Fang Qi stared blankly at Lin Xiaoyou.
What had she just said?
It had already changed?
…When?
“Senior, it was during those few minutes just now…”
Lin Xiaoyou planted her hands on her hips, looking utterly pleased with herself!
“I’d actually already tried changing the worldline!”
She lifted her chin, her round little face glowing with a brilliant smile!
“And I succeeded on my very first try!”
She even leaned forward half a step, her almond-shaped eyes curving into crescents!
“Senior, aren’t I amazing?”
Then she raised a finger and tapped the tip of her nose!
Her almond eyes widened!
“Hurry up and say I’m amazing!”
“And apologize for scaring me just now! Apologize right now!”
Fang Qi: “…”
For a moment, he still couldn’t process what he was hearing.
Wait…?
He raised a hand and pressed it hard against his forehead.
He could feel something throbbing between his brows!
The emotions that had been suppressed by the “authority” Liguang had given him…
They were surging deep within his consciousness.
Trying to break through that barrier of calm!
…?
Huh?
Lin Xiaoyou had already changed the worldline?
He slowly raised his head and looked over the barren patch of ground before him.
The trees were gone, as were the “building materials” for the little cabins.
Well, it had indeed changed.
But…
He blinked.
…This counted as changing the worldline?
They’d just chopped down a few trees!
He slowly turned to look at Lin Xiaoyou, then raised a hand and pointed toward the clearing.
“You said you changed the worldline? But…”
The corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
“All you did was cut down the trees here?”
As he stared at Lin Xiaoyou, who was standing there with her hands on her hips and looking smug, he couldn’t help feeling speechless—even with his emotions stabilized!
What had changing the worldline looked like before?
The Dawn Company had vanished. The Twilight organization had vanished. AI companions had been erased from existence at the source…
The entire human technology tree had been twisted into a completely different shape!
The Second Machine Crisis had never occurred. An Lian’s parents and older brother had come back to life, while Lin Xiaoyou’s mother and younger brother had appeared out of thin air!
That change to the worldline had truly been on a “worldwide” scale.
But now…
“No, Senior! Of course it’s not just this patch of trees!”
Lin Xiaoyou once again planted her hands on her hips and tilted her head back!
“A lot of other things changed too!”
“Otherwise, why would I have called you so excitedly just then?”
As she spoke, she raised her chin even higher, flicked her ponytail, and looked down at Fang Qi.
“Because I’d already realized it back then!”
Called him so excitedly…?
Fang Qi froze.
Ah.
—“I know what this world really is now!!!”
That phone call?
Fang Qi stared at her, his eyelid twitching.
So she had already discovered that the world had changed back then?
“…What did you change?”
he asked instinctively.
Lin Xiaoyou merely giggled.
“Senior, say I’m amazing first!”
She leaned forward another half-step, tilted her head, and clasped her hands behind her back. Then she winked at Fang Qi.
“Senior, you can change the world after the save point, but I…”
Her almond-shaped eyes curved into a smile.
“I can change the world before the save point!”
“Am I amazing or what?”
Fang Qi: “…!”
Before the save point.
This seemed to be the first time Lin Xiaoyou had used the word “save.”
And besides…
He narrowed his eyes as he looked at that smug face before him.
Maybe she wasn’t wrong.
“Changing the world before the save point”…
Wasn’t that exactly the same as changing the worldline?
That genius girl really was…
He drew a deep breath.
His emotions were still being forcibly suppressed by that strange authority.
He couldn’t be bothered to argue anymore. The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
“Very impressive, very impressive. Now, what exactly did you change?”
Lin Xiaoyou gave another little “hmph” and raised her head.
“Senior, listen closely! I discovered that—”
She puffed out her chest and took a deep breath. Then…
In a tone that sounded like she was announcing victory, she shouted:
“My dad is gone! Again!”
Fang Qi: “…?”
Huh?
He thought he must have misheard.
He stared at that smug, round little face. It took him a long moment to react.
Then his lips parted slightly, his eyes slowly widening as he glared at Lin Xiaoyou!
Even with his emotions suppressed by the authority, he nearly lost his composure!
No…?
Had this lunatic of a genius girl just…
What had she said so proudly?!
His mouth opened and closed.
“…Who’s gone?”
“Senior! You didn’t hear wrong!”
Lin Xiaoyou planted her hands on her hips again, her almond-shaped eyes shining fiercely!
“My dad is gone!”
“He’s dead again!”
She raised her right fist and thrust it into the air, puffing out her chest!
“He died in the line of duty five years ago!”
Fang Qi: “???”
This time, he was truly dumbfounded.
Even Liguang’s authority was almost useless!
No, genius girl?
Ah…
So, when she woke up at the start of the second-to-last cycle and discovered that her father was gone again…
Her reaction had been to immediately call him and shriek, “That’s great, Senior! I figured it out! I know what this world really is now!!!”
Fang Qi stared at her in disbelief.
What a dutiful daughter.
Your filial piety is truly a beautiful thing to behold.
“Senior!”
Lin Xiaoyou glared at him unhappily.
“What’s with that look?”
She lowered the hand she’d had on her hip and jabbed a finger at Fang Qi’s nose from a distance.
