?” Xia Feng wasn’t in a hurry. “Then what is your purpose? Tell me.”
“The matter of the Life Roulette was actually ordered by Doctor He,” the old woman said, dropping a bombshell.
Xia Feng: “?”
Mu Qingtong’s beautiful eyes narrowed. “Explain in detail.”
The old woman bent her hunched back and turned to look at the black shadow in the sky again. Her withered, wrinkled face…
“Ten years ago, on the eve of Doctor He’s punishment by the gods, she told me that if anyone entered a place called the ‘Life Roulette’ in the future, just pull any player into this place, and that player would save us from this cage.”
“What the hell?” Xia Feng recoiled tactically. What was this old woman saying? It was getting more and more outrageous.
“Are you still playing me? Are you saying that He Jianzhu predicted the future?” Xia Feng felt that the old woman’s words were full of loopholes. “If He Jianzhu had the ability to predict the future, wouldn’t she have known she would be betrayed?”
The old woman shook her head helplessly. “My lord, I have no reason to lie to you.”
Xia Feng was about to say something else, but Mu Qingtong suddenly patted his shoulder.
“What she said is true.”
!
Xia Feng blinked and turned to look at the black-dressed woman. Su Si seemed to whisper in his mind: “So your mother’s spirit artifact can predict the future?”
“No, this isn’t prediction.” Mu Qingtong shook her head and explained in a soft voice. “There are very few causal spirit artifacts in this world. Most of them have the ability to foresee causality, but He Jianzhu possesses the ability to manipulate causality.”
She raised her eyes and stared at Xia Feng with a deep gaze. “He Jianzhu wanted you to come here, so you came.”
As she spoke, the corner of her lips curved, and her gaze towards Xia Feng became even more eerie. “Interesting. What exactly does this woman want to do?”
“.”
Damn it, don’t look at me like that! Xia Feng felt his scalp tingle. What was going on? Mu Qingtong was already terrifying enough, but her mother seemed even more so.
What do you mean, “she wanted me to come, so I came”?
“Hold on a moment.” Xia Feng looked at the old woman. “You just said that if anyone entered this place, that player would save you from this cage. Since it’s ‘any player’, why are you so sure it would be me?”
Mu Qingtong helplessly shook her head from the side, transmitting her voice. “Mr. Xia, don’t you understand? This is He Jianzhu’s causal ability. As long as Number 16 acts, you will appear here and know some things. The process in between doesn’t matter. Of course, ‘Number 16’s action’ might not be the sole cause, after all, you actually came here because I asked you to.”
“. ”
After listening to Mu Qingtong’s explanation, more doubts swirled in Xia Feng’s mind, and his head felt even more dizzy.
But he quickly understood that it didn’t matter how He Jianzhu did it. The important thing was what He Jianzhu wanted to do?
After all, possessing such a powerful causal spirit artifact, yet being turned into a monster and trapped here by the so-called gods for so long? It didn’t make sense.
Seeing Xia Feng look up after a long silence, the old woman’s gaze was peaceful. “My lord, it seems you believe it?”
“Mm, I’ll barely believe it.” Xia Feng asked doubtfully, “Did He Jianzhu say anything else?”
“The candlelight of causality told her that life is the cause of everything. She said this before she left, and she also asked me to tell you—”
The old woman looked up. Under the dim light, her aged face flickered indistinctly. Her eyes were deep and said, “Be careful of Mu Qingtong.”
Xia Feng: “. ”
Mu Qingtong: “. ”
Xia Feng glanced sideways at the black-dressed woman.
The black-dressed woman remained expressionless.
