Chapter 973: Life

Xiao Chongqi experienced many things.

She landed on an ordinary rocky planet where the civilization was still in its surface stage; they hadn't resolved their internal civil wars, but were currently in a relatively peaceful state.

This civilization had just entered the Industrial Age, having been in it for about two hundred years. They had learned to establish large-scale information communication networks and operated a public shared network, although they could choose to isolate certain regions.

Overall, it was balanced, but wars never disappeared, and frictions constantly arose. The shadow of world war loomed over the entire world, but voices criticizing war were never absent.

Most places remained peaceful, and some relatively decadent cultures had even developed.

As an alien, carrying a pile of black technology, and with a corpse trailing behind her, Xiao Chongqi descended from the sky into a local basement, where she met a man living there.

He seemed quite decadent, immersed in games and fantasies, until one day, his fantasy suddenly became reality.

An alien beautiful girl fell from the sky.

Many ridiculous things happened after that. The decadent man rediscovered his dream, and with the help of the black technology that fell from the sky, he became a respected person. However, in the end, he didn't cling to those things; after finding his true love, he saw Xiao Chongqi off.

This experience deeply touched Xiao Chongqi, because at first, the man thought he was the chosen one and made advances toward Xiao Chongqi, for which she beat him up.

Xiao Chongqi immediately prepared to leave, feeling there was nothing fun there.

But she saw his pitiful state and decided to stay, at least to fix the floor she had broken, otherwise it would be too uncivilized.

As she took out her black technology to repair the room, she chatted idly with him.

Just in that short time of chatting, she decided to stay.

Because this person was so pitiful; his experiences were truly heartbreaking to hear.

But he wasn't that bad, was he? In fact, from his appearance, he seemed pretty decent?

So Xiao Chongqi chose to act. This world had treated her gently from the very beginning, so even though she was still naive, only fifteen years old, she was willing to be kind to many things in the outside world.

Thus, she stayed, becoming an alien beautiful girl who boarded with a loser, determined to change him, able to eat anything, and never gaining weight.

In short, that's how it was.

Xiao Chongqi was practically invincible here; she could change a typhoon's path with the push of a button, punch through walls, and had various black technology inventions.

However, the man did not abuse these things; his change was entirely dependent on himself. In fact... in Xiao Chongqi's view, his transformation only needed one catalyst: "There's a beautiful girl watching me."

That's right, it was that simple.

As long as someone was willing to watch him and bring him a glass of water after he finished something, this person could burst forth with incredible vitality.

But even so, no one had been willing before, which was why he had become like that.

This period of experience had no risks and could almost be described as 'comical.' There were various disputes caused by eccentric actions every day, but watching him slowly improve from a basement dweller, Xiao Chongqi also gained some new feelings.

Helping others and seeing them gradually get better through their own efforts.

It was truly a very happy thing.

At the same time, Xiao Chongqi also realized many things.

She found that if a person desires many things, then the corresponding worries will also increase.

If you want to eat, you will have worries about food.

If you want to play, you will have worries about playing.

If you have loved ones, you will have worries because of love.

Correspondingly, if you don't want anything, then you are the person with the fewest worries in the world.

But at the same time, you are also the unhappiest person in the world.

Because eating what you want makes you happy; this happiness corresponds to worries. The more you worry, the happier you will ultimately be.

It's like revenge.

The more you hate that person, the more satisfying it feels the moment you successfully retaliate.

Xiao Chongqi found this very interesting.

Emotional fluctuations are like water: the higher they leap, the harder they fall, but if they are still and unruffled, it becomes boring.

How interesting.

Perhaps this 'interestingness' is also a part of the fluctuations, but Xiao Chongqi did not resist it.

Finally, she attended the man's wedding. Her relationship with the bride was also very good. She was a girl the man met at his school, and they had quite a few incidents at the beginning, but now, thinking back, they were all happy memories.

This world's gentleness towards Xiao Chongqi seemed endless; everyone she met here was a good person.

But she stayed here for too long; she actually stayed for a full five years!

She was now twenty years old.

After realizing this, she frantically packed her bags. She wasn't planning on becoming a wife before returning; she had planned to travel ten worlds, and this was only the first, so she had to leave.

Amidst everyone's farewells, she drove her small spaceship, leisurely flying out into the Universe again, beginning a journey measured in light-years.

Traveling was very happy. Perhaps this Universe was truly gentle. She constantly became a 'beautiful alien girl descended from the sky,' inserting herself into one life after another, and then messing around with them.

However, such messing around only lasted for two worlds.

She suddenly found that the previous game, now playing it... felt a bit dull.

Moreover, unknowingly, she was already thirty years old.

Time passed even faster than she had imagined.

"Corpse, tell me, should I leave?" She sat beside a magnificent altar, watching the priests praying to their racial deity.

She was participating in a grand sacrifice. In the past, she would have happily run around, focusing on the beautiful scenery around her.

It was indeed beautiful.

Delicious food and drinks were plentiful, there was a huge monastery, towering columns, and bell towers, spires, and tall towers.

The girls beside her were beautifully dressed, with flowers in their hair, garlands around their shoulders, and their feet treading on petals covering the ground.

On the altar, the candlelight from a thousand candles danced with the notes played by harps and lutes, and various beings filled the seats within the temple, all eyes fixed on the sacrificial priestess in the distance.

Although compared to civilizations with powerful productivity, this place was still in a very backward primitive era, it also had a unique beauty.

However, the thirty-year-old Xiao Chongqi was somewhat blind to these beauties.

Nevertheless, this world still treated her with gentleness.

