[Ding! Warning! Warning! A sharp surge in the mermaid’s spiritual power was detected, and the mental attack continues to strengthen. The player’s san value is affected and continues to drop.]
[san value -0.5.]
[san value-0.5.]
[san value-0.5.]
[Warning, when the player’s san value drops below 30, he will be in a state of mental confusion; the player’s current san value is 98 (continuously dropping)].
[Friendly question: Does the player need an explanation on “mental confusion”?]
Bai Lixin: [Yes.]
[The san value is simply your mental state, the full level stat is 100, when the san value is full, the thinking speed, spiritual power, and judgment are at their fullest.]
[But when your san level starts to drop, your thinking will start to slow down, accompanied by indecision, self-denial, and negative emotions.]
[Once your san value drops below the threshold of 30, your inner spirit will be in a state of confusion. In this state, you will lose all judgment and become mentally paralyzed, with no judgment and hallucinations. You will believe the words of the person who made the mental attack, and your thinking will be blocked.]
[When your san value becomes 0, you will become a follower of the mental attacker and become a perfect non-thinking submissive.]
[A friendly reminder: san is reversible before it reaches 0; once it drops to 0, it is irreversible.]
Bai Lixin: [So you become a high-level fool.]
Escape System: [Uh, it can be interpreted that way. Master Bai Lixin, your san value has already dropped to 95 during this time, so you should find a way to get out of here.]
[These spectators around you are already at 0. Even if you bring them out, they won’t know who they are or even know they are alive.]
The system’s notification of the san value drop was still in the prompt dialog box. A 0.5 drop may not seem like much, but it couldn’t stand the continuous drop.
The mermaid’s spiritual power increased when the tail became golden.
Bai Lixin placed his eyes on the little golden girl beside him with a thoughtful expression.
Was there a direct relationship between the mermaid suddenly having a golden tail and upgrading, and this little girl beside him?
The little girl didn’t notice Bai Lixin’s gaze, all of her attention was on the stage above her, and her originally bright gaze was growing dull and with a bit of obsession.
The system’s warning tone rang out again.
[Ding! Warning, the mermaid’s spiritual power continues to rise; please leave or break the mermaid’s mental attack as soon as possible.]
The drop frequency displayed on the screen increased from -0.5 to -0.8, and it was still increasing in steps.
The audience around them was so exuberant that they didn’t need anyone’s call, they all silently got up from their chairs, holding hands and opening their mouths to match the mermaid’s song with appropriate auxiliary sounds.
This couldn’t go on; something had to be done.
Bai Lixin jumped up from his seat with a serious expression, taking out his scythe from the backpack as he did.
The silver scythe looked like a moon that had fallen into the mortal world under the spotlight overhead, its body so dazzling and unblemished.
When the scythe was only a hair’s breadth away from the mermaid in the glass, the mermaid suddenly looked up at him with red eyes.
The familiar and abrupt static rang out again.
The moment the scythe was about to cut the mermaid’s neck, it somehow missed, and as Bai Lixin frowned, the scene switched, and he was at the end of the stage.
The camera was set up behind him, and the audience, who had been standing in the auditorium a moment ago, were now all standing hand in hand on the stage, their smiling faces withdrew as they stared at Bai Lixin coldly.
They were like knights in the court, ready to lay down their lives to protect their princess.
Inside the wall of people was the golden-tailed mermaid, who had stopped singing and was glaring at Bai Lixin and holding the eerie and mysterious little golden girl in her arms.
The little girl glared at Bai Lixin and pointed at him angrily, “You bad man, why did you hurt my mother?!”
Bai Lixin propped his scythe on the ground and said, “Take a good look again, she is not your mother.”
The little girl looked up at Miss Xihai in confusion and then looked at Bai Lixin again, accusations and anger in her milky voice, “She is my mother, my father lied to me, that bad woman lied to me, and even you, an outsider, are trying to lie to me, you are all bad people, all bad people!”
Bai Lixin pursed his lips.
Miss Xihai’s face did not change. At first, the little girl did not acknowledge Miss Xihai as her mother, but now she took Miss Xihai, who now had a golden tail, as her mother.
This little girl had an unexplainable, mysterious power in her, could it be that the mermaid had been influenced by this little girl’s power and had deliberately changed her color to compel the little girl?
