Girl Transformation Infinite Proliferation, My Numbers Are a Disaster Chapter 20

"Is that her?" Jiang Gexing beside him sounded a bit surprised.

He seemed somewhat taken aback by the girl's beauty.

So the few of them quickly walked over.

"Um, excuse me, are you Ye Qian's younger sister?" Xiao Lin asked awkwardly.

Seeing the eager looks on her three roommates' faces, Ye Xin helplessly nodded. "That's me."

"Come, come, have a seat. Actually, we already ordered the food just now."

"Mm."

Ye Xin followed them into the shop and sat down at the table they'd chosen.

Her gaze drifted out the window.

Though technology had been rapidly elevated to a new level, the architectural style of this world largely retained the characteristics of the steam era. Most buildings leaned toward classical Western designs, with very few residential structures exceeding sixty meters. Coupled with the influence of the Light Prayer Church, religious-style buildings with spires could often be seen along the streets.

Actually, Ye Qian kind of liked this style, but in quite a few cities, towering modern high-rises were rapidly increasing, gradually bringing in many glass-curtain-walled buildings.

Of course, most of the glass tended to be dark-toned, with nighttime lighting relying mostly on interior illumination, and even then only in a few commercial districts.

As for education, due to the times, most people attended schools funded by the local Church. Over ninety percent could only study for six years, including three years of elementary school and three years of basic middle school.

What Ye Qian was currently attending was the third year of basic middle school—the end of the line for commoners' education.

Sitting in the chair, looking at the three familiar faces, Ye Xin felt that she herself was the most awkward one.

Her former good buddies were now staring at her with lecherous eyes, giving her a strong sense of "I treat you guys as roommates, but you want to get with me."

"Um, what should we call you?" Xiao Lin asked.

"Ye Xin."

"Ye Xin, huh. Has your brother really had no news at all? How long has he been missing?"

"Since the last time we parted ways," Ye Xin replied. "I've already reported it to the police, but they couldn't find any trace of him."

"That's trouble. We were just thinking about going to look for him. Too bad it's been so long—the chances of finding him are probably low."

Jiang Gexing also sighed. "Missing person cases always have the lowest solve rates, but we can't give up hope. We'll definitely find him."

In the time that followed, the group actually seriously discussed how to search for Ye Qian.

The food was brought up quickly.

It was obvious the brothers had no appetite at all—they were genuinely anxious. This moved Ye Xin a little.

"Are you guys really that close with my brother?" Ye Xin tentatively asked, wanting to see how they'd answer.

"Of course. Ridiculously close." Xiao Lin snorted, lifting his chin. "Ye Qian even told me back then that he'd entrust his little sister to his good buddy me, hahaha..."

"Ha your sister!" Ye Xin's mouth twitched.

"Get lost, you shameless bastard?" The other two brothers immediately started roughhousing with him.

But halfway through the horseplay, the smiles on everyone's faces faded, and a somber atmosphere settled in. Su Longjie took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a drag.

Seeing these three people, Ye Xin remained silent.

At 8:30 in the evening, it was about time to wrap up.

"I have to go. Anyway, thank you," she said.

"No problem. If you ever run into trouble, you can come to us for help. That guy disappearing without a word... honestly, it really bothers me." Su Longjie lit a second cigarette.

"Smoke less," Xiao Lin said, nudging him.

"I'm quitting, I'm quitting. Already trying to quit. Cough, cough, cough." He choked a few times in a row, then said, "Anyway, goodbye. We'll try to find him."

"Thank you." Ye Xin stood up and bowed.

With that, they parted ways.

Leaving the scene, Ye Xin looked at her phone and suddenly felt a bit melancholy.

Like she was completely cutting ties with the past.

Releasing a few Spirit Threads, she scanned her surroundings while heading home. On the way, Ye Xin suddenly caught onto something faint and elusive.

"What's this... a thread?"

Beyond the Spirit Threads, something seemed to extend from her mind, connecting all the way into the distance.

Calling it a thread wasn't quite right—it didn't really exist physically, more like a kind of intangible force.

"What's going on?"

She tried hard to grasp it, but found the connection too weak. The moment she lost focus, it became undetectable.

It wasn't until several minutes later that her expression shifted slightly as she realized what it was.

"Connected to the main body."

More like a conceptual connection.

Between her current body and the original, there was a faint, mysterious "thread." It was this thread that kept the clone linked to the main body, no matter the distance.

Life Energy freely moves between different bodies in this manner.

Just like now, the "thread" between the main body and the clone passed through a long stretch of space, even threading through passersby on the street.

Each passerby carried a unique frequency band, and one of them had a frequency unusually close to her own—as if with a slight adjustment, she could transmit something to them.

