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Chapter 195: Where Did You Do Me?:
[The entry levels are white, green, blue, purple, gold, and red.]
Machine Soul Joy (Gold): You share a unique bond with machinery, enabling any mechanical creation in your hands to operate at over 200% efficiency.
Fork in the Road (Purple): When faced with challenges, you instinctively find an alternate solution.
Mechanical Resonance (Gold): Using machines allows you to intuitively grasp their principles. You are nothing short of a technological prodigy.
Scavenger (Blue): You possess survival instincts, adept at identifying valuable items and thriving in harsh environments.
Accuracy (Blue): Your precision is unparalleled, allowing you to target enemy weak points with ease.
Ten Deaths (Red): Death is not your end. Regardless of injury or fatality, you resurrect at full strength up to ten times.
“One red, two gold, one purple, and two blue?” Xu Xi scanned the simulator panel with a mix of surprise and satisfaction.
In his last simulation, he had settled for one gold and two purple entries. The quality of entries had been acceptable but not extraordinary. This time, the results were far beyond his expectations.
“A red entry appearing this time? And two gold ones too? Luck is indeed unpredictable,” he mused.
Red entries were rare and represented the highest power, and resurrection was an unparalleled ability. Xu Xi wasted no time in selecting his entries: Machine Soul Joy (Gold), Mechanical Resonance (Gold), and Ten Deaths (Red).
“One red and two gold… This configuration is perfect. The red entry offers me unparalleled survivability, while the two gold entries complement each other to form a complete system. Truly ideal.”
[Entry selection complete. Do you wish to begin the simulation?]
The simulator’s panel glowed softly, awaiting his confirmation.
In past simulations, Xu Xi would have immediately confirmed. But this time, he hesitated and called for Krisha and Wu Yingxue.
“Krisha, Yingxue, I need your help.”
Both turned to him, curious.
“I’m about to start a new simulation. I want you to observe me closely and see if there’s anything unusual during the process. There might be details I overlook.”
The two girls nodded in agreement.
“Understood, master.”
“You can count on me, sir!”
Xu Xi smiled. “Thank you. Let’s see if this can reveal something new.”
[Entry selection complete. Do you wish to begin the simulation?]
This time, Xu Xi decisively confirmed.
“Yes.”
The world around him stilled, an oppressive silence enveloping everything. A dizzying sensation surged, as though time and space themselves had twisted and folded, dragging him into an incomprehensible state of disorientation.
He felt the oscillations of reality, the intersecting threads of countless worlds. The sensation wasn’t physical but a metaphysical distortion, shifting his very consciousness.
“Krisha? Yingxue?” Xu Xi’s thoughts momentarily focused on the two girls.
Under the sunlight, their expressions flickered subtly, as if they had sensed something—but the changes were too slow, imperceptible until after Xu Xi’s consciousness had departed.
“Did they notice anything?” he wondered.
He would have to wait until the simulation ended to find out.
A storm of time and space unfurled like a butterfly’s wings, propelling him into an endless tide of luminous white threads. Each thread represented an infinite possibility of existence.
Uncontrollably, Xu Xi hurtled into one of the thicker threads.
[Simulation No. 04 has officially begun.]
[You open your eyes to find yourself in a familiar courtyard. The sun is gentle, the flowers bloom undisturbed, and everything appears unchanged from your memories.]
[Krisha and Wu Yingxue do not exist here.]
[You calmly leave the courtyard and head to the tallest building nearby.]
[Moving swiftly, you use the elevator to reach the rooftop. Familiar roars echo in your ears, but you remain unbothered, even amused, feeling completely safe.]
[However, scanning the streets below, you fail to find the familiar figure you were expecting.]
[The sky darkens, clouds gathering as if rain is imminent. The roars grow louder. Suspicious, you look upward.]
[You see it.]
[You realize you were laughing too soon.]
[Your smile freezes as disbelief fills your gaze. The “sun” above you begins to warp and transform, assembling into an enormous celestial vehicle—a star truck that barrels straight toward you. Its massive form shatters the sky before colliding with you in a deafening explosion.]
[Congratulations, you’ve been knocked away by fortune once again.]
…
Disoriented, Xu Xi felt his consciousness spinning out of control. The nauseating sensation was overwhelming, piercing every fiber of his being. It was as though his soul had been reduced to a tattered sandbag, subjected to relentless pounding.
Eventually, the queasiness subsided. With effort, he opened his eyes to an unfamiliar world.
[The environment is barren, desolate, and eerily silent.]
[You have received a “lucky time-travel gift package,” but the world before you is nothing like you imagined.]
[There are no advanced futuristic cities, no interstellar battleships soaring across the skies.]
[Instead, you find yourself in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Human bones litter the ground, and decaying machinery is half-buried in the dust. It appears a catastrophic war between humans and machines destroyed civilization.]
[Your body has reverted to its 20-year-old self—youthful and strong—but you feel no sense of security.]
[The hostile wasteland and remnants of battle leave you wary and confused. Resolving to uncover the truth, you decide to press forward.]
“No… Where did you send me?!” Xu Xi muttered, his voice tinged with disbelief.
He traversed the ruins, clambering over collapsed structures.
Beyond the wreckage, a vast and harrowing sight greeted him—a city split in two by an unimaginably destructive force. The chasm bore marks of absolute devastation, as though the city had been crushed, torn, and skewed by an overwhelming power.
Xu Xi stood in stunned silence, staring at the apocalyptic scene before him, questioning if he had been sent to the wrong world.