Chapter 555 The reason for Xu Ying’s existence

Chapter 555 The reason for Xu Ying’s existence

"So, what did you do here fifty years ago?" Li Wenxi and Xu Ying asked at the same time as they walked outside the city.

"It was more than fifty years ago. In fact, for me, it was only a few days since I left here." Xu Ying looked around, "For me, three days ago I was still more than fifty years old. The world before. ”

"Alas..." Li Wenxi sighed, "This is really a novel feeling..."

"What's so novel?" Xu Ying kicked the pebbles away from her feet, "Not long ago you were in a world a thousand years ago."

"...Ah, that's right."

The two of them were on the other side of the city, in the wilderness.

If it were on the ground, this kind of place would not be a good place in the middle of the night. In total darkness, this kind of wilderness must be dangerous and scary.

But in this underground world, even at this point in time, it is still bright under the light of the dome crystal.

Li Wenxi and Li Wenxi seemed to be on an outing in the countryside.

"Actually, I don't know what important things happened here more than fifty years ago. I spent most of my time playing around in the city..."

"Huh? Playing?"

"Well...because it's my brother who does all the things like joining forces and cooperating with the forces here." Xu Ying explained, "He has no intention of letting me get involved, and I'm not interested either. So we hit it off immediately.”

"Ah..." Li Wenxi was speechless, "Well, then you basically didn't participate in your plan."

"Of course I participated!" Xu Ying defended herself, "I said I was playing, but in fact my mission was to check the changes among the people in this underground human stronghold!"

"I didn't just travel around this city. When my brother and those forces didn't know what they were doing, I visited various cities here and visited almost every representative city."< br>

"Oh..." Li Wenxi understood and couldn't help but laugh, "That means you have traveled to many cities in this underground base."

"Why does this statement feel wrong? I should have inspected it in many cities!" Xu Ying corrected, "More than that, my brother will tell me the situation there every time, even the situation of various underground forces. , I am also considered the second insider.”

"Then, how do you know the current head of the Wei family?" Li Wenxi asked curiously, "Don't you have a good relationship with him?"

"Of course, because fifty years ago, he was the one who accompanied me to inspect the human base. At that time, he was not the head of the family, and I was considered an important guest, so he was responsible for my safety."

Xu Ying said, ran into the low bushes, and picked wild fruits in the low bushes.

"Ah, that means you two have traveled together for a long time and visited many cities?"

Li Wenxi's eyes lit up and she was very interested in this topic. She quickly asked: "Did anything happen between you two? It's like..."

"Huh?"

Xu Ying grabbed a handful of picked small red fruits, turned around and walked towards Li Wenxi, with an expression of "How is that possible?": "What can happen between the two of us? I won't stay at a certain time for long. How could you be interested in someone at that time?"

"You're really not interested?" Li Wenxi expressed doubt, "Then you still let him follow you?"

"Of course I'm not interested anymore. I keep letting him follow me because he is a tour guide!" Xu Ying shrugged, "For example, if you go to a place to travel, you won't stay there for long. What will happen to your tour guide? What does it feel like to be in love? Even if the tour guide is very handsome.”

"Not living together?"

"What are you living with?" Xu Ying glared at Li Wenxi, "Sister-in-law, don't you already have something going on with my brother?"

"Well..." Li Wenxi blushed.

"Ah?" Xu Ying was a little dumbfounded, "To sum it up...how long have you known each other? Was my brother used to be this kind of person..."

"What are you talking about about me? Let's get back to the point! Judging from the old man's current appearance and his granddaughter, he was also very handsome back then, right?"

Li Wenxi pictured Wei Bai's appearance in her mind and guessed.

"Well, how should I put it? He is indeed a bit handsome, but not even compared to my brother."

Xu Ying handed half of the picked wild fruit to Li Wenxi: "If I find a man who is not as good as my brother, then he will laugh me to death and I will not be able to hold my head up in front of him. I have nothing to do with that guy. Interested, but they are just good friends.”

"They are just good friends." Li Wenxi took the wild fruit, "What is this?"

