Whispers echoed from the space. Lu Li concentrated his mind and put the psychic gun into his holster, but his palm did not leave the handle of the gun.
Athena stared intently at Lu Li, or behind Lu Li.
Anna floated from behind holding the ghost baby. This may be one of the reasons why Athena regained her clarity.
"Do you still hate it?" Lu Li asked.
Athena's scarlet eyes in her long hair turned to Lu Li without saying a word.
"Give the baby back to her." Lu Li tilted his head and said to Anna.
"Oh." Anna agreed obediently, and approached Athena with some fear, stopped a meter or two away, suddenly threw the ghost baby over, and quickly floated back to hide behind Lu Li.
Her fear of ghosts is unlikely to change anytime soon.
Athena subconsciously caught the flying blood-red fetus. She lowered her head slightly and saw the ghost baby shrinking in her arms without any fear. She stretched out two pairs of small hands to grab her hair.
Those scarlet pupils gradually became softer, and the emotion called maternal love was gestating.
"I think she might want to kill the child..." Anna leaned into Lu Li's ear and said, watching Athena gently caressing the baby's cheek, feeling that she might suddenly burst out and strangle the baby to death at any time.
"Then just throw it over." Lu Li said without turning around.
Anna muttered a little aggrievedly: "You didn't let me do this."
Lu Li ignored Anna and said to Athena: "Can you control your emotions?"
The ghost baby's face traced an arc, and a moment later, a hoarse and cold voice sounded from the hanging head: "I was blinded by hatred before...I won't be blinded now."
"...I met him two years ago."
Athena slowly talked about the past with her husband.
Lu Li frowned slightly - frankly speaking, Lu Li hated this kind of behavior when everything was finally resolved and the core character began to talk about his own psychological journey.
For example, in the Earth period, after cooperating with the police to arrest a prisoner, the prisoner would often talk about the past.
Normally Lu Li would stop her in time at this time, but this time the protagonist was a ghost. Lu Li was not sure whether Athena would lose her mind again after he stopped her.
Let her say she has nothing to lose.
Lu Li thought like this, and took his hand away from the handle of the gun, keeping it in a posture where he could grab the psychic gun at any time.
"Bill Eddy joined the textile factory a few months after me. He was clumsy when he first came in and was often punished by his supervisor..."
During Athena's narration, Lu Li walked around behind her and walked to the sculpture. It remained lying on the ground, motionless, and some gravel powder fell between the broken arms.
Lu Li lifted the sculpture up and picked up the broken arm. The broken stone showed that it was indeed a sculpture.
Although it is impossible to understand why the sculpture can bend the body like a human, but is as fragile as plaster after falling.
Lu Li put the broken arm into the arms of the sculpture and said, "I will find someone to pick it up for you after dawn."
But at this time, a sudden change occurred.
An aura full of malice and resentment erupted behind him!
Lu Li's black eyes shrank, and he subconsciously rolled to the side. During the roll, he pulled out the psychic gun. The moment he stood firm, he stretched out his arms and aimed the psychic gun at Athena's back.
The trigger was not pulled.
The raging breath was wanton, but Athena did not launch an attack. Her hoarse voice came from the abyss, making people shudder: "He attacked me like crazy, hammering my stomach, no matter how much I begged, he was indifferent... He
He cursed me loudly and said that the child and I had killed him... Just like that, he smashed my stomach with his fists and strangled me to death..."
Understanding that Athena was just having an emotional outburst, Lu Li put away his psychic gun.
At this moment, she turned to look at Lu Li. Her bloodshot pupils were no longer filled with hatred, only calm.
"I feel its kindness to you and to me... Where did you find it?"
Lu Li returned to Anna, whose eyes were slightly red, mixed with sadness and anger, and replied calmly: "It's near the gallery. It has been following you, but you had always harbored ill intentions toward it, so it was avoiding you."
"You want to get close but you don't dare to?" Anna murmured like a literary girl.
Athena remained silent for a few seconds, her face no longer ferocious showed a hint of bitterness, and she gently touched the ghost baby's face. "Is it too late for me to say I'm sorry... to the children, to those who have been hurt by me, to you..."
"Why apologize?"
Lu Li suddenly tilted his head, a little confused.
Athena and Anna were stunned at the same time.
Lu Li continued: "There is no need to say sorry, you did the right thing."
Two eyes fell on Lu Li at the same time, and Anna was filled with shock - although the contact time was short, she could see that Lu Li had a cold attitude towards everyone, and now he was actually comforting... Could it be that this guy has a crush on Athena?
Already!?
Lu Li looked calm and simply explained a fact: "Onlookers will always advise the person involved to be generous and let go of everything. But they will not think about the pain the person involved has endured - because the pain belongs to others and has nothing to do with them."
"You have not harmed innocent people, so you are not wrong and the child is not wrong either."
"thanks, thanks……"
At some point, Athena had tears streaming down her face, mixed with the blood.
She thanked her repeatedly in a hoarse voice, and her coldness and resentment gradually dissipated. Her figure also disappeared and became transparent.
"You are..." Lu Li suddenly said.
"I plan to leave with my child. Maybe to hell, maybe to heaven." Athena smiled softly.
"Can you wait a moment?" Lu Li said, raising his holster. "Can you let me finish you off with my own hands?"
"...?" Anna looked like she had seen a ghost.
As the two ghosts looked at each other in confusion, Lu Li explained: "The psychic gun can increase its power by destroying ghosts. But don't worry, I can confirm that the effect is the same if you go by yourself and if you are sent by it."
Maybe Lu Li dismissed her, Athena nodded lightly: "It's so troublesome."
Lu Li pulled out his psychic gun and first aimed at the ghost baby's eyebrows.
Anna turned around, not having the guts to look.
Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Lu Li suddenly thought about it, turned the muzzle of the gun, held the barrel of the gun, and used the psychic gun as a hammer to knock it down.
The bloody scene did not happen. Just like the effect of a bullet hitting a ghost, blood-colored bubbles appeared all over the ghost baby, as if it had been vaporized, and dissipated in panic.
Lu Li turned the gun, aimed it between Athena's eyebrows, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Bang!
The silver-plated bullet that came out of the barrel penetrated Athena's eyebrows, causing blood bubbles to boil and spread throughout her body in the blink of an eye.
The first rose on the barrel of the flintlock is nearly half full.
At the last moment when Athena's figure disappeared, Lu Li's everlasting calm voice faintly sounded in his ears.
"Don't worry, I will send your husband down to accompany you."