“Sir! Look, I found something!”
A voice suddenly came from behind the waterfall. Bai Lixin followed the sound and saw the young constable rushing out from behind the waterfall, holding two skeletons in his arms – one large and one small.
They were human-shaped, with somewhat familiar clothes.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘I’ve truly found a great helper.’
The young constable was drenched all over. He came to a stop on the rocks behind the waterfall and stared directly at the kneeling woman in red.
He ran down from the rocks in three swift steps, scrutinizing the beautiful woman in front of him with wide eyes. “Sir, who is she? Why is she kneeling before you?”
The two exchanged glances, uncertain of what to say.
Bai Lixin hesitated for two seconds, preparing to come up with a reason to explain, but the woman in red spoke first, “I am Sir’s concubine.”
Bai Lixin: “???”
‘You’re not, quickly say you’re not!’
The young constable looked at Bai Lixin and then at the woman in red, his eyeballs rolling in their sockets. He was already composing a lively drama in his mind. “Oh, I see. So, do I need to leave?”
“Wait!” Bai Lixin felt that this misunderstanding needed to be clarified. “She’s not my concubine, she just… fell into the water, and I saved her. This girl wants to repay her life saving grace with her body, but how could I be that kind of person? Of course, I rejected her.”
“In short!” Bai Lixin said firmly, “I have no relationship with this girl!”
‘Misunderstandings like this must be avoided, what will happen if the old gong finds out about it? He doesn’t like such emotional misunderstandings.’
Even though he and his lover have been together for tens of thousands of years, they both instinctively maintain a certain distance from third parties. This is respect for their own feelings and respect for each other.
“Young lady,” Bai Lixin’s expression was very serious this time. “I don’t know what Hongyue told you, but feelings are not a child’s play. I won’t allow you to repay you’re a favor with your body. Your life is your own; you cannot use your life to repay a favor.”
“You’re wrong,” the woman in red raised her head to look at Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin: “I’m wrong?”
Woman in red: “It’s a dragon life, not just a life.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Fine, fine, you’re right.’
The woman in red slowly stood up from the ground. “This is what you said. I don’t need to repay anything. If I leave, all debts between us will be cleared, right?”
Bai Lixin: “What I said, I won’t take it back.” ‘Go, go, quickly go.’
The woman in red snorted and leaped into the sky, turning into a giant dragon with golden-red scales. The dragon circled twice above Bai Lixin’s head, let out a dragon’s roar, and in the next second, it soared into the clouds and disappeared from view.
The young constable knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically. “A dragon, it’s a dragon! A divine dragon!”
“Sir, the woman just now, she’s a divine dragon!”
“Divine dragon, oh please bless me that I can find a beautiful wife this year and have a smart son. Please make me a bit smarter too.”
“Oh right, I also want to earn more money.”
“And also, if I could become more handsome, that would be even better.”
“Also, please bless my mother’s health.”
“And also, please bless our family with a good harvest this year.”
“And also, please bless our nation’s prosperity and it’s people’s wellbeing.”
“Wait, I haven’t finished speaking yet, …”
Bai Lixin: “…”
Even Aladdin only got three wishes. Listen to yourself, do your wishes sound reasonable?
——————————–
[A true wishing madman.]
[If the divine dragon hears this, it might spit water back at him.]
[The nation’s prosperity and it’s people’s wellbeing..]
[Even though it’s through the screen, we’ve seen the divine dragon, so let’s make a wish too?]
[I wish for this damn horror game to close down soon, I wish for everyone to be able to leave this place.]
[I wish for all the people who died in the horror game to come back to life.]
[I wish for our country’s peace and prosperity, harmonious weather, and everlasting prosperity.]
[I wish for everyone’s loved ones to be healthy and everything to go well for them outside.]
Unconsciously, what was originally a casual chat turned into a wishing frenzy.
Seeing the beautiful wishes scrolling on the screen, players’ hearts were filled with myriad emotions.
What surprised them was that most of these wishes were not made for themselves.
Some people hoped that everyone would leave, and many more wished for the deceased players to come back to life. Although once players die, their memories related to them will slowly disappear. They don’t remember who died and have definitely forgotten many people’s names and faces.
