These days, Mo Yi had recalled this memory scene countless times. Because the scene in the image was too beautiful, every time he thought of it, he even seemed to really be able to smell the pleasant scent on the man’s body.
It was a somewhat damp smell, as if it came from the deep sea, but it was not cold or gloomy. Instead, it brought him an endless sense of security.
When those memories first appeared in his mind, Mo Yi’s heart had even trembled a little.
He had originally had no name. Those people called him monster, bastard, and jinx.
No one was willing to give him a name, or rather, they felt that he simply was not worthy of having one.
But that person had given him a name, as if his existence had finally been given meaning.
From that person, he had experienced a tenderness and kindness he had never felt before.
No, it was not just kindness. That person seemed to genuinely like him, as if he had been held in the very center of that person’s heart.
It was a pity that no matter how hard he tried to see what the other person looked like, he could only see the man’s eyes.
Those were a pair of narrow, cold eyes, and the pitch-black pupils seemed as if they could suck him in.
That person, exactly who was he?
“Host, Host, can you hear me now? Host!”
005 called out without the slightest weariness, its soft, babyish voice pulling him out of his thoughts.
Lowering his round, black eyes, Mo Yi let out a breath, then continued walking forward.
Even if he wanted to figure out who the man that had suddenly appeared in his memories was, to put it plainly, he could not even be sure that was a real memory. Perhaps it was only an illusion born from having experienced too much pain.
It was just that this illusion was far too real. The man’s scent, the gentle eyes, they were like they had been carved into his soul, making him recall them again and again, miss them again and again.
Pulling his torn padded coat closer around himself, after walking for about half an hour, Mo Yi arrived at his so-called “residence” now, a place under a bridge where not many people passed by.
That place was remote, and the environment was damp and cold, but at least it offered some shelter.
A few scattered bags and cardboard boxes were piled messily together, all of Mo Yi’s belongings. On the ground, a thick layer of cardboard had also been laid down, his “bed” that he usually used for resting.
It was just that now, there was one more person on this bed.
Seeing this, Mo Yi slightly frowned. He did not like other people sullying the territory that belonged to him.
Before, there had also been homeless people who wanted to occupy his spot, and all of them had been beaten away by him without the slightest mercy.
Thinking it was another similar situation, Mo Yi did not hesitate and directly strode over. But when he got closer, a familiar scent drifted into his nose.
It wrapped around him like the deep sea, immediately making Mo Yi think of the person in the memory fragment who had gently held him in his arms.
It was just that scent that was covered in an instant by a strong smell of blood.
Mo Yi’s heart tightened, and almost subconsciously, he quickened his pace.
Just as he reached the front, the blood before his eyes stung.
A man lay there in a sorry state. In weather this cold, he was not even wearing a coat, only a wrinkled white shirt and dark gray trousers.
His short hair was disheveled, his eyes were tightly closed, and the handsome face of the man was very pale. His expression was pained, and in such a low temperature, there was still a thin sheen of sweat on his forehead.
His long, slender figure made it clear even while lying down that he was very tall. It was a pity that those long legs were twisted in an abnormal posture, and the trousers at his knees were still seeping threads of blood, making him look extremely miserable.
Seeing this, Mo Yi’s breathing eased slightly. Looking at that unfamiliar yet familiar face, he hesitated and reached out, only to see the person who had seemed to be unconscious suddenly open his cold, stern eyes.
The man’s narrow eyes flashed with cold light, carrying a murderous chill. But after seeing who was in front of him, he seemed to instantly loosen his guard, and only then truly fell unconscious.
That terrifying look in the other’s eyes for that instant did not make Mo Yi wary. Although the man’s appearance in the memory scene was blurry, he still remembered those eyes, and the familiar scent on him!
Like a lost cub finally finding home, joy rose from the bottom of Mo Yi’s heart.
Although past experiences could not let him completely set aside the guard in his heart, like some inborn instinct, he still could not suppress his desire to get close to this person, and he felt a sense of intimacy toward him.
Since that was the case, he could not just leave this person here and ignore him.
Even more so, he felt anger and worry over the man’s injuries, feelings that he himself had not even realized.
His eyes were dark with blood, and Mo Yi put on a serious little face, when he heard 005 in his sea of consciousness suddenly say excitedly to him, “Host! Host, he is the villain. He is the villain of this world, Bai Ren!”
Hearing this, Mo Yi was startled. Looking at the man in front of him, he had never imagined that he would have anything to do with that so-called mission.
