Chapter 148: “Didn’t An Wujiu say that he did a good job?”
Zhou Yijue and his team’s appearance saved them from danger. They killed most of the pollutants, and the aircraft landed, rescuing the three people in the car.
A little later, and the car would have been completely wrecked.
“Seeing you from the sky, it’s really fate…” Zhou Yijue wanted to joke a bit more, but when he saw that Zhong Yirou’s right eye was ruined as she was being supported by An Wujiu, the teasing words got stuck in his throat.
Toudou Sakura was the first to take Zhong Yirou’s arm. “Oh my, beautiful sister, are you okay?” She couldn’t help but murmur softly until Zhong Yirou was seated, “Such a pity, she’s so pretty…”
“Do you have anything for disinfection?” An Wujiu asked.
“Yes, in the last row of seats,” Matsubara Mori replied without turning her head, as she operated the aircraft to take off. “Sir, please sit down first, we need to leave here.”
Hearing this address, An Wujiu was certain that the Toudou Sakura and Matsubara Mori in front of them were not the same people they met on the 98th server.
An Wujiu handed the gauze and disinfectant to Yang Erci, letting her handle it, while Zhong Yirou verbally instructed her on how to treat the wound.
Even in such a condition, Zhong Yirou was still smiling. “Erci, don’t let your hand shake; it’s okay, it doesn’t hurt that much anymore…hiss, maybe a little…”
Zhou Yijue noticed the guilt on An Wujiu’s face and guessed a bit of what was on his mind. He didn’t cruelly make fun of him; instead, he asked proactively, “Aren’t you curious why we’re together?”
An Wujiu was bandaging his wound; he only raised his eyes, bit the gauze to tie the knot, and asked, “How did you meet? They are not from the same time-space as us.”
He said this lightly, but it immediately made the people in the aircraft cautious. Matsubara, who was piloting the aircraft, glanced at the rearview mirror, looking at An Wujiu, who had spoken.
He looked like someone who was not very aggressive, with an innocent and beautiful face, and coupled with his injuries, he appeared even more fragile.
Zhou Yijue did not hide anything, “When the game initialized, I was assigned to the same place as them, on the same street.”
Toudou Sakura added, “Yes, at that time he looked shocked, and I thought this handsome guy with phoenix eyes was staring at me, maybe he liked me, and he asked why I was still alive. Of course, I was alive.”
An Wujiu asked, “You hadn’t seen us before?”
Toudou Sakura shook her head, “Of course not; I wouldn’t forget seeing someone like you even once.”
Zhou Yijue wiped the gun in his hand, confirmed his remaining time, and said, “I told you before, the altar is strange, it can self-replicate, and there are 100 servers. The one we are on is the 98th server. Now it seems that the servers can be understood as a specific time-space, and these numbers can be used to distinguish people from different time-spaces.”
Yang Erci finished bandaging Zhong Yirou’s eye and said, “According to you, the splitting of servers started earlier, but at that time there were no cases of the same person appearing in one time-space.”
“Yeah,” Toudou Sakura also looked at Zhou Yijue, “If the time-space fusion didn’t start until tonight, why didn’t we encounter it before? If it had fused before, the altar would be in chaos, with the same people everywhere.”
“Therefore, I tend to believe that it was just a split before, not a fusion. In the 98th server, there were only people from the 98th space,” Zhou Yijue said, looking at An Wujiu, “But you are different, An Wujiu; your hand is marked with 99, right?”
Indeed.
If all servers were previously independent and separated, then why would he, a person from the 99th time-space, appear in the 98th altar system?
Where did the original An Wujiu in the 98th time-space go?
At this time, Matsubara Mori asked, “Is it possible that at the beginning of the first game, the time-spaces were still independent, and Mr. An was assigned to the 98th time-space due to some bug?”
An Wujiu shook his head and said, “Probably not. When I entered the game, I was in a state of amnesia, which was indeed different from everyone else. I was implanted with false memories. According to the altar display, that was my fifth game, so I likely came in the middle.”
Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of the other card he saw when he drew the Easter egg card.
If he remembered correctly, that card’s skill was time-space travel.
