Chapter 363
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The album was laid open on the ground. The simple drawings reflected the boy's innocent thoughts and wishes. The boy drew many things related to his family. For example, his parents were cooking together, going shopping together, cleaning up the house and planting flowers together.
The lines were simple and the drawing was not very good but there was a faint sense of warmth in it.
At least that was how it appeared.
"Is your name Lai Sheng?" Han Fei picked up the album from the ground. He tried his best to maintain his composure, to ignore the gaze behind him.
The boy's parents had been watching him for who knew how long. Han Fei was thankful that he did not say anything wrong and he was thankful that he did not do anything to hurt the boy.
"That is my nickname but after dad passed away, mom rarely calls me by my nickname anymore." The little boy was wearing wet trousers and looked very cute as if he had grown up.
"Lai Sheng is your name …" Han Fei picked up the album and turned to look at the black and white photo inside the closet. The photo and the bowl of rice were placed out of the boy's reach. With the boy's height, he could only see his father's photo but not the contents of the bowl.
A thought formed in his mind. Han Fei picked up the photo again. He flipped through the back of the photo and to his surprise, he saw there was a colored picture on the back of his father's photo. The boy in the picture was smiling happily. He sat alone on a swing. It was unclear whether it was the wind or someone pushing him, but the swing swayed gently.
"I knew it." Han Fei instantly understood why the mother would place the photo out of the boy's reach. This was because the soul summoning ritual was not to summon the father but to summon this little boy.
On the back of the photo was a colored picture of the boy and buried inside the bowl of rice was a piece of yellow paper with Lai Sheng's name.
The situation at Room 4064 was similar to Zhuang Ren's family in Room 4144, they were both dead people summoning the living.
However, because the boy did not have the protection of Zhuang Ren's memory, his soul was successfully summoned to the Ziggurat.
Perhaps in the boy's parents' eyes, the boy was a ghost that returned from the seventh day but in reality, the boy was a living person who was transported to the cryptic world.
His body should still be alive in real life but his soul had been summoned here.
If the boy's soul was not summoned for a long time, the boy would be personally killed by his deceased parents.
"Do you remember the last time you sat on the swing with your family?" Han Fei replaced the photo. He did not tell the boy this cruel truth.
"I think it was before my father passed away. He and my mother took me to the park to play. My father was very strong. He pushed the swing from behind and watched me fly very high. My mother was a little worried. Later, she even quarreled with my father a few times."
The boy thought back to the past. These memories were etched into his heart and became his most precious possession.
Listening to the boy's words, an indescribable feeling rose in Han Fei's heart. At that time, the boy's parents were probably already gone because in the colored picture, there was only the boy's figure sitting on the swing. His parents were not by his side, only the wind and the birds on the branches accompanied him.
'The Butterfly wanted to summon Zhuang Ren's soul into the cryptic world through his family to retrieve Fu Sheng's memory. Then why did he summon Lai Sheng's soul into the cryptic world?'
The Butterfly was a madman, but it always had a clear goal in mind and rarely wasted its energy on meaningless things.
Studying Lai Sheng's name, Han Fei was reminded of Yi Ming Private Academy's Jin Sheng and Wang Sheng who had morphed into the Blade of Rebirth at Cattle Alley.
The appearance of Lai Sheng, Jin Sheng and Wang Sheng in the cryptic world was related to the butterfly. They appeared to correspond to Afterlife, Present and Rebirth respectively.
Jin Sheng was the strongest, he was banished to Yi Ming Private Academy, which was far away from the Ziggurat. Wang Sheng's family had been annihilated, and he had experienced the greatest pain. He had appeared in the territory of the Butterfly's nemesis, the Spider, and in the end, he had become a blade that could slay the Butterfly. Lai Sheng was the weakest, but he was used as a hope to attract souls into the Ziggurat. The butterfly valued him the most.
"Do these three children correspond to something about the butterfly?" Han Fei could not help but take out the Blade of Rebirth. Wang Shengcheng was Han Fei's blade, Jin Sheng used his own blood to weave a future for Han Fei, and now he met Lai Sheng. "Is Lai Sheng another backup plan that the Butterfly has prepared for itself? If I hadn't interfered, the Butterfly might have been reborn in Lai Sheng's body and occupied Lai Sheng's real body. Then what if I use Rebirth to kill Afterlife? Wouldn't the Butterfly have one less' future 'to choose from? "
When Han Fei took out the Rebirth Knife, the gloomy and cold aura behind him instantly became countless times stronger. This was under the condition that he didn't have the intention to kill. If he really had the intention to kill, he would have been killed immediately.
At level 13, he was still too weak inside a Grade E hidden map.
"Don't misunderstand, this is just a hilt, it's not dangerous at all." Han Fei appeared to be explaining to the boy but in reality, he was trying to tell the two faces in the bedroom that he meant no harm.
"Is this a hilt?" The boy did not recognize the thing in Han Fei's hands. He wanted to say something else when the sound of quilt rustling came from the other bedroom. The boy quickly clamped his hand over his mouth.
He turned to look at his mother's room. The door that was originally open had been closed again.
Seeing the door was not open, the boy dared to continue. "Today is the night of the Returning Soul. Mother said that father will only come back when she's asleep. If she knows I haven't slept well, she'll wake me up. She's scary when she's angry, even my father is afraid of her. "
"Then why won't you listen to her?" Han Fei felt like the boy was a living soul that had been summoned into the Ziggurat. Now he was even more concerned about the boy.
"Even though my mother has a bad temper, I know she loves me and my father very much but she has never said it out loud. I wish to tell my father all these things after I meet him and then tell him not to be in such a hurry to go so far away. "
Han Fei had tried to use the most gentle method to tell the boy what death was. Death was no longer a cold object in the boy's heart but he still did not fully understand it.
"If your mother knows that's what you think, she will not blame you." Han Fei had already made up his mind. Whether it was because of the mission or other reasons, he had to protect this boy and send him back before dawn.
"Lai Sheng, didn't your mother tell you that if the summoned souls refuse to leave after a long time, they will be trapped in this world forever, never to be freed?" Han Fei's voice was not loud but it was not soft either. His words were meant for Lai Sheng's parents.
He could see that the couple loved Lai Sheng very much so he wanted to ask for their help to send back the boy who had been summoned into the cryptic world.
Han Fei believed that Lai Sheng's parents would understand him. After all, sometimes parting was a kind of blessing and love.
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