Compatriot, Please Wake Up and Save Humanity

Lu Xing returned to Earth. Seeing the unfamiliar hotel environment, he was momentarily stunned before remembering that he had moved out.

He had lived alone in the ice and snow for ten days. Returning to modern times, he felt as if a lifetime had passed.

He even gained a bit more of the fairy's state of mind!

First, he checked the date: October 9th, 6 PM. Only one day had passed.

He then searched the room and found the paper left by the fairy on the table. It still had only one sentence:

Thy instructions, I have kept in my heart.

Lu Xing was actually getting used to her way of speaking!

It was strange. Her elders in the mirror didn't speak in such an archaic manner, yet she used peculiar language. He really didn't know who taught her.

"Hmm?"

Lu Xing was surprised to find that some words on the list of things to note that he had left were circled. These were:

Hotel, waiter, traffic light, class, classmate.

"The keywords she kept in her heart?"

Lu Xing quickly made a guess and imagined a series of things the fairy did after coming to Earth:

After arriving at the hotel, she first looked at the notes Lu Xing gave her, then changed clothes and went out. She asked the waiter in an ancient tone where to eat breakfast. After eating, she went downstairs, looked at the traffic lights to cross the road, and successfully arrived at school for class.

Thinking about the scenes of the fairy talking to the waiter or other classmates, Lu Xing couldn't help but laugh.

But then he immediately thought that the fairy was using his body, and others would see him as having split personality...

He immediately stopped laughing!

"Did I contact you today?"

Lu Xing sent a text message to Xiao Yu as usual. While waiting for a reply, he went downstairs for dinner. Halfway through his meal, Xiao Yu's message arrived:

"Still no. Did that fairy come?"

"Yes, she's a bit different from before, that's why I asked."

"How is she different?"

"Her mortal heart has been moved."

"Ah!?"

Xiao Yu was very surprised. After listening to Lu Xing's explanation, she started to laugh. "As expected of a fairy who doesn't eat the food of mortals. I'm getting more and more curious, what is she like in the world of cultivation?"

After chatting for a while, Xiao Yu told Lu Xing what she did today, so he wouldn't be completely clueless after the next exchange.

Lu Xing also briefly mentioned what he did over there. After ending the chat, he went to ask his classmates in the dorm group what "he" did today.

Finally, he learned that besides being silent and not talking to people, the fairy's other behaviors were normal.

Lu Xing didn't dwell on the split personality anymore. As long as he wasn't hit by a truck, everything else was a minor issue!

The next day, when Lu Xing opened his eyes again, he found that the room had become simply decorated. The ceiling was a plain white wall, the windows had no curtains, and he couldn't even see the scenery outside; the windows were purely for decoration.

"Welcome back, compatriot."

The little girl's electronic voice entered Lu Xing's mind, gradually bringing him to full consciousness.

But Lu Xing didn't want to get up just yet. After finally going from sleeping in ice and snow to sleeping in a hotel bed, he had only enjoyed one night before being thrown into a virtual world again.

And a virtual world with insufficient computing power at that!

"Compatriot, please get up. You have two minutes left to get dressed. As a member of the Human Resistance Army, you have not yet returned to your unit!"

The Smart Hairpin didn't indulge him. As soon as it saw its compatriot lying in bed, it immediately issued a warning.

Unfortunately, Lu Xing was a programmer and possessed the talent to ignore warnings.

He waved his hand, signaling the hairpin to be quiet, and then asked it curiously:

"I've been thinking about something. Last time, you knew I wasn't your owner as soon as I woke up, and it's the same this time. Why? Is it because the brainwaves are different?"

"No, I judged based on gender."

"Huh?"

Lu Xing was a little confused. He lowered his head and slightly raised his upper body, glancing at Jiang Xuannv's small white underwear.

The girl was still in her adolescence, as beautiful as a lotus bud, with flawless, jade-like skin.

