In the virtual world, on the continent of time, three magicians drove out of the spider dragon's lair, leaving behind a burning mine.

It was a perfect raid: the cave entrance was just big enough for a sports car, so they rushed in and killed five young spider dragons, then poisoned and suffocated the other twenty-four.

Finally, faced with the dominant creatures, the spider dragons, whose families had been destroyed, they paid the highest attention, first setting them on fire and then beating them up, giving them a neat and decent funeral.

Terrain killing, fire attack, gang beating, they are already very familiar with this set of procedures, gradually sublimating the difficult battle into a massacre like killing monsters, so that Diya is a little sentimental: "If there is a god who protects knowledge creatures in the virtual world, should we pray to him to forgive our sins?"

"If there really is one, then He should pray to us." Sonia pressed down Diya's silly hair: "Don't let us magicians find it."

"Come to think of it, I've read a fairy tale picture book before. There's a story in it called 'Don't Get Found by the Magician'. The protagonist is a magic spirit that's trying every way to escape from the magician's control..."

"Did that work?"

"No, he was caught and taken back."

"That is indeed a good fairy tale."

Just as the two besties were improving their relationship through gossip, a stinky man's voice suddenly interrupted: "Do you think your mother is a decent mother?"

Hearing Ash's sudden question, Sonia was not polite at all: "What else? Is your mother a wholesaler?"

After the quarrel with Ash last night, the two of them had become more and more casual with each other, not to mention that Ash's words dared to touch another soft spot in Sonia's heart. It was only because the witch was beside her, otherwise Sonia would not have asked back so politely.

"No, I just feel a little sad because of what happened recently." Ash said: "Different societies, different regions, different cultural traditions, and different people will produce different kinship fruits."

Mother, relatives, recent events?

Diya moved her ears and observed Ash in the rearview mirror.

"If relationships are compared to a cup of seasoning, then the relationship between my mother and I is probably a dry sauce made of three spoons of sugar, five chilies, a small cup of bitter melon juice, a slice of lemon, and a few marshmallows. When I am ready to eat bitter food, I can dip it in this dry sauce and eat it hard."

Um……

Um!?

Both the witch and the sword lady looked at the viewer with subtle eyes - wait, so you have a mother too?

Although everyone has a mother, in the perception of Sonia and Diya, the viewer should be an ancient old man who was sealed for thousands of years and recently emerged from his coffin. For his long life, shouldn’t the childhood spent with his parents be an insignificant memory?

But they were not sure. After all, they were all young girls in their twenties. How could they possibly know the psychological activities of people who had lived for hundreds or thousands of years? Perhaps the viewer's nostalgic attitude towards life was the norm among the immortals.

Sonia thought for a moment, "My relationship with my mother is probably like two spoons of sugar, one spoon of vinegar, one spoon of soy sauce, and then stir-frying with hot oil..."

“Why is there hot oil?”

"I also want to ask why there is hot oil." Sonia said lightly: "Fate is really a very unruly chef."

Then the two looked at the witch, and Diya hesitated: "I... I have never seen my mother."

After a brief silence, Sonia asked, "Which resource point are we going to next?"

"Let me see," Ash said, "We are almost back to the Star Hall area with a detailed map, but there are no unmissable resource points on the edge of the Star Hall. Let's continue forward to see if there is anything worth looting..."

Although the two teammates were very knowledgeable and immediately changed the subject, Diya didn't want to end it there: "Viewer, why are you suddenly lamenting about kinship issues? Did something happen in reality?"

"Nothing." Ash thought for a moment and said, "It's just that I've been through some things recently and found that in addition to the relationship between children and adults, there may also be a naked alliance of interests."

"Oh." Diya's eyes widened and her body subconsciously leaned forward slightly: "What a strange relationship."

"I've also seen children using benefits to threaten adults and force them to comply."

"Wow, anything else?"

"There is no basis for trust between adults and children. Contracts are more worthy of their trust than feelings."

There were more and more similarities, and Diya couldn't help but tremble. Her guess seemed to be gradually confirmed. The witch suppressed her inner excitement and asked as if nothing had happened: "This is the first time I've heard of this... By the way, how old is the child you mentioned?"

Ash thought for a moment and said, "Hmm...about eight years old?"

The witch was startled, "Only eight years old?"

"I haven't asked in detail, but it should be eight years old, right?" Ash was not sure.

Diya suddenly lost interest like a deflated balloon. She stopped interfering with the driver's driving and buried her head in Jian Ji's arms, thinking.

