parallel world-
If time could go back, Lin Xi would probably grab Bryce's neck and roar at him, and then ask him to throw the handmade pendant that Sunu brought back directly into the toilet.
After Bryce returned from the two-year expedition to Sunu, the only gift he brought him was that ordinary-looking pendant, which was said to be bought at a gathering at the only remaining temple in Sunu.
It was a snow-white round bone bead with some unclear Sunu characters carved on it.
Judging from the knife skills, this thing should be an antique of some age, but its overly smooth and white texture shows that it is just a modern handicraft.
"You know, I never liked Sunu's stuff, but I thought you might want a small souvenir."
Bryce frowned as he handed the pendant to Lin Xi. Compared to his colleagues who brought large and small bags of Sunu specialties to Earth, his resistance to Sunu goods had indeed reached an almost exaggerated level.
But no matter what, he did buy such a small gift for Lin Xi, and Lin Xi accepted it without any hesitation.
Even at that time, Lin Xi felt a little bit amused and helpless about Bryce's "Sunu allergy".
result…
Look at the current situation.
Lin Xi was trapped in a rickety car with a group of pale aliens with incredibly long limbs. The two huge beetle-like creatures were pulling the car in front. As for the aliens around him, they were undoubtedly Sunu people.
In fact, Lin Xi himself is now a Sunu.
He lowered his head and looked at his slender hands. That incredible, sleepwalking-like feeling of illusion still lingers in his mind until now.
In his memory, his last night as an earthling was when he fell into his bed and fell asleep comfortably after drinking a small glass of wine. He casually threw the pendant into the drawer of the bedside table - he had no doubt that it was probably that thing that put him in this strange situation now: he woke up from his sleep and found himself in a completely unfamiliar environment.
Incidentally, he himself became... a Sunu.
He has the identity of a Sunu (and surprisingly, he is also called "Lin" here), and can understand the language of the Sunu people, but his identity seems to be very low... and the world he lives in now does not seem to be the Sunu world that Lin Xi said he knew.
This place is so primitive and backward.
Lin Xi suspected that he might have traveled back to the ancient times of Sunu.
Just when he hadn't figured out the situation (well, in the first few days he thought he had some mental problems or he was just dreaming), he was suddenly driven out of the dirty and dark stone house. Soldiers wearing strange armor and a group of deformed people who should be monks drove him and some other people into the Beetle car they were in now.
Then, the long journey began.
Lin Xi nervously observed his companions, trying to figure out what was going on. They might all look about the same size as him, and apart from the color of their skin and the length of their limbs, they were not much different from the people on Earth after looking at them for a long time. But from beginning to end, these Sunu boys who were sitting in the same car with him just cried loudly, as if they were about to face something extremely terrible.
In this situation, Lin Xi's confusion turned into calmness.
A monk in charge of patrolling vehicles observed him for a long time and gave him some extra food and water with approval.
If you can maintain such a calm attitude among the chosen ones, you may be able to gain the favor of the Star God.
It said this to Lin Xi.
Lin Xi forced a smile towards the kind monk.
But he still didn't know what the monk meant by "God's Chosen One" - judging from the state of his companions and the pity that flashed across the monk's dark eyes, it shouldn't be a good thing.
The Beetle was very bumpy, and Lin Xi soon lost the mood to continue exploring. He lacked sleep, was always cold and hungry, and for a moment he really thought he might die.
However, death does not seem to be a very scary thing to him: maybe after death he can return to his own world
He even attempted suicide several times, but unfortunately such behavior was immediately stopped.
In this strange world he now lives in, it seems that even using suicide to escape the divine marriage is a sin.
The monk who had previously had a good impression of Lin Xi whipped him without hesitation - that was simply an inhumane abuse.
Lin Xi was almost completely desperate, especially when the Sunu people healed him and threw him back into the Beetle car.
Not to mention, the words that the monk said to him when he was using the worm's mucus to treat his wounds made Lin Xi feel even more foreboding about what was going to happen next.
