The World-Destroying Goddess Brings the Child to My Door and Demands Responsibility - Chapter 10

Some players walked through the city, complaining as they progressed through the storyline.

[It is just a few steps of a walk, yet that young couple insists on having me deliver messages, can’t they speak for themselves? If you like someone, just say it!]

[No joke, I really feel like an errand runner.]

[Haha, but I think it is so interesting, it is boring yet addicting, they even took me to see a doctor, I have to say that thing called Traditional Chinese Medicine is really bitter.]

Because a portion of the players were in a place similar to the Huaxia of Lu Fengmian’s previous life, the medication was set as Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The storyline for this group of players was still relatively lighthearted and pleasant so far.

Of course, another portion of players had it quite rough, as they were located in other civilizations, where some were experiencing war, while others were in the twilight of an empire.

Naturally, there were also a few peaceful paradises.

Furthermore, not every player’s starting companion was Qing Shi, as Qing Shi was merely one of the ancient gods.

Players who spawned on other continents naturally obtained their respective guardian gods as their starting companions.

However, the initial quests were not overly difficult, and without exception, the main characters’ bodies were not particularly healthy.

Truth be told, if this game were placed in Lu Fengmian’s previous life, it would definitely be criticized, for there were too many maps and the elements stuffed inside were far too chaotic.

Yet for the people of this world, they possessed no awareness of their ancestors’ civilizations, let alone any strong cultural identity, as such things simply did not exist, so Lu Fengmian forcefully crammed them together and compelled these civilizations to eventually intersect.

The players who landed in the same city as Lu Fengmian had already finished those messy quests.

Moreover, they had successfully met a reclusive divine physician in the city, who treated players when they suddenly fainted.

During the treatment process, acupuncture and some Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge were used.

Lu Fengmian and the system had also thoughtfully displayed a portion of the Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge.

Furthermore, the subsequent storyline involved players remaining behind to become apprentices to the divine physician, forced to learn some Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge.

[Friends, I seem to have discovered something amazing.]

[It feels like this game genuinely wants to teach me this knowledge, I do not understand medicine, but it looks somewhat reliable.]

[I am a medical student, though I do not understand acupuncture, I can roughly tell that the prescriptions created by the game developers actually have real substance.]

[The production team is frighteningly impressive, I just checked other live streams and found that the medical arts in each region seem to be completely different.]

[Does that mean the production team not only created such a massive world, but also created different civilizations along with different medical systems?]

[More than that!]

[Every civilization system is extraordinarily complete, this is terrifying! Who on earth are the people on this production team?]

As the storyline progressed, the closed-beta players and viewers alike began to marvel in amazement.

Lu Fengmian was not yet aware of these discussions among the players, after all, her live stream chat was entirely filled with questions about why her storyline always felt different from everyone else’s.

They also asked what exactly happened that night after her live stream screen went black.

Regarding the former question, Lu Fengmian wanted to know the answer herself, as she still held many doubts.

Regarding the latter question, Lu Fengmian could not and did not want to explain, since she had already claimed it was a bug, so they could choose to believe it or not.

She progressed through the storyline as usual with Qing Shi following behind her, and although Qing Shi did not understand why she had to do these quests, she obediently avoided disturbing Lu Fengmian, stepping in only when Lu Fengmian needed help.

After going out to deliver a few items, Lu Fengmian walked down the street and suddenly sensed an aura that made her feel somewhat uncomfortable.

“Qing Shi, do you feel anything unusual?” Lu Fengmian stopped in her tracks, asking Qing Shi while looking around her surroundings.

“There is a believer of an evil spirit, capturing a child,” Qing Shi answered her directly.

Lu Fengmian was rendered speechless.

She had never designed such a thing!

[Oh, these are real people and real evil spirits, they existed from before,] Qing Shi spoke to Lu Fengmian via divine consciousness voice transmission.

Lu Fengmian fell silent once again, thinking that this was truly something.

[So what was this world originally like? Very chaotic?] Lu Fengmian asked melancholically.

[Well, I do not know how to put it, overall it is quite similar to Mianmian’s game world, containing both good people and bad people.]

[The relationship between demons and humans is naturally not very good, and as the world develops, it naturally generates certain things, no world has purely good people, not to mention there are outside sinners and the demon race.]

