The Villain Saint is my secondary account

In an instant, the demon girl's eyes were filled with tears.

Do you still remember my name?

Samael, or rather, the girl whose original name was Bai Jingran, suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion wash over her.

Countless cycles of fierce battles, thousands upon thousands of years of toil... perhaps this is where it should come to an end.

"Damn!!!"

Ye Xiao dodged the layers of black waves surging in front of him, while Ella, like a cat playing with a mouse, churned up the mud to hinder Ye Xiao, enjoying to the fullest the sensation that he had been longing for at this moment.

Fortunately, Ye Xiao finally found an opening, threw a flying knife, and then used a teleportation technique to escape the encirclement in the mud and catch Samael again.

"What are you thinking?! Don't listen to him, come with me!!!"

However, when the girl turned back to look at Ye Xiao, her gaze, which had previously held a hint of affection, was now filled with only resolute determination.

"Feel sorry."

With a soft "pfft," Ye Xiao's eyes widened in surprise.

He looked down in disbelief, only to see that the demon girl's arm had pierced through his chest.

Chapter 251 Returning to the New World

"what!!!"

Ye Xiao suddenly opened her eyes.

He subconsciously touched his chest. Although he could still faintly feel the phantom pain of Samael piercing his chest, it was now completely unharmed.

……what's the situation?

Ye Xiao was a little confused. There was complete silence around him, except for the occasional clear chirping of birds.

He sat up and realized that he was in a hospital room.

Compared to the oppressive, dark battlefield of the previous moment, the environment now was quite peaceful and tranquil.

No, that's not the most important thing...

Ye Xiao looked up slightly and saw that the ceiling fan was slowly rotating, and a transparent IV drip was hanging on a stainless steel frame next to the bed.

A window covered by a curtain let in a faint light, and at the foot of the bed was an unlit television. His unusually thin face, filled with confusion, was reflected on the dark LCD screen.

"Where is this place?"

He opened his mouth blankly, only to find that his voice was unusually weak.

Immediately afterwards, a strong feeling of thirst welled up in his throat. He quickly looked around and finally found a glass bottle containing warm water on the bedside table.

He reached out and picked up the glass bottle, but found it to be unexpectedly heavy. He lost his grip and dropped it to the ground.

"Snapped"

Water spilled all over the ground. Ye Xiao stared wide-eyed at her thin wrist.

When did his hands become so thin and weak?

No...not just hands...

He lifted the blanket and saw that he was wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown. Lifting up his shirt, he saw that his emaciated body was thinner than a monkey, let alone having muscles.

what?

His throat bobbed slightly, and his expression grew increasingly astonished.

"what sound?"

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and a nurse in a white coat walked in.

Ye Xiao turned her head and stared blankly at the other person for a few seconds. Then, as if she had seen a ghost, the nurse immediately shouted and rushed out of the corridor.

"Wake up! Wake up!"

"Doctor! The patient in room 206 is awake!!!"

Woke up?

Ye Xiao was filled with confusion.

A moment later, a doctor and a group of nurses led two simply dressed middle-aged men and women into the ward.

"woke up?"

"This is the first case ever, unbelievable!"

"You two are in luck..."

Their chatter filled Ye Xiao's ears.

Before he knew what was happening, a middle-aged woman grabbed his arm, her haggard face breaking into tears.

"Son...you're awake! You're finally awake!"

Ye Xiao moved aside his damp clothes, looking at the woman in front of him with a bewildered expression.

son……?

Could this be... his mother?

Ye Xiao scratched his head in surprise.

Why did he have absolutely no recollection of the person in front of him?

"While I understand, for the patient's sake, please try not to get too emotional."

The doctor stopped the middle-aged woman, saying, "It's good that you've woken up. We still need to do some tests, which is also for your son's sake."

"Good, good, good."

The couple immediately agreed.

"doctor……?"

Ye Xiao spoke weakly. Although he felt that the situation was too unexpected, he still had to ask the question.

"Is this... Earth?"

The doctor glanced at Ye Xiao with some surprise, but then seemed to remember something and nodded, "Yes, it's normal for the patient to be unable to distinguish reality after being immersed in the game world for too long."

