There was still some time before departure. Everyone was preparing for the journey in the 'safe house.' Hasse was checking his weapons and equipment, and Hesperides had retrieved her Scepter of Dusk and armor from Hao Ren. Everyone else was busy with their own things and did not need to communicate with each other. Everyone here was a wise person who had been through a lot and knew what to do when and what to do.
After checking her equipment, Hessiana sat down and stared blankly at her other self not far away.
After Vivian left, little Hessiana fell into a state of stillness like everything else that belonged to this time and space. She turned into a greyish-white 'sculpture' with an excited, curious, and innocent look on her face. It was very lifelike. Her thoughts were forever frozen at the last moment. There were no hundreds of years of waiting, no life of hiding and fleeing after the end of the Mythological Era, and no depressive time of scheming against others in the Athens' sanctuary. The little girl, who had just learned to open her eyes and see the world, was like a bug sealed in amber, frozen in this place. Her life was frozen in this place.
Looking at her, Hessiana suddenly sighed softly.
Lily had sharp ears. She heard the sound and looked over curiously. "What's wrong with you?"
"This may be an idealized version of me," Hessiana said softly. "The most innocent age, without experiencing the dark days, without any fear. Every day in my memory was happy and satisfying, and I even found my mother in the end. Sometimes I don't like your landlord, but I really should thank him this time. In this illusory history, all my wishes have been fulfilled."
Lily did not know how much of it she heard, but she heard the last sentence. "Of course, Mr. Landlord is a good person."
Hessiana smiled and said nothing more. She got to her feet and was about to leave. But the moment she got up, something unexpected happened. Not far away, little Hessiana's figure suddenly shook, and then countless fine cracks appeared on the surface of her grayish-white statue-like body. Before anyone could react, she had quietly disintegrated into a hazy cloud of dust.
The smoke went straight to the confused Hessiana and disappeared into her body in the blink of an eye.
Lily jumped up in surprise. "Wow! Hessiana is possessed by herself! "
Hao Ren had also noticed the commotion, but of course, he did not care about the husky maiden's wild imagination. He just looked at Hessiana nervously. "What happened just now? Where's your 2P? "
Hessiana was also a little confused. She turned around in a daze. After checking herself from head to toe, she said, "I don't know what happened. Suddenly … Huh?"
Hao Ren and Lily asked at the same time, "What's wrong?"
Hessiana was in a trance for a moment. She swayed as if she was going to faint at any time. It took her more than ten seconds to recover. She blinked her eyes, and the expression on her face was a mixture of bitterness and laughter. "So that's how it is. When the backtracking is completed, if the other self is nearby, there will be a memory fusion. I suddenly felt that there was an additional memory in my head. It was when I was young. Err, that memory had you."
Speaking of this, Hao Ren naturally understood why Hessiana did not know whether to laugh or cry.
He put his hands on his hips and said, "Well, now I can finally say that I held you in my arms when you were a child. Not only did I hold you in my arms, but I was holding you in my little bat form. You were drooling in my pocket when you were sleeping."
Hessiana knew that Hao Ren was going to say this. She was furious. "Say it again, or I'll kill you!"
Hao Ren rolled his eyes at the sky and said, "Anyway, the truth is right there."
Hessiana wanted to cry but no tears came out. She had just said that she envied little Hessiana for having a "perfect version of herself". But when she turned her head, the two memories merged together. She had gotten the perfect childhood, but unfortunately, this perfect childhood came with a "buy one get one free" relative. She wanted to rush up and bite Hao Ren's arm. But as soon as the thought came to her mind, she realized another sad fact — little Hessiana's impression of Hao Ren had also merged into her memory. In the little girl's mind, Hao Ren was a great, bright, right, and super powerful brother. What a mess of seniority.
Hessiana racked her brain for a long time before she finally figured out one thing: what happened to her was not as simple as the merging of memories, because little Hessiana was also a 'real existence' in this space and time. She did not absorb the little girl's memory, but her own childhood experience … which was added out of thin air.
It was impossible for her to hypnotize herself that the memory was fake.
