Douluo Continent: Starting with controlling Ning Rongrong and establishing the Holy Cult

But when she opened her eyes, she found that things were not as she had imagined.

The viscous dizziness slowly dissipated like the receding tide, and Poseidon's consciousness struggled to break free from the chaos.

She suddenly opened her eyes.

What came into view was an unfamiliar pure white ceiling, beneath which was the feel of some kind of soft fabric, and the air was filled with a fresh scent that I had never smelled before.

Where is this place?

She instinctively tried to sit up, but froze the moment she raised her hand.

These hands...

It wasn't her hand.

She looked down sharply at her body: a dark-colored top with a clean cut and an unfamiliar texture, and soft, equally unfamiliar trousers underneath.

She practically sat up abruptly and rushed to a huge mirror embedded in the wall.

The face reflected in the mirror was somewhat similar to hers, but different.

"No...this isn't me..."

Poseidon whispered, but the voice that came out was a completely different one.

Just as this overwhelming sense of identity dislocation was about to overwhelm her, a memory that did not belong to her flooded into her mind.

"Sima Xi"...that's the name of this body.

A huge organization called "The Company"... She is in charge here.

Computers, mobile phones, servers...

A "game"... "Black Douluo"...

"Land Horse"... "Holy Spirit"...

He abandoned her...

As memories flooded her mind, she gradually realized—

The world she once existed in was, in the eyes of the people in that world, merely a game world derived from a novel.

And she wasn't the real Poseidon; she was just someone who had been abandoned.

absurd!

The immense shock struck Poseidon's heart. A destructive rage instantly ignited within her soul!

"Fake! It's all fake! Smash it!"

She roared, and her boundless soul power and divine strength were instinctively about to burst forth from this unfamiliar body.

She wants to tear down this false ceiling and annihilate this absurd world.

How could the world she lives in be just a game in other people's eyes?

So, it's all fake; she's still unconscious.

However, the scene she imagined of "soul power and divine power destroying the world" did not happen.

In fact, she couldn't use that kind of thing at all.

After realizing her failure, Poseidon tried to sense the power within her body several times, but ultimately could not feel anything.

The soul power disappeared, and the divine power was gone too.

Other forces cannot be sensed.

"This...this is..."

Poseidon stood frozen in place.

For a moment, she didn't know what to do next.

Just then, a noise came from beside me. Something was vibrating.

Poseidon turned her head and looked at the small square box.

Her memory told her that this was called a cell phone.

The light from the phone screen flickered indoors.

That noise must mean a phone call is coming in.

Poseidon instinctively became alert.

In this completely unfamiliar world, in this world where she has lost her power, any accident could mean death.

She reached out and, mimicking the gesture from her memory, swiped across the screen.

"Hey?"

Her voice came out.

Then, his expression changed.

She heard a name—

Poseidon.

The other person is calling her name.

Poseidon's mind immediately sprang into action, frantically trying to recall the memories in her head.

From the time I abandoned her in Douluo Continent half a year ago until now.

Poseidon, after reviewing these memories, was even more shocked.

In these memories, there is never any mention of this body ever saying to others that it was "Poseidon".

From the very beginning of her life, she only ever used the name "hope" to refer to herself. Even the name "Sima" was only added much later.

In other words, no one should use those three words to address her.

Chapter 227 Survivors of the Game Company

She knew that the name of this body was Sima Xi, but the person on the other end of the phone seemed to know that she was not Sima Xi and called her Poseidon.

All of these possibilities are few and far between.

The first possibility is that in Sima Xi's memories, which she is unaware of, there exists someone who knows that she is Poseidon.

After all, the only memories of Sima Xi that she could access were those that happened to him after he abandoned her half a year ago.

The complete timeline is roughly as follows:

One year before the events of Douluo Continent, Lu Ma returned to reality, and Sima Xi began researching Black Flame in order to find Lu Ma.

Half a year before the events of Douluo Continent, Sima Xi developed a method that brought her into reality, while she was abandoned in Douluo Continent.

Although she possessed memories of the past six months, they were incomplete. Her memories lacked crucial information; Sima Xi hadn't retained any of the information that could have helped her reach reality. This is why she remained adrift and confused for the next six months.

After that, after Sima Xi came into reality, there may have been a period of time during which Sima Xi experienced other things.

However, she was not clear about these memories either. Just like the key information that brought her to reality, those memories were intentionally or unintentionally hidden, and she could not see them.

Given the possibility that she cannot access the memories, the "Poseidon" referred to by the other party is not referring to her, but rather to the original owner of the body.

The second possibility is that her current possession of this body is the work of the other party.

Therefore, it was only natural for the other party to know that she was Poseidon.

The person you're referring to will definitely call you "her".

Poseidon thought about it and felt that there weren't many coincidences in the world.

In other words, the other person should address her as Poseidon.

So he asked:

"who are you?"

If the other party shows doubt, then it means that the first possibility is true.

If it's taken for granted, then it's the second possibility.

That's what she was thinking.

"Hehehe..."

A low, pleasant laugh came through the receiver, as if the person was quite pleased with her reaction.

"Don't be nervous, dear Lord. Or perhaps I should call you... the abandoned dark side?"

Poseidon's breath hitched.

Sure enough, it was the second possibility, just as she had thought.

However, the other party knew far too much, more than she had imagined.

She suddenly had a feeling that she was the only one in the whole world who didn't know that she wasn't the real, complete Poseidon.

"Was my arrival here your doing?"

Poseidon forced herself to calm down, but her voice couldn't help but carry a hint of anger.

This anger was a mixture of various emotions accumulated over this period of time.

What made her particularly unhappy was being transported to this world under someone else's arrangement. It was as if she were just a puppet to be manipulated.

The fact that the other party didn't answer her question at all made her even more dissatisfied.

"Haha, Your Excellency, please don't be angry. It was indeed my doing; opening up the two worlds is a rare feat. Moreover, I did this for your own good."

"Oh right, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm just a nobody, my name is nothing special, I'm a game manager. The game I'm in charge of is called 'Black Douluo,' to put it simply, it's the world you used to live in... but in this world, your past life was all part of the game."

"That arrogant woman, Sima Xi, somehow found all of our game's staff and rounded them up. If I hadn't been away on a business trip and escaped, the entire game company would probably have been wiped out..."

"Oh, we've gone off on a tangent."

"The reason I've taken this opportunity to switch you over is to achieve the game's ultimate goal: connecting the two worlds. That way, you can get along well with that other person, right? You want that, don't you?"

A series of sounds came from the other end of the phone, which gave Poseidon a headache.

Fortunately, she still managed to capture almost all the key information.