On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

"Maria, do me a favor. Find a Dream Terminal and send it to the Sealed City."

"Thank you so much, Tia. Without you, I really wouldn't know what to say. Don't worry, I'm not like you humans. I'll have the nerve to speak in front of Lord Ash. Your words won't be forgotten."

"For example, right now, you've only just become a Calamity, so don't overuse your abilities before you've mastered them. So leave the task of healing the villagers' injuries to your older brother."

“You’re right, Yati. But what I want to tell you is that we can be selfless, but we must be mindful of what we give. When the giving exceeds our capabilities, or even harms us, you must stop, understand?”

"I understand, big brother. Yati won't overuse her healing abilities so as not to make you feel bad!"

After running a long way, the little girl stopped to wait for her parents, but they didn't come. She mustered up her courage and stopped the passing refugees, but in the end, the refugees tricked her parents out of their belongings.

"Yes, that's the sentence."

Styutia: "."

After the little girl in front of him said her name, "Athena," Liao Ji understood everything. It also explained why he had always felt a sense of familiarity with this little girl.

So

Is this the Styutia in Zero's "dream"?

Too

One of the five great evil kings who destroyed this world, the witch?

In Liao Ji's memory, if anyone was going to do something like smearing others, it would be Reina. Zero wouldn't do such a thing. The mecha girl back then should have been the same type as Jiu You, or even a bit more rational and straightforward.

"Remember, Yati, if you get hurt, your parents will be heartbroken, and so will I."

After holding Yati's little hand, Liao Ji ignored the surprised expressions of the villagers behind him and continued forward with the little girl in his arms.

"Defending the glory of the Goddess is a victory for the Goddess and a victory for us believers."

If the original Sciutia hadn't been this kind of person, hadn't had such a naive and innocent personality, how could her pitiful little settlement have possibly allowed a "Disaster" level Evil One to willingly stay and accompany her through the most difficult time of the pioneering period?

This is something she herself might not know, namely, Styutia's experience before she met the "Emperor of Ash".

"Big brother, Mom and Dad said that when we only think about giving back, we can never become a good person."

"The person I used to be was probably the one you described, the bad guy who was turned into a good guy by Lord Ash."

The little girl didn't know that the refugees who had taken her belongings were actually helping to find their parents. So, after the refugees hadn't returned for a long time and she had been waiting for a long time on an empty stomach, she stopped the second group of refugees.

Back then, he wasn't the Ash Emperor yet. He was a new player who had just entered the game. To the people in the world, he was just a small village chief with no power or background, probably just a dozen or so ordinary poor people under his command. He wasn't even ranked in the community.

Looking at Styutia, who was still just a "little girl" in front of him, he seemed to have given himself a hint.

“Tia. No, Yati, have you ever thought that they are all lying to you, that your efforts will not be rewarded at all, and that they are just using you?”

Squealer forced a smile, quickly said goodbye to the dragon girl, made up an excuse that she had other things to take care of, and then left the room without waiting for Jiuyou to stop her.

Just as Liao Ji had imagined.

He may now be just a passerby in the story, a spectator of a dream, and no matter what, he can't change the story itself.

Just like the previous two times, after advancing for another fifteen minutes, the little girl in his arms suddenly disappeared.

Instead

It is a little girl lying on the ground directly in front of you, who has fainted due to exhaustion caused by overuse of strength.

Chapter 214 Breaking Free from the Dream! Breaking Free from the Dream!

it hurts

My fingers won't move. Am I going to die?

But why?

This time, no villagers came forward; it was as if the little girl's voice echoed throughout the area.

Immediately afterwards, thick fog rose around Liao Ji, and this red fog transformed into a series of phantom images like a revolving lantern, as if telling Liao Ji about the experiences of the little girl named "Yati".

As a "healing" afflicted being, Yati was initially regarded as a life-saving angel by the other refugees in the group after joining the team. However, when they discovered that she was an angel who would not refuse and could be ordered around at will, their attitude became increasingly hostile and indulgent.

They no longer made requests, but demanded that the little girl provide them with treatment, disregarding the limits of her abilities and recklessly depleting her strength. They even asked her to overdraw her own resources just to treat some scratches for them.

Later, jealous people appeared among the refugees. They envied the little girl's status as a Calamity Being, and thus evil rumors were born. They said that drinking the little girl's blood could resist the Calamity, bring the dead back to life, and even make one a Calamity Being. No matter how the little girl explained, once everyone believed it, even the most absurd rumor would become the truth.

Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, the villagers, blinded by desire and corrupted by the evil during their escape, had become insane and irrational. Just as they were about to "divide" the little girl and obtain the flesh and blood of the evil one, they encountered a monster horde.

The villagers screamed and scattered. Because they had received treatment from the little girl, they ran very fast. The little girl herself, however, was already exhausted from overexertion and collapsed after only a few steps.

She cried out to the surrounding villagers for help, begging those she had once treated with care and even saved to help her, but unfortunately, not a single refugee paid her any attention. Instead, they wanted to squeeze the last bit of value out of the little girl, using her as bait to attract the attention of the evil monster and buy them time to escape.

