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Xiao Meng felt her heart clench suddenly, as if an invisible hand had gripped it tightly. The crack in the Bronze Star Disk resembled a pair of sinister eyes slowly opening, gazing deep into her soul. A pale hand, bony and chilling, reached out from the fissure and grasped her slender wrist.
“Mu, Mu Yun?!” Xiao Meng exclaimed, her voice trembling like a leaf in the wind. Mu Yun, the once refined priest, now appeared like a demon crawling out of hell, his eyes bloodshot and radiating madness. He stared intensely at Xiao Meng, a strange smile curling at the corners of his mouth—one that looked worse than crying.
In his other hand, a sharp bone needle materialized out of thin air, glimmering with a ghostly green light that made Xiao Meng's scalp tingle with fear. “Use the Starry Marriage Contract to invade in reverse!” Mu Yun's hoarse voice rasped like a broken bellows, each word squeezed out through clenched teeth.
The bone needle plunged painfully into Xiao Meng's palm. The intense pain caused her vision to blacken as she nearly fainted. A cold energy surged through the needle into her body, rampaging through her veins as if trying to tear her apart.
Before Xiao Meng could react, Mu Yun's body suddenly began to twist and contort, as if being kneaded by an invisible hand. He let out a piercing scream as his body was ripped apart by the chaotic currents of time and space, blood splattering and staining the Bronze Star Disk.
Xiao Meng's eyes widened in terror as she watched Mu Yun's fragments swirl in the air. Then, an unbelievable scene unfolded. Those fragments began to reassemble, forming several blood-red characters that flickered with an eerie glow: “Trust… Sunshine…”
“Sunshine?” Xiao Meng murmured to herself, her mind in disarray. What did Mu Yun desperately want to convey? Just then, Sunshine suddenly moved.
He yanked off the chip from the back of his neck and hurled it fiercely at the hourglass. The chip traced a perfect arc through the air, striking precisely at the center of the hourglass. It emitted a crisp sound as images rapidly flashed across its surface.
It was three hundred memories of Xiao Meng and Sunshine! In each instance, Sunshine pretended to flee while secretly leaving clues to guide Xiao Meng to a place—the Qingmei Herb Shop.
“He… he actually…” Xiao Meng covered her mouth as tears streamed down her face. Three hundred resets of memories, three hundred disguises—all for…
Xiao Meng's gaze fell upon the bottom of the hourglass. There, the pattern of tiles from Qingmei Herbal Shop emerged! The familiar design struck her heart like lightning.
Almost instinctively, Xiao Meng bit her finger and let her blood drip onto the tile pattern at the bottom of the hourglass. The blood spread along the pattern, emitting a dazzling light.
The Bronze Star Disk erupted open with a thunderous sound, revealing a temporal anchor point. At its center, a yellowed photograph slowly materialized. In it stood a young Teacher Lin alongside Black-hearted Grandpa, both smiling brightly.
They each held a contract that shimmered with starlight.
"Time and space... anchor point... contract..." Xiao Meng murmured, a chill racing from her feet to the top of her head.
"No, this can't be happening..." Xiao Meng's voice trembled as she fixated on the photograph, as if trying to see through it.
Suddenly, Teacher Lin turned her head and flashed a meaningful smile at Xiao Meng.
"Child, the game... has only just begun..."
Xiao Meng felt like a hamster tossed into a spinning washing machine, with three hundred Memory Fragments dancing wildly in her mind, creating a buzzing noise that made her head spin.
Suddenly, her vision blurred, and Black-hearted Grandpa's pile of scrap metal—no, his mechanical body—was sucked into a black hole, transforming into a swirling mass of malevolent Star Sand Vortex.
The scene resembled a poorly rendered online game with special effects that were clearly unfinished, so blurry it made her want to vomit.
At that moment, the hourglass suddenly burst forth with golden light as if it had been injected with adrenaline.
A familiar old man's phantom appeared before Xiao Meng, dressed in tattered robes and sporting disheveled hair, exuding an air of "my fate is determined by me, not by heaven."
