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Chapter 496 This is a cycle
"Yueshu, I know you're capable, but you've been in the orphanage too long,"
Seeing him like this, Xu Shuo smiled affectionately and said, "You have no understanding of the outside world, and you don't know what kind of people are out there. Is it really okay to let them go just like that?"
Yueshu's gaze flickered slightly, "What are you talking about?"
"I'm just saying..."
Xu Shuo turned his head towards the backyard, "Several kids have disappeared without a trace."
...
As they restrained each other, the back door of the orphanage.
The long-missing assistant policeman appeared from the shadows. He stood woodenly at the door, taking out a bunch of keys from his uniform.
He inserted the old-fashioned ring-shaped key into the padlock on the door and twisted it a few times unsuccessfully before pulling it out and trying again, repeating the process.
Finally, with a "click,"
The lock opened, and so did the door.
The assistant policeman's eyes lit up, and a childishly happy smile spread across his rigid face as he turned and said cheerily, "It's open, it's open! I've opened the door!"
He was facing the right side of the back door.
As his words fell, two heads emerged from the crimson garbage can.
It was the male social worker and the photographer, who had also vanished.
They hadn't appeared even after the orphanage's space had merged because they had arrived at this spot earlier to wait.
After climbing out of the garbage can, the male social worker hopped and cheered joyfully, "Great! Shall we leave now or wait for Yueshu and the others?"
The photographer, frowning, said, "Let's hurry up and go. Yueshu told us not to wait for them. Delay could mean trouble."
As he spoke, he cast his gaze towards the Qiming Building, his eyes seething with anger.
"Damn it! Once I get out, I'll burn you all to the ground!"
While he was talking, the assistant policeman had already tentatively stepped outside the orphanage gate, and this time he felt no restrictions—he had successfully stepped beyond the orphanage's boundaries!
This meant they could really escape!
"Charge, charge, charge!"
The child possessing the male social worker was more lively, and as he realized the situation, had already excitedly dashed out the gate, waving his hands and jumping for joy.
The photographer glared at him, "Keep it down! What if that stupid director notices us?!"
The three of them walked out the back door of the orphanage.
Before them lay a gloomy, tree-lined path.
Asphalt-colored roads were flanked by towering trees, their vast canopies obscuring the sky from view, allowing only glimpses of the pitch-black vista through the gaps in the branches.
As for what lay ahead, the road had no end in sight.
It was as if the path had no destination.
But the three kids were happily walking along, chattering and laughing, dreaming about life outside. Even the hot-tempered Lily was exuding joy after leaving the orphanage.
The Qiming Building receded further and further behind them.
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[Main Mission: Prevent any child from leaving the orphanage (Failed).]
Xu Shuo wasn't quite sure about the world outside the orphanage, nor whether there were air walls.
However, as soon as any child stepped out of the Qiming Orphanage's range, his mission was declared a failure.
"Unfortunately, your actions can't escape my eyes,"
Xu Shuo glanced indifferently towards the direction of the back door.
He then turned back to Yueshu, his smile more of a smirk, "But letting them leave, that should go against the order you believe in, right?"
Yueshu was no longer as arrogant as before.
He frowned and said, "Of course I will leave with them. I will establish a new order for them outside."
Xu Shuo, freed from control without explanation, withdrew his fruit knife and rubbed the sharp edge with his fingertip, saying with a smile, "Is that so, but you don't seem very optimistic."
"Because you are not in the least bit anxious," Yueshu said coolly. "Director, do you have any tricks up your sleeve that I don't know about?"
Yueshu sensed the distance between himself and the three-person group.
They had already run quite far, and if he pursued them now, he should still be able to catch up, but the man in front of him showed no sign of reacting to this.
Yueshu was not worried about his inability to leave.
Because any place where an orphan was located was within his reach, as they were all his attached Rule Objects.
However, he was a bit worried whether the man before him had a backup plan.
Xu Shuo squinted slightly as he looked towards the back door.
The skill introduction for "Bright Vision" indicated that he could have excellent Vision Power comparable to that of a sniper, along with special effects like directly seeing through the essence of things.
But "X-ray Vision" and "Farsight" seemed not to be stackable, at least he could no longer see through obstructions from too far away.
Otherwise, Xu Shuo really wanted to see where those kids had run off to.
The countdown for this Script World had already started, but there were at least twenty more minutes until it ended.
Xu Shuo glanced at the time and waved his hand, leading Yueshu's dark tendril to wrap around, and then he simply sat down leaning back against it.
He smiled with a curve of his lips, "There's plenty of time left, we're idle as it is, why not have a nice chat?"
Yueshu looked at him somewhat speechlessly.
"Mr. Director, I heard that you can finish things in half an hour, but if you don't act now, any measures you might have will be useless later," Yueshu said as he obediently sat back.
"If you are worried that my delaying will threaten you, you can run away now."
As Xu Shuo spoke, he raised the fruit knife and played with it, but the cat that had finally found an opportunity pounced on his hand and bit the fingertip that had been cut by the knife, sucking on the blood.
Yueshu did not respond to the provocation, he looked at the cat and then at the young man, "Mr. Director, you've changed a lot."
"In what way?" Xu Shuo eagerly went along with it.
"Your habits and style are quite different from the person I knew."
"You seem to have taken an interest in peeping at me on a regular basis."
"As someone who entered Qiming Orphanage without authorization, it's only right I pay attention to you."
"Is that so, but what I don't understand is, you used to be strongly against those kids leaving the orphanage. Now you too have changed. I believe the place is already big enough for you to manage."
"Mr. Director, if there was a chance to leave this place, you'd surely seize it," Yueshu said, his eyes darkening as he stared intently at him.
Xu Shuo's action of petting the cat paused.
His gaze settled on the void ahead, his expression serene, his eyes somewhat unfocused.
Until now, Xu Shuo had not triggered the Director's Character Card, and although his goal in playing this script wasn't to farm rewards or points, who would complain about having an extra skill?
But no matter what he did, the Character Card still did not trigger.
Perhaps it was like the case with the previous "Free Night" Script World—there was something he still hadn't discovered.
And the words Yueshu was saying now...
Suddenly reminded him of something.
A speculation that was almost impossible to come by in a script—
——[One must not be rash; now that Qiming Orphanage is confined within the Subspace, I will have more time to explore his power rules. Perhaps one day, there will be a chance to leave this place.]
——Perhaps one day there will be a chance.
This was the diary left by an SOA Investigator who entered the Qiming Orphanage at the outset.
But what chance could there be?
Because the world of the script is forever locked in a cycle of reincarnation.
Players enter the initial level, then clear it or fail, and the world is formatted according to a pre-set program, awaiting the next launch by new players.
People in the script won't even know that they are trapped in an isolated box, just like the three children who ran away, naively thinking there is a wider world outside the orphanage.
Therefore, for the NPCs in the script, it's an endless cycle that repeats itself.
It's a cycle without any memories.
It's a cage from which they can never escape.
Unless... this world was a bit special.
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