With Shen Xuan's order, no one stopped Xuer.
So she ran all the way. Obviously, she knew this house very well.
Her parents followed from a distance, they already had some guesses about what happened.
Possibly she had also returned to the past, just only now.
This made them think it was the work of the Golden God.
Since, as their daughter had explained, if it wasn't a lie it was impossible to return alone.
So the only explanation was the Golden God, even though they didn't understand why he would do this.
As for thinking it was a lie, don't be foolish, he had no reason to lie about this.
Is there any need for a God to lie to a mortal?
With that, they followed Xuer.
She ran very fast and soon arrived at Shen Bing's room.
She opened the door and rushed inside.
When she saw Shen Bing sleeping she felt very happy and ran toward her shouting.
"Sister!!"
Shen Bing at that moment woke up in shock.
She didn't know what was happening and still felt dizzy.
She only felt something falling on top of her, it was a person.
This person seemed familiar, looking closely it seemed to be Xuer?
She unconsciously caressed the girl, it was the same feeling.
There was no mistake, it was her Xuer.
After realizing this, even without understanding everything, she didn't care.
Even if it was a dream she didn't care, she hugged her tightly and poured out everything she had in mind.
About her inability to protect her own sister.
About feeling useless, if she were stronger nothing would have happened.
Shen Bing: "I'm sorry Xuer"
Xuer: "No sister, Xuer is the one who should apologize."
"Xuer couldn't keep up with my sister in your most difficult moment."
"Xuer only increased your mental burden, sister, I am useless."
Shen Bing: "No, no, Xuer did nothing wrong, it was my fault"
It went back and forth and neither of them wanted to blame the other.
Both blamed themselves and in the end it led nowhere.
Until realizing this wouldn't end and they were calming down, the Shen parents gave a loud cough.
"Cough" "Cough" "Cough"
The two heard this and noticed the arrival of father and mother Shen.
They temporarily stopped blaming themselves even though they still thought it was their own fault.
Shen Bing: "Hello mom and dad."
Xuer: "Hello uncle and aunt."
Shen Xuan: "Yes, much more normal."
Xiao Yu lightly slapped her husband complaining.
Xiao Yu: "You were clearly satisfied with the situation."
Shen Xuan: "Cough, cough, changing the subject."
With that, he called a servant and soon chairs were brought for Xuer, Xiao Yu and him to sit.
As for Shen Bing, she was lying down.
Shen Xuan: "So could you explain better what happened?"
Xuer: "Yes, I can."
"When uncle and aunt started telling the story about the return I just thought it was very imaginative."
"But when it reached my part my head started to hurt."
"Then many memories of the two years together followed and appeared in my mind."
"From the moment I was saved, using your house as a base, until the moment of the final farewell."
"I remembered everything, so following my intuition I went to my sister's room."
"And then we arrived here."
Shen Xuan and Xiao Yu were shocked. Even though it was only a guess, when it actually happened, they were still stunned.
Shen Bing didn't know why, but she had the feeling she had seen this somewhere before.
Shen Bing: "This should be related to the shop owner."
Xiao Yu: "We think so too. Do you know why he would do this?"
Shen Bing shrugged: "I don't know, mom. I only talked with him for a short time. I don't even know his real name."
"After all, it's obvious that Shop Owner and Golden God are just titles."
Xiao Yu looked at her daughter speechlessly and said,
"That makes sense, daughter, I know that. But I asked exactly because you're the only one who can talk to him."
"Asking something like this should be simple and it's obviously related to you."
Shen Bing felt a little embarrassed: "Ah… that seems true, right?"
"Yes." (X3) everyone answered together.
Shen Bing: "Hehe, then okay, but I'm not sure if he will answer, and even if he does, I don't know if he will reply."
"So don't have too much hope. I'm not a close relative of his, at most just a customer testing a product."
The Shen parents looked at each other and could see the hopelessness in each other's eyes.
They began speaking in low voices.
Shen Xuan: "It seems our daughter hasn't grown much in these ten years, right?"
Xiao Yu: "Yes, even ten years from now when she's twenty-eight, she doesn't seem to have gotten any smarter."
Shen Xuan: "Indeed, at her age I had already established the Shen family."
"Even if it wasn't as incredible as it would be in the future, it was already a rising force in the empire."
Xiao Yu: "Well, maybe she didn't think about it properly, or we might be wrong and she's just an ordinary customer?"
