Corpse Recovery Diver
Chapter 533 - 98_2

The old grandma turned around, carrying her harvest of the night, and walked back.

The noises of "the children" and the cries of adults gradually dissipated.

By the time her figure returned behind the white tent, everything fell silent again, as if nothing had ever happened.

Li Zhiyuan knew clearly that he had just witnessed a ritual, to be precise, a harvest.

He suddenly understood why the circus people cared so much about those parents who brought their children to play.

Because harvesting, requires efficiency.

Due to objective reality, many parents’ love for their children is no less than others’, but they can’t always stay by their children’s side and watch them grow.

But from the circus’s perspective, their harvest also has costs, so they must choose the "raw materials" with the highest yield.

Moreover, although the proportion is very low, there are indeed parents in this world who do not love or simply do not love their children.

It’s not uncommon to see parents who consider their original children a burden after divorcing and forming new families.

And then there is someone like himself...

When it comes to himself, Li Zhiyuan found that he really didn’t belong to this category.

Although his father had left his life, Li Zhiyuan could understand him.

As for Li Lan...

Even Li Zhiyuan couldn’t say that Li Lan didn’t care about him.

She refused to speak to her biological parents on the phone, letting her secretary take her place, but when her son took the handset, she came back and picked it up, although what she said was quite unpleasant.

She would rather be involved in highly dangerous projects, exhibit a hysterical attitude, and keep her son out of her life. From an opposite point of view, even if it means facing life and death, even if it leads to agony and madness, she couldn’t erase her son from her consciousness. Tell me if that’s not caring.

After coming down the slope, Li Zhiyuan said to Lin Shuyou: "Start removing the makeup."

"Ah, alright."

Lin Shuyou opened the makeup box and began to remove his makeup.

In fact, it was not necessary to have makeup or costumes to perform divination.

If it weren’t for Li Zhiyuan’s special circumstances making summoning spirits difficult, then at the school playground that night, he could’ve just smeared the red marks on his face and he would have been able to perform divination successfully.

This wasn’t a necessity, but rather it provided a sense of ritual, to boost one’s confidence and immersion, just like the grand ceremonies performed by the Grandmaster, which rationally speaking are useless, yet they can offer great emotional value to him and his family.

Likewise, for Lin Shuyou, he needed to remove his makeup to switch personalities.

And the more one relies on this method, the more it tends to exacerbate personality splits, to the point where it’s almost inevitable for Lin Shuyou to have mental issues in the future.

"The old grandma just now wasn’t Granny Yu, the real Granny Yu should still be in that white tent, our primary target is still there.

When we make our move, rush toward that white tent collectively, you guys are responsible for clearing the way and resisting interference for me, I’ll go and destroy her true form."

"Okay!" Tan Wenbin nodded vigorously while touching his pocket and waist.

Halfway through removing his makeup, Lin Shuyou simply asked, "What kind of evil spirit is it? It sounds a bit strange."

Tan Wenbin’s eyebrows shot up, if it weren’t for the inappropriate environment, he probably would’ve given Lin Shuyou a knock on the head, cursing: Are you f*cking pretending again?

Li Zhiyuan answered: "A ’Fallen Affection Mud Child.’"

Lin Shuyou was stunned for a moment, then smacked his lips: "So she is sewing up herself."

Previously, Li Zhiyuan had only a vague guess, but now, after witnessing the previous scene, he could be sure.

Wei Zhengdao’s book mentioned ’Fallen Affection Mud Child,’ which is not a type of corpse, but refers to a self-healing method for certain powerful corpses.

Corpses are born from grudges, and some strong ones that develop spiritual intelligence will, like humans, find ways to heal themselves.

’Fallen Affection Mud Child’ is about capturing human emotional bonds as raw material for self-repair, it’s a kind of evil technique that greatly harms the heavens and earth.

The Yin Family Genealogy mentioned that during the middle of the Ming Dynasty, a Yin Family member traveled and encountered two masters fishing by a lake, and upon knowing that he was a descendant of Yin Changsheng, the two masters invited him to sit down and have a chat.

Of course, essentially, he gained the right to listen in only because of his ancestor’s reputation.

The two masters talked about Emperor Jiajing, who had been deceived by an evil practitioner, believing in the theory that ’the two dragons should not meet.’

One master said with a laugh that the evil practitioner was probably constructing a ’Fallen Affection Mud Child’ for some evil spirit.

After his travels, the Yin Family ancestor returned to Fengdu and after sitting in meditation on the dock, wrote down this experience and inserted it into the family genealogy.

In his tone, he described it as having heard two masters discussing matters of immortals in heaven.

Li Zhiyuan didn’t know whether the other party was intentionally being evasive or truly unaware that the emperor with such a long title was the Emperor Jiajing of that time.

However, from this record, it’s evident that the ’Fallen Affection Mud Child’ has been passed down for a long time, and someone even had the idea to target the imperial father and son, it’s still unknown which terrible corpse they attempted to repair.

It is very clear, however, that Granny Yu doesn’t have such treatment; she can only rely on abducting children, capturing the emotional bonds of parents towards their offspring to heal herself, using a quantity-over-quality approach.

She’s like a seriously wounded beast, lurking in a dark corner, silently licking her wounds.

The circus posters advertised the Yu Family Circus, established in the 1950s.