"So, what did you do here fifty years ago?" Li Wenxi and Xu Ying asked at the same time as they walked out of the city together.
"More than fifty years ago. Actually, for me, it has only been a few days since I left here." Xu Ying looked around. "For me, three days ago, I was still in the world of more than fifty years ago."
"Ah..." Li Wenxi sighed, "This is really a new and novel feeling..."
"What's so new about this?" Xu Ying kicked the stone away from her feet. "Not long ago, you were still in a world thousands of years ago."
“… Yeah, that’s true.”
The two were now on the other side of the city, in the wilderness.
If it was on the ground, in the middle of the night, this place would not be a good place. In the pitch-black darkness, this wilderness must be full of dangers and frightening.
But in this underground world, even at this point in time, it is still bright under the illumination of the dome crystal.
Li Wenxi and the other person acted as casually as if they were on a picnic in the suburbs.
"Actually, I don't know what important things happened here more than 50 years ago. I spent most of my time playing around in the city..."
"Ah? Play?"
"Well... because my brother is the one who does all the things like joining forces and cooperating with the forces here." Xu Ying explained, "He didn't intend for me to get involved, and I wasn't interested, so we hit it off."
"Ah..." Li Wenxi was speechless. "Is that so? Then you basically didn't participate in your plan."
"Of course I participated!" Xu Ying defended herself, "I said I was just playing, but actually my mission was to check the changes in the underground human settlement!"
"I didn't just visit this city. When my brother and those forces were doing something unknown, I visited various cities here. I've been to almost every representative city."
"Oh..." Li Wenxi understood and couldn't help laughing, "So you have traveled to many cities in this underground base."
"This statement doesn't seem right. He must have inspected many cities!" Xu Ying corrected, "Not only that, my brother always tells me the situation over there. Even when it comes to the situation of underground forces, I am the second person to know."
"Then, how did you get to know the current head of the Wei family?" Li Wenxi asked curiously, "Aren't you on good terms with him?"
"Of course, because fifty years ago, he was the one who accompanied me to inspect the human bases. He was not the head of the family at that time, and I was also an important guest, so he was responsible for my safety."
As Xu Ying spoke, she ran into the low bushes and started picking wild fruits.
"Ah, so you two traveled together for a long time and visited many cities?"
Li Wenxi's eyes lit up. She was very interested in this topic and asked hurriedly, "Did anything happen between you two? Like..."
"ah?"
Xu Ying grabbed a handful of small red fruits she had picked, turned around and walked towards Li Wenxi, with an expression that said "How could this be possible?" "What could possibly happen between us? I won't stay at a certain point in time for long, so how could I be interested in someone at that point in time?"
"You're really not interested?" Li Wenxi expressed doubt, "Then why do you let him follow you?"
"Of course I'm not interested. I let him follow me because he's my tour guide!" Xu Ying shrugged. "For example, when you travel to a place, you won't stay there for long. Would you develop romantic feelings for your tour guide? Even if the tour guide is very handsome."
"No cohabitation?"
"Living together? Living together!" Xu Ying glared at Li Wenxi. "Sister-in-law, are you and my brother having any issues?"
“Hmm…” Li Wenxi blushed.
"Ah?" Xu Ying was a little dumbfounded. "Come to think of it... how long have you known each other? Was my brother this kind of person before..."
"Why are you talking about me? Let's get back to the point! Judging from the old man's current appearance and his granddaughter, he must have been very handsome back then, right?"
Li Wenxi imagined what Wei Bai looked like back then and guessed.
"Well, how should I put it? He is indeed quite handsome, but not as good as my brother."
Xu Ying handed half of the wild fruit to Li Wenxi: "If I find a man who is not as good as my brother, he will laugh at me to death. I can't hold my head up in front of him. I don't have any interest in that guy. But he is a very good friend."
"We're just good friends." Li Wenxi took the wild fruit and asked, "What is this?"
"It's a wild fruit that's native to this place. I ate it the last time I came here. It was Wei Bo who told me about it. I had never even seen it before that. It tastes very good. Try it."
