coobybook Chapter 120 What is this?
Chapter 120 What is this?
Chapter 120 120 What is this?
After receiving no response for a long time, the strange voice repeated itself:
"The host has achieved resurrection, and the spiritual energy concentration in the space has reached 100%, meeting the upgrade requirements. Host, would you like to upgrade?"
Ye Pianran finally came to her senses, took two steps back in horror, and whispered, "Who, who is speaking here?"
"Upgrade or not?"
"Who are you?! Stop playing tricks here and get out here right now!" Ye Pianran's eyes turned cold as she shouted sharply, "Yue'er, Yue'er!"
A strange sound: ...
Just as Ye Pianran was wondering why no one paid any attention to her despite her loud shouts, a huge plaque suddenly appeared in front of her. The plaque was suspended in the air, with a long string of characters carved on its top, looking extremely eerie.
The sudden appearance of the plaque startled Ye Pianran. She closed her eyes and opened them again, turning left and then right, only to find that no matter where she turned, the plaque remained in front of her, which made her quite annoyed.
Where did this sign come from? Why is it stuck to her like a leech? What's going on here?
With no other option, she turned her gaze to the long string of characters on the plaque and tried to read it aloud:
"Host...you have achieved resurrection from the dead, the...degree...has...reached...sufficient...conditions...Host, do you......"
She read it haltingly, recognizing only a few words in each sentence, and muttered with a frown, "What on earth is written here? Why can't I understand it?"
The room fell silent for a moment, then the words on the plaque changed completely. Now Ye Pianran could finally understand the words—wasn't it the same question the strange voice had been asking her?
The voice asked her the same question three times, and now there's a plaque standing in front of her. Could there be some hidden meaning in this?
Curious, Ye Pianran reached out and touched the plaque in front of her. When her fingers truly touched it, she gasped in surprise, then pressed firmly on the raised "Yes" mark below the plaque.
"The system is about to upgrade, which will take 3 minutes. Please wait patiently."
Sure enough, the eerie voice appeared in her ear again, but this time she still couldn't quite understand what it was saying.
System? Booting up? 3 minutes? Host? What are all these?
As soon as the eerie sound ended, a bright red light suddenly shone in the room. Ye Pianran felt as if the red mole on her tiger's mouth was being burned by a raging fire, and she felt an unbearable pain. Just as she was about to look down to check, she suddenly felt a lightness in her tiger's mouth. Something broke through the layers of restraints and rose from her palm, suddenly attacking her face!
Ye Pianran had no time to dodge and could only watch helplessly as a bird composed of countless red rays crashed into her brow. She felt a slight pain between her brows, and then her mind went blank. Suddenly, thick fog surged around her, and in the blink of an eye, she was back in the spatial spiritual realm that had inexplicably appeared in her body before.
However, to her surprise, the spiritual realm at this time was quite different from what it had been before—
The space, which was originally only five acres in size, had now expanded considerably, stretching out in two directions with no end in sight, giving it a sense of vastness. The flowering trees she had planted in the space had not only grown taller by a full two zhang, but their petals had also become more vibrant in color, and their fragrance was more refreshing and pleasant than before. In addition, Ye Pianran also noticed that the white mist in the air, which had been so thick that it seemed to be condensing into clouds, had thinned out considerably, with only a few thin wisps of white mist remaining, lingering among the flowering trees, as if draping them in a light veil, making them appear ethereal and beautiful.
Upon discovering the dramatic changes in the spiritual realm, Ye Pianran quickly turned to examine the spiritual spring within the space. Finding that even the spiritual spring had expanded by a full two acres, she finally let out a long breath and revealed a knowing smile.
"It seems that the strange phenomenon that appeared just now was related to the change in the spiritual realm," she murmured to herself.
Suddenly, the clear chirping of birds reached her ears. Ye Pianran remembered the bird-shaped red light that had entered her brow earlier. She quickly turned around and saw a small red bird that shouldn't be in the spiritual realm flapping its wings and flying towards her.
The bird flew up and stopped in front of her. Its body was about the size of Ye Pianran's palm. It was entirely red, with smooth and bright feathers. A small tuft of downy feathers was sticking up on its forehead. Its eyes were dark and bright, and its claws were extremely sharp. It was no longer a phantom made of light, but a real, living bird.
Ye Pianran was pondering the bird's origin when it suddenly opened its beak and, without warning, uttered a human-speaking sentence: "Hello, host, I am System 666. It's a pleasure to serve you, chirp~"
Ye Pianran: "..." This strange voice, this eerie tone, isn't it the mysterious person who appeared in her ear several times before? So it wasn't a person at all, but a bird?
Thinking this to herself, Ye Pianran couldn't help but ask, "What exactly is going on? Where did you come from? Why have I never seen you in the Spirit Realm before?"
666: "Because the conditions for space upgrades weren't met before, I've been in a deep sleep. Ah-chu~ I'm only able to wake up thanks to my host, chu-chu~"
Ye Pianran recognized every single word it said, but when combined into a complete sentence, she simply couldn't understand it.
"Wait a minute, what is an upgrade? What is a host? Why can't I understand a word you're saying?" she asked, quite troubled.
666 then remembered that Ye Pianran was from ancient times, so it quickly switched to classical Chinese mode and said, "The meaning of the term 'host' can be compared to that mother and child outside. When the child is still in the mother's womb, the child is the host, and the mother is the host. Similarly, the space you are in now, as well as me, are all hosts that parasitize you. You are the host of me and this spiritual realm. Do you understand now?"
Ye Pianran understood and then asked, "Then what do 'upgrade,' 'system,' and '3 minutes' mean?"
666 paused for a moment, then gently scratched its fluffy little head with its wings like a human, and said, "This leveling up... chirp, chirp, it's like learning martial arts, from beginner to some success and then to becoming a peerless master, the process in between is called leveling up; 3 minutes is just a way of describing time where we are, much faster than what you call a quarter of an hour; as for the system... an intelligent brain like this handsome bird that can communicate with its host is called a system, chirp!" After saying that, it even flapped its two little wings with particular pride.
"Where are you from?" Ye Pianran only half understood what it said, but she still keenly caught a detail: "Where did you come from? And why is this strange space inside my body?"
"I come from a technologically advanced world in the future. My existence is the most accomplished invention in human history!" 666 proudly puffed out its little chest. "Actually, I wasn't originally like this. If I hadn't exhausted my energy to bring you back to life and been forced to regress to a primary form, only able to sink into your body and hibernate, I would still be a majestic red phoenix bird!"
Ye Pianran: "...So it was you who sent me back to the past?"