Could it be that the version of himself that didn’t lose his memory had used a similar Easter egg skill card to travel from the 99th time-space to the 98th, thereby replacing the An Wujiu here?
But what is the purpose of doing this?
Seeing everyone deep in thought, Yang Erci spoke up again, speaking for An Wujiu: “He’s not the only special one; there’s also Shen Ti. They encountered other versions of me and Yirou from different time-spaces before who hadn’t seen us.”
“Other versions of you?” Toudou Sakura didn’t quite understand. “The game hasn’t been going on for long, and they’ve seen another version of you and now see you again? In such a short time?”
At this point, An Wujiu could only tell these people about his and Shen Ti’s ability to rewind time, even though he knew Zhou Yijue’s nature very well.
After he finished, he stared at Zhou Yijue, who indeed showed a half-believing, half-doubting expression.
“Rewind after death…”
Zhou Yijue murmured to himself, then suddenly raised the gun in his hand and pointed it at An Wujiu.
Toudou Sakura reached out to stop him. “Hey, what are you doing?”
At the same time, Yang Erci also raised her gun, pointing it at Zhou Yijue’s head.
“If I kill you now, will you rewind?” Zhou Yijue stared at An Wujiu’s face. “Such a fantastical thing, you better not be fooling me.”
An Wujiu was not afraid. He calmly told him, “Yes, if you don’t believe me, you can shoot. I should rewind back to Erci’s car, and then I will meet you.”
Seeing his serious and composed expression, Zhou Yijue wavered a bit, but this man was also full of tricks, so he couldn’t fully trust him. He lowered his gun. “How do you know which specific time point you’ll rewind to?”
“I can’t find the exact time; it’s just a guess. Each time I rewind, it moves forward a bit from the starting point. The first time I rewound was about forty minutes into the game, and now it’s been much longer.”
An Wujiu added, “I understand your suspicion. You can wait until we meet up with Shen Ti and let him explain.”
Zhou Yijue frowned. “Why him?”
He didn’t like Shen Ti; that guy was full of lies and could deceive anyone.
An Wujiu said lightly, “Because he is very strong.”
He didn’t say more, turning to ask Zhong Yirou how she was doing.
“Very well, there’s also some painkillers here.” Zhong Yirou smiled at An Wujiu, pointing to her half eye-patch. “Doesn’t it look cool?”
An Wujiu nodded. He noticed that Zhong Yirou’s sanity value had dropped significantly, leaving less than half.
If this continues, she’ll eventually be polluted.
“Is there a cost to each rewind?” Zhou Yijue asked.
An Wujiu turned back and said, “Yes, life points.”
“No wonder.” Zhou Yijue raised an eyebrow. “With your ability, you shouldn’t have so few life points left. Be careful; it’s irreversible. If you run out of life points, there might be no turning back.”
“Yeah, I know.”
An Wujiu checked his life points. After two rewinds and the injuries he had sustained, he had only one-third left, not enough for many more time-space rewinds.
Besides, he had a card that also required life points to redeem.
The aircraft flew towards Sha Wen, with An Wujiu sitting by the window, looking down constantly, worried about missing Shen Ti and the others.
“The current air magnetic field is chaotic, yet you can still use the aircraft,” Yang Erci said.
Matsubara Mori was about to explain as she piloted the aircraft, but Toudou Sakura beat her to it. “He’s a professional, and his aircraft is modified to overcome such magnetic interference.”
Yang Erci nodded and didn’t continue.
“Since all parallel time-spaces have now merged,” An Wujiu’s gaze fell back on Zhou Yijue from the window, “You should be able to find your boyfriend now, right?”
Hearing this, everyone in the aircraft was shocked.
“Mr. Zhou is gay??”
“Mori, you… be careful…”
“No way, you too… Ah, my eyes hurt…”
Only Yang Erci remained calm, even in her shock.
Zhou Yijue, who had always been smiling, now had a sullen face. “In this day and age, is it really that surprising?”
“No,” Zhong Yirou said, covering her right eye, “It’s just that the number of homosexuals around me is too high.”
Hearing this, Yang Erci glanced at her.
