Welcome to Rewind World Game-Chapter 1326 - 1319: Demon Line - "Big Brother, I Found You.
"I’ll go take a look." Su Ming’an nodded. This should be the research institute under Sique.
At this moment, he suddenly coughed a few times, covering his mouth.
His palm was stained with startling blood.
He stared at the bloodstain in amazement... Is Sique of the Second Epoch in poor health?
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Queqiu Research Institute.
The lights were bright red and striking, with researchers shuttling back and forth.
"Quick—quickly record the latest divination data. Any delay, and this formula will be altered by the Creator!"
"Experiment Record T-0322... All data is normal..."
"We have currently recorded twelve narrative anchor points..." People were bustling around.
The science of the Second Epoch had not been completely killed and was still engaged in a tug-of-war with Genesis Power. Creators casually altered laws, scientists worked hard to preserve laws, both sides were at daggers drawn.
As Su Ming’an walked among them, most researchers greeted him, but there were still some with looks of displeasure. After all, Genesis Power had nearly destroyed science, rendering a lifetime of effort by many scientists futile.
"Ah, Lord Sique, you’ve finally come." At this moment, a woman with flax-colored braided hair walked over joyfully, dressed in a neat white lab coat, about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, with a name tag [Doctor’s Assistant • Xiao Ya] on her chest: "The doctor has been waiting for you for a long time, please come quickly."
Upon hearing this title, Su Ming’an nearly had a PTSD episode.
He followed Xiao Ya into the center, swiped a card to open a door, and behind the heavy iron curtain stood a figure in a white lab coat under an electronic screen.
"... Lord Sique." The person turned their head, revealing a pair of gray-brown eyes.
Su Ming’an’s heart relaxed a bit; this person looked to be in their forties or fifties, not Acto.
If he had seen Acto here, he would have been petrified.
Su Ming’an stared at the name tag on the doctor’s chest: "Ran... Bo...?"
Wasn’t this the defeated middle-aged scientist of the Fourth Epoch? Sique’s slight alteration made him suffer for a lifetime.
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[Xi Ting unfolded a feathered fan: "He was once the most renowned researcher in the Central State, named Ran Bo. He was dedicated to the field of primordial substance chip application and was on the verge of winning the Virdodo Research Award, the highest honor for a researcher... As a result, with a mere stroke of your pen, a law in his research was changed, turning his lifetime achievements into thousands of sheets of waste paper..."]
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Ran Bo’s lifetime achievements became waste paper. He wanted to question Sique why his research was altered, but was cyberbullied and personally attacked by others... leaving him in lifelong suffering.
As a result, in the Second Epoch, Su Ming’an saw this person again.
It seems the Second Epoch and the Fourth Epoch are truly corresponding. Ran Bo is down and out in the Fourth Epoch, but in the Second Epoch, he is the chief researcher under the greatest Creator.
Whether the people of the Second Epoch and the Fourth Epoch are the same is still unclear. But Su Ming’an tends to think not. After all, Ran Bo is of a short-lived species, and couldn’t live that long.
"Lord Sique, I don’t need you here, you can leave." Ran Bo’s voice was very faint, surprisingly trying to send him away directly.
It seems Sique did not have a good relationship with him.
Assistant Xiao Ya hurriedly said, "Don’t, Doctor. Although you and Lord Sique had disputes before, cooperation is necessary. You also want to see Lord Sique, just can’t swallow your pride, right?"
"... Hmph." Ran Bo snorted coldly, not looking at Su Ming’an: "Leave."
However, Su Ming’an walked straight towards Ran Bo.
Ran Bo’s face immediately turned red, waving his arms: "Leave!"
Su Ming’an directly grabbed Ran Bo’s wrist, and at that moment, Heart’s Blood was triggered.
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Ran Bo, about fifteen years old, stood under the shade of a tree.
A magpie, covered in blood, lay in his palm.
"Mom, Dad, look what I found in the yard? This magpie was injured and fell from the sky. We should take care of it!" Ran Bo quickly showed it to his parents.
"Did it encounter a predator?" Mom, a handsome woman in her forties with a single ponytail of brown-black hair, stroked the magpie’s feathers: "Well. Ran Bo, it’s entrusted to you, take good care of this poor little bird."
"Mhm!" Ran Bo nodded.
This was a little life, and he had to take good care of it.
He bandaged its wounds, fed it wheat, and used cotton to make a nest. Gradually, the magpie’s injuries improved.
