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Chapter 590
His straw-like slender fingers pointed to the door, and Tuanzi commanded with authority, “Hurry up and go take a bath and change into clean clothes!”
Bai Lixin: “…”
In the misty enclosed space, a figure was faintly visible.
The sound of running water could be heard. Crystal-clear droplets slid down the slender neck, firm chest, and tight waistline, dripped from the sexy ankles onto the porcelain white floor, and then flowed into the drain.
S419M looked worried: [Lord Host, did you really just obediently go take a bath?]
Bai Lixin shrugged helplessly: [What else could I do? He wasn’t wrong. I do need to take a bath and change into clean clothes.]
[Can someone check what the upright and Young King Yama is doing right now?]
The escape system replied eagerly: [I’ll do it, let me do it!]
As soon as it finished speaking, a blue screen slowly unfolded in Bai Lixin’s mind, projecting an image of the castle’s bedroom.
The child with small arms and legs was sitting upright on the sofa. Because his legs were too short to reach the floor, his feet hung in the air.
Despite his cute and handsome baby face, he maintained a dignified posture and a very serious expression.
He had his hands crossed on his lap, back straight, and sat properly like a god enshrined in a temple.
After a while, the baby turned his head to glance at the door.
It’s unknown what he thought of, but the baby awkwardly climbed down from the sofa and walked to the floor-length mirror.
He tidied his appearance in the mirror, occasionally adjusting his hair, tugging at his clothes, turning to check his profile, and awkwardly trying to see his back.
After several minutes, little Tuanzi finally showed a satisfied smile, climbed back onto the sofa, and resumed his proper sitting posture.
After sitting for a few minutes, Tuanzi glanced at the door again.
Thinking of something, he climbed down from the sofa again and went to the mirror to tidy his appearance.
Five minutes later, Tuanzi smiled with satisfaction and returned to the sofa.
Five minutes later, Tuanzi glanced at the door, jumped down again, and went to the floor-length mirror…
S419M’s tone was concerned: [Sister System, are you sick?]
The escape system was puzzled: [No, I’m a system, how could I be sick?]
S419M: [Then why is the video stuck, it keeps playing the same segment in a loop?]
[What same segment!] The escape system was annoyed, [I’m showing the real-time footage. That’s what this kid has been doing all along!]
S419M felt his brain shrink a bit: [Huh?]
The escape system: [Isn’t it obvious? Tidying his appearance and sitting properly are signs of respect for others. Clearly, Master Tuanzi is repeating these actions because of Master Bai Lixin. He’s not as calm and stern as he appears; he’s super excited and nervous.]
S419M’s brain shrank again, [Then why was he pretending just now? Couldn’t he just say he missed you, Host?]
Bai Lixin: [Asking someone with a psychological age of thousands of years to act cute might be a bit difficult.]
S419M suddenly understood: [That makes sense! The Host is right! This little guy has two faces.]
When Bai Lixin returned to the bedroom after changing his clothes, Tuanzi was sitting upright on the sofa.
Seeing the young man approach, Young King Yama asked in a cool and childish voice, “Have you finished washing?”
“Have you been waiting long?” Bai Lixin found a single sofa and sat down.
Young King Yama: “I was so bored I almost fell asleep.”
S419M: [I report him for lying! He wasn’t bored at all. If you didn’t come back, Host, he could have kept running back and forth all day.]
Bai Lixin: [Ahem.]
“I think I understand why I’m here,” Young King Yama’s dark, bright eyes looked into Bai Lixin’s, “So this is where Father lives.”
He paused, and a blush slowly crept up to his earlobes, “Father, the coquettish behavior a few days ago wasn’t me.”
Bai Lixin changed the subject: “How about we get something to eat? You must be hungry, right?”
“I’m not hungry, Father.” Tuanzi decisively rejected Bai Lixin’s invitation, “I’m not hungry.”
Tuanzi extended his chubby hand.
Bai Lixin thought he wanted something and was about to ask when, suddenly, Tuanzi’s hand made a circle in the air, then abruptly turned and plunged into his own chest.
S419M gasped: [We just saved him, and now he doesn’t want to live anymore?]
Bai Lixin’s frowned slightly, watching Tuanzi’s actions thoughtfully.
Although Tuanzi’s hand had plunged into his chest, there was no blood. His entire hand disappeared into his chest, yet his clothes remained intact. It looked less like a stabbing and more like his hand had entered another dimension the moment it touched his chest.
Tuanzi’s face showed no expression.
His arm swayed left and right, as if searching for something unseen.
About three or four seconds later, Tuanzi pulled his hand out of his chest.
S419M glanced at Tuanzi’s chest; there was no blood, and his clothes were fine.
