HS Chapter 127

🧡🧡Bonus update: Thank you for the Ko-Fi Puffball. 🧡🧡

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New Arc: Albinism

Chapters 127-164

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[Currently initiating small world exit…]

[Staff exit successful.]

[Currently initiating small world settlement…]

[He Botian’s love value is full]

[Yan Ji’s love value is full, heartbreak value is full]

[Wei Zhuo’s love value is full, heartbreak value is full]

[??? love value is full, heartbreak value is full]

[Small world settlement successful.]

[Staff, please keep up the good work.]

Before Xin Hexue completely died and left the world, his cold body was still half-leaning in Yan Ji’s arms.

The sentinel called his name in a hoarse voice, until his throat gave out and he broke down crying, but perhaps because his throat was overly congested from the harsh environment in the Folded zone, it was blocked to the point where he could no longer even make a whimper.

Yan Ji’s condition at the time was terrible. Xin Hexue could feel the intense despair and sorrow radiating from him, and the red eyes revealed the signs of mental pollution about to spiral out of control. However, Xin Hexue could no longer help him with mental guidance.

The last of his mental power gifted the world with a heavy snow, and he could no longer spare even a trace of gentleness for this lost gray puppy.

The hand that had been resting on Yan Ji’s face finally fell powerlessly.

The fire gradually died away, breath carrying drifting powder, and in the snowlight, the gray wolf’s wails echoed long through the clear sky.

Thinking of this, Xin Hexue asked K, “What happened to Yan Ji afterwards?”

K paused for a moment, then replied, [He lost control and went berserk. In the end, he was assimilated by the Strangling tree.]

Xin Hexue wasn’t surprised that Yan Ji would lose control and turn into a monster after his mental pollution reached its peak, but he didn’t expect him to be assimilated by the strangling tree.

This strangling tree was really too difficult to kill…

Still, Xin Hexue was certain that even if the strangling tree had managed to cling to life, its strength had already been weakened to the extreme after his two purifications in the folded zone. It was nothing more than a dying struggle, unable to stir up any real waves.

Hearing no further questions, K looked at Xin Hexue’s thoughtful expression and guessed, [Do you want to know about the others?]

Xin Hexue’s eyelashes drooped down, long and thick, casting a faint shadow under the light, likewise hiding the emotions in his eyes and leaving K with no way to read them.

After a moment, his host said calmly, “No need.”

It was as if Xin Hexue had, in just those few moments, gathered his emotions and completely withdrawn from his role in the small world.

He was very professional, and with a work quality so strong that others might think the young man’s calm expression and tone were too cold-blooded and emotionless. Clearly, just a few months ago in the small world, he had been entwined in life-and-death passion with those men, whispering softly of love and desire.

However, now he was so calm it was as if they were talking about strangers unrelated to himself.

K couldn’t tell whether his host had perfectly separated work from life, or if this behavior was precisely Xin Hexue’s unique self-protection mechanism.

Compared to those staff who, even after completing the script and leaving, were still immersed in the small world for a long time, his host seemed to have established a special anti-addiction mechanism.

This high wall of anti-addiction was clearly effective only for Xin Hexue himself. As for those capture targets, they were completely bewitched by his host, driven mad to the point of courting death.

………

#Begging Buddha, I never want to see BE again

1L: The more fun it was before, the more PTSD there is now.

2L: Even though it’s BE, the little cat was really tossed around in this script over and over again… slurp slurp… I was still hoping to see the gray puppy and the stubborn-mouthed guy sandwich the little cat…it must be delicious. Little cat, you must be stuffed until you can’t eat anymore! With a round belly, press the little cat’s stomach and squish squish out cream puffs…

3L: they would probably □□ until his whole body turned pink…

6L: Keep going, everyone upstairs, please say more, just a few cents more.

7L: Street food stall in the front row selling little cat pancakes.

8L: Boss, I want a little cat pancake, with extra vines!

21L: How are you guys seeing through the holy light? I clearly turned on SVIP? Is there anything a noble SVIP like me can’t see?

23L: Brain fill…

66L: I really want to see the new little cat! I really want to see the new little cat! I really want to see the new little cat! If I can’t see a fresh little cat, I’m going to die!

100L: Ahhhhh I saw on the manager’s social account that the little snow cat has already got a new script!

………

The new script drawn was, as always, the uniquely favored dog-blood flavor of the big world.

It was even a transmigration-within-a-play script.

“Xin Hexue” was a young man in the 21st century suffering from a rare case of albinism. He died in a car accident at a young age, but this sudden car accident brought him back to 1500 BC ancient Egypt.

