Chapter 81

A faint, almost imperceptible line...

It connected Moyou to the auras of those ordinary people.

Although he felt no threat, being surrounded by these unusual auras made him feel uncomfortable.

Moyou finished ordering his meal and leaned back in his chair quietly.

From the first mysterious aura that suddenly appeared in his field of vision to now being surrounded by 11 auras at once, Moyou could confirm one thing.

He could sense the existence of these auras, but they seemed to ignore him completely.

What exactly were these auras...

Moyou had no idea.

During the month he spent in Schwadani City, he only encountered two of them.

Considering their almost zero threat level, although he had the thought to investigate, there were more important matters at the time, so he did not pursue it further.

Now, just by sitting on a spaceship, he encountered 11 of them at once...

This gave Moyou a sense of "increasing numbers."

However, he had spent a month in the hotel room and had not explored most of Schwadani City, so it was hard to make a judgment.

There was one more point to note.

When he encountered the man in the suit at the airport, Bisji was also present.

But Bisji did not sense the same "similar" strange aura from the man in the suit as Moyou did.

This was enough to show that it wasn't just "psychic ability users" who could sense the auras, but only "he" could.

"Anyway, let's choose one group to observe."

Moyou thought to himself, and after making his decision, he focused on the family of three.

Just because, compared to the other nine auras...

This family of three consisted of two auras and one normal person.

Moyou believed that a combination of "abnormal" and "normal" was the most suitable observation target.

After determining his observation target, Moyou casually scanned the restaurant.

All the guests and waiters present were ordinary people who allowed their life energy to flow naturally.

After a while, the waiter brought the food.

Moyou ate while secretly observing the family of three.

They seemed to be finishing their meal and were preparing to leave.

"Daddy, Daddy, I want to see the stars."

The little girl, after eating her fill, took off her napkin and gently shook the man's arm.

The man raised his hand to pat the little girl's head and said with a smile, "Okay, Daddy will take Little Dodo to see the stars."

"Yay!"

Little Dodo let go of the man's arm and happily waved her hands.

Beside her, the woman watched her husband and daughter, a happy smile on her face.

The man then called the waiter to pay the bill and walked with the woman, holding Little Dodo's hand, toward the restaurant door.

Moyou watched this scene and immediately activated his ability, splitting a shadow to quietly follow the family of three.

Now, he had the ability to let the split shadow move freely throughout the entire spaceship, and it was no problem to use it to follow the family of three.

The shared auditory and visual abilities allowed him to observe the process in real-time.

It was like setting up a surveillance camera on the family of three, and he could monitor everything from his room.

Moyou focused on eating his meal.

He quickly cleared the table, but still felt no sign of fullness, so he called the waiter to order another full table of dishes.

The waiter, seeing the empty plates and bowls on the table, was surprised but did not show it, and suggested that Moyou move to a nearby table.

Moyou accepted the waiter's suggestion, sat at another table, and waited for the new round of food to arrive.

While waiting, he observed the family of three through the real-time images transmitted by the shadow.

Little Dodo was held in the man's arms, her hands gently resting on the window, her excited gaze looking through the glass at the night sky, trying to find the stars.

But no matter where she looked, she couldn't see any stars.

"Daddy, I can't find the little stars."

Little Dodo couldn't hide her disappointment, her voice tinged with a sob, as if she was about to cry.

The man quickly comforted her, "Let's try looking in another place, we'll definitely find the little stars."

"Okay."

Little Dodo's eyes were red, and she sniffled.

The man gave his wife a helpless smile and immediately carried Little Dodo to another corridor.

The woman covered her mouth and laughed softly, walking alongside her husband, occasionally raising her hand to tidy Little Dodo's messy hair.

They walked around the outer corridor and finally fulfilled their daughter's wish to see the stars.

"Are you sleepy?"

The man held Little Dodo in one arm and rubbed her forehead with the other.

Little Dodo yawned and, hearing her father's words, quickly shook her head, stubbornly saying, "Not sleepy, I want to play more."

"It's very late, it's time to go to bed."

The woman looked at Little Dodo, her tone slightly stern.

Little Dodo shrank back, quickly hugging the man's neck, her head resting on his shoulder, not daring to look at the woman.

The man held the little girl tightly and said softly, "Little Dodo, listen to Mommy, let's go back."

"Okay..."

Little Dodo reluctantly mumbled.

Under Moyou's "watchful eye," the family of three returned to their room.

The thumbnail-sized shadow that followed them slipped through the door crack and observed the situation inside the room.

The man went to the bathroom to shower, while the woman sat on the bed, telling a story to her drowsy daughter.

A moment later.

The already sleepy Little Dodo fell into a deep sleep.

The woman gently covered Little Dodo with a blanket, then got up and walked toward the bathroom.

As she passed the table, her pale, slender fingers easily lifted a heavy glass ashtray.

"Honey, let me help you scrub your back."

The woman stood outside the bathroom door and said softly.

"Sure."

The man's voice came from the shower, amidst the sound of running water.

The woman smiled and pushed open the bathroom door, carrying the glass ashtray inside.

"Honey?"

The man was washing his hair and, turning around, saw his wife with her usual kind smile, but holding a heavy ashtray, which made him pause.

The woman said nothing, maintaining her smile as she stepped closer to the man.

"Honey, what's... wrong?"

The man's eyes widened slowly, his heart racing.

The woman quickly stepped forward and raised the ashtray, smashing it down on the man's head.

Bang!

The man let out a惨叫, pushing his wife away and running out of the bathroom toward the bed.

He had no idea why his wife was attacking him; his first reaction was to worry about his daughter's safety.

Rushing to the bed as fast as he could, the man saw his daughter sleeping peacefully, and his heart eased.

"Little Dodo..."

Ignoring the blood streaming from his head, he picked up his sleeping daughter.

Just as he lifted her, he saw his wife, holding the blood-stained ashtray, walk out of the bathroom.

What's going on, why is this happening?!

The man's heart raced, his pupils trembling.

"Can Daddy take Little Dodo to see the stars again tomorrow?"

Suddenly, his daughter's voice rang out from his arms.

The man's heart jolted; his only thought was to protect his daughter from his wife.

However—

The little girl's hands, as usual, wrapped around the man's neck, but with an unusual force.

"Little Dodo?"

The man looked at his daughter in shock, clearly feeling the abnormal strength on his neck.

Unbelievable shock and a sense of suffocation suddenly overwhelmed him...

Little Dodo loved her daddy the most.

In his mind, he saw his daughter's happy face when she hugged his neck.

Then, the cold darkness swallowed his consciousness.