Chapter 58.85 Nana and the Revelation
A period of time had passed since I was transported to this inner world.
There was nothing left in the city, or rather, no one was left.
It had completely turned into a deserted ‘ghost city’.
Ever since entering this inner world, I had been wandering this city non-stop, witnessing everything that happened here without intervening.
I even held back when it came to Lilith witnessing her ordeal.
One of them was to observe the remaining anomalies in this city as a bystander.
This was the price for the ‘ticket to enter this place’—
“I’ll find a way to get you in then, but you have to do me a favor and help me install cameras.”
That cunning girl, who was far more calculating than a seventeen-year-old, wanted information, and I was the most suitable person to be her ‘spy.’
Finally, she told me she would use an indiscriminate summoning method, and I would become one of the summoned.
“‘Aren’t you afraid of involving innocent people?’ I asked at the time, and Lanhua told me that the Head Maid wouldn’t stand by idly.”
It seemed to be the case now.
Although not everyone was isolated, a significant portion of the innocent people who were caught up in it were.
Lanhua, that woman, was indeed deeply calculating, even factoring in the existence of the Head Maid.
This would allow her to more brazenly do some insane things.
But that had nothing to do with me.
My mission was over, and therefore, my deal with Lanhua was complete. The rest was no longer my concern.
Lily also had her own destiny; she was part of them.
Next, I had to go and do my own business.
To meet that person.
If, as Lanhua said, ‘all anomalies related to Juncheng An’ had been summoned to this world, he would definitely be here.
I just wanted to meet him and get all the answers I had been seeking from him.
Where would he go?
Would he go to meet Juncheng An?
No, he might want to meet Juncheng An, but Juncheng An had already been dismembered, so he wouldn’t be in a hurry to see him first.
Who would he go to see first?
There was only one answer.
However, I didn’t need to analyze it so thoroughly. After all, in this deserted city, only one ‘safe place’ remained. If I went there, I was sure to meet him.
The iconic building marking the end of this game, the clock tower.
Coincidentally, when I reached the main entrance of the church below the clock tower, I ran into him.
Was this also destiny? Even though this world no longer had the system of fate, the causal threads of events were connected in the most direct way, which was why I encountered him.
“Finally, I found you.”
Finally, I had the chance to obtain the truth, yet my mood was surprisingly calm.
That person heard my voice and turned to look at me.
I thought I would be very angry, that I would question him on the spot, that I would curse him, but the words that came to my lips turned into helplessness.
“Oh— You are? Oh my, a rare high-class Succubus! A beauty like you specifically coming to see an old man like me, of course, I’m excited. Hahaha! Look at this kid next to me, he won’t even blink when he sees you!”
A white-haired old man with a cheerful personality, surprisingly robust, patted the back of a passerby I didn’t recognize next to him, laughing heartily.
“Cough, cough, cough, I’m not…”
“Yes! So, what can I do for you? Esteemed Miss Succubus?”
“Because my existence was erased, you forgot about me, but I know you. My name is An Tianxia.”
“Oh, you are Xiao KE Qing Nana? I see, I see.”
Unexpectedly, the old man squinted at me for a moment, then called out my name, even stroking his beard as if he understood something.
“What?! He actually knows who I am?”
“Impossible. The moment my existence was erased by the world, everyone should have forgotten about me!”
Could it be that he was also…? But how did he manage it?
“Don’t be so surprised. It’s in our An family’s bloodline. It’s not difficult to recognize you.”
“The An family’s bloodline?”
“Since ancient times, people of the An family have possessed the ‘normality.’ Well, according to the Organization, this is also a kind of anomaly. We maintain this ‘normality,’ we are the ‘baseline’ for maintaining world balance.”
This was the first time I had ever heard of such a thing. SF Light Novel.
The An family actually had such a background?
Normality means keeping everything normal.
The Organization’s style was to maintain standards and implement them so strictly because An Tianxia, who stood at the pinnacle of the Organization, was himself the ‘balance point.’
Therefore, things never deviated from the right course.
So that was how it was.
“Hahaha! Family secrets are not to be revealed to outsiders! Those not of the An family don’t know this information and can’t speak of it. Look at this傻小子 next to you, although he’s here, he can’t hear what I just said.”
“Then why can I hear it? I’m not…”
The old man showed a lecherous smile and made an obscene gesture at me.
“Heh, heh, heh, this old man knows a little about divination. I calculated that you and Juncheng have, hmm? That kind of relationship? You can barely be considered half an An!”
