Chapter 513: Does Ye Ge Want to Eat Too? (1/10, Autumn Subscription)

If time could flow back to the battle, Fang Yue would surely carve Horse Seat into ten thousand pieces, let Horse Seat know what it meant to wish for death, and then hack him to death alive!

His breathing grew rapid; the stimulation was too great, and Fang Yue's head felt a little dizzy.

The doctors at their Qingshui District United Front branch had once said.

If Bai Xiaoya died in the game, then most likely, she would never wake up in reality.

Parasitized by the 【Frost Flower】, she would completely become a vegetable!

How was he supposed to explain this to Yuan Jie?

Fang Yue's fists clenched tight, trembling with rage.

I should have noticed sooner!

If only I had known earlier that Bai Xiaoya was captured by someone from the Phoenix Organization…

If only I had discovered the secret of Ningguang Mountain sooner…

Fang Yue was sinking into self-reproach when a weak voice suddenly rang out.

"…Who?"

Wha…

Fang Yue froze for a moment, looked up in astonishment, and immediately discovered that Bai Xiaoya, whom he had thought already dead, had actually opened her eyes.

Her gaze carried three parts curiosity and seven parts wariness, just like her in reality—even her expression was very similar.

Except the eyes she had opened had their whites completely turned pitch-black, with black blood seeping from the corners, exactly like Lin Ling's single eye—utterly grotesque in appearance.

"Bai… Xiaoya?"

Fang Yue spoke hesitantly, but Bai Xiaoya tilted her head blankly.

"Who is that?"

She… doesn't know?

She's not Bai Xiaoya??

Fang Yue froze on the spot.

Bai Xiaoya had no breath, her eyes had turned into grotesque eyes—Fang Yue was already shocked enough, but he could barely still accept it within reason.

As long as Bai Xiaoya was still alive, that was enough.

But now, Bai Xiaoya… seemed to not even know who she was.

Or perhaps… she wasn't Bai Xiaoya at all?

Someone who just happened to look a lot like Bai Xiaoya's in-game character?

Twins or something??

For a moment, Fang Yue felt a little scattered, a little dazed.

After all, this was a world with the grotesque.

Occupying a human body, erasing its will and replacing it—that was not an impossibility.

And this would also mean… Bai Xiaoya was truly dead!

If it were twins or something, the fact that they still hadn't found Bai Xiaoya's in-game character after so long basically meant her real body was about to be declared dead.

Looking at Bai Xiaoya with a complicated expression, Fang Yue pointed at himself.

"Me, Fang Yue. Do you still have any impression of me?"

"Fang Yue?" Bai Xiaoya shook her head: "I only know Lord Horse Seat. I don't know anything else."

Horse Seat!

Fang Yue's face instantly darkened, his killing intent spilling out.

Bai Xiaoya seemed startled by Fang Yue's expression, hurriedly dragging her iron chains as she shrank into a corner, watching him while trembling, like a frightened little animal.

"Ah…"

Only then did Fang Yue quickly rein in his emotions, trying to make his expression as gentle as possible.

"Then do you remember what you're called? Do you remember anything?"

"I'm called Bai Daya! I was raised by Lord Horse Seat… um, that's what Lord Horse Seat said."

She… really had lost every single memory.

Or perhaps… the one occupying her body now was truly another soul—a grotesque!

Fang Yue's heart grew heavy. Suddenly, he recalled that he himself had once suffered memory loss.

That was the power of the 【Memory-Erasing Grotesque】, and at the time, as long as he logged out of the game, the lost memories would all flood back!

Perhaps Bai Xiaoya was in the same situation.

Fang Yue surveyed the secret room. Just like an ordinary girl's room, it held clothes, sachets, shoes, and various other daily items, plus a separate bathroom. The overall decor was very clean and neat, with a simple aesthetic beauty.

After questioning Bai Xiaoya, Fang Yue learned that her memories only concerned this room.

And she was locked up all day long; only when Horse Seat came to see her were the chains removed, allowing her to run around a bit.

Apart from not being allowed to leave the secret room, Horse Seat had no particular restrictions on her.

"How long has this situation been going on?"

"I don't know. Lord Horse Seat said I've been living like this for over ten years, so I don't think there's any problem with it."

Bai Xiaoya tilted her head oddly, utterly innocent.

Over ten years was impossible. It seemed that after Bai Xiaoya was captured, something had been done to her to make her this way.

The problem now was how to get Bai Xiaoya to cooperate with reality and strive to wake up in the real world.

If everything went smoothly, perhaps just like back then, the moment she returned to reality, all her memories would come back.

"Fang Yue…"

"Call me Ye Ge."

After all, this is still a game—better not to expose it carelessly.

"Ye Ge… I'm hungry. Usually it's only when Lord Ma comes over that I wake up, and he feeds me things to eat…"

Looking around, Fang Yue quickly found the key and unlocked the iron shackles on Bai Xiaoya. She immediately cheered, her eyes curving into happy little smiles.

"Ye Ge is the second person willing to let me out to play. Ye Ge is so nice!"

Like an ordinary little girl, Bai Xiaoya hopped and skipped happily, as if a little freedom alone could make her joyful for an entire day.

"Oh right, food, food!"

As if she knew exactly where it was, Bai Xiaoya ran to a cabinet in the room, opened the lowest door of one of the compartments, and with a dragging motion, huffing and puffing, hauled out a large jar shaped a bit like a wine jar.

After dragging it out, she gave Fang Yue a silly grin, wiped off her sweat, opened the jar, and dove headfirst inside. Like a caveman, the sound of munching—om nom nom—came from within.

Fang Yue's brow furrowed slightly, telling her to take her head out first. Only then did Bai Xiaoya lift her head, her face smeared with black blood, and asked innocently amid Fang Yue's stunned expression: "What's wrong? Does Ye Ge want some too?"

What… the hell is that??

Fang Yue hurriedly looked into the jar. Before he could make out what was inside, a wave of foul stench rushed up his nose, so nauseating he nearly gagged.

Covering his nose and looking carefully at the contents of the jar, Fang Yue's pupils instantly contracted.

What lay in the jar was a dark, gooey mess like paste. Fang Yue saw several eyes of varying sizes floating on the surface of the paste, and occasionally a scaly hand would poke out.

These… were unmistakably all grotesque corpses!

"Ah! Ye Ge, fish out that little hand—I love eating this the most! It's so good!"

Bai Xiaoya, poking her head over, cried out in delighted surprise.

Fang Yue looked at Bai Xiaoya beside him in disbelief…

She—during all these days of being locked up—had actually been eating grotesque corpses as her food every single time?

Right now Bai Xiaoya has no memories, but if she leaves the game and returns to reality, her memories will come back.

When she recalls these days, what kind of reaction will she have…

Fang Yue imagined that scene for a moment, then suddenly… felt that, given Bai Xiaoya's current temperament, at most she'd frown a little, hold that expression for a while, gag and retch a bit, and then act as if nothing had happened.

Well… Bai Xiaoya's psychological resilience now is extremely strong; it seems there's no need to worry about this problem.

(End of this chapter)