Chapter 860: Ownerless Shell
Chapter 860: Ownerless Shell
"Let's go, we've stayed here long enough," he stood up and turned to walk towards the place where the white flowers were placed. There were flowers provided free of charge for the deceased in the church. After picking up a flower and putting it down, he donated a small bag of Mora to the church's donation box. "We should go."
"..." Bruno Linxi's hand didn't come up for a long time.
"Don't you want to hold your mother's hand?"
Nuolinxi did not urge the other party, but just kept his hand where it was, ready to take it back.
"...I want to hold my mother's hand..." That soft hand rested on my own. My mother's hand was very warm, even softer than a child's... There were some faint scars on it, which could be seen to have faded with the passage of time...
"what happened?"
"Well... I was just thinking, Mom... It's been a long time since I've held your hand like this."
"Didn't I hold your hand yesterday? My child, is it that my memory is bad, or has your memory also become bad?"
"My memory has become bad... Come on, where is Mom taking me?"
"Where do you want to go?"
"With Mom, anywhere is fine..." the child said, then suddenly raised his head and named a place, "In front of that tree on the snowy mountain..."
"That sounds great. Mom's going to get some potion. You'll feel much better after drinking it." She seemed calm, but her heart was already swirling with turmoil. How did the child know there was a tree there? How did he understand what was there? His tone was strange. Sometimes he sounded like an ordinary child, and sometimes he was completely different...
"Huh... Mom?" Bruno Linxi's tone was filled with doubt. "Did I... did I say anything strange just now?"
"Why do you ask that? Um... I don't think it's a strange thing to say."
"I don't know why I'm asking these questions... I... just now I couldn't seem to control myself..."
...Countless thoughts flashed through his mind. Nuolinxi had many guesses, but in the end only one idea remained.
"Soul swapping... or memory swapping... so magical... is it because of alchemy?"
"...Hmm? But that person calls himself Bruno Linxi... Why would he say that..."
Brunolinxi still looked confused. It was normal for a child to be like this, after all, the other party had never understood all this.
"Souls are born in a land of silence, a land of darkness and lightlessness. To reach this place, souls need a medium, that is, someone to help them. A hollow body is ownerless and will attract souls. I've studied it and found that under certain conditions, souls can exist in a hollow body without a medium... If a life born of alchemy is not deliberately guided, countless souls will want to occupy the body..."
Nuolinxi frowned slightly, feeling a little strange.
"Well...but this body is mine."
"Yes, this body is yours... That's the problem. I've already performed a ritual. In other words, I've told all the souls that this body belongs to you... This shouldn't be..."
"Um... my name... so you call yourself me because this body has this name?"
Bruno Linxi seemed to finally understand... But is this right? My intuition tells me it's not...
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