Chapter 875: Mother Mei and the City of Regret

"it is good……"

After looking at Leon with some worry, Anna bit her lower lip, and then said nothing more. Instead, she took Leon to the inner room and gently opened the door of the three children's room.

The apartment of Happiness Apartment is not small. When it was first built, it was designed for three generations to live together. Therefore, even with three small beds, the space still does not appear too narrow. In fact, the head of the nearest bed is more than three steps away from the door.

However, even so, the moment Anna pushed the door open, a chubby little head popped up from the small bed farthest from the door with a creaking sound.

Huh? Big brother is back?
After seeing the familiar figure behind Anna, William's dark eyes settled slightly. After a brief thought, a look of understanding appeared in his dark eyes.

As Leon looked somewhat speechless, William pointed at Melanie, who was sleeping on her back with her trouser legs rolled up to her knees, and then made a silent mouth shape to Leon.

'Ledger?'

"..."

You really know her well...but this time it's not about the account books.

After shaking his head at his sneaky brother, Leon raised his hand to make a silence gesture, then took off his shoes, stepped on the carpet, and walked to the bed of Melanie and little Ellie.

Due to the special relationship between Ryan's eldest brother and Ms. Emma, even though little Ellie is just temporarily "boarding" at Ryan's house, she still has her own small wooden bed, and even has a few colorful crayon drawings on the head of the bed.

However, this cute little bed with a childlike feel was empty at this moment. Little Ellie, who was supposed to sleep in her own bed, was curled up in Melanie's arms with the same light chestnut hair as Emma, looking anxious.

Although the room was not that hot, beads of sweat continued to seep out of little Ellie's forehead. Her usually quiet and cute little face was filled with panic and anxiety. Her two white little fists were unconsciously clenched slightly, like a frightened porcelain doll, and her whole little body was trembling slightly unconsciously.

Melanie, who had thrown away her pillow and was sleeping sideways, was snoring softly with her mouth open. She unconsciously hugged little Ellie's head and patted her back gently with her hands. She occasionally hummed vaguely, saying something comforting like "Don't be afraid"...

Gently pulling Melanie's arm away, he then reached out and touched little Ellie's hot forehead. After confirming that there was no sign of the nightmare, Leon couldn't help but sigh.

It was confirmed that the child was not having a nightmare, but really "saw" something from Senior Emma.

And as if she sensed the reassuring atmosphere, when Leon's palm touched her, little Ellie's trembling body finally stabilized, and her porcelain doll-like cheek rubbed upwards unconsciously and rested on Leon's palm.

"mom, Mom, Mom……"

"I'm here, I'm here."

It seemed as if some strange switch was turned on. After hearing little Ellie's faint crying mumbling in her sleep, Melanie's snoring next to her suddenly stopped.

Under Leon's somewhat stunned gaze, Melanie first sucked her saliva in a daze, then she closed her eyes and hugged little Ellie, pressed her chin against her forehead, and then hummed in a half-asleep, half-awake voice:
"Aili, be good...your mother is having an affair with my eldest brother, and I am his sister, so if we round it off, I am also from your mother's generation...Mother Mei is here, don't be afraid..."

"..."

No...what nonsense are you talking about?!
After listening to Melanie's outrageous sleep talking, Leon's hands couldn't help but tremble. He then looked at Melanie's mother who was comforting little Ellie with a dark face. He felt inexplicably itchy in his hands and wanted to hit something hard.

Being able to wake up immediately upon hearing the "keyword" and comfort little Ellie without even opening her eyes proved that Melanie had probably developed a habit these days. Once little Ellie had a nightmare, she would come to take care of her. This undoubtedly deserves great praise.

But people of your generation...anyone who shakes a couple of dollars at the entrance of a supermarket cannot say such things!

After taking two deep breaths and suppressing the urge to slap her hard on the butt, Leon pinched Mother Mei's mouth, which was full of outrageous remarks, to prevent her from saying anything outrageous next, and then woke her up with a slap on his face.

"Hmm? Hmm!... Big Hmm?"

