Wen Yuan looked out the window and found that the violent souls from last time were moving closer, "What's going on?"
"The power of the Magic God Bead is weakening, and it is almost no longer able to support the operation of this country, but it's okay, after the Magic God Bead disappears completely, everything will return to normal." The woman's eyes were very pleased, and she seemed to be satisfied with this matter. Quite emotional,
Wen Yuan didn't understand the meaning of her words, "What does it mean that everything returns to normal? Will these souls disappear after the power of the Magic God Bead dissipates?"
"Yes, without the Magic God Pearl, many things will no longer exist, but this country will still be sleeping underground."
Those violent souls stopped when they reached the outside of the house. Wen Yuan thought they would rush in.
Wen Yuan stayed here all night and talked a lot with the woman. She also told him a lot of distorted historical truths, "And...after the power of the Magic God Pearl dissipates, you can go out."
The two chatted for a while and then it was dawn. The group of children woke up from their long sleep.
The little boy who had been holding Temari before was very excited when he saw Wen Yuan, "Sister, why are you here?"
"I came here last night to talk to your mother about some things. Do you want to go out and play with me?" She was afraid that the woman would be worried, so she turned to her and said: "Don't worry, I will send him back before dusk." of."
The little Temari boy ran over excitedly and grabbed the hem of the woman's skirt, "Mom, just let me go. I will be obedient and not cause trouble."
Seeing his expectant look, the woman couldn't bear to refuse, "Okay, Xiao Cheng, you must listen to this sister. You must come back before dark, do you understand?"
After getting the boy's assurance, the woman watched him holding Wen Yuan's hand and walking away with worry. She had protected these children for so long... It was time for him to see what he cared about before the end of time.
Others were a little puzzled when they saw Wen Yuan bringing back a child after a night out, "Is this child one of the children taken care of by the woman you mentioned before?"
"Yes, his name is Xiao Cheng."
Xiao Cheng was more lively than many children. He walked up to Shen Huaiyan and the others and introduced himself, "Hello, brothers. My name is Xiao Cheng. Do you want to play Temari with me?"
The strange thing is that Xiao Cheng never let go of Temari. Wen Yuan noticed that even when he was sleeping, he was holding the Temari ball tightly in his arms.
"Okay, it just so happens that I'm bored too, so I'll play with you." He Sheng also had an enthusiastic temperament, and he immediately started playing with Xiao Cheng.
As for the other three people, one looks down on human beings and the other is too mature. Only Shen Huaiyan can play with the two of them.
Wen Yuan stood aside and looked at them with a smile, thinking that if what the woman said had not happened, Xiao Cheng would have played Temari games with his family like this, imagining that he should have lived a peaceful and easy life.
Thinking of these warm words made people feel a little sad. She turned her back to everyone and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. By the time Quan noticed that he was approaching, she had already adjusted her emotions.
"Did I see you crying just now?" the man asked a little ignorantly.
But Wen Yuan stubbornly shook his head and refused to admit that he had shed tears just now, "What? The wind blew sand into my eyes, so you cried. Am I the kind of person who cries casually? I hate it, go away. Go away."
Seeing her arrogant little appearance, Quan chuckled quietly behind Wen Yuan, "You kid is really dishonest."
"Whoever is being dishonest is just not crying. Go away and go away. Be careful that I bully the master and destroy the ancestor!" Wen Yuan clenched his fist and looked like he was about to hit Quan, which made Quan have no choice but to run away. .
Time flies and it's dusk. Wen Yuan looks at the gradually darkening sky and prepares to send Xiao Cheng back. "Xiao Cheng, it's time for us to go back."
But Xiao Cheng suddenly ran to the river, "Sister, actually, I'm already dead, right?"
His eyes were clear and sincere, and looking at Wen Yuan made her a little bit at a loss, "How could it be? You're standing here properly."
"Stop lying to me, sister. You are lying to me just like mother. In fact, I am dead a long time ago." The Temari in the child's hand suddenly emitted a dazzling light under his urging.
As Temari took off, fragments of Xiao Cheng's life memories slowly emerged in front of everyone's eyes, "All the people in the Riyun Kingdom died in that catastrophe. The king who was lucky enough to escape could not bear such a fact. He urged The power of the Magic God Bead returns time to the seven days before the disaster, and the place remains as it was before it was destroyed. However, the Magic God Bead cannot resurrect the dead, and people with good intentions turn into entities without memory. Those who act during the day and hold grudges become souls with memories that can only come and go after night covers the earth."
