This villain, please exercise some restraint.

Therefore, Song Xiaoyun looked at the gray sky and expressed to Xia Xiaotong that she wanted to go on an adventure in the world of "Final Destiny" with her friends before parting ways.

When Xia Xiaotong heard this, he immediately smiled.

"Sister Xiaoyun, don't hide it from me. Why do you want to play with friends like us... I think there must be someone you want to meet in particular, right?"

"Tell me! Which handsome guy have you fallen in love with? Do you want me to help you set up a string?"

Xia Xiaotong put a hand on Song Xiaoyun's other shoulder, with a hint of teasing in her words.

"Two days ago, when I asked you to form a team for the tower climbing trial, you refused so flatly that I didn't even know who to throw the extra token to."

"What, you suddenly figured it out now? Is there someone worried, or did you figure it out? It's very suspicious——"

Xia Xiaotong said this with a smile, but when she saw Sister Xiaoyun's stunned expression, the smile on her lips faded slightly.

Some possibility emerged in her mind.

"Sister Xiaoyun, don't tell me that you can't bear to worry about your younger brother who is addicted to games all day long, chewing on your sister and his old age."

She looked at the profile of the woman next to her and said seriously.

"He doesn't deserve it at all."

Song Xiaoyun felt inexplicably relieved when she heard Xia Xiaotong's guess.

Xiaotong, Ye Jiang, and even An Xu, the "game master" who often appears in their mouths and has never met before, are undoubtedly on the opposite side of moderation.

If they know that they are entering the game to get into contact with moderation, even if her starting point is good, their own approach may have to put a discount on this sincere friendship.

"...How could it be? I just wanted to go in and take a look. To be honest, I didn't think psychotherapy had any effect in the past, but these days, I have to admit that my mentality...is becoming positive. "

"I want to get back into the game and see where I've been before."

When Song Xiaoyun said this, there seemed to be stars twinkling in her eyes.

Looking at Sister Xiaoyun like this, Xia Xiaotong quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but she was still a little worried.

After all, if Sister Xiaoyun runs away this time, if she just deceives him and goes to the game to do the same things as before, the connection between them is weak, but they may not be able to take care of it.

"Then Sister Xiaoyun, you might as well come with me to my house to play. My house is where games are developed. The game cabins and the like are not the best in terms of comfort, but they are almost the same."

"Just in time, An Xu is back too. Let's get to know each other. If you have difficulty playing games, this person can be of great help~"

Xia Xiaotong thought that Sister Xiaoyun would refuse based on her temperament, but contrary to her expectation, the woman next to her hesitated for a moment and finally chose to nod.

"That's really... perfect."

Song Xiaoyun raised her head, looked at the stormy sky, and smiled slightly.

......

The world of "Final Destiny", lost in the desert.

One foot stepped from the teleportation point to the loose yellow sand. Just as the other foot was about to step into it, a small hand placed on her shoulder, and then there was an irresistible pulling force.

Song Xiaoyun was dragged out of the teleportation point.

When she opened her eyes in confusion, the sight in front of her made her eyes widen in an instant.

But she was sure that this was a place she had never been before.

There are all kinds of crawling insects, all clinging to the rock wall. Occasionally, they make a scalp-numbing sound when they move.

Beyond the empty space in front of you is a pitch-black cave. The unknown front is like a pitch-black mouth, swallowing up all the light in it.

But listening to the sounds in the cave, Song Xiaoyun was certain that there were probably not a few bugs inside.

Why...how did you appear here? Who was the person who dragged me here just now?

Someone with this teleportation ability——

Could it be... moderation?

This conjecture emerged in her mind. If it was temperance, then——

Looking around again, Song Xiaoyun suddenly felt that the surroundings didn't seem so scary anymore.

She couldn't explain why she had such a mentality. Maybe, in her concept, Temperance, this... NPC, was not a complete... evil person.

In a sense, without moderation, she would not be who she is now.

Temperance, this character who does not appear to be bright, at least for her, has a bright meaning.

She knew that maybe Temperance wouldn't think so much about it, and maybe Temperance's original intention was not to save, but...she did appreciate Temperance from the bottom of her heart.

