Of course, Bohemia thought, it's not her fault. After all, those were things that happened one or two years ago. During this ti, she had experienced countless thrilling and life-or-death battles. How could she rember the little note Lin Sanjiu gave her back then? Even subconsciously, it's impossible to retain every single detail—after all, the capacity of the human brain is limited.
But Magus was having a hard ti with this. As Bohemia stood there awkwardly, Magus took two steps forward, slipped her arm under Bohemia's and pulled her ahead.
"We'll talk about the details later," Magus hurriedly whispered, "Let's go!"
This ti, Bohemia finally took notice of their surroundings. It must be said that this world branch looked quite ordinary. They walked down through the trees on a small hill and, after crossing a shimring creek, they found themselves in a small village ahead—a cluster of white houses scattered amidst the pastoral adows, tranquil and ordinary.
When they turned back from the village path, they couldn't see the gray wall anymore. They had ventured deep into the heart of this branch, and as far as the eye could see, there were vast fields and hills, as if they were truly in another world, leaving one marveling at the Higher Consciousness of the posthumans who shaped it.
"I dealt with those two people before I ca in with you," Magus stopped and stood on the cobblestone path, her high heels shimring with a galaxy of colors, looking out of place. "They don't know which branch I entered, but I'm afraid it won't buy much ti."
"Why'd you follow ?" Bohemia grumbled. "You don't rember anyone well, yet sohow you rember ?"
"Don't flatter yourself, dear," Magus lightly smiled. "My mories have been continuously fading away. I rember you simply because I've known you for a long ti."
"What do you an?"
"My mories are split into two strands: one is after I woke up from the Astral Plane, and the other is before I entered it," Magus explained with an expressionless face and a straight posture, as if this were happening to soone else. It gave the impression that her core was extrely hardened and austere, perpetually upholding her impeccable deanor and resilience. "My mories in the Astral Plane are normal, but the mories before I entered here are gradually receding... Do you understand? The more recent mories disappear first, leaving only the past mories."
Bohemia had to struggle to swallow the words "like Alzheir's disease."
However, Magus still glanced at her coldly, as if she sensed what Bohemia was thinking. When Bohemia couldn't help but shudder, Magus turned away and continued, "To give you
an analogy, yesterday I still rembered things from when I was fifty years old, but today I only have mories from when I was forty-nine. Every day, my mories fade a bit, and eventually, I fear they will regress back to childhood until they disappear completely. I believe that's also why I don't rember the na Lin Sanjiu."
"So if I had t you two days later, you might not even recognize ?" Bohemia asked, while secretly calculating in her mind—no matter what the other party wanted to do with her, as long as she could delay for a day or two, until Magus forgot about her, then she would be safe!
"It's possible," Magus's gaze pierced through her like a drill, impatiently waving her hand. "But now that I've t you, don't forget, my mories after entering the Astral Plane are still intact."
"What do you want to do?" Bohemia, frustrated, plopped herself onto the stone pigsty wall. "I don't rember the ssage anyway."
"I want you to find this person," Magus coldly stared at her, refusing to co any closer to the pigsty, even though there were no pigs inside and it wasn't particularly slly. "This person nad Lin Sanjiu, can she also enter the Astral Plane? The deal is simple: when I et her and understand the situation, I'll help you restore your attachnt condition."
A gleam ignited in Bohemia's eyes, but after a mont of thought, she let out a heavy sigh. Despite her severe power loss, she had nothing to lose and spoke to Magus with almost insolence, "Do you think I haven't tried to find her? Let tell you, if I could reach her, I wouldn't need to go through all this trouble and enter the Astral Plane for help."
"What happened?"
There was no need to ask twice. Bohemia imdiately poured out her grievances. After explaining her situation, Magus furrowed her brows deeply and stood silently on the cobblestone path, lost in thought for a while.
"You're more useless than I thought," she suddenly hmphed without any politeness. "It seems you understand the purpose of the Concrete World Branch, that's why you ca here to find a solution?"
Bohemia's face turned red, and she grumbled like a pigeon, "I was set up!... I thought that after entering the Heaven Underworld Branch, I could find a conscious posthuman and ask them to deliver a ssage to Lin Sanjiu... asking her to co back quickly."
It was urgent for her to co back and save her.
"I see."
Magus slightly squinted her gray-blue eyes, gazing into the distance. At the other end of the
village path, a male posthuman gradually erged from the morning mist step by step—his attire was extrely peculiar, wearing a transparent plastic bag as a garnt on his upper body, while his pants were tightly tied with fishing net ropes. As soon as Bohemia saw this person, she jumped off the pigsty wall.
"He is..."
"Yes, he's on the other side of the mirror, in the real world of that final apocalypse," Magus replied.
Magus reassured her with a few words, remaining motionless in the middle of the path, continuing the topic she hadn't finished earlier. "The Heaven Underworld Branch is located in the first level you turn left after leaving here and going down. I've spent several months there, so I know it well."
Bohemia stared blankly at the man who was gradually approaching them.
"I will divert all the attention to myself, and you take the opportunity to go to the Heaven Underworld Branch and make contact with the posthuman in that world as quickly as possible," Magus calmly said. "Once the ssage is delivered, imdiately 'log out' from the Heaven Underworld Branch, understood?"
After she finished speaking, the response ca not from Bohemia but from the man on the cobblestone path.
"Who's contacting ?" Although he seed to be facing Magus directly, it was as if he couldn't see her at all. "What's the matter?"
Magus slowly raised a hand. The air she touched with her fingertips instantly rippled like water, spreading ripples in concentric circles all around. "Just curious," she softly asked, "What kind of apocalypse world are you currently in?"
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