A bright red dress fluttered in the wind, and two cute braids swayed. The little girl, holding a rabbit doll, jumped out and hugged Yin Xiu tightly around the waist.
"Brother! Where are you hurt? Let me see!"
Ya Ya hugged Yin Xiu and spun him around, but couldn't see a single wound. She looked up at Yin Xiu's pale face in confusion, "Brother, there's no wound."
Yin Xiu lowered his eyes and gently patted her head. "Your heart has no wounds, but it's good that you're out."
Ya Ya tilted her head in confusion. This sentence was hard for her to understand, but she knew that someone must have bullied her brother for her to appear.
"Brother, hold this for me!" Ya Ya forcefully shoved the little rabbit doll into Yin Xiu's arms, then turned and glared angrily at the skeletons surrounding them.
She grinned and said, "You stinking skulls, how dare you bully my brother! I'll eat you all up!"
The small red figure shouted and charged forward, stomping the skeletons to pieces. With a ferocious flick of its head, its face twisted into a grotesque expression as it viciously bit down on the skeletons and pounced on them.
Yin Xiu stared at Ya Ya's figure rummaging through the pile of skeletons, then looked down at his own wrists. The color of the handcuffs was slowly fading, gradually changing from green back to white.
After Ya Ya came out, the voice in my head disappeared.
Healing items are indeed convenient; they can restore both the body and mind instantly.
Even though Ya Ya isn't a healing item, Yin Xiu can still breathe a sigh of relief whenever she appears.
He sat down on the spot, holding the little rabbit doll in one hand and taking out the small red flower from his pocket with the other, waiting for Ya Ya to return after venting her anger on the skeletons.
In the darkness, the pink bunny doll and the bright red flower lay quietly in his palm, carrying tender yet pure emotions.
Although they were all bizarre, they were incredibly precious in his barren social circle.
Who says he has nothing?
"Brother! Look!" Ya Ya struggled through the pile of skulls, then happily ran back carrying a large bunch of shattered skull heads, which she then piled up at Yin Xiu's feet.
Those skeletons had lost their bodies, leaving only their heads. Ya Ya held them in her hands and tried to manipulate them, but she couldn't do anything about it. Their empty eye sockets were filled with helplessness.
"I brought back all these skeletons that were talking badly about my brother to calm him down," Ya Ya said, innocently placing the skull on the ground and stomping it down hard with her little foot.
The already fragile and weathered skeleton was instantly crushed into pieces.
Yin Xiu stood up, stuffed the rabbit doll back into Ya Ya's arms, and also put the little flower back into his pocket.
He stared at the skulls on the ground. Even after meeting Yin Xiu's gaze, the skulls continued to mutter, "You're jealous...you're jealous of...what you don't have..."
Yin Xiu had seen the rules of the Jealousy Layer that Ye Tianxuan had collected in the record room of the Rage Layer.
After experiencing the environment of the Jealousy Layer firsthand, he was able to understand why the woman bound by the Gate of Jealousy had become like that.
Compared to the other layers' slow and subtle influence, the jealousy layer is incredibly direct and brutal, invading the brain with fragmented thoughts and pulling it into a separate space to affect it. Under normal circumstances, Yin Xiu might have remained calm, but even with white handcuffs on, he could clearly see that the handcuffs had turned green within seconds of him entering this space.
Jealousy layer rules:
1. Don't listen to their voices, or you'll lose yourself.
2. Don't believe everything you see; you'll be deceived.
3. If you are accidentally drawn into a space of jealousy, please close your eyes tightly and keep your emotions calm.
4. Sin originates from the heart, and all outcomes will change depending on your actions. Please do not succumb to jealousy.
Although he had read the rules, Yin Xiu was still affected the moment he entered this space. In any case, now that he was awake, the last rule was extremely important if he wanted to leave.
Everything will change depending on your actions.
So...
Yin Xiu gazed at the skeletons that kept muttering about their jealousy and said slowly, "I already have the same thing, so I won't be jealous."
He stomped down, the muttering stopped abruptly, the skull shattered into pieces and fell to the ground, the entire space fell silent instantly, and even the darkness slowly dissipated.
Yin Xiu clearly sensed that greed was tempting him to fall, jealousy was making him panic, and these sins were peeling away his past, using his emotions to make him degenerate.
In the Sloth layer, if he follows laziness and leaves without doing anything, he cannot discover the atonement of sins and the deeper information of the white handcuffs. In the Wrath layer, if he is influenced by rage and kills all the players in Ye Tianxuan's organization, he cannot leave the Wrath layer.
Yin Xiu hated this instance... The sins of each level felt like chains trying to pull him into the abyss.
If it weren't for Li Mo... if it weren't for Ye Tianxuan... if it weren't for Ya Ya...
He didn't know which level he would be on; the instance knew him better than he knew himself.
Yin Xiu took a slow, deep breath to calm himself down.
When he opened his eyes again, his gaze had become indifferent, and he began to look around.
After the darkness dissipated, I seemed to have appeared in a new corridor, a sinful layer I had never been to before.
"Brother, do you want me to stay with you a little longer?" Ya Ya held Yin Xiu's hand and shook it, somewhat reluctant to part. "If any bad things bully you again, Ya Ya can help you teach them a lesson."
Yin Xiu lowered his eyes and stared at her innocent and adorable face, then asked gently, "What happened to you afterward?"
Ya Ya smiled and squinted her eyes, "In so many dungeons, no one has ever knocked down the statue in the square. After my brother knocked it down, the entire dungeon was closed and rebuilt. I live with my mom now."
Yin Xiu nodded, letting out a slight sigh of relief. "As long as you're doing well, that's all that matters."
"Brother…" Ya Ya tightened her grip on Yin Xiu's hand again, her eyes pure and innocent. "Brother is the best to me among all the players. Although he was cold and scary at first, he is kind at heart, better than anyone else."
"I will protect my brother until he finds his sister."
"…Mm." Yin Xiu responded softly, his expression softening.
Ya Ya hugged Yin Xiu's arm and said shyly, "Brother is the best brother in the world, so brother, don't listen to those bad skeletons. If anyone dares to say that brother is a monster, I, the monster, will be the first to rush up and eat it!"
Yin Xiu nodded, surprised that he needed to use a strange creature to appease him.
He took Ya Ya's hand and began to explore this unknown layer.
He didn't know where the player number 1 he had met in the Jealousy Layer had gone, but he remembered that most of the players outside had been killed by that person.
After Yin Xiu led Ya Ya to push open the door at the end of the corridor, he was slightly taken aback.
Behind the door was a large hall resembling a ballroom, where many players, all dressed in prison uniforms, strolled around, each one like an upper-class person, holding a wine glass as they moved among the crowd.
But what surprised him even more was that there were also strange creatures among the players. Some dark and blurry shadows were crawling at the feet of each player, following their footsteps.
Like a pet...