Therefore, many players abandoned this quest.
Holographic games also had their downsides, namely that the sense of immersion was too intense, and sometimes it easily evoked strong emotional resonance.
After Lu Fengmian finished transcribing half of the diary, while following the quest navigation to find the next transcription point, she encountered a zombie who had just drunk blood, curling up in pain under a tree, murmuring, “I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to.”
“Will Elder Sister hate me like this? She definitely will, right?”
Her voice was already somewhat slurred, and Lu Fengmian barely managed to make out what she actually said.
Hearing her words, Lu Fengmian felt an indescribable sense of discomfort.
The viewers in the stream felt the same as Lu Fengmian, feeling exceptionally uncomfortable just watching.
Lu Fengmian let out a sigh, and in the end, she couldn’t help turning around to hold Qing Shi’s hand tightly.
Qing Shi held her hand, her hand that was usually warm now felt slightly cool due to fear and emotional turmoil.
“It’s alright,” Qing Shi’s gentle voice fell into Lu Fengmian’s ears.
It eased her tension and fear quite a bit.
After thinking for a moment, a ribbon appeared in Qing Shi’s hand, and she used the ribbon to wrap their hands together. “It’s alright, I will always stay by Mianmian’s side.”
[Sobbing, another day of being charmed by the Divine Maiden.]
Lu Fengmian looked down at their hands bound together by the ribbon, and when she raised her head again, an indescribable warmth filled her heart.
“You have me with you, so what are you afraid of them for? Even without this disguise, they wouldn’t dare to hurt you,” Qing Shi said, not using divine consciousness this time.
Everyone could hear it, but only Lu Fengmian understood it, as she spoke in Ancient Chinese.
It was the language from Lu Fengmian’s past life.
Although the previous civilization in this world shared many similarities with the world from Lu Fengmian’s past life, the language was still different.
The familiar native tongue, combined with Qing Shi’s gentle and firm comfort, allowed Lu Fengmian to relax significantly.
Lu Fengmian followed her, continuing toward the next quest location.
Arriving at the quest spot, Lu Fengmian continued her recording while Qing Shi followed behind her.
The faint, refreshing scent on Qing Shi suddenly dispelled the fear in Lu Fengmian’s heart at a certain moment.
After recording all the diaries, Lu Fengmian brought them back to the zombie named Dai Yun.
Lu Fengmian handed the diaries to her, and after Dai Yun read them while trembling, she growled and gestured to tell Lu Fengmian her request.
“You want me to take them back to your wife?” Lu Fengmian asked.
Dai Yun nodded, making squeaking noises for a long time, which Lu Fengmian found quite difficult to understand.
Instead, Qing Shi, standing beside them, suddenly spoke up, “She says that recorded within these diaries are some methods to remove their abnormal condition. It might not cure them, but at least it can allow them to die normally.”
“She says she tested it, but because her body is out of control right now, she can’t make a complete medicine, though she experimented by mixing some herbs together.”
“She wants to ask you to take all these things back to her wife, as her wife will understand them.”
Lu Fengmian flipped through the diaries, feeling that they were all merely recounting daily matters, without seeing any medical prescriptions.
Qing Shi looked at Dai Yun, who gestured for a long time once more.
“She says that because she was afraid of being discovered by the culprit, she didn’t dare to write openly, and she and her wife have a set of secret code between them.”
“You mean, the reason you turned out like this is all because someone did it deliberately?” Lu Fengmian’s expression became much more serious after hearing Qing Shi’s translation.
Dai Yun nodded forcefully. “Mhm, I, saw,”
“Aren’t zombies naturally formed? Can they be man-made too?” Lu Fengmian asked Qing Shi curiously.
Qing Shi let out a sigh. “Mianmian, how about you practice cultivation?”
“You can even feel that the evil spirit possesses an aura that makes you uncomfortable, so can’t you feel that the Yin energy in this place is soaring to the sky?” Qing Shi said with a bit of helplessness.
