"Mom, do you know where your sister is right now?" Tang San couldn't help but ask.
Logically speaking, the Blue Silver Grass could sometimes act as his "eyes." Wherever there was Blue Silver Grass, he could receive feedback on everything that plant saw. Since his mother was a Blue Silver Grass-type spirit beast, she could sense Sui Sui's life force. Was it possible that she could bypass the requirement for mental power and directly perceive Sui Sui's location?
Tang San, who was unaware that his mother was the Blue Silver Emperor, thought this and cast a hopeful gaze towards Ah Yin. In Tang Hao's eyes, she was a blue-gold Blue Silver Emperor, but in Tang San's vision, she was a living spirit radiating a faint glow.
Ah Yin's gentle blue eyes were filled with sorrow, and her brow was furrowed with deep melancholy. She closed her eyes, and a crystal tear escaped from the corner of her eye. On the Blue Silver Emperor's leaves, which bore faint golden patterns, transparent water droplets emerged from nowhere, mixed with a hint of fresh plant aroma and saltiness, and splashed onto the verdant grass.
"I don't know... Although I can feel your pain when you are in mortal danger, I don't know where Sui Sui is right now or what has happened," Ah Yin said, her voice filled with sadness as she closed her eyes.
"A few days before you and your father came to find me, I did sense that Sui Sui's life was threatened, and the situation was very dangerous. I was very worried, but your father had already gone to find you, so I guessed you might have encountered a powerful enemy." Ah Yin spoke slowly of the panic and confusion from a few days prior. "After that, my heart ached terribly, as if a piece of flesh had been gouged out of me, causing me immense pain. I knew that one of you siblings must have had an accident, because I could clearly feel that the other's presence, the other bloodline, had become extremely faint... like a candle flame flickering in the wind, about to be extinguished at any moment..."
Ah Yin looked at her eldest son with immense grief. "Your father might not know, but even in my plant form, I have dreams. I dreamed of a vast and terrifying darkness, the world alternately black and crimson, as if I were in purgatory, black and red intertwining, oppressive and fear-inducing."
"I don't know why I had such a dream, but in the dream, I seemed to hear someone crying."
Tang San was startled, a possibility occurring to him, and his expression changed slightly. "Your dream... could it be Sui Sui...?"
"I wanted to confirm the source of the crying. Because that sound made my heart ache. So I tried to find it, but the next second..." Ah Yin's voice grew lower, a hint of fear and lingering dread in her eyes. "The next second... the world collapsed..."
She couldn't express that feeling, nor could she use words to describe the magnificent scene at that time. The world disintegrated inch by inch, collapsing, destroying, and falling into a bottomless abyss. And in this process, she could only watch helplessly, watching the apocalyptic scene of the world shattering, her own insignificant self ultimately becoming one lost in the darkness.
"Then... what happened later?" He had intended to ask about the scene his mother had witnessed, but when Tang San saw the lingering fear on Ah Yin's face, he held back, guessing he could roughly understand the situation.
"After that... I woke up, and I waited every day for your father to bring you all back safely. Because later, when I fell into a light sleep again due to exhaustion, I fell into a dream. But this time, the dream was filled only with darkness and tranquility."
"Moreover, I could feel that the other faint bloodline still existed, and its life force was slowly recovering." At this point, Ah Yin's negative emotions finally showed a glimmer of positive relief.
Tang San frowned slightly, guessing that Tang Sui might have been rescued, or perhaps... she had found a place to recuperate and stabilize herself? But there was another question he dared not ask. That was, he wasn't sure if what his mother felt was the Sui Sui they were familiar with, and not another...
The image of a pair of cold, slightly playful black eyes involuntarily surfaced in his mind. Tang San's lips moved, but in the end, he could not bring himself to tell Ah Yin that Tang Sui had "one body, multiple souls."
...
In the silent darkness, consciousness was sinking. Inside a confined space, his vision was covered with a black cloth. The surroundings felt somewhat cramped, making it difficult to move. His blurry thoughts gradually became clear. He tried to move his limbs, but the restraints on his hands and feet were very strong. The things binding him felt like thin paper, yet they were difficult to tear apart by force. Every movement caused his skin to stick to them.
Wasn't she... sleeping in her room? Tang Sui's mind was blank as she tried to turn her neck, attempting to see if she could catch a glimpse of any light through the black veil. Unfortunately, all attempts failed. There was only deathly silence all around, not even a whisper of wind.
"Squeak squeak squeak—"
In the unnerving silence, the squeaking of rats and the rustling sounds of their movements in what seemed to be a storage room reached her ears. Tang Sui froze, her mind filled with confusion. There were mice in the room...?