Falling in Love With the Author I Read Chapter 10

If I had to describe Land of the Lost in one word, it would be tsundere.

The vast and boundless Lost Land has only a huge light column as a reference. Those who want to get out can neither move forward to the light column nor walk behind it. They can only put the light column on the left or right hand side and walk around it... What a tsundere restricted area. Most people think about moving forward or backward, so who would be bored enough to walk around the light column? So most of the creatures that strayed into the Lost Land died on the way. Only Louis, the immortal undead lich, survived and found a way out to wreak havoc on the front of the continent.

Sam and Xiu followed the instructions in the magic notebook and walked around the light column for a month. After leaving the abandoned temple, they could not use magic, so they could only walk along Route 11. This kind of continuous progress made Sam feel as if he had returned to the beginning of his journey. At that time, he would never have thought that he would travel to the world of "Mixed Blood" and meet the protagonist.

...and then I got beaten to a pulp, haha.

Sam's eyes involuntarily turned to Xiu beside him. Xiu's long, curly black hair was tied up and draped over his shoulders, revealing a pale and gloomy face. His entire body was only black and white, the white was too white, and the black was too black, making people feel scared and unreal from the bottom of their hearts. Xiu walked beside Sam, neither too far ahead nor too far behind, perfectly keeping the same pace with Sam. When Sam stopped to rest because he was tired, Xiu would also stop and wait silently beside him.

Sam was instantly moved. At a time when the protagonist had turned so dark, this rare thoughtfulness was like a divine light to him. Even if someone told him that the protagonist followed him closely in order to avoid exposing his back to him and to prevent the useful test subject from escaping, he would still...

Sam was silent. Why did he always seem to get the truth once the protagonist's behavior was explained in a darker way?

Xiu suddenly stopped. This was the first time that the tireless Undead Lich had stopped his journey. Sam was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that they had reached the light column without realizing it. The light column was still out of reach the moment before, but the next moment a huge wall of light that went straight into the sky appeared in front of them.

According to Lewis's magic notebook, the exit to the Lost Land is within the light column. If you look closely, you will find that the light wall is composed of countless rising light points. Those not dazzling light points are densely gathered together, blocking the situation inside the light wall. The reader who knows the plot walks forward without pressure, trying to pass through the light wall - he knows there is no danger inside, and then he is pinched by the neck by the protagonist who does not know the truth and pulled back.

...I am really a member of the Primates --- Hominidae --- Homo genus, not the Carnivora --- Felidae --- Felis genus!

Sam pressed his earphone expressionlessly and said to Xiu, "There's no danger."

Xiu stared at Sam in silence. His slanted eyebrows naturally gave him a gloomy and scrutinizing look. Sam stared at him with a stiff face and began to act up again. Sam had been frustrated and annoyed by his stubborn temper countless times. He thought that if a normal person came here instead of him, he would have used the powerful spoiler function to blend in with the protagonist, right?

---Aze is just an idiot. He always likes to giggle and what he says makes people laugh to death.

His hands were cold, and Sam came to his senses and found that Xiu had let go of his neck and reached out to grab his left arm. Because of Xiu's action, the doujinshi Sam had tucked under his left armpit almost fell down. Sam immediately let go of his headphones to catch it, and the unfortunate reader was frightened and broke into a cold sweat: if one of the protagonists in the doujinshi saw his hot and passionate performance in the doujinshi...

System: Your teammate [Doujinshi] was hit by an angry attack and [Doujinshi] was killed.

System: You have been hit by a fatal blow and you are dead.

...So brutal.

Xiu glanced at the doujinshi with his dull eyes. Sam hid the doujinshi under his right armpit reflexively like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and rushed towards the light wall as if to cover up. Even Xiu didn't have time to react to the ferocious momentum and was caught off guard and was dragged into the light column.

The moment he entered the beam of light, his vision was extremely bright, and then suddenly it went dark. It only took a moment for the light to go from extremely bright to extremely dark, and his consciousness was interrupted at that moment. When Sam came to his senses, he found himself standing in the middle of a corridor. The long corridor had no end in sight. It was a closed space, and the four sides of the corridor were covered with murals. Sam stood alone in the middle of the corridor, and Xiu disappeared.

Sam was a little surprised. This scene was recorded in "Mixed Blood": the corridor he was standing in was called "Time Corridor". Time Corridor is a place where you can see the past and the future. Creatures that pass through the light column have a certain chance to enter Time Corridor. Sam didn't expect that he, who did not belong to this world, could enter this legendary place. In "Mixed Blood", Xiu Ziran, who has the halo of the protagonist, entered Time Corridor and saw the past that was closely related to him - his life experience. In addition, the protagonist did something in Time Corridor. He left his life box in Time Corridor. In the setting of "Mixed Blood", Time Corridor is unique. Any creature can only enter it once in his life, and can only enter "his own" Time Corridor - this is the best place in the world to hide things, no one else. From then on, as long as the protagonist is in the form of undead, no one can kill him. Those hostile people searched the entire continent but could not find the protagonist's life box. They could only watch the protagonist go against society, against living things, and against the continent, and spit out blood.

