Collapse, I became Duck's daughter at the start?

Chapter 2: Who is your mother? You don't have one!

"So what? What are your plans now? No identity, no place to stay, no water, no food."

After finally managing to coax Lin Li back, "Lin Li" said.

"Mmm... I want to find mommy,"

Lin Li said somewhat cautiously.

"Find mommy? Which mommy? Who is your mommy?"

Hearing Lin Li's words, she was a bit confused.

"Bronya mommy..."

"Hmph, a brat who's only fourteen or fifteen, can she even take care of you?"

"Lin Li" said with dissatisfaction.

"I should be able to enter Quantumization now, then Seele mommy..."

"Huh? Are you trying to amuse me?"

"Putting aside whether you can enter the Sea of Quanta, that cowardly little girl, she herself needs to hide in a box and cry, what kind of future does she have?"

"You're not allowed to talk about my mommy like that!"

Lin Li instinctively resisted her words.

"Alright, alright, anyway, don't even think about finding them, they need to take care of themselves first."

"Lin Li" showed no mercy to anyone other than Lin Li, her tone sharp.

Walking on the street, Lin Li looked around curiously, her silver-grey eyes twinkling like a child who had discovered many interesting toys. Her hair, like Seele's, was a deeper blue on the surface and a translucent ice blue on the inside, making her look especially beautiful.

Coupled with her tender and adorable little face, almost everyone who passed by couldn't help but glance at her.

"Hey, don't wander around so naively, someone's got their eye on you."

"Lin Li" warned.

Although she didn't want to admit it, Lin Li's current appearance, despite being very young, sometimes made her unable to resist being immersed in it.

She was a bit too cute.

It was precisely because of this that "Lin Li" had the urge to make her keep her face covered.

"But... I'm a little hungry..."

Lin Li, clutching her stomach, looked wronged. She didn't want to wander around either, but she had no money for food and no place to live.

"Can't you just quantumize? Just take something, no one will notice,"

She said casually.

"No, that's wrong."

Lin Li puffed out her cheeks, immediately correcting her flawed thinking.

"..."

"Lin Li" realized that there seemed to be quite a few differences in her now compared to before.

At this moment, although winter had not yet arrived, it was already late autumn. The people on the street had more or less added a few layers of clothing, while Lin Li, apart from her undergarments, only had a thin outer coat.

As dusk approached, the once cool breeze gradually became biting.

"Haa..."

Lin Li pulled her coat tighter and hid back in the alley, squatting in the corner.

"Why don't you accept? I saw many shops welcoming you, even giving you food for free."

"Lin Li" asked, puzzled.

"But I don't have money, I can't take things for free, mommy said so."

"But have you ever met your mommy?"

"Lin Li" was confused. From before she transmigrated until now, she shouldn't have met her mother.

"..."

Seeing her silence, and noticing that she had said the wrong thing, "Lin Li" could only change the subject.

"It's not safe to stay here, and it's very cold at night."

"Lin Li" glanced at a few people in the distance pretending to be passersby, her eyes narrowing.

"But we don't have anywhere else to go, it's okay, I'm very healthy, I'm not cold..."

Looking at the girl whose nose tip had already turned slightly red, "Lin Li" sighed slightly.

For the first time, she felt that having such high moral standards made life so difficult.

"Then you can just freeze here."

Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, "Lin Li" simply disappeared, returning to her consciousness space.

"Freeze you to death, starve you to death..."

She stomped her foot in the consciousness space, pacing back and forth.

"Compared to the influence of consciousness on the body, isn't the influence of the body on consciousness more direct?"

Judging by Lin Li's behavior during the day, there was no doubt that she truly considered herself the daughter of Bronya and Seele.

"Honestly, not a trace of caution."

After a long while, feeling that Lin Li had truly fallen asleep in the corner of the alley, she sighed softly.

"I can't do anything about you."

After confirming that Lin Li was completely asleep, she took over the body. Her originally ice-blue gradient hair gradually turned scarlet.

