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Chapter 2188-2.186 Exclusive "Card Pool"

Compared to the scimitar who was already numb to women, the Nine-Tailed Captain, whose vision was immediately drawn into his cosmos by a dazzling new star, immediately activated the surveillance pop-up outside the bathroom.

"My lord, who is she?" Actually, she didn't need to ask Wu Chen.

“Boots McCoy, the hidden female assassin in ‘Machete’,” Wu Chen replied.

"Wow, Rose McGowan, the B-movie goddess of the new century." Captain Nine-Tailed found the information on the real-world Westwood actress.

“Yes, it didn’t appear in the main storyline, but I successfully captured it using a 'vision' that unfolds in all dimensions,” Wu Chen said with a smile.

"Huh?" Captain Nine-Tails must have a question: "After absorbing the remnants of 300 identical entities, the scimitar shouldn't be this fragile."

Previously, when Wu Chen used three fully expanded "lines of vision" to create starlight that traveled through countless shattered spacetime facades, connecting the intertwined plot threads, Chen Xian, the second-in-command of the Water Spirit Gang, instantly turned into "lead mist" and vanished with a bang. Therefore, Wu Chen later reduced the expansion of the full-dimensional vision to the minimum, using only one "line of vision" to track the target.

The same goes for this curved blade.

"Obviously," Wu Chen said with a smile, "so there's a surprise this time."

Before he could finish speaking, the door to the women's restroom was pushed open again.

The female characters from the same timeline as the scimitar appeared together, chatting and laughing.

Luz, the leader of a smuggling network posing as a burrito truck owner; Sartana Rivera, an immigration agent, and her twin sister Marissa Rivera; April Booth, a socialite and armed nun, and her mother June Booth, also a socialite; Mona and Lisa, twin nurses and submachine gun fighters within the network; Fine, a receptionist nurse also within the network; Chica, a naked con artist working for drug lords; Cheryl Chin, a female assassin working for drug lords; Mary Skaggs, a senator's hairstylist; Ara Celi, a journalist interviewing a senator; and Corina Calderon, a bikini-clad woman by the pool at a drug lord's mansion. Calderon, Mariah-Rae Vincent, Mexican protesters Jenelle Rae Cardenas and Martina Griffin, the female mechanic of "Machete's Chop Shop", female militia members with machine guns Jordan Strassner and Tara Macken, and even the pregnant woman Tristana who risked her life to cross the US-Mexico border!
Good heavens, this is almost every female character who appeared in the first "Machete" movie.

"My lord, there must be another reason." Captain Nine-Tails had already found the answer among the stars.

“Yes.” Wu Chen gestured for her to continue reading.

Sure enough, under the wooden gaze of the scimitar, the last character in the play pushed open the door to the women's restroom.

She is Sara Cortez, the wife of the drug kingpin who makes a brief appearance but is beheaded by a single blow.

However, after only glancing at her, Curved Blade returned to the bar without expression.

“He doesn’t remember.” Captain Nine-Tails sighed. “It’s not because the entire shelter was destroyed.” Wu Chen clearly understood the deeper rules: “After he was sealed into a guardian’s memory, he should have retained some memories from the original timeline. However, the repeated opening of the Dragon Ball competition at the Fulong Temple Tower gradually erased his memories.”

"Rewind." Captain Kurama immediately realized: "Whenever the previous round of Dragon Ball competition ends and a new round of competition restarts, the participating players will rewind their competition cards to their initial state. Only the 'entry memories' that the players have pre-loaded will be retained."

“That’s probably the case.” Wu Chen verified his previous judgment from the curved blade that “all of Elsa’s memories of her past teammates were background information pre-recorded by the players before she entered the game, just to keep her focused on the adventure of the battle royale in the Fulong Temple Tower.”

While all official secondhand cards sold at a 20% discount undergo similar pre-processing, it's important to note that the official process erases memories related to the previous owner, reverting the game to the card's "original save point."

Wu Chen had already roughly determined that the "Primal Memory Point" and "Primal Save Point" of a story character are not the same concept. The "Primal Memory Point" is the first story node a character is born with. The "Primal Save Point" is the first save point upon entering the Shattered City. These two are clearly not the same. In fact, this is also the huge difference between "a sealed memory" and "a sealed Guardian's memory." Only those people and things in the Sanctuary who have been sealed into a "Fragmented Memory" by the Shattered Guardian—the enormous shadow in the void—are usable "Activation Cards." And the old-era "Riverwood Deck," like Wu Chen's previous one, which didn't return to the Shattered City through proper channels and therefore wasn't sealed into a "Fragmented Memory" by the Shattered Guardian using its unique "Fragmented Memory Method," is an unusable "Memory Card."

What's terrifying is that Wu Chen's "Ω Guardian Skill"—"Crimson Dragon Break"—can reverse the causal law to the "original memory points" of the characters in the story. Ignoring the limitations of the "original save points" makes it almost invincible.

Since the "original memory point" and "original save point" of the characters in the story are not the same point, why did the curved blade forget the "original memory point" after the save?

The reason is not complicated: players deliberately erased the data, resulting in losses from repeated rollbacks.

Just like how repeated reading and writing to a hard drive can damage data, this is a simple principle.

This also allowed Wu Chen to use "Crimson Dragon Break" to wash away all the "bad" entries such as "second-hand", "worn out", "dormant", and "invalid". Once the reset progress bar reached 100%, the last trace of guilt he felt about the character card, which he had personally unsealed, peeled off, and activated, would completely disappear.

As mentioned earlier, due to the difference between the inner and outer perspectives, all the female companions who have been incorporated into the Ω-shaped screen and lit up their own new stars in the microcosm can no longer be tracked using the "line of sight" that unfolds in all dimensions.

In other words, Wu Chen cannot use the Russian nesting doll method to retrieve other characters from the "world" of the female characters of "The Curved Blade" who have just joined the warm and loving family of 0326, and then travel through time and space to find them.

Let me repeat what's important. Characters already salvaged cannot be salvaged a second time. However, previously salvaged targets can be salvaged multiple times. Of course, excessive salvage will result in the same fate as Chen Xian, the second-in-command of the Water Spirit Gang: turning into "lead mist" and dissipating with a bang.

In other words, the 300 identical curved blades are essentially Wu Chen's exclusive "card pool"!
No?
As long as the scimitar holds, Wu Chen can use his all-dimensional "vision" to transform into starlight traveling through countless shattered time-space facades, connecting the plot threads intertwined with his own, and focusing on the characters he wants to rescue!

These characters, mostly scattered in the outer regions of the Broken City as "broken messages in bottles," are all people and things that were not sealed into a "broken memory" by the Broken Guardian—a giant shadow in the void!

The scariest thing is that they are already "activated cards" when they appear on the scene.