Chapter 193 (Catching Bugs)
The darkness was quiet for a long time before Yunmian asked very softly and carefully: "Mom, does it still hurt?"
She had asked the same question when she saw the wounds on her mother's face and hands, but she had never asked it as carefully as she did now.
It was as if he was afraid that if the sound was a little louder, it would cruelly tear open the scars on his mother's body.
Yun Jinxing was silent for a long time. Whenever she thought of the pain and torture when her legs were broken alive, and the despair of being tied up in the cowshed like an animal with no one to cry out for, and having to watch helplessly as she lost the feeling of her legs day by day... the hatred and resentment in her heart almost surged and roared out.
But feeling the warmth of her child in her arms, she finally answered in a hoarse voice: "It doesn't hurt anymore..."
All the pain was buried in the hopelessness and despair day after day. It should have hurt every moment, but today it doesn’t seem to hurt much.
The pain that was like a thorn in the flesh suddenly subsided and disappeared temporarily when I heard that soft and extremely distressed question.
Yun Jinxing reached out and gently embraced the child who unconsciously shrank into her arms. Although she did not witness any growth of the child, she was not deaf. She did not know that Yunmian was her child before, but now that she knew, she could distinguish some of the outside sounds she occasionally heard in the cowshed.
She could always hear the cries of children being beaten and the unbearable insults. In the past, Yun Jinxing was numb and didn't feel anything, but now that she matched them one by one with the little one in her arms, the hatred in her heart increased even more.
How difficult is it for a girl to grow up well in this dirty and deformed village?
The little one in my arms survived. I don’t know how much suffering she endured and how many beatings she received. I don’t know if she resented myself for giving birth to her every time she felt wronged and sad.
Thinking of this, Yun Jinxing couldn't help but hug the child tighter.
But Yunmian didn't feel uncomfortable, nor did she think she was dirty and smelly. Instead, she arched her head and pressed it against her, calling her "Mom" in a gentle and affectionate voice.
"Mom, how can I get you out?" Yun Mian hugged her mother and asked the difficult question that she had been thinking about all day but couldn't figure out.
In her heart, her mother is the smartest person in the world, so if she can't figure out something, her mother will definitely be able to figure it out.
But after asking this question, Yunmian did not wait for her mother's answer.
Yun Jinxing fell silent again.
After a long while, she gently touched the child's malnourished hair that looked like dry grass, and said slowly in a not-so-fluent and even not-so-standard pronunciation: "Mianmian, don't worry about me. I'm already a cripple, and you can't save me."
The system next to it is not good as soon as you hear it.
Sure enough, the little girl who was originally curled up obediently in her mother's arms was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and the next second her eyes quickly turned red.
But she didn't cry. She just opened her eyes as wide as she could. In the pitch-black darkness, she stared at her mother's outline and said, "Mom, I want to save you."
She didn't care if her voice was too loud. She just clenched her thin fingers in the dark and said word by word: "Mianmian can't live without her mother, otherwise I won't be the most precious baby in the world."
Including her name, everything Yunmian has was given by her mother, so when her mother told her not to care about her just now, those four short words sounded more like another sentence to Yunmian: I don’t want you anymore.
This made Yunmian more panicked and frightened than if I didn’t love you anymore.
She groped in the darkness and held her mother's knees again. The tears that had been held back in her eyes fell silently, but she just touched them gently, then took the sweet grass stalk residue and the few leaves used to wrap things in her hand and took them out.
Before she stood up, Yunmian imitated her mother and touched her head. Even though she touched a handful of tangled and dry hair, she held back her tears and coaxed her softly, "Be good, Mommy. Mianmian will bring you food tomorrow."
Yunmian loves her mother very much. No matter what her mother becomes, even if she becomes a scary ghost or an inconspicuous weed on the roadside, Yunmian will always love her mother.
Yunmian closed the cowshed door carefully.
When I turned around, I found a child standing in the shadow of the tree under the moonlight.
I don't know how long the other party had been watching and listening outside.
Yun Mian raised her hand to wipe away her tears, sniffed, and then walked closer and called her: "Sister..."
Nine-year-old He Fang already understood a lot of things, even though she couldn't go to school and no one taught her how to be a good person.
She looked at her sister who was much shorter than her. She used to say "Grandma will beat us to death" during the day, but now she said nothing. She took Yunmian's hand and walked to the sleeping room next door.
After closing the door, she asked in an ambiguous tone, "How do you know that's your mother?"
Yunmian rubbed her red and swollen eyes. The room was getting darker and she couldn't see anything clearly. She could only follow the source of the sound and answer doubtfully: "I'll know when I see it. My mother is easy to recognize. I can recognize her right away."
He Fang's voice in the darkness was like a shrill ghost: "How could you recognize her when she's like that? You've never seen her before!"
