Chapter 49
The vehicle continued to drive.
Just as Sima Weizhi had said.
The world inside the giant stone monument had not changed at all since the outbreak of the virus.
If it weren't for the towering stone monument, one might think that the apocalypse had never happened.
The vehicle continued to drive smoothly.
Before long, they arrived at the bustling city center.
As they passed by a shopping mall, Bai Ye noticed the presence of a cursed child.
Tian Tong Mu Geng and Sima Weizhi also took notice.
The latter, wanting to show off, deliberately spoke up before Mu Geng.
“That cursed child might be begging here for survival; after all, it’s hard for young girls like her to survive on their own.”
To get something to eat, one must beg.
As Bai Ye seemed to think of something, he had the vehicle stop and walked over.
Lan Yuan Yanzhu huddled in the corner of the car, but when she saw them all get out, she finally lifted her vacant gaze and looked out the window towards the direction they were leaving.
In front of the bustling shopping mall.
A girl with white hair, dressed in rags and covered in filth, her eyes bandaged, was singing softly.
Though her voice was tender, the melody was sweet and beautiful.
It was as if she were chanting a hymn.
If one closed their eyes, the image of a pure and noble saint would unconsciously appear in their mind.
However, the image of the singer was far from what one might imagine.
The girl’s delicate features were filthy, her clothes stained with grease, and her body was frail and thin.
At the same time, she held a broken bowl for begging in her hands, singing towards the passersby.
Next to her was a sign.
It read, “I am a cursed child from the outskirts, I need money to buy food for my sister, please spare me some.”
Passersby were drawn in by her singing, but upon seeing the words on the sign, they turned away in disgust.
Their gazes towards the girl were filled with disdain, as if they were looking at something filthy.
At that moment.
A well-dressed man in a suit, with neatly combed hair, walked by.
He casually tossed the pull tab of a soda can into her bowl.
Clink~~~
The metal made a crisp sound as it hit the bowl.
The little girl immediately stopped singing and bowed towards him.
But she did not see the smirk on his face.
When the girl reached out to feel the pull tab in the bowl, a hint of sadness crossed her face.
But she quickly resumed her singing.
Until a few rough-looking youths pushed their way in front of her.
“Hey! How dare you, you freak, show up here?!”
One of them snatched the girl’s begging bowl and slammed it to the ground.
“Freaks like you should just die quietly!”
“Where are the police? Why haven’t they come to chase away this freak?!”
“You’ve dirtied the mall floor.”
“Breathing the same air as you makes me sick; can’t you just die?”
The crowd began to hurl insults.
One of them even deliberately reached out to untie the bandage over the girl’s eyes.
However, the girl kept her eyes tightly shut, the area around them red and inflamed.
“Cursed child, what’s wrong with your eyes?”
“Um... it’s because my mother hates my eyes, and I heard that having a disability makes it easier to beg, so I poured lead into them to blind myself.”
The surrounded girl stood there helplessly.
In such a situation, being questioned, she could only tremble and recount her sad past.
But for the girl, even if she was blinded,
things didn’t get any better.
Her mother still abandoned them, begging didn’t earn her any sympathy, and recently, she had been beaten and chased away more often.
But she had no idea what was happening.
Upon hearing the girl’s account, the onlookers burst into laughter.
“You totally deserve it!”
“Your mother was right to throw you away; who would want to take care of a freak?!”
People mocked, watched coldly, or, like those youths, insulted or made fun of the cursed child; this was the norm in this world.
The fear of the original intestinal creatures had accumulated a lot of negative emotions, and these negative emotions were vented onto the cursed children, who had no human rights.
After all, the weak cursed children wouldn’t resist them.
And they wouldn’t be blamed by the public.
Just as those young men were trampling her sign and continuing to mock her.
Suddenly, the surrounding atmosphere dropped a few degrees.
The crowd involuntarily parted.
Tian Tong Mu Geng glared angrily at the group.
“You guys, bullying a girl, don’t you have any shame?!”
Being publicly insulted by a girl.
The young men were instantly furious.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“A freak is a freak!”
“Are you the mother of this freak?!”
“Damn you.”
Tian Tong Mu Geng gritted her teeth as she looked at them.
Her right hand instinctively rested on her waist.
The katana she had brought from home.
After Bai Ye had awakened her desire for revenge, she found it hard to suppress the urge to commit violence within her.
After all, these people would die sooner or later.
Why not just take them out here?
But Sima Weizhi stopped her.
Doing this in public would cause trouble.
Even though she also despised those who bullied the little girl.
However, just as Tian Tong Mu Geng was about to sheathe her sword, Bai Ye stepped past them towards the little girl.
He reached out to touch the girl’s cheek.
The latter trembled, thinking she was about to be hit again, but instead felt warmth against her face.
This warmth gradually relaxed her guard.
Though her eyes could not see, it did not prevent her from believing that the person in front of her was a good person.
Completely different from those who beat and scolded her.
Although Bai Ye had already imagined the cursed child’s plight, when faced with the situation, he couldn’t help but feel a stir in his heart.
“Were you singing a hymn just now?”
Bai Ye asked.
“Can you sing it again for me?”
“Um...”
The girl nodded slightly.
Then she crossed her hands in front of her chest, lifted her chin, and began to sing softly in a calm voice.
The volume grew louder and more soaring, the solemn and bright soprano seemed to overshadow the noise of the street, and an elegant aura spread around.
But although it was a blessing hymn, the voice sounded somewhat sorrowful for some reason.
Bai Ye sensed the power of the "Herald of Radiance" stirring slightly.
At the same time, an idea formed in his mind.
He gently touched the girl’s eyes.
The power belonging to the Herald slowly flowed into the girl’s body.
Then a miraculous scene occurred.
The girl slowly opened her eyelids, the blackened lead continuously falling from her eye sockets, finally revealing her once-blind red eyes.
Even the virus within her body was cleared away.
At the same time, a new power began to slowly grow within her.
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Image of Sima Weizhi