"I remember... but I can't remember." Sister Hong rubbed her temple with one hand, her face wrinkled, as if she was in a struggle, "Let me think about it carefully."
After frowning and thinking hard for a long time, Xia Qi found that Sister Hong's face became uglier and uglier, and even her eyes were red.
Xia Qi interrupted her and said, "Don't think about it, get in the carriage and rest for a while."
Since he had already lost his memory, it was normal that he couldn't remember.
However, Sister Hong, who has memories from before the game, also fell into entanglement, which seems incredible.
Adding to that the old man who refused to renege on his debts and Li Ming who was the last to remember everything, Xia Qi suspected that the game might have made them forget some things. As for what they had forgotten, he would have to wait for Sister Hong to sort things out before he could confirm it.
“…Okay.” Sister Hong glanced at Xia Qi with a complicated expression, then turned around and got on the carriage first.
The guards brought another carriage for Ye Di. Xia Qi helped Ye Di get on the carriage and got in himself.
As the streets were empty, it wasn't long before the carriage drove into the center of the city that never sleeps and entered the palace with red walls and green tiles.
After Xia Qi got on the carriage, he kept looking out the window and never took his eyes off the outside.
Ye Di lay on the side, feeling completely ignored.
He cleared his throat and said tentatively, "I have sent someone to guard your door. When your grandmother comes back, I will take her to the palace."
"Okay." Xia Qi responded, "Thank you."
The red and yellow light from outside the carriage came in through the window, shining on Xia Qi's slightly thin face, diluting the indifference in his expression. In the eyes of others, Xia Qi has always been a person with no emotional ups and downs, and he doesn't seem to be moved by anything, but if you look closely, you will find a faint light flashing deep in his eyes.
These lights represent Xia Qi's fragility.
Ye Di suddenly felt very distressed.
"Believe me, she will come back." Ye Di stretched out his hand and placed it on the back of Xia Qi's hand.
"… good."
Xia Qi looked down at his hand but did not pull it out.
Feeling the endless warmth coming from the back of his hand, Xia Qi's thoughts gradually drifted away...
Once upon a time, it seemed that someone covered his hand like this and told him not to worry, she would come back.
After passing the white Sanlian Bridge and going through the Golden Arches, the four people got off the carriage and switched to a sedan chair carried by people.
Xia Qi stared at the people carrying his sedan chair with a strange expression.
He discovered that the "people" carrying the sedan chair were very thin. They looked normal from behind, but from the side, the bearers looked like paper.
The drivers who were carrying the sedan chairs all looked exactly the same, as if they were mass-produced in a factory. One of the drivers saw Xia Qi looking at him, turned around, and smiled at Xia Qi in a flattering way: "Moon Goddess, please get on the sedan chair."
After getting on the sedan chair, they were taken to the Night Emperor's bedroom.
In order to make it convenient for Xia Qi and Sister Hong to visit, Emperor Ye arranged for them to stay in a side hall in his own bedroom, each of them having a room.
Fearing that Xia Qi would feel constrained, Emperor Ye specifically instructed: "Just treat the palace as your own home, don't be polite."
If Xia Qi wasn't so thin-skinned, he would have wanted to say that you are the master of the palace and this is your second home. However, his inner desire to survive told him that talking like this would not work and would only drive Xia Qi away.
After Sister Hong left, Xia Qi sat beside his couch, stared at the wound on his chest and said, "You really don't need treatment?"
"It's okay." Ye Di shook his head and smiled faintly, "Don't worry about it."
Xia Qi couldn't help but frown. He was very curious about Ye Di's body structure. If he was the Zombie King, he wouldn't bleed like the female zombie. If he was a human, he would be fine after being shot by an arrow, and light would even come out of the wound.
Wait, glow
Xia Qi frowned, and suddenly had some bad thoughts. He couldn't help but ask, "What does lighting the Moon God Lamp mean?"
