Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1196 - 629: Petrified Creatures Attack! (Part 3)

Xu Xin returned to the villa.

As soon as he entered the door, he heard the sound of a game being played inside.

”Ah... as expected, playing games.” Li Wenxi chuckled softly.

”...Ying—Ying—!”

”Ah, bro, sis, you’re back.” Xu Ying sat slumped on the couch, fiddling with the controller, not even looking up, ”Come play games.”

”You...”

”Ying!”

At this moment, Keke appeared from some corner of the room, holding onto Xu Xin’s pants leg with its little paw, ”Ying ying ying!”

Its meaning was obvious: it didn’t want Xu Xin to get any closer to Xu Ying.

”...?” Xu Xin was first slightly taken aback, then his expression became serious as he grabbed Li Wenxi, who was about to approach Xu Ying.

Keke had previously been somewhat afraid of Xu Ying due to some temporal disturbances around her, but after spending some time together, Xu Ying could freely hold and play with Keke.

And now, Keke actually showed such panic again.

Even before, it just ran away on its own, but this time it directly prevented Xu Xin from approaching!

”What’s wrong?” Li Wenxi looked back at Xu Xin with a face full of confusion.

Xu Xin didn’t answer, but furrowed his brows and looked at Xu Ying, who was still playing games.

”Yingying, your situation has worsened again...” he said in a deep voice.

During this period, Xu Ying’s attitude towards life had made Xu Xin temporarily set this issue aside. He thought as long as Xu Ying didn’t do anything extreme, there wouldn’t be a problem.

But now...

”What...?” Li Wenxi realized what was happening and immediately covered her mouth, ”Are you saying...”

Xu Ying put down the controller, and the character she was controlling on the screen was immediately killed by a monster.

She turned her head and looked over at Keke, who was peeking out from behind Xu Xin’s leg.

”Ying!” When Keke saw Xu Ying looking over, it immediately shrank its little head back, its small body completely hidden behind Xu Xin,

leaving only a big tail sticking out.

”This little guy is really too sensitive.” Xu Ying said with a helpless smile, ”Last few times, it noticed something was wrong. This little thing, where did it come from?”

”Last few times?”

Xu Xin’s eyes narrowed, and he immediately strode forward, ignoring Keke’s urgent calls from behind, and walked to Xu Ying’s side, grabbing her shoulders: ”How many times has this happened? Are you really...”

”Ah, don’t worry about it.” Xu Ying waved her hand casually, ”It’s nothing serious. It’s just that every time I enter and exit the World Tree, a temporal disturbance occurs.”

Entering and exiting the World Tree, causing temporal disturbance...?

”The time flow inside and outside the World Tree isn’t the same, so every time I go through it, the vast difference in time flow causes my own temporal state to become chaotic.”

Xu Ying explained, then smiled: ”But it’s fine, it only lasts for about a dozen minutes each time, it won’t burden me.”

”Rea... really no burden?” Li Wenxi was skeptical, looking at her with worry, ”Then why did you avoid us just now?”

”I just wanted to come back and play games.” Xu Ying raised the controller in her hand with an innocent face.

Is it really like that?

”...We didn’t know about this, why didn’t you say earlier?” Xu Xin frowned.

Xu Ying glanced at him: ”What can you do after knowing?”

”At least we wouldn’t let you casually go in and out of the World Tree!”

No wonder she refused to go out to watch the sunrise with the excuse of wanting to play games.

She just didn’t want to go out for something like watching the sunrise!

Yet she was still persuaded to go out...

Li Wenxi realized this too, and was apologetic: ”Sorry, I didn’t know you’d end up like this, I...”

”I already said, I’m fine! Alright, alright, I’ll be honest. This temporary temporal disturbance gives me a headache, which is why I didn’t want to go out!” Xu Ying put down the controller, hands on her hips: ”Now I’ve told you the truth, are you satisfied?”

”Ying...?” Keke crawled over, approaching Xu Ying, raising its little head, ”Ying...”

Xu Ying reached out and picked Keke up, rubbing its head vigorously: ”It’s all your fault, little guy!”

Then she turned to look at Xu Xin and Li Wenxi: ”See, Keke is willing to come near me now, right? I told you it’s nothing, but you wouldn’t believe me.”

Xu Xin and Li Wenxi exchanged a glance, feeling that Xu Ying was hiding something about her condition.

Her situation couldn’t be that simple.

If it was just a headache, there was no need for her to hide it at all.

”Forget it, just stay safely inside the World Tree and don’t wander around.” Xu Xin shook his head, ”Take a good rest first.”

He had the Silver King, and his movement wasn’t slow, he could go straight over...

Wait a minute.

Xu Xin looked at the forest outside the window.

Huihui was definitely able to be ridden now.