In the valley, Mu Bai turned his head with a troubled expression, "Is your son...?"

Bai Weishuang interrupted, "It definitely won't be like me."

"What I'm trying to say is, is his personality really up to the task?" Mu Bai couldn't help but feel that Shi Jinzhe had the potential to be a villain.

"Yes, that's possible. Truly evil people don't realize they're evil. Their logic is different from ordinary people. Look how self-aware he is. It's impossible for him to be evil."

Mu Bai: "I just didn't expect that he still had such a kind image in my mind."

"Pure good and pure evil cannot coexist. This is just right. Both of them are just right. It's fine for an ordinary person to be too extreme in distinguishing between good and evil, but for a person in a position of power, it will only lead to incompetence. And an incompetent person in a position of power will definitely cause unconscious evil. That's the real problem."

Bai Weishuang sent the paper butterfly away and looked into the distance. "You really don't need to worry. He didn't claim to be a good person. Everything he does is driven by reason. Even if your good son really changes, there's still Shekh."

“You really like Shekh.” Mu Bai picked a handful of foxtail grass, wove it into a fluffy little snake, and placed it on the ground. The unique fluffy snake then slithered into the grass.

Bai Weishuang watched the snake disappear into the grass and said, "Shehe has a kind heart. She cherishes the light more than anyone else. You see, she doesn't care about anything. She's just enjoying the world. If Shi Jinzhe ever loses his original intention and does something she doesn't want to see, she will definitely do something."

Mu Bai: "What can I do?"

"Hmm... I definitely wouldn't want to kill him, so I'll probably imprison him. First, lock him up in a dark place, then lock him up with special iron chains. If he misses me, he can go down and sleep for a while."

"..." Is this something a mother should say?

Shi Jinzhe was simply following her lead, Mu Bai was certain of it.

Bai Weishuang: "Similarly, if Shehe loses control one day, as long as Shi Jinzhe hasn't lost his mind and still has his rationality, he can persuade her to stay calm."

"What if they both go crazy?" Mu Bai asked, his soul pounding.

"...If the two of them go crazy together, things will get so bad that everyone will be dead by now. Let them go crazy if they want."

"Not necessarily." Mu Bai caught a whiff of food and followed it, saying casually, "As long as you don't suddenly disappear for another twenty years, everything will be fine."

"If I could suddenly disappear for another twenty years or so, it would mean there's a problem so serious that neither of them could handle it, that's the same thing."

"No matter what you say, you're right."

That's the truth.

...

the next day.

Shi Jinzhe and Shehe got up early to return to their original world. The two of them pretended to investigate the black fog all day long, and even entered the world with the loose anchor point twice. It wasn't until a week later, when they entered for the third time, that the anomaly finally appeared.

Shekh sensed something was wrong as soon as he landed. He exchanged a glance with Shi Jinzhe and allowed himself to be captured and entered into the fake instance.

In the desolate small county town, the buildings on both sides of the street are closely connected, with red brick walls and old tile-roofed houses with peeling white paint interspersed, and messy electrical wires connecting the entire street.

The blue glass windows facing the street reflected blurry figures inside the house, and the sky was uncomfortably white.

There were about ten people standing on a dilapidated cement road that stretched as far as the eye could see. Apart from a few people who looked uneasy, the others all looked very calm.

Shi Jin counted them up. Not counting himself and Sheh, there were a total of fourteen unlucky guys who entered this instance. There were no complete newbies, and they all performed reasonably well.

[All players have arrived. Welcome back to Pyramid Survival Battle!]

Instance Name: [No One to Blame, No One to Debt]

Mission type: Escape.

Instance Quest: Save Apu. (15 points)

Shekh quietly checked the other fourteen people and found nothing unusual; they were all people who could be found in the database.

As she walked back, she turned to her side and said, "Let's go to the county town."

"Hmm." Shi Jinzhe's gaze swept across the county town. The architectural style seemed to be from the last century. There weren't many people on the road, and their clothing consisted mainly of oversized suits and short tops, like something out of the 1990s.

The indigenous people passing by looked like people in an old photograph. What was old was not their clothes, but their faces. The faces of the pedestrians on the roadside looked like they had been blurred with a layer of Gaussian blur in Photoshop. They had facial features, but the resolution was so low that you couldn't see any specific details no matter how you looked at them.

The sixteen of them seemed to be on their own, high-definition and out of place, which soon attracted the attention of the indigenous people.

A round-faced woman with rosy cheeks walked over with her hands in her sleeves. After looking at everyone, she came to a girl with a similarly round face. The girl smiled and her eyes crinkled, exuding maximum friendliness.

"Young lady, are you all together? Are you here to visit or to see relatives? Do you need a hotel? I have cheap rooms available, both single and double, and hot water too."

"Auntie, I don't know about this. I came with my brother, you can ask him." The round-faced girl cheerfully tossed the question to the player next to her. She wasn't going to take the bait; if something went wrong, she'd be blamed.

The male player next to her had droopy eyelids and didn't change his expression even after being given a difficult problem. He waved his hands in front of his chest a few times, then pointed to his mouth and made a no gesture.

Shi Jin raised an eyebrow. He had checked all the players present and they were all healthy, normal people. Now he was pretending to be mute, which showed that he didn't want to be the first to speak out.

Like that girl, he's a conservative player.

The rosy-faced woman seemed used to this situation and didn't take the rejection to heart. She went to ask the next person, but neither of them stayed there. So she simply asked, "Does anyone need a room?"

“We’ll stay,” Shekh said, pushing the broken piece of paper away. “But my husband forgot his money. Can we exchange it for something valuable?”

The innkeeper who stands at the street corner soliciting customers is not only familiar with the locals, but also likely remembers people from out of town with distinctive features. Asking her for information is a good idea. Even if there is no information, if she is a fake NPC, it is still one of the clues.