Chapter 80
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Chapter 80: Copying
"Big Brother, do you know my parents? I… I hope I won’t suddenly disappear like that other big brother just now." Wang Tiezhu suddenly stammered, asking Wang Yu.
"I do know your parents, and even your brother knows me. I actually lived in Wangjia Village. Just call me Brother Wang. As for whether you will disappear like that person just now, I need to ask you a few questions before I can know." Wang Yu looked at the boy’s familiar features and replied kindly.
"So Brother Wang has also been to Wangjia Village! That’s great! You can ask me anything, and I will definitely answer," the boy said happily, as if he had found a lifeline, promising as he patted his chest.
Helena stood by, smiling and silent.
"Tie Zhu, do you remember how you got to that dark place?" Wang Yu immediately asked the most important question.
"I’m not quite sure either. I only remember that I was sleeping in a room, and when I woke up, I was in that place," Wang Tiezhu said, clearly shaken by the dark space of the game pod. His face turned pale when Wang Yu mentioned it.
"What room were you sleeping in, your home in Wangjia Village?" Wang Yu furrowed his brow and asked again.
"No, I have been sleeping in a stone house recently," Wang Tiezhu shook his head repeatedly when he heard this.
"A stone house? Are you talking about the one on the cliff?" Wang Yu was taken aback and quickly asked more.
"Brother Wang, how do you know? That place is so strange. I clearly remember helping my parents farm in Wangjia Village, and suddenly, I found myself there.
The stone house is empty, and I live there alone. I don’t dare to walk around, and when I am hungry or thirsty, I just eat a kind of green dumpling that Uncle Gu brings me.
Those dumplings are really good! They smell delicious, and if I eat them every few days, I won’t feel hungry or thirsty.
To keep people from stealing, I secretly hid all the green balls under my bed.
By the way, Brother Wang, I seem to have grown up suddenly and I’m even taller than my brother…" Wang Tiezhu said in a jumble.
Wang Yu, however, became more and more surprised, unable to help but interrupt the boy’s words and ask,
"Who is this Uncle Gu you mentioned? Is he the one with half of his hair red? What did he say to you?"
"Brother Wang, do you know Uncle Gu too?
I woke up in the stone house and saw this Uncle Gu. He said that an ancestor made a mistake in a spell, causing my spirit to be damaged and I lost part of my memory. So that ancestor gave me a title of inner disciple or something like that.
I didn’t understand what he meant, so I just agreed with everything.
By the way, in the first few days, he came every day to teach me the Fire Spirit Skill, making my body feel warm and it was really interesting. But then he started coming less and less, and the last time I saw him was six or seven days ago." Wang Tiezhu recalled as he spoke, seeming very fond of this "Uncle Gu."
Wang Yu listened to this and was completely speechless.
By this time, he still did not understand what had happened.
It turned out that during this time, it was actually this Wang Tiezhu who was controlling his body.
As the original owner of this body in the world of cultivation, he thought that the other person had been replaced by his own consciousness and no longer existed, but it seemed that was not the case.
When his consciousness was forced out by Ancestor Li Huo’s magic, the original owner’s consciousness, Wang Tiezhu, somehow emerged from the body.
And Ancestor Li Huo seemed not to have noticed that the body had changed hands; instead, he thought his spell had failed, causing harm to the spirit and even losing part of the memory. He even gave him the status of an inner disciple as a reward.
But from Wang Tiezhu’s account, Martial Uncle Gu took good care of him, though he did not know if it was ordered by Ancestor Li Huo or if it was Martial Uncle Gu’s own intention.
Wang Yu was deep in thought, his expression changing from happy to worried.
"Brother Wang, will I be okay?" Seeing the situation, Wang Tiezhu couldn’t help but whisper.
"Don’t worry, you will most likely be fine. Just stay here for now, and I will find a way to help you see the light of day again." Wang Yu comforted the young boy.
He felt a bit guilty about taking over the young boy’s body, and if he had a chance to make it up to him, he would not hesitate to help.
"That’s wonderful!"
Wang Tiezhu, upon hearing this, put on a relieved expression.
The blonde woman, who had been standing beside them, listened to their conversation and showed a slight change in her expression before finally speaking up:
"Are you sure we can stay here for a long time without any problems?"
"I’ll find out if it’s certain right away. Taiyuan, log out." Wang Yu said calmly and then suddenly shouted at the huge screen.
In the next moment, Wang Yu felt a bright flash and found himself back on the bed in the stone house.
