Fate Trading System – Chapter 112

Plan A

Rise in Another World 24

Mother

Ruyi Min keenly noticed that a woman was also lying on the bed, which was a bit puzzling.

“Just passing through,” Su Xin said lightly. Although she didn’t know what the Ruyi family’s situation was, it definitely wasn’t a good place either.

“You’re not from the eighth floor, are you? You’re outsiders?”

“We are outsiders. How could women from the eighth floor not know their own mission, or more accurately, their task? They wouldn’t be allowed to wander around freely.”

Ruyi Min wrinkled his nose curiously.

“Are you injured? Did you escape from Lang Xun?”

Ruyi Min suddenly seemed to realize something and asked urgently.

“Impressive, you actually had the ability to escape from under his nose.”

Ruyi Min left in a hurry, and Su Xin didn’t even have time to stop him.

She didn’t have that ability; someone had paid the price for her.

Su Xin clenched her fist and narrowed her eyes.

It wasn’t safe here anymore; they had to leave.

Just as Su Xin was holding Nan Cheng in her arms, she heard footsteps.

Several people stood at the door, staring intently at Su Xin.

… There was a “mmp” that she didn’t know whether to say or not.

Did that person just fly away? And did these people fly here too? How did they arrive so quickly?

Su Xin was stunned for a moment when she saw the face of the man leading the group.

What was this, “what you’ve been searching for everywhere appears unexpectedly without any effort”?

“Fourth Brother, they should be outsiders who escaped from Lang Xun. How should we handle this?”

Should he hand them over or not? Or just watch and see how things unfold?

Su Xin put the still-sleeping Nan Cheng back on the bed and faced these people alone.

“Long time no see,” Su Xin said to the man in the lead, who was the “Fourth Brother” mentioned by the young man she had first seen.

“Have we met before?” Ruyi Shen looked at Su Xin, certain that he had never seen this person before.

“Don’t you remember? We met a long time ago, but you were wearing women’s clothes then…”

“You’ve met the boss?” Ruyi Min blurted out, his eyes wide.

Su Xin immediately understood the information in his words. In other words, the person who looked exactly like the young man in front of her was the eldest daughter of the Ruyi family, which was also her mother.

Although Su Xin couldn’t describe what the original host’s mother looked like, in the original host’s memory, her mother’s appearance almost overlapped with the face of the young man in front of her.

Ruyi Shen tilted his head and glared at Ruyi Min. Ruyi Min shrank his neck and stopped talking.

“Where did you come from? Why did you appear in our home?” Ruyi Shen inquired.

“Just as he said, his guess wasn’t wrong.” Su Xin looked at Ruyi Min, who grinned and then fell silent after being glared at by Ruyi Shen again, his whole demeanor wilting.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward. Ruyi Shen had rushed over in a hurry and hadn’t thought of a strategy to deal with the situation yet, especially since the girl in front of him seemed to know his sister, or rather, his mother.

“I’d like to see your eldest sister. Is that possible?” Su Xin made her request.

“Why?” Ruyi Shen’s gaze was calm as he looked at the person and cat lying on the bed behind Su Xin.

“A long, long time ago, she saved my life. So I want to see her. Is that not allowed?”

Su Xin tried to speak as sincerely as possible. She was just one step away from her mission.

The original host’s wish was to save her mother, which meant bringing her mother back.

Ah… bringing her back.

Su Xin felt her temples start to throb. This damned place.

“Of course… it’s possible. Let me contact her for you.”

“Fourth Brother?” The people beside Ruyi Shen looked at him strangely.

“Thank you.”

Ruyi Shen was very conflicted inside. After all, these were two women, such good vessels for carrying things. In this scarce eighth floor, they were invaluable things.

But they had run away from Lang Xun. Did they escape by their own ability, or were they intentionally allowed to leave? This was unknown.

After all, everyone knew that Lang Xun wasn’t normal. He had already become a madman, and no one could fathom his thoughts.

If it really came down to it, they were unwilling to be enemies with Lang Xun.

How could people who could cross the dangerous Sky-reaching Tower to reach the eighth floor be soft persimmons (an idiom meaning easy targets) that could be easily dealt with?

Whether the things that came to their doorstep could be eaten, whether they tasted good, and whether they could be swallowed were all questions.

The others in the Ruyi family felt that Su Xin was lying. How could the boss possibly leave the Sky-reaching Tower to meet people from outside and even save her life?

But Ruyi Shen knew that Ruyi Si had indeed escaped before, and for many years. She only came back by herself after their father came out of seclusion.

Ruyi Shen remembered that a long time ago, when his father came out of seclusion and heard about Ruyi Si’s disappearance, his expression was contemptuous.

