Oh no, I have become a character in the card pool?

Chapter 21 Characters have their own lives too. Right, right?

Xing Jian Jingli looked down at the fingertips that had just touched the other person and still had some warmth left.

Her light golden eyes swept over the black-haired boy who was still wearing a T-shirt and sports pants, and looked more like he was on a picnic than going to the battlefield.

Regardless of whether the dead is resurrected or not, this familiar feeling cannot be faked.

His body really seems to be a spirit that has been "incarnated".

Possesses the same body temperature and smell as humans.

It was not resurrected as a ghost from the underworld; there were no traces of the forbidden time-travelling technique; nor were there the disgusting and boring souls of clones that were difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake after the use of high technology.

——Well, for now, it seems that no traces left by “others” have been found.

At least we had dealings with each other back then.

I am still clear about what methods they have.

"so."

After a barely perceptible flash of thought, the fox-eared girl opened her eyes calmly.

He looked at Lin Xuan casually and asked, "What are you going to do next?"

The water mirror that reflects everything does not reveal its own personality. Above the water surface there is only tranquility and ethereality, just like a shrine maiden guarding a shrine alone in the mountains.

Any waves will be hidden beneath the water, quiet and without making any sound. Perhaps until another unreasonable strong wind blows, they will be willing to reveal a little bit of their tail.

"after?"

Lin Xuan didn't take Xing Jian Jingli's previous moment of silence to heart.

The other person has always been like this. In the past, in the shrine hut built for her, she could look at the dark sky all day long by herself.

In a sense.

It’s great that the first past spirit he met after traveling through time was Xingjian Jingli.

If it was some spirit with an extreme personality, Lin Xuan was really afraid that they would knock him out on the spot, and then throw him into the basement and lock him up in the name of protecting him.

What's even more terrifying is that this is no joke.

In comparison, this ice-blue fox will definitely not have this problem.

Since the mobile game era, the opponent has always been a person who doesn't care about the outside world.

Not to mention other contracted spirits and humans, even Lin Xuan, who used to be a contracted spirit envoy, she just ignored him and only responded based on her mood.

Even though the favorability seems to be full on the surface.

But in Lin Xuan's opinion, rather than the kind of love between men and women, the fox-eared girl seemed to be formally treating him as a valuable object of observation.

Just like a cat that can really do backflips, it's natural to pay more attention to it.

What, you don’t believe the numbers shown in the game?
It seems a bit humorous.

If the progress bar of favorability could be taken seriously, then how could he, who had maxed out all the settings, be defeated by the final battle?

Ha, he had thrown the rationality of this crappy BYD game out of his mind after he got cheated in the early stages!

"The most important thing right now."

Lin Xuan looked towards the glass that had two holes missing and weathered cracks extending from the corners, which was crumbling but stubbornly fulfilling the function of a picture window.

He answered casually, "Of course, we should defend this place first until the support from the 'Nightline City Branch' arrives in the rear."

At this time, the strange city was hanging upside down in the sky.

After being washed away by a large amount of black fog, it now seems to be going straight from 360p smooth picture quality to 1080p high-bitrate picture quality.

Lin Xuan's physical fitness has been slightly improved after traveling through time.

He could even see the plump and white breasts of a girl in a maid outfit flickering in the electric light on the shopping street of the upside-down city, under the flickering neon signs.

It seems.

Perhaps there are huge differences between worldviews, making it difficult for them to coexist easily.

But people's preferences are still the same, which makes people feel touched.

"Do not."

Xing Jian Jingli shook her head calmly and spoke in a light voice: "I can deal with the threats in this area by myself."

“And it doesn’t take too long.”

Her attitude was as ordinary as if she was stating an established fact, just an ordinary to-do item on the calendar.

It's like clearing the fallen leaves outside your own shrine.

And Lin Xuan also knew that this was indeed the case.

"What I want to ask is..." The fox-eared girl paused for a moment.

She suddenly frowned in displeasure, staring at Lin Xuan with her flawless light golden eyes, and her body unconsciously leaned forward slightly while sitting on the bed.

"No, do you think I won't attack and are testing my reaction?"

She stared at him coldly: "You can guess what I want to ask, right?"

"Ha ha."

Since he was exposed, Lin Xuan immediately chose to shrug his shoulders and smiled awkwardly, "It's been a long time since we last met. I want to cultivate some tacit understanding between us again."

I secretly thought that the skill of mind reading was okay in mobile games, but it would be too abnormal if it really appeared in real life.

He couldn't even imagine the existence of a skill that could reflect other people's minds in real time when trying to gain favor in a mobile game.

How high the overall difficulty level will become.

but.

To get back to the point, Lin Xuan was only about 60% sure that Xingjian Jingli would be willing to protect this town.

In her eyes, so-called humans may be no different from the small animals in the mountains and forests.

Even the physical status of the monsters in the [Demon Realm] is the same.

What is reflected in Xingjian Jingli's eyes is the soul of life. As for how it exists or what appearance it takes, it has never mattered to her.

The war between humans and demonic entities.

To her, maybe it was just a civil war between two identical creatures.

There is no need to help either side.

