Chapter 149. Side Story 5 Epilogue 4: Closing...
Lin Xiaoxiao was born into this world, and it wasn't until the day she awakened her profession at the age of eighteen, when she received an invitation from the male protagonist Chen Zhuoran's team and fainted on the spot, that she remembered the original plot of the book about her sudden awakening.
In the following years, during a dungeon raid, he lost his right leg due to some 'ingenious' accident.
His profession changed from [merchant] to [treasure chest merchant], and he officially became the agent of the goddess of fortune who travels through the human world.
Knowing part of the plot, she proceeded cautiously and carefully, taking each step with utmost care, in order to change her inevitable fate of death.
Through overcoming crises time and time again, he befriends Chen Zhuoran, the male protagonist of this world, who is considered the "chosen one".
Become his best friend, travel with the Rising Sun Squad to various secret realms, occasionally evade the machinations of the 'female lead' Liu Duoxin, and sometimes secretly complete treasure chest transactions with the 'clients'.
She also needs to do what her predecessors did: secretly search for and retrieve the professional skills that the treasure chest merchants had scattered around.
Lin Xiaoxiao spent decades raising her level from the first level to the demigod level.
During this time, she met several like-minded friends: Kagome (the agent of the goddess of fate), Seien (the agent of the goddess of time), Ina (the agent of the goddess of love), and Mishu (the agent of the god of war)...
During this process, the male protagonist Chen Zhuoran and his teammates from Xuri also progressed, with the lowest level reaching the ninth level and the highest level being a quasi-god.
Lin Xiaoxiao originally thought that things would proceed smoothly and in an orderly manner.
Unfortunately, the plan was wonderful, but things changed in an instant.
Unlike the original novel, the female lead Liu Duoxin does not have a deep relationship with Chen Zhuoran. Instead, their relationship is on the verge of collapse and they are about to separate.
The reason is that, with Lin Xiaoxiao's help, Chen Zhuoran "saw" Liu Duoxin's true colors and realized that she was no longer the innocent girl he had imagined.
After an argument, Liu Duoxin angrily disappeared from the Rising Sun Squad.
Three months later, she sacrificed all the lives in the entire Dragon Kingdom to the 'God of Greed'.
As a result, the entire country of Longguo was devastated, with only one in ten surviving.
Not long after, Chen Zhuoran betrayed the Dragon Kingdom and Rising Sun, and directly switched to Greed, assisting Nuenluo, Atumus... in [Hunter Gods Era], hunting down a large number of Gods and quickly pushing his level to demigod.
Lin Xiaoxiao and Chen Zhuoran have been venturing into the secret realm together for many years, and they are very familiar with each other's combat strategies, skills, and ways of doing things.
This became the fatal flaw for Lin Xiaoxiao's side, as she was relentlessly pursued by Nuenluo [New Creation], Atumus [Light Concealment], and others.
Lin Xiaoxiao's friends either perished, were imprisoned, or, in order to survive, some chose to turn against their former allies and become their henchmen.
She herself was defeated in the battle, resulting in the removal of her heart, leaving her a cripple with no left arm, no right leg, and severe burns.
If Kagome and Hoshino hadn't arrived in time, Lin Xiaoxiao might have been reduced to ashes by Chen Zhuoran.
As the Dragon Kingdom was completely destroyed, Lin Xiaoxiao, together with Kagome and Xingyan, appeared in an energy pool in the Land of Fallen Gods.
Xingyan sat on the edge of the black rock platform, reaching out to splash the energy spring water in the pool, and smiled bitterly: "What is this? Is this the escape of stray dogs?"
Lin Xiaoxiao, whose appearance has been completely altered, ignored Xingyan's complaints and instead calmly considered the possibility of reversing time and returning to the past.
She found that special magic circle in a hidden corner on the top floor of the [Omniscient Library].
Not only does the setup require many high-grade materials, but even the success of returning to the past is uncertain.
Even if they succeed, the price will be high, and there is a high probability that only their souls can carry their memories back to the past.
