"Alright, you don't need to worry about my affairs. You should hurry back to 'Istaran'. It's much safer in the main city than out in the wilderness. You don't want to encounter that situation again, do you?"

"It's okay, you're so powerful, you will protect me. I want to stay by your side and make sure you don't kill again."

"Well...suppressing the urge to curse at her, I finally managed a small smile. 'You can't just do whatever you want because you're good-looking, right? I don't even know your name, why should I protect you?'"

"My name is An Qingyu, is that enough? Initially, I came to find you just to make up for making you turn red-named, but if your red name leads you to commit more mistakes, it's my duty to stop you."

"So where does this duty of yours come from?"

Yunyou had an instinctive feeling that a big trouble was rapidly brewing. Unable to restrain herself, she jumped up from the ground, and the young girl An Qingyu stood up as well, silently conveying her decision not to leave easily.

"Are you really not going back?"

"No, I'm not going back."

"I'm telling you clearly, you will only be a burden to me if you stay by my side. Even so, you still won't leave?"

"No, I won't leave."

"You...!"

For the first time, Yunyou felt a profound sense of powerlessness. She had never encountered such a situation before. Even if she did, it would only involve a few stabs. However, facing the young girl in front of her, Yunyou found it difficult to take action.

Yunyou was not a killer. Besides not taking any jobs for a long time, her previous work had two basic principles: not killing those who were not extremely evil and not killing women and children.

As someone who had made a name for herself in the assassin world in just half a year, Yunyou felt that she needed to have her own principles in order to maintain her reputation as the "White Night Goddess of Death". Otherwise, wouldn't the title be meaningless?

More importantly, An Qingyu was indeed very beautiful. With such a beautiful girl of the same age standing beside her, it was unreasonable to just slash her.

"So you're not leaving, right? Fine, what about me leaving?"

I won't attack you, is it okay for me to leave?

However, Qingyu didn't give Yunyou that opportunity at all.

"No matter where you go, I'll follow you."

"Follow me? Alright, let's see if you can keep up. How about this, as long as you catch up to me before I go offline, I'll agree to let you stay by my side."

After Yunyou finished speaking, without waiting for Qingyu's response, she immediately turned around and ran towards the distant forest. By the time the girl came back to her senses, Yunyou had already run dozens of meters away.

"Hey!"

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"It's said to be no different from the real world, so why does movement speed have to be tied to stats?"

Yunyou helplessly hid behind a large tree trunk, peering through the dense leaves at Qingyu in the distance. She looked exhausted as she pushed aside the bushes in front of her and slowly made her way towards Yunyou.

Even though it was a game, as a top assassin, Yunyou couldn't shake off a little girl. She felt embarrassed beyond words.

"She shouldn't be able to find me here, right? Seriously, why am I being so pathetic, being chased like this by a girl? Maybe I'm just not cut out for doing good deeds?"

Although it was not her intention, in Qingyu's eyes, Yunyou was a good person who made a careless mistake and had not lost her conscience. As for Yunyou's intimate kiss with the system prompt box and her profession as an assassin, Qingyu was completely unaware.

However, Yunyou had to admit that this girl named An Qingyu was so persistent that it was a little scary. Starting from the afternoon, she had been chasing Yunyou until evening. Even though Yunyou couldn't completely shake her off due to the influence of the system attributes, this level of obsession was something Yunyou had never seen before.

Was it really necessary? It was just one time that she saved her, right?

If there was no system protection, how could you be so arrogant?

"I know you're here! Come out!"

Surprisingly, Qingyu, who was searching blindly, stopped near the big tree where Yunyou was. It seemed like she knew Yunyou's movements."The girl's sharp awareness of her surroundings is truly remarkable. Who exactly is the killer here?"

Yunyou had already been tricked once before, and now she seemed to be clueless about her exact location. She remained silent and motionless, and everyone could only compare their patience.

"I don't believe there's nothing I can do to you today."

It's unclear just how confident this girl is in her sixth sense. Despite the lack of any sound around her, she was convinced that Yunyou hadn't gone far.

"If she's not making any sound, maybe she's up in a tree?"

Looking up, the man scanned the surrounding trees, focusing on the most dense ones. When his gaze landed in Yunyou's direction, this man, who wouldn't even frown amidst bloodshed and swords, inexplicably felt a chill down his spine.

"This person... if she were to become an assassin, she might be even more formidable than me."

This girl, who seemed to have nothing special about her besides her beauty and determination, gave Yunyou a feeling that was anything but simple.

Fortunately, Qingyu couldn't pinpoint Yunyou's exact position, and Yunyou continued to play dead, remaining motionless on the branch. Several minutes passed in this eerie silence, with neither of them making a sound. It was as if two martial arts masters were locked in a standoff, waiting to see who would make the first move and lose the advantage.

"And so... "

Just as the stalemate seemed to drag on indefinitely, a faint sound suddenly came from not far away in the forest, quickly approaching.

"Why is it coming from over there? Did I remember wrong?"

There seemed to be a slight deviation in Qingyu's mental map, causing an expression of uncertainty to finally appear on her face. But soon, a short goblin, covered in green from head to toe, jumped into her field of vision, causing the girl's face to pale.

"What... what is this...?"

Faced with a creature she had never seen in reality, Qingyu's previously calm expression was replaced by a hint of panic. It was understandable, as she rarely played games and it was difficult for her to distinguish between reality and the deceptive world of "Void Realm."

"Oh? It seems that goblin is an aggressive monster? Did I venture too far from the newbie zone?"

Yunyou looked up and glanced through the cracks between the leaves, gazing at the captivating sunset in the sky. After careful consideration, she realized that she had indeed traveled quite far during the twists and turns of the past few hours. She had left the newbie zone with passive neutral monsters, so it was normal to occasionally encounter aggressive high-level monsters.

"Well, this is good. At least I can scare them away...?"

Before she could even celebrate, she saw Qingyu clumsily open the system menu and frantically search for something, but after half a day, she still couldn't find it.

From afar, Yunyou finally realized that she was trying to find the system backpack. She quickly realized that Qingyu might be trying to retrieve the newbie weapon given by the system.

"Is she really going to fight, despite being this clueless? That monster seems to be level 4. Well, she probably doesn't understand these things anyway."