But what happened next decisively made her abandon the idea that she was wrong.
It reinforced her guess.
(Back a few minutes earlier.)
While the Shen parents were whispering,
Shen Bing was looking at the system and clicked the call function.
But unlike before, both names were dark.
It was the shop owner and his sister.
Shen Bing stayed silent for a moment.
She gave up on getting an answer today, so she was ready to close it and reply to her parents.
As for calling the artifact spirit, she didn't even think about it.
She might try calling the owner's sister since they might meet in the future, but not the spirit.
But just as she was about to close it, she heard a sweet voice in her ear.
"Hey, hey, hey, even if they're sleeping, I can answer your questions. Why didn't you choose me?"
This voice came out of nowhere and Shen Bing's heart skipped a beat.
Just as she was about to jump out of bed and run away through the window to escape the unknown,
It was a stress reaction from the apocalypse.
The system interface changed.
[The cute artifact spirit answered your call.]
However, she didn't faint like last time. Instead, various special effects started appearing on the screen.
The screen also became visible to outsiders without her asking.
So everyone in the room could see it.
Xuer thought it was pretty. Her parents were shocked by the sudden change and stopped talking.
Then several golden light effects appeared and vaguely formed a small figure.
She was only a few centimeters tall, had pink hair, and wore a golden dress. The most iconic thing was the mask she wore.
It was a golden mask just like the shop owner's.
Shen Bing fell silent recalling what she had heard.
If the two were sleeping, there was only one person who could answer the call.
The artifact spirit.
However, she didn't look like the image Shen Bing had in mind.
She thought she would be humiliated just to talk to her since she might vent her grievances about her mistake.
But it didn't seem like that?
Now that she thought about it, what mistake had she even made?
Shen Bing didn't have time to think too much about that now.
Ellie: "Hello Shen Bing, I can't tell you my real name, but you can call me Sister Ellie~"
Shen Bing: "Sister Ellie?"
She looked at the flying creature smaller than her arm and fell silent.
But then she thought it might be a spirit that had lived for thousands of years, so it was fine.
Shen Bing: "Sister Ellie, nice to meet you."
With that, she extended her hand, and Ellie did too, but since she was tiny, her hand was smaller than Shen Bing's palm.
So it looked kind of comical.
Shen Bing: "Then excuse my rudeness, but may I ask what brings you here?"
She expected many meaningful words or something like,
"The secret cannot be revealed."
Maintaining mystery, but if Shen Bing were standing, those words would have made her stumble.
Ellie: "Bored."
"There's no fancy reason. I was just alone. I was supposed to be playing video games, but playing alone isn't fun."
"Since the ****** and the **** are sleeping, I have no one to play with, oops…"
"Luckily my master programmed this into my projection, otherwise I would've really said their names hehe."
"Even if you'll have the chance to know in the future, it's the future. Right now, you can't."
Shen Bing was shocked by those words, and the information that followed confused her.
Even without fully understanding why she was nice, she knew she shouldn't leave a bad impression.
So she quickly thought of several situations like she likes games, maybe we can play together.
Ellie: "Little Shen Bing, why aren't you talking?"
"I was thinking about how to entertain you." Shen Bing told the truth.
Ellie: "There shouldn't be anything in your world to entertain me."
"But maybe you can play with me?"
Shen Bing: "I guess that's the only thing we can really do."
Ellie: "But before we play, I can answer two of your questions."
"As long as they don't involve real names or any shop secrets."
Shen Bing was happy. This artifact spirit was really a good person.
Shen Bing: "Then let's see, can you explain about her?"
She pointed at Xuer.
Ellie: "Well, that's very easy and it was done casually."
"My master sees all users as protagonists."
"At least the users where only one person has a system. You're one of them."
"There won't be other shop system users on your entire planet."
"So the system can also record things in episode format."
"So even if he can't watch live like now, he can watch later."
Shen Bing felt strange about being watched, but as if noticing her discomfort, Ellie explained.
"But don't worry. The system records interesting things. Your private moments like using the bathroom or showering don't interest him."
"My master, even though he's single, doesn't lack beauties."
"He's even less interested in watching something he won't touch."
Shen Bing felt relieved but also speechless.
But she still didn't understand. This still didn't explain Xuer.
Ellie smiled and began to explain the matter for real.
(End of chapter)