“This thing is for you; someone wanted me to give it to you, saying it would help you.” Tuanzi now held a blue teardrop-shaped crystal. Bai Lixin straightened his back without a trace, his expression becoming very serious. He took the teardrop-shaped crystal and examined it closely.
The crystal was very small, only the size of a grain of rice.
As soon as Bai Lixin held the crystal, a mechanical buzzing rang out in his mind.
[It is detected that the player acquired [Unknown Prop] X1.]
Unknown prop.
Another prop that even the system didn’t know about.
Bai Lixin stared at the teardrop-shaped crystal in his hand and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed to him.
Tuanzi: “That person said to try putting it in the Mermaid’s Heart.”
Tuanzi’s words immediately enlightened Bai Lixin. He quickly retrieved the long-unused growth prop [Mermaid’s Heart] from the deepest part of his backpack.
The Mermaid’s Heart was a necklace, a reward from the old merfolk leader during the [Deep Sea Mermaid] copy.
This prop had the function of resurrecting the undead, but its resurrection was not unconditional.
After each resurrection, the Mermaid’s Heart needed to recharge before it could be used again.
The last time he used this prop was during the Doomsday Zombie copy. After resurrecting Hongyue, the Mermaid’s Heart had entered a dormant state.
Even now, the energy storage pool was still empty, with no sign of filling up.
The Mermaid’s Heart necklace consisted of a silver chain and a black pearl pendant.
Bai Lixin held the blue teardrop crystal and turned it around so that the pointed end faced the connection between the chain’s metal mount and the black pearl pendant.
There was a small hole there, but because the beads are black, you can’t see it unless you look carefully
He hadn’t noticed it either; it was only when he was rescuing Hongyue that he accidentally discovered it.
At the time, he didn’t think much of it, and assumed it was just a small flaw in the prop.
Bai Lixin slowly inserted the blue teardrop crystal into the small hole.
The crystal seemed to belong to the Mermaid’s Heart from the start. It entered without any resistance, sinking deeper as Bai Lixin pushed it in.
Strangely enough, the small hole was just the right size for the pointed end of the teardrop crystal to fit in.
Logically, the crystal’s shape was wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, so it shouldn’t have gone any further.
But the crystal continued to sink into the pearl.
When the crystal’s wide end was flush with the pearl’s surface, Bai Lixin heard a faint “click.”
It sounded like a key turning in a lock.
The next moment, the smooth black pearl slowly split open from the middle, dividing into two halves.
[Ding!]
Something fell out of the black pearl and landed on the floor with a light metallic sound.
Bai Lixin looked down and saw a metal key near his feet.
He bent down to pick up the key.
The key had an antique design, slender and bronze, with an aged look.
As soon as Bai Lixin held the key, the system’s prompt rang out in his mind again.
[Ding! Detected that the player has acquired [Unknown Prop] X1.]
[Ding! Detected that the player has lost prop [Mermaid’s Heart].]
[Ding! Detected that the player has acquired [Unknown Prop] X1.]
Bai Lixin’s eyes darkened as he looked at the two halves of the black pearl thoughtfully.
Lost the Mermaid’s Heart?
The prop that had played a decisive role in his breakthroughs was now destroyed?
It wasn’t destroyed in a copy due to overuse in saving people, nor was it destroyed by an enemy’s schemes.
But it was destroyed in the player dormitory that he thought was a safe haven?
With the Mermaid’s Heart destroyed, it would be impossible to resurrect the dead anymore…
Bai Lixin took the key in his hand and examined it. The moment he saw this key, several images flashed through his mind.
Locked cabinets, locked doors, locked boxes, locked shackles…
But he crossed out all of them; these locks and this key didn’t match.
This key looked very strange, long in the front and short in the back. At the very end, the key split into two columns.
Those locks were single-columned, and were completely incompatible.
Could it be similar to the Mermaid’s Heart, where you just needed to find a fulcrum?
Bai Lixin shook the key in his hand, “Tuanzi, do you know where this key is used? Did that person tell you?”
Tuanzi’s face turned suspiciously red. He coughed lightly, his hands casually propping up on the sofa, “I, I don’t know. He only told me the first two sentences.”
Seeing Bai Lixin’s puzzled look, Tuanzi quickly averted his gaze, “If you really can’t figure it out now, just put it away for now. Father, you’re so smart, you’ll figure it out eventually.”
“That’s all I can do.” Bai Lixin silently placed the key in the deepest part of his backpack before looking back at Young King Yama, “Do you remember anything else?”
Tuanzi avoided Bai Lixin’s gaze: “What should I remember?”
“For instance, what else did he say to you, or is there something you want to tell me?”
Tuanzi’s chin dropped slightly, his thick and soft bangs covering his eyes.
“He only told me those two sentences, or rather, those are the only two sentences I can remember right now.”