NABC Chapter 972 The Birth of Starry Sky Baseball Hero (Please refresh)
Chapter 972 The Birth of Starry Sky Baseball Hero (Please refresh)
Chapter 972 The Birth of Starry Sky Baseball Hero (Please refresh)
The sky was hazy, and only a faint glimmer of dawn was appearing in the distance.
Fallen cherry blossoms lay on the stone pavement, which was covered with a little moss. It had rained last night, so the damp ground and wooden stakes had a dull blue hue.
Inside the shrine, Saeki Rin served hot water to everyone, then looked at the boy in a simple blue-green school uniform with surprise and curiosity.
The young man was handsome and upright. He held a teacup, using the scalding heat emanating from the cup to dispel the icy chill on his fingers.
His gaze swept across everyone's faces without lingering, and then he quickly lowered his head as if he were shy.
"The Heaven-Defying Technique involves characteristics of the Other Shore Time. I was previously intertwined with my past self who was still at the Stone Village time point, but my consciousness and cultivation level were still primarily based on the present."
"His situation is clearly different now, isn't it?"
"As I have said, everyone's situation is different, and the time characteristics produced after the Tao and principles are integrated into the practice are also different."
"What's the solution?"
“By accelerating internal time and using Jiang Mingzi’s supernatural powers, I deliberately tried to jump from the time point in Shicun to more than ten years later.”
Shi Hao and the others whispered among themselves in a corner of the hall.
"If it's time magic, it's just physical time travel; he should be able to return on his own."
Elena's long eyelashes trembled slightly as she sat down next to the boy: "Su Lin."
Because they were so close, the other person tensed up almost imperceptibly and shifted their legs awkwardly.
The boy looked on with confusion and surprise, raising his face, which was flushed with embarrassment. "Sister, do we know each other?"
"sister?!"
Elena opened her mouth, then stood there, stunned.
"You look exactly the same as when you were a child." Meng Qi asked, "How old are you this year? Where do you study?"
"Thirteen years old, Class 1, Grade 8, Ledu Experimental Middle School."
Young Su Lin glanced at him in surprise, pondering which unnamed relative it was, and then anxiously asked:
"Brother and sister, are you cosplaying? I'm sorry to trouble you, but could you take me down the mountain later or help me make a phone call home?"
I've been reading comics, I have no idea how I ended up here!
He held up the brand-new copy of "Zhiyin Manke" in his hand, looking somewhat like he was about to cry, as if he really thought he was so engrossed in reading comics that he had inexplicably gotten lost and ended up here.
Meng Qi suddenly burst into laughter, unable to contain himself: "My name is Meng Qi."
"Brother Mengqi."
"NICE!"
Meng Qi made a fist gesture, and with an undisguised smile, said to everyone, "His personality is even more normal than the ones I met in Da Nuo!"
Perhaps Fushengtian couldn't suppress his true nature, or perhaps the environment of the Qidian Orphanage was too strange. When Meng Qi got to know Su Lin again in Baiyujing, that guy had already turned into a little adult with the cheat code template of a genius boy.
"You can call me Brother Mingfei."
"Brother Mingfei"
It could be seen that although the young Su Lin was confused about the situation, he still maintained vigilance and politeness.
"Old Zhou" Lu Mingfei lowered his voice: "Do you have any clues about whether such a polite child will mutate and evolve in the future?"
Detectives aren't omnipotent.
Klein smiled gently. "Xiao Lin, you can call me Uncle Zhou."
"uncle?"
"?"
"?"
Those in the group who were either planning to take down the "brother" generation looked at Klein, who was in the "uncle" generation, and their fists inexplicably hardened.
"Looks like the timeline has changed." Kaguya sat down on the other side of Xiao Sulin, poked the other's cheek with her index finger, and smiled mischievously: "Still quite shy, huh? Not used to being close to pretty older women, only recently realized the difference between the sexes?"
"and many more."
Seeing Xiao Sulin blushing and trying to dodge, Kaguya's smile gradually faded, and a hint of realization flickered in her crescent-shaped eyes:
"This is a blank archive with no records."
Ok?
Swah——
With lightning speed, Elena reached out and grabbed Kaguya's wrist, smiling with narrowed eyes: "What do you want to do?"
"I see he's about to get pimples on his face, and I'm thinking of taking him to Eirin to get some herbal remedies to cool him down and strengthen his body. Elaina-chan, you're being way too anxious," Kaguya said, shrugging.
"After all, he's still an undeveloped child, and I don't know what to do."
"Is it?"
"Yes."
Xiao Sulin and the world around her seemed to be frozen in time, but this infinitely divided moment lasted only a short while before collapsing.
Kaguya, who had already led her people to the door, had her head tightly locked by Elena who appeared from behind. Her face was flushed and she was short of breath, but she still maintained a smile as she looked at the red and white shrine maiden sitting in the middle of the table.
