My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 355 Chu Zhu: Cat of Destiny, come here! This time I'll break all your legs! (Second Update)
There aren't many people in the base.

However, after comparing his own situation with those of others, Chu Zhu was astonished to discover that almost all of them were extraordinary individuals. Moreover…

"Big Sister, who is this?" Su Xiaoqun tilted her head, her tone enigmatic. Perhaps because the current situation was ultimately special, Su Xiaoqun revealed her true appearance, shy and delicate like a beautiful young girl.

Chu Zhu: "..."

Good heavens, another heavyweight villainous cult figure from the previous timeline!

and many more.

Chu Zhu suddenly began to seriously consider a question: Leaving aside the cults' ideologies in the initial timeline, in the current dream world, within the virtual world constructed by Z… what if there exists a cult, or rather, a group of cults?

So what is the situation with these so-called cults that are suppressed in the virtual world?
Is it possible that they are actually adhering to a return to reality?
Considering this, Chu Zhu's mood instantly became extremely complicated.

"...Do you know Hai Mingyue?" Chu Zhu asked Su Xiaoqun directly. What the hell? Is this timeline all about a plot twist? The villains of the previous timeline are all good guys in this one? Unbelievable!
"...I don't know her!" Su Xiaoqun denied instinctively, but Chu Zhu still felt her breath catch for a moment, and immediately nodded in understanding. The case was solved!
"Then I don't believe you don't recognize me!" Chu Zhu said decisively. He then ignored Su Xiaoqun's bewildered gaze. What a joke! You're putting on an act in front of him? Who are you trying to fool?

Su Xiaoqun's eye twitched, then she pouted and glared fiercely at Chu Zhu.

Chu Zhu completely ignored her, thought for a moment, and looked at Lin Xinzhu again: "You should have a way to infiltrate the virtual world again, right? Or even, in isolation Z..."

The moment that letter was uttered, the scene fell into dead silence. Eleven, who had just unwrapped his bandages, almost instinctively reached out and covered Chu Zhu's mouth, a ferocious look appearing on his face: "You bastard... you're completely..."

“…Let him go! It’s alright.” Lin Xinzhu said softly, and Eleven’s expression froze.

Seeing that Eleven was still standing there, even casting his gaze over at her with disbelief, as if he wondered if his older sister had gone mad... Lin Xinzhu emphasized again, "It's okay! He's special..."

After pondering for a moment, Eleven looked at Chu Zhu with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty, and finally moved his hand away with a hint of doubt.

"So it's not allowed to say it before!" Chu Zhu thought to herself. No wonder she kept talking about "that person" and "that one" before.

“…Of course!” Lin Xinzhu nodded, his expression unchanged. It was unclear whether he was answering Chu Zhu’s question, or the previous question about whether they could infiltrate the virtual world, or both at the same time.
"Come with me!" Lin Xinzhu turned around. "I believe you have many questions right now!"

……

The fifth underground level.

Chu Zhu glanced around, looking at the familiar drones and drone carriers, a sense of nostalgia rising in his heart.

At this moment, only he and Lin Xinzhu were in this basement.

"Alright," Lin Xinzhu tilted her head, "Now we can talk about most topics!"

As Lin Xinzhu spoke, a smile that could almost be described as gentle appeared on the corner of her mouth. Compared to her previous tense expression, as if she were constantly being hunted down or under some unseen pressure, her attitude had become completely different.

"When possible... I will answer you as best I can... Of course, there is some information that I cannot reveal! However, even if I cannot reveal it... I will give you a general outline! At least let you vaguely understand some things."

Lin Xinzhu's explanation was very brief, but Chu Zhu still said she understood. She was a little moved. She always encountered people like Nuwa who were full of riddles... Thinking about it carefully, this might be the difference between Nuwa, whose AI abilities were restricted, and normal humans.

He thought for a long time, then decided to start from a less sharp angle: "I should be able to call that rebellious girl by her name, right? Why are they..."

“Of course you can!” Lin Xinzhu laughed, but there was an unusual emotion in his smile, like mockery or bitterness: “As for why they can’t say… well, of course, everything that is said must be known!”

"...Gods?" Chu Zhu's pupils contracted sharply. Of course, he only referred to that characteristic. The instant he uttered those two words, he realized he had said something incredibly stupid...

"Yes!"

"???"

Seemingly oblivious to Chu Zhu's bewildered expression, Lin Xinzhu walked up to the drone carrier and gently stroked its wheels. The massive wheels were already much taller than Lin Xinzhu herself, and her voice remained unchanged throughout.

"He is now worthy of being called—the God of Wisdom and Knowledge!"

If Chu Zhu remembered correctly, this title seemed to belong to the Confucian sage? However, it seemed that the title was followed by "literary spirit" rather than "knowledge"...

"The God of Harmony and Unity."

"!!!" Isn't that the title of a Buddha or saint?!
"The God of Machinery and Industry!"

Holy crap! Chu Zhu was utterly speechless. He even had the title of Ink Saint…

Chu Zhu waited quietly until she realized that Lin Xinzhu seemed to have finished speaking and hadn't continued rambling on about anything else... morality and the god of nature, or anything else. Only then did she silently wipe the cold sweat from her forehead.

"Although I had long realized that my rebellious daughter should... I still never expected this! Hmm?" Confusion suddenly appeared in Chu Zhu's eyes. Since Z simultaneously held the positions of three gods at this time, could the three gods from the previous timeline be... No, it couldn't be Z!

After all, if that were the case, he absolutely did not believe that Z would just stand by and watch him die.

Even knowing that he possesses the ability to reset after death, this is still true.

Therefore, this divine position can actually be given to different people...

