‘Anyway, this life is gained. If I really die there, then it’s fate.’
As the voice fell into his ears, Gu Weizhou’s figure paused slightly. This voice…
A flash of confusion reflected in his eyes.
Why does it feel so familiar?
‘Host, do you… regret it?’
‘Regret?’ In a brief silence, he seemed to be gently chewing on everything contained in these two words. The word “regret” he originally intended to say was suppressed after thinking of something else, instead, he changed the topic, ‘That’s already happened. It’s not important anymore, is it? After this matter, we will have nothing to do with each other.’
‘If I succeed this time, we will not know each other in the future. I’ll take my bright path, and he will cross his single-plank bridge. We will owe nothing to each other. I don’t believe I can’t survive in this world with this face that works wonders every time. And if I fail, well…’
With a joking and casual tone, the person continued, ‘Heh, if I fail, just tell him I went home. Since I’ve lied to him so many times along the way, one more time… won’t make a difference.’
‘…Host, I’m leaving. Take care.’
‘May we never see each other again, crappy system.’
As the voice gradually dissipated, Gu Weizhou clutched his head tightly, accompanied by bouts of severe pain, his brain boiling like a pot of water, started to churn.
Behind the tightly closed door deep in his consciousness, it seemed as if something was continuously squeezing out.
Numerous scenes flashed by, but every time he tried to see clearly what they were, they slipped away from his grasp.
‘Do you know who your dad’s dao companion is?’
‘Damn, you really hit too hard. Were you trying to kill me with that palm?’
‘In my hometown, there’s a saying, kissing without the intention of marriage is hooliganism. You kissed me, so you have to take responsibility for me for the rest of your life.’
‘Damn, are you trying to ascend to heaven right here? Struck by lightning… you… got hurt?’
‘What… what, your great dao is…’
‘Get lost, my mission is completed.’
‘Funny, isn’t it? System, don’t you think it’s hilarious…’
Countless scenes, countless voices, and countless noises echoing in his ears, whether sorrowful or joyful, whether separating or coming together, like a raging torrent, filled Gu Weizhou’s entire mind.
It felt as if, in an instant, the brain was forcibly stuffed with many things, tearing him apart from the inside out.
His face went pale with pain as he sweated profusely and knelt down in a mess.
What is this, what is this, what do these voices, these unfamiliar voices represent!!!!
‘Although you have no foundation, your physique is good. I’ll take this body.’
‘Thinking of taking my body? Go back and cultivate for ten thousand more years.’
‘Heh, quite a sharp tongue. I hope you can still be so eloquent after you fall into my illusion.’
‘Yo, not bad, that old guy pretending to be young actually sent me back to the 22nd century’s high school, 128 days before the college entrance examination. Tsk tsk, it’s been so long since I’ve eaten hot dry noodles in other worlds, this time I’ll just treat it as a vacation, haha.’
‘The dean in this illusion is so similar, just like my second senior brother. Damn, why does it still hurt when I get hit, this is unscientific.’
‘You must have read too many novels and gone stupid, right? Transcending tribulation? Illusions? Why don’t you just ascend on the spot? Better take care of your college entrance examination first.’
‘No need to take the exam, really, this world is fake, I’m not lying to you, I’m really not… lying to you.’
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‘I know the death of your family members hit you hard, but you can’t escape from reality because of their death. You have a long life ahead of you, a very long one!’
‘Get lost! You’re all fake… everything in front of me is fake… all of it.’
‘Everything you told me before I found it in a novel, right here, you’re really poisoned by novels.’
‘How… how can this be.’
‘If you fail the college entrance examination, just fail it. Find a third-rate college to hang around for a few years. You have so much compensation money anyway, you won’t have to worry about food and drink.’
‘I… didn’t get admitted? I clearly got into W University…’
‘Your delusional disorder is getting worse. You must go see a doctor with me today!’
‘The condition is quite serious, hospitalization is recommended.’
‘I… I remember now, I’m not sick, not sick, it’s this world that’s sick, everything is fake, everything… Ah!!!!’
‘That hospital is the Private Hospital run by Yang Yongxin, damn, I was scared to death after checking the information. Hey, are you okay? They didn’t tie you up for electrotherapy, did they?”
‘I was electrocuted, my skin is rather thick, insulated, but… I don’t know why, I always feel like… the electrocution made me forget something very important, …what was it, I can’t remember.’
‘God, you actually don’t like women!’
‘Ah? I don’t know, it seems… I used to like a man, he looked… I forgot what he looked like…’
‘There are so many good men in the world, how did you end up with such a scumbag boyfriend? Could this be a sequelae from your last visit to the Putian? Got cured but suddenly developed a problem with your eyes?’
