soul stone

The screen kept shaking.The lady in the camera is sitting on the guardrail, looking sideways at the dark clouds in the sky.Lifting up her disheveled hair, she looked back and smiled, and landed lightly on the ground. Her slim body wrapped in a plain kimono grew bigger and bigger, and finally filled the screen.

"There is something beeping in the wind, the first autumn wind is coming."

"Are you sure? I didn't hear anything." The gray-haired middle-aged man put down the camera and looked in the direction his wife said.

Xue Ye snatched the machine from his hand and pointed the camera at her husband: "Come closer and listen carefully."

"Ha, you goblin, you must be coaxing me again. Okay, that's what I heard." He raised his hands, made a gesture of surrender, turned his back and walked to the railing.

"I didn't coax you." The camera followed the target, "Lean your upper body forward, put your hands around your ears, and listen carefully."

The little old man complied one by one.

"Cough, please forgive me. I am old and hard of hearing."

Laroye's rare self-mockery did not move his wife. "For the next five minutes, you're lost in memory, thinking about your dead love, and falling to your death in despair."

"what?"

La Roye just turned his head, but suddenly his eyes were empty.A kind of force majeure brought his thinking back to the distant past.

"I owe her...too much." He frowned, pulling his hair fiercely, tears of regret overflowing from his eyes.

The angle of view is from the back to the side.The person behind the camera said coldly: "That's right. What you owe me can only be repaid with your life."

"What?" The man raised his head in surprise and backed away again and again, "No, you're not..."

"What isn't it?" Xue Ye showed a coquettish smile, "Isn't your true love just me? You promised me that you would not disobey my wishes, no matter whether you go up the mountain of swords or down into the sea of ​​fire..."

At this time, Laroye had put his hands on the railing, raised his left leg, and was about to step over.The body is not controlled by consciousness, and even the expression of fear cannot be made.With all his attention, he finally uttered three words_

"why?"

Covering the camera, the woman raised her eyelids, her black eyes were bottomless, as if overlooking the night view from a 360-degree viewing restaurant on the top floor of a skyscraper.

"Remember the Oyagi family?"

As if struck by lightning, La Roye was dumbfounded.

"You are……"

"Eighteen years ago, you sent people to kill the father and the mother, took away the two children, and sent them to the Holy Thirteen Monastery." Xue Ye lowered her head, "Tell me, dear, why?"

Inexplicably, he couldn't help obeying her.

"I... hope that the legend of the Oyagi family can save her. She died too early..."

"Oh? Dad and Mom rejected you, are you angry?"

"I didn't!" Laroyer suddenly roared, with an aura that could save the old man's face, "I didn't send anyone to harm them. Someone must have used my name..."

Xue Ye frowned.Raising her hand to look at the time, she turned around and left——

It's 5 minutes.

... A few seconds later, there was the muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground behind him.

Back indoors, Oyagi Yukiya leaned against the door, paying attention to the commotion around him while contemplating.

There is only one kind of mind ability that she relies on for survival, but it has two completely different applications.

The first application is to capture the brain waves of the other party through eye contact, encode one's thoughts into the same frequency, and resonate with the other party to achieve the effect of will manipulation.Unlike usual manipulative abilities, this manipulation is psychologically suggestive.That is to say, the other party will not be aware of any abnormalities, and will think that they did it voluntarily.Except for the implied orders, they can think and decide for themselves, and their normal life will not be affected.The effect of the ability is related to the amount of life energy "Qi". The more "Qi" one has, the less "Qi" the opponent has, and the better the manipulation effect.

This ability, she calls it "white night" - thinking that walking in the daytime, is actually in the night.

The second application was cultivated under Jin's guidance.When she discovered that "Qi" also has the same waveform as electromagnetic waves, she came up with the idea of ​​"absorbing other people's Qi".Through contact, changing the frequency and coherence of qi, the external qi can be fixed in the "soul stone" under the guidance of one's own qi.Moreover, the more qi in the soul stone, the stronger the ability to absorb qi, and directly expand the audience of "White Night".The stock of "Qi" for a thousand ordinary people is enough to make an ordinary mind-ability user fall deeply under the control of "White Night".

This ability, she calls it a "black hole" - endlessly devours everything, not even light.

Ten old men are also ordinary people.With the current "black hole" reserve, it is impossible for Laroye to lie in front of "White Night".However, even if what he said was true, it was too late to repent.

Peeking out from the shade of the curtains, it was eerily quiet outside.There should be a lot of people on the first floor, and the owner fell down, so it is impossible for there to be no movement.

Xue Ye ran down the stairs, and the servants greeted her politely, as if they didn't pay attention to what happened just now.

Arriving directly below the La Roye's fallen building, colorful flowers are blooming at the base of the red brick wall, and the bushes grow wildly as if they don't know about the severe winter.The concrete floor in front of the flower garden was empty, without even a shadow of people.

... he disappeared? !

"What are you looking for, dear?"

La Roye was wearing a suit, holding a goblet, turning the corner and walking towards her.This is impossible, he was still wearing a nightgown just now...

Behind him, the housekeeper Mu's eye sockets became more and more sunken, as if he was suppressing the pain?

