When Lu Xin was taken out of the mouse's body and summoned to his uncle-master, his whole soul was still in a daze.
"Master, Master?" He was stunned for a moment, almost unrecognizable as his own master. He looked like a completely different person, darker, thinner, and extremely old. He looked disheveled and utterly miserable. "Master, how did you become like this?"
Uncle Jin was about to speak when he was upset by his nephew's exclamation.
What else could he do? He had been traveling across most of the country for the past six months. On the way there, he was looking for someone, and on the way back, he had to protect the lives of the Lin family. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was exhausted. He had aged more than two or three years.
And the most depressing thing is that although he brought the Lin family here and sent them in front of Lin Tan Tan, it seemed to have no effect on them.
Uncle Jin looked at his nephew and said, "What happened to you before? You suddenly disappeared without a trace. I tried to summon your spirit this time, and to my surprise, I actually did. If you're still here, why don't you show up again?"
Lu Xin immediately forgot his doubts and felt extremely guilty. He said with a guilty conscience, "I followed your instructions and found a white mouse to possess me, but for some reason I fell asleep midway through. When I woke up, it was several hours later. I missed the best opportunity to escape and was trapped in the mouse's body."
Uncle Jin understood as soon as he heard it: "So that's how it is. This is your first time possessing someone, so it's inevitable that you lack experience." In fact, this spell of possession was purely collected from the unknown secret techniques passed down in the sect. He himself didn't even know if it was useful, otherwise he wouldn't have thought that Lu Xin had tortured himself to death because of the failed possession.
"Fortunately, you are back now... No, how come your soul has become so much stronger?" He took a closer look at Lu Xin's soul. It was really condensed, almost like a physical entity. It was no longer the hazy and vague soul that could be dispelled with a wave of the hand.
Lu Xin was stunned and looked down at himself. He saw that he had indeed become much more solid. When he was in the white rat's body, he felt that his soul had become stronger, and now he could see it directly.
As for why, there is only one possibility. Lin Tantan often transmits wood energy to animals. As a "sick mouse", she receives the most preferential treatment. Every time she absorbs energy, she feels very comfortable, as if her soul is soaking in a hot spring. Now it seems that her wood energy can really nourish the soul.
Lu Xin's emotions became more and more complicated. He originally wanted to deal with the other party, but he got so many benefits from the other party.
He was silent for a moment. Master Jin assumed he himself was confused and didn't ask any more questions. "Where were you moving around while you were in the white rat's body? Did you see Lin Tan again? How is she doing now? The Lin family has arrived at her side. Is there any movement from the original soul inside her?"
Lu Xin then recalled the last time he saw Lin Tan, which was yesterday.
At that time, Lin Tantan's soul had gradually faded, but the other soul was getting stronger, which made Lu Xin worry about Lin Tantan. But suddenly one day, both souls dimmed several degrees and became very weak. He thought about it carefully, and it was the night before the Lin family entered the base.
But after that, there was no change in the two souls, except that Lin Tantan seemed very nervous, as if he was on the verge of life and death.
He couldn't figure out what was going on, so he could only vaguely say, "It's hard for me to get in touch with her. I don't know."
Master Jin sighed, "We're not sure if we've made a mistake. If the Lin family can't play the role we expect, what's the point of all this hustle and bustle?"
In order to send the Lin family to Lin Tantan.
Lu Xin thought so in his heart, but immediately came to his senses. This idea was too disrespectful to his uncle and other elders, so he didn't have the heart to tell them. He had heard Lin Tan Tan and Ye Xiao say that the Lin family took the initiative to come to the base, which had saved them a lot of effort. Otherwise, they would not know how much of a headache they would have at this time.
In other words, the busyness of the master and his men is almost equivalent to the busyness of Wei Lin Tantan.
Looking at the haggard looks of my uncle and the others, I thought that they would definitely vomit blood if they knew.
Master Jin frowned and sighed helplessly. He had done everything he could. Was he really going to rush over to Lin Tantan and perform a ritual next?
