199: Chapter 199 Tacit Understanding

"Bing Yu?"

"Mm."

Su Mei pushed the recording panel in front of him.

"That little fox knows more than she admits."

"I questioned her all night."

"She cried three times, faked fainting twice, and lost a handful of fur from her tail."

Li Taiping looked at her.

"You didn't hit her, did you?"

"No."

Su Mei's tone was very natural.

"I just told her that if she continued to 'forget,' I would arrange for her to be the mascot for Shen Xiu's patrol team."

Li Taiping fell silent; knowing Su Mei's personality, she had definitely hidden many strange methods.

Su Mei continued, "The little fox told me that the Former Dynasty World is an independent Great World."

"It's not an ordinary dungeon."

"Its time and space are not fully constrained by the main rules of the Survival World."

"Rumor has it that it's a world fragment forcibly cut off by some kind of power before the previous era sank."

Li Taiping's gaze narrowed.

"Former Dynasty."

"Right."

Su Mei nodded.

"The so-called 'Former Dynasty' isn't a dynasty."

"It's the Previous Survival Era."

The room suddenly went quiet.

This information was heavy.

The Survival World was not being opened for the first time.

Their batch of Survivors was not the first group of people to be thrown into the sea.

Li Taiping thought of his future self in the illusion, and then thought of that sentence: 'She is no longer her.'

If the Former Dynasty World was a fragment of the Previous Survival Era, then his future self appearing in it was even more illogical.

Illogic often meant that something was being hidden.

Su Mei looked at him.

"Bing Yu said that the Former Dynasty World only exists in legends."

"In legends, that place has no stable time."

"Some people go in for a day, and ten years have passed when they come out."

"Others go in for a hundred years, and only a breath has passed outside."

"What's more troublesome is..."

She paused for a moment.

"There might be many of you inside."

Li Taiping looked up.

"Many of me?"

"Her exact words were: in the chaos of time and space, do not trust any acquaintances."

Su Mei said, "Including the past you, the future you, the dead you, and the you that hasn't died."

Li Taiping raised an eyebrow.

"She's quite the rhymer."

Su Mei sighed.

"Is your focus a bit off?"

Li Taiping said indifferently, "It's not."

"This shows that in the Former Dynasty World, there is something that can replicate traces of time."

"The 'me' in the illusion isn't necessarily me."

"Su Jie isn't necessarily Su Jie either."

Su Mei looked at him.

"Then you still want to go in?"

"Of course."

Li Taiping did not hesitate.

"It used Su Jie as bait."

"And used my future self as a warning."

"One wants me to go in, and one wants to keep me out."

"This shows that something inside is afraid of me entering, while something else wants me to enter."

Su Mei followed up, "So you must go in even more."

"Mm."

Li Taiping smiled.

"I can't just do nothing and stand still because I'm afraid, can I?"

Su Mei looked at him quietly.

After a moment, she reached out and massaged his temples for him, with just the right amount of pressure.

"Does your head still hurt?"

"A little."

"Then don't pretend you're fine."

She whispered, "If you want to go, I won't stop you."

"But you can't go now."

"The Tide-Returners arrive in seven days."

"The entrance to the Survival Eerie Sea has already opened."

"The Former Dynasty World has no countdown, which means it can wait."

"We first need to turn the fleet into one that can withstand the Eerie Sea."

Li Taiping closed his eyes and let her massage him.

"You make the arrangements."

"Mm."

Su Mei said, "Over the next seven days, three things."

"First, the Many Children, Many Blessings ship will complete its Levitation System tests."

"Second, the core fleet will be uniformly fitted with Anti-corrosion Layers."

"Third, dig out everything else left in Bing Yu's brain."

Outside the door.

A certain little fox shuddered.

"Achoo!"

Bing Yu squatted in the corner of the corridor holding her tail, her face full of despair.

He Yushui passed by carrying a bowl of medicine and looked down at her.

"Caught a cold?"

Bing Yu said gloomily, "I feel like someone is trying to harm me."

He Yushui nodded.

"Be more confident; it's not just a feeling."

Bing Yu: "..."

She couldn't stay on this wretched ship anymore.

Inside the captain's cabin.

Li Taiping opened his eyes.

"Bing Yu is indeed not simple."

"She knows about the black tide, the Floating Islands, and the Former Dynasty World."

"An ordinary Nine-tailed Fox shouldn't know this much."

Su Mei's eyes crinkled into a smile.

"I know."

"Just leave it to me."

Li Taiping looked at her.

Su Mei also looked at him.

The two of them suddenly laughed at the same time.