LGSG Chapter 41

Chapter 42: Missing Person – Big Xie is Gone

After Xie Qiao received the dessert from Shen Hua, she was inclined to return to the staff dormitory to confirm whether her suspicion was correct.

If it wasn’t Xie He, then it was only possible that it was one of his soul fragments scattered outside.

But the essence of the fragments is no different from Xie He.

There is a connection and a sense of identity between them.

Xie He had also used soul fragments to achieve his goals in a disguised way.

So if it was really a fragment, it seemed a bit too secretive.

It was just that what Xie He wanted to do was too serious.

Xie Qiao realized for the first time that her brother was so crazy.

Although Xie Qiao had nothing to do with these things, they were siblings after all. If Xie He hadn’t assimilated her and their mother into the instance, Xie Qiao would either never see her mother again, or would have become a handful of rotten yellow earth long ago.

Therefore, if she could help Xie He, Xie Qiao would naturally be willing to put in a little effort.

She couldn’t help in big aspects, but she was happy to help Xie He cover up for the game and be a supporting teammate.

Therefore, when such a big doubt suddenly appeared, Xie Qiao naturally wanted to hurry over and see what was going on.

She originally wanted to remind Xie He just now, but she didn’t expect to be unable to get into the brother and sister-in-law’s private bubble.

Later, after the two of them left, Xie Qiao was too embarrassed to go up and be a third wheel.

Xie Qiao said to Shen Hua, “Are you going back?”

Shen Hua: “Ah, yes.”

Xie Qiao: “I’ll go with you.”

Shen Hua: “…”

Shen Hua, who was still experiencing Xie Qiao’s longing for his sister, shuddered in his heart.

Meeting Xie Qiao’s dark eyes, he wanted to cry but had no tears.

This young lady doesn’t plan to let him go, does she?

He hurriedly waved his hands in a cowardly manner, “I… I haven’t showered for two days.”

Xie Qiao: “.”

Xie Qiao glared at him, “Am I such an unhygienic person?”

Just kidding.

She was, after all, Xie family’s most beloved child before she died.

Xie Qiao had seen all kinds of delicacies.

Even as a ghost, she wouldn’t bother eating people.

Shen Hua: “Then why did you chase me that day…”

Xie Qiao: “Because that day I…”

Shen Hua easily makes people lower their guard.

Xie Qiao only realized something was wrong halfway through her sentence.

Her expression darkened, looking a little scary.

Shen Hua: “…”

Shen Hua then noticed that he had just been a little carried away.

This is at least a small instance BOSS-level character, and he was just joking?

He really doesn’t want to live anymore.

Fortunately, Xie Qiao only turned cold, probably because the handmade dessert had won her heart.

Along the way, the little girl didn’t stop her little movements of secretly eating.

But Shen Hua didn’t dare to think he was cute anymore.

When he passed Fu Qu’s room, he quickly slipped into Fu Qu’s room.

Xie Qiao paused, then continued walking forward.

The reason she was lying in wait at One-Eye’s room wasn’t like Mu Jingyao deliberately harming One-Eye with the painting ghost.

Xie Qiao was rarely ordered by Xie He to do something important.

An outsider player had sneaked in using improper means.

Xie He, who was closely related to the instance, naturally noticed it from the beginning.

Xie Qiao was originally planning to wait for that player to come in and take care of him in one fell swoop.

Lest it add more variables to the game.

Unfortunately, there was an accident in the middle.

Xie Qiao identifies these human players not by their appearance, but by their souls.

Therefore, she chased the wrong person in the middle.

She suspects that the painting ghost is also the reason.

It wasn’t until Xia Ran came out that Xie Qiao realized.

Besides that outsider player, there was actually another person whose core had changed in this instance!

Xie Qiao naturally told Xie He about Shen Hua’s abnormality.

As for what Xie He does, that is beyond her consideration.

Xie Qiao crept to the stairwell, leaned over, and looked over there.

The narrow space of the cramped stairwell was now empty.

Xie Qiao’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Then, a hand was placed on her shoulder.

“Sister, what are you looking for me for?”

The “imposter” asked with a smile.

*

The next morning.

Xia Ran was awakened by a woman’s sobbing.

He propped himself up and sat up.

He found that Xie He was already dressed.

“Mr. Xie?” Xia Ran asked.

Xie He: “I just woke up too.”

The two of them changed their clothes, washed up, and came to the study.

The butler under the bamboo pavilion finally agreed to let Bai Muqi, who had been crying, come upstairs.

