A Letter Sent by Death

Lin Xiaoyou's meaning...

Was obvious!

Her meaning was...

From the moment she sped her car here with him, she had already planned...

To rewind!

...?!

Ah?!

What she just meant was—

By bringing him to this secret base...

She would draw attention!

Those "spies", the ones that forced Lin Xiaoyou to play the naive sweet girl in front of him...

Would follow her Chopped Pepper Fish Head car all the way here!

And...

They really did follow them!

So...

From the very beginning, she had planned all of this?

Brought him here, told him the location of the secret base, told him her background, and then...

Die here?

To turn all of this...

Into a "dream"...

That only the three of them would remember?

This way...

Those spies wouldn't know.

The location of the secret base wouldn't be exposed.

She could, without being monitored by anyone...

Reach a true cooperation with him!

But...

Fang Qi exerted some force and accidentally bit Liguang's lip.

...This isn't right?!

How did she know about the rewind mechanism?!

This is impossible!

She didn't know!

In the last loop, Lin Xiaoyou had recovered her memories!

Her performance then didn't look like she knew at all!

She was even at his house, and saw the whole process of Liguang going berserk and him being killed by Liguang!

At that time...

What was her reaction after he died?

It was a breakdown!

It was wailing in tears!

It was rushing up to attack Liguang, wanting to "avenge" him!

If she knew he could rewind, how could she have that kind of reaction?!

So...

In the last loop, she didn't know that his death would trigger a rewind!

But...

What is going on in this loop!?

Why would she do this...?!

Could it be...

She deduced something through the contents of the "dream" from the last loop?!

Just based on a... deduction?!

She dared to risk her life and perish together with him?!

...Is she a lunatic!

Impossible!

...He had to ask clearly!

Fang Qi immediately raised his hand and patted Liguang's back!

Liguang's body paused slightly, her gaze finally moving away from Lin Xiaoyou, her heterochromatic eyes meeting his.

Fang Qi gave her a look, conveying a clear message to her—

Let go, Liguang, we are not afraid of death.

But before we die... I must ask clearly!

The silver-haired girl's crimson and amber eyes flashed at the same time!

She understood.

After a moment of silence, her lips brushed lightly against the corner of his mouth, slowly letting go of his lips.

Fang Qi also began to breathe through his nose.

The toxin-laced air immediately flooded into Fang Qi's nasal cavity!

That pungent sweet smell made his head dizzy again.

But he gritted his teeth, forced himself up, and stood up by supporting himself on the floor!

His body swayed, and he was steadily supported from behind by Liguang again.

"You...!"

He looked down, staring straight at the round-faced girl slumped by the wall, still smiling!

"Aren't you afraid..."

"That this isn't a 'dream'?!"

His voice also became a bit hoarse due to the influence of the poison gas.

But his tone was heavy!

He couldn't say some things too clearly, the rules of the world... were still watching the scene before him through his eyes.

Liguang was right beside him, so he couldn't ask directly... "Aren't you afraid we won't be able to rewind?!"

He could only ask it this way!

But he knew that Lin Xiaoyou would understand!

Since she had done all this, she would definitely understand what he was asking!

Lin Xiaoyou looked at him, her expression... slightly dazed?

After being dazed for a few seconds...

A huge smile suddenly bloomed on that small round face flushed with an unnatural redness!

It was no longer that playful smile!

But an unbridled, unreserved smile! An "I knew it" smile!

The smile of a gambler... who bet their entire fortune and won the jackpot!

"Senior..."

Her voice was already very, very light, yet it carried a trembling excitement!

"You really... aren't afraid of dying...!"

"As expected... as expected...! As expected... this is a 'dream'!"

Fang Qi's eyelids twitched wildly!

Wait...?!

Lin Xiaoyou took another deep breath!

A breath of poison gas!

Her breathing was like a broken bellows, becoming even more difficult!

But...

She was still smiling, her almond eyes shining astonishingly bright!

"I'm afraid...!"

Her lips were trembling.

"How could I... not be afraid?"

"So..."

She shakily raised her hand, pointing to her own small round face!

"That's why I... pushed myself!"

The corners of her mouth were raised in a high arc!

She also stared straight at Fang Qi!

"I was... so afraid that those spies wouldn't find this place, that's why... I sped here on purpose!"

"This way..."

She swallowed, her voice already incredibly dry and hoarse...

Yet still trembling with excitement!

"I wouldn't be able to back out!"

"I wouldn't be able to think... 'Oh, those spies... didn't find this place, so we don't need to wake up'..."

"That wouldn't do!"

"So, I blocked off all my routes of retreat..."

"Completely!"

Her finger shakily turned toward Fang Qi... and pointed at him!

"Now, Senior's reaction has also told me..."

"This, is, a, dream!"

The curve of her mouth was already somewhat crazy!

"How about it, Senior?"

"Isn't Xiaoyou... very smart?!"

In those almond eyes, there was a fanaticism and excitement that Fang Qi had never seen in her eyes before!

"Xiaoyou... bet, right!"

Fang Qi... looked at her, dumbfounded.

He held his head, his body swaying, and was tightly supported by Liguang again.

His hands were shaking slightly.

Because of the poison gas, and also because of this girl... the words she had just said!

So... she really didn't know?

She really...

Was gambling?!

Gambling her life?!

And his life?!

...Ah?!

Just based on... a deduction?!

Liguang supported him, without speaking.

