Chapter 419 Safe House

After walking for more than ten minutes along the seemingly endless stairs, the group finally stood in the warm midday sunlight.

Leaving the special room, you will see a corner of a quiet courtyard.

The finely trimmed branches in the courtyard were covered with a thin layer of melting snow, and from the white mist exhaled by everyone, it was not difficult to tell that the current season was a cold winter.

Xu Zhiyan observed calmly for a while.

Well, he couldn't move even if he wanted to.

I didn't expect that it actually appeared in the world...

Although the coordinates of the nanny's existence have been basically determined, the special room and the high-hanging props still make him doubt whether it is in the real world, because in addition to the copy and the real world, the shell, which serves as a buffer between the two, may also be there.

The life of a human cub is not too rich.

Especially when he was a child, Xu Zhiyan looked stressed. Apart from taking a bath, changing clothes, eating, and being in a daze, he basically did not do anything else.

Xu Zhiyan waited from noon until the sun set. He counted and found that there were about a dozen people surrounding him.

Perhaps because it had been too long, the system's topic had shifted from its own host to the surrounding bodyguards. Compared to Xu Zhiyan's increasingly long silence, it was much more lively and its thoughts were jumping.

[Oh! One nanny, eight bodyguards, plus someone who is responsible for various projects...]

[Host! You are so fair, and it seems that the Collector really cares about you. You must be an important person in the Xu family.]

In order to verify its words, the system also sent an external screenshot.

It knew that Xu Zhiyan was fair, but it didn't expect that he was so fair when he was a child. The whole person seemed to be glowing.

In the center of the picture, the boy who has changed his clothes sits in front of the window, with soft black hair sticking to the side of his face and long, thick eyelashes drooping and half covering his eyes. He rests his chin on his knees, like a precious baby animal snatched away by a predator, fragile and cute.

[Mr. Ghost will definitely like my screenshots!]

The system is very confident about this.

Xu Zhiyan was confused after hearing this. He didn't know whether having a chatterbox system around him when he was trapped in his childhood memories was a reward or a punishment.

“… Stop.”

He was now worried about other things than taking screenshots.

After a long silence, Xu Zhiyan lowered his voice and asked, "Can the speed of time be adjusted?" No one told him that when reading memories, he has to relive his past life!

Damn it, theoretically speaking, if he was just receiving memories, his mind should have regressed to that of a four or five-year-old. He felt extremely uncomfortable whenever he thought about having to relive his childhood memories from beginning to end while being unable to do anything.

"Honestly, if Gan Mi hadn't been speaking sincerely, I would have almost thought he was playing a trick on me."

Asking an adult to watch memories at a normal speed can be considered mental torture, especially for someone like Xiao Zhiyan, who just sits there in a daze and doesn't say or do anything.

You can watch it for one or two days.

Maybe it'll be okay to wait for a month or two.

But it will take a year or two to see if there are any mental problems.

Trying to calm down, Xu Zhiyan talked about his plans and worries, "I only planned to spend three days at first..."

He knew that after leaving Rusty City, Jiang Huaique and others would definitely have a lot of questions that they would want to ask him for answers. If it weren't for Uta and the ghosts and gods, he would have already thought about how to explain it to his teammates. If he stayed here for more than ten years, it would be too late by the time he left!

Speaking of this, the system finally gave some good news.

[Host, rest assured, our time to the outside world is still! The restricted area is built on the power of Mr. Ghost. This is a time gap, not just a memory space.]

Xu Zhiyan finally put his mind at ease.

"That's good. The worst that can happen is that you become a psychopath after you get out."

The system wanted to say that it wasn't necessary, but after thinking about it, it didn't know how to comfort her, so it could only agree.

[Too. ]

Aren’t there still ghosts and gods?

Freed from his worries, Xu Zhiyan recovered quickly, changing his previous sad look and began to command the system, hoping to maximize its power.

"When you take screenshots, remember to save all the information about this place. After we leave, I want to estimate how much the Xu family's assets are. It would be even better if I could capture Xu Yan's various passwords or official seals!"

[Yes sir! I promise to complete the task! I won’t miss a dime!]