Therefore, Lin Xuan was actually mentally prepared that after the girl woke up, he would have to spend a lot of time and effort to convince her to lend a hand.

After all, more than a hundred years have passed.

Even though they were contracted spirits who fought together in the past, Lin Xuan could not guarantee that the other party would remain the same during his absence.

and so.

When it came to protecting the town, Xingjian Jingli agreed so quickly that he didn't even take the matter to heart.

It was indeed something that Lin Xuan had not expected.

Judging from her personality, after she "dies", she should gradually fade out of the human civilization that she doesn't care about in her heart.

How strange!
It seems that it is impossible to fully understand a person just by knowing the plot from mobile games.

What’s more, it is a problematic fox that has lived for a long time.

Lin Xuan's thought flashed through his mind for only a few seconds, and he quickly chuckled and said, "What you want to ask is, after the copy here is cleared."

"What am I going to do?"

The fox-eared girl nodded.

She spoke in a cold voice, pointing out the danger directly.

"After all, with your identity - provided that you are not in disguise."

"Once it appears, it will inevitably become the most difficult enemy for many people."

"You should have vaguely realized it at the beginning. Those broken time and space are not just natural disasters, but existence without intelligence."

"On the contrary."

"I always believe that they have their own 'consciousness'."

And there is no doubt about it.

As the first spirit contract envoy, he is only one step away from ending the existence of the war era.

As long as the news is restored, overwhelming murderous intent will attack Lin Xuan!

There was a pause.

The fox-eared girl spoke in a nonchalant tone, "Where I live now can guarantee your safety for the time being."

"The base you were stationed at is probably in ruins anyway, so why not—"

"Do not."

Lin Xuan shook his head and calmly declined the invitation that the girl was about to make.

"I'll just stay here for now."

He smiled.

Just like in the past, his inner strategy was convincing enough even without being spelled out in detail.

"After all, if you are in the rear, from a strategic perspective, there will be many places that will be inconvenient, right?"

Although I don’t know where Xingjian Jingli lives now.

But with her strength, even without the status of a spirit bond user, it would be a piece of cake for her to add an extra pair of chopsticks to the house.

If it was when he had just traveled through time, perhaps Lin Xuan would have agreed immediately.

This is a cruel world after all.

He has a shelter and a beautiful girl who is willing to feed him, and this beautiful girl even has animal ears.

It's probably what you want.

But now.

After confirming that most of the contracted spirits from that year were still alive, Lin Xuan had to give up this tempting invitation.

Based on his understanding of those problem girls.

Although they have their own beliefs and justice, after their death, they will probably not continue to stay in the alliance and hold their positions in an orderly manner.

Plus the huge changes in the game map now
Even if we don't talk about the distant dawn of human civilization's counterattack, as a matter of fact, if we don't explore those [broken time and space] in depth, I'm afraid it would be even more impossible to find them.

"Is it."

Even though he was rejected, Xingjian Jingli's expression didn't change much.

It seemed to be just an invitation spoken casually on a whim.

She didn't take it too seriously.

"Okay, then it's up to you." After she said this lightly, she adjusted the hem of her pleated skirt and walked out of the room, walking past Lin Xuan.

Wooden clogs stepped on the stone tile floor.

The sound is crisp.

"In that case, I am also very busy."

The fox-eared girl did not turn around, only her ethereal voice came back calmly.

Her long ice-blue hair fell to her waist, and a mirror effect appeared around her furisode, which seemed to mean that she had recovered.

"The erosion of the collapse outside is about to begin. I will go and stimulate it and help you solve it as soon as possible. What happens after that has nothing to do with me."

"Well, that's up to you."

When Lin Xuan heard that Xing Jian Jingli had no plans to stay after this incident, he didn't find anything strange about it.

After all, more than a hundred years have passed, and those contracted spirits at that time might still regard him as a very important person, after all, they were comrades who had lived and died together in the past.

But the passage of time does not mean the end of the story.

It's not just a few commas and dashes, and then you can jump directly to the part where you get along with the male protagonist like in an urban youth novel.

The other boring parts were omitted.

The advancement of this land has never stopped, and they must have their own lives now, right?
If these girls are willing to stay like they did in the past, Lin Xuan will naturally open the door to support them.

But if they choose to leave and continue the new life they have chosen for the next hundred years, he will give them a pot of wine and give them pure blessings like a friend.

"."

Sitting quietly aside, Xia Shimi, who had been playing the role of air.

She looked at Xing Jian Jingli's departing back.

Lin Xuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that reinforcements had appeared and the pool of characters capable of strategic command no longer consisted of only the old, weak, and sick.

She hesitated a little.

He didn't know whether he should tell Lin Xuan about the cold expression on the fox-eared girl's face when she turned her back to him, as if she was angry.

The air around them turned into a mirror due to demonic power, creating a visual effect of shattering.

It doesn't look like a warm-up exercise at all.

Judging from her perspective as a Spirit Contract Master who has received professional training from the Academy
It looked more like the result of emotional stimulation that made it impossible to suppress the etheric fluctuations in the body.

but.

Xia Shimi felt that this might just be her illusion.