Lu Fengmian felt that this made sense.

[Accompany me to save the child,] Lu Fengmian walked along the street, suddenly catching a faint glimpse of a child in an alleyway alongside an adult concealed in the shadows, who was completely invisible unless one looked closely.

The child was a very little girl wearing coarse cloth clothing, and Lu Fengmian did not know if she possessed the ability to save her.

However, since she had encountered it, she did not wish to stand by with folded arms, as something deep in her bones prevented her from turning a blind eye.

Furthermore, that fellow hiding in the shadows made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

“Buy me candied hawthorns,” Qing Shi pointed to the candied hawthorn vendor nearby.

“Are you sure?” Lu Fengmian looked at Qing Shi in confusion, wondering how someone her age could still enjoy eating candied hawthorns.

Besides, Lu Fengmian clearly remembered the vendor Qing Shi was pointing at.

That was a real NPC made of data, so why would Qing Shi, a living human being, want to eat data?

“It does not matter, I can taste the flavor,” Qing Shi seemed to know what Lu Fengmian was thinking and immediately answered her.

Lu Fengmian was baffled once more, wondering how a living person could possibly taste the flavor of data.

[Mianmian can, and so can I, it is the same principle.]

Hearing her explanation, Lu Fengmian seemed to understand a little, as she herself entered the game through full-immersion, so was Qing Shi not simply entering the game through another method?

It truly seemed to be the exact same thing.

“In the past, every time Mianmian came to see me, you would buy me a stick of candied hawthorns,” she looked at Lu Fengmian with a hint of grievance.

Those beautiful grey eyes seemed filled with disappointment and a touch of sorrow.

The live stream chat could not bear to watch this any longer, frantically shouting for her to buy it for her.

[Don’t you claim to remember nothing?] Lu Fengmian gave her a faint look.

[I remembered it the moment I saw it,] Qing Shi answered her honestly.

She really was something.

Lu Fengmian originally had very little money, and the small amount of gold she had painstakingly saved from doing quests was half gone after buying a stick of candied hawthorns.

Looking at the tiny bit of copper coins remaining in her pouch, Lu Fengmian let out a deep sigh.

Resigned to her fate, she looked at the noble goddess beside her who was eating candied hawthorns, asking humbly, “Can we go save the person now?”

“Let us go,” Qing Shi was finally satisfied after eating the candied hawthorn, and she naturally reached out to take Lu Fengmian’s hand once more.

She even offered the candied hawthorn to Lu Fengmian without any hesitation, and Lu Fengmian looked down at the candied hawthorn brought right to her lips, ultimately opening her mouth to take a bite.

[Dammit, let me into the game quickly, I also want to have a wife like this.]

Lu Fengmian suddenly replied in her heart with a touch of pride, you will not have one.

Lu Fengmian followed Qing Shi, though in reality it was Qing Shi who was leading the way.

After all, Lu Fengmian could not find the way herself, as she merely felt an uncomfortable aura without being able to pinpoint the exact direction.

She was just an ordinary person who had never cultivated at all, so how could she know where those evil spirit believers would go?

Just a moment ago, when she went to buy candied hawthorns for Qing Shi, that evil spirit believer had already disappeared without a trace.

Fortunately, the evil spirit believer was merely an ordinary person.

With Qing Shi’s help, combined with Lu Fengmian’s deep familiarity with the entire map and her knowledge of shortcuts, she quickly intercepted the evil spirit believer.

The person was wrapped head to toe in a black robe, without even half of his face exposed.

Standing in front of him, Lu Fengmian felt increasingly uncomfortable and uneasy, sensing that this person was definitely not a good person.

“Ah Shi, can you defeat him?” Lu Fengmian asked with some nervousness.

Qing Shi looked at Lu Fengmian in confusion, “Is Mianmian looking down on me? He is merely a mortal.”

Lu Fengmian let out an awkward laugh, for she was not looking down on Qing Shi, but rather held no concept of her current strength.

If things were still like the system she designed in the game, she could at least make a guess.

Furthermore, Qing Shi had mentioned before that she needed to maintain the stability of the world and oversee those sinners, meaning she was not powerful right now and could even be considered weak.

Lu Fengmian was unsure what kind of strength the evil spirit believer before her possessed, which was why she had asked.