"Hello!"

Ye Xin tried it, sending this greeting out along the thread.

Thirty meters away, that person's steps suddenly froze. He looked up in confusion.

"What's going on? Why do I feel like there's a voice in my ear?" he thought, dazed, but eventually shook it off and continued walking.

And because of the "thread's" connection, Ye Xin sensed his thoughts.

"Is this... long-distance mind-reading?"

She seemed to perceive a strange state.

Her frequency was close to that person's, so passing through his thread naturally allowed her to transmit corresponding information.

"What if I change the frequency?"

That seemed possible too.

Similarly, the energy communication and consciousness communication between the clone and the main body both traversed this kind of space.

For example, Life Energy was transmitted to the main body this way. If she wanted, could she directly give that energy to someone else along the thread's path who shared the same frequency?

She thought it was feasible.

But absorbing others' power seemed impossible, because energy only flowed back and forth between her own clone and main body, at most being granted to others along the way while reading their thoughts.

Most importantly, this thread felt more conceptual—likely very metaphysical, with no possibility of being severed.

Chapter 18: Dream?

"Maybe it has other uses too."

Ye Xin realized that energy and matter were essentially one, or rather, just different forms of expression. If she could transmit Life Energy, could she also teleport solid objects?

Thinking this, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small item.

[Explosion Ring]

"I've had this thing for a while and never used it. Perfect for an experiment."

She ran to an empty spot, tried to connect to the thread, and lightly infused it with some Life Energy.

The ring vanished from before her eyes in an instant.

And almost simultaneously, an iron ring materialized in the main body's palm.

"Mmm."

She stared in delight.

"It worked."

This ability was ridiculously powerful.

Not only could it interfere with consciousness, but matter as well.

The only hassle was that the thread could only transmit between the two bodies.

She tried to deflect this conceptual thread, and to her surprise, after infusing a bit of Life Energy, it actually shifted a hundred meters to one side.

"That worked too." With her idea realized, she couldn't help feeling excited.

This was an accidental discovery.

Checking the time, she figured she should head back. Ye Xin scanned her surroundings, noticed quite a few passersby looking back at her, and silently yawned.

"Time to go home."

The clock struck midnight, and the city had quieted down.

When she got home, the main body and Alice were already asleep.

Bored, she started fiddling with the "Mystic Thread" and accidentally discovered something fun:

While the main body was dreaming, the clone's lucid consciousness could connect to the sleeping main body, allowing her to observe both places simultaneously while awake.

"Let's go play in the main body's dream."

Ye Xin tried it. Though difficult, her spirit slowly descended.

Opening her eyes, she saw a vast, open grassland.

Without a doubt, she was now in a lucid dream state.

Ye Qian looked at her own hands. She realized that without the clone's will as an anchor, the main body would easily lose itself in the dream, reverting to an ordinary one.

"Since it's a dream, can't I do whatever I want?"

Seeing the main body's delicate, adorable appearance, Ye Xin swallowed hard.

"It's not illegal to do some wicked things in a dream, right?"

Ye Xin wiped the drool from her mouth and began trying to alter the dream. Unfortunately, she soon realized that only the main body could do this. And every change was extremely difficult—even just twisting a single scene would cause the main body to immediately lose itself. Luckily, she could instantly sync the clone's memories, remember that she was dreaming, and thus snap back to a lucid state.

"Speaking of which, does this dream world have a boundary?"

Driven by a hint of curiosity, Ye Xin kicked off the ground and shot straight into the sky.

"What an amazing feeling."

She could clearly sense that the distance between herself and the main body was growing.

The outline of the earth gradually unfolded—a boundless prairie, with rolling distant mountains.

The distance between them grew farther and farther, until gradually, the main body was completely out of sight.

She lifted her head, and unexpectedly, the sky above dimmed. After piercing through the atmosphere, the view overhead suddenly transformed into a vast expanse of stars.

"No way, is the sun just a texture? Does this dream have no end at all? As expected, it's a virtual dream—since it's all fabricated, it could be any size."

Ye Xin felt a bit disappointed and was considering turning back, when she suddenly touched a strange, thin membrane.

"What's this..."

She poked it with her finger, and a gap appeared in the membrane. Picking up a little speed, she flew straight through it to the outer layer.

Looking down, she saw a small black-and-white bubble enveloping the world she had been in. And all around her, countless bubbles stretched like a river of stars into the endless distance.

"What is this..."

She tried approaching one of the bubbles.

The closer she got, the more immense that bubble felt.

The most wondrous thing was that this bubble was colorful.

"Most bubbles are colorful, while black-and-white ones are rare—and I'm actually in a black-and-white one?"