Her tone was a little fierce. Yun Mian took a small step back, but couldn't help but say, "But I can recognize her. My mother is easy to recognize."
It was the same excuse over and over again. He Fang felt that she and Yun Mian simply couldn't communicate.
Perhaps He Fang herself couldn't explain what she wanted to ask.
She just suspected someone was stealing cows when she heard some noise in the cowshed, so she tiptoed to check it out. Who knew she would hear such a conversation.
He Fang had long known that the half-human, half-ghost woman tied with an iron chain in the cowshed was Yun Mian's biological mother.
He Fang didn't know what her mother looked like, but she had seen Yun Jinshu's appearance before she became like this.
She is very beautiful, as soft and pretty as the clouds in the sky. She is wearing a nice sportswear and her smile is like the most beautiful flower.
He Fang was only about three or four years old at that time, but all her shallow knowledge at a young age was no match for the sight of Yun Jinxing.
Just like this woman's name, it seems out of reach, like the stars in the sky.
But Yun Jinxing has become what it is now.
He Fang is the one who truly witnessed all the changes in Yunjin Star.
She had seen Yun Jinxing at her most beautiful and brightest, and she had also seen Yun Jinxing's intelligence and tenacity when she realized something was wrong and tried every means to escape. She had also heard Yun Jinxing's cursing and crying when she was most desperate, and she had also seen Yun Jinxing being thrown into the cowshed with her legs broken and covered in blood.
When Yun Jinxing cut her cheeks with glass shards, He Fang had nightmares for three whole days.
Later, He Fang was the one who cooked every meal delivered to the cowshed.
Even Yunmian was carefully fed by He Fang using a small spoon.
He Fang also tried to communicate with Yun Jinxing. The child was young and curious about everything. Yun Jinxing was the most mysterious and tragic person in her life, but all her inquiries received no response from the other party.
There is only one real conversation.
When He Fang said that she gave birth to a sister, Yun Jinxing opened his eyes with sweat all over his forehead and a pale face. It was unknown what he was thinking about. He stared at He Fang for a moment, then smiled miserably and said, "I gave birth to her in hell..."
He Fang didn't understand it at that time, but she kept this sentence in her heart.
In the day-to-day life that followed, He Fang finally vaguely understood that sentence.
Especially when Yunmian was beaten and huddled in the corner crying until she was hoarse, but only received even more terrible beatings and scolding, those words kept echoing in her ears like a curse that neither she nor Yunmian could escape in their lifetime.
In the darkness, He Fang came back to her senses from her memories and said to Yun Mian, "Don't let them find out, or you and your mother will be beaten to death."
It seemed that she only knew this one reminder, but it was the most terrifying and desperate thing in the hearts of the two girls.
Yunmian curled up in the dirty sofa that had long been in tatters, just like Dahuang curled up in his equally tattered doghouse. She nodded when she heard what was said, and when she realized that her sister might not see it, she answered obediently in a low voice, "Okay."
He Fang: "Go to sleep. We still have to work tomorrow."
Yunmian didn't fall asleep.
She couldn't sleep. All she could see in her mind was her mother's bruised body and cold, shrunken legs.
Yun Mian found that she seemed to be having trouble breathing. Her chest felt heavy as if a huge stone was pressing on it. Even the slightest breath caused her heart to ache slightly.
Tears slid down the corners of my eyes and hid silently in my hair.
She was only a five-year-old child, and she tried very hard to make herself strong during the day, but at night, her mother's broken leg made her hands and feet cold and heavy.
All her strong wishes today were to run away with her mother, but her mother didn’t even have legs...how could she run away?
Yun Mian didn’t know. She just felt that her head was in a mess and her heart was aching. She could only breathe harder through her mouth to avoid dying in sadness.
How could those bad guys bully my mother like this?
Yun Mian covered her heart and her face turned pale. The feeling of shortness of breath was not an illusion. She was really in pain. Her heart hurt, her chest hurt, and her whole body was twitching with dull pain.
Whenever she thought of her mother's appearance, she felt as if she were suffering from the pain over and over again. The pain was so severe that she could only curl herself up tightly little by little, breathing deeply through her mouth, like a fish thrown on the shore struggling desperately.
Save Mommy...
On a path not far from the village, the thick fog in the early morning gradually dissipated, and a few people with confused expressions suddenly appeared on the path.
Everything was fine before Xie Jinan opened the door, but as soon as she opened the door and took a step outside, the world in front of her was turned upside down and became unfamiliar. If she hadn't pinched herself silently, she would have thought she was dreaming.
The people around her seemed to be in the same situation as her. They were all looking around in confusion. Some of them took out their phones to try to make calls or locate the location, but to no avail.
