C54 — Bookmarks
by UntamedS“Impossible!” He Fei covered his head and said, “I obviously lived in a royal palace all my life; I’ve tasted all the luxurious meals in the royal palace!”
“What about the flavor?” Mu Sichen asked.
“The flavor is naturally very good, especially that Buddha Jumping Wall; that was really…” He Fei’s words stuttered in the middle of his sentence.
“Do you only remember that you have never tasted such delicious food before but can’t remember the specific taste?” Mu Sichen asked.
He Fei was very resistant to Mu Sichen’s words; he shook his head and said, “No. You don’t know how good that food was! You don’t know how exquisite and delicious that food is; you’ve never seen it before. I originally resisted becoming a princess, and I tried to escape from that world, but it’d been too long. I’d been a princess for three years, so long, and my life was so favorable, I just accepted it. If I didn’t go through three years for that long, how could I accept that I changed gender?”
“He Fei, people’s memories can be deceiving.” Mu Sichen told him, “A sense of time can also be confused through memory.”
He Fei’s appearance reminded Mu Sichen of the book “My Two or Three Affairs with the Moon.”.
The protagonist in the book started out as a working man, and when he worked late into the night, he would always look up at the moon to calculate the time.
At the new moon, he calculated that there was still one month left for this project to be completed, and at the next new moon, he would get his bonus.
But at the full moon, the protagonist’s sense of time was confused. He looked up at the sky countless times and saw a full moon countless times. In his view of time, it seemed that every time he looked up, a month had passed, and the story said that he completed a project every month.
During the full moon, the protagonist went from being a small employee of a company to becoming the chairman of the board, and he felt that time had passed and he had become omnipotent.
He unknowingly arrived at a rich man’s house, which he thought was his home, but the bodyguard wouldn’t let him in.
Under the full moon, the protagonist swoll to the extreme, and he thought this bodyguard deserved a lesson.
He didn’t know where he got the strength from, but he grabbed the bodyguard’s electric baton in his hand, casually knocked out a couple of security personnel, ran into the house to check his safe, and was eventually killed by the arriving police.
Before he died, the protagonist looked up at the sky, looking at the bright full moon, and suddenly remembered something: he still had half a month to get his bonus.
It turned out to be just that full moon night, and he didn’t experience it for long. Instead, he kept looking up at the sky. In his impression, looking at a full moon once meant that a month had passed.
He went crazy in such a confused concept of time and the fantasy of a full moon and died in a beautiful dream of becoming a rich man.
It was very similar to He Fei’s situation today.
Both were the result of a false sense of time that infinitely amplified one’s emotions, causing one to become bloated, detached from reality, and mentally dominated by the moon.
He Fei’s condition today should be the manifestation after being contaminated by Shen Jiyue.
He rode a motorcycle blimp and thought he was living in the magical space of the main god, treating an hour or so as countless worlds, becoming flamboyant and inflated.
All of this was just a dream under the moon.
There was no way to purify He Fei’s pollution by words. Mu Sichen sighed slightly, took out his crossaxe, and aimed it at He Fei’s head and gently knocked it.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to use the self sticker, but the ability of the pillar-level self sticker was too strong; as long as he put this sticker on, He Fei would probably become his follower immediately.
In the border area, Mu Sichen wasn’t sure if becoming his follower would be good or bad for He Fei, so he was relatively conservative, controlling his power and only using the “taping” skill.
Mu Sichen’s current followers were all obtained by self-stickers, and if he used his own energy value, it seemed that the “Digging Walls” skill couldn’t transform people into his followers but could only serve to purify the pollution.
Previously, he had also used the crossaxe to hit Chi Lian, Cheng Xubo, and Ying Mao and obtained three self-stickers, but Cheng Xubo, who didn’t have a self-sticker, wasn’t a follower of his.
When the head of the crossaxe touched He Fei, Mu Sichen was in a trance and saw a tentacle, a big eye, a butterfly, and a crescent moon’s silhouette flying out of He Fei’s body before it turned into smithereens.
Mu Sichen: “……”
The contamination on He Fei’s body was just a little too much.
The system deducted 2000 energy values from Mu Sichen for the casting of the skill.
When Mu Sichen borrowed Qin Zu’s power in the storybook, he relied on the energy of “∞” to replenish his energy value.
However, his attempt to enter the unknown area had consumed 2000, and now that he had consumed another 2000, he only had 6000 left, so he had to use it sparingly.
“Ouch!” He Fei covered his head and looked at Mu Sichen. “Why are you hitting me?”
“Is your brain clear? How long have we been separated?” Mu Sichen asked.
“A day, I haven’t seen you since I went to work in the morning.” He said.
