Chapter 546

Tell him about what happened over these past few years?

Although she extremely didn't want to answer this question, after looking back at her younger brother and sister's room, Anna couldn't help but bite her lip, then nodded with difficulty.

"Okay... where should I start?"

"Just start from when you got the thing."

The man in the black robe said with a calm expression:

"Six years ago, your parents passed away. After I visited and delivered the developed photos, I discovered that you possessed a certain 'potential,' and then I helped you with a small favor. May I ask what happened after that?"

What happened after that...

Anna bit her lip again upon hearing this, her face turning pale as she said:

"After that... I did indeed regain my family as you said, but... but it wasn't the kind I wanted..."

"Oh?"

The man in the black robe's eyebrows raised with interest, then he asked further:

"Could you be more detailed?"

"It's just... when I expressed my thoughts to that photo, wanting my family to return, the people who appeared in the house weren't my parents, but a boy about the same age as me."

After recalling the situation at the beginning, Anna said with eyes full of complexity:

"After he saw me, he said he was my brother. I thought I had met a lunatic and was startled, desperately driving him out, and then continued talking to the photo you gave me."

"I said I wanted my parents to return and let me have my family again, but the result was still not them, but a pair of swaddling clothes containing two infants..."

"I see... it seems that you didn't fully believe my words at that time."

The man in the black robe shook his head upon hearing this and said with some regret:

"You were a child who was slightly precocious and had a calm and rational mind. At that time, you had already deeply understood the meaning of death and understood that your parents could never return."

"Even if I told you that the family photo was an unparalleled miracle that could let you have your family again, and demonstrated a portion of its power in front of you, you didn't fully believe me and still felt from the bottom of your heart that it was impossible to bring your parents back."

"Because of the doubt and distrust in your heart, the seed I left in that photo didn't hatch toward recalling your parents, but headed toward an unknown new direction. The resulting anomaly... um... the resulting effect had a deviation, what a pity."

?!!!

After listening to the man in the black robe's words, Anna felt a wave of dizziness, and a cold-blooded feeling like a heart-wrenching pain slammed into her heart.

"So... if I had believed enough at the beginning, could I have really brought them back?"

"Sorry, that was also impossible."

The man in the black robe shook his head again and said:

"The boundary between life and death isn't completely irreversible, but the conditions required are unimaginably harsh. Making someone 'undying' isn't difficult, but making those who have already died return is shockingly difficult."

"And although your 'natural talent' was very outstanding, it wasn't enough to break through the barrier of life and death. It's just that if you had believed me enough, you might have summoned the residual shadows left by your parents, or created two puppets or something similar."

"Then... wouldn't that still be fake?" "It is fake, that's correct. But you were less than ten years old at the time. Even if they were just two empty puppets with your parents' appearance, it should have counted as realizing your wish, so I didn't lie to you."

After answering Anna's question without changing his expression, the man in the black robe, who had been quite polite, saw that the "test subject" seemed to have gone wrong, and his expression immediately became visibly cold.

Looking toward the inner room and looking at the two children inside through the wall, the man in the black robe frowned slightly and said with some dissatisfaction:

"It seems that not only your brother, but the remaining two also have no blood relation to you, and they aren't fake creations, but all truly complete human beings."

"So you obtained a seed numbered within ten, and the thing that finally hatched was just finding a few children whose appearance resembled your parents, then forcibly washing away their past, stealing their original lives, and letting them play house with you?"

"I... I didn't want to! I never thought of doing that!"

After hearing the "accusation" of the man in the black robe, the deepest guilt buried in her heart was torn apart fiercely. Anna's face turned pale fiercely, and the blood color on her face faded in an instant.

"After discovering that the thing wasn't right, I tore it up directly, and then took my brother and Melanie and the others to find the police, wanting to help them return to their original homes, but... but everyone's memories seemed to have been changed!"

Dizzily holding onto the door frame to support her body, which could fall at any time, Anna bit her pale lips and tried hard to explain:

"After the police found the neighbors, they said our family was indeed four children. The municipal people flipped through the files and also said they were indeed my siblings. Our house even had things used by infants, and even in past photos, there were three extra children!"

"I... I didn't want to steal other people's family members, I was really trying hard to explain! But not a single person believed me. They all thought I had gone crazy because my parents died in the war and I was overly sad. I couldn't find their original family members either, so... so I just..."

Municipal files, neighbors' memories, traces of life... has everything been changed?

Hearing this, the man in the black robe's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly instead.

Although the effect clearly went astray and was completely different from the anomalous object he had originally envisioned, this kind of thing that directly intervened in existence itself and could forcibly modify the other party's life should have an extremely high status, so it wasn't a waste of the strength of the seventh seed.

It's just that, although this test subject met the status requirements, the ability still wasn't what he wanted, and the time for "that" was not far off, with at most only one year left.

If he still couldn't create the corresponding anomalous object within a year, even if he successfully handled the Blood-Haired Maiden of the Virgin Bureau and destroyed the thing sealed on the top floor of the Virgin Bureau, he would still be working in vain in the end!

"Forget it..."

Thinking of this, the man in the black robe, who was somewhat dispirited, shook his head, then put his hat back on, and said to Anna politely and coldly:

"I have no other questions I want to ask. I've disturbed you today...

Oh, and also, since you have already lost the thing I gave you, then when I find it and take it back directly, you shouldn't have any objections, right?"

"I..."

After hearing the man in the black robe's words, even though she knew the other party possessed power she couldn't resist, the sickly girl still gathered her courage, grabbed the door frame, and asked:

"If you take the thing away... then... then Li Ang and Melanie and the others..."

"Naturally, they will return to their original homes, and their memories of these years will also be erased. Except for you, no one will know what happened."

"!!!"

Watching Anna, who fell to the ground with a thud, the light in her eyes instantly losing its luster, as if she had directly turned into a fragile shell that only had a human appearance, the man in the black robe's cold and hard face with a crying expression finally revealed a sincere smile.

"Rest assured, after I get the thing, I will help you modify the mistakes you made. Isn't this exactly what you wanted?"

(End of chapter)