"Child, remember, the true Golden Finger is..."
Before Old Grandpa Plugin could finish his sentence, a temporal whirlwind roared in like a tornado and swept him away.
The old man's phantom was left disheveled in the wind, leaving behind a wail: "I haven't finished speaking yet—!"
Xiao Meng: "..." This cheat code really chose the worst time to malfunction!
At such a critical moment, it was even more absurd than an unreasonable client!
The countdown for the time-space reboot continued to tick away: 3… 2… Xiao Meng felt like an ant on a hot pan, frantically pacing back and forth.
Wait!
Xiao Meng's gaze fell upon the pile of Steam Mech summoned by the hourglass.
Its design was bizarre, resembling a patchwork monster.
One half was adorned with the ceremonial robe of an Ancient Priestess, intricately embroidered with totems; another half was clad in the experimental attire of a Future Scientist, festooned with various incomprehensible tubes and buttons; and yet another half sported a modern girl's JK uniform, complete with lace edges and bows that seemed out of place on the Steampunk mech.
This... wasn't this just a hodgepodge of her three identities?!
Just as Xiao Meng was lost in thought, Sunshine suddenly let out a muffled groan.
Xiao Meng whipped around to see Sunshine clutching her arm, her face pale.
"Sunshine, what's wrong?" Xiao Meng asked anxiously.
Sunshine struggled to lift her head and pointed at the star-shaped scar on her arm, her voice weak: "Xiao Meng, look..."
Xiao Meng followed Sunshine's finger and gasped in shock.
What had once been an ordinary star-shaped scar now appeared stained with ink-like patterns that emerged eerily.
Those patterns were unmistakably the Witch Script Totem used by Mu Yun before his death!
"This... this is..." Xiao Meng's eyes widened in disbelief as she stared at the Witch Script on Sunshine's arm.
"It seems I've been schemed against all along..." Sunshine's voice was low and hoarse, as if suppressing immense pain.
Only three seconds remained on the countdown.
Xiao Meng surveyed everything before her as her mind raced.
Old Grandpa Plugin's unfinished Golden Finger, the Steam Mech representing her three identities, Sunshine's arm bearing the Witch Script Totem... all these clues tangled together like a mess of yarn, leaving her utterly confused.
She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
Now was not the time to panic; she had to find the key point to stop the time-space reboot!
“Sunshine, trust me!” Xiao Meng tightly grasped Sunshine's hand, her eyes filled with determination.
Sunshine looked into Xiao Meng's eyes, which were brimming with trust and courage. He nodded and squeezed her hand back, as if placing all his hope in her.
“Xiao Meng, I—”
Before Sunshine could finish his sentence, Xiao Meng suddenly sprang into action. She dashed toward the pile of Steam Mechs and grabbed the tube connected to the Ancient Priestess's robe.
“Forget about the Golden Finger; I’ll just grab it first!” Xiao Meng shouted in her mind, using all her strength to try and pull the tube down.
However, the tube seemed rooted in place, not budging an inch.
Xiao Meng was drenched in sweat, exerting every ounce of energy she had, even employing the Love's Magical Spin technique, but it was all in vain.
Just when Xiao Meng was on the verge of despair, she suddenly felt a powerful force surge into her body. It was the combined memories of the Ancient Priestess, Future Scientist, and a modern girl!
In that moment, Xiao Meng felt as if she had transformed into three people, endowed with three different kinds of wisdom and power. She was no longer just a naive chatterbox; she had become Super Saiyan Meng, a fusion of wisdom, technology, and magic!
“Open up for me!”
Xiao Meng roared and exerted herself once more. This time, the tube finally loosened.
With a piercing sound of metal snapping, Xiao Meng yanked the tube down with sheer force.
However, at that very moment, the Steam Mech began to tremble violently. Countless sparks erupted from its seams like a volcanic eruption.
This is bad!
Xiao Meng realized that things were about to go wrong and tried to dodge, but it was too late.
“Boom—!”
With a deafening explosion, the Steam Mech summoned by the hourglass…
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