Li Wenxi looked at the small red fruit in his hand.
It feels like red berries on the ground, but they are much smaller than red berries and their red color is a little purple.
Is this a specialized fruit grown underground? It looks delicious, and the color is a bit like a very sweet cherry.
She put the fruit into her mouth and bit it.
The small fruit has a high water content and the juice bursts in your mouth instantly.
but…
"Ugh! Ah... Bah, bah, bah!" Li Wenxi immediately spat out the fruit in her mouth, sticking out her tongue, tears about to flow out, "So... so bitter! Bah, bah!"
"Bitter? Impossible?" Xu Ying also ate one and immediately spat it out, "Ugh! Wow, what's that taste? Why is it so bitter!"
"You must have picked the wrong one..." Li Wenxi said with a bitter face, feeling a bitter taste in his mouth, and a fishy and rusty feeling, "What's this taste..."
"No, it's this one. I was..." Xu Ying felt a little strange, "What's going on?... Never mind, maybe this one is just rotten."
Xu Ying threw away the red fruit in her hand and said, "Have you found any minerals here, sister-in-law?"
"Hmm... there is one there." Li Wenxi pointed to a factory not far away. "But it has been discovered. Is it being mined? There are no other factories."
"It seems that there are no minerals nearby. We need to look somewhere farther away."
Relying on Xu Ying's teleportation ability, the two have basically traveled around the city, but except for the mining point on the dome that was initially discovered, they could not find any other place.
But it's normal. This is the core hinterland of human survival area. It has been developed for thousands of years. Even if there are any resources, they have been explored long ago.
"Oh, I don't feel like moving anymore. We should have rested by now. Otherwise, let's go back." Xu Ying wanted to be lazy. "Only after a good rest can we face tomorrow."
"You are really..." Li Wenxi was helpless, "You are already over 300 years old, why are you still like a child?"
"What? I'm still a child."
Xu Ying pulled off a leaf from a branch and said as she tore it: "Although I have lived for more than three hundred years, three hundred years is nothing compared to my lifespan. My body and mind are both very young. Isn't that normal?"
"Oh? But you..."
No matter what kind of creature it is, maturity is determined by its lifespan.
The lifespan of a cat is only a dozen years, so a one or two-year-old cat already has all the abilities of a cat, such as being able to jump up and down, hunt, and reproduce.
However, humans are more advanced and intelligent creatures than cats. However, the survival ability of humans at the same age is much worse than that of cats, and they are far from mature.
The longer you live, the later you mature, not only physically but also mentally.
A twenty-year-old cat is an extremely long-lived old cat, but a twenty-year-old human thinks of himself as very young in his heart, and naturally will not show any old-fashioned attitude.
"So, it's the same for me. I'm only over 300 years old and still very young." Xu Ying explained with a smile.
"Ah, this..."
Li Wenxi finally understood why she was like this even though she was hundreds of years old.
She looked at Xu Ying as if a three-year-old cat was looking at a twenty-year-old human.
Are you very old
It is very big. For a cat, it is really unimaginable.
But for humans, they are still young.
So Xu Ying still thinks of herself as a child!
"But you are not..." Li Wenxi hesitated and did not express his thoughts at the moment.
"You mean to say that I may not live long, right?" Xu Ying looked at her and pursed her lips.
"I did not mean that… "
"Well, that's the truth."
Xu Ying's eyes dimmed for a moment, but soon returned to normal: "I really can't stay in this world for long, because I don't belong to this world. Now I am just playing hide-and-seek with this world."
"But at least now, I am not going to leave this world. My brother... has really made a lot of efforts to make me stay longer."
Li Wenxi opened his eyes wide: "You are still able to move around in this world. Is it related to your brother?"
"Of course, my brother has done a lot of things."
Having said that, she bit her lip.
"For example, they let me leave the collapsing future early, but I was the last one to arrive in the past. I experienced a shorter period of time than those people and missed a lot of things. I was really pissed off at that time!"