After researching, he discovered this was a fictional dynasty, or rather, a parallel world different from Earth. Here, in 1500 BC ancient Egypt, the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt had not yet been complete…or, in fact, after a brief unification in the previous dynasty, the land had once again split, now separately ruled by the Red King and the White King.

With White City Memphis as the boundary, the White King ruled Upper Egypt, while the Red King controlled Lower Egypt.

The two nations fought endlessly for unification, while simultaneously facing threats from the northern Mediterranean region and challenges from southern Nubia.

Because of the giant stone prophecy found in the Aswan quarry of Upper Egypt, “Xin Hexue” stood at the forefront of this battle.

The prophecy on the giant stone depicted a mysterious person dressed in exotic robes and his whole body white all over. He raised a “scepter” symbolizing royal power with both hands, and was standing between the Red King and the White King, with the winding Nile flowing before him. Lotus flowers, symbols of abundance and peace, bloomed in the center of the river, and schools of fish joyfully leapt from the water.

[“At that time, the messenger of the gods will descend, white as moonlight, red as dawn. He will choose the ‘one true king’ and bring abundance and harmony.”

“Two kings stand side by side, contending until the chosen one appears. His arrival will quell disputes, filling the Nile waters across the land, making the soil fertile and bountiful.”]

Without a doubt, the colored rock paintings and texts on the giant stone all pointed to Xin Hexue, who had white hair and red eyes, which were extremely rare in ancient Egypt.

He became the target both the White King and the Red King urgently wanted to win over.

“Xin Hexue”’s arrival point was the Aswan quarry. Coincidentally, at that time, the White King came to inspect the construction of temples and obelisks.

The White King took him back and honored him as the High Priest of Upper Egypt. “Xin Hexue” successfully used his modern knowledge to assist the White King as much as possible, and tried to improve the wheat varieties in Upper Egypt to increase yields, filling granaries and solving food shortages during droughts.

However, according to the usual style of the big world script, this was not going to be a simple cool infrastructure story.

Looking further into the plot, Xin Hexue saw that the story’s tone changed, returning to a dog-blood plot full of escape and pursuit.

“Xin Hexue” soon grew close and fell in love with the White King.

When the Red King learned that the White King had brought back this priest, he tried many times to send spies to kidnap the priest to Lower Egypt. Eventually, he succeeded because of the White King’s deliberate plan.

The White King hoped “Xin Hexue” could act as an insider, passing information about Lower Egypt and secretly stirring chaos and unrest there.

However, after meeting this famous priest of Upper Egypt, the tyrannical and wanton Red King treated him as a forbidden delicacy, and “Xin Hexue” endured endless humiliation.

Fortunately, the land ruled by the tyrant was already unstable. After “Xin Hexue” disguised phenomena as divine punishments descending upon the land several times, Lower Egypt indeed fell into chaos, and its people turned against each other.

The mighty army of Upper Egypt surged northward along the Nile, breaking through all the way to the royal palace in Lower Egypt’s capital, completely occupying the fertile Nile delta.

However, the new Egyptian king, basking in victory, completely forgot the hardships his lover had endured. To prevent this widely beloved divine messenger from taking away his power, the new king put him under house arrest on the day of his coronation, never to be seen by the sun or moon.

The next days’ papyrus scrolls no longer mentioned the name of the priest as white as moonlight.

“…”

It completely matched his understanding of the big world’s script.

At this moment, K suddenly remembered and reminded him, [After settling the previous three small worlds, the host’s current point balance is 321, enough to unlock more categories in the system mall.]

Xin Hexue asked, “How many points to unlock?”

K : [Only one point is needed to unlock an upgrade.]

Xin Hexue said, “Mm.”

K understood his meaning.

[System mall unlocking upgrade in progress…]

[Updating product categories in system mall…]

[Update complete, and a welfare gift pack has been sent to the staff.]

[Welcome, host, to browse the new mall.]

Images of the system mall’s multiple shelves quickly projected into Xin Hexue’s mind, categorized and containing all kinds of items. Because there were so many products, many only had text descriptions without samples displayed; later on, even product names were folded and had to be expanded to view.

Fortunately, there was a search function to accurately locate items in the vast mall.

Xin Hexue casually searched several product names.

His brow lifted slightly.

It seemed all kinds of grain seeds, fuels, medicines, glass, and more were fully stocked; there was nothing the system mall couldn’t provide.

In the previous two worlds, he had been able to solve all problems himself and had no need to use the points mall. Besides, in the first world, the antidote he exchanged for 75 points was flushed down the sink when he was retching, and there was no after-sales service, which completely exhausted Xin Hexue’s initial trust in the points mall.

It was a bit like the saying, “Once bitten by a snake, you’ll be afraid of ropes for ten years.”

However…

Xin Hexue thought of his new script.

