This villain, please exercise some restraint.

An Xu slowly opened his eyes and moved his gaze slightly upwards, what he saw was Xia Xiaotong's somewhat distracted expression.

Xiaotong is fine, it's really... great.

He breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously.

In fact, this is just a game, there is no need to block the knife with your body, but in the critical situation just now, he... subconsciously did so.

Then, he looked into a pair of pure black eyes.

Those eyes didn't seem to contain any emotion, but were just pure black.

But soon, he saw his own shadow in those eyes.

He opened his mouth and looked at the cold hands covering his right hand. A smile subconsciously appeared on An Xu's lips.

It's strange that his hands, which are obviously very cold, can always make him feel warm in his heart at critical moments.

An Xu's mind wandered for a moment, thinking aimlessly.

Shi Si... is really a very good person.

He couldn't help but think.

Such people...should not be maliciously speculated, suspected, or even...targeted by other players.

"......Thanks."

After opening his mouth, An Xu raised his head. The many words on his lips eventually turned into the simplest two words.

He felt like he should say something, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that saying too much would make the young man in front of him feel verbose.

"Obviously I came to help you, but I didn't expect that I saved your life instead-"

An Xu scratched his hair, feeling a little embarrassed.

But then, his eyes fell on the red-haired boy who stood beside An Xu and put away the knife at some unknown time.

At this moment, Chixuan was still staring at him, but he looked much calmer.

If it weren't for the blood stains on his body, it would be difficult to think of his crazy state just now.

No, something seems wrong...

The red-haired boy who initially declared that he wanted to kill Shi Si now seemed not to show any hostility towards the target he wanted to attack.

The white-haired boy was about to speak, but was interrupted by the girl in a green dress whose eyes wandered to his side.

Xia Xiaotong supported An Xu and slowly stood up, her eyes fixed on Chi Xuan.

"Didn't you just say that you wanted to kill Shi Si? Now that he is here, why don't you do it?"

She suppressed the expression on her face and asked stiffly and numbly.

"And you."

She stretched out a trembling finger and pointed at the boy in white in front of her.

She was struggling in her heart, but thinking of a certain possibility, she closed her eyes sadly. When she opened them again, her eyes were unusually sharp.

She looked straight at the white-haired boy in front of her.

"We came all the way to help you, but why haven't we heard from you since that message asking for help? Do you know how worried An Xu and I are about you?"

"But now it looks like -"

Xia Xiaotong smiled miserably as her tear-filled eyes scanned the blood around her.

"You can completely solve these troubles by yourself. Compared to us who are so weak and in such a sorry state, you and the person next to you may have already surpassed most players in strength, right?"

"You must have colluded long ago to use our feelings to hurt us, hurt...Xiaobai, wuwuwu..."

Xia Xiaotong started crying as she spoke.

She knew that her guess had no substantive evidence, and that it was even subjective conjecture that accounted for 80% of it, but she still expressed the most vicious guess in her heart.

She didn't want Xiaobai to die. If she hadn't come to help Shi Si, Xiaobai wouldn't have died, and An Xu wouldn't have been entangled by perverts or even injured.

She admitted that she was indeed angry.

She admitted that although she thought the rumors she heard along the way were unreasonable, in fact, they still made her a little concerned.

"Xiaotong——"

An Xu tentatively called out, but then the girl in the green dress whimpered back - "Shut up."

Xia Xiaotong's guess was very dark, and An Xu didn't agree with it, but... the boy in white didn't look embarrassed, and Chi Xuan, who had withdrawn his sharp claws.

The seeds of doubt still took root and sprouted in An Xu's heart.

This seems...different from what Chixuan said before.

What about the promised hunt? What about a critical situation? Now it seems that Chixuan is not even remotely hostile towards Shi Si.

Why is this so?

He looked at Shi Si, hoping to get an answer from the person in front of him.

"Her guess is absolutely correct. It is indeed me and this person who joined forces to harm you."

The white-haired boy smiled slightly, pointed at the long red-haired boy behind him, and spoke these words lightly under An Xu's unwavering gaze.

"It turns out to be like this, it turns out to be like this -"

Xia Xiaotong murmured to herself, although there was always a voice in her heart telling her that maybe, this was not the case.

"No, no, I don't think you would be that kind of person."

After listening to Shi Si's words, An Xu calmed down quickly. He adjusted his sunken glasses and said, "No matter what others say about you, in Xiaotong and I's hearts, you are a very good friend."

"Although until now, I still have some doubts in my heart, but... I believe in my own judgment. There must be some misunderstanding in this, right?"

He looked at the smiling white-haired boy in front of him again. Whether it was an illusion or not, he had an inexplicable desire to communicate with the mysterious player in front of him.

He didn't know where this feeling came from, but...he had such a desire ever since he was completely healed by the powerful healing power from Shi Si.

When he thought about being able to communicate with friends who were recognized by him, he felt that it would be a very happy thing.

He hopes to get a reasonable answer. As long as the person in front of him just excuses himself a little, he feels that he will choose to believe it.

"I don't think he is a very good friend! Xiaobai died because of him!! He...he admitted it himself, An Xu, do you still choose to believe it?"

"Consuming our feelings cannot be forgiven, cannot be forgiven..."

The girl in the green skirt wiped the tears on her face with her sleeves and glanced at An Xu. A wildfire called anger suddenly spread in her heart.

It is undeniable that An Xu once recognized that a person would choose to believe, would leave room for others to refute, and would consider other people's feelings. In her opinion, these very beautiful qualities were indeed very attractive to her.

An Xu has a simple and pure temperament, which is not found in most people she comes into contact with.

But at this moment, when this trait was applied to this scene, Xia Xiaotong felt...invisibly hurt.

An Xu... didn't seem to be sad about Xiao Bai's death. He chose to save himself risklessly, but at this moment, he didn't stand firmly... by his side.

An Xu, until now, still maintains his rationality and seeks answers.

Thinking of this, the girl in the green skirt bit her lip, and finally took a sad look at Xiao Bai's broken body, and directly chose to log off.

Watching the girl in the green skirt leave, the white-haired boy's lips curved and raised again.

He finally looked at An Xu in front of him, smiled and said words that made the person in front of him feel cold in his heart.

"I don't like to deceive. If there is no need to deceive, I will just... tell the truth."

"The facts are right in front of you. As you can see, the reason why I sent that message was just to... take back the... chess pieces I had laid before."

"An Xu...unfortunately, you are one of them."

"I know you will come to me."

With cool fingertips, he lifted the bespectacled boy's chin, and sounded like a devil's whisper in An Xu's ears.

In a daze, An Xu seemed to see the back of the right hand of the white-haired young man in front of him, which was wrapped in crimson thorns. The ominous color made his heart beat crazily as if trying to survive.

So...so scary.