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The more the other party acted this way, the more vigilant Justin became. Everyone avoids the mountains like the plague; what kind of good person would willingly run here?
After finishing his sentence, Justin didn't give her a chance to respond and turned to walk into the mountains.
Huh?
Hua Hua stared suspiciously at Justin's back, wondering to herself why this man was so bold. Wasn't it good to have her as a free guide?
"Hey bro, don't rush! If you're not going to bring it, then don't! Just wait for me!"
It's clear that Hua Hua isn't very thin-skinned; in fact, you could say she's on the thicker side.
Justin, who was walking ahead, paused, but dared not turn against her, so he quickened his pace. Who knew who this strange little girl was?
"I already know who you are. If you don't tell me honestly, don't blame me for killing you with a peach wood sword."
Hua Hua huddled fearfully in a corner of the pond, her lower body submerged in the water, too afraid to move, nervously watching Jiang Xiao, who held a peach wood sword in his right hand and a mystery compass in his left.
"Me? What kind of background could I possibly have? You know I'm the worst."
“Being bad and being special are not mutually exclusive. I knew something was off. You kid, yesterday you led me to wipe out all the monsters in the mountains. If you were really bad, how could you know so much about so many monster territories!”
Ah this?
Xiaohua doesn't yet know how to argue her way out of this situation.
"Just tell me the truth, and I won't do anything to you."
Jiang Xiao, who has always advocated for nuclear peace, voluntarily put away his murderous aura today and even sat down next to Hua Hua with ease.
"Really?"
One sword strike for a small monster, one stab for a silent one.
“Really, just start from the day you got lost in the mountains.”
"Oh~"
Hua Hua adjusted her posture, then sorted out her thoughts and began to recount everything that had happened.
The story was exactly the same as what Wang Dayong told Jiang Xiao.
Little Flower went up the mountain with Old Man Hua to catch a butterfly, but she disappeared somewhere along the way. All she remembered was that it was in a depression.
In her haste, Hua Hua's calf was pierced by a broken branch.
This completely trapped her, leaving her only able to scream and scream desperately.
"I ran out of strength after shouting for a short while. I felt a lot of pain and cold at that time."
"and then?"
"Then, I drifted off to sleep, and when I came to my senses again, my father was leading the villagers up the mountain to look for me. I could hear Uncle Li carrying a torch as he came to the top of the depression, less than five meters away from me."
"Unfortunately, it was too dark at the time. I tried to call out to him, but no matter what I did, I couldn't make a sound. In the end, I could only watch helplessly as Uncle Li left."
What happened next was beyond Jiang Xiao's comprehension.
According to Hua Hua, she thought she was dead, but she came back to life the next day. However, all the villagers who came up the mountain to look for her died in the mouths of wild animals overnight.
She tried to go down the mountain, but found that she couldn't leave the area of Sunset Mountain at all. That's when she realized that she was really dead.
The village elders say that if a kind, gentle, lovely, pure, intelligent, and adorable girl dies on Sunset Mountain, she may become a mountain spirit, immortal and indestructible, but destined to live out her days alone.
Is this some kind of self-promotion?
Jiang Xiao frowned: "Speak like a human being."
"Oh~" Hua Hua rubbed her sleeves and said, "I just made up the last one. There is no such thing as a mountain spirit."
Jiang Xiao:
According to Hua Hua, it was because the villagers were too obsessed with finding Hua Hua, and the negative emotions they felt were amplified due to being attacked by countless wild animals.
Their obsession held onto Hua Hua's soul, which should have dissipated, causing...
Unable to leave Sunset Mountain.
Jiang Xiao nodded; he could barely accept this explanation.
"What about those villagers? Don't tell me you don't know their current situation, I don't believe it."
"Uh, they, they were resurrected by me, or rather, I am bound to the villagers. Their obsession brought me back to life, so I also have the ability to awaken their obsession through myself."
Complementary?
If that's the case, wouldn't that be a different kind of immortality?
"I will get old too. Rather than just a breath, I can clearly feel myself getting older."
