Chapter 31: The Witch's Pupil

Probably the wrong position to pass out, I thought.

If you knock your head and knock into a certain part of the memory floodgate, it's also heheda~

Let's put it this way~ I know that I am in a dream, and besides, what I see is not my memory, to be exact, it should be something that happened during the blank period of time in Anna's memory.

Also, the perspective I'm using at the moment is wrong, it's like watching a 3D movie, which is quite immersive and realistic, but... can only follow the plot and can't speak, let alone change anything.

Yes, no matter what happens, I'm just a spectator.

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It was a sunny day, and on that island, Anna's hometown, she went to the beach at low tide as usual to pick up shellfish and seafood to the market for some money.

In my memory, five months forward from the year of Anna's disappearance, her adoptive mother died, and her adoptive father was absent two years earlier, she became an orphan girl and lived in poverty, but fortunately, the neighbors were kind-hearted and took care of her.

If I hadn't met that man on the beach, I don't think there would be anything in the future, Anna would have married her husband, maybe someone else, but she couldn't get rid of a peaceful life, and naturally there would be no guy like me occupying the magpie's nest.

The beginning of a qiē suffering is very prosaic.

Anna, who was stepping on the tidal flats, straightened up and looked at the person who slowly walked out from the depths of the woods...

The black-haired, god-like man is the same xenomorph who almost killed me in reality.

I was deeply impressed by the arrogant posture of this life-sucking and contemptuous of all beings.

But in the dream, he looks affectionate.

He walked towards Anna, her eyes were melancholy and deep, and she blushed under his gaze, which was normal, and anyone who was stared at by such a beautiful man would have their hearts beating.

I watched the encounter from the perspective of a bystander, and sneered in my heart.

A young girl, a handsome man, she is innocent and simple, he is scheming, and the next plot is very cliché.

She liked the stranger from afar, she believed all his words, and when she secretly ran to meet the beach one night, the man stretched out his hand to her, and she shook it back shyly and timidly.

The man seemed to have something out of the ordinary, at least when he took her aboard the ship hiding in the bay and set sail, no one on the island of Anna's hometown had been discovered.

As the picture changed, I looked at the gorgeous ship I was in, and I realized that no one had any extra eyes or words, whether it was the busy sailors on the deck or the people I met when I entered the cabin, and everyone acted with an indescribable weirdness.

However, this qiē, the young girl who fell in love didn't notice anything, Anna was a good girl, tough and kind, but she was careless, and she didn't even know anything about many strange things that she could detect with a little attention.

A ship with such a gorgeous brig has been docked on the island for nearly half a month, not to mention that the inhabitants of the island have not noticed anything, and the sailors of the ship itself have not set foot on land?

There is no need for supplies, it takes so long to simply dock, and the entire inhabitants of the island have not noticed, either invisible to human eyes, or... The creatures of the entire ship are alien.

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The speed of the ship is also weirdly fast, uh~ Maybe the young girl's memory is confused, and the ship docks at the third sunset.

Anna didn't see what the landing place looked like, she had been resting in the cabin, and I couldn't see it from the perspective of God centered on her, only that the light was dim when I got off the ship, and it seemed that it was in some building, or that the river leading to the mouth of the sea was underground.

She was taken to a palace, where she was served by a group of maids, and was pampered and pampered by men.

Her life was like a dream.

Yes, dreams.

If I was skeptical from the beginning, then, Anna... When did she feel that something was wrong? Probably... With the passage of time, the doubts in my heart gradually accumulated, and I slowly realized it, right?

The man never touched her.

If you want to say that you don't like it, the man is obedient to her, tender and sweet, but you have to say that you like it... What man would not touch the woman he likes? Unless he's not physically fit.

Uh~ Of course, questioning a man's ability, this kind of thinking is a woman of my age, Anna is only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, she is just panicking.

She likes that man, even if she doesn't have a luxurious life, and his every look and movement can make her blush and heartbeat restless.

Young people's love is always like a moth to a fire, and she leaves a qiē and follows him to a strange place, for the sake of her inner feelings, not anything else.

She thought that men's feelings were the same as hers, but she had tried several times, why didn't she even refuse to act a little intimately?

Anna is just simple, she is not stupid, or people who fall in love are easy to be stupid, but once the seed of suspicion is planted, a little attention, many strange things will not be hidden.

The people around her had anticipation hidden in their respectful expressions, as if they were waiting for something to happen.

Her diet... It is a variety of rich meats, and because it is too tender, you can often taste blood juice.

The palace where she slept peacefully was filled with incense all the time, and the rising smoke stirred her mind.

When a woman loves someone, she is stupid and sometimes more shrewd, and Anna begins to probe the environment and carefully step out of the palace, but she is always taken back after not walking far.

The maids are respectful but not disobedient, she can't go far, but... There are also harvests.

For example, the palace is located deep underground, and it seems to have been hollowed out of the entire mountain, and the labyrinth of passages in the belly of the mountain is as intricate, and countless forks in the road can lead to a dead end if you are not careful.