Suddenly, his expression changed and he looked up at the back of a tree: "What is that!"
A shadow, so faint that it was almost invisible, shrank and floated out. It was a soul, the kind that was about to dissipate. Only a human figure could be vaguely seen, and the body and limbs were still in pieces, as if it was almost torn apart.
Master Jin was shocked: "Who are you?" He looked at Lu Xin: "It seems like I followed you here."
Lu Xin was also confused. He didn't recognize this thing. He had been a ghost for more than a year and had never seen another ghost other than himself.
One of the Taoist priests hesitated for a moment and asked, "Did we summon this soul together with Martial Brother Lu's soul just now?"
Everyone suddenly understood, and it made sense.
However, this situation really surprised everyone. Seeing that the soul was so weak and could dissipate at any time, it seemed that the soul of a dying person was summoned by them.
Master Jin pinched a magic spell, which made the confused soul sober up a little. He asked, "Who are you?"
The soul gradually regained consciousness, and then its face became ferocious again: "I am Lin Tantan, I am Lin Tantan. That bitch stole my body and kicked me out!" Then it was shocked again, "Shouldn't I be dead? Where is this place? Why am I here?"
Everyone was stunned. Lin Tantan? That Lin Tantan? But judging by what she said, she must be the original owner of this body.
Lu Xin was also stunned. Was this the dim soul he had always seen in Lin Tantan's body? Why was it so miserable? Then he thought, it seems that Lin Tantan had won the battle between them after all.
He felt a little complicated. He didn't know whether it was because he had been with her for such a long time, or because he had benefited from her wood energy for so long, but he could no longer be as hostile to her as before. When he learned that she was the final winner, he actually felt a little relieved.
This...seems not bad.
He suddenly felt relieved that everything was finally settled and he no longer had to engage in ideological struggle.
The Taoists were not as relaxed as he was. They were all horrified. Master Jin asked, "Are you saying that you are the original Lin Tantan? You, you were driven out of your body?"
It's over, it's all over. All the hard work and effort put into planning, and in the end it's all in vain.
The original owner of the body has been driven out, what else can they do?
Lin Tantan said, "Of course it's me! Who are you? Are you here to help me? Quick, go and drive that woman out of my body!"
Everyone frowned. What else could they do now?
Lin Tantan shouted, "Hurry up and go! She's at her weakest right now. If you delay any longer, there will be no chance!"
Master Jin perked up: "What do you mean?"
Lin Tantan said, "That bitch, her soul was damaged when she attacked me before, and now both her hands are powerless. She should have died in the first place, and her soul has been weak for some time."
Master Jin said, "In that case, there is indeed an opportunity!"
Lu Xin couldn't help but say, "Uncle Master, why don't we just forget about it? Zhengyang Base is developing so well now. Lin Tantan doesn't seem to be a bad person. I've observed her for a long time and haven't seen her absorb any luck from anywhere, let alone use any evil magic. Let's not go against her."
A Taoist priest, even older than Master Jin, snorted coldly, "That's because you're not as skilled as she is. You can't tell. This woman is so vicious. She clearly has the ability to save the infected, but she remained unmoved by their desperate pleas, and ultimately died a miserable death."
Lu Xin explained: "She saves the infected at the cost of self-harm."
Lin Tantan suddenly said, "Yes, she is so cruel. She stole my body and got my superpowers, but she didn't use them to help everyone. If I could return to my body, I would definitely save everyone and give all the infected people hope. It's just a matter of cutting off a finger and a few pieces of flesh. Compared to saving a living life, it's nothing."
Lu Xin: "If she saves someone, she'll probably injure herself more severely."
Lin Tantan retorted: "Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Lu Xin opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. Then he couldn't help but ask doubtfully, "Is that ability yours?"
"What else? If I didn't have five kinds of supernatural powers, why would she have to steal mine instead of someone else's?" Lin Tantan said righteously. She could see that these Taoists were her last hope.