‘Your eyes have a problem, I’m doing great. As for the reason… you might think it’s weird… I always feel like I used to be an irresponsible scum myself. I am able to see through all their tricks. Although I don’t know where this ghostly intuition comes from, it’s better not to harm ordinary people. Playing with scum feels less guilty to me.’
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‘I love you, let’s get married!’
‘Marry? Are you crazy…’
‘Ding——!’
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“Ct——!!!!”
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‘I’m indeed a terrible scum, otherwise, why would I be sending you this thousand-mile voice transmission now? Actually, suddenly sending you this last voice transmission, I wanted to say something…’
‘I’m about to travel back now! What do you think, did you think I would use this last transmission to confess to you? What a surprise, right? Haha, I don’t like you at all, I’ve never liked you. All that before was just to deceive you, a fool who the heavens owe five million and haven’t paid back. I can’t believe you really fell for it, haha.”
After a bout of nasty laughter, a few seconds of silence ensued.
“Everything in Peach Blossom Land was… a lie to you. I’m not a brothel madam, I don’t have any malicious foster sister named Cuihua, Snow White wasn’t shot dead by a hunter, and the one who washes clothes with cold water in winter isn’t my mother. The meaning of ‘I Love You’ is actually ‘you’re an idiot’. I used to enjoy dating people and then kicking them away after hooking them. Watching their various surprised and incredulous expressions, someone like me is a complete scumbag, so… forget about a scum like me…”
In the vast expanse, Gu Weizhou, lying on the ground, seemingly lifeless, seemed to have a trace of warmth flowing down the corner of his eye.
Forget about me forever…
And in this overly quiet moment, a red pattern silently flashed in the center of the brow of the man lying on the ground, followed by a sword shadow shooting out from the red pattern.
The flying sword instinctively circled around the fallen man twice, sensing the absolute safety around him, before slowly stopping in front of the fallen man. Then, an astonishing scene occurred.
The shadow vaporized and turned into the figure of a man in white clothes.
Perhaps because the sword transformed into a shadow, aside from the stark white clothes, the man’s facial features were blurred and unclear.
And yet, so strangely, even though you couldn’t see the person’s features clearly, you could somehow feel his cold eyes slowly opening.
Cold like ice, with a chill reminiscent of the bright moon.
As his gaze moved downward, upon touching the figure on the ground, it was as if a warm breeze caressed the face, pouring out countless tenderness and warmth.
With a flick of his sleeve, the man’s body on the ground floated up. Seeing the moisture at the corner of the opposite man’s eye, his eyes contained a myriad of complexities, as if heartbroken, yet also relieved.
You’re always like this, clearly at the brink, clearly unwilling, yet you insist on pretending nothing happened, putting on an air of not caring about anything. Is deceiving me that amusing…
Slowly raising his hand, the man seemed to want to wipe away the tear at the corner of the person’s eye, to touch this person with closed eyes.
However, as they touched, his fingertips only scattered into numerous smoke-like illusions.
So, the mirror image clone is still inadequate?
Sighing lightly, thinking back to the sudden collapse of the entire consciousness seal earlier, he had to temporarily put aside all distractions in his heart.
He leaned down, aimed at the person’s lips, and kissed.
At the moment of contact, strands of milky white airflow were transferred from his lips, and with each transfer, Gu Weizhou’s furrowed brows relaxed a bit, the confusion on his face lessened a bit, while the person’s own figure became more unstable, more illusory. This monotonous and pure method was like feeding oneself to others.
Indeed, this was the case. The Soul Nourishing Forbidden Technique, an ancient forbidden technique long lost in the cultivation world. To perform this technique, one’s cultivation must at least touch the Mahayana period of the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws, but often, cultivators at such a stage are unwilling to form this kind of contract because the price is too great.
Using the power of the soul, to nourish each other, a strand for a hundred years… a strand equal to a century…
Just like the introduction of this forbidden technique, for each strand of essence qi transferred, the practitioner loses a hundred years of cultivation and a century of lifespan. Moreover, this forbidden technique is one that, once initiated, cannot be arbitrarily interrupted or reversed, meaning that if the practitioner does not complete the final nourishment of the soul, both parties might end up perishing.
As time ticked by second by second, the man’s already unstable figure became nearly non-existent. Fortunately, he held on.
Having placed the person down gently, seeing his finally relaxed eyebrows, he raised his hand and traced the increasingly familiar features of the person from afar.
Don’t think about anything, don’t ponder anything, just be the carefree and always happy you, just like in the beginning.
Although he really wanted to meet and recognize the person right now, he still didn’t act impulsively, thinking of the chaos in the person’s sea of consciousness at this moment. He dared not stay longer, he had to reinforce those memories that had fully awakened and recovered. Otherwise, once those little guys start wandering around and mixing with those illusions, the other party might really not be able to distinguish reality from fantasy anymore.
