...She didn't hear it.
Fang Qi let out a trembling breath.
Thank goodness...
Thank goodness she didn't hear it!
He wasn't sure if Liguang found out about this kind of "secret"...
Would there be any serious consequences!
Just like Gu Xi right now...
And, even if there were no serious consequences...
It would still be a hassle.
If she were to find out again, like before, that "achieving [Eternal Love] would trigger a rewind"...
God knows what she would do now!
He looked at her nervous and earnest little expression...
What did she just ask him?
Oh...
She was suspecting that Gu Xi suddenly died because she talked to him about the "dream"?
...That makes sense.
Fang Qi's eyes softened slightly.
She didn't know what Gu Xi had actually said.
She could only deduce from the phenomenon of Gu Xi's sudden death at this moment that—
Talking about the memories of the previous loop could lead to death?
"...I believe you."
He let go of her shoulders.
He stood up, his gaze falling once again on Gu Xi on the floor.
She still lay there, her black hair scattered across the floor, her eyes open, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Fang Qi tightened his grip on the handgun.
This handgun... the one he snatched from her.
The originally cold metal had now grown slightly warm because he had been holding it.
He stared at Gu Xi's lifeless face.
Gu Xi...
You really knew a lot, and you told me a lot.
Although you probably told me this on impulse, wanting me to back down and obediently get lost...
But no matter what your goal was, you have already stuffed the most important information into my brain.
So...
I will bring you back to life.
Using this very gun I took from your hands.
Your service weapon.
It will fire a shot right into my own temple.
Then, the entire world will rewind and start over.
You will return to this morning, you will put on this clean leather jacket again, and you will tie up that neat short ponytail again.
You wouldn't have guessed it, but the "unstable" ability you despise so much... will save your life.
When the time comes, I will find you again.
And have a proper chat with you.
However...
Fang Qi looked down at the gun in his hand.
Now is not the time.
Right now...
He still had one more thing to do!
He turned his head again and looked at the wooden bed.
It was still that same wooden bed, just like in the previous loop, crude and covered in a layer of dust.
In the previous loop, Lin Xiaoyou and Xiao Qing turned the two bed legs near the wall together, and the mechanism was activated.
The heavy stone door opened, and they could enter that...
Underground research institute hidden deep within the mountain.
Down there lay the secret of Liguang's true core.
That genetic door which, just by getting close, could awaken Liguang's original core!
The final legacy that his parents guarded with their lives!
Since he was already here!
The card was also in Liguang's hands now!
No matter what, he had to go down and take a look!
Especially that thing which could keep Liguang's true core permanently awakened...!
...Huh?
Fang Qi froze slightly.
Wait a minute.
The true core...
Awakened...
Eh?!
He abruptly turned his head and looked at Liguang!
The silver-haired girl was still kneeling at his feet, slightly tilting her head to look at him.
In that amber left eye, a faint blue light was quietly flowing.
She noticed his gaze, blinked, and revealed an obedient and cautious smile.
He hadn't told her to get up, so she had remained kneeling.
Fang Qi stared at the faint blue in her left eye, his eyelids twitching!
He suddenly thought of something.
That true core...
Also seemed off!
Just like Gu Xi, it wasn't right!
Because that core could detect Gu Xi's presence!
Liguang had said...
Her Crimson Eye was completely unable to detect Gu Xi's presence!
But Liguang had searched Gu Xi from head to toe, even scanning her internal organs...
Yet ultimately confirmed that on Gu Xi's body...
There were no suspicious electronic devices!
There were no signs of mechanical modification inside her body!
Gu Xi was just an ordinary flesh-and-blood body, a human shell!
But that was with respect to Liguang's true core.
To Liguang's Crimson Eye, Gu Xi was complete nothingness.
No heat.
No radiation.
It couldn't even identify the physical outline of an "obstacle"!
In the data stream of this external Crimson Eye, this beautiful police officer was a "ghost" that could only be captured visually!
Now, he seemed to have figured it out.
...This wasn't some kind of technological shielding at all!
To perfectly deceive the Crimson Eye's scan without any equipment... it was completely illogical!
The only reason was...