Reimu took a leisurely sip of her "tea," tilted her head, and asked, "What is it?"
"." As the inheritor of the other third of the Dragon God's divine power, Saeki Rin twitched the corner of her mouth, pretending that she hadn't seen anything or noticed the changes in the great barrier.
Suddenly, his surroundings changed, and the boy, Su Lin, looked in horror at his current location and his original seat.
"Am I mentally ill?"
He had no recollection of what had happened, and recalling that he had walked to this place while reading comics, a sense of unease began to appear in his eyes, and his face visibly turned pale.
It's perfectly normal that they don't connect it to the fact that they've awakened superpowers.
“You’re not mentally ill, you’re probably just too tired,” Li Huowang reassured him.
"Really?"
"real."
Li Huowang nodded: "I spent several years in a mental hospital, and I can tell at a glance who doesn't have a mental illness."
Su Lin stared blankly, her mouth agape.
"cut"
Considering that it was not appropriate for a child to see such a bloody scene, Elena finally released her grip on Kaguya, letting her roll her eyes and slide to the ground: "You all need to tone it down, don't scare him."
"Don't be fooled by their well-behaved and honest appearance. Some boys at this stage already watch anime and fantasize about becoming the protagonist and having a harem with anime beauties."
Reimu sat cross-legged on the ground, one hand resting on her knee and her chin, and waved her hand as she said:
"If a female classmate strikes up a conversation with you at school, don't act aloof. If you have a crush on your female classmate sitting next to you, be the one to confess your feelings."
"Girls won't understand boys' immature thoughts, and they won't chase after you. It'll be too late to regret it when you get to college."
"What?!" Young Su Lin's attention shifted instantly, and he stammered, "I'm focused on studying right now, I'm not interested in dating, and I rarely watch anime."
Reimu feigned surprise: "I thought boys your age liked watching anime like To Love-Ru."
Su Lin, a boy who had only recently started watching this type of anime during winter break, suddenly felt an unprecedented pressure from the unfamiliar older sister across from him, and his gaze instinctively darted away.
Wait a minute, why should I be afraid?!
Anime and manga culture is a niche interest in China, but aren't all these people here otaku?!
Although he didn't recognize most of the characters.
Thinking of this, he raised his head and stared back without backing down: "I occasionally play Touhou Project danmaku games. You're cosplaying Reimu Hakurei, aren't you?"
"That's amazing, you recognized it at a glance," Reimu exclaimed dramatically.
"I beat the game on Hell difficulty!"
"Is playing video games more interesting than practicing piano?"
"how do you know?!"
"Haha~"
Reimu smiled teasingly, then stopped talking and picked up a seaweed biscuit to eat for breakfast.
Su Lin's face turned red again, but this time it was a flushed red from holding it in. Her strange smile gave people the feeling of being treated like a child, which made their self-esteem feel inexplicably hurt.
"Do you like reading novels?" Xiao Yan asked.
"No, those dry words are boring. It's much more comfortable to read comics," Su Lin said.
"Then you must watch Battle Through the Heavens and learn from the protagonist Xiao Yan's composure and forbearance."
"Read more of 'Covering the Sky' and learn from Emperor Ye's calmness, composure, and rationality."
"Watch more Dragon Raja. Forget it, you'd better not watch it and focus on your studies, make progress every day."
"To see the most honored person in the world more often."
"Watch more of Dyna."
With everyone in the group chat chiming in, Su Lin, completely bewildered, suddenly felt her head spinning.
"Ignore them, sit down for a while. I've already spoken to your mom, and she'll take you home soon."
Elena glared at the others, then impatiently pulled the 1.3-meter-tall Su Lin back to their previous seats, and then walked over to Kaguya, who was pretending to be a corpse, and locked her up.
"Damn it, I was the one who arrived first! The trans-dimensional NTR legend almost came true!"
"Don't use those forbidden words to corrupt the children, you deadbeat NEET!"
'These two older sisters have such a good relationship.'
Little Su Lin was thinking this while looking at the two older girls not far away, completely unaware that the 'older brothers' around him were taking pictures and videos of him with various different equipment.
Do you like watching "Tokyo Love Story"?
"I don't watch Japanese dramas."
Do you like watching romance dramas?
"I hate soap operas the most. Only my mom watches 'Dae Jang Geum' on Hunan TV every day."
Too innocent
Seeing such a pure and innocent child almost brought tears to my eyes.
As expected, there is no such thing as a truly innate abstract holy body. If properly guided, it might even be possible to lay the groundwork in the past and correct that strange quirk!
Amidst the reminiscing and teasing, the group members also didn't forget to discuss how to help Su Lin adjust and restore his chaotic timeline to normal.
Of course, according to what Iwamori saw from the river of time, it wouldn't matter if he left it alone. Since his past self had overlapped and replaced his present self, Su Lin had simply returned to the past. Once he had sorted things out in his past timeline and adjusted himself, things might be better.