Ironically, the little girl lying on the ground, too weak to move, was miraculously unnoticed by the monster. Instead, it was the villagers, who moved with incredible speed, who drew the monster's attention away from her. The sounds of sharp claws tearing flesh and blood, mixed with the villagers' screams, reached the little girl's ears.

Looking at the hellish scene, the entire fleeing group except for her had been wiped out by the monstrous monster. The little girl lying on the ground must have been filled with sadness and pain.

But perhaps the little girl herself didn't know, but Liao Ji, who was in the fog, could see it very clearly: the corners of the little girl's and "Yati's" mouths were turned up.

Finally, the monster left, and the little girl, lying dead in the wilderness, gazed at the sky.

It doesn't matter anymore, right?

con man

All liars

Her parents left her, telling her they would catch up soon, but they never came back.

The person who took her package told her that they would bring her parents back to find her, but they never came back.

Those who received her treatment assured her that they would protect her if she encountered danger, but they only cared about running away and never came back.

The little girl struggled to her feet and walked on with difficulty, relying solely on her will to survive.

She didn't know where she was going, or where else she could go.

Perhaps for this hopeless world, finding a place to "take her in" is an unattainable fantasy, and finding someone who won't lie to her is a greedy wish.

So tired, Mom and Dad

Unseen by the little girl, a large red mist rose behind her, and a massive amount of turbid evil surged wildly into her body from all sides, a manifestation of the arrival of the will of turbid evil.

For the world of Zero Dream, this is the sign of the birth of the "Turbid King".

The little girl's strength is improving rapidly, but she is unaware of it and continues to walk forward in confusion.

The will of turbidity waits, waiting for the little girl to collapse from exhaustion, at which point the transformation will be complete.

But if during this period

If the little girl could miraculously meet someone willing to take her in, perhaps everything would be different.

Unfortunately.

In Zero Dream, there is no leader of a settlement called "Ash".

only

A young scientist in love with a cyborg.

Therefore, Yati's fate was already sealed.

The sound of a motorcycle came from afar, breaking the fog and pulling Liao Ji out of the story of "Yati".

Liao Ji turned his head and saw a convoy of ten people. In such a wasteland, to have such a well-organized convoy, with each member even wearing the same uniform and a badge that looked like "angel wings," Liao Ji recognized them immediately.

KEL Technology.

At the same time, the villagers behind Liao Ji also woke up from the fog of "Yati". When they saw the convoy speeding towards them, many villagers exclaimed the words "Salvation Society".

Liao Ji had heard from gangsters that Kyle Technology had secretly formed a secret force to infiltrate Zero Dream. Now it seemed that the "Salvation Society" in front of him was their organizational alias in Zero Dream.

Judging from the reactions of the surrounding villagers, it seems that Kel Technology's development within Zero Dream is not bad?

Moreover, Liao Ji recalled that the wealth left by the parents in the little girl's initial package was also food coupons from the Salvation Society.

These people from Kyle Technology were just passing through, and they seemed to be in a hurry. Liao Ji noticed that the direction they were rushing towards was actually the area where the natural disaster had occurred in Cano Village.

Unfortunately, whatever their mission may have been, it seems unlikely they will be able to complete it now.

When the captain drove into the fog and saw the little girl walking alone in the wilderness, an expression of extreme horror quickly appeared on his face, and the entire convoy slammed on the brakes.

"A witch! It's a witch!"

"No, no, no, no! Damn it! How did we stumble into the Witch's Mist?! Has the Witch's Territory expanded again?!"

"Never mind that, quickly check which level of the trial this is!"

"It's the third level, the last level! It's too late! The witch is about to appear! Escape the dream! Escape the dream quickly!"

"Get rid of the dream! Get rid of the dream!"

"I want to escape this dream! Please let me escape this dream!"

Perhaps it was because the Salvation Society members suddenly broke in and shouted in a panic, or perhaps the "test" was coming to an end, but many villagers behind Liao Ji seemed to finally wake up from their dream and stared wide-eyed at the little girl's figure in the distance.

They seemed to realize it too.

"What happened to us? Why are we here?"

"Legend... Do you remember that legend? The witch would bewitch passersby who entered her territory, making them experience what the witch had gone through, giving them tests. In each test, if they made the wrong choice, the little girl would instantly transform into the witch and kill them. Only by passing the tests could they have a quarter of an hour to leave."

"But, but if you remain stubborn and continue to the end of the witch's trial, witnessing the witch's entire life, then nothing you do will be of any use."

"Run! Run!"

"It's no use, it's too late, it's already too late! Witch, the witch is about to appear!"

The terrified villagers were in chaos, desperately trying to escape, while in the distance, the Salvation Society members and Kyle Technology personnel, shouting "Escape from the Dream!", attempted to use a logout device to forcibly leave Dream Zero.

However, it was all too late.

The shouting and chaotic noise of these people seemed to hasten the story's end. The little girl, having exhausted her last bit of strength, collapsed to the ground. At that very moment, another voice took over the entire area.

"Oh"

"Hehehe, you've already seen it all the way to the end, yet you still want to leave me?"

"Don't you know?"

"Is what I, Athenius, hate most... leaving without saying goodbye?"