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The shadow behind Last did not appear for long, disappearing in a flash.

However, the masked woman's scream of pain, which had weakened slightly, suddenly stopped.

The silver-white thorn flashed in the air and disappeared.

There was no scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere.

But when the flashing light of the rapier disappeared, the masked woman's hideous and distorted face had completely solidified and no blood was left.

There was a hideous hole pierced in her heart.

Followed by.

boom--

The lifeless body collapsed to the ground.

With a slight movement of her wrist, Hiltina's silver sword gracefully returned to its scabbard.

Under normal circumstances, her battle with enemies of the same level in the Shadow Sequence would be extremely dangerous. If there was even a slight flaw in her mind, she would be caught by the opponent, who would slowly use words and hints to erode her spirit, turning her into a puppet at the mercy of others.

However, on the other hand, when the opponent suffers such severe mental backlash due to carelessness and misjudgment, the outcome of the battle is already determined.

Logically speaking, investigating the body of the dancer who secretly followed her into the night world and confirming her true identity and origins should have been Hiltina's top priority at this time.

But at this moment, she cared more about the instigator who reversed this dangerous battle situation than the dead enemy.

Hiltina turned her head and stared into Last's eyes.

Those eyes looked clear and pure at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they were like two dark pools, swallowing up all the light and leaving only the deepest darkness.

"The Tower sequence?"

"Are you also a Night Traveler?"

……

Not far away, Rast was also looking at the serious-looking rapier girl in front of him.

After a moment, he put away the silver-white gun in his hand and shrugged: "To be honest, I don't really understand what you are saying."

"But if you say so, then it probably is."

"Compared to these—"

Last looked at the body lying on the ground not far away, already cold and stiff.

"I'm more concerned about what you all mentioned before: the 'night world', the so-called 'historical projections' and the 'indigenous people'..."

"What exactly does that mean?"

Chapter 4 Reflections of the Past

"The truth of the night world is difficult for even the most knowledgeable sage to know."

"However, according to current mainstream understanding, the night world is not a single world, but an aggregation of thousands of illusory worlds."

"They are the remnants and echoes left in history after the demise of countless ancient civilizations."

It seemed that he noticed that the confusion shown by Last did not seem fake.

After hesitating for a moment, Hiltina took the initiative to explain.

"Some scholars believe that the power that sustains the Night World may come from one of the legendary primordial pillars..."

"Holding the power of eternal night, the witness and recorder of all civilizations and past history—the Lord of Silence."

"Therefore, a small number of people who hold special credentials and can freely enter and exit the night world also call themselves "travelers in the dark."

"The illusory world that the traveler enters is an echo of history that reappears in an instant when the eternal night falls, like a fragment of fading memories."

Last had already guessed what Hiltina would say next.

"And the Deep Blue Harbor we are in now is one of the countless echoes of history gathered in the night world."

"In real history, Deep Blue Harbor was destroyed by a mysterious divine attack."

……

Listening to Hiltina's explanation.

In Rast's mind, dusty memories revived like a tide.

He is a time traveler.

To be more precise, Last recalled his memories of his previous life on Blue Star about fifty thousand times before the restart.

Possessing the memories and vision of a time traveler... this is undoubtedly a cheat given by God to anyone.

But it is useless to Rast.

In the earliest memories that he could still clearly remember, Last had already been trapped in this Deep Blue Harbor.

No matter what he did in this small port town, when dusk fell the next day, the whole world would be reset to the state it was in at seven o'clock in the evening of the previous day.

This situation did not change at all after Rast awakened his memories of his past life.

Time travel is indeed a very powerful cheat.

Time travelers can easily make a fortune by plagiarizing literary works from their previous lives and creating creative products.

It is not difficult to even rely on the higher vision of a time traveler to develop the world's scientific and technological level, promote the progress of civilization, and become a saint respected by all people.

But all this takes time.

Whether you make a fortune by being a plagiarist or promote scientific and technological progress and the development of civilization, these are not things that can be achieved overnight.

Even in the butterfly effect, the butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest...it takes several days to create a storm on the other side of the sea.

But Rast only had less than a day.

In this short day, he seemed to be omnipotent, but he could do nothing and leave nothing behind.

What's more, simply improving one's social status, becoming a saint admired by all, and thereby gaining power, wealth, and beauty...

Even if Last had not awakened his past life memories, he could still do these things in Deep Blue Port.

After repeating this tens of thousands of times, he had already grown tired of it all.

But at this moment, with the appearance of Hiltina, everything finally turned around.

"Night World"

He was somewhat familiar with this word.

Rast thought for a long time before he recalled some fragments of past life memories buried deep in his heart.

