Chapter 284 First Update

"Jiang Ming's white shadow." Ning Mingmei said word by word, "That is the former 'Ning Mingmei'. Tell me, after I came here, where did Jiang Ming's soul go?"

…

There was a long silence.

The system fell into a long silence. This is somewhat unusual. Ning Mingmei held his breath and silently observed the system's next reaction.

Sure enough, he heard a faint sound.

"...Sure enough, is it because you are twins? With the help of his connection with you, he found your world. Now, this connection in turn makes you..."

Is there some kind of connection between Jiang Ming and Jiang Mei due to blood relationship and causality? Therefore, the system can find the present Ningmingmeijiangming through the past Ningmingmeijiangming. Because of this connection, Jiang Mei can now see fragments of Jiang Ming that even the system cannot control.

Like some kind of overflow that the system can't control.

Ning Mingmei is still waiting. But obviously, the system had no intention of continuing. The few sentences just revealed were just the "thoughts" that Ning Mingmei read and leaked unconsciously.

In other words, the system is more like a kind of "life" or "spirit".

"So, you had ulterior motives when you chose me in the beginning." Ning Mingmei said, "Are you related to the Heavenly Dao? Are you related to the Heavenly Gate? Are you related to the Goddess? Or..."

"Is it related to a certain artifact?"

"Ning Mingmei." The system avoided Ning Mingmei's question. Its tone was extremely cold. "Your mission here is to change Ning Mingmei's life, that's all. So..."

"You are finally willing to tell the truth?" Ning Mingmei suddenly said, "My purpose of traveling here is not to influence or kill Lian Chengyue, but to change Ning Mingmei's life - these two are choices that Jiang Ming has never made -"

"No matter who stays here between you and Jiang Ming, it's Ning Mingmei, that's all."

The system actually shut itself down, no longer contacting Ning Mingmei, and refusing to give any answers, as if it had never existed. Ning Mingmei's expression then became somewhat ugly.

But what followed was indifference and calmness.

His doubts still remained: whether Jiang Ming's soul still existed and whether it would enter this body again. But at the same time, Ning Mingmei also confirmed another conjecture.

The system is not something that can cover everything. It is not a law of causality, but a "magic weapon" that can also make mistakes. It chose Ning Mingmei to be Ning Mingmei, not because it could choose anyone, but because Ning Mingmei itself is special. Before the gap in time and space, there were originally two possible futures: one was that the child who fell into the gap would be enlightened, and the other was that the child who fell into the gap would be ignorant. But no matter what, there will be a person named "Ning Mingmei" in both worlds.

The law of cause and effect is difficult to fight against, but magical weapons can fight against it. So the idea that had been lingering in Ning Mingmei's mind for a long time but had never been proposed by him when the time was not right appeared again.

——Bypass the system and return to the original world.

Since there is a space-time rift in this world that leads to the world where Ning Mingmei originally lived and exists in the secret realm where Jiang Heng accidentally lost his child, there must be another space-time rift that allowed Weng Xingyun to come to this world. Coincidentally, the two cracks lead to the same place.

After years of analysis, Ning Mingmei can now confirm this: Weng Xingyun and he come from the same world, and even their eras are very similar. The thousand years that separated him from Weng Xingyun was only two years in his original world.

There is also a story in folk gossip. When people asked Weng Xingyun why he chose the fairy island on the sea as the "base" for Xinghuo Island, there were clearly many better options in the world. Weng Xingyun said at the time: "Because this is where I first started."

Many people think that Weng Xingyun’s words “the place where it all started” were because the first time she was discovered doing chivalrous work was on Xinghuo Island.

But now Ning Mingmei realized that maybe not.

Perhaps the space-time rift of Weng Xingyun... is on the Spark Island which no one can approach now. Perhaps even the goddess doesn't know this secret.

But problems also arise.

"Do you want to go back?"

Ning Mingmei looked at his hands.

He originally had a callus on his finger. The callus on the middle finger of his right hand is the mark left by years of doing exercises. The pens were leaning there. They wrote out the steps to answer questions, the formulas for programs, and the declarations of countless materials... Ning Mingmei's personality was formed during those days and nights of studying late into the night. The Ning Mingmei of today grew up from the past in that world.

He knew how to conduct academics because of his many years of studying. He knew how to interact with people in the world of immortal cultivation, thanks to the training he received after becoming a doctor. He likes drinking coffee because the coffee shops near the school often give out coupons with 18% off. He liked drinking milk tea because of the kind and friendly face of the auntie in the milk tea shop... Ning Mingmei believed that his formation had nothing to do with the decades in this world of cultivating immortals. It is another world that is inextricably linked to him and makes him who he is today.

Moreover, in that world, he still had things to accomplish.

And there is a dusty corridor...

Ning Mingmei lowered his head and thought for a moment, then he said to himself, "The ruins of Spark Island must be found and accessible. The crack that may exist in Spark Island must also be found."

