The grey night fell. The forest near the Spell Department's base was buffeted by the autumn wind. The fallen leaves hung in the air.
Half an hour ago, Gu Jun received a message from Tong Ye. The Spirit Child had been escorted here by a Special Mobile Force unit from Eastern State. After the Spirit Child arrived at the base, he was escorted into an interrogation room at the Judgement Building to be monitored. Under the current circumstances, Spirit Children were under even stricter surveillance.
The corridor outside the interrogation room was heavily guarded by Special Mobile Force members and Spell Department members. It felt like they were guarding the door to the abyss.
With a creak, Gu Jun pushed open the interrogation room's steel door. He walked in and closed it behind him.
He had read through Phecda's information on this Spirit Child. Dirty-minded Yu's prediction was spot on. It was a woman, 21 years old, her name was Deng Ximei.
The interrogation room was not like a normal interrogation room. It was quite spacious. There was a table and chairs in the middle but there was no window.
Once he entered the room, he saw a young woman standing beside the table and chairs. When the door opened, she turned to look at him.
The woman was dressed in a simple dress. She was tall and slender. She had a pretty oval face and her long black hair was tied up with a hair tie. Her expression was calm, if not melancholy. It made one feel like they were looking at a cliff in the wilderness.
Gu Jun stared into her deep, dark eyes, and his heart stirred. There was a special feeling in his heart …
Was it because his memory had been triggered?
Or perhaps it was because he had finally met someone with the same background as him. It was like a drowning man calling for help when he saw another drowning man.
Even though he had not been rescued and his problem had not been solved, there was a sense of serenity.
He wasn't the only one, so the pressure he felt when facing the vast sea alone was lessened.
"Miss Deng, nice to meet you." Gu Jun greeted.
"Nice to meet you." Deng Ximei nodded slightly. "You were once a Spirit Child, yes?"
Gu Jun's heart skipped a beat, but he maintained his composure, not allowing any micro-expressions to show on his face. "Why do you say that?"
From the Eastern State to here, no one had told Deng Ximei the reason or where they were. In fact, the information she provided had led to serious consequences. For more than a year, she had been living in a state of confinement. She had no access to any information and knew nothing about what was happening in the outside world.
"We are different," Deng Ximei said. "Very different."
She did not speak much. Her voice was like the night wind on a cloudless night. It did not move anything, but it seemed to move something, and the low murmur of nature could be heard.
"How is it different?" Gu Jun asked without showing any expression. Actually, he roughly understood what she meant. It was a feeling …
The feeling was not as strong as the illusions and it was not as strange as Dirty-minded Yu's synesthesia. But in the bleakness of her expression, as he studied her, he seemed to see himself … the past him. There was a sense of loneliness in him.
One day last year, at the beginning of the Malformed Banyan Disease, it was Deng Ximei who sought protection from Phecda at Eastern State.
The version of the story she told Phecda was that her parents were former employees of Lai Sheng Company. When she was young, she participated in Lai Sheng Company's' Child Genius Project '. However, her parents gradually came to the conclusion that the project was harmful to her. When she was seven, they took her away from Lai Sheng Company.
Over the years, she followed her parents and moved to many places. They lived in the mountains. She did not go to school and was educated by her parents.
In hindsight, it was to hide from the people from Lai Sheng Company. But last year, things took a turn for the worse. Her parents asked her to seek refuge with Phecda in exchange for safety. The two of them had 'other things to do'. Later, based on the clues she provided, the Investigation Department discovered that her parents had been dead in the mountains for many days. They were found hanging from a tree.
The first half of Deng Ximei's story was what Gu Jun had imagined for his parents. To protect him, they left with him …
Perhaps because of this, his first reaction to her words was that he found it hard to believe.
"Different is different." Deng Ximei did not elaborate. She turned her head away.
"Then do you know who I am?" Gu Jun asked again. "Do you know my name?"
She said that she could not read the foreign language, and she did not have any experience of the ritual in her memory.
Regarding the location of the Afterlife Cult's hideout, it was Phecda who dug into her memory to help her remember it, and then the events that happened after that.
Deng Ximei heard that and turned to study him again. There was a strange nostalgia in her eyes. "I can't recognize you, but I think I know you …"
Gu Jun was studying her as well, but it only made him more certain that he could not see through this person.
Sometimes, he really admired Lou Xiaoning's personality that could not hide her thoughts. Unlike this thin woman before him, her complicated background was shrouded in a kind of isolation, like there was a dark wall surrounding her. It was also because of this that the Eastern State had been observing her for more than a year, but they still could not tell whether she was good or bad.
According to the personality list given by the evaluation department, she was a highly spiritualized, introverted, even shy, but also strong-willed.
This was also reflected in her life over the past year. Although she was in confinement, she was not as hardworking as Wang Ruoxiang, nor was she like Wu Siyu, who took the opportunity to eat and do nothing all day long. She just planted flowers, read books, and wrote some journals and short stories. She lived a carefree life.
This kind of person was like a boulder. When the boulder was placed there, it was hard to deal with.
Gu Jun could not tell what she meant by 'we are different'. Was it literal, or did she mean 'we are different from normal people, we are superior to normal people'? She had applied the cleansing stone earlier, so she was fine, but the Ancient Seal could not detect her thoughts.
"Miss Deng, many things have happened in the outside world over the past year." He added, "Many innocent people have died, and it has to do with Lai Sheng Company. I've read your information, you believe it was the people from Lai Sheng Company who murdered your parents. If that's the case, I wonder if you wish to destroy this organization? "
When Deng Ximei heard this, her face froze …
"My name is Gu Jun." Gu Jun said darkly, "In any case, I will destroy this organization."
"Gu Jun?" Deng Ximei's expression shifted, "Gu Jun, Gu Jun … so it's you."
Gu Jun blinked, 'Does this woman really know me? Or is she pretending? ' He asked, "Do we know each other?" He asked, "Do we know each other?"
"You might not remember, but I do." Deng Ximei's expression returned to calmness. There was a trace of disappointment in her voice, "I really did not expect our reunion to be like this."
"Oh?" Gu Jun looked at her and focused. His heart was in a mess, 'Did the innocent face of a Spirit Child flash across his mind …'
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