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Chapter 395 The Frail Holy Mother

Before long, a passionate fire ignited in the desolate mountain valley, as dazzling as exploding fireworks.

Gu Mian threw the lighter, so while he got the dazzling fireworks, he lost his source of light.

As it turned out, the cart he pushed to the door did nothing to help; the people inside didn't even have a chance to run out before they turned into roasted sweet potatoes in the fire.

Of course, Gu Mian had no idea whether there were any tunnels or other escape routes in this mysterious two-story building.

In short, no one was running out of his sight.

Seeing the flames in front of her growing larger, Gu Mian turned and walked in another direction.

Just then, he suddenly saw another person's figure appear on the screen.

The figure ran from a distance and arrived in front of Gu Mian's screen in just a few seconds.

Because of the screen separating them, Gu Mian felt a lack of immersion; he didn't really understand why he had to sit in front of the computer and control the character.

Wouldn't it be better to just put him into the game?
The person who came was a woman.

She had naturally curly, dark brown hair, which was piled up on her head in a messy manner, probably because she hadn't taken care of it. It was then casually wrapped with a gray-blue strip of cloth. If a bird happened to pass by, it might even consider laying an egg in it, so Gu Mian decided to call her Little Bird.

The face beneath her messy hair was also quite obscure. This girl wasn't particularly pretty to begin with, and her face had many dark marks, like a wall blackened by years of smoke from a chimney, making her even less likely to be considered "pretty."

Just as her undeniably pretty face came close to Gu Mian's screen, a line of text appeared below.

"Did you see the fire? There seem to be people inside the house."

Since the computer didn't have any speakers, Gu Mian mentally provided some audio for it, and it sounded pretty good.

But did the people in this village already know the character he controlled, or were they just naturally outgoing? Everyone who met him started talking to themselves.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Mian found two options in front of her, which seemed to be answers to what the little bird had just said.

I saw it, it's such a pity, it breaks my heart.

Of course I saw it; I started the fire.

Gu Mian pondered for a while as she looked at the two options.

"Only a fool would choose the second option. Would they want to be tied up and sunk to the bottom of the river?"

Since the game is called Angel's Redemption, Gu Mian muttered to herself, "This fire is such a pity. I wonder which heartless person set it on fire."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and selected the first option.

Regardless of where this woman came from or whether she even knows him, he has to act like a saint.

The bird took a step back, and a new message appeared at the bottom of the screen: "You're still the same as before, always so kind."

What the heck is this? It's so weird. Gu Mian frowned as she looked at the comments below.

Fortunately, no new options appeared this time, so he didn't have to make a choice.

Meanwhile, the fat man found a strange character design among a bunch of messy character settings.

He immediately picked up the phone and dialed a number: "Brother Chu? I found a character profile in the book of character settings for this game, and it seems quite similar to the character controlled by the doctor."

"Really? I don't think the character you mentioned is in my character design book."

The fat man held a book in one hand and a microphone in the other, and began to read aloud earnestly.

"Saint"

She was given the name of a saint by priests before she was born, but she did not have a real name. Legend has it that she was the reincarnation of a doctrinal goddess.

"Kind-hearted and innocent by nature"; "His parents died in a fire when he was 9 years old";

When she was 13, her only brother disappeared, and his body was found in a dried-up well a year later;

He was kidnapped by his best friend when he was 16, but returned safely.

Despite experiencing numerous misfortunes, she remains as kind and innocent as she was at birth, protecting this peaceful land.

"There's a photo over there, it looks a bit like the character the doctor was operating, but he wasn't that thin..."

The fat man's voice came through the microphone.

Chu Changge listened while looking at the book in his hand.

He had already read through all the books about games on the bookshelf, but none of them contained the character the fat man had mentioned.

The fat man's voice was still coming: "Speaking of which, this so-called saintess is really unlucky. Her parents died when she was nine, her brother died when she was thirteen, and she was kidnapped when she was sixteen... Her luck is comparable to that of the doctor. No wonder the doctor was put in charge of this role. But why did she become so thin later?"

Chu Changge listened silently to the fat man's voice. He was still saying, "The character settings are quite similar to the doctor's. One is a saintly woman who is extremely unlucky but still protects the area, and the other is a doctor who is extremely unlucky but still saves people throughout their lives."

After a long while, Chu Changge finally spoke: "I'm afraid this character is not as simple as he seems on the surface. I can hardly find any useful information here. You should continue to look through your bookshelf."

The fat man hung up the phone immediately.

Chu Changge also put down the microphone.

The very next second after he hung up, the phone on Chu Changge's desk rang again.

He reached out and picked up the microphone again.

The voice that reached my ears was 007's: "I found a strange diary... let's just call it a diary for now."

"I was in the closet when people carrying evil flags rushed into the house. I peeked through the crack and saw them tear my father apart, and my mother became a painting on the wall."

They shouted that they had killed the saintess, and they cried out, "Where is the saintess?"

"I'm in the closet."

"My brother disappeared. I searched for him for a long time, and finally found him in a well. He wasn't rotten yet, but his fingers were torn and mangled. The well walls were covered with scratches from his desperate struggle. He was trying to climb out."

"I saw that evil symbol again at the bottom of the well, the symbol that turned my mother into a hanging picture."

“I found a huge rock to cover the well and let my brother rest here, but a year later someone still disturbed him.”

"Later, the villagers caught the group of evil people, and they knelt on the ground, weeping and begging for mercy."

"The kind villagers looked at me."

"'The saint will forgive everything,' 'No matter what, the kind saint won't care'—that's what I heard them say."

"I remained a kind saint afterward."

"'Let me take you away from here,' the girl next door always liked to say to me. Her eyes would blink like stars in the sky when she spoke."

I nodded in agreement.

"Later, the villagers caught us. They said the kind saint would not leave her protected people, and that the kind saint was lying for the kidnappers."

“I saw her being placed on the barbecue grill, and finally her bright eyes turned black.”

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