The curly-bearded man looked a little annoyed at Bai Lixin’s annoyingly slow movements, and was about to go forward and snatch it away with one hand, when he heard Bai Lixin unhurriedly say, “If you want it to break, then come and snatch it.”
With a single sentence, the curly-bearded man instantly froze.
Bai Lixin’s fingers were still moving unhurriedly. “Such a sapphire is so brittle that you have to be careful when taking it down, and the slightest carelessness will cause it to fall to cinders. That’s not what you want either, is it?”
The curly-bearded man’s eyes looked greedily at the sapphire close at hand, taking a deep breath before bracing himself against the urge to rush up to grab it. “Hurry up.”
“I’m already hurrying,” Bai Lixin said, looking over at the crowded auditorium. The little girl was in a corner seat, her eyes unblinkingly watching. But she looked a lot more relaxed this time, and although there was still worry in her eyes, there was more excitement.
It was the look of a child seeing a new toy.
“What’s the matter with this audience? Did you hire the actors?” Bai Lixin hooked the bow and pulled the ribbon with a gentle tug.
“They,” the curly-bearded man looked rather disdainful, “are the same as you, also interested in mermaids.”
“They paid money and watched the tape.”
“Curiosity kills the cat, you can’t get out once you’re in.”
The curly-bearded man suddenly stopped, and with a cautious glance at the sapphire, he turned his words around and laughed dryly, “Of course, you’re not the same as them.”
They were turned into spectators, you are going to die.
Not the same indeed.
Bai Lixin finally undid the ribbon and removed the sapphire.
The curly bearded man leaned over excitedly, but Bai Lixin suddenly held back the sapphire in his hand and asked, “How can these spectators get out?”
The curly-bearded man trembled and stopped, looking nervously at the sapphire, his voice soft as if he was afraid of waking a sleeping baby. “How do they get out? By killing a woman’s phantom. But how can you kill her? Even her phantom carries a charm.”
“A woman? Miss Xihai?”
In Bai Lixin’s momentary astonishment, the curly-bearded man reached out and snatched the sapphire.
His eyes greedily licked the crystal clear sapphire, and his warring fingers rubbed over it excitedly.
“Rich! I’m rich! Hahahaha, I am rich!”
The curly-bearded man laughed and suddenly swept a malicious glance toward Bai Lixin.
The whip was flung hard to the ground, and the three well-behaved lions immediately glared fiercely at Bai Lixin.
The man carefully stuffed the sapphire into his jacket pocket and leaned lazily against the fence, looking down at Bai Lixin. “Of course, you’re not like them; they still have a life, but you have to die. It’s all your fault that I was ridiculed by these lowlifes, you must die as an apology!”
With that, he gave another flick, and the whip made a loud “snap” the moment it made contact with the ground.
The lions got their orders, stood up, and slowly approached Bai Lixin.
With each step they took, their gnarled muscles swayed.
The curly-bearded man’s eyes grew red with excitement as he watched the ‘performance’ before him and shouted to the audience, “Ladies and gentlemen, the blood-curdling, tense moment is about to begin!”
He opened his arms wide in excitement, enjoying the focus of the spotlight on his body.”
The man closed his eyes and pricked up his ears, silently waiting for the youth’s screams.
A few seconds passed, but the awaited screams never came.
He opened his eyes in confusion, only to see the three lions, who should have been majestic, cowering in the corner, their bodies trembling like scared kittens.
The youth was standing in front of them with his hand held out. The disgraced lions even whined a few times, turning over to show their fragile white bellies.
The curly bearded man: “……”
What’s going on? What the hell is going on here?
“Hahahaha!” A crisp burst of laughter followed as the little girl who had suddenly appeared laughed again, “Hahahaha, this is so funny, instead of watching “Beauty and the Beast,” we are seeing “Bloodline Suppression”. What lion king, it’s a little yellow dog, I want a refund.”
The numbed audience was compelled to raise their arms and shout, “Refund!”
The curly-bearded man was red in the face, glaring at Bai Lixin. He flung his whip at the three lions, one after the other.
And their fragile bellies were instantly split open.
The three lions cowered back in fear and silently endured the heavy whipping.
