"Do you really like children?" Lu Luo's fingers were a bit tense.
"I love you so much, I want to have a child with you."
Lu Luo felt bitter. Even if I were to have a child, it wouldn't be with you! What should I do now?
"Then let's have one."
As soon as Lu Luo finished speaking, the woman pulled his arm, embraced him, and kissed him.
Only then did Lu Luo see that the woman's clothes were now a white veil. As he felt her warm lips, everything before him disappeared again.
The thunder and rain hadn't stopped, and the room was still dark.
[She didn't release any resentment or hostility, a special type of ghost. Go check the other rooms.]
Lu Luo slowly walked into another room, which looked like the second-floor bathroom. As soon as he approached the mirror, the room brightened.
The woman in white appeared in the mirror, embracing Lu Luo from behind. Lu Luo almost drew his knife to strike, his evil thoughts ready to be summoned at any moment, but he held back due to the Observer's prompt.
The woman in white just quietly held him. After a long while, she slowly spoke:
"Husband, the priest said I'm already pregnant! In 7 months, our child will be born! Let's give him a name, what should we call him?"
The woman in white tilted her head, revealing a very beautiful yet playful expression.
"I think Mingyi sounds better. Wu Mingyi. Hmm, that name's good, don't you think?"
The woman's gentleness touched Lu Luo. He slowly nodded.
"Wu Mingyi, huh? That's a good name."
Lu Luo looked up and met the woman's gaze in the mirror. That look seemed to carry a different meaning, as if both sides understood each other perfectly.
"Haha, I knew it! You'd definitely like this name."
With that, the brief illusion ended once again. Lu Luo felt the lingering warmth on his waist and arm, and even began to wonder if everything he had just experienced was real.
"Is the husband's surname Wu? Wu Yun, or Wu X Yun. There shouldn't be many people with that name."
Lu Luo continued walking. When he returned to the central art room on the second floor, the room's color had turned grayish-green.
The woman in white, with her bulging belly, ran up to Lu Luo.
"Husband, the priest said our child is a heretic, a disaster to be judged. What should we do? Husband, what should we do?"
The panic and pain on the woman's face made one feel an inexplicable heartache. In the wasteland world, the Dawn Church was an existence comparable to the Alliance Council, one managing administration, the other managing faith.
Because in the wasteland, the Dawn Church itself represented light, an existence that ordinary people could never defy or resist.
This illusion changed very quickly. The woman lay on the ground in despair, covered in blood, her ever-present white veil stained red. She shouted loudly at Lu Luo:
"Husband, hurry and leave! It'll be too late if you don't go now!"
The illusion disappeared once again. Digesting the content of the illusion, Lu Luo remained silent for a moment, then walked towards the last room on the second floor, the one with the dressing table.
As soon as he entered, the room's color turned dark red. The previous white veil had completely turned red, and the serene woman in a red veil slowly leaned against Lu Luo's shoulder.
Her abdomen was not bulging, and the intense love she had shown before was gone from her face. The only thing left in her eyes was fatigue and indifference.
Lu Luo looked at the dressing table in front of him. In the mirror of the dressing table, he was there, but she wasn't.
"Husband, I will definitely listen to you from now on and never go to the church again. The church is also filthy and unbearable. Everything is just a facade they perform. Will you still leave?"
[Analysis complete. A Tier 3 ghost type, unnamed, formed by personal emotions, regrets, and unfulfilled wishes. Its sequential abilities are illusion and sensory mimicry.]
[This is a female ghost with a story, and the person who left her here also has a story. I think you can talk to her, you might gain something. But the only thing I don't understand is, why are you so popular with Xenomorph ?]
What did the church do to them? The husband died? The woman became a ghost? What about the child?
Lu Luo had many questions, but at this moment, he felt that he should be able to talk to this woman.
He often talked to people, but talking to a ghost was a first. However, Lu Luo still preferred to keep the initiative in his own hands, as always.
"What is your wish?"
Lu Luo's question clearly surprised the woman in red.
"Humans love light, yet they use the darkest means. Everyone wears a mask, and behind every mask is another mask. Everyone is the same."
Lu Luo nodded, acknowledging the female ghost's words.
"But if you wear a mask long enough, you'll forget the face behind it. The human heart naturally has a fallen part, just like a fetus's demands on its mother. But the path a person ultimately takes still depends on their own choice."
[Host, can you please stop saying such flowery words? As a sequential talent, Observer says... I don't understand!]
[Isn't it better to categorize people's inner selves with data? 1 point for innocence, 2 points for kindness, 3 points for ideals, and the remaining 94 points for perverts. Isn't that better?]
After Lu Luo finished speaking, he looked at the woman. There was no longer any love in her eyes; she seemed to still be contemplating Lu Luo's words. Clearly, she was not a confused monster now.
Instead, she was a Tier 3 ghost with calm reasoning. So, what was the purpose of what she showed me before? To move me? Or to tell me something?
"Excuse me, Miss, I don't think I can stay here indefinitely. Their illusion game should end."
The red-clad woman rubbed her nose against Lu Luo's neck and sniffed again. She seemed to really like Lu Luo's scent, but when she looked up, her eyes were still indifferent.
"This is not a game."
"I apologize, perhaps my wording was problematic. Then can you tell me what the church did to you? What is the meaning of showing me these past events?"
"I've forgotten, but you're so weak, what's the point of showing you these things? It's truly laughable."
[I get it, she looks down on you. Oh dear! The host has it so tough. Not only looked down upon by people, but also by ghosts.]
[He hasn't even reached Tier 1 strength, can't even add points. It's heartbreaking to hear, tear-jerking to see. Sob, sob, sob.]
Lu Luo's expression was a bit awkward, but he felt it was necessary to defend himself.
"Uh, Miss Red-dress, people always grow. I feel I have high potential, and becoming a top-tier expert in the future shouldn't be a problem. So, speak up!"
"Alright, future top-tier expert of the world, I'll assume you're serious. Since you want to know about this, I'll tell you. I've forgotten everything, even what my beloved looked like. The only things I remember are these few illusions, and, the bride. Also, Mr. Top-tier Expert of the World, my name isn't Miss Red-dress. My name is Lu Mouna."
"The bride?"
After Lu Luo repeated the word, the figure of Lu Mouna in red had already disappeared. The only thing left to prove that Lu Mouna in red had appeared was the red veil in Lu Luo's hand.
[Lu Meng Hongxia (Lu Mouna's Red Veil)]
Grade: Excellent.
Effect 1 - Dream Road: Summon Lu Mouna.
Description: A red veil soaked in blood and scarlet dye.
Looking at the red veil in his hand, Lu Luo felt something was off. A Tier 3 ghost living inside the wall, and right across from the Wasteland Security Bureau, this was simply unscientific.
A Tier 3 ghost sounded formidable, but hunters could probably eliminate it in minutes. Lu Luo still remembered Qin Wanyu's desperate escape in front of Ludy.
So who handled this case back then? Did the case handler intentionally leave Lu Mouna behind?
He rented a house here, the ghost just happened to not be dead, and she even showed him an illusion and gave him a red veil. Was this a coincidence?
The only people who knew they were going to open a studio and needed to rent a house, besides the three of them, was Ludy.
Lu Luo dipped his finger in water and began drawing on the mirror.
[Calm analysis — a little thought — there is only one truth.]
[When a series of coincidences occur, it must be inevitable! — — Detective Observer.]
Ludy - The Bride - The Ghost - Frequent mutant incidents. After connecting them, Lu Luo looked up and wiped away all the words.
"So, what's the probability that this Lu Mouna was intentionally left behind by Ludy? What does that mean? Does he want me to investigate?"