I'm bound to the World-Destroying Witch

Chapter 126. Beware of Mu Qingtong

"Dr. He?"

"Yes, although the Yuanhe Orphanage has become a scourge, isolated from the outside world, orphans are still being sent in. Similarly, unsuspecting people come here to apply for jobs, only to discover after they enter that this place is a living hell."

"Dr. He was hired after applying for a doctor position ten years ago."

The old man looked on with a look of reminiscence, “A few days after she came in, she discovered a loophole in the rules of the Calamity Realm—if there are no more orphans in the Calamity Realm, the Calamity Realm will collapse and dissipate.”

"Therefore, she secretly gathered everyone in the courtyard and made them recognize each other's fathers one after another—this is also a loophole in the rules of the Calamity Realm. As long as you acknowledge the other person as your father and the other person is willing, then you are no longer an orphan."

"Dr. He is a good person."

"But unfortunately, a traitor has appeared in the courtyard. Someone wants to enter the garden of the gods and obtain eternal life and happiness."

"The plan had barely begun when it was exposed. Dr. He not only angered the gods, but also the god of the sky, and was punished by them."

The woman in the black dress frowned slightly: "Oh? So... she's dead?"

"Oh dear, I don't even know if she's dead in this state." The old woman got up, drew back the curtains, and looked into the dark, foggy world with her cloudy eyes.

"Do you see that huge black shadow in the sky? That's Dr. He."

The two looked up and saw a giant black shadow, hundreds of stories high, stretching across the dark sky. They could vaguely see its countless tentacles swaying in the sky like seaweed.

Xia Feng's pupils dilated slightly. Who the hell is He Jianzhu?

He had already sensed a terrifying evil force roaming the sky, but he didn't pay much attention to it, assuming it was some kind of calamity monster.

"She's actually transformed into this state?" Xia Feng frowned. "So she's not actually dead?"

Mu Qingtong remained calm, her eyelids slightly lowered, lost in thought.

"This is the gods' punishment for Dr. He. She wanted to be a good person, so let her kill all the people she wanted to save with her own hands."

The old woman's hoarse voice was calm, her cloudy eyes gazing at the giant tentacle monster in the distance with a complex expression. After a moment of silence, she turned back and said:
"It's almost midnight. If you don't worship the gods after midnight, Dr. He's tentacles will come for you, and you will be forcibly dragged out of the house and into the amusement park. That is the execution ground for all those who disrespect the gods."

Xia Feng looked up at the clock; it was 11:30, and there was very little time left.

"Do you have any other questions?"

"Hmm, I do have a question." Xia Feng looked at the old woman seriously, paused, and suddenly asked, "Are you number 16?"

"!" The old woman's calm expression changed slightly.

"Good heavens, it really is true." Xia Feng rubbed his forehead; he had actually suspected it for a long time.

The woman in the Wheel of Life who claimed to be a married woman and asked him for help, number 16, did not tell him the address, but number 17's notebook recorded number 16's location: a children's playground, in a house full of jasmine flowers.

This orphanage used to be a children's playground, and he noticed several times that the house was indeed full of jasmine flowers, although they all withered as night fell.

When he copied Uncle Yun's magical artifact, he did not sense the teleportation mark of the Wheel of Life.

That leaves only the old woman and the little girl upstairs who still hasn't come downstairs.

He initially thought he was overthinking things, after all, there's no such thing as a coincidence in this world.

But now it seems that he did indeed encounter it.

But what is this old woman's purpose? To lure Number 17 in, and then ambush him to turn him into a Gift Fruit?

If that's the case, then what she just said doesn't seem credible.

Seeing this, Mu Qingtong wasn't too puzzled. She knew Xia Feng was participating in a murder mystery game where the players were numbered. Seeing Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong's gazes gradually turn cold and filled with murderous intent, the old woman wasn't particularly nervous. She simply shook her head: "My lords, please don't misunderstand, I meant no harm."

"Oh?" Xia Feng wasn't in a hurry. "Then what is it for? Tell me."

"The matter of the Wheel of Life was actually something Dr. He instructed me to do," the old woman said, surprising everyone.

Xia Feng: "?"

Mu Qingtong's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly: "Tell me in more detail."

The old woman, her back hunched, turned and looked again at the dark shadow on the horizon, her wrinkled, withered face...

"Ten years ago, on the eve of being punished by the gods, Dr. He told me that if we ever entered a place called the 'Rotation of Life,' we should just pull any player into the place, and that player would save us from our prison."

"What the hell?" Xia Feng leaned back dramatically. This old woman's talk was getting more and more ridiculous.
"Are you still playing me? You mean He Jianzhu predicted the future?" Xia Feng felt that the old woman's words were full of loopholes. "If He Jianzhu had the ability to predict the future, wouldn't she know that she would be betrayed?"

The old woman shook her head helplessly: "Sir, I have no reason to lie to you."

Xia Feng was about to say something when Mu Qingtong suddenly patted him on the shoulder:

"What she said is true."

Xia Feng blinked, tilted his head to look at the woman in the black dress, and asked as if Su Si was transmitting her voice: "So your mother's magical artifact can predict the future?"

“No, this is not a prophecy.” Mu Qingtong shook her head and explained softly, “There are very few causal spiritual artifacts in this world. Most of them have the ability to foresee cause and effect, but He Jianzhu has the ability to manipulate cause and effect.”

She raised her eyes, her gaze fixed intently on Xia Feng, "He Jianzhu wanted you to come here, so you came."

As she spoke, a smile crept onto her lips, and her gaze at Xia Feng grew increasingly strange. "Interesting. What exactly is this woman trying to do?"

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"Oh my god, don't look at me like that!" Xia Feng felt his scalp tingle. What was all this about? Mu Qingtong was scary enough, but his mother seemed even more terrifying.

What do you mean by "she wanted me to come, so I came"?
"Wait a minute." Xia Feng looked at the old woman. "You just said that if you randomly bring any player into this place, that player will rescue you from the cage. If it's just randomly bringing anyone, why are you so sure it will be me?"

Mu Qingtong shook her head helplessly and transmitted her voice, "Mr. Xia, don't you understand? This is He Jianzhu's ability to cause and effect. As long as Number 16 takes action, you will appear here and know some things. The process in between is not important. Of course, 'Number 16's action' may not be the only cause. After all, the reason you came here is because I asked you to come."

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After hearing Mu Qingtong's explanation, Xia Feng had even more doubts swirling in his mind, making him even more confused.

But he quickly realized that how He Jianzhu did it was not important; what mattered was what He Jianzhu wanted to do.
After all, possessing such an amazing causal spiritual artifact, how could it be turned into a monster and trapped here for so long by the so-called gods here? It just doesn't make sense.

Seeing Xia Feng raise his head after a long silence, the old woman's gaze was calm: "Sir, it seems you believe me?"

"Hmm, I'll believe it to some extent." Xia Feng asked doubtfully, "Did He Jianzhu say anything else?"

"The candlelight of cause and effect told her that life is the cause of everything. She said this before she left, and then asked me to tell you—"

The old woman looked up, her aged face indistinct in the dim light, her gaze deep and unsettling: "Be careful of Mu Qingtong."

Xia Feng: "."

Mu Qingtong: "."

Xia Feng glanced at the woman in the black dress out of the corner of his eye.

The woman in the black dress had no expression.

(End of this chapter)