Chapter 103. Special Data...

After arriving home, Lin Xiaoxiao first handed the twenty-one special monster skin scrolls she had found at the gambling market to Monet in the study next door, asking him to help her safely remove the tattered documents inside.

Then they wandered around looking for a computer that could accept data disks.

Because the connector on this data disk is from over ten years ago, it's an older model.

I searched around several times but couldn't find a compatible quantum computer, and I even made a mess of the house.

Xiao Weizhi had no choice but to lift her up by the waist with one hand, pull out a storage box for miscellaneous items from the bottom cabinet of the bookshelf, take out an old-fashioned quantum computer from 14 years ago and hand it to her: "Use this."

The computer is off-white in color, but it looks slightly yellowish, probably because it has been stored for a long time. It is semi-circular in shape, about 28 centimeters in size and 5 centimeters in width. It has many small scratches on it, which makes it look like a product of its time.

Lin Xiaoxiao wrapped her legs around Xiao Weizhi's waist, held his neck with one hand, and took the quantum computer with the other, asking in confusion, "How come you have this kind of quantum computer?"

Xiao Weizhi carried her to the living room and chuckled, "This is the personal computer I used when I was in school. I didn't throw it away; I kept it as a souvenir."

He gently placed Lin Xiaoxiao on the sofa, and she looked up and asked with a smile, "Shouldn't these things be at the Xiao residence? How come they're here?"

Xiao Weizhi bent down, one hand supporting himself on the sofa, the other stroking the back of her head. He tilted his head, his thin lips gently approaching hers, lingering on them until they were red and glossy. Only then did he leisurely stand up: "You can understand it as me being sentimental and liking to take things with me."

Lin Xiaoxiao watched him walk towards the study and asked, puzzled, "Where are you going?"

Xiao Weizhi smiled gently and turned her head to the side: "Go and clean up the mess that some troublemaker has made of the study."

Since no one lives in the house here permanently, no one was hired to help clean it. All the cleaning work was done either using tools or by Xiao Weizhi himself.

Lin Xiaoxiao chuckled and nestled into the sofa, waving at him, "Go on, go on."

She awkwardly fumbled for the power button on the computer, but after pressing it several times, the computer still wouldn't turn on.

Just as Lin Xiaoxiao was wondering if something was wrong, Xiao Weizhi walked into the living room carrying a tray in one hand and an energy stone in the other.

He put down the tray of juice and cookies, replaced the energy stone in Lin Xiaoxiao's computer, waited for several tens of seconds, and then pressed and held the power button until the screen lit up.

He reached out and ruffled her hair, explaining gently, "The quantum computer hasn't been used for a long time, it's probably out of power, look."

Xiao Weizhi then went to tidy up.

Lin Xiaoxiao connected the data disk in her hand to the computer and went through a series of tedious operations: connecting, importing, and entering the password written in the corner of the data disk... After the operation, a light screen the size of an A4 sheet of paper popped up.

Lin Xiaoxiao manipulated the cursor, starting with the first line:

{In July of the post-disaster calendar 4405, by chance, information about Lin Qiwei's family was discovered. The Lin family consists of three brothers: eldest: Lin Qishi (sixth-tier swordsman) (missing); second: Lin Qihang (life skill chef); and third: Lin Qiwei (seventh-tier warrior). Spouse…}

{In December of the year 4405 in the post-disaster calendar, Lin Qiwei and his wife Bai Yixiu were spotted briefly in the SSS-level secret realm: the Vast Ocean; they then disappeared. It is preliminarily deduced that the two most likely entered the Black Abyss…}

{In April of the post-disaster calendar 4406, the remaining members of the Lin family were monitored but no abnormalities were detected. Their daughter, Lin Xiaoxiao, showed no unusual behavior and was under continued observation...}

{In July of the post-disaster calendar 4406, I infiltrated the Lin family's residence. After a three-hour search, I found the target item but failed to locate it, suspecting it was taken into the Black Abyss by my mission target...}

{In September of the post-disaster calendar 4406, continued observation revealed no abnormalities. The Lin family restaurant was in crisis, and they were not seen selling any items beyond their level…}

{4407 years after the disaster...}

...