After a lingering look at the still-sleeping person, the man closed his cold, frost-like eyes. In an instant, his figure transformed into a sword, leaving a remnant afterimage behind, and the sword returning to its sheath once again entered the red pattern in the center of the person’s brow.
And that point of red pattern disappeared like water, bit by bit vanishing.
‘…Let’s not be at odds anymore, look, we’ve both fallen into this spatial rift. If we don’t cooperate now, both of us will be torn to pieces by this hurricane and be done for. How about we put aside our grievances and cooperate properly, and after we get out, we can settle our scores and grievances?’
“…” the person just ignored.
‘Hey, don’t be so stingy, okay? The only reason I said those things was because I admire you so much. Although I’m not your dao companion, I can definitely be considered your fanboy.’
“…” Continuing to meditate.
‘Let’s get to know each other again. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Gu Weizhou, a representative of the top ten outstanding youths of the 21st century, the first person in history to travel through time.’
“…” the person still remained unmoved and majestic.
Gu Weizhou stared intently without letting go.
A minute, two minutes, three minutes… ten minutes passed.
The man being stared at could no longer remain calm and slowly opened his eyes, glancing at the person next to him who was smiling like a cat that had stolen fish, and said coldly and indifferently, ‘…Ling Su.’
After hesitating, he added, ‘I don’t have a dao companion.’
Showing his white teeth, Gu Weizhou replied, ‘What a coincidence, I don’t have one either. We might as well pair up.’
‘…’ The man, once again faced with robber logic, turned completely dark.
‘Little Ling Ling…?’
‘…’ Endure.
‘Little Su Su…?’
‘…’ Enduring again.
‘Little Ling Su…?’
‘…’ Unable to endure any longer.
Clang—— The man directly drew his sword.
‘Damn! That’s cheating…!’
As if sensing something or as if remembering, Gu Weizhou, who was sleeping soundly in the vast nebula, moved his lips almost imperceptibly. In the last moment before the final familiar memory was completely suppressed, he finally called out the name lingering deep within.
Ling Su.
…
Jinjiang Headquarters Conference Room
“Xichen, what’s going on with your jurisdiction? How did the high-level sci-fi plane fight its way into the universe? The battle between regions has crossed boundaries, almost completely destroying the peaceful blue planet that was just sitting there.” The person at the head of the table, Qingfeng, was dressed in neat professional attire, her hair tied up, exuding an efficient and vigorous aura.
The girl with glasses at the conference table adjusted her glasses and replied, “According to the investigation, a declining imperial lineage suddenly produced a potential candidate for a thousand-year emperorship, likely to rise again. Those who usurped the throne didn’t want him to grow and acted first. Loyal subjects protecting their lord accidentally crossed the boundary while fleeing, causing this.”
Qingfeng frowned and said, “This matter…”
Ding——
Before she could finish, a harsh alarm sounded from her optical brain. Lifting her wrist to see which room it was coming from, Qingfeng’s expression changed.
This is…!
“Meeting adjourned.” As soon as the four words were uttered, the person at the head seat had already disappeared, leaving behind a room full of people looking at each other in bewilderment and confusion.
Looking at the constantly flashing highest alarm from room S in front of them, the staff, who had never encountered such an emergency, was sweating profusely. What… what is happening, why is there suddenly a life-threatening alarm?
Just as he was sweating bullets, a familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind, “The life support in this room can’t keep up. Move him to another room immediately!”
Turning his head sharply, his eyes lit up, “Director Qingfeng.”
With a serious face, Qingfeng nodded and, seeing the level of the alarm on her optical brain, calmly ordered, “Change it to SS level,” she paused for a second, thinking of a voice transmission someone had sent her not long ago, and then said, “Forget it, just give him the highest level!”
The staff member was shocked, “You mean…”
“That’s right, give him the SSS level!”
Staring at the constantly flashing optical brain, Qingfeng’s lips were tightly pursed, her expression grave.
Ling Su, oh Ling Su, even your former rival is opening a back door for you amidst this busy schedule. If, after all this, you still end up sacrificing yourself, then you truly don’t deserve to be my rival…
Woah so mysterious
This was all sooo confusing!!! So the ml is this Long su guy right! But who is the mc from 21st century or a cultivator? Aahhhhh
It’s our scum Mc I think
ling su?
Uhhhhh I am so lost
MC thinks he is a scum but really just has commitment issues so he ran away from the ML who he was chasing for a long time.
ML is in a high tech world on life support maintained by his rival … idk how cultivation and AI terminals work in the same system but whatever, perhaps this is the higher relm one gets too after cultivating enough, ya break free of worlds and join the world watchers group lol??
So ML is intentionally in a coma for MC who is trapped in the system, it was noticed he was trapped in this illusion or whatever by the ML or rival so he was given the ability to go back to “fix” things??
Anyway I made more sense, doesnt mean it makes any sense now
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So. Con. Fused. But also anxious for next chapter. 🙂