Sam began to look at the murals in the Time Corridor with great interest. The protagonist saw his identity here, so what would he see here? His life? The thought of computers and the like appearing on the murals in another world... was a little bit exciting. _(:з」∠)_

Sam's moral integrity has been lost.

Moving forward is the future, moving backward is the past. Sam walked forward without hesitation.

The murals in the Time Corridor unfolded one after another like a series of episodes. The first mural showed a group of creatures queuing up to buy train tickets... Sam silently stopped complaining and began to observe carefully. The murals were not abstract, so Sam quickly understood what the murals expressed: a glowing person stood at the top, with many light balls around him, and various races lined up below. The head of the Celestial Clan stood in front of the glowing person and reached out to take a light ball.

Sam felt awe-inspiring and went to look at the second mural. It was a group of birdmen fighting... Ahem, it was a group of demons and celestials fighting fiercely. After comparing the number of people, the demons seemed to have the upper hand. Then came the third mural, which was divided into two halves. The lower part was the bloody demons, and the upper part was the equally embarrassed celestials. There were also the newly joined elves. This group of beautiful creatures with pointy ears was the largest in number in the second mural. When Sam saw this, he didn't know why he had a sense of déjà vu. He fell into the embarrassing situation of being about to remember something but always missing it. The cute Sam once again decided to put this feeling behind him and continued to watch.

The fourth mural was a scene of a large battlefield that had just ended. The elves were suppressed into a corner of the mural. Across from them, skeletons and zombies climbed out of the battlefield and staggered towards them. The fifth mural was full of a modern sense of dislocation. There were machines everywhere on the mural. Sam carefully identified them and saw that there were some dwarves sitting on the huge mechanical puppets. They were dwarves, and they were directing the metal puppets to drive away all the undead.

When he saw this, Sam finally realized: This is exactly the worldview of "Mixed Blood"!

In the historical setting of "Mixed Blood", the Chaos Continent has experienced seven eras. The first era was the war between the Celestials and the Demons. The war was always in a stalemate, and the Demons with the talent of "destruction" slowly began to gain the upper hand. In the end, the Elves joined the war, formed an alliance with the Celestials, and drove the Demons to the back of the continent. Although the Celestials won, they were also in a state of loss, so the Elves began to rise, which was the second era; followed by the third era, because of that long-lasting war, many creatures died, and those dead powerful heroes turned into undead, and the undead began to grow. The elves could not resist the undead's human sea tactics, retreated to the forest and began to close the country; then came the fourth era, which is the mural in front of Sam: For the undead who can transform other creatures into companions, the dwarfs' metal puppets are their biggest nemesis. The dwarves eliminated the undead and established a huge mechanical empire. Then one day, the dwarves suddenly disappeared, and the once-prosperous mechanical civilization declined, and the fourth era ended. Next, the Dragons became the masters of the Fifth Era. However, one day, the Dragons suddenly retreated to Dragon Island and were rarely seen on the Chaos Continent. At this time, the Beastmen began to grow stronger. This was the Sixth Era. Now it is the Seventh Era. Judging from previous history, each era means the rise and fall of a race, and the protagonist of the Seventh Era is the Human Race: the Human Race drove the Beastmen to the wilderness and established three empires. The protagonist was born in a small town in the Empire of Light.

Sam walked down without stopping. Sure enough, the sixth mural depicted several huge western dragons standing on the top of the steel tower, spreading their wings that covered the sky and roaring to the sky; the main body of the seventh mural was orcs in various forms, and the dragon clan could only be glimpsed as a little shadow in a corner of the sky; the orcs in the eighth painting fled into the distance, and the humans all over the mountains raised their swords and shields and cheered.

Looking at these murals, Sam realized: Because he is not from this world, the Time Corridor decided to popularize the history of this world for him? Foolish mortals~ Too much underestimate the brainless fans! Will he say that he has memorized the history of "Mixed Blood" better than his own birthday information! As for the first mural, Sam also guessed: Isn't that the copywriting of "Mixed Blood"! The transaction between the God of Creation and the eight races... Wait, that guy is the God of Creation?

Sam turned around and walked back - he actually didn't see the appearance of the "Mixed Blood" boss just now, which was unforgivable.

