novelsite Chapter 41: How come he really came back to life?
Chapter 41: How come he really came back to life?
Jiang Xingni became alert the moment she saw the light appear. In her field of vision, she could clearly see the golden dots suddenly scatter and explode.
If a gathering place represents a weakness or "way out" of a certain place.
So what does this scattered explosion signify? Jiang Xingni didn't know the specific answer to this question, but she was very clear about one thing: something was about to happen.
Almost instinctively, she shielded Song Juexiao beside her, and then the pages of the wordless book turned over in mid-air with a rustling sound, as if there was no wind.
Jiang Xingni's eyelids grew heavier and heavier. The last thing she saw was Pei Zhaoye, who suddenly appeared with wide eyes.
Then, a whole bunch of people suddenly appeared in the room.
But Jiang Xingni could no longer see it.
She could feel her body fall heavily to the ground, and then the sounds around her became distant and inaudible, only vague shouts could be heard, like the sounds in a dream.
Then there was a pure, unremarkable white expanse.
As the white light faded, Jiang Xingni saw a familiar scene.
The air is always filled with industrial fumes and a dry, cold smell.
Even sunlight struggles to penetrate the layers of obstructions and reach this area.
She looked up and realized that she could only reach the thighs of the adults around her. All she could see were gray walls and bright red blood.
Jiang Xingni remembered where he was.
The Lower District, or as they often call it, is the area where people live.
Although it's the same city, the scenery outside is completely different from the peaceful landscape outside. The lower city is filled with blood and corpses.
It's not that there's no oversight, but most cases here, even if reported to the police, end up being left unresolved. So, everyone eventually reached a silent consensus: no more taking matters from the city center to bother people outside the city.
Its real name is actually "Ash District".
According to Jiang Xingni, it's hard to say which of these two names is more disastrous.
One was a district inhabited by the lower classes, and the other was an area of burnt-out ashes.
The little girl's dislike of investigating the reasons behind things was also cultivated in the lower city area.
At first, Jiang Xingni would complain and resent, wondering why, even though they were all in the same city, the treatment in Xiacheng District was so different from that in other districts.
Later, she would try to find out what had happened, sneaking out on her own behind her parents' backs and wandering through every alley in the entire downtown area, but Jiang Xingni never found any clues.
When Jiang Xingni's parents died in an accident, Jiang Xingni completely gave up on this futile effort and struggle.
The pressure of surviving in the lower city was overwhelming, and she had no other ideas to deal with it. Just surviving was already a difficult task for Jiang Xingni.
They had no interest in discussing the so-called "mystery of the lower city."
And considering the current timeline and Jiang Xing's current height, the little girl calmly thought that it was probably the moment her parents died.
But Jiang Xingni really didn't understand why the wordless book was showing her this scene.
She had seen it enough times in her nightmares; she didn't need the wordless book to help her recall it again.
"They're dead," the man beside her said in a low voice, though Jiang Xing couldn't see his face clearly.
In Jiang Xingni's memory and in her dreams, she could see nothing clearly except for the bright red blood of her parents when they died.
Even though she had the same dream countless times afterward, Jiang Xingni still couldn't remember that person's face.
The young girl was still in a daze at that time. She didn't know who put a coat on her or who handed her a cup of hot tea.
As a result, Jiang Xingni, who had already grown up, naturally could no longer see the face that she hadn't seen before.
"So this is my memory," Jiang Xingni whispered to the system in his mind.
System: [Is it because you can't see their faces clearly?]
Jiang Xingni nodded in response.
She didn't look at her parents' bodies lying in a pool of blood; instead, she looked up, trying to see clearly who the person who had draped the coat over her shoulders was, what they looked like, and how old they were.
However, in his memory, Jiang Xingni could only see a blurry outline of facial features.
Jiang Xingni's brain clearly told him that it was a person, but when he tried to see the other person's facial features, all he could see were distorted shapes, and he couldn't tell where the features were located or how they were arranged together.
Jiang Xingni withdrew his gaze with some regret.
She returned to her house just as she remembered when she was a child.
The journey was short, after all, Jiang Xingni was completely lost at that time and had no intention of paying attention to the path she had walked.
Now, the lucid Jiang Xingni seemed to relive the feelings of her childhood, feeling lost and helpless, as if everything was in a dream.
That was reality back then, but now it's a real dream.
Jiang Xingni thought calmly.
"What did you do when you got home?" the system asked cautiously, looking at Jiang Xingni, who had shrunk to the age of seven.
Because his eyes, which had been altered by his supernatural powers, were still shining gold, Jiang Xing looked at himself in the mirror with some curiosity.
"I took a nap," Jiang Xingni said calmly. "I lay on the sofa and fell asleep, imagining that all of this might just be a dream, and when I woke up, my parents would knock on the door and tell me what happened to me, whether I had a nightmare?"
The system fell silent.
Jiang Xingni didn't show much emotion. She continued, "I slept for a long time back then, wanting to sleep until they came back."
Then the little girl smiled and said, "Of course they didn't come back. I was woken up by hunger."
After sleeping for two days, Jiang Xingni got up and cooked herself a bowl of noodles, finally stopping thinking about the possibility of her parents coming home.
Instead of accepting the truth and facts, the young girl took out all the money in her house, made a careful plan, and wrote a line at the top: "Escape from the downtown area".
From then on, Jiang Xingni became adept at adapting to changes in her environment, rather than seeking solace in virtual imagination.
She even demonstrated it to the system, taking off her shoes, climbing onto the sofa, covering herself with a blanket, and closing her eyes.
Jiang Xingni was certain that she hadn't fallen asleep; it had only been a few seconds, her eyes opening and closing in a flash.
When Jiang Xingni opened her eyes, all she saw was a dim, yellowish light.
It seems she slept from noon until evening.
Jiang Xingni genuinely questioned this.
"Knock knock"
A knock came from outside the door.
Suddenly recalling what he had just said about Jiang Xingni: ...
No way, the dead have really come back to life?