Extra: Gu Qinyuan's Past (Part 1)

Gu Qinyuan stood in the desolate and silent library, his slender fingers slowly sliding across the dusty spines of heavy books, raising fine dust.

The Interpretation of Dreams, The Journey of the Soul, The Origin and Influence of Consciousness...

His eyes slowly scanned the titles, recalling what Yan Chu had said to him after returning from the rift in time and space:

"I saw you as a child over there. You were super cute!"

"You know what? You're also a book traveler, just like me. You don't originally belong to this world."

"Do you really remember nothing about your time as a human?"

…

In fact, as a zombie, he did not forget everything completely, and occasionally he would dream about some fragments of his human life.

But he didn't know if it was because of the influence of Yan Chu's words, but recently he started to have frequent dreams when he slept at night.

The images are sometimes blurry and sometimes clear, and they are intermittent and cannot form a complete plot.

Gu Qinyuan lowered his eyes and pulled out all the books.

That night, he had another vague dream.

In his dream a distant voice said to him:

[…I can grant your wish…]

Gu Qinyuan suddenly opened his eyes, and those vague voices instantly faded away like the tide.

The bedroom was pitch black, with heavy curtains blocking out the moonlight.

In the complete silence, only Yan Chu's steady and shallow breathing could be heard.

She was sleeping soundly in his arms like a docile kitten, her warm and soft body nestled against him defenselessly, her slender arms wrapped around his waist.

The tranquility at this moment was so beautiful that it was almost unreal, and he couldn't help but think of the day when it rained heavily.

It rained heavily that day, and Yan Chu was watching the surveillance camera on He Fan's side alone.

Gu Qinyuan was worried that Yan Chu was too tired, so he simply called Shen Ya, whom he trusted the most. After telling him the general situation, he asked him to help monitor the surveillance.

Of course Shen Ya agreed immediately.

When he brought Shen Ya to the door of the monitoring room, he suddenly heard Yan Chu's deliberately lowered voice coming from the monitoring room:

"Once I complete my mission, I will leave this world, right?"

Gu Qinyuan paused.

Shen Ya looked back at him puzzledly: "Boss, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Qinyuan was silent and heard Yan Chu's second sentence.

"Will this body die after I leave?"

Her voice was so vague that it was almost inaudible.

But Gu Qinyuan was not an ordinary person after all, and he heard every word clearly.

Then comes the third sentence:

"If I do nothing, can I stay in this world forever?"

I don't know who said what, but she replied with some disappointment:

"I know, Potato, I will try my best."

Gu Qinyuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and a hint of obscure emotion flashed in his deep eyes.

This wasn't the first time he'd heard the strange word "potato."

In the past, Yan Chu often talked to himself in the air, and this word would pop up from time to time, as if he was having a conversation with an invisible existence.

Is this the name of that invisible being? What is it exactly?

Shen Ya called him again: "Boss, what are you daydreaming about?"

Gu Qinyuan came to his senses and walked forward to knock on the door.

After opening the door, Yan Chu's expression remained the same as always, with no sign of anything unusual.

However, Gu Qinyuan had already deduced from her few words that if she could kill herself, she would escape from this world and return to her original world, a distant world that he could not reach.

All that will be left of this world is a soulless shell.

Yan Chu is still trying to find a way to bring him back to life, racking his brains to find a way to have the best of both worlds.

But for Gu Qinyuan, if Yan Chu was destined to leave, it no longer mattered whether he could survive.

To him, the world without her was nothing.

…

Gu Qinyuan looked at the girl sleeping peacefully in his arms and suddenly felt unable to sleep. He got up and walked to the living room to drink a glass of water, his eyes falling on the half-read books on the sofa.

He sat down as if possessed by a ghost and continued to flip through the books he had not finished.

When he read about the existence and extinction of the soul, a strange emotion emerged in Gu Qinyuan's heart.

Even if one turns into a zombie and forms a new consciousness, the energy of the soul should not disappear, but only be transferred.

The soul energy born from zombies naturally does not appear out of thin air.

Either it was transferred from somewhere else, or it is the original soul of this body.

Gu Qinyuan narrowed his eyes slightly, his dark pupils were extremely deep.

That is to say, there are only two possibilities.

First, from the beginning to the end, there was only one soul in this body, but he had lost all his memories of his human period.

The second is that the human soul has left, and he is a soul that came from somewhere else and attached himself to this body.

However, considering that He Fan still had feelings for Su Su even after turning into a zombie, the first possibility is much more likely.

Gu Qinyuan was almost certain that he and Gu Qinyuan in his human period were actually the same soul.

He knew that the book traveler came to this world from another world in the form of a soul.

Yan Chu is a book traveler, so after she completes her mission, her soul will leave this world.

So after I die, will my soul also leave?

At this moment, he heard a vague sound in his ears.

You finally realized...

His eyes flashed, this voice was exactly the same as the one in his dream!

"who?!"

However, the surroundings became quiet and the voice disappeared again.

The next morning, Yan Chu didn't see anyone in bed. She walked into the living room and found Gu Qinyuan staring out the window in a daze.

Yan Chu rubbed his eyes and asked dazedly, "Why are you up so early?"

Gu Qinyuan smiled and said, "I couldn't sleep, so I got up."

Later, Gu Qinyuan discovered that he was bound by a life and death contract.

He and He Fan will either live together or die together.

It's unbelievable that He Fan could make such a disgusting contract.

In the previous six reincarnations, although He Fan was determined to kill him, at least it was a head-on confrontation instead of such despicable means.

When he arrived at the battlefield, this feeling became even more obvious. He Fan seemed to have been possessed and had completely lost his mind.

When he found that he could not kill He Fan, he immediately made a decision and asked Yan Chu to kill him.

The decision was made decisively and without any hesitation.

He was gambling, gambling that he would not die, gambling that his soul would not disappear.

As long as he can survive in any form, he will definitely try his best to find Yan Chu.

At the moment when Gu Qinyuan was killed by Yan Chu, after the excruciating pain of the sharp blade piercing his head, it was as if the seal was lifted, and all his memories came flooding back like a tide.

“…I guessed right.”

It turns out that I have been Gu Qinyuan from beginning to end.