It Seems I’m Not The Only One Who Reincarnated

10:00 PM.

After leaving Tian Shui’s house, Shi Hai went to an underground parking lot to find the car with the license plate ending in B1107.

Although Shi Hai didn’t recognize the car’s brand or model, he could tell from its design that it wasn’t cheap.

Initially, Shi Hai assumed that since it was Tian Shui’s car, it might be a flashy red sports car or something similar. To his surprise, it turned out to be a sleek, black sedan—simple and understated.

In fact, Tian Shui had only purchased the car a few days ago, intending to have it ready at all times to visit Shi Hai.

She had even considered Shi Hai’s preference for staying low-key when choosing the car.

It could be said that Tian Shui had carefully planned every step to win Shi Hai over. Every move she made was precisely tailored to his tastes, perfectly capturing his personality.

This meticulous effort was why Tian Shui could rapidly elevate Shi Hai’s favorability in just one evening, transforming their relationship from somewhat distant senior and junior to close partners—and even rivals in a budding romantic game. It wasn’t purely luck.

Shi Hai pulled out the car key, unlocked the vehicle, and got in.

He didn’t come to the parking lot just to see what the car looked like; the real reason was to test whether he could actually drive.

And the moment he sat in the driver’s seat, he realized that he did know how to drive.

Even though, prior to this, Shi Hai didn’t know the difference between the clutch and the brake, he now started the car smoothly and drove it out of the parking spot with ease.

After a brief test drive around the parking lot, Shi Hai found the handling to be excellent. He felt no awkwardness at all.

Not only did he pick it up faster than basketball, but his proficiency was on a completely different level.

If basketball was just a casual hobby for him, then driving was absolutely at a “professional” standard.

He even felt confident that he could pull off a drift or floor the gas pedal to drive at full speed.

Shi Hai thought, maybe in some alternate future, he might open a tofu shop and master drifting around narrow mountain roads during deliveries, earning the nickname “God of Mount Akina.”

The faint echo of Eurobeat was already playing in his mind.

But it wasn’t just the idea of driving fast that surprised him. When he pulled out the car key earlier, a wave of “peculiar knowledge” also surfaced in his mind.

Specifically, he knew how to “forcibly unlock and start” a car like this one without a key, using brute force.

What on earth?

Why would he even have car theft skills?

And it wasn’t ordinary car theft knowledge either. It felt more like a specialized skill for “emergency situations where a vehicle is needed, and the best option is to force-start a suitable car.”

That’s not something an average person would know!

What exactly had he been doing in the future?

According to the “10,000-hour rule,” mastering a skill to a professional level would take at least five or six years.

Yet Shi Hai now had the distinct impression that he could do even more than just this.

Playing games, basketball, driving… these weren’t all his skills.

There were likely other hidden abilities waiting to be discovered.

If that’s the case, these skills couldn’t all have come from a single future. After all, in nine years, Shi Hai would be dead—there wouldn’t be enough time to master so many things.

In other words, these were “multi-run” skills, accumulated and transferred back to his past self.

Why was this phenomenon happening to him?

Skills are essentially physical memories.

But why were only the physical memories sent back in time?

One thing was clear: it had to be related to his rebirth.

Shi Hai had always wondered why Bai Yue didn’t make him reincarnate as well.

But now, it seemed likely that Bai Yue had tried to reincarnate him. For some reason, however, she wasn’t able to achieve a “complete rebirth.”

It felt as though only half of him had reincarnated, leaving behind only the physical memories.

“Physical… memories…”

Sitting in the driver’s seat, Shi Hai murmured to himself. Suddenly, he pressed the brake and executed a drift, parking the car back in its original spot with absolute precision.

And when Shi Hai performed such a daring maneuver, he wasn’t even consciously thinking about it—it was pure muscle memory.

Suddenly, he had an epiphany.

Rebirth… wasn’t it essentially about “sending memories back to the past”?

In other words, to complete the process of rebirth, there were three key technological challenges to overcome:

Memory Storage
Memory Transmission
Connection to the Past

Any one of these three points would be a monumental challenge for humanity to solve at its current stage of development.

To achieve the first two, it was clear that deeper advancements in human-machine interaction were necessary.

This would require a complete connection between the human brain and machines.

In essence, it was an advanced application of virtual reality technology.

When Shi Hai thought about it this way, the first two points didn’t seem entirely impossible.

Moreover, he had an inexplicable familiarity with the concept of “memory.”

This suggested to Shi Hai that he might already know how the first two steps were achieved.

It was highly likely that, in the future, he himself had developed memory-related technology.

But for now, he couldn’t remember the details.

As for the third point, he had absolutely no idea.

It couldn’t really have been some sort of accidental discovery, like the “phone-wave microwave (temporary name),” could it?

Shi Hai reasoned that since he had no sense of familiarity with the third point, the method for connecting to the past probably wasn’t something he had discovered.

It was very likely the work of that woman named Bai Yue.

Thus, by combining their respective technologies, the two of them had managed to create the groundbreaking black tech that was “rebirth.”

Bai Yue…

At this moment, Shi Hai was very eager to meet this woman.

Not only did he want to know her story, but he also wanted to discuss the principles behind rebirth technology.

He was genuinely curious about how the connection to the past was achieved.

To meet Bai Yue, he first needed to find her.

From what Tian Shui had said, Bai Yue was supposed to approach him after her rebirth. However, for some reason, that hadn’t happened yet.

Shi Hai wasn’t planning to sit around and wait for her to find him; he wanted to meet her as soon as possible.

To do that, he needed to analyze where she might appear.

By examining the places he  frequented, he could deduce where Bai Yue was likely to show up.

Shi Hai’s routine was very simple: he went back and forth between the university and his home.

Considering that Bai Yue was capable of developing cutting-edge technology, she was probably highly intelligent and rational. She wouldn’t make a reckless move, like simply following him to his house, as Jian Sichun had done.

Therefore, the most likely place for Bai Yue to approach Shi Hai was on the university campus.

It was even possible that she was a student at the university.

However, Shi Hai’s knowledge of the girls on campus was woefully limited. His “database” had only recently been updated to include a few more people.

To investigate girls from other departments was truly beyond his abilities.

But even if he couldn’t do it himself, he could still rely on others for help.

For instance, Jin Huiyou, one of his classmates, was a well-known source of information, especially when it came to intel on attractive women.

Although Shi Hai and Jin Huiyou weren’t exactly friends, Jin Huiyou was friends with Ye Guang.

If Shi Hai asked Ye Guang for help, the ever-obliging good guy would definitely agree to pass along the request.

Coincidentally, Ye Guang had recently told Shi Hai to stop by their dorm when he had time. Shi Hai decided he would head back to the dorm on Monday.

His main goal would be to use the opportunity to gather information about Bai Yue.

If he could successfully uncover any leads about her, he would immediately go meet her.

Shi Hai believed that once he met Bai Yue, most of the questions in his mind would be answered.

Main Quest Updated:

Find Bai Yue and uncover the truth.