He raised his hands to check, saw nothing unusual about his body, then closed his eyes and used his divine sense to scan his mind ocean, finding no abnormalities. He sighed in relief, feeling somewhat reassured.
He did not want to discover that other divine senses were still spying on him in his mind.
Then Wang Yu reached out and searched under the bed, and he really found a small wooden box. When he opened it, he saw seven or eight green pills that filled the air with a wonderful fragrance.
It seemed to be the Inedia Pill.
Wang Yu’s mind quickly flashed back to the last few pages of the book he had read, "Introduction to Pharmacology," which showed several useful pills.
He quietly put the box into his storage bag and whispered, "Taiyuan, go to the login screen."
In a flash of white light, Wang Yu appeared again in the silver hall.
The blonde beauty and Wang Tiezhu were still there.
"How long have I been gone? Have you both been here the whole time I was away?" Wang Yu asked the blonde woman.
"We have both been here the entire time; you just disappeared for a little while, about one minute and thirty-six seconds," the blonde woman answered without hesitation, her eyes briefly flickering.
The boy next to her nodded repeatedly.
"So, you can stay here for a long time, and time moves at the same speed inside and outside." Wang Yu murmured to himself.
"I should be able to stay here for a long time, but this little one might not be able to." Helena sighed at that moment.
"What does that mean?" Wang Yu paused and looked at the blonde woman.
The young boy Wang Tiezhu became anxious again upon hearing this.
"Don’t you see? Little one, lift your shirt." The blonde woman turned and instructed the boy.
Wang Tiezhu hesitated for a moment and glanced at Wang Yu.
Wang Yu frowned but still nodded at him.
Only then did the boy pull his shirt up to his belly.
When Wang Yu clearly saw the situation on his belly, his expression changed dramatically.
There was a blurry, large hole appearing on the boy’s stomach, and it was rapidly expanding around him at a visible speed.
"Not long ago, I felt his body’s energy was slowly fading. At first, it was very slow, but then it began to speed up. Now, he probably has about five or six minutes left before he completely disappears," the blonde woman said calmly.
"What’s going on? Didn’t you say he is an independent being? How can he disappear?" Wang Yu instinctively clenched his hands and angrily asked the woman.
"It’s true he is an independent being, but the energy that makes up his body is the same as yours."
"In my electromagnetic sensing, his body’s energy is rapidly flowing towards you, just like a strong and a weak magnetic field coming close together; the strong magnetic field will absorb all the energy from the weaker one," the blonde woman explained slowly with an example.
"Brother Wang, help me?" Wang Tiezhu faintly understood something and, seeing the large hole on his stomach, panicked and called for Wang Yu’s help.
"What if I leave this place?" Wang Yu thought quickly and asked.
"It’s the same. I’ve observed that even when you left just now, his body’s energy continued to drain; it cannot be stopped," Helena still shook her head.
The boy’s face turned pale.
"So, you have no way to help him? Who just told me that I would be very useful?" Wang Yu glanced at the blonde woman and said coldly.
"Who says there is no way? In a certain sense, it is still possible to save him. Have you forgotten my abilities?" Helena replied with a light laugh, then raised her hand, lightning flaring between her fingers, with the sound of thunder.
"You mean memory copying!" Wang Yu suddenly seemed to understand.
"That’s right. I found that even here, my electromagnetic powers can still be used, but I cannot replenish the mental energy I use because I don’t have a body. So, I need you to agree to one condition before I can help you copy his memories. This way, he might even be brought back to life later," the blonde woman said confidently.
"What condition? Tell me," Wang Yu thought for a moment and said quickly.
"It’s simple. You just have to promise to take me away from here one day," the blonde woman said freely.
"How do you know that I really have the ability to take you away from here?" Wang Yu asked back.
"Even if you can’t do it now, it doesn’t mean you won’t be able to in the future. I only need a promise from you. If you want to change your mind later, that’s up to you. I haven’t added any harsh conditions," Helena replied calmly.
Wang Yu fell silent upon hearing this.
"Brother Wang, it is getting bigger and bigger, I can no longer feel my lower body," Wang Tiezhu shouted to Wang Yu with a nearly crying voice.
Wang Yu heard this and quickly looked over again.
He saw that the boy’s belly had a blurred large hole that was almost splitting his body in two, yet he was still able to speak, looking very strange.
"Alright, you can go ahead and do it. I accept this condition," Wang Yu sighed and finally agreed to the woman’s terms.
"Very good, it’s a deal. Although there is no helmet to help, it just uses a bit more mental energy," Helena replied with a beaming smile, and the arc of light in her hand grew brighter as she gracefully walked toward the boy across from her.