Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

The fragment continued to emit a soft light, and its curled edges gradually unfolded, revealing its true form.

Shen Xingzhuo extended his left hand slightly forward, handing over the incomplete scroll.

He then formed a hand seal with his right hand and imprinted the talisman onto the fragment.

A burst of golden light.

The wisps of light stretched out infinitely, their endpoints firmly anchored in the hearts of the children, then continued to extend outwards, finally converging at a single point.

That point, as bright as the sun, hung in mid-air, gathering all the light within it.

Within the sea of ​​light, some characters were faintly visible.

Each stroke is like someone writing down their thoughts.

What is this thing?!

The voice of the ghost story suddenly tightened, as if someone had grabbed its throat.

It felt a genuine sense of fear, but it still managed to hold on and deliver its voice steadily to Shen Xingzhuo's ears.

"What? Isn't this the reward I got for completing a mission before?"

"You wouldn't recognize me just because I look different, would you?"

Shen Xingzhu tilted her head and asked, puzzled.

【…】

【How could I not recognize them! What are those characters I asked about?】

Shen Xingzhu sensed something strange and curled her lips.

She saw no need to argue with the ghost story, so she calmly revealed the "answer" to it.

"That's Nüshu (women's script)."

"It is a woman's writing; the words she writes are her karma."

"Didn't you want me to explain the origins of these girls? It's written very clearly here. If you can't understand it, I'll read it to you."

【Chosen One Shen Xingzhuo, these are questions you should be answering. Please stop dodging the issue! Otherwise, I have the right to determine that you do not know the truth!】

"well……"

Shen Xingzhuo sighed, still unwilling to argue with it.

"The first girl from the left was the fourth child of Li Doufu, who sold tofu in the south of the city. She had three older sisters, so she was taken away by the ankle by Pei Shiquan's steward as soon as she was born."

"She had only cried out once when she died because her body had been hanging there for too long."

"Her own mother was so shocked by what she saw that she also passed away."

"She is also the oldest among this group of children."

Shen Xingzhuo's voice trembled slightly as she tried her best to control her emotions; her palms were almost raw from scratching.

"The child right next to her is from a widowed family on North Street. Her husband died in the mine, and she couldn't raise so many children on her own..."

"The news of her husband's death caused her to go into premature labor due to excessive worry. The child was born with congenital defects, and it will cost a lot of money for medicine if she wants to raise him to adulthood."

"Later, someone deliberately brought up the matter of the Pei family 'taking in a baby girl.' Gritting his teeth, thinking that his little daughter could enjoy a life of luxury in the Pei family and he could also get a large sum of money, he sent his premature baby there."

"After that, the mother and daughter were separated forever. The last thing she heard from her daughter was that her daughter was born with a weak constitution and did not survive that winter."

Shen Xingzhuo paused, then added, "Perhaps it's a coincidence, but Pei Shiquan discovered that the younger the fetus, the stronger its effect on him..."

"He then went even further, resulting in all the subsequent female babies being premature."

"The third doll, she is..."

Shen Xingzhuo's brows furrowed, and his voice suddenly became dry.

"She was pulled alive from the belly of a dead person by a pimp."

"Her mother was killed by her husband, who was keeping a mistress!"

"After that scoundrel's sordid deeds were discovered, he became obsessed and tried to sell his wife into a brothel! The poor woman refused to comply and died on the spot."

"The pimp, having already paid the money but unwilling to lose out, remembered the conversation he overheard outside the private room with the Pei family. He then hatched a wicked plan, followed them to the mass grave, dissected her, and received ten taels of silver from Pei Shiquan as a reward."

"The fourth one..."

Shen Xingzhuo continued reading mechanically, like a machine devoid of any emotion.

That's enough!

It wanted to torment Shen Xingzhuo, so seeing her "boring" appearance after trying her best to restrain herself made it feel very listless.

That's when I couldn't help but interrupt her.

Shen Xingzhuo's eyes flickered, and his fists clenched tighter and tighter.

Ultimately, they didn't listen to the ghost story's attempts to stop them, and only stopped after reciting the children's backstories one by one.

Are you satisfied now?

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