diymy Chapter 10. The World's Sunset Remains
Chapter 10. The World's Sunset Remains
A ceiling that is both familiar and somewhat unfamiliar.
...woke up.
After opening his eyes, Lei Ye stared at the ceiling for a long time, his mind blank, the information in his head exploding.
In just one day, so many things happened that Lei Ye couldn't even break down. It was one thing after another, one incident after another.
The situation has really taken a sharp turn for the worse.
However, Raino is calm now.
He noticed the blanket covering him; it was the very same thick winter quilt he used when he was writing in his rented room, with bright red peony flowers on the edges, exuding a strong Northeastern flavor.
He went home.
"call..."
After being transported to another world, although everything from his rented apartment was packed up and brought with him, Raino couldn't bear to use it. So, this room, filled with nostalgic elements, was definitely his home. He sat up with a touch of happiness, looking around; everything... was familiar from back then...
...Something feels off about this room.
Moreover, when he sat up, he felt something was wrong with his body. When Lei Ye lifted the blanket, he was surprised to see that he had several abdominal muscles on his lower abdomen. He touched them and felt that they were firm and had been sweating a lot.
Haha, abs? We novelists are lucky if we don't try to shrink ourselves into our stomachs like chickens, let alone have abs.
Lei Ye laughed for a while and then sighed. He felt that he was probably still terrified by everything that had happened yesterday and was hallucinating.
It was indeed an extremely illogical plot development, especially for an author like Raiye. He originally planned to revise and rewrite his experiences in the other world after returning home, but now, that rushed ending is simply unusable as the conclusion of a story.
It's okay, we can just copy the book he wrote in the other world... Let's write less weird stuff this time, it wouldn't be good if female fans misunderstood.
Lei Ye rolled out of bed, got dressed, and put on his watch...
Wait a minute? A watch?!
Lei Ye was slightly surprised; he hadn't expected to bring back souvenirs from another world after returning home.
I fiddled with the watch and checked the time on the dial. It was already afternoon, and the date was March 3rd.
March 3rd...
A sense of foreboding exploded in Lei Ye's mind. He scrambled to his computer desk and frantically pressed the power button on his secondhand Alienware, but the screen wouldn't light up. Frustrated, he crawled under the desk and followed the power cord to find a socket, wondering if he'd forgotten to plug it in. But when he lifted the desk and peeked inside, he didn't see a socket, but rather a strange object he'd never seen before...
Completely bewildered, Lei Ye couldn't help but reach out and pry it open. After flipping up the strangely shaped lid, he saw a large, valuable magic stone.
"Um?!"
Lei Yeren was dumbfounded. It was like when he finished playing with the Thousand Love Flowers game, he made a wish to the gods to marry Xiaoyu, and the gods agreed. Then, on their wedding night, when they lifted the veil, they saw Xiaoyu from the Northeast.
It's all about playing in the corner, not the big corner! Dude, something's not right here!
Lei Ye slumped in his seat for a while, looking completely bewildered.
The drawer on the left side of the table was half open. Lost in thought, Raino unconsciously pulled it open and saw something even more unsettling.
(Special Grade Engineer Professional Qualification Certificate)
Here we need to talk about the levels of each profession.
It's very simple. Taking the common mage profession in guilds as an example, the explorer who has just registered and decided to take the mage path is a novice mage. Then there are junior, intermediate and senior mages. Each level requires passing an exam. The one that Loya passed the exam a few days ago is the senior mage professional qualification certificate, which means that she has become a powerful mage who can stand alone in Hillius.
However, those who reach the highest and highest levels of magic, such as special-grade and super-grade magic, cannot be achieved through learning and hard work alone; their status is irreversible and can only be attained through talent.
Of course, most of the guild members are reckless outlaws who do their own thing, and the vast majority of them don't care much about these certificates. They usually just do a small mission together to verify each other's strength. But for non-combat professions, these certificates are worth several levels more.
Especially in engineering, a field with very few practitioners.
Lei Ye flipped through the certificate. On the front page was a black and white cartoon-style portrait. Lei Ye immediately recognized it as his own portrait that had been "beautified" by the artist he had asked. Below it was his name—Lei Ye.
There's something else underneath this certificate.
(Frey Empire House Ownership Certificate)
(Special Business License for Hilarius Magic Items)
They were all covered in his name, and every single one of them had his face on it.
The happiness of returning home vanished, and Lei Ye's thoughts were pulled back to that damned other world. He panted heavily, closed his eyes to rest for a while, and then forced himself to start checking the other drawers one by one.
Most of them were household items unique to this other world, but there were also some high-end items that Raino had never seen before. There was one that looked like an automatic razor. Raino tried it out with a blank expression and found that its performance was actually similar to the razor he used on Earth.