Hao Ren did not have the ability to read minds, but he could roughly guess the girl's mental state just by looking at the changing expression on Hessiana's face. He could not help but comfort her. "Don't think too much about it. Schizophrenia is not a bad thing. Look at your mother, she is also schizophrenic. You have proved that your mother loves you with your family's hereditary disease. At least, it proves that your mother is your mother."
Lily slapped her forehead. "Mr. Landlord's mouth seems to have given up on treatment."
Hesperides had also wandered over at some point. She said leisurely, "Don't you feel that he did it on purpose?"
Hessiana could not be bothered with Hao Ren's joke. She let out a long sigh and said, "Sigh, now there's something even more ridiculous. I now firmly believe that I have a sister named Hathaway, and she's powerful and omnipotent. No, I have to get someone to perform a deep hypnosis on me when I get back. That way, I can at least correct Hathaway …"
Hao Ren was speechless.
This trip back in time had allowed Hessiana to achieve a lot in life.
"Will your mental state affect your performance later?" Out of caution, Hao Ren asked Little Bat.
Hessiana patted her chest. "Don't worry, it will not be a problem. Just don't ask my sister's name when I'm fighting."
Hao Ren pursed his lips and turned around to greet everyone. "Is everything ready? Once we're ready, we'll set off. Our next stop will be the heyday of the Mythological Era. Hesperides, be happy. You can go back to your home now. "
Hesperides glanced at the ruined temple next to her. Being summoned into the sandbox world at this terrible point in history had given her an unpleasant start. But after hearing what Hao Ren said, she shook her head. "Sometimes, it is better to let bygones be bygones. If the next stop is Olympus, I hope to skip it as soon as possible. Otherwise, I am worried that I will accidentally indulge in false time and space."
Hao Ren understood how she felt, so he did not say anything more. But just as he was about to walk to the glowing temple gate not far away, he found that Lily had not moved an inch.
"What's wrong?" he asked curiously.
"Mr. Landlord, I feel that I can't follow you through this period of history anymore." Lily scratched her head awkwardly and pointed to her legs. "Look, my wifi is about to go down."
Hao Ren finally saw the changes in the husky maiden. Starting from her legs, her body had been covered with a layer of grayish-white, and the area covered was slowly expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye. It looked like the gradual spread of petrification.
He remembered what Raven 12345 had told him before.
As he continued to go deeper into history, the people around him would lose their reference points one by one. After one to two thousand years past their respective birth years, they would inevitably be ejected from the sandbox system.
Only a special individual like Hao Ren, who entered the sandbox system directly, could complete this 10,000-year journey.
Lily was the youngest of them all. She was only born a hundred years ago in the real timeline. Now, the time node that they had traveled back to was 44 BC. There was a time difference of nearly two thousand years. Lily was already at her limit for coming this far.
Although Hao Ren knew that she would be the first to leave the team, it was still a little unexpected. He opened his mouth and asked, "You... you're leaving?"
The husky maiden stared at Hao Ren. "Mr. Landlord, why do you sound like I'm dying? I'm just going to take a break and return to the auditorium. Don't worry, I'm good at watching the fun! "
Hao Ren was speechless.
The husky's thought of parting was rebuffed. Hao Ren waved his hand. "Okay, okay. I've been in this time and space for so long that I almost forgot that you and I are different. Let's go. Leave the rest to me. "
As he spoke, the grayish-white 'petrification' had spread to Lily's chest.
"Then I'm going out to eat!" Lily looked at Hao Ren with a smile. "You must bring Battie back! She owes me braised pork ribs for the rest of her life, and you have to come back in one piece. If you don't pay, that pauper won't be able to afford the ribs for the rest of her life … "
Before the petrification gradually spread to her shoulder, she suddenly raised her hand and held the giant alloy X6 sword high above her head.
"Hey, Mr. Landlord, do you think if I lift this sword up, will it stay after I petrify it? To be honest, I think it's a bug. Look at the clothes I'm wearing, it's also … "
Lily's words came to an abrupt halt.
Hao Ren looked up and found that the alloy sword was also stained with a strange grayish-white luster.
He nodded. "I have to tell her when I get out. There's no bug in it."
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