【Tracing upstream? So what is tracing upstream?】
He walked to the table, poured himself a glass of water to soothe his throat, and calmly sat down, not ashamed to ask questions.
Strangely enough, ever since I met Pei Yi, I feel like there are suddenly so many bizarre and incomprehensible things in this world. It's like I've been kept in the dark all along, and I'm the only useless person in the world, while everyone else is secretly cultivating immortality.
When asked this question suddenly, Jide felt a bit confused. After thinking for a moment, it came up with a better explanation.
【溯洄 means to trace back the memory and go back to the past. For example, when your brother saved you, he used 溯洄.
Although we sometimes call this rebirth... it's still not quite the same.
So what's the difference between the two?
Rebirth is about going back to the past and living it all over again. Retrospection, on the other hand, is more about going back to a specific point in the past to change things, using those changes to shape the future, and then returning to the present.
【hiss……】
Zhan Xinjia silently covered her head with both hands.
When Jide saw her sullen, cat-like face, he knew that she not only didn't understand, but also had a headache.
That silly girl, Meibao!!
Ji De rebuked her angrily and continued to rack his brains to explain to her.
Uh... it's like being reborn. You wake up and suddenly find yourself back to when you were seven years old, and then you live your life all over again from the age of seven.
If you were to relive that experience, you would also wake up as a seven-year-old, but you can't stay at that age for very long; it's only temporary.
Then, in this "temporary" time, can I do something that can change the future?
For example, if I went back to when I was seven years old, suddenly went mad, and strangled Yan Huishi, and then returned to the present after the time travel ended, Yan Huishi would really be dead, and my whole family would be executed for plotting against the crown prince?
【Hey! Yes! That's it! But isn't your example a bit too terrifying for the return of the geese, meow? ? ? 】
After finally finishing the discussion, the person and the cat (the leader) fell silent again.
So what does it mean when Yan Wuju suddenly starts chanting "Su Hui"?
Holding the cup and sipping the tea, Zhan Xinjia frowned, trying to think.
Does he mean for us to go upstream? But what's the point of going upstream? To save him?
That's impossible!
Ji De immediately denied it, and even laughed at himself for being poor.
[Hahaha, I couldn't earn that many points even if I worked for another five hundred years. Just think, I went bankrupt and went into hibernation just by sending your brother back half an hour ago. How expensive would that function be?]
[But just because you can't afford it doesn't mean Pei Yi can't afford it!]
At this point, both the man and the cat were shocked, their fur standing on end, and a chill ran down their spines.
Could it be that Pei Yi and Mu Yunlan inadvertently mentioned something about retrograde travel, which Yan Wuju overheard, and that's why Yan Wuju remembered this strange word? But what does Pei Yi intend to do with retrograde travel?
No… she was a little worried. It was best to tell everyone about this beforehand, so as not to be caught off guard.
Thinking of this, Zhan Xinjia drank the tea in her cup in one gulp, put down the cup, and limped towards the door. However, after only a few steps, ripples of fluorescent blue light appeared in front of her eyes, and the scene spun around her, making her dizzy.
Staggering a few steps while holding her head, Zhan Xinjia shook her head, trying to wake herself from this dazed state, but no matter how she resisted, it was no use; the dizziness only grew stronger.
It's like drinking fake alcohol.
Everything before my eyes is upside down, constantly changing, and detaching.
She swallowed the curse word with difficulty. Could this be...?
The good deeds I had been cultivating in my mind suddenly broke through my defenses—
[Holy crap! No, it actually has points that can be transferred back!! We're all systems, so why am I so poor that I have to stretch every single point in half, while it has everything? Is this right???]
Zhan Xinjia: "..."
Is this the important thing, kid?
What if Pei Yi went back sixteen years and strangled me in my cradle? Wouldn't that be madness?!
No, Pei Yi can't do it himself. He can only use the Tracing Back function on his own host, Mu Yunlan.
As it turns out, Zhan Xinjia's concerns were justified.
When her dizziness finally subsided and the chaotic scene before her eyes froze, she suppressed her nausea and leaned against the wall to regain her senses. Upon closer inspection, she realized that the scene before her was actually the old general's mansion on the outskirts of the capital.
The sky was clear and blue, bathed in the bright and radiant spring sunshine of March. The warmth was invigorating, and the air carried the moist scent of dew and earth after the rain, fresh and clear.
Faintly, one could hear the wind whistling through the dense forest and the babbling of the river. Zhan Xinjia looked up and saw several branches of pure white pear blossoms in full bloom peeking out from behind the green wall of the courtyard. The stamens were still covered with dew and trembled gently in the breeze.
She froze, then instinctively touched herself from head to toe.
I didn't get smaller!
"Of course, after all, you weren't the one who went back in time. But why were you dragged into this? That doesn't make sense! Unless Mu Yunlan secretly brought you in behind Pei Yi's back..."
So the question is, why did Mu Yunlan bring her in?
Oh well! Let's go in and take a look first.
Zhan Xinjia was too lazy to listen to Jide's complicated settings and theories. In short, she had inexplicably returned to the past, but she didn't know what year or point in time it was.
However, she soon found out—
"Little Zhi, be a good boy at home and listen to your brother, okay? Mommy will be back soon after buying things."
The trees cast a dense canopy of shade, scattering dappled golden light through their lush foliage, so bright it hurt the eyes. A beautiful young woman, dressed in a smoky red gauze dress, gently smiled as she bent down to stroke her youngest daughter's hair. Beside her were two maids carrying bamboo baskets.
Clearly, the woman was about to go out into the city.
The little girl tiptoed and kissed her mother on both cheeks before blinking her big eyes and reluctantly letting go, her voice muffled.
She tugged at the woman's sleeve and shook her coquettishly.
"Mom, buy me some candy!"
"Your brother brought you that bag of osmanthus candy last time, and it ruined your teeth. Don't you remember? You're too young to eat so much candy. If you have a toothache, you'll come crying to your mother again."
"But Mother~"
"Alright, little one, you're still losing your baby teeth. Do you want to end up with a gap in your teeth and be laughed at by Shi and Xiaoyue when you go out to play?"
"Okay..."
Hearing that the little girl had finally given in, the woman smiled and patted her head, then glanced suspiciously at her eldest son, whose face had been pale and unpleasant since earlier.
"Ah Jian, keep an eye on your sister. You two, don't sneak off to the river to catch fish, you know?"
The young man nodded stiffly.
Although she was still inexplicably worried, with so many servants and maids in the house, surely they couldn't not take care of the two children. After thinking for a while, the woman finally turned around and left with her personal maid, getting into the carriage.
As the carriage drove further and further away, Zhan Xinjia, who had been stunned, finally came to her senses and frantically waved her hands as she chased after it.
"Mom?... Oh my god, Mom! Take us with you too, Mom!!"
No matter how much she called after her, there was no response.
Because the protagonist of the retrospective is not her, but Mu Yunlan, she cannot interfere with the past and can only observe from the sidelines.
That's normal, otherwise if she just brought back a whole cart full of bread-making men, wouldn't the assassins sent by Wu Lanlian be in an uproar?
But for Zhan Xinjia, the current situation was worse than death, more terrifying and hopeless. If Mu Yunlan traveled back to this year to kill her when she was seven and to correct the plot, then her brother…
No, the current young man Zhan Yinshu is already the one who returned from the past, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to stay in the manor!
But right now, all I can do is watch.
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