Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!-Chapter 2200: Offspring

The woman was confessing, but in reality, she was recounting her bitter past.

She lost her parents at a young age and was taken in and cared for by other believers under the radiance of the Goddess. However, her foster parents also died in an attack by Outer Zone players. She spent two years moving between neighbors’ homes before finally entering an institution similar to a welfare home specially set up for orphans of believers.

Here, she lived neither poorly nor well. The adults, after being baptized, were very patient with the children, never beating or scolding them. However, the children, not yet bathed in the radiance of the Goddess, did not understand compassion or how to associate kindly with others. She was often bullied and went hungry frequently. When she told the adults, they pitied her but were also extremely lenient towards the children bullying her.

The believers just said that when the children grow up and are called by the Goddess, they will naturally correct themselves—even evildoers can reform, let alone children.

So, the woman also began to yearn for the Goddess. As she grew, she saw many children who once bullied her become good, even apologizing to her and caring for her after making amends.

This made her even more faithful to the Goddess, deciding to follow the Goddess forever once she grew up.

The believers said the Goddess was near everyone, regardless of whether they were believers. Thus, the woman treated everyone equally, caring for the sick, the elderly without support, and orphaned children. She often worked herself into illness but did not see it as a bad thing; rather, she viewed each illness as a test of her will.

Whether such a test is reasonable or acknowledged by the Goddess, the woman believed she received positive feedback since caring for a severely injured Outer Zone player later brought her love.

The stranded Outer Zone player could not leave this district, so they became a couple. Thanks to her lover’s help, the Advanced Evolution Potion healed some of her injuries. Two years later, they had a child in anxiety, worrying the child might be as weak and sickly as the woman or, worse, an unhealthy dual-gender like others. However, they were fortunate; the child was utterly "normal" like the father, surpassing the health of those in this district and not being dual-gender.

Being different often attracts criticism, so they soon moved, living elsewhere. The lover and child changed their names and stopped going to hospitals, while the woman made slight adjustments to her appearance.

Because the child was a normal person, the woman’s husband worried he might become a player one day and began targeted training early, using good evolution potions for his health, teaching him fighting skills, instance strategies, and painstakingly searching for Super Evolution methods.

Those were happy times. In her spare moments, the woman began to help in clinics and welfare institutions, living a careful but never before so happy life. But soon, her life changed drastically.

A Saintess from the Divine Temple arrived, believing the woman’s child was talented and wanted him to be tested and blessed by the Goddess. That day, many people came to the house. The woman was at a loss, while her husband frowned deeply.

Ultimately, the child left with the Saintess. Over the next six months, the child would contact them every few days, describing what he learned in the Divine Temple, and said the Saintesses were kind to him. Sometimes, in a daze, he even heard the Goddess speaking to him, although he couldn’t remember the words.

The woman grew happier, but her husband grew increasingly discontent. Six months later, as previously arranged, the woman waited for the child to return home, but he never came. They couldn’t contact the Divine Temple either, so the husband hurriedly left after instructing her briefly.

He left and never came back.

Anxiously and worriedly waiting until the next morning, two players from the Divine Temple came and told the woman that her husband betrayed the Goddess and killed a Saintess, so he and the child had fled the district.

The people from the Divine Temple did not trouble her, but since her husband and child were now traitors of the Goddess Church, the woman considered herself guilty and sought redemption. She sold the house and all valuable possessions, donating the proceeds to unsupported elders, working from dawn till night, refusing help, eating only the bare minimum of food, and even refusing medical treatment for injuries...

"I hope this washes away my sins, wishing to die in repentance, but my body is too strong...all these years, and I just can’t die... Is it because my sins aren’t fully atoned yet... Goddess, I beg you to forgive me, let me bear the sin alone, and spare my husband and child..."

The woman cried herself to sleep; the light in the room long gone, as there wasn’t any Goddess.

Xu Huo was just outside the alley, capturing the photo in the woman’s arms before leaving.

The woman deliberately omitted some key points during her account, like the reasons for changing their residence, names, and looks after the child was born, or why the Divine Temple kept a non-dual-gender child. Additionally, if the child was well cared for, why did the father go to the Divine Temple to retrieve the child, to the extent of betraying and leaving with the child... This is the Divine Temple’s narrative; the truth is unclear, but it seems unlikely because if that Outer Zone player could indeed take the child away, moving and name-changing wouldn’t be the chosen strategy to evade the Divine Temple.

However, this incident suggests that it’s not uncommon for stranded Outer Zone players and local people to have normal children. Over such a long period, the Divine Temple must have been aware and even intervened in these normal children among the decision-makers of the Goddess Church. The stranded Outer Zone players obviously realized this, avoiding district hospitals in later years, and were unwilling to expose their children to believers’ eyes.

So, besides the Divine Envoys, Saintess, and Believers, the main personnel structure of this district includes stranded Outer Zone players and their children, even grandchildren.

What would the descendants born from Outer and local people think of the Goddess Church?

If the normal children born from combining with Outer Zone people are healthier and more suitable to become players, it would challenge the fundamental belief the Goddess Church has always advocated—that being dual-gender is stronger and more fitting for this world. What would the decision-makers of the Goddess Church do in response?

Knowing there are better ways to prevent deformed births and extend ordinary people’s lives, yet staying silent, and under the guidance of Outer Zone players, along with the experiences after becoming players, wouldn’t the children born here, turning back to this religion, cultivate doubt and resentment?