Lin Tantan looked up and saw lush greenery with flourishing branches and leaves. It was indeed a good place to hide. Faintly, he seemed to see a pair of eyes flashing among the branches and leaves.
Lin Tantan was startled. He slid his wheelchair back and asked Dashu, "Is that thing still on you?"
The tree didn't answer.
All the sounds around me seemed to be withdrawn at this moment, leaving it silent and mysterious.
Lin Tantan suddenly turned his head and saw that the friends who were by his side just now were gone, Lu Xin was also gone, and there was only an increasingly thick black fog surrounding them.
She gasped, panicked but quickly calmed down, mobilized the not-so-abundant and powerful energy in her body, looked coldly at the tree in front of her: "What is it? Come out." At the same time, she quietly touched the communicator in her pocket and pressed it.
A golden light slowly floated out from the tree and slowly condensed into a translucent human figure in the open space in front of him. A pair of calm yet sharp eyes looked at Lin Tan Tan without any hostility, and even with a slight smile.
Lin Tantan's fighting spirit suddenly froze, and he looked at the person in front of him in disbelief: "Ye Xiao?!"
Liang City.
A group of people were having a meeting. Ye Xiao was sitting in the main seat with a solemn expression.
His three-year absence had caused a lot of controversy, but many of the techniques he had learned and the experiences he had learned during those three hundred years could be put into practice here, greatly accelerating development and avoiding many detours.
So as a series of national policies and development plans came out, everyone was speechless and everyone was busy. After three years of recuperation, people had settled down and felt a little tired. When they were confused about the future direction, they finally got clear guidance for the next stage.
Many people are even speculating whether Ye Xiao has gone somewhere to study for the past three years, specifically learning how to govern a country. Coupled with the huge military force that is there, everyone is in awe and admires him.
Today's topic is about mutated marine creatures. Three years have passed, and the once obedient marine mutants have become restless and have begun to invade the shore again, making the coastal areas the most dangerous places and making it impossible to obtain marine resources. It's time to send troops over to teach them a lesson.
Ye Xiao listened to them discussing how many people to send and who would take the lead. His mind had already drifted to Lin Yuan. What were they doing now? Although she said she had long been accustomed to life in a wheelchair and did not need any life assistants, he was still worried.
As for these mutant marine creatures, which were once threatening in his eyes, they are now not worth mentioning. As long as he wants, he can easily frighten them again by killing a chicken to scare the monkey.
But this is not a long-term solution. The mutated creatures in the ocean are almost endless, and he cannot rely on himself to deal with them all the time. Moreover, it is also a good training target for humans, and it can also improve people's sense of crisis, so that they don't think that the world is peaceful.
So what was Tan Tan doing at this time? Practicing her powers, talking to her animals, or just lying under a tree, humming a song and reading a novel?
One-third of his thoughts were focused on the discussion in the room, and the rest drifted away. Suddenly, his face changed drastically, and he stood up abruptly. His movement was so big that he even knocked over the chair behind him with a bang.
Everyone stopped and looked at him in shock.
But his face looked extremely ugly, and even a little panicked and horrified. But before people could see clearly, he had disappeared from the spot.
After he left, the whole audience was silent for three seconds before they started to discuss and speculate about what had happened.
Bai Cheng stood up slowly, his face looking somewhat solemn. The only thing that could make Ye Xiao show such an expression was that something had happened with Lin Tantan.
…
At this moment, Lin Tantan looked at the light golden translucent figure in front of him and calmed down little by little.
"You are not Ye Xiao."
The figure smiled: "Why not?"
Lin Tan Tan was certainly certain that when Ye Xiao smiled at her, his eyes always sparkled, and were extremely gentle and full of love. Although the man in front of her looked exactly like Ye Xiao, his smile was somewhat incongruous, and his eyes were cold.
That alone allowed her to tell the difference.
But this man still gave her a very familiar feeling. He had an unspoken yet omnipresent sense of vicissitudes of life, and an indelible melancholy between his brows. He stood there, even smiling, yet he seemed as if he were already dead...
Lin Tantan's heart skipped a beat as an incredible idea formed in his mind.
"Ye Shen?"
Ye Xiao looked at the girl whose eyes were wide with disbelief and smiled: "You recognized me. I heard that you are my little fan."
Lin Tantan's eyes widened even more: "You, you, you, aren't you dead? No, why are you here? You're still alive!"
She was surprised, happy, and confused, but of course she was mostly overjoyed. It was the joy that her idol had appeared before her alive, and she was overjoyed that the idol, who she thought was dead, had appeared before her.
This feeling only appeared during the period after I successfully reunited with Ye Xiao after traveling through time. Later, Ye Xiao gradually became a familiar person, and the feeling of meeting my idol gradually disappeared.
But no matter how excited she was at that time, because Ye Xiao was only the Ye Xiao "seven years ago", before he became her idol, so the feeling of meeting him in person also had a subtle sense of seeing the childhood of her idol. And now, she could clearly feel that this "Ye Xiao" was the Ye Xiao seven years later.
So this face-to-face encounter feels different.
The surprise in her eyes was not fake. "Ye Xiao" was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "In your opinion, I should have been dead. Suddenly appearing here, aren't you scared?"