Was the spiritual power of the golden-tailed mermaid elevated because the little girl took her as her mother?
One was a mermaid whose mental attack had increased by several levels, and the other was a little girl whose power could not be analyzed.
Bai Lixin frowned a little helplessly.
He needed to kill the phantom to leave this place without hurting the little girl, which was a bit difficult.
“Are you thinking about how to kill my mother?” The little girl suddenly shouted at him, “You big villain, you won’t end up well. It’s in the books that all villains will be punished!”
“And so will you.”
The moment the little girl’s words fell, the familiar static rang out once again.
It was not a blackness this time, but a sudden cooling down of the surroundings. The area before him distorted, and the objects around him were slowly covered in snowflakes and pixelated.
Bai Lixin looked down at his hands, which were distorted into pixels just like his surroundings.
The world was falling apart.
Just like Bai Lixin, the spectators and the mermaid were also pixelated.
The only one who was not affected was the little girl, who seemed out of place with everything around her.
The little girl’s eyes flashed with fear and panic as she looked at the distorted space that kept falling and the mermaid that was slowly being pixelated.
She clung to her mother in fear, her voice trembling with a helpless plea, “Mom, I’m scared. Don’t leave me, mom.”
The mermaid didn’t say anything; her body, which was gradually turning into a pixel, held the little girl in her arms, her blood-red eyes still staring at Bai Lixin.
The ‘blocks’ around her gradually collapsed, and where they collapsed, pitch black replaced them.
Darkness soon gathered from all sides, but the tripod camera behind Bai Lixin still gave off an eerie blue light.
He turned his head to look at the camera, and a familiar arm suddenly reached in through the circular lens of the camera, grabbing Bai Lixin with quick precision.
The next second, Bai Lixin was instantly drawn into the camera.
Bai Lixin smiled softly and put the scythe away.
He knew that his silver-haired wizard had come to his rescue.
At the last moment of entering the camera lens, Bai Lixin glanced back at the center of the stage.
The little girl was curled up in the mermaid’s hands with teardrops at the corners of her eyes, her eyes closed, and her eyelashes trembling. Her face looked serene and content, as if she had simply fallen asleep. The mermaid holding her was no longer looking at him but had turned her head to look at the little girl in her arms with blurred vision.
She held the little girl tightly in her arms and gave her the warmest and most reassuring embrace.
A twisted darkness passed, and Bai Lixin felt his body fall into a cold embrace.
He opened his eyes to see the silver-haired wizard holding him. A thick layer of frost had formed around the room, even the silver eyelashes and lips had a layer of frost.
The silver-haired wizard’s eyes dropped to gaze at Bai Lixin in his arms, and the last glimmer of worry dissipated from his cold eyes.
His embrace was cold, as was the air around him, and Bai Lixin shivered instinctively, turning his head to look at the TV.
The TV was already damaged by the frost, and the moment Bai Lixin looked over, a white light flashed across the screen, then it went completely black.
“Haven’t you seen enough? Do you want me to stick you in again?”
The wizard’s cold, voice rang out, and there was a chill in his words.
[Lord host,] s419M’s voice rang out in his head, [I’d like to warn you that the Lord God is angry ah. He may be an ice cube, but he is very angry now, and that might lead to serious consequences. You better appease him quickly.]
Bai Lixin: “……”
Appease, how?
Do you think I would play with my life?
Bai Lixin’s thick eyelashes quivered like butterflies several times before he raised his head half aggrievedly and half flatteringly.
Before the silver-haired wizard could reprimand him again, Bai Lixin reached out and touched the silver-haired wizard’s lips.
The warm, soft fingertips brushed away the frost on his lips and dispelled a little of his anger.
He watched Bai Lixin’s movements in a daze, and heard the youth say softly, “Your lips are covered in frost, you must be very cold, right?”
The tone was soft, like those little wild cats in the forest, with hooks in their purring.
No, the youth’s tone was much more seductive than those little wild cats, it was like a little demon.
He instantly realized that the youth was trying to calm him down. The silver-haired wizard coughed lightly and replied with a cold face, “It’s okay.”
“Why are you angry?” Bai Lixin’s innocent, black jewel-like eyes stared into the silver eyes. “I don’t even know how I suddenly fell in; I was worried and panicking, but when I thought I was almost finished, you saved me.”