As he beat them, the curly-bearded man cursed, “A bunch of useless animals! All of them are useless; they’re all just barrels of rice, they eat so much, but I’m the only one who falls off the wagon when it matters. He is a weakling, what are you afraid of? Come on!”
In response, the three lions screamed in pain and shuddered.
But the curly-bearded man didn’t feel any relief. The crowd was still shouting for refunds, and the sounds were like a hammer to his head.
Shame, anger, and resentment—all these emotions were piled on the whip. He vented his anger, as he always did, by whipping these beasts.
To be questioned in full view of everyone, where would he put his future name as circus leader and top beast tamer?
The anger piled up, and the whip in his hand grew heavier.
So what if they wailed? So what if they begged for mercy? Just a bunch of animals that couldn’t talk, they deserve to be bullied: just as another whip fell hard, a force suddenly held his whip.
Only, the hand was not thick and was even a little slender. The whip was several pounds of force, but it was held steady by such a long, slender hand that it could not move a bit.
The enraged circus leader tugged at the whip as hard as he could. He had never taken the youth in front of him seriously. He was so thin and weak, and he was four or five times his size.
But this thin young man was holding the whip in one hand with an indifferent expression, looking at him as if he were an ant.
Their eyes met once again, and he suddenly felt an invisible pressure he had never felt before.
Cold sweat beaded uncontrollably down his forehead and back as he saw the hideous and terrifying power behind the youth.
It was as if he were a god, towering above all things in the world and looking down on everything.
He could turn his hand into clouds and his hand into rain.
Were the three lions intimidated by such a youth?
The curly-bearded man suddenly realized that things seemed to be moving in the wrong direction. He screamed in horror and let go of the whip, running to the cage door in embarrassment.
Bai Lixin threw away the whip and glanced at the three lions out of the corner of his eye.
The next moment, the three lions, which had just been beaten and were trembling, roared in fury and lunged toward the curly-bearded man.
Sharp fangs sank mercilessly into the man’s arms and shoulders as he cursed in horror: “Get out of my way, you stupid beasts! Have you lost your minds? Look carefully, I am your master! Your tamer!”
He was answered by an even more vicious bite.
There is no mistake, it’s you we want to bite!
The eyes of the three lions were red, they should have been predators in the grasslands, feared by all beasts, but instead, they had become caged performers without dignity, all for the greed of man.
All the resentment and wildness finally overcame the fear of their tamer in this moment.
The fierce hunters of the grasslands were no docile dogs to be kept at home after all.
The lion bit into the curly-bearded man’s chest, and the valuable sapphire was instantly bitten into pieces that fell to the ground.
The man wailed in pain under the three lions while reaching out towards the sapphire, “The jewel, mine, it’s mine ……”
People die for their money, and birds die for their food.
The male lion roared and snapped the man’s throat with one bite.
At once, blood gushed like a column.
Bai Lixin watched indifferently as the man fell into his own pit, the familiar chomping sounds ringing out in his ears.
The scene In front of him jumped, and he was no longer on the stage but on the bleachers.
He was sitting next to the little girl, surrounded by the crowd with fake smiles.
The red curtain had fallen over the stage that had become a flesh-eating scene, and the auditorium was silent, as if it were the calm before a storm.
His hand was grabbed, and Bai Lixin looked sideways to find the little girl staring at him with curious eyes.
A familiar yet unfamiliar scent entered his nose.
It was familiar, but he couldn’t recall where he had smelt it before.
“You’re amazing.” The little girl narrowed her eyes and said, “You must be a mermaid if you’re so powerful and so good-looking.”
A crumpled piece of paper folded squarely was brought to Bai Lixin, and the little girl shook Bai Lixin’s arm and said, “Brother Mermaid, take a look, do you know my mother?”
Bai Lixin unfolded the paper and there was a crayon mermaid drawn on it.
With the beautiful golden fishtail, black wavy hair, astringent brush strokes, and somewhat distorted features, it could be seen that the person who drew this picture is a child.
“You drew this?” Bai Lixin gently flattened the paper, which was already crumpled, and it was obvious that it had been opened and closed often.
