Chapter 52
Du Mingxing was so frightened that he nearly fell from the sky. What a coincidence! He ran into an elder who knew the original owner? A teacher, or perhaps a distant relative?
After careful consideration, Du Mingxing decided to be polite in front of an elder whose origins she didn't know. After all, she didn't have to play a role right now. "Excuse me, who are you...?"
"Oh, you really don't recognize me. That's right," the woman lowered her head and smiled bitterly, "I'm old, but you still look the same as before."
"Sister Xin, I'm Tianyu."
Du Mingxing was stunned and gained a clearer understanding of the length of ten years in an ordinary person's life.
Tianyu, a member of the "Naughty Team," has a baby face and is sometimes mistaken for a middle school student. She's the youngest of the three. At 27 years old, she's shed her youthful immaturity and is now in her prime, full of energy and vitality.
Du Mingxing couldn't help but look at her again, and finally saw some traces of the past in Tianyu's weather-beaten face. That apple-like baby face was still there, but it was a little tanned and wrinkled. The abundant collagen in high school was lost under the wind and sun of doomsday, and her face became much thinner.
Du Mingxing stared at his friend: "I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you."
"...it was indeed an illusion," Tianyu smiled, "Sister Xin won't apologize."
Tianyu turned her gaze to Shen Chumo again, and was about to ask something when she suddenly stopped and said "Hmm?" with a confused expression.
Du Mingxing was surprised to find that compared to Tianyu, Chen Chumo had not changed much, he was just more mature and cold. In short, he could be recognized.
"I'm sorry, sir. You look a lot like an old friend of mine." Tian Yu subconsciously tried to make amends for her own gaffe. She paused, looked at Chen Chumo, then at Du Mingxing, and felt something was wrong.
"Huh? The person you're traveling with Sister Xin is actually Shen Chumo himself, right?" She suddenly realized and asked a series of soul-searching questions, "Where have you been these past few years? I only heard from Saint Su when the doomsday first arrived that you had entered Sister Xin's pollution source. It seems you've managed to escape? Are you doing well? What's the matter with Sister Xin's condition?"
Du Mingxing knew that Shen Chumo was too lazy to reply, so he took the initiative to answer, making up stories on the spot, trying to make everything go back to normal.
"You guessed right. Chu Mo finally managed to escape by relying on his own supernatural powers. His supernatural powers are so strong that he can even make me appear in my imagination."
Tianyu walked forward, briefly forgetting her fear, and looked at Du Mingxing's face with nostalgia: "Wow, it's exactly the same, and it seems she's even more beautiful than I remembered."
"Your brother must have been sick with longing for you, which is why he portrayed you so clearly..."
Tianyu sighed endlessly, completely unaware that the air pressure around Shen Chumo was slowly sinking.
Du Mingxing quickly waved his hands: "No, you know I have a bad relationship with him."
"But aren't you also planning a birthday party for him? I imagine you two siblings are also... um?"
Tianyu was halfway through her words when Du Mingxing covered her mouth.
Du Mingxing was suddenly exposed and was terrified. He observed Shen Chumo's expression and was relieved when he saw that there was no strange expression on his face. At the same time, he laughed it off and tried to get away with it.
"What are you talking about? Don't forget, I was the one who tied him up and tortured him to death."
Tianyu was even more bewildered. She'd seen people flatter themselves, but she'd never seen anyone throw mud at themselves. However, since it was a man-made illusion, the lack of reasoning and logic was understandable.
Tianyu pulled Du Mingxing's hand away and coaxed the girl who used to be the leader of the team: "Sister Xin, if you say it's not okay, it's okay. I'll listen to you. However, it's undeniable that your brother has deep feelings for you."
Du Mingxing's face froze, and he didn't know how to refute.
Perhaps, hatred that penetrates deep into the bone marrow can, to some extent, be considered “deep” emotion.
Tianyu looked at her: "Your face has long been blurred in my memory, but he still remembers it so clearly, and you are still so beautiful in his eyes..."
“…”
"Not to mention, he even used his supernatural powers to create a you, pretending that you had never left and had always been by his side."
Du Mingxing observed Shen Chumo's expression, which was the same as his name, and interrupted her: "...Or, let's talk about something else. I know Chumo values family affection very much, it's normal."
"Yeah," Tianyu nodded, and rubbed Du Mingxing's skirt with her fingers. She couldn't help but sigh, taking the opportunity to flatter her benefactor, "Mr. Shen's ability is really powerful. Even the fabric is so real."
Seeing that she had finally let it go, Du Mingxing breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "This skirt is real. How is it? Does it look good?"
"It's a good fit! Mr. Shen has a really good eye!" Tian Yu thought for a moment, pulled Du Mingxing over, put her hand on her ear, and brought her mouth close to her. She exhaled lightly, as if she wanted to ask something.
Du Mingxing secretly laughed. As long as Shen Chumo wanted to hear, such whispers could not be hidden from his ears.
