Chapter 771 - 770: Another One Wakes Up

Chapter 771: Chapter 770: Another One Wakes Up

Yu Sheng didn’t know what was happening, but seeing Baili Xue’s reaction, he knew it wasn’t good. He quickly turned and ran down the hallway: "Lead the way!"

The crooked graffiti eyes had already swiftly floated to the ground. As soon as Yu Sheng opened the door, she began leading the way in front.

At this point, Yu Sheng finally had a chance to ask her: "So what’s going on? Is something going to happen?"

Baili Xue didn’t respond immediately. She just continued to "run" forward, sometimes along the ground, sometimes flying up the wall, and sometimes simply floating mid-air. It wasn’t until Yu Sheng asked for the second time that she hesitantly spoke up.

"... Did you notice, just now when my sister was drawing graffiti on the floor, I wasn’t actually by her side."

Yu Sheng paused for a moment: "Not there? All those eyes on the ground just now..."

He suddenly stopped halfway through his sentence.

He realized what she meant.

Indeed, the carpet in the room was covered with numerous eyes drawn by Baili Qing, but all of those were just her graffiti, at least at that time, none of those eyes were "alive."

At that moment, Baili Qing didn’t have Baili Xue by her side—now the one leading Yu Sheng down the corridor was someone who fell in just like him, inexplicably.

"Wait, you mean..." Yu Sheng thought of something, "You didn’t grow up with your sister? You weren’t around at that time?"

"... She did have a younger sister once, but it wasn’t me," Baili Xue floated to the nearby wall, her voice slow and low, "I come from her imagination—and an uncontrollable nightmare."

Yu Sheng’s eyes widened, and he instinctively paused for a few seconds.

He had been curious from the start about this strange "sister" beside Baili Qing, after all, a pair of floating eyes without a body seemed anything but normal. He had thought about experimental accidents, Exotic Realm curses, but never imagined...

"Baili Xue" didn’t actually exist at first but was "imagined" by Baili Qing.

"... It happened this time?" Yu Sheng frowned.

"That’s right, this time," Baili Xue fell onto Yu Sheng’s hand, she became very small, and the watercolor-drawn outline looked somewhat comical, "During this period, she was constantly plagued by illusions and strange dreams. Every time she finished dreaming, she would draw various eyes everywhere, so the facility’s doctors gave her hypnosis treatment, hoping to resolve her strange dreams... ’I’ came out from her dream..."

Yu Sheng lowered his head, looking at the pair of eyes lying in his palm.

Very light, very cool, and a little itchy, as if a miniature humanoid dragon was continuously doodling with a watercolor pen in his palm.

"Seems like you were quite... ’unruly’ back then."

"Back then, I only had an instinct, and my strongest instinct was to find a body—my sister was the most suitable vessel for me," Baili Xue spoke slowly, "I briefly took control of her, then used illusions to envelop the entire floor. Two teams of stationed agents also got caught in the illusions one after the other... and then the old vampire lady arrived."

Baili Xue’s form shrunk even smaller, looking as if she wanted to hide within Yu Sheng’s life line.

"At the end of the hallway, turn right. The room with a blue sign is it."

Yu Sheng quickened his pace again.

"Afterwards, I was subdued... temporarily," Baili Xue continued, "The old folks discovered that I couldn’t be killed or completely contained. I am a part of my sister’s mind, as long as she is alive, I will always be active in the real world, so they had to use many... indirect means to suppress my activity.

"For many years after that, my sister and I maintained this somewhat dangerous balance... I constantly wanted to replace her mind, and she had to remain alert at all times, little by little... she just stopped laughing."

Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow: "But now you seem quite docile."

"Perhaps," Baili Xue spoke slowly, "But maybe it’s just an illusion? Or maybe I’ve just hidden my instincts well..."

Yu Sheng didn’t say anything more, though he still had many questions, he shook his head, quickly running around the corner of the corridor ahead.

Then he abruptly stopped.

A little girl stood quietly in the corridor—grey-white hair, extremely light-colored eyes, and small horns peeking out from her hair.

She stood there silently at the doorway of a room, as if she had been waiting there specifically for the hurried Yu Sheng.

Yes, Yu Sheng immediately realized—the other party saw him.

Those light grey eyes were focused on him.

"Uh..." The unexpected situation left Yu Sheng a bit dumbfounded. He cautiously took a few steps forward, trying to greet her, "Well, I’m not a bad person, my name is..."

He stopped mid-sentence because he saw the little girl across from him with a stern face, her expression serious and composed, just a bit odd for a child of seven or eight.

