Time passes quickly in the spiritual world. Sean and Moonlight see many key scenes in their lives. During this period, an old security guard at the textile factory discovered something special about Annie and accidentally let it slip while drunk.
There was also a man in a top hat who came to see Anne, but their conversation was too quiet and Kate didn't hear it clearly.
Sean and Moonlight thought it was someone from the Divine Court, asking about Annie's special abilities - the Divine Court would absorb some children with special talents, which was a common occurrence.
Because there were so many scenes and things going on, the two of them couldn't pay attention to all the details.
Then something big happened - what Kate had been doing secretly, her mother found out...
Kate's mother dug out the replies she had received from the unions and textile factories across the country, and found out that Kate had been exchanging letters with representatives of the New Zealand Union and female textile workers from all over the country - her eldest daughter, who was in her twenties, actually planned A strike engulfed half of Newland.
Mom cried and yelled, scolding Kate for acting recklessly and scolding her for doing things without considering the consequences.
Kate felt very sad. She meant to make life better for her mother and herself, but was not understood.
After that, Sean and Yueguang followed the remaining thoughts and came to that night——
At night, Anne woke up from her sleep and shook Kate awake: "Sister, I just had a nightmare..."
Kate pulled Annie into her bed: "Stop thinking about it, just sleep with me."
Before she finished speaking, Kate smelled a choking smell. She turned over and sat up. Several female workers around her also started coughing. More people noticed something was wrong and sat up from the bed, looking at each other blankly.
Someone realized that something was wrong, and while telling everyone to get up, they ran out of the dormitory to check.
The man was barefoot and ran back quickly: "There's a fire on the second floor!"
Kate's mother was a little panicked and held Kate and Annie in her arms with a very nervous expression on her face.
All the female workers jumped out of bed in panic. Some of them wanted to run to the second floor. The female worker who came back first shouted: "The fire on the second floor is too big, we can't run out!"
There are many flammable fabrics and clothes piled in the textile factory, which will be inaccessible after burning.
The female workers all ran barefoot. They were horrified to find that the concrete floor was frighteningly hot!
Someone ran to the stairwell and tried to open the door to the fourth floor, but it couldn't be opened no matter how hard it shook: "The door is locked!"
To prevent theft, the factory gate and the door to the fourth floor were locked from the outside when the female workers went to bed at night.
A female worker ran to the window and smashed it open with a chair, but there was an anti-theft iron grille outside the window, which could only let the cat get out.
However, the night wind was not that choking. The female worker ran to the bedside, put her mouth and nose between the bars, and breathed the air outside the window.
"There's someone!" Kate found several people standing downstairs.
The four men were dressed in linen robes and covered their faces with linen bags with holes for eyes, like scarecrows. One of them put the torch in his hand into the snow and extinguished it.
In the darkness on the other side of the river, there were several cars parked and a dozen people standing there, all wearing uniform black suits and black hats.
The female worker started waving and shouting at the people downstairs. But those people standing in the wind and snow, whether they were the "scarecrow" on this side of the river or the "man in black" standing on the other side of the river bank, were just looking up, as motionless as sculptures.
"The Haileywood massacre was caused by arson?!" Moonlight stood beside the female worker and looked at the four people wearing linen hoods in disbelief. "These arsonists seem to be members of the Witchcraft Tribunal. people!"
Sean's face was gloomy: "The Witchcraft Trial Group is an extremist organization among the people. They still retain the tradition of burning witches to this day. Rockfield should have revealed Anne's situation and then allowed this extremist organization to set fires - like this Come on, even if the Discipline Office investigates, he is not the one who directly set the fire.
"Those in black clothes across the river should be Rockfield's men.
"Cate Brandt organized a general strike to improve the situation of female workers. If the workers were allowed to come to the bargaining table, the trust giant would suffer the most.
"In order to stop the strike and kill a person who dared to challenge the rules of the game, they planned this tragedy and let more than thirty female workers be buried with Kate..."
Kate was the first to discover that calling for help was useless. In a panic, she looked at her mother quietly and then at Anne: "Mom, let Anne go out and report the news! If she can find someone, we will be saved!"
In the panic, my mother lost her mind, stayed for a while, and then nodded.
In order not to cause a commotion, Kate pulled Annie towards the corner.
There was a vent there, the entrance so narrow that only Anne could fit through. For several nights, Annie sneaked out to play without being discovered by her mother.
Amidst the cries of the female workers, Kate said: "Be sure to avoid those people downstairs and those in black on the other side of the river. It would be better if you can find a correctional officer who patrols at night!"
Anne nodded numbly, as if she had lost her soul due to shock and fear.
Kate sighed and rested her forehead against her sister's. Her voice was not loud, but it drowned out other noisy sounds:
"The Holy Father in heaven watches over His children. He knows all your sufferings and will give bread, milk, health, and warmth forever to good and godly children. Amen."
"A...Amen." Annie seemed to have just woken up from her sleep.
"Remember, avoid those people!" Kate's eyes widened, making sure Anne understood.
The younger sister nodded and got into the vent in a panic.
Kate stood by the wall, looking at Anne's figure disappearing into the dark vent, with a pale smile on her face: "Annie, tomorrow is a new day..."
Annie crawled downstairs along the very hot ventilation duct, moving in the shadows in the dim night.
"Let's follow and take a look." Sean led Yueguang towards where Annie was.
Moonlight was still ready to ask questions, but the scene had shifted downstairs, and they followed Annie across the river.
"Isn't this spirit room Kate's memory? Why can we see Anne's memory?" Moonlight turned around and asked.
Sean pointed to his head: "I have Annie's memory." - Witch Moon's diluted resentment contained Annie's memory, so the edge of the spiritual world was expanded.
Making sure she bypassed the men in black, Anne suppressed the tears in her throat and ran forward. She was panicking and could only keep chanting prayers that reassured her: "The Holy Father will bless...His children." They..."
Moonlight couldn't bear it: "It was too late...the fire was too fierce."
Sean didn't say a word, just followed the thin figure.
Finally, under the streetlight not far away, Annie saw the hurried back figures of a man and a woman.
Just as she was about to shout, a gust of wind suddenly swept behind her. The turbulence of the wind was as sharp as a knife blade, as if it had been slashed by random knives. Before Anne could even make a sound, she fell to the ground, with skin and flesh torn open in many places on her body and blood flowing profusely.