"...Who are you?" A boy dressed as a student pushed his glasses and stared at others vigilantly.
However, before they could verify each other's identity information, a crisp ding-dong sound rang in their ears: "Congratulations on being selected as one of the players of [Nightmare Game]. I am the novice guidance system. I will now give you the details of the novice level mission."
For the next three minutes, they were mostly immersed in the details of the mission they had to watch.
The mission is simple. Do you see the dilapidated little village in front? Now they each have their own identities. The next step is to enter the village, explore the truth hidden in the village, and then successfully get out of the mountain.
"In theory, our game upholds the humanitarian spirit, and the conditions for the novice levels should be relaxed. However, due to a minor glitch in the level NPC, we have to temporarily change the settings. From now on, players only have seven days to complete the relevant tasks. Once the seven days are up, players who have not completed the tasks will be eliminated by the system."
“Please players actively explore and clear the level as soon as possible.”
Xie Jinan: "...Game? Player? NPC?"
Hiss, I am still dreaming, right? Otherwise, how could I hear someone talking nonsense in my ear?
The novice guidance system heard her complaints: "...Please don't attack the game verbally."
Xie Jinan frowned, observing the changes in the expressions of others. After a moment, he spoke first: "You should have heard what the system said, right? It's not a good idea to just stand here like this. Why don't we check each other's identities first?"
This identity is of course not an identity in the real world, but a personal identity assigned to them by the game system.
Xie Jinan first said his own: "I am a teacher who came here to teach. Since there are no extra staff dormitories for study, I came to this village to stay for a while."
As she spoke, she took out her ID card which had appeared on her body at some point. Her name was written on it, and the rest of the information was exactly the same as what she had said.
The boy with glasses also took out an ID card, took a look at it and said, "I'm a local in the village. I came back to stay for two days during the holiday."
Afterwards, other people also revealed their identities one after another.
At this time, everyone was still on guard. After all, they had not completely transformed their cognition of the real world, and they did not realize the cruelty of this game.
Therefore, after speaking, everyone showed their ID cards to confirm each other's information.
There were five people in the group, three men and two women.
Xie Jinan is one of them, and the other girl is an art student who comes here to sketch.
In addition to that student, there was another boy who was a friend who came with the art student.
The last middle-aged man is a migrant worker who returned home from the village.
After the five people memorized each other's identities, although they still didn't quite understand their current situation, they still followed the requirements of the game system and walked towards the dilapidated village not far away.
It’s not that they dislike it, but this village...how should I put it, it’s so shabby, like a relic from the last century.
But as the morning sun slowly rose, people in the village gradually started to make fires and cook. The originally dilapidated village then took on a different kind of peace and beauty in the curling smoke.
The appearance of the players quickly caused a commotion in the entire village.
Yun Mian, who had just woken up, had no chance to watch the fun. She and He Fang had to light a fire and cook in the kitchen. However, when the other three people in the house heard that there were strangers coming, they all ran out impatiently.
Including He Guizhi, who remembered what happened last night when she saw Yunmian just now, so she picked up a stick and wanted to hit her.
Yunmian escaped again.
She sat in front of the stove, watching He Fang cooking skillfully, but she herself looked listless and couldn't muster up the energy.
She didn't sleep at all last night. It was not until dawn that the blockage in her chest seemed to dissipate a little.
But when she heard He Guizhi open the door of the cowshed and lead the cow out, Yun Mian felt as if she couldn't breathe again.
Now sitting on the small wooden stake, Yun Mian, who had been in pain all night, felt a little absent-minded.
He Fang scooped the noodles from the pot. In her and Yun Mian's bowls, there was only noodle soup and a few noodles that could be counted at a glance. Not even a large piece of vegetable leaf could be found.
"Turn off the fire." She called out to the dazed Yunmian.
Yun Mian came to his senses and put out the raging fire, but his eyes were fixed on the flames jumping on the branch.
After a long time, they buried the burning branches in the ashes, and only took them out after the fire was covered by the ashes.
The two sisters began to wait at the dining table for the other three to come back for dinner.
It didn't take long for He Guizhi to come back with a happy face. When she saw Yun Mian, she didn't say she was going to hit her. Instead, she urged the two sisters to light the fire again and fry a bowl of egg noodles with sauce to entertain the guests.
Yunmian knew that this was the "stranger" that the system uncle mentioned.
The protagonist sister and others in the story are now entering the village.
But Yunmian no longer had the same expectations for them as she had yesterday.
Mom’s leg is broken. Can those players really help rescue her?
Yun Mian didn’t know. She just felt that her feet were light and her body was moving, but her soul seemed like it would float away at any time.
Uncle System said this is a sequelae of staying up late.
Yun Mian always felt that she was about to float out of her body.
The longer my mother was locked up, the more she floated away from this body.