But they know, someone definitely died.
The system erases those people from their memories, denying the significance of their existence. But even if they don’t remember their names, so what? Even if they forget who they are, they still know that someone died in the copy.
The system wants to beautify the surface, wants to erase their memories. But even though human memories are easy to erase, human emotions, however, are not so easily wiped away.
They will never forget.
Players stared at the barrage that filled the screen, their eyes gradually filling with warm tears.
Once, they thought it was impossible to overcome this horror game. But now, for some reason, a thought quietly emerged in their hearts.
Bai Lixin was different from all the other players.
He was like a beam of light, suddenly appearing before them, bringing direction to their confused paths.
He was powerful, yet not arrogant.
He not only rescued players but was unexpectedly gentle with NPCs.
But he wasn’t a saint; he didn’t shower everyone with unconditional kindness like central air conditioning.
He knew how to distinguish between gratitude and resentment.
Ever since Bai Lixin’s live broadcast room became popular, and after all this time of fermentation, they gradually noticed that more and more of “God Xin’s fans” appeared in copies. Originally, everyone would deceive and betray each other for survival, even attacking each other in the end.
It still happened, but gradually, many players, especially those with abilities, started to shoulder their responsibilities.
Gathered together, it’s like a fire; scattered, it’s like stars in the sky.
With the fire of a star, the pitch-black night sky is illuminated.
Some say that for the horror game, only by using violence to counter violence can you win completely. That like Little Overlord, only by completely destroying the source can you make the system bow down.
But if violence dominates everything, won’t players become mere instruments of violence?
What defines a person?
Even beasts possess gentleness, not to mention humans. If violence and slaughter are all that’s left in a human’s heart, how are they any different from the savage beasts in the copies?
———————————
After the young constable had made a bunch of wishes, he finally stood up from the ground. He straightened his soaked clothes and pointed at the two corpses, continuing to ask, “Sir, what should we do with these two corpses?”
Bai Lixin: “…Where they came from, put them back there.”
Young constable: “Huh? Why?”
‘Why? Because you took out the old woman, now you should just follow her in death!’
“Don’t you know about water burials?” Bai Lixin coughed lightly. “Can’t you see, they were buried in the water? So you have dug up their graves. Hurry up and send them back while they’re not angry yet. And make an apology when you put them back.”
After the incident with the red dragon, the young constable already had full trust in Bai Lixin. Whatever Master Bai Lixin said, he would do it. He nodded gratefully and carefully returned the two bodies.
It was a long time later that he walked out from behind the waterfall.
Bai Lixin asked curiously, “Why did it take you so long?”
Young constable: “Sir, you I was so guilty and had to kowtow and chant scriptures. That’s why it took so long. But sir, you know so much, even about water burials.”
Bai Lixin: ‘If I can’t bluff my way through, how can I be called ‘sir’? As long as I can fabricate well enough, I’m omniscient.’
Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on a pile of bones on the ground.
Now that he knew what was at the bottom of the lake, he couldn’t throw them down there again. He pondered for two seconds, then put all these bones into his backpack. Luckily, his backpack was big enough to hold so many things.
The young constable looked at the bones that disappeared into thin air and was dumbfounded. “Sir, you even know Qimen Dunjia? Is there anything you don’t know?”
*Qimen Dunjia is a form of divination, that includes medical divination, matchmaking, childbirth, travel, personal fortunes, etc.Bai Lixin paused for two seconds. “Well, I don’t know about childbirth. Let’s go, let’s go back.”
He had been hesitating about how to explain to the young constable, but he didn’t expect the constable to be so considerate and had already come up with a reason for him.
Young constable: “Sir, since we’re here, why don’t we go to Qingcheng Sect?”
Bai Lixin: “Another day, it’s not the right time now.” He now has a pig teammate. If he turns into a fox, not only will he not be able to beat the other side, he might also get caught.
…..
It was already noon when they came down from the mountain. As they passed by Tongfu Inn, from a distance, they saw many people outside, holding bowls, waiting for meat.
As Bai Lixin walked through the crowd, his eyes suddenly stopped on a person.
