The Game with Fairies

The morning sunlight spilled onto two spiritual fields halfway up the mountain.

A faint mist lingered in the spiritual fields, which were beginning to show some green shoots.

Li Muyang stretched with a yawn, stood on the ridge of the field, held a water bucket, and performed the Cloud and Rain Technique.

After cultivating until late last night, he had to get up early today to work, so his expression showed a hint of fatigue.

However, his eyes sparkled with excitement.

His early rise wasn’t due to diligence but rather the excitement of having mastered a new demonic technique.

After a night of arduous cultivation, he finally mastered the ‘Remnant Clouds Movement Technique’.

Having fallen asleep groggily twice in the latter half of the night, Li Muyang woke up again at dawn.

Unable to sleep, he got up early to water the spiritual field.

Now, Li Muyang seemed unchanged, but faint demonic patterns would emerge on his skin once he used the Remnant Clouds Movement Technique.

With the enhancement of these eerie patterns, his speed was frighteningly fast.

He could even leave an afterimage behind him if he ran at full speed.

With such speed, there were few in the Outer Sect who could catch up to him.

Holding such an ace up his sleeve, Li Muyang might not walk around arrogantly in the Outer Sect, but he could definitely be the first to escape if anything happened in this damned place.

Humming a cheerful tune and wielding the water bucket to perform the Cloud and Rain Technique, Li Muyang quickly finished his morning watering task.

The next watering would have to wait until the afternoon.

Looking at the spiritual mist in the field, Li Muyang tossed aside the water bucket and sat down on the ridge to rest.

The old tree growing on the ridge had now become an old companion to him.

Leaning against the trunk, he sat in the shade, feeling the morning mountain breeze brush across his face, and closed his eyes.

The Game with Fairies, start!

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In the dimly lit stilted building, Li Muyang opened his eyes.

The little girl on the bamboo bed had closed her eyes and just fallen asleep.

In Li Muyang’s view, the choices for tonight appeared.

【I’m so sleepy… I’ll go inquire about the monster tomorrow】

【Monster that appeared in the dream… I seem to have heard of such a thing before. I can’t sleep. What if the monster appears while I’m asleep? That would be bad】

As Li Muyang unlocked the information about the hidden ‘murderer’, the text options before going to sleep at night also changed.

Naturally, he chose the second option.

Then, the light inside the room shifted rapidly, and time within the game sped by as if a fast-forward button had been pressed.

The moonlight spilling through the window drifted away and disappeared.

Finally, the first rays of dawn lit up the mountains, and the crowing of a rooster echoed through the village.

In a matter of seconds, the entire village fast-forwarded from deep night to daybreak.

The quiet village quickly stirred to life. The little girl sleeping on the bamboo bed also rubbed her eyes and sat up.

“Elder Brother, good morning,” the little girl greeted him.

Two options appeared in Li Muyang’s view.

【Ask her about the monster】

【Let her wash up and prepare breakfast for her】

Li Muyang naturally chose the second option.

Having finally improved her favorability, it was only natural to continue maintaining it.

The little girl actually thought well of him… He couldn’t let his persona collapse now. He couldn’t be too hasty.

Li Muyang got up and let the little girl wash up, then he opened the door of the stilt house and went out to the kitchen to start a fire and cook porridge. ṛ

When Li Muyang returned to the stilt house with the steaming hot white porridge, the little girl timidly asked,

“Elder Brother, did you not sleep last night?”

The little girl looked curious and somewhat concerned.

“Your eyes are so red.”

Li Muyang glanced at the favorability bar in the upper right corner of his field of vision… it was still at 25, no increase.

But indeed, this was the first time Xiao Yecao had shown concern about him not sleeping after so many failures.

Li Muyang handed the hot porridge to the little girl and said, “Eat first, then we can talk about that monster.”

“I didn’t dare to sleep last night, fearing that the monster would come out to kill us while we were asleep.”

Li Muyang’s words made the little girl shrink her neck.

“No… it won’t, right?”

The little girl nervously looked around and said, “There are so many powerful people in the village. That monster wouldn’t dare to come in.”

Li Muyang looked at the naive little girl and grinned with a forced smile.

“Eat, we’ll talk after you’re done.”

Whether that monster dares to come in or not… I, the poor sod who’s been killed hundreds of times, would know!

Soon, the two of them finished the white porridge in their bowls one after the other.

After the little girl finished eating, she wiped her mouth and took the initiative to speak.

“That monster appeared after I was captured by a human trafficker and passed by a charitable estate in Yanzhou County.”

“It often appears in my dreams, with two really thin long legs, standing taller than the walls by the roadside. It wears the kind of costume that only people on stage wear, and its face is painted with white stuff.”

“It has seven hands and two mouths.”

“It can’t speak human language. When it opens its mouth, it makes a squeaky and very unpleasant noise that gives people headaches.”

“The first time it appeared was at night, suddenly jumping out from the woods by the roadside trying to catch me, but the human trafficker drove it away with a red stick.”

“After that, it didn’t dare to show itself in front of the human trafficker anymore but often ran into my dreams, chasing me there.”

“After I told the human trafficker, he got a shaman to look at me, but it was no use. The monster still appeared, just less frequently chasing me.”

“It just stands far away in the woods and watching me most of the time, and even if I run through the woods, I can’t shake it off no matter how hard I try.”

The little girl shrank her neck as she spoke, seemingly triggered by the terrible memories.

She cautiously looked at Li Muyang and said, “Now that the human trafficker is gone, but last night I slept without dreaming of it.”

“It might have left, or it might still be lurking outside.”

“So Elder Brother, we can’t leave the village for the time being. I’m afraid that monster is waiting for us outside…”

The little girl shared all the information she knew.

But Li Muyang’s scalp tingled as he listened.

This… he had thought it was a danger from within the village, but from the little girl’s story, it was clear that she had encountered some kind of dangerous entity on the road.

Just hearing about it is already very horrifying. The folk horror atmosphere was at its peak.

As someone who is afraid of ghosts, Li Muyang was relieved that this character development game was an interactive nurturing simulation game, sparing him from having to fight personally.

Otherwise, fighting against such creepy and sinister things would drain his sanity!

Two options appeared in Li Muyang’s field of vision.

【Let’s go to Granny Gu in the village. She specializes in dealing with these things】

【Let’s go to Steward Wu and ask him what to do】

Good, it’s a brand-new plotline that has never been triggered before!

It seems there’s finally a way to deal with this monster.

Li Muyang immediately stood up and chose the first option.

“Let’s go to Granny Gu. She’s an expert in exorcism.”

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