Chapter 468 - Sweeping Devastation (2/2)

After a long while, the girl coughed out a mouthful of blood. She weakly opened a slit in her eyes, and they suddenly released a faint glow.

“I recognize you. You are the celestial sister that flies in the sky.” The girl’s voice was raspy and muddled, her speech disjointed.

“I’m not a celestial being. I’m only a useless person. I can’t save you, nor can I save anyone else. I’m sorry… sorry, sorry.” Qiao Mu’s tears cascaded down at once.

It was too late. She came back too late! It was still too late.

Medicine couldn’t save this girl anymore. If she had come back half a day earlier, perhaps she could have saved her. Or perhaps if the little tree were present, she could request a superb panacea from it…

But it was useless to say anything now.

“Sister. My mom said that dead people will turn into monsters.” The girl’s internal organs were severely damaged, and she was also just barely hanging on from not having eaten food nor having drunk water for so many days. Blood continued to spurt out of her mouth as she spoke.

“I-I don’t want to turn into a monster.”

As Qiao Mu hugged her, her tears dropped onto the girl’s face. She nodded resolutely and said, “Sister promises you that you will never turn into a monster, alright?”

As the little girl stretched out her hand and pointed, she said feebly, “M-my mom…”

Qiao Mu embraced her tightly and subconsciously clasped her small and frigid hand. She murmured gently, “Mhm, Sister will bury you and your mom together. You two won’t be apart. Your mom will continue to protect you in your next life.”

“Sister, don’t cry. You are a celestial being…” The girl’s voice became weaker and weaker until there was no more sound.

Qiao Mu bit her thin lips and hugged this child firmly. She lowered her small head and said gently, “I’m not a celestial being, I’m not. I can’t even save you.”

On both sides of the path from Xianghe Village to the gate, she would see several of her senior sisters’ incomplete corpses now and then.

Qiao Mu didn’t know how she hiked up there. She really didn’t know. Her entire being felt light and airy, like she was stepping on a cloud of cotton, stumbling and staggering up the mountain.

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