The little girl nodded. “Yes, Father said that mother was a mermaid princess in the deep sea, so after becoming a mermaid, she went back to the sea where she belonged.”
She wrinkled her nose a little more aggrievedly and said, “Father said that he loved mother the most and that she would always be his angel, but he married another woman.”
“A bad woman who used to bully Miumiu.”
Bai Lixin: “Your name is Miumiu?”
The little girl lifted her head and said, “Yes, my name is Miumiu.”
The little girl looked at the mermaid on the paper with her face in her hands and said, “Father only has the bad women in his heart now, not Miumiu. So I want to find my mother. Mother said she loved Miumiu before she left.”
“……” the little girl’s eyes suddenly turned red, bean-like tears falling one by one from them, “wuuu, I want, wuuu, to see my mother. “
The little girl’s crying drew the attention of the other spectators around her, who looked at the little girl and whispered.
—-“Look, she’s crying.”
—-“Yes, crying so hard.”
—-“Looks like she’s looking for her mommy.”
—-“Tsk, tsk, tsk, how can a family let a child this young out on her own?”
—-“With a stepmother comes a stepfather. Didn’t the little girl say her father didn’t care about her?”
—-“It’s really too bad, what a good child, if this were my child, I wouldn’t want her to cry.”
——————-
In the live broadcast room.
[Wuuu, I haven’t seen my mother in a while and I don’t know if she’s noticed I’m missing. If I die in the game, will I cease to exist in the real world? Will my mother still remember me as a child? I’m the only child my mother has, so if I suddenly disappear, does that mean she has no heirs at all? Who is going to take care of her in retirement? My mother is too old.]
[……]
[Don’t feel bad; we’ll get out of here. You tell me where you live, and I’ll visit your family! This way, we’ll get to know each other.]
[Oh! By the way, good brothers and sisters, I’ll post my home address on the screen. If I die and any of you get a chance to go out, please go and see how my mother is doing. If she’s not doing well, please help her out.]
[Don’t say such demoralizing things, we will all get out of here!]
[…… When you say these words of encouragement, you don’t believe them yourself, do you? There are too many people around who have died, and no one knows which comes first, the sky or death. God Xin was right when he said that from the day of birth, all life has to come to an end. There is no need to avoid death so much, for we all have to walk to death; it is not a bad thing to prepare in advance.]
[…Yes. I’ll also leave an address …… If you guys have a chance, please help me check on my parents.]
The heaviness gradually enveloped the live broadcast room; the higher they climbed the floors, the higher the probability of death.
One by one, addresses appeared on the barrage, some in the north, some in X City, all from different parts of the world.
Many of the players in front of the screen tacitly picked up a pen and paper and began to record the addresses on it one by one.
No one knew if they could leave until they had completed their main mission.
Everyone was the same.
Write down the addresses and keep them in mind to help others. That way, when one is unfortunate enough to die, perhaps there is another person who had also silently written down their address and helped them check on their home.
[But as I recall, won’t our memories get cleared once we leave the game? Is it really useful to leave addresses like this?]
[This rubbish game is full of bugs, so maybe the memory won’t be cleared successfully? If you leave an address, you’re leaving a memory. If you don’t, you might not have a chance.]
[Yes, that’s right.]
—————–
As Bai Lixin patted the little girl’s back in silence, something seemed to be moving behind the curtain on the stage.
The chattering audience around them suddenly quieted down.
Bai Lixin looked around and noticed that the audience’s expressions had changed.
There was still a fake smile, but the numb eyes were replaced with those of fascination.
They stared unblinkingly in front of them, as if they were expecting something.
The sound of the water slapping against the surface was heard behind the curtain, and the audience straightened their backs and became more and more focused.
The next moment, a melodious, ethereal song rang out from behind the curtain.
At the same time, the red curtain was slowly pulled back, revealing the scene behind it.
It was a giant glass tank with a mermaid with a beautiful blue tail singing with both arms resting on the glass wall.
The black waves were submerged in the water, like soft water plants in the deep sea.
Under the starry moon of aquatic plants, the spotlight was on the mermaid’s head.
For a moment, the mermaid’s body was glowing like an angel.
