Chapter 277 The Original Trio In the original book, Lin Xiao was...
In the original book, Lin Xiao is an eighteen-year-old youth who, despite his unlucky childhood, still has a sunny and optimistic heart.
Especially after they went to seal the rift with Aria and others, their sealing speed couldn't keep up with the speed at which the rift appeared. In the later stages, they could only watch helplessly as the crisis brought by the rift dragged ordinary residents of the continent into a rule mutation.
It cannot be saved, nor can it be reversed.
This situation had driven his companions to the brink of collapse several times, and had also woken Lin Xiao from his sleep several times. Even so, he remained optimistic and hoped that one day a solution could be found to calm everything down.
"After everything is over, I will go back to Ping'an Town, buy a house, raise a bunch of cats, and plant fruit trees all over the yard."
"Hmm... I also want to make a swing in the yard!"
When Lin Xiaozhen, as recorded in the original book, appeared before Sang Zhitao, she couldn't help but be shocked by his transformation.
"How...how did you become like this?" Sang Zhitao looked at the boy in front of her, who was as cold as an iceberg, and suddenly didn't know what to say.
Lin Xiao didn't understand why the noble girl in front of him was so excited to see him. He nodded indifferently, his eyes silently urging Mihar on.
Mihar glanced at him with guilt in his eyes before saying to Sang Zhitao, "You know Xiao?"
Sang Zhitao's gaze remained fixed on Lin Xiao, and she merely nodded casually to Mihar.
She didn't care about Lin Xiao's attitude; she was only interested in the familiar, refreshing scent emanating from him.
Lin Xiao felt the gaze behind her and, feeling somewhat uncomfortable, moved closer to Mikhail.
Mihar was about to reach out and pat his head.
Lin Xiao was grabbed by Sang Zhitao.
"Don't move!" Before Lin Xiao could refuse, Sang Zhitao walked directly to Lin Xiao and touched Lin Xiao's forehead with her finger.
Lin Xiao felt a burning sensation where Sang Zhitao had touched her.
Then he felt a sharp pain in his head, as if something was trying to come out from between his eyebrows.
From the outside, it appeared as if Sang Zhitao suddenly grabbed Lin Xiao's arm and tapped his forehead with her finger.
Lin Xiao closed his eyes tightly, his face was pale, and large beads of sweat kept falling from his forehead.
“This…” Mihar solemnly pulled back the middle-aged man who wanted to step forward, and then gave Aure and the others a wink.
Aurel pulled Maria back a few steps to make room for them.
Maria frowned and looked at Michal with a puzzled expression: "What's wrong?"
The middle-aged man next to him seemed to realize something at this moment, and the worry on his face lessened, replaced by a strange sense of joy.
Mihar looked at Maria in surprise: "You didn't know?!"
Maria frowned. "What should I know?"
Mikhail sighed: "What did Gaius tell you?"
Maria frowned and shook her head: "His Majesty only told us to take good care of Your Excellency."
"So you didn't tell her the truth?" Mihar thought of Sang Zhitao's questioning of Lin Xiao and instantly understood.
Maria shook her head: "I haven't had a chance to say it yet."
Mikhail gave her a deep look: "Is it because you didn't have time, or are you deliberately keeping quiet?"
Maria was taken aback when she heard Mihar, who had always appeared gentle and refined in front of them, ask such a sharp question.
Mihar, however, seemed to say nothing, turning his gaze to Sang Zhitao: "She may be the hope for solving everything."
"What?!" Maria didn't understand what he meant for a moment.
Before she could ask any further questions, a sharp, crystal-like object had already appeared in Lin Xiaomei's mind.
Looking at the crystal object that resembled a slender triangle, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but sigh, "Just as I expected."
What exists within Lin Xiao's body is a fragment of this world.
"This shape looks familiar." She examined the fragments carefully, tapping her chin with her fingertip.
“It looks a bit like the logo of the Magic Association.” Michal lowered his voice and leaned forward slightly.
His sudden question startled Sang Zhitao, but she quickly recovered: "What does the Magic Association's emblem look like?"
Mihar took a badge from his chest, which was hidden by his drooping hair, and handed it to Sang Zhitao.
Looking at the beautiful six-pointed star symbol on it, she carefully compared it with the fragment in her hand and found that it did indeed look like one point of a six-pointed star.
"So, if the complete version is a six-pointed star, wouldn't we need to find all six pieces?" She rubbed her temples and couldn't help but mutter to herself.
Mikhail, however, smiled and said, "Perhaps it's not necessary?"
Sang Zhitao looked at him suspiciously: "You seem to know something that others don't."
Mihar didn't reply to her. Instead, he looked at the middle-aged man beside him, sighed slightly, and then respectfully bowed deeply to Sang Zhitao: "Thank you for your presence, Your Excellency the Holy Maiden."
Sang Zhitao stared at him in astonishment: "What saintess?"
“A year ago, divine pronouncements appeared on three continents, and we learned from them that you would appear and resolve all crises,” he explained with a smile.
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. Although this wasn't the first time she had been recognized as a savior by the natives as soon as she entered the world, it was the first time she had been treated as a savior so soon after arriving.