"This is Earth, the real world. No matter how long you stayed in that long dream, you have now woken up."

"……game?"

Ye Xiao was stunned.

The doctor glanced at Ye Xiao, then casually picked up the remote control from the bedside table and pressed a button on the television at the foot of the bed.

The television screen flashed an online image. After scrolling through the history for a few segments, a news report started playing.

"At 3 p.m. on August 5, the internationally renowned game developer Kaiser Group held an emergency press conference at its Tokyo headquarters."

"The Group's CEO, Wilson Kaiser, announced globally that the company has formally filed for bankruptcy protection due to a major incident involving its virtual reality game, 'Otherworld'."

"This shocking technological security incident has resulted in over 150 million beta testers falling into an unexplained coma..."

"According to information obtained by our reporter, 'Otherworld,' as the first immersive virtual game to adopt neural direct connection technology, has rapidly attracted players from 218 countries and regions around the world since its global open beta launch on June 10, thanks to its groundbreaking brain-computer interface technology..."

"However, 72 hours after the public beta launch, players began experiencing issues such as being unable to log out normally. The latest data from the World Health Organization shows that, as of press time, the global cumulative number of reported cases of coma has reached 1,527,893, with Asia accounting for 42%..."

"Now you probably understand... if you remember anything from before you entered the game."

The doctor put the remote control back on the bedside table and looked at Ye Xiao, "You're very lucky... or rather, extremely lucky."

"Out of more than 1.5 million cases, you are the only one who has successfully woken up so far."

Ye Xiao held her forehead and swallowed.

"game……?"

"Yes, whatever you experienced in there, I have to tell you, it was all virtual."

The doctor took out a medical record board and started writing and drawing on it, seemingly recording something.

"Welcome back to reality. Look ahead, although you may have missed a year of your life, there is still a long road ahead."

Ye Xiao took a deep breath.

Indeed, he entered the Great Time Travel because he participated in this game, but...

Nearly a year of adventure, encountering all sorts of wonderful companions: Ella, Greta, Skadi, Susie...

Is that unparalleled sense of realism really just a game?

"I understand, thank you."

Even if he didn't want to believe it, Ye Xiao knew that there was no need to say anything he shouldn't at this time and cause unnecessary trouble.

"Ok?"

The doctor raised an eyebrow. "You're surprisingly quick to accept it. In some similar coma cases I've handled, patients who have just woken up often exhibit manic symptoms because they feel disconnected from reality."

Ye Xiao forced a smile. "I'm just more emotionally stable."

"That's good, then there shouldn't be any major problems with the follow-up treatment."

The doctor nodded. "Okay, you should rest quietly for a while. Your case is very important, and several experts will come over to consult on your case in a little while."

"it is good."

Ye Xiao nodded, and then watched as the doctor led a group of family members and nurses out of the ward.

The room quickly returned to silence, with only the sound of the television playing.

Ye Xiao looked out the window, his mind still racing in a daze, when suddenly a familiar voice rang in his ears.

"Ding"

Suddenly, a few lines of small characters appeared in his field of vision.

【@％＃^！ System environment detected as abnormal】

[Rebooting...]

[Reboot complete, updating in progress]

[World Tree system update complete]

[Dear players, welcome to version V3.0 beta, *New World*]

Chapter 252 The Road Home

ha?

Ye Xiao's eyes widened.

He waved his hand in front of his eyes to make sure he wasn't hallucinating.

No?

This system can even track down Earth?!

[System synchronization error]

[Task panel is restarting...]

[Triggering Quest: The Return Journey]

[Mission Briefing: Will the prodigal son, stranded in a foreign land, still seek a way back to his broken homeland?]

[Quest Reward: Ancient Tomb Progress +5%]

Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow and tried to open all the panels with his mind, but none of them could be opened except for the task panel.

No, what do these mean?

Ye Xiaoben was initially excited when he saw the system, but it turned out that only the task system was usable.

What's the difference between this and a company system crashing, resulting in unpaid wages but employees still having to work?

That being said, Ye Xiao still had some thoughts about the mission reward.

His Ancient Tomb quest was just 5% away from being completed.