Even if she couldn't survive, she had to cause trouble for that woman.
These people obviously know very little information, so she can just cheat them however she wants.
Lu Xin was about to say something, but Master Jin's face turned cold. "Nephew, what's wrong with you? Have you been deceived? I witnessed with my own eyes the cold indifference that person showed to the infected. Can an ordinary person be so indifferent? She has no compassion for the weak or the dying. It's not a good thing for such a person to stand high."
Lu Xin frowned and could only swallow his words: "Then what are you going to do, uncle?"
Master Jin stared at him for a while and said, "You don't have to worry about this." Then, without waiting for Lu Xin to say anything, he put him into a wooden sculpture that Lu Xin had brought before.
Lu Xin: “…”
Lin Tantan was startled. Master Jin turned to look at her and said with a smile, "You are very weak. I will carve a wooden sculpture for you to take in to nourish your soul. This is how Lu Xin's soul was healed when it was weak."
…
Ye Xiao and Lin Tantan are preparing for their wedding.
After the initial vague uneasiness, Lin Tantan was nervous for a few days. When he found that nothing happened, he couldn't help but wonder if he was overthinking, and his heart slowly relaxed.
After that, the two of them picked a day to get their marriage certificate.
Looking at the red certificate, which looked different from the ones in later times but should be similar to the marriage certificates before the apocalypse, Lin Tantan was a little dazed and asked Ye Xiao: "Are we married now?"
Ye Xiao smiled and said, "This certificate is valid in our base. Our husband-and-wife relationship will also be recognized in the current basic laws of our base."
Lin Tan Tan blinked, which meant that they were really husband and wife.
Why did it feel so unreal to her?
It doesn’t feel real, probably because we haven’t had the wedding yet.
But Ye Xiao had already made preparations. When he said the wedding would be held tomorrow, Lin Tan was surprised: "So soon? Are you ready?"
"Everything is ready. We've prepared it as we agreed before. The dress is also ready." Ye Xiao took out a beautiful gift box, which contained a white bridal gown. Ye Xiao said with some regret, "After all, the craftsmanship is not up to the level before the apocalypse. It can't be as luxurious as before. Take a look and see if you like it."
Lin Tantan touched the gift box and opened it, revealing a white dress that felt wonderful to the touch, with many lace patterns and embellished with sparkling crystals. She looked at Ye Xiao in surprise, "When did you arrange this? Is it so urgent?"
Ye Xiao half-knelt down, kissed her, and said with a smile: "Aren't you anxious? I've been waiting for this day for a long time."
How could he not be anxious? He just wanted to tie her to himself completely. It might not be appropriate to say this, but Lin Tantan's identity as coming from another world did make him uneasy.
To be honest, he didn't show it on the surface, but he was indeed panicking inside that the person in front of him would suddenly disappear. Just like she said, she didn't know how she came into this world.
As a grown man, this was the first time he felt such a strong sense of insecurity.
Lin Tantan vaguely understood his thoughts. She held his face, which had become somewhat thinner in just a few days, in her hands, leaned in and kissed him, saying softly, "Don't worry, I'm here and I won't leave you."
She hadn't told him her origins before, firstly because she was worried he wouldn't be able to accept it, but knowing him well, she knew the possibility of that happening was low. Secondly, she was worried he would overthink it.
If it weren't for this incident, she might never have told him her origins, and just let him feel that he was a native, born and raised in the same world as him, and would eventually grow old and die here like him.
No need to add to these worries.
Ye Xiao held her hands that were pressed against his face. Noticing that her hands were shaking a little, he gently took them down and held them in his hands. Feeling the still soft strength, he asked, "Is your hand still not healed yet?"
Lin Tan Tan shook her head: "It may take some time to recover." After all, it was a trauma to the soul, but apart from some inconvenience in life and the need to temporarily stop working, she accepted it well.
She couldn't help but wonder if she was destined to be healthy. In her previous life, her legs were disabled and she hadn't been able to walk for two days here before her left hand was broken. After it had finally grown back, it now had no strength in it.