Lin Tan Tan said, "So now that you appear here, does that mean you are not actually dead?" She smiled generously, "I have also died, and I can still live. Why can't you? Why should I be afraid of you?" She was only happy in her heart, although she didn't know what had happened.
"Aren't you afraid that my coming here will be disadvantageous to you, and that I stay here to replace that Ye Xiao?" "Ye Xiao" said in a slow and soft voice.
Lin Tan was stunned for a moment, then his excitement and joy slowly faded away. He looked at the man in front of him and slowly shook his head: "You won't."
"Why not? You're my fan, aren't you? You originally wanted to go back to the past because of me, but you should know now that you've got the wrong person." "Ye Xiao" chuckled, a hint of sarcasm between his brows. His tone was also light, but it gave people a sense of calm sharpness. "Although saying this may sound jealous, the Ye Xiao here hasn't experienced everything I've experienced, but because of me, he has you, and thus has a completely different, worthy of a happy and fulfilling life. And I, who clearly deserve all of this, still have nothing. My little fan, do you think this is fair to me? Do you think this is consistent with your original intention?"
"Do you think... should I be willing?"
The color on Lin Tantan's face faded little by little, and he slowly lowered his head.
…
Outside the black fog, Ye Xiao suddenly appeared, but he was helpless against the circle of black fog. He wandered around like a trapped beast, his face ashen, and angrily spoke to a certain existence: "Why did he appear again? Why did he come here?"
The calm voice of the world rules rang out in his mind: "Sorry, this is one of the conditions that the world rules agreed to let you go there. I said it would set up some small obstacles for you."
Ye Xiao paused, he recalled that in those three hundred years, apart from the three hundred years of suffering he should have endured, he did not encounter any obstacles. The later it got, the more worried he was that there would be some variables, but in the end, nothing happened. So he ended up waiting here?
The world rules continued, "Although it's just a low-level world rule, it still has its own dignity. If an outsider were to come in and take anything away without hesitation, they would be angry."
"Then just come after me, why are you looking for her!"
"Keep calm, she's not in danger, what are you worried about?"
What are you worried about? Ye Xiao stopped and looked at the heavy black fog, as if he wanted to see through this barrier and see the two people inside.
Ever since he knew about the existence of parallel worlds, knew the reason why Tan Tan originally found him and helped him, and knew that Tan Tan's "Ye God" was someone else, sometimes Ye Xiao would feel like he was taking over someone else's world, but since that person was already dead, there was nothing to talk about anymore.
The feelings between them for several years were not fake. They were together day and night, fought side by side, and experienced life and death. It was him who accompanied her. This was the source of Ye Xiao's confidence. He was only afraid that fate would separate them, and he was never afraid of a third party appearing.
But now, that guy also came and silently paid attention to Ye Xiao from that life. She knew how important that guy was to her.
World Rules asked, "Are you worried that she'll go with him?"
"No, she won't." Ye Xiao said firmly.
"Are you worried that she might fall in love with him?"
"No, she only loves me. She doesn't have that kind of feeling for him."
"Then why are you so nervous? Obstacles can arise at any time. As long as you are fearless, they are not obstacles."
It was like those three hundred years, an insurmountable chasm for many people. Even if their bodies could withstand the test of time, what about their minds? But Ye Xiao persevered, neither allowing himself to grow old nor forgetting his original aspirations. So when he appeared before Lin Tantan again, he was still the same Ye Xiao, his feelings unfaded, but instead becoming deeper and more profound with the passage of time.
When Ye Xiao looked at the black fog, a violent look flashed in his eyes, but he suppressed it forcefully. He closed his eyes, then looked at the black fog in silence, his body tense.
…
"I... didn't know at first that this was a parallel world." In the black fog, in the private space of the two of them, Lin Tantan gently grabbed the cloth on her legs with her hands and said softly.
"I thought he was you, the you of the past. I treated him as you and wanted to give him the best."
"Later, I gradually realized that this might be a parallel world. If it's a parallel world, then he shouldn't be you, right? Then where is the real you? Or is it still in the original world, a tearful legend recorded in history books? I was a little confused, but I didn't think too much about it. By then, I had already fallen in love with him. My feelings for him were no longer just a fan's blessing. He was a brand new character to me, a living person who could respond to my emotions and spend my life with me."
"From the moment I fell in love with him, he was no longer just the Ye Xiao I once respected and admired."
"But at that time, I didn't completely distinguish him from that Ye Xiao." She looked up at the "Ye Xiao" in front of her. "Until the moment you appeared in front of me, I never realized so clearly that you two are two different people."
"Even though you share the same past, the same background, the same personality and qualities, you are like two branches splitting from a tree. From the moment I saw him, the fork appeared, and from that moment on, you became two different people."
"Ye Xiao" said: "So, do you regret it now?"
"No." Lin Tan Tan slowly shook his head. "I still love him. My feelings for him will never change. I know exactly who I fell in love with. Even if you were part of my reason at first, it was him who spent every day with me, who was by my side, who worried about me, who suffered for me, who crossed a world and waited for me for so long to save me. It was him."
"I'm just sorry and sad."
Ye Xiao's eyes moved slightly, and he asked, "Because he is not me after all?"
"No." Lin Tantan looked at him, her eyes gradually filled with sadness, and tears rolled down her cheeks. "I'm so sorry, I couldn't change your fate after all. Everything I did didn't help you after all."
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