"You want to be the protagonist this time?"
The voice said, "That's strange. I remember you hated being the protagonist the most... because of that human?"
"Yes," Xie Jingyi said, "but I'm not the protagonist this time."
"...Even for you, doing this would be quite stressful, wouldn't it?" He said. "I know you wish to make that human even stronger, but you should be aware that my stage is not comparable to the small worlds you've been playing in before."
"He might die, but are you still going to make this deal?"
"My true form is on its way here," Xie Jingyi said. "And you're mistaken again. He's stronger than you think."
“…”
He said, "You value each other more than I thought."
"Do you agree to this deal?" Xie Jingyi asked.
"It's rare to see you perform well~" He said, "As usual, popularity is worth 73%~"
Xie Jingyi nodded, not caring about the details.
Only when he was alone here did Xie Jingyi let out a long sigh. He thought of Alger's passionate feelings, which seemed unbelievable to him at first. In his long life, even his home planet had lost its vitality. He thought that he could only wander from world to world, sleeping forever in that devastated world with no desire to live.
However, the elf's brilliant soul and vibrant vitality seemed to tell him that it was not true, that the barren land in his heart could still grow flowers. For someone who had not seen the light for too long, he retreated.
Xie Jingyi thought about how he had tried to accept other people's affections for the sake of validation, only to find them too artificial and fake, something he couldn't stand. Furthermore, in this world, he had already voluntarily lost his memory, and Xu Shiqing had no elf memories either. They had even been rivals, yet they still ended up together...
It’s ruined, completely ruined.
Xie Jingyi now only felt that the dust had settled. He touched his chest and found that he had just left not long ago, but he already wanted to see him.
He told himself not to rush. Although he had given the other party the clue, Xu Shiqing might not realize that Aljie and Xie Jingyi were the same person... and there was also a Gu Yi.
Thinking of the jealousy he had felt before, Xie Jingyi felt like dipping his toes into the ground again.
…
In the system space, Xu Shiqing looked a little dazed.
[Shi Qing, are you okay?] 021 was so anxious he was about to burst into tears, but he didn't dare show it. [Don't scare me. If it really doesn't work out, we can't force it. We can just stop the mission for a while.]
"021, besides the Space-Time Bureau, are there other things that can allow people to travel between different worlds?" Xu Shiqing asked.
This was a strange question. 021 didn't see that he seemed grief-stricken or hopeless, so she cautiously replied, "The world consciousness won't let anyone enter its world so easily..."
He suddenly realized something [What happened?]
"I think Alger and Xie Jingyi are the same person." Xu Shiqing said in a complicated tone. After he recovered from his sadness, he discovered the problem.
"Xie Jingyi told me to wait for him and that he would catch up with me," Xu Shiqing said. "Alger said the same thing to me in the end."
What if it's a coincidence? 021 doesn't want to criticize him, but he has to point it out.
"But can people from two different worlds be so similar?" Xu Shiqing said: "Habits, small movements, even their love for flowers..." Even their XP is very similar.
Xu Shiqing didn't say the last sentence. His intuition and rationality drove him to say the last sentence: "I don't think it's a coincidence."
[But I don't feel there is a system. Moreover, if multiple people accept the mission of a world at the same time, the company will definitely send a notification, and the systems will also communicate with each other...] That being said, the more 021 thought about it, the more it felt wrong. After all, he was a bystander in the two worlds most of the time, so he felt some details more clearly.
So He finally said, "I compared the data from the previous world with Alger's world. If it's a human, then he's either an illegal immigrant or a being on the same level as the world's consciousness."
Xu Shiqing nodded, and 021 hurried away again. The system space was now decorated into a spacious room. It was arranged by 021 according to the first world. After experiencing two more worlds, there are now many more things.
He looked at the ceiling and thought back to when he was still an elf. Perhaps because he realized that Xu Shiqing was too sentimental and too easily trapped in the past, Alger always told him to look forward.
Even if a half-blooded mermaid were to revert to their ancestral form, their strength would only increase, but their lifespan wouldn't increase much. Furthermore, even a pure-blooded mermaid's lifespan was short compared to that of an elf.
Alger always thought too far ahead, too much. He almost instinctively wondered what would happen to the elf if he died. He wouldn't give up, but Alger knew that the elf would be trapped in the time called Alger for the rest of its life.
And time will not really stop for anyone.
Alger couldn't accept the elf he cherished and carefully protected being tainted by anything dark and obscure, even if it was himself. He wanted the elf to remember him, but he absolutely didn't want that memory to prevent him from moving forward. That was not what Alger wanted. He couldn't bear to let the elf suffer even the slightest pain, so how could he bear to let it endure endless sorrow and memories?
He hoped that the high priest of the Temple of Nature would always be bright and lively, so even though Alger hoped to be with the elf forever, he was still willing to accept the infinite possibilities of the other party's future life, even if that did not include himself.
Xu Shiqing accepted this emotion ignorantly in the past, but now he truly understands what kind of expectation it is.
"You will catch up with me..." Xu Shiqing said to himself, "Then I should go to you too."
Xu Shiqing will move forward, towards the future, but at the same time, he must first find the idiot who said he wanted to catch up with him.
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