Lu Fengmian froze for a moment, then after thinking about it, she turned off the censorship system.
She closed her eyes to feel it for a moment, and then said to Qing Shi very seriously, “I was too scared when I came in earlier, and back then I thought it seemed normal for a place where zombies gather to be a bit dreary and chilly.”
“Now that you mention it, I really seem to feel it. There is indeed something off, making people feel creeped out, not just heavy Yin energy, but also an indescribable feeling that is very uncomfortable.”
“Someone has set up an array in this place, turning it into a Yin-gathering ground, and they aren’t purely zombies either. A zombie’s physical body is extremely hard, impervious to swords and spears, but they aren’t.”
“If you don’t believe it, why don’t you try?” Saying that, Qing Shi handed a long spear to Lu Fengmian.
Lu Fengmian instinctively reached out to catch the spear, but almost smashed her own foot in the process.
Holding that single spear, her face flushed red, and her breathing began to grow rapid.
In an instant, Qing Shi heard her heartbeat accelerating at a very abnormal speed.
She hurriedly took the spear back.
“May I ask if you want me to kill someone, or if you want me to commit suicide?” Lu Fengmian questioned Qing Shi while gasping heavily for breath.
Qing Shi placed the spear to the side and hastily went to support her.
However, Lu Fengmian still inevitably began to cough, and her breathing started to lose its smooth flow.
Qing Shi hurriedly injected her spiritual power into Lu Fengmian’s body, yet she did not dare to be too hasty, so she could only control it, injecting a tiny bit of very weak spiritual power into Lu Fengmian.
Lu Fengmian’s physical condition was far too poor.
It was much worse than those players’ bodies. When Lu Fengmian left before, Qing Shi had also studied those players.
In the end, Qing Shi discovered that they merely possessed a seemingly fragile body, but as long as they hadn’t reached the onset point set by the storyline, they were still normal ordinarily.
Yet Lu Fengmian was not like that, for she was truly this fragile.
She hadn’t realized it last time, but this time Qing Shi faintly realized a point, which was that Lu Fengmian was different from the players, as she had not created a digital body in the game world.
Her body was real, her appearance was identical to her appearance in her past life, and her body of flesh and blood was the same as other living beings in the Liufeng World, the kind that could not be resurrected once destroyed.
The spiritual power Qing Shi injected into Lu Fengmian’s body was too weak to heal Lu Fengmian’s injuries, so she could only watch helplessly as Lu Fengmian spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted directly.
The live stream was cut off at that moment as well, and Qing Shi picked Lu Fengmian up, hurriedly leaving this place.
Qing Shi carried Lu Fengmian to a hot spring, removed the clothes from Lu Fengmian’s body, and then carried her into the hot spring, using the hot spring to heal Lu Fengmian’s injuries.
However, the more she understood about Lu Fengmian’s physical condition, the deeper Qing Shi’s worry grew. How could her body be so terrible?
Qing Shi frowned, completely unable to figure it out.
Fortunately, the treatment was still effective.
After Lu Fengmian’s condition stabilized, just as Qing Shi was preparing to pick her up, Lu Fengmian faintly woke up at this moment.
She opened her eyes and looked at Qing Shi in front of her.
Immediately after, her earlobes quickly turned bright red, and her heart rate became somewhat abnormal once again.
Sensing her abnormality, Qing Shi became tense once more.
“What’s wrong, Mianmian? Is there still any discomfort?”
Lu Fengmian turned around to face away from her. “There’s no discomfort, I’ll be fine once you put your clothes on properly.”
Hearing her words, Qing Shi froze slightly at first, and then couldn’t help laughing softly, understanding her meaning, yet she did not obediently go put on her clothes.
Instead, she knowingly approached Lu Fengmian, reaching out to embrace her waist, pressing her whole body tightly against her.
Feeling that soft, warm touch against her back, Lu Fengmian’s whole body tensed up unconsciously, and even her breathing grew heavy once more.