Toudou Sakura clutched her chest. “Thinking about it like this, I’m now the sexual minority here.”
Matsubara Mori smiled.
Zhou Yijue, tired of arguing, turned to An Wujiu. “Please stop making such shocking statements.”
“I’m not lying,” An Wujiu countered calmly.
“Alright then…” Zhou Yijue’s shoulders slumped. “I haven’t found him yet. I’ve even met you, but I haven’t met him.”
An Wujiu thought for a moment and said something that he wasn’t sure would be comforting, “I haven’t found my sister either.”
“Well, your sister is still your sister,” Zhou Yijue sighed softly. “Who knows if the him from another time-space still likes me?”
Upon hearing this, An Wujiu suddenly turned his head. Behind him, Yang Erci was adjusting Zhong Yirou’s eye patch.
“I almost forgot,” he said to Zhong Yirou. “You asked me to do something for you in the last loop; do you remember?”
“Wujiu, are you silly?” Zhong Yirou was amused by his serious expression. “It was from the last loop. How would I remember? What is it?”
An Wujiu blinked. “Should I say it?” He thought for a moment. “Maybe I should tell you privately? I think it’s better to discuss this in private.”
As he said this, he glanced at Yang Erci, who was beside him.
He wanted to break the ambiguity between the two and bring them together, but he was worried that saying it in this situation might not be appropriate.
But thinking about their fate in the last loop, where they loved each other in every world yet suffered so much, An Wujiu felt he had to help them, so at least this time they wouldn’t have such regrets.
Affected by the pollutants, Zhong Yirou saw multiple overlapping images of An Wujiu. Her head buzzed, making it difficult to think. She figured that serious An Wujiu wouldn’t say anything inappropriate.
He’s not Shen Ti, after all.
Zhong Yirou said generously, “It’s okay, just say it here. Otherwise, everyone might think I’m hiding something shameful. What did I ask you to do?”
“Alright.” An Wujiu nodded, speaking openly and honestly: “You asked me to remind you to confess.”
“What??” Zhong Yirou was stunned. She immediately covered An Wujiu’s mouth, her voice lowering in a guilty whisper, “What are you talking about, Wujiu? I, I…”
She was momentarily at a loss for words.
“Confess?” Zhou Yijue, not one to miss out on the fun, leaned in to ask, “Confess to whom?”
He analyzed the people around them seriously. “Let’s see… First, we can rule out that kid. He isn’t even an adult, right? It’s definitely not An Wujiu… Could it be that Taoist priest? Can Taoists get married?”
Zhou Yijue clapped his hands. “I know! It can’t be that you like that green-eyed guy, right? Hasn’t he been in bed with An Wujiu several times?”
An Wujiu, whose mouth was covered, struggled to say, “It wasn’t several times…”
Only twice, and one time was in the game…
Zhong Yirou felt exhausted. “How could I possibly like Shen Ti? Am I crazy?”
“He’s not a good person, but he looks alright.” Zhou Yijue uncharacteristically spoke his mind, then pointed at An Wujiu. “Didn’t An Wujiu say he’s good in bed?”
Even Matsubara Mori, who was piloting, widened his eyes at this.
An Wujiu now wanted to die and rewind to before he mentioned this.
Toudou Sakura, looking as if she were enjoying the drama, said, “So handsome. Is there a video?”
“No…” Zhong Yirou panicked and turned to Yang Erci. “No, I don’t like Shen Ti at all. You can see that, right?”
Yang Erci, still cold-faced, shook her head. “I can’t tell.”
“How can you not tell?” Zhong Yirou was flustered. Her head was spinning, her eyes hurt, and in her emotional state, she let go and blurted out, “The one I like is obviously you!”
Yang Erci, although she had an idea, was still stunned to hear it directly. Her ears turned red.
Zhou Yijue gasped, “I was wrong? It’s not Shen Ti?”
Freed, An Wujiu rubbed his face, which had marks from Zhong Yirou’s nails.
Mission accomplished, no matter what.
Toudou Sakura said blankly, “Looking at it this way…”
“There really are a lot of gays.”
