"If you only brought this little bit of food, I'd probably throw up by the end." Daisy stuck out her tongue as she listened, and He Chu nodded in agreement.
They usually stayed by Lin Beiyue's side and, in most cases, had no shortage of food and drink.
However, Lin Beiyue couldn't stay with them every day. Sometimes they would go on small expeditions in twos and threes, and they would even bring three different flavors of compressed biscuits.
The higher-ups were understanding of them, so even though it was just an ordinary energy bar, they made several flavors: five-spice, soy sauce, spicy, numbing spicy, original, scallion... and even cilantro.
The thought of eating only potatoes, cheese, and canned meat for a long time makes my eyes water.
Is Sister Yin going through a tribulation?
"Compared to this, not being able to drink is the real torture for them," Shi Yin chuckled. "Drinking in the cold can easily cause hypothermia, so they'll secretly hide a small bottle and chug it down in one gulp when it's in a critical moment, as if they've lived a life without regrets."
"oh……"
This was the first time anyone had seen such a gentle expression on Shi Yin's face, as if she were comforting them or reminiscing about the past.
At this moment, Shi Yin finally seemed to be closer to them, no longer so far away, and truly became someone they could touch.
"But I won't drink either. Their liquor is too strong, and mixing drinks when you're out and about is too harsh." Seeing everyone listening intently, Shi Yin clapped her hands: "Alright, let's take a lunch break. Aren't you all tired from getting up so early this morning?"
"That's because I couldn't sleep this morning, I was too excited." Daisy leaned against Tokine and grinned, "Finally, I can catch Tokine-nee to go out with me."
"Alright, everyone, please rest assured. My protection level is still very high, and I will notify us in advance if there is any danger." Lin Beiyue quickly interrupted everyone's desire to continue listening to the story, afraid that Shi Yin would get tired.
It's okay, we can tell this story privately later, hehehe...
The others chatted happily for a while, but eventually drifted off to sleep in the heat. The sweltering heat always made people feel tired, especially in the rainforest, where it felt as if they were enveloped in a layer of scalding steam.
Everyone turned the miniature air conditioner in their combat suits to the lowest temperature before they felt a little better. They simply spread some grass on it and lay down to make a bed.
As the sun rose higher, even the buzzing of insects fell silent, and the rainforest fell into complete stillness. In such high temperatures, even heat-resistant insects sought refuge in the shade.
"Isn't it hot, sister? You're not even wearing your combat uniform." Even as she said this, Freya wasn't wearing her combat uniform either.
She doesn't need the features of combat uniforms; tight-fitting, sweat-wicking clothing is a better choice for her.
Shi Yin sat on a high branch, looking out into the distance. Through the shade of the tree, she could see even more distant crises and changes. Shi Yin casually cleaned up some mutated animals and insects and threw them aside. Sitting on the branch, she quietly pondered.
"Alright, alright, I admit I was just making conversation. Aren't you going to rest, sister? I can keep watch for you." Freya ignored Nan Zhu's gloomy gaze and came to Shi Yin's side: "Sister, you can trust my abilities."
"No need," Shi Yin shook her head. "Go and rest."
"Sister, do you not want us to come this time?" Freya tilted her head and looked at Shi Yin. "When I saw you confirming the list, you looked at it for a long, long time."
“You are a special case; the first group in the New World will be targeting you.” Shi Yin did not refute this: “I don’t have complete confidence in your safety.”
“But I’m curious, it seems like my sister has been in a tense state ever since Mr. Agareth’s sacrifice.” Freya held Tokine’s hand: “Sister, you’re not sad about Mr. Agareth, are you? But logically, you should feel relaxed after he solved such a huge crisis.”
Freya felt the hand she was holding suddenly tighten. At such close range, Freya sensed Tokine's unease and confusion.
Why.
"Sigh..." After a long while, Shi Yin sighed, "You don't need to think about these things."
“That’s not right of you, sister. We can help you share the burden.” Freya pouted and retorted, “A king may be aloof, but you don’t have to be so lonely. I will always stand by you, sister, no matter what.”
“Unconditionally,” Freya added with a smile.
"No, I'm just not sure yet." Shi Yin pressed her temples. "Freya, if a destiny is predetermined, what do you think I would do given my personality?"
“Of course it will break fate, just like how my sister has reincarnated so many times, isn’t it all because she’s been fighting against fate?” Freya thought for a moment: “In my opinion, fate is a very fragile thing, easy to change, but difficult to control.”
"Even the slightest fluctuation can trigger a huge butterfly effect, but it is completely uncontrollable. The most likely consequence of such a change is that it will lead from misfortune to an even greater misfortune, right?"
"But you've repeated this so many times, isn't it to make fate controllable?" Freya continued, "At least for now, it seems like everything is going according to your plan. At least it hasn't reached the point of change yet."
“No, this time the changes are the biggest compared to before.” Shi Yin shook her head.
"But the outcome hasn't changed, has it?" Freya pondered. "The change my sister mentioned is probably the speed at which events occur, but the people who should have sacrificed themselves and the outcomes for some people haven't changed, have they?"
“My sister has repeated this so many times, each time she must have done her best to survive to the end, which means that each time she has put up a fierce resistance and resisted to the very end,” Freya said. “If it were a predetermined fate, my sister would not have listened to it.”
Freya had already emerged, her cold and even rigid execution of the plan revealing the madness and rebelliousness behind Tokine's actions.
“No, I mean…” Shi Yin crossed her arms, carefully choosing her words: “What if it was a fate I chose for myself?”
Freya: "Huh?"
"Freya, I'm a little unsure, but I can only move forward." Shi Yin sighed.
Shi Yin always believed that she had been reborn more than a thousand times, and she used these thousand-plus rebirths as a basis to continuously extract useful information and plan for a better future.
However, when Aga Ray sacrificed himself, Shi Yin was really injured and fell into a coma. She regained her own memories and suddenly realized that this serious injury was arranged by "herself".
Tokine possesses a memory containing part of the truth and reason about the new world.
However, Shi Yin also keenly sensed that she still had at least one blank memory, which should still be in a sealed state.
Shi Yin was caught in a dilemma.
She was not one to stay at home, otherwise she wouldn't have taken the lead in rebelling to the death. Shi Yin hated the feeling of being restrained the most, but now Shi Yin suddenly realized that this feeling of being restrained came from herself.
Perhaps she should trust herself, because it is she who makes the decision.
Or should she find another way out? Is a predetermined fate not fate at all? Can't even she control her own destiny?
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