That day, his younger brother Zer pulled his hand, secretly took him to their parents’ lab, and whispered, "Brother, Mom and Dad seem to be researching something dangerous lately. I accidentally saw some experimental data when I was bringing them meals. It seems to be... something forbidden by the goddess."
"What?" Ran Bo was astonished. His parents were solely devoted to academia, probably because what they were researching was tremendously important, they would take the risk of defying the oracle.
"Should we... tell the goddess?" Zer whispered.
In this era, deities surpassed everything, even blood relations.
"No... How can you think like that, Zer? They are our Mom and Dad!" Ran Bo didn’t expect Zer’s first reaction to be reporting them and quickly said, "As long as we don’t speak, no one will know."
"But if the goddess finds out, won’t our whole family be implicated..." Zer hesitated.
"What Mom and Dad decide, we can’t change either. We can only act as if we don’t know." Ran Bo was firm, patting Zer’s head, "Alright, go to sleep."
At night, Ran Bo tossed and turned restlessly in bed. He couldn’t help but sneak into his parents’ lab, bringing along the little magpie.
His parents were unguarded against him, and after unlocking with a fingerprint, he entered smoothly.
Upon opening the experimental data, he gasped... His parents’ ideas were too bold; they intended to give "Memory Clips" life.
"Memory Clips" were automatically generated and unlimited in number, potentially existing anywhere.
Therefore, theoretically, once it became life, it would be ageless, immortal, and omnipresent.
"Pandora’s Box..." Ran Bo thought of this term.
Isn’t this equivalent to Pandora’s Box having its own thoughts?
Yet, he quickly became enamored with this concept. Though he knew it was dangerous, he was more excitedly aware—if successful, this would be a power even deities would fear.
Imagine, any OC written down would be automatically turned into life. Among them, the strong would even be akin to pseudo-Rin Clan.
"Creating through scientific methods...!" He held up the experimental data, spinning on the spot with excitement, "Once successful, Creators and scientists wouldn’t need to attack each other; they could cooperate! Creators provide OCs and Memory Clips, and scientists give them life! Endless OCs, truly a result of the epoch..."
"Quite a clever child of fifteen or sixteen." At this point, a voice suddenly came from his shoulder.
"Ah—ahhhhh!" Ran Bo screamed in fright, nearly throwing away the magpie on his shoulder when he realized: "You! You’re a sentient Magpie Clan, not an ordinary magpie?"
He initially thought he had saved an ordinary magpie, but it turned out to be a shapeshifter?
The black-and-white magpie gradually transformed into a young man with flowing purple hair and slightly closed golden eyes.
Ran Bo was momentarily stunned; this was the most beautiful person he had ever seen.
"I approve of your parents’ idea; it’s worth researching." Sique glanced at the experimental data, "The goddess prohibited this research because they fear it would shake the divine rule... By the way, which goddess do you worship?"
"Ocean Angel Naga." Ran Bo said.
"Ah, Naga." Sique’s tone was familiar, smile appearing: "She doesn’t count as female... Hmm, but the world largely misunderstood her gender, perhaps because she is too beautiful."
"—She’s not prettier than you." Ran Bo said subconsciously.
The next moment, he realized what he had said and immediately slapped his own face twice. The words were indeed too offensive to the goddess.
However, the person in front of me truly possesses a powerful charm, akin to magic.
"Thank you for the compliment." Sique walked to the table and suddenly picked up a pen, writing a few strokes on the experimental documents.
"Hey! Stop! What are you doing!" Ran Bo immediately wanted to prevent it; how could this person carelessly scribble on such meticulous experimental data!
Sique chuckled, did not answer, transformed into a magpie, and returned to Ran Bo’s shoulder: "My injuries haven’t fully healed yet; I need to stay at your home for a few more days, sorry for the trouble."
Ran Bo was helpless; he couldn’t erase those writings, so he could only pray his parents wouldn’t notice.
The next day, Ran Bo’s parents entered the laboratory and suddenly exclaimed:
"What’s with this data?"
"Who wrote the solution to this problem that’s puzzled us for half a month!?"
"It’s like a revelation, a breakthrough... So this is the thought process... Who wrote it?"
They asked other researchers, but no one knew.
The pace of the experiment’s progress suddenly accelerated greatly.
Every night, Ran Bo would sneak Sique in quietly, and Sique would write a few strokes. The next day, Ran Bo’s parents would find that the problems they were troubled by had already been solved.