As their eyes locked, the silver-haired wizard shifted his gaze in a panic, gently releasing Bai Lixin from his arms and taking two steps back to avoid close contact with him.
The silver-haired wizard looked down at the ground, his lips pursed tightly, a touch of stubbornness and helplessness in his tense body.
“I’m not angry.”
How could he be angry? He was clearly overly worried.
Watching the youth get sucked into the tape right under his nose, and watching him get tied to such a dangerous wheel, stand on such a high tightrope, and finally be sent into a cage with a bunch of beasts.
With each change in the image, the youth had to go through danger, but he could only watch from the outside, unable to do anything.
At that moment, he felt like a waste.
He claimed to be the most powerful wizard in the world, yet he was unable to even protect the one considered his master.
This was the second time, Bai Lixin had suffered in front of him.
Self-recrimination, worry, anger, all the emotions poured down in a flash, instantly freezing this space into an ice domain.
The frost stained the television and the VCR, and he immediately realized that his frost had somehow made its way into the television.
He realized that frost was everywhere and that it might be able to open up a channel, and it was through this channel that he dragged Bai Lixin out.
Bai Lixin went to the VCR and tried to remove the tape, only to find that the VCR had already frozen into a lump of ice and the buttons had long since stopped working.
He glanced at the silver-haired wizard, who immediately understood and let out a deep breath into the VCR, which had just frozen over, and it immediately returned to normal.
After removing the tape, Bai Lixin swept the frost off it and heard the wizard’s somewhat awkward voice: “You didn’t get hurt much while you were in there, did you?”
“No, I’m fine.” Bai Lixin held the tape up to the sunlight and found that the tape inside was cracked from the ice that had just formed.
It appeared to be broken.
Placing the tape on the table to one side, Bai Lixin touched his collar with some regret, “It’s just a shame about the sapphire; it was bitten by the lion.”
The silver-haired wizard leaned in and snorted, “It’s just a sapphire, I have plenty of them. I not only have sapphires, but also emeralds, rubies, and diamonds, if you like, I can even build you a diamond castle and decorate it with all the gems you desire, making it a gemstone palace like no other in the world.”
Bai Lixin suddenly grabbed the silver-haired wizard’s sleeve and dry-heaved with distress.
The silver-haired wizard held Bai Lixin up with worry: “What’s wrong?!”
Bai Lixin spoke with a trembling voice, “No, it’s nothing; just don’t mention the word “diamond.” I can’t stand it.”
Just hearing the word made him sick.
——————-
In the live broadcast room.
[Hahahaha, there are people like God Xin who don’t care about money.]
[Since then, God Xin missed the diamonds. ]
[I feel sorry for the big boss.]
[Why do you feel sorry for him?]
[ Think about…the loving big boss goes down on one knee in the future, and when he affectionately takes out the diamond ring to propose marriage, he is greeted with God Xin’s ruthless vomiting.]
[……]
[Big boss: What the hell did I do wrong?]
[God Xin skillfully broke the world’s hoax that diamonds are a symbol of love.]
[Diamond merchant: I thank you!]
—————–
When the two of them got out of the truck, Bai Lixin was instantly shocked by the white snow in front of him.
The pedestrians around them were shivering as they wrapped their outerwear and scarves tightly around them.
“Hiss, it’s so cold; why is the temperature suddenly dropping again? It’s only been a few days since the last snowfall. The days are getting weirder and weirder now.”
“The weather is so unpredictable nowadays, this feels like we’re living in an ice cellar. ”
“A few days ago, it snowed for three days and three nights, I wonder how long it will snow this time.”
“This city is getting weirder, especially after the mermaid story. Everything became strange, even the weather.”
“Ugh, it’s the end of the world, what can we do about it?”
The silver-haired wizard used his magic wand to conjure up a thick cloak to drape over Bai Lixin’s head, and as they walked through the aisles of the circus, the conversations of the people easily came to Bai Lixin’s ears.
He glanced at the silver-haired wizard and asked, “Did you make that snow of three days and three nights too?”
The silver-haired wizard tensed up, and he looked at the road in front of him, his eyes dodging a little, “Mmm.”
Bai Lixin: “Because of me? Were you worried about me?”
The silver-haired wizard was silent for several seconds before nodding slowly and saying, “Yes.”
