"What's wrong?" She looked back.
“Don’t drink the water!”
The little boy held his knees, panting, and took two seconds to speak a complete sentence: "New rules have been born! The current preliminary judgment is: You can't drink the water!"
Shi Wuqing frowned and asked, "What happened?"
"Just now, Uncle Wan drank some water and suddenly melted." Bai Xiaolu said uncomfortably, "It happened so suddenly that I couldn't determine the details. I was worried that my sister might have drunk the water, so I rushed to find her."
"Thank you, Xiaolu." Shi Wuqing rubbed the boy's head. "I understand. You can go back first."
"Sister..." Bai Xiaolu raised his head: "Are you going outside the clan boundary?"
"Well, there are some things to do. It's a task assigned to me by the Saint. It won't be dangerous, don't worry."
"...But, sister, at this moment, you abandon me alone and go out. Aren't you afraid that I will be in danger?" Bai Xiaolu clenched the corner of his clothes and asked in a low voice, his voice choked with sobs.
Shi Wuqing paused and lowered his voice: "No, Xiaolu, I will always protect you."
"You're lying..." Tears welled up in the boy's eyes. "Sister is leaving soon. How can you protect me?"
There was a moment of silence.
then……
"Those who are not of my race must have different hearts." Shi Wuqing bent down and lightly drew a few strokes in the air with his fingers, and a sunflower appeared out of thin air.
—which almost reveals her non-human status.
Faced with this sudden confession, Bai Xiaolu's pupils shrank.
Shi Wuqing handed the sunflower, which represented hope, to the boy and said, "But, if it's my sister, would you be willing to believe it once?"
"You...what are you?"
Shi Wuqing wiped the tears from the boy's eyes and said, "I will protect Xiaolu, and I am willing to protect all humans."
Bai Xiaolu was a little confused, but still reached out and took the sunflower.
And the next second after he took the sunflower, the girl in front of him disappeared.
Bai Xiaolu stood there blankly for a while, his eyes moist, but the colors in them gradually became dim.
My sister is not human. Should I kill her?
If I kill my sister, she will stay by my side forever and won't run away.
The sunflower's smile was brilliant and bright like the sun. It was a flower that Bai Xiaolu had never seen in his life.
He lowered his head and fiddled with it for a while, then suddenly became discouraged:
Forget it... Even if my sister is not human, she is still my sister.
Don't hurt her anymore.
Will protect her.
"For the sake of... this flower."
…
Shi Wuqing came to the "divided" land thousands of miles away.
The so-called split is an extremely dangerous phenomenon on the continent. Black holes appear randomly in the air, on the ground, underground... anywhere, swallowing up everything around them. Soon after, there is a chance that "weird" and "Old Ones" will be born. ①
"Weird", as the name suggests, refers to inexplicable strange phenomena. If you want to describe it accurately, it is like a playground in the infinite world.
Every time a "split" occurs, several more playgrounds appear in the world, some visible to the naked eye, others silent.
——For example, division brings about a "game of rules", the rules of which are unknown to anyone and can only be practiced through life.
It is now a well-known rule that one should not look in a mirror at midnight. If one looks in a mirror, or happens to see his own face in any reflective object, he will become a mirror.
What Bai Xiaolu just said, "melt after drinking water", is obviously the new rule.
There's no reason, no solution. This is weird.
There are hundreds of scattered rules around the world, but they target different species, and each species requires different attention.
These are just the rules that we know about and have not been violated. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. No one knows how many such rules there are.
——But rules are just a kind of “weirdness”.
The changes in the world brought about by the weirdness go far beyond this.
"Five..." Shi Wuqing was shocked by the scene in front of him.
The last time I came here, there was only one "splitting", and the scale of that "splitting" was already amazing enough, but this time, there were four more black holes in the sky!
Five large and growing divisions!
The nearby ground, air, and sky had all been swallowed up, turning into an empty void.
"Proliferating...?"
By then the fog had cleared to about mid-air, and everything became clearer.
The first split was actually expanding around and dispersing into new black holes!
According to this situation, the sixth "split" will occur soon!
No wonder... No wonder it has become so serious that it has alarmed Chi Jiu himself!
"It's troublesome." Shi Wuqing estimated his own strength.
The first split was a hundred meters in diameter. With her power, she could shatter it when it matured, preventing the birth of the "Old Ones" - the birth of the "Weird" was silent and could not be stopped, so she could only stop the latter - but if it continued to multiply...
Shi Wuqing's heart was pounding. For gods, "weirdness" was ineffective and could only harm human beings.
But... the Great Old Ones were different. They were beings beyond comprehension, transcending the laws of the universe, terrifying beings that even gods couldn't handle.
In order to prevent the Old Ones from appearing, the black hole must be shattered as soon as possible.
But unfortunately, "division" can only be crushed and eliminated when it matures.
Judging from the situation of this division, I am afraid that when it matures, it will be able to multiply into at least hundreds of "divisions"!
The white dress was blown high by the wind, and the girl's expression was silent and serious. After a while, she lowered her eyes, and a smile of relief slowly appeared on her face, which was so delicate and beautiful that it could make everything else lose its color.
"That's all."
Even if she dies, the Old Ones cannot appear.
So... let's try to cooperate with Chi Jiu.
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① The Old Ones are a type of gods in the Cthulhu mythology.
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