An An thought so, and in addition to the necessary rest and nutrient intake, she spent a whole day in "Daydream Rewind" before finally unlocking the "Rewind" function.
After unlocking it, she discovered that this [Retrace] function also had requirements for fate value. One had to reach a certain fate value before entering the retrace. However, because An An only had one initial natal card, Lin Jinglin, the requirement for the fate value was lowered a lot, so she finally successfully activated the retrace function.
The so-called [backtracking] is actually a very interesting way to play.
That is to say, there are some destined people, and the player feels that the other person seems to be special to her when she first meets him. Then, when she looks back, it turns out that it is because of the backtracking function that she has met that person at an earlier time, and there is a certain intersection between them, which leads to the situation that the first meeting was treated specially... It seems a bit complicated to say this, but it is not that difficult to understand when you really play it.
The moment An An entered the retrospective, she felt as if she had lost weight for a moment.
When the feeling of weightlessness disappeared and she opened her eyes, she found that the place she was in had changed and turned into an unfamiliar wilderness.
She was still wearing the same clothes she had worn when she entered the flashback, and the bell on her wrist was still there, but...
An An saw from afar a few people peeking out from the distant hillside.
The clothes those people wore were completely different from hers, and seemed to be from a much older era.
"Where is this?" An An poked the system and asked.
[More than a thousand years ago in the main world, when the spiritual energy had not yet dried up.]
A thousand years... so far!
But if we look back, doesn’t it say that it is related to Lin Jinglin? How come it suddenly went back to more than a thousand years ago?
An An was completely confused.
But the system just didn't tell her much information. Fortunately, after such a long period of parkour and monster-killing to level up, her physical fitness had greatly improved, and she had become an excellent Taoist priest with both strength and speed. She skillfully caught those people who were peeking around, and when they suddenly tried to attack her or wanted to run away, she skillfully shook the bell to trap them.
"Come on, tell me about the situation." An An asked this question just like she had asked other NPCs for information before.
NPC No. 1 held his head in fear: "Don't, don't kill me, I don't know anything!"
NPC No. 2 forced himself to remain calm, his legs trembling violently. "Master, spare me! We are only following the City Lord's orders to urge passersby to take a detour and avoid passing through that area ahead!"
An An asked: "Why?"
"Over there, it's said a ghost king appeared..." NPC No. 2 swallowed hard and subconsciously lowered his voice. "There used to be a town over there, but then the entire town disappeared overnight. No one, whether it was a passing caravan or bandits, could leave. The city lord asked several Tianshimen to perform rituals, but none of them returned..."
The Ghost King, the Tianshi Sect... An An intuitively felt that these were all important information, and she secretly wrote them down in her mind, but she didn't know what to do next.
The system seemed to have disappeared. After the initial introduction, it remained silent.
"What else?" she continued.
"And...what else?" NPC No. 2 thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered something. "Oh, right! In order to get rid of that Ghost King, several elders and the head of the Tianshi Sect have been invited. The city lord has also announced that any interested Tianshi will be invited to assist. The city lord will reward any willing Tianshi with a hundred taels of gold upon completion!"
However, An An didn't know what the purchasing power of one hundred taels of gold was, but after listening to what this person said, she felt that the task in this retrospective might be related to this assistance.
Otherwise, there were no other hints and she didn’t know what to do specifically!
After having this idea, An An asked these people to show him the way, and then turned around and walked towards the city. After entering the city, the whole journey felt quite novel.
Ancient city-like buildings like this rarely appear even in the CH version. The only place they appear is probably in the CGs of some travelers' background stories in "Peach Blossom Spring". An An has also seen them a few times.
And this retrospection is equivalent to "traveling through time" again.
Although this city may seem a bit desolate because of the Ghost King, it still has everything it needs.
An An asked for directions all the way to the City Lord's Mansion. When the guards of the City Lord's Mansion knew that she was a Taoist priest, they respectfully invited her in. After entering, An An saw many people wearing Taoist robes. Among them were three old men with gray hair, short stature but strong aura. They should be the most powerful figures here.
An An blended in quietly, found a stool and sat in the corner for a while, then saw the man called the City Lord rushing over. After saying a lot of polite words, he tearfully accused the Ghost King of his evil deeds.
