Chapter 341: Ring “How can a person not understand his past self?”…
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Under the dim street lights, a small figure staggered on the street.
Dust was flying in the distance, and the sound of explosions and the sudden flash of fire in the dark night caused quite a commotion.
After coming out of the back door of Black Crow Company, Lin Xi detonated the bomb.
The basement should have been blown beyond recognition, but the power of the bomb did not destroy the entire building. The Black Crow Pharmaceutical Company still stood there with its logo, and even the lights used for office lighting on the floor were not turned off.
She left her cell phone in the basement. Now no one can contact her, and she doesn't want to contact anyone.
In the basement, she actually had a fleeting thought about detonating the bomb. Ultimately, death was simply the inevitable end of life, and the length of the process leading up to it didn't seem to matter to her.
Besides, she was also... a little tired.
Both her body and her heart seemed to be clamoring for her to stop.
What would it matter if she stopped here? It was just Lin Xi's death; the world wouldn't stop turning. She was already so exhausted, why didn't she have the right to rest?
But even though every cell in her body and every thought in her mind was dragging her back, telling her to give up, stop and fall, and fall into the sweet sleep of death, she still mechanically kept moving forward according to her original assumptions.
Why? She didn't know. Like someone who knows they'll eventually die but still tries to live, like someone who knows their relationship won't work out but still bravely steps into love—she just kept walking, as if if she kept walking, the thick darkness before her eyes would one day truly turn into daylight.
It seemed that even though she had forgotten the past, she could still draw sporadic but tenacious strength from it, allowing her to choose to believe in herself, and believe that she could really walk from the night into the day.
Oh, yes... and the little ghost. That poor little ghost probably still doesn't know what she's done. She deliberately sent her away, just to prevent her from seeing her hideous appearance, dominated by hatred, and now wandering around like a pitiful creature.
Not letting her tell him his name was the right decision. This way, their relationship still had room to turn around. They weren't close friends, they weren't two souls relying on each other... If they weren't friends, even if he died, it seemed he wouldn't be responsible for her heartbreak.
The cool night breeze made Lin Xi shiver. Her feet felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead. She felt like she had been walking for a long time, but in fact, her feet had not moved much.
She thought again of the old man and the agent named Akai. She had used them all: the Ming Gang, the Black Dragon Gang, the old man, the agent, Karasuma Renya, and the organization. They were all tricked by her due to the information asymmetry. She armed the Black Dragon Gang with weapons traded from the organization and used the old man's identity to convince them that there was a mysterious force behind them. She used the agent to make Karasuma Renya believe that she was in danger and show up at the Black Crow Company. She used the little ghost to let her gather her own information and trade with the organization.
In reality, it was all just empty talk. She had no mysterious power behind her, no family or friends to turn to, only herself.
Crazy, paranoid, lonely, and pitiful herself.
As she mechanically crossed another patch of darkness between the streetlights, Lin Xi's body finally gave out. She didn't try to be brave, but slowly curled herself up and leaned against the dirt wall beside the road.
The location she chose was not very nice, as the walls were covered with black mud that gave off an earthy smell.
But it wasn't so bad that when she looked up, she could see the stars through the sky cut by the eaves.
Which one is her hometown?
She closed her eyes.
She fell into a brief sleep.
So I didn't hear the sound of leather shoes stepping on the mud coming from the alley.
The man in a white coat looked completely out of place in the dark alley. His eyes caught sight of the crouching Lin Xi, and he smiled.
"I found you," he said. "You're still not obedient enough. Sooner or later you'll become my vessel, so why struggle, 004753? Excessive struggle will only hinder your beauty."
He picked up Lin Xi from the corner with his gloved hands and left the alley.
A fleeting light illuminated his face. Beneath his black-framed glasses, tiny freckles dotted his face. Time had left no trace on his face, and his youthful face remained the same as it had been twenty years ago, the afternoon Lin Xi invited him to join the organization.
However, he should have smiled gently and shyly, but now there was an inorganic indifference in his eyes.
The experiment of implanting consciousness had been successful twenty years earlier. The head of the Karasuma family, the old man named Karasuma Ren'ya, was merely a stand-in. The real Karasuma Ren'ya, under the alias Morishita Yusuke, hid in the Hakubato Pharmaceuticals laboratory. Later, he met Lin Xi and became Madera of the organization.
No one knew how excited Karasuma Renya was after seeing Lin Xi. After more than four thousand reincarnations, he had the idea of summoning a soul from another world for the first time. And just as the idea came to him, Lin Xi appeared in 1975, like a sudden background setting in a novel.
Wasn't this proof that his idea was correct? So he took the initiative to contact Lin Xi, and soon discovered that she had the same characteristics as himself. He also judged that she also had the ability to travel through time and space and reset time, which made him more convinced of his idea.