Her voice also sounded like it had been kissed by the gods, and every word sounded like heavenly music.
Bai Lixin’s brain trembled slightly upon hearing the song, and the system’s warning tone rang out violently.
[Ding! Warning! Warning! The player is under mental attack! San value is continuously dropping.]
Bai Lixin: [……]
Listening to a song and hearing the san value drop was dumbfounding.
[san value-0.00.] [san value-0.00.]
[san-value-0.00.] [san-value-0.00.] [san-value-0.00.] [san-value-0.00.]
[san-value-0.00.] [san-value-0.00.]
[Ding! The player’s spiritual power is too high, the san value drop is ignored.]
[I wish the player a happy game~~]
Bai Lixin: [……]
Just tell me what you’re here for, day in and day out, messing around.
He looked around, and the audience around him had long been as enthralled.
They stared at the stage in awe, looking at the mermaid as if they were looking up to their god.
Bai Lixin glanced towards his side; the little girl beside him was also captivated by the song, and a trance grew in her otherwise clear green eyes.
“Mother……” the little girl suddenly murmured.
Bai Lixin looked at the drawing in her hand and at the mermaid on the stage.
Although both were mermaids, the mermaid in the little girl’s drawing had a golden tail, while the one on stage had a blue tail.
They weren’t the same, were they?
If what the circus leader said was true, this mermaid should be just an illusion of Miss Xihai. The audience was also compelled to stay here by Miss Xihai’s mermaid song.
As long as this phantom was killed, these spectators could be freed from this place.
This thought had just flashed through Bai Lixin’s mind when, in the next instant, even he began to be a little surprised.
The color of the mermaid’s tail on the stage suddenly began to change, starting from the belly and gradually spreading towards the tail, and in the blink of an eye, the original azure scales of the fish changed to gold.
The blue-tailed mermaid became a gold-tailed mermaid right under his nose.
The little girl’s eyes burned as she stared at the mermaid on the stage, her tears once again out of control.
She covered her mouth, and the tears that fell like beads were heartbreaking to anyone who saw them.
“Mother! it’s really Mother!”
Bai Lixin: “……”
The curly-bearded man looked a little annoyed at Bai Lixin’s annoyingly slow movements, and was about to go forward and snatch it away with one hand, when he heard Bai Lixin unhurriedly say, “If you want it to break, then come and snatch it.”
With a single sentence, the curly-bearded man instantly froze.
Bai Lixin’s fingers were still moving unhurriedly. “Such a sapphire is so brittle that you have to be careful when taking it down, and the slightest carelessness will cause it to fall to cinders. That’s not what you want either, is it?”
The curly-bearded man’s eyes looked greedily at the sapphire close at hand, taking a deep breath before bracing himself against the urge to rush up to grab it. “Hurry up.”
“I’m already hurrying,” Bai Lixin said, looking over at the crowded auditorium. The little girl was in a corner seat, her eyes unblinkingly watching. But she looked a lot more relaxed this time, and although there was still worry in her eyes, there was more excitement.
It was the look of a child seeing a new toy.
“What’s the matter with this audience? Did you hire the actors?” Bai Lixin hooked the bow and pulled the ribbon with a gentle tug.
“They,” the curly-bearded man looked rather disdainful, “are the same as you, also interested in mermaids.”
“They paid money and watched the tape.”
“Curiosity kills the cat, you can’t get out once you’re in.”
The curly-bearded man suddenly stopped, and with a cautious glance at the sapphire, he turned his words around and laughed dryly, “Of course, you’re not the same as them.”
They were turned into spectators, you are going to die.
Not the same indeed.
Bai Lixin finally undid the ribbon and removed the sapphire.
The curly bearded man leaned over excitedly, but Bai Lixin suddenly held back the sapphire in his hand and asked, “How can these spectators get out?”
The curly-bearded man trembled and stopped, looking nervously at the sapphire, his voice soft as if he was afraid of waking a sleeping baby. “How do they get out? By killing a woman’s phantom. But how can you kill her? Even her phantom carries a charm.”
“A woman? Miss Xihai?”
In Bai Lixin’s momentary astonishment, the curly-bearded man reached out and snatched the sapphire.