If you're lucky, you might be transported back to the past with every memory intact.
If you're unlucky, you might experience memory loss or other issues.
The worst-case scenario is failure: it could fail the moment the magic circle is activated, it could disappear midway through in the time turbulence, or it could be directly pulverized into fragments by time...
A flash of light, and Kagome, in her wheelchair, teleported to appear beside Lin Xiaoxiao and Xingyan.
Ge Wei brought some bad news. She had received an inside message saying that Chen Zhuoran had been skinned alive and ripped apart by Liu Duoxin, who had extracted all his luck from his body and offered it to the 'God of Greed'.
Xingyan sneered: "Serves him right. This kind of traitorous bastard is too good for himself."
A hint of sadness flashed in Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes. After all, they had known each other for a time, and it was still sad to see Chen Zhuoran end up like this. Even though they had once been rivals, she still felt sorry for him.
Then, a mocking smile curved her lips: 'This is the lover he sought most. I wonder if he regretted it at the last moment.'
Kagome sat upright in her wheelchair, her tone calm, showing no sign of facing a life-threatening crisis: "Those guys are still desperately looking for the three of us."
Of that group of people, only the three of them are still alive now; the others are either dead or have betrayed them.
Upon hearing this, Xingyan slumped his shoulders, looking utterly dejected: "Crazy Xiao is now a cripple, and your combat strength is just so-so. I'll have to take his place. I should be able to take three or five people down with me if I self-destruct my divine core."
Lin Xiaoxiao didn't join Xingyan and Ge Wei's conversation. She was thinking about whether to take a gamble and hope that she could successfully bring back the memories to her younger self.
A day later, she told Kagome and Hoshino the details of the magic circle that reversed time and returned to the past.
Xingyan's tone was somewhat frantic: "Crazy Xiao, you really are a madman, to come up with such a stupid idea. With such a low success rate, it's better to just self-destruct and die together with Shen Ge and a few others."
He really is a crazy person who's willing to gamble everything; he'd even take a gamble with a one in ten thousand chance of success.
Kagome pondered for a moment, then looked up at Lin Xiaoxiao: "Are you sure, Xiaoxiao?"
Lin Xiaoxiao smiled brightly, revealing her big white teeth with a missing front tooth: "Why not? We're already in a desperate situation anyway. Even if Sha Xing self-destructs his godhood, at most he'll just take a few people with him to the Western Paradise."
In the current situation, it's not of much use, so we might as well take a gamble and see if it works.
After all, Atumus had already taken control of the City of the Gods; Nuenro had occupied the entire Black Abyss; and apart from the Great Eagle, the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the three kingdoms of Po, all other countries had been sacrificed...
The reason Xingyan was so frustrated was because Lin Xiaoxiao made a suggestion that was almost impossible to fulfill.
She wanted to travel back in time to find someone who possessed 'destiny and fortune'.
Trying to go against fate and revisit the past to see if you can reverse destiny and resolve an unsolvable ending is too risky, but the chances of success are extremely low.
Lin Xiaoxiao dared to make such a bold assumption because Xingyan and Kagome were respectively the agents of the God of Time and the God of Fate.
Both of them have reached the level of demigods, and a trace of the energy within their bodies has already transformed into special divine power.
Coincidentally, the magic circle had a special note: if energy carrying time/fate was added during activation, the success rate would be greatly increased.
The question is, what is the probability of this increase?
Xingyan's tone was frantic: "Crazy Xiao, have you been reading too many novels? You think you can go back to the past and change your fate? Do you know how long the God of Greed has been planning this scheme? Nearly four thousand years! Wake up, will you?"
How can a human fight against a god? They are not even on the same dimension.
Lin Xiaoxiao grinned: "How will you know if you don't try?"
What if they succeed? Anyway, staying here means certain death; for the three of them, death is just a matter of sooner or later.
Xingyan asked Kagome, "She's gone mad, are you going to go mad too?"
Kagome's lips curled into a slight smile, and her tone finally softened, as if she were quite interested in Lin Xiaoxiao's suggestion: "Anyway, things are already like this. We'll die at the hands of those people if we don't try. What if it works?"
