Chapter 52 Isn't this village chief Tai Sui her school principal from her past life? ...
"...If I'm the only one who survives, then what's the point of my life?"
"You're such an idiot, and you won't believe me. I've already called it a curse. Only things you don't want are curses. If you want something, wouldn't it become a blessing?"
I see, I see...
That's why she has this strange "curse" that's called "living a life of ease" but is actually "immortality"!
What exactly are Ke Shiwei's traits? Why can't she remember them now?
What kind of desperate situation must she have reached for Shi Wei to cast such a curse on her!
The sounds of the past fade into the distance, like a beach after the tide has receded, leaving behind scattered, disordered pebbles and a desolate, cold world.
Du Yu had a splitting headache, but the fog surrounding his memories did not disappear in the slightest. The sharp, needle-like pain lasted for half a day before Du Yu finally came to his senses and found that there were a few more lines in his game log.
[The player stands before Wen Xi's [???], the familiar scene triggering memories deleted by [???]. Overwhelmed by the sight, the player activates the [???] trait's skill [Echoes of the End], recovering some fragmented memories.]
[The Echoes of the End: You can hear the echoes from the past, the echoes of an end that has already come to destruction.]
This is a new skill that was unlocked after Du Yu burned the offspring of [Iron Parasite] for Xiao Yi, which accelerated the unlocking process of the mysterious three question marks trait.
Because this passive skill had never been triggered before, Du Yu had almost forgotten that he had this skill. Unexpectedly, the scene triggered the skill on its own.
Thinking of this, Du Yu's face turned cold, and a sinister glint flashed in her eyes. Her memories had indeed been tampered with! Who was it?
Was it after she time-traveled, or... before?
It's alright after the time travel, but if it were before the time travel, their world had no gods, and even the level of the Fallen Race was only at the Dark level. An A-level ability user was already one of the best among humans. Who could tamper with her memories?
Du Yu took a deep breath, using the flow of air to calm his thoughts and try to sort out his memories. There was a clear point in his memories of his past life, and there were no problems with his memories before the Great Cataclysm.
After the cataclysm, Du Yu's memories seemed to be fine. However, after carefully reviewing them, he discovered that many key points between the fragments had been deleted. Moreover, the more he went on, the more fragments were cut, to the point that some parts were not coherent, making it look like a bad movie hastily edited by a third-rate editor.
Du Yu wrote down all the blanks in his memory, including but not limited to Wen Xi and Shi Wei's traits, Shi Wei's cause of death, his own traits... and even his own cause of death.
Du Yu pinched his brow, trying to relieve the throbbing pain in his brain that felt like it was about to explode.
In her past life, there were many gaps in her memories of the one or two years before her death. Often, she would be wearing a cotton-padded coat one day, short sleeves the next, and then worrying about the continuous rain preventing her clothes from drying on the third day. These memories did not seem to be from the same period of time.
The memory of the day of his death is even more hazy. Du Yu only vaguely remembers an unprecedented weariness suddenly striking him, followed by a long, seemingly endless night.
Having witnessed the alteration of his memories before, Du Yu now finds it hard to believe whether this scene truly represents the day he died in his previous life.
After all, her memories before the Great Cataclysm were so full of holes, yet when she entered Jinling University in the Spirit World and stood before dormitory building number "666", Du Yu never realized that her memories were faulty!
Even more terrifying is that in Du Yu's fragmented memories, no matter what Du Yu is wearing or where she is, the last part of each memory fragment is that she is reading the same novel! The novel she herself transmigrated into: "The Real and Fake Heiress: The President's Imprisoned Love 99 Times"!
As if her memories had been erased without her noticing, Du Yu suddenly realized another anomaly—why was she so familiar with the plot of the melodramatic novel "The Real and Fake Heiress: The President's Imprisoned Love 99 Times"?
Entertainment facilities in the wasteland are scarce, but with her abilities, finding a few novels is a piece of cake. "The Real and Fake Heiress: The President's Imprisoned Love 99 Times"—this novel is clearly not her cup of tea. Is it really that good? Is it worth reading over and over again so many times?
More importantly, in the last two years of my life, every fragment of my memory was written in the handwriting of this melodramatic and tragic romance novel!
Was my time travel accidental, or was it deliberately orchestrated by someone?
A chilling aura enveloped his heart, making Du Yu's hands and feet icy cold, like a chess piece on a board. In his confusion, he finally saw the shadow cast by the player on the horizontal and vertical lines, but due to his limited vision, he could not learn any information about the player.
"Meow!"
A fluffy tail swept past his ankle, and a warm heat source sat on his shoe. Du Yu lowered his eyes, looking at the nine-tailed cat whose face was full of urging but dared not speak out. After staring for a moment, he suddenly gave the cat's head a big rub:
"Haha, if Wen Xi knew that I was the first person among us to own a cat, she would probably be furious."
Du Yu muttered to herself, pinching the cat by the scruff of its neck and setting it aside. She bent down to pick up the magnet and reattached it to the "0" in the house number. However, no matter how she adjusted it, it wasn't as neat as Shi Wei's obsessive-compulsive reattachment.
After trying a few times, Du Yu shrugged and sighed, "Fine, I've done my best. If you don't like it, come back and beat me up."
"We will meet again, wait for me."
"Crack."
Du Yu turned the doorknob gently, composed himself, held his breath, and pushed open the door, feeling somewhat disappointed yet also finding it understandable.