His eyes greedily licked the crystal clear sapphire, and his warring fingers rubbed over it excitedly.
“Rich! I’m rich! Hahahaha, I am rich!”
The curly-bearded man laughed and suddenly swept a malicious glance toward Bai Lixin.
The whip was flung hard to the ground, and the three well-behaved lions immediately glared fiercely at Bai Lixin.
The man carefully stuffed the sapphire into his jacket pocket and leaned lazily against the fence, looking down at Bai Lixin. “Of course, you’re not like them; they still have a life, but you have to die. It’s all your fault that I was ridiculed by these lowlifes, you must die as an apology!”
With that, he gave another flick, and the whip made a loud “snap” the moment it made contact with the ground.
The lions got their orders, stood up, and slowly approached Bai Lixin.
With each step they took, their gnarled muscles swayed.
The curly-bearded man’s eyes grew red with excitement as he watched the ‘performance’ before him and shouted to the audience, “Ladies and gentlemen, the blood-curdling, tense moment is about to begin!”
He opened his arms wide in excitement, enjoying the focus of the spotlight on his body.”
The man closed his eyes and pricked up his ears, silently waiting for the youth’s screams.
A few seconds passed, but the awaited screams never came.
He opened his eyes in confusion, only to see the three lions, who should have been majestic, cowering in the corner, their bodies trembling like scared kittens.
The youth was standing in front of them with his hand held out. The disgraced lions even whined a few times, turning over to show their fragile white bellies.
The curly bearded man: “……”
What’s going on? What the hell is going on here?
“Hahahaha!” A crisp burst of laughter followed as the little girl who had suddenly appeared laughed again, “Hahahaha, this is so funny, instead of watching “Beauty and the Beast,” we are seeing “Bloodline Suppression”. What lion king, it’s a little yellow dog, I want a refund.”
The numbed audience was compelled to raise their arms and shout, “Refund!”
The curly-bearded man was red in the face, glaring at Bai Lixin. He flung his whip at the three lions, one after the other.
And their fragile bellies were instantly split open.
The three lions cowered back in fear and silently endured the heavy whipping.
As he beat them, the curly-bearded man cursed, “A bunch of useless animals! All of them are useless; they’re all just barrels of rice, they eat so much, but I’m the only one who falls off the wagon when it matters. He is a weakling, what are you afraid of? Come on!”
In response, the three lions screamed in pain and shuddered.
But the curly-bearded man didn’t feel any relief. The crowd was still shouting for refunds, and the sounds were like a hammer to his head.
Shame, anger, and resentment—all these emotions were piled on the whip. He vented his anger, as he always did, by whipping these beasts.
To be questioned in full view of everyone, where would he put his future name as circus leader and top beast tamer?
The anger piled up, and the whip in his hand grew heavier.
So what if they wailed? So what if they begged for mercy? Just a bunch of animals that couldn’t talk, they deserve to be bullied: just as another whip fell hard, a force suddenly held his whip.
Only, the hand was not thick and was even a little slender. The whip was several pounds of force, but it was held steady by such a long, slender hand that it could not move a bit.
The enraged circus leader tugged at the whip as hard as he could. He had never taken the youth in front of him seriously. He was so thin and weak, and he was four or five times his size.
But this thin young man was holding the whip in one hand with an indifferent expression, looking at him as if he were an ant.
Their eyes met once again, and he suddenly felt an invisible pressure he had never felt before.
Cold sweat beaded uncontrollably down his forehead and back as he saw the hideous and terrifying power behind the youth.
It was as if he were a god, towering above all things in the world and looking down on everything.
He could turn his hand into clouds and his hand into rain.
Were the three lions intimidated by such a youth?
The curly-bearded man suddenly realized that things seemed to be moving in the wrong direction. He screamed in horror and let go of the whip, running to the cage door in embarrassment.
Bai Lixin threw away the whip and glanced at the three lions out of the corner of his eye.
The next moment, the three lions, which had just been beaten and were trembling, roared in fury and lunged toward the curly-bearded man.
Sharp fangs sank mercilessly into the man’s arms and shoulders as he cursed in horror: “Get out of my way, you stupid beasts! Have you lost your minds? Look carefully, I am your master! Your tamer!”
