Chapter 174 That Green
Chapter 174 That Green
The little girl with green hair said, "I'm in the same world as you now. Could you please be a little more careful when helping your mission targets? Don't let my mission and my new host fail!"
"...Um...uh...that...I promise that what happened in the previous worlds was all an accident." After struggling for a long time, System WQBYRZM chose to defend itself.
However, System 1143 in front of him clearly didn't believe it: "Really? But the forums all say that in the worlds you took your host to, the missions either became much more difficult or failed directly or indirectly."
System WQBYRZM was silent for a moment, then said, "I guarantee it was an accident, it was absolutely an accident."
"Wow, really?" System 1143's eyes were filled with distrust.
“Really,” the system WQBYRZM said. “Who are you and your host’s mission targets?”
"It's the villain Su Hanshuang," System 1143 said.
“Su Hanshuang,” the system WQBYRZM pondered for a moment and said, “Don’t worry, it won’t have any impact, and the overlap is minimal.”
"Besides, my host is a bit of a coward. He probably won't do anything too outrageous."
Lu Renkui, inside Sun Xi's body, couldn't help but sneeze.
"Hey? Little Cake, what's wrong?" Zhao Wuyin asked with concern when he heard Sun Xi sneeze.
"It's nothing, my nose is just a little itchy." Lu Renkui rubbed his nose, then felt someone tap his shoulder. He turned around and saw Wang Xin.
Remembering Wang Xin's previous manic and suicidal state, Lu Renkui now knew that Wang Xin had come to ask her if she had found a way to break free from rebirth.
Sure enough, Wang Xin asked, "Sun Xi, are you free now?"
Lu Renkui first turned around and glanced at Zhao Wuyin.
Zhao Wuyin had never met Wang Xin before, and his obsidian-like eyes were filled with doubt.
“Sister Yinyue, this is my friend,” Lu Renkui quickly explained. “She needs to talk to me, so I’ll go out and talk to her first.”
When Zhao Wuyin heard Sun Xi say this, he wasn't too surprised. He said, "Alright, Little Cake, you go out and chat with her. I'll take another look at the dress pattern, and then we can go to your house this weekend to make the dress together with your mother."
"Okay." After saying that, Lu Renkui followed Wang Xin out of the classroom.
The two walked side by side for a long time without either of them speaking first. Finally, Wang Xin couldn't hold back any longer and spoke first: "Did you find it?"
"A way to break the cycle?" Lu Renkui said. "I've found it."
"Found it?" Wang Xin seemed a little excited, but she tried her best to suppress the joy on her face and asked, "What is it?"
"Well... how should I put it? Someone like you who has been reborn dozens of times might have some underlying obsession or a mission." Lu Renkui began to use his persuasive skills to try and guide Wang Xin.
Is there anything in particular you want to accomplish?
“Things I really want to accomplish…” Wang Xin fell silent, then shook his head and said, “I want to be famous, I want to be rich, I want to live to be a hundred, I want to possess the most powerful force in the world… but these are all too unrealistic for me.”
"Those are the protagonist An Yingxue's lovers, friends, and enemies, and have nothing to do with us cannon fodder."
"Hmm...why are you so fixated on the main characters' things?" Lu Renkui asked. "Have you tried to make some efforts in leveraging your own strengths?"
"What I'm good at." Wang Xin laughed from his chest. "I'm someone who always starts off on a dire situation."
“I don’t even know what my parents look like, because they abandoned me at the gate of the orphanage right after I was born.”
"I started school and reached the age where I could awaken my attack instrument, so I awakened my attack instrument."
"I thought I could make a name for myself at the orphanage, but instead I got an attack instrument microphone that nobody wanted."
"I have to play myself as an instrument."
"I'm not pretty, I'm not smart, and I always feel sorry for myself. What strengths do I have?"
"Um... well... you can look for it." Lu Renkui asked cautiously, afraid that her words might inadvertently touch a nerve with Wang Xin and cause her to want to jump off the building again.
Lu Renkui squeezed Wang Xin a little closer to the wall in the corridor, and then relaxed a little. He continued to say to Wang Xin, "Think about it, you've always felt that you need to steal the opportunities from the main characters in order to have a chance to stand out from the crowd."
"Actually, this idea is wrong. Everyone has their own strengths; you just haven't discovered yours yet."
"Is it interesting to spout platitudes?" Wang Xin said in a flat tone.