In the script, “Xin Hexue” was just an ordinary modern person, so he often felt overwhelmed when he became a priest assisting in state affairs.

But since he could break free from the script’s character settings and fixed plot…

Why couldn’t he be a divine messenger truly possessing “divine power”?

Xin Hexue’s eyes scanned his points balance.

……

Every mid-July, when the sun’s golden light and Sirius’s white glow simultaneously cut through the night, Osiris, the god of abundance, would bring great gifts to the Nile.

Torrential floods carried silt to submerge the plains on both riverbanks, finally marking the start of ancient Egypt’s “Akhet season.”

As the first of the three seasons in the ancient Egyptian calendar, Akhet was also called the inundation season. People constantly prayed to the river god to bestow a perfect flood, so that when the flood receded in mid-November and the Peret planting season arrived, the land would be covered with black silt, rich in nutrients, glittering like expensive gold in the sunlight, and surging like the life-giving waters flowing northward.

In August on the Nile, the sun hung like a scorching golden orb in the high sky, causing visible shimmering in the desert’s heat.

During the flood-submerged Akhet season, people could not farm the plains, so all other affairs could be carried out, especially the building of temples and obelisks.

The stones in the quarry were scorching and hard to touch, and copper chisels and stone hammers rang one after another.

The wind brushed the faces of the slaves; in such weather, there was no shade, only hot gusts carrying sand blowing against their faces. Sweat streamed down their bodies like water, as if they would dry into salt stains under the golden orb.

Such labor lasted until sunset.

Only when the sun god Ra steered the daytime barque into the west and entered the underworld would the golden orb sink into the edge of the violet sky.

Nub silently walked forward. His only linen waistcloth was rough and soaked with sweat from the day’s quarry work.

His dark skin gleamed oily in the sunset, muscle lines flowing smoothly. His arms, capable of wielding heavy copper chisels and stone hammers, exuded a powerful beauty. The curves of his waist and back were even smoother than a cheetah sprinting across the plains.

He needed to wash.

But the quarry’s baths did not open to lowly slaves like him. Due to scarce water, slaves could only wash simply with river water or temporary basins, and conditions worsened in the dry season.

Nub went toward the river.

Large patches of papyrus swayed in the wind, emitting a light green glow.

Nub stopped, his golden eyes scanning the papyrus thicket sharply.

The part of skin exposed outside the white robe was as flawless and smooth as mother-of-pearl, catching his attention.

‘A noble?’

Even nobles of Egypt did not have such white skin. This skin color didn’t belong to Egyptians.

Nub stepped forward and lifted a corner of the hooded robe, and the young man lying in the papyrus was revealed.

His eyes were closed, long eyelashes resting, pale lips dry.

Nub found his water pouch and carefully fed him water until the young man slowly awoke.

Xin Hexue’s arrival in the small world was right at the story’s beginning.

He had fainted and fallen here because of the effects of transmigration.

Now, like Aladdin who had found a magic lamp, he asked the slave in front of him upon waking up, “Thank you. Is there anything I can do for you?”

Xin Hexue’s eyes curved slightly. “You can make me a wish.”

Nub was surprised. “I don’t understand what you mean.”

Xin Hexue recalled that at this point in time, the giant stone with the prophecy had not yet appeared.

His divine messenger image had appeared too early.

Xin Hexue gave up the idea of using the system mall now and suddenly remembered, [Gege, doesn’t upgrading the system mall come with a welfare gift pack?]

K: [Do you want to open it now?]

K: [This is a lucky bag that randomly generates gold finger skills according to the background of the small world.]

Xin Hexue: [Mm, open it.]

Then, before Nub could react, the young man in front of him suddenly disappeared, and his robe that had lost its support fluttered down to the ground.

A pure white cat sat elegantly on the robe.

Xin Hexue: [?]

K: [Congratulations host, you have received “Blessing of the Cat God Bast”…]

K: [Description: Meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow meow.]

K: [Translation: Become the cat god and spread the cat doctrine. This ability to transform into a cat at any time allows you to escape danger in critical moments.]

Xin Hexue: […]

The slave before him, stunned by the strange sight, respectfully knelt on one knee and performed Nubia’s highest-level ritual.

Nub carefully kissed the white cat’s front paw.

“Lord Apademak.”

If he remembered correctly while reviewing this small world, Apademak was a god with a lion head and human body worshipped in Nubia.

‘…A lion god of war?’

Xin Hexue glanced at the reflection of the white cat in the river.

“…”

The white cat leapt lightly and stepped onto the slave’s head.

“Meow.”

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Author’s note:

Life is dull and boring; cats enslave humans.

Little cat, you may step on people’s heads.