Although he had not responded to 005 before, he had still heard quite a lot of its chatter.
Of course he knew that 005 had come to him because it wanted him to help change the fate of the villain in this world.
And now, the System was actually telling him that the villain was the person in front of him, which made it hard for him not to suspect that there was some conspiracy behind this.
But if helping the villain meant helping this man…
The boy’s lips were pressed tightly together, his jaw tensed into a straight line.
The other’s condition seemed to leave him no room to hesitate for long. In his impression, humans were fragile. He did not dare imagine whether this person would die just like that if he could not receive timely treatment.
And now, he had no way to use the energy inside his body for this person. Even if he knew some medicinal herbs from past experience, there was no mountain nearby where he could search for herb plants.
With his own ability, he was probably unable to help this person.
Thinking of this, Mo Yi took off the torn padded coat on his body and covered the man with it, wanting him to keep warm, while he himself stood to the side wearing only a thin short-sleeved shirt.
After doing all this, he finally spoke to the System, “005, could you explain in detail to me what that mission you mentioned is?”
“Ah?”
The System did not react at first when it heard Mo Yi suddenly speak. It was only after the other asked again that it hurriedly responded, both shocked and delighted, “Host, you can hear me now!”
Once its intelligence was online, 005 thought of how Mo Yi addressed it. He clearly had not said anything yet, but the Host had already called him 005, which plainly meant he had long been able to hear him!
But his own Host had actually ignored him for so long!
Swallowing down the grievance in its heart, as a System that could be rated an excellent employee almost every year, 005 still immediately and dutifully told Mo Yi everything about itself and the mission.
“You mean, we are now in an alternate small world, and this world does not exist in reality?” Mo Yi asked. “Including the world I was in before?”
“Included.”
005 nodded when it heard this, then immediately shook its head and said, “Yes and no. Although these worlds are only small worlds inside a spiritual artifact, for the beings in these worlds, this is the real world. It’s just that each plane has its own heavenly dao fortune and operating laws.”
“Host, I just explained to you that there are tens of thousands of these kinds of small worlds we’re in now, and it’s inevitable that some worlds will have problems.
“Light ones mean fortune disorder, which interferes with the order of the world. In serious cases, the entire small world could even collapse and disappear.
“The Systems created by our Plane Management Bureau exist to assist taskers in entering small worlds that have problems to carry out maintenance.”
“Recently, there have been some small worlds that, for unknown reasons, developed deviations. In them, the fortune values of certain important characters who should originally have become the pillars of the world suddenly dropped to extremely low levels, causing them to suffer many hardships they should not have suffered, and even blacken into villains.
“And these villains are often extremely powerful. Even under conditions of extremely low fortune, they can still reverse the plot and leave even the protagonist unable to do anything about them. And such results cause the small world to twist severely, and even cause many worlds to collapse as a result.”
At this point, 005 added, “Host, the small world’s fortune will affect the world’s direction. A person’s fortune, simply put, is somewhat like a person’s luck value, of course, the actual situation is more complicated than that.
“The impact of fortune on a person is very great.
“Host, your usual luck being a little bad is also related to your fortune value being very low.”
When Mo Yi heard this, he twitched the corners of his mouth, feeling that 005 was putting it politely. He was not just a little bad at luck, he was especially bad at luck!
But… “My fortune value is very low?”
This was the first time Mo Yi had learned this. The System’s explanation just now was easy to understand, and he had understood it, almost instantly accepting it.
No wonder he had always been this unlucky. So it was related to his fortune.
However, this was also within expectations. How could someone like him, who was called ominous, possibly have great fortune?
After seeing that Mo Yi did not show any negative emotions after he finished speaking, 005 let out a breath and began explaining the original plot of this small world to him.
In 005’s explanation, the plot of this plane was a routine similar to a modern romantic CEO novel.
The Bai Family was a famous family in Xia Country. The male lead, Bai Yucheng, was the son of the Bai main branch and the CEO of Shengheng Group. The female lead, Ye Shishuang, was a grassroots girl who relied on her own intelligence and hard work to rise above her station.
The two met by chance, got to know each other, fell in love, and staged a romantic love comedy.
It had originally been a relaxed and happy story, and once the male and female leads were happily together, the story could have ended there.
But the problem was that Bai Ren, a character who was originally supposed to be a great help to the male lead in the small world, had deviated and become the villain.