The master and servant quickly switched to property plundering mode, as if the person they were worried about becoming mentally ill was an insignificant person. If Asa was here, they would have complained about their coordination.

Time slips away in the quietness outside and the heat inside.

When it was completely dark, Xu Zhiyan suddenly found that his vision moved. He signaled the system to be quiet and listened to the sound coming from the door behind him.

"Young Master, it's time to go to bed."

A timid female voice appeared, it was the nanny.

After spending the afternoon together, Xu Zhiyan already knew the nanny's name. Her name was Zhao Fangqin, she was between 35 and 40 years old, and the bodyguards all called her Sister Qin.

More importantly, she has been taking care of Xiao Zhiyan for five years.

This piece of information could explain a lot of things, but due to too many tragic possibilities, Xu Zhiyan dared not speculate on the true meaning behind this information.

Suddenly, he felt his body begin to tremble.

Xu Zhiyan felt a little strange, because when little Zhiyan was held by Sister Qin before, he had no fear in his heart, and even felt a sense of security and dependence. There was no reason for him to be afraid now.

It was not until another male voice appeared that Xu Zhiyan found himself shaking even more violently.

But it was just trembling, no emotion was revealed.

"Sister Qin, you first."

The speaker sounded very young, and along with his words, there was the sound of wheels rubbing against the ground and the slight sound of iron colliding.

Sister Qin was in much better condition than when we first met at noon.

She was not as nervous as she was before when facing Xu Zhiyan, and her tone was much steadier: "Can't this thing be made into an oral medicine?" Sister Qin complained in a low voice.

"No," the man replied.

"It has to be injected into the blood vessels to effectively suppress it."

Feeling his vision trembling more and more, Xu Zhiyan himself remained calm.

[Oh shit!]

The system gets the vision first.

[Host, you are so young! They are actually going to prick you with needles! So many?]

There were three injections neatly placed on the young doctor's cart. Judging from the pictures provided by the system, the dosage of each injection was not low, and the liquid in the syringe looked strange. It was obviously not something from this world, but more like something from the dungeon.

Unlike the system, which was filled with righteous indignation and wanted to rush out and beat the doctor, Xu Zhiyan did not show any problem with this behavior, and when he spoke again, there was a hint of excitement in his tone.

"Suppression? That's great news."

[Huh?] The system hasn't reacted yet. It doesn't think being suppressed is a good thing.

"Just think of it this way: a young child wakes up alone in a room full of ashes; the nanny who has been with the child for many years is not excited but terrified when she sees the child; less than a minute after the door is opened, the owner of the Xu residence appears in front of the child..."

The best container.

Xu Zhiyan slowed down his speech and asked back.

"Guess, how strong is this child that the mimic would not hesitate to give a four-year-old child a suppressant?"

The system didn't dare to speak.

It was rare for it to hear its host speak in a slightly crazy tone.

By the time Sister Qin carried little Zhiyan to the bed and rolled up the child's sleeves to prepare for the injection, Xu Zhiyan had calmed down a lot.

“I am very happy.”

"Although I still don't know what happened in the meantime that caused my former talent to be robbed, this at least proves that I shouldn't have been such a weak and useless person."

From the moment he entered the game, the main system tried its best to suppress him.

The upper limit of the mental strength threshold can never be fully raised, the skills that can only be comprehended are useless, and the characteristics sound very impressive but are of no use at the critical moment.

Xu Zhiyan wanted to become stronger so much.

When he determined that the regular channels could never meet his needs, he had to resort to unorthodox means.

He worked hard to earn money to upgrade the safe house, invested a lot of money in the technology tree, and finally got the low-spirit weapon props he could use. In order to improve his physical fitness, he had to endure the severe pain to implant the blood vessels of the ghosts and gods. God knows what he paid for a healthy body.

Medicines of different colors were pushed into the subcutaneous artery. Little Zhiyan, who was held in the arms of the nanny, bit her lips, tears falling one after another, looking extremely pitiful.

[Although you are very happy, I think this is not okay!]

The system felt like it was about to explode.