Gu Xi herself did not exist in a dimension that the Crimson Eye could perceive!
An external core like the Crimson Eye, retrofitted by the Dawn Company, shouldn't be able to detect her!
In other words, the Crimson Eye simply couldn't detect...
The existence of the "plane" she belonged to!
...A helper of the world's rules!
An "informant"...!
Perhaps they really were "ghosts" drifting through this world?
...Is that so?
Fang Qi felt his heartbeat accelerating!
If that was really the case, if Gu Xi and those "informants" were themselves a part of this world's rules, entities walking above the rules...
Then what was going on with Liguang's true core?
That faint blue in her amber eye... why could it detect Gu Xi?
He kept staring intently at the silver-haired girl's left eye.
The amber left eye.
The left eye flowing with faint blue!
Being stared at by him like this, a trace of slight panic flashed through Liguang's eyes again...
She immediately puffed out her chest and knelt even straighter!
Fang Qi watched her little movements while his mind kept racing!
Liguang, his crazy woman...
Her original core sensed Gu Xi's presence the moment it awakened!
The "ghost" that the Crimson Eye couldn't see, the original core could?
And this core...
Was developed by his parents!
Debugged and activated in this underground research institute!
So...
Had his parents seen something too?
Known something too?
Did they, just like Liguang's original core...
Once see things they shouldn't have seen?
Know things they shouldn't have known?
Is that why they were silenced?
Fang Qi's eyelids twitched wildly!
So, they were "silenced" not because of Dawn's internal strife, but because of...
Some higher "level" reasons?!
...Oh!
He remembered!
The word "Observer," and the fact that his eyes were the "eyes of the world"...!
Wasn't that what the once all-knowing Liguang learned from her core!
Wasn't that secret the greatest legacy his parents left in her core!
This legacy...
Was a secret about this world!
Fang Qi stared intently at that surging faint blue, his breathing unconsciously stopping!
Right...
And...!
And Lin Xiaoyou!
Lin You!
Gu Xi said she was a lunatic!
She was clearly paying special attention to Lin You!
Lin You also said that as long as the two of them were together...
They would be heavily monitored by the "informants"!
The ones targeted by the "eyes" were "intruders" like him!
Why would Lin You be entitled to the exact same treatment?
So...
Had she discovered it too?
...She had read the private notes his parents left in this research institute!
If his parents really knew something, then could Lin You...
Have read the exact same things from those notes?
So she knew something too!
That was why she had been targeted by the "eyes"!
Right...
She seemed to have mentioned before that she wanted to...
"Save everyone"?
...Huh?
Fang Qi held his forehead, stumbling slightly again.
"Master!"
Liguang, who was kneeling at his feet, immediately reached out and held onto his legs!
She looked up at him, her face full of worry.
Fang Qi, however, tightly grasped her small hands.
He was still thinking!
He had always thought that Lin You's "save everyone" meant saving the awakened AIs!
Saving Twilight!
Saving those omnics persecuted by Dawn!
But now, he suddenly realized...
His thinking seemed to have been a bit narrow.
Lin Xiaoyou knew the secrets of this world...
Then perhaps, the "everyone" she spoke of was meant completely literally?
Literally...
Everyone?
He felt another wave of dizziness!
It was too chaotic...
Truly too chaotic!
He raised his hand, rubbing his temples vigorously!
He felt like his whole head was going to explode!
Damn it...!
He was just a guy who played Galgames!
Before transmigrating, he was just drinking soda in his rented apartment, smiling foolishly at his waifu Liguang on the screen...!
Researching how to keep courting death! How to keep making his waifu Liguang turn to the dark side!
How simple and relaxing that life was!
But now...
Fuck...!
This world was thinking a bit too highly of him, wasn't it!
Conspiracies, organizations, intruders, world rules...
Memories, returning from the dead, ghosts walking above the rules...
He couldn't figure it out!
He really couldn't figure it out!
No...
No, no, no!
He couldn't think about it anymore!
He really didn't want to think about it anymore!
Fang Qi abruptly raised his head, staring fixedly at that wooden bed!
Why keep thinking!
The truth might be right in front of him!
He should just go straight down!
What was the truth!
What did his parents see back then!
