LGSG Chapter 46

Chapter 47: Deception, Betrayal – Xia Ran Worries About Mr. Xie

Xie He watched Xia Ran leave until he could no longer see him, then turned to face the butler directly.

The butler was still clutching his lower abdomen, maintaining his original posture. A strange expression flickered across his face: bewilderment, contemplation, and then a sense of understanding followed by a sigh of relief.

But the butler’s gaze remained fixed on the moment Xia Ran had departed.

“I understand His purpose…” the butler murmured.

Xie He frowned.

A faint sense of unease arose in his heart.

It would be best to settle things quickly.

Xie He stood beneath the moonlight, the harsh light casting a layer of frosty white on his white hair. The night wind swept past the corners of his robes, then suddenly intensified.

Countless scarlet giant hands burst from the ground, starting from Xie He, mixed with thick, black vines.

And his beautiful eyes, usually filled with a smile, now slowly welled up with tears of blood.

Lines of scarlet curse words appeared on his pale, sickly cheeks.

These were incantations specifically applied by exorcists to suppress vengeful spirits, to prevent a person from becoming a malevolent ghost after a violent death and seeking revenge.

Xie He closed his eyes as countless bloody hands and vines lashed out at the butler.

At the same time.

Xie Qiao ran back to Xie Youdao and Bai Muqi’s courtyard.

Amidst Bai Muqi’s surprised gaze, she unceremoniously dragged them into the ancestral hall.

In the dimly lit room, Xie Qiao awkwardly avoided her mother’s tearful embrace, and then said, “I’ve been fine all along. It was just cooperating with my brother’s plan.”

Xie Qiao’s skill was mental manipulation, and she could control NPC monsters through puppet strings. Xie Youdao had been outmaneuvered by her and Xie He and had puppet strings attached to him.

On days when Xie Qiao didn’t want to control him, Xie Youdao’s will was clear.

So he couldn’t help but puff out his beard and glare, saying, “What the hell is Xie He up to?”

Xie Qiao: “Anyway, don’t go out!”

Xie Youdao wanted to get angry.

But after Xie Qiao waved the scissors that controlled the puppet strings, he sullenly shut his mouth.

He felt humiliated. After all, Xie Youdao was a feudal chauvinist.

So he sat in the corner, feeling stifled, and couldn’t help but wonder where things had gone wrong.

Why were Xie He and Xie Qiao, these two children, more rebellious than the other?

Bai Muqi worriedly said, “Will Six-Sided Dice turn on us?”

Xie Qiao disagreed: “Relax, Mom, we’re nothing to Xie He. Six-Sided Dice would be stupid to think we’re the bargaining chips that threaten Xie He. As long as we hide obediently, we’ll probably be like ants, and won’t be affected.”

Bai Muqi sighed.

She couldn’t help but admit that her daughter was indeed more perceptive.

“Can it be over tonight?” Bai Muqi said, “I haven’t caught up on my updates yet. And I didn’t bring my pad.”

Xie Youdao: “All you do all day is play with that broken phone!”

Bai Muqi retorted, “Otherwise what, stare at you, you old man?”

Bai Muqi was only eighteen years old when she married Xie Youdao. After giving birth to Xie Qiao, she was only just thirty years old twelve years later.

More than a full cycle younger than Xie Youdao, who was an old ox eating young grass.

Xie Youdao glared at her.

Bai Muqi: “What’s wrong? Now that we’re both dead, you’re still…”

She finally realized something was wrong.

The skin on Xie Youdao’s face was peeling off bit by bit, revealing a patch of charred blackness.

Like a mummified corpse that had been burned in a fire.

And his eyes gradually became ferocious.

Drooling, he lunged towards Bai Muqi.

“Ah!” Bai Muqi hid behind Xie Qiao, wiped her face, and then screamed even louder, “Miss Qiao, my face!!!”

Bai Muqi’s beautiful face was now a mess, mixed with blood and charred blackness.

Xie Qiao forcibly hung the delirious Xie Youdao from the rafters with puppet strings.

She heard Bai Muqi’s scream, turned around, and saw a sobbing corpse.

Xie Qiao’s heart suddenly clenched.

This was what her mother looked like when she died.

That year, a group of foreigners broke into Sui Yuan Ju.

They wanted to enter Beijing to loot and plunder.

They set their sights on the Xie family as a place to rest along the way.

Because the Xie family was wealthy and the most imposing.

Xie Youdao was of bad character, but his business was thriving.

Those foreigners wanted to do business with Xie Youdao.

Smuggling… drugs.

Xie Youdao flatly refused and drove them out.

On that day, the Xie family was raided by a group of soldiers.

They carried knives and guns and massacred the entire Xie family.

Xie He had his legs broken by a group of people, and he fainted in the pile of corpses.

Those people thought he was dead.

Xie Youdao was shot in the chest and sat in the main seat in a disheveled state. Completely out of breath.

That day was supposed to be the coming-of-age banquet for the Xie family’s young master.

The dishes were pathetically sprawled on the ground, treasures were rummaged through, and porcelain was smashed. Young and strong servants died, and beautiful maids had their skirts torn.

Bai Muqi hugged Xie Qiao and hid in a disheveled state.

When passing by Xie He’s “corpse,” she saw that his fingers were still breathing.

On a whim, Bai Muqi pulled him up.

Xie He picked up a dead tree branch next to him.

He didn’t know where it came from, but he slowly rubbed his legs and climbed to the back of the storage room with Bai Muqi.

He said, “Madam Bai, give me a tinderbox.”

Bai Muqi immediately understood what he wanted to do.