Xingyan touched the white silk in front of her eyes, her body swaying uncontrollably a few times: "Kagome, you've gone mad too."
Over the next ten days or so, Kagome used Lin Xiaoxiao's blood to unlock her talent [Roulette of Fate]:
{1. Chen Tianxiong: Inherited a trace of destiny and luck, from a young age... Final deduction: 100% probability of failure}
{2. Liu Tianguang: Possesses a small amount of innate destiny and luck, from a young age... Final deduction: 100% probability of failure}
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{999. Ou Ye: Possesses a great deal of innate destiny and fortune, from a young age... Final deduction: 97% probability of failure}
{1000. Xiao Weizhi: A special pseudo-destined person with special luck. He was spoiled and arrogant from a young age, came from a superior family, and had a happy family. Because he grew up with Liu Duoxin, most of his luck was absorbed...}
{Causes: Grandmother's death at age 9; Grandfather's severe injuries from a curse at age 13; Mother's death at age 15, and in the same year, Father's frequent travels to high-level secret realms to save Grandfather, forcing him to begin learning about the Xiao family's affairs; Father's disappearance in an SSS-level secret realm at age 17, officially taking over the Xiao family...}
{Age 28, perished in an SSS-level secret realm… This person was obsessive and controlling, with a meticulous mind… Final deduction: 50% chance of failure, 50% chance of success}
After deducing 1000, Kagome coughed up blood. After telling Lin Xiaoxiao the result, blood flowed from her seven orifices, her eyes widened, and she died in the wheelchair that had been with her for hundreds of years since she became a god.
Xingyan turned her face away sadly. Although she had already guessed this ending, the pain of seeing another close friend die in front of her was indeed hard to accept.
Lin Xiaoxiao, leaning on her cane, walked to Ge Wei's side, reached out and stroked her unclosed eyes, and sighed softly.
After a long pause, Xingyan finally spoke in a hoarse voice: "Are you sure you want to choose Xiao Weizhi? His profile says that he is an absolute obsessive control freak and a meticulous strategist."
Lin Xiaoxiao's gaze fell on the beautiful and dreamlike energy pool, her smile somewhat bitter: "But his success rate is fifty percent."
Out of a thousand people, the highest success rate among the top 999 is only 4%, while he has a 50% success rate, which is already a very high probability.
I just don't know where this probability comes from.
Her gaze remained fixed on the surrounding lakes. Who would have thought that such a beautiful energy lake would exist in the land of fallen gods in the Black Abyss?
Xingyan sighed helplessly: "People with such meticulous minds are the most difficult to deal with. Are you sure things will go the way you want?"
Lin Xiaoxiao smiled with relief: "Not sure, let's take a gamble."
"After I go back, I will temporarily seal away all my memories and leave various hints. I will portray myself as a harmless and naive person, so that I can stay by Xiao Weizhi's side."
"As things unfold, their true personalities will gradually come to light, and the rest of their development will depend on fate."
Xingyan laughed angrily: "I'm a normal person, and I hang out with you two lunatics every day. Every time you lead me astray."
For the next three days, Xingyan prepared the magic circle to reverse time.
Lin Xiaoxiao stood by the lake, her eyes closed in deep thought, calculating all the possible scenarios in her mind and setting up hints for herself.
The white blindfold over Xingyan's eyes was now soaked with blood, and there were traces of blood on her nose and the corners of her mouth. She looked extremely weak: "This decision is very risky. Are you sure?"
Lin Xiaoxiao's voice was hoarse but calm: "I'm sure. I can't change the current situation. I can only try to go back to the past and see if I can change the outcome."
Xingyan coughed a few times, spitting out another mouthful of blood, then casually wiped it away: "How can you be so sure that the person you chose can help you change the outcome?"
Lin Xiaoxiao laughed heartily, her tone carefree and relaxed, yet with a desperate determination: "I don't know, but among the thousand people that Ge Wei helped speculate on, only he is the one with a 50/50 chance of winning or losing. I have to take a gamble."