You should be thankful, Lin, you have beautiful eyes and black hair. In past divine marriages, the Star Gods preferred people like you with black hair and black eyes...
About ten days later, Lin Xi was taken out of the car, and so were his companions.
Just like slaves without any dignity in ancient times, everyone was ordered to take off their dusty and dirty clothes, and the expressionless monks led them to a magnificent temple-like place.
Inside was a pool of water that was freezing cold.
Lin Xi listened woodenly to the monks giving orders, ordering them to wash their bodies there.
The cold pool looks unusually vast. If it were on Earth, it would probably become a monument like the Eighth Wonder of the Earth, visited by countless people.
Lin Xi stared at the jewels spread on the bottom of the cold pool and the intricate curly golden patterns, wondering.
However, no matter how luxurious the decoration is, it cannot hide one fact - the water inside is as cold as if it had just flowed down from the snowy mountains.
The moment Lin Xi stepped into the cold pool, he was almost frozen to death. He also hoped that he could faint to escape this horrible torture.
He really didn't understand what he had done wrong to deserve such horrible torture.
Maybe…
A thought suddenly popped into his mind.
Maybe it would be a good idea to just fall into the water and drown. Maybe in that case, when he wakes up again, he will find himself back on Earth, back to that civilized, comfortable, normal world.
Lin Xi quickly glanced around and saw that the Sunu soldiers patrolling around the cold pool were marching in an orderly manner, but they all seemed to be a little afraid of this place, so they stayed away from the pool as much as possible within the allowable range.
This is a great opportunity for Lin Xi.
He relaxed his body and slowly, slowly sank to the bottom of the water.
But at this moment, his movements suddenly stopped.
He felt something was... watching him.
Lin Xi swore that it was definitely not a human sight.
Because even the most terrifying human beings, or the Sunu people, cannot have such evil and crazy vision.
That kind of sight almost penetrated his skin and pierced his bones, and then hung him up and made him into a human specimen.
Lin Xi didn't even have the courage to look back. He was surrounded by so many young, crying Sunu people, but at this moment he seemed to be isolated from the whole world.
All that surrounded him was that terrifying aura, that sharp gaze, and—
Lin Xi's teeth chattered.
He knew it was not an illusion, there was something like a snake flitting under the water, but... but it was not a snake.
Its surface was very smooth, as if it was covered with mucus, and its size was so huge that it seemed as if Lin Xi himself was stepping on its surface.
Forest-
Someone suddenly called out to him.
Lin Xi's body trembled violently, and the "snake" pulled away from his body.
What are you doing
The person who spoke was the guard in charge of watching over them, and he shouted sternly at Lin Xi.
Come out of there! There's no point in lingering here.
Lin Xi gradually regained his strength after hearing the guard's words. He looked around and realized that everyone else had left without him noticing.
Lin Xi obeyed the words of the Sunu guard almost in a trance, and he climbed out of the pool trembling.
For a moment, he had a strong premonition that he might not be able to leave here at all. No matter what was watching him before, it would pull him back into the cold pool at the last moment and bind him until he drowned.
But until he stumbled away from there, "that thing" did not appear.
Of course, the reason why Lin Xi thought so was because he didn't look back at Leng Chi again.
If he had seen it, he would have discovered... Under the water, a huge shadow was slowly retreating from where he had been standing.
Under the swaying water, what he had thought were jewels and metal decorations began to wriggle at the same time. They reorganized into clusters of circular patterns, and inside those patterns were constantly changing brilliant colors.
Forest.
A strange tone came from somewhere beneath the water.
The voice sounded sharp and hoarse, full of rawness.
Forest.
But soon, "He" repeated it again, and this time, His voice sounded much better.
"Hualala..."
The water surface of the cold pool will fluctuate violently.
The Sunu soldiers surrounding the cold pool looked at the abnormality of the cold pool and let out rapid screams.
"Star God—"
Finally, He slowly emerged from the pool.
The huge wings fluttered, shaking off all the cold pool water onto the ground.
The author has something to say: A side story that takes place in a parallel world -
I don't know why I suddenly wanted to write this type of short story.