I'm wandering in the world

Chapter 50: The Emotions of Psychosis
Although Chen Qingyuan had arrived in this era less than a day ago, and had met Edith for less than six hours in total, he thought he knew Edith well enough, because everything about Edith... was just that.

The moonlight shone through the broken window onto Edith and the skeletons around her. She stared at him blankly.

Chen Qingyuan stood in the darkness and said indifferently: "I will take you away from this place. If you are willing, come."

He never forgot his mission. His original plan was to find a way to get rid of the evil spirit Edith so that Lily could break away from her "mother" and truly return to human society.

but now……

He was going to try to help Edith.

He is not the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary and will not help others endlessly and selflessly.

If Edith wants to change her fate, Chen Qingyuan will do his best to help.

If Edith succumbs to her fate, she can only respect her fate.

Chen Qingyuan leaned against the rotten door frame, playing with the revolver he had found in the black man's cabin. He fired the bullets one by one and then loaded them back again, enjoying it...

Edith seemed to understand what Chen Qingyuan said at this moment. She stretched out her arms stiffly and squeezed out the words from her throat: "Child...child...love...love..."

She still remembers the child...

Chen Qingyuan strode into the room, grabbed Edith's wrist, pulled her up from the bed, and said in a deep voice: "Since you have made your choice, from now on, you can only listen to me!"

Edith stumbled out of bed.

She turned around and stared blankly at the two skeletons: "Dad...Mom..."

Chen Qingyuan blocked the window with a board and said, "They are going to have a long sleep, so don't disturb them in the future..."

He turned and walked out of the room.

Edith kept scratching the backs of her hands with her hands, going in and out of the door, and finally staggering down the stairs and out to catch up with Chen Qingyuan.

On the cold and dark streets.

For the first time, Edith's limited brain capacity produced a strange feeling: this man... didn't hate her.

She chased after him, grabbed Chen Qingyuan's hands and put them against her chest.

Chen Qingyuan threw his hands and said, "I don't want the child anymore!"

It seems that those beasts made Edith, who was already mentally ill, even more distorted, both mentally and in her worldview.

Hearing Chen Qingyuan's words, Edith trembled all over, and pain flashed in her cloudy eyes: "I... am I sorry... I'm sorry... They all like... Edith. They say that children... are gifts... Edith... is also a mother... I love him... just like my mother loves me..."

Her head began to hurt, her face was distorted, and fragmentary memories emerged. A group of people broke into the house with guns and robbed it. They shot and killed her parents and stole many things.

"Hey...hey...I want to sleep too."

"Sleep your ass off, go find the child!" Chen Qingyuan noticed that Edith was showing signs of going crazy, and interrupted her spell with a cold voice: "Slow down, think about something else, I'm going to abandon you here..."

Edith hurried to catch up: "I...I...want to go."

orphanage.

Chen Qingyuan came back and knocked in front of the door. Edith stood aside and didn't dare to get close because the nuns were very fierce.

After a while, someone opened the door. It was Julia.

She first saw Chen Qingyuan and then Edith, and suddenly panicked: "Why did you bring her back? It's very dangerous. Mental patients do things without any rules..."

Chen Qingyuan got straight to the point: "I want to help her get her child back."

Julia replied: "I have no say in such matters."

Of course Chen Qingyuan didn't expect her to make the decision, because the one who made the decision was the old nun, so he said, "Help me arrange a meeting with the old nun."

hall.

The old nun sat on the chair and glanced at Edith. "Chen, although I allowed you to enter the orphanage, this is not a reason for you to act recklessly! Edith is incapable of raising a child, so it would be best if we could raise her instead. There is a crib and some porridge here. What does she have?"

Chen Qingyuan sat there: "But Edith can't bear to leave her child."

Of course he knew that what the old nun said was true and reasonable, but Edith would turn into an evil spirit in the future. If he could not convince Edith to let go of her knot, the old nun, as the mastermind of "snatching the child", would probably not be able to escape Edith's death...

You have to know that after Edith turned into an evil spirit, she continued to look for her child for more than 100 years.

The old nun couldn't bear it...

Chen Qingyuan wanted to create an environment for the old nun to have a conversation with Edith.

The old woman was very experienced and realized Chen Qingyuan's intentions...

Her tone was not as cold as usual, and she said gently: "Edith, I know you love children, but such a young child needs blankets when the weather is cold, needs milk and soup when hungry, needs someone to treat him when he is sick, and needs someone to bandage him when he is injured..."