They were astonished internally, yet couldn’t make a fuss.
It was as if every night, there was a "Tianluo Girl" solving all their problems for them. They tried waiting in ambush, but Sique left no traces.
Half a month later, the experiment reached its end. Everyone’s faces were adorned with smiles, awaiting the day of success.
On this very day, beneath the parasol tree, Sique transformed into human form to bid farewell to Ran Bo.
"My injuries are healed; I must be on my way," Sique said.
"... Where are you going?" Ran Bo hesitated to speak.
He knew this person must be someone significant, unexpectedly falling into his yard; it was likely the luckiest thing to have happened to him.
"To..." Sique lifted his gaze towards the distance: "The Court of Starry Gods."
Ran Bo widened his eyes.
That is the gathering place of the gods, a realm without light and shadow, where the sun and moon coexist, and the hall of the Supreme Lord resides. It’s rumored that only deities can enter.
What is this person... going to do?
"Can I... still see you again?" Ran Bo softly asked.
Days ago, he took care of the injured magpie. In the following days, Sique guided him, taught him how to write stories, and told him ancient tales from remote dimensions, benefiting him greatly.
But he knew some birds couldn’t be kept.
Sique thought for a moment and took out a magpie cufflink.
"If you, like your parents, become an outstanding scientist..." Sique said, "When you grow up, you can go to the surface’s largest Queqiu Research Institute. You’ll find me there."
Ran Bo nodded heavily, clutching the cufflink.
From this moment on, his wish was set.
As Sique turned to leave, Ran Bo suddenly shouted:
"—I will definitely come to find you."
"—You don’t have to say it; this is already my wish! I want to become an outstanding scientist! I will become an assistant, become a researcher, become a doctor! I will go to that research institute and make you see me!"
Sique chuckled, waved his hand.
In the next moment, the bird soared into the sky, leaving behind a single black feather.
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Su Ming’an blinked, looking at the white-haired Ran Bo in front of him.
—The youth fulfilled his promise.
He journeyed from his youthful years, traversing countless mountains and rivers, from a remote small town to the heart of the continent, standing before Sique.
But, even though the experiment was already nearing its end at that time, why did Su Ming’an not see the successful result now? Ran Bo’s attitude also changed dramatically; what happened in between?
"...Please let go." Ran Bo stared at Su Ming’an’s hand, with faint traces of resentment in his eyes.
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[NPC (Ran Bo) Favorability: 75+5 points! (Friendship Line)]
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Su Ming’an released his hand.
"Click."
Ran Bo pressed some button, and suddenly, beneath Su Ming’an’s feet, a conveyor belt appeared, with a swift swish, pushing Su Ming’an outside through the door, as if sliding away.
"...Even the ’Tianluo Girl’ is to be pushed away?" Su Ming’an’s voice floated out.
Upon hearing this, Ran Bo’s expression changed, showing some embarrassment mixed with anger.
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[NPC (Ran Bo) Favorability: 80+5 points! (Friendship Line)]
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In the next moment, there was a loud "boom." 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
The iron door fell in front of Su Ming’an, as Ran Bo closed the door to send him off.
Su Ming’an rubbed his forehead in annoyance and was about to turn around, when suddenly he heard a clear shout coming from outside the Experimental City.
The sound was loud, causing the researchers to raise their heads and look at the twenty-six-story high glass tower.
A transparent figure, resembling jelly, stood atop the highest glass, with golden eyes smiling.
Under the sunlight, his golden eyes flowed with a clear brilliance.
"...Brother."
"I found you."
In the next moment.
The Experimental City suddenly lit up with a bright red warning light, glass shattering sounds echoed, and pitch-black evil beasts appeared all around.
They bared their fangs, and in an instant, chaos erupted, people fled in panic.
"To find you, I specially sought help from the Demon Mother God, asking Her to grant me the power of darkness." The Rin Clan showed a troubled expression: "I didn’t expect brother to be so prestigious in the world, with so many forces protecting him... It’s really difficult to kill brother."
"...You are the big BOSS, aren’t you," Su Ming’an said.
In comparison, the Lord of Everything’s French Fries seemed amiable.
The Rin Clan smiled silently, and in the next moment, the glass beneath his feet shattered.
Like a falling white bird, he swiftly approached Su Ming’an, reaching out a single hand towards his chest.
