ATFBETIBM Chapter 259.2

However, instead of stopping, the baby’s crying grew even louder.

“Make him stop crying!”

An angry scream suddenly echoed in the room. Bai Lixin remained composed as he followed the voice’s direction and saw the previously indifferent tour guide now holding his head in pain. His stiff face was twisted in agony, and every pore seemed to express discomfort.

On seeing this, Elizabeth’s movements, which had been smooth, suddenly became clumsy. She frantically patted the baby, but the more she tried to calm him down, the louder he cried.

The baby, who had just been a tiny infant moments ago, now seemed like a hot potato, leaving her at a loss.

“Mr. Bai Lixin.” Helpless, Elizabeth turned to Bai Lixin for help.

Bai Lixin took the baby in silence, gently patting his back to soothe him, all while observing the tour guide’s expression.

The tour guide had retreated to the corner, curling up on the floor. His normally human eyes were rapidly turning completely black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Elizabeth and the others also noticed the tour guide’s abnormality, but they were already overwhelmed by fear and huddled together, trembling and shrinking themselves.

Bai Lixin silently observed the tour guide’s changes.

Suddenly, he felt something unusual on his chest.

Lowering his head, he saw the baby using his soft little hands to grab his white robe, attempting to pull it open.

The baby’s target was directed at Bai Lixin’s chest, and he uttered, “Food, hungry, mommy.”

Bai Lixin froze on the spot, feeling like he had been struck by lightning.

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In the live broadcast room.

[Hahaha, “Food,” “hungry,” “mommy.”]

[Bai Lixin proved through actions who the real “mother” is.]

[This baby is very wise, he understands the situation.]

[But how can he talk already when he was born just yesterday?]

[Do you guys not notice that not only can he speak, but he also seems to have grown a little in size?]

[Perhaps it’s because he is a product from a wish? That’s why his growth rate is different.]

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Bai Lixin held the baby’s hands, preventing him from trying to get “food”.

Seeing that the food was so close yet far away, the baby, who had stopped crying, burst into tears again in grievance.

The tour guide also immediately covered his head, his expression filled with pain.

He had never been in such a miserable state before.

So miserable that he couldn’t even stand.

The tour guide crawled on the ground, a mixture of fear and resentment in his eyes as he slowly moved away.

Elizabeth courageously peeked out the door and then quickly retracted her head. “The tour guide is crawling towards the main gate.”

The baby’s face was flushed from crying, and just as everyone was unsure of what to do, a silver spoon filled with milk was brought to the baby’s mouth.

The baby immediately took a sip and then burst into tears again.

As the baby cried incessantly, the silver spoon filled with milk returned to his mouth repeatedly.

After a dozen spoonfuls, the baby’s flushed face finally calmed down.

He yawned contentedly, finding a comfortable spot in Bai Lixin’s arms and fell into a peaceful sleep.

The group of people stared at the scene in front of them in bewilderment, even Bai Lixin was somewhat surprised.

It was only when the baby fell asleep that Bai Lixin finally found his voice, “Wife, you are so capable.”

The demon’s face suddenly turned red.

“Wife?!” Elizabeth exclaimed in a low voice, “You two are together?”

But she quickly calmed down and said to herself, “A talented man and a beautiful woman, it’s inevitable for them to be attracted to each other. I’m sorry, I misunderstood.”

Bai Lixin carried the baby and walked to the entrance of the dining hall. There were still traces of dragging on the carpet in the corridor outside.

“How strange,” Mr. Nick also walked out of the room, “Something’s not right in this resort today. It’s empty, everyone except the tour guide is missing. Those pretentious attendants seem to have vanished.”

“They must have realized something was wrong and fled overnight,” the male actor commented.

Bai Lixin stared at the open gate of the resort in silence. The tour guide had been suspicious of their identities at the dining table. He hadn’t forgotten the rules of this movie game. They should not reveal that they were outsiders, or they would be trapped in the movie forever.

There were two ways they could be trapped inside the movie. One was to reveal their identities, and the other was to die in the movie.

So, what were the conditions to leave the movie? Was it related to uncovering the secret of this resort?

He still didn’t know the method to leave the movie because from the beginning, neither the system nor the cinema owner had mentioned the conditions to leave the movie.

In a situation with propositions but no conditional inferences, all propositions were false propositions.