"It means exactly what it says." Ye Di pondered for a moment, then suddenly turned his head to look at the full moon outside the window and whispered, "Didn't you notice that the moonlight tonight is not brighter than yesterday?"
After being reminded by Emperor Ye, Xia Qi suddenly realized that compared with the day of the Moon Goddess Lantern Festival, the luster of the moon over the City That Never Sleeps tonight had dimmed. He looked carefully and found that in the moon that was originally as translucent as the Heshi Bi, there were a few abrupt black spots faintly appearing.
"The moon in the city that never sleeps... is the Moon God Lamp?" Xia Qi asked tentatively.
"That's right." Ye Di nodded slowly.
Xia Qi suddenly felt that the Luna Lamp in his backpack was terribly hot.
Just as Xia Qi was thinking, he suddenly came back to his senses.
If the Luna Lamp is the moon, then the mission of the lamp extinguisher is...
Looking at Ye Di's gentle profile, Xia Qi felt a chill on his back, his scalp was tingling, and he suddenly became restless.
"What's wrong?" Xia Qi's expression suddenly became strange, which made Ye Di feel nervous.
"It's okay. I'll go back and rest first." Xia Qi suddenly stood up. He pushed Ye Di onto the couch and covered him with a blanket. He said, "You rest first. See you tomorrow."
Unexpectedly, Xia Qi was leaving so soon. Ye Di smiled bitterly and said, "Yeah."
After settling Ye Di down, Xia Qi followed the road back to his side hall and lay down on the bed in the corner.
For some reason, ever since he entered the game, he has slept well every night and almost fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed.
After a dreamless night, Xia Qi woke up in a daze in the morning and heard a knock on the door.
"Xia Qi!" Sister Hong shouted outside the door, her voice very anxious.
Xia Qi put on his slippers and hurried to open the door for her.
"Let's hurry out of the palace and find the other two teammates." Sister Hong stood at the door, urging impatiently.
"What's wrong?" Xia Qi looked down at Sister Hong and was almost frightened by her expression.
I saw that Sister Hong's eyes were full of bloodshot, and her eyes were swollen like walnuts. There were two big dark circles under her eyes. She looked like she didn't sleep well, and also like she had been crying all night.
"Let's talk outside the palace." Sister Hong hesitated and motioned Xia Qi to follow her.
Looking at Sister Hong's expression, it was obvious that she had figured something out. Xia Qi didn't ask any more questions. He turned back to his room to pack his things, then followed Sister Hong out the door.
Xia Qi originally wanted to say hello to Ye Di first, but he didn't expect that when they arrived at the next bedroom, they found that Ye Di had disappeared.
The entire bedroom was deserted, without even a palace maid or eunuch.
"Forget it, I'll leave him a note." Xia Qi grabbed a pen and ink, found a piece of rice paper and wrote a few words, then followed Sister Hong out of the bedroom.
When he arrived at an open square outside the bedroom, Xia Qi raised his head and looked at the sky.
Just like the moon at night, the sun in the city that never sleeps during the day was not as dazzling as it was yesterday. He didn't know if it was Xia Qi's illusion, but he felt that the sun's altitude had also become lower.
The sedan bearers from last night seemed to still be there. Xia Qi and Sister Hong planned to let the bearers take them out. Unexpectedly, as they just walked near the bearers, Sister Hong suddenly screamed.
Looking at the eight drivers trembling in the wind, Xia Qi paused and said, "Let's... go out by ourselves."
The difference from last night is that the eight rickshaw drivers today have completely transformed from yesterday's flattened men into paper figures.
They were wearing paper shorts, and their eyes, noses and eyebrows were all drawn with ink. They looked particularly dazed when looking at people. When they saw Xia Qi and Sister Hong coming over, the paper people all turned around and grinned ingratiatingly with the corners of their mouths drawn with red ink.
Although Xia Qi had not attended many other people's funerals, he had seen these paper figures used to burn for the dead.