However, Sam turned around and found that the road behind him had disappeared at some point, leaving only a black void, as if he would fall to the other side of the world if he stepped on it. Sam was heartbroken because he had no chance to see the God of Creation, and could only choose to turn around and continue walking forward: The face of the God of Creation is not something you can see just because you want to. When I finally realized what was happening, tears fell...

In fact, Sam was also very curious about what kind of murals (future) would appear next. In "Mixed Blood", he traveled through time after seeing the protagonist lead the demons to attack the celestials. At that time, the subtitle of "Mixed Blood" was still "The Rise of the Human Race", and according to the author, it was about to enter the next era... I really want to see it, I really want to see it, how can I repair it! Sam wanted to scratch the wall. If he had to say what made him most angry about traveling through the world of "Mixed Blood", it was that he couldn't see any updates!

After accidentally glancing at the doujinshi in his hand that was begging for a sense of existence and begging to be opened and read, the injured Sam silently swallowed the blood in his throat: Why, the one who traveled through time with me, it was you, Xiaotong?

The doujinshi said that this is definitely true love (er).

Under Sam's sad gaze, the ninth mural finally appeared before his eyes.

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When he entered the beam of light, his eyes first lit up, then instantly darkened. When Xiu regained consciousness, he found that he was standing in a corridor that seemed to have no end. Xiu was shocked. There was no such situation written in Louis's magic notebook. The entire corridor was empty. The life was not by his side, and there was no response when he used the contract to call.

This is where?

---Time and Space Corridor---

There seemed to be a voice answering from somewhere.

Xiu pressed his head. Just now, a certain will suddenly squeezed into his brain. That existence was too powerful, and Xiu could only let that will invade his soul, leaving behind a consciousness. Then Xiu knew what the Time Corridor was - a place where you can see time and can only enter once in a lifetime.

Going forward is the future, going backward is the past. Xiu hesitated for a moment, then walked backward without hesitation.

He wanted to know what he was and why he became like this. As far as he could remember, he was an orphan and no one could tell him his life story.

Soon, the first mural appeared in front of Xiu. It showed a woman in a cloak whose face could not be seen clearly, bending over to place a baby at the door of a house; in the distance, there was a man in a cloak with his back to this side, seemingly on guard, his hand on the hilt of a sword, and the cross scar on the back of his hand was extremely clear.

Xiu was frozen in front of the painting for a long time. He recognized the house in the painting. It was the orphanage where he grew up and only left after he was admitted to the Magic and Martial Arts School. So, the two people in the painting... were his parents?

Xiu involuntarily took a step forward. As he got closer, he realized that the two people in the painting were all dusty. Even though the cloak covered most of their faces, he could still see the tear marks on the woman's face, as well as a silver line similar to a birthmark. Xiu involuntarily reached out his hand, wanting to push aside the cloak to see their appearance clearly. When his fingertips touched the cold stone wall, he realized that what he saw was just a mural, just... the past.

Xiu took one last deep look at the person in the painting, then turned around and walked away without hesitation.

The second mural is twice as long as the first one and is divided into two halves: the right side depicts a magnificent house, a half-elf with silver scales on his face sitting on a bed, looking at the baby in his arms with fondness, and next to him stands a tall man, his face invisible as he turns his back to the picture, but his alien wings are displayed without reservation - one side is the bat wings of the demon clan, the other side is the feather wings of the sky clan; the left side is on the prairie, a female orc with cat ears is pressing a pale dwarf against her plump chest, the dwarf is holding a baby in a panic, afraid that the baby will be shaken out of his hands, they are sitting on the prairie, full of happiness.

Xiu stared straight at the two babies in the painting: the baby on the right was sleeping soundly with his eyes closed, and the silver lines at the corners of his eyes looked very familiar; the baby on the left was waving his hands in the air, and there was a cross scar on the back of one of his hands.

For the first time, Xiu felt like he was suffocating, and a very terrifying guess formed in his mind. He walked forward quickly as if he was being chased by something, and then saw the third mural.

The third mural also depicts several pairs of men and women holding babies. It is twice as long as the first one and is divided into four sections: the first section is of the demons and the celestials, with babies curled up in their hands and flapping their alien wings; the second section is of the elves and the dragons, with babies lying on the dragon's back with the silver scales on their faces sparkling; the third section is of the beasts and humans, with the babies rubbing the women's faces with their little cat ears shaking; the last section has only two creatures, and they seem to be performing a ritual, with a dwarf lying in the center of the magic circle, with an undead lich standing next to him, holding a magic notebook and seeming to be recording something.

Xiu stared at the magic notebook in the hand of the lich on the mural. He took out Qianbian and found that his fingers were shaking. Qianbian quickly changed into Louis's magic notebook. Xiu looked at the two magic notebooks, which looked exactly the same. He lowered his head and trembled uncontrollably.

What on earth is he?