“I, how could I possibly be with Juncheng An!”
“What a joke!”
“Damn it, my face is getting hot. What are you talking about!”
Besides, Juncheng An and I are so far apart in age…
“Hahaha! People of our An family are magnanimous and can embrace all rivers! Age difference is not a problem! This old man sees you too. I’ll look forward to it, okay?”
“Enough!”
To hide my shame and anger, I roared.
Then I glared at this unreliable old man and started asking him the most important question.
“I don’t want to hear your nonsense, An Tianxia! I just want to know…”
Before I could finish speaking, the church doors were pushed open by someone. I could see many people inside, all familiar faces. They were probably the people isolated and protected by the Head Maid. Most of them were asleep.
But she wasn’t, because zombies don’t need sleep.
I saw her walk out, with her unnaturally fair skin, looking the same as when I last saw her a long time ago. I suddenly froze.
And that person, looking at An Tianxia’s back, said softly.
The old man’s shoulders trembled, and his expression froze, completely contrary to his previous carefree demeanor, revealing a flustered side.
The old man didn’t even dare to turn around, his mouth half-open, unable to close, his jaw trembling.
“Dad!”
Qian’er ran over happily and hugged the old man directly.
The old man lowered his head, pulled down the brim of his hat, and from my perspective, he was already in tears… “When I left you, I didn’t even come to see you. In all these years, I haven’t even swept your grave. I don’t deserve to be your father…”
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“It’s okay, I’ve never blamed you. You fulfilled my wish. Really— I’ve never blamed you. Instead, I’m very grateful to you, Dad— really, thank you.”
The old man fell silent and wiped away his tears with his hand.
I waited for a moment before speaking.
VIKXES
I thought for sure Qian’er would resent him, blame An Tianxia, since he was the one who caused her death.
“Didn’t you kill Qian’er for your own purposes?”
“Ah! Nana! Long time no see! We haven’t seen each other since we graduated from college, right? What about Xiao He? The three of us used to…”
“…”
“It’s really disheartening.”
“His reaction time is still so long.”
Xiao He refers to Qiu He, who is Ji Lianbing’s birth mother. How should I… Hmm, did she die too?
“You two are really something. One died and became a ghost, one died and became a zombie. Plus, I’m a Succubus myself, we’re all monsters and ghosts!”
“Hahaha! Do you think I’m the mastermind so far? Then you…”
“That’s what I want to know! What exactly do you want to do! You actually don’t…”
“No!”
It was Qian’er who refuted me, she stood in front of the old man and said.
“Dad didn’t do anything wrong!”
“It’s okay, Qian’er. It doesn’t matter if you’re not understood. I have indeed failed this world. The day I made that decision, I was prepared to bear this retribution. I’ll explain it here.”
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“Very well, I’ve wanted to know what’s going on for a long time.”
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“Still the same hexagram! Ultimately, you’ve chosen our An family!”
“The child in her belly is growing smoothly.”
“Up until today, I have repeatedly divined this matter countless times, yet the results are always the same! How dare she possess my daughter! How audacious! !!!”
“Our An family maintenance of the ‘normality’ since ancient times, with its characteristic of being able to accommodate everything, is the best choice for her.”
“Damn it!”
“But with the blood of the An family, we can sense that she will come to this world.”
“We can’t just wait for death. Otherwise, the An family will become sinners who end the world. Although it is sorry for Qian’er, we are forced to kill her the moment the infant attached to her soul is born!”
However, old man, what if it was Li Shengzi?
“There are two. The old man probably can’t differentiate unless you can calculate which one of them…”
“This is impossible!”
“Then you will have to make a decision.”
There’s no need to kill both.
“Then, I softened, and couldn’t bring myself to kill either of them.”
“Then, at the moment of birth, due to the immense Destiny Power, Qian’er was cursed by the world and had a terrible death, unable to find peace even in death.”
“And I, under her threat, used a soul-summoning technique to attach one soul to another grandson—that is Juncheng.”
“Juncheng and Zi’ai are the names I gave to my grandson and granddaughter, but her name was chosen by herself.”
“Fate is already set, doing anything is useless. I had Yongkang send her away, but in the end, she returned to his side. It is destined that she, who can control fate, is invincible.”
“People often say, only the beginning and the end are important; the ‘process’ is meaningless.”
“Then when she descends, the result is already determined. No matter how you struggle, it will not affect the outcome.”
Unexpectedly:
An Keling!
