The past Lin Ruo's meeting with the Evernight Goddess ended here.
Having ended the meeting, she immediately opened her eyes in the church, her expression calm and devout, making it impossible to imagine that she had just secretly met with the Evernight Goddess and discussed such important matters.
After that, the past Lin Ruo's life returned to peace, and this tranquility continued until the end of this memory fragment.
Thus, in the historical projection, Lin Ruo opened his eyes. He looked at the strange yet familiar guest room decor, blinked, and for a moment hadn't fully disengaged from the immersive experience he had just undergone.
However, this confusion only lasted for a second or two, and then Lin Ruo fully recovered. He looked at the sunset outside the window and couldn't help but let out a sigh.
The duration of this recovered memory was much longer than the last time. Although most of the time it was peaceful and interesting daily life, including various persecutions and Expediting (urging for manuscripts) of Roselle, experiencing such a long period of immersive memory in one go still made Lin Ruo feel some mental fatigue.
"But I also learned a lot of Roselle's dark history. From this perspective, it's not a loss." Lin Ruo thought this, raising his hand to rub his mouth, which couldn't help but curve into a smile, fully embodying a certain person's true nature.
However, despite having the attributes of a mischief-maker, Lin Ruo was still essentially a serious person. So, after the mischievousness faded, Lin Ruo began to ponder the information contained in this recovered memory.
There was naturally nothing to say about the matter with Zaratul's family; it was just a favor, a transaction. Although from the current perspective, Lin Ruo knew that he would later stumble a little because of Zaratul Jr and fall out with Bernadette for a long time, if one were to ask if Lin Ruo had any regrets about not eliminating Zaratul Jr beforehand, then there really weren't any.
After all, regret is the most useless emotion. Lin Ruo merely recalled Zaratul Jr's ending in the original novel and decided that when Klein brought Sefirah Castle to fight Zaratul in the future, he would secretly assist, striving to ensure that he would not have the chance to "sit up" in his "coffin."
Just as Lin Ruo had once said, if Zaratul Jr didn't court death, he could tolerate him for the sake of Zaratul Senior. After all, before the incident with Bernadette, he was quite well-behaved except for some hostility towards Lin Ruo. But since Zaratul actively sought death, there was nothing more to say.
—However, speaking of which, what is Zaratul Jr's current situation? Is he still locked up in Foggy Town like in the original novel?
Lin Ruo pinched his chin, thinking with some uncertainty, and immediately decided to ask the Evernight Goddess about this matter when he had time later.
Then Lin Ruo directly cast this matter aside and began to continue thinking about other things.
Adam's transaction with his past self, to be honest, Lin Ruo was both surprised and not too surprised. After all, Medici had not concealed the matter of the Uniqueness from him, so Lin Ruo knew that his former self had made a transaction with Adam, letting Adam return the Red Priest Uniqueness to Medici at an appropriate time.
Lin Ruo was not even too surprised that the Red Priest Uniqueness was exchanged for his own writer's characteristic, because he had already had such a guess.
What truly surprised Lin Ruo was actually the matter of the pollution, or rather, Alista's use of City of Calamity to pollute Medici.
"How merciless..." Lin Ruo murmured softly. He suddenly laughed, his smile somewhat cold, somewhat sarcastic.
In this bottom-level world, which is a world of madness, pollution is far more terrifying than simple death. If not handled properly, a person who could originally be saved, even if truly "saved," would turn into a monster. The best example is Roselle, who almost returned in the original novel.
And looking at the situation of Lin Ruo's friends, one knows that even a Angel of Judgment would find such pollution extremely tricky. Otherwise, he would have brought his friends back long ago, and it wouldn't have dragged on until today, with the friends he brought back all in very poor condition.
Moreover, Medici's situation was even worse than Solomon and the others. Firstly, he was not a Black Emperor and had no resurrection buff; secondly, he had already been stewed, leaving only a fragmented Soul; and thirdly, there was a very realistic question—had Lin Ruo at that time really dealt with pollution issues?
Whether it was Solomon, Bethel, or Roselle, their pollution all happened after Medici. Before that, Lin Ruo had never heard of any of his friends being polluted and then brought back by him.
Even with Medici's situation, even if he were truly brought back...
"I probably would have been afraid too, whether that evil spirit brought back was still you..." Lin Ruo lowered his eyes and whispered.
After all, with the examples of Adam and True Creator before him, how could he not be afraid?
Afraid of his best friend disappearing, leaving only a fake.
"Fortunately, the worst didn't happen..." Thinking of this, Lin Ruo couldn't help but show a genuine smile.
Although he hadn't recovered too many memories, there was one thing Lin Ruo was very sure of: Medici was still the Medici he knew.
Perhaps this was a case of a scoundrel living for a thousand years in some sense?
"No, it's actually more likely that Adam did something..." Lin Ruo muttered, his eyes slightly complex.
There were some things he didn't know, so Lin Ruo now knew them as well.
"Forget it, it's better not to guess wildly about such things..." Lin Ruo shook his head, suppressing the slightly complex emotions in his heart, before thinking of another matter with a strange expression:
"So Little Red was really kept underground by me until now, and he doesn't seem to know he was polluted at all. No, maybe he actually noticed..."
Lin Ruo recalled his second meeting with Medici after his amnesia. At that time, he didn't think much of it due to insufficient information, but looking back now, there's a high probability that Medici let that matter go so easily because he had detected the pollution.
The reason he didn't tell him was probably because he felt it wasn't necessary.
"Each and every one of them..." Lin Ruo pouted, inwardly dissing these riddlers, then couldn't help but continue to ponder the part of this recovered memory that concerned him the most.
That is, his past conversation with the Evernight Goddess.
"Running away with the ball... Isn't this just playing Wandering Earth?" Lin Ruo scoffed inwardly, but he wasn't too surprised.
Because he had already guessed that he would prepare a backup plan in case the main plan failed, allowing the Evernight Goddess and the others to wander with the Earth, though not a good choice, was still better than being wiped out here.
As for his own ending... "Actually, it doesn't matter." Lin Ruo smiled. He then stood up, poured himself a glass of water, and prepared to rest.
Tomorrow, he still had to continue deceiving Roselle. Hmm, he also needed to get a Judge identity and start digesting the Beyonder potion.
Lin Ruo thought this, lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and as always, fell into a dreamless darkness.