It was at that time that he learned that something had been planted inside every woman in the Ruyi family. If that thing was triggered and they didn’t return, they would suffer endless torment outside but wouldn’t be allowed to die.

It was an extremely vicious magic contract that made Ruyi Shen doubt everything he had known before.

Was what he believed to be right really right? And was what he thought was wrong really wrong?

From birth, he had been taught what women were for, what he was, and what his goals should be.

If these things were so natural, why did his sister look at him with such hatred, remain unmoved by his kindness, and even show disgust?

But according to the ‘normal’ trajectory, wasn’t he a child born from his sister? Why did he have to endure such rejection? The ninth sister wouldn’t have such an attitude.

Moreover, after his sister returned, she became even more resistant to everything around her, especially when he touched her. That feeling of despair and gloom.

Ruyi Shen had never seen a smile on Ruyi Si’s face. From the beginning, it was disgust, and later it became numbness.

Ruyi Shen felt that something must be wrong, but he didn’t know where the problem lay. Because everyone around him told him that everything in front of him was normal and correct.

But if all of this was right, why didn’t his sister smile?

He was the one who looked most like her.

Ruyi Si turned her head when she saw Ruyi Shen and continued to clean her body.

Father had started another period of seclusion. This time, who knew how long it would be before he came out? He had started moving towards becoming increasingly powerful, so the periods of seclusion were getting longer and longer. Ruyi Si could also catch her breath.

She wasn’t afraid of anyone except her father.

The person she hated most was this brother, or son, whose face looked almost identical to hers.

If he didn’t look like her at all, she could avoid reality and tell herself it wasn’t like that, immersing herself in the illusion of self-deception. But they looked so similar, which terrified Ruyi Si.

Ruyi Si’s door was never allowed to be closed. Over time, that thin, almost non-existent sense of shame had faded away.

She was cleaning up the marks left by other brothers, feeling extremely self-loathing.

But when she saw her ninth sister immersed in that kind of pleasure, she couldn’t bring herself to say anything. She was helpless. The ninth sister wouldn’t listen to anything she said; she had been taught too well.

“Why did you come?”

“Sister, someone wants to see you.”

“Ha, who? Are they all so polite now? Why don’t they just come in?”

Ruyi Si’s voice was mocking, her expression very cold.

“No, it’s a girl.”

“A girl? Your new people?”

Ruyi Si had a different reaction this time. Where did a girl come from?

“She said she met you before, a long time ago you saved her life. She’s an outsider.”

Ruyi Si’s body trembled slightly, and she gripped her towel tightly.

The outside world? That was over seventy years ago. Time passed so quickly, yet so slowly. Every minute and second was torture.

She couldn’t remember clearly things from so long ago. Ruyi Si was now over three hundred years old, almost four hundred.

If measured by normal human age, she would now be almost an elderly person. But her appearance was still young, her body full of vitality.

A despairingly abundant vitality.

Had she ever saved anyone?

Ruyi Si only remembered that period of time wasn’t too bad, it could even be said to be very good.

She had a husband who cared for her attentively. The husband had other women too, and those women were hostile towards her, but they didn’t do any actual harm.

Most importantly, she didn’t have to be used day and night. She could do whatever she wanted. Later, she even had a daughter. Fortunately, the daughter wasn’t born on the eighth floor, otherwise, she would definitely have repeated the same fate.

After being forced to return, Ruyi Si started being a breeding machine again. She wished that every child in her body would be a boy, so that maybe their family line could end.

But someone had come up with a method where even boys could give birth, although the process was very bloody and painful.

Why had the people here become like this? Although the people outside weren’t strong, they… they lived normally.

Ruyi Si also wanted to destroy this place, but she was powerless.

Ruyi Si got up almost joyfully. If it was an outsider, even just seeing them for a moment would be good. If it really was an old acquaintance, she could ask about the situation outside. She wondered what her daughter, who had left her when she was very young, had become.

Ruyi Shen was urged by her to lead the way, the confusion in his heart growing stronger.

Why did his sister become so vibrant every time she mentioned the outside?

A long time ago, when she was forced to return from outside, she had been so weak that she was like an ordinary person.

The outside was a strange place; it would devour the power within them.

This was also why no one was willing to go out.

To become a strong person here, but to become a weak person outside, was such an unbearable thing.

Su Xin saw in the room the stunningly beautiful woman from her memory. Her appearance was still the same as it was seventy-five years ago, without the slightest change.

The moment Ruyi Si saw Su Xin, her body froze.

Blood ties were a strange thing, that sense of connection etched in the heart.

She chased Ruyi Shen out and closed the door.

