Chapter 326 She Won the Bet
Lin Xi suddenly opened his eyes.
She had a splitting headache and her stomach was churning, but she felt more cheerful than ever.
The bet was won!
She survived, she didn't die.
She didn't tell anyone that she was actually carrying out her plan with the intention of dying together with her boss.
What she said to Gin was all true...If she had to die, she would only die at his hands.
At the same time, she also considered the possibility of fusing with the boss. If Ai's research into implanting a drug to implant a foreign consciousness failed, and the boss succeeded, she would proactively fuse with his consciousness, imprinting it on his soul and preventing him from harming the one she cherished.
In a sense, her thought processes are quite similar to those of the boss.
She sat up and found herself sleeping on a roadside bench.
The first thing she did was to check the system, but she found that it had disappeared.
Then she noticed the change in her appearance.
He looked younger, only fifteen years old.
His hair was thinner and softer than before, his skin was pale, his body was thin, and he seemed to be shorter.
Lin Xi used to be over 170cm tall, but now she is only 168cm tall.
The most striking difference was the large black marks on her arms.
Those black marks looked like scars or birthmarks, crawling across the pale skin with their fangs and claws.
Lin Xi recalled that in her consciousness, the boss grabbed her arm like a demon, his hands melted and dripped onto her body like wax.
This must be the origin of this mark.
Lin Xi didn't care about the marks on her body. It didn't matter if it was ugly or not, she didn't rely on her looks to make a living.
However, since this mark remains on her body, and her appearance is different from before, doesn't it mean that her current appearance is the same as that of her conscious form?
In other words, it was her original appearance.
Her original body was an experimental subject created by the boss, an artificially cultivated body grown in a culture tank. That was not her true appearance.
She subconsciously wanted to take out a mirror from the system backpack to see what she looked like, but when she moved her hand, she remembered that the system had disappeared.
It might be related to the fact that she entered the dungeon when she was killed. Lin Xi was not quite sure.
But soon, the voice in her mind surprised her.
"Ms. Lin."
"Noah?" she asked. "Why are you here too?"
"Ms. Haibara and I had originally planned to follow the embedded model to the coordinates of our destination, which were nine years ago. However, a small error occurred during the embedding process, and Ms. Haibara and I became separated. Perhaps because you and we traveled through time at the same time, I ended up at your coordinates, while Ms. Haibara went to the original coordinates."
"Is she okay?"
"Please rest assured. I have a beacon of Miss Huibara's vital signs. She is safe. The current situation is that she is nine years ago, and we are nineteen years ago. The two timelines flow at different speeds, but they will both converge on the main timeline."
"You can think of the two timelines as the two sides of a Möbius strip. Although time flows at different speeds on each side, they are actually moving in the same direction. Time flows slower on our side, inside the strip, while time flows slightly faster on Ms. Haibara's side, outside the strip."
Lin Xi nodded.
She probably understood.
A cold wind blew and she couldn't help sneezing.
She was only wearing a thin shirt, which could not keep out the cold wind.
"You need to rest, Miss Lin," Noah said immediately. "Since I arrived here, I've merged with your program. You should probably be more accustomed to calling it 'the system.' I've inherited the system's logs and reconstructed your journey through time and space: You traveled through time and space as a conscious body. Theoretically, the system would have left a backup in your body in the main timeline, migrating new data to it after you completed the story. But your body in the main timeline is dead, and the backup is no longer valid. And consciousness cannot survive without a carrier."
"After analysis, I mobilized all remaining energy in the system, removed redundant functions... and created a body for you that can still support consciousness."
"However, as you can see, all system functions have been disabled. You can no longer use your backpack, any previously activated skills have been disabled, and most importantly, you have lost the ability to save and replay your game."
"You're very weak right now. You're wearing too little, and in this temperature, you'll catch a cold quickly. With your current physical condition, a cold or fever, if not treated promptly, could be fatal. Suggestion: Find a warm place as soon as possible."
Lin Xi: “…”
She couldn't believe it. "You mean, I'll catch a cold if I get a little wind, and I might even die from a cold?"
Is this body so weak?
"That's right," Noah said, "but if you want to reach the main timeline safely, you still have to complete the story mission."
This was not unexpected to Lin Xi.
However……
"The system has disappeared, and the plot directory page can't be viewed. How can I know the specific tasks?"
However, she still had some impression that this copy was triggered by Gin.
In her current state, if she goes to Gin for help, she should be able to solve 190% of the problems.
"Don't worry, I'll figure out the specific requirements over time," Noah said. "It's important to note that although you're entering the past timeline through this instance, the tasks you need to complete aren't just related to the instance. All the past timeline tasks you've seen in the story catalog need to be completed here."