Get out of here! You have something important to do now! As for the matter of the informant Fei and Mei's mother, I will settle the score with you after I am done with my work!

After glaring at Melanie, whose face was full of confusion, Leon gently "picked" little Ellie out of her arms, then switched out the "Nightmare" badge, and then pressed his forehead against the center of little Ellie's eyebrows, and with the help of the power of the Lord of Nightmares, he infiltrated his consciousness into her dream.

……

In the pure land of Wutian, black and white are reversed.

At the junction of the pitch-black sky and the pale earth, there is a road of no return filled with the hesitant dead moving forward, like a white spine arched out from the back of the entire dead world, starting from the Gate of the Dead and extending all the way to the deepest part of the dead world.

It seems like there is no end to the road of no return. After passing through the [Sage Cemetery] filled with tombstones and paths, you will arrive at a pale swamp filled with transparent ghosts and black fog.

And in the deepest part of the entire [Ghost Swamp], a huge city built with countless gray tombstones the size of human heads, with countless red-eyed crows perched on the top of the city, stands quietly in the dark fog that lingers all year round.

"clang--"

The sun of the dead world came to the center of the sky. The cold and dead "sunlight" fell, slightly dispersing the thick fog in the swamp. Then, a sharp and piercing bell sound like a crisp bell suddenly came from the center of [Regret City].

"It's time?"

As if activated by the bell, the ghosts wandering in the dark mist with confused eyes were all "woken up" by the piercing bell and turned their heads to look into the deepest part of the ghost swamp.
"It's time."

"It's time!"

“It’s time!!!”

After shouting almost in unison, the ghosts re-condensed into entities, and the tense emotions that belonged to humans reappeared on their faces. They then set out to cross the pale swamp filled with mud, and rushed desperately towards the huge gray city shrouded in black fog.

At the end of the staggering figures of countless ghosts, the heavy door of the huge gray city slowly opened, and a large number of dead people with dazed eyes and even blurred faces were spit out by the door.

Then, the crows perched on the top of the city flapped their wings and flew up, circling several times over the dead who fell into the pale mud, and then led some of the dead who climbed up in confusion and instinctively began to move forward, and flew deeper into the dead world with cackles. After the dead who were spit out by the City of Regret left, the new batch of crows circling over the heads of the dead would, like their predecessors, fold their wings and land on the top of the city after the corresponding dead stumbled into the city gate, and then close their blood-red crow eyes one after another.

After these crows that were responsible for leading the dead fell, they stopped moving like crow-shaped stone sculptures, until the unwilling dead had completely forgotten all their regrets and remorse under the wear and tear of the Forgotten Regret City and were spit out like garbage, and then they would lead them to the depths of the dead world again...

Theoretically, this should be the case, but...

"Gah! Gah? Gah!"

A series of surprised crows cawing sounded, and a new batch of death-annoying crows landed and were surprised to find that for some reason, other crows of the same kind had already "moved in" in the stone nests specially reserved for them on the top of the city wall of Yihui City.

On one side were the migrant crows who worked diligently but whose houses were occupied by them, and on the other side were the day-to-day crows who lived well at home but were suddenly visited by unwelcome guests. Almost immediately, a fierce fight broke out between the two sides, with them pouncing, pawing, scratching, pecking and tearing each other's feathers until they were all over the place.

Below the noisy crows’ fight, in the wide square in the center of the City of Regret, a giant ship that looked like an unfolded ginkgo leaf and was over 800 meters long crashed into the ground at an angle, crowding the originally wide square and even destroying many buildings on the edge.

Those crows that lost in the fight and could not have their own nests would howl and fly towards the city, hovering right above the giant ships, using their own crow language that no one could understand to loudly denounce the dead below who had disrupted the rules and caused them to have no nests to return to...

Is this... another day?
Hearing the noisy crows' cries overhead, the "dead" people on King Seol's ship were startled. They then looked up at the flock of death-announcing crows circling above, with expressions of genuine fear on their faces.