He helped Lin Xi become the boss of the organization, helped her kill her stand-in, helped Rum regain the power of the Karasuma family, and secretly transferred some of the people and resources to the port city to build a secret laboratory.
At the time, he had two controllable bodies. One was the real Karasuma Renya, recently killed by Kobayashi, and the other was Madeira. Splitting his mind was easy for him. While he controlled Madeira's body to stay in Japan and the United States to monitor the organization, he controlled his real body to cultivate a "shell" in Hong Kong.
He was confident in his plan—after all, Lin Xi's time-travelling presence was proof of his experimental success. Even after Lin Xi had blown up his original body, leaving him with only Madera's body to use, he still felt everything was under control.
And, if his experiments were on track, he would soon have many bodies to use.
Madera placed the light-hearted Lin Xi in the car. The doctor who had been prepared in the car immediately began to take action, disinfecting, stopping bleeding, blood transfusion, and suturing.
Soon, this car will take Lin Xi to the airport and transport the unconscious Lin Xi to the United States.
There, Lin Xi will completely forget everything, including her memories of Hong Kong City. She will be implanted with a system and use her brush to create more value for herself.
After the incident in Hong Kong, Madera reflected on himself. Since drug withdrawal alone couldn't make Lin Xi surrender, he decided to try a new approach, using emotions as a shackle to bind her. For example, he could allow her to approach others and then use them to control her...
If he had not killed the white kitten at that time, but used it to threaten Lin Xi, Lin Xi would probably not be so determined and crazy.
It didn't matter, children were always very adaptable. He always had a lot of patience with Lin Xi, and besides, they did have a lot of time.
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Miyano Shiho saw the explosion at Black Crow Company from afar. She knew that it was Lin Xi who had set it off. She sighed slightly and was about to fly over, but was stopped by a gentle voice.
"Don't go now, Shiho." The mysterious woman who had just sent Lin Xi to Black Crow took off her veil, revealing her fair and delicate face.
If Xiao Linxi were here, she would be very surprised. The reason is simple: not only does the woman look a bit like Xiao Linxi, but her temperament is also very similar.
She blinked her light brown eyes, her warm makeup making her skin look less pale, and a cunning glint that Miyano Shiho was familiar with flashed in her eyes.
"Sister Lin, can you see me?" Miyano Shiho turned around in surprise.
Yes, this is Dalin Creek in another timeline.
The Kudo family raised her well, and her originally thin cheeks gained some flesh, making her two small dimples look adorable when she smiled. However, her naturally pale skin and light dark circles remained, and the strange mark on her arm was still noticeable.
"I can't see it myself." Lin Xi was very proud, "But I invented a tool that can observe data ghosts - the state you are in now."
She turned her wrist slightly, revealing a small makeup mirror. Miyano Shiho leaned forward and saw her own face in the mirror.
Her face was filled with black lines: "So you can clearly see me, but you didn't tell me! That's too much, Sister Lin!"
So Lin Xi also saw her hugging people left and right in the car just now, right?
Should I say it's the same person? When facing her, that bit of bad taste is exactly the same!
"I'm sorry, but Shiho rarely acts this lively in front of me... Shiho like this is really cute, I couldn't help myself! I'm sorry! Shiho-sama is very generous and will definitely forgive me, right?"
Humph, even the quick apology looks exactly the same.
"Why don't you let me go now?" Miyano Shiho crossed her arms and regained her calm and serious demeanor.
She felt burdened in front of the older Lin Xi, but was more relaxed in front of the younger Lin Xi who didn't know her.
"Because the other me probably doesn't want to be seen by you right now," Dalinxi said, "otherwise I wouldn't be using me as an excuse to get you out of here. Alas, when I was little, my mind was incredibly sensitive, fragile, and awkward. I'm probably regretting it now."
"? What do you regret?" Miyano Shiho wondered.
"I regret caring about you." Lin Xi shook her head. "She must really want to die now. Once she dies, she won't have anything to do with the world even if it floods. But I'm afraid you'll be sad. Because I care about you, I'm afraid you'll be sad, and I hate myself for being shaken by other people's little concern... I feel so awkward inside, but on the surface I have to pretend that I don't care and let you come to me. But you're really jealous of me, right? Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."
Miyano Shiho was a little touched, but also a little speechless: "Your evaluation of yourself is really sharp."
"You said it too, that was me." Lin Xi looked out at the night sky, "And it was my past self. How can one not understand their past selves?"
"Oh." Miyano Shiho felt distressed and leaned on the railing with her: "I will face it with you, Sister Lin - I mean, with your past self."
"Haha." Lin Xi laughed, "I was really lucky back then. I'm almost jealous of her."
"We're all the same person, so you'll get jealous?"
"You don't understand, Shiho. Sometimes people can't empathize with their past selves. I'm really jealous of her now. Anyway, you've been with her for so long, so why don't you stay with me for a while longer, okay?"
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