I Am the Only Fertile Woman in the Game-Chapter 232 Time Retrospect
Qiao Suisui stretched her hands into the sphere of light, pulling Lanze out while continuously calling his name.
In the chaos, Lanze opened his eyes.
He didn’t know how long he had been stagnant in the Otherworldly Space, where one cannot perceive the passage of time.
Lanze slowly opened his eyes, his blue pupils like a piece of transparent blue glass, refracting the empty light.
He felt a soft and warm touch on his arm, only to see behind him countless fine threads of spiritual power, gently and tentatively enveloping the person in front of him.
"Suisui..."
"Is it really you..."
Qiao Suisui heard his pleasant voice and saw the person in front of her, his brows always tinged with a gentle concern, but he was the most resilient person, the one who continuously tried crossing time and space to find her, to reach her.
"Lanze, I’ll take you out."
Upon hearing her affirmative response, Lanze’s eyes reddened at the corners, tears welling up, and he slowly smiled.
His hands remained hanging at his sides, but all the threads of spiritual power held her tightly, desperately drawing warmth.
By this time, Qiao Suisui had already reached SSS level, and naturally sensed it immediately, but she did not resist because she could feel that Lanze’s embrace was devoid of desire, unrelated to romance, stemming truly from happiness at heart.
She pulled Lanze’s hand, using the method Ye Xi had taught her to exit the Otherworldly Space.
Together, they hand-in-hand traversed through the void, feeling a hint of relief when their feet touched the ground. At this moment, they were at the very bottom of the Ruins Eye, surrounded by high canyons and cliffs.
"This place blocks all signals, how are we going to ascend from this height?" Lanze worried.
Qiao Suisui casually pulled out two sets of flying gear from the point mall and said, "I promised I’d take you out, and I will."
Lanze had long realized her spiritual power was higher than his own, but while the spiritual power of males generally imposes strong, oppressive forces, the stronger it gets, the more likely it is to cause spiritual oppression, Qiao Suisui’s spiritual power was very warm, like a comforting gentle breeze.
Seeing her conjure flying gear out of thin air didn’t surprise him, as he had already gathered some information in the real world. Lanze knew she wasn’t from this world and might even be a being from a higher dimension than theirs, much like a manipulator of the game. Qiao Suisui’s next words somewhat confirmed his thoughts.
"Lanze, how did you discover this place? And how did you find my world?"
Then Lanze told Qiao Suisui everything he knew without holding anything back, including his bizarre experiences in World B.
After hearing this, Qiao Suisui thought for a moment and said, "So, it seems that bug not only connects her world and Ye Xi’s world, which are Worlds A and B, but also leads to the real world. Although, as a character in the game world, you can’t really come out from the Otherworldly Space....maybe it can even connect to other game worlds or have other uses..."
Lanze didn’t quite understand, but he grasped her meaning.
He calmly asked, "So, we are just part of your game, right?"
Qiao Suisui paused, raising her head to look earnestly at Lanze. "Yes and no. The format is indeed that of a game, but the emotions it generates in me aren’t fake," she added, "You are my first friend in this world and a very important friend to me."
Lanze couldn’t quite describe what he was feeling at the moment; he was happy that Suisui could forgive the hurt he once caused her. Perhaps, from the moment he chose to change his destiny, the price was that he could never be with her...
He bowed his head, smiled wistfully, and forced all his emotions down, his face once again showing the gentle smile he had when they first met, unchanged.
"Hmm, you are also the most important person to me."
Qiao Suisui taught him how to use the aircraft, allowing him to return above the Ruins Eye. Actually, as soon as he left the Otherworldly Space, Qiao Suisui could initiate the Time Retrospect, because the prop requires that all important characters be present so that the act of retrospect wouldn’t result in chaos afterward.
"What about you?" Lanze asked.
"I need to change a part of the past."
The wind lifted the ends of her hair, her words simple yet powerful.
Lanze’s fingertips trembled, he hesitated for a moment but mustered the courage to ask, "If, I mean if, you go back to the past, whether the me at that time remembers everything that is happening now or not, could you please tell him: I did everything I could, and I have no regrets, let him let go of his persistence?"
He followed Lanze’s words to change his fate because of persistence, the relentless search for the truth due to persistence, discovering Suisui’s world and trying to tell her everything he understood so she could return was also because of persistence.
All of it, he was bound in a future foreseen, unwilling to live in the moment.
He wanted more, felt that the future outcome was not satisfactory, not knowing that by making a change, he also lost the qualification to stand by her side.
All things are destined.
If there was a chance to warn his past self, the current Lanze just wanted to let him truly enjoy the present, cherish everything he had. Everything else, just let it be.
Qiao Suisui nodded, remembering his words, watching Lanze leave the base of the Ruins Eye, flying towards the sky. She believed he would find his own place.
Next, she took out the Time Retrospect device, a diamond-shaped device, and just needed to press the device’s switch. Everything would enter a reverse flow until it stopped at the time point she wanted to return to. And the limitation of Time Retrospect was: it could only go back to any point in the past for 30 minutes, and once the time was up, she would automatically return.
She took a deep breath and pressed the device.
In an instant, the device emitted a dazzling blue light, as if igniting the flow of time in the entire universe.
The ground beneath her began to tremble slightly, a tiny pebble, as if drawn by an invisible force, gently quivered. The dust around the pebbles began to float in reverse, and the scattered gravel reconglomerated into a complete ground as if time was flowing backward on this land.
Clouds reversed, the moon rose, and the sun set, the speed getting faster and faster, the shift of the seasons cycling ceaselessly within seconds.
Interstellar dust began to reverse and aggregate, forming dazzling Star Nebulas. Those fragments that had dispersed in the explosion of stars recongealed into complete celestial bodies, twinkling with faint light.
She felt a powerful force surging within her, as if the energy of the entire universe was flowing through her body.
A few moments later, she stood in a familiar corridor, with tightly closed iron doors of prisons on both sides, and harsh lights glaring.
She was back!
She had returned to the time when she was held by the Federation in the military base!
The deaths of Ruka and Ash were because she ’died’, and her ’death’ happened because Anubis died, so Anubis was the key link. As long as she could rescue Anubis, she could change the past to alter the future, and in this timeline, she wouldn’t log out, Ruka wouldn’t commit suicide, and Leberli wouldn’t wage a war only to be killed in the end.
Just as Qiao Suisui was coming to her senses, suddenly a loud shout came from behind her: "Who’s there!"
