Echoes of the Past (II)

"I never expected this... I never expected this... Hundreds of years have passed since the Battle of Clouded Cliffs, and I thought this song had been lost long ago. I never thought I would hear this folk song again." The schoolteacher said with great emotion.

"It hasn't been lost at all. On the contrary, later generations choreographed dances based on this song, allowing it to be passed down through the ages in even more diverse ways."

"Haha, that's good, that's good..." The schoolteacher smiled with satisfaction. "I hope you won't blame me for what happened earlier, young friend."

"It's alright, the misunderstanding has been cleared up." Xiao Ling indicated that she didn't mind.

However, after a long time, there was still no reply.

What's going on?

Xiao Ling was somewhat puzzled. His golden eyes looked around and found that everything had stopped.

The smile on Yangyang's father's face was still there, and little Yangyang and Suisui were still watching him from the side. Everything in the yard seemed to have been paused.

After stroking his chin and pondering for a while, he deduced with considerable certainty:

"If I'm not mistaken..."

He activated his senses again, observing the flow of frequency, and thus found the entrance to the next level.

Having seen things develop to this point, Xiao Ling understood and couldn't help but secretly admire how much effort his Sentinel had put into it.

"However, since I can see Yangyang and the others when they were young, then on the other hand..."

Compared to Xiao Ling's zero score, Yangyang seemed much more composed.

"Hey!"

Snap!

A graceful, perfect landing! Celebrate! Here comes Wuthering Waves's mascot! The most straightforward one! The one who won't be NTR'd by her older sister...

Before Yangyang could even take in her surroundings after landing, a familiar voice drew her attention.

"Yangyang, you're finally here?"

Yangyang looked up and saw her older sister standing in front of her, greeting her with a friendly smile—if one ignored the sudden cold sweat that broke out on her forehead.

"Sister, I've been looking for you so hard!" Yangyang said with a forced smile. "You know, I was so scared when you suddenly disappeared I almost cried!"

"Haha... Well... I'm sorry?" Suisui couldn't really put on airs, after all, she was in the wrong.

"Qianlai!" Yangyang is preparing to conduct an activity called "Resonance Liberation" for her good older sister.

"Yangyang ~ We're sisters, are you really going to be so heartless...?" Suisui said, feigning pitifulness, and even squeezed out two symbolic tears.

"Silence!"

Bang!

"So, sister, you staged this whole thing to bring Xiao Yu and me together?"

That's right.

"So what's going on now?"

"I can only tell you that I was unaware of this either. After all, neither I nor the Lamplighter had anticipated that Sonoro would suddenly appear here in our previous plans."

Yangyang sighed helplessly and pressed down the bulging veins on her forehead.

"This should be the interior of an apartment building, but it looks a bit old," she speculated after observing the surroundings. "Sister, you arrived before me, do you have any clues about this?"

"To be honest, I have absolutely no idea." Suisui looked embarrassed and shook her head awkwardly. "But I always felt there should be a clue behind that door, but no matter how I try, I can't open it. I've knocked on the door and even tried to force it open, but the door won't budge."

Yangyang followed Suisui's gaze and found that there was indeed a door with the number 609 written on it.

"I see... then I'll give it a try."

After taking a deep breath, Yangyang walked to the door and gently knocked on it.

Not long after, light footsteps came from behind the door, followed by a click as the door opened.

"Huh? Nobody's here?" Suisui looked at the empty space behind the door and asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Where is no one? Pretty lady, can you at least look down a bit?"

Yangyang and Suisui looked down towards the source of the sound and discovered a tiny boy standing behind the door.

"Why is it a child?" Suisui looked at the little bean sprout in front of her, then suddenly remembered something and turned to ask Yangyang, "Speaking of which, didn't Brother Ling come with you?"

"Xiao Yu and I came together," Yangyang replied truthfully. "However, the teleportation channel is very unstable; we must have been separated along the way."

The two were chatting away, completely unaware that the little boy at the door was beginning to become suspicious.

After all, these two pretty Brother Ling" and " Xiao Yu" so naturally, even though he'd never actually met them before...

"Xiao Yu, do we have guests at home?"

Just then, a deep and gentle male voice rang out from inside the house, its loud tone clearly audible to the three people in the entryway.

"Dad, two pretty ladies came to the door, and they seem to recognize me," Xiao Ling answered his father truthfully when he was a child.

"You must be your mother's friend, right?"

"I don't know, I'll ask her later."

The two sisters Yang Sui and Yang Sui, looked at each other in bewilderment and brainstormed for a long time before finally starting to whisper to each other.

"I think we might have traveled back to when Brother Ling?" Suisui speculated.

"I think so, after all, that gentleman just called him Xiao Yu, and..."

Yangyang looked Xiao Ling over and found that he did indeed have many similarities to the current Xiao Ling.

Based on this, the person who spoke from inside the house just now must have been Xiao Ling's deceased father, and the mother they were referring to must be Xiao Yue.

"Xiao Yu, since they are guests, please invite them in. Don't keep them waiting outside."

"Okay." Xiao Ling called out towards the house, then politely invited the two women into her home. "Hey, my father has spoken, please come in, ladies."

"Excuse me."

Yangyang and Suisui followed Xiao Ling into the living room and immediately saw the certificates and photos on the wall.

"A model student... first in the grade... so Brother Ling this talented even as a child?" Suisui murmured to herself, "Wait, this photo..."

Suisui's gaze fell on a rather old-looking photograph on the wall. It showed Xiao Yue dancing gracefully on a stage, with stunning beauty and elegant demeanor.

Her gaze followed to the side and she was surprised to find a certificate of merit for Xiao Yue, in which her ethnic dance performance won first prize in a competition held by the school.

"You must be Yue'er's friends?" the young man sitting on the sofa asked kindly. "She's still resting in her room. Your timing is a bit off."

"It's alright, we can wait." Suisui came back to her senses and smiled in the direction of Xiao Ling's father. "Let me introduce myself. My name is Suisui, and I'm Xiao Yue's junior sister. This is my younger sister, Yangyang. She's been clamoring to see Senior Sister Xiao Yue's beautiful face, so I brought her along."

"Sister..." Yangyang stared at her with a dark expression.

"Hehe."