“Are you… Furan?”

Ruyi Si asked cautiously. In her memory, her child was still a small one who could run, jump, and call her “mother”. Now, the young woman before her was tall, with coldness hidden in the corners of her eyes and brows.

“Mother.”

Su Xin curved her lips, revealing a very bright smile.

“I’ve finally found you. As promised, I’ve come to save you.”

However, Ruyi Si’s expression became panicked after hearing Su Xin’s words.

Mother and daughter reunited after many years, but instead of embracing and crying, there was a strange atmosphere.

“Leave quickly, you don’t belong here. Leave quickly, it’s too dangerous here.”

Ruyi Si regretted it. She had actually forgotten the words she had said to her little daughter when leaving so long ago. At that time, it was just a vague hope, because she never thought a girl could enter the eighth floor.

But her daughter had come as promised.

But it was too dangerous here. A girl simply couldn’t survive well here.

To be precise, a normal girl simply couldn’t survive in this terrifying, chaotic world.

Here, even boys weren’t safe anymore.

Ruyi Si didn’t want to harm her only acknowledged bloodline, the symbol of her once normal life.

“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, Mother. I will save you and take you out of here.”

Su Xin hugged Ruyi Si’s trembling body, feeling her mother’s fear.

To be honest, she couldn’t really treat the woman in front of her as her mother, because her appearance was too deceptive. Moreover, the person who had spent those years with her mother in her memory wasn’t Su Xin but the original host. There was no way to generate that feeling towards a mother.

Nan Cheng had just opened her cat eyes to see Su Xin embracing a strange woman. The whole cat was about to explode.

What was going on? She had just been sleeping because of excessive energy consumption, and as soon as she woke up, she saw someone approaching Su Xin. It was truly infuriating.

Su Xin seemed to sense something and turned around. Seeing that Nan Cheng had woken up, she let go of Ruyi Si, walked to the bedside, and introduced her to Nan Cheng.

“Little One, this is my mother.”

Nan Cheng put away the claws she had just extended and waved her paw friendlily.

Oh, mother-in-law.

Nan Cheng transformed into human form and hooked Su Xin’s arm.

“Found her?”

“Yes, I’m surprised too.”

“What’s next?”

“Leave this place.”

Find the person and leave quickly. Save her and get out.

Su Xin had no intention of being a savior, nor did she overestimate her own abilities. She could only do her best to protect the people she wanted to protect.

As for this strange and perverted eighth floor, Su Xin didn’t understand their bizarre ideas, only feeling that it was very abnormal.

She had no intention of overthrowing the mechanism that had already formed here, because she was just a passerby. After finishing her own business, she would leave.

“Okay.”

Whatever you want, I will do it for you.

For a nine-lives cat, each death was a rebirth, because it was the price paid with their lives.

The closer the number of their deaths approached the critical point, the more powerful they became.

After sleeping, Nan Cheng felt that her condition was very good. In fact, her condition was always like this after each death. She looked still very weak, but the power filling her body was stronger than before.

Half of Nan Cheng’s body was leaning on Su Xin, her posture intimate, vaguely containing a sense of possessiveness.

Ruyi Si sensed something was off, but because it was two girls sticking together, she didn’t think much of it and let the thought that flashed through her mind pass.

Mother and daughter hadn’t seen each other for so many years, and Ruyi Si was actually afraid.

Afraid that her daughter would know that her mother was living such a life, disgraceful and absurd.

“I can’t leave. You should leave quickly. I don’t need you to save me anymore. Ranran, be good and go back to your father. I can help you leave first.”

Ruyi Si blinked, holding back her tears.

She really wanted to escape from here, but she couldn’t. There was still a magic array in her body, forcibly making her suffer torment, neither dead nor alive.

“Why? Mother clearly wants to leave.”

“Ranran, listen to mother…”

Ruyi Si briefly explained the situation of the entire eighth floor, focusing on the reproduction issue.

“They’re crazy, instilling wrong concepts into everyone, but the girls here can’t change it.”

Ruyi Si knew what the outside world was like because her uncle had told her.

Her uncle had left before, going to a certain lower floor to find something. At first, he didn’t know that the world was like this. He only met magicians and fighters who had come in to explore on that lower floor.

The completely different way of interacting made Ruyi Si’s uncle very curious. Because on the eighth floor, girls were all pampered. No matter what they did, right or wrong, as long as they were happy, it was fine. But those magicians clearly had teams, and they didn’t hesitate to take action against girls. Their sense of right and wrong was very clear.

Ruyi Si’s uncle seemed to understand something, so he secretly followed those people out. But in the outside world, he discovered that his energy was weakening, so he came back.