“Let me finish,” Lu Renkui sighed. “What you need to do is not compare yourself to others, but compare yourself to yourself.”
“Every time you are reborn, you feel like you haven’t learned anything, but in fact, what you learn each time you are reborn is engraved in your mind, you just haven’t realized it yet.”
"You said that every time you try to replicate the path taken by the main characters, you always fail."
"This shows that everyone has their own way of living. If you force yourself to live like that person, it will only backfire."
"What you need to find is your own way of living—provided you don't die too early—in order to break through and be reborn."
"So do you have any ideas?" Wang Xin asked after listening.
"Ah, I actually already mentioned this before. Someone like you who has been reborn dozens of times either has an obsession in their heart or wants to complete a mission." Seeing that Wang Xin was showing signs of listening, Lu Renkui continued.
"So these past few days, the system and I have been guessing that your obsession is currently unclear, but you may have a mission—to make yourself live a better life."
"Perhaps this is what you're fixated on as well."
"Live better?" Wang Xin looked a little puzzled. "My life is already in such a mess, how can I possibly live better?"
“It couldn’t be worse, but there’s still a lot of room for improvement. You can still be saved,” Lu Renkui said. “You haven’t completely fallen into the mud yet. Please remember that.”
"Okay, so do you have any way to help make my life better?" Wang Xin was still skeptical.
Lu Renkui said, "Ah...would you be interested in forming a band?"
"Ok?"
“Hmm…” Lu Renkui scratched his head and said, “My mission is to help the original owner of this body live a better life. That is to say, I have to help her avoid the battle that An Yingxue and Su Hanshuang will bring in three months later, and the bullying of poor students throughout the school afterwards.”
"So I need to find a way to improve my proficiency with percussion instruments."
"I've looked through all the sheet music in the room, and I can now play it fluently at my current level. But I can't play any more difficult pieces."
"So I was thinking, could I create some of my own music?"
"Moreover, the original owner's attack instrument was a drum kit, which needed to be combined with multiple instruments to show its greatest strength."
So, would you be interested in forming a band with me? We could arrange and train together.
Wang Xin remained silent in the face of the invitation from the dark brown-haired girl in front of her.
The two of them returned to the silent, side-by-side state they had been in when they first left the classroom.
“We’ll see,” Wang Xin said. “Someone like me who wants to use himself as a musical instrument should think about it some more.”
“Ah, okay then,” Lu Renkui said, scratching his head again, “Tell me when you’ve thought it through.”
"Oh, right, remember that the way to break free from rebirth is to make yourself live a better life." Lu Renkui reminded Wang Xin again, afraid that one day she might have a change of heart and jump off a building.
"I understand, stop talking," Wang Xin said, walking back to her classroom, looking like she didn't want to listen anymore.
Lu Renkui shook his head and went back to the classroom.
Back in the classroom, Lu Renkui told Zhao Wuyin again about his idea of forming a band.
Zhao Wuyin expressed his strong agreement and offered to find someone to help with the task.
"There's no need to rush," Lu Renkui said, stopping Zhao Wuyin from texting her bunch of friends. "We need to figure out the direction the band should take first."
“That makes sense,” Zhao Wuyin said, resting his chin on the table as he began to think. “My offensive instrument is an electric guitar, and yours is a drum set, so we could form a…”
"We could form an electric band," Lu Renkui thought. "We still need an electric bassist and an electronic keyboardist—Sister Yinyue, how are you at singing?"
“Ah, do I sing? I’m just so-so,” Zhao Wuyin tilted his head and said, “But I don’t think I know anyone who can sing, although I do know bassists and keyboardists.”
“Alright then, let’s put the singer thing on hold for now,” Lu Renkui said, inwardly marveling at Zhao Wuyin’s extensive network. “Sister Yinyue, the bassist and keyboardist, who are you talking about…”
“Well, one is David, and David’s attacking instrument is the bass,” Zhao Wuyin said.
"..." Lu Renkui fell silent for a moment before finally speaking, "Isn't it a bit much for us to keep bothering David?"
"Well, shall we buy some more fruit and cake to give him?" Zhao Wuyin suggested. "I think he liked the ones he received last time."
"Um, this... Sister Yinyue, do you really not know any other people who can play bass?" Lu Renkui asked.
"Hmm... no. There's a saying that bassists are never valued, so even if someone gets a bass, they don't want to tell anyone."
Lu Renkui never expected that musical instruments could be described in this way.
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