Wen Yuan found an interesting truth in these clips, that is, the Magical Pearl had always been by their side.
"The angry soul wants to find a resting place, and this is also our wish." Temari fell back into Xiao Cheng's hand after the light dissipated.
The sky was getting darker, and Xiao Cheng's breath was getting weaker and weaker. If he couldn't return to the woman's side before he fell asleep completely, no one knew what would happen next.
Wen Yuan carried Xiao Cheng back to the stone house as quickly as possible, and happened to see the woman anxiously waiting for their return outside the door, "I thought you weren't coming back, but luckily, luckily you are back."
She quickly carried Xiao Cheng back to the house and invited Wen Yuan to come in and sit.
But Wen Yuan asked her a question, "Why does Xiaocheng keep holding his Temari? What is this? Today we saw his memories in Temari."
"No wonder he came back so slowly. You must have known the cause of his death." The woman turned around and covered the children with quilts, although she knew very well that they were not afraid of the cold and could not feel any temperature changes.
Wen Yuan didn't know whether he should tell her what happened today. After weighing it for a long time, she decided to tell the woman, "Actually... I think Xiao Cheng should already know the cause of his own death."
"This is impossible." The woman felt that what Wen Yuan said was simply fantasy.
"At that time, he held Temari and asked me if he was actually dead, right? I originally wanted to fool him, but he showed me those clips and told me that you had been lying to him. I am."
Wen Yuan's words plunged the woman into endless self-blame, "I thought I protected them very well, but I didn't expect that he already knew the fact that he no longer existed in this world."
"I thought I hid it well, but don't think that I am a person with dirty intentions. I just want to protect these children. As for Temari..."
The woman wiped away her tears and told Wen Yuan what Temari meant to Xiao Cheng, "That Temari was given to him by Xiao Cheng's father. His father was an honest man who made a living by fishing. Xiao Cheng always held Temari in his arms. Waiting for his father to catch a big fish by the river, others will always play Temari with him when they see him."
After saying this, her expression suddenly changed, "Until one day, Xiao Cheng accidentally fell into the small whirlpool in order to pick up Temari that was blown by the wind in the river. The whirlpool quickly brought him underwater. But there was nothing on the river."
"Until he was fished ashore, he was holding the Temari ball tightly in his hand. When he was buried, the Temari ball followed him into the coffin."
It turns out there is such a sad story. Wen Yuan looked at Xiao Cheng who was sleeping soundly, and his heart was full of unbearable, "Where are the other children? Did they all die in accidents?"
"Yes, they all have something they carried with them when they died. That thing condenses their obsessions. But because these children are pure and kind in nature, they are not like other souls that can cause bad effects. As for The memories in Xiaocheng’s Temari Ball are also because he misses the beautiful things that happened when he was alive.”
In this way... Wen Yuan nodded as if understanding, "They all have a rough life experience."
Not only was it rough, it would be an understatement to say it was tragic, "So, that temari ball is not something extraordinary, it's just their obsession."
At first, Wen Yuan thought that the Temari ball in Xiao Cheng's hand was the Magic God Bead, but he didn't expect that he had guessed wrong.
She looked at the woman with some embarrassment, and the woman unexpectedly smiled, "You think the Temari ball in his hand is the Phantom Pearl, right?"
"That's right...haha...you're really stupid."
The woman's eyes were a little distant, "Actually, the Magical God Pearl is still here. It's far away in the horizon, but close in front of you. You should pay attention to the things around you."
When Wen Yuan returned to the camp the next day, she kept thinking about the woman's words. What does it mean to be far away in the horizon and close in front of her eyes? Could it be that... the Magical Pearl is really where she can see it every day?
She began to look for any round objects around the camp. When Shen Huaiyan asked, she still didn't believe it, "Ayuan, sometimes you can't be too limited in your thinking. Do you really think that the Magic God Bead must look like a bead?" What if it’s something else?”
"If it's something else, then why is it named Magic God Pearl?" It can be seen that Wen Yuan's thoughts have been seriously affected by staying here recently.
Shen Huaiyan pursed his lips and said nothing, but he always felt that the woman who took care of the children was not simple. That night, he begged Wen Yuan to take him to find the woman.
But when the two arrived at the stone house, they found that the woman and the group of children had disappeared. "It's impossible. They were still there this morning."
"Did you know I was coming? So you left early?"
Probably not...