This razor even has a seafood and floral scent.
Has the technology level in this other world already reached this point?
Speaking of what happened yesterday... He remembered that he had fainted in the scorched earth, and when he woke up, was he in the scorched earth?
No, that's not right...
Thinking of the documents he had just found, Lei Ye felt a wave of nausea. Everything he saw was shockingly different from any memory in his mind. This was neither his messy rented room nor his simple short-stay hotel. Where was he?
He got up and walked slowly to the door. As soon as he opened the door, bright sunlight streamed in through the huge glass wall. The unfamiliar room looked like a small shop, with three rows of shelves filled with all sorts of trinkets. Lei Ye looked back at the door he had just passed through and suddenly had a strong sense of déjà vu. It looked like a small restaurant run by a husband and wife, with the outside for receiving customers and the inside being the bedroom. It was not only convenient but also saved a lot of rent.
Moreover, the decor was very cozy, as if a thrifty and hardworking woman had been meticulously tidying it up every day.
"Boss Lei—" someone called out from outside.
He turned his head and saw someone waving at him.
Raino pointed to himself, "Me?"
Wow, Boss Lei, this title is really novel. Lei Ye has always been called "the insane mom-lover" or "that pervert who calls me mom" or something like that. The last title he received was something like "wildhorn monster". I've never heard anyone call him Boss Lei such a nice name.
The way he addressed him was so normal it was almost laughable. Lei Ye took two steps toward him and sized him up.
"Hey you! Aren't you called Tucker? You're not dead?"
Lei Ye tried hard to recall, then suddenly clapped his hands and remembered the guy's name. He was one of the top ten warriors in the guild, and Lei Ye had even cooperated with him a few times when he was sent out as a mercenary.
That's not important. What's important is that Lei Ye just saw him being killed by Ye Lei's giant tentacles yesterday. How did he come back to life?
"Pah! What bad luck!" Tucker's face immediately fell. "I'm telling you, Mr. Lei, how can you do business like this? Even if you don't say auspicious words, at least don't curse people. I'm here to pick up the gun head, pickup code 42."
"Ah, the pickup code..."
This word, which really shouldn't appear in another world, made Raino laugh out loud; he found it increasingly absurd.
Just now, when he was by the shelf, he did see that the items on it had labels. He looked for them according to the numbers and sure enough, he found the Silver Edge spearhead with the number 42 on the right shelf. Lei Ye picked it up and shook it, and couldn't help but admire it in his heart. This quality must have been made of very high-grade metal.
Blacksmiths who can process special metals are very expensive.
For some reason, he suddenly thought of Ye Lei's machine tool, his expression froze, and he handed the gun head to Tucker without saying a word.
Perhaps sensing that Raiye was not in a good mood, Tucker didn't say anything, picked up the gun and left.
After walking a little further away, Lei Ye heard him muttering to himself.
"That's weird, who provoked this guy for what..."
Although he wasn't very familiar with Tucker, Raiye remembered him clearly as a hot-tempered man. However, Tucker's tone was so amiable that Raiye couldn't match him with the image in his memory.
Then again, if I can hear sounds from that far away, does that mean my hearing is really that good?
Suddenly, Lei Ye thought of something, pushed open the door, and quickly caught up with Tucker.
"Wait a moment!"
"What? What's wrong?" Tucker turned around in confusion. "I put the pickup code on the table, didn't you see it?"
"That's not what I meant. You changed to a new gun tip, right? What about the old one?"
"?"
After a brief negotiation, Lei Ye got the old gun barrel from Tucker without asking for any money. Lei Ye was surprised that this hot-tempered man had become so easy to talk to, while examining the battle-scarred metal gun barrel.
It was indeed an unfamiliar process, imbued with the sweet scent of science.
Where did it come from?
Lei Ye stood on the unfamiliar yet familiar street, looking around. Amidst the strange gazes of the crowd, he slowly turned his body. Despite many small and large discrepancies, Lei Ye quickly recognized that this was the bustling street in the very center of Xilius City. It had been completely destroyed by the super tentacles yesterday, but today it had been reborn.
A tremendous sense of unease, accompanied by dizziness, washed over Lei Ye's brain. He slowly squatted down and activated the self-check interface.
Then...
Two new lines of text have been added to the familiar description of the inherent skill "Mom's Coin".
[The Undying, Evil Kin]
You have had some of your attributes and abilities shared.
The skill description was simple, but Lei Ye couldn't understand it. First, he didn't know what this "Undying Evil" was. Second, since transmigrating, Lei Ye hadn't learned any skills other than "Mommy's Curse." And besides, this "Mommy's Curse"...
Lei Ye looked closely.
"what?"
The self-check panel shows that the number of mothers has changed.
4.
This was even more painful than killing Lei Ye. He could no longer bear it and cried out to the heavens.