“Momo?” As Bai Lixin approached, the person was engrossed in playing with the corner of her clothes.
Halfway through playing, she heard a familiar voice and quickly looked up.
Looking up, she stared at the newcomer in confusion. “Immortal Lady?”
Bai Lixin nodded to her. “Come with me.”
The young constable was following beside them. Bai Lixin had something to ask the thin maid, so he asked the young constable to go back first. When the young constable had walked far enough, Bai Lixin led the thin maid into a nearby alley. “You can’t eat this monster meat.”
He assessed the thin maid with a hint of anger; compared to the last time, she looked considerably worse, with sunken eye sockets and dry, lackluster hair.
Holding the bowl helplessly, she replied, “But, Master fell seriously ill, and lying in bed dying. The doctors are baffled, they say there’s no serious illness, but the prescriptions have no effect. They told us to prepare a coffin for the aftermath.”
“Since the doctors couldn’t help, I thought about trying our luck here. Maybe we can get some divine meat. If Master eats it, maybe he’ll recover.”
Bai Lixin recalled the faint black aura he had seen around Master Song on the first day. “Wasn’t Master Song in relatively good health that day? How did he deteriorate so suddenly?”
“I’m puzzled too. You asked me to leave that day, and when I returned, Master was already like this,” the thin maid said.
Bai Lixin glanced in the direction of Tongfu Inn. “Lead me to the Song Residence. Have you eaten this divine meat before today?”
The thin maid shook her head. “I arrived late. I’ve come a few times, but never managed to get any. Today, I came early and was summoned by you.”
“It’s best of you don’t eat it,” Bai Lixin said. “It’s not something good.”
The thin maid interjected, “But this was distributed by the Qingcheng Sect’s immortals. Isn’t it a good thing? Many others ate it without any issues.”
“No issues?” Bai Lixin chuckled softly. “Then how did your young miss die?”
The thin maid hesitated for a moment. “Are you saying my young miss’s death is related to this divine meat? But my young miss never ate it.”
Bai Lixin: “That’s what I wanted to ask you. Did your young miss visit Qingcheng Sect?”
The thin maid recalled for a moment, then nodded. “Yes, she did. My young miss used to visit Qingcheng Sect frequently.”
Bai Lixin continued, “Then let me ask you, while she was at Qingcheng Sect, did she eat or drink anything?”
The thin maid: “Of course, Qingcheng Sect serves meals and drinks for the believers at noon. My young miss had partaken.”
“And did you eat it?” Bai Lixin asked.
“I’m just a servant, I don’t get to eat such things.”
Bai Lixin said “oh” after hearing the reply, “That’s good then.”
“By the way, Immortal Lady,” the thin maid looked Bai Lixin up and down, “Are you a man or a woman?”
Bai Lixin raised his chin, pointing to his Adam’s apple. “See that? I’m absolutely male. I have a little time right now. Do you need me to go to your house and take a look?”
With such a good opportunity, how could she refuse? “Of course, please. I am grateful for the Immortal Lady’s… oh, um Master’s help.”
Before Bai Lixin arrived at the Song Residence, he saw a dense black aura hovering above it.
Standing upright at the Song Residence’s entrance was a person.
Upon seeing that person’s back, Bai Lixin quickened his pace, walking a few steps to reach them. “Master, what a coincidence.”
Fanjia hadn’t expected to encounter Bai Lixin here and was momentarily stunned. “Why are you here?”
“By chance, I met momo on the road. I heard that Master Song fell seriously ill and found it strange, so I came to take a look,” Bai Lixin smiled. “The two of us really have good understanding. We suddenly met each other in this big town. Isn’t this what you Buddhists call fate?”
“Amitabha, I sensed lingering resentment in this house. It’s just that…”
“It’s just that the people of the Song family look down on people and don’t let you in, and as a disciple of Buddhism, you can’t force yourself in, so you can only stare here, right?” Bai Lixin patted his chest, “Aren’t I here now?”
The eyes of the two fell onto the thin maid.
The thin maid cleverly looked at the closed gate. “How dare this group of short-sided servants dare to stop you? They must be wishing harm on the old Master. Please come in quickly, I’ll have them open the gate for you.”
