Although Su Bai was in a foul mood, he was not about to torment innocent novice players over it. But when that bowl of "meat soup" was offered to him, he distinctly smelled a rotten stench. Naturally, there was no way he would actually accept the so-called "meat soup" and drink it.
"This meat soup was prepared for the Bride. We wouldn't dare drink it," the little girl before him immediately refused.
Su Bai did not know much about what the novices had discussed earlier, but he knew the little girl before him was more mature than others her age, and even some other players. Yet as he listened to her now, he could hear clear resistance in her voice, as though she already knew there was nothing good about the bowl of meat soup in her hands.
Su Bai had no intention of making things difficult for the novices anyway. When she refused, he merely nodded and said softly, "Then leave it on the table for now."
Su Bai could hardly be called a good person, but in the Nightmare World, he certainly could not be called a bad one either. Like the vast majority of players, he only paid attention to people or nonhumans who interested him or whose paths had crossed his. Still, when the four novices entered the courtyard, Su Bai recognized the two voices that had sounded familiar. They clearly belonged to Lin Wenhua and Huang Qi, whom he had briefly met in the abandoned park in the Real World not long ago.
After recognizing their voices, Su Bai began to care a little more. It was not because he had met Lin Wenhua in his previous life, nor because Lin Wenhua was his mother Lin Wan's biological nephew. If those were the only two