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    Chapter 83: Prelude to Recovering Memories [We are filled with anticipation…]

    Chapter 83: Prelude to Recovering Memories [We are filled with anticipation…]

    The waiting time was longer than expected.

    Twenty-four hours for soul splicing, that was the time limit given by the bosses.

    After quickly dealing with everything in the banquet hall, all the core members of the Seventh Bureau gathered in that conference room.

    “We’re back,” Su Nai knocked on the door, drawing everyone’s attention.

    The twins and Qing Teng finally opened their eyes after being unconscious for eight hours, but were quickly sent to a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for a second treatment.

    As the hour hand jumped past the eleventh mark, Mu Chen, carrying a shoulder bag, pushed the door open this time.

    “Chenchen.” Mu Nanyuan stood up with a whoosh and dragged him into the room.

    “Old Lin said you went abroad? To the Federation Army? How did you get there?! That place is three thousand kilometers away from here!”

    “Well, I just teleported.” Mu Chen was forced to bend over as he was grabbed by the collar, and faint cracks appeared on the skin of his neck under the collar.

    Mu Nanyuan let go with a snap, looking at the cracks as if he had seen a ghost.

    “It’s okay, it’ll heal on its own in a while.” Mu Chen pulled up his collar and casually put the bag on the table.

    “Where is he?”

    “You mean An An… he’s been sitting by the window ever since he came back, not talking to us.” Mu Nanyuan pointed in a direction and then sighed.

    “Hmm… it’s okay.” Mu Chen said again, he opened his backpack and took out a cloak and all sorts of sewing needles.

    “Mr. Mu Chen.” Jing Junze suddenly spoke.

    “Yes?” Mu Chen raised his head, and something seemed to flash in his eyes.

    “There’s something I don’t understand,” Jing Junze frowned, “You entered Starry Sky three years ago.”

    “Yes.”

    “According to Mr. Xuan… Xuan Bai, Mr. Ji Mo An did not enter Starry Sky in the current timeline. But he had entered it before, before the time regression. Then, in those six years when he entered Starry Sky, there would be a three-year overlap with you.”

    “Roughly, but I never met him.”

    “Perhaps you met during the six years before the regression… I’m thinking, the six years before the regression were things that happened, but the six years after the regression still exist, then… then before… I don’t understand…”

    “I know what you mean,” Mu Chen interrupted her.

    “Time regression is very common in Starry Sky. Not only time regression, but also time flow. The time flow within each boss instance is different, and even the time flow within a single instance may be different. As far as I know, time regression only happened on Earth, but not in Starry Sky.”

    “Then that’s even more wrong.” Jing Junze rubbed her temples, “Wouldn’t that be equivalent to one person existing simultaneously in Starry Sky and on Earth?”

    “No.” Mu Chen thought for a long time but couldn’t figure out how to describe it, “Starry Sky is special. To understand Starry Sky with humanity’s current understanding is like asking a one-dimensional world to understand a four-dimensional world.”

    “I can’t explain it clearly either. But… you can compare Starry Sky to a piece of code programming. It’s running, but it’s not clear how it’s running. If you look closely, it’s all bugs, but if you remove the bugs, it might not run. You can carve patterns on it, but you absolutely can’t change the beams.”

    “…” Damn it, I understand it all at once…

    Tang Lin, who was listening from the side, felt a chill down his spine and silently hugged his laptop.

    “Also, even if we are in the same timeline, we probably wouldn’t meet…” Mu Chen glanced at the window. Ji Mo An was holding a notebook, seemingly writing something.

    “He’s in the Europe and America Three District, I’m in the China Seven District. Grandpa Lin should have met them. Ouroboros and Six-Winged Angel are both bosses from the Europe and America District, including the witch Alexa. Unless it’s a special instance, the Europe and America and China regions don’t interact at the player level. But the bosses are not restricted.”

    “I learned about him when Popos had a mental breakdown halfway through a dinner party.”

    “Hmm… it’s almost time.” Mu Chen looked at his watch and took out a few slender sticks from his shoulder bag, building a rickety rectangular prism.

    “What I mean is, I hope the Seventh Bureau will stop exploring Starry Sky in the future.” He suddenly tilted his head and smiled, a series of blue squares flashing clearly in his pupils.

    “They won’t harm humans.” Ji Mo An walked over, somehow.

    He threw the round black stone in his hand into the loose frame, and the white portal instantly unfolded.

    “Because Starry Sky… is originally human technology, the humans of the future.”

    “Sorry, I’ll take my leave first.” A blurry shadow appeared in the portal, Mu Chen suddenly grabbed the cloak lying on the side and threw it over, hugging someone out, and then rushed out of the conference room.

    The people on the side didn’t even see his movements clearly, they only saw a wisp of silver hair floating from under the black cloak.

    “Hiss~” A familiar sound suddenly rang out, and a small black head poked out of the large portal.

    “Xuan Bai!” Ji Mo An quickly stepped forward to catch him, and the chopstick snake wriggled into his sleeve.

    The bosses had arrived, exactly twelve hours after being on Earth.

    “Stick, stick~” The snake acted coquettishly in his sleeve, obediently wrapping its tail around Ji Mo An’s wrist.

    His heart seemed to steady in an instant, Ji Mo An lowered his eyes and stroked the little snake’s chin, a smile unconsciously appearing on the corner of his lips.

    “Brother~ Let’s step back a little,” the chopstick snake poked its head out and whispered to Ji Mo An through telepathy.

