Chapter 50, Chapter Forty-Nine

In a daze, Lin Xue felt as if she had fallen into...

A very long and distant dream.

It was a dream about constant loss, like the damp, endless rainy season, the chill seeping into her very bones.

It's so cold, so very cold. No matter how much I shout or struggle, I can't wake up from this abyss-like dream.

Her heart was shattered, piece by piece.

Even with the strongest adhesive, it cannot be restored to its original state.

Lin Xue slowly opened her eyes, and what she saw was an unfamiliar ceiling.

There was a faint smell of disinfectant in the air, and she moved her fingertips.

Her last memory was of the moment she was hit by the truck.

She got out of bed, giving her the illusion that her body didn't belong to her.

The face reflected in the bathroom mirror wasn't much different from hers.

However, Lin Xue felt that this face... no matter how you looked at it, looked a bit like her when she was in her twenties.

Unlike when she was sixteen, she had grown much taller and her field of vision had broadened.

"Could it be that my body still grew even though I was in a coma for several years after the car accident?"

Lin Xue clenched her left fist and tapped it into her right palm, looking as if she had just realized something.

She looked around the room she was in; the windows were nailed shut with thick wooden planks and could not be opened.

The only door leading to the outside world was locked.

Lin Xue felt ashamed as she lay in bed, surrounded by only a bed and herself in a hospital gown.

Could she have been abandoned here because she hadn't woken up for so long?

What will happen to her studies? She hasn't finished her homework yet!

I wonder if someone in their early twenties can even take the college entrance exam?!

But what if it really was because they couldn't afford the medical bills that they were brought to this room by some strange people and have been subjected to some kind of harmful experimentation?

Lin Xue's mind wandered through a jumbled mess of thoughts, then her gaze suddenly fell on her ten calloused fingers.

She touched the calluses and felt something was strange. She remembered her own body very clearly.

She has always had a thin callus only on the first joint of the middle finger of her right hand when she holds a pen.

Moreover, her hands and body are very flexible. Unlike her, who sits for long periods of time and has slightly low blood sugar.

Feeling as if something was flowing within her body, Lin Xue suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

She...she...she...could she have time-traveled?!

Suddenly, even space itself seemed to distort.

Lin Xue watched as a living person appeared out of thin air in the room.

The other person was wearing a black high-necked robe and had long, black hair with some sharp angles.

He was wearing a strange mask on his face; Lin Xue recognized the mask somewhat.

The mask was somewhat tiger-striped and orange. Only one eye was visible, which piqued Lin Xue's curiosity.

Wouldn't it be very inconvenient to cover one eye in daily life?

However, since the other person looked like an adult, Lin Xue didn't say anything. She sat on the bed, covered with the blanket, and looked the other person up and down.

"...You're awake."

A deep, slightly hoarse male voice.

Lin Xue didn't know what to say, so she tentatively hummed in response.

No, no! Shouldn't she be shocked first?

She really did time travel, didn't she?!

In modern society, who just appears out of thin air? It must be some kind of superpower!

Although she was very excited inside, Lin Xue still maintained a calm expression on her face.

The other person pulled out another chair from somewhere and sat down next to Lin Xue's bed.

An eerie silence.

Lin Xue cleared her throat, feeling that the other person's right eye was watching her every move.

She looked directly back at the man's eyes, whose pupils were quite peculiar.

It was blood red, and there were strange symbols in its eyes.

Are they colored contact lenses?

"Excuse me... who are you?"

The woman's voice was very calm, and her expression did not seem fake.

Whether it's her long, slightly wavy, jet-black hair, her delicately defined face, or her slender body.

Every place was familiar to him; had she forgotten? Had she simply forgotten everything?

Is she escaping reality? - Uchiha Yuki

The man suddenly laughed.

The laughter sounded like it was mixed with sobs, which puzzled Lin Xue, but she remained silent.

The man quickly stopped laughing and said, "Uchiha Tobi."

Lin Xue revealed a familiar expression: Uchiha Tobi?

That name sounds familiar. Is the surname Yu?

"Um, Mr. Yu? May I ask where I am right now?"

The man seemed to pause for a moment, then said, "My surname is Uchiha."

Lin Xue: ...How embarrassing, I want to crawl into a hole.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Uchiha." A few blushes appeared on Lin Xue's face, and she scratched her cheek awkwardly. She said, "My name is Lin Xue, Mr. Uchiha, you can just call me Xiao Xue."

“A name is just a code; it doesn’t matter what you call me.” The man interrupted Lin Xue, his tone almost commanding: “Yuan, just call me Yuan.”

Lin Xue paused for a moment, then quietly said, "Okay, Yuan."

"You said your name is... Lin Xue, so your code name will be Xue."

"You are someone I picked up from a pile of corpses. From now on, all you need to do is follow my orders."

"You will stay in this room until you are fully recovered."

Lin Xue was still a little dazed when the man stood up, walked over, bent down, and got close to her.

The crimson eyes beneath the mask seemed to be trying to see through something, staring intently at her.

Lin Xue swallowed subconsciously, as if she wanted to say something.

I caught a faint, familiar floral scent – ​​the fragrance of lilacs.

She really likes using this type of shower gel.