[Ding! Warning! Warning! A sharp surge in the mermaid’s spiritual power was detected, and the mental attack continues to strengthen. The player’s san value is affected and continues to drop.]
[san value -0.5.]
[san value-0.5.]
[san value-0.5.]
[Warning, when the player’s san value drops below 30, he will be in a state of mental confusion; the player’s current san value is 98 (continuously dropping)].
[Friendly question: Does the player need an explanation on “mental confusion”?]
Bai Lixin: [Yes.]
[The san value is simply your mental state, the full level stat is 100, when the san value is full, the thinking speed, spiritual power, and judgment are at their fullest.]
[But when your san level starts to drop, your thinking will start to slow down, accompanied by indecision, self-denial, and negative emotions.]
[Once your san value drops below the threshold of 30, your inner spirit will be in a state of confusion. In this state, you will lose all judgment and become mentally paralyzed, with no judgment and hallucinations. You will believe the words of the person who made the mental attack, and your thinking will be blocked.]
[When your san value becomes 0, you will become a follower of the mental attacker and become a perfect non-thinking submissive.]
[A friendly reminder: san is reversible before it reaches 0; once it drops to 0, it is irreversible.]
Bai Lixin: [So you become a high-level fool.]
Escape System: [Uh, it can be interpreted that way. Master Bai Lixin, your san value has already dropped to 95 during this time, so you should find a way to get out of here.]
[These spectators around you are already at 0. Even if you bring them out, they won’t know who they are or even know they are alive.]
The system’s notification of the san value drop was still in the prompt dialog box. A 0.5 drop may not seem like much, but it couldn’t stand the continuous drop.
The mermaid’s spiritual power increased when the tail became golden.
Bai Lixin placed his eyes on the little golden girl beside him with a thoughtful expression.
Was there a direct relationship between the mermaid suddenly having a golden tail and upgrading, and this little girl beside him?
The little girl didn’t notice Bai Lixin’s gaze, all of her attention was on the stage above her, and her originally bright gaze was growing dull and with a bit of obsession.
The system’s warning tone rang out again.
[Ding! Warning, the mermaid’s spiritual power continues to rise; please leave or break the mermaid’s mental attack as soon as possible.]
The drop frequency displayed on the screen increased from -0.5 to -0.8, and it was still increasing in steps.
The audience around them was so exuberant that they didn’t need anyone’s call, they all silently got up from their chairs, holding hands and opening their mouths to match the mermaid’s song with appropriate auxiliary sounds.
This couldn’t go on; something had to be done.
Bai Lixin jumped up from his seat with a serious expression, taking out his scythe from the backpack as he did.
The silver scythe looked like a moon that had fallen into the mortal world under the spotlight overhead, its body so dazzling and unblemished.
When the scythe was only a hair’s breadth away from the mermaid in the glass, the mermaid suddenly looked up at him with red eyes.
The familiar and abrupt static rang out again.
The moment the scythe was about to cut the mermaid’s neck, it somehow missed, and as Bai Lixin frowned, the scene switched, and he was at the end of the stage.
The camera was set up behind him, and the audience, who had been standing in the auditorium a moment ago, were now all standing hand in hand on the stage, their smiling faces withdrew as they stared at Bai Lixin coldly.
They were like knights in the court, ready to lay down their lives to protect their princess.
Inside the wall of people was the golden-tailed mermaid, who had stopped singing and was glaring at Bai Lixin and holding the eerie and mysterious little golden girl in her arms.
The little girl glared at Bai Lixin and pointed at him angrily, “You bad man, why did you hurt my mother?!”
Bai Lixin propped his scythe on the ground and said, “Take a good look again, she is not your mother.”
The little girl looked up at Miss Xihai in confusion and then looked at Bai Lixin again, accusations and anger in her milky voice, “She is my mother, my father lied to me, that bad woman lied to me, and even you, an outsider, are trying to lie to me, you are all bad people, all bad people!”
Bai Lixin pursed his lips.
Miss Xihai’s face did not change. At first, the little girl did not acknowledge Miss Xihai as her mother, but now she took Miss Xihai, who now had a golden tail, as her mother.
This little girl had an unexplainable, mysterious power in her, could it be that the mermaid had been influenced by this little girl’s power and had deliberately changed her color to compel the little girl?
