Destiny Mission of game ‘Star Ring’
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346: 346 346: 346 “Hmm.”

Qian Chengxue confirmed with certainty.

“Ah~ Actually, my parents died in a car accident when I was born.

I always lived with my grandfather, those days were the happiest of my life.

But later my grandfather also passed away, he was very peaceful and happy at that time.

Because he told me that someone had always been waiting for him below, and he didn’t want to make her wait any longer.

Afterwards, I lived alone, spending every day cooped up at home playing games, sleeping when I was tired, continuing to play when I woke up and just finding something to eat when I was hungry.

Time just passed by little by little.

It’s not that life was bad, but I felt like the world of a single person was abnormally cold and numb, as if the whole world had lost its color.

Sometimes I even felt like I was just a walking dead.”

Su Mo gradually fell into his memories as he spoke.

Sitting beside him, Qian Chengxue was moved by Su Mo’s words, her eyes expressing increasingly complex feelings.

She could deeply empathize with everything Su Mo was describing; she finally understood why, when she first met Su Mo, she felt that this stranger was somehow similar to her in some aspects.

They were of the same kind.

Su Mo continued, “I originally thought I would live this dull and uninteresting life alone forever.

However, by chance, I inadvertently stumbled into the guild’s defense position.

I saw the comrades in the guild helping each other, resisting the monsters.

They weren’t cold and chaotic like other guilds, which felt quite warm.

So, due to a twist of fate, I joined, and these days in the guild have been the happiest of my years.

Life seemed to have a bit more color…”

…

Qian Chengxue listened quietly, the evening breeze stirring strands of her hair.

After a long while, Su Mo turned to look at Qian Chengxue and asked, “Can I ask you a question?”

“You say.”

“Why do you struggle so hard?

With your status and wealth, you could easily live a good life.

Why do you work so hard within Star Ring, even risking everything?

You had several chances to cash out gracefully and leave.”

Qian Chengxue looked at the stars above, silent for a long time, eventually opening her heart and saying,

“My life actually isn’t much different from yours, perhaps even worse.

Until I was six years old, when my mother was still alive, life was carefree and incredibly warm.

But everything changed after my mother passed away.

Everyone around me showed their deep malice, and my father became very indifferent, like he was a stranger.

The rest of my life was spent under intense studying and oppression.

If there was anything I did poorly, at best I would be grounded and starved, and at worst, I would be severely beaten; but none of that really mattered…”

Qian Chengxue took a deep breath and continued.

“The most suffocating thing was the indifference that came from within.

The entire family felt like a cold shackle, numbing you, making you feel like a walking dead.

The reason why I gambled everything in Star Ring was because I wanted to break off this shackle, escape from all this, and be reborn.”

Actually, Qian Chengxue had another secret buried deep in her heart that she didn’t mention—her longing for success was driven largely by a crucial fact.

Since her mother was lowly regarded and didn’t even receive a proper title after her death, she had never been admitted into the Ye Family’s ancestral shrine.

This was a thorn in her heart, a life hurdle she could never overcome.

Su Mo, listening to Qian Chengxue’s story, felt an inexplicable pain in his heart.

“But all that is just a pipe dream now…”

Qian Chengxue said self-mockingly.

“Actually, you’ve already done very well.”

Su Mo lifted his head, looking into Qian Chengxue’s clear and bright eyes.

Their eyes met, and the world seemed to stop in that moment.

But soon, both of them shyly turned their faces away…

…

The next morning, as the sky grew lightly bright, the goose-feather-like heavy snow fell again.

Su Mo and Qian Chengxue got up ready to continue on their journey.

“Eat some jerky to replenish your strength.”

Before leaving, Qian Chengxue passed a stick of beef jerky to Su Mo.

“Okay.”

Su Mo naturally accepted it.

Both of them were moving around in Lin Hai.

Along the way, they looked out for each other, and the scenery they encountered was incredibly beautiful.

They occasionally chatted, and rather than finding the monotonous journey boring, they cherished this rare leisure time together.

By midday, Cheng Xue stopped to gaze into the distance.

Still unable to see the end of Lin Hai, they likely had a long way to go.

So, she suggested,

“Let’s rest here for a bit and drink some water.”

Cheng Xue handed a bottle of mineral water to Su Mo.

“Thank you.”

Su Mo took the mineral water, found a fallen dead tree, brushed off the snow from it, and sat down.

Then he twisted off the cap and took a sip of water.

But he quickly became stunned, the water was warm.

He couldn’t help but sneak a glance at Cheng Xue.

At that moment, the sound of thunderous explosions kept coming from afar, from just the sounds alone one could tell that the battle at Praying Dragon City was fiercely intense.

Cheng Xue naturally came to sit beside Su Mo, took a drink of water, and started chatting,

“Actually, whether we go now or not, it won’t make much difference.

By the way, Su Mo, why didn’t you think of giving up this time?”

“I am someone who doesn’t like giving up as long as I haven’t truly lost….”

Su Mo said cheerfully to Cheng Xue.

However, mid-sentence, Su Mo’s words abruptly stopped, and the smile gradually faded from his face.

Cheng Xue asked with a puzzled expression,

“What’s wrong?”

“Something’s not right, take a close look at the snow.

Those nearly invisible pale green toxic fumes, could they be emanating from the snow?”

“Let me see, it seems so.”

Cheng Xue immediately lay down and observed carefully, noticing the faint green fog seeping through the snow.

Su Mo quickly started to dig through the snow.

Soon in the thick snow, an inconspicuous pipe was exposed.

Cheng Xue crouched down and brushed aside the snow to look at the exposed pipe.

If one looked closely, they could see a wisp of pale green toxic mist floating out.

She then said, “This must be the main culprit of our mutation, the virus mist is being emitted from here.”

“Well hidden indeed.”

Su Mo looked at the pipe and replied.

“It’s indeed very concealed, it’s got all of us fooled.

I am also very curious about what exactly Praying Dragon City is hiding inside.

But never mind, we’re in no position to safeguard ourselves now.”

Cheng Xue said helplessly.

“There isn’t completely no hope.”

Su Mo suddenly showed a hint of a smile.

Cheng Xue looked at him, taken aback.

Seeing his confident expression, which seemed not to be joking, she asked curiously, “What’s the plan?”

“Dig up the pipe, there must be a main pipe underneath.

If the main pipe is wide enough, we can entirely crawl into Praying Dragon City through it.”

Su Mo voiced an idea that left Cheng Xue utterly dumbstruck.