What exactly did Lin Xiaoyou know!
What exactly were Gu Xi and those "eyes" behind her!
Down there...
The answers must be hidden!
The research records in the archives, the "very interesting private notes" Lin Xiaoyou mentioned, and that thing causing Liguang's original core to continuously awaken...
They were all waiting for him down there!
It was time to act!
He grabbed Liguang's hand that was still tugging at the corner of his clothes!
The slightly cool touch calmed his chaotic brain down a bit!
With a pull...
He yanked her up from the ground!
He stared at the bed and said in a low voice:
"Liguang, we are going down right now, we...!"
"Wait a moment, Master!"
Liguang suddenly interrupted him!
The small hand he was holding suddenly exerted force, tightly gripping his hand!
The silver-haired girl suddenly turned her head sharply, staring at the wooden door she had just knocked open!
...?
What?!
Fang Qi also turned his head instantly!
He focused his gaze outside the door!
Outside the door, there was still the lush forest, the crisp sound of cicadas and the flowing stream.
Everything seemed incredibly peaceful.
But Liguang's body was tense!
Her crimson and amber pupils were flashing wildly at the same time!
"Master..."
"People! A lot of people!"
Her voice was instantly lowered to a whisper! She spoke very fast!
"A lot of..."
"People that Liguang's crimson pupil cannot detect!"
"They have surrounded the mountain! They are moving quickly towards here, they will be up here soon!"
The hand that Fang Qi was holding reversed its grip, forcefully clutching him tight!
The force was so great that it made Fang Qi's bones let out faint cracking sounds!
Fang Qi's eyes twitched from the pain, but he still stared intently out the window!
On the mountain path, the sunlight was still bright, and the leaves swayed gently in the mountain breeze.
He could not see or hear anything unusual.
But he knew...
Indeed, someone should be coming.
Because of Gu Xi.
Gu Xi was dead.
Her identity was special.
So those people behind her, those "eyes", those "ghosts"...
Had noticed!
And then they surrounded the place!
Damn it!
What exactly are they...
Fuck!
No time to think about it!
Have to act now!
"Liguang! Let's go down!"
He rushed to the foot of the bed in two steps, bending down to grab that bed leg!
The metallic touch was cold and rough!
"You go to the other side! Let's open the entrance first!"
Liguang's reaction was faster than his!
Before he could even finish speaking, she had already dashed to the bed leg on the other side!
The hem of her white short skirt fluttered as she bent down and grabbed the other bed leg.
The two exchanged a glance...
And twisted hard at the same time!
"Click."
A soft sound of mechanical structure.
A slight tremor under their feet, the ground began to vibrate.
Then, a low rumbling sound.
"Rumble..."
The wooden bed began to slowly slide sideways.
Between the edge of the bed and the floor, a pitch-black gap began to gradually widen!
The cold underground air surged out from the gap once again!
The cold wind carried the unique damp scent from deep within the rocks!
Fang Qi stared fixedly at the gap that was still slowly expanding!
Tsk!
Too slow! Why was it so slow!
He abruptly turned his head to look outside the door again.
He still couldn't see any figures, but that invisible pressure was surging from all directions!
He turned back and looked at Gu Xi, who was still lying on the ground.
Her half-open eyes were staring blankly at the ceiling.
Fang Qi took a deep breath and pursed his lips.
Gu Xi, matchmaker sister...
I'll have to trouble you to stay dead for a bit longer!
I'll resurrect you after I'm done with this!
By now, the gap on the floor had widened enough for a person to squeeze in.
"Let's go!"
He tightened his grip on the handgun with three bullets left in his hand, and squeezed into the gap that was still slowly widening!
The cold air blew against his face!
The descending stone steps seemed endless in the darkness!
Liguang squeezed in right after him!
The dual-colored light from her crimson and amber pupils illuminated the passage!
Fang Qi looked at her flashing eyes...
Crazy girl.
The secrets that belong to you, the truth that belongs to this world...
Might just be down there.
He held the gun in his right hand and held the silver-haired girl's small hand with his left.
"Let's go, Liguang."
"...Yes, Master."
The silver-haired girl tightly gripped his hand.
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