Before traveling through time, I was working as an employee of a game production team, developing a fantasy game called "Snow Moon Emblem".

The Night World is the main content of the paid DLC "Shadows of the Past" which is expected to be launched with the initial release of the game.

In the design draft, the night world is a place similar to the entrance of a dungeon.

It allows players to have something to do after completing the main storyline of the game. When they are free, they can just play around in the night world and increase their game time and daily activity.

In addition, the function of multiplayer online play can also be achieved through Night World.

Even the online function can be separated and sold for money. It can only be said that there is a reason why the Qilin Bow is ineffective for the planner.

Unfortunately, as far as he could remember, Rust didn't even have the chance to see the game he made go online. After working all night, he was reincarnated into another world the day before the first closed beta test of "Embroidery of Snow and Moon".

Because the game has not been officially launched yet, and Last is not responsible for the copywriting and main art of the plot and illustrations, but is just a hard-working programmer.

Apart from the parts he was directly involved in, Last only had a general impression of the plot of the game "Snow Moon Emblem" from the concept draft at the meeting when the project was first launched, and he was not familiar with many details.

However, just some fragmented impressions, combined with Hiltina's description, were enough for Last to understand his current situation.

Those lost civilizations, the echoes of history and fragments of memories that reappear as night falls.

The so-called "reflections of the past", or in the words of the previous life - a game copy that can be restarted infinitely and repeated endlessly.

This is what has troubled Rast for hundreds of years.

The truth about Deep Blue Harbor.

……

Such thoughts are fleeting.

Soon, Luster spoke again.

"So, the long sequence you mentioned earlier."

"And the towers and shadows, are those the special abilities you possess as night travelers who can freely enter and exit the night world?"

Xiltina nodded: "That's right."

"To be more precise, only by stepping onto the long steps of the sequence can one be qualified to enter the night world."

"There are currently seventeen known long-stage sequences. For example, she is a dancer in the 'Shadow' sequence and has already reached the third stage."

"Some people also call this long staircase the 'Devil of the Heart'."

Hiltina squatted down and pulled away the black iron mask that had cracked in two on the face of the corpse.

"If I'm not mistaken, she belongs to a secret force in reality that is hostile to me. She used special props to track me and followed me into the night world."

"The Shadow Sequence's abilities are very effective against me. If I hadn't been careless and suffered a mental backlash from you, this would have been a tough battle."

Hiltina rummaged through the masked woman's body for a while before she stood up again.

"The ability you just manifested, the ability to counterattack the dancer's spell, if I'm not mistaken, should be an extremely rare sequence long step."

"The Tower—The Lantern Bearer."

Hiltina stared at Rast. "I originally thought you were a historical figure projected from the night world, a native of the reverberations."

"But now it seems that I was wrong."

In the night world, there are hidden laws.

If an external night traveler reveals any information about the night world to the projections in the echoes of history, not only will the information itself be distorted, but the person who reveals it will also be severely punished.

But at this moment, Hiltina had not suffered any backlash from the rules.

"You are not just a vague reflection of the past in the echoing night world."

"Instead, they are genuine humans."

Chapter 5: Completely break this hopeless cycle

Luster sat down in his seat again and regained his previous expression.

It was as if the corpse with a distorted and hideous face and eyes open in death not far away did not exist.

He spread his hands and said, "Of course I know I'm a living human being. Miss Hiltina doesn't need to emphasize this again."

Shiltina, this was the name Rast heard from the masked woman.

The serious look on Hiltina's pretty face did not lessen in the slightest despite Last's teasing.

Even though it was confirmed that Rast was not a projection but a human, the mysteries surrounding him did not decrease but increased instead.

The night world is extremely dangerous.

Even those night travelers who hold certificates and are favored by the Lord of Silence can only stay there for a very short time each time.

However, Rast knew nothing about the night world and the credentials, but he was able to survive in the night world for so long in a human body. This obviously cannot be explained by simply entering the night world by mistake.

What's more, he also used an ability that was suspected to be the Tower Sequence.

As far as Hiltina knew, this sequence of long steps had long been lost in the modern world, with only fragmentary records remaining in various historical materials.

"When a person has a long, almost infinite amount of time, it's natural for them to think about doing something outlandish, like developing superpowers."

"Although Deep Blue Harbor doesn't have any fancy magic or peak-level fighting spirit... I did manage to create some things."

Luster looked at the silver-white pistol in his hand.

"That thing just now, in your words, is the so-called long sequence."

"Using that ability wasn't easy for me. In the beginning, it only had a very small chance of being triggered when I was truly on the verge of death, on the brink of life and death."

“After many refinements and practice, I was finally able to initiate it through self-hypnosis.”