Chapter 580 Poor Infant Spirit

Chapter 580 Poor Infant Spirit

I'd been watching quietly for quite a while, and it seemed Chloe didn't know this middle-aged man. At first, Chloe was busy being greeted by the four elderly people and probably hadn't noticed him yet. When she finally spotted the middle-aged man, she asked Bob, "Who is he?"

That was exactly what I wanted to know too.

The first time I saw him, I felt he wasn't some pervert - he just seemed like an idiot. I'd never seen anyone stare at a woman like that before.

At that moment, Chloe's mother Sabrina Jones said, "This is Byron Reyes. I invited him to check your 'misfortune.'"

"Checking misfortune" was a local dialect term, similar to exorcism and prophecy. It meant checking whether you had any vengeful spirits attached to you.

Chloe asked in confusion, "I just had a car accident. What's there to check?"

Bob hadn't wanted to tell Chloe about Jasper being sick, worried it would affect her recovery. But Sabrina, always speaking her mind, sighed and said, "You don't know - right after you were hospitalized, Jasper started having constant fevers. He's in the infectious disease hospital now. They say it's not measles or chickenpox, just a high fever that won't break."

"What's wrong with Jasper?" Having just lost one child, Chloe didn't want anything to happen to Jasper. Her face went pale with fear as she grabbed Sabrina's hand and said, "If that's the case, why don't you have Byron check on Jasper instead of coming to see me?"

Sabrina said, "This Byron is an exorcist with incredible abilities. I had to ask many friends before I could get him to come. He already checked on Jasper and said the root of the problem is with you, so we rushed over to see you."

Chloe looked at Bob in confusion. Bob smiled awkwardly and instinctively glanced at me, seeming a bit wary of my presence. But he couldn't help explaining, "Chloe, I don't believe in this stuff either, but Jasper's illness is strange. Since Mom went through the trouble of getting this master here, why don't you just let him take a look?"

Byron pondered for a long while, as if observing and thinking, but I was sure he was just putting on an act.

After a moment, he suddenly said, "I've identified the problem. We need to perform an exorcism ritual. If we don't do it soon, the dirty thing staying in your child's body too long will make the child lose his mind."

Everyone present turned pale - they were all Jasper's closest relatives.

When I heard about vengeful spirits, I wanted to laugh. I had my third eye opened - if there really was a vengeful spirit, wouldn't I be able to see it?

Besides, according to Paul, when it came to catching ghosts and demons, few people in the world were better than me. He'd practiced his whole life and couldn't do it, let alone this Byron who looked like a fraud.

"Then what are we waiting for? Do the exorcism now!"

"Yes, our two families only have this one child. Nothing can happen to him!"

"Master, can you do it now?"

"Whatever you need, just say it!"

The four elderly people rushed to speak up, all hoping their grandson would recover soon.

Bob and Chloe didn't seem too surprised. First, they didn't believe in this superstitious stuff. Second, they probably saw, like I did, that Byron was a fraud, but couldn't say so with the four elderly people present.

Byron said unhurriedly, "The vengeful spirit on her is too powerful. Ideally, we should do the exorcism ritual between 2 and 3 PM, but there's no time now. I need to call two assistants, so it's best to schedule it for midnight tonight."

Sabrina immediately said, "Good, good, good. We'll do whatever Byron says. What else do you need us to do?"

Byron said, "You don't need to do anything. I just need Ms. Chen's cooperation. After all, this is a hospital - it wouldn't be good if we made too much noise."

Sabrina nodded in agreement and went to persuade Chloe. The other three elderly people also joined in, urging Chloe to cooperate with Byron no matter what.

Chloe was clearly getting impatient because she didn't believe any of this. But seeing the four elderly people so anxious, she asked expressionlessly, "You're an exorcist, right?"

"Yes."

"Don't take this the wrong way, but it's like going to the hospital - you have to tell me what's wrong before I can cooperate with you, right?"

Byron nodded. "No problem. Because you had a car accident and miscarried, the soul of the child in your belly hasn't dispersed. Not only is it lurking in your body, but it's also harming its older brother."

Really?

These days, forget married women - how many unmarried girls have had abortions? If those could all form ghosts, wouldn't there be too many ghosts in the world?

Chloe asked in confusion, "The baby in my belly was less than three months old and hadn't fully formed yet. Even if ghosts really exist in this world, it couldn't happen that fast, could it?"

Byron smiled slightly and asked back, "Have you heard of Infant Spirits?"

Chloe shook her head and looked around at us. We all looked at each other - none of us had heard of Infant Spirits.

Since Byron used that specific term, we weren't even sure what he meant by "Infant Spirit."

Sabrina picked up a chair and brought it over, gesturing for Byron to sit. But Byron didn't sit. Instead, he stood there and began explaining to us.

So-called Infant Spirits are the souls of fetuses that died in the womb before birth for various reasons - like miscarriage or abortion - or premature babies who died shortly after birth.

Infant Spirits could be described as neither human nor ghost nor god nor demon, but something that remains in this world. Perhaps calling them "wandering souls" would be more intuitive.

Generally speaking, in the view of some exorcists, every baby has finally earned the chance to be reborn as a human after going through the trials of hell.

But they died before birth or shortly after, with their lifespan not yet complete but without a human body. They can only attach themselves to their parents or siblings. Only after their lifespan is complete can they be registered as ghosts and enter the next cycle of rebirth. Whether they can be reborn as humans again is still unknown.

Byron spoke with such conviction that although we felt lost in a fog, we almost started to believe that ghosts really existed in this world.

Forget about them - even I felt chills running down my spine and goosebumps all over.

If Infant Spirits really existed, wouldn't that be too pitiful?