She instructed Xie Qiao, who was small and inconspicuous, to throw the tinderboxes into various parts of Sui Yuan Ju.

Those foreigners, whose minds were blinded by greed, didn’t realize it at all. By the time they noticed, the fire had already surrounded them.

Bai Muqi handed Xie Qiao to Xie He.

“I don’t want to live anymore, but you’re still young.”

She slowly walked out of the storage room, step by step leading the foreigners who had come here into the sea of fire.

She completed her final responsibility.

Xie He held Xie Qiao down. Both siblings were terribly emotionally detached, but at this moment, they were both silent.

“Brother,” Xie Qiao said, “Do you want revenge?”

Xie He didn’t answer.

Then, the two siblings waited for Six-Sided Dice.

He said that during the world maintenance process, some bugs would always be generated.

The humans that these bugs bred were monsters naturally suited for games.

They always had something extraordinary about them.

They would be instinctively disgusted, alienated, and rejected by humans.

Six-Sided Dice absorbed these monsters and created suitable habitable instances for them.

The monsters willingly allowed Six-Sided Dice to bind them and nourish His authority.

Xie He agreed to Six-Sided Dice’s invitation.

Six-Sided Dice resurrected everyone in Sui Yuan Ju for him. And gave Xie He a chance for revenge.

The foreigners’ companions didn’t wait for them to return, and when they realized something was wrong and came to the dilapidated Xie residence, it was already too late.

The Xie residence was full of charred corpses and bones that could not be recognized.

Except for the sea of roses.

The only intact corpse lay there.

His face was pale, and his features were gorgeous.

Lying in the sea of flowers, there was a hint of weirdness.

Even though he was a foreigner, in the end, a local exorcist was invited to suppress this strange corpse.

But just as the exorcist finished the last stroke of the rune, the youth in the coffin suddenly opened his eyes.

His hair turned white strand by strand, and his features became even more bewitching under the scarlet runes. Terrible tears of blood welled up in his eyes.

Then, no one survived.

When Xie Qiao came back to her senses, she had already hung “Bai Muqi” and “Xie Youdao” on the rafters with white silk threads.

She hurriedly pushed open the door of the ancestral hall.

Six-Sided Dice had deceived them!

In addition to absorbing monsters to act as authority, these living souls “resurrected” by Six-Sided Dice were actually His flesh and blood.

This wasn’t the resurrection that Xie Qiao and Xie He wanted.

The family members who had died in the past were like the river, gone forever.

Six-Sided Dice was just following the script, creating identical NPCs in the instance.

And when He began to close the net, these NPCs gradually became His clones.

Just like the butler.

No wonder… Xie He wanted to escape.

Xie Qiao stumbled out of the ancestral hall, but for a moment, she didn’t know where to go.

Xie He wanted to leave, but he never thought about taking her with him.

If Six-Sided Dice hadn’t completely torn off his mask, perhaps for Xie Qiao, living in a false utopia with “Bai Muqi” by her side would have been the most suitable choice for her as a little monster.

But now there was nothing left.

Xie Qiao didn’t hate Xie He’s ruthlessness.

If there was only one chance to escape, she would only use it on herself.

The black-haired girl looked at the moonlight, her tear stains dried up.

Dazed, she didn’t know where to go.

“Xie Qiao…?”

“Xie Qiao!!!”

When Xie Qiao came back to her senses, she was already being half-dragged and half-pulled by Xia Ran, running.

There were also many humans around her.

They were all players who had been dragged in by Six-Sided Dice.

“Damn, damn, damn!!!” Shen Hua clung to Fu Qu’s back, “Why are these NPCs randomly launching a battle royale against us?! Will they ever stop? They’ve run all the way here… Boss, why did you stop?”

Xie Qiao naturally saw that behind these five or six players were swarms of berserk NPCs.

She immediately said, “Follow me.”

Xie Qiao led them into the ancestral hall.

From the moment she knew that Xie He was going to oppose Six-Sided Dice, Xie Qiao had filled this place with her trump cards.

She originally thought that she could stay here with Xie Youdao and Bai Muqi until Xie He got out.

But she didn’t expect that in the end, only these humans could help.

The players saw the two corpses on the rafters, but because of Xie Qiao, no one dared to say anything.

Although they didn’t know why Xie Qiao could still retain her sanity.

But after all, she was also a monster.

Xie Qiao only saved Xia Ran alone.

She coldly scanned the players and then squatted in the corner to watch the spiders spin their webs.

Xia Ran sat on the ground and wiped his sweat.

Shen Hua was put down by Fu Qu. Fu Qu squatted down, tore a piece of his shirt, and bandaged the wound on Shen Hua’s leg.

Because it was late at night, most of the players were asleep.

Xia Ran knocked on the doors one by one.

But in the end, they were still surrounded.

After those NPCs went berserk, they subconsciously gathered towards the staff dormitory, where there were the most humans.

Although Xia Ran and Fu Qu could fight, after all, one can’t fight with bare hands against many.

These were the only players left who hadn’t been separated.

Shen Hua’s leg was cut by Mu Jingyao.

He used the same trick again, wanting Shen Hua to absorb the monsters for him.

But Fu Qu noticed.

Fu Qu picked up Shen Hua and kicked Mu Jingyao into the monster pile.

Mu Jingyao’s screams quickly subsided.

Xia Ran’s heart was still a little uncomfortable.

But there was no time to rest.

After taking a few breaths, he stood up again.

Shen Hua was stunned: “Boss, where are you going?”

The black-haired youth walked to the door.

Revealing a clean smile.

“Right now, Mr. Xie needs me more.”