Edith heard the word "hungry" and took out a bloody half-mouse from her pocket: "Eat..."

The old nun's mouth twitched, and she suppressed her fear of mice and said, "The child cannot eat mice. He cannot digest these things at all. If he eats them, he will die, not move, and not cry. Is this what you want?"

Every time Edith was bullied by the people in the wooden house, she would be given a mouse or dry bread. She had no idea that such a thing existed, and subconsciously waved her hands: "No... no... the child... is alive..."

It was her first time entering the orphanage. She was standing in the auditorium, feeling the candlelight around her and looking around in amazement. The smell here was good, it was neither cold nor hot, and there was some delicious food on the table that she didn't know what it was.

She stretched out her hand: "Child, child..."

The old nun gave Julia a look and quickly brought the child, a baby of only a few months old, wrapped in a purple swaddling cloth. She held the child in her arms, comforted him, and handed him to Edith, saying, "You make your own choice."

Edith picked up the child in a panic, with the wrong posture, as if she was holding a piece of wood.

The sleeping child might feel uncomfortable, so he kicked his feet and started to move around, and then burst into tears, which frightened Edith deeply! She was a little flustered, not knowing how to deal with such a problem. She freed one hand to take the mouse on the table, instinctively thinking that eating the mouse would make the child happy.

The old nun said, "Edith, children can't eat mice..."

Julia brought over a small bowl with milk in it. She scooped some with a spoon and fed it to the child. The child pursed his lips and began to swallow instinctively, and really stopped crying.

Edith stared at the child, then at Julia...

She cries when she is in pain and when she is hungry. Is it so uncomfortable for the child in her arms?

Tears flowed from his eyes and dripped onto the child's cheeks.

Edith didn't know why her eyes were dripping, she only knew that she was very uncomfortable. Although she didn't want to, she still carefully placed the child in the old nun's hands: "I...child...want to drink...drink that, I...I didn't..." She was quieter than ever at this moment.

Chen Qingyuan knew that he had achieved his goal.

It is true that Edith loves the child deeply, but whether she can keep the child alive is another question. If the child dies, it will be the beginning of a new disaster.

Chen Qingyuan said: "Can you take her in?"

The old nun shook her head: "No, this is an orphanage. The order from the church is that we can only accept orphans, not others."

Chen Qingyuan asked, "Can't we make an exception for her?"

The old nun looked him in the eyes and said, "You are Asian, from the empire that calls itself the Qing Dynasty. Although you don't have a braid on the back of your head, I still have to say that your doctrines are different from ours. So, I am willing to cooperate with you tonight to make Edith understand everything. This is my best effort."

Chen Qingyuan was silent for a moment, then said, "Can you wash her and change her into clean clothes?"

The old nun did not hesitate this time and nodded, "You wait here."

Edith was taken away by the old nun.

A full hour later, she reappeared in the auditorium. Her long, tangled hair had been washed clean and was much smoother, but still a little dry.

She was wearing a simple grey robe and stood there somewhat stiffly.

The old nun bathed Edith herself, and naturally discovered the terrifying scars from Edith's head to toe. She didn't even dare to touch those places hard, and her hands are still shaking until now.

She asked, "You knew what happened to her?"

Chen Qingyuan said, "I don't know. I just met Edith for the first time today. I kept my promise to the old man and wanted to see what was going on. But she went to the wooden house by the Dutat Lake and let those people bully and beat her. They even threw a mouse to her as a 'reward' every time."

The old nun trembled and said, "Could it be...the child..."

Chen Qingyuan nodded and said, "They planted the seeds. They said it was a gift to Edith."

Julia, who was standing next to him, turned pale when she heard this.

The old nun's hand had been stroking the cross hanging around her neck. At this moment, she almost broke it. She gritted her teeth and said, "Damn it, these beasts really deserve to go to hell! I will report it to the church and ask the priest to bring people to... to... to reform these beasts!"

Chen Qingyuan said calmly: "No need to go through so much trouble. I know you have a lot of procedures, so I will just send them to see God directly."

The old nun was silent.

The next day, the sun was shining brightly. After washing, Edith put on new clothes and stood at the door of the orphanage. Bathed in the sun, the hideous look on her face dissipated a little.

The old nun looked at Chen Qingyuan and said, "Chen, I know you are very special, but as far as I know, the whole country does not welcome foreigners from your side, especially those from the Qing Dynasty. You have to be careful... be careful of people from our country."

Chen Qingyuan asked: "What era is it now?"

The old nun said, "1888."

