Trust

It was pitch dark. Not even one ray of moonlight passed through the forest. It started to get colder. The nearby animals were all asleep. Hearing a long silence, Xu Nian lifted his upper body. His legs seemed to hurt a lot less than when he first came here. He looked dazed for a while. He glanced over the hut. His new sister was asleep in a corner shivering.

' Are you trustworthy? Do I really have someone so selfless as a guardian? Well, it's true that she has been serving me for a month. However, hopeless, my condition seems to be, she never gave up. Can I finally have someone as a confidant. No, that would be too much. Though it looks like I can trust her with my back. "A sister hah...", looks like in this life I won't be all alone.'

These days, Xu Nian has been struggling to get some good sleep. Even though it was midnight, his instincts kept acting up. As if the nightmare of having to die after living haunted him more than ever before. He was a loner almost every time. At least in every fifty lifetime that he could recall. It was not easy. It never was for him. Licking the filthy bottom if needed. He climbed up every time. Sometimes, in the top, sometimes as an average. He spent countless lives. Simply wishing for another death. He had grown hopeless. A fate unacceptable as that chipped away his emotions little by little. But each time he transmigrated in a ten year old child, He would start having the desire to live again. He died and lived and died. That was his life. But in that very life that chipped something or the other away from him, turned him into a living dead.

When the thousandth came, he really got a body as good as dead. Family is a burden. It was a conclusion he came to. 'I never thought I would out of all people leave my back to someone else.' He remained quiet for a long while.

" HEAVENLY DISSONANCE : SYSTEM "

" Quests are available now. Would you like to start your first quest? "

The blue panel lit before Xu Nian. He had a hint of anger looking at it. As if the hatred stemmed from a long back discord. ' It's silly to expect anything from a machine like entity. '

He stared at it for a while and accepted his first ever quest. ' It has been a while. ' Xu Nian fell in deep thought yet again which direction should he take his cultivation towards since his body is that of a cripple. It was hard to start at the pit bottom. It would take way too long to achieve anything significant. ' Something that this body can pull off. '

The system kept buffering, and Xu Nian gave a sneer. ' Did it start to rot away? It would be a happy ending this way. '

" Abnormal status has been determined. "

" The owners body can't achieve the minimum requirement for the quest."

....

"What, after stating the most obvious thing, it just stops." Xu Nian was pissed off. The system irritated him more than anything.

" Adjusting the quest to baby mode."

" The owners body can't achieve the minimum requirement for the quest."

" Adjusting the quest to fetus mode."

" Quest : Breath a hundred times. "

It seemed that Xu Nian's head was steaming smoke. With a thud, he lay over the quilt.

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Xu Li woke up early feeling sweaty all over. She grabbed the quilt while giving it a hard stare. She looked over her brother. He was sleeping, his clothes were stretched. The cloth over his waist was torn. She smiled happily while holding the quilt. ' He looks healthier. '