Ye Xiao held her hand, gently stroking the back of her hand. After a moment of silence, he said, "Let's talk. Tell me about your... past, okay?"
Lin Tantan was not surprised. She actually wanted to talk to Ye Xiao about it. If he knew more, he might feel more at ease.
She patted the bench beside her and said, "Sit here. I'll tell you slowly."
Ye Xiao sat down beside her, gently put his arm around her shoulders, and the two of them talked quietly facing the shimmering scene under the setting sun.
Lin Tan Tan told him that she came from more than three hundred years later, when the end of the world had passed, all the zombies disappeared, and humans entered a new era. However, people with special abilities still existed, and the proportion was very high. People had ways to absorb and purify special energy from the air, soil, and ocean, and make a lot of energy stones. Therefore, people with special abilities only needed to buy energy stones to practice, and there were also special training classes.
The technology at that time was much more advanced than it is now. There were many energy-efficient fighter jets, cars could fly in the sky, and people's lives were very convenient. However, the development was also relatively limited. After all, only three hundred years had passed.
"I'm also a five-element psychic there, a nationally renowned therapist. I make a lot of money, and everyone, regardless of their status, treats me with courtesy and respect... My parents love me very much, and I have a very well-behaved younger brother."
Listening to her rambling, Ye Xiao tightened his grip on her shoulders slightly, his throat feeling dry. "Do you want to go back?"
Lin Tan Tan said, "But I've already come here."
Ye Xiao looked at her gravely, with a hint of grievance in his eyes. At this moment, Lin Tantan felt that he was like a large dog that was afraid of being abandoned, the kind that was particularly docile and cute.
Lin Tantan's heart softened. He rubbed his coarse hair, which was dyed golden by the setting sun. "Even if you let me go back, I won't. My parents have my brother, but you only have me."
Alas, she couldn't just make Ye Xiao feel that she was better off here than three hundred years later by describing herself three hundred years later as a poor little thing, who had accomplished nothing, had no father or mother, and let her feel that she had no attachment to that world.
What if he doesn't worry but feels distressed instead?
Besides, they would inevitably have to talk about these things in the future. What if she let the cat out of the bag? He was so perceptive that even if she told a small lie, if there was even the slightest mismatch, he would find out.
So the wisest thing to do is to tell the truth, but hide the fact that you had a hard time as a child and died there.
After hearing her words, Ye Xiao's eyebrows relaxed, but he was still not completely relieved. He said, "Do you miss them?"
"Yes, they are my family after all. But I am living well here, and they will be happy for me when they know it, and... I had a vague premonition before I traveled through time. You know that people with superpowers have very accurate intuition. I told them in advance, and their lives have been arranged." Lin Tantan said, with a smile on her lips. There was some nostalgia in her eyes, but no negative emotions. It can be seen that she is very open-minded about her own experience and does not worry too much about her family. It is like a bird that has to leave its parents' home when it grows up. It always has to live on its own. No matter how far it flies, as long as it has that concern in its heart, it is good.
Ye Xiao couldn't help but wonder what her family was like, what her parents were like, her father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law whom she had never met and probably would never meet in her lifetime.
The family that can raise her with such a personality must be a very warm one, right?
Ye Xiao grew up in a broken family with both his parents dead. He always had a resistance to words like family and parents. Seeing Lin talking about her original family like this, he was happy for her and his heart couldn't help but warm up.
Seeing that he was interested, Lin Tan Tan told him some of her family's stories. Suddenly remembering something, she smiled and said, "People with special abilities have longer lifespans than ordinary people. If we work hard, maybe we can live to see my parents when they were little."
Of course, this is unlikely. No matter how long a person with superpowers lives, it is impossible for them to live to more than 300 years old. But this is also a beautiful wish! As Lin Tantan thought about it, he suddenly wanted to know what his parents were like when they were young.