Chen Qingyuan knew what the old nun was talking about.

In the 19th century, the United States planned to build and develop along the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and at the same time rapidly develop the economy of the east and west. Therefore, it planned to build a railway running through the east and west, named the Pacific Railway...

During the Qing Dynasty, some Americans spread the word that there was gold everywhere in the United States. There was even a place called Gold Mountain. This attracted many blind people to sign indentures and board the ship. Some people even smuggled into the United States, resulting in nearly 100,000 people working in the United States in a short period of time.

The local Americans looked down on these Qing dynasty people with pigtails tied at the back of their heads, thinking that they were of inferior race and not even eligible for the benefits of working, so they began to exploit them crazily. Later, some people even felt that the Qing dynasty people would seriously impact their religious culture and interests, and began to organize and premeditate exclusion activities, first bullying, then suppressing, and even killing...

……

Chen Qingyuan took Edith away.

He must bring Edith with him, because it was Edith's ghost who brought him to this time and space. Perhaps the key to returning lies in Edith...

After leaving the orphanage, he was on the road for several days. He didn't know where to go, but just tried to find a place to settle Edith.

Edith did become obedient, but her values ​​and perceptions were different from those of ordinary people. A dog on the roadside bared its teeth at Chen Qingyuan, and Edith jumped on it and started to bite it. In the end, when Chen Qingyuan was applying medicine to her wound, he actually grinned with a sinister smile.

They ended up in a place that resembled the Western Desert.

Chen Qingyuan no longer cared which state this was and built a simple thatched hut to live in.

Who would have thought that within three days, a street urchin came to the thatched cottage to scout out the place, and when he saw Edith feeding the chickens, he became malicious, so Chen Qingyuan came back and gave him a good beating...

Edith followed Chen Qingyuan, and although her meals were not much better, they became regular, and her cheeks and arms gained a little weight.

Her image also softened a bit.

After Chen Qingyuan beat the thug away, he packed his bags and prepared to flee that night, but the thug came even faster. He brought a group of people to surround the thatched cottage and shouted, "There is a Qing Dynasty man here. Brothers, it is these low-class parasites who work here, stealing our jobs and making our money. Beat him to death and drag his body to the railway and tie it up!"

So said.

Chen Qingyuan could only strike first and take out his gun to fire a bullet at each person.

There were several people with pistols in this place. He was not an invincible sharpshooter after all. He was shot in the back and wanted to run away with Edith. But Edith saw him bleeding and rushed to bite the shooter like crazy! As a result, the shooter shot him twice in the abdomen!
Chen Qingyuan had no choice but to use up all his bullets, kill several people, drive away the pursuers, steal a horse and run away.

He had seen people riding horses on TV, but he himself did not know how to ride a horse, and he had to bring someone with him. After riding along the bumpy road for who knows how long, the horse felt uncomfortable and started to go crazy. The two people fell off the horse's back and fell heavily on the side of the mountain road. The horse ran away alone...

Fortunately, it was night and they were not discovered.

The pursuers even rushed past the side of the mountain road to chase the horse without a man on it.

Chen Qingyuan carried Edith into a forest and found a tree to lean against.

Edith's face was pale and she looked more like a ghost. The blood from the bullet hole in her abdomen soaked half of her clothes. She wiped it with her weak hands: "Water... I will wash it with lake water... It won't dirty the bed..."

Chen Qingyuan wasn't feeling well either. His back was covered in blood and his forehead was covered in cold sweat. He couldn't reach the wound with his hands.

He really had no strength left, so he could only sit on the ground, looked at Edith, smiled faintly and said: "It seems that it was a wrong decision for me to bring you out..."

The road was bumpy, the bullet rubbed against his body, and he bled no less than Edith.

He slowly lay down on the ground and felt very sleepy.

Edith crawled over, gently stroked his face with her fingers, lifted his head up and leaned it against her arms, and said in a trembling voice: "No... don't sleep... Edith... knows how to love... I will love you... don't sleep..."

Chen Qingyuan was really sleepy. Hearing her words, he smiled weakly and said, "I just hope you can take me back to the world a hundred years later. You are obviously an evil spirit, but you still talk about love. How stupid..."

Edith felt that Chen Qingyuan was not as energetic as before. She thought of her parents lying motionless in bed, looking ugly, and became more and more panicked. She grabbed her abdomen with her hands, squeezed the blood into her palms and fed it to Chen Qingyuan: "Don't...you...you fell asleep...who will...who will love Edith...who will love Edith..."

(End of this chapter)