Lin Mo had long been able to let Ning Xi enter Divine Oracle.
The only thing he had been worried about was this. In her previous life, she only entered Divine Oracle three months later and awakened an SSS-grade talent. If he changed that historical trajectory and let her enter early, would it cause her to miss out on that SSS-grade talent from her previous life?
But now, based on Lin Mo's guess, it was already highly likely that he could be sure of one thing. Ning Xi's talent in this life had not changed. It was still that same SSS-grade talent from her previous life.
"What's going on here?"
"Could it be that no matter when she enters Divine Oracle, it won't affect the talent Ning Xi awakens?"
All kinds of questions could only wait until he found Ning Xi and confronted her face to face.
So Lin Mo opened Liuli's profile through the reputation leaderboard.
Even though he had already expected it, when Lin Mo saw the level information behind Liuli's ID, "Lv0", his heart still gave a twitch, and he could not help but feel a wave of soreness.
He immediately sent Liuli a friend request.
But the system prompt popped up, [The other party is offline. Please try again after they come online.]
"In this life, Ning Xi is still relatively pure, and her mind is more delicate. She's far from the decisive, unshakable Empress Xi Yue she became in the later stages of her previous life."
"This girl… she wouldn't have been killed back to level 0 and couldn't take the blow, and ended up doing something stupid, right?"
Thinking that Ning Xi had become like this because of him, Lin Mo instantly grew frantic with anxiety.
Without another word, he immediately logged out.
In Lin Mo's heart, there was nothing more important than Ning Xi's safety.
———
Meanwhile—
Dragon Soul Aoshi was still waiting in the east square of Blazing Ember City for Lin Mo to come and split the loot.
"Boss, you sent a message to Rulebound ten minutes ago saying we'd split the stuff here. Why hasn't he come yet after all this time?"
"That guy… he didn't use us and then run off with the loot by himself, did he?"
Just as several Dragon Soul Guild players were starting to speculate,
Su Muqiu patted his chest and said, "No way!"
"I know Rulebound as a person. He'd never do something like that."
They waited another five minutes, and he still didn't show up.
Even Dragon Soul Aoshi was starting to get restless.
He had just opened his friends list, ready to message Lin Mo and ask where he was, when he suddenly discovered that Lin Mo's ID was gray. Offline.
"This is bad…"
———
When Lin Mo logged off, it was exactly nine in the evening.
He threw on his jacket and went downstairs, rushing straight across the street to the foot massage shop, Listening Rain Pavilion.
Before Lin Mo could even speak, the girl at the front desk saw him and hurriedly said, "Mr. Lin, Ning Xi called earlier to ask for leave. I asked her what was wrong, and she said there was an emergency back in her hometown and she had to go back."
"But we all know she has a dad at home who drinks, gambles, and wastes money. It must be her dad getting drunk and causing trouble again. Lin Mo, why don't you go check on her? We can't get away from the shop right now. I'm just worried that Ning Xi is too honest and well-behaved and will get bullied."
Hearing this, Lin Mo immediately asked the front desk for Ning Xi's hometown address.
He found that her hometown was in a small county near Ning'an City, called Wei County.
It wasn't that far from the city.
Lin Mo hailed a car and headed straight for Wei County, Ning Xi's hometown.
After all, Ning Xi's current status was far too noble.
The number one female emperor on the Dragon Nation national server in her previous life.
One of the world's top ten SSS-grade talent holders in this life.
In Lin Mo's heart, Ning Xi was basically his little ancestor.
Although according to the history of her previous life, Ning Xi never encountered anything that threatened her life before entering Divine Oracle, this life, because she entered Divine Oracle early due to Lin Mo, there was no guarantee that other things wouldn't also change due to the butterfly effect caused by him, and end up endangering Ning Xi's safety.
"I absolutely can't let anything happen to you."
"Anyone who poses a threat to you, I'll make them disappear."
Lin Mo said to the driver, "Sir, please go faster!"
As soon as he said that, the driver, who had been about to complain about "night driving safety first", received a platform notification.
[Customer with tail number 7994 tipped 200 yuan.]
The driver's eyes instantly lit up.
"Bro! Sit tight and hold on! I'm stepping on it!"
Vroom!
With one stomp on the gas, the powerful push-back force made Lin Mo feel like his body was running ahead while his soul was chasing from behind.
What should have been a fifty-minute drive ended up taking only about half an hour.
"Money really does make things work," Lin Mo couldn't help but sigh as he got out of the car.
Seeing that the destination was a desolate little town where even birds wouldn't bother to poop, Lin Mo told the driver, "Wait for me. I'll add another two hundred as a tip."
A round trip fare that wouldn't even cost a hundred yuan, and he'd net four hundred in tips.
