As a villain, I really can't become stronger anymore

Ron, Philomena, Patridge, and Hefferson were all startled.

This was the first time in such a long time that they heard a voice that they could truly be sure of the meaning of. Although the voice sounded eerie, it made everyone's heart tremble. You have to know that before this, most of the sounds they heard were meaningless roars, pain, and screams.

Although the voice was erratic and the owner of the voice seemed to be a little off, a complete sentence like this even sounded a little fresh for a moment.

Subconsciously, the four of them looked in the direction where the sound came from.

She was a lady who didn't look very old, maybe seventeen or eighteen at most. She had long hair that looked like it was woven from golden threads and had light waves. She wore a wide-brimmed lotus leaf hat on her head and a loose beige skirt. She had a smooth forehead and emerald green eyes that were filled with wisdom and a little melancholy. It was obvious that she was a very beautiful woman.

The most eye-catching thing about this lady is her bulging belly.

Even though it was a loose long skirt, it was still stretched tight, and the fetus in the belly was at least eight or nine months old.

So young, it seems that this lady must have been very young when she was pregnant. Who is this bastard who can do such a shameless thing? He should be caught and forced to step on a sewing machine.

Ron complained a little in his heart.

However, the moment he saw this lady, he already knew her identity in his heart.

She was a woman from the Andre family. On the neckline of her beige dress, there was an embroidered pattern of tulips, which was the family emblem of the Andre family.

Some powerful and influential families like to design a pattern that can represent their family's identity and status and use it as the family emblem. As the oldest family, the Andre family is the most conservative, so this kind of family emblem naturally exists.

As a woman of the Andre family, the only meaning of her birth is to carry on the family line.

That's right, every woman in the Andre family, unless encountering certain special circumstances, will be immediately given the responsibility of continuing the family line and arranged with a permanent partner once her body has the ability to become pregnant.

Therefore, it is not normal for such a young woman to have such a large fetus.

This woman seemed to be completely unaware of the presence of Ron and the other three. Her face looked a little melancholy and gentle.

The women of the Andre family have been constantly instilled with the belief of continuing the family line since they were old enough to understand. They do not give too much affection to their own children. For them, this is just a simple task and all they have to do is keep giving birth to children.

But the woman in front of him was obviously different from the other women in Andre's family. Although she didn't know whether the baby in her belly was a boy or a girl, nor did she know whether he was normal, this lady still gave her unborn child absolute tenderness and delicacy as a mother should have. Her pale fingers gently stroked her abdomen, and through her belly, she seemed to be able to feel the response of the little life.

She began to hum an incomprehensible song, like a lullaby, making people drowsy.

The expression on her face looked so happy, so happy that people couldn't bear to disturb her.

But this kind of happiness could not last too long. The woman's expression had gradually begun to become a little irritable, and even her originally gentle face was a little distorted. Her eyes were filled with panic and fear, and she kept looking around, as if something terrible was chasing her from behind.

Patridge, Ron, Hefferson and Philomena all frowned slightly. They could clearly feel that some kind of mysterious energy seemed to be released from the woman's body, and the surrounding space gradually became distorted.

They seemed to be being pulled into some kind of fantasy by this woman.

The four of them all felt it, but did not stop it from happening. Soon, as their minds became slightly dazed, the scene before their eyes changed drastically.

Originally, the place where they were was the Soul Burial Forest, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of bones. But now all of this has disappeared, and in its place, there is a small but extremely magnificent... city?

Yes, that's a city.

A small city built of stones.

There are wide roads in the city with attics standing on both sides.

You can clearly see figures walking back and forth on the road. Occasionally, when you meet an acquaintance, they will even stop and nod to say hello.

Right in the center of the city is a huge, magnificent palace. On the stone pillars in front of the main entrance of the palace, there are carvings of brightly blooming tulips.

Ancestral Palace!

On the palace door plaque, three ancient characters are extremely clear.

The consciousness of Ron and the other three floated in the air. They looked at each other and could see the shock in each other's eyes. Although everything they saw was just an illusion set up by the woman before, it also brought a strong enough impact.

This small town is the image of the interior of the Andre family's lair evolved by the mysterious woman, or in other words, this woman transformed everything she had seen, heard, and experienced into an illusion.

They all knew that the Andre family was a giant with extremely terrifying power, but no one could have imagined that after tens of thousands of years of development, a family could gradually evolve and grow to the size of a small city. This was truly too amazing.