"No--!!!"
...
Ten minutes later.
Exhausted, Lei Ye went to the Explorers' Guild. According to the explorers' experience, when encountering any perplexing issues, one should go to the guild to gather information, and now he had accumulated too many questions that needed to be answered.
As soon as Lei Ye entered the Explorers' Guild, everyone looked at him and laughed. Some shouted, "Boss Lei, you're not obediently minding the shop anymore, you've snuck out to play again."
Looking around, almost all the faces were familiar, yet all were unfamiliar.
Because of his constant attempts to find a mother figure for himself, Lei Ye had a terrible reputation in the guild. Some explorer teams, which were mostly female, would even avoid him. But today, they actually took the initiative to greet him.
It's like having a cheat code in an RPG game to max out your reputation in a region; NPCs who were rude yesterday have become all smiles and gentleness, as if you were meeting them for the first time.
Lei Ye responded to each of them, as if it were a lifetime ago.
After wandering around for a short while, Raino spotted a person drinking silently at a single table in the corner. She was wearing a tattered hood, so her face couldn't be seen, but her flowing blonde hair and the staff standing to the side were all too familiar to Raino.
The figure he had spent five years with brought Lei Ye to the peak of his dazed state.
The image of that severed hand flashed through my mind, and the pain that had been suppressed in my heart at that time surged up at this moment.
After experiencing Loya's death, Raino finally understood his feelings for her.
She was the first lovely girl he formed a deep bond with in this other world, the one who accompanied him from the first day to the last... Raino always wondered if he had some special feelings for her, so he called her "Mom" everywhere but never laid a hand on her. Later, he finally decided to make Loya his "Mom" too, which was actually the answer to that special feeling.
She is my best friend and my best partner.
She has more flaws than anyone else in the Forest River, but Raino is more tolerant of her, not only because Raino knows that she is definitely not a bad person in general, but also because he has long regarded her as a close friend.
It's normal for people to have things they don't like about each other, and it's okay to argue occasionally. Even if someone leaves the group and gradually loses contact, it doesn't matter. Lei Ye just doesn't want to see his old friend die.
I just went through the worst few dozen hours of my life and I'm still in a state of chaos, but at least you're alive, which is good.
Lei Ye couldn't help but give her a light hug from behind. It was very light; he just hugged her shoulders, keeping a distance, like an old friend who had been separated for a long time.
"ah!"
"Holy crap, what's that noise?"
"Where did this dead clamp come from..." This shout startled Lei Ye, who had been building up his emotions for a long time. Then he was hit hard by Loya's elbow. When he looked up from his stomach and started gagging, he met Loya's eyes as she stood up, grabbed her staff, and pulled out... a short sword.
For a fleeting moment, Loya revealed a sharp, combative expression, an expression Lei Ye found unfamiliar. Then, Loya lowered her head, revealing a shy expression, an expression even more unfamiliar.
Her face, hidden under the hood, was still so beautiful, possessing the dreamlike beauty unique to elves, and her pure white skin looked as soft as cotton candy.
But her beautiful long blonde hair was cut quite short, making her look very capable.
Most importantly, why is this thing so exaggerated? It can't be covered up at all. Did it use a slime pad?
Raino couldn't help but reach out and poke it. It wasn't slime; it was much softer. Even with Raino's experience, this was the first time he had ever touched a monster material with this kind of texture.
So Loya really went all out this time.
When Raino first saw Loya, he noticed her steel-plate-like figure instead of her beauty. He thought to himself, "How can someone be so flat-chested?" But after seeing her for a while, he got used to it. Anyway, she looked pretty good even flat-chested. However, today, Raino saw the Raino version of Loya for the first time and was amazed.
This time, Loya didn't elbow Lei Ye; instead, she trembled and shrank her shoulders.
"No...don't do this..."
What the heck?
Raino was scared off again.
Loya's face flushed red, and even her neck turned pink. Lei Ye knew that Loya would blush when she was angry and about to scold someone, but he had never heard of her showing such a girlish expression.
Can you bring out your arrogant and sarcastic side?
No, Loya tugged at her sleeve and pulled at her bangs, scratching and touching herself as if she were being pricked all over.
Finally, he lowered his head and murmured softly.
"Um... why did you come here today...?"
Good heavens, what's going on?
"Stop squeezing me, I can't take it anymore! Why are you talking like that? It's me! Raino!"
"What do you mean... I'm sorry, I don't quite understand..."
"This is ridiculous, so stupid, so incredibly stupid! If it were any of you joking, would it have ended here? Everyone else is still alive, right? Come out here! Has someone learned some kind of magic that can alter common sense and is using me as an experiment for amusement? Don't think I'm stupid. I used to see this stuff every day, I know it inside and out! Come out here and explain yourself. I'm not angry, I'll even buy you drinks. But if..."