The corner of Sister Hong's mouth twitched, and she was obviously unwilling to let the sedan bearers send them out again.
The two walked out of the palace. When they were not far from the palace gate, Sister Hong suddenly said, "I have a child in the real world."
Xia Qi paused, then followed: "Do you remember everything?"
"I remember now." Sister Hong smiled bitterly. It was because she remembered everything that she felt so painful. "My child's name is 'Xiao Yu', and she is also a girl."
"Do you know why I went to jail?" Sister Hong was just talking about her daughter, but suddenly she changed the subject and returned to the story of her going to jail.
Xia Qi listened quietly.
"I killed the child's father." Speaking of her ex-husband, Sister Hong's voice was very cold. "He had been cheating on me, and I had always endured it for the sake of the child. Later, when Xiaoyu went to a training class, he said he would be responsible for picking her up, but he actually forgot about it and turned around to celebrate his lover's birthday."
At this point, Sister Hong gritted her teeth and her eyes were full of hostility.
"Xiao Yu... is she lost?" Xia Qi pursed his lips and asked.
"That's right." Sister Hong was so angry that her face turned red and the veins on her forehead popped out. "Xiao Yu is missing. I've been looking for her for two years and I can't find her."
Xia Qi probably guessed the reason why Sister Hong went to jail.
For a mother, her children are everything to her. Judging from the fact that Sister Hong tolerated her husband's cheating for so many years, her personality was not like this before.
At this time, the two of them had already walked out of the Golden Arches. Sister Hong looked at the slowly flowing Naihe River not far away with a look of disappointment: "My friends all advised me that Xiaoyu was just lost. However, ever since I saw 'Xiaoyu' in this instance, I have been wondering if Xiaoyu is really... gone?"
Especially after discovering that "Xiao Yu" in the City That Never Sleeps was very similar to Xiao Yu, Sister Hong fell into pain every day.
However, as long as she didn't see Xiaoyu's body for one day, she would not believe that the real Xiaoyu was dead.
Xia Qi frowned and suddenly asked, "Training class? What training class?"
"Xiaoyu likes to learn dancing. The teacher said she has a good foundation. Later, the teacher recommended her to learn Kunqu Opera." Sister Hong explained, and suddenly found that Xia Qi's focus was strange. "What's wrong?"
No wonder Xia Qi saw a peach blossom fan in "Xiao Yu"'s hand.
Peach Blossom Fan…
wrong!
Xia Qi suddenly thought of someone in his mind!
In the Blue Sea Mermaid Pearl copy, Xia Qi once saw Tony take out the prop he had used, and he also used a peach blossom fan.
Tony was trapped under a huge rock, and once asked him to tell the tough guy a word.
"Tell him that I stole the child. I... I saw that she had a very good foundation, so I wanted her to be the heir of our craft... Who would have thought that the child was so weak that I beat her to death... I am sorry for him and for the child."
Thinking of what Tony once said, Xia Qi took a breath and froze.
Why was he the one who brought the message
"Xia Qi, Xia Qi." Seeing that Xia Qi hadn't spoken for a long time, Sister Hong waved her hand in front of his eyes and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"No, nothing." Xia Qi came back to his senses, pointed to the street where the white-faced man lived, and quickly changed the subject, "Let's go see our teammates."
Now, they don’t have much time left, and their current enlightenment value has not increased much. They have to find a way to continue to increase their enlightenment value. Otherwise, they are likely to lose to the cruel and bloodthirsty Tianji people.
Sister Hong responded and followed.
For some reason, she felt that Xia Qi's expression suddenly changed, especially when he looked at her, his eyes seemed to be full of sympathy.
Is she overthinking it
Just as the two men came near the white-faced man's low bungalow, a sharp female voice sounded nearby.
"Murder! Murder!"
Hearing this, Xia Qi's face changed: "Oh no, something happened to the white-faced man!"