Bai Muqi was already sad because Xie Qiao was missing. She was also made angry by the butler’s cold-hearted behavior.

When she went upstairs, she couldn’t help but spit.

“You’re just a virtual digital person specially designed by the game, how dare you act like a big shot in front of this old lady? If we’re talking about closeness, I’m Mr. Xie’s mother, at least.” Bai Muqi said coldly, “Everyone in Sui Yuan Ju is family, friends, neighbors, why is it your turn to act as some kind of order maintainer in the middle?”

After Bai Muqi died, she knew that Xie He was maintaining the entire instance. Although she was not the direct culprit that caused Xie Youdao to hate Xie He back then, she did not face it frankly, ignoring it for many years, and now she has to live under Xie He’s protection after her death. Bai Muqi can only keep a low profile.

She is grateful to Xie He in her heart.

If Xie He hadn’t been protecting her, she would have been ruined during her lifetime.

But now she’s still intact, and even seems to have lived a new life after death.

Bai Muqi has been trying not to speak to Xie Qiao if she can help it.

If it wasn’t because her daughter was missing, she wouldn’t want to set foot in Xie He’s private domain and be annoying.

After all, it has become an instance carrier. In order to compete with players, the game has set up many other mechanisms and NPCs inside.

The butler is the design of the game.

In Bai Muqi’s view, it is like an outsider.

Now, preventing her from finding Xie He is even more hateful.

Bai Muqi wiped the corner of her eye. After seeing Xie He, she couldn’t care about anything else and told everything about Xie Qiao’s disappearance.

“She said she wanted to eat dessert yesterday, so she went to the small kitchen alone. I thought it was such a big place, and the child was used to wandering around alone. But it just so happened that no one has seen her until now. I asked Uncle Zhang to look around the kitchen. Uncle Zhang said that one of the two people over there, named Shen Hua, went the same way as Miss Qiao yesterday. Miss Qiao disappeared after entering the staff dormitory.”

Bai Muqi usually likes to play the weak white lotus routine.

In fact, she doesn’t act like it, and it seems pretentious. It’s just that Xie Youdao likes this kind of thing. Later, she got used to it, and she hasn’t changed it even after so many years of death.

Now, she can’t care about anything anymore. Bai Muqi rattles off words like a machine gun.

She was afraid that if she spoke slowly, her daughter would disappear.

Bai Muqi: “I went to see it. At the stairwell, that young man named Shen Hua picked up a bag of handmade dessert from the corner. He said this was for Miss Qiao… But… Isn’t it obvious, Miss Qiao must have been captured there.”

She was full of incomprehension and unease.

Her Miss Qiao has become a ghost.

Who would chase after a ghost?

“I know.” Xie He said, “Madam Bai might as well go back and wait for news. Xiao Qiao is my sister after all.”

Getting Xie He’s promise, Bai Muqi seemed to be relieved.

She left the bamboo pavilion while wiping her tears.

Xia Ran naturally remembered the strange story Shen Hua had told him.

So he told Xie He.

“Mr. Xie,” Xia Ran said, “Could it be done by that strange man with a cane in the corridor?”

“But… why would he do this?”

Logically speaking, even if the game sets up sudden events.

It should be aimed at the players.

It was the first time he had heard of an attack on an NPC.

Xia Ran had a very good impression of Xie Qiao.

She was a sweet and obedient child.

He naturally wanted to help too.

Xie He said, “Wait for me first, let me go take a look.”

Xia Ran was stunned, “Doesn’t Mr. Xie plan to take me with you?”

These past two days, he has been acting together with Mr. Xie, and he suddenly feels unaccustomed.

Xie He touched Xia Ran’s head.

He said, “I’ll be back soon.”

Xia Ran felt uneasy in his heart.

But he also felt that Mr. Xie shouldn’t do things without being sure.

Sure enough, Mr. Xie came back in the rain that night.

Starting from noon, dark clouds covered Sui Yuan Ju, and it started to rain heavily.

When Mr. Xie came back, his entire shoulder was soaked in the rain.

Xia Ran was busy taking off Mr. Xie’s coat.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Mr. Xie’s hand.

In his impression, Mr. Xie’s hands have always been fair and clean.

But a thin layer of callus suddenly appeared at the tiger’s mouth.

Xia Ran: “…Mr. Xie?”

Just at that moment, the pouring rain and the thunder and lightning illuminated the room with a flash of white.

Xia Ran raised his head in shock.

He met a pair of familiar and gentle eyes.

“What’s wrong?”