"No need to say more, please tell us how the Ghost King came to have a grudge against you." The elder of Tianshi Sect interrupted the city lord, his eyes calm but with an inexplicable pressure.
"...What?" The city lord wiped his sweat. "Elder, you're joking. The Ghost King and I have no grudges. I simply don't want the people of this city to live under threat every day. That's why I'm asking for your help in getting rid of the Ghost King."
"City Lord, there's no need to fool us." The elder stroked his beard and snorted coldly, "There's a cause for every effect. If you really want to get rid of the Ghost King, you must understand the cause and effect and know the Ghost King's name and birth date."
The city lord saw that he could not hide the truth from the Elder Tianshi, so he was reluctant to tell the cause and effect.
As for An An, she gasped for breath when the city lord said the name of the Ghost King.
"The Ghost King's surname was Lin, and his given name was Jinglin. He was the child of a couple in the south of the city..."
In that couple, the woman was a ghost disguised as a human. She fell in love with the man and gave birth to a ghost, Lin Jinglin.
Later one day, the man was accidentally trampled to death by the city lord's two children while riding horses on the city road. The female ghost disguised as a human was furious and wanted to avenge her husband and kill the enemy.
After the city lord escaped the disaster with the help of his ancestral treasure, he quickly went to invite the Taoist priest to get rid of the female ghost. In the end, only the couple's child was left. Because the child was the son of the ghost girl, the city lord was afraid of revenge, so he asked someone to kill the son of the ghost girl and seal him. Unexpectedly, the person he invited made a mistake in the operation. After killing the son of the ghost girl, he allowed the priest to absorb the ghost energy and wronged souls within a radius of thousands of miles, and turned into a terrifying ghost king.
An An, who had only seen normal love, had never seen such love between a human and a ghost, or a human and a demon. She was shocked for a moment and subconsciously recorded the audio of this story.
I just didn’t expect…
When An An heard that Ai Yue had fallen in love with Xie Qingyu from "The Distance Between Hell," she had thought things like, "Her XP is so weird," and "Humans can't do that, or at least shouldn't do that." Who knew that this time, her destined partner wouldn't even be human...
Is this what they call "fortunes change over time"?
An An vaguely felt that something was wrong, but when she thought about the story she had just heard and what she saw when she drew her natal card, the young man with half of his body submerged in the dark lake, slightly raising his eyelashes to look at her, she couldn't help but feel some pity.
After finishing the story in the City Lord's Mansion, An An and this group of Heavenly Masters came to the wilderness outside the city filled with black fog.
Walking in this wilderness, you can often see confused and wandering souls, and hear sharp screams from time to time.
At this time, the system, which had been silent for a long time, came online again and marked various arrows for her.
Here comes the familiar running, jumping and rolling session!
An An cheered up.
In fact, compared with other NPC Taoist priests present, she was in a more relaxed mood because she was not afraid of the ghost king Lin Jinglin. When other NPC Taoist priests were on high alert and were very nervous, she only had to follow the arrows to avoid the attacks of various ghosts.
"This ghost king is very powerful, be careful!" The elder of Tianshi Sect had a serious expression on his face and waved his weapon [whisk] to drive away the oncoming black mist.
[Attention, attention, from now on, you will be strengthened for half an hour. Please purify the Ghost King within half an hour, otherwise it will be considered a failure of this backtracking! ]
An An: “???”
"What are you talking about? I'm here to capture him, why do I need to purify him? Won't he be gone after purification???"
[In Ghost King mode, evil spirits will continue to invade and consume his soul. You must dissolve the evil spirits in time to preserve his soul. Go ahead, player.]
[Only by saving him can you meet again after a thousand years]
...fuck (a language)
At this moment, only this word can express An An's complicated feelings.
But in the end, she still had to find a way to purify herself.
The Heavenly Master NPCs in front can temporarily hold back the Ghost King Lin Jinglin and consume his strength. After An An saw that he had been strengthened, his level suddenly jumped from 20 to 100, and all the double-digit values suddenly became MAX.
An An waited patiently, helping these Heavenly Master NPCs purify some of the external evil spirits, and then she inexplicably felt as if he was angry, and sent a large wave of black evil spirits towards her. However, when she was about to be swallowed by the black evil spirits, the black evil spirits stopped in front of her hesitantly.
