High Above

After her eye was gouged out, Ila's life actually fell into a short period of stability. The rich man who couldn't see the eye stayed quiet for several months.

But then, the lack of eyes became a source of dissatisfaction for them.

Next, there seemed to be no end to the beatings and abuse.

"You are not our child at all, don't pretend to be so happy!"

"Damn kid, why did you survive, why did my child die..."

Jealousy, madness, grief, sorrow, all the emotions mixed together, eventually brewing into the darkest poisonous water.

Perhaps before Ila went crazy, his adoptive parents had already gone crazy.

Until the end, I fell asleep again.

Ila, who felt out of breath, saw her 'mother' pinching her neck with a ferocious look on her face.

He couldn't breathe, his face turned red, and his neck seemed to be broken. His extreme confusion and fear of life and death made Ila fall into the most complete despair.

Abandoned and sold by his biological parents, abused and mutilated by his adoptive parents, the boy, who was precocious and intelligent but did not even have his own name, uttered sobs from his heart.

"——In your eyes, what should I look like?!"

[It would be better if I didn’t have this eye]

【It would be nice if I were Ila】

[It would be nice if they didn’t remember everything about Ila]

[The human world is so scary...]

【if……】

[It would be great if I could forget all this...]

When Baron Ryan got the hint and came to the wealthy family's home in a corner of the village, the large courtyard had become a purgatory on earth.

The originally quiet courtyard was filled with corpses of servants, but the strange thing was that all of these corpses were extremely twisted, as if they were imitating some kind of animal.

Among the many corpses, a child sat blankly among a man and a woman, chewing desperate meat in his mouth.

"What are you eating?"

"Crazy Beef."

…

"Uncle Moda, I think this person looks like a pig."

"Hey, Master Ila, it's impolite to say this. Don't say it carelessly... But why do you say he looks like a pig? He's not fat."

"I can see that he is lazy, sleeps after eating, and has all kinds of dirty thoughts in his head - isn't he just a pig?"

"Haha, what about this one?"

"This uncle is a bear! Although he looks gentle, he becomes very violent once provoked. He will beat people in the family and he also likes to eat sweets!"

"Indeed, Bray does have a bad temper... What about this deer?"

"This deer looks a lot like a horse! It especially likes to run and race. It's just like a horse!"

"Hahaha, how can you tell this? What about me?"

"Uncle Moda...although he is a bit bad and greedy, he is very kind to me and dad. He is a human being."

…

The psychic light in his eyes converged, and Ian ended his exploration of the 'past'.

At this moment, he realized that his new function of precognitive vision, which had evolved in the South China Sea ruins, might need to be used in a place with a lot of 'emotions'.

In addition, by listening to someone's narration, you can also follow the narration and get a glimpse of some information behind it.

At this moment, Moda was still telling things about Ila.

"That's pretty much what happened."

From his perspective, Ila was just a child who was brought home by Baron Ryan and was maliciously abused.

The child who was first brought back to the castle had scars all over his body. He looked like he was about to die, but he still smiled flatteringly at the adults around him.

After Ila's wounds were healed, he returned to his true nature - a lively and active child who was very talented in artistic creation.

The animals he painted were vivid and lifelike, but the people he painted were so twisted and crooked that they couldn't even look human.

only……

"I never thought that what he said to me was actually true... He can modify my memory and other people's memories, making people feel like they are pigs, and making human flesh and bones look like building blocks and toys. It makes me feel that the young master’s resentful spirit is a living child..."

Telling these facts itself was a huge blow to the old steward's spirit.

Mental psykers are not very effective for ordinary sublimated people and psykers. The powerful source of energy in the sublimated body can easily block the mental influence of others, but the permanent effects of mental psykers on ordinary people are Sexual harm, as well as a certain degree of convenience, are unmatched by other sublimators.

Manager Moda must constantly select the pictures that have been completely modified from the fragments of his fragmented memory.

The words were fragmented, and even the old steward himself didn't know what he was talking about - but he still persisted and gritted his teeth and said it all: "That's it, sir. And Sister Yingguang."

"Master Ila has the power to modify people's memories and concepts of things. I...probably was modified voluntarily. I like this false harmony...I don't want to know the truth at all, so...I never resisted Pass."

He tried to take some of the blame off himself.

"It's not your fault." Sister Yingguang drew two concentric circles on her chest. She lowered her eyes and said softly: "You are not an ascender, a psychic, and not a priest. You have no power. , there is no obligation to do anything.”

"Mandarin Moda, if you are tired, go and have a rest. We will explore on our own next."

