Gu Shangse asked, then he didn't look at Su Ling, but imitated her by looking up at the starry sky.
"I started suspecting a long time ago. But I thought it was unlikely, because the knowledge I received told me it was impossible. The probability of it actually happening was too small to mention."
"But as I interacted with you more, everything you brought to me kept reminding me that you really are like a重生者. You brought everything you knew from after the apocalypse back to the world before it, to retrace the process of the apocalypse."
His Adam's apple slid, and Gu Shangse slowly said, "Although I don't know why you have to go through this, I believe there's a destined path. Since you're given a second chance, you must live freely and carelessly."
Thinking of this, Gu Shangse asked the question in his heart, "That Sunshine and the man Han Xu, whom you burned to ashes, did they commit heinous crimes against you in your dream, and that's why you're here for revenge this lifetime?"
Su Ling knew of Gu Shangse's intelligence from the moment she allowed him to join.
But she hadn't expected him to think so deeply and far, and even connect the matter of Sunshine from before the apocalypse.
Su Ling hummed and did not mention what Sunshine and Han Xu had done to Gu Shangse.
"I'm not a重生者, that was just a dream." Su Ling was not yet able to calmly admit to being a重生者 to anyone. She preferred to explain it as a dream.
She could admit it to herself, but not to outsiders.
Even if this outsider was a teammate she personally chose, one she trusted to fight alongside her.
She could never forgive herself for her own foolish slow realization, which led to Shang Qi, Qing Qing Yu Ling, Sister Na, and Han Han being tragically killed by Sunshine and Han Xu, and she herself dying five years after the apocalypse.
It wasn't that she couldn't forgive, but that this was a sorrow and burden she could never face in her life.
Even when she died in her previous life, she destroyed the castle she had built with her own hands, dragging Sunshine and Han Xu down with her, yet she couldn't turn the tide and bring Shang Qi and the others back to life, back to her side.
Although heaven favored her, giving her a rebirth and allowing her to avoid the tragedy of her past life.
But once reborn, everything starts anew. The person is still the same, yet not the same.
She could protect Sister Na and the others safely in this life, but what about the previous life? She could never forgive herself.
Gu Shangse hummed, "It was just a dream. Your dream is foretelling the future to you, letting you meet them earlier."
Su Ling stood up and began to violently pry open zombie heads to collect their crystals.
It was clear that she didn't want to continue this unhappy topic.
Gu Shangse didn't press further either. He already had his answer in his heart; asking or not asking was no longer important.
For the next period of time, the two of them remained silent, only smashing zombie heads to collect crystals.
After collecting all the crystals, Su Ling lowered the mobile castle. After she and Gu Shangse boarded, they went upstairs to their rooms, showered, and then lay in bed, falling asleep.
While they were falling asleep, the mobile castle was en route to Lucheng according to Su Ling's planned route.
As they were heading for Lucheng, Rao Beichen, on his end, had just arrived in Xuyang City.
The mobile house hovered over Xuyang City. Rao Beichen looked at the pitch-black Xuyang City, devoid of any light.
This was the city he lived in. He decided not to continue further and planned to stop here for the night before departing in the morning.
Wen Shang Qi had always been too lazy to pay attention to his decisions, letting him do as he pleased.