The little girl sat on the small wooden stake in a daze, her eyes empty and without focus. No one knew what she was thinking about.
Outside, the voices of He Yonghong and others warmly entertaining the guests could be heard. Two clusters of orange-red flames were reflected in Yun Mian's dull pupils, as if they were going to light her up bit by bit.
"Don't make trouble and don't make them angry." He Fang said to Yun Mian.
She always felt that her sister seemed to have changed a lot in the past two days, but she had never been to school, so she couldn't tell exactly where she had changed. Maybe it was because she had recognized her mother, so she had changed.
Yun Mian came back to her senses and looked at He Fang a little slowly, but He Fang had already gone out with the bowl of freshly fried egg sauce.
"Uncle System, can they really save my mother?" Yun Mian was at a loss and could only ask Uncle System who had been quietly accompanying her.
The light on the light ball flickered gently. After hesitating for a moment, it took the risk to say to the silly child: "Mianmian, don't trust anyone except the protagonist."
Don't trust anyone except the protagonist.
If Xie Jinan heard this, he would definitely be alert at the first moment.
Unfortunately, the one who heard these words was Yunmian, a five-year-old kid who didn’t even have perfect cognition, let alone be wary of anyone.
Yunmian has its own logic of understanding.
She asked the system uncle if the players could save her mother.
The system uncle replied that no one should be trusted except the protagonist.
Does this mean...the protagonist's sister can save her mother? !
The child who had been depressed and withdrawn all night last night finally perked up again, just like a wilted little flower that finally welcomed the sun and dew again, and perked up again.
"Uncle System, I understand!" Yun Mian nodded solemnly.
system:"……?"
What do you understand?
Although I don’t know what you understood, but seeing you suddenly perk up, my first reaction was not relief but worry? ?
The system also felt like it had a bug.
After this mission is completed and I return to the headquarters, I will definitely go for an inspection.
Yun Mian stopped sitting on the small wooden stake in a daze. She looked outside and made sure that everyone was chatting happily with the new guests. Then she pulled out a small bowl from the cupboard and stood on tiptoe to reach the spoon that He Fang had placed on the edge of the pot.
There is still a little egg soup in the pot, it smells so good, Yunmian wants to secretly scoop it out and hide it for her mother to drink!
The system flew aside and watched Yunmian steal the soup from the pot. The dog was sneaky like a little mouse climbing up the lampstand to steal lamp oil.
There was not much left in the pot, not even a spoonful in total, but after Yun Mian hid the bowl, she smelled the fragrance and couldn't help licking the big spoon.
The system was so distressed that it almost picked out the system of this game world and gave it a good scolding.
Look at what kind of levels you made and what kind of characters you included? ?
My good child comes to you and not only gets beaten and scolded, but he also doesn't even have food to eat and can only lick the spoon!
The system was angry and distressed. It squatted on Yunmian's shoulder and thought angrily: I can put this matter aside for the time being and go back for maintenance. When the task is over, I must sneak over and give this bastard game system a good beating to vent my anger on Mianmian!
Yunmian didn't know that the system uncle was thinking about some violent incidents that children shouldn't know about.
She ran out and peeked into the house secretly, trying to see who the player was.
The plot says that the person who came here is Xie Jinan, but Yunmian doesn’t know who Xie Jinan is.
Then she saw a very beautiful sister.
"Uncle, is she the protagonist's sister?" Yun Mian looked at the other person with sparkling eyes.
The system took a look inside and said, "It's her, the protagonist Xie Jinan."
Xie Jinan is just an ordinary novice player now, but after passing this level, she will be able to obtain a very powerful cheat code from Yunmian... Wait? !
The system suddenly became a little confused.
If it remembered correctly or saw it correctly, the golden finger that Xie Jinan took from Mianmian in his previous life... should be a jade pendant, right?
Jade pendant, does it look familiar?
But wasn’t the jade pendant confiscated by the host from the previous world?
Why did Yunmian appear in the last episode?
The introduction also said that the jade pendant was the only relic left to Yun Mian by her mother Yun Jinxing.
Before, the system had only read the plot in a hurry. The golden finger written in the plot was the two words "relics". It was not until later that it was slowly revealed how powerful Xie Jinan's golden finger was. However, the later plot had nothing to do with the host, so the system did not pay much attention to it.
As a result, it now turns over the plot, and it clearly states that the golden finger Xie Jinan got is a jade pendant space...
So the question is: where did Yun Jinxing get the jade pendant? Now that the jade pendant is gone, can the protagonist still get the golden finger from Mianmian?
system:……
Oh no, the host mother hasn’t been rescued yet, but things seem to be getting out of control.
I will update more tomorrow. I owe you a lot of chapters, so I will update more in the next few days.
Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade:
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