Chapter 133 The Truth About Lillian

From Lu Xiaoxiao's perspective, Mingmei heard Zhen Hu saying that when the other party brought in a plate of cut fruit, his expression was very complicated.

So much so that Mu Chen noticed her dazed look during breakfast.

"What's wrong?"

"Last night... Zhen Hu almost died."

"What do you mean?" Mu Chen was stunned. "What happened to Zhen Hu?"

"Ah, he was caught by Lillian in Mona's room late at night."

"That's quite dangerous indeed." Mu Chen's mind raced, and he smiled. Then he added, "Didn't Lillian have a knife?"

"Pfft, according to Zhen Hu's recollection, the other party brought a plate of cut fruit." Mingmei smiled, but couldn't help but recall the diary she had seen last night, a record of her character's past.

Yes.

If Zhen Hu had been a step slower last night, perhaps, he would be gone today.

"I didn't expect... Mona would actually dare to do this, taking the initiative with Zhen Hu..." Mingmei ate her breakfast, her mind somewhat blank. She asked, "Achen, what do you think—how high is Mona's affection for Zhen Hu now?"

"Why are you asking this?"

"You said that Lillian, that NPC, hasn't lost those memories, and she seems to be reminding us on purpose. What is her attitude towards Mona? In the original story, she dared to stab her husband to death for Mona, so she must have really liked Mona, right?

What if... if she really sees something and attacks Zhen Hu, will Mona step in to stop her?"

Mu Chen couldn't say for sure about this.

Lillian was quite abnormal even in the game, and she had secrets.

"I don't think she would betray Mona." Although he couldn't give Mingmei Lillian's exact reaction, Mu Chen dared to say that she was definitely not Mona's enemy.

"Lillian in the game is inherently a mother with a very strong desire for control. She controls Mona and loves Mona deeply. Otherwise, she wouldn't have directly killed the stepfather when he did that kind of thing to Mona. Even if Mona has now deviated from the category of a乖女儿(guai nü'er, good daughter), I don't think Lillian would do anything to harm Mona."

Mu Chen spoke, while also reminding Mingmei not to overly trust some of the things Lillian said.

"I understand."

Mingmei nodded. Lillian's character probably already knew that there was a group of "outsiders" here.

And she was intentionally or unintentionally leaking information to tell them that the information they received was wrong.

What she was doing might not be to harm Mona.

"I think we should have a good talk with Lillian. Without harming Mona, we find the answers we want, and then help Lillian achieve her wish." Mingmei thought for a while and looked at Mu Chen, asking, "What do you think?"

"Of course, we can."

...

Once Mingmei and the others made up their minds, they executed their actions very quickly.

That afternoon, Mingmei and Mu Chen directly "bumped into" Lillian and then went straight to the point to seek help.

"Then what can you repay me with?" Lillian didn't directly refuse. Instead, as Mingmei expected, Lillian wanted something in return.

"What do you need?" Mingmei looked into Lillian's deep blue eyes. For a moment, she really wanted to exclaim that they were indeed mother and daughter.

They looked so alike.

"I... I want this game to no longer be open to the public in the future, is that possible?"

As soon as these words came out, Mingmei was shocked. Looking at Lillian's eyes that seemed to see through everything, she was momentarily incredulous.

"Are you a human or NPC data?"

Mingmei could understand that Mona awakened, realized she was in a game, and manipulated all the characters inside.

But what was going on with Lillian?

Was she really just a unique "data"?

"I used to be a human." Lillian said faintly, "But I died many years ago, and what's left here is just a spiritual body."

"Then your spiritual power is really powerful." Mu Chen remembered that the game had been around for quite some time. Completely wandering in the game world, without relying on a physical body, Mu Chen could only say that this Lillian must have been a very powerful person.

Listening to Mu Chen's praise, Lillian revealed a bitter smile and only said, "No matter how powerful, what can I do? In the end, I didn't educate my child well..."

"You are Mona's... no, the prototype of Mona's mother, right?"

In a flash of inspiration, Mingmei guessed the other party's identity.

A living person, abandoning her body, guarding a Boss in the game, judging by the tone and attitude, she really was her biological mother.

"Yes. My daughter... once made a huge mistake."

As for what mistake she made, Mingmei had heard of her anti-human crimes before entering the game.

She was no less in the game. She killed most of the teachers and students in the school in reality, and ultimately the operation of sacrificing the school was still blackened in the game.

"Could it be that Mona also had these experiences in reality?"

Mingmei couldn't help but think of the contents written in the diary and looked at Lillian in surprise.

But what she got was Lillian's nod of acknowledgement.

"Wow!"

Mingmei didn't know what to say for a moment.

What happened to the born anti-human?

"So many dirty things in here that haven't been said outside?" Mingmei still remembered the information and reports she had seen and looked at Lillian again. She saw Lillian nodded again. Although Mingmei didn't ask anything, she understood everything with this nod.

Lillian's husband in reality probably really had problems too.

Ugh!

What was all this about?

Did all the bad things happen to one person?

"Just no longer opening the game?" Mu Chen interjected, "After the game is no longer open, what about you and Mona? Are you like now, 'occupying the mountain as king'? Do you just live here like this, or do you change your way?"

"No need, I just want to... end all this." Lillian's entire spirit collapsed the moment she finished speaking.

"Do you know why all the players in this game end up with the same outcome? No matter how fast or slow they turn evil, they always know that Mona will end up like that in the end?"

Lillian's eyes didn't look at either of them. Her eyes looked at the void as she said to herself, "Because Lillian herself wants to. No matter how hard you try in the process, and no matter how different your choices are from Mona's, as long as she wants to and feels like it, she will turn evil.

I used to be full of confidence, thinking that as long as I was with her, she would eventually repent... But the truth is, she never repented, no, maybe she never forgave..."

Lillian understood that Mona's current state was deeply related to herself.

Tears kept streaming down Lillian's cheeks as she cried miserably in front of Mingmei and Mu Chen.

"So now..."

"It's okay if she doesn't forgive." Mingmei's question hadn't been asked yet when the other party answered quickly. The other party then quickly wiped the tears from her face, trying to control her emotions.

"Since that's the case, let's just disappear like this... This is the last thing I can do for my daughter."