For example, apart from the small area where she lives, there seems to be an eerie place elsewhere.

For example, she saw vague visions refracted through the passage of the mountainside, human howling, large beasts biting...

For example, when she opened the gold carpet and the pendulum of the veil, she found a thin layer of sulfur condensed on the mountain wall...

Anna discovers something that has been blinded by love in the past, and she gradually begins to sleep at night, but when the man comes, she can ease her uneasiness, and the shy hope is that she is suspicious.

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The answer came to light the moment she became an adult.

She came to menstruation and really became an adult.

Whereas... While the man also knows, he uncovers the mystery that has plagued Anna for a long time.

He arranged a memorial ceremony, hot and smelly organs, a stone platform covered in blood, and a shadowy figure kneeling under the stage.

On the high altar in the open underground, the man went through a tedious ritual and finally cut open the chest and abdomen of a living person caught out of nowhere, took the heart that seemed to be beating, and ordered Anna to eat it.

Anna fainted because she was forced to open her mouth ... Stuffed with blood...

The man let her fall to the ground, and after a long time, his condescending eyes were full of disappointment and contempt.

'Waste. ’

This is the final sentence that the person who was affectionate a moment ago gave a young girl an infatuated heart.

Anna and I also don't know what the man expects to happen, is it Anna's blood heritage? But in the memories I shared with her, her biological parents were also ordinary people.

What should have appeared in her made this person carefully arrange the scam.

Yes, a scam.

From the moment they met on the beach, every step was carefully planned by the brunette man to deceive the young girl's heart, which was easy for the brunette man, after all, he was so handsome that he was flawless.

I knew it early on, but Anna was kept in the dark, and she even began to wonder if she was willing to pretend to know anything until... The brunette man tore off his fake appearance after being disappointed.

There are generally two reactions of a woman when she finds out that she has been deceived by her lover, either she continues to deceive herself or she hates out of love.

However, the brunette man didn't give Anna an excuse to deceive herself.

She was thrown into the dungeon, and when she woke up to the words of the 'men' who guarded the cell, she was probably equally hopeful and disappointed, and the guards viciously laughed at her and cursed her for being a waste.

I didn't care about the guard's attitude, but tried my best to piece together the information from Guò's words, Anna looked pale, but I believed she was listening, otherwise how could the memory be so clear.

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After some cursing, the guard left the dungeon, and I looked at Anna, who seemed to have passed out, and didn't know what to think.

After collation and part of my personal analysis, this qiē...

It's really the same as I thought, there are some problems with Anna's bloodline, the black-haired man's clan uh~ is a life-sucking alien species, and all their clansmen live in the underground palace.

Sucking life, eating flesh and blood, the xenomorphs are powerful and have a long lifespan, and I don't know how many years ago, the group of self-proclaimed 'ghost clans' was once extremely brilliant and even ruled over humans.

But it's so long ago that history hasn't recorded it, at least, I've seen the historical version circulating here without mentioning it at all, and I don't even remember the original plot.

Unless it's a historical text, or... This world exists a development that does not belong to any predetermined destiny.

The high-ranking ghosts boast of being at the top of the biological chain, and they are even more proud than the so-called descendants of the creator of the world, because humans are food in their eyes.

The funny thing is that the 'ghost clan' that feeds on people has an extremely fatal flaw, the clan was originally able to reproduce, but when their total number was consumed to the point of near extinction, only the queen was able to re-evolve the 'ghost'.

By sucking the anger, the queen is able to uh~ create the 'soul' that transforms humans into ghosts.

The black-haired man is the current supreme ruler of the ghost clan, he is not a queen, the ghost clan has not had a queen for a long, long time, and the number of remnants of the clan is close to exhaustion.

Probably under the constraints of the laws of the world, the more powerful the creature, the more difficult it is to reproduce, and the ghost clan has no new generation, and the people who still survive are the people who seem to be strong but are actually already weak.

Anna, her ancestor...

Let's put it this way~ Anna's ancestor, I don't know how many generations ago, was the child of the previous queen, and the black-haired man spent several generations silently trying to revive the ghost queen gene in Anna's blood.

Unfortunately, Anna's fertility rate is very low, especially the death rate of girls is too high, for some reason, only one child will survive in each generation, and if a boy is born, the child's sister or sister will definitely die unexpectedly.

So... Four generations ago, after discovering this pattern, the black-haired man tried to kill the boy of Anna's branch to ensure the survival of the baby girl.

Because of this, in Anna's generation, she will not even have distant relatives, and her biological parents and adoptive parents will die, and she will be lonely.

From the words of the guards, I learned such a disgusting thing, Anna's family has been secretly controlled by the dark-haired man for several generations, and her mother, grandmother, and even great-grandmother, have all experienced the same thing.

When I met a handsome man when I was young, I fell in love at first sight, and I left everything to go with each other, but the end I got was unbearable.

Without the awakening according to the man's expectations, all that remains... The role of giving birth to the next generation.

