Aya (2)

At the same time, Anping discovered that the new key to the source of magic was exactly the same as the key on the little girl's neck, and the front end of the key pointed opposite the key on the little girl's neck.

Anping was almost certain that this was the goal this time, but he still couldn't figure out what the abnormal fluctuations in the museum were.

After thinking for a moment, Anping asked, "Can I take a closer look at this key? I feel it is very important to me."

The little girl nodded, then shook her head, and said, "I don't mind, but it seems that no one can access this key except me. You can try it."

Anping nodded, walked to the little girl, squatted down so that he and the little girl were at eye level, and stretched out his right index finger to try to make contact with the key.

The moment his fingertips were about to touch the key, Anping had a feeling that he could touch it, but when he did, he would absorb it into his body, and the natural barrier that protected the town would disappear.

After getting this information, Anping quickly retracted his right hand. It was not the time yet, because he didn't know what would happen when the key was integrated into his body. Anping was worried that Tang Hao and A Yin would discover some clues after the barrier disappeared.

Moreover, Tang Wulin was also in this small town now. Anping was not sure how well Tang San's consciousness had recovered and whether he had the ability to discover anything.

The little girl saw that Anping was about to touch the key, but he retracted his hand as fast as lightning, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong, big brother?"

Anping shook his head slightly and said, "It's okay, now is not the time. I need a few days to prepare, and then I will help your town return to normal."

The little girl nodded and said, "After returning to normal, won't the people in the town be like this now, and I can come in and out freely?"

Anping nodded and said, "After returning to normal, they should become like you. They will have things they want to do, such as participating in photography competitions. They will be happy when they should be happy and sad when they should be sad."

Although the little girl didn't understand, she felt that it should be like that, so she nodded without saying anything more.

At this time, Gu Yuena asked, "I remember that before you picked up this key, you had the idea of leaving this town, right? Didn't you try to sneak out at that time?"

The little girl said with some frustration, "Of course I tried, but because I was too young at the time, I was found by my mother before I could run very far."

Gu Yuena nodded and did not ask any more questions on this issue. Instead, she said, "By the way, I still don't know your name after chatting for so long. My name is Gu Yuena, and this brother's name is Anping."

The little girl nodded obediently, and then said, "My name is Aya, can you tell me more about the outside world?"

Looking at Aya with a hopeful look on her face, Anping did not refuse. He picked her up and put her on a chair. Then he and Gu Yuena sat across from her, and said, "To tell you what the Star Luo Empire is like, we don't know much, we can only tell you about the Sun-Moon Federation..."

Anping talked about what he had experienced. While talking, to make it more intuitive, he occasionally used illusions to show some scenes, objects, and other things. Aya sat there quietly and listened with interest.

Time soon came to near noon, and just when Aya was getting excited, the voice of the hotel proprietress came from the door of the library: "Aya, it's time to eat."

Not long after the sound rang, probably because Aya hadn't come out yet, the hotel proprietress walked into the library and happened to see Anping and Gu Yuena telling Aya a story.

The hotel proprietress stepped forward and said, "I'm really sorry, Aya, for causing you trouble. You two must not have eaten yet, so why don't you eat with us?"

Anping and Gu Yuena did not refuse the landlady's lunch invitation. When they returned to the hotel, there was no one there. They had obviously gone out to explore.

While eating, Anping asked curiously, "I heard Aya say that you haven't left the town since you settled here, right?"

The landlady nodded and said, "That's right. It's been thirteen years since I came to live here. If I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have believed that there is such a completely isolated place in the world."

At this point, the landlady changed the topic and said, "Actually, you want to ask why I don't allow Aya to leave the town, right? What you don't know is that Aya is not my biological daughter. She was a child I picked up at the entrance of the town."

"She was only two or three years old at the time, lying with injuries all over her body at the entrance of the town. If I hadn't picked her up, she would have been in serious danger. I was worried that she would encounter something like that again when she left the town, so I never allowed her to leave the town. After all, she is absolutely safe in the town."

Anping nodded and said nothing more. At the same time, he was a little curious about the absolute safety the landlady meant. After eating, with the permission of the landlady, Anping and Gu Yuena took Aya to the library again.

Since most people in the town were busy preparing for the celebration, there was no one in the library except an old administrator. The three of them chose a corner to sit down.

After sitting down, Anping asked, "Aya, do you know what your mother means by absolutely safe?"

Aya nodded matter-of-factly and said, "Haven't you noticed that no matter what you do in this town, you will not be harmed, whether it is intentional or unintentional?"

As she said this, Aya took out a small dagger from her pocket, then picked up the knife and slashed it on her arm. Sure enough, as she said, not to mention being injured, not even a trace was left.

However, Anping still noticed something. When Aya made her move, there was a slight fluctuation where the dagger came into contact with her arm. At the same time, the key hanging around her neck also flickered imperceptibly.

Anping asked, "Is everyone in this town like this? Or are you the only one like this?"

Aya explained, "Of course everyone is like this. Anyone who enters the town will become like this. At first, I thought it was a normal phenomenon. Later, as I read more and more books, I discovered that it's normal to get hurt."

"Everyone in this town is immune to injury. It's very abnormal to not have other emotions besides happiness. But whenever I mention this to them, they just laugh it off."

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