“They turn out to be two even better vessels,” the person’s gaze falling upon Qing Shi and Lu Fengmian was filled with covetousness and lewdness.
[Can someone kill him quickly! He disgusts me!]
As soon as someone posted this comment in the chat, before the next people could even post theirs, the person in front of Lu Fengmian had already disappeared.
It was not a disappearance like a data entity.
Lu Fengmian looked at the grey smoke drifting toward the sky, then turned her head to look at Qing Shi, “You turned him into ash?”
Qing Shi tilted her head slightly, “Shouldn’t I? Does Mianmian not want him dead?”
Lu Fengmian could not help but let out a soft laugh, “Not really, dead is dead, he deserved it.”
“It is just a pity that the clue is lost, and I do not know if we can still find their lair,” Lu Fengmian merely felt a little regretful about this.
However, now that he was dead, it did not matter, as there would always be other ways to find it.
Qing Shi watched Lu Fengmian walk toward the little girl and crouch down in front of her, speaking gently, “Little friend, is your home in the city?”
The child looked at Lu Fengmian with a bit of confusion and fear, remaining silent for a long time.
Lu Fengmian retrieved a piece of candy from her pocket to try and communicate with her, but perhaps the child had been frightened, so she continuously dared not speak.
Watching Lu Fengmian coaxing another child, Qing Shi felt a bit uneasy in her heart.
She could sense that Lu Fengmian indeed liked children.
Qing Shi herself did not particularly care for children, but if it were a child belonging to her and Lu Fengmian, Qing Shi would actually like it very much.
A child belonging to her and Lu Fengmian.
Qing Shi felt another wave of headache hit her.
Lu Fengmian’s figure before her eyes gradually became somewhat blurry, but the lingering fear jolted Qing Shi’s spirit, preventing her from continuing to think about it.
Once she recovered, she saw Lu Fengmian still coaxing the child, asking where her home was.
For some reason, Qing Shi suddenly lost her patience.
She walked over, her light grey eyes sweeping over the child as she asked coldly, “She is asking where your home is, are you mute?”
Looking at Qing Shi’s cold expression, the child could not help but shrink back, yet she ultimately answered timidly, “In the city on Dongqi Street, my mother, my mother is making flatbreads.”
Lu Fengmian was rendered speechless once again, thinking it was absurd that her gentle coaxing did not work, while Qing Shi’s cold questioning worked right away.
She stood up and went over to hold the child’s hand, and this time, the child obediently offered her hand to Lu Fengmian.
Unsatisfied, Qing Shi ran over to hold her other hand.
Lu Fengmian could not help but curl her lips slightly, what a childish person.
“She is just a child,” Lu Fengmian could not resist whispering to Qing Shi.
“I know, I am not blind,” Qing Shi answered Lu Fengmian coldly once more, looking indescribably tsundere.
[Hahaha, she is clearly jealous!]
[She is jealous, but she refuses to admit that she is jealous of a child, I get it.]
[Ahhh, I really love this persona of the Goddess.]
[Let me into the game quickly!]
[Don’t even dream about it, I went to check other live streams, and their Goddesses are not like this at all, their Goddesses are super sharp-tongued, even a passing dog would get ridiculed twice by her.]
Lu Fengmian felt speechless.
Wasn’t that a bit too exaggerated, for the persona she designed was definitely not like that?
However, thinking of the omnipotent Goddess standing beside her, Lu Fengmian felt it was not impossible after all, since a certain someone might have directly altered her settings.
She would ask her about it later.
With great effort, they finally delivered the child back to her mother.
The little girl’s mother was a woman who looked somewhat weathered, and seeing Lu Fengmian bring her daughter back, she hurriedly expressed her gratitude.
Afterward, she hugged her daughter tightly and wept bitterly.
Looking at the weathered woman and the naive girl, Lu Fengmian felt a heavy tightness in her heart, accompanied by an indescribable discomfort.
It felt as though things should not have been this way for them.
Qing Shi peeled a piece of candy and fed it to Lu Fengmian, “Let us go.”
She maintained a arrogant and cold demeanor, which actually amused Lu Fengmian.
“In a moment, let me say a few words to them,” Lu Fengmian spoke softly to her.
“What is there to say,” Qing Shi muttered discontentedly.