After he finished speaking, he looked like he had come to a sudden realization himself and said in a daze, “Right, I really only entered the game for an hour or so; geez, why do I feel like I’ve already gone through nine lifetimes and crossed the ocean?”
“Well, I’ll have to think about how to explain that to you.” Mu Sichen said, “Not everything can be told to you here.”
Chi Lian and Cheng Xubo still didn’t know the knowledge of Hidden Star, Sheltering Sun, and Maitian; they just knew to concentrate on dealing with the “pillars” and wouldn’t listen to, look at, or ask questions.
Mu Sichen wouldn’t tell them things that were beyond their reach.
Mu Sichen said, “Before I tell you part of the truth, first tell me what your abilities are, what your mission is, how you entered the game, and what things you have encountered here besides experiencing nine worlds. Don’t leave a single detail behind.”
He Fei: “I’m still confused, and you’re asking me so many questions. I’m not much of a meticulous person; how can I remember every detail? I’ll just think about it as much as I can.”
Mu Sichen kind of missed the He Fei, who was contaminated by the small octopus; at least that He Fei was meticulous and could definitely tell him everything in great detail.
He Fei told Mu Sichen about throwing up after seeing the butterfly pillow at work and recounted what happened when he received the text message.
He Fei had gotten a call that there was a very large delivery after he filled in the address in the link. He wasn’t in the dormitory, so he agreed to go to the courier point to pick it up after eight o’clock in the evening.
After 8 o’clock, He Fei ate and drank enough before slowly taking out the game cabin.
He was a member of the sports department of the student union and had a key to the gymnasium. Considering that there was no way for the dormitory to hold such a large game pod, he carried the game pod to the gymnasium’s storehouse, intending to store it temporarily, and then thought of a way to deal with it when the school year started.
“No wonder you hadn’t returned to the dormitory even when it was so late.” Mu Sichen said.
“I wanted to call you to take a look at the game pod together,” He Fei said, “but the game pod looked so advanced that I couldn’t hold back after unpacking the courier, so I laid in first.”
After entering the game pod, the system informed He Fei that he had four login options due to the presence of three forces on his body.
Log in to Xiangping Town, log in to Mengdie Town, log in to Hope Town, and log in to Boundary Domain.
He Fei flipped through the four options and finally chose Boundary Domain, which was followed by what Mu Sichen knew.
Mu Sichen raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard He Fei’s login option, so it turned out that people who were affected by the power of the game world in the real world logged in differently than ordinary people like them.
He Fei continued, “The first book I opened in the library was The Little Colorful Fish; at that time I was very puzzled, thinking why a bedtime story had to be written in such a dark and deep brutality; I wanted to drill into the author’s brain to see how his brain actually grows, then I came in.”
“After changing the fate of the little black fish, I came to the square with an extra smiley bookmark in my hand.”
He Fei handed a bunch of bookmarks to Mu Sichen.
Mu Sichen flipped through them; most of them were smiley face bookmarks, the same as the bookmarks he had gotten.
Only two bookmarks were different.
One bookmark depicted a mirror with a thin, curved crescent moon in it.
The other bookmark depicted an eye with stars twinkling in it.
“What’s going on with these two?” Mu Sichen asked, singling them out.
He Fei thought for a moment and said, “I got this mirror bookmark from the Snow White fairy tale, and in that book, I saw that the Queen was exceptionally beautiful, with the beauty of a mature woman. Snow White was also beautiful, but she was only 13 years old and hadn’t grown yet. She was a little girl. If the queen wanted to be jealous, shouldn’t she be jealous later?”
“At that time, I thought it must have been instigated by the magic mirror. In the story of Snow White, I was the king, and I had the mirror moved to my warehouse and sealed, which changed the ending of the story.”
“Additionally, this eye bookmark was obtained by me from a cheesy and melodramatic novel, and that story… was relatively bloo-dy.”
“I was the heroine in that book, married to a scummy guy who liked his childhood friend, who would soon be blind. After marrying me because of a business agreement, he was going to take my corneas.”
“Could your brother Fei let that happen? He should save his white moonlight with his own eyes, ah!”
“I bribed his subordinates in advance, stunned him before the operation, he ended up using his own corneas for his first love.”
“After the operation, I told her that I saved her and asked her to go far away with her corneas.”
“She was very grateful to me and often wrote to me after leaving the country, and to be honest, I think she may have had a crush on me; every time she sent a message, it was particularly ambiguous.”
Two books, he snatched the mirror and preserved his eyes in the other.
Mu Sichen looked at the two bookmarks and pondered deeply.
Could the opportunity to find the “pillar” be hidden in the bookmarks?
Thank you for the chapter!