A small wisp of light tentatively emerged, then suddenly retracted.
The villain in An An's heart immediately covered his mouth.
——Oh my god, this is so cute!
An An no longer hesitated, and took a big step forward, walking into the black evil spirit on his own initiative, and was suddenly trapped in it.
"What is that girl over there doing? Come out quickly!" Elder Tianshi noticed her movements and said urgently.
However, An An could no longer hear the sounds outside. She walked forward while gently shaking the bell with purification skills.
I don't know how long I walked, but I was probably some distance away from where the group of heavenly masters were. When An An saw that he only had five minutes left to be strengthened, a figure finally appeared in the gray-black fog in front of him.
The figure was wrapped in black fog, and his body was locked by the evil spirit condensed into chains. He hung his head quietly, as if he was asleep, but his pale face appeared and disappeared in the evil spirit.
With little time left, An An quickly quickened his pace and ran over, asking the system, "What should I do next?"
【Pull his soul out of the chains formed by the evil spirit.】
An An tried to grab Lin Jinglin's arm and pull him out, but she found that although the evil spirit was gas, the chain it formed was very strong. No matter how she shook the bell, there was no sign of it fading, and the same was true for other places.
There are two minutes left.
An An was anxious and moved closer, holding the area that was probably her face. The bells were ringing non-stop under the impact of the evil spirit, and the "ding ding ding" sounds were infinitely amplified by the evil spirit.
"Wake up, Lin Jinglin!" She didn't know how to pull him out, so she could only call his name anxiously, trying to make him wake up on his own.
At this time, An An was completely immersed in the game and had forgotten that it was a game.
There is only one minute left now.
If the evil spirit cannot be eliminated within one minute, An An, who has returned to his original level, will not be able to withstand the erosion of the evil spirit, and this retrospection will end in failure.
Thirty seconds.
An An's heart sank, knowing that it might be too late this time.
However, just when she was ready to do it again, she unexpectedly found her hand falling on slightly cool skin.
Where her hand touched, the black evil spirit retreated a little, revealing Lin Jinglin's face behind it.
He struggled to open his eyes slowly, and for the first time, those cold and beautiful eyes met An An's gaze at such a close distance. An An felt her heart beating very fast, almost jumping out of her chest.
"The sound of bells..."
An An came to her senses and hurriedly tried to pull Lin Jinglin out of the evil spirit - in fact, there was no need to pull him out, her bell kept ringing, and the evil spirit wrapped around Lin Jinglin shattered and dissipated bit by bit.
The moment the last chain broke, the reinforcement countdown returned to zero.
[Congratulations to the player, backtracking is successful]
Before An An had time to be happy, she saw that Lin Jinglin's figure also began to become illusory after the evil spirit dissipated.
The Ghost King in the flashback world raised his hand, and seemed a little confused as he wanted to touch An An's hand that was holding his face, but he did not put it down. In the end, he just silently asked himself how many innocent people he had killed.
An An: If you ask me, I don’t know.
However, the Ghost King didn't know what answer he got from An An's silence. He looked up at the group of vigilant Taoist priests a little distance behind her. Before his figure completely disappeared, he asked An An's name.
"I..." An An should have said her name in the game, but the moment she opened her mouth, she inexplicably said her real name, "An An, my name is An An."
“…”
“Crack—”
——A CG quietly found its way into the CG collection book.
…
The backtracking is over.
An An came out of the flashback world, still in a daze.
Finally, the Ghost King Lin Jinglin disappeared. When she stood up and walked back, the elder of the Tianshi Sect said that the Ghost King who had eliminated the evil spirit could enter reincarnation, but because there was a part of the evil spirit in his soul that could not be eliminated, he would carry this evil spirit into reincarnation, and every time he would be doomed to be a lonely star, hurting others and himself, until the evil spirit was completely eliminated, he could get happiness.
This is just like the star of misfortune.
Because the emotional drain was quite large this time, An An did not continue playing after coming out of the replay mode. Instead, he left the "Daydream Replay" game world to calm down.
Especially after going back, I looked at the modern buildings in the main world that were very different from the world I went back to.