He was answered by an even more vicious bite.
There is no mistake, it’s you we want to bite!
The eyes of the three lions were red, they should have been predators in the grasslands, feared by all beasts, but instead, they had become caged performers without dignity, all for the greed of man.
All the resentment and wildness finally overcame the fear of their tamer in this moment.
The fierce hunters of the grasslands were no docile dogs to be kept at home after all.
The lion bit into the curly-bearded man’s chest, and the valuable sapphire was instantly bitten into pieces that fell to the ground.
The man wailed in pain under the three lions while reaching out towards the sapphire, “The jewel, mine, it’s mine ……”
People die for their money, and birds die for their food.
The male lion roared and snapped the man’s throat with one bite.
At once, blood gushed like a column.
Bai Lixin watched indifferently as the man fell into his own pit, the familiar chomping sounds ringing out in his ears.
The scene In front of him jumped, and he was no longer on the stage but on the bleachers.
He was sitting next to the little girl, surrounded by the crowd with fake smiles.
The red curtain had fallen over the stage that had become a flesh-eating scene, and the auditorium was silent, as if it were the calm before a storm.
His hand was grabbed, and Bai Lixin looked sideways to find the little girl staring at him with curious eyes.
A familiar yet unfamiliar scent entered his nose.
It was familiar, but he couldn’t recall where he had smelt it before.
“You’re amazing.” The little girl narrowed her eyes and said, “You must be a mermaid if you’re so powerful and so good-looking.”
A crumpled piece of paper folded squarely was brought to Bai Lixin, and the little girl shook Bai Lixin’s arm and said, “Brother Mermaid, take a look, do you know my mother?”
Bai Lixin unfolded the paper and there was a crayon mermaid drawn on it.
With the beautiful golden fishtail, black wavy hair, astringent brush strokes, and somewhat distorted features, it could be seen that the person who drew this picture is a child.
“You drew this?” Bai Lixin gently flattened the paper, which was already crumpled, and it was obvious that it had been opened and closed often.
The little girl nodded. “Yes, Father said that mother was a mermaid princess in the deep sea, so after becoming a mermaid, she went back to the sea where she belonged.”
She wrinkled her nose a little more aggrievedly and said, “Father said that he loved mother the most and that she would always be his angel, but he married another woman.”
“A bad woman who used to bully Miumiu.”
Bai Lixin: “Your name is Miumiu?”
The little girl lifted her head and said, “Yes, my name is Miumiu.”
The little girl looked at the mermaid on the paper with her face in her hands and said, “Father only has the bad women in his heart now, not Miumiu. So I want to find my mother. Mother said she loved Miumiu before she left.”
“……” the little girl’s eyes suddenly turned red, bean-like tears falling one by one from them, “wuuu, I want, wuuu, to see my mother. “
The little girl’s crying drew the attention of the other spectators around her, who looked at the little girl and whispered.
—-“Look, she’s crying.”
—-“Yes, crying so hard.”
—-“Looks like she’s looking for her mommy.”
—-“Tsk, tsk, tsk, how can a family let a child this young out on her own?”
—-“With a stepmother comes a stepfather. Didn’t the little girl say her father didn’t care about her?”
—-“It’s really too bad, what a good child, if this were my child, I wouldn’t want her to cry.”
——————-
In the live broadcast room.
[Wuuu, I haven’t seen my mother in a while and I don’t know if she’s noticed I’m missing. If I die in the game, will I cease to exist in the real world? Will my mother still remember me as a child? I’m the only child my mother has, so if I suddenly disappear, does that mean she has no heirs at all? Who is going to take care of her in retirement? My mother is too old.]
[……]
[Don’t feel bad; we’ll get out of here. You tell me where you live, and I’ll visit your family! This way, we’ll get to know each other.]
[Oh! By the way, good brothers and sisters, I’ll post my home address on the screen. If I die and any of you get a chance to go out, please go and see how my mother is doing. If she’s not doing well, please help her out.]
[Don’t say such demoralizing things, we will all get out of here!]