"I...I can't do it anymore!"

Listening to the footsteps approaching along with the crows above, the cleaners living in the pit on the main deck of the king's ship couldn't help but cry out in despair. A tall, bearded man suddenly knelt down, holding his head and crying:

"I really can't do it anymore! Let me die!"

When the crows began to cry overhead, certain emotions that enveloped the crowd seemed to be ignited by the bearded man's crying and pleading, and soon, one cry of collapse after another rang out.

"I don't want to go on anymore... I really can't hold on any longer!"

"Please! If you have the ability, please let me go!"

"Die! Let me die! I don't want to live anymore!"

Amidst the hysterical wails, the woman who was sleeping in the corner of the deck with her arms wrapped in blood-red bandages moved and opened her bloodshot eyes.

Looking at the cleaners who had collapsed mentally and started shouting and screaming under the torture of these days, Emma's cracked lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to persuade them to do something, but in the end she said nothing. Instead, she silently straightened the crown of thorns on her head and tightly grasped the hilt of the sword in her hand.

"Please! Please help me!"

However, although Emma did not speak, the noise she made when she woke up still attracted the attention of the cleaners.

After discovering that she had woken up, the bearded man who collapsed first trembled, then stood up and staggered over, kneeling on the deck in front of her with a plop, then knocked his head hard and begged at the top of his lungs:

"You can kill me! You have the power to kill me! Please do it! Please do it!"

"..."

Faced with the strange plea of the bearded man, Emma's lips trembled involuntarily. After a moment of silence, she shook her head slightly, and then persuaded with a voice that sounded a little hoarse, but still gentle:

"Pavlo, you better hold on a little longer, it's not time to really despair yet.

Although we all possess undead anomalies, it is still very easy for the masters of the dead world who control death itself to kill us, but they did not do so. Instead, they continue to torture our minds and bodies in various ways..."

"No, no! I don't want to listen! I just want to..."

"Pavlo! Listen to me!"

She raised her voice slightly, and after shouting at the bearded man who wanted to continue crying, she leaned weakly against the side of the deck with pale face, trying her best to persuade him as the footsteps approached from under the boat:
“I don’t think the Overlords of the Dead Realm would be so bored as to deliberately arrange these tortures for us. The only reason I can think of is that they are afraid of the attitude of the Bureau and don’t dare to really kill us... at least they can’t do it directly.

So the purpose of these specially arranged tortures is to make us mentally collapse and seek death after we can no longer bear it. If we really kill each other, then they don’t have to give an explanation to the bureau. "

At this point, Emma paused for a moment, then looked around at the cleaners with different expressions, and raised her voice slightly:

"I know it's been tough these days, constantly facing the biggest regret and remorse in my life. No one can bear it, but please don't say you don't want to live anymore.

The bureau will not leave us alone. No matter how severe the torture is, it will definitely come to an end. The more and more severe the torture from the masters of the dead world, the closer it is to regaining our freedom.

As long as we can hold on, don’t give up on ourselves, and wait until the bureau…”

"No one will come..."

A male cleaner with red eyes suddenly spoke, interrupting Emma's consolation.

He held his head with both hands, scratched the skin on his face with his nails, and screamed in pain:
"It's been more than half a month! If they were supposed to come, they would have come long ago! If they couldn't come, they could have sent a message! But there's still no movement! We've been abandoned! No one will..."

"Will do!"

Thinking of the figure who, despite having the same painful memories, still carried her on his back, embarked on the road of no return, crossed the black and white bridge, and carried her all the way out of the world of the dead, Emma couldn't help but take a deep breath, then gritted her teeth and interrupted the male cleaner's desperate roar.

"Don't give up, someone will definitely come!"

Listening to the footsteps that had already reached the bottom of the deck, Emma's face gradually lost its color, turning paler than paper. She breathed rapidly like a bellows, and opened her lips with difficulty, murmuring as if to persuade others or to remind herself:

"I know him! No matter what happens to others, he will definitely come... I can't let him not find me!"

(End of this chapter)

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