Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1134 A Double Life
As the text piled up higher and higher, it quickly formed the shape of a person. The dense, overlapping black text eventually turned the three-dimensional human figure into a completely black shape.

A few seconds later, the black humanoid figure gained color. Slowly, its clothes became distinct, and then its hair also became distinct. Everyone could clearly feel that Xia Shou was slowly taking shape.

"It feels like everything is going very smoothly!" Su Yue said happily.

Baihe: "Hmm, but we'll have to see how Vero is doing later."

During Xia Shou's journey from the book to the present world, there were almost no obvious abnormalities at the ritual site. This high-level ritual, which consumed a large number of Seven-Forked Fragments, was even more gentle than many small forbidden rituals.

However, the butterfly effect is changing imperceptibly. Just as a ripple can start a breeze, many unrelated things begin to change at this moment, throughout the world, the present world, and the distant past and various cycles of history.

In the basement of an ordinary family's home in Florida, the United States, an antique clock, seemingly without any unusual activity, began to tick without anyone noticing.

Deep in the Mariana Trench, a shipwreck that had remained unchanged for thousands of years and had been contained by the control agency ended its frozen state at this moment. Decay began at this moment, and it may be discovered in a few months or even years.
In Switzerland, a senior scholar at the Clock Tower suddenly begins to feel younger, unaware that this is the result of a failed ritual about time that he performed in his youth, now taking effect... He will never imagine that the failed ritual never actually failed; it was just that the power behind time was temporarily "on vacation."

At this very moment, all over the world, many dangerous anomalies are born as a result, and many dangerous anomalies are destroyed as a result.

Many containment methods that were previously ineffective have inexplicably become effective, while many previously successful containment measures will become permanently ineffective from this day forward.

Some people suddenly benefited from this; some became younger, and others became more sensitive to time, simply because their ancestors had used the magic of time to plant a seed of blessing upon them, even though there was no indication of this blessing in the past, it was merely a delayed fulfillment.

Some people were destroyed as a result; young men suddenly turned into rotting corpses, and ordinary women had their abdomens pierced by wildly growing ribs.

Their ancestors discovered that certain forbidden arts did not incur a price, and thus greedily used the power that was destined to be repaid.

In countless cycles of history, some moments that were halted, accelerated, slowed down, or deleted all return to normal at this moment, like frozen fresh meat taken out of the freezer. Ordinary time finally begins to return to its extraordinary form today.

Everything happened in a way that was completely unrelated, yet they were all closely connected.

Like a torrential downpour, some parched fields benefit from it, while others are destroyed by the flood. But the downpour simply follows the laws of nature, relentlessly washing away everything in its path.

At the mine in Jiangbo City, Xia Shou simply appeared on the scene, wearing the exact same clothes he had worn before entering the book.

The only difference is that Alice is no longer behind him.

Xia Shou stood there, somewhat dazed. The last point in his memory was after he returned from An Gang's house and chatted with Daniel, when he decided to return to the book and live a perfect life.

And then... he came back! It felt like he hadn't done anything at all, and he had absolutely no recollection of what he did after returning or how many nemesis he had killed.

Of course, there were changes as well. Xia Shou discovered that he had an extra memory, which was his life memory before he was eighteen years old. Now he clearly remembers that he has two memories from the age of one to eighteen.

It's like someone who travels back in time, loses their memory, and lives their life again, only to regain their memories of the life before the amnesia.

The current Xia Shou has two life experiences described in the book.

The moment Xia Shou published his book, Shangguan Yan, dressed in a black office suit, appeared out of thin air in the ritual array, followed by Alice in a maid outfit and Qiao Xin in a white lab coat.

"Hmm? Back to reality? It's quite boring, like being under anesthesia, only having memories of what happened before entering the book." Qiao Xin took out a cigarette from her white coat pocket and lit it with great flair.

Shangguan Yan still wore a mysterious smile. She glanced at Xia Shou and chuckled, "But it seems the whole plan went very smoothly. He's back to being a healthy person. Also, Vero didn't jump out, so it seems the problem is solved too?"

Upon seeing Shangguan Yan, Xia Shou's face flushed red. His past experiences with Shangguan Yan and Qiao Xin immediately surfaced, and a series of forbidden 18-rated images flashed through his mind.

He recalled the times they used to sneak away during PE class when they were in school, the things they did in the corners of the gymnasium and the woods; he also recalled the things he did while Shangguan Yan was tutoring him and his brother during summer vacation, when he would make his brother run errands to the convenience store.
There were also incidents like Shangguan Yan occasionally staying at his house, and him sneaking into the guest room in the middle of the night to slip into the other person's bed; and the occasional chance encounters in the bathroom in the middle of the night...

Every corner, every inch of skin, the cherry blossoms on the snow-capped mountain, the scalding snake tongue, everything captivated him in his childhood, completely turning him into a person whose mind was empty except for that thing.

His feelings about that period of youth consisted only of ever-expanding desires and the ultimate goal that he had not yet had time to achieve.

When Xia Shou thought about all this, his first thought was: Damn it, why didn't I summon myself after the college entrance exam and the summer vacation? My memories would be perfect then.

Xia Shou forced himself to calm down, trying to think with an earlier, more correct worldview and to apply his own past life experiences to his thinking, attempting to let rationality take over.

However, this is a very difficult thing, because these memories are not like hypnosis, nor are they fabricated illusions stuffed into the brain, but real events that actually happened, just like his eighteen-year-old life in the book, which was also completely real!

Unlike the book published in the Underworld, where everything that happened in the book disappeared after he left, Xia Shou still retains his memories, but the dominant perspective is still his real self.

This time, however, he completely and utterly broke away from the book. But because of the naming ritual developed by Daniel that "erases existence but leaves traces," the experience remained, making the feeling incredibly real!

Xia Shou felt that his emotional state... was somewhat affected.

(End of this chapter)