Another meaningless conversation.

    Li Muyang earnestly inquires about Xiao Yecao’s past, and the little girl timidly and obediently tells him her tragic life story.

    However, in the hundreds of failed reloads, this wretched girl has come up with over a dozen different versions of her story.

    Obviously, the tragic experiences she talks about are all made up on the spot.

    She has no intention of telling Li Muyang, a stranger she just met, about her family background and past encounters.

    And this version of the story, Li Muyang is all too familiar with—it should be considered the most frequently occurring version among the stories the girl has concocted.

    When Li Muyang heard these fake stories before, he was very frustrated.

    He would either directly expose the little girl or earnestly ask her for the truth.

    Either he would reload the game and try a different conversation tactic, hoping to persuade the little girl with his words, or he would get angry, pressuring her through private messages, attempting to force her to tell the truth...

    He had been stuck at this stage for too long and was desperate to get past this level.

    But this time was different: this time, Li Muyang was truly tired.

    He looked at the little girl in front of him with a weary face and sighed.

    “Are you serious?”

    What does it mean to be tired of heart... This is what it means to be tired of heart.

    At this moment, Li Muyang suddenly felt the exhaustion of a father who catches his daughter lying time and time again, yet is too weary to even scold her.

    He even had a moment of ‘forget it, let it all be destroyed’ resignation.

    In the dimly lit stilt house, the timid-looking little girl paused, then nodded earnestly.

    “Mm-hmm, everything Xiaocao says is true.”

    The little girl affirmed herself with utmost seriousness.

    Seeing her obedient and pitiful demeanor, who would have thought she was one to spout lies at the drop of a hat?

    Li Muyang was almost brought to laughter by her exquisite acting skills.

    “Alright, if you say it’s true, then it’s true.”

    Looking up at the sky outside, Li Muyang said, “It’s getting late, and you’ve changed into new clothes, so let me take you out for a walk.”

    “Since you don’t seem to want to stay with me, and frankly, I feel the same.”

    “I’ll take you away from Black Cloud Village. After that, you can go wherever you want, so you won’t have to feel aggrieved staying in Black Cloud Village.”

    Li Muyang, who had been wandering around the village, decided to try a different approach this time.

    Since he had given up on clearing the level, he decided to play for fun and just mess around.

    For instance, sending this troublesome kid out of Black Cloud Village to see if the system would force a game over.

    “I will personally take you there to find them and kill those two scum.”

    “People who sell their own daughter to human traffickers don’t deserve to be parents!”

    And so, with a mix of coercion and intimidation, Li Muyang got the little girl to squat in the small bamboo basket, covered it with cloth, and carried the basket out the door.

    The secret path out of the village was one that Li Muyang had discovered while wandering around the village.

    Now, it was coming in handy.

    No one would expect Jiang Xiaoyu, a villager, to suddenly decide to flee the village with a soul-lost girl.

    Thus, he passed through the village unobstructed and arrived at the southeast corner of Black Cloud Village, next to an abandoned house.

    After carefully prying open the floor of the abandoned house, a winding staircase leading downward appeared.

    The path was clearly often used, as there was no dust on the ground.

    Li Muyang entered the tunnel while carrying the little girl, passed through the long, dark underground passage, and finally arrived at a cave amid the mountains.

    When the two reemerged under the moonlight, Li Muyang clearly felt the little girl who had been quiet and well-behaved in the basket the whole way let out a sigh of relief.

    —Clearly, this kid didn’t want to stay in Black Cloud Village.

    Peeking out through a gap in the cloth covering the basket, the little girl timidly whispered, “Elder Brother, are we really going to my home?”

    The little girl sought confirmation once again.

    Under the moonlight, Li Muyang observed the dark and quiet forest around him, curious.

    —The system didn’t consider this a game failure?

    Does it mean that taking the little girl out of the village is also acceptable?

    This nurturing game has no scene or route restrictions?

    I see, the freedom is higher than I thought.

    Thinking this, Li Muyang’s smile grew even brighter.

    “Yeah, we’re going to your home.”

    Hearing the timid question from the girl behind him, he laughed heartily and said, “We’re going to kill your parents to carry out justice on behalf of heaven.”

    After saying this, Li Muyang paused for a moment before adding, “If I find out you’ve been lying to me when we get there, I’ll chop off your head and feed your chopped-up body to the dogs.”

    “I, Jiang Xiaoyu, hate being lied to the most!”

    Li Muyang’s voice carried through the moonlight, and the little girl’s breathing suddenly stopped.

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