Captain Liang didn’t believe it. “Mr. Zhang, you’re saying that the murderer killed a kid as well? Why would he do that? Is the murderer some sort of maniac killer?”

Yin Xinyue would never tolerate such things. She pouted her lips and chimed in, “If this is true, he’s really a raving lunatic.”

I shook my head. “No, there’s a reason behind the child’s death.”

Under normal circumstances, the one using a powerful otherworldly item would receive a serious backlash if the item was used excessively. If the user wasn’t careful, his vitality would be damaged; in the worst cases, he would lose his life! To protect himself, it was possible to keep and raise a child like his own. This would form a parent-child relationship between them, and the boy or the girl would receive that deadly backlash from the otherworldly item in the user’s stead.

A child’s resistance was clearly inferior to an adult’s....