23. Upgraded Mobile Phone

Seeing that Universe still wasn't saying anything, she brought him to another place.

"Alright, come with me," she said, starting to walk even deeper into the slum area. After a 10-minute walk, they arrived in front of another house where he could see two young boys and one girl, who were only 6 or 7 years old, and none of them were wearing decent clothes.

In front of them was a young man whose clothes were the same—rags all over his body.

Currently, he was distributing molded bread to all three of them. After that, they started enjoying their dinner while smiling.

Looking at all this, Universe felt that they were like the previous old couple and thought they lost someone to bandits. So he asked, "Did they lose their parents as well because of bandits?"

However, Suling shook her head this time. "No, they didn't. They are still alive and well."

Universe was puzzled. "Then why are they in this situation?"

"To their parents, they were a burden, so they left them to live like this. And both of them joined the bandits."

This time Universe's heart was shaken. He couldn't believe that parents could do such a thing to their children. This has to be a joke.

"How do you know all this? Maybe they have died, and someone is spreading rumors just for fun," Universe spoke. He couldn't believe her statement about this.

Parents, no matter how much they hate their children, would never leave them, especially such young kids.

"I knew you wouldn't believe it. Why don't you ask them yourself?"

"This..." Universe couldn't speak for a while. He always believed that if his parents were alive, then he wouldn't have died in his last life and would have lived a good life. But what about them? They still have parents, but why is their life so miserable?

With all these thoughts on his mind, he was becoming more emotional as time passed. But Suling stopped his thoughts in time.

"Yu Zhou, I am not telling you all this so that you can get emotional but to show you how low-level life form these bandits are. Even calling them human is an insult to us."

Saying all this, Suling started walking away. But Universe stood there contemplating to himself, and what he heard in the end changed his mind suddenly.

"In my eyes, they are lower than a beast, so killing them is like killing a beast. But it's up to you what you think of them. If you still think of them as human, then this will be our farewell." And her silhouette disappeared into the darkness with her last words.

Universe took a deep breath and took a last look at the young kids before him, then left silently.

As for Jinglin, she had seen even worse. Her mother also died because of bandits, so she left even before Suling because of getting emotional.

As the night returned to silence after they left, but a moment later, a person appeared at the same place and watched Universe's departing back while muttering to itself.

"He was more innocent than I thought he would be," the person thought aloud and brought out something out of thin air and threw it towards the children. Then disappeared suddenly.

When the clanking sound of coins hitting the ground broke their peaceful dinner, they found that there were a couple of gold coins at their feet.

Back to Universe,

When he came back to the clan, he took a nice bath and slept peacefully all night.

The next day, after waking up, he first went to his parents' house for breakfast and to ensure them that he is alright.

"I was truly scared this time, Yuner. Thank God you are alright now," Guxuner said while some tears still left in her eyes.

Universe hugged her tightly while feeling guilty. His father, Yu Ming, stood on the side, smiling slightly. But if you see his eyes from close enough, you will see some moisture in his eyes as well.

All of them talked for some time, and after breakfast, Universe left. His destination was the forest once again. Not just to experience fighting but to level up.

Yes, you heard clearly, after breaking through to the energy refining stage, his mobile phone also got an upgrade and unlocked a very interesting skill. Which is passive.

According to the skill, as long as you kill a beast, you will get some kind of source energy, and using this source energy, you will be able to level up.

It was kind of interesting because this skill is kind of similar to leveling up in the game. It's just the name is different.

Without informing his parents, Universe went directly to the forest. Just as he went outside the gate and made his way through the city. Someone else also followed behind him. But not just one but three.

One of them was Suling, and the other who followed behind her was Jinglin. After getting over her emotional moment, she started thinking about Suling's and Yu Zhou's meeting. First, she thought something is going on between them, but after thinking carefully, she denied it herself.

As curiosity was eating her, she tried to get to the bottom of this and followed Suling everywhere since morning.

As for the last person, it's the same mysterious person from the night before. He was still dressed in the same way. Nobody could tell if he is male or female.

They followed each other until they reached the edge of the forest. As Universe was just about to enter the forest, Suling came in front of him.

Surprised, Universe instinctively took a defensive pose. But seeing that it was Suling, he relaxed slightly and asked in confusion,

"What are you doing here and why are you following me?"

"It's good that you came back to your senses. Now we can talk about some business."