The driver almost wanted to get out and kowtow to Lin Mo, "Big brother, do you need me to do anything for you?"
"No need. Just wait here."
After that, Lin Mo followed the address given by the Listening Rain Pavilion front desk and arrived at a small courtyard house with the doorplate number 008.
As soon as he reached the gate, he heard a burst of wailing, ghost-like screams from inside, "Brother Dali! Give me a bit more time, Brother Dali! My daughter will be back any moment now! She has money! She can give you money."
"Looks like Ning Xi hasn't gotten home yet?", Lin Mo's tense nerves instantly relaxed a little.
He couldn't help but sigh, "That two-hundred-yuan tip really had some insane acceleration effect!"
Thankfully, he had made it before Ning Xi jumped into the fire pit.
Just as Lin Mo was thinking this, a slender figure suddenly hurried over.
Under the glow of the porch light, Lin Mo saw the person wearing a gentle blue long dress, her small face flushed, her expression anxious. It was Ning Xi.
"Brother Lin Mo?", Seeing Lin Mo appear at her doorstep, Ning Xi was also full of surprise, "Why are you here?"
Lin Mo didn't explain. He grabbed Ning Xi's slender wrist, "Come with me!"
But Ning Xi shook her head, her eyes reddening as she said to Lin Mo, "But in the end, he's the one who gave birth to me and raised me. I can't just abandon him."
"Brother Lin Mo, don't get involved in my family's matters."
Afraid of troubling Lin Mo, and also afraid that Lin Mo would see her embarrassment and hardship,
Ning Xi turned around and ran into the courtyard.
'If you knew that three months later, when Divine Oracle devours reality, this so-called person who gave birth to you and raised you would sell you out to enemies for his own benefit, causing the guild you had just built to be completely wiped out, would you still refuse to abandon him?'
Lin Mo couldn't help but shake his head.
With no other choice, he followed her inside.
———
Inside the living room—
On the sofa sat a burly man with a thick build, a face full of fat, a neck you could barely see, and a thick gold chain hanging around it. He was lounging with one leg crossed over the other, smoking.
Two other muscular men, each weighing around 180 jin, were pressing a skinny man down on the table.
"It's not that I won't give you time, Brother Ning!"
"How much time have I already given you? Where's the money? Let me ask you, where's the money?"
It turned out these three men who clearly didn't look like good people were loan sharks.
And the skinny man pinned to the table was Ning Xi's father, Ning Zhigang.
Pshhk!
One of the brutes stabbed a dagger straight through Ning Zhigang's hand, making him let out a pig-slaughter-like scream of pain.
Only then did Ning Xi run into the room.
She glanced coldly at Ning Zhigang, who was sitting on the floor clutching his pierced hand and wailing in agony.
Then she turned to the gold-chain man on the sofa and said, "How much does he owe you? I'll pay it back."
"Daughter! My good daughter! You're finally back!"
Ning Zhigang scurried behind Ning Xi like a grandson, hiding behind her and using her as a shield.
"You're Brother Ning's daughter?", The gold-chain man sized Ning Xi up from head to toe, squinting as he smiled, "Heh! Brother Ning, who would've thought that with your crooked looks, you'd have such a pretty daughter?"
Ning Zhigang hid behind Ning Xi, trembling and not daring to say a word.
"Let me introduce myself. My name's Niu Dali. You can call me Uncle Dali," The man named Niu Dali stared lecherously at Ning Xi and said, "Your dad owes me five hundred thousand. It's been overdue for a week. How do you plan to pay it back?"
Even though she had mentally prepared herself, hearing that number still left Ning Xi feeling incredulous, "That much?"
She clenched her phone tightly, her brows knitted together, "I only have thirty thousand right now. I'll pay you that first. For the rest, give me a few more days. I'll definitely find a way to gather it."
But Niu Dali stood up, patted his belly full of fat, and stared lecherously at Ning Xi, "I can't give you time, but I can give you another idea."
"You're so pretty. Why don't you go sell yourself? With your looks, I can introduce you to big clients. One job and you can make five figures!"
"I'll just take forty percent. The remaining sixty percent can go toward paying off your dad's debt. How about that?"
Not only did he deal in loan sharking, as long as it made money, Niu Dali had his hands in it.
For timid, inexperienced girls who looked like they'd never seen the world, he'd already lost count of how many he had sold off using this kind of coercion and temptation, and how much money he had made off them.
He thought Ning Xi would be no different from those girls. In this situation, she would have no choice but to submit to him.
And he could tell that with Ning Xi's looks, she would be "top-tier goods" and earn even more than those other girls.
Who would have thought that the very next second, Ning Xi would say something shocking.
"Either you kill my dad."
"Or you give me time to raise the money."
"Two choices. Pick one."
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