But there is still a problem. After she traveled through time, so much has changed. Zhou Yan, the future president of the country, is dead. Future developments will definitely be very different. Can her parents still be born?
Or is this actually just a parallel world?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little confused.
She didn't ask Ye Xiao this question either. After all, it was an unanswerable question, and asking would only add to her troubles.
Ye Xiao suddenly said: "So you know me?"
Lin Tan Tan: “Ah?”
"You recognized me the first time you saw me, right?" He remembered that when they first met, she stared at him in a daze, with an extremely shocked expression on her face.
Even later on, she was very friendly to me, even trusting me...
Lin Tantan immediately started coughing, his coughs a mixture of real and fake, his eyes rolling around as he coughed. When he finished, he said, "No, no, I don't know you. Even though we're from the future, not everyone knows someone from three hundred years ago, okay?"
Ye Xiao looked at her suspiciously, raising his eyebrows slightly: "Really?" His expression showed that he was speaking with such a guilty conscience.
"Of course."
Oh my god, she almost forgot about this. Should she tell him, "Oh, yes, I know you, you are my idol?" This is easy to say, but what if he then asks, "So how long have I lived in history, and what happened in the end?"
How should she respond? She should say that you died too early and that your entire team was wiped out, which couldn't be more tragic.
I can’t say it. I can’t say it.
So she evaded the question: "Well, I'm a little tired." She saw it was still light outside, and at the same time, she thought, they had just gotten their marriage certificate and were a legal couple on the base, recognized by the Basic Law, so tonight...
Cough cough cough!
She immediately changed her tone: "Well, I'm a little hungry, let's go eat."
Ye Xiao, who had just finished having dinner with her, said: "..."
It seems like he really wants to avoid the problem.
Ye Xiao was not in a hurry. He would talk about it later. If she really didn't want to say it, that was fine. He didn't have to know it.
It's just... seeing her reaction makes me more curious.
…
That night, Ye Xiao understood that she didn't feel the reality yet and didn't want to do anything. The two of them went to have a snack which was not considered as midnight snack. After eating, they walked back to the forest garden slowly. They walked hand in hand in the forest garden until the moon was on the branches, and then they reluctantly parted ways.
Lin Tantan returned to her residence with a sweet smile on her face. When she saw the dress on the bed, her cheeks couldn't help but feel hot, and then she felt something filling her up. Her whole heart felt warm and soft, as if it was soaked in warm honey water. It was so sweet that she couldn't stand it.
She spread out the dress on the bed. It looked a bit like a wedding dress, but not as fluffy and exaggerated as a wedding dress. However, it was also very beautiful, especially the crystals and pearls on it, which were absolutely real.
This is a dress that looks low-key, but its actual value is very luxurious.
She lay on the edge of her dress, gently stroking it, her eyes wandering, her thoughts drifting off into the distance. Even when she came to her senses, she didn't know what she was thinking. Then, a sudden thought occurred to her: where is the wedding room? Since she didn't have anything furnished here, was she going to live at Ye Xiao's place?
It seems like it's a custom to live at the man's place, but the question is, isn't his place still a bachelor apartment?
She sat up, took out the communicator with her weak hands, and called Ye Xiao. Ye Xiao picked up immediately and said in a gentle voice, "What's wrong?"
Lin Tantan blushed and asked, "Where is our new house?"
Ye Xiao: “…”
Ye Xiao: “…………”
Well, his mind was so full of getting the marriage certificate and the wedding that he actually forgot about this.
Of course the new house needs to be decorated.
Lin Tantan was used to living in Lin Garden. It was so spacious and had beautiful scenery, so naturally Ye Xiao moved in with her. As for the house, it was only Lin Tantan's bedroom, and it was too late to start construction now.
Ye Xiao went to get some materials, then drove back to Lin Yuan, and the two of them began to tidy up and decorate the house themselves.
The two guys who had no idea about design started to get busy. Of course, it was mainly Lin Tan who talked and Ye Xiao who took action.
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