Chapter 251 The time has come, the system is about to be activated.
The eerie silence in the room lasted for a long time before Fang Ke finally opened her mouth and said, "Actually, I had some doubts along the way... but I didn't expect things to still go in the worst possible direction."
Yes pursed his lips and said to her again, "I'm sorry."
His voice was low and hoarse, heavy with emotion.
Fang Ke reached out and pulled him into her arms, holding him tightly and whispering, "Are you feeling very uncomfortable?"
"What?"
"From the moment we stepped into Country Y, boarded the train to Winchester, and entered Sterling Town, you've been in a very low mood... Your uncle and aunt must have had a significant impact on you, right?"
Yes bowed, buried his head in her shoulder, and nodded.
"Senior...may I ask when you arrived here?"
Both Fang Ke and he were mission takers. Fang Ke had only been in this world for a little over two months, so even with the other's family, she didn't have any deep feelings for them.
But Ye Si's appearance doesn't seem like that of someone who just arrived in this world. At the very least, he must have had close contact with the original owner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ye.
But Fang Ke never expected that Ye Si would reply after a moment of silence, "Around the age of 10."
Fang Ke froze, then asked again, "10 years old?"
Upon receiving an affirmative answer, she gasped, "Oh my god..."
Yes is 26 this year, so it's been about 16 years... Are there mission takers who have been on missions for that long? What's the difference between them and natives?
Yes then broke free from her embrace and sat down beside her, their shoulders touching and their heads intertwined.
Yes began to tell his story.
"The original Ye Si should have died in a kidnapping. At that time, Ye's father's business empire was still expanding, and he happened to run into a real estate developer who was fighting over land. The other party then hired underworld forces to plan this kidnapping."
"Maybe they didn't really want to kill him, but children are more prone to dying young. After being confined in a container in the basement for a week, he quickly developed a fever and dysentery, and became delirious from the high fever."
Fang Ke grasped his hand and asked, "So that's how you developed claustrophobia?"
Yes paused for a moment, then laughed, "That might be part of the reason."
Fang Ke wondered, "Could there be other reasons?"
Ye Si didn't offer any further explanation and continued speaking.
"Later, Ye's father paid a great price to redeem Ye Si, which is me."
"When I was kidnapped, Madam Ye also fell seriously ill and almost died. She only recovered after seeing me return healthy and alive, but she was left with a serious illness afterward."
“After I returned to the Ye family in his place, I also fell seriously ill. When I woke up, I told them that I didn’t remember many things. The two of them didn’t suspect anything. Instead, they felt very sorry for their child.”
“After that, I never went to any school outside again. That child was kidnapped on his way to school.”
“They hired tutors for me, covering all subjects. Seeing my interest in humanities, history, social sciences, and economics, they spent a lot of money to find me famous teachers…” Ye Si said with a nostalgic smile. “They didn’t know that I was just interested in this new and exciting world.”
Fang Ke subconsciously put herself in Fang Ke's shoes and asked with some doubt, "Could it be that you weren't even an adult before you came here?"
Adults already have a basic knowledge base, so would they still be so interested in these subjects?
...
Yes knew she had misunderstood, so he ruffled her hair and chuckled.
"It's not what you think... The world I live in is very different from here. Technology and medicine may be more advanced, but human history has been interrupted for hundreds of years, so seeing these things is like finding a treasure to me."
"……oh."
"I spent a very peaceful period of time in that old house in that misty Jiangnan town. I also wondered if Mr. and Mrs. Ye already knew that I was not their child... because Mrs. Ye's eyes were always very complicated and sad when she looked at me... but I couldn't tell them anything."
She then grasped his five fingers and intertwined them with his, and at that moment, she wholeheartedly became a quiet listener.
"This continued until my 14th birthday. One day, a passage appeared in my mind."
He said the time was up and the system would be activated soon.
Fang Ke: "..."
Yes managed to say those words smoothly, perhaps because he hadn't added the word "mission".
The appearance of Fang Ke's intuition system was not a good thing. She had to complete a novice mission on the brink of death and a painstaking gamble before she could take control of her body.
I wonder what kind of challenges the system will present to Yes...
Did he... give you a hard time?
Both of them knew who 'he' was.
Yes recalled, his voice as usual, but the words he spoke sent a chill down one's spine.
"He was like a ruthless plot forecasting machine, announcing that the Ye family would be destroyed within the next month, and telling me to do my best to survive this catastrophe."
Fang Ke: "…………"
Fang Ke almost managed to seize Ye Si's life-threatening point and force the system hidden inside Ye Si's body to come out and die.
At this point, Yes brought up another concept that Fang Ke had never heard of before.
“Fang Ke, do you know about rejection… I stayed in this world for four years, and sometimes I felt like I was losing my will, forgetting who I really was, and feeling like I was the youngest son of the Ye family.”
Fang Ke was surprised, "I... I don't think I've ever appeared before."
It's true. Almost three months after she came into this world, she finally knows clearly who she is, and sometimes she even feels out of place in this world.
Yes nodded and squeezed her hand back. "This is also my later guess. I guess that if we enter this world and do not cooperate with the Heavenly Dao... that is, if we are not mission takers, we will most likely be rejected by the consciousness of this world, assimilated, and eventually become a part of the world's consciousness."
Fang Ke stood there stunned. Half of Ye Si's words were censored, but she still understood them.
Yes glanced at her and said, "The person who was inside you a few years ago must have been assimilated."
Fang Ke felt a chill run down her spine and interrupted him, "Wait...wait a minute."
"It's still very strange... How could they just assume that Fang Ke from a few years ago was someone else, and that I am the original owner of this body?"
Fang Ke rubbed his temples. "You chose the most difficult path to prove... Putting aside whether it was me six years ago or not, if it was me, as an indigenous person, why would I leave? Have you thought about this?"
Fang Ke wasn't wrong. If the original owner was always alone and no one replaced her, then the relationship between the two of them was simply that the original owner made a mistake and ruined the plot, and the system pulled her over to save the plot—the simplest and most direct logical path.
But if you insist that the Fang Ke from a few years ago was fake, and that the current Fang Ke is actually a triumphant return after a six-year absence, then there are many more things to prove.
First of all, why did Fang Ke leave?
The next question is, who sent Fang Ke away, and who brought Fang Ke back?
The third point is still focused on the fact that since it's so troublesome, why bother leaving in order to "guard" this world? That way, no more messy problems will arise later.
Fang Ke still has a lot of doubts about this guess, and she doesn't understand it at all. "These past few days I've been thinking, if I was doing so well before, why did I have to leave?"
Yes pondered for a moment, then said, "Hmm."
Seeing that Fang Ke's brows were constantly furrowed, he couldn't help but reach out and smooth her brows and eyes.
"That's acceptable."
He suddenly said, "Actually, I didn't quite understand why you left before, but after listening to Fang Han's story, I have a guess."
"……What?"
"Is it possible that you were born with self-awareness, so you knew everything from a young age and had maxed out your talents, which would explain your unusual behavior?"
"So you're actually... not exactly a native of this world."
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