Relax, I'm not some troublemaker from a role-playing game.

Bai Xi watched Chaos walk towards the door, made a decision in her mind, and asked the question again.

"By the way, what's with your strength?"

Bai Xi looked at Chaos and asked. He hadn't forgotten about the guy's 125 strength.

Chaos paused for a moment before giving his reply:

"I suppose it's some kind of legacy my father left for the family. I've never really understood it."

After he finished speaking, he prepared to push open the door, and then he heard Bai Xi's words:

"Hey, don't rush me, I haven't finished asking yet."

Chaos nearly stumbled as he pushed open the door, turning back to look at Bai Xi with a slightly resentful gaze.

Can't you just say everything you want to say at once?!

But Bai Xi clearly didn't care about Chaos's meaning and went straight to the point:

Why is this child here?

He pointed to the basement door and asked curiously, "Why do you always stay in this dark basement?"

"Even the Mansfield family acted as if they didn't know this person existed."

This time, Chaos hesitated. After a silence far longer than before, he finally answered:

"Because of a wish."

Chaos lowered his eyes and said softly, "I don't know what my father wished for. But the end result is that Alice will never see the sunlight again."

"Just like vampires, once they come into contact with sunlight, they begin their countdown to turning to ashes."

That's definitely Serpes's style.

A wish that can be distorted by the slightest ambiguity—this is the price one must pay for praying to Seraphine.

"As for family matters, my father poured so much effort into her that he neglected everyone else. Perhaps they resented that as well."

"After all, if it weren't for that, they might not have ended up like this, right?"

Chaos murmured as if in a dream. Bai Xi looked at him, hesitated, and then asked:

"The same to you?"

Chaos gave a self-deprecating laugh: "Who knows? But at least someone has to make amends for his mistakes, otherwise everything will just continue down the wrong path."

He didn't say the second half of his sentence, but Bai Xi seemed to hear it.

Then who is more suitable than Chaos, the eldest son, to make amends for old Mansfield's mistakes?

This was not his duty, but it was a mission he had given himself.

"How feudal!"

Bai Xi sighed, and Chaos shrugged noncommittally but didn't reply. He simply pushed open the door.

Behind the door, Bai Xi saw Alice. The white-haired girl was crouching in the corner, waiting quietly as if playing hide-and-seek.

Alice.

Chaos called softly, and Alice turned around, her eyes sparkling with surprise.

Chaos knelt down, gently embraced Alice, and asked in his unusually gentle voice:

What game do you want to play today?

Alice tilted her head, then suddenly turned to look at Bai Xi: "I want to play with that brother."

At that moment, Bai Xi felt the deadly threatening gaze from Chaos, and could only force a smile and nod vigorously.

"Then it's up to you."

Chaos stood up, but his expression was filled with worry. When he walked to Bai Xi's side, he asked in a low voice:

"Can you take care of children?"

Bai Xi's eyes twitched, and she looked at Chaos as if she were questioning her existence.

Me, 70 for pleasing people! 85 for looks! And you actually doubt my ability to take care of kids?!

I bet you don't know the name of the King of Children at Jiangnan Kindergarten!

Chaos stared at Bai Xi for a moment, then shook his head helplessly and walked to the side. Bai Xi took two steps forward and moved closer to Alice.

Then, he quickly bent down, and on a whim, asked the KP:

"Um, can I please you first?"

Copper smelting is prohibited!

"I'm not a copper smelter, and she didn't smelt any copper either, so how can she be considered a copper smelter?"

Bai Xi frowned and asked the question back, but KP seemed speechless and ultimately did not respond. So, Bai Xi could only sigh and speak to Alice again:

"Um, is there anything you'd like to do?" Bai Xi scratched his head. "You can call me Bai, want to be friends?"

[Damn, that's incredible! You look like that evil uncle who kidnapped little girls ten years ago, you know? And with a lollipop in your hand, it's perfect!]

So what!

Bai Xi shouted in his heart, but the next moment, he saw Alice looking around, as if observing Chaos's position.