“We were just about to head to the Guardian Tower, you can come with us.” Mihar glanced at Lin Xiao as if completing some kind of task before speaking to Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao looked at Lin Xiao and asked curiously, "What were your plans before? From what you're saying, you only just confirmed that I'm the Holy Maiden, right?"
Mihar smiled and said, "We are mainly here to pick up Lin Xiao, the Son of Heaven, and Ailiya and Ying."
"Shouldn't we go pick them up now?" Sang Zhitao glanced at Lin Xiao beside her, but didn't see the other two.
Arya and Shadow were both members of the original trio, and the fact that the Guardian Tower took them into the tower also happened in the original book, so Sang Zhitao didn't find it strange.
Mikhail smiled and nodded: "It's alright, we can send someone to pick up the other two, you are the most important one."
Hearing him say that, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but glance at Maria beside her: "It's not a bad idea for me to follow Aure and Maria. We can go for a walk."
Mihar paused, opened his mouth as if to urge Sang Zhitao to go to the Guardian Tower as soon as possible, but he was unsure whether his words would offend the Holy Maiden.
Before he could hesitate, Sang Zhitao said directly, "I also want to learn about the rule changes in the Sky Continent."
"A change in the rules?" Mihar and the people around him exclaimed in surprise.
Sang Zhitao then realized that what the people on the three continents had encountered was merely a disaster caused by a spatial rift, not an anomaly in the rules.
Sang Zhitao didn't elaborate, simply saying, "Yes, the memory plague is not only pollution, but it has also affected the operating rules of the Sky Continent."
Seeing that everyone who heard her looked blank and incomprehensible, Sang Zhitao sighed silently: "Forget it, you wouldn't understand even if I explained."
Unlike others who would have given up after hearing her words, Lin Xiao asked rather eagerly, "Can you really solve all of this?"
Sang Zhitao glanced at Mihar, then at Maria and Aure, who were also looking at her eagerly, and nodded helplessly: "It's probably pretty close."
That's the truth. Although there's still no clue at the moment, she can sense that once the real problem is solved, things will be pretty much settled.
As for the pollution she brought, it can simply be purified with her former jade pendant. Since the jade pendant shattered together with her in the last world, it has now become one with her, so it can be purified with her current energy.
However, she had secretly tried it last night, and the current energy was not enough to purify a world. The small space she had secretly purified was polluted again not long afterward.
Therefore, she must purify the entire world in one go, which requires her to absorb world fragments closely related to this world.
Hearing her say that others was fine, but Lin Xiao looked doubtful. However, he didn't say anything. Instead, he nodded slightly to Sang Zhitao and returned to a carriage guarding the tower.
Maria now understood the importance of Sang Zhitao and dared not place her safety entirely on Aure and the others.
Therefore, she walked up to Sang Zhitao and said respectfully, "You'd better go with the Guardian Tower; it will be safer that way."
Not only did she say that, but even Aurelius next to her nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, Sang Zhitao could only softly agree, "Alright."
Seeing that she agreed, Mikhail's smile became even more genuine.
Without further delay, the group merged into one team and entered the teleportation array.
After teleporting to three cities in succession, they encountered Aria and Shadow in Mia City.
Arya is a tall, blue-haired beauty, around twenty-three or twenty-four years old. Her right hand and right leg are mechanical, engraved with dazzling magic circles.
Sang Zhitao knew that a magical AI, Airo, was installed on her right arm, and that this right arm could analyze and decipher magic, making it a very useful aid in battle.
but……
Sang Zhitao looked at her right leg. In her original book, she had never written that Aria's right leg had also been modified.
She unconsciously frowned slightly, subconsciously thinking of Maria's slip of the tongue, the memory bottle that never appeared in the original book, and Lin Xiao's drastically changed appearance.
The world is definitely not as she initially thought; time is still before the story even began.
With that thought in mind, Sang Zhitao turned her gaze to the shadow beside her.
The character Ying is not much different from the description in the original book.
He still looked disheveled, wearing a suit of armor that had been used by who-knows-how-many times and was missing arms and legs.
He was thirty-five years old but looked over forty, and he spent his days half-closing his eyes and lying down wherever he pleased.
At this moment, he leaned against the white carriage guarding the tower, making him appear even more filthy.
"Are you the legendary Holy Maiden?" Aria's questioning eyes swept over Sang Zhitao from head to toe.
Sang Zhitao nodded.
Aria's eyes flickered slightly, and she asked softly, "Was the yellow paper that appeared in Emerald City also your doing?"
Sang Zhitao was surprised that Ailiya also knew about the talisman paper, and nodded without hesitation.
This time, not only Aria but even Shadow glanced at her in surprise.
Sang Zhitao never expected that the twenty talismans would cause such a sensation on the Sky Continent during this period.
It's safe to say that if she were to raise her voice and reveal her identity now, she would definitely attract a huge following.
“Perhaps… you really are our hope.” Aria sighed softly and walked up to Lin Xiao. “Long time no see.”
Lin Xiao nodded indifferently to her. His eyes, which were cold to everyone, finally showed a hint of emotion when he saw Ailiya and the figure behind her.
“Let’s go, the next city is Linhai City.” Mihar’s appearance interrupted their conversation.
"Once you reach Linhai City, you'll be at the Guardian Tower. We will escort you to Linhai City," Maria said softly, smiling as she adjusted Sang Zhitao's cloak.
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