Even...inexplicable dependence, nostalgia and restraint.

"Temperance! I know you are here. If, if it is really you who brought me here...I hope we can have a good talk-"

She raised her voice, trying to confirm her suspicion.

But before she could finish her words, a contemptuous chuckle made her speechless.

This...this is not the voice of moderation.

In the cave in the center, accompanied by the sound of footsteps so slight that it was inaudible, a tall and straight red figure slowly appeared.

The red clothes walked from the darkness into the open space in front of Song Xiaoyun, and then stood still.

Song Xiaoyun was stunned for a moment, finally seeing the whole person clearly.

It was a young man in red clothes who looked young. They were not too close, but she seemed to be able to smell the vague medicinal fragrance coming from the young man.

The outline of the girl standing behind the boy also appeared together with the boy's appearance.

The girl was dressed in lavender exotic clothes. She was standing still at this moment, with an indifferent expression and no sound.

It looks... inexplicably like a humanoid puppet.

"Temperance...are you looking for...father?"

The young man spoke with a clear voice.

"...Father, father?"

Song Xiaoyun looked at the young man in red in front of her and was slightly startled.

She didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, or...she understood it, but she felt that she heard it wrong.

"Temperance...is, is—"

She found that it was a little difficult to say those two words.

Even if it is a game NPC, it still needs logic, right? Temperance looks like that...how could he have a child! Still...such a big...child...

For a moment, Song Xiaoyun felt a little messy.

And judging from the time she spent with Temperance, Temperance... would probably view things like children as a burden, right?

But the young man's understatement answer left her a little at a loss.

"Temperance is my...father."

"This is our first meeting... According to your etiquette, should I introduce myself?"

A slender hand stretched out in front of Song Xiaoyun.

"'Mian' - my name."

"Don't look outside, father...has been looking for you, and so am I."

Song Xiaoyun stared at the hand stretched out in front of her, then looked up at the gentle curve of the boy's lips.

After hesitating for a moment, he was finally moved by the last sentence and reached out to hold the person in front of him who called himself "father".

"Your eyes are so beautiful, like stars in the sky."

After shaking hands, when she wanted to pull away, "Mian" suddenly held the woman's hand in front of her, making her unable to break away for a moment.

He suddenly said this.

"......what?"

Song Xiaoyun was stunned.

"But father wouldn't want to see it."

"So - no matter how beautiful your eyes are, they have no meaning."

"It's a pair of eyes that...can't create value for him."

The other hand stretched out and covered the eyes of the woman in front of him.

Song Xiaoyun felt something crawling in from the corner of her eye, feeling a little pain.

She subconsciously wanted to break free, but was horrified to find that her body no longer obeyed her instructions and became stiff.

"Ah Qiao."

"Mian" Fengyan narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly.

The girl behind him took a stiff step forward.

"Soon, your 'companion' will be born, are you happy?"

The girl's numb eyes looked forward aimlessly, without giving any response.

"Mian" doesn't care about this.

A red bug slowly crawled out from his sleeve, and then climbed up the back of Mian's hand along with Song Xiaoyun's hand.

The insect opened its sharp mouthparts, created a bloody entrance for itself, then quickly got into it and disappeared.

"She no longer seems to be who her father said she was. If she wants to hide her from her mother temporarily... she has to use some special means."

"If it's this 'Broken Heart', it can also react with that insect looking for death, right?"

Taking away the hand that was covering the woman, "Mian" stared at the woman's equally dull eyes and smiled solemnly.

"What do you think?"

He asked the woman, but he knew that the current woman would not give him a response.

This is more like a casual question when he is bored. No matter what the answer is, whether he answers or not, it will not change his approach or have any impact on him.

Song Xiaoyun tried in vain to look at the young man in front of her through the eyes that she could not move. In her perception, she had become extremely dangerous.

The bugs seemed to be crawling along her blood vessels, and every squirm brought heartbreaking pain, but her body was literally frozen in place, unable to move or even make basic sounds. .

She still has her own thoughts and ideas, but... in a very short period of time, the NPC in front of her called "Mian" has taken control of her body.

For a moment, an inexplicable feeling of powerlessness surged into her heart.