When her husband saw her, he just exchanged a few casual greetings, and then went straight to the study, as if nothing had happened.

Xue Ye turned around and retreated to the back room.Bodyguard Kuroro was sitting by the window reading.

"What's wrong? His face is pale." He asked lightly, turning a page.

"..." Xue Ye bit her lower lip and said nothing.The accidental failure of the ability to read, no matter what, we must not let outsiders know, let alone this most troublesome man.

At this time, someone knocked on the door.

"Excuse me, but there is something urgent, please open the door." It was the butler's old bark-like voice.

Xue Ye put her back against the door. "I'm going to rest, please go back."

"Okay, then I will simply say two things: first, you cannot kill Mr. Laroyer; second, your father is still alive, he is my good friend... He wants to see his daughter, Miss Xue Ye. "

Three months later.

Sipol, a small city in the Northland, is famous for its annual ice sculpture exhibition and is the private land of La Roye.At the strong request of his wife, Midon, La Roye brought a few cronies to Hippor for the winter. "If you are afraid of the cold, you will lose, but you are the man standing at the top of the world", Meifuyu said.Otherwise, who would get nervous and go to the cold north to spend the winter?

The snow had just fallen, and the open space in front of the villa seemed to be covered with a layer of silver carpet.Snow boots creaked on the fresh snow.Xin Haimeidong knelt on the snow, grabbed the big fluffy snow flakes, and kneaded them into balls in the palm of her hand.Her fair fingers were flushed with cold, but she didn't seem to feel the cold.

The snowball is getting bigger and bigger.Small snowballs are piled on top of the big snowball to form the torso, and smaller snowballs are piled on the torso to form the head.A total of four snowmen were piled up, two big and two small.Afterwards, as if she had been frozen, she knelt on the spot motionless, her eyes staring blankly at the snowman's faceless face.

"Want to freeze to death?"

At some point, her husband came behind and pulled her up. "How come these snowmen don't have eyes, noses, or mouths."

"I don't know... what to use as facial features." Meidong smiled shamelessly, "Also, I don't know what it will look like, our child..."

At the word "baby," La Royer laughed out loud and patted his wife on the shoulder.

"You don't have to think about it, they must be as beautiful as you."

Meidong snuggled up to La Roye and walked into the villa.Behind the snowman, the overwhelmed pine trees trembled, and the snow fell to the ground.A black-haired young man walked out from behind the tree, walked up to the faceless snowman, and stopped for a long time.

That night, after her husband fell asleep, Xue Ye quietly slipped out of bed and sneaked into the dressing room without a sound.Putting on a pure white wool cloak, when she walked out of the room, she found that her bodyguard was already waiting at the end of the stairs.

Xue Ye floated down the stairs like a ghost, and floated past him.

"Don't follow me, I don't need your protection."

"Those snowmen... are your family?"

Xue Ye stopped suddenly, her spine straightened, as if frozen.

"Hey, Villar Lynch." She turned around suddenly, staring straight at the other pair of black pupils in the darkness, "Do you remember what your parents looked like?"

Chrollo was taken aback.

"Today I discovered that their appearance has long been blurred..."

After finishing speaking, she quickly pushed the door open and walked out.Kuroro followed closely.

He remembered that Yukio Yagi was only six or seven years old when he first arrived at the Holy Thirteen Monastery.At that time, both parents died.The only younger brother, Xia Tian, ​​also died of illness not long after he arrived at the monastery.It's been 20 years so far, and it's not surprising that I don't remember what I look like.but……

"Do you remember what your parents looked like?"

Villar Lynch remembers early.He clearly remembered how his mother collapsed step by step after being abandoned by his father, and finally died in front of him.He clearly remembered the way his father looked at him like garbage when he was thrown into the monastery.He clearly remembered that when he went home after graduation, he accidentally saw the father who was pressing on the little girl Xue Ye.He clearly remembered, when the beautiful dagger given by his uncle Raphael pierced his father's heart, the warm touch of the splashed blood, and how painful, angry, and fearful the animal's expression was— —

Only no regrets.

Even if he was killed by his own son, he has no remorse.

In this world, soulless people are more common than imagined.

With only instinct left, can a person still be called a "human"?

Pulling back his thoughts, he followed into the car prepared by the butler.

The three of them drove to the scenic spot in Sybil City - the Ice Labyrinth.In the middle of the night, the colorful lights have been turned off, leaving only pale floor lamps hidden at the bottom of the snow-covered bushes, reflecting the winding ice wall even colder.

"Where is my father?" Xue Ye slowed down, "You don't mean to say that he lives in this ice labyrinth?"

"Come here, it should be fine."

The butler's old voice suddenly became younger.He turned his head slowly, and the protruding forehead, deep-set eye sockets and intertwined wrinkles disappeared, and the strands of hair turned from white to black into the face of a young man.

——The ability to read? !

For a moment, Xue Ye and Kuroro looked at each other in unison.

Looking back, Xue Ye scrutinized this strange man's face carefully, but felt a subtle sense of disobedience.She approached suspiciously.

"Where have I... seen you?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, then smiled wryly and shrugged.

"I am your father, Xiaoxue."