Chapter 169: Little Girl

Xi Lian stood at the fork of a maze‑like corridor in Letu, feeling a familiar bewilderment.

Every passage here looked exactly the same.

She had already looped around a similar corner three times, and the pink tips of her hair drooped slightly from anxiety.

"This time… is it a dead end again?" she muttered softly, about to turn back.

"Ah!"

A light gasp came from behind.

Xi Lian turned her head and saw, not far away on the ground, a tiny figure sitting.

It was a girl about seven or eight years old, with softly curled, smooth green hair, wearing a simple white dress.

She was rubbing her knee, her brow slightly furrowed, and a thin sheen of water glimmered in her light‑green eyes, looking pitifully fragile.

Anyone who saw her would think she was a delicate child who had accidentally fallen and needed help.

Xi Lian's heart softened at once, and she hurried over.

"Are you okay?" she crouched down, asking with concern.

The little girl—Mei Bi Wu Si—lifted her damp eyes, looked at the face before her that was strikingly similar to Ailixiya's yet more youthful, sneered inwardly, but forced a somewhat strained yet determined smile, her voice soft and syrupy: "I'm fine, sister. I just tripped by accident."

(Pink hair, blue eyes, the exact same voice… but it feels completely off.)

Mei Bi Wu Si quickly made a judgment.

If that Fen Mao fat woman were role‑playing, she could never have this bone‑deep innocence, nor would her intuition be free of annoyed teasing.

The girl before her was like a sheet of paper that was too clean.

"Are you really okay? Want me to help you up?"

Xi Lian reached out; although a vague sense of caution brushed her heart like a cold scale passing over, her innate kindness blamed it on unease in an unfamiliar environment.

"Thank you, sister."

Mei Bi Wu Si used the momentum to stand, brushed her dress, lifted her face, and with innocent curiosity looked at her, "Sister, you're so beautiful, you look like another pink‑haired sister I know. I'm Mei Bi Wu Si, I live here. What's your name, sister? How did you get here? I don't think I've seen you before."

"I'm Xi Lian."

"I… I'm not really sure either. I saw a huge device outside, got close and touched it, and suddenly I was here."

(A huge device? The entrance to Letu? Outside is Pure White Space… sure enough, that 'system' realm.)

Mei Bi Wu Si's mind raced, but a timely look of surprise and sympathy appeared on her face, "Ah, then you must be lost! This place is called Past World Paradise, and it can be easy to get turned around here."

She continued playing the harmless guide role, beginning to ask seemingly casual questions: "Xi Lian sister, where did you come from? Is your home far away?"

"I come from… Weng Fa Luo Si."

Xi Lian hesitated a moment, then said the name.

She vaguely felt that telling a "child" these things might be inappropriate, but the other's clear eyes made it hard to refuse.

(Weng Fa Luo Si? A name I've never heard.)

Mei Bi Wu Si narrowed her eyes slightly, a hint of inquisitive light flashing in the depths of her light‑green pupils.

(Then there's only one possibility left—coming from a world in the broader Star Sea that Heimu revealed.)

That judgment made her inner interest surge sharply.

"Weng Fa Luo Si… sounds like a beautiful place."

Mei Bi Wu Si said in a reverent tone, then, like a child discovering a new toy, asked with excitement and anticipation: "Then, Xi Lian sister, do you know the 'Fate Path'? I've heard the adults mention it lately; it sounds amazing!"

"Fate Path?"

Xi Lian nodded, "Hmm, I know a bit."

(Sure enough, you know!)

Mei Bi Wu Si almost couldn't suppress the upward curve of her mouth; she forced it down, making her eyes even brighter, "So impressive! Which Fate Path are you walking? Can you tell me about it? I'm so curious!"

"I…"

Xi Lian subconsciously recalled, "It seems to be… 'Memory'?"

(Memory Fate Path!)

Mei Bi Wu Si instantly retrieved from her mind the description of the Star God Floating Dawn "Memory" in "The Universe Little Knowledge Even a Fool Understands"—the Star God who governs Memory, whose Fate Path walkers are often linked to preservation and retrieval of information, even capable of manipulating memory, each person gains feather‑crossing dust.

In almost an instant, a cold thought flashed through her mind:

(Has she already 'read' my current thought?)

She swept a quick, hidden glance at Xi Lian's face with the corner of her eye.

The pink‑haired girl's face showed only honesty, no hint of a secret being uncovered.

(Is she lying, or… her state simply can't actively use this power? Or perhaps she knows nothing about it?)

Whatever it was, it made Mei Bi Wu Si find it even more worthy of study.

A sample from another world, walking the "Memory" Fate Path, highly homologous to Ailixiya—this is literally a doorstep‑delivered, unprecedented experimental material!

"Memory Fate Path!"

Mei Bi Wu Si exclaimed childishly, "It sounds so mysterious, so powerful! Just like the feeling you give, sister!"

Xi Lian blushed at the praise, smiled, then remembered the matter: "Mei Bi Wu Si, do you know how to get out of here and back to the Pure White Space I came from? I still have something to do…"

(Leave? How could I let this little insect that accidentally flew into the net slip away?)

Mei Bi Wu Si sneered inwardly, but immediately put on a hesitant and apologetic expression, her small hand fidgeting with the hem of her dress: "I'm sorry, Xi Lian sister… I don't know the whole way here either. But!"

Her eyes suddenly brightened, as if she'd thought of a good idea, "I know a few people who might know! They know a lot! I can take you to ask them! That way you'll find the way back!"

The suggestion was reasonable and full of goodwill.

Although the vague chill in Xi Lian's heart seemed to surface again, seeing the enthusiastic yet slightly ingratiating smile of the "little girl" made her unable to link the other with "danger".

"Really? Then thank you so much, Mei Bi Wu Si!" Xi Lian said gratefully.

"You're welcome! I'm happy to help a beautiful sister like you!"

Mei Bi Wu Si smiled even more sweetly, and she took the initiative to clasp Xi Lian's hand, the palm soft and slightly warm, "Come, older sister, follow me; we'll go this way, watch your step."

She pulled Xi Lian along, turned, and walked toward a corridor whose light was slightly dim.

There, it led to her personal laboratory.

Xi Lian, led by that warm little hand, stepped forward, and the vague unease in her heart was ultimately suppressed by the hope of finding a way out.

Meanwhile, Mei Bi Wu Si, walking ahead, had her back to Xi Lian; the innocent smile on her face gradually grew profound, and in her light‑green eyes flickered a predator's gleam.

(Come, my precious 'Memory' sample… let's have a good 'chat'. About your world, your destiny, and all the secrets on you…)