Chapter 143: Fake Life

Can you tell me what happened in the past few years?

Although she extremely didn't want to answer this question, after turning back to glance at her brother and sister's room, Anna couldn't help biting her lip, then nodded with some difficulty.

"Okay... where do I start?"

“Let’s just start by getting the stuff.”

The man in black robe said calmly:
"Six years ago, your parents passed away. I went to your house to deliver the photos I had developed and discovered that you had some 'potential'. I then helped you a little. What happened after that?"

What happened after that...

Anna bit her lip again when she heard this, her face pale as she said:

"After that... I did regain my family as you said, but... but not the kind I wanted..."

"Oh?"

The black-robed man raised his eyebrows with interest, and then asked:

"Can you explain it in more detail?"

"It's just... I told that photo what I thought, and when I wanted my family to come back, the people who showed up at home were not my parents, but a boy who was about my age."

After recalling the original situation, Anna said with complicated eyes:

"When he saw me, he said he was my brother. I thought I had met a lunatic and was so scared that I tried to chase him away. Then he continued talking to the photo you gave me.

What I said was that I wanted my parents to come back so that I could have a family again, but what appeared was still not them, but a pair of swaddling clothes wrapped with two babies..."

"I see... It seems that you didn't completely believe what I said at that time."

The man in black robe shook his head upon hearing this and said with some regret:
"You were a slightly precocious child with a calm and rational mind. At that time, you had already deeply understood the meaning of death and knew that your parents would never come back.

Even though I told you that the family photo was an unparalleled miracle that could allow you to have your family again, and showed you some of its power, you still didn't completely believe me, and you still felt in your heart that it was impossible for it to bring your parents back.

Because of your suspicion and distrust, the seed I left in that photo did not hatch towards calling back your parents, but went in an unknown new direction. The final abnormal... um... the effect produced was biased, what a pity."

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After hearing what the man in black robe said, Anna felt dizzy, and a chill in her heart suddenly rushed into her heart.

"So...if I had believed in them enough, could I really have brought them back?"

"Sorry, that's also impossible."

The man in black robe shook his head again and said:

“The transition between life and death is not completely irreversible, but the conditions required are unimaginably harsh. It is not difficult to make a person ‘immortal’, but it is incredibly difficult to bring a dead person back to life.

Although your 'talent' is excellent, it is not enough to break through the barrier between life and death. But if you trust me enough, you may be able to recall the afterimages left by your parents, or create two puppets or something like that."

"Then... isn't that still fake?" "It's fake, yes, but you were less than ten years old at the time. Even if they were just two empty shell puppets with the appearance of your parents, it should be considered as the realization of your wish, so I didn't lie to you."

After answering Anna's questions calmly, he discovered that something seemed to have gone wrong with the "experimental subject". The black-robed man, who had been considered polite, suddenly became visibly cold.

After looking into the inner room and looking at the two children through the wall, the man in black robe frowned slightly and said with some dissatisfaction:

“It seems that not only your brother, but also the remaining two have no blood relationship with you. Moreover, they are not false creations, but all of them are real and complete human beings.

So you got the seeds numbered within ten, and what you finally bred was just to find a few children who looked like your parents, and then forcibly erase their past, take away their original lives, and make them play house with you?"

"I…I didn't want to! I didn't think of doing this!"

After hearing the "accusation" of the man in black robe, the deepest guilt in Anna's heart was torn apart. Her face turned pale and the blood color on her face disappeared in an instant.

"After I found out that something was wrong with that thing, I tore it up and took my brother and Melanie to find the police. I wanted to help them return to their original home, but... but everyone's memory seemed to have been changed!"

Dizzily holding onto the door frame to support her body that could fall at any time, Anna bit her pale lips and tried to explain:

“After the police contacted our neighbors, they said that we were indeed a family of four children. The city government looked up the files and also said that they were indeed my siblings. We even had baby supplies at home, and even in old photos, there were three more children!
I... I didn't want to steal other people's families. I really tried to explain it! But no one believed me. They all thought I was crazy because my parents died in the war and I was too sad. I couldn't find their original families, so... so..."

Municipal archives, neighbors’ memories, traces of life…have all of them been changed?

Upon hearing this, the black-robed man's frown relaxed a little.

Although the effect was obviously distorted and was completely different from the anomaly he had originally imagined, this kind of thing that directly intervened in existence and could forcibly modify the other person's life should have an extremely high status, so it was not a waste of the strength of the No. 7 seed.

However, although the test subjects this time have met the requirements, their abilities are still not what they want, and the time for "that" is not far away, with only one year left at most.

If he still can't create the corresponding anomaly within a year, even if he successfully deals with the Blood-Haired Princess of the Virgin Bureau and destroys the things she sealed on the top floor of the Virgin Bureau, it will all be in vain in the end!
"never mind……"

Thinking of this, the somewhat bored man in black robe shook his head, then put his hat back on and said to Anna politely and coldly:

"I don't have any other questions to ask. Sorry to bother you today...

Oh, and since you've lost the thing I gave you, you should have no objection if I take it back after I find it, right?"

"I……"

After hearing the words of the man in black robe, even though she knew that the other party had a power that she could not resist, the sickly girl still mustered up her courage and asked while holding onto the door frame:
"If you take the things away... then... there are Aaron and Melanie..."

"Of course, you will return to your original home, and your memories of these years will be erased. No one except you will know what happened."

"!!!"

Looking at Anna, who fell to the ground with a thud and whose eyes instantly lost their luster, as if she had turned into a fragile shell with only a human appearance, the black-robed man finally revealed a sincere smile on his cold and hard face with a crying look.

"Don't worry, after I get the things, I will help you correct the mistakes you made. Isn't this what you want?"

(End of this chapter)

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