"It's strange, perhaps it's just the impression Fellow Daoist Su gives, but I always feel that he has already restrained his past and present self." Yan Sen shook his head with a smile:
"For the other side, this side effect will not actually occur."
He took the Supreme Saint Stele and made a copy of the Heaven-Defying Technique inside. After understanding it, he resonated with it and the same phenomenon appeared in his youth and adolescence.
Then, it emerged from the rippling river of time, the illusory water flowing through it, quietly surging and washing over it, until it was no different from anything else.
"That's what a player with such unpredictable, cheat-like abilities is like," Lu Mingfei remarked.
Although the strange phenomenon caused by Iwamori was close at hand and terrifying, Su Lin, a boy who was still a mortal, did not notice anything unusual.
His attention was on the cookies on the table. In the end, he was no different from any other child. Compared to the pretty older girls, snacks were much more appealing.
"Are you hungry?" Huai Shi took out a bag of potato chips and handed it to him.
"Thank you sister."
".You're welcome."
"What character are you cosplaying, sister?"
"The Poem on the Locust Tree"
"That's really good! Which anime is it from?"
Didn't you say before that you don't watch anime much?
"From novels, watch more apocalyptic forecasts."
Huai Shi was somewhat envious of Su Lin, who had a wonderful and carefree childhood and even a bit of potential as a social terrorist. Once she was full, she became more talkative.
Just as he was thinking about how to quiet her down, Tong Ji popped out from behind him. She pointed at Huai Shi and handed him a contract, saying, "Isn't it nice? My sister doesn't have a boyfriend yet. You can marry her if you give her a dowry of 100 million."
Damn it, stop stirring things up!
Huai Shi knew immediately that this wicked woman had seen the previous exchange catalog and was now greedily deceiving her underage "god"!
"Shut up, you ancestor!"
"We already have so many red threads, let's tie one more, just one more."
"But the character you're cosplaying isn't my type."
When the two were arguing, young Su Lin shook his head without hesitation.
"Oh, so what kind of characters do you like? You don't mean the mature type like an older sister, do you?"
The monster, who had been spying on them, slipped out silently, startling Su Lin.
"Old Lady Purple?!"
The playful expression on the monster's face froze instantly, and the previously polite child began to show signs of true colors.
"In the Touhou series, my least favorite character is the blonde old woman; my favorite is Mokou with white hair and red eyes."
"Fujiwara no Mokou is already over a thousand years old, you little XP-obsessed brat!"
So he's liked white-haired people since he was a kid? This guy is pretty loyal in some ways.
"You like a girl who's older than your grandma." Yukari Yakumo opened her folding fan, her tone shattering the boy's dreams: "The magicians and youkai in Gensokyo are all old. That's reality, kid."
"Aren't there also player-controlled characters like Marisa and Reimu?!"
Su Lin crossed his arms and smiled dismissively: "Besides Mokou, my favorite character in Gensokyo is Reimu Hakurei."
puff--
Reimu, who was drinking tea, choked and began to cough violently.
"Idiot. Cough cough."
"Oh, I like Reimu the most."
Yukari Yakumo's eyes crinkled into a sly smile: "How much do you like it? If you guess right, I'll give you a Reimu figure!"
"Really?! Then I'll always love Hakurei Rei."
"."
The atmosphere suddenly froze, and before Xiao Sulin could finish speaking, a terrifying shockwave exploded inside the shrine.
As the experienced and prescient Huai Shi took the lead in running away, flames rose and various barrages of comments spread like waves.
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Sulin, whose mind was blank, fell from the sky and was grabbed by the collar by Xing, suspending her in mid-air.
Xing draped a gray wig over Su Lin's head: "Do you like cosplay?"
"What are you cosplaying?" Xiao Sulin answered subconsciously while still in a daze.
"Galaxy Baseball Man".
Xing handed a baseball bat to Xiao Sulin, then led him to the trash can.
"Eh?"
"Women will only slow down the rescue; there's an injured trash can up ahead."
"What did you say?!"
Not far away, Meng Qi dispersed the magic power in his hands, canceling the concealment of the spells and causality protecting Su Lin. He sighed helplessly. If Su Lin were an adult, he certainly wouldn't care, but children are innocent.
“It shouldn’t be a problem to hand it over to Xinglai first.” Meng Qi had just turned around when he saw Klein’s brows furrowed.
"what happened?"
"Are you sure that child won't be led astray?" Klein's doubts deepened.
"What do you mean?"
"Su Lin is relatively normal now, if we leave him to Xing."
"."
The air suddenly became still.
Meng Qi's eyelids twitched violently, while the group members around him stared at him with a chilling look.
Wait a minute, could it be?!
Is it crooked like this?!
(End of this chapter)