After returning, he found that everything here was so terrifying.

At that time, Ruyi Si was sent to him. At that time, she was like all the brainwashed girls, not feeling that what she was doing was wrong.

Ruyi Si’s uncle could accept it easily before, but now seeing his niece, he just couldn’t bring himself to do anything.

He couldn’t denounce all of this because he alone couldn’t fight against the entire ruling class. He was sure that if he disrupted this strange balance, someone would definitely try to kill him.

Ruyi Si’s uncle didn’t touch her and started telling her about the outside world.

He said, “What you’re doing now is not your fault. You are very clean. It’s just that this place is too strange. I hope that one day you can go to the outside world and see how normal girls live.”

Ruyi Si’s uncle later died because of certain things, leaving behind a niece who yearned for the outside world.

Ruyi Si pretended to be very obedient on the surface, but was actually planning a grand escape.

When she ran away, the transmission array at the entrance didn’t belong to any family. She took advantage of the market time when her father was in seclusion and everyone was distracted to run away. She went from the eighth floor to the seventh floor. At that time, it was winter, and the mythical beasts didn’t have much desire to attack people. Moreover, Ruyi Si had come down from the eighth floor, so she unbelievably managed to leave the Sky-reaching Tower smoothly.

When she left, she happened to meet the head of the Duanmu family who was doing business around the Sky-reaching Tower.

The head of the Duanmu family was stunned by her beauty and immediately began his pursuit.

At that time, she felt what love was, and what self-esteem and equality were.

After Ruyi Si returned, she began to tell her ninth sister about the outside world, how wonderful and warm it was.

But the ninth sister scoffed at her words, even mocking her, asking if she had become stupid.

In the outside world, if one man could have so many women, then women wouldn’t be cherished anymore. What was the point of living like that?

Ruyi Si was speechless. This kind of life, where only the person who drinks the water knows if it’s cold or warm. (similar to “to each their own”)

If one doesn’t accept this thing, then they will never be able to accept it, finding it chaotic and nauseating.

But if one enjoys it, then they might feel there’s nothing wrong with it.

“Ranran, leave quickly. You don’t belong here originally. Everyone here is cursed.”

Su Xin was disgusted by the description Ruyi Si gave, and then heard her say such words.

Everyone here is cursed?

“Cursed?”

“Do you know? Everyone born here has an exceptionally high talent. They cultivate at an incredibly fast speed. People outside all yearn for the Sky-reaching Tower. They don’t know there are people living inside. They say the top of this floor is where gods live.”

“It is indeed where gods live. We all know that when cultivation reaches its ultimate stage, the transmission array on the ninth floor will appear beneath that person’s feet. This seems like a person favored by the gods, able to reach the pinnacle of magic.”

“But after I went out, I found that the magical elements in my body were slowly becoming dormant. I couldn’t absorb those active things in the air into my body, nor could I use them. They were so familiar, yet I just couldn’t touch them, gradually moving towards becoming an ordinary person.”

Ruyi Si’s expression was very helpless when she said this. She didn’t know why it was like this either.

“The people here are indeed strong. No one above can match the people inside. But when we walk out, we become ordinary people.”

“If this isn’t a curse, what is it? And with fewer and fewer girls, and increasingly chaotic blood relationships, this place is bound to collapse sooner or later.”

Ruyi Si’s voice trembled, her eyes filled with deep despair.

“That’s why we need to escape even more. If they don’t want to, that’s fine. I didn’t plan to take anyone else away. I just want to take you away. Mother, I only came to save you.”

“I can’t run away. When Father comes out of seclusion, I still have to come back, just like seventy-five years ago.”

Ruyi Si explained the magic contract in her body, revealing her wounds bit by bit in front of people.

Her despair, her pain, her struggle.

“Sometimes I really want to end my own life, but I can’t. Because I can’t die. I don’t know where they got such a vicious thing from, maintaining our filthy lives.”

Not just her, but also girls from other families. They weren’t allowed to give up their lives unless forced to the very last moment of life.

“Just kill him then.”

Su Xin’s expression was calm as she looked at her mother, who was internally strong but unable to escape her fate.

“What?”

“If he set such a contract for you, wouldn’t the contract be invalid if he died?”

“Father is very powerful.”

Ruyi Si was very surprised, but also very moved.

“It doesn’t matter. I will definitely save you.”

Because this is what your real daughter, who exchanged her soul for this wish, wants.

Ruyi Si wanted to tell Su Xin not to take risks, but there was also some hope in her heart.

She actually didn’t have much time left to live. In about seventy or eighty more years, her life would come to an end. It seemed very short, but also so unbearable.

They had to escape.

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