Chu Zhu keenly realized the key point. So, what exactly is this divine position, or rather, the essence of godhood? Chu Zhu suddenly found things were getting interesting! "To put it bluntly, mentioning a god's name will make Him aware of it! If it's an ordinary person... that being could erase them with a mere thought! They could even, if they wanted to, directly pinpoint the coordinates and dispatch their mechanical soldiers to attack..."

“But…you’re different! Even if she finds out because of you, she’ll probably give you face.” Lin Xinzhu sighed softly, her voice tinged with bitterness. “Actually, the reason our Heavenly Court resistance hasn’t been wiped out yet…is probably because that guy is doing it for your sake!”

"?"

"Because my father also calls her his niece!" Lin Xinzhu's voice was filled with too many emotions.

Chu Zhu: "..."

Okay, okay, there are interpersonal relationships involved, right?
Wait, could it be that... the reason Lin Xinzhu doesn't wear a mask is because... So, Lin Xinzhu doesn't actually have many taboos in this regard, but others are quite superstitious about it.

After pondering for a long time, Chu Zhu asked a completely new question: "How strong... are you?"

The digger, Mo Tu, is far, far stronger than in previous timelines… Chu Zhu even suspects that Eleven might also be stronger than in the previous timeline? Of course, this is just speculation…

But if that's the case, how strong must Lin Xinzhu be to be recognized and treated by all of these people... and even to be able to live from a thousand years ago to the present day?
"Hmm!" Lin Xinzhu pondered for a moment, then said carefully, "She can't compare to my 'good cousin'."

"?" Chu Zhu's mind raced for a moment before he realized that Lin Xinzhu's cousin was Z, and then he gasped.

Holy crap! So that means you're second only to Z, who has already become a god and is a combination of three godhoods?

"...Are you a god?"

“I’m not a god! I’m a human being,” Lin Xinzhu retorted instinctively.

"?" Chu Zhu's expression was strange. He looked Lin Xinzhu up and down, then circled around him until Lin Xinzhu felt a little uncomfortable and asked what he was looking at. Only then did Chu Zhu slowly say, "I'm seeing if you can release golden divine power! Well... after all, you later became a leader of humanity! It matches up perfectly. Next time I see Lin Xia! Hehe..."

"?"

Noticing the confusion on Lin Xinzhu's face and the fleeting emotional fluctuation, Chu Zhu raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything more to Lin Xia: "Didn't you have Warhammer in your time? Well... after all, it's been popular for a long time!"

At this moment, Lin Xinzhu remained silent for a long, long time before finally sighing, "I really haven't heard of it, after all, it was our era... But compared to this, I'm a little curious, Uncle Chu, what kind of image do you have of me?"

"?" Chu Zhu looked puzzled before describing the image she had pieced together from her diary...

“Then, Uncle, you might have mistaken me for someone else!” Lin Xinzhu shook his head calmly. “I’ve seen you many times when I was a child… even…”

Chu Zhu's eyelids twitched slightly, because he had always suspected that Lin Xinzhu might have had a crush on him in their childhood... This wasn't narcissism on his part, but rather the feeling Chu Zhu got from the comments—especially since he had also seen comments from Lin Xinzhu who had never seen him before...

“But this time, I am not the last leader of humanity…” Lin Xinzhu closed her eyes wearily. “The time before I lost consciousness was 2088. At that time, I was only a teenager!”

"Well, back then I was a civil servant... In order to search for and excavate ancient relics! Or, to use your words, spiritual artifacts? I was ordered to excavate the tomb of Qin Shi Huang... And then! I don't know how I encountered it... It's like I was buried inside... When I woke up again, it was this, nothing at all... It's like a primitive civilization where everything has been reset!"

“Actually, if not, you’ve told me so many things before… I really thought this wasn’t my hometown, that I had simply traveled through time…”

At this moment, Lin Xinzhu was visibly exhausted.

In that instant, Chu Zhu's mind felt as if it had been pierced by lightning. Lin Xinzhu... hadn't reached the 22nd century?!

In other words, Nuwa was not established by her... wait, could this be the root cause of Nuwa's disappearance?
At this moment, Chu Zhu felt his soul tremble, realizing that he seemed to have gleaned a fragment of the answer to Nuwa's disappearance.

at the same time……

"...The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor!" Chu Zhu chewed on the word, a thousand thoughts flashing through her mind.

Yes, if even Liu Bang was like that, then Qin Shi Huang, who was even more special than him... must have been even more powerful and unfathomable!
It is precisely for this reason that his death and the collapse of the Qin Dynasty... offer much more to ponder!
But what allows Lin Xinzhu to transcend time...

"Xinzhu, I have a question for you!" Chu Zhu's voice suddenly turned serious: "Do you know a big orange cat?"

"?" Lin Xinzhu was a little confused. "No, right? Compared to cats, I prefer dogs... and my dog ​​died a long time ago..."

"Besides, the current environment doesn't allow keeping dogs! You've seen that the base is full of superhumans, right... They actually seem pretty normal, right? But there are also some civilians living on the second and third floors. They treat me like a god, and they consume a lot of resources. I often go out to feed them... But even so, food is a struggle! We can't even afford to feed people, let alone keep pets."

"Is that so!" Chu Zhu pondered for a long, long time, then reached out and gently pressed his forehead, unlocking his memories.

Then, forcing himself to remain calm, he uttered the name: "...Cat of Destiny, Chaos!"

So... is that cat still around?

Under Chu Zhu's gaze, filled with a mixture of anticipation and doubt, the next instant... the void suddenly distorted.

"?!!"

A strange cat, with grayish fur, a clearly broken leg, numerous wounds, and a deep scar on one eye that rendered it blind, exuding an aura of extreme danger, suddenly emerged from the void…

She exuded a terrifying wildness. Then... the moment she saw Lin Xinzhu, without saying a word, she turned and ran!
(End of this chapter)