Please control me, my divine being!

You wandered through the streets and alleys, asked a few passersby, and soon found the Dumb Alley.

As you approach the entrance of the alley, before you even go inside, you'll encounter dozens of weasels. They're either sitting or standing, staring at passersby. There are definitely more inside the alley.

Remembering the weasel that made noise at the city gate, you know these animals are already sentient, and going into the alley rashly might cause trouble.

You hesitated for a moment, then stepped into the inn next door.

From here, one can observe the situation inside Dumb Alley. Once the right opportunity arises, one can go to the big tree at number seventeen in Dumb Alley and dig up Bai Tieya's relics.

Zhou Qing did not act rashly.

Bai Tieya was once the head of the gang, and his every move might be watched. Rushing in might get you caught red-handed.

As he pondered how to explore the city.

the other side.

Li Qinghe had already stepped into the inn.

The inn was dimly lit, and a woman in a gray cloth was bent over, sweeping the floor with a broom.

Next to her was a girl who was half a head shorter than Li Qinghe, who was hunched over the table, concentrating on her homework.

It seems that after the Huang family moved to the city, ordinary people were able to live normal lives; at least this child was still going to school.

"Mother, we have a guest."

The little girl called out, and the sweeping woman looked up, her eyes half-closed, her face beaming: "Sir, would you like to eat or stay at the inn?"

The inn was not large, and the furnishings were quite old. Its only redeeming quality was its simplicity and cleanliness.

Li Qinghe estimated the amount of silver he had and, not knowing how expensive accommodations were in the county town, asked about the prices first.

The woman quickly replied, "Ten coins a night, plus breakfast."

Ten coins, which was about the same price as the inn in town. It was indeed a very fair price.

After choosing a house, Li Qinghe put down her baggage.

Before long, the woman came over with hot water: "Guest, please call me if you need anything. My eyesight isn't very good, please forgive me."

The woman was as thin as a willow branch, and she was panting and coughing as she spoke.

Li Qinghe nodded, quickly finished washing up, and was about to go to bed to rest, but she had only been asleep for a short while when a noisy sound came from the front hall, interrupting her sleep.

When she arrived at the front hall, she found several people standing in front of the proprietress.

"Boss lady, if you don't invite a guardian spirit to protect the shop, what if something happens to it?"

"Recently, the sorcerers of the Fa Sect have been very rampant, often active in the city. Without the guardian spirits watching over us, we don't know if any of the sorcerers of the Fa Sect are hiding here."

Several burly men were each accompanied by a weasel, their expressions cold and stern.

The woman coughed a few times, her tone pleading and earnest: "It's not that I don't want to invite them, it's just that business has been bad lately, and I can't afford that many offerings. Could you please forgive me for a few more days?"

"Since that's the case, we'll give you a few more days. The government has issued an order that we must worship the Yellow Immortal in a few days. Every household will have a guardian spirit at that time, so don't blame us for not reminding you."

The woman nodded repeatedly in agreement.

Only after the group left did she laboriously close the door and shut down for the day.

Turning around, she saw Li Qinghe standing quietly beside her. The woman quickly said, "Don't worry, sir. Although we don't have any guardian spirits in our shop, it's definitely safe. It's just that the mute alley across the street has been attacked by bandits several times, which is why they're urging us to hurry."

Li Qinghe nodded and returned to her room, pondering to herself.

Weasels are everywhere in the Dumb Alley, and even ordinary people would invite guardian spirits to protect their homes.

In this city of yellow weasels, how can one kill Qin Hongshi and rescue one's mother?

I am a dentist now.

If we first retrieve Bai Tieya's belongings from the alley, then infiltrate the pawnshop and find an opportunity to harm Qin Hongshi, or capture a member of the Huang family and force him to treat our mother's evil sores, I wonder if we could succeed...

As she watched the blood in the wine cup gradually decrease, she grew increasingly anxious, even vaguely guessing what was going on, but dared not think too much about it.

……

Despair spreads, and rationality decreases.

Zhou Qing looked at the character's status bar next to him and saw that the sanity bar had suddenly decreased by one-tenth, and couldn't help but sigh.

From any perspective, she is just a sixteen-year-old girl.

In normal families, a daughter at this age would be waiting to be married, waiting for her parents and matchmakers to arrange a marriage for her, to find a suitable family to marry into, and to be a good wife and mother.

While others were doing needlework and embroidery.

She is killing, performing sacrifices, practicing ritualistic arts... things that are absolutely not things a girl of her age should be doing.

All of this was to save her mother.

If she loses her only family member, the belief that sustains her life will crumble.

"But I was wrong from the start. This 'save your mother' main questline was never going to work; it was a trap! To truly save her, you have to create a new main questline, which is why there are no quest prompts in the game!"

The dead cannot be brought back to life; this is an inviolable law of nature, and even in this world of supernatural forces, it is impossible.

Zhou Qing stared intently at the game interface.

Since it's his own cheat system, and it's constantly changing and connected to reality, creating a new main storyline isn't impossible.

The most difficult part is how to help the girl regain the courage to live after realizing that her mother cannot be brought back to life, and find something to support her beliefs.

Zhou Qing would never stand idly by and watch his first believer die like that.

As the bomb drew near.

He has figured out the biggest challenge of the game: to personally write the future of a character!

If you follow the predetermined path in the game, you will inevitably end up in a dead end.

From the moment she intervened in the other person's fate, her subsequent life trajectory became intertwined with her own.

If Zhou Qing hadn't intervened, Li Qinghe would have died long ago.

Whether it was because of human slaves, because of treating her mother's illness, or after Dr. Liu revealed the truth about her mother's death.

In the case of Huangshui Town.

It goes without saying how tragic the fate of an ordinary girl could be.

"Changing destiny, shaping the future, and writing one's own life story—that is the power of the divine, and that is what I should do."

After thinking about it repeatedly over the past few days, Zhou Qing finally grasped the key points in his mind.

He could only control the girl's body, but not her thoughts and ideas.

So if we continue with the previous play strategy, we're already stuck in a dead end, but there's still a chance to salvage the situation.

The primary task now is to gradually make her realize that her mother cannot be brought back to life, and that she must figure this out herself.

Then give her a new goal, a new idea, whatever it may be, so that she has a reason to live.

Zhou Qing felt a headache coming on.

This is easier said than done, and all of these things must be done before the wine vessel's blood runs dry.