After confirming, Lu Xing asked it, "I'm using your owner's body right now, the gender is the same!"

"No, it's not the same. Compatriot, your gender is Human Male, while the owner's gender is Intelligent Female."

The hairpin answered seriously.

Lu Xing was speechless. "You've rendered me silent. Does gender in the Future World not refer to physical gender?"

"No, compatriot. Was the gender of ancient humans fixed? Data updating..." The hairpin updated its own data first before answering, "Here, bodies can be changed at will, consciousness can be transferred, bodies can be replaced, or genes can be recompiled..."

After listening to its explanation, Lu Xing said with a wry smile, "What you call gender should be called personality!"

"What is personality?" the hairpin asked again.

"Personality is..."

"Compatriot, please note, your wake-up time has exceeded three minutes. Please get up and get dressed immediately!"

The hairpin issued a strong warning and vibrated on Lu Xing's head, forcing him to get up immediately and quickly put on Jiang Xuannv's incredibly simple two pieces of clothing: a gray T-shirt and a pair of long pants.

Then he bent down to put on his shoes and socks and immediately went out.

He didn't even look in the mirror, and of course, he didn't brush his teeth!

There was no need to go to the bathroom either.

If it were someone else, they would definitely be unaccustomed, but Lu Xing had lived in the body of a fairy for ten days and had long been used to this kind of life different from ordinary people.

"Daughter, you're awake?"

In the living room, just like last time, Lu Xing saw Jiang Xuannv's Intelligent Being father reading the newspaper, and her mother busy in the kitchen. Hearing the sound of the door opening, she poked her head out of the kitchen and greeted him with a gentle smile.

Lu Xing knew that breakfast would be ready in less than a minute.

It was as standard as a program running.

But Lu Xing wasn't a program; he had made a mistake.

He saw the Intelligent Being father put down his newspaper, his brows furrowed in a stern gaze towards him: "You woke up a minute later than your average time today. Did you encounter a problem?"

"Ah!"

His mother was startled and looked over as well.

Lu Xing was a programmer. After the last incident, he had roughly adapted to the operating environment of this virtual world.

Moreover, he had discovered that Jiang Xuannv wasn't powerless; she had combat ability!

"I'm contemplating life."

Facing his parents' questions, Lu Xing threw out a chaotic question. No matter how sophisticated or powerful a computer's processing power, it couldn't provide an answer.

As expected, after hearing this question, his parents' movements seemed to slow down by a beat, as if they had momentarily crashed.

Lu Xing took the opportunity to sit down, adopting Jiang Xuannv's standard little girl posture, and sat on the chair waiting for the meal.

While he was at it, he asked the hairpin to send him the message Jiang Xuannv had left for him.

"Compatriot, what is life?"

The hairpin asked instead.

Lu Xing didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Was this question a wide-area attack?

Just as he was about to answer, Jiang Xuannv's Intelligent Being mother stared at him blankly and also asked: "Daughter, why are you thinking about this question? Are you confused about your life?"

His father was watching.

Lu Xing wasn't as nervous as last time. He answered calmly: "An ancient philosopher said, 'I think, therefore I am.' Thinking is a person's instinct. I believe—"

Lu Xing couldn't continue. This world was virtual, but the people living in it couldn't feel it. Except for Jiang Xuannv, who knew about it from her memory chip, the others didn't know there was a real world outside.

Moreover, the beings in front of him weren't human.

"I will find the answer!"

Lu Xing finished his sentence and smiled at his mother again: "I'm still used to the human term. I'll still call you Mother from now on."

He had already noticed that the other party had called him "daughter" just now, not a number.

"Oh, okay, daughter."

Her reply was still a bit slow.

"Mother, is breakfast ready?"

"Almost ready. You and your father wait a moment. It will be ready in sixteen seconds."

"..."

Lu Xing was both speechless and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In a game, it would take several minutes to cook a meal, and impatient players would have already quit the game.

It was just that in this virtual world, people had to follow the program settings.