novelraw Chapter 205
Chapter 205
Chapter 205: Different Choices（4.2K）
Last night.
Before going to bed, Lucia saw a stranger requesting to add her on WeChat.
Xia Li had instructed her before to reject all friend requests from people she didn’t know.
Xia Li had repeatedly emphasized that there were many scams online, and those fancy tricks were not something Lucia, a naive dragon, could handle. If she encountered even half a scammer, she would definitely be deceived.
Lucia still had a few hundred yuan in her e-wallet, and for the sake of this small amount of money, she had always heeded Teacher Xia’s advice.
Last night was no exception.
Lucia had intended to reject the request, but seeing the familiar black and white cat profile picture and the remark “Dragon Sister, it’s Wuqi, I have something urgent to tell you!”, she inexplicably clicked “Accept.”
It turned out that it really was Wuqi.
This cow cat probably guessed Lucia’s level of vigilance, and in order to prove his identity, he even recorded several videos showing his face. The cat in the video was anxiously meowing, and Lucia didn’t understand what he was saying. Later, they communicated by typing.
All along, Lucia had to rely on Xia Li to translate Wuqi’s expressions.
Now with the ability to communicate through text, she could talk to Wuqi directly.
It was amazing to exchange messages with a cat.
A cat friend was still a friend.
Only then did Lucia understand Xia Li’s intention in buying that watch for Wuqi…
Wasn’t this just a means for the cunning Xia Li to monitor her work!
No wonder Xia Li looked so unsurprised when she received the silk banner that day.
That night, Lucia grumbled all night, using Xia Li as a pillow and clamping him with her legs.
Wuqi didn’t talk much with Lucia that day, and it wasn’t until the next evening that he sent over a string of web links.
He told Lucia the whole story, and also let her know that the person was the transmigrator Xia Li suspected.
Wuqi couldn’t figure out how to solve this matter, as he had neither the ability nor the courage.
After much deliberation, he could only relay it to Dragon Sister.
Maybe Dragon Sister would discuss it with Xia Li again.
Lucia had been studying the content of these posts and videos since dinner.
Coupled with Wuqi’s exaggerated descriptions, she also became anxious.
What made her even more anxious was that what Wuqi said was true.
【My ability is not to change the future, but to change the past.
In my world, this ability is a blessing from the Goddess of Fate, called ‘Fate’. 】
Under the question titled ‘If you have the ability to destroy the world, should you use it?’, the questioner answered some of the netizens’ doubts.
Unlike transmigrators like Xia Li, he didn’t seem to want to hide the fact that he was a transmigrator at all, but instead introduced himself openly.
His language was plain, as if he was simply narrating, which was completely different from his previous state when he was arguing with people in Xia Li’s book.
The sudden calmness of the text made some netizens think that he was just trying to attract attention in a different way.
Perhaps to prove the credibility of his words, or perhaps to gain attention, the questioner even uploaded a picture.
The background of the picture was by a bridge.
The surroundings were dark, with only an orange streetlight shining from above.
In the center of the picture stood a young man who looked not very old. He lifted a corner of his clothes, revealing a grayish-white stone embedded in the center of his chest, as if it were embedded in his flesh.
At first glance, it looked a bit like an AI synthesis ━ after all, if it wasn’t AI-generated, this practice of embedding a stone on the surface of the heart was too dangerous.
However, as an AI picture, this photo showed no traces of AI at all.
【’Fate’ has two uses in total. 】
The questioner in the post was actually patiently answering the netizens’ questions.
Even though those answers were full of sarcasm and ridicule, the user with the black avatar remained quite calm.
【One is the ability to rewind, I can redo things that have already happened.
You should be able to understand it as ‘loading a save file’, right?
I can find the only correct path in countless time loops and wrong outcomes… This ability makes me very lonely, but I have used it to save many people.
However, after returning to Earth, this ability disappeared.
I can’t change the past anymore, I can’t go back to the day my parents committed suicide by jumping into the river, and I can’t turn back time and go back to the world I once existed in. 】
【The second ability.
The Heart of Stone, the Power of Words.
Strictly speaking, this is a kind of magic.
But what it consumes is not magic power, but another kind of spiritual power, which you can understand as ’emotion’.
Its ability is also to interfere with fate ━ when I say the ‘outcome’, it will activate, search for various possibilities in the cause and effect, and then realize the path closest to the ‘outcome’.