Bai Lixin frowned slightly.

If “leaving the movie” was a false proposition, then the action of leaving wouldn’t be possible at all.

No solution.

That was the answer to this problem.

Since the moment they entered the movie, they had been unable to leave it.

Unless… Bai Lixin suddenly looked up.

There must be a connection between the worlds!

Movies are connected to the cinema, just like that bizarre “paradise” and this Eden Resort.

As long as they were two different worlds, there had to be flaws.

While Bai Lixin was contemplating, he suddenly received a private chat notification from the system.

He opened the private chat window and found the sender was Zhou Guang.

Zhou Guang: [We’ve run into trouble.]

Bai Lixin: [Tell me about it.]

Zhou Guang: [We managed to persist through the so-called four days in the movie, but we haven’t left the movie. Instead, we were brought back to the village as survivors.]

Zhou Guang: [We don’t know how to leave. Do you have any clues?]

Bai Lixin narrowed his eyes slightly.

As he had expected, even if they endured the time duration in the movie, if they couldn’t break the barrier between the two spaces, they wouldn’t be able to leave the movie.

Bai Lixin: [Search for anything in your reach that could create water ripples or something similar, like mirrors.]

[Once you find them, see if there’s anything unusual about them. It’s very likely that such a place is the connection between the movie and the outside.]

Zhou Guang: [Okay, I understand. I knew you had a way. Thanks. I’ll go look with Li Cancan now.]

After finishing the chat with Zhou Guang, Bai Lixin opened a private chat with Xia Chi.

Bai Lixin: [Xia Chi, are you there?]

This time, Xia Chi didn’t reply as quickly as usual. After about ten seconds, he still hadn’t received a response so he opened a private chat with Liang Xi instead: [Liang Xi.]

Liang Xi replied quickly: [What’s wrong, God Xin?]

Bai Lixin: [Where’s Xia Chi?]

Liang Xi hesitated for two seconds: [He… the NPC who looked like Tan Yue sacrificed himself to save Xia Chi. He was stabbed through the heart by the monsters while trying to save him. Xia Chi cried holding the NPC’s body for quite a while before finally calming down.]

[What’s the matter, God Xin? If you need something, you can ask me too.]

As Liang Xi finished speaking, Xia Chi’s chat message arrived: [Brother, are you looking for me?]

Bai Lixin had probably guessed that the NPC Xia Chi was talking about must be Tan Yue, but according to Tan Yue’s level, he wouldn’t be easily killed by monsters in the movie.

So he must have done that to return to his system status.

Bai Lixin: [Is your flash of inspiration back to normal now?]

[What?] Xia Chi typed, [Brother, you didn’t secretly install surveillance on me, did you?]

Bai Lixin: […]

Xia Chi: [No, even if you installed something on me, you wouldn’t detect what’s in my mind. Did you put something weird in my brain?]

Bai Lixin: [You must have a secret paranoia.]

Xia Chi: [Wuuu, brother the NPC that looked like Tan Yue died, he sacrificed himself to save me. I’m so sad.]

Bai Lixin: [Alright, stop crying. When we go back, you can make him a tomb and let him rest in peace, okay?]

Xia Chi: [Okay, I’ll listen to you, brother. But my flash of inspiration seems to have a bug now; it keeps on flickering. Could my flash of inspiration have Alzheimer’s? After all, it’s an old system.]

Bai Lixin: [Alzheimer’s? Did it tell you that it’s old?]

Xia Chi: [Yes, it said it has been in this game for a long time, ranked No.1 in professional skills, so I fully trust it.]

[Although the NPC died, it’s good news that flash of inspiration is back. By the way, brother, what did you want to tell me?]

Bai Lixin: [When is your movie supposed to end?]

Xia Chi: [It ended three hours ago. We killed the sea monster at the end of the movie, but strangely, we haven’t left.]

Bai Lixin remained silent for two seconds and then repeated what he had told Zhou Guang before: [Search for places like that. It might be a bit difficult to find, but…]

Xia Chi cut him off: [It’s not difficult… I think.]

Bai Lixin: [???]

Xia Chi: [I think…it’s the sea water itself.]

[You know, the sea in this whole area is kinda weird. The sea waves are reaching out like hands, almost saying, “Master, come here.”]

[That connection you mentioned might be the entire sea in this movie world.]

