hsntnovel Chapter 260 Moving Forward
Chapter 260 Moving Forward
On the other side, Jiang Xingni and Tang Xiaoxing were unaware that their teacher was actually watching their actions secretly through the projection of the instance.
Without Xiao Jiming, and without the other members of the main group, Jiang Xingni didn't think that the story he was currently navigating would take up much space in the comic.
Even comics don't delve too much into her current actions, let alone other observers.
If Jiang Xingni's superpower were still intact, she might have been able to sense that someone was observing her from behind a barrier—unfortunately, Jiang Xingni's superpower had been banned.
She took Tang Xiaoxing away from the office building, and then took the subway all the way to the last stop.
The two of them were the only ones left in the entire subway car.
"That's not right." Jiang Xingni lowered her head thoughtfully. "Didn't they say that many adventure streamers want to use this opportunity to gain viewership?"
This is what the same person said before.
Although the poor NPC, after providing the clues, simply vanished into the instance to warn the two people.
But Jiang Xingni still remembered what he said.
Tang Xiaoxing glanced at Jiang Xingnv blankly.
"...Where are you talking about? No, where are we going again?" Tang Xiaoxing forgot once again.
Jiang Xingni lowered her eyes. She didn't know why she wasn't affected by the anisometaphor—was she really unaffected? Or was it because she had already been affected, but under the influence of the anisometaphor, she had forgotten something she had forgotten?
Jiang Xingni was able to remind Tang Xiaoxing of things she had forgotten.
However, when Jiang Xingni looked at Tang Xiaoxing, she felt that the other party was not a reliable person who could give Jiang Xingni any guarantee.
She pulled out a utility knife.
Tang Xiaoxing was shocked: "How can you still carry a controlled knife with you?"
Jiang Xing turned his head and gave Tang Xiaoxing a smile.
—He Jingtong was able to bring her long sword on the plane back then, but now she's just bringing a utility knife on the subway.
However, Jiang Xingni was too lazy to explain in detail how he did it.
"That's none of your business." A gentle smile graced her face. "Anyway, I have my own clever plan."
Seeing that Jiang Xingni had no intention of answering her question, Tang Xiaoxing pouted and stopped asking. Instead, she changed the subject: "Then, take it out and ask for it—"
Before she could finish her question, she watched helplessly as Jiang Xingni, holding a utility knife, resolutely slashed her own wrist.
In that instant, many thoughts flashed through Tang Xiaoxing's mind.
—Holy crap, wrist-cutting!
"Holy crap, could Jiang Xingni like modifying decorative knives? No way! She doesn't seem like that kind of person!"
—No, wait, they were clearly going to, no, what were they going to do? But they can't afford to deplete their fighting strength at this time, can they?
……
Tang Xiaoxing was stunned for half a second before realizing that the most important thing she should do at that moment was to stop it immediately.
In that short time, the not-so-sharp blade of the utility knife had already cut open her skin with Jiang Xingni's strength. Blood beads seeped out from the crack in her skin and then slowly flowed downwards under the influence of gravity.
Jiang Xing turned her head away, looking at Tang Xiaoxing, who was making a gesture as if to stop her, with a puzzled expression.
Jiang Xingni politely said nothing, then lowered his head and stared at his arm.
She cut open the wound and carved the words "crater" on her arm.
Tang Xiaoxing leaned closer: "Is this where we're going?"
Jiang Xingni nodded.
Meteorite crater.
In her memory, which she couldn't guarantee was entirely true, the two of them were supposed to go to the meteorite crater and find the strange creature.
……
They arrived at the meteorite crater without incident, but every time Tang Xiaoxing entered the crater, she would be perfectly unharmed and ask Jiang Xingni in a confused tone, "Where are we going? What are we doing?"
Just as Lin Hongguang and Shu Yangqiu turned their gazes over, Jiang Xingni was carving words on Tang Xiaoxing's wrist.
This is not the method they had imagined for cracking the anime problem.
After Shu Yangqiu disappeared and was successfully replicated, he had already conquered this dungeon by himself many times.
She also tried various different solutions.
For example, write down what you need to do on a piece of paper.
Carve the words on the stone.
Create a path for yourself that must lead to the meteorite crater.
If Shu Yangqiu doesn't know what to do after being influenced by the anisophora, then she can only believe that her past self knew more than her present self, and then continue forward along the path she once laid out.
"Her thoughts are similar to mine," Shu Yangqiu murmured softly from outside the projection.
Unaware of Shu Yangqiu's thoughts outside, Jiang Xingni simply lowered her eyes and, with a craft knife, repeatedly wrote "Forward" on her wrist, layer upon layer, over and over again.
Jiang Xing glanced at Tang Xiaoxing.
"There must be something wrong with our memory," she said with certainty. "But we don't have paper and pen right now, so how can we write anything down?"
……
She walked step by step, holding the utility knife, to the very center.
With each step, countless thoughts battled within Jiang Xingni's mind.
Turn around and leave; don't go any further.
—You still have to take the college entrance exam. Shouldn't you be in school right now?
—How could you skip class? Don't you care about your grades? If you don't go back, you might drop out.
For children raised in the Chinese education system, skipping classes and dropping out of school are indeed severe punishments.
Not to mention the place where Jiang Xingni grew up. If Jiang Xingni wanted to defy fate and leave his original living environment to study for the college entrance examination and go to university, that would always be the most convenient and quickest way.
If Jiang Xingni misses this opportunity, he doesn't know how long he will have to work hard along other paths to completely break free from the place where he grew up.
The voices in Jiang Xingni's mind grew even more urgent.
They urged her again and again to leave, to turn around, and to never again have the thought of coming back to spy.
But in the instant Jiang Xing turned around, when she looked down, she saw the layers of "forward" carved into her arm with a knife.
Only when the blade cuts through the skin can such bloodstains be left.
After the wound scabbed over, it was cut open again. This was repeated hundreds of times. Jiang Xingni's arm was already a mess, and you could no longer see its original fair appearance or any kind of scars. Only the handwriting was extremely clear.
"forward."
"forward."
"forward."
Therefore, Jiang Xingni resolutely rejected his idea of retreating.