Even as an unrelated third party, at this moment, I think my face is the same as Anna's, shocked and followed by extreme anger, the black-haired man is extremely disgusting, he is just... Is he raising all the women of the Anna family as livestock?!

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Imprisoned in the dungeon, frightened and horrified, the young girl's eyes were covered with a layer of bitter resentment.

This is her memory, and because I lost it somehow before, I can't feel her feelings, but as a woman, I know very well how deep it is.

How strong the love is, after knowing the truth, the hatred will be more poignant.

Unfortunately, Anna did not have the strength to resist.

She was taken out of the dungeon and dragged all the way to the ship, where the ship set sail.

The man deigned to see her in a cage and told her that he would arrange for a man to marry her on the next island, and of course, the memory would disappear, just like her elders, lest she hold a grudge against her.

The black-haired man looked down at the ants condescendingly and said that it was the responsibility of her bloodline to revive the ghost clan.

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I don't know how long it has been since the sea swayed, and there was no way to count the time when I was locked up in the bilge, until... When the sea encounters wind and waves, the sea realm of the Great Passage is treacherous, and even if the man is a ghost clan, he cannot predict a sudden natural disaster.

He is not a god after all.

After a long turbulence, most of the ships were damaged in the stormy seas, the bilge was flooded, and Anna, who was used as a 'tool', was also brought out, maybe she was worried about her death, right?

The battered ship has no ability to continue sailing, so it can only choose to dock temporarily and wait for rest before moving forward.

Anna took advantage of the negligence of her guard to escape, and the ship lost a lot of manpower in the storm a few days ago, probably because this gave her a chance.

Staying by Anna's side and running for her life with her, somehow, I always felt uneasy.

The brunette man didn't seem to be negligent enough to let her escape, but I couldn't remind her.

Anna fled into the desert island forest, frightened and hiding from a possible pursuit, strangely there was no search, and soon, I learned the reason why the black-haired man let it go, and she met the pirates.

A group of pirates who also came here to recuperate.

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If I could, I would like to see and hear.

If I could, I wish I wasn't just conscious, I wish I wasn't in a dream, I hope I could save her...

A deserted island, a group of lawless villains who sail the seas all year round... What else could happen?

I tried to close my eyes and cover my ears, not to see or listen, at least not to witness the plight of the young girl.

Screaming and crying, cursing bitterly.

Like a nightmare.

I even pounced on the beasts that were doing evil, but again and again I caught air, and in vain.

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She's dying, I know.

Covered in wounds and bleeding, he lay in the filth of the ground, his bruised face twisted into a hideous resentment.

I knelt beside her, bowed down and begged her over and over again in her ear.

Beg her to live, beg her to be brave, beg her...

Even if the situation is miserable, even if it is so hateful that it turns into a ghost, as long as you survive, as long as you survive...

As long as you survive, even if... It's okay to change the direction of fate and let me not show up.

begged her over and over again, and finally cried and screamed, trying to make her hear.

Survive, Anna.

I'd rather she hate, at least a strong hatred that can sustain her to live, but these eyes are no longer alive, and she slowly closes them, and the last ray of light under her eyes is disappearing.

She's still a kid!

The brunette man... Is it calculated?

If yes, then... No matter what it takes, I will! Certain! Kill him!

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Another man's hand reached out, and I raised my head and stared at the faces nearby, to keep a firm note of these people, and in the future, if I met everyone, here, I swore that I would cut them with a thousand cuts!

Man's hands... The sticking out hand was gently attached.

Those closed eyes opened suddenly...

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The energy of the surging slammed into each other, as if a long-brewing hurricane tsunami was gushing out, the vision was blurred, the distorted space, the transparent ripples, the other end...

Anna's hand...

Before I could see it clearly, everything was obscured by the endless fog.

I stood in a blur of light mist, trying to calm my hatred for a long time, and finally ran towards the area that was faintly shaking in front of me.

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I don't know how long it was, I can't count the time, but I know that behind the fog was a door so high that I couldn't see the end, made of deep light green branches, like a forest, standing alone in the sea of clouds, like an enchantment.

I slowly approached, and the two doors opened silently.

Behind is criss-crossing iron chains, densely stacked, thick and large, countless bright and yellow spell-like things are attached to the iron chains, and there seems to be something in the dark depths inside.

It's the sound of chains dragging and dragging, right?

Something behind the door is slowly approaching.

On the opposite side of the bottomless darkness, a miserable white hand appeared, sharp nails like the hook claws of a beast, wrist bones with black and red bruises, and then back, half of the arm was inscribed with bruises, like snakes and insects.

I opened my mouth, and I put a name on the tip of my tongue, and these vicious marks stirred my heart like a knife.

Stretched out his hand to hold the claws protruding from the gap in the chain, a cold and stiff feeling...

It hurts - my heart is shrinking and I can't breathe.

The monstrous hatred and chaotic madness poured into my mind like a tide.

But before the roaring shadow came closer, the door closed again, and with a bang, it was like crashing into a transparent wall, and I fell straight down.