"Since the skirt is solid and you are semi-solid, do you not wear any clothes before putting on this skirt?"
Du Mingxing's pupils trembled.
Subconsciously glancing at Shen Chumo, she saw that he was already emitting a polluting factor, and knew that he had definitely heard it. ... Did Tianyu have to ruin the life she had finally escaped death like this?
Du Mingxing sighed. If she continued to act like this, she really wouldn't be able to protect Tianyu.
She looked at Tianyu as if she were a dead person: "I was wearing a virtual school uniform before, and then I changed into a skirt."
After saying that, she was afraid that Tianyu would explode, so she quickly changed the subject: "Tell me about you? You don't stay in the base, what are you doing here? Do you know it's dangerous?"
"Of course I know..." Tianyu smiled bitterly, "But I also want to contribute to saving everyone."
Du Mingxing was stunned: "What do you mean?"
"I heard that in the mountains near Mirror Lake, there's a herb called ambergris that can amplify supernatural powers in a short period of time. The Saint announced that with ambergris, she could purify the entire world, so volunteers have formed teams to search for it."
“…”
Du Mingxing remembered the plot. Su Zihan, who possessed the power of purification, was named the Savior of the World. To enhance her purification ability and completely eliminate the source of pollution in the world, Lin Muxiu suggested that he could use ambergris to make a potion for the final battle with Shen Chumo.
However, this herb is extremely rare, often growing on the dangerous peaks of towering mountains. It also has very stringent requirements for climate, rainfall, and regional pollution levels, making it extremely difficult to find. For this reason, Su Zihan stepped forward and announced to everyone that they should work together to purify the world.
But no one has ever found it, so after the protagonists heard that the herb was in Mirror Lake Mountains, they set out there. Among them, one of the teammates accidentally fell into Mirror Lake and gained superpowers, which became the key to defeating the S-level pollution source guarding the herb.
The original text did not mention Tianyu's search for ambergris, or rather, as a cannon fodder, Tianyu did not even have a proper ending, and most likely died at the beginning of the apocalypse.
Du Mingxing frowned deeply. "Tianyu, were you coerced into volunteering? Isn't it like sending yourself to death to come into such a dangerous situation?"
"No, I have special abilities and I volunteered to participate."
Tian Yu looked at Shen Chumo, wanting to get his permission to show that she was not aggressive, but she found that the way he glared at her...how to put it, it was a bit like being angry and embarrassed after being exposed?
Milliseconds later, he looked as usual, cold and aloof, as if he didn't want anyone to approach him.
Although he had been a loner in high school, he was nowhere near as mysterious and powerful as he is now. Tianyu sighed. Perhaps witnessing his sister's transformation into a source of pollution was too much of a blow to him.
Fortunately, there was the illusion of Shen Huaixin, otherwise she had a hunch that even if they had known each other before, this person would definitely not care about her. Tianyu's mind was very fast. It didn't matter if she couldn't directly please Shen Chumo himself, as long as she had to build a good relationship with this Shen Huaixin.
Shen Chumo nodded.
Tian Yu stretched out her hand in his direction, and a bit of blue energy was transmitted to him. Shen Chumo quickly made an evaluation.
"Too weak."
Du Mingxing guessed: "So, you're a support? The kind that boosts your teammates?"
"You could say that," Tianyu nodded slightly and explained, "It's to restore teammates' fatigue and improve their physical strength."
Du Mingxing praised enthusiastically, "Very good! In games, there's always a saying, 'DPS changes, but support remains.'"
She immediately understood why Tianyu was lucky enough to survive, because her teammates were providing damage in the front, and she, as a support, could stay in the relatively safe back row.
"And, Sister Xin, I want to thank you for this," Tianyu held Du Mingxing's hands, her eyes sincere and sad. "It was because of the amulet you gave me that I accidentally awakened my supernatural powers after being contaminated. Without it, I would have died long ago."
"Although, after reviewing the incident, I couldn't figure out how you could have foreseen the terrible things that were about to happen and gave us the amulet."
"It's thanks to you that you prepared the supplies for us. Xiao Zheng and I were able to survive the most difficult period at the beginning. But, I never understood why you didn't just tell us directly."
"But in the end I convinced myself. You probably know that no one would believe you even if you told them."
Du Mingxing pursed her lips, feeling guilty. She should have told him in advance, and she had considered it, but because the system warned against spoilers, she only helped secretly, causing Xiong Zichen to not escape his fate.
"You mean, you and Xiao Zheng both survived?" Du Mingxing's eyes were slightly red. "Is she okay now?"
Tianyu looked at her expression and nodded vigorously, so hard that tears fell.
This illusion was so realistic that it seemed as if her own soul was standing before her, simply caring about their well-being like a friend. This made Tianyu's heart, which had long been numb in the end times, feel a long-lost bitterness and emotion.
"Xiao Zheng is alive. Oh, and she's planning to get married. The wedding date is already set. How about we attend together and be her bridesmaids?"
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