Please control me, my divine being!

The reason Zhou Qing stopped controlling the game character was that he was spending time understanding the seemingly complex combat system.

"Normally, the Fate Dice Cup isn't needed for actions; it's only required when a critical check is needed. That should be my privilege as a player."

After gaining a general understanding of the combat methods.

Without hesitation, Zhou Qing immediately took control of his character and issued the attack command.

Time is of the essence.

The "miracle water" is clearly a negative item.

Once you drink it, your already disadvantageous situation will collapse completely.

Zhou Qing felt that the result of losing the battle might end the game directly, and he might never be able to select this character again.

Given that the game cannot be paused, saved, or loaded, and the storyline progresses automatically over time, it's almost a certainty that characters will be permanently deleted if the game is lost.

[You fought back fiercely, but Aunt Ma easily blocked your attacks. Even with boundless potential, your small body couldn't change the situation. If you had a weapon, the situation would be much better!]

The game text keeps appearing.

Zhou Qing quickly noticed that there were many scattered debris on the ground of the battleground.

Wild vegetables, firewood, coins, and a rusty woodcutter's knife.

Zhou Qing reached out and dragged the badge with the outline of a woodcutter's knife directly onto the badge representing Li Qinghe.

"attack!"

This time,

Zhou Qing immediately activated the Destiny Dice Cup and, without hesitation, added the Destiny Dice that belonged to him.

Aunt Ma has 7 HP and her machete has an attack power of 2.

Li Qinghe's dice are 1-3. Even if he rolls the highest number, the fatal blow will only deal 5 points of damage to Aunt Ma.

Only by adding another die can you roll a sufficiently high number.

Now is the easiest time to succeed. We must seize this opportunity to strike decisively and reduce the enemy's numbers.

Splash!

The dice of fate spun, and a sum of 13 appeared.

Even with a 4-point deduction due to various negative status effects and field suppression, it still dealt a high damage of 9 points.

With a knock from Li Qinghe's small badge.

Aunt Ma's character badge instantly shattered into pieces, turning into lines and dissipating.

Li Qinghe – joy, a narrow escape, breaking through, high morale, and decreased rationality.

Human slaves – enraged, mentally intimidated, and demoralized.

The status bar changed immediately.

Zhou Qing breathed a sigh of relief. With his fate dice in hand and a wood-chopping knife in hand, he could easily take down the other three thugs as long as he paid a little attention to his positioning.

Based on the enemy's current sanity and morale.

If we kill just one or two more, the enemy will collapse.

"Looks like this is a tutorial level for players to get familiar with combat, and it's quite easy," Zhou Qing muttered to himself as he lay back in his comfortable chair.

...

A machete was plunged into his chest.

Hot blood splattered on Li Qinghe's face.

Aunt Ma's pupils widened, and the porcelain bowl in her hand rolled to the ground.

She staggered back two steps, wanting to say something, but no sound came out.

Splash!

The dominoes on the table were pushed all over the floor.

Three men lunged at her, but Li Qinghe stepped back, easily dodging the attack, and with a backhand slash, dislocated the arm of one of the thugs.

A piercing scream rang out.

The man fell to the ground, and his remaining companions were even more bewildered.

The little girl was as slippery as a fish.

She was about to hit him, but each time she just missed, cleverly dodging his attacks.

What chilled them even more was the other's empty, indifferent expression and disregard for life, as if they were slaughtering chickens and ducks rather than killing someone.

The next moment, a flash of light appeared.

Li Qinghe, wielding a machete, swiftly ended another person's life.

The remaining man had completely lost the will to resist. "Spare me! I really surrender! I have five hundred taels of silver notes at Wanbao Money Exchange, I can give them to you! If the contact above finds out I'm dead..."

Click!

One stroke and he was beheaded.

The girl stepped over the corpse without hesitation.

...

"What are you babbling about?" Zhou Qing glanced at the pop-up message and ignored it.

Do you think I'm afraid you have someone backing you up?

To use a phrase from a past life, you might as well come up through the internet cable and chop me up.

The stirring battle drumbeats gradually faded from my ears.

The arena-like interface disappeared, and Zhou Qing began to tally up the gains from this battle.

It's said to be a search for elite hideouts.

In reality, his game interface only has the option of "searching and cleaning up the battlefield".

Since it's a word game, he can't see what's actually happening on-site or what the environment is like.

After selecting "Search", the ink bar-like timer reappears.

[Obtain Bamboo Stick]

[Obtain Old Clothes]

[Obtain a kitchen knife]

Seeing these things, Zhou Qing didn't know what to say.

Why are all the loot we found just junk? Can't we have some self-respect and stop picking up trash?

Fortunately, as the number of searches increased...

Valuable spoils in the yard were gradually unearthed.

[Small amount of silver], [Clues: Sister Hong's letter], [Ledger].

There was only a little bit of silver, but it was better than nothing.

As for Sister Hong's letter, it only had a contact address, which should be the location to start the subsequent mission.

The only useful item is the last one.

[Ledger]: A ledger that records human trafficking transactions, including distribution channels, buyer information, and various industry slang terms.

It looks like an ordinary ledger, but the information recorded on it is only part of its value.

The ledger also has another function.

"It can be used to set up an altar for sacrifices, opening up the career path of the street-smart,江湖 (jianghu) school of thought, the broker."

Job change item?

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

As expected, this tutorial level, in addition to familiarizing players with combat, also includes an important game feature—classes.

This is almost a fundamental feature of the game.

However, this game, as a daily life simulation game, has different class types than the warrior-mage-priest RPGs that Zhou Qing usually plays; it seems to be about various crafts and jobs.

In modern terms, "yaren" means intermediary; "renyazi" means intermediary in the human trafficking industry.

Zhou Qing didn't rush to use the job system, since he wasn't clear about the job characteristics in the game, or whether he could change jobs or switch professions and skills.

He chose to continue searching the yard, and soon new options appeared.

The woodshed in the courtyard reeked of a foul odor. Several children of varying ages were tied to a pillar, their lifeless eyes fixed on the roof, showing no reaction to your arrival...

You realize that you now hold their fate in your hands.

Is it redemption, indifference, or do you want to take on the job of a human trafficker, take over their "goods," and make a small fortune?

Note that certain choices will lower your character's maximum sanity, causing irreversible effects!

A choice between good and evil?

Without hesitation, Zhou Qing chose redemption.

Taking the path of depravity is fine, but offering only a small amount of money is not tempting at all.

To miss out on the normal storyline or even change the current way of playing the game is to completely put the cart before the horse.

After all, this is a slice-of-life simulation game.

After choosing redemption, a long black-and-white timer bar popped up.

Zhou Qing did a quick calculation and estimated that it would take about two hours for the timer to finish.

Although he really wanted to continue playing.

But "studying late into the night" is clearly not something a spoiled young master should do.

Walking dogs, fighting hawks, sleeping among flowers and willows—that's more in line with the persona.

Such a sudden and unusual occurrence is easily noticed by the steward and servants who are with the household day and night.

"Time flies, I'll have to play again tomorrow." Looking at the sunset outside the window, Zhou Qing reluctantly closed the book, and the game interface that kept popping up with text disappeared.

On the other side...

Li Qinghe stood in the woodshed, covered in blood, her lifeless pupils suddenly contracting, as if she had woken up from a nightmare.