In the end, the Earth unexpectedly gradually transformed into a strange shape of "round sky and square earth", redivided the Nine Provinces, and slowly entered the Second Civilization of Cultivating Truth. However, all of this came at the cost of the lives of more than 5.95 billion people. Among the native people of the Earth who could truly survive in the Second Civilization of Cultivating Truth, less than one in a hundred remained.
In 2004, Lin Yu was lying on a white hospital bed when he suddenly opened his eyes wide. Cold sweat covered his body, and his mind was filled with fear. The cold sweat flowed into his eyes, causing a stinging pain, but he endured the discomfort and didn't wipe it away. He struggled to sit up from the hospital bed, grabbed the wrist of the girl beside him, and shouted loudly, "What year is it now? What year is it exactly?"
"What are you doing? You're hurting me!" Lin Yu didn't get a direct answer to his question but instead encountered fierce resistance. Lin Yu frowned, feeling anxious and angry in his heart. He unconsciously increased the strength in his hand and loudly demanded, "What year is it now? Hurry up and tell me! What year is it exactly!"
"Lin Yu, calm down and let go of that girl." At this moment, Li Shishi walked into the ward with a bowl of hot water. However, she saw that Lin Yu was firmly gripping a female nurse and loudly questioning her about something, not caring at all about the nurse's slaps.
Lin Yu's strength was astonishing, far beyond what an eleven-year-old child should have. The female nurse was on the verge of tears from being grabbed. No matter how she struggled and resisted, she couldn't make Lin Yu loosen his iron-like grip. She could only cry out, "It's 2004 now, 2004. Are you satisfied now, you lunatic!"
After getting the definite answer, Lin Yu let out a long sigh of relief and relaxed. He flopped back onto the bed, not even caring about the female nurse's words of "lunatic". He just lay on the bed muttering to himself, "Thank goodness. Thank goodness. There are still eight years. There are still eight years." He looked so dazed that he really seemed like a mental patient.
"Lin Yu, Lin Yu, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me." Seeing Lin Yu in such a crazy state, Li Shishi was so scared that she almost burst into tears. She threw herself beside Lin Yu and called his name over and over again, as if that could bring back the old him. The way she cried so pitifully made people feel sorry for her.
It took a while for Lin Yu to come to his senses and notice the girl lying on him. Her eyes were misty with tears, full of concern. The earnest look in her eyes and her determined expression made Lin Yu's heart ache. She really cared about him so much, whether it was in the past, now, or in the tragic future he remembered for her.
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Thinking of Li Shishi's tragic ending in his memory, Lin Yu clenched his fist under the quilt, his muscles tensed. But looking at Li Shishi in front of him, he showed a gentle smile on his face to soothe her anxious emotions.
"I'm fine. Really, I'm just tired from studying recently, and I'm a bit mentally exhausted." Lin Yu smiled at Li Shishi and stretched out his left hand to gently brush aside the disheveled hair beside her ear. This was an action he often did for her when they were children. Doing it now, it was filled with an indescribable tenderness and intimacy, making Li Shishi's round cheeks instantly turn red. The blush spread all the way to her neck and disappeared into her collar.
"Since he fell in love with Su Yu, he hasn't been this close to me for a long time." Lin Yu's casual action touched the softest part of Li Shishi's heart and easily broke through her toughness. She felt that all the grievances and hardships she had endured during this period had been compensated for. For a moment, the two of them were immersed in a warm atmosphere, and neither of them wanted to break this rare peace.
However, just then, the door of the ward was kicked open with a "bang", and a group of strong and burly men with unfriendly expressions walked in. Lin Yu and Li Shishi looked over in surprise and anger and saw that this group of people walked straight towards them. The man in the lead shouted loudly, "Carry this lunatic to the special ward. How can we let such a dangerous patient stay in the ordinary ward? Who will be responsible if something happens!"
As he spoke, this group of people surrounded them and stretched out their big hands to grab Lin Yu. Li Shishi didn't understand the situation and stood up in a panic to block and explain. But Lin Yu was completely different from what he was an hour ago. For some reason, he had received the soul, memories, experiences, and knowledge from thirty years in the future.
He glanced at the female nurse in white behind the group of people and saw the satisfaction and resentment in her eyes, so he understood the whole story. Obviously, his impatience and rudeness when he first woke up had hurt the female nurse. She couldn't swallow her anger and had found this group of relatives and friends to try to send him to the special ward for the mentally ill. Everyone knew how bad the conditions and treatment were in that place.
What was even scarier was that as a cultivating family, the Blood Pupil Clan had quite a few people who went crazy due to reasons such as qi refining, fighting, experiments, and taking medicine. A madman might be okay going in, but for a normal person with no ability to fight back, it wouldn't be long before they were either physically disabled or mentally broken.
Thinking of this, Lin Yu couldn't help but feel a chill. He looked at the female nurse and had a deeper fear of the vengeful mentality of women, especially beautiful women.
At this time, a thick hand, ignoring Li Shishi's obstruction, pressed on Lin Yu's shoulder and roughly exerted force, trying to drag the thin Lin Yu off the bed.