But Fang Qi could feel that the hand supporting him... was tightening slightly!

In her amber eye, that touch of faint blue was no longer flowing steadily...

But like boiling water, it was surging violently!

She was frantically analyzing everything before her eyes!

Lin Xiaoyou hadn't finished yet.

"Precisely because I'm afraid..."

Her tone suddenly became gentle.

Muttering to herself.

As if... she was giving her final last words.

"That's why I... let Xiaoqing kneel outside."

Her gaze slightly unfocused, looking in the direction of the B1 entrance.

Her line of sight seemed to penetrate the metal walls, seeing the B1 floor at this moment...

That light gray figure kneeling stubbornly in the corner.

"I really don't want..."

"To let Xiaoqing see me like this."

She muttered.

"Even if this is just a 'dream'..."

"I still don't want her to see me like this and be sad..."

"Because..."

The corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

"She doesn't know... that this is a dream."

In that smile, there was a trace of rare gentleness.

"Of course, if this isn't a dream..."

She continued to look in that direction with unfocused eyes.

"Then I... also set a program for her."

"She will soon... forget me. She will get up in a daze, not knowing... why she is in this underground base."

She turned her head and looked at Fang Qi again.

"By then, she won't have to keep following a pauper like me, and can... return to 'Dusk'..."

"Find a... master who can make her life easier."

"Following me... Sister Xiaoqing is really... too tired, too tired..."

Her voice grew lower and lower.

Those almond eyes had already begun to lose focus, her pupils slightly dilating.

But her gaze still tried hard to focus on Fang Qi's face.

"As for you, Senior..."

She tilted her head, her voice so blurred it was almost inaudible.

Every word she spat out seemed to exhaust all her strength...

"'Lin You'... might just... want to cooperate with you. But..."

"'Lin Xiaoyou'... really, really... likes you a lot."

She smiled.

A very, very complex smile.

Self-mockery, helplessness, a little bit of unwillingness...

And a little bit of relief.

"What should I do, Senior... The psychological suggestion I gave myself... went a bit too far."

She tried hard to blink at Fang Qi.

"It seems to have really affected me. So I feel..."

"Even if this isn't a 'dream', but..."

"Anyway, you won't possibly choose me in the future, Senior, so..."

Her almond eyes tried hard to curve into crescents again.

"Dying together with you for love isn't so bad either... is it?"

Fang Qi: "...?"

Ha?!

You...!

Fang Qi's legs really gave way, almost stumbling and falling again!

No...

We're all about to fucking die...

And you're still seeking death here?!

Do you think you're not dying fast enough?!

"Buzz—"

Sure enough, beside him, a piercing scarlet light suddenly exploded!

The silver-haired girl's laser blade instantly popped out!

Longer and brighter than any time before!

It directly burned a scorched smell into the toxic gas in the air!

The hand she extended the laser blade with was trembling slightly!

The scarlet in her crimson eyes flashed wildly, and the deep blue in her amber eye surged out like a broken dam!

The deep blue could no longer suppress that scarlet!

Fang Qi, however, was stunned.

He stared blankly at Lin Xiaoyou in front of him.

Her eyes were still open.

The corner of her mouth still hung with that complex smile.

But the light in those almond eyes...

Had completely dimmed.

Her eyes no longer blinked.

The rise and fall of her chest had also stopped.

Ah...

Fang Qi's pupils trembled slightly.

She had...

Died.

Died in...

The plan she had personally devised.

Using her own life, his life, and everything in this entire loop...

She bet on a deduction, and then...

She won the bet.

And Fang Qi...

His brain, which was a "fool" in Lin Xiaoyou's eyes...

Finally completely understood.

Haha...

Fuck.

Lunatic.

A real lunatic...!

He stumbled again... and was supported by Liguang.

Fang Qi still stared blankly at this... completely lifeless round-faced girl in front of him.

This lunatic...

She had experienced so many "dreams" before.

Eloping on an island, debating in a cafe, eighty-two loops of going to work...

These let her know that these "dreams" were related to him.

And in the previous loop, she experienced all that at his house... Liguang giving her truth serum, his interrogation of her, and...

Her own death.

When she woke up in this loop... those memories turned into "dreams" again.

So, she deduced two key points:

—The essence of these "dreams" is the memories of the previous loop.

—"Dreaming" seems to be related to death.

And just based on these two deductions...

She dared to... devise such a crazy plan?!

Bringing him to the secret base...

Intentionally speeding, exposing their location to the informants...

Using the electric shock of the gene door to make herself half-paralyzed...

And then... using this to lure him into this room that could be sealed.

Telling him her background, telling him that she and he were actually the same kind of people...

Finally...

Releasing toxic gas to perish together with him.

This way...

Only he and Liguang would remember the location of the secret base.

He and Liguang also already knew her background.

And the matter she wanted to cooperate on...

She hadn't said it yet, but... there was no need to say it anymore.

Because...

He would definitely come again.

Come again to this... "secret base" belonging to her and Xiaoqing.

Fang Qi looked at this... round-faced girl slumped against the wall in front of him.

She half-opened those almond eyes that had lost their luster.

That small round face... still carried a smile.

"Haha...!"

Fang Qi stumbled and leaned into Liguang's embrace behind him.

She was a genius.

A true genius.

And also... a true lunatic.

She turned herself into a letter sent by death.

Sent to him in the next loop.

Liguang in the next loop.

And...

Herself in the next loop.