CHAPTER 21 (1/2)

Bonus ko-fi chapter.

Fairytale Town 5

Song Qi glanced between Xie Xi and the girl.

The girl was very pitiful. She came forward and sweetly tried to pull Xie Xi’s arm. “Brother Bai Xia, fortunately you have come back…”

Xie Xi stepped back and distanced himself from her. “I’m not Bai Xia.”

The girl stood in place at his words, the sweetness fading from her thin face and panic replacing it. “Brother Bai Xia, don’t joke around with Yunren, Yuren is very afraid.”

Such a beautiful maiden, so pitiful and attached to him. An ordinary man would probably be moved.

Xie Xi didn’t want to deceive her. Intuition told him that things weren’t so simple and this girl was hurt far beyond a flesh wound.

“I’m sorry.” Xie Xi told her earnestly. “I’m not Bai Xia or someone you know.”

The girl’s eyes were widen and her black pupils expanded to almost completely fill her eyes, creating a frightening shock. “How can that be? You are Brother Bai Xia… before… not… but now… Bai Xia… Brother Bai Xia…”

She seemed too emotional. The words came intermittently and the meaning couldn’t be understood.

Xie Xi frowned and wondered in a low voice, “Before…”

The girl interrupted without giving him a chance to finish. She took out a well-preserved photo from her pocket. “Look, look… Brother Bai Xia… this is what you gave to me. This is the photo of us together. How can it not be you? How can it not…’

Her hands were very thin and the bones of her fingers could be seen. She was holding the photo like it was 30% heavier than her hand.

Xie Xi stared intently at the photo.

This was a photo of the two people. The man in the photo was blurred and only his outline could be seen. It was also different from Xie Xi because the man was taller and burlier than Xie Xi. The girl next to him looked particularly petite.

The girl in the photo was smiling happy. The curves of her mouth were full of the temperature of the sun. She was slim but not the dead skinny that she was now.

Xie Xi was more concerned with the town behind them.

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They were standing on a high mountain and the town was in the background. There were rows of red tiled buildings and well-defined blue brick paths. Along with the ethereal fireworks, it gave off a fairytale serenity.

This was the real fairytale town.

Song Qi also saw it. He was stunned and couldn’t say anything.

The girl cautiously pleaded, “Brother Bai Xia, you see… this is our photo. I have been keeping it and waiting for you.”

Xia looked at him and spoke cruelly, “Sorry, I’m not Bai Xia. I have no impression of this photo.”

The girl was pale and her thin body trembled, like the last dead life about to fall in the winter forest. “Why? You don’t want Yunren? You… you really don’t want Yunren.” Big tears rolled down at her mournful words.

She was too thin. Once she cried, she seemed like she was squeezing out the last water in her body.

Xie Xi glanced at Song Qi and Song Qi nodded. The two people left this pained maiden alone.

They walked away and Song Qi couldn’t help saying, “She is too pitiful…”

“It can’t be helped.” Xie Xi replied. “I’m not Bai Xia and can’t give her what she wants. Lying to her will only deal her a double injury.”

Song Qi sighed, “Indeed.” Still, the average person couldn’t endure it when a young girl was begging like this. Forget straight men. As a gay man, he even wanted to persuade her not to cry.

Xie Xi asked Song Qi, “When you entered this world… did you see the whole town?”

Song Qi saw the photo just now and understood why he asked. “I didn’t saw the whole thing but when I was stealing… uh… when I sneaked into a home to do the task, the situation of their home left an impression on me.”

“What is it?”

Song Qi explained, “It was very poor. The house was a beautiful two-storey building. There is a small yard and the decorations in the house were also very good but… there was hardly any food.”

Xie Xi thought deeply.

Song Qi continued, “I didn’t understand the terrain and took the kitchen as the bed… in any case, I entered the room and found a few grains of rice in the rice storage, as well as wild vegetables that are difficult to swallow…”

He had never experienced a hard time so the kitchen left a deep and terrible expression on Song Qi. The family was so poor that they even wanted to eat bark.

Xie Xi murmured, “What is happening in this town?”

Song Qi wondered, “Is it because of the dragon? In order to provide for it, the residents gave him all their food…”

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Xie Xi thought that if it was a dragon, the villagers might not sit back like this.

As a species, humans had always been fearless. In particular, they would do anything to survive when conditions were extremely harsh.

What about the dragon? A civilization with a gun, they really couldn’t handle the dragon? It was also a situation where they were so hungry they would probably peel off their skin to eat.

Besides, his mission was to collect a dragon heart. If the whole town couldn’t fight the dragon, how could he do it as a beginner collector?

The power of the low-level players was weak and they were almost the same as ordinary people. If 10 players could accomplish the task, why couldn’t the town residents?

Of course… it could be said that this was a game and the setting of the game left the problem for players to solve.

Was this the case? Xie Xi could never feel like he was ‘playing.’

In any case, these were all guesses and they were quite some distance from the truth.

Xie Xi suggested, “Let’s go to the back mountain to see.”

Song Qi nodded. “Okay.”

It was convenient for the two people to walk in the darkness. On the one hand, they could see and on the other hand, they could avoid people. It was killing two birds with one stone.

It was almost dawn when they finally came to the back mountain.

They looked up and…

Song Qi whined, “How can we find a cave in such a big place?”

This wasn’t a computer game where a panoramic view could be seen by dragging down the map. They were standing in a real world!

They were tired from walking all night. Now they looked at the huge mountain covered in trees and felt like crying.

A cave in the rear mountain…

Who knew how many caves there were?

Compared with Song Qi’s sigh, Xie Xi calmly pulled out a magnifying glass.

Song Qi, “…”