Even though she was blind to these things, the country, the civilization she came to, had a wise king and happy common people. Except for many monsters in the wild, almost no villains could be found in the entire country.

Even if there were bad people, their maliciousness was merely petty theft or similar.

The belief in 'God' here had almost turned this place into a utopian world.

However, Xiao Chongqi found this harmony rather bland.

She remembered the name of this world; they called themselves the 'Teacher Country,' meaning a country taught by gods. There was a God here, and they worshipped that God.

Under the leadership of God and the Holy Teacher, this world was so beautiful.

Xiao Chongqi quickly felt bored with this world, and she also felt bored with touring these worlds.

She was tired of playing; she had been out for more than ten years, it was truly uninteresting. All places were peaceful, it was better to be at home. She felt she hadn't seen any special scenery.

So, Xiao Chongqi returned home.

She drove her small spaceship, wandered around, went to other places to play along the way, and then returned to the Xianqi Alliance.

However, when she returned...

The world finally showed her its fangs.

The entire world had treated her gently; everywhere she went, she met good people.

But good people don't always do good things. Good people also harm other things, for example... good people also eat meat. For pigs, cattle, chickens, and ducks, that's not a good thing, is it?

Just like now.

The Xianqi Alliance was destroyed.

Along with her father, he was gone too. The Limitless and the Xianqi Alliance, one a fifth-grade civilization and one a sixth-grade civilization, vanished just like that.

For Xiao Chongqi, who had just returned, the sky had fallen.

She didn't even know why.

Turns out... this world wasn't just gentle.

Xiao Chongqi seemed not to have reacted yet. She wandered through the Xianqi Alliance's planets, but couldn't find anything.

Nothing.

In those star systems, she couldn't find a trace of the Xianqi Alliance, nor a trace of the Limitless.

She frantically searched the entire Universe, finally returning to the garden planet where Leiding City was located.

That beautiful planet with purple skies and pink clouds, forever lingering between dusk and dawn.

Fortunately, it was still here.

She landed in this place, eagerly searching for traces of Leiding City.

But... no, Leiding City wasn't here.

The only familiar scene she could find was her mother's grave; it was still normal here.

She fell to her knees before the grave, unable to stand up again.

Fate seemed to have gathered all the happiness accumulated before and smashed it into Xiao Chongqi's face.

As happy as her life had been before, that's how much pain she felt now.

But her mother's grave seemed to give her a kind of strength.

"I'm going to find Father and Master," she said.

Then, she returned to her small spaceship and began searching for traces in the vast Universe, and this search took over a hundred years.

It's important to note that Xiao Chongqi was not a seventh-grade being.

Over a hundred years passed, and she was already old and frail.

She rebuilt Leiding City, exactly as it was, but she was the only living person inside.

The others were automated robots she developed, and the corpse.

Her large eyes became puffy, her tender skin became loose and like chicken skin, and her body hunched over.

Her talent seemed to have been wasted; she spent a great deal of intelligence and time on searching for people, so she never advanced in grade.

It wasn't until the very end of her life that she seemed tired.

She wanted to rest; over a hundred years was simply too long for her.

So, she went to the person she considered a friend, the planet where she first landed as an 'alien beautiful girl.'

However, her old friend had already died, leaving only his grandson, an unremarkable ordinary person.

Xiao Chongqi felt a bit lost and helpless.

She experienced time for the first time, and also felt her own aging for the first time. Only then did she suddenly realize that she was no longer young.

So she left this planet and went to the former 'Teacher Country.'

Here... it was still the same.

Over a hundred years, the civilization had barely developed, but it was still so beautiful, so gentle.

She walked into the temple of the Teacher Country, where young priests were spreading doctrine.

She walked over and said to the priest, "Young man... can I sit here for a while?"

"Of course, old lady, please sit. I'll get you some water," the priest said.

Everything was so gentle.

The Teacher Country had no interest in development; they were willing to indulge in this beauty. Their God truly existed and would perform miracles, bringing them favorable weather and ensuring everyone had food and clothing.

That was enough.

Xiao Chongqi looked at everything around her, feeling the peaceful atmosphere.

At some point, she had grown tired of this gentleness, finding it boring.

But a hundred years later, in the face of this gentleness, she felt an urge to cry.

She had searched for over a hundred years but couldn't find the reason for the disappearance of the Xianqi Alliance and the Limitless.

Xiao Chongqi was tired.

She spent the remainder of her life in this gentle Teacher Country, then died of old age and was finally buried there.

However, the corpse that had followed her all her life was gone.

The corpse had never spoken a word throughout her life; after Xiao Chongqi fell, he disappeared.

As for the reason for the Xianqi Alliance's extinction... Xiao Chongqi pursued it her entire life, but some things, once you know them, are simple, but if you don't know, you'll never know.

The reason was actually simple: they participated in a higher civilization's war, and... this higher civilization knew of Xiao Chongqi's existence.

Surprisingly, one of the controllers of this higher civilization looked exactly like Xiao Chongqi, except he was male.

So, he destroyed Xiao Chongqi's hometown, then manipulated Xiao Chongqi's life. From then on... the corpse began to follow this male 'Reboot.'

Xiao Chongqi died so inexplicably.

Her Spirit Soul dissipated, and her true spirit arrived in the Underworld.

In the Underworld, she saw many, many versions of herself.

No... those weren't herself, because some were male, some female, some were beasts, some were demons. In short, there were tens of thousands of various life forms.

Were these all her?

And one of them was particularly striking, larger than everyone else, looking like a glowing man.

"Alright, clear your Karma, drink this bowl of soup, forget your past, and enter the next life. Don't look at your previous appearance," two underworld officials urged.