It’s no wonder that the Andre family is full of talented people. With such a large base, many geniuses are always born.

However, the evil consequence of inbreeding is that the probability of deformed children is extremely exaggerated. The number of normal people in this small city is already astonishing, so... what about the number of deformed children?

Several people seemed to have thought of this at the same time. They originally thought that over the past tens of thousands of years, the number of babies abandoned by the Andre family was no less than 100,000, but now it seems that this number is still too conservative.

One hundred thousand?

Haha, joke.

With the Andre family's desperate way of reproduction, the number of deformed babies is probably in the millions.

On the Dusk Continent, it is unclear whether the population of some small countries is over one million.

More than a million descendants, more than a million babies, were abandoned so ruthlessly... Even though everyone knows that the Andre family is a group of cold-blooded and heartless lunatics, this number still makes people's scalps numb.

The woman was trying desperately to escape.

There were really people chasing her behind her, a lot of people.

Although the child has not been born yet, the woman already knows that her child is deformed. In Andre's family, there is no point for a deformed child to live, and they will be thrown into the Soul Burial Forest as soon as they are born to fend for themselves.

But the woman was unwilling to accept such an outcome.

Even though his body is severely disabled, this is still her child.

She is different from other women. She just wants to take good care of her children and watch them grow up safely, no matter what they look like.

She ran away, even though she knew the hope was slim, she still ran away desperately, just to get the slightest chance to survive.

In order to survive and to buy more time for her child, she gave up all her dignity and burst out with infinite potential. The once graceful and elegant girl had long since become unkempt, and her decent beige dress had long since turned black, dirty, and tattered.

She didn't dare go back to that so-called home.

She couldn't feel any warmth there. The place made her feel creepy and terrified like hell.

She could only rummage through the trash can for food scraps and barely stuff them into her stomach.

Many people at home were looking for him, and the Andre family patrol team was also searching for her. She hid in trash cans, sewers, and cemeteries, narrowly escaping the people who were chasing her time and time again.

She thought about escaping from this hellish city and going out into the world to see what the sun, moon, and stars described in the books looked like.

However, during the constant pursuit, she had no chance to escape from hell.

Finally, one day, she couldn't run anymore.

Her stomach ached badly, and she knew that her baby was about to come into this world.

She found a dark corner. She was in great pain, shaking all over, with a pale face and covered in cold sweat. But she didn't make a sound from beginning to end.

With a loud cry, her child finally came into this world.

She cut the umbilical cord with her own hands and picked up the baby covered in blood.

Just as she expected, the child was born deformed. He had six eyes, neatly arranged on both sides, like some kind of insect.

But even so, the woman still smiled gently. She wanted to hug her child tightly, but was worried that the newborn baby could not bear her strength. She was only concerned about the child in front of her and did not even notice that her body was still bleeding. She could only hold the child carefully in her arms. She did not care about the blood and kissed the child's forehead.

Be it Ron, Patridge, or even the hot-tempered and sinister Hefferson, none of them made a sound at this time. They were like the quietest audience, silently watching the illusion before them.

This was an illusion, but it was also what the woman had truly experienced.

No matter who you are, you can clearly see how happy and pure the smile on the woman's face is when she holds the baby. It is pure and without any impurities.

This is a good mother.

Even if this child is born with deformities, as long as this mother exists, he should live a very happy life, right?

But happiness is always short-lived.

The cry of the baby when it was born became the most obvious signal, and the patrol team of the Andre family appeared following the sound.

When the woman heard the footsteps, her face turned pale and desperate in an instant. She subconsciously wanted to get up from the ground and escape from here with her child in her arms.

However, the woman was too weak after having just given birth, and coupled with long-term malnutrition, her body had long since lost all strength. She was trembling even when she just stood up.

The long hair that was originally smooth and as smooth as golden threads was now covered with dirt and scattered in front of the forehead.

But through the gaps in her long hair, one could clearly see a pair of ferocious, wolf-like eyes. Relying on her strong will to protect her child, the woman propped herself up again and staggered away.

She is really strong-willed.

But unfortunately, most of the time, this world will not change according to someone's will.

She prayed to the gods, but the gods did not hear her.

How could a woman who had just given birth outrun the strong patrol team? She was soon discovered.

When they saw the child in the woman's arms, the team members immediately understood what had happened. They did not show the mother any mercy. They rushed over ferociously and snatched the child from the woman's arms. No matter how hard the woman struggled and begged, it was of no use.

"Deformed, discarded."