Chapter 135: Naming the Girl in the Yellow Dress! From Today, Your Na is Huang Yiyi!
Faced with the girl's question, Lin Tianming gave her a firm answer to calm her volatile emotions.
"What's there to be afraid of? As long as you nod, from now on, you'll be my friend!"
eting Lin Tianming's sincere gaze, the girl's incredulous expression gradually faded, replaced by the joy of making a new friend.
But just as she was about to nod, images of people dying in front of her flashed through her mind.
"I... I don't want to harm anyone... Being my friend... will only... will only make you die faster than others..."
Fearful emotions began to spread, and the girl showed signs of releasing the strange black mist again.
Seeing this, Lin Tianming quickly grabbed her arm. "I already said I'm not afraid, and calm down, there are many passersby around here!"
With his reminder, the girl tried not to think about the terrifying past, and her emotions gradually stabilized.
"Thank you, actually, there's sothing I haven't told you..."
Hearing that the girl had more to say, Lin Tianming asked, "What is it?"
The girl pursed her lips and slowly revealed what she wanted to tell Lin Tianming.
"I... I don't have any friends now... but... but a long, long ti ago... so long that I don't rember when... I had friends back then... but... but they're all dead..."
A long, long ti ago, so long that she didn't rember when?
Lin Tianming believed the girl wasn't lying because he had seen photos of her unchanged through the years.
He felt that the ti she ntioned having friends was probably even before the earliest photo he had seen of her.
So long that he couldn't imagine.
After all, based on his analysis, she was likely a demon god!
To comfort the girl, Lin Tianming put a lot of effort into comforting her. "It's okay, I'm different from your previous friends, I'm sure I won't be killed by you!"
Unexpectedly, Lin Tianming's words made the girl lift her youthful and innocent face, staring blankly at him.
After a mont of eye contact, the girl lowered her head and looked at the ice cream in her hand.
"I... I know you're very powerful and have special abilities... but compared to so of my previous friends... you... you..."
Not knowing how to continue, the girl hesitated.
Curious about what she ant, Lin Tianming pressed her, "Compared to what? Just say it!"
Seeing that Lin Tianming insisted, the girl said softly, "You... you're too weak..."
"Huh?"
Lin Tianming was stunned.
Compared to her previous, now-dead friends, he was too weak?
He hadn't expected the girl to say that.
But her words revealed important information to Lin Tianming: so of her previous friends were also awakened ones.
However, even awakened ones couldn't withstand the strange black mist she released.
To avoid attracting unnecessary attention during their conversation, Lin Tianming led the girl out of the ice cream shop.
"Those friends you ntioned, were they also awakened ones?"
Surprisingly, the girl shook her head. "I know awakened ones... it's what your era calls people with extraordinary powers... but those who had similar powers like you were called... let think... it's been so long... I can barely rember..."
Seeing her struggling to recall, Lin Tianming waited patiently.
He was eager to learn so ancient secrets from her.
Soon, the girl rembered.
"It was... they were called transcendents! Yes, those with extraordinary powers were called transcendents, but obtaining such powers was far more dangerous than for you!"
"More dangerous than for us?"
"Yes... a long, long ti ago, to beco a transcendent, one had to actively contact corrupt entities or even beco followers of demon gods, turning into monsters in the eyes of ordinary people. The risks were imnse. If one failed... they would..."
Recalling sothing tragic, the girl hesitated to continue.
Curious, Lin Tianming urged her on. "What would happen?"
Under his questioning, the girl revealed the truth. "They would... they would... turn into twisted monsters due to the corrupting influence... this was considered mild, severe cases couldn't even beco monsters and would die horribly in the twisted fear..."
Hearing the girl's account of the cost of becoming a transcendent, Lin Tianming couldn't help but take a sharp breath.
In comparison, he felt fortunate to live in a relatively lucky era.
Now, one only needed to undergo an awakening ceremony to beco an awakened one.
Seemingly opening up more, without needing Lin Tianming's prompting, the girl continued sharing ancient secrets.
"Because the cost of becoming a transcendent through contact with demon gods was too great, people later researched many strange ways to beco transcendents to fight against demon gods, such as genetic modifications, attaching prosthetic limbs, or studying their own soul powers..."
As the girl spoke, Lin Tianming imdiately thought of the three ascension god nations.
The ones pursuing genetic ascension were probably the Genetic God Nation.
Those attaching prosthetic limbs were likely the chanical God Nation.
Those studying soul powers were likely the Psionic God Nation.
The girl knew about these, which ant...
She existed in a ti far older than the three ascension god nations?
The three ascension god nations, unable to resist the demon gods, sealed themselves off ten thousand years ago, abandoning small parts of their lands, forming the abandoned lands disconnected from the god nations.
These abandoned lands were now the global awakened power world Lin Tianming had traversed into.
If the girl was older than the three ascension god nations from ten thousand years ago, how old was she now?
Unable to imagine the true age of the girl suspected to be a demon god, Lin Tianming decided not to dwell on it.
To uncover her true origins, he would probably have to wait for the era of the gods' arrival or even the return of the three god nations...
Taking a deep breath, Lin Tianming glanced at the girl, who was feeling down from recalling past events, and decided not to ask her more about her past.
"Let's not talk about that anymore. Co on, eat your ice cream before it lts! If you still want more after this, I'll buy you another one!"
Distracted by Lin Tianming, the girl resud eating her ice cream.
Watching her stabilize emotionally while eating ice cream, Lin Tianming thought about how she still didn't have a na, and an idea struck him.
"Have you never had a na? Or is it that it's been so long you can't rember?"
"No na... a long, long ti ago... friends gave a nickna because I liked wearing yellow clothes, they called Yellow Clothes..."
The girl shook her head, indicating she had no na since she could rember.
Seeing that she indeed had no na, Lin Tianming decided to implent his idea.
"For convenience, would you mind if I gave you an official na?"
"No... I don't mind..."
With her permission, Lin Tianming imdiately gave her a na he liked.
"You like wearing yellow dresses, so from now on, your surna will be Huang, and your given na will be Yiyi. Full na Huang Yiyi, how about that?"
To help her understand her na, Lin Tianming wrote "Huang Yiyi" on his phone and showed it to her.
"Huang... Yiyi..."
The girl didn't recognize the characters, but she stared at them intently, hoping to engrave them in her mind.
After morizing her first na, Huang Yiyi looked up at Lin Tianming.
"I... barely rember it, but I... I don't know your na yet..."
"Lin Tianming! Huang Yiyi, from now on, we're friends!"
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