[Xia Chi: Have I guessed right? The flash of inspiration keeps flickering.]

Bai Lixin: […]

‘I’m numb.

This is the chosen one.

Mirror in my room?

Unbeatable luck?

How could I say it out loud?

So envious.

I wish I could clear copies through luck too.’

Xia Chi: [Why aren’t you saying anything, brother?]

Bai Lixin: […]

‘I dare not speak.’

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In the live broadcast room.

[Fuck, Xia Chi jumped into the sea! Could it be that he can’t bear it and wants to die with that handsome NPC?!]

[He’s really brave, just like in the song lyrics, “If mountains have no peaks and heaven and earth unite, I dare to be apart from you.”]

[But hey, he brought Liang Xi with him when he jumped.]

[Hahaha, Liang Xi’s face turned green.]

[How hilarious, Liang Xi: “I can’t believe you’re clinging to me when you want to die?”]

[Oh, they came out!]

[Oh, it turns out they didn’t commit suicide; they escaped.]

[After understanding this operation, I suddenly realized. The movie and the outside cinema are two different worlds. Once the movie is over, they can’t leave unless they find the passage.]

[Is the sea the passage? Ah, this is true to the phrase ‘resources come from around me’. Xia Chi’s luck is unmatched.]

[I suddenly thought of something. If the passage is the key to leaving, then they can just leave without worrying about being exposed as outsiders.]

[Hmm, makes sense.]

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“Let’s go, I’ll go check on Hongyue and Emil,” Bai Lixin before taking a deep breath and walking toward the depths of the corridor.

‘Let’s look for the passage together, and by the way, tell them that the entire sea was Xia Chi’s passage.

I can’t be the only one whose mentality was exploding.’

Mr. Nick and the others didn’t know what to do at the moment, the once grand resort had become eerily deserted without any guests.

The buildings that were once splendid now looked eerie and cold.

The they glanced at each other and although they didn’t say much, they silently followed behind Bai Lixin.

So, everyone squeezed into the sickroom and saw Samael’s helpless expression.

Emil was trying to undo Samir’s hair.

Halfway through undoing it, it seemed that the flowers on Samir’s head had gone out of control, and at first glance, Elizabeth and the others couldn’t even tell whether it was the flowers or Emil’s golden hair.

The air suddenly fell silent.

Everyone: “…”

Hongyue remained calm as ever. Even in this awkward atmosphere, she spoke daringly , “Tsk tsk, why are there milk stains on the baby’s mouth? Bai Lixin, Jia’er, which of you is responsible?”

Everyone: “…”

Emil: “…”

Bai Lixin: “…”

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In the live broadcast room,

[Sister Hongyue is so brave.]

[Is there nothing left in this world for her to cherish?]

[Someone who used to be the Zombie Queen indeed has a unique thought process.]

[What if Hongyue has always had this mindset?]

[… I have a small question, like, what does Song Yuantian see in her?]

[He’s attracted to her beautiful face, her great figure, her strong abilities, her wide circle of friends, and her ability to liven up the scene… What does President Song see in her? If I were President Song, I’d be attached too.]

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“Ahem, I’m just kidding,” Hong Yue shrugged nonchalantly, “Why are you all taking it seriously? I’m just trying to lighten the mood.”

Bai Lixin hesitated for two seconds, but in the end, he couldn’t help asking his own doubts, “Hongyue, how do you remain so composed and unaffected?”

Hongyue lazily lifted an eyelid, “Do you even need to ask? It’s because I have thick skin.”

Bai Lixin: “…”

Everyone: “…”

An unexpected, yet entirely expected answer.

After several days of recuperation, Samael could move his neck slightly, even though his arms were still immobile.

He turned his neck with difficulty to look at the baby in Bai Lixin’s arms, and the moment he saw the baby, his pupils suddenly lit up. His face, which had been resigned to death, even showed a long-lost smile, showcasing a textbook transformation of going from despair to seeing a glimmer of hope.

Bai Lixin had sharp eyes and immediately noticed Samael’s change of expression.

Samael’s expression had become very urgent; he opened his mouth to say something, but his tongue had been cut off, so he could only make babbling sounds.

Samael locked eyes with Bai Lixin for two seconds, then Bai Lixin slowly walked over and placed the baby in Samael’s arms.