After all, she had never passed the course related to spirit contracting because she had never been able to practice it.

If you secretly say bad things about others behind their backs because of your rough guesses.

Thus accidentally destroying the relationship between the two.

This is a bad thing.

And the other side.

After walking out of the room, the fox-eared girl's delicate and cold profile made her look even more aloof than usual for some reason.

Her ears moved suddenly.

"Oh?"

A look of surprise flashed across Xing Jian Jingli's eyes, and he looked towards the upside-down city above the sky.

Facing the shrine located in the center of the city, which at this moment is as rich as a blood-stained heart, its pulse constantly beating.

The corners of her mouth curved up. "Before it's even formed, it can find the most threatening target, lock on and launch an attack?"

"interesting."

There was a pause.

Xingjian Jingli stretched out his boneless palms towards the sky, and his five fingers covered the shrine that was deepening its blood red in his retina.

She said coldly.

"But a mere clumsy curse like this one is trying to have an effect on me."

"You are underestimating me a little bit."

Suddenly, she clenched her hands.

There was a clanging sound, as if a huge mirror thousands of miles away was hit by a huge force and shattered into fragments.

When Xingjian Jingli removed his hand, the blood-red color of the shrine had returned to dim.

One of the corners of the upside-down Torii gate has now broken and fallen.

The fox-eared girl didn't even glance at him.

She just snorted softly, as if venting some of the unhappiness in her heart.

At least the ground where the clogs walked on no longer had to bear unnecessary weight, and it broke into pieces every few meters.

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After a heart-wrenching wail that was incomprehensible to human consciousness.

The huge tumor that originally stood in front of the shrine.

An entity formed from the curse.

Just like that, in a horrifying posture, it was as if being kneaded inch by inch by slender fingers, and finally turned into dust like a shattered mirror.

It is a entity condensed from thousands of demons. If it walks on the earth, it will be the flowing king of curses, and anyone who is contaminated by it will have their soul corrupted.

However, it looks like a toy at this moment.

Those thousands of miles away were easily wiped out.

There is no doubt - if this broken space-time hanging upside down in the E-026 area were to fall down so easily.

Even if he absorbed more physical souls, he would never be a match for the fox-eared priestess.

After all, this place can't even be called a part of the [Demon's Underworld] now, and the underworld of Huangquan has not yet eroded this land.

The demons and ghosts want to appear here, but it seems like there is a barrier with poor signal.

Quite difficult.

however.

In front of the shrine where the huge tumor disappeared, there was a figure standing there, watching with indifferent eyes as the tumor was erased inch by inch.

He has human appearance, but judging from the scales on his skin, he seems to be a monster with the bloodline of a giant snake.

This is the "special individual" that the spirit masters are most familiar with on the battlefield of broken time and space.

They have the same bodies as Qi Ling, some have special skills and weapons, and equally powerful authority.

Except that there is no intelligence to communicate.

They can be said to be the "contracted spirits" in the hostile camp.

Next, a horrifying scene appeared.

"As expected, at this level, you can't even test that guy a little bit."

The hoarse voice sounded like the cold tongue of a snake. The man bent down and picked up the mirror fragments that were blown away by the wind on the ground.

After careful observation, he seemed to approve with delight and said, "That's right."

"No matter how depraved you are, you are willing to associate with this weak world, abandon the dignity of the demon race, and become a traitor."

"But she was once a great being after all."

"It is normal that we are still able to retain this level of strength until now."

If there is any Alliance Spirit Envoy who has received formal education here.
I'm afraid they would be so scared that they would fall to the ground, their faces pale and their expressions so shocked that they couldn't utter a word.

"Special individuals are the remains of broken time and space, and they are different from the contracted spirits that can become collaborators of humans and fight alongside them."

"Because they are inherently hostile beings, they will be rejected by the will of this world, and their souls will be excluded from time and space."

"The only thing they can do is to be empty shells without any mind."

"Like a useful puppet, it is controlled by [Broken Spacetime] to fight, and it will not affect the battlefield with subjective consciousness like a contracted spirit."

This is a passage recorded in the college textbook.

This is knowledge gained at the cost of blood and at the expense of countless lives over the past one hundred years, starting from the era of warfare that faced erosion.

But now.

Just because of one sentence from this special entity, the common sense of the past was easily overturned and torn apart.

No. At this point, I'm afraid we can no longer call him a "special individual" who is like a zombie.

He is the enemy.

Coming from another destroyed world, in order to erode the new time and space into the underworld, so that the destroyed hometown can be revived.

——An enemy that came with a clear and subjective purpose and cold malice.

"If she hadn't betrayed the demon race a hundred years ago, she wouldn't be like this now."

The black-scaled snake demon narrowed its eyes and looked towards the ground with hidden sight.

There was a hint of resentment in his eyes.

but.

He quickly calmed down his emotions, as if he had completed the test, and his figure disappeared into the shadows again.

"She will pay the price for this sooner or later, but now is not the time."

The cold voice echoed faintly in the deserted upside-down city.

"There is no longer that flaw in her that would hinder the clarity of the mirror. Sooner or later, she will remember the destiny she must fulfill."

(End of this chapter)