Chapter 294: Another Spirit Child
The mountainous forest around the Spell Departnt’s base rustled from the early autumn breeze. Fallen leaves twirled dilapidatedly to the ground. Half an hour ago, Gu Jun received the update from Elder Tong that the Spirit Child had been escorted from Eastern State Division by a Special Mobile Force unit. After the Spirit Child arrived, they were sequestered inside an interrogation room and were being heavily monitored. Currently mbers from the Special Mobile Force and Spell Departnt patrolled the corridor outside the interrogation room.
Gu Jun pushed open the room’s steel door, walked in and closed the door behind him. Before he arrived, he studied the information Phecda got on this Spirit Child. As predicted by Dirty-minded Yu, the child was a girl. She was 21 years old and her na was Deng Xii. The interrogation room was decorated more like a small studio, with holy furniture and decoration but windows were conspicuously missing. Once he entered the room, Gu Jun saw a young woman standing by the dining table. She turned to the sound of the door opening. The woman was dressed plainly. She had a slender fra, oval-shaped face and her long hair was casually tied into a ponytail. She appeared calm, even serene like she was clueless to her imprisonnt.
Gu Jun stared at her pair of dark eyes and sothing moved within him... Was it his suppressed mory loosening? Or it was the sensation of eting a kindred spirit, soone who had gone through the sa difficult childhood as he did? The realization that he was not alone in this ordeal... The shared empathy lightened the pressure on his shoulders. Perhaps this eting could solve many problems that had been troubling his mind.
“Miss Deng, nice to et you.” Gu Jun began.
“The pleasure is mine.” Deng Xii nodded slightly. “You are once a Spirit Child, yes?”
Gu Jun’s heart skipped but he showed nothing on the surface, ensuring that he revealed not even a shift in his micro expression, “Why would you say that?” Naturally no one briefed Deng Xii about her reason for being transferred here, in fact, she was not even told that she was at the Spell Departnt’s base. After the severe consequence caused by her previous revelation, she spent the last year in a state of confinent. She was not exposed to any news and had no idea what happened beyond the four walls which housed her.
“We are different.” Deng Xii suddenly uttered, “Very different.” She was a woman of few years and her sound was like a barely discernible night breeze. It was not strong enough to bend the trees but it was cold enough to slip into people’s hearts.
“How so?” Gu Jun asked evenly even though he already knew the answer. According to Phecda’s files, Deng Xii had access to ntal impressions... These impressions were not as intense as illusion and they were not as far-fetched as Dirty-minded Yu’s synaesthesia. In her apparent bleakness, Gu Jun saw his forr self... the self who drowned in a sense of holessness.
Last year, at the start of the Malford Banyan Disease, it was Deng Xii who approached Eastern State Phecda Division to seek protection. The version that she told Phecda was, her parents were forr workers at Lai Sheng Company and because of that, she was part of Lai Sheng Company’s Project Child Prodigy. However, as her parents noticed the project’s negative influence over her, they sprang Deng Xii out of the project and left the company when she was seven. The years after that, she followed her parents and made temporary hos all over the country. They stayed at the city outskirts, and Deng Xii was ho-schooled. Looking back, she realized those asures were to avoid detection by the Lai Sheng Company. Last year, when the world went south, her parents made the decision for Deng Xii to seek refuge with Phecda in exchange for information. Her parents left ‘because they still had sothing else to do’. But based on the clues provided by Deng Xii, the Action Departnt mbers eventually found her parents dead in the forest. They were hung from trees. The front part of Deng Xii’s story was similar to the vision Gu Jun had for his parents, they both left Lai Sheng Company for protection of their own children...
But perhaps because of that very reason, Gu Jun found her story hard to believe.
“Different is different.” Deng Xii did not elaborate as she turned her face away.
When asked, she admitted that she did not comprehend the foreign language and there was no ritual of divine evocation in her mory. With regards to the location of Lai Sheng Company’s lair, it was dug out of her mind through hypnosis. “Then do you know who I am?” Gu Jun pressed, “Do you know my na?”
Deng Xii turned to study Gu Jun, mories appeared to move in her eyes. “I don’t recognize you even though I believe I should...” Gu Jun studied her back, but the more he did, the more confused he beca. At tis like this, he appreciated Lou Xiaoning’s overt personality. This young woman before him was shrouded in a complicated self-enclosure, it was as if a wall had been built around her. It was the reason why Phecda ca up with nothing even though they studied her closely for half a year already. Based on the personality assessnt by the Review Departnt, Deng Xii was an introverted person with unyielding determination and high spirituality.
It reflected in her way of life. In spite of her imprisonnt, she did not turn towards hard work to prove herself like Wang Ruoxiang nor did she surrender to vices like Wu Siyu, instead she spent her days gardening, reading and writing. She was perfectly at ease. The woman was impregnable, the outer world did not move her and thus she responded to none of the distressing stimulus from the other world.
Gu Jun still had trouble understanding her statent of ‘we are different’. Was it supposed to be literal or the ‘we’ referred to both of them as in the Spirit Children are different and thus superior from the normal people? Deng Xii was exposed to the cleansing stone before. She passed the test, aning she bore no ntal corruption, but then the stone could not read thoughts.
“Miss Deng, many things have occurred in the past year.” Gu Jun said as he watched her closely. “Many innocents have died. Tragedies occurred all over the world. These incidents are all related to Lai Sheng Company. I have read your files, and you believe it was the people from Lai Sheng Company who killed your parents. If that is true, I wonder if you wish to take revenge on Lai Sheng Company on their behalf?”
Deng Xii’s expression froze slightly...
“My na is Gu Jun.” Gu Jun said darkly, “I, for one, will do everything in my power to crush them.”
“Gu Jun?” Deng Xii’s eyes lit up. “Gu Jun, Gu Jun... So it is you.” Gu Jun blinked. ‘This girl really knows or she is just pretending?’ In any case, he had no mory of her. “Do we know each other?”
“You might have forgotten it but I haven’t.” Deng Xii reverted to her usual unmoved self, albeit with a trace of disappointnt. “I really did not expect we would be reunited like this.”
“Oh?” Gu Jun stared at her and focused his mind. His emotions raged and faces of young children flashed before his eyes...
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