Lu Fengmian reached out to pat her head and kissed her, “Be good, it will be quick.”
Qing Shi was dissatisfied that she always coaxed her like a child, yet she still did not stop her.
Lu Fengmian walked up to the mother and daughter, making no attempt to pry into their private affairs, merely warning the mother politely and carefully.
“Recently, some believers of an evil spirit in this area might be capturing children everywhere, so it is better to keep your child right under your eyes.”
“An evil spirit?” The woman let out a bitter smile, “The gods have already abandoned us, so even if we know there are evil spirits, what can we possibly do?”
She let out a deep sigh.
[What exactly are the gods?]
[I see them being mentioned so many times.]
[The official game explanation is that they are a form of faith, and in the settings of this world, whether human or other races, all are protected by gods.]
A few people who had seriously read the official lore book chimed in.
[Ah? Does such a thing really exist?]
Lu Fengmian almost wanted to complain and say that if they kept disbelieving, their God would cry.
Of course, she certainly could not say it directly, nor could she explain that during humanity’s most difficult times, the gods had indeed protected them.
Facing the woman before her who had lost hope in life, Lu Fengmian felt completely at a loss, unsure of what to do.
“Then if there is nothing else, we shall take our leave,” Lu Fengmian said with some embarrassment.
“Heroine, please wait,” hearing Lu Fengmian say she was leaving, the woman hurriedly called out to stop her.
Lu Fengmian looked at her in confusion, “Is there anything else?”
“Since you were able to rescue my daughter, you must be a capable person, I wonder if you could help find the lost young children of others, we are willing to pay a reward.”
As the woman spoke, she prepared to kneel before her, but Lu Fengmian quickly supported her up, “There is no need for this.”
The woman let out a sigh, “I know such a request is somewhat offensive, but we truly have no other way.”
“Why not seek help from the nearby cultivation sects?” Lu Fengmian asked in confusion, for if the world had developed according to the game world she once designed, then cultivation sects would inevitably exist.
“Cultivation sects?” The woman smiled bitterly, “They were destroyed long ago.”
Lu Fengmian froze on the spot, finally realizing that what the woman said was quite different from what she had imagined.
[It is indeed so, they were all wiped out by outsiders and the demons born later,] Qing Shi sent a voice transmission to Lu Fengmian, confirming the woman’s words.
Lu Fengmian realized her way of thinking was wrong, for she had subconsciously assumed that because there were cultivation sects in the game settings, and ordinary people would awaken, cultivators naturally could not fail to awaken.
However, in reality, after the world became a real world and merged with the exile realm, it would have its own development, which might have lost all connection to the game settings long ago.
She had taken things for granted.
“Alright, I will help you look for them, could you tell me the details?” After realizing this, Lu Fengmian felt a bit of guilt in her heart.
The woman wiped away a tear, “Thank you, thank you so much.”
Feeling somewhat helpless, Lu Fengmian supported her, “There really is no need for this.”
“This gang of evil spirit believers has been around for five years, the local government sent people to search at first, but these individuals possess strange techniques, leaving the government officials helpless and even costing many lives.”
“However, these people do not capture just any child, according to them, they only favor children who possess spiritual talent.”
“As for what counts as having spiritual talent, we do not know either.”
“I only know that over all these years, my wife went searching for our eldest daughter and vanished without a trace as well.”
Hearing the person say the words “my wife,” Lu Fengmian paused for a moment.
Only then did she remember that this was her own setting within the game, where in the game, same-sex couples could conceive children together through special methods, a mature technology with low costs.
Yet the woman before her was not a game character!
Could it be that the child-bearing setting had evolved into reality, which was actually quite interesting.
Lu Fengmian did not interrupt her, listening carefully as she explained the entire situation.
In short, over the past five years, children had been disappearing intermittently from nearby towns, and the government had sent people to search in the beginning.
However, they gradually gave up, because the number of missing children was not large, perhaps only one every month, and because too many men were lost, even sending troops directly yielded no results, so they eventually stopped caring much.
Yet as time went on, the number of missing children began to increase.
The frequency became higher and higher, and more and more people went to the government to report cases, but the government remained powerless.
This was the first time in all these years that the woman had seen someone rescue a child so easily, so it was inevitable that she would want to grasp onto this saving straw.