{In February of Post-Disaster Calendar 4412, Lin Qiwei's daughter, Lin Xiaoxiao, awakened. Her profession is ordinary merchant, and she possesses an A-level talent, the Super Large Space. There are no abnormalities; continued monitoring is not recommended. A change of focus is advised…}

{In May of the post-disaster calendar 4412, Lin Xiaoxiao joined the F-rank squad Rising Sun. After three months of observation, it was confirmed that she had no value and it was recommended that she be abandoned...}

There is very little information about the parents, Lin Qiwei and Bai Yixiu, but rather a lot of observational records about the Lin family.

So what are the parents' true identities? Who has been searching for them? Why did the uncle disappear?

What exactly do my parents have that has kept those people chasing after them for so many years?

Many doubts resurfaced in my mind.

Lin Xiaoxiao lay sprawled on the sofa, her personal computer casually placed aside. She covered her eyes with her other hand, her mind overwhelmed by too much information, feeling as if it were about to explode.

Monet called out from inside the study, "It's done, come and see."

Upon hearing the shout, Lin Xiaoxiao immediately jumped up from the sofa and ran towards the study, wanting to see what could be pieced together from the fragments.

She didn't notice that shortly after she left.

A familiar little figure suddenly appeared, sat in her seat, and started looking at the information from the beginning of the screen. The more she looked, the more her brows furrowed.

As soon as I entered the study, I smelled something like burning pages and saw a large cloud of thick smoke in front of me.

Lin Xiaoxiao waved her hand to clear away the thick smoke in front of her before walking towards the workbench in the corner.

On the workbench lay fragments of twenty-one pages, and on the floor beside them were various fragments of monster hides and papers, some burned to ashes, others soaked in potions into clumps...

She asked helplessly, "Why don't you open the window?"

Monet laughed in exasperation, pointing to the fragments on the workbench, and said irritably, "Open a window? These twenty-one scrolls each require a different method of removal: fire, water, smoke, fog... Tell me, how do you open a window?"

The largest of these fragments was no more than half the size of a palm, and the smallest was only slightly larger than a thumb, with irregular, rough edges from when they were torn.

Lin Xiaoxiao chuckled, took the treasure-hunting mouse out of her pocket that was munching on nuts, and presented it to Monette: "You've worked hard, go take a break and play with the treasure-hunting mouse for a while?"

Monet took the treasure hunt, a satisfied smile on his face: "That's more like it."

After saying that, it hugged the treasure-hunting mouse, hid to the side, and kept taking out all kinds of delicious food and fun things from its space and piling them up in front of the treasure-hunting mouse.

The treasure-hunting mouse mechanically gnaws on nuts, ignoring the fawning Monet.

Lin Xiaoxiao sat down at the workbench and kept comparing the edges of the fragments, trying to piece them together.

After washing up, Xiao Weizhi, dressed in a robe, came in and stood behind Lin Xiaoxiao. He pointed to two pages that fit perfectly: "Try these two."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaoxiao immediately tried putting the two together.

Unexpectedly, when the two edges were placed side by side, they merged together in the next second, restoring the paper to a state without any tearing marks.

After half an hour of effort, all the fragments were pieced together to form an A5 sheet of paper, which, under the light, shimmered with phosphorescent light, making it look quite remarkable.

However, several crucial pieces are missing from the middle of the paper.

The missing fragments carved out an irregularly shaped circular hole about 8 centimeters in diameter, also obscuring the most crucial information.

Lin Xiaoxiao could only see the beginning and the end:

[Divine Words] If you can understand these words, you must be a representative of the gods, right? As someone who has been through this, I sincerely advise those who come after you not to try to...

Finally, if you must act impulsively, please remember the key points I mentioned above; they may be the key to saving you in the future.

The key? What's the key? Lin Xiaoxiao looked puzzled.

Due to the missing information in the middle, the available information is very limited.

