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Wait, Roselle?
Lin Ruo blinked, his gaze landing on the face that could be described as young and handsome. The other party was sitting on the ground, with visible green grass clippings, brown dead leaves, and black-gray mud on his body.
Seeing this, Lin Ruo immediately understood that Roselle seemed to have just fallen, and it was very likely that he had tripped over him.
At the same time, a surge of information appeared in Lin Ruo's mind.
After digesting that information, Lin Ruo finally understood what was going on. This was a historical projection, or rather, the Fifth Epoch, corresponding to one of the historical phantoms of Roselle's era. It was a phantom image cut from the real history by the past him.
Everything here is like reality, because it corresponds to real historical fragments. You can even witness events that once happened here, travel from one end of the continent to the other, and have normal conversations with the people within.
Everything here is illusory, because everything that happens in the historical projection will not truly change the past. At most, it will have some impact on reality, such as if Roselle were still alive, he might obtain some fragmented memories of himself from the historical projection, but that would be all. As for the people in the historical projection, even if they appear to be real living beings, their essence is false, like special historical projections.
If something unexpected happened to Lin Ruo himself in the historical projection, such as dying, he wouldn't really die, but would simply "wake up" in reality. And if he wanted to leave, it would only take a thought.
The historical projection is like a dream. No matter how real the dream is, it is still false, and it will end. Even if Lin Ruo does nothing, as time passes and everything reaches its end, the historical projection will also shatter.
And what Lin Ruo has to do is to collect objects bearing traces of Roselle within this historical projection.
As for how to rescue people after collecting all the objects bearing traces from Roselle's youth to his final death, the information didn't say.
"It has the flavor of collecting Dragon Balls to summon Shenron… But to be able to do things like cutting out historical phantoms, what exactly am I!" Lin Ruo complained in his heart, looking at the young Roselle in front of him, his mood was quite complicated.
This was the first time he had seen Roselle since losing his memory.
Although it was just a special historical projection, it was still worth commemorating.
And… "Perhaps I can also see the past me here? I hope he's not too fierce." Lin Ruo slandered in his heart, propping himself up to sit up, and looking at Roselle in front of him, he raised an eyebrow and said, "Who are you?"
"Shouldn't that question be asked by me?" Roselle said unhappily, while getting up from the ground, patting the grass clippings off his body, and muttering in a low voice, "Unlucky!"
"I don't think you're unlucky. Perhaps today is your lucky day," Lin Ruo said slowly, also getting up from the ground. As he got up, he also observed his surroundings.
This was probably a forest, but not the kind that was rarely visited.
Lin Ruo's gaze fell on Roselle, who was wearing hunting clothes, which gave Lin Ruo a guess about the current time. He opened his mouth and said, "Is today February 28, 1143?"
The historical projection basically extracts the more critical time periods for Roselle, and the first historical projection undoubtedly corresponds to the period when he had just transmigrated.
According to Roselle's diary, Lin Ruo knew that it was on February 28, 1143, that he got lost in the forest while hunting, and eventually witnessed the battle between the official Beyonders of the Eternal Blazing Sun Church and wild Beyonders, finally opening the door to a new world.
If the time he entered was this day, it was obviously reasonable.
"Otherwise?" Roselle looked at Lin Ruo suspiciously. He now suspected that the person who was lying asleep in the forest for no reason had something wrong with his brain.
This made Roselle increasingly feel that he was unlucky today. He got lost in the forest, fell, and met someone who might have a problem with his brain.
"My brain is fine, I'm just a little dazed from sleeping. More than that, are you lost?" Lin Ruo said with a smile, while also looking at Roselle in front of him.
He was thinking about what kind of things would be the objects bearing traces of the other party in this so-called historical projection fragment.
Roselle's diary? Commemorative items? Or valuable items?
"Do you know how to get out?" Roselle heard Lin Ruo's words and quickly asked. Although he felt that Lin Ruo was very suspicious, he had been lost in the forest for a while, and Roselle obviously wanted to get out more than being vigilant.
"I don't know." Lin Ruo shook his head. Before Roselle showed a disappointed expression, he said, "But I can divine."
"Are you a fortune teller who popped out of some corner?" Roselle said unhappily, who had originally been holding expectations. Obviously, he, who had not yet opened the door to the new world, was not interested in these mystical things.
Or rather, Roselle might have expectations for mysterious forces, but he didn't quite believe in the Lin Ruo in front of him.
After all, the other party didn't look mysterious at all.
"Hehe." Lin Ruo wasn't angry, he just slowly broke off a branch, preparing to use it as a prop for the next divination.
In fact, thinking was thinking, he wasn't in a hurry to collect those so-called objects bearing traces of Roselle.
After all, even if he knew that he had a good relationship with Roselle in the past, and had promised Bornova to rescue people, Lin Ruo still hadn't recovered much memory. He still had a feeling of facing the most familiar stranger when facing Medici, let alone facing Roselle.
Rather than ignoring the scenery in the historical projection, ignoring the stories that could be witnessed, ignoring the people who could be reacquainted while being in it, and even the memories that could be restored through it, and directly burying himself in collecting things and living like a tool person, Lin Ruo wanted to take this opportunity to reacquaint himself with Roselle, to get to know this era that had become history, and even to explore some secrets buried in history.
This was much more interesting than being a tool person.
Anyway, no matter how long he stayed in the historical projection, the time he returned to reality would be random, hovering in the range of one day to one week. Since this was the case, he might as well make himself feel more comfortable in the historical projection, just treat it as a vacation.
He had indeed been too busy during this period, and he could just take the opportunity to recuperate in the historical projection.
And… Lin Ruo felt his Conspirer ability and his eyes darkened for a moment.
He was also very curious whether he could digest potions in this historical projection.
If he could, could he also perform the advancement ceremony in this illusory world?
"I am not a magician, this is a fallacy." While thinking this, Lin Ruo said in a low voice that only he could hear, which naturally became mumbling in Roselle's ears.
Lin Ruo fiddled with the branch in his hand, performing divination.
But what he was divining was not a way out, but where there were Beyonder battles.
Roselle, who was next to him, saw the other party casually fiddling with the branch a few times, and finally seemed to determine a direction, and immediately felt that the person in front of him was a liar. He said unhappily, "Fortune teller, have you divined a way out?"
"No." Lin Ruo shook his head with a smile, and said, "But divination tells me that if we go that way, we will witness a Beyonder battle."
"Want to go take a look? Perhaps you will open the door to a new world!"
"Beyonders?" Roselle was stunned for a moment.
"Yes, Beyonders." Lin Ruo nodded, raised his foot and strode in that direction.
Of course, he could directly take action to prove the existence of Beyonders to Roselle, but that would lack a sense of ritual!
Lin Ruo still paid attention to the sense of ritual.
Roselle hesitated for a moment, but still followed.
Although he didn't think that the mumbling fortune teller in front of him really had any ability, out of some curiosity, he still decided to take a look.
Anyway, he was already lost, so it was the same no matter which way he went.
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