After finishing lunch, Xu Yinsheng didn’t even have time to digest before she was pulled into the bedroom by an all-too-mysterious “Assassin Girl Xu Yinsheng.”
This left a lonely Zhao Yicheng all by himself to clear the leftovers and wash the dishes.
Forcefully dragged into the bedroom, Xu Yinsheng shook off the other’s hand and grumbled unhappily, “What is it? If there’s something to say, just say it. Stop acting so mysterious.”
“Have you ever seen Rick and Morty?”
“Of course I have.”
Xu Yinsheng nodded.
Who hadn’t seen that god-tier show to watch with dinner?
“Well then, later your big sister will take you on an adventure.”
At this point, “Assassin Girl Xu Yinsheng” smiled like a little fox.
“But before that, I’ll first use the Virtual Space to help you increase your Movement Technique proficiency.”
As her voice fell, a pair of silver Glorious Dragon Wings unfurled behind her back.
At this moment, the concepts of space and space blurred as a strange dimension began to replace the original one.
Xu Yinsheng instantly discovered that the environment around her had changed. The warm bedroom gradually blurred, replaced by a white cubic room.
Xu Yinsheng was standing right in the center of this cubic room. A green countdown was virtually presented before her eyes, and a mechanical voice rang in her ears.
“Ten-second countdown. Please be prepared.”
“Ten, nine, eight…”
“Hey, hey, hey! Don’t be so fast! I just ate my fill. At least give me some time to digest.”
“Three, two, one!”
As the words fell, the countdown in front of Xu Yinsheng suddenly turned red and hit zero.
Simultaneously, countless black circular holes quickly appeared on the white wall directly ahead. A “hissing” sound, like a snake flicking its tongue, came from the black holes. Gradually, objects resembling tattered strips of cloth emerged.
“No way, you’re really doing this?” Xu Yinsheng looked at the Assassin Girl beside her with an expression of utter speechlessness. “Using this for Movement Technique training… I feel like if I fail, I’ll trigger a ‘defeat-loss’ bad ending.”
Xu Yinsheng wasn’t seeing things. Those tattered pieces of fabric that looked like bandages were exactly the project for her Movement Technique training. In fact, the Assassin Girl had wanted to use tentacles for the simulation, but considering Xu Yinsheng’s level of acceptance, she had to compromise and choose cloth strips.
“Go for it, work hard.” The figure of “Assassin Girl Xu Yinsheng” slowly faded into a blur. She made an encouraging gesture toward Xu Yinsheng. “Sweat more now, so you trigger fewer ‘defeat-loss’ bad endings later.”
“Damn it, can’t you just explain things clearly once?!” Just as Xu Yinsheng was cursing, a flexible, pitch-black cloth strip had already shot toward her position.
Its speed was extremely fast, almost comparable to a standard Handgun bullet!
“Magical Girl, transform!!”
In an instant, a burst of intense dark divine light enveloped Xu Yinsheng’s body.
Black bandages imbued with Evil Fire shot out from her Shadow, quickly crawling over her delicate frame. In the blink of an eye, they wrapped her body tightly.
The black Evil Fire also quickly ignited in her eyes. Her entire aura transformed from the previous sacred, noble, and inviolable state into one of fallen, evil, and reckless abandon!
In almost the blink of an eye, Black Magical Girl Xu Yinsheng made her debut!
With a horizontal slide, she easily dodged the first cloth strip. With another roll, she nimbly avoided the second…
‘It’s nothing more than this,’ Xu Yinsheng thought to herself.
Whoosh!
Before Xu Yinsheng could even regain her focus, she found that her left arm had been wrapped by a tattered bandage. After wrapping around her, it didn’t tighten but instead turned into a streak of black light and vanished. However, this didn’t mean it was over. After the black light disappeared, a milky-white Zheng character appeared out of thin air on her left arm.
Xu Yinsheng abruptly looked up at the blurred “Assassin Girl Xu Yinsheng.” The other girl shrugged as if to say: ‘If you don’t work hard now, your whole body will be covered in Zheng characters later.’
This Movement Technique training continued for half an hour. The Assassin Girl provided guidance from the side while constantly adjusting the training difficulty to keep it just above Xu Yinsheng’s average level.
After half an hour, Xu Yinsheng ended the training exhausted, her body covered in milky-white Zheng characters. She looked like a heroine who had just walked out of a particularly harsh adult anime plot.
“Assassin Girl Xu Yinsheng” snapped her fingers, and Xu Yinsheng instantly returned to her peak state; even the Zheng characters on her body disappeared.
Having done all this, she forcefully pulled Xu Yinsheng, who wanted to take a nap, out of the bedroom. In the living room, Zhao Yicheng was sitting on the Sofa with his eyes closed. He looked like he was resting his eyes, but in fact, he had already fallen into a sweet dreamland.
“He can sleep while sitting up? Did you do this?” Xu Yinsheng crossed her arms and looked at “Assassin Girl Xu Yinsheng.”
“I added a little sleeping pill to the food,” the Assassin Girl replied with a smile while lightly tapping Zhao Yicheng’s forehead. “Xiao Xuxu, do you want to go on a ‘spur-of-the-moment’ Dream Adventure?”
“No.” Xu Yinsheng refused without a second thought.
Zhao Yicheng, humph! Even a dog wouldn’t watch his dreams!!
“Don’t be so resistant. A Dream Adventure is very interesting.”
A pair of illusory wings unfurled from her back. They weren’t majestic like a dragon’s, nor exquisite and small like a vampire’s, and certainly not as alluring as a succubus’s. Instead, they were dreamlike and ethereal, as if they didn’t exist in this World.
“This is my Dream Demon Form, specifically used to treat his illness.”
After saying this, she ignored Xu Yinsheng’s refusal and grabbed her small hand. The two girls dived together into Zhao Yicheng’s brain.
What is a human brain?
To explain it with modern science, it’s neurons, electrical signals, nerve endings—anyway, a whole bunch of academic papers. However, when the human brain is explained from the perspective of supernatural power, what does it look like?
The Sea of Consciousness in a cultivation novel? The Niwan Palace? The mental world of a fantasy work?
Only after Xu Yinsheng was forcibly pulled into Zhao Yicheng’s brain did she understand what it truly was.
The brain was like a vast, boundless starry sky. The sky was dim and lightless, and the dense, shimmering stars hanging within represented different memories from various periods. Each star was like a giant mirror. Every frame and every scene was played out in an incredibly deep, vivid, and detailed flood of memories within those mirrors.
The two girls traveled through the memories. Scenes switched vividly: one moment it was ancient trees reaching the sky in a quiet forest; the next, it was high-rise buildings and heated debates; sometimes it was a passionate School life with the sound of reading; and sometimes it was a dark Bieshu where someone was imprisoned… The two girls felt as if they had entered a long and fulfilling live-action story.
Xu Yinsheng felt that if the person beside her hadn’t been holding her hand, she would likely have become lost in this dream. During the journey, she also saw some of Zhao Yicheng’s embarrassing history.
There was Zhao Yicheng wetting the bed as an infant, Zhao Yicheng’s first time “self-pleasuring” as a teenager, and a million-dollar loss due to a misjudgment during his work.
Suddenly, the person beside her paused. Xu Yinsheng looked at “Assassin Girl Xu Yinsheng” with confusion, only to see that the latter’s expression was grave.
“Something is coming.”