Chapter 1502 - Welcome Back (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Even without the MDT’s help, it was a simple matter for Hao Ren to memorize a star map. His already-enhanced-human brain was busy processing a flood of data that was beyond the logical functions of common intelligent beings. In the past, the MDT would simply plug into his mind to assist with the processing via an AI program, but now he could do it himself for the most part… There was a side effect of overheating though.
As Hao Ren stored the star map into his mind, he started to place markers on the missing parts while Vivian summoned up a mini blizzard to cool things down…
Once the processing was completed, Hao Ren heard an audible *Ding!* in his mind. God knows what other crazy settings that lunatic goddess had placed in his mind when she enhanced him.
“It’s time to leave.” Hao Ren took a deep breath as his mind cooled down. “You know how to get out of this place?”
Vivian smiled as she pointed to a place not too far away. “Look, the door is just over there.”
Over on the sand mound not too far away, the sand faded away like flowing water and a rather familiar building appeared out of nowhere.
The motley, two-story structure with a new roof; of course Hao Ren would recognize it. It was his home for twenty odd years, and now it was home for a group of otherworldlings.
“…I never thought that you’d design the exit to look like that.” Hao Ren was surprised seeing his old place before laughing. “That surprised me.”
Vivian smiled as she shook her head. “No, it was always there. It was already there when I realized I was deep into the dream…”
The two came before the door of the old house as Vivian pulled out a key from her side pocket. The rust on the key quickly came off as she put the brand new key into the lock before turning it gently. An audible ‘clack’ was heard.
As the clack faded, the door opened and the Malevolences on the battlefield behind them faded into dust as they re-assimilated into the spiritual world.
“Let’s go home.”
The silence collapsed around them as the dust and chaos waned like the tide. Hao Ren felt that he suddenly fell into an endless dark tunnel, and lost all sense of direction. He felt neither gravity or any temperature. He was nervous at first, but he soon felt another presence beside him, as a slightly cold hand held his.
Vivian appeared from the darkness and was the only other scenery in the dark tunnel. She smiled at Hao Ren. “Now I remember everything, all my memories, and power… every segment of my memory now has you. It’s really an incredible feeling.”
Hao Ren grinned back. “So does this count as me messing with your memories? In real history, there’s no place for me in your past 10,000 years.”
Vivian shook her head, appearing calm. “Real history? All that’s hogwash. To me, history is just a part of life, so only those that I’ve been through myself is worth something. Anything written by humans is about as good as fairy tales.”
Hao Ren fell into thought before Vivian spoke once again to break the silence. “And I prefer it this way; much better than last time. I was wandering aimlessly for 10,000 years, everyone I know was simply a passerby in my memories; after knowing each other for hundreds if not thousands of years, then came apart by death, or being forgotten. There was no one to walk beside me until the end…But now there’s you… the first person I saw when I opened my eyes in the ice age fields was you, and the person who took me in 10,000 years later too was you; you know how much that meant to me?”
Hao Ren looked deep into Vivian’s eyes. The 10,000-year backtrack had brought up so many memories, not just Vivian’s, even his. And these memories were important to her, so are they to him.
He then reached out and held Vivian by the waist. This bold move caught the latter by surprise. “Hyaa?!”
“So, wanna stay with me for the next 10,000 years?”
“That’s not something you’d normally say,” Vivian was flustered for a bit before reverting to a gentle smile. “Sneaky, but I’m not your ordinary lass, this still needs a lot of work.”
“Oh, stop pretending. I saw your flustered look.” Hao Ren pouted. “Your life experience throughout the years too have to depend on what sort of experience you learned. So aside from putting all skill points into being broke what had you done… Oh yeah, fighting with others for potatoes… Eeek!
Vivian wrapped her arms across… halfway across Hao Ren’s waist and Hao Ren felt that his Steel Membrane shield was close to being activated.
“Truth be told, I’m quite surprised.” Vivian blinked. “I never thought you’d actually dare to say something like this. You didn’t give me the impression of something being so bold.”
“Nonsense, I’ve sat on that hill for over a hundred and twenty odd years, I’ve steeled my resolve in that period of boredom.”