Was the spiritual power of the golden-tailed mermaid elevated because the little girl took her as her mother?
One was a mermaid whose mental attack had increased by several levels, and the other was a little girl whose power could not be analyzed.
Bai Lixin frowned a little helplessly.
He needed to kill the phantom to leave this place without hurting the little girl, which was a bit difficult.
“Are you thinking about how to kill my mother?” The little girl suddenly shouted at him, “You big villain, you won’t end up well. It’s in the books that all villains will be punished!”
“And so will you.”
The moment the little girl’s words fell, the familiar static rang out once again.
It was not a blackness this time, but a sudden cooling down of the surroundings. The area before him distorted, and the objects around him were slowly covered in snowflakes and pixelated.
Bai Lixin looked down at his hands, which were distorted into pixels just like his surroundings.
The world was falling apart.
Just like Bai Lixin, the spectators and the mermaid were also pixelated.
The only one who was not affected was the little girl, who seemed out of place with everything around her.
The little girl’s eyes flashed with fear and panic as she looked at the distorted space that kept falling and the mermaid that was slowly being pixelated.
She clung to her mother in fear, her voice trembling with a helpless plea, “Mom, I’m scared. Don’t leave me, mom.”
The mermaid didn’t say anything; her body, which was gradually turning into a pixel, held the little girl in her arms, her blood-red eyes still staring at Bai Lixin.
The ‘blocks’ around her gradually collapsed, and where they collapsed, pitch black replaced them.
Darkness soon gathered from all sides, but the tripod camera behind Bai Lixin still gave off an eerie blue light.
He turned his head to look at the camera, and a familiar arm suddenly reached in through the circular lens of the camera, grabbing Bai Lixin with quick precision.
The next second, Bai Lixin was instantly drawn into the camera.
Bai Lixin smiled softly and put the scythe away.
He knew that his silver-haired wizard had come to his rescue.
At the last moment of entering the camera lens, Bai Lixin glanced back at the center of the stage.
The little girl was curled up in the mermaid’s hands with teardrops at the corners of her eyes, her eyes closed, and her eyelashes trembling. Her face looked serene and content, as if she had simply fallen asleep. The mermaid holding her was no longer looking at him but had turned her head to look at the little girl in her arms with blurred vision.
She held the little girl tightly in her arms and gave her the warmest and most reassuring embrace.
A twisted darkness passed, and Bai Lixin felt his body fall into a cold embrace.
He opened his eyes to see the silver-haired wizard holding him. A thick layer of frost had formed around the room, even the silver eyelashes and lips had a layer of frost.
The silver-haired wizard’s eyes dropped to gaze at Bai Lixin in his arms, and the last glimmer of worry dissipated from his cold eyes.
His embrace was cold, as was the air around him, and Bai Lixin shivered instinctively, turning his head to look at the TV.
The TV was already damaged by the frost, and the moment Bai Lixin looked over, a white light flashed across the screen, then it went completely black.
“Haven’t you seen enough? Do you want me to stick you in again?”
The wizard’s cold, voice rang out, and there was a chill in his words.
[Lord host,] s419M’s voice rang out in his head, [I’d like to warn you that the Lord God is angry ah. He may be an ice cube, but he is very angry now, and that might lead to serious consequences. You better appease him quickly.]
Bai Lixin: “……”
Appease, how?
Do you think I would play with my life?
Bai Lixin’s thick eyelashes quivered like butterflies several times before he raised his head half aggrievedly and half flatteringly.
Before the silver-haired wizard could reprimand him again, Bai Lixin reached out and touched the silver-haired wizard’s lips.
The warm, soft fingertips brushed away the frost on his lips and dispelled a little of his anger.
He watched Bai Lixin’s movements in a daze, and heard the youth say softly, “Your lips are covered in frost, you must be very cold, right?”
The tone was soft, like those little wild cats in the forest, with hooks in their purring.
No, the youth’s tone was much more seductive than those little wild cats, it was like a little demon.
He instantly realized that the youth was trying to calm him down. The silver-haired wizard coughed lightly and replied with a cold face, “It’s okay.”
“Why are you angry?” Bai Lixin’s innocent, black jewel-like eyes stared into the silver eyes. “I don’t even know how I suddenly fell in; I was worried and panicking, but when I thought I was almost finished, you saved me.”