“The worldline can be changed! We just need to bring my dad back to life, don’t we?”
“So that part isn’t important!”
Fang Qi: “…”
Impressive.
“The important thing is that I, Lin Xiaoyou, have confirmed the uniqueness of the world!”
“And I’ve also confirmed that I can change the world!”
She drew back her finger and folded her arms across her chest, raising her chin slightly.
“And…”
Her voice softened a little.
The curve of her lips remained unchanged, but something slowly began to burn in those almond-shaped eyes.
“Senior, didn’t I already tell you?”
She smiled sweetly, her eyes curving as she gazed at Fang Qi.
“I…”
Her almond eyes narrowed slightly.
“Am going to turn this world into a complete mess!”
“If you can’t have what you want, then you should destroy it completely!”
Without waiting for Fang Qi to respond, she suddenly turned around and charged toward the clearing!
Fang Qi’s pupils contracted!
“You…!”
Her ponytail streamed behind her in the wind!
“Senior, we agreed in the car earlier—you’re going to stay up there and keep an eye on me!!!”
she shouted without looking back.
“Watch me change the entire world! And then—”
“You have to reload the save for me!!!”
Fang Qi stared blankly at her retreating figure…
The hand he had raised slowly lowered.
She really was…
A genius.
A lunatic.
He silently watched her. In his mind, the scene two seconds into the future flashed by.
It was like a film playing two seconds ahead of time.
He saw it.
She would leap into the center of the clearing. The instant her foot touched the ground, the earth would turn pitch-black, and she would begin to sink.
And before his eyes…
Reality was like a livestream delayed by two seconds, constantly aligning with the prophecy in his mind.
Lin Xiaoyou leapt into the center of the clearing!
The moment her toes touched the soil, the barren patch of earth indeed turned black in an instant!
An ink-like darkness spread outward from beneath her feet!
It swallowed the dirt, the rubble, and the roots of the grass!
Then…
Her entire body began to sink!
But she didn’t seem to care in the slightest.
She was even smiling!
Her almond-shaped eyes were filled with excitement!
Then she leaned back, allowing her entire body to sink into that patch of darkness. Her movements were relaxed and unrestrained!
Fang Qi watched as she slowly sank beneath the surface.
First her back, then her shoulders, then her loose black hair.
Every frame of reality matched the scene in his mind perfectly!
Hey…!
Fang Qi drew a deep breath.
Forget it. Let her go. After all, they had already agreed to—
…Huh?!
His gaze suddenly trembled, and his pupils shrank!
What was that?!
An anomaly had suddenly appeared in the prophecy within his mind!
Something pale and white abruptly emerged from that stretch of darkness!
That was…
Huh?
Two slender arms!
They suddenly reached out from behind Lin Xiaoyou, from the depths of the void into which she had sunk!
One hand covered her eyes, while the other wrapped around her abdomen!
Then they violently dragged her downward!
What?!?!
“Wait, watch out—!!”
He had only just managed to shout in shock when—
“Pfft!!”
Right before his eyes, two slender hands truly reached out from the void!
Exactly as he had foreseen!
Slender fingers, pale hands!
One hand accurately covered Lin Xiaoyou’s eyes, while the other gripped her waist in a deathly embrace!
Fang Qi: “!!!”
“Ah?!”
With her eyes covered, Lin Xiaoyou let out a startled cry!
Her body suddenly sank halfway down, while her legs kicked wildly in the air!
“Who?!”
Who?
Fang Qi stared at those two slender arms, his eyelids twitching violently!
That feeling of being called, that sense of familiarity, suddenly intensified explosively!
That feeling…!
It was that feeling!
The same feeling that had been there ever since he stepped onto this flat stretch of land! Something deep within that darkness had been silently calling out to him!
And now, the instant he saw those two hands…
That feeling erupted like gunpowder set alight!
That fair skin, those slender fingers, the familiar curve of the nails…
He had seen those hands countless times!
They had brewed him countless cups of fifty-two-degree tea, massaged his stiff shoulders, and gently stroked his forehead while he slept!
Those were Liguang’s hands?!!
Wait…?!
His wife was here?!
At that moment, the calm that Fang Qi’s “authority” had forcibly maintained could no longer hold!
“Liguang—!!”
He instinctively charged forward!
“Senior, don’t come over!!! She’s cur—ngh!!”
Before Lin Xiaoyou could finish speaking, those two slender hands gave a powerful tug!
“Glug!”
It happened in the blink of an eye.
The round-faced girl vanished into that stretch of darkness!
The black void churned where she had disappeared, about to swallow the last few strands of her black hair!
Fang Qi lunged forward!
Thanks to his two-second foresight, his actions were two beats faster than a normal reaction!
He thrust out both hands, reaching toward the spot where those hands had vanished!
But…
His fingertips merely brushed against the last trace of faint blue light lingering in the air.
And then—
“Bang.”
They slammed hard into the ground!
The patch of darkness, at the instant he touched the ground…
Had actually turned back into soil?
The force behind his lunge…
Had all crashed solidly into the hard earth!
His knees and elbows struck the ground at the same time, sending a numb tremor through his bones!
Fang Qi: “…?”
He stared blankly at the ground before him.
Damp soil mixed with gravel.
…Huh?
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