Chapter 57: Hunger
The goddess Sifna had a dream.
A long, long dream.
In the dream, she is a woman locked in a cage.
"I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry......"
The woman hadn't eaten in days.
She had a hideous scar on her lower abdomen.
The scar didn't heal well, and foul-smelling thick water and blood dripped down the edges of the scar.
Tick, tick.
She hurts, and it doesn't hurt.
She had a fever all the time, but she never seemed to have one.
Those who imprisoned her presumably wanted to use her to set a trap for some man and force him to comply.
However, the cold man didn't give them a chance.
This is good.
The woman was genuinely happy for the man who had escaped.
Still, she felt hungry.
Really hungry.
"Let me die, please, let me die......"
She pleaded with her captives countless times, but never received a response.
She tried to unplug the damn feeding tube stuck in her arm countless times, but to no avail.
I want to die, but I can't.
Only hunger is the thorn that can never be pulled out of a woman's soul.
"I'm so hungry, I want to eat......"
The goddess Sifna murmured, waking up from her nightmare.
She was somewhat surprised to find that there were many people sitting around her.
"Are you awake? If you don't wake up, I'm going to die. ”
The goddess knew the man in front of her.
He is the Divine Envoy Garrell, his immediate boss.
"Why are you here?"
Before Garrell could answer, he was pushed aside by a blonde beauty.
"Sifner-sama, you're finally awake......"
The goddess also knew the blonde beauty in front of her.
Her name is Helena, and she is her rival in love.
No, it's a disciple of his own master.
"What's wrong with me?"
The goddess struggled to sit up from the bed and looked at a dark-haired man with his back to her.
This man's name is Lin Xiao.
His personality is eccentric.
He is somewhat withdrawn, possessive, and has a serious cleanliness habit.
He has a perfect obsessive-compulsive disorder and thinks too much about problems.
He is very stingy, and he often cherishes words like gold.
On top of that, he was very, very suspicious.
"You've been asleep for two months."
The man kept his back to the goddess and seemed to be very fond of enjoying the view from the window.
"I didn't take you back to the safe house."
"According to deduction, the concentration of mana there is too high for you to recover."
"Oh."
Listening to the man's explanation, the goddess nodded obediently.
The man's words warmed her heart.
I don't know if it's an illusion, she always feels that men care about themselves.
"So ......"
"So?"
The man turned, his eyes cold as frost.
"So, the Magister's promotion ceremony officially begins the day after tomorrow, and you don't have time to memorize exam questions."
"Uh......"
The goddess was a little confused.
"Helena, give her a physical check-up, and then take her to endorse."
"Huh? Endorse now? People have just woken up......"
The goddess retracted into the covers.
The last thing she wanted to do was memorize those super boring magic theory questions.
"I protest!"
"Protests are ineffective."
After the man threw down the words, he hurried out of the goddess's bedroom.
Lin Xiao was very happy.
I'm also scared.
Two months ago, the two goddesses fused into one after kissing each other.
The process of merging went very smoothly, but the goddess never woke up.
After torturing Garrell many times, Lin Xiao finally confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the process of merging the Sifna body and the descendant body itself.
It's her soul that's going wrong.
In the world of Alpha, rank can not only represent the strength of a person's strength, but also directly reflect the strength of a person's soul.
In essence, the Advent is a "doppelganger" of the ontology.
Both can serve as carriers of the soul.
Under normal circumstances, the ontology and the incarnation merge with each other, and the soul will actively integrate into the ontology.
However, the goddess Sifna, who was higher in rank than the main body, was caught in the dispute between the main body and the advent body for the dominance of her soul.
The Advent is stronger than the Body, so will her soul merge from the Advent into the Body, or will it continue to be occupied by the Arrival?
Here there is a major logical contradiction in the law of the system.
If this contradiction is not handled well, the soul of the goddess Sifna has the possibility of collapsing directly in the battle between the ontology and the descendant.
Thankfully, her soul has always been very stable.
Otherwise, Lin Xiao would have planned to kill directly to the Divine Realm desperately and regain the soul origin for the goddess.
According to his deduction, using the soul origin to reconcile the struggle between the ontology and the advent body for the dominance of the soul, all problems will be solved.
Fortunately, the goddess Sifna was quite competitive, and on the eve of Lin Xiao's plan to attack the God Realm, she woke up with the joint efforts of Lin Xiao and Helena's mysterious partner.
"Master, are you a little too harsh on Goddess Sifna?"
Princess Helena, who chased out of the goddess's bedroom, grabbed Lin Xiao's arm.
Seeing Lin Xiao turn around, the princess quickly lowered her head and let go of her hand.
"Helena, we're running out of time."
Lin Xiao's heart was a little irritable.
There are many, many differences between the world of Alpha and the world before he traveled through it.
Before crossing over, he had all the knowledge he could use to kill.
He knows exactly how the enemy is deployed, what weapons and equipment they have.
Therefore, no matter what kind of desperate situation he faces, he can rely on this knowledge to find the safest way to break the situation.
However, since coming to the Alpha World, Lin Xiao has encountered too many threats beyond his cognition.
The powerlessness of this ignorance made it very difficult for him to accept.
"Master, are you saying that we don't have time, do you mean that the laws of the system have already detected our plan?"
Helena's face changed dramatically.
"Do you want to ask Hananos to discuss countermeasures now?"
"Uh...... This is not needed for the time being. ”
Hananos is what Helena calls her "partner".
This archmage, who is very famous in the Council of the Spires of the Stars, is the leader of the Alpha World in the study of the "law of cause and effect" and the "law of system".
It is said that Helena's knowledge of the "law of cause and effect" and the "law of the system" was learned from her.
"In short, we have to do everything we can to get Sifner to pass the written exam successfully."
Lin Xiao frowned and thought for a while, then said categorically: "I don't want to wait any longer, as soon as the promotion ceremony is over, I must see the 'Book of the World'!" ”
"I see, Master."
Helena immediately got down on one knee.
"I'll do my best to help Mistress Sifner cheat......"
"No, it was Sifner-sama who passed the exam."
It seems that the princess has completely denied the possibility that the goddess can pass the exam normally in her heart.
"Good."
Lin Xiao's brows stretched slightly.
He walked to the end of the cloister, then turned and walked briskly back to Helena.
"You go and inform the fourth prince and ask him to arrange a decent banquet tonight."
What Lin Xiao said made Princess Helena a little confused.
"Master, the apprentice is stupid, please make clear the intention of this move?"
Helena had already come up with no less than five answers in her mind to explain the relationship between Lin Xiao's request for a banquet and obtaining the "Book of the World".
It's a pity that none of these "answers" can satisfy her.
"That woman hasn't eaten in a long time, so let her eat more once in a while."
With that, Lin Xiao disappeared from Helena's sight without looking back.