When she unlocked the backtracking, many other people probably also unlocked the backtracking, and at this time there was a lot of discussion in the Star Network discussion area.
[This backtracking gameplay is quite amazing...]
[So fun, just like an Easter egg! ]
[Hahahaha, Xiaojiu actually has this side to him. It's so cute. I have to play backtracking a few more times!]
[I filmed Chi Shu's dark history from elementary school, haha, and used it to make fun of him later]
【……】
Wait, why do these players on Star Online feel differently from her?
An An felt something was wrong, so she searched for some retrospective videos recorded by other players. After watching several of them, she realized that not every person with a predestined relationship had a predestined relationship that lasted thousands of years. Other people with predestined relationships generally had interesting stories from different time periods.
In other words, only those who were not originally human could have a connection that lasted thousands of years.
……All right.
An An wiped her face and felt strangely better.
After all, not many people can experience the love model where the reincarnated ghost king X saves his heavenly master. It would be better to brush out more interaction cards with Lin Jinglin in the main world.
By the way, I'll go and exchange experiences with Ai Yue.
An An was planning to take some nutritional supplements and continue playing, but when she opened the chat channel, she found that her best friend Xiao Qin, who she got along well with, had secretly sent a live broadcast link portal in the chat channel a few minutes ago.
[Xiaoqin: I've noticed that except for Hewlett, everyone else becomes super cool during live streams. I'm going to try this out too!]
[Xiaoqin: OK, I'll give you my feedback. Sisters, please wait for my good news!]
An An clicked on it and saw that it was Xiao Qin who was playing "Daydream Recall".
…
Xiaoqin gave her live broadcast room a simple and straightforward title: [Is live broadcast metaphysics true?], and then she was ready to enter the game world of "Daydream Rewind".
She had something to do a couple of days ago and missed the opening of "Daydream Recap". After she came back, she found that only two days had passed and she could hardly understand what everyone was talking about.
In this situation, Xiaoqin of course jumped into the trap and caught up.
This is the love they have been looking forward to for a long time!
The only problem was that with the increasing number of games, it became increasingly difficult to manage her time. She used to only grind "Shan Hai Lu" and "Taohuayuan" in a day. Because she was afraid of "The Distance Between the Netherworld," she only played it very occasionally, when someone specifically asked her to join in. Now, there's "Daydream Rewind"...
There were not many people in the newly opened live broadcast room. Xiaoqin did not start the live broadcast for viewers, but simply for the metaphysics. After skillfully completing the initial novice guidance part, she came to the most anticipated card drawing stage.
"Let me make a wish first. I hope a beautiful sister or brother will come." Xiaoqin made a wish sincerely.
Because of the link she posted in the sister chat channel, a few young sisters came into the live broadcast room, all of whom were familiar names to Xiaoqin.
They were very considerate and gave her barrages of comments like [blessings] and [wish you good luck].
Xiaoqin felt a little embarrassed, thinking that her usual luck might disappoint her sisters' blessings, but she still held on to a little hope that she might get lucky, so she clicked on the card draw and then closed her eyes nervously.
Ordinary character card, ordinary character card, ordinary character card...
After eight ordinary character cards slid past, the image in the mirror paused, and a series of crisp sounds of silver jewelry colliding came out slowly, as well as the rustling sounds of walking in the grass.
【!!! ！ ！】
【Xiaoqin, look! 】
【It’s Wu Xiangxue! 】
Xiaoqin couldn't help but open one eye when she heard the voice, and looked carefully into the mirror. She was caught off guard and met a pair of eyes that seemed to be smiling.
There was also a charming voice that tickled her ears.
"Who should I give this love poison to?"
Xiaoqin was stunned. "Really, really is a beautiful sister?!"
The initial natal card drawn from the mirror was of a Miao girl with heavy silver ornaments on her head. The bottom of the silver hat was adorned with a row of silver pendants. When the pendants swayed slightly, they cast a swaying shadow in her sparkling eyes.
There was also a silver ring hanging around her neck, which just passed her elbow but did not reach her wrist. The intricate and beautiful purple dress set off her snow-white arms.
Xiaoqin is essentially a face-obsessed person. She doesn't need any love story at all. She will be moved as soon as her sister glances at her.
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