"I can help you. I can still hack into every electronic device in the world and provide you with the necessary information. However, considering it's 1986 and the internet isn't widespread, there's not much I can do."
"I see."
Lin Xi sniffed, "Do you know where we are now?"
Noah gave out a string of addresses.
She is currently in a park in a city in Nagano Prefecture.
She finally realized that the system really liked the park.
"Tell me the address of the nearest police station...Ah, choke!"
It’s over, I think I really have a cold.
"Go straight along the road for 400 meters, turn left, and then go another 500 meters and you'll be there." Noah was confused but did as he was told.
"Are you going to the police station?"
"Yes." Lin Xi spread his hands. "I have no home, no money, and I'm a minor. Who else can I turn to if not the police?"
Noah scratched his nonexistent head.
It seems so.
But at first it thought that Miss Lin would find a place for it to live in other ways... but it didn't expect that she would go to the police.
The police! Miss Lin actually called the police!
but……
"Ms. Lin..." it said, "I think we've reached this point. We'll always have money, and we'll also have a home..."
"You will definitely be happy."
Lin Xi was a little surprised: "Why?"
"I calculated it." Noah's childish voice was tinged with a cheerful smile. "I am the world's most powerful artificial intelligence. The future I predict will definitely come true."
They have passed the most difficult level.
Noah believed that the road ahead would be bright and sunny.
.
Outside the ring.
Miyano Shiho floated into a building.
Now she is like a ghost, without any entity, able to pass through obstacles and invisible to others.
It was her first time moving in this magical form, and it took her some time to adjust.
Everything Vermouth had asked her to bring, including the Anchor, was stored in her brain as a data stream. She now had to find Lin Xi, find a way to stabilize her memory, and then implant a virus into the program that Madera had implanted in her brain.
The virus was developed by Hongshu. It can transform the so-called "system" to a certain extent, allowing it to be truly used by Linxi.
And the most important thing now is to find Lin Xi.
Miyano Shiho knew Lin Xi's coordinates in her mind. She was in this building.
Miyano Shiho floated in with an impatient mood.
This is a villa. It has a great location with a view of the sea. The courtyard of the villa is also carefully built, with a combination of Chinese and Western styles.
She floated into the living room.
She immediately spotted the little Lin Xi standing there. She was only twelve years old, with bright eyes and white teeth, a miniature version of the Lin Xi that Miyano Shiho had in mind.
However, she now had lowered brows and a dull expression, and there was a sense of sadness about her as if she had been washed away by rain.
Next to her was a man. He was a gentle man with thin lips and phoenix eyes. He had black hair and dark eyes. His skin was much whiter than that of an average man, and he was tall and slender. Miyano Shiho observed him and found that he looked somewhat like Lin Xi.
"Xiaoxi," the man said in Chinese, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"
He seemed to have just come back from outside. After saying this, he ignored Lin Xi and sat down on the sofa.
"……No."
Xiao Linxi looked forward. Miyano Shiho thought she was looking at him, but soon found that her eyes had completely passed through her body and were staring at nothingness.
…Can’t she see her either?
The man shook his head.
"You're so disobedient."
He raised his hand and gestured behind him, and soon someone came up with a tray.
There was a snow-white cat in the tray.
It was small, only slightly larger than an adult's palm, but it wasn't afraid of people at all. It was very well behaved even when being carried on a tray, lying down and playing with its tail.
Its eyes were blue, and it seemed to see Xiao Linxi. It meowed in a low voice, turned over, and was about to jump down to find her.
Lin Xi's face remained expressionless, but Miyano Shiho noticed that her hands hanging by her side were clenched.
Miyano Shiho was shocked and had a premonition that she was about to witness something extremely terrible.
Sure enough, as soon as the kitten jumped out of the tray, it was caught by the man's hand.
"What a cute kitten." He said with a smile. "I heard you named it Xue?"
Xiao Linxi looked him straight in the eye. "So that's what you're asking about. I don't own this cat. I just happened to see it on the street and took the opportunity to feed it."
"I know my husband doesn't like living things, so every time I feed the cat, I wash my hands and change clothes, and I won't let cat hair get on my clothes."
She had a clear voice and distinct pronunciation. Miyano Shiho rarely heard her speak Chinese, but she thought her voice sounded very nice.
It was unknown whether the man called Mr. heard what Lin Xi said. He controlled the kitten with his black-gloved hands and put it back on the tray.
The kitten blinked its confused eyes, and the next moment a big hand grasped its throat.
Xiao Linxi's pupils contracted and her eyes drooped.
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