The more difficult the ‘outcome’ to achieve, the greater the consumption…
However, this ability has certain limitations, I can’t realize things that don’t exist at all.
For example, if I want a scalded arm to instantly decay, first of all, that arm needs to have a real possibility of being scalded in the current environment…
For another example, making a restaurant explode.
The prerequisite for doing this is that the restaurant does have factors that can cause an explosion… Aging and poorly maintained natural gas pipelines are the biggest hidden danger.
There is a ’cause’ before there is an ‘effect’, this is the causal theory of fate. 】
【Causal theory of fate? Writing in such detail?】
【Dude, are you okay haha… Why are you still acting? 】
【It’s useless to talk so much, when will you start destroying the world? I can’t wait. 】
【After reading so much, I probably understand the questioner’s ‘ability’, which is similar to choosing a possibility in a parallel universe, right? You can just create a possibility where dinosaurs weren’t extinct, oh right, or an asteroid hitting the Earth… Or an ancient virus outbreak, the Cambrian period coming again, the melting of the icebergs at the North and South Poles… All these methods are possible. 】
“…”
In the living room, moths under the incandescent light kept circling the light bulb, their wings casting a large shadow on the wall.
Staring at these shocking words, Lucia’s heart skipped a beat.
Lucia herself was a giant dragon, she knew the existence of magic, and she also knew how dangerous the casual jokes of those netizens could be.
Instigating or even provoking a transmigrator with supernatural abilities was obviously not a wise choice.
Moreover, these people seemed to have overlooked one thing.
The netizen with the black avatar had accurately ‘predicted’ quite a few things.
For example, the car accident, the meteorite, the fire, and the hailstones falling from the sky… These were all recent news that happened in Chongqing.
However, the questioner on this website could freely edit the content of the question, so most netizens would only think that it was done after the fact, that the questioner was patching things up after these disasters happened.
If Lucia hadn’t heard from Xia Li about the existence of such a transmigrator beforehand, she wouldn’t have easily believed these things.
But Xia Li had said with his own mouth that transmigrators existed.
So everything seemed reasonable to Lucia.
“Xia Li, this is the person you mentioned last time, right? I remember his avatar looks like this… His ability is so dangerous.”
Lucia held up her phone for Xia Li to see for a long time.
After a long time, Xia Li looked away.
He exited the app on Lucia’s phone and turned off the screen.
Seeing that there was no special reaction on his face, Lucia tilted her head and put her face on Xia Li’s chest, as if she was acting coquettishly.
“Have you finished reading?”
“Yes, I have.”
“What should we do now?”
“What can we do? Go take a shower and get ready for bed.”
“What about you…?”
“I’m going to read, I haven’t finished one unit today.”
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“…Huh?”
Xia Li’s answer was crisp and clear, Lucia even wondered if she had heard wrong.
Some time ago, when Xia Li started to insist that the other party was a transmigrator, he was obviously very agitated. And when he learned that the other party’s life was not going well, Xia Li clearly had the idea of wanting to help him.
But today, why did his attitude suddenly change?
Lucia couldn’t understand.
She felt that she couldn’t figure out Xia Li’s thoughts lately.
Xia Li always said that her personality had changed a lot, but Lucia felt that Xia Li had also changed a lot…
At some point, the brave and positive Xia Li had become hesitant.
Lucia seemed to no longer see the brave warrior who held a sharp sword, had firm eyes, protected his companions behind him, and was ready to die.
Lucia knew very well that these changes in Xia Li had something to do with her.
“Go quickly.”
“Oh…”
Lucia was reprimanded by Xia Li again.
She subconsciously put away her phone and didn’t ask about it anymore.
She had been very obedient recently, because she knew that Xia Li was under a lot of pressure, so she would try her best to reduce the trouble she caused. Whatever Xia Li asked her to do, she would do it without any resistance.
…Although doing so really made the dragon lose face.
After taking a nice hot shower, Lucia secretly listened to the movement in the small dark room for a while, and found that Xia Li was studying, so she had to go back to her bed dejectedly.
Rolling around on the bed a little lonely, Lucia took out her phone from the pocket of her pajamas and continued browsing the posts with great concern.
The post was updated.
