Chapter 777 - 99th Lifetimes ( 2 )
Chapter 777: 99th Lifetimes ( 2 )
Hearing Li Qixuan’s words, Jiao Lizhi asked, "Where is this place? What about the mutant animals and Matkuna soldiers? Did we win the battle?"
Li Qixuan looked at her with a complicated gaze for a long time before he stood up and said, "This won’t do. I will call the healer. Something is wrong with your head."
Looking at his back, Jiao Lizhi pressed her temples. She was confused about what was going on. Her memories were a jumbled mess at this moment.
"Did I travel back in time?" she muttered in a low voice.
If she traveled back in time, why is there no Mo Bingxue? Is this another timeline? What is actually happening to her?
With so many unanswered questions, she suddenly recalled something. Closing her eyes, Yao Zhi tried to check her space, but she found nothing.
"Gaia, are you there?" she called out.
She waited for a moment but didn’t hear the familiar mechanical voice. "Gaia, answer me."
Another silence.
This time, fear finally surged from her heart. She opened her palm and circulated her energy. A small water ball floated above her palm. Feeling the amount of energy inside her, she was shocked.
"I’m only at level two? How could it be?"
Just after she finished her words, Li Qixuan returned with a young woman. When she saw the healer’s face, Jiao Lizhi’s eyes widened.
"Mo Bingxue? You are still alive."
Li Qixuan looked at her and the woman behind him. "You know her? She is the healer."
"Comrade, you know me?" Mo Bingxue walked over with a smile.
"You—why are you here?"
"I’m working as a healer in the Sanchou City Base. I’m following Commander Jin’s order to heal you."
Hearing this, Jiao Lizhi was stunned. It took her a long time to regain her composure and ask, "You are a member of the Phantom Team?"
As she said this, a group of people entered the tent. "Where did you hear about that name?" a deep, hoarse voice asked coldly.
"Commander Jin," Mo Bingxue and Li Qixuan greeted him.
Jin Xuyan walked to the bedside and asked again, "Where did you hear about that name?"
Jiao Lizhi met his cold gaze and suddenly realized that he was not the same person she knew. She looked at the people in front of her and shook her head. "This is not real."
"What did you say?" Jin Xuyan asked.
Without answering him, Jiao Lizhi pushed him aside and ran outside. As soon as she stepped outside the room, she saw the vast hall filled with injured people.
Ignoring the pain in her body, she continued running outside. When she finally left the building, she raised her head and saw the tall, black metal wall glistening under the red moonlight.
She stared at the emblem on the flag embedded on the high wall and said, "Sanchou Base."
Hearing the footsteps behind her, she asked, "Why am I here? I need to go back to Lunar Base. Brother Yan, my sister, and everyone are waiting for me."
"Lizhi, what’s wrong with you? Did you forget that we took a mission to investigate the movement of zombies and were trapped in Lin’an City?" Li Qixuan asked worriedly.
"That place is Lin’an City? Impossible. Where is Xun Che? Why did he let the zombies destroy the city? What happened to the Lin’an City Base?"
As she questioned them, clarity slowly returned to her mind. She stared at Jin Xuyan and said, "You are not Brother Yan. Who are you?"
"I don’t know what you are talking about. I came to ask you about the details of the situation in Lin’an City. But judging from your condition, it seems that you can’t answer my question."
Ignoring his words, Jiao Lizhi clenched her fists and called out, "Gaia!"
Everyone exchanged glances and looked at her as if she were a madwoman.
Under their gazes, Jiao Lizhi almost believed that everything was real and the memories in her head were a dream. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and focused her mind on the small, faint voice echoing in her heart.
"Gaia, answer me!"
"...st... Host!"
Hearing the familiar mechanical voice, Jiao Lizhi’s eyes snapped open, and she said, "Activate the emergency protocol!"
"Activating the emergency protocol in five... four... three... two... one..."
The moment the countdown reached zero, Jiao Lizhi felt a strong suction coming from her body. She stood there and watched as everything became blurred, and after a moment, she returned to the void.
Her whole body was drenched in cold sweat as she looked at the countless screens floating around her. "Gaia, what’s going on?" she asked.
"Host, these are the memories from your previous lifetimes."
"Lifetimes? You mean that my current life is not my third lifetime?" Jiao Lizhi asked.
"After the space portal was destroyed, the Host arrived on the Blue Planet. But due to the loss of your memories, you died in that lifetime."
"Due to the emergency protocol to protect the Host at any cost, the system activated the space jump to rewind the time. But because of insufficient energy, the time and location could not be determined."
"Gaia, tell me honestly, how many times did I repeat this life?"
"According to the system’s records, the Host’s current life is the 99th time."
"Besides me, are there other people who repeat this lifetime?" she asked again.
This time, Gaia went silent for a long time before it replied, "Jiang Ziyi."
When she heard this, Jiao Lizhi went silent.
Deep inside, she had a hunch that her repeated rebirth had something to do with him. Now that she received confirmation from Gaia, she was calmer than she thought. It was as if everything was as expected.
After a long silence, she asked, "Why can I only remember the last life’s memories?"
"To ensure the Host’s mental health, the memories were locked away. The Host can access the memories when you reach a certain level and upgrade the space."
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