“Sir! Look, I found something!”
A voice suddenly came from behind the waterfall. Bai Lixin followed the sound and saw the young constable rushing out from behind the waterfall, holding two skeletons in his arms – one large and one small.
They were human-shaped, with somewhat familiar clothes.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘I’ve truly found a great helper.’
The young constable was drenched all over. He came to a stop on the rocks behind the waterfall and stared directly at the kneeling woman in red.
He ran down from the rocks in three swift steps, scrutinizing the beautiful woman in front of him with wide eyes. “Sir, who is she? Why is she kneeling before you?”
The two exchanged glances, uncertain of what to say.
Bai Lixin hesitated for two seconds, preparing to come up with a reason to explain, but the woman in red spoke first, “I am Sir’s concubine.”
Bai Lixin: “???”
‘You’re not, quickly say you’re not!’
The young constable looked at Bai Lixin and then at the woman in red, his eyeballs rolling in their sockets. He was already composing a lively drama in his mind. “Oh, I see. So, do I need to leave?”
“Wait!” Bai Lixin felt that this misunderstanding needed to be clarified. “She’s not my concubine, she just… fell into the water, and I saved her. This girl wants to repay her life saving grace with her body, but how could I be that kind of person? Of course, I rejected her.”
“In short!” Bai Lixin said firmly, “I have no relationship with this girl!”
‘Misunderstandings like this must be avoided, what will happen if the old gong finds out about it? He doesn’t like such emotional misunderstandings.’
Even though he and his lover have been together for tens of thousands of years, they both instinctively maintain a certain distance from third parties. This is respect for their own feelings and respect for each other.
“Young lady,” Bai Lixin’s expression was very serious this time. “I don’t know what Hongyue told you, but feelings are not a child’s play. I won’t allow you to repay you’re a favor with your body. Your life is your own; you cannot use your life to repay a favor.”
“You’re wrong,” the woman in red raised her head to look at Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin: “I’m wrong?”
Woman in red: “It’s a dragon life, not just a life.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Fine, fine, you’re right.’
The woman in red slowly stood up from the ground. “This is what you said. I don’t need to repay anything. If I leave, all debts between us will be cleared, right?”
Bai Lixin: “What I said, I won’t take it back.” ‘Go, go, quickly go.’
The woman in red snorted and leaped into the sky, turning into a giant dragon with golden-red scales. The dragon circled twice above Bai Lixin’s head, let out a dragon’s roar, and in the next second, it soared into the clouds and disappeared from view.
The young constable knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically. “A dragon, it’s a dragon! A divine dragon!”
“Sir, the woman just now, she’s a divine dragon!”
“Divine dragon, oh please bless me that I can find a beautiful wife this year and have a smart son. Please make me a bit smarter too.”
“Oh right, I also want to earn more money.”
“And also, if I could become more handsome, that would be even better.”
“Also, please bless my mother’s health.”
“And also, please bless our family with a good harvest this year.”
“And also, please bless our nation’s prosperity and it’s people’s wellbeing.”
“Wait, I haven’t finished speaking yet, …”
Bai Lixin: “…”
Even Aladdin only got three wishes. Listen to yourself, do your wishes sound reasonable?
——————————–
[A true wishing madman.]
[If the divine dragon hears this, it might spit water back at him.]
[The nation’s prosperity and it’s people’s wellbeing..]
[Even though it’s through the screen, we’ve seen the divine dragon, so let’s make a wish too?]
[I wish for this damn horror game to close down soon, I wish for everyone to be able to leave this place.]
[I wish for all the people who died in the horror game to come back to life.]
[I wish for our country’s peace and prosperity, harmonious weather, and everlasting prosperity.]
[I wish for everyone’s loved ones to be healthy and everything to go well for them outside.]
Unconsciously, what was originally a casual chat turned into a wishing frenzy.
Seeing the beautiful wishes scrolling on the screen, players’ hearts were filled with myriad emotions.
What surprised them was that most of these wishes were not made for themselves.
Some people hoped that everyone would leave, and many more wished for the deceased players to come back to life. Although once players die, their memories related to them will slowly disappear. They don’t remember who died and have definitely forgotten many people’s names and faces.
