There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game

She had just been frightened and was still a bit apprehensive.

After she left, Ji Xiaoxia put down her water glass and let out a breath of relief, as if liberated. Then she checked the time, it was only five-thirty.

She had originally planned to have dinner and go shopping with the short-haired girl, but ended up angering her off.

Perfect, now she could take a break.

Ji Xiaoxia grabbed a cushion from the sofa and leaned into the corner, closing her eyes.

...

[You have entered the theater.]

"Hiss..."

Her brain throbbed, as if it were splitting apart!

Ji Xiaoxia struggled to open her eyes and saw herself in a floral dress, holding a paintbrush, standing in front of a white wall.

Behind her were vast fields, and beside her was a concrete path that stretched to the Archway at the village entrance, with the white wall following the path to the village entrance as well.

The difference was, many designs were already painted on the front part of the wall, leaving only a small section at the end unfinished.

Ji Xiaoxia rubbed her head again, which was sore.

For some reason, she had an inexplicable feeling.

It felt like she shouldn't have entered this script.

Just a moment ago, when she clicked to start the game, something seemed to be pulling hard at her consciousness, making her feel as if she were brutally torn in half, a pain to the extreme!

Fortunately, that intense pain lasted only an instant.

Now, at most, her head felt a bit uncomfortable, reminding her of forum posts saying that entering Script World is a drain on spiritual power, which she thought must be the reason.

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Ji Xiaoxia exhaled and opened the Player's Handbook to check her identity and task for this time, but suddenly, she remembered the script's name.

"Green-Faced Fangs?"

Ji Xiaoxia's heart skipped a beat.

If she remembered the script name, it must be because she had seen strategies related to it on the forum.

But, she used a little ploy—she only read scripts with morphing elements!

If she remembered the name of the script after entering it, then it was a sure bet there was a morphing monster in it!

With this thought, Ji Xiaoxia immediately opened her Player's Handbook, checked that items could be taken out, and quickly put on a Purification-class Jade Pendant around her neck.

Only this could restore some sense of security.

"Draw the true Green-Faced Fangs? This Green-Faced Fangs must be the monster, right? If I have to draw it, does it mean I need to know what it looks like..." Ji Xiaoxia murmured softly to herself.

If she wanted to know what the monster looked like, she either had to confront it directly or find out from others.

She would definitely choose the latter.

Yet the task used the prefix "true," implying there might also be fakes to mislead, which was essentially forcing her to find out for herself.

Ji Xiaoxia let out a rueful sigh at the difficulty of the task, when suddenly, she felt a tug at her dress.

Looking down, she discovered a little girl about five or six years old standing by her feet. She did not know when the child had come close to her, which startled Ji Xiaoxia into jumping back!

"Eh?"

The little girl tilted her head in confusion. She was dressed in a green jacket with somewhat messy double buns, and her bright and sparkling big eyes blinked up at her. The girl was extremely cute.

Once Ji Xiaoxia's mood recovered, she was charmed.

She sized up the girl and, not detecting anything wrong, she let her guard down.

"Little sister, what are you doing here?" Ji Xiaoxia squatted down, her face bearing a pleasing smile as she tenderly asked.

The little girl did not speak but suddenly leaned in closer, tilting her head as if she was sniffing something.

Taken unawares by the adorableness of the little girl, Ji Xiaoxia watched the child's chubby cheeks and smelled the unique milk scent of a child, and couldn't help but stretch out her hand to gently pinch her cheek.

So soft, so cute~

The little girl was startled when her cheek was pinched.

Her moist big eyes continued to gaze at Ji Xiaoxia without any shift, appearing so dazedly adorable that Ji Xiaoxia couldn't resist hugging her tight and rubbing her affectionately.

Just then, a car suddenly stopped beside them.

The window rolled down, and a cough came from inside.

Ji Xiaoxia froze, then, feeling somewhat stiff, she let go of the little girl and stood up in a reserved manner to look at the car parked in front of her.

A man in a trench coat sat in the driver's seat, smiling at her and asking, "Excuse me, is this Qingliu Village?"

"Yes," Ji Xiaoxia replied, embarrassed.

"You painted this? Very nice," the man in the trench coat then pointed to the wall and said.

"Thank you," Ji Xiaoxia's smile tugged at the corner of her mouth.

She discreetly sized up the man. The road junction was plainly Qingliu Village's Archway; there was absolutely no need to confirm it again with her, exposing his true motive with his second question.

And this wall, from start to finish, was painted with stories of the Green-Faced Fangs.

The man asking for directions seemed to be here for the first time and showed interest in such matters right away. Could he also be a player?

Ji Xiaoxia silently sorted out her thoughts, shyly responding to a few sentences on the surface, with no intention to strike up a conversation with him.

Seeing this, the man in the trench coat asked a few more questions and then drove on into the village.

The little girl was still standing by Ji Xiaoxia's side, tugging at her dress, silent the whole time, just curiously watching the car that had entered.

Ji Xiaoxia sighed in relief toward the car's tail lights, then squatted down again and continued to fondle the little girl's cheeks, asking, "Little sister, which family's child are you? Let me take you home, okay?"

The little girl looked at her and said, "Qing."