Although the entire Jinling University was shrouded in a gray fog, dormitory 666 seemed to exist in another dimension. Pushing open the door, sunlight streamed in like a waterfall, spilling across the floor. In this bright light, the empty dormitory appeared even more desolate.
Nanjing University adheres to the ironclad rule that the better the school, the worse the dormitories. Regardless of the major, all students share bunk beds and do not have private bathrooms.
Pushing open the door, you are immediately faced with a huge window. On one side of the window are two bunk beds, and on the other side are four desks put together. The chairs can be pulled out and almost touch the beds, making it very cramped.
Fortunately, there was one less person in their year, so the three of them shared a dorm room. The extra table by the window was used to store some odds and ends, making the cramped dorm room feel less crowded.
On the upper bunk by the window, the floral quilt, which Shi Wei had told her to fold many times but hadn't done, was piled up in a messy ball. Next to the pillow was a flattened smiley face cushion, looking like its owner might come back at any moment.
Only Du Yu knew that the day he left was the last time he would ever leave.
The black cat swaggered in, bathed in light, its edges tinged with gold. It looked as if it had finally completed its mission, making a round like an emperor on an inspection tour.
The black cat didn't even glance at the green three-piece bedding set that Du Yu had been given to him by the school. It sniffed at Shi Wei's minimalist gray-blue plaid sheets, but ultimately chose Wen Xi's fluffy quilt and snuggled up inside without moving.
Du Yu closed the door, composed himself, and observed the familiar dormitory, searching for clues to the mission.
She quickly found her target: on Wen Xi's desk, the screen of his laptop was unusually lit.
[Do you want to enter the instance: Ascension/Transcendence?]
On the screen, a very familiar pixelated purple-haired figure walks along a path, with options that Du Yu is very familiar with popping up above his head.
Du Yu couldn't find the option, so he tentatively replied with "Confirm". The little figure on the screen was walking along when it suddenly fell into a black hole. Du Yu's vision went black, and when he came to, he was no longer in his dormitory.
[Player has successfully loaded the instance - Ascension/Transcendence.]
[Weekly tasks loading...]
[Basic Task: Obtain ten catties of Black Tai Sui]
[Quest Rewards: Unknown Soul Fragment *1, Dark-Level Element Core *2]
[Faction Quest: Join a Celestial Sect/Embark on the Path to Immortality]
[Mission Reward: Unknown.]
[Note: You will not be able to re-enter the instance: Ascension/Transcendence after failing the mission.]
Two core elements?
Before Du Yu could even be surprised by the system's sudden generosity, a figure suddenly darted in front of him:
"Dudu, what are you waiting for? The immortals have already arrived. Hurry up, or we won't have a chance to worship the Grand Duke Jupiter once we have enough people!"
Du Yu caught the key word "Tai Sui" in the mission description. Without struggling, he was led by the girl towards the center of the village.
She was now in a small village similar to the ancient village of her previous life. Both the girl beside her and herself were wearing long robes, with several strips of cloth wrapped around their cuffs and trouser legs for easy work.
Du Yu tugged at a stray hair and noticed that although her long hair was wrapped in a headscarf and styled in a way that fit the era, the color was still a very striking purple.
But neither the girl beside him nor the villagers coming and going in the village seemed to find Du Yu's strange hair color odd.
Du Yu had a vague realization. In the words of the game, this was, after all, a "dungeon," which operated according to a set of fixed rules and could not be compared with the real world.
As he walked, Du Yu quietly memorized the topographical map of Redwood Village, and some background information about the dungeon gradually entered his mind.
As its name suggests, the Redwood Mountain surrounding Redwood Village is rich in redwood, which is an important source of income for the villagers.
Until thirty years ago, when "Tai Sui" descended upon the world, people only needed to spend half a month each year "worshipping Tai Sui" under the guidance of the immortal sect to solve the problem of food and clothing for a family. After that, no one was willing to bother cutting down redwood anymore.
The body that Du Yu is currently controlling is also named Du Yu, and her identity is that of an orphan girl from Hongmu Village. Hongmu Village is close to Tai Sui Mountain, and the villagers are wealthy and have no shortage of food for her, so they have raised her until she is old enough to worship Tai Sui.
Today is the annual day in Hongmu Village, a day even more solemn than the New Year's ancestral worship—the day when the immortals come to select people to worship Tai Sui.
The girl led Du Yu forward, stopping only when they approached the ancestral hall in the center of the village. Together with the surrounding villagers, they looked expectantly at the village chief, dressed as an ordinary peasant woman, standing at the entrance of the ancestral hall.
"Hehe, don't worry, the immortals haven't arrived yet."
The girl next to him visibly breathed a sigh of relief; she seemed genuinely eager to go and pray to the God of Wealth.
The moment Du Yu saw the village chief's face clearly, his facial muscles tensed, his lips pursed, and he almost couldn't hold back his laughter—
The village chief of Redwood Village, a woman who looked to be in her fifties or sixties, dressed as a peasant but still exuding a scholarly air, wasn't she her mentor from her previous life, Gu Yinglan, the president of Jinling University?
Could you be any more perfunctory with the character modeling in your game?
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Author's Note: Although it may not seem obvious, the roommate relationship is actually very important and is part of the main plot. Please don't think I'm just padding this out qwq
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