"For example, they almost never let me participate in any research related to behemoths or anything related to changing history. They even kicked me out of the institute and made me live like an ordinary person for several years in that era, thus deceiving the world's perception of me."
"For example, he teleported the teenage Xu Ying to a more distant future instead of to this point in time with you, just to prevent two of me from appearing at this point in time and allow me to continue to exist here."
Xu Ying gritted her teeth: "That bastard brother, he planned to make me stay from the beginning!"
Li Wenxi was speechless.
She didn't quite understand it, but she could feel Xu Xin's efforts.
His efforts were successful. Xu Ying has indeed been fine until now, and there is no more chaos in time and space around her body.
Apart from being able to use time and space abilities, he is almost the same as an ordinary person.
“Wait a minute, that means the reason why your brother rarely takes you to participate in serious matters in this underground world is also because…” Li Wenxi seemed to be thinking about something.
"Ah, yes!"
Xu Ying kicked a big rock on the side of the road. With a "click" sound, her seemingly weak little feet kicked a big hole and a crack in the rock.
She said bitterly: "It was not until he disappeared that I realized that he had not allowed me to really participate in these things. I am afraid that he was afraid that I would be affected in this regard. Asshole brother, if you want to stay, you can stay by yourself! Just leave me here alone..."
Li Wenxi was silent for a moment, then said, "Maybe... he just wants you to witness the planet being saved."
“… Humph, he just wants to leave a mess for me.”
Although Xu Ying said this, her eyes were already a little red.
Li Wenxi could understand her feelings.
Her real brother, the person she was familiar with, had long since disappeared from this world.
Although she now calls herself sister-in-law and also brother Xu Xin, they are no longer the two people who have accompanied her for hundreds of years.
Even the man who traveled with her more than fifty years ago suddenly aged more than fifty years after the time travel, and the change was so great that he could be said to be a stranger.
Now she is truly facing the whole world alone.
It is really not easy for her to show such a lively and optimistic image under such circumstances.
Thinking of this, Li Wenxi suddenly thought of something.
Xu Ying once said that her relationship with Wei Bo was so good that even her brother was a little jealous.
That means, at that time fifty years ago, Xu Xin was still alive!
That Xu Xin disappeared at that moment in time!
And Xu Ying had just traveled through time from that point in time a few days ago.
In other words, for Xu Ying, her brother had actually just disappeared not long ago...
In fact, she had just lost her last relative not long ago.
This is really...
But having said that, a lot of things did happen at that time more than 50 years ago.
The Crystal City on the ground was probably built at that time, right
And the first group of survivors appeared shortly thereafter.
… It seems that Xu Ying should have done a lot of things at that time, instead of just traveling to various cities as she said.
But she didn't want to tell herself yet.
"Oh, okay, let's not talk about this anymore!" Xu Ying shook her head. She felt like she was going to cry if she continued.
"Yingying..."
"You don't have to sympathize with me. I'm not afraid of death! If I die, I can just go find my brother and my acquaintances!"
Xu Ying rubbed her eyes and looked up, "But now, that bastard brother has left this mess to me, so I'll just try my best. I won't sleep anymore, let's find another place!"
"Yeah, okay."
Xu Ying grabbed Li Wenxi's arm and said, "Let's go, sister-in-law. I'll take you... Okay?"
She suddenly stopped and looked towards the depths of the wilderness.
"What's wrong?" Li Wenxi looked in the direction she was looking.
The woods were overgrown with weeds, and even in the bright environment of the underground world, it was impossible to see what was going on inside.
"Is there anything over there?" Li Wenxi asked.
"... Am I feeling it wrong?" Xu Ying stared at the jungle and murmured, "How can there be... wait... the smell of the red fruit just now..."
A gleam of light flashed in her eyes: "No, I want to go and see! Sister-in-law, I'll take you back first!"
“Ah? What…” Before Li Wenxi could ask in detail, a purple-black vortex appeared under his feet.
She fell into the whirlpool in an instant.
When she opened her eyes again, she was already in the villa.
… What happened
What did Xu Ying see