    Step back?

    Ji Mo An looked at the pure white portal, a bad premonition suddenly rising in his heart.

    The next second, a purple bone spur flew out of the portal with a whoosh, hitting the wall next to Yangji’s crutch with a clang.

    “This… this is…” Yangji shuddered, the top of his crutch was charred black, and even a slight shake caused the entire top of the crutch to break off.

    This thing…

    With a loud bang, the wall pierced by the bone spur shattered completely, turning into a pile of rubble.

    …Tremendous destructive power.

    “What is this!” Yangji cried and howled, hugging his scattered silver ornaments.

    Plop… a hand was thrown out of the portal, landing right at Ji Mo An’s feet.

    Yes, a hand.

    The cross-section at the wrist was extremely smooth, and you could even see the blood vessels at the cut surface still contracting.

    “Please pick it up, I insured that hand.” Yu Li’s voice came from the portal, and the next second, he was kicked out.

    And then shattered.

    Shattered in the physical sense.

    “I said, can’t you be so violent, my eyes fell into the corridor, how am I supposed to get them?” Yu Li barely propped up his upper body with one arm, groping for parts everywhere.

    “Popos, help me!” He had just touched a section of his calf when he saw the chopstick snake Pargaon Ji Mo An’s collar, watching the excitement.

    Help, help. The chopstick snake wagged its tail and jumped down, instantly transforming into a half-snake, half-human form.

    He used his tail to wrap the eyeball that couldn’t roll out of the pile of rubble and stuffed it directly into Yu Li’s eye socket.

    “It’s all dirt.” Yu Li frantically dug wall debris from his eyes.

    “Why can’t I put my calf back on?”

    “Because that’s my leg, give it back.” The second boss walked out of the portal.

    The surface of her exposed skin was covered in cracks, but fortunately, it hadn’t completely shattered.

    “Then where’s my leg…” Yu Li muttered, starting to lift the tablecloth.

    “I believe it now.” Tang Lin twitched the corner of his mouth.

    “What?” Jing Junze glanced at him.

    “The conclusion that they won’t come to Earth on their own.” Tang Lin closed his eyes, looking at the tragic scene in front of him.

    Although Mu Chen and Ji Mo Lin had given them a warning, but… but this is too… outrageous.

    The last one to walk out was the red-dressed witch, who could be said to be elegant compared to the other bosses.

    At least, she didn’t seem to be missing any arms or legs on the surface.

    “Respected ladies and gentlemen, Alexa salutes you.” The witch took off her pointed hat and gracefully performed a noble salute.

    “Have you seen my leg?” Yu Li tugged at the bouquet of flowers that suddenly appeared in the witch’s hand, and the witch’s arm fell off in response.

    “No, dear.” The witch gave a sinister smile, and two of the remaining three walls collapsed with a bang.

    “Sorry, I think we should change rooms.” She smiled and picked up her broken arm and reattached it to her body.

    “We still need to prepare for twelve hours.” Xuan Bai swam quickly to Ji Mo An’s side, “We need to build a suitable space.”

    “So tragic.” Mu Chen, who had run away earlier, came back, and Yun Chuan followed behind him, having changed back into a black suit.

    “No way, boss, we agreed to shatter together in the wind, but you actually found outside help and ran away.” The boss, who was picking up parts all over the floor, instantly went berserk.

    “How are you okay?” Ji Mo An quietly poked Xuan Bai.

    “I’m used to it, I also used to shatter when I first came.” The snake snorted.

    “If it weren’t for the fact that the higher our level, the more restricted we are, there’s no way Los Ted would dare to be so arrogant.”

    After ten minutes of melee combat, the three S-class shattered bosses finally managed to tidy themselves up.

    “Come on, we need to do some preparation in advance.” Nan Sheng walked closer to Ji Mo An with a smile, holding up her skirt.

    “Where is the soul?”

    “It’s with me.” Xuan Bai flipped his hand, and a jar appeared in his palm.

    “Very good, now find a quiet bedroom.” Nan Sheng blew a breath at the jar, and a series of small bubbles wrapped around the jar.

    “The main rest room has already been cleaned up, please follow me.” Jing Junze immediately led them up the stairs to the rest room.

    The room was decorated extremely warmly, the soft bedding neatly folded on the bed, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it the master bedroom of a mansion.

    “You guys weren’t planning to lock me in the basement, were you?” Ji Mo An suddenly realized something.

    “How could it be locking you up.” Jing Junze silently shifted his gaze, “We didn’t know anything at the time, we could only prepare for the worst.”

    “…” So they really wanted to lock him up here.

    Ji Mo An got on the bed, the bedding was the set he usually used.

    “Please humans cover your ears.” Nan Sheng sat on the edge of the bed and glanced at the humans surrounding her.

    With her movements, the round ears began to lengthen and grow black fins, and the legs wrapped in the fishtail skirt also instantly turned into blooming fishtails.

    The dark purple fishtail swayed slightly, and a golden edge was faintly visible.

    “Now, please listen to the singing of the South Sea Mermaid.” Nan Sheng stretched out her scaly hand and pressed it against Ji Mo An’s forehead.

    “Dear, take a nap. Twelve hours later, you will reopen that sealed memory.”

    The ethereal voice of the mermaid rang out, and Ji Mo An’s consciousness gradually blurred. In the second before he closed his eyes, a black snake burrowed into his collar.

    [We are filled with anticipation. Meeting you again.]

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