Forty-Fifth Chapter: Nightmare (17)-Innocent

Who do you know?

The viewers outside the live stream were momentarily stunned, almost thinking that Yu Xing was trying to trick them into revealing information.

This piece of jade is obviously very important to Zhou Xue's grandmother, Liang Erni. As mentioned before, no matter how poor life was, Liang Erni always kept this piece of white jade well. It would be unreasonable if it didn't have some special significance.

Of all the possibilities, a gift from an important person is the most likely, because so far in the mission, there has been no mention of Liang Erni's privileged background, and given the preciousness of the white jade, it is unlikely that it was given to Liang Erni herself.

So Yu Xing's statement is perfectly reasonable; Liang Erni might have been tricked by his phrase "that person gave it to you."

Judging from Liang Erni's reaction, she seemed rather vicious.

Bright red blood gushed from the monument, and the girl in the photo had a ferocious expression and resentful eyes.

Zhao Ruru silently took several steps back, clenching her fingers, ready to abandon this unlucky thing and run away at any moment.

Yu Xing, however, seemed completely oblivious to the trouble he had caused by his words. He reached out and touched the top of the monument reassuringly, a grin on his face. "Don't be angry. I know you're afraid of him. I'm just like you; I'm terrified of him too."

Liang Erni paused, seemingly surprised by his words, and was momentarily stunned.

About ten seconds later, new bloody words appeared.

[Who are you]

Yu Xing's expression was gentle. "An innocent victim who shares the same fate."

He noticed that Liang Erni was having difficulty typing, as if she couldn't speak freely, so he continued on his own, "It's like this, after seeing the words on this jade, I recognized him. To be honest, ever since I knew he was here, I realized that neither Zhou Xue nor you could be the culprit."

"You are far too innocent compared to him."

"So, I put myself in your shoes as victims, and then everything made sense."

[I want to hear]

"Want to hear? Want to hear my reasoning?" Yu Xing chuckled in surprise, seemingly not expecting that the person lying in the graveyard would be curious.

I want to hear it too.

[I initially thought Zhou Xue either orchestrated the whole thing herself or had done something wrong that triggered it all]

[Later, it was thought that Liang Erni was cursing her granddaughter behind her back.]

[And then, oh, so it was all Liang Erni's nightmare?]

[Finally--What? Liang Erni is a victim?]

[Haha, you guys are toxic! The formation you formed was pretty neat!]

[I've noticed something: when watching Xing's live streams, I can never keep up with his train of thought, even though the scenes I see are always the same.]

[+1, He always seems to figure things out quietly.]

[It's exam time, I wrote down a solution, and the top student flipped it over]

Fortunately, he always finds an opportunity to explain it, and here it is now.

Since Liang Erni had made such a request, Yu Xing simply made it a mandatory requirement for starting the Side Quest. There was also Zhao Ruru, who was crying for food (?), behind her. An explanation was necessary, but his legs were numb from squatting for so long, so he simply sat down on the ground.

Relatively speaking, he was quite willing to cultivate a weak image, especially since Zhao Yijiu had mentioned before that he was in poor health; this disguise would definitely be very useful.

Blood was flowing uncontrollably all over the ground, but Yu Xing sat back a little, and some blood got on the soles of his shoes. He glanced at it indifferently and then turned his head away.

"This is what I think; there might be some details that are incorrect, but it shouldn't be too far off."

With countless ears prickling up, he propped his chin up and said, "Judging from your clothes, it must be from the late Republican era. That's when you met that person. He deceived you in some ways and finally gave you a piece of jade, telling you to keep it safe."

"And you, out of love or some other reason, carefully preserved it until now. However, you discovered that something seemed off about the jade; ghostly figures would often appear inside, one of which was even urging you to go and get married—except for the era, this is exactly the same as Zhou Xue's part."

"You've suffered greatly, learning that person's true purpose: to lure you into some terrifying place and force you to replace a dead person named Liu Xue at a wedding. He approached you from the beginning for this reason, but as for why he chose you, I don't know yet."

"You may have resisted, but you still died in the end. To prevent that person from finding your soul, you created a dream to deceive the consciousness that person left on the jade, which gradually led to the situation we see now..."

Yu Xing yawned, his gaze shifting to the character "Ling" on the white jade:

"Zhou Xue was created by you to 'replace' you. You placed the jade on her to distract that person and to bear the pain of being harassed by ghosts in your place. Because that's the meaning of Zhou Xue's existence, even though she's very scared, she subconsciously has a desire to let things go. That's the root cause of her contradictory behavior."

"The reason I was uncertain before, and even misled, into thinking there was some hidden story between Zhou Xue and you, was because I saw this contradiction and didn't have a solution for the time being. But as I said before, once I knew about him, I understood everything."

"To deceive that person, you created a world that was extremely close to reality. However, this world has a weakness: when Zhou Xue comes to worship you wearing the jade, in order not to be exposed in front of the jade, you can only choose to skip this part of the world and let Zhou Xue think that she has already worshipped, thus sacrificing legitimacy to protect yourself."

"There are some details you're too lazy to look at, like the traffic at night, and the tree shadows I just observed—they're rough and all connected. The leaps in time, the deserted streets at night—these are all evidence that this world is just a dream."

After listening, Zhao Ruru hesitated, a hint of doubt flashing in her eyes.

The fact that all of this was a dream, and that Liang Erni was simply avoiding someone, can be deduced even if others are unaware of the existence of the Lingren.

Despite the limited information available, the deduction system actually provided many clues.

The biggest clue is the word "nightmare".

The Yugi Zhou Xue was in charge of was called Nightmare, but because she herself dreams at night and seems to encounter ghosts in her dreams, it's easy for people to overlook what the game was truly trying to express.

This is a big tip, but also a trap.

Zhao Ruru still doesn't know who "that person" Yu Xing is talking about is. Normally, this is just a nickname for the boss in this simulation, but judging from Yu Xing's tone, it seems like she really knows who the boss is.

And that line, "I'm a victim just like you"... was it just to gain Liang Erni's trust, or was there really something to it?