"No!"

But the old steward blushed. At this moment, Ian could feel a powerful but indescribable emotion burst out.

He yelled angrily: "You want to abandon me? I'm not that fragile! I must know, master and young master and ladies... on earth... why on earth have become like this!"

Those false memories brought too much good things to the old steward, but their essence was too fragile, just like a castle built of gravel.

Now, the castle has collapsed, and his spirit is empty. If it cannot be filled with a kind of truth or another kind of lie...

He will definitely go crazy.

"That's fine..."

Sighing softly, Ian didn't want to leave him.

In fact, he knew very well that if the old steward was not allowed to show some contribution, the executors of the Huaiguang Temple and the noble court who would arrive tomorrow would probably tear him down. The former is not necessarily the case, but the latter can definitely tear him down.

His current move will allow Sister Yingguang to write more for him, proving that he is a positive helper of the incident and a friend of the church.

This is the only way for ordinary people to survive without suffering much damage after falling into the case of cults and nobles.

But the mental harm to ordinary people along the way may be a bit great.

He felt a little unbearable in his heart, but Ian was very calm on the surface - he would try his best to stay calm in the outside world and prevent others from seeing his thoughts.

How could he feel calm after learning what happened to Baron Ryan and what he had done, as well as Ila's past?

It's just that Ian has to calm down.

"There are more people and forces involved in this matter than we thought."

Following Steward Moda towards the second child's room, he whispered to Sister Yingguang: "It is impossible for Baron Ryan to directly find a child who has awakened psychic powers without any clues - someone will guide him there."

——In fact, even the extreme emotional ups and downs of the wealthy family, and even the horrific methods used, I feel that it may not be their own subjective wishes.

The young man thought.

"you mean……"

Sister Yingguang quickly understood. She thought of the cult she had been tracking down all the way, and couldn't help but look solemn: "It's a cult - or in other words, there is a group of people suspected of being a cult, who deliberately influenced the parents who adopted Ila and let them abuse her. , and then prompt Ila to awaken her spiritual power?"

"Artificially create an extremely malicious environment, oppress a child with psychic potential, and make him despair... and then explode?!"

Although she did not see the real impact of the past through spiritual energy like Ian, she also knew from the old housekeeper's mouth that Ila had suffered inhuman abuse and even mutilation.

An abnormal malice.

This does explain it.

Yingguang thought carefully and came up with many doubts.

In the empire, human trafficking is indeed illegal, but it is banned repeatedly because there is always demand for both nobles and ordinary people to nourish this extremely evil business.

But a wealthy family spends a lot of money to buy a child, raise it, and then continue to abuse him... It's not that it's impossible, but it's that this method is too cruel, and the emotional progression is too fast. It's almost like There was something urging him behind.

Someone is trying to artificially create psykers by causing great suffering.

However, let’s not talk about whether it can succeed.

Even if it succeeds – how many losers will there be?

Behind a successful and miserable Ira, how many failed and died quietly? !

The white-haired dragon girl raised her head, and her vertical pupils revealed a fiery stream of lava-like anger: "And these people are the Baron's hidden helpers?"

Ian nodded silently.

If he hadn't had precognitive vision and received relevant information from Sister Yingguang, he might not have been able to see this.

But now is not the time to discuss these things,

Because soon, they came to the door of the room of the second child, the unusually beautiful boy 'Mo Qiu'.

Along the way, Steward Moda rambled about the past in late Qiu in his memory.

In fact, there are not many deletions in the memories about the late autumn.

This child is a refugee from the Western Plains. Due to the new war zone opened by the Flying Flame Land, the Western Plains has been fully put on wartime alert and has experienced the biggest change in hundreds of years.

Once the rear area was transformed into the front line, fortresses were built directly on the former rural towns. Although some people stayed to cooperate in farming and fighting, more residents lost their hometowns and were displaced.

And those places are also the places where the Feiyan Special Forces have penetrated the deepest.

Naturally, Nanling also accepted many refugees from the Western Plains, and some of them were resettled in the hilly areas north of the Agate Stone Plain, where they could cut trees, cultivate fields, and build their own new homes.

But there are too many refugees. It is impossible for Nanling Province, which has not yet been fully developed, to accept them all, and the refugees will not be able to cross the border between the central province and the direct-administered territory for a while, so they can only go all the way south.

The journey south was full of blood and tears. It was difficult to obtain supplies and food along the way. Many fleeing teams suffered extremely tragic phenomena.

People eat people.

Or rather...

Yikes and eats.