Yin Xiu slowly raised his hand and placed it on the hilt of the sword at his waist. "This light is a recent development; I didn't have it before."
"It is precisely because I have nothing left that I don't care about losing anything more. I have become accustomed to the feeling of something slipping through my fingers every moment, and since I can't grasp it no matter what, I don't want to grasp it anymore."
"The people here are stuck in a quagmire and can't get out on their own. Everyone in the larger environment is just as trapped in suffering, and no one can help them, so they give up struggling."
Yin Xiu looked out the window again. "Even though the events are completely different, I can sense something in everyone here that I once had."
"What?" The little boy tilted his head, still unable to comprehend such a profound concept.
"It is suffering that creates misfortune."
The little boy's dark, thin hand rested on Yin Xiu's hand. Because he was so thin, his eyes appeared large and round on his face, reflecting Yin Xiu's image and revealing a hint of innocence. "Was I unfortunate like us before, brother? Were you also abandoned by the god of fortune?"
Yin Xiu stroked the little boy's hair and said in a low voice, "No, in our world, there is no God of Fortune. If God of Fortune really existed, I shouldn't have spent the first half of my life like that."
"In the end, it wasn't the god of fortune who saved me, but an evil god and a group of people."
The little boy seemed to understand, but then became a little confused. "Brother, you finally got lucky, and now you have to kill the God of Fortune? What if you anger the God of Misfortune? You finally got happiness."
"It's alright." Yin Xiu stared coldly at the increasingly dark sky outside the window. "The bonds that people are bound to will not dissipate because of God."
"If my misfortune is truly a curse, then I should kill the curse along with it. Fearing it or revering it will only embolden it, and I don't like that."
As the little boy gradually gained clarity of thought, it seemed that all constraints disappeared after he severed ties between his life and God.
The eldest brother's current happiness is not due to God's favor, nor is his escape from misfortune due to God's abandonment of his duties. It seems that God is not that important to people.
"It's getting dark, go back to sleep early." Yin Xiu patted the somewhat dazed little boy. "Don't you have to go back and report your number, or you'll get a beating."
"Oh...right." The little boy shook his head and nodded. "We should go back now. Brother, be careful here all alone, and go to sleep early too!"
It's almost time. These slaves all need to go back on time. Every day after work, they eat a bite of food, report on their work for the day, and then go to sleep. They can't miss anything. There have been many accidents today, so they have to go back early to avoid any unexpected incidents.
After deciding on the time and the actual actions, Yin Tianrui finalized the schedule for tomorrow morning and was about to return.
Everyone said their goodbyes and were in a hurry to leave.
"Remember to sleep upstairs, boss. There's a small room there where we usually rest. Just make do for the night, and we'll come find you tomorrow morning!"
"If someone unexpectedly comes here to search, remember to hide! Don't get discovered."
"Be careful, boss."
As everyone said their goodbyes, soon only Yin Xiu remained in the dilapidated house, sitting by the dimly lit window.
He climbed the creaking wooden stairs to the second floor and found the small rest room they had mentioned. It was only slightly better than the dilapidated one downstairs, but still somewhat habitable.
Yin Xiu stood by the second-floor window, gazing at the brightly lit street on the other side of the distance. It was bustling with activity, presumably as people searched for him, the fugitive who had killed the divine messenger. The lights gradually spread towards this side, and they had already questioned the slaves one by one, eventually finding their way to the vicinity of this street.
He sat indifferently by the window, holding the knife, staring at the street below. Sleeping was out of the question; he couldn't fall asleep in this environment, and he didn't know when someone would come looking for him.
Moreover, the most important little monster wasn't around, and in this unfamiliar environment, there was no way to fall asleep.
Thinking it over, Yin Xiu got up, opened the window, sat on the windowsill, and stared silently at the people searching for him, starting to pass the time and spend his first night alone in this other world.
He really didn't like this place. It was a place permeated with misfortune, making him feel like he had returned to a small town many years ago. The surrounding area was full of lifeless players, and the atmosphere was filled with despair and darkness, making it suffocating.
The communicator in his pocket vibrated twice. Yin Xiu took out the little butterfly hair clip, thinking that it would be good to hear Li Mo's voice now.
He answered the call and said casually, "Hello?"
"Hey, hey! Boyfriend!" came an excited and affectionate call from the other end, the passion that even the communicator couldn't block out.
"Yes, I'm here." Yin Xiu rested his chin on his hand, speaking in a lazy tone, gazing at the distant starry sky.
"Boyfriend! Do you miss me?" A sticky crawling sound came from the other end of the communicator, along with the panting and stuttering voice of the little tentacles.
"It's alright, I don't really want to," Yin Xiu replied perfunctorily.
He didn't know what was happening on Li Mo's side. He didn't hear Zhong Mu's shouts or Li Mo's human form's voice. Instead, the little tentacles were chirping and talking to him intermittently.
"Boyfriend, really, don't, miss me?!" The little tentacles shrieked as Yin Xiu brushed them off.
Yin Xiu gazed wistfully at the sky, still not used to having to say such sweet things to a little monster who was his boyfriend all the time, but the little monster just liked to seek confirmation and wanted his response.
Before he could respond, he suddenly heard a creaking sound from the wooden planks at the top of the stairs.
Yin Xiu suddenly stood up and turned around, glancing downstairs out of the corner of his eye. Sure enough, those people had come here to search.
With such a dangerous person emerging in Twin City, the entire city would be in turmoil tonight if they weren't found. But Yin Xiu didn't expect them to find them so quickly.
"Hello?" The voice of tiny tentacles was still coming from the other end of the communicator, but Yin Xiu didn't have time to respond. He stuffed the butterfly hair clip into his pocket, slightly pulled out the knife, and slowly walked towards the stairwell outside the door.
His movements were so light that even in the quiet of the night, no sound could be heard as he moved.
"Hello? Boyfriend?" Another small tentacles asked, but unlike the muffled voice coming from the pocket, this time Yin Xiu heard it very clearly.
He peeked out and saw a dark figure huddled at the corner of the stairs in the quiet wooden house, holding a red butterfly communicator and asking questions.
Its original intention was that whenever her boyfriend said he missed it, it would immediately jump out and give him a huge surprise!
But after asking for so long, why isn't my boyfriend replying?