Loya patted Lei Ye to interrupt him, "Who are the others...?"
"Well, my teammates."
The clear confusion in Loya's eyes didn't seem like an act at all. Lei Ye was so frustrated that he scratched his head and, in a fit of anger, recited the names of the members of the Forest River one by one.
After listening to all this in silence, Loya shook her head dejectedly.
"Why are you making fun of me like this? You know perfectly well that I've always been a lone wolf explorer."
"You're a lone wolf among eggs, we've been teammates for five years, okay?"
After another brief silence, Loya let out a soft whisper.
"I'd like to..."
There's really no other way.
Lei Ye started reaching into his pocket to find the little notebook he always carried with him as a writer to record inspiration. He remembered writing down many interesting things in it every day when he first met Luo Ya, which was a record of their experiences as novice explorers.
As Lei Ye had expected, there were a lot of unfamiliar things in the storage bag. He even found a large number of storage bags in the storage bag, which greatly reduced the efficiency of the search.
The storage bag set instantly sent chills down his spine. He forced himself not to think about anything related to the storage bag set and frantically searched through it.
He finally found the notebook in a storage bag full of odds and ends.
Flip through.
-
Today is the first day of my time travel, and I've decided to record some things in a semi-diary style.
Honestly, the strength of the cheat code is a bit hard to maintain, but the strength ceiling seems quite high. I just don't know if this "mother" is that easy to increase. I'll have to ask if there's a place that sells slaves after I get to know these natives a bit better in a few days.
I helped an elf named Loya. She was incredibly beautiful and looked a bit silly, like she had just run out of the forest. Selling the cup and treating her to something to eat was a good gamble. I asked her if she wanted to team up with me, and honestly, I think it has potential.
Let's see how she replies tomorrow.
It really hurts. I need to find a way to get the money to redeem the cup quickly. It's brand new and I haven't used it much yet. I haven't even finished paying off the installments.
-
What do you mean by someone looking for me everywhere?
They even issued a special request to find the person.
There must be some organization in this world that specifically targets time travelers, right? I remember I've been keeping a very low profile.
Because of that really useful cup?
-
As if doused with a bucket of ice water, Lei Ye's anxiety cooled down rapidly.
My hand holding the notebook trembled slightly.
The first paragraph was exactly the same as he remembered, but he had no recollection of the second paragraph at all. During that time, Lei Ye was indeed very low-key, but he never encountered any trouble. Everyone in the guild was also a very nice person, and they took the initiative to provide a lot of help before Lei Ye started calling everyone "Mom".
When talking about the beginning, these are the only things Lei Ye can think of. If someone had posted a missing person request for him, Lei Ye would definitely remember it.
so...
Lei Ye swallowed hard. As he searched for the notebook, he gradually had a premonition that the contents might be distorted, but he never imagined that the distortion would start so early.
He had a very bad feeling. After seeing what happened next... he could no longer deny his suspicions.
I don't care about this or that!
Lei Ye gritted his teeth and turned the page.
-
The fraud ring is quite powerful; they managed to hire such beautiful actresses.
To say she overdid it would be too kind of her. Even if she were to lie, why would she come up and cross her arms and claim to be her girlfriend? Loya looked like she was about to say something, but I don't think she needs to worry at all. I've seen plenty of these kinds of low-level scams.
I'm just playing along with her; everything is under control.
-
Her name is Ye Lei.
The name is as lovely as the person.
He speaks in a somewhat awkward way and keeps asking me strange questions.
"How did you do that? That's amazing! No wonder you're my great writer."
"But do you really like me? You seemed very unhappy yesterday, and you didn't seem to remember me."
"Can we leave this country together?"
He really seemed like a member of a fraud ring, but something felt off, though I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
-
Another world, how wonderful, I get a female fan right from the start.
She's so great! She gives you money, provides cheat codes, and is incredibly cute. She's much better than that stupid cheat code.
-
I was extremely disappointed when I first smelled the shoes that the female fan had taken off.
Do feet really smell that bad in this world?
It smells awful, I don't want to play with her anymore.
-
Hey, it doesn't smell that bad anymore.
Just right.
I think I've fallen for her again.
-
These past few days have been absolutely wonderful; I feel like living here might not be such a bad idea.
I am very happy.
She's adorable and fascinated by all my stories. Not only did she ask me to start a new series here, but she also pestered me to tell her short stories every night.
What can I say? It's nothing more than some clichéd online novels: time travel, rebirth, and cheat codes.
When she talked about being reborn, her eyes sparkled, and she told me that this might be my cheat code.
But I really don't think so.
I think even if this world really has the overused cheat code of "being able to live a second life,"
Then the person who was reborn shouldn't be me.
is her.