She reached out and stopped the man from going any further.

Obito's gaze fell on the fair hand that was supporting his chest, and then moved upwards to see the woman's somewhat bewildered expression.

Really...really, don't you remember?

"Ten months before you fell into a coma, the Uchiha clan of Konoha Village in the Land of Fire was slaughtered overnight."

"Apart from the youngest son of the Uchiha clan leader and two missing clan members, no one survived."

"Among them, the two Uchiha clan members who went missing that night, Itachi Uchiha and Yuki Uchiha, were identified by Konoha as the murderers."

"Itachi Uchiha and Yuki Uchiha have become S-rank rogue ninjas wanted by the five great nations."

Upon hearing the name Uchiha Itachi, Lin Xue vaguely recalled her school days.

She seemed to have heard that name somewhere before, but she frowned slightly, not quite understanding why she was being told such a thing.

And the name Uchiha Yuki, the same as hers but with a different surname. Could she be connected to this person in some way?

The man pulled out a poster from somewhere, and the woman on it looked exactly like the one Lin Xue saw in the mirror.

The woman in the poster has a very aloof and cool demeanor, with black hair and black eyes. Her brows are slightly furrowed, and there is an underlying melancholy between her brows.

Lin Xue was stunned. Could it be that the owner of this body was this woman?

"From this moment forward, your identity is Uchiha Yuki."

Lin Xue said, "Huh...?"

Seeing her looking like a high school girl who hadn't quite figured out what was going on, Obito couldn't connect her with his cousin at all.

The anticipated questioning and struggle that he had envisioned after she regained consciousness vanished in an instant; he had clearly wanted to ask her something.

Why... on that day, did you not recognize him, allowing him to fall into endless darkness?

Everything, everything, lost its meaning after she lost her memory.

All he needs to do is carry out the Eye of the Moon plan, within that plan.

He wanted to create a world without war and without suffering.

The world that holds the snow and him from his memories, a world of happy life.

The snow belonged entirely to him.

-

Lin Xue quickly mastered the techniques of ninjutsu, genjutsu, and katakana, taught by someone who called himself Uchiha Tobi. These seemed to be innate, habitual abilities. She could master them with just a quick mental reflex. Lin Xue stared incredulously at the distant forest, now reduced to black embers by her fire-style technique.

What kind of world is this? It's so, so, so wonderful!

However, these three things were completely insignificant in front of Uchiha Tobi.

Lin Xue's hands were captured and pinned beneath him, the man standing on top of her and leaning down. His crimson right eye, hidden behind his mask, was fixed on her. In their simple exchange, Lin Xue was no match for him. In fact, it could be said that he handled her attacks with complete ease from beginning to end. Even Lin Xue's best fire-style techniques were utterly insignificant in his eyes.

"It's been a month, and this is all the progress you've made, Lin Xue?"

As if to distinguish between Lin Xue and Xue, Obito always called the woman beneath him by her first name.

Even though he knew in his heart that she was who she always was.

But, what meaning does it have for the snow that doesn't love him?

In the wide forest, Lin Xue lay pressed down on the soft grass.

The man's loose strands of hair were a little glaring. A gentle breeze ruffled the hair, making Xue's eyes itch.

The other person's right eye, hidden beneath the mask, was calm and still, like a deep, crimson lake.

Xue turned her face away, seemingly a little annoyed, and muttered, "Yuan went too far."

Obito was stunned for a moment, the scene before him seemed to be the same as his past memories.

His sparring session with Xue overlapped with his own, and he subconsciously let go of her hand.

He stood up, head down, seemingly lost in thought.

Lin Xue had long been used to the other person looking at her face and always getting lost in some inexplicable contemplation of the past.

Her eyes darted around, wondering if her body had some unusual relationship with Uchiha Tobi.

But Yuan said that he had only found her, who was still alive, from the Uchiha clan, which had already been wiped out.

Could it be that he fell in love with her at first sight...? That's too creepy. Xue shivered.

"I have a task for you."

Lin Xue let out a subconscious "Ah," making Obito blush with embarrassment.

When will this immature, childish behavior finally change?

Ultimately, given her abilities, it still needs to be confirmed in actual combat.

Obito couldn't bring himself to kill her, especially if she died during a mission.

It doesn't matter to Obito now, since they'll reunite in the world of Tsukuyomi sooner or later anyway.

Lin Xue noticed the other person's disdain and pouted.

Obito, hidden behind the mask, fell silent for a moment.

Lin Xue quickly regained her indifferent expression, realizing that the other person was quite accepting of such an expression.

A strange sensation came from under her ankle. Lin Xue frowned and used her other foot to stomp on and break the pale, terrifying hand.

She jumped two meters away and saw it was White Zetsu. She subconsciously looked at Irisviel's expression and felt a pang of regret.

The other person was wearing a mask, so she had no way of knowing what was on their face.

"Xiaoxue is too cruel to me, isn't she?"

"At least you were kept alive by my chakra while you were unconscious."

White Zetsu leaned halfway out from the ground, picked up his severed arm, and reattached it.

Lin Xue was already used to such scenes during this month of training.

White Zetsu handles her daily life, and occasionally he will tell her some information about Uchiha Tobi.