Although Diya and other sisters were watching the show in the mirror the whole time, they were also shocked by the peculiar mother-daughter relationship between Qinna and Annan, and they had discussed it in Liz's mind for an unknown amount of time.

Now that the viewer has come to the virtual world and brought up the topic of his mother, Diya naturally had a strange association -

"Could the viewer be Ash?"

Her association did not come about overnight, but was the accumulation of many days.

After all, Liz stayed with Ash during the day, and Diya stayed with the viewer at night. Even if she didn't think about it at first, she still had a strange sense of déjà vu after a long time: Do you two have holes in the same place in your brain? How come your thinking patterns are so similar that they seem to have rotated 360 degrees?

And you are wearing the same dark red top!

More importantly, in the battle with the Pojia Office last night, the Diya sisters vaguely saw Ash cast a warm yellow barrier to protect An Nan.

The sword barrier most commonly used by viewers happens to be a warm yellow barrier!

Of course, most of the defense miracles involving the earth magic faction are dominated by yellow, but all the coincidences and déjà vu accumulated together and fermented, coupled with the catalysis of the topic of mother, Diya's suspicion of "Viewer Ash" was completely formed, so she secretly asked the viewer about the actual situation.

At first she thought the viewer was talking about An Nan and Qin Na, but the viewer was talking about an eight-year-old child, and An Nan was obviously not that young, so Diya had obviously guessed wrong.

Diya rubbed her body in Sword Girl's arms and thought carefully about why she associated Ash with the viewer?

The main thing is that dark red windbreaker.

If you don't look at the front, Ash's back in the windbreaker is almost exactly the same as the viewer's back.

But the problem is that the dark red windbreaker that Ash wore was bought by Liz for him! And the reason why Liz bought this gift was because she thought the viewer wearing the dark red windbreaker was very handsome, so she bought one for Ash.

After a round, it was actually Liz who deliberately dressed Ash according to the image of the viewer, so of course Ash looked like the viewer.

As for thinking patterns and language styles, if you think about it carefully, they are not that similar.

After all, the viewer spoke very unscrupulously, often laughed at himself, and occasionally told Sword Princess some dirty jokes that she couldn't understand. After the explanation of the White Queen and the Black Butler, Diya also understood what dirty jokes were.

In comparison, although Ash is a bit of a rascal, he is relatively gentle in attitude and behaves more decently. He almost never tells dirty jokes in front of Liz. Even when Harvey talks about something scary with Igula, he will immediately cover Liz's ears. He is very caring.

As for the warm yellow defense miracle...it should really just be a coincidence!

After separating the viewer from Ash, Diya found that this made more sense: the viewer could observe her anytime and anywhere, so why would he need to disguise himself as Ash and lurk around her? Not to mention that Ash was the contractor chosen by Liz herself, so the viewer couldn't possibly have calculated this, right?

Although Diya had not known Guanzhe for long, she knew that Guanzhe was not a liar. Since the daughter Guanzhe mentioned was only eight years old, Guanzhe was definitely not talking about An Nan, but was telling the story of another parent-child pair that Guanzhe did not know.

…

Liz was about eight years old?

When the witch brought it up, Ash realized that he didn't know his adopted daughter's age. However, Liz's appearance was indeed deceptive: her teeth were neater than Ash's, and it was unclear whether she had not yet had her teeth changed or had already; she was about the same height as a fire hydrant, and seemed to be less than ten years old, but it was also possible that she was malnourished.

Yes, in fact, Ash was inspired by what he saw in the abnormal mother-daughter relationship between Annan and Qinna, and thought of his own and Liz's special situation.

The focus is on yourself, not An Nan.

After all, Ash's butt is still very upright. The capitalist boss has a conflict of interest with her feudal aristocratic mother. What does it have to do with him, a stinky worker? When An Nan was beaten so badly by Qinna, Ash had more or less sympathy for her, but he didn't expect that it was the daughter who took the initiative to plot against her mother. Bronze Ash said that he couldn't get involved in your king's game.

After the mother and daughter reached a consensus, Qinna placed them in - or imprisoned them in - the second-tier city of Fanmu La. At this time, Ash and others realized that the second-tier city of Fanmu La was divided into six areas intentionally, so that each emblem family could occupy one area.

When I read novels and saw the three major families in the anime Star City, they were at least a combination of 'a minority of the family' + 'most of the common people', but Fanmula was a complete collection of the six major families - there was no one outside the six major families in this city, people in the same area were all from the same family, and there was the closest blood identity between family members, and at the same time they would strongly reject outsiders.

It is more of a continent than a city, made up of six nationalist states.