[…… When you say these words of encouragement, you don’t believe them yourself, do you? There are too many people around who have died, and no one knows which comes first, the sky or death. God Xin was right when he said that from the day of birth, all life has to come to an end. There is no need to avoid death so much, for we all have to walk to death; it is not a bad thing to prepare in advance.]
[…Yes. I’ll also leave an address …… If you guys have a chance, please help me check on my parents.]
The heaviness gradually enveloped the live broadcast room; the higher they climbed the floors, the higher the probability of death.
One by one, addresses appeared on the barrage, some in the north, some in X City, all from different parts of the world.
Many of the players in front of the screen tacitly picked up a pen and paper and began to record the addresses on it one by one.
No one knew if they could leave until they had completed their main mission.
Everyone was the same.
Write down the addresses and keep them in mind to help others. That way, when one is unfortunate enough to die, perhaps there is another person who had also silently written down their address and helped them check on their home.
[But as I recall, won’t our memories get cleared once we leave the game? Is it really useful to leave addresses like this?]
[This rubbish game is full of bugs, so maybe the memory won’t be cleared successfully? If you leave an address, you’re leaving a memory. If you don’t, you might not have a chance.]
[Yes, that’s right.]
—————–
As Bai Lixin patted the little girl’s back in silence, something seemed to be moving behind the curtain on the stage.
The chattering audience around them suddenly quieted down.
Bai Lixin looked around and noticed that the audience’s expressions had changed.
There was still a fake smile, but the numb eyes were replaced with those of fascination.
They stared unblinkingly in front of them, as if they were expecting something.
The sound of the water slapping against the surface was heard behind the curtain, and the audience straightened their backs and became more and more focused.
The next moment, a melodious, ethereal song rang out from behind the curtain.
At the same time, the red curtain was slowly pulled back, revealing the scene behind it.
It was a giant glass tank with a mermaid with a beautiful blue tail singing with both arms resting on the glass wall.
The black waves were submerged in the water, like soft water plants in the deep sea.
Under the starry moon of aquatic plants, the spotlight was on the mermaid’s head.
For a moment, the mermaid’s body was glowing like an angel.
Her voice also sounded like it had been kissed by the gods, and every word sounded like heavenly music.
Bai Lixin’s brain trembled slightly upon hearing the song, and the system’s warning tone rang out violently.
[Ding! Warning! Warning! The player is under mental attack! San value is continuously dropping.]
Bai Lixin: [……]
Listening to a song and hearing the san value drop was dumbfounding.
[san value-0.00.] [san value-0.00.]
[san-value-0.00.] [san-value-0.00.] [san-value-0.00.] [san-value-0.00.]
[san-value-0.00.] [san-value-0.00.]
[Ding! The player’s spiritual power is too high, the san value drop is ignored.]
[I wish the player a happy game~~]
Bai Lixin: [……]
Just tell me what you’re here for, day in and day out, messing around.
He looked around, and the audience around him had long been as enthralled.
They stared at the stage in awe, looking at the mermaid as if they were looking up to their god.
Bai Lixin glanced towards his side; the little girl beside him was also captivated by the song, and a trance grew in her otherwise clear green eyes.
“Mother……” the little girl suddenly murmured.
Bai Lixin looked at the drawing in her hand and at the mermaid on the stage.
Although both were mermaids, the mermaid in the little girl’s drawing had a golden tail, while the one on stage had a blue tail.
They weren’t the same, were they?
If what the circus leader said was true, this mermaid should be just an illusion of Miss Xihai. The audience was also compelled to stay here by Miss Xihai’s mermaid song.
As long as this phantom was killed, these spectators could be freed from this place.
This thought had just flashed through Bai Lixin’s mind when, in the next instant, even he began to be a little surprised.
The color of the mermaid’s tail on the stage suddenly began to change, starting from the belly and gradually spreading towards the tail, and in the blink of an eye, the original azure scales of the fish changed to gold.
The blue-tailed mermaid became a gold-tailed mermaid right under his nose.
The little girl’s eyes burned as she stared at the mermaid on the stage, her tears once again out of control.
She covered her mouth, and the tears that fell like beads were heartbreaking to anyone who saw them.
“Mother! it’s really Mother!”
Bai Lixin: “……”
