Bai Chen came home in the evening, and after taking a shower, he found that there was still no reply.

Her life is very boring in the day, and the working day is two points and one line between school and home, not a second, without any waves. It's just that with the addition of the game called Ash World, it becomes a little different.

In her daily life, the homework and summary study work of each subject are tasks for her, and today she is a little unaccustomed to the completion of the homework on time and in the amount as usual, but there is still no response in the ash world.

Maybe it's because she's never felt the difference, so she doesn't mind a little at this time, but she can't say what she minds.

Mind freed and wandering around, she sat down at her desk and opened the website - she had checked Stonehenge for last night's dream, and the PCI browsing history clearly showed her evaluation of it.

But it was useless to look up that kind of stuff - she quickly closed the web page and opened the forum in the world of ashes.

Found a post where the player "Sigrude" offered a bounty on the player in the post.

[Poster: Siegrud.]

Contents: Look for a strange dark shadow who uses a voice changer to intimidate but is afraid to fight. 】

Bai Chen felt that his IQ was not low, and he didn't like to open his eyes and tell nonsense, so he knew early on that the description in this post was exactly the same as the black shadow he had seen.

That's when she bookmarked the post.

To be honest, she didn't know why she hadn't replied for a long time, but now she suddenly remembered.

The reason, of course, is because of the silence encountered this afternoon - there will not be so many coincidences.

Bai Chen took a breath, closed her eyes, and remembered what had happened that night when she saw this black shadow for the second time.

Voice Changer ......

Silent......

Suddenly, there was a clanging sound, and Bai Chen opened his eyes and landed on the latest post-

Siegrud...... The four words fell into Bai Chen's eyes, and she rarely missed the focus, thinking that this person might be ...... Lu Xinglin.

Because the day when the Ash World Athletic Mode flashed in her mind, the beast roar from the European-style long sword in Lu Xinglin's hand.

If he is "Sigrud", then that sword should be the sword gram that appears in the epic "Volzonge Saga" - slaying the evil dragon Fafnir...... The roar of the beast hidden in the sword seemed to symbolize the power that Siegrud gained from eating the dragon's heart after slaying Fafnir.

…… The power of sorrow.

She had of course read the Walzongo Sagas, but she had also read the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, the European Song of the Nibelungen and the Song of Roland, and even the Indian epic Mahabharata, or the Iliad and the Odyssey of ancient Greece.

Bai Chen has a bit of a habit of reading epics, those epics are now something that few people are willing to read, she doesn't read them to show her uniqueness, and she doesn't even know if this is her hobby - the kind of things that are boiled in the sea of time with the taste of antiquity and desolation, they are gradually forgotten by humans, even if they used to shine, writing about the great hero holding the divine sword, the great hero slaying the evil dragon, gaining supreme power, hugging the beloved Valkyrie, as if he had everything, but died helplessly and sadly.

Eventually abandoned by the world.

It's like ...... She's the same.

Bai Chen's hand on the chair slowly tightened, this felt a little strange, she was distracted, she thought of something very strange, her thoughts became so distant for the first time, and even a little sad.

She shook her head and began typing—as if she had finally made up her mind, or as if she were trying to shake herself off the idea of "unnecessary."

After typing, she leaned back in her chair and waited quietly until the other party replied three minutes later—

Bai Chen was speechless for a while, thinking that this might be the statement of some bigwigs, the so-called good acquaintance...... Actually, it's a beating, right?

Is it just because of being provoked?

At a speed visible to the naked eye, Siegrud sent another sentence.

Pretending to be a ghost.

Bai Chen calculated in his heart the possibility of this black shadow provoking others, but naturally he couldn't get the result - even if he didn't investigate whether the black shadow was silent or not, she and Shen Mo only had one side relationship, and just because of his irritable personality, he couldn't get the conclusion that he would provoke Lu Xinglin.

What's more, the character behind "pretending to be a ghost" should be close to the inner darkness.

Bai Chen was silent for a moment, whether he replied to Lu Xinglin - perhaps because the evidence was insufficient.

She quit the forum instead, clicked on the call record with Zhuo Yu, and sent a message over.

Zhuo Yu's speed is surprising, almost in seconds

Do you know him?

Bai Chen typed quickly.

Bai Chen: "......" is obviously text, but I feel that it is a reply with a voice.

But this description ...... Bai Chen silently wrote it down without saying a word.

What about the rest—she thought about it, and asked again.

Bai Chen was silent for a moment, and this time he sent a "thank you" to the past.

This time she replied without much thought: "Sorry, no. I'm going to work part-time tomorrow. ”

Bai Chen's family situation is very delicate, she is an orphan, and there is only one guardian at the end, but the family income filled by her adoptive mother is within the scope of a wealthy family.

She didn't know how this "real situation" had bypassed all kinds of audits from the Xinghai Bureau—because it was clearly a family situation with a bug atmosphere, but it was real.

The most troublesome situation is that she has no access to the highest level of social assistance because of this income, while her adoptive mother has literally left her nothing but a place to live – not even such a thing as living expenses.

She didn't blame anyone, and she has always been slow about this kind of thing, but after knowing about this matter, she went to touch some part-time work.

There are no regulations on minors in the old city, and the Xinghai Bureau in this area does not care much.

- In the end, it can only be regarded as "helping" on weekends.

That's her weekend routine.

Bai Chen replied to Zhuo Yu, turned off the PCI, and lay down to sleep without saying a word.