novelsite Chapter 44 The Ordinary People Who Were Kept in the Dark
Chapter 44 The Ordinary People Who Were Kept in the Dark
Just as Jiang Xingni said before, if it were her seven-year-old self, she would definitely have been kidnapped.
Even if I were just an ordinary person without any special abilities, I would still be momentarily dazed.
But Jiang Xingni is in neither situation right now. When she sees the scraps of paper from her parents and the gifts disguised as paper, Jiang Xingni only has one feeling.
--anger.
An absolutely cold, rage that wanted to kill them all.
How dare they defile her parents like this? Jiang Xingni could no longer continue searching for memories in this virtual place.
Despite his special ability, Jiang Xingni can easily distinguish between virtual and real memories.
However, Jiang Xingni still had no intention of continuing to reminisce.
Reality and falsehood are mixed together; even memories are only of the past, not the present.
"Why don't you go and see what's in the real world?" the system asked. "Your home in the real world?"
"Because it's unnecessary," the young woman explained calmly. "I had already emptied my place when I moved out."
"Ten years have passed," Jiang Xingni said. "New people have created new memories there, and all traces of me and my parents have long since disappeared."
Ten years is a very long time, Jiang Xing thought calmly to himself, so much so that the traces of the past had long been erased in the past ten years.
No trace of the past remains in the same places; Jiang Xingni personally cleaned up all the traces.
No new memories will remain in the same place, because the people from the past have long since died, and now only Jiang Xingni is left.
She heard the sound of footsteps dragging on the floor.
Jiang Xing turned around, his pupils shrinking slightly. The woman in front of him was no longer a paper doll.
Just like Jiang Xingni remembered, her hair was covered in a mixture of dirt and mud, and her clothes were stained with blood. With every step she took, drops of blood fell. Her dark eyes were fixed on Jiang Xingni.
"Bad child," said the monster with her mother's face.
Jiang Xingni didn't think that the fact that the wordless book knew the truth about her supernatural ability was just a coincidence—but it was a bit too much of a coincidence.
No matter what kind of "mother" she is, Jiang Xingni can see through her pretense. However, if it is someone from her own memories, Jiang Xingni will not see through the facade.
Because her mother really died in this manner, this was the reality of her mother's death, not a facade that needed to be seen through.
Jiang Xing chuckled, but there was no hint of laughter in his voice; his laughter was cold.
"That's not her," the system nervously reminded Jiang Xingni in his ear.
"That's not my mother." Jiang Xingni nodded calmly. "I know that's not her."
"My mother is dead, and a dead person cannot die a second time."
She twirled her knife, her eyes calm and slightly bright as she looked at the monster in front of her, disguised as her mother.
Golden light condensed in Jiang Xingni's eyes, slowly turning into a spot of light. The direction the spot of light pointed was exactly where Jiang Xingni wanted to attack.
The dagger twirled between his fingertips, then suddenly flashed out of its sheath, slicing through the monster's neck.
The monster effortlessly blocked Jiang Xingni's dagger with its own hand, and in the blink of an eye, Jiang Xingni felt a pain in the mouth of its hand.
"Pfft."
The sound of hard material piercing flesh rang in Jiang Xingni's ears.
The eerie, long fingernails, gleaming with an ominous black, pierced directly through the little girl's tiger's mouth, and the bright red blood, seemingly tinged with purple, dripped gently from the wound.
It mingled with the blood on the eerie clothes, dripping down and forming a pool.
A stinging and numb sensation came from the wound, but Jiang Xingni's eyes were still bright, and she forced a smile.
"I see." She chuckled, and as the black nails reached for her a second time, Jiang Xingni lightly leaped away, but a strand of her hair was still severed by the monster, falling to the ground and mingling with the pool of blood.
"Bad child," the monster muttered under its breath. "Come back to your mother's arms."
She stretched out her hands towards Jiang Xingni. The little girl chuckled, and in the instant the monster closed its arms, she calmly kicked the blood-splattered dagger up, then gripped it with her injured hand.
Jiang Xingni could still clearly feel the pain, but she had long been accustomed to coexisting with pain, and this kind of injury did not affect her fighting ability.
Blood was still dripping from the dagger. On her grotesque face, her dark, lifeless eyes suddenly narrowed, as if she had seen something unbelievable. She screamed, "Bad child, stay away from Mommy!"
Jiang Xingni actually laughed. The little girl's eyes curved into crescents, and she lightly dipped her fingertip into the blood on the dagger. Her eerie expression grew increasingly terrified.
"Stop pretending," she said softly. "My mother would never do such a thing."
The little girl's voice was surprisingly calm and gentle.
This was something her mother had taught her—Jiang Xingni's movements suddenly paused for a moment, so briefly that even the ghost didn't notice her movement.
However, the system also detected something else.
"What's wrong?" the system asked in a low voice.
"I suddenly noticed something was wrong." Jiang Xingni's movements didn't stop, but he was less leisurely like a cat playing with a mouse, and more stubbornly determined to kill.
This time, the strange creature didn't even have time to escape. By the time she realized that Jiang Xingni wasn't toying with her like before, it was too late.
The daggers, now stained with the two of their daggers, plunged directly into the monster's brain.
Without the protection of bones, the brain is as soft as tofu, and it can be cut open in an instant, with its contents flowing out in a rush.
The scene before him gradually collapsed and disappeared with the death of the monster, but Jiang Xingni's expression was not as relaxed as the system had expected, but unexpectedly solemn.
[Xingxing... what happened?] The system looked at Jiang Xingni's expression and unconsciously lowered its voice.
The little girl asked calmly, "How do I know about this?"
She asked this question.
system:?
What?
"My mother taught me this. She told me that if I encountered anything strange in the future, I could use this method," Jiang Xingni said in a low voice. "But she herself couldn't guarantee whether this method would always be effective."
She had always thought that her parents were just ordinary people.
But now, Jiang Xingni pondered for a while.
—They were clearly hiding behind the curtain, but they kept Jiang Xingni in the dark.