After thinking for a long time without finding a solution, Lin Xiaoxiao could only put away the special piece of paper and, urged by Xiao Weizhi, leave the study to go back to her room to wash up.

But as she passed through the living room, she saw the small figure sitting on the sofa and exclaimed in surprise, "Quan Zhi, you're awake?"

Quan Zhi nodded at her with a blank expression: "Yes, she's awake, but she's still in the advancement stage."

To be precise, he was about to successfully advance, but Quan Zhi deliberately dissipated some of his energy, forcibly interrupting the upcoming advancement and suppressing his level to Legendary.

Unable to contain her curiosity, Lin Xiaoxiao softly asked the question that had been lingering in her mind for a long time: "Quan Zhi, why did you advance in rank as soon as you entered the Omniscient Library? And how did you know what book I was looking for?"

Quan Zhi reached out and patted the sofa seat, gesturing for her to sit down.

After Lin Xiaoxiao sat down, it explained softly, "Because I am an ancient intelligent spirit, the conditions for advancement require books with a long history and a trace of special energy. Ordinary books cannot meet my upgrade requirements."

The implication is that the libraries Lin Xiaoxiao had taken him to before were all too new, so they hadn't been able to grow.

Then it continued, "As for why it knows what books you want, I knew exactly what books were inside from the moment I entered."

The explanation was brief, but no further details were provided, which seemed to suggest that the author was avoiding the main point.

Lin Xiaoxiao saw that Quan Zhi was avoiding the main point, but she did not choose to continue to ask. She simply nodded to indicate that she knew: "Monet, Hill, Xunbao, and Redtail are all in the study. Do you want to go and talk to them? They have been very worried about you."

Quan Zhi nodded, got up, and floated towards the study to let them know he was safe.

Lin Xiaoxiao turned around and went back to her room to wash up, but she fell asleep in the bathtub halfway through her wash.

It was Xiao Weizhi who noticed something was wrong and went into the bathroom around the same time to carry her back to the room, thus avoiding the possibility of her catching a cold.

After resting for two days, Lin Xiaoxiao took Xiao Weizhi back to her second uncle's place. After dinner, she said, "They're preparing to leave for the lower realm to level up. I just wanted to let them know so they won't worry."

Before leaving, Uncle Lin called Lin Xiaoxiao to his study. In front of her, he took a knife and cut open her right calf, taking out a key that was stuck to the flesh and looked very old.

Ignoring the bleeding wound, he picked up the water bottle next to him, rinsed off the scarlet slime with water, and handed it to her.

The key is 13 centimeters long and has an overall bronze color.

The key handle is engraved with several fierce-looking, bulging, unknown monsters; the long key shaft is covered with tiny inscriptions painted in blood red; the key teeth have only two protrusions, making it look very much like a key used to open an old-fashioned copper lock.

Uncle Lin, whose face was covered in cold sweat from the pain, said, "Xiaoxiao, you've grown up. It's time to pass on the things your father left with me to you."

“Your father once told me that if one day you undergo a dramatic change, he would give you this key. If you grow up normally, then pretend this key doesn’t exist.”

Lin Xiaoxiao didn't take the key. Instead, she frantically pulled out healing potions from her spatial storage. Without a word, she half-squatted at Uncle Lin's feet and poured the potions on him, one bottle after another...

She only breathed a sigh of relief when Uncle Lin's right leg wound had healed completely.

No wonder, in my memory, Uncle Lin's right calf would cramp whenever it was winter, rainy, or the temperature changed, and he never went to any place that offered medical examinations or testing.

Just as Lin Xiaoxiao was about to get up, Uncle Lin gently patted her head and whispered, "Nannan, you've grown up. Uncle doesn't know what you've been through, and there's nothing I can do to help you, but we will always be your family. As long as you turn back, we'll always be waiting for you at home."

How could Uncle Lin not notice the changes in his niece? He just assumed that they had been apart for more years than together, and that the girl had grown up and encountered too many things, so she kept them all to herself and had become estranged from them.

Lin Xiaoxiao felt the warmth on her head, her throat tightened, and she lowered her head to let her second uncle stroke her. Her eyes couldn't help but redden, her nose tingled, and her heart ached as if it were being squeezed together.