"It's a wild fruit that is a specialty here. I ate it when I came here last time. Weibo told me about it. I had never seen it before. It tastes very good. Try it."

Li Wenxi looked at the small red fruit in his hand.

It feels like red berries on the ground, but they are much smaller than red berries, and the red ones are a little purple.

Specialized fruit underground? It looks delicious, and the color looks a bit like a sweet cherry.

She stuffed the fruit into her mouth and bit it with her teeth.

The small fruit has a high water content, and the juice bursts in your mouth instantly.

But...

"Ugh! Ah... Bah, bah, bah!" Li Wenxi spit out the fruit in her mouth instantly, sticking out her tongue, tears were about to come out, "It's so... so bitter! Bah, bah!"

"Bitter? That's impossible, right?" Xu Ying also ate one and immediately spat it out, "Bah! Wow, what does this taste like! Why is it so bitter!"

"You picked the wrong thing..." Li Wenxi grimaced, feeling that her mouth was full of bitterness and a fishy rusty feeling, "What does this taste like..."

"No, that's it. I was... two days ago..." Xu Ying felt a little strange, "What's going on?...Forget it, maybe this one is just bad."

Xu Ying threw away the red fruit in her hand: "Have you found any minerals here, sister-in-law?"

"Well... there is one there." Li Wenxi pointed to a factory not far away, "However, it has been discovered there and is being mined, right? There is nothing else."

"It seems that there should be no minerals around here. We need to look further away."

Relying on Xu Ying's teleportation ability, the two of them had basically traveled around the city, but except for the mining point on the dome they initially discovered, they couldn't find it anywhere else.

But that's normal. This is the core hinterland of human survival. It has been developed for thousands of years. Even if there are any resources, they have been explored long ago.

"Oh, I don't want to move anymore. It's time to rest at this time, otherwise we should go back." Xu Ying wanted to be lazy, "You can't face tomorrow until you have enough rest."

"You are really..." Li Wenxi was helpless, "You are over 300 years old, why are you still acting like a child."

"What? I'm still a child."

Xu Ying tore off a leaf from a branch and said while tearing it: "Although I have lived for more than three hundred years, but in terms of my life span, three hundred years is nothing at all. My body and mentality are very fragile." Isn’t it normal to be young?”

"Huh? But you..."

No matter what kind of creature, its maturity is determined by its lifespan.

The lifespan of a cat is only ten years, so a cat that is one or two years old already has all the abilities of a cat. It can jump up and down, hunt and reproduce, and reproduce.

However, as humans are much more advanced and intelligent creatures than cats, the survival ability of humans who are both one year old is far worse than that of cats, and they are far from mature.

The longer one lives, the later one matures, not only physically, but also mentally.

A twenty-year-old cat is an old cat with invincible longevity, but a twenty-year-old human thinks that he is very young from the bottom of his heart, so naturally he will not show any old-fashioned attitude.

"So, it's the same for me. I'm only over three hundred years old, so I'm still very young." Xu Ying explained with a smile.

"Ah this..."

Li Wenxi finally understood why she was still like this even though she was hundreds of years old.

She looked at Xu Ying like a three-year-old cat looking at a twenty-year-old human.

Too old?

It's very big. For a cat, it's really unimaginably big.

But for humans, they are still young people.

So Xu Ying still treats herself as a child!

"But you're not..." Li Wenxi hesitated and did not say what she was thinking at this time.

"You want to say, I'm afraid I won't live long, right?" Xu Ying looked at her and pursed her lips.

"I didn't mean that..."

"Okay, this is the truth."

Xu Ying's eyes dimmed slightly, but soon returned to normal: "I really can't stay in this world for long, because I don't belong to this world. Now I am just playing hide and seek in this world."

"But at least now, I won't leave this world. Brother... he has really made a lot of efforts to allow me to stay longer."

Li Wenxi opened her eyes wide: "Is it related to your brother that you can still move around in this world now?"

"Of course, I have done a lot of things."

At this point, she bit her lip.

