-Chapter 4 - Souls to Protect

-Chapter 4-

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-This doesn't make sense! We must find the ghost before the children die," said the head of administration worriedly.

-That's right, there are a lot of children here, and we have to find Mrs. Lee's son," said Min-Woo.

-We have to form groups," said the military man.

-Where do you plan to start your search? We don't have any clues apart from the one the system gave us and it's not the best we can say", all the chiefs were hit on the head with a cane.

-Oh you rude children, if you had listened more to your grandparents when you were children you wouldn't be in this situation," spoke the old woman.

-Do you know something?" asked Moon Jin to the old lady.

-The clue gives the answer too easy, but you don't know about the culture of the world, the answer is La Llorona, she is a woman who committed suicide after losing her children, the children drowned in a river, lake or sea, it varies depending on the story you have been told, the point is that it is not just any ghost, it is a legend.

-Poisoned apples, a legend from Latin America, don't you find it curious," said Moon Jin grabbing an apple from the fruit basket.

-No," answered the soldier.

-Seriously? then we are worse off than I thought," she bites the apple, "let's see, tell me a story that has poisoned apples, a hunter and his prey that they couldn't kill," she seemed amused asking the question while eating a totally red apple.

-Snow White," answered Han Woo, "We're dealing with stories and legends, fictional things from our childhood.

-Exactly! or at least that's most likely - he finishes eating the apple and the rest is given to his rabbit who opened his mouth too wide revealing his sharp fangs and then eats the apple - well, what are we waiting for? we must kill a ghost.

-How do we kill a ghost," said the military man.

-It just says we have to chase her away from this world, not kill her, if we make her go back to heaven then we complete the mission.

-The weeping woman always cries out for her children, we can find her children so that she can rest in peace," said the old woman.

-So, plan," said Min-Woo.

-First let's find the weeping woman's children, we must look for them at night, if they are like their mother they will only come out at night, we must look in some river or lake, since the ocean is very far away.

-The nearest river is the Han River," said Min-Woo.

-Lakes?" asked Han Woo.

-The nearest lake from here is the lake of Songpa Naru Park, seeing that I wander around this area, it must be there," said Moon Jin.

-We should leave people here to protect the children, we may not be able to attack a ghost but we can prevent it from taking them away," said the head of administration.

-I'm not going to stay, and miss the fun? no thanks," said Moon Jin enjoying the current situation.

-I will stay," said the military man, "I won't be of much help but I will protect the children of this group with my life.

-We will save your son, Mrs. Lee," said Min-Woo to the weeping woman.

-Losing a child must be disastrous," said the old woman sadly as she saw the crying woman.

-I guess," said Moon Jin only to be met with a notification from the system.

[Heaven's Fallen Light' donated 1000 coins to you.]

-UUU, money," closed the system window and the group leaders started to make a plan.

Finally the plan was ready, two people went to the river and two people went to the lake, while some adults, Moon Jin and the head of administration were looking for the hiding place of the weeping woman.

The plan was to find the children and the hiding place of the weeping woman because she took the children claiming to be hers, but when she saw that they were not she ate her soul, she had to do it as fast as possible so that Mrs. Lee's son would survive, by finding the hiding place and the children, Someone with the ability to speak more languages should tell her that they found her children and tell her, by chasing her away from her lair all those who did not stay would come in and take the surviving children, the weeping woman when reunited with her children would return to heaven with them and they would leave.

The plan began, the people assigned to the search of the children were shouting for them or doing ritual invocation, while the search of the hiding place were looking in all the buildings until they realized that it was not in any building, but in the sewers, everyone went down to the sewers and after walking a little with the torches they found a place that had many beds and tunnels with hundreds of children, everyone turned off their torch and hid under the bed of the children until they received the call from some of the searchers.

Ten minutes later they received the call, then someone who bought the ability of various languages said to the weeping woman

-Crybaby," shouted a woman.

-Get out of here! Don't touch my children," she sounded angry.

-Your children are not here," the weeping woman was surprised and turned into the pretty woman in the white dress and veil.

-Where are my children?" she looked worried but happy at the same time.

-Your children are in the Han River, near the bridge!" immediately the weeping woman floated towards that direction without hesitation and all those who were hiding came out, they started to check the beds but all the children in them were already dead.

-This is horrible," said a man looking at the corpses of the children.

-Here is Madam Lee's son!" shouted another man and immediately they carried the child, he was very weak and cold, they must take care of him quickly -we have to go back- everyone nodded except Moon Jin.

-I'll stay and see if there are more survivors," said Moon Jin still checking the beds, her face was pale and full of sadness, it was obvious that she was waiting to see more survivors.

-Understood, be careful when you come back," they all left immediately to attend to the child.

-Another one, another one, another one" he repeated that word every time he lifted a blanket, all the children were dead until he heard the whining of a child, immediately Moon Jin ran towards the sound and when he arrived he saw a girl of about 13 or 12 years old trying to silence another child of about 10-9 years old.

-Shut up Sango Soo, the woman in white will find us," she said trying to calm the boy down.

-...- the boy didn't say anything, he just cried non-stop.

-Hey," Moon Jin knelt down, "hello, we came to help you," the boy's sobs stopped and the girl became alert, "don't worry, come on, I'll take you home, the crying woman won't come back anymore.

-We don't trust you, our care when we saw the ghost threw us towards it, all adults are disgusting," she shouted angry and sad about what happened.

-I know! and if we introduce ourselves, forget about the casual like bow and honours and that nonsense, I'm Moon Jin, call me Jin, I'm 26 years old and I'm an only child," she smiled as she spoke, "your turn".

-I'm Ha-Jin, I don't have a surname, I'm 12 years old and I'm an orphan just like him, he's Sang Soo, 10 years old," said the girl calmly.

-Nice to meet you Ha-Jin and Sang Soo! It's a pleasure to see new faces, do you know if there are any other children here?

-There are no more, they all died because of the woman in white," answered the girl again.

-Sang oo doesn't talk much, does he?" he smiles and strokes the boy's head, "Don't worry, I'll get you out of this place" the children came out of the hiding place and hid behind Jin.

[Mission Completed] [Mission Completed

[Reward received: 150 Coins] [Additional reward: weapon

[Additional reward: Phantasmal Weapon]

[info: now you can kill ghosts with this gun, but it's useless against humans] [info: now you can kill ghosts with this gun, but it's useless against humans]

-We have to get out, where do you want to go, I can leave him where he came from or do you want to come with me," said Moon Jin to the children.

-We will go with you, even if the caretaker of the orphanage didn't leave," said the girl sadly.

-It's ok, don't worry, we have enough food and in fact I just found out that you can buy food at the system shop, come on, I bet people there will welcome you very well" Moon Jin stood up with his back turned and knelt down, , "Some of you go up, you must be weak".

-I can still walk, Sang Soo climbed up," the boy nodded and climbed on Moon Jin's back.

-Let's go to your new home," he said with a smile and the girl as well as the boy were surprised by what he said... a home.