Livestreaming: I am retarded, but selected to join the analoghorror game?!
Chapter 381 - 288: Would You Be Willing to Save Her?_2

Chapter 381: Chapter 288: Would You Be Willing to Save Her?_2

"What’s going on here?"

Xiao Yi touched his somewhat stuffy chest, his brows furrowing even more.

"Could it be... something’s happened to Eve? No, I can’t let such irrelevant thoughts run wild... But then again, I don’t even know where Eve is now, or what she’s doing..."

As Xiao Yi was sighing, he suddenly received a phone call.

He picked up his phone and saw the caller ID displaying ’Uncle Xu’.

"Old Xu?" Xiao Yi was startled, then answered the call, "Old Xu, what’s up? You’re calling me? I thought you always just showed up in person. Plus... since when did you sneakily get my contact info?"

"Calling you means I have something to look for you about," on the other side of the line, Xu Yingguang said, "But it’s not me who has business with you, so naturally I’m not there in person."

"It’s not you? Then who could it be?"

"...Fei Ye," Xu Yingguang said slowly, "She said she wants to meet with you. What do you think? Want to see her?"

"Fei Ye, ah!" Xiao Yi’s eyes lit up, "I was thinking, with no relatives and few acquaintances, who would come looking for me? So it’s her. I’ve got to see her if she’s made the effort to come all this way!"

"I thought so," Xu Yingguang said, "Actually, she’s already on her way to you. I’ll have those people lift their surveillance and movement restrictions on her. You two can have a good chat."

Xu Yingguang then hung up, and soon after, someone knocked on Xiao Yi’s door.

Xiao Yi promptly opened the door and saw Fei Ye standing at the doorway with a gentle smile.

"Yo, Xiao Yi, long time no see."

"Can’t really say it’s been a long time, hasn’t been that long. Come in, come in."

Xiao Yi immediately welcomed her in.

"You know, I just happened to dream about shopping with Eve today. Oh, and later I’ll take you to experience our local customs... No wait, what’s the phrase, the local culture? Anyway, since you’re here, it would be a shame not to fully enjoy it."

...However, upon hearing Xiao Yi mention that name, Fei Ye’s expression froze a little.

"Sorry, Xiao Yi," Fei Ye said, "I’m not here for leisure this time. I won’t have much time, I’m going to be very busy."

"Busy?" Xiao Yi asked, "Besides ’Analog Horror’, you have other things to take care of?"

"It’s also related to ’Analog Horror’", Fei Ye went straight to the point, "And actually, it’s about the Eve you just mentioned."

"... Eve?" Xiao Yi’s brows instantly furrowed.

He couldn’t help but recall that unsettling feeling he had earlier.

So, Xiao Yi immediately asked, "Is something wrong with Eve?"

...

Fei Ye took out the book she carried with her, handed it to Xiao Yi, and asked, "Do you remember this book?"

"...Book?" Xiao Yi examined the book after taking it, "What book is this?"

"Do you remember?" Fei Ye reminded him, "When you first encountered Eve in that Western-style mansion, this book was there."

"...Really?" Xiao Yi carefully recalled, "Now that you mention it, I do seem to have a bit of memory... But what’s the relationship between this book and Eve?"

"It’s still unclear," Fei Ye shook her head, "However, since it appeared by her side, it’s unlikely to be unrelated... Xiao Yi, take a look at the contents of this book, see if you can understand anything."

"The contents of the book?" Xiao Yi flipped through the pages immediately and then squinted his eyes, "What in the world is all this? I can’t make heads or tails of it!"

"So, you can’t understand?" Fei Ye let out a somewhat helpless sigh.

"Of course not!" Xiao Yi declared confidently, "It’s obviously a child’s scribbling! How could anyone understand it? But... looking at the traces that resemble characters, this book is actually a diary."

"...Eh?" Fei Ye looked at Xiao Yi in astonishment, "This book? A diary?"

Fei Ye immediately examined the content of the book pages. Although the characters were indeed incomprehensible, the layout of the words really did resemble a diary! Moreover, each page, though varying in length of content, all followed that format! This further corroborated the diary hypothesis.

"Xiao Yi’s really something! Indeed... coming to you was the right choice. So, whose diary could this be? Could it be..."

"That’s right, this is Little Yifu’s diary that she once wrote."

"...Huh?"

Xiao Yi and Fei Ye suddenly heard a gentle, friendly, yet very unfamiliar voice.

It was only then that they realized a woman of stunning mature beauty had appeared beside them, as if she had always been there.

"!" Fei Ye was startled and quickly stepped back a few paces, on guard, "Who are you!? How did you get here?"

"..." But Xiao Yi felt a familiar aura from her.

Xiao Yi couldn’t help but step forward and asked,

"You... are you Eve’s, uh... colleague?"

"That’s right," she revealed a gentle, warm smile, "you guessed correctly, I am the Tenth Rule—Regret."

"Regret?"

"Yes, it’s the rule formed by visualizations of hope, things supposed to be that way, perhaps better, the wish to start over, and so forth," Regret said softly, "I’m what you might call good sisters with Little Yifu, we get along quite well."

"With Eve?" Xiao Yi immediately asked, "Then where is Eve now? Since you’re here, she must have come too, right?"

"...I’m sorry." However, Regret suddenly brought up that matter, "As the First Rule, Little Yifu can no longer come to see you."

"Eh? Why not?"

"She... has been stripped of her status as the First Rule."

"Stripped of her status? What do you mean?" Xiao Yi couldn’t understand this at all.

"Little Yifu’s power was Existence," Regret explained, "Her existence transcended causality, fate, time, space, life, death, and other concepts; she was an Absolute Existence. But... once stripped of that power, it means she will once again be bound by those concepts of life and death, and, actually... Little Yifu had already died when she inherited the Power of the First Rule, so... upon losing this power, she died again, indisputably."

"...Eh?"

Xiao Yi was stunned.

Eve... died?

Xiao Yi’s mind instantly felt like it had been struck hard, turning blank, and the world in his eyes flickered between light and darkness.

"Eve is dead? What... what happened!?" Xiao Yi, somewhat dazed, urgently asked!

"She... broke the rules too many times, which is why her power was taken away."

"Breaking the rules? Could that mean!?" Xiao Yi remembered the countless times Eve had helped him.

"Is it... my fault?"

"Don’t misunderstand," Regret said sharply, "It’s not much related to you, her end... was inevitable, ever since she died on Blue Star nineteen years ago, her fate was sealed."

"Nineteen years ago? Blue Star?" Fei Ye was also taken aback upon hearing this.

So, it was true that nineteen years ago, Eve was indeed living on Blue Star?

But now was not the time to be concerned with such matters.

Fei Ye looked anxiously at Xiao Yi.

"Inevitable? I don’t understand what you mean," Xiao Yi pressed Regret urgently, "Is there any way to save her? That’s all I want to know!"

"Originally, that would have been impossible, life and death are irreversible, this is an absolute truth, but..."

Regret looked at Xiao Yi and asked,

"Do you remember? Little Yifu once gave you a power called ’Absolute Existence,’ it was actually a portion of her power split from herself. If returned, it could extricate her from the concept of death. But..."

Regret changed her tone to one of warning,

"That also means an extremely difficult and incredibly painful path. There’s only one chance, and the likelihood of failure is high. In the end, it’s very possible that all you’ll get is emptiness and irreversible trauma. Even so, are you still willing to save her?"