Setting aside age and appearance, this stern face looked very familiar.

"Yu Sheng." The girl spoke.

A child’s voice, yet the tone was very familiar.

"Uh..." The vague suspicion in Yu Sheng’s mind was confirmed, his mouth twitched slightly, showing a subtle and difficult-to-suppress expression, "You also came in... uh, woke up... uh, no, you know what I’m trying to say, right?"

Baili Qing (young dragon) nodded slightly: "Although I don’t quite understand what’s happening, I seem to have returned to the place I lived as a child, along with my body changing back... Is it some kind of Exotic Realm phenomenon?"

"Hard to say," Yu Sheng scratched his head, "I’m still confused too, but it definitely has something to do with us getting close to that rift."

"Rift," Baili Qing (young dragon) nodded with a serious face, "I was still wondering why you would be here too, that makes sense now... So, the ’ghost’ in the room just now was you?"

Yu Sheng was startled: "You still remember that?"

"I have a bit of a vague impression, the events that happened before I ’woke up’ just now are still in my memory," Baili Qing said while her gaze fell on Yu Sheng’s hand, "What’s in your hand?"

Yu Sheng paused for a moment, raised his hand, palm facing her: "Your sister."

As soon as he raised his hand, Baili Xue quickly crawled along his fingers to his hand’s back, like she was avoiding her "sister".

This made Yu Sheng look like he was deliberately cursing, his expression almost falling apart: "Hey, no, don’t hide..."

"I’ve already seen it," Baili Qing still kept a straight face, her gaze calmly looking at Yu Sheng’s palm, "I’m not going to hit you."

Only then did Baili Xue slowly float out from Yu Sheng’s hand back, returning to normal size, hovering in mid-air.

Baili Qing looked at the eyes doodled in mid-air, unnoticeably frowned, held it for two or three seconds before speaking: "...Was my drawing this ugly before?"

"Yes," Yu Sheng nodded, pointing at the little dress Baili Qing was wearing, "And you used to draw on yourself."

Baili Qing lowered her head, seeing many streaks left by watercolor pens on her skirt, remained silent for a moment.

Yu Sheng thought for a moment, cautiously speaking: "You wouldn’t be considering silencing me, would you?"

Baili Qing: "..."

"Uh, you can silence me twice," Yu Sheng continued, "but not more than that, it would waste time."

Baili Qing (young dragon) took a deep breath.

"Alright, alright, I won’t say it anymore," Yu Sheng quickly raised his hand seeing the situation, "Let’s first understand the situation of this place, then plan where to go next."

Baili Qing nodded expressionlessly, turned to open a nearby room door: "Not in the corridor, someone might come anytime."

Yu Sheng followed her into the room, found it seemed like a meeting room, surrounded by neatly arranged office chairs around a large table, apart from that it was empty with no one.

Baili Xue floated to the end of the conference table’s projection screen, enlarged herself, almost occupying the entire screen.

"Spacious~"

She seemed very satisfied.

Baili Qing looked sternly at this scene, turned and sat on an office chair that was a bit large for her now: "If only you were like this when you first appeared."

Yu Sheng coughed twice to draw her attention: "Well, I came early, let me talk about my situation first."

He then recounted the events he went through after entering this "Time Fragment", Baili Qing had "awakened" a bit later but she was very familiar with this place, so she explained the situation nearby.

After the exchange of information, Yu Sheng’s attention went back to the fault rift.

"Now it seems, that rift is not just a ’passage’, the knight and the ’Lodahim High Wall’ behind him are related to the rift, but it shouldn’t be as simple as ’came out of the rift’."

Baili Qing nodded slightly: "The rift might just be a result, or a kind of final manifestation, its essence should be some kind of spatial chaos phenomenon. The knight and Lodaxim High Wall entered our world due to spatial chaos, and we entered this Time Fragment due to this spatial chaos — as for what lies behind that rift, maybe we need to go deeper into this Time Fragment to figure it out."

"The key is where this ’deeper part’ is," Yu Sheng mused, "Moreover, whether this so-called ’Time Fragment’ is an independent, Exotic Realm-like closed space-time replica, or truly a part of the timeline that would affect the flow of real history? I’m quite concerned about this since... time, this thing is a classic element for big events, can’t be messed with."

With this, he felt two gazes upon him, raised his head to see Baili Qing and Baili Xue staring at him.

Yu Sheng felt awkward: "Why you two looking at me?"

"Nothing," Baili Qing withdrew her gaze expressionlessly, "Just a bit surprised hearing ’can’t be messed with’ from your mouth."

Yu Sheng: "..."