Ethereal World: Vicious Cannon Fodder's Immortality Road - Chapter 734

Chapter 734: Retribution Chapter 734: Retribution All night, Huang Bai Xing gazed at the sleeping figure with confusion.

What was he doing?

Why was he holding this woman whom he disliked?

Why had he revealed his secret of coming to find the artifacts to her?

That day, Shenlian Yingyue woke up to find herself wrapped in a warm blanket inside a tent.

She thought that her companions had done this for her, and she felt comforted.

She didn’t ask, and no one in the Ethereal Small World told her.

They found it strange that Huang Bai Xing had this gentle side toward her.

They couldn’t understand it, and they didn’t want to either.

As long as Huang Bai Xing stopped causing problems for Yue’er, no one paid attention to her.

After that night, Shenlian Yingyue never saw Huang Bai Xing again.

It took her several days to calm her emotions.

She didn’t want to ruin everyone’s mood for traveling, so she tried her best to move on from that painful scene.

Although her heart still hurt from their misfortunes, she pressed on and tried to forget that painful experience.

She buried that hurtful and regretful feeling deep in her heart so that she could move forward in her life.

——————–  (Present Time) “Do your eyes grow at your ass?” Suddenly, a high-pitched voice pierced her ears.

Shenlian Yingyue found herself wandering in a daze along the street.

Something collided with her, and she turned to see a beautiful girl who seemed to be around 17 years old.

“I’m sorry,” she apologized to the girl, stretching out her hand to help her up.

Hearing such a sincere apology, the girl’s expression softened, but she refused Shenlian Yingyue’s assistance.

Shenlian Yingyue didn’t mind the girl’s rude attitude.

Just as the girl was about to say something, another voice called out.

“Dear, are you done shopping?

Why don’t we head home quickly so we can celebrate your birthday?” A beautiful woman, seemingly around forty eight years old, came to take the girl’s hand.

Beside her stood a man, the woman’s husband, who looked at both his wife and daughter as he patiently awaited their responses.

Shenlian Yingyue stood motionless, observing how the two spoke to their daughter in such a pampered tone.

After a moment, she turned away and walked off silently.

“Hey, wait!” The girl wanted to call out, but Shenlian Yingyue didn’t stop to listen.

“Dear, who is that girl?” the woman asked, surprised.

“She bumped into me because she was dazed.

She apologized already,” the girl shrugged.

The two watched as the slender figure grew smaller in the distance.

For some reason, they couldn’t take their eyes off her retreating form.

“Daddy, Mommy, what are you looking at?” the girl asked.

“Nothing, let’s go, dear!” They shook their heads, trying to shake off the strange feeling that rushed into their chests.

—————— That night, after celebrating their daughter’s birthday, they had a dream.

In that dream, they were transported back twenty seven years into the past.

Under heavy rain, near the raging current of the river, and beneath a gloomy sky where a terrifying thunderstorm loomed, they rushed out of the hospital, carrying a newborn baby girl.

They placed her under a tree and left.

The scene shifted; the baby girl grew up, but her appearance remained hidden from them.

One day, she turned her back to them, yet her silhouette bore a striking resemblance to the person they had seen earlier that morning.

In the dream, she said to them faintly, without turning her face to see them, ‘What have I done to deserve to be abandoned by you?’ Both of them woke up and gasped.

Their faces were pale, their chests hurt.

“What’s going on here?” The daughter who had stayed up late reading a novel felt thirsty, so she came downstairs to get some milk and, when she accidentally saw the light in her parents’ room, she entered curiously.

Seeing their pale faces, she rushed in, worried.

“Dear…” The lady’s face was streaked with tears.

She looked at her adopted daughter and burst into tears.

The painful feeling in her chest hadn’t diminished; it felt even more intense as she gazed at her adopted daughter.

Twenty seven years ago, she and her husband had abandoned an innocent baby girl under that gloomy sky.

Since then, she discovered she couldn’t have children because her body had been damaged when she gave birth to that girl.

She blamed all her grievances on that newborn and poured all her hatred onto the strange baby who had not cried when she first opened her eyes to the world.

Later, she regretted her actions.

She had been too young and ignorant to understand that it wasn’t her baby’s fault.

It was her own weakness that had led her to choose to give birth to her.

Now, as she and her husband grew older, they both understood right from wrong, but it was too late for regrets- they didn’t even know if their baby girl was alive or dead.

They were sinners, murderers.

They lived in guilt for twenty seven years, and all they could do was give their best to their adopted daughter.

But the pain and guilt from the past couldn’t be suppressed, no matter how hard they tried to forget.

Some mistakes are like echoes; no matter how hard you try, they will always return to remind you of the past.

Regret is a heavy burden to carry; it teaches us the lessons we need to learn.

“Is this a retribution?” the couple muttered, clutching their suffocating hearts.

Suddenly, rain poured heavily outside the window.

The roar of thunder lit up the dark sky with beautiful flashes of lightning, yet it sent shivers down their spines.

Their blood froze, it was too cold tonight….

——————— Meanwhile, the slender figure sat on the soft bed inside a cave, watching the beautiful rain and lightning outside.

She took out a fresh watermelon jade apple to eat and played with the purple fire on her finger.

Meeting those three people was just a small episode in her life, and she didn’t think much of it.

To her, she never remembered strangers.  Tonight was supposed to be the full moon night when everyone left the Earth.

However, due to the heavy weather, she felt uneasy and suggested to Ji Fulin that they delay the time.

It could have led to a serious accident because her instincts told her so.