Chapter 77: Things you hide, things you find
(A/N: Who would have thought I co back in a week? Not …
Anyway, everything went well with my thesis but sothing else happened that almost made all my works for the past years co to naught, I won't go into the details as everyone have their own problems IRL but luckily it is getting resolved or you can say the losses are minimized.
So here I am, back and writing this snail-paced novel again. I will try my best to stick with the plan that I had and release it daily.
About discord, as I won't be able to control it now I won't share any links. Hopefully, I will be done with IRL issues in a week and then you can join there to talk and interact more. Aux chapters will be out at the sa ti.
I wanted you all to read this so I added it at the beginning of the chapter, smaller things are talked about at the end of the chapter…
Okay, go on and read the chapter.)
——(POV Li Huang)——
"Don't worry—" was all I could say before my vision got dark and the environnt changed.
I was afloat sowhere and sothing was guiding my movents toward a place. I think this is supposed to be moving toward the mory or mories that Anjing is hiding the most.
I know that she was an assassin, but I don't know what is it that she is consciously or subconsciously hiding.
As I was drifting, I was also thinking about what I am hiding the most. What could Hu Anjing get out of this test and how dangerous could it be for . I just hope that this is not going to dig so deep that sothing unexpected would co out of it.
After minutes of roving in a place that I could only guess to be a representation of Anjing's mories, I co to a stop in front of a mory fragnt.
How do I know that this is a mory fragnt? Because I can see glimpses of what is stored inside.
Instinctively, I reached out to the fragnt and as soon as I touched it, I was seeing the world as Anjing saw years ago.
…
What I saw was one of her mories of when she was 5 or 6 years old.
She had a bloody knife in her hand and a corpse lay in front of her who was the sa age as her.
I saw from her eyes and felt what she was feeling at the ti. She was horrified and didn't know what was happening. This must be the first ti that the organization used the controlling technique to make them kill soone.
She wanted to drop the knife and rush to the half-dead body of her friend but couldn't because she was under the control of her instructor.
As she was thinking about what and how of the events her instructor spoke.
"Wushisi (A/N: number 54) you have passed the first series of tests…" the organization's instructor said but I doubt that Anjing heard anything at all.
"… as for Liushiqi (A/N: number 67), dispose of the body." The instructor waved his hand dismissively and Anjing started moving to fulfill her given task.
With her eyes welled up with tears she picked up the body absentmindedly and followed a path that she was told about before.
After a minute or so she was in front of a pit and was using every ounce of her willpower to stop herself from dropping the body in the pit, as she should have according to the order she have received.
The instructor who was in her line of sight nodded to himself and wrote down sothing.
'they probably monitored them this way to set the right dosage of pills to completely control them…' I thought. The fact that she was struggling to stop herself would only co back to bite her in the near future as they can control her better.
'She is at most 6 years old, it is too much to expect cunningness from her…' I now get why they choose children to train. Children are like a blank slate and they can form them easily as opposed to soone who has a personality of their own beforehand.
The instructor gave the final push to collapse Anjing's willpower.
"Drop the body in the pit." He gave a new order to her.
She dropped the body without much resistance and only stood there, crying her heart out.
'Giving them sothing and taking it to show that they are the ones in control, this is the oldest trick in the book.' I couldn't help but feel bad for her.
Just as I was thinking about that, I was back outside of that mory and got into the next one without any delay.
The mories that continued after were so of the most grueso kills that she had in her ti in the organization.
'It seems that the test shows a series of mories to each of us.' I thought.
…
This ti it was a mory from years later when she was 19, and only joined the sect recently after Yuan Jia found her and the organization was destroyed.
She was training under Yuan Jia's supervision until a knock was heard and soone entered the training ground.
The person who entered was the 8-year-old Li Huang.
Seeing the unfamiliar face He cupped his fists toward Yuan Jia and spoke.
"Senior sister." He said and Yuan Jia gestured to him to co closer. anwhile, Hu Anjing was curious about this boy's identity as she had never seen her master this open.
'Seeing your mory from a different perspective is interesting and weird at the sa ti.' I know how I felt at that ti and now I also know how Anjing felt.
"Co here Huang, let introduce you to soone…" Yuan Jia said and I went and stood beside her.
"This is Hu Anjing, my disciple." she said as she pointed to Anjing.
"…And this is your junior martial uncle, Li Huang." She said to Anjing as she pointed at .
The eyes of the 8-year-old Huang shone upon this revelation as he would have one more person to interact with.
Being born with a golden spoon in my mouth in a world that is strength-based is not as good as it sounds. I had to be safeguarded from a very young age from assassins and ones who wanted to take advantage of , so there wasn't many people that i could talk to on a daily basis.
Hu Anjing cupped her fists to show her respect but Huang was too excited at the mont to give her the appropriate response and only gave her a nod before turning to Yuan Jia to ask her a question.
"Senior sister Jia, I don't know how to interact with one's martial niece, can you guide ?" Huang asked with seriousness and tried to act formally but He called Yuan Jia by her first na so that defeated the purpose.
'I was 8, I was 8, …' Seeing this mory now, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so I just reminded myself that I was 8 at the ti like a mantra.
"Yes, this is what a big sister should do." Yuan Jia nodded. She was normal as she had perfect control over her facial expressions but Hu Anjing was far from normal and was this close to pulling Huang's cheeks.
Luckily, Yuan Jia saw this and show her her place.
"Anjing, you can go and do 10,000 basic sword slashes until I'm done talking with Huang." She said and Anjing's mood changed but she couldn't refute.
"Yes, master." She said and started her 'training'.
'I don't know why this mory is here. Is this like the first mory? To create a context for the other mories that are coming after this?' after I was done with my mantra I asked myself.
…
It didn't take long before I knew why that mory was there.
'Honestly, I couldn't see that coming.' I thought but before I could put much thought into it, I was back to the place that we were before we entered the mories.
Looking around, I saw Anjing and before I could call her, she ran toward . If a soul could cry, their expression would look like her at this mont.
When she reached she punched my chest a couple of tis with her face down and looked at my face soon after.
"What did you see?" was what she said first.
I was thinking about the sa thing but if this is her first question she shouldn't have seen sothing important, right?
"…And why did you hide that you have your past life's mories?" She said and I know that the cat is out of the bag.
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