In the end, he still didn't say: "Second Uncle, the girl you loved is long gone. I am not her."

Uncle Lin suddenly seemed to be reminiscing about the past, and said with a smile, "Nannan, do you still remember when you were little, you would always tell us in your quirky way that the world is a book and we are all just passersby NPCs in the story? But ever since you had a high fever when you were nine years old, you haven't said anything like that."

Is the world a book? Or are there just random NPCs?

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaoxiao's heart pounded violently, and her mind went blank for a moment, as if an invisible key had turned on some switches, causing fragments of memories hidden deep in her mind to suddenly erupt, and a sharp pain struck.

She clutched her head and screamed in agony before collapsing to the ground. Before losing consciousness, she could vaguely hear the anxious shouts of Uncle Lin, Xiao Wei, and others.

{Flashback 1: Little Lin Xiaoxiao was born with her memories intact, only to find herself in a strange world, a world that resembled a game world.}

{Everyone can change jobs, level up by fighting monsters, and there's both high technology and a primitive way of life... Most importantly, she has many loving family members.}

{Flashback 2: Despite their little girl's constant fussing, Lin's parents repeatedly followed their advice to enter the secret realm. They successfully brought back one high-level item after another, and obtained the Divine Seed, becoming chosen ones and changing their destiny...}

{Flashback 3: The couple became divine favor officers together, attracting the attention of many people and agents. They all wanted to know why the Lin couple could always find good things so accurately, until they found a key...}

{Flashback 4: The handsome Lin Qiwei picked up little Lin Xiaoxiao, and reluctantly pressed his head against her forehead: 'My little darling, it's not that Mommy and Daddy don't love you, it's just that we have unavoidable reasons to leave you temporarily...'}

{An epic-level memory-sealing artifact flashed brightly, causing Lin Xiaoxiao to develop a high fever. Lin Qiwei and Bai Yixiu soon disappeared without a trace. Rumors circulated that they had found a god-level artifact, which is why they were being hunted down.}

...

The sealed scenes of the past, like a floating movie, reappeared before Lin Xiaoxiao.

For three consecutive days, she had a high fever, with her body temperature remaining at 42 degrees Celsius. Everyone was worried that she would develop a serious illness from the fever and that her body would not be able to withstand it.

But apart from the high fever, she showed no other abnormalities.

When Lin Xiaoxiao woke up on the fourth day, she saw Xiao Weizhi sitting on the edge of the bed with a scruffy beard and messy hair, leaning back in a chair and resting with his eyes closed.

She tried to pull her hand away from being grabbed, but this startled Xiao Weizhi, who was pretending to be asleep.

He pressed the nurse call button immediately, then leaned against the bedside, reached out and touched her forehead. After confirming that her fever had subsided, he took Lin Xiaoxiao's hand and placed it on his chest with a relieved expression: "You're okay, that's great."

Lin Xiaoxiao felt the pounding heart beneath her hand, looked at the dark circles under his eyes, and asked in a hoarse, worried voice, "How long has it been since you slept?"

Xiao Weizhi replied gently, "I'm not sleepy."

Lin Xiaoxiao reached out and touched the beard that had grown on his chin, her eyes filled with concern: "Go and rest for a while, I'm fine."

Xiao Weizhi continued to press the bell: "Wait until you finish your inspection."

While the nurse was taking Lin Xiaoxiao for a check-up, Xiao Weizhi contacted Lin's second uncle to tell him that Lin Xiaoxiao had woken up.

After the examination was completed and Lin Xiaoxiao had calmed down her uncle Lin Ershen and others who had come to visit, and after the hospital's visiting hours had ended, Lin Xiaoxiao was finally able to settle down.

Late at night, Lin Xiaoxiao was held in the arms of Xiao Weizhi, who was fast asleep. She kept stroking the key that her second uncle had brought her, staring at the ceiling in deep thought, a bitter smile on her lips.

All the memories came together; she had not only transmigrated into a book, but also into a newborn baby.