Xiao Hua sighed, while feeling some substances in her body slowly dissipating.
"He might not live much longer~"
Xiaohua seemed to have a very open-minded attitude towards death. She lay down on the lotus leaves in the pond and stared blankly at the white clouds and sky above her head.
“When my dad took me into the mountains before, he often told me a story. He said that if two Sunset Mountains were stacked together at the same height, then you could touch the clouds from the top of the mountain. What do you think the clouds would feel like to touch?”
Jiang Xiao didn't know how to answer this question either, as he hadn't read much and hadn't actually touched it before.
"What would be the consequences if I killed you?"
"You want to kill me?"
Xiaohua sat up, crossed her arms, and looked incredulous.
Chapter 335 I have a friend
"I don't think they'll kill you, I was just asking."
"Oh~"
Hua Hua tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said with great conviction.
“Once I die, the village will return to normal, but the living may be very sad and life will not be easy.”
Fine.
Jiang Xiao stood up; he had gotten the answer he wanted.
To clear the game, you have to kill this poor flower.
But he didn't want to do that. With Wang Dayong, the cook, around, he could easily exploit the bug and complete the "survive for three days" walkthrough.
"Hey, if you're not a bad person, why do you have to pretend to be injured to deceive people?"
Regarding this question, Hua Hua remained absolutely certain that she was not wrong.
"The stone tablet at the foot of the mountain has already made it very clear: do not go up the mountain, do not go up the mountain. Why do you insist on going up? As the saying goes, you can't persuade a damned ghost with good words. Besides, I don't necessarily want to kill anyone. I just want to play with them."
Seeing that Jiang Xiao remained silent, Xiao Hua continued to play the emotional card.
“I lost my father at a young age and have lived on the mountain for decades. I am so lonely. I don’t even have a friend to talk to. When someone comes up the mountain, they all turn around and run away when they see me. I use a little trick to pretend to be injured and show weakness to lower their guard. I think it won’t be a problem to play with them, right?”
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Well, Jiang Xiao felt that Hua Hua's act of feigning weakness would be completely ineffective against anyone who had read Journey to the West.
In the desolate wilderness, a beautiful girl with injuries suddenly appears, which seems to overlap with certain plot points.
It might fool those self-important fat otaku.
How do you usually hang out with other people?
Xiao Hua gets excited when this is mentioned, since she spends all her time idly on the mountain, figuring out how to have fun.
"Actually, rather than actively playing with them, I'd rather be led by them. I'll do whatever they do, and I'll fully express my opinions. If there's danger, I'll warn them so they don't die too quickly. All I need to do is absorb some of their life force and yang energy as the price."
Is absorbing some blood and yang energy enough?
Jiang Xiao remained silent about whether this price was acceptable.
“There’s a powerful snake that’s been around a lot up ahead. Are you sure you want to go this way? I’d suggest taking a detour.”
Xiaohua stopped in front of a deep ditch to remind Yujiro.
Yujiro Kameda hesitated for a moment, but ultimately listened to the advice of his beautiful and cunning servant. As the saying goes, "He who listens to advice will eat his fill," and it's better to take a detour than to put yourself in a dangerous situation.
"Besides that lynx, do you know of any other weakling creatures?"
"There is also a venomous snake. Although its venom is very potent, its reach is short, so you can attack from a distance."
Yujiro Kameda's eyes lit up. A venomous snake? That's easy to kill! Catching snakes seems safer than killing that so-called lynx.
"Couldn't the difficulty be lowered a little?" Yujiro asked, thinking to himself.
"Do you have any hedgehogs, mice, field mice, or raccoons?"
Little Flower:
This fat otaku's desire to make a name for himself without taking any risks really opened Hua Hua's eyes.
So she mercilessly inhaled another large breath of his yang energy.
“There’s a powerful snake that’s been around a lot up ahead. Are you sure you want to go this way? I’d suggest taking a detour.”
Ignoring the warning from the strange little girl behind him, Justin hadn't wanted to leave this way in the first place, but after she said that, he felt that there was some secret to passing the level hidden here.