RoCD Chapter 91

His long experience with missions allowed Bai Qu to adapt to this very well.

Slightly tilting his head, he looked out the window at the gloomy sky. A flicker of struggle and pain appeared in Bai Qu’s eyes before quietly vanishing.

Youyou.

After this ordeal, Su Ling should be able to take good care of her, right?

He closed his eyes for a moment, concealing the moisture gathering in them. In truth, Bai Qu had never blamed Su Ling. Because even if he had known back then that this was Asura City, he still would have come. He just would have made better arrangements for Youyou, that’s all.

The time difference between worlds made it impossible for him to imagine where or when Youyou was now. Bai Qu had regretted countless times raising Youyou to be so pure and innocent. Because if she weren’t, she wouldn’t have been so easily tricked by a system, would she? And she wouldn’t have encountered those damned women!

[Host, someone is coming.]

Bai Qu’s system was of a very high level, many, many times higher than Youyou’s White Lotus Female Lead System. Although the current Asura City had many restrictions and all taskers had been reverted to their initial state, the difference in system quality was still apparent.

For instance, the monitoring range of Bai Qu’s and Su Ling’s systems was a virtual sphere with a radius of over twenty meters, whereas System Xixi’s was only about six or seven meters.

Since Bai Qu’s system had detected a tasker, Su Ling’s system naturally had as well. His body tensed abruptly, like a panther poised to strike. Su Ling slowly rose from the sofa, only to freeze in the next second.

The voice of the system echoed continuously in their minds. Su Ling and Bai Qu stared at each other, and for a moment, they both forgot how to move or speak.

The tasker who had just intruded… was the little fool? / …was Youyou?[mfn]both Bai Qu and Su Ling had this thought at the same time, but the endings for each were different.[/mfn]

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‘Wuwu, Xixi, I’m so tired.’

In the dim stairwell, Youyou, dressed in her white puffy skirt, was heaving and panting as she clung to the handrail, climbing the stairs.

Her limbs felt weak, her cheeks were flushed, and she was gasping for air. Her little face was covered in a thin sheen of sweat; she was clearly exhausted.

The sound of footsteps behind her grew closer, carrying a wicked sense of a cat toying with a mouse. Youyou’s eyes reddened, and she bit her lip, desperately holding back her sobs.

[Host.]

Once the Host died, it, as a system, would also be punished by the main system and locked in the little black room for a hundred years. Thus, Xixi was also extremely nervous and afraid.

[Host, just hold on a little longer.]

Although it knew deep down that the Host’s death was now almost one hundred percent certain, System Xixi still didn’t want its Host to give up hope.

From within the system space, Xixi carefully monitored every movement around them. It knew that the tasker chasing its Host with a dagger was definitely of a high level.

‘Hah…’

She had lost count of how many flights of stairs she had climbed. Youyou just felt dizzy, her vision blurred, and her legs as heavy as lead. It felt like she was about to die at any moment.

“Bai Qu.”

Youyou was truly scared now, because she had personally seen that beautiful young man—who was so pretty to the point that he looked like a woman—kill people.

Although Xixi had already told her the rules of Asura City before this, the young man’s brilliant smile as he stabbed someone, and the two bodies that fell to the ground, their lives gradually fading, still made Youyou scream in terror.

“Oh? To think I’d run into an acquaintance.”

A frivolous, magnetic voice drifted over, tinged with a casual laziness.

The young man gave his blade a nonchalant twirl. His steps were unhurried, as if he were taking a leisurely stroll in a garden. Compared to the wretched and fleeing Youyou, he was alarmingly relaxed.

The distance between them gradually shrank. The young man narrowed his eyes and smiled. “Interesting. Now this is interesting.”

Trapped from the front and back, this foolish little girl is as good as dead.

In his bewitching, almond-shaped eyes, there flashed a trace of wickedness and a murderous glint. In this place of desperation, even high-level taskers, who usually had excellent self-control, couldn’t help but gradually lose their sanity, their true natures slowly becoming dominated by slaughter and bloodlust.

Frantic, chaotic footsteps echoed from above, gradually growing so clear that even Youyou could hear them. Her breath hitched almost imperceptibly. The thudding sound was like each step landing directly on her heart, terrifying her.

‘Xixi!’

Another bad person is coming.

Gripping the handrail so tightly her knuckles turned white, Youyou stood frozen on the spot, not daring to go up or down. Her mind was a complete blank.

“Well now, little girl, why have you stopped running?”

The malicious male voice sounded like a death knell to Youyou.

She turned her head in terror to stare at the corner below. At the strikingly beautiful young man dressed all in black, who was slowly raising his head, Youyou trembled all over, so horrified she was rendered speechless.

“Tsk, how pitiful. Trembling like a little rabbit.”

Smiling wickedly as he toyed with the dagger in his hand, the young man licked his red lips and affected an intimate tone. “But, seeing as you’re such a cute little thing, I can let you choose how you want to die, hmm?… Dismemberment… bleeding out… a single fatal blow… a painful death or a painless one… I can do them all for you, you know?”

Youyou: “…”

P-Pervert!

“Qi Feng.”

Bai Qu, who had arrived just in the nick of time, was so furious upon hearing this that he actually laughed. In one swift stride, he pulled the little girl, who was overwhelmed with a mix of shock and joy, into his arms. Bai Qu looked coldly at the young man in black. His fingers twitched, but in the end, he chose not to kill in front of Youyou.

Su Ling arrived right after, making Youyou even happier.

Clutching tightly to the hem of Bai Qu’s clothes, she looked up at Bai Qu, then at Su Ling. Suddenly, the tension left her, and she burst into loud sobs. “Bai Qu, Bai Qu…”

Burying her head in Bai Qu’s chest, Youyou’s tears streamed down uncontrollably, feeling utterly aggrieved.

You have to understand, for Youyou, who had grown up pampered and carefree, the shock she had received in this short period of time was immense.

Both physically and psychologically.

If it weren’t for Xixi, Youyou would have broken down long ago.

And Bai Qu, who understood her even better than she understood herself, naturally knew her state. Soothingly, he stroked the little girl’s hair, his gaze softening as he comforted her in a low voice, “Shh, it’s okay now. Brother is here. Don’t be afraid.”

“Yeah, stop crying. You’ll get ugly.”

Seeing that Youyou was safe, Su Ling’s “poisonous tongue” came out to play.

He reached out and patted the little fool’s head, taking the opportunity to brush his fingertips against his lover’s. Su Ling glanced at the stunned and astonished Qi Feng, then said to Bai Qu with a smile, “You two go on up. I’ll handle things here.”

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