Lin Xiaoxiao is her. No wonder she had always wondered why the original owner had so many of her habits. It turns out that the original owner's habits were exactly the same as hers.

As for why her parents disappeared, she also played a part in it; if it weren't for her memories from the 'book'...

Guiding my parents to obtain the divine seed through the secret realm: one becomes a wish-granting official under the God of Wisdom, and the other becomes a wish-granting official under the God of Rules, without attracting the covetous eyes of those people.

It wasn't until they found the key to the tomb that this was exposed, leading to endless pursuit. Left with no other choice, they sealed Lin Xiaoxiao's memories and fled in a sorry state.

As for why the parents didn't strongly object to Lin Xiaoxiao's transmigration into a book or her rebirth, that's another story.

This is because there are records from a long time ago that some divine agents have a tendency to awaken in their childhood, and they will gain an extra special memory, which leads to confusion and makes them say more outrageous things.

[For example: This world is a giant playground, and we are all puppets in the game; we are all lambs... and so on.]

As for why her parents knew these things, it was because their ancestors had once been wealthy, and these were secrets passed down from the Lin family ancestors.

Therefore, they also included Lin Xiaoxiao's childhood words in this category and concluded that Lin Xiaoxiao would successfully become a divine agent when she grew up.

Before leaving, he handed the key to the entrance of the tomb to Uncle Lin for safekeeping and gave him some instructions.

Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at the light screen hanging to the side:

Congratulations on obtaining: Divine Tomb Key (God-tier)

[Key to the Tomb of the Gods (Divine Level): This is a key that can open the tomb of the gods. Please keep it safe.]

She sighed helplessly, "This is outrageous!"

It was truly a bizarre and unpredictable experience. She still doesn't know if transmigrating into a book or being reborn is even real.

It's also possible that, as the parents say, the confusion is due to extra memories, or it could be the real situation.

As for why amnesia and memory disorder occurred later.

To be honest, Lin Xiaoxiao couldn't figure it out either. Maybe it was because she had faced a life-or-death crisis; maybe it was because she was too young when she used the memory-sealing tool; or maybe it was...

But who could have imagined that her parents would set the way to unlock the sealed item by having Uncle Lin recall the past and say a specific word?

Aren't they afraid that Uncle will never say that word in his entire life?

The reason she didn't remember in her past life was probably because of her; she never saw Uncle Lin again until her death, after all, she was the only one left in the Lin family at that time.

So the key question is, who ended up with this key to the tomb in the previous life?

Xiao Weizhi rested his head on her shoulder, his arm around her waist, and asked in a sleepy voice, "What's outrageous?"

Lin Xiaoxiao put the key in her hand into her spatial storage, reached out to touch his hair, and whispered to comfort him, "I want to say that my fever this time is really bad, you should go to sleep."

Not long after she finished speaking, she felt her waist being held tightly and heard a soft snore beside her. She slowly closed her eyes.

A few days later, after Lin Xiaoxiao recovered, she and Xiao Weizhi prepared to set off for the SSS-level secret realm, planning to go deep into the Black Abyss through the secret realm.

Before setting off, Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin asked worriedly whether they should rest for a while longer before departing.

Lin Xiaoxiao shook her head and refused. After thinking about certain things, she knew she couldn't waste time here. If she didn't work hard now, in a few years, that madman would start hunting.

Jiang Dehai and others also came to see them off. They looked more than ten years younger than themselves. They patted their chests and promised that they would take good care of Long Guo and the relatives of Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi.

These dozen or so elderly people became Lin Xiaoxiao's volunteers and attendants, assisting in the management of the Dragon Kingdom.

They also received a time capsule from Lin Xiaoxiao (obtained from Xingyan), which gave each of them an extra thirty years of lifespan.

He also instructed that if she couldn't be contacted, she could go to the underground auction house to find Wang Haozi. In an emergency, the four people hiding in the alternate dimension would be the best help.

After arranging everything, Lin Xiaoxiao and Xiao Weizhi held hands and stepped into the SSS-level secret realm: the portal to the vast ocean without looking back.