But they know, someone definitely died.
The system erases those people from their memories, denying the significance of their existence. But even if they don’t remember their names, so what? Even if they forget who they are, they still know that someone died in the copy.
The system wants to beautify the surface, wants to erase their memories. But even though human memories are easy to erase, human emotions, however, are not so easily wiped away.
They will never forget.
Players stared at the barrage that filled the screen, their eyes gradually filling with warm tears.
Once, they thought it was impossible to overcome this horror game. But now, for some reason, a thought quietly emerged in their hearts.
Bai Lixin was different from all the other players.
He was like a beam of light, suddenly appearing before them, bringing direction to their confused paths.
He was powerful, yet not arrogant.
He not only rescued players but was unexpectedly gentle with NPCs.
But he wasn’t a saint; he didn’t shower everyone with unconditional kindness like central air conditioning.
He knew how to distinguish between gratitude and resentment.
Ever since Bai Lixin’s live broadcast room became popular, and after all this time of fermentation, they gradually noticed that more and more of “God Xin’s fans” appeared in copies. Originally, everyone would deceive and betray each other for survival, even attacking each other in the end.
It still happened, but gradually, many players, especially those with abilities, started to shoulder their responsibilities.
Gathered together, it’s like a fire; scattered, it’s like stars in the sky.
With the fire of a star, the pitch-black night sky is illuminated.
Some say that for the horror game, only by using violence to counter violence can you win completely. That like Little Overlord, only by completely destroying the source can you make the system bow down.
But if violence dominates everything, won’t players become mere instruments of violence?
What defines a person?
Even beasts possess gentleness, not to mention humans. If violence and slaughter are all that’s left in a human’s heart, how are they any different from the savage beasts in the copies?
———————————
After the young constable had made a bunch of wishes, he finally stood up from the ground. He straightened his soaked clothes and pointed at the two corpses, continuing to ask, “Sir, what should we do with these two corpses?”
Bai Lixin: “…Where they came from, put them back there.”
Young constable: “Huh? Why?”
‘Why? Because you took out the old woman, now you should just follow her in death!’
“Don’t you know about water burials?” Bai Lixin coughed lightly. “Can’t you see, they were buried in the water? So you have dug up their graves. Hurry up and send them back while they’re not angry yet. And make an apology when you put them back.”
After the incident with the red dragon, the young constable already had full trust in Bai Lixin. Whatever Master Bai Lixin said, he would do it. He nodded gratefully and carefully returned the two bodies.
It was a long time later that he walked out from behind the waterfall.
Bai Lixin asked curiously, “Why did it take you so long?”
Young constable: “Sir, you I was so guilty and had to kowtow and chant scriptures. That’s why it took so long. But sir, you know so much, even about water burials.”
Bai Lixin: ‘If I can’t bluff my way through, how can I be called ‘sir’? As long as I can fabricate well enough, I’m omniscient.’
Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on a pile of bones on the ground.
Now that he knew what was at the bottom of the lake, he couldn’t throw them down there again. He pondered for two seconds, then put all these bones into his backpack. Luckily, his backpack was big enough to hold so many things.
The young constable looked at the bones that disappeared into thin air and was dumbfounded. “Sir, you even know Qimen Dunjia? Is there anything you don’t know?”
*Qimen Dunjia is a form of divination, that includes medical divination, matchmaking, childbirth, travel, personal fortunes, etc.Bai Lixin paused for two seconds. “Well, I don’t know about childbirth. Let’s go, let’s go back.”
He had been hesitating about how to explain to the young constable, but he didn’t expect the constable to be so considerate and had already come up with a reason for him.
Young constable: “Sir, since we’re here, why don’t we go to Qingcheng Sect?”
Bai Lixin: “Another day, it’s not the right time now.” He now has a pig teammate. If he turns into a fox, not only will he not be able to beat the other side, he might also get caught.
…..
It was already noon when they came down from the mountain. As they passed by Tongfu Inn, from a distance, they saw many people outside, holding bowls, waiting for meat.
As Bai Lixin walked through the crowd, his eyes suddenly stopped on a person.
