It was a night of thunder and lightning.
Ye Miaomiao hid alone in the closet, watching the outside through the cracks in the door.
Her father had already fallen in a pool of blood, and her mother was being strangled by the overseer's black mist, suspended in mid-air.
Ye Miaomiao looked at the black mist entwining her mother with a terrified expression, covering her mouth and nose tightly, afraid of making any sound that might attract the overseer's attention.
"G-Great one... we truly know nothing..." Ye Miaomiao's mother struggled with difficulty, her face contorted in pain.
"Whether you know or not, it's not up to you to decide."
The overseer sneered, and the black mist around Ye Miaomiao's mother transformed into sharp spikes, piercing into her mother's head.
"Ahhhhhh!"
Ye Miaomiao's mother let out a piercing scream, and then, under Ye Miaomiao's gaze, she was completely sucked dry into a mummy!
Tears streamed down Ye Miaomiao's cheeks, but she gritted her teeth, remaining silent.
However, Ye Miaomiao did not know that no matter how hard she tried to suppress her fear and grief, the moment the overseer entered, they already knew of her existence.
All her restraint was meaningless.
"Damn it... still nothing. Where is the Original Soul King's power hidden?"
The overseer casually threw Ye Miaomiao's mother's corpse to the ground, then turned his attention to the closet where Ye Miaomiao was hiding, slowly drifting towards her, seemingly intending to search her as well.
However, just as the overseer was about to open the closet, a huge noise suddenly erupted from outside the house, and the dark sky suddenly lit up as if it were daytime!
"Original Soul King!" The overseer turned sharply towards the outside, his eyes filled with ecstatic joy. He then ignored Ye Miaomiao and flew out of the house!
Seeing the overseer leave, Ye Miaomiao finally emerged from the closet. She didn't even dare to look at her parents' bodies and fled the house like a madwoman.
Boom!!!
Shortly after Ye Miaomiao escaped the house, a laser beam descended from the sky, leveling Ye Miaomiao's house. Ye Miaomiao was also blown into a ditch by the powerful shockwave and knocked unconscious.
Ye Miaomiao's memory thereafter was of being found by a passing farming family, and then, for various reasons, she joined the Wings of Freedom, was trained by the Wings of Freedom into a rebel, until she met Ye Ling.
Ye Ling finished reading Ye Miaomiao's memories and withdrew his soul power, taking a deep breath.
"Ye Ling, how is it?"
Nuo Ying asked quickly when Ye Ling finished reading the memories.
Ye Ling looked at Nuo Ying and said in a deep voice, "Nuo Ying, it seems we've stumbled into another major event."
"Major event?" Nuo Ying was startled. "What kind of major event could be bigger than the overseers?"
Ye Ling did not hide anything and told Nuo Ying everything he had seen in Ye Miaomiao's soul.
"Y-you mean... Ye Miaomiao is related to the Seven Original Kings?" Nuo Ying exclaimed in disbelief.
She had witnessed the power of the Seven Original Kings.
Ye Ling, merely inheriting part of the Original Wisdom King's power, already had strength that could crush overseers and make him one of the top powerhouses in the Primordial Chaos.
And now, in this low-martial civilization, an ordinary person could be connected to the most top-tier powerhouses of the Primordial Chaos...
Nuo Ying found the matter too preposterous.
Ye Ling replied, "Although this is incredible, the fact that the overseers targeted Ye Miaomiao's family is undeniable. No matter how unbelievable it sounds, it's true."
"The overseers must have had a special reason to target Ye Miaomiao's family."
"Let me process this... The information is overwhelming." Nuo Ying still couldn't accept the fact and walked aside to calm herself.
Ye Ling, on the other hand, was not idle. After the initial shock, he gradually calmed down and began to meticulously recall all of Ye Miaomiao's memories since her birth, trying to find anything special in her family that attracted the overseers.
Unfortunately, from Ye Miaomiao's perspective, Ye Ling could not discern anything special about her family. The overseers' arrival seemed to have happened out of the blue.
The only noteworthy point was that shortly before the overseers arrived, Ye Miaomiao's parents had frantically hidden Ye Miaomiao in the closet.
However, Ye Miaomiao's parents' actions were also without warning, and Ye Ling could not glean any useful information.
Ye Miaomiao, seeing Ye Ling and Nuo Ying's serious expressions, couldn't help but ask, "Are the overseers and the Seven Original Kings you mentioned... very powerful figures?"
Ye Ling came back to his senses and nodded at Ye Miaomiao, "Yes... you can think of them as figures like the Creator God, Tianyi Shangdi, from your world's mythology. They are even stronger than Tianyi Shangdi!"
"Stronger than Tianyi Shangdi?"
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Ye Miaomiao was completely stunned, her pupils trembling.
Such beings were beyond her comprehension.
"So that ghost was that strong! But why did he attack my parents?" Ye Miaomiao muttered to herself after recovering, still unable to understand why the overseer had attacked her parents.
Their family was ordinary. How could they possibly be connected to creator-level deities?
Ye Ling said, "I am also still puzzled about this. To figure this out, we might need to visit your home."
"But my home was destroyed by lightning long ago. It's now a military base built by the Black Tower. What can we find there?" Ye Miaomiao asked doubtfully.
"I have my ways," Ye Ling replied.
Although Ye Ling couldn't find any clues from Ye Miaomiao's perspective, he might be able to find the information he wanted if he approached it from Ye Miaomiao's parents' point of view.
Even though Ye Miaomiao's parents were both tragically killed by the overseers, the events that occurred in that place would be imprinted in time.
If Ye Ling returned to Ye Miaomiao's home and rewound time, he might find some clues from Ye Miaomiao's parents' perspective.
Even if Ye Miaomiao's parents were killed by overseers unaffected by time and space, Ye Ling observed from Ye Miaomiao's memories that the overseers, due to the appearance of the Original Soul King's power, had left in a hurry and had not erased the records of their actions in time.
Ye Ling should be able to find some special clues by going to Ye Miaomiao's home.
Ye Miaomiao, hearing Ye Ling's words, didn't think much of it. Just as she was about to agree to go home with Ye Ling, the room's door was kicked open!
"Hahaha! You will all die!!!"
At this moment, a man in a black raincoat, holding a chainsaw, suddenly rushed in, shouting in a hoarse voice.
However, before the chainsaw-wielding man could even step into the room, Ye Ling casually flicked his hand, sending a gust of wind that struck the man.
Bang!!!
The chainsaw-wielding man was directly blown against the wall, crushed into a pulp, as if he were a mosquito swatted against a wall.
Silence fell upon the room once more.
Ye Miaomiao stared at the chainsaw-wielding man, who had appeared for less than a second, her mouth agape, her jaw almost hitting the floor!
She hadn't even had time to scream before the killer was dead...
What happened to the promised night of terror, the promised trial?
Ye Miaomiao looked at the smear of blood on the wall, unsure how to describe her feelings.
Ye Ling, however, as if he had casually swatted a mosquito, calmly said to Ye Miaomiao, "Let's go. We need to resolve the matter of the overseers and the Seven Original Kings as soon as possible."
Ye Miaomiao nodded subconsciously, "Oh..."