[Damn it! Woohoo, I really want to rush out and kill this doctor. How could someone be so cruel! Host, you are crying so miserably!]

Unlike the system that was so anxious that the CPU was smoking, Xu Zhiyan hesitated and comforted him.

"Calm down, maybe things are not as they seem."

Although he looked very young and cried miserably, he now had empathy with this body. The pain was very mild and the trembling only lasted for a short while when the doctor came in. When the injection started, he did not feel any disgust or aversion, and even... he felt a little bit of anticipation.

Based on Xu Zhiyan's understanding of himself, he didn't think that he was really a crying fool when he was a child.

Soon, the nanny's sleeves were soaked with tears.

When the doctor left, the fear in her eyes completely disappeared. She reached out and gently patted the boy's back, again and again. When she spoke again, her voice was much softer.

"Master, I don't know how to persuade them..."

Perhaps it was because she felt that the child she had taken care of for five years and was so familiar with had returned, Sister Qin was like a completely different person from when she looked into the eyes of Xu Zhiyan in the afternoon. She gently comforted little Zhiyan, listening to the faint sobs in her arms, and there was a bit more heartache and evasion in her eyes, which was extremely contradictory.

"It's okay, Mr. Xu said everything is fine... He will give us a lot of money, a lot of money!"

She seemed to be convincing others, but also seemed to be convincing herself.

After a while, the sobbing stopped, and the child, with his head resting on the nanny's arms, seemed to have finally cried enough and looked over.

"Aunt Qin, I will be good."

"Aunt Qin, please don't be angry with me, okay?"

Xiao Zhiyan's voice was a little hoarse from not speaking for a long time, but the child's baby voice made the two sentences even more heartbreaking, and coupled with the clear and trusting eyes, no one could resist it.

Aunt Qin looked away as if she couldn't bear to look at it directly, with the confusion in her eyes even greater than before.

Xu Zhiyan himself was almost driven to death by the system.

[Ahhhhh! How can anyone withstand the cute attacks of such a young version of the host! Woohoo, the host was so cute and sincere when he was a child. I really want to rub it...]

Listening to the system gradually collapsing, Xu Zhiyan felt a little nervous. He didn't speak until the system stopped howling.

"Cute? I'm just pretending."

As Xiao Zhiyan gradually recovered from the downtime, he could sense some sporadic information whenever his emotions fluctuated.

For example, now.

Although the child acted well-behaved and sensible and made me feel pity for him, I was calm inside and even felt like laughing.

Just as he sensed, after Aunt Qin left the room, Xiao Zhiyan, who had originally looked reluctant, quickly returned to his cold expression, without any sincerity in his eyes.

[……]

The system felt like it had seen it wrong.

Feeling the shock of the system, Xu Zhiyan was about to speak to comfort it when he heard the system suddenly burst into laughter like a chicken.

[Hehehe, the host who is two-faced is also cute! I want to rua! Hehehehehehe...]

Looking at the contrasting screenshots freshly produced by the system, Xu Zhiyan choked up.

"...After returning to the safe house, remember to kill the viruses first." This stupid system must be infected with a virus!

The injection had complex ingredients, and perhaps it was a side effect of the power suppression, Xu Zhiyan soon felt dizzy and sleepiness came over him like a wave. After Xiao Zhiyan closed his eyes, he also lost his vision and fell into a deep sleep.

…

The dream came.

Maybe it was because he was still in his memory, but Xu Zhiyan could clearly tell that he was dreaming.

When he opened his eyes, the sight before him almost made his heart stop.

Red, red everywhere.

From deep to shallow, there is no end.

There was an endless sea of blood beneath his feet, and his surroundings were piled with debris and corpses. Even the moon hanging high above his head was a strange and ominous red color.

But Xu Zhiyan didn't have time to investigate these.

His attention was drawn to the figure on the pile of corpses in the distance.

He saw the young boy Bai Jin.

It was not any other slice, but the white ashes that seemed like half a heart that had flashed in Cen Jinyue's memory.

Bai Jin, who had a similar face to Slice, had cloudy eyes and his naked upper body was covered with black spells. The surging power was spreading outwards with the boy as the center...