“Momo?” As Bai Lixin approached, the person was engrossed in playing with the corner of her clothes.
Halfway through playing, she heard a familiar voice and quickly looked up.
Looking up, she stared at the newcomer in confusion. “Immortal Lady?”
Bai Lixin nodded to her. “Come with me.”
The young constable was following beside them. Bai Lixin had something to ask the thin maid, so he asked the young constable to go back first. When the young constable had walked far enough, Bai Lixin led the thin maid into a nearby alley. “You can’t eat this monster meat.”
He assessed the thin maid with a hint of anger; compared to the last time, she looked considerably worse, with sunken eye sockets and dry, lackluster hair.
Holding the bowl helplessly, she replied, “But, Master fell seriously ill, and lying in bed dying. The doctors are baffled, they say there’s no serious illness, but the prescriptions have no effect. They told us to prepare a coffin for the aftermath.”
“Since the doctors couldn’t help, I thought about trying our luck here. Maybe we can get some divine meat. If Master eats it, maybe he’ll recover.”
Bai Lixin recalled the faint black aura he had seen around Master Song on the first day. “Wasn’t Master Song in relatively good health that day? How did he deteriorate so suddenly?”
“I’m puzzled too. You asked me to leave that day, and when I returned, Master was already like this,” the thin maid said.
Bai Lixin glanced in the direction of Tongfu Inn. “Lead me to the Song Residence. Have you eaten this divine meat before today?”
The thin maid shook her head. “I arrived late. I’ve come a few times, but never managed to get any. Today, I came early and was summoned by you.”
“It’s best of you don’t eat it,” Bai Lixin said. “It’s not something good.”
The thin maid interjected, “But this was distributed by the Qingcheng Sect’s immortals. Isn’t it a good thing? Many others ate it without any issues.”
“No issues?” Bai Lixin chuckled softly. “Then how did your young miss die?”
The thin maid hesitated for a moment. “Are you saying my young miss’s death is related to this divine meat? But my young miss never ate it.”
Bai Lixin: “That’s what I wanted to ask you. Did your young miss visit Qingcheng Sect?”
The thin maid recalled for a moment, then nodded. “Yes, she did. My young miss used to visit Qingcheng Sect frequently.”
Bai Lixin continued, “Then let me ask you, while she was at Qingcheng Sect, did she eat or drink anything?”
The thin maid: “Of course, Qingcheng Sect serves meals and drinks for the believers at noon. My young miss had partaken.”
“And did you eat it?” Bai Lixin asked.
“I’m just a servant, I don’t get to eat such things.”
Bai Lixin said “oh” after hearing the reply, “That’s good then.”
“By the way, Immortal Lady,” the thin maid looked Bai Lixin up and down, “Are you a man or a woman?”
Bai Lixin raised his chin, pointing to his Adam’s apple. “See that? I’m absolutely male. I have a little time right now. Do you need me to go to your house and take a look?”
With such a good opportunity, how could she refuse? “Of course, please. I am grateful for the Immortal Lady’s… oh, um Master’s help.”
Before Bai Lixin arrived at the Song Residence, he saw a dense black aura hovering above it.
Standing upright at the Song Residence’s entrance was a person.
Upon seeing that person’s back, Bai Lixin quickened his pace, walking a few steps to reach them. “Master, what a coincidence.”
Fanjia hadn’t expected to encounter Bai Lixin here and was momentarily stunned. “Why are you here?”
“By chance, I met momo on the road. I heard that Master Song fell seriously ill and found it strange, so I came to take a look,” Bai Lixin smiled. “The two of us really have good understanding. We suddenly met each other in this big town. Isn’t this what you Buddhists call fate?”
“Amitabha, I sensed lingering resentment in this house. It’s just that…”
“It’s just that the people of the Song family look down on people and don’t let you in, and as a disciple of Buddhism, you can’t force yourself in, so you can only stare here, right?” Bai Lixin patted his chest, “Aren’t I here now?”
The eyes of the two fell onto the thin maid.
The thin maid cleverly looked at the closed gate. “How dare this group of short-sided servants dare to stop you? They must be wishing harm on the old Master. Please come in quickly, I’ll have them open the gate for you.”