【Dude, although I didn’t see you complaining about anything, it’s not hard to see from your previous replies that you’ve suffered a lot of grievances. If you really have this ability, are you still staying at home as a good-for-nothing posting and asking netizens? If it were me, I would have killed, killed, killed long ago. 】
【Let’s not talk about anything else, you’re so awesome, why don’t you show us a tsunami?】
【I don’t think it’s possible, this questioner’s IP is in Chongqing, according to what he said just now, his ability requires causal possibilities, Chongqing is inland, not by the sea, so the tsunami performance you want to see is most likely not going to happen…】
【Then let it rain, it just so happens that your place is surrounded by mountains, and then there will be landslides and mudslides hehe. 】
【Is the person upstairs sick? The questioner is tired of life and you’re tired of life too?? Hey your mom hey. 】
【So scary, stop talking. 】
【+1, I’m from Chongqing, it’s already started raining heavily here…】
Seeing this, Lucia’s delicate brows furrowed again.
She turned to open the browser and started checking the weather forecast.
The weather forecast clearly showed no rain, but a few minutes ago, a red rainstorm warning was issued.
“…”
Lucia swallowed, feeling her throat a little dry, and hurriedly got up to get a glass of water from the bedside table.
“Buzz…”
The sudden vibration of the phone in the quiet room startled Lucia.
Looking at the message, it was from Wuqi.
Wuqi: Dragon Sister, what did Brother Xia say?
Lucia: Xia Li didn’t say anything.
Wuqi: Alright… Dragon Sister, rest early.
After a brief chat with Wuqi, Lucia put down her phone, and the worry in her heart deepened.
It was already late, 10 pm.
Usually at this time, she was already preparing to drink milk and go to bed.
Perhaps because she was on vacation today, Lucia was not sleepy, and her mind was in a mess.
She had just gone on a date with Xia Li today…
Xia Li made an exception and bought her ice cream from the mall. The ice cream was blueberry flavored, and after eating it, her tongue turned purple. Lucia even stuck out her tongue to show Xia Li.
They went to the arcade to catch dolls. Xia Li didn’t allow her to use magic, so she failed to catch any after more than ten attempts, and could only stamp her feet anxiously outside the glass door. In the end, Xia Li helped her catch one.
Lucia exchanged the doll for a more practical butterfly hairpin. She wanted to put it on Xia Li, but he refused and ran away.
Lucia’s short legs chased him all the way until she caught up, and the whole dragon was panting…
Lucia felt very happy with this kind of life.
She liked Earth, and she also liked the society she lived in now.
If possible, she didn’t want to break this peace.
But.
It was precisely because she wanted to cherish this kind of life and wanted to continue like this that she couldn’t turn a blind eye.
Once supernatural abilities were widely known, Lucia didn’t think she could escape unscathed.
She, a dragon, existed alone in this society, and she didn’t have enough security guarantees. If these existences were exposed to the public, she was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to go to work, go to the arcade with Xia Li, or continue this peaceful life.
Lucia rolled over on the bed.
She remembered a sentence she had heard before.
‘A community with a shared future for mankind.’
When disaster struck, no one could stay out of it.
Now, before anything happened, there was still time to do something.
‘Creak.’
“Xia Li…”
Lucia pushed open the half-open wooden door of the small dark room.
She poked her head out from behind the door a little timidly.
The lights were not turned on in the small dark room, and because there were no windows, the only light source in the whole space was the computer.
At this time, Xia Li was sitting in front of the computer, the screen shining on his face, and his dark eyes reflected a faint blue light.
He was holding a neutral pen. Seeing Lucia’s arrival, Xia Li stopped turning the pen in his hand, paused the computer, and turned to look at her.
“Didn’t you go to bed?”
“I can’t sleep…” Lucia shook her head.
Xia Li smiled gently: “Wait for me for a while, I’ll go warm the bed for you.”
“It’s not because of that.”
Lucia murmured softly, pinching the corner of her clothes in her hand, and a feeling of unease kept surfacing in her heart.
“Let’s talk about it…”
“Talk about what?”
“Let’s go to Chongqing.”
As she spoke, Lucia raised her eyes.
Those eyes were filled with too many emotions. Worry after the peace was broken, fear of the future, and more, determination after making up her mind.
The smile on Xia Li’s face froze for a moment.
Then he turned off the computer directly, got up from the gaming chair, and gently rubbed Lucia’s head.
“Don’t think about it so much, let’s go to bed.”