As their eyes locked, the silver-haired wizard shifted his gaze in a panic, gently releasing Bai Lixin from his arms and taking two steps back to avoid close contact with him.
The silver-haired wizard looked down at the ground, his lips pursed tightly, a touch of stubbornness and helplessness in his tense body.
“I’m not angry.”
How could he be angry? He was clearly overly worried.
Watching the youth get sucked into the tape right under his nose, and watching him get tied to such a dangerous wheel, stand on such a high tightrope, and finally be sent into a cage with a bunch of beasts.
With each change in the image, the youth had to go through danger, but he could only watch from the outside, unable to do anything.
At that moment, he felt like a waste.
He claimed to be the most powerful wizard in the world, yet he was unable to even protect the one considered his master.
This was the second time, Bai Lixin had suffered in front of him.
Self-recrimination, worry, anger, all the emotions poured down in a flash, instantly freezing this space into an ice domain.
The frost stained the television and the VCR, and he immediately realized that his frost had somehow made its way into the television.
He realized that frost was everywhere and that it might be able to open up a channel, and it was through this channel that he dragged Bai Lixin out.
Bai Lixin went to the VCR and tried to remove the tape, only to find that the VCR had already frozen into a lump of ice and the buttons had long since stopped working.
He glanced at the silver-haired wizard, who immediately understood and let out a deep breath into the VCR, which had just frozen over, and it immediately returned to normal.
After removing the tape, Bai Lixin swept the frost off it and heard the wizard’s somewhat awkward voice: “You didn’t get hurt much while you were in there, did you?”
“No, I’m fine.” Bai Lixin held the tape up to the sunlight and found that the tape inside was cracked from the ice that had just formed.
It appeared to be broken.
Placing the tape on the table to one side, Bai Lixin touched his collar with some regret, “It’s just a shame about the sapphire; it was bitten by the lion.”
The silver-haired wizard leaned in and snorted, “It’s just a sapphire, I have plenty of them. I not only have sapphires, but also emeralds, rubies, and diamonds, if you like, I can even build you a diamond castle and decorate it with all the gems you desire, making it a gemstone palace like no other in the world.”
Bai Lixin suddenly grabbed the silver-haired wizard’s sleeve and dry-heaved with distress.
The silver-haired wizard held Bai Lixin up with worry: “What’s wrong?!”
Bai Lixin spoke with a trembling voice, “No, it’s nothing; just don’t mention the word “diamond.” I can’t stand it.”
Just hearing the word made him sick.
——————-
In the live broadcast room.
[Hahahaha, there are people like God Xin who don’t care about money.]
[Since then, God Xin missed the diamonds. ]
[I feel sorry for the big boss.]
[Why do you feel sorry for him?]
[ Think about…the loving big boss goes down on one knee in the future, and when he affectionately takes out the diamond ring to propose marriage, he is greeted with God Xin’s ruthless vomiting.]
[……]
[Big boss: What the hell did I do wrong?]
[God Xin skillfully broke the world’s hoax that diamonds are a symbol of love.]
[Diamond merchant: I thank you!]
—————–
When the two of them got out of the truck, Bai Lixin was instantly shocked by the white snow in front of him.
The pedestrians around them were shivering as they wrapped their outerwear and scarves tightly around them.
“Hiss, it’s so cold; why is the temperature suddenly dropping again? It’s only been a few days since the last snowfall. The days are getting weirder and weirder now.”
“The weather is so unpredictable nowadays, this feels like we’re living in an ice cellar. ”
“A few days ago, it snowed for three days and three nights, I wonder how long it will snow this time.”
“This city is getting weirder, especially after the mermaid story. Everything became strange, even the weather.”
“Ugh, it’s the end of the world, what can we do about it?”
The silver-haired wizard used his magic wand to conjure up a thick cloak to drape over Bai Lixin’s head, and as they walked through the aisles of the circus, the conversations of the people easily came to Bai Lixin’s ears.
He glanced at the silver-haired wizard and asked, “Did you make that snow of three days and three nights too?”
The silver-haired wizard tensed up, and he looked at the road in front of him, his eyes dodging a little, “Mmm.”
Bai Lixin: “Because of me? Were you worried about me?”
The silver-haired wizard was silent for several seconds before nodding slowly and saying, “Yes.”
