I was actually a very composed person, someone whose expression would not change even if Mount Tai collapsed before me, someone who could hear that God was about to descend and calmly finish a bowl of Braised Beef Noodles before getting up to prepare some lollipops. See? I was so composed that even after hearing about what happened back then, I could keep a straight face while bickering with Lin Xue—though she called it late-stage brainstem woodification.
How should I put it? Given the current state of this world, and the fact that our family had lived on Earth as humans for twenty years, I had guessed from the start that something unplanned must have happened after Older Sister and I met in our previous lives. A Void Creature had already "been born" during the late Old Empire, yet did not awaken until seventy thousand years later. I had noticed something odd about that after hearing Aurelia's story and had grown suspicious, but I had never taken it to heart.
Because in my view, that was all from a previous life. No matter how deep the connection, it did not have much to do with me anymore. Even if I dug into the truth of that time, what meaning would there be? Void Creatures were inert by nature. Most of the time, I could not be bothered to care about things that did not greatly affect me or my family. I felt that what happened in our previous lives did not have much impact on us.
But Older Sister did not see it that way. She stubbornly wanted to know what had happened back then, and with Lin Xue's help, she succeeded easily. It was just that what had happened did not seem to be a good thing for her.