Her silver-grey eyes also turned wine-red. However, she didn't open them, only slightly fluttered her eyelashes. Her tightly clenched fists loosened slightly, and the familiar quantum fluctuations began to emerge.

"That little thing is asleep. I watched her all day. She's like an orphan, sleeping in an alley."

"She's quite good-looking. She should fetch a good price. Prepare the goods..."

At the corner of the alley and the street, the hushed whispers were very faint, but to her ears, they were exceptionally clear.

After waiting for a while, the rustling footsteps gradually approached.

"Only two of them?"

When they were only four or five meters away from her, she opened her scarlet eyes.

"Perfect, there are two trash cans nearby."

Seeing her scarlet eyes, the two men who had just approached were startled, but immediately followed by joy.

"These eyes... they're worth a lot of money..."

Even though it was dark, a pair of scarlet eyes were a little scary, but after all, she was just a child. What was there to be afraid of?

"Little one, are you cold? Want something to eat? How about coming home with Uncle?"

One of the men hid his hand behind his back, ready with anesthetic and cloth, smiling.

"Heh..."

The only response he received was the girl's mocking gaze and eyes.

"This little brat!"

The other man, who had been keeping watch, couldn't stand her gaze and walked over directly, intending to act.

"Wait..."

The man, sensing something was wrong, tried to stop his companion, but the next second, the warm liquid splashed on his face rendered him speechless in extreme fear.

His companion was torn to shreds before he could even let out a scream.

"Let... let me go, please..."

The man collapsed on the ground, instinctively kneeling and begging for mercy.

"Is this your first time?"

"Lin Li" spoke for the first time.

"..."

The man was silent for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, a warmth came from his neck.

"Then it's not."

Putting down the blood-colored scythe, "Lin Li" sighed.

With a casual wave of her left hand, she used her Scarlet Claws to throw the fragmented corpse into the trash can. "Lin Li" thought for a moment, then used her claws to pinch out a few banknotes from their pockets.

"Let's sleep in a different alley and buy a blanket."

Glancing at the blood-stained alley behind her, "Lin Li" rubbed her somewhat stiffly frozen hands.

"Liar, it's clearly very cold."

ps: New author, new book, writing is amateurish, please be gentle and supportive meow

Chapter 3: "Lin Li": I Don't Care About Her!

St. Freya Academy

"Headmaster, the nearby police station received a report at 3 AM that someone found two dismembered bodies. The bodies had some purple markings. They didn't dare to act rashly, and after reporting it, it finally reached us."

The auxiliary staff in the Headmaster's office reported.

"Is it a Death Soldier or a Honkai Beast?"

Hearing the most obvious purple markings, Theresa knew very well that this was a typical sign of Honkai erosion.

"Neither. Although the bodies were cut into pieces, according to the investigation, they can all be pieced together."

"Is there anything special about them?"

Theresa continued.

Whether it was Honkai Beasts or Death Soldiers, the residual corpses were more or less missing parts, which was indeed unusual.

"The first unusual point is that we found ropes and special anesthetic drugs at the scene. According to the fingerprints, they belong to the owner of the corpse. However, the local surveillance has been in disrepair for a long time, and we couldn't retrieve more information. But we can roughly judge that the deceased was not a good person."

"The second unusual point is that during the police investigation, they discovered a particularly cute little girl appeared on the street yesterday. She looked like an orphan, and she didn't accept the food someone offered her."

"Pseudo-Herrscher?"

Hearing the key information, Theresa's dead memories began to attack her again.

The experience of the disaster at Qianyu Academy was still fresh in her mind.

"I will investigate this matter personally."

If it were truly a Pseudo-Herrscher, then why did it only kill those two people?

Theresa took Judah and pondered continuously in her mind.

Early morning

Lin Li opened her eyes and looked at the blanket covering her and the change at her feet, shaking her little head in confusion.

"This is..."

"Alright, do you have money now? You can go buy something to eat,"

"Lin Li" appeared beside her, her wine-red eyes narrowing slightly.

"No, this belongs to someone else."

Lin Li flipped over the blanket, then picked up the change and looked at it several times, as if searching for any information about its owner.