Chapter 103 5 years
Zhongli is not afraid of the price being too heavy, but if the price is not his own, but at the cost of others, he would not do such a thing.
Opposite Zhongli, when Liu Bai talked about marriage, Nashida put her hand on her chest with some worry.
For example, what if Morax also wants him to be his son-in-law?
With such worries in her heart, Nashida finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Zhongli shake his head slightly.
"Hmm...does the price have to be this high?"
Zhong Li still had some final hesitation in his heart, so he asked Liu Bai again.
"Not really, but why are you asking this, Brother Zhongli?"
Liu Bai shook his head, then seemed to have thought of something and asked subconsciously:
"Brother Zhongli, do you also have a mother you want to resurrect?"
Zhongli: "..."
“Ahem, it’s not impossible. After all, Brother Zhongli, you still have your charm…”
"It's just that I no longer have any resurrection coins to use..."
Liu Bai seemed to recall the "Big Sister Zhong Li" from the past. He coughed lightly and then spoke, but he shook his head with some regret at the end.
"..."
Before Zhongli could respond, Nashida's fist had already hardened.
"No, I'm just a little curious. After all, this is not a miracle that can be achieved by human power. It is not easy to drive away the shadow of death."
Zhongli naturally couldn't agree to such a thing, so he simply pretended that he didn't think so.
"Okay... girl, why are you pinching me?"
Liu Bai had no choice but to nod his head, without doubting what Zhongli said. Then he looked down at Nashida in confusion. The latter withdrew her hands, hugged them to her chest, turned her head away and ignored Liu Bai.
"Come to think of it, I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon, but now that we have met, I should fulfill the contract we made last time."
After giving up that idea, Zhongli brought up another matter.
"Contract? Don't worry, brother Zhongli. No one knows that your Heart of God is with me except me and my girl."
Hearing Zhongli's words, Liu Bai subconsciously thought it was a matter concerning the Heart of God, and immediately patted his chest to assure himself.
After leaving the consciousness space left by the Great Compassion Tree King last time, Nashida returned the two God's Hearts to Liu Bai.
"It's not this contract. I mean the matter that Ruota entrusted to you, about your life experience, or your past."
Zhongli shook his head and explained.
This was the last time he asked Ruoli, who wanted to go back to the Layered Abyss to "visit relatives", to help pass it to Liu Bai.
"My background? Am I not a time traveler? What background can I have?"
Liu Bai put his hands down, crossed them in front of Nashida and hugged her, then asked with some confusion.
However, due to the existence of "cognitive correction", his words became...
"My background? Didn't I just pop out of a crack in a rock? What kind of background could I have?"
Faced with Liu Bai's doubts, Zhongli did not explain, but took out a fairy mechanism box.
"Before that, please take a look at the items in the box. If you can recognize him, it proves that I didn't recognize the wrong person."
Zhongli said as he handed the exquisite green mechanism box to Liu Bai.
Liu Bai reached out and took the green mechanism box, while Zhongli raised his hand and concentrated some rock elemental power, tapping several positions on the mechanism box in sequence.
pat-
The mechanism box started to work and slowly opened in front of Liu Bai and Nashida.
"It's an epic..."
Looking at the golden light flashing in the mechanism box, Liu Bai muttered subconsciously.
As the mechanism box was opened, the golden light disappeared, leaving only a black square object lying quietly in the mechanism box.
"Is this... a cell phone?!"
After seeing the items inside the mechanism box, Liu Bai was a little confused.
Although the object in the mechanism box was very old and so broken that it was difficult to tell what brand it was, Liu Bai could confirm that it was a mobile phone.
Although Liu Bai's memory is not very good, he has a deep impression of the things that happened before he traveled through time and is rarely affected by the present.
"It seems you do know him."
Seeing Liu Bai's reaction and the name of the object, Zhongli nodded slightly.
Nashida was in Liu Bai's arms and was the person closest to the mechanism box. She looked at the objects in the mechanism box curiously, but she didn't recognize them at all.
"Remember what I said before? You look very similar to an old friend of mine who was a businessman. The items he sold were all very rare. The item in this box was one of the items he sold."
"But then one day he disappeared without a trace, and the item became unusable after that."
Zhongli explained to the confused Liu Bai the origin of the objects in the mechanism box.
"…When did you two meet?"
Liu Bai couldn't help but ask Zhongli.
If what Zhongli said is true, then wouldn’t I be the one selling this thing?
But where did I get the phone? It couldn't have been given by the system, right?
"Five hundred years ago, before the Kanreya catastrophe."
"We never saw each other again after that. I thought you died in the disaster."
Zhongli explained to Liu Bai.
The reason why he wanted to mention this to Liu Bai was that when they were together in Liyue before, he found that Liu Bai seemed to have no memory of what happened before.
His mental state inevitably makes people who know him a little worried.
"...Five hundred years ago?"
Liu Bai was a little confused. Wasn't he a baby who was less than 500 months old? How could he have traveled through time 500 years ago...
Five hundred years ago...
Liu Bai was reluctant to believe it, but when he looked at the items in the mechanism box, he seemed to have no choice but to believe it.
"But didn't the reporter from Fontaine just now say that you grew up in Fontaine?"
At this moment, Nashida suddenly spoke.
"……yes?"
Nashida's words also made Liu Bai realize the problem.
"I don't know that, but you are exactly the same as the person who sold the item."
Zhongli was unaware of Liu Bai's experience in Fontainebleau, so he could only shake his head slightly.
"Dog system, dog system, tell me what's going on."
Liu Bai thought about it and decided to ask his system for help.
"Ding Di, according to the system detection, the host's body age is 20 years old."
"But according to system records, the initial version of this system did have a merchant function, which allowed people to sell common items from other worlds and receive system rewards. However, after the upgrade, this function has been abandoned due to its low efficiency."
The system quickly gave an answer, but the two answers made it even more difficult for Liu Bai to confirm whether the person from five hundred years ago was himself.
"Five hundred years ago..."
Liu Bai frowned and tried to recall in his mind.
But when he tried to recall it, his mind became gray, just like when he tried to recall his experience in Fontaine, he couldn't think of anything at all.
The harder I tried to recall, the more of a headache I felt.
……
"According to the ruling of the cardinal, Yves, guilty."
"Ten years in prison."
At the Opicle Opera House, the most impartial supreme judge announced the final verdict of the day.
But just as he finished speaking, the Cardinal of Oracle suddenly started working again, emitting a blue light.
"Ok?"
This was the first time in five hundred years that such a change had occurred. The Chief Judge was somewhat puzzled, and the audience in the audience also stared at the cardinal who was issuing the decree and making the ruling in confusion.
"Ms. Funina, do you know what this is about?"
Seeing the abnormality in the cardinal's decree, the Supreme Inquisitor had no choice but to question the girl in the VIP seat.
"Eh... I, I don't know. Ahem, maybe something went wrong. After all, it has been working non-stop for five hundred years, so it will get tired. Maybe it will be fine if we wait a little longer."
The girl in the VIP seat coughed lightly and explained.
……