"From today onwards, this will be your home."
Yang Tao led Megumi and Hyori, the two sisters, back to their home in the ruins. As soon as they returned, a little girl who had been waiting at home immediately ran to his side.
He reached out and ruffled the heads of several little girls.
He said with a smile, "Let me introduce you, this is Megumi, and the one next to her is her younger sister Hyori. From today onwards, they will be members of our family. Alright, you take Little Ping to get something to eat first. Megumi and I still have things to do."
Although these children had suffered a lot of psychological trauma, and some even found normal communication very difficult, there was one thing: they were obedient, extremely obedient, completely lacking the natural vivacity of normal children.
Yang Tao had already made up his mind. After healing Megumi's eyes, he would go to other worlds to invite some people to take care of them.
Considering their strength and current situation, he already had candidates in mind. Monday and the others from the Resident Evil World were idle anyway, so it was perfect to bring them over to be kindergarten teachers.
Language barrier? Babel Lip Balm was more than enough.
Moreover, with the intelligence of Alice, learning a foreign language would be very simple with daily exposure, and these children could also learn other languages.
"Megumi, don't be afraid, come with me."
To prevent Megumi's eyes from scaring the other children, Yang Tao specifically led Megumi to the wall and took out the Red Matter Hammer from his backpack to knock on the wall.
Thump, thump, thump…
"Brother, what's that sound?"
"I'm expanding a new room. From now on, this room will be your resting place. Additionally, I will build you a bathroom, a swimming pool, a playground, a study room… In short, everything normal children have, you will have."
The little girl's lead-sealed eyes felt a bit swollen upon hearing this.
Leading her into the newly excavated compartment, Yang Tao reached out and untied the bandage wrapped around Megumi's eyes. Even though he was mentally prepared, seeing those lead-sealed eyes for the second time still caused Yang Tao some pain.
What he saw was not just horror and gore, but despair like an abyss.
He really couldn't imagine what kind of despair could make Megumi seal her own eyes.
"Megumi, Brother needs to use magic to change your eyes back, but before that, you need to sleep first. When you wake up, you'll be able to see your sister…"
"Mmm…"
Yang Tao took out a wand emitting an evil aura from his backpack.
'Paralysis Ray… Time Stop…'
He removed the lead blocks that had fused with the flesh in Megumi's eye sockets, looking at the hollow sockets.
Yang Tao immediately used the most powerful master-level spell with the strongest healing effect.
Life Sanctuary.
Looking at the crimson eyes that had regrown in Megumi's eye sockets, a smile appeared on Yang Tao's face.
He withdrew the spell.
Megumi's body swayed then steadied her steps. She didn't become joyful because she could see, but walked in front of Yang Tao and looked up.
As soon as Yang Tao squatted down, he felt a small hand on his face: "Brother, you are so handsome."
"Brother is handsome anyway. Let's go, your eyes are fine now, go out and eat something. I'll dig out the bathroom first."
Yang Tao started to get busy again. After about half an hour, the toilet, bathroom, small swimming pool, a library with no books, and an entertainment room with no toys were all dug out by him.
Just as he was about to call Monday and the others to bring the children to bathe, there was a noisy sound outside.
Yang Tao walked out of the inner room and looked at the situation outside. It turned out that Ori had returned home with seven little girls.
The children's bodies were covered in bloodstains, and a peculiar bloody smell wafted into Yang Tao's nose.
"Ori, what happened?"
"Akira, is dead."
Yang Tao stood rooted to the spot, looking at Ori in disbelief and asked, "Dead? How did she die? With your strength, even if you couldn't defeat the enemy, you should have been able to escape, right? Didn't I tell you to come back immediately if you encountered danger?"
"We killed her. The Gastrea Virus in Akira's body exceeded 50%, turning her into a Gastrea. We could only kill her."
Yang Tao: "…"
No wonder the people of this world ostracized these children so much, but this was not an excuse. The theory of being born with sin did not hold water with him.
Using them while persecuting them…
This was the classic wanting to be a whore while also wanting to erect a monument.
"Take me there, to where Akira died…"
Ori showed no significant emotional fluctuation. For them, such things were commonplace.
Yang Tao needed to find Akira's soul…
In this situation, a mere Entity was meaningless. If it was just a resurrection, then what would be resurrected would only be a so-called Gastrea monster.
Yang Tao looked at the monster, which had already turned into a headless corpse, and suddenly remembered the cockroach from before.
'Could that have been a little girl too?'
He looked around but did not see Akira's soul. Ori just stood quietly beside Yang Tao, not saying a word.
'What a f*cked up world…'
"Resurrection!"
The sacred light did not disdain the target for being an ugly monster, but still dutifully fell upon its body.
As if time was flowing backward, the monster's body began to restore itself, and the splattered blood and flesh returned to its body.
The moment the resurrection effect ended, Yang Tao came before the monster and reached out, plunging his hand into its body.
A soul emitting a faint glow was gently pulled out by him.
However, to his surprise, even without a soul, the monster still opened its mouth wide and bit him fiercely.
'Biological instinct?'
He directly used force to shatter the monster's body into pieces of flesh, then used the power of faith to directly infuse it into Akira's soul.
A brand new body appeared. Yang Tao took out a set of clothes from his backpack and wrapped the still unconscious Akira in them.
Without the Gastrea Virus, Akira had now become an ordinary little girl.
Yang Tao held her and said with a smile to Ori beside him, "Alright, we can go home now."
Ori, who had always been expressionless, finally showed emotion. Looking at Akira in Yang Tao's arms, she asked, "How did you do that?"
"Hm, in other worlds, I am called a God. This kind of thing is not difficult for me."
"A God, huh…"
Yang Tao carried the little girl back home and placed the still sleeping Akira on a soft wool bed.
He walked out of the bedroom.
He had initially thought that the biggest problem for these little girls was their living conditions, but he hadn't expected their biggest problem to truly be 'living' and 'life'.
Gastrea Virus…
Walking out of the room, Yang Tao looked around at the little girls in the room and softly asked, "Who among you has the Gastrea Virus in your body close to the critical value?"
Among the now 15 little girls, two raised their small hands.
"Then you two be careful for now."
Summoning a wooden door, several ordinary Mutated Iron Golems walked out from within. The little girls were a bit restless but quickly settled down.
"If any of you cannot control yourselves and undergo mutation, they can kill you. But you don't have to worry, Brother possesses special power and can save you back like Akira. I am going to find a way to stop your mutation now, and I will be back soon, understand?"
"Understood!"
"Got it!"
"Mmm."
A group of little girls responded to Yang Tao's words, showing no fear at all of being killed if they mutated.
At this moment, a Mutated Iron Golem walked up to a little girl, holding a poppy flower, and offered it to her.