Xingyan spat out another mouthful of blood, wiped it away, and sneered, "Aren't you afraid of losing the bet?"
She chuckled and shook her head: "I'm not afraid. Even if I lose the bet, I won't lose. I'll get to enjoy a few more years of easy life, which is a win."
Xingyan's windless clothes fluttered, his whole body radiating bursts of light. He quickly formed hand seals and laughed in exasperation, "How could I be best friends with a madman like you? I must have had the worst luck in eight lifetimes!"
"Lin Xiaoxiao, did you hear that? Knowing you is the worst thing that ever happened to me."
Lin Xiaoxiao laughed heartily: "Thank you so much for the high praise, Agent of the God of Time. I am truly honored, hahaha..."
The moment the Milky Way appeared, it shone brightly. The two people and the corpse present disappeared into the Milky Way, leaving only an old wheelchair in place, scattered into a pile of wood.
After a long, reversed flow of time, Lin Xiaoxiao's physical body was worn down to ashes, but her soul safely returned to the year she was 21.
That year, something very special happened. She was thrown into that secret realm by the Rising Sun Squad because she was facing off against Liu Duoxin.
She cleverly killed the monster that had eaten half of her right leg, and then returned to the Rising Sun Squad as a "treasure chest merchant," once again becoming their logistics expert.
Lin Xiaoxiao, in her future divine soul form, floated in mid-air, following her past self, watching helplessly as 'herself' was banished and faced that terrifying monster once again.
When the future Lin Xiaoxiao sees a monster appear, she immediately draws energy from the surrounding area and forcibly stops the monster at crucial moments, thus postponing the awakening of her past self as an agent.
It wasn't until a day later, when Lin Xiaoxiao from the future sensed Xiao Weizhi approaching and was already nearby, that she released the restraints, allowing the monster to force 'herself' into a small cave.
And it actively infused 'itself' with a little of its remaining divine power, drawing the attention of 'that' hidden in another dimension.
Next, naturally, the profession changed from [Merchant] to [Treasure Chest Merchant], and the talent also increased by one [Lucky Libra].
These are all the huge changes that Lin Xiaoxiao from the 'future' brought to her former 'self'.
When my former self sacrificed a right leg and 50% of experience, I obtained a (god-tier) bound item from Lady Luck.
The future Lin Xiaoxiao was somewhat surprised, but then she thought it was a good thing.
The moment the prop was activated, it was originally meant to transform into a stream of light that no one could see, and to forcibly bind Chen Zhuoran, but she flicked it with her finger.
It quickly changed direction and flew directly in the opposite direction, landing on Xiao Weizhi, who had a stern face and an aura of irritability.
Then, as a spirit, Lin Xiaoxiao placed over a dozen suggestive restrictions on her former self: blurring the plot of the transmigration, not being able to recount the plot, forgetting...
While waiting for Xiao Weizhi to come, he flicked his finger and turned several demonic beasts that had come by smelling the scent into ashes, leaving only one blocking the entrance to the cave.
Until she recognized her past self, Xiao Weizhi carried her away.
Having just left the secret realm, it flew to the depths of an energy pool in the Land of Fallen Gods, where it drew upon the surrounding energy to create a special crystal coffin, sealing itself away and awaiting the time to awaken.
Meanwhile, Xingyan, who had also transformed into a soul, carried Kagome's memories and entered the body of the former Kagome.
In the end, Xingyan herself transformed into a memory, merging with her former self.
Lin Xiaoxiao, from the future, smiled slightly. Before closing her eyes, she thought: 'This time, I hope it won't be a repeat of the past, and that there will be a good ending.'
With this, all the preparations for returning from time travel were officially completed.
The story begins anew, but this time, there's an added element of uncertainty, and the story takes an uncontrollable turn.
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Author's Note: Thank you so much for reading, my darlings! This concludes the extra chapters. [90-degree bow in gratitude][throwing flowers][throwing flowers][throwing flowers]
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