Collapse Simulator, why are we drifting apart?

"What's going on? Why are you still in the cave?"

Fan Mu looked at the huge rock wall above his head in confusion, and a flash of inspiration came into his mind.

Upper town, lower town, lower town doesn’t mean underground, right?

He thought that the downtown area might be a place similar to the slums, but he never thought that it was underground.

So this isn't a cave, but is it really deep underground?

"Dean, you're finally back!"

A surprised voice was heard.

A young figure ran out from the crowd. His gray hair, fair skin, and clean and tidy clothes made him stand out from the crowd.

"Natasha? Why did you come down?" The old woman was obviously surprised by the visitor's arrival.

"I'm worried about the children." Natasha's worried eyes swept across everyone and finally fell on Xier.

From Xier's awkward standing posture, he could tell at a glance that her foot was injured. He immediately ran over worriedly and started checking it without saying anything.

Seeing the wound on her foot bandaged, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, Xi'er, don't do any strenuous exercise these days. It should be healed after a month of rest!"

"Okay, now that Xier is fine, Natasha you can go up quickly." The old woman was obviously not welcome to her arrival.

"Not going!" Natasha shook her head and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but she swallowed it in the end, and the sadness in her eyes was revealed.

"I won't go up there anymore. I've decided to open a clinic downstairs to help those in need here." Her eyes flashed through the crowd around her and finally fell on the children.

Hearing this, the old woman immediately started arguing with her, but Fan Mu no longer cared about this.

"System, system." He was thinking frantically in his mind.

"what?"

"Do you have any funds for the operation?" Fan Mu smiled a little embarrassedly: "You can't let me start from scratch, even for my daily life, I have to work. Are you still a good system for me?"

"Tsk!" A voice full of contempt came out, "You think of me now, but you usually don't bother to pay attention to me, huh?"

"What are you talking about? What are you doing?" Fan Mu's face straightened up, and he began to lie without blushing or beating his heart, "Aren't you my favorite system? I..."

"Stop! Don't read it anymore. Humph, you're smart." The system turned its face away. "I've put the money in your space. Don't bother me if you have nothing else to do!"

"Thank you, my favorite system!"

When Fan Mu opened the system space, he saw a bag full of money. As for why he was sure that this bag was money, it was because the system had marked it thoughtfully.

"So, Xier, have you decided? Where are you going?" He asked softly to the person beside him, and the warm wind from his mouth hit her earlobe.

"I personally suggest you go to the old woman's place, where you can have many companions!" He advised: "I know you don't like being there, and you don't like others to get close to you, but it's always good to make more friends. You can't always be alone in the future, right?"

After saying that, he stopped talking, leaving Xier alone to think silently... or maybe she was thinking.

There was no expression in his indifferent eyes.

Fan Mu found that he couldn't understand her sometimes.

"You're not leaving? If you don't leave now, you'll have no chance. From now on, you will have to live a hard life of three meals a day and going to school during the day!" Fan Mu raised his eyebrows, dragged her hand, and grabbed her other shoulder, not very hard.

If she really wanted to leave, she could easily break free, and he would not feel any reluctance at all.

Xier: “…………”

"Okay, since you don't want to say anything, then I can only reluctantly take you, a burden, with me!" Fan Mu's mouth curled up unconsciously, and he dragged her away quickly while no one was paying attention.

Looking at the map that only they could see, they came to a wooden house that had been empty for a long time and had not been taken care of. It was a bit old and many of the facilities in the house were damaged, but there was no one there, so there would be no problem for them to move in.

Fan Mu looked at the wooden house that he had found for free and thanked him sincerely: "Thank you, system!"

"Hmph! I'm too lazy to pay attention to you!"

He simply made the bed, took out the mattress, quilt, and blanket from the universal system space, spread it out, and then threw Xier onto the bed.

"Humph, considering your injured leg, you don't have to work this month!" Fan Mu's expression was vicious, but his childish face did not have any threatening power. "But you won't be so lucky next month. You will have to serve me from now on!"

After saying that, he threw down two loaves of bread and a bottle of water and started cleaning the house.

The neat, shiny bed is out of place with the dusty, old furniture around it.

Xier sat on the bed, leaning against the corner, feeling the soft blue mattress under her butt and looking at the bread and water placed beside her, which she had never seen before.

Looking at Fan Mu's small figure sweeping the floor, this time, not only her eyes, but also her any movements, even just simply sitting on the bed, showed a feeling of confusion and helplessness.

She had never had this feeling before, it was weird, but not unpleasant, her heart was beating faster, and she felt warm, but very uncomfortable because she felt panicked!

The little toes kept fiddling helplessly on the mattress.

But... why? Why was she so flustered?

Xier looked around and found no scary monsters. Instead, the surrounding environment looked like her home, an old, dilapidated house, dirty environment, and mostly damaged furniture. There was only one more figure, a small figure cleaning.

Her eyes drooped as she looked at the clean blue sheets embroidered with patterns, the dirty gray clothes on her body, and finally the white gauze on her ankles. She shrank a little further into the corner.

The room was very quiet, no one spoke, and the only sound was the rustling of the broom sweeping the floor.

I don't know how much time has passed, Xier still maintains the same posture motionless, perhaps she is confused, or maybe she has fallen asleep, curled up on the edge of the bed, in a small corner. The water and food on the bedside are still placed in the same place, and almost everything in the room is brand new.

"call!"

Fan Mu let out a long sigh and wiped the sweat from his forehead. There was still a lot of work to do in cleaning up the whole house. Even though he didn't need to rest, it took him a long time to finish.

His worried eyes inadvertently swept over Xier, and he had already noticed her abnormality.

Don't you like it here?

Was it a wrong decision to bring her back?

Or do you not like me?

Fan Mu's hand holding the mop tightened unconsciously and he couldn't help but think more about it!