Alice seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief after seeing that the other person was no longer looking in her direction.

"No, that's not necessary..."

She spoke uneasily, her voice trembling slightly, and she instinctively tried to bite her nails.

"Just don't make your brother worry."

Alice's words immediately made Bai Xi momentarily dazed. He stared at the girl in front of him for a long while before finally realizing what was going on.

But in the end, he didn't do anything more, only calmly nodded:

"So, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Just pretend you're playing around. That's enough, thank you."

Alice gave her a grateful look, seemingly finally relieved, and a relaxed smile appeared on her face.

Bai Xi remained silent for a moment, then sighed softly.

She's a sensible and kind little girl.

This made his original thought that the girl was silly and naive seem rather ridiculous.

She appears innocent and naive, but is it mostly a facade? Essentially, she's pretending to be happy so as not to worry Chaos.

After all, seeing her happy would make Chaos happy too.

Perhaps the way they helped me out of that predicament was intentional?

"My brother has already done so much for me."

After a moment of silence, Alice took Bai Xi's hand and whispered, "I don't want him to continue working so hard."

"Actually, I know all about it. The creation of wishes and such, although it seems to have some benefits that don't quite conform to the common sense in books, my brother seems to be very worried about it."

"I know."

Bai Xi waved her hand and said, "Sometimes I'm quite envious of your family relationships. It's a pity I don't have one."

Alice pursed her lips and didn't answer. Bai Xi looked at her, thought for a moment, and then reached out her hand again.

"So, how about we become friends?"

He turned to Alice and continued, "Good girl, miss?"

Alice stood there, stunned. After a moment, looking at Bai Xi's outstretched hand, she seemed to hesitate for a while before raising her head:

What is a friend?

Bai Xi was bewildered.

Even the outstretched hand froze in place, unsure whether to retract it.

Coach! This isn't right! The script shouldn't be written like this!

Alice felt embarrassed and hurriedly picked up her big book, frantically searching through it. "Excuse me, let me look for it first, friend, friend..."

Bai Xi watched this scene and, with a headache, confirmed a fact.

Alice most likely grew up in this basement. Although she is very sensible, that is probably due to some kind of instinct.

Her common sense was probably so bad that it could only be described as disastrous. Perhaps Chaos realized this, which is why he gave her that encyclopedia.

"Listen carefully, Alice, friends are..."

"Found it!" Alice suddenly shouted excitedly. "It says here that 'friend' is the excuse that creepy old man uses when he tries to kidnap children!"

"And... consumables? What does that mean?"

In that instant, Bai Xi's vision went black as she looked towards Chaos not far away.

This encyclopedia must have been written by you, you siscon!

Bai Xi sighed in despair, just about to correct Alice's views, when his pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw the little girl's face suddenly contort with pain, as if a severe pain had befallen her.

She was convulsing violently, enduring excruciating pain that most people could hardly imagine, yet she gritted her teeth and didn't utter a sound.

"Hey, what's up...?"

Bai Xi panicked a little and hurriedly bent down, only to see the little girl making a gesture towards him and looking at Chaos.

"I'm fine."

Her face was covered in sweat as she spoke with difficulty, but Bai Xi saw that, out of thin air, drops of jet-black blood were flowing down from her fingertips.

Bai Xidun stood there, almost unable to comprehend the sudden change. But at that moment, Chaos seemed to sense the anomaly and almost instinctively rushed forward.

But at that moment, a heart-wrenching cry came from the ground floor above—it was the butler's voice:

"Master! Master! Where are you? Come quickly, Master!"

"Something terrible has happened!!!"

What exactly happened?!

In that instant, Bai Xi's eyes widened as she pondered the current situation with a troubled mind, and she exchanged a glance with Chaos.

He saw Chaos's equally astonished expression and his utterly perplexed face.

But behind Chaos, Bai Xi stopped. He saw it: in the void, the team communication channel screen had finally lit up.

Above is Jiang Lingyi's message.

[Jiang Lingyi: Natis is dead, return immediately]