Apart from this, Ning Mingmei did not give any other instructions to himself.

Ning Mingmei continued to move forward. From the moment he began to question the system, no white shadow appeared in his field of vision. Finally, Ning Mingmei arrived at the place Baimian said.

Archives of Changle Gate.

The archives are said to be heavily guarded. Ning Mingmei had already made all preparations before entering. This place is also deep in Changle Gate, a place that has not been affected by any war. But soon during the infiltration process, Ning Mingmei discovered something was wrong.

The security outside the archives is indeed tight - but it's only the perimeter. Once you get around that layer, the interior is almost unguarded, like a colander. Ning Mingmei sneaked in easily.

Originally, he had prepared for "physical infiltration". As long as I kill fast enough, others can't see me.

"Did Chang Feichang start the fight? No, there is no smell of blood in the air. There are no signs of fighting in the garden here. For example, there should be a sentry post here, but even Chang Feichang can't do it so cleanly - it's normal to be so clean that others can't see it, but it's too abnormal to be so clean that I can't see it." Ning Mingmei pondered, "But the perimeter looks like it's impregnable... This makes the guarding of the perimeter seem like a 'performance'."

But who should I perform for?

Now there are only the cauldron and the cauldron in Changle Gate. Who can we perform for?

Ning Mingmei felt a little depressed. After thinking about it, he took out the human skin mask that he had prepared long ago and put Jiang Duo's face on it - this human skin mask was made of Jiang Duo's arm skin to ensure its authenticity. Even if he had a quarrel with someone during a fight, he could cut off a part of his facial skin and do a DNA test, and the person who came here today would still be Jiang Duo.

He scanned the surroundings with his spiritual sense and opened the entrance to a secret room deep in the inconspicuous treasure pavilion.

The entrance to the secret room closed automatically behind him. Ning Mingmei touched it and confirmed that he could directly blow up the iron door and leave in an emergency. We in the Refining Void Stage can do anything.

There is not a strong smell of dust in the archive room. It seems that Lin Sang, the military strategist among the three giants of Changle Sect, has often come here in recent times, collecting evidence and evidence of crimes of various sects through investigations into historical records.

However, the previous leader of Changle Sect obviously had not studied archival science. All the documents of Changle Gate were piled together in a mess, without any distinction of year or priority, but roughly classified by type. Ning Mingmei frowned and had to look for the materials he needed according to the year and nature of the files.

At the same time, he flipped his hand and took out the latest technology from the Piaomiao Peak-Yinbing Pavilion Laboratory.

——Search engine.

This fuzzy search engine is a white jade ruyi. Ning Mingmei inputs the content he wants to search into it, and it will perform fuzzy matching. If there is corresponding content in the part of the material it illuminates, it will turn red.

This fuzzy match can sometimes be quite fuzzy. For example, if Ning Mingmei searches for "Jiang Heng", it will also mark some things related to flowers and plants in red. But it doesn’t matter. Ning Mingmei didn’t come here to take away any specific document. He could even take one-eighth of the files if there was a chance that it might contain what he needed.

Ning Mingmei divided all the files into two parts, searching for information related to himself and Jiang Heng. In the end, he took away nearly one-sixteenth of the files without even looking at them. There are too many files and they are too messy. Without these files, it won’t be very obvious.

Ning Mingmei put all the things in his storage bag. At the same time, Ning Mingmei also found the secret door in the secret room that Baimian mentioned.

Even Lin Sang and the others might not be aware of this secret door. I also found out about Baimian by chance because of the previous sect master. Ning Mingmei drew a totem on the wall with his finger, and finally, the wall turned over.

Ning Mingmei went in and the wall returned to its original state.

The secret door contains the "souvenirs" of the successive masters of Changle Sect. The “souvenirs” are fewer in number, but they are also very important, which makes them easier to find.

Finally, Ning Mingmei found Jiang Heng's portrait in a dusty cabinet. He opened the scroll and saw that the girl in the scroll was 70% similar to him. She stared at the people outside the painting coldly and stubbornly.

"Very good." Ning Mingmei said in a low voice.

He put away the scroll and looked at another grid with an unpleasant look. Each grid in the inner secret room belongs to a furnace. Judging from the traces of fallen dust, two things had been placed there. The same sword that Ning Mingmei had seen before in his memories related to Jiang Ming. It was the sword he had used. Another thing was missing.

Has this thing been taken out? Was it held by someone? What exactly is this thing?

However, if only Lu Ding's identity was exposed, it would not be a major crisis for Ning Mingmei. Soon, Ning Mingmei's spirit calmed down.

He was about to leave when he heard a voice outside.

Someone has entered the secret room!

Ning Mingmei stuck to the door and scanned the outside with his spiritual sense.

The person who appeared outside was Zhen Dong, one of the three giants of Changle Gate.

What is she doing here?