"For example, I left the future that was about to collapse early, but was the last to arrive in the past. This made me experience a long period of time less than them, and I missed a lot of things. I was really angry at that time. ! ”

"For another example, I was almost not allowed to participate in any research related to behemoths or anything related to changing history. They even kicked me out of the research institute and made me live like an ordinary person for several years in that era. Deceived the world’s perception of me”

"For another example, he sent the teenage Xu Ying to a further future, instead of going to this point in time with you, just so that there would be no two me at this point in time, so that I could continue to exist here. .”

Xu Ying gritted her teeth: "That bastard brother, he planned to let me stay from the beginning!"

Li Wenxi was speechless.

She didn't quite understand, but she could also feel Xu Xin's efforts.

His efforts were successful. Xu Ying has indeed had no problems until now, and there has not even been any confusion in time and space around her body.

Except for being able to use time and space abilities, he is almost the same as an ordinary person.

"Wait a minute, that means that the reason why your brother hardly takes you to participate in official business in this underground world is also because..." Li Wenxi was thoughtful.

"Ah, that's right!"

Xu Ying kicked the big stone on the side of the road. With a "click" sound, her weak-looking little feet directly kicked the stone out of a big pit and a crack.

She said bitterly: "It wasn't until he disappeared that I realized that he had never allowed me to really participate in these things. I'm afraid he was afraid that I would be affected in this regard. Asshole brother, you have to stay here by yourself. ! Just leave me here alone..."

Li Wenxi was silent for a moment and then said: "He may... just want you to witness the salvation of this planet."

"...Hmph, he just wants to leave a mess for me."

Although Xu Ying said this, her eyes were already a little red.

Li Wenxi can understand her mood.

Her real brother, the truly familiar person, has completely disappeared from this world long ago.

Although she now calls herself sister-in-law and brother Xu Xin, they are no longer the two people who have accompanied her for hundreds of years.

Even the man who traveled with her more than fifty years ago has aged more than fifty years after the time travel, and has changed so much that he can be said to be a stranger.

Now she is really facing the whole world alone.

It is really not easy for her to show such a lively and optimistic image under such circumstances.

Thinking of this, Li Wenxi suddenly thought of something.

Xu Ying once said that her relationship with Wei Bai was so good that her brother was jealous.

That means that at that time fifty years ago, that Xu Xin was still alive!

That Xu Xin disappeared at that point in time!

And Xu Ying had just traveled through time from that point in time a few days ago.

In other words, for Xu Ying, her brother actually just disappeared not long ago...

She actually just lost her last relative not long ago.

This is really...

But to put it this way, a lot of things did happen at that time more than fifty years ago.

The Crystal City on the ground was probably built at that time, right?

The first survivors also appeared shortly after that.

...It seems that Xu Ying should have done a lot of things at that time, instead of just traveling to various cities as she said.

However, she doesn't want to tell herself yet.

"Oh, okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore!" Xu Ying shook her head. She felt like she was going to cry if she continued talking.

"Yingying..."

"You don't have to sympathize with me, I'm not afraid of death! If you die, you can go find my brother or my acquaintances!"

Xu Ying rubbed her eyes, raised her head and said, "But now, that bastard brother has left this mess to me, so I'll just work a little harder. If I don't sleep, let's find another place!"

"Well, okay."

Xu Ying took Li Wenxi's arm: "Let's go, sister-in-law, I will take you... huh?"

She suddenly stopped and looked towards the depths of the wilderness.

"What's wrong?" Li Wenxi followed her gaze and looked over.

Overgrown woods, even in the bright environment of the underworld, it is impossible to see what is going on inside.

"Is there anything over there?" Li Wenxi asked.

"...I feel wrong?" Xu Ying stared at the jungle and murmured, "How can there be...wait...the smell of red fruits just now..."

A glint flashed in her eyes: "No, I have to go take a look! Sister-in-law, I'll take you back first!"

"Ah? What..." Before Li Wenxi could ask in detail, a purple-black vortex appeared under her feet.

She instantly fell into the whirlpool.

When she opened her eyes again, she was already in the villa.

...what happened? Xu Ying, what did she see?

(End of chapter)