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The roar of old motorcycle engines shattered the silence of the Dana Plateau.

Guided by the precise virtual map in his field of vision, Suning sped along and soon spotted his target on the side of a desolate cliffside road...

An SUV parked on the side of the road.

The scene is immediately apparent: two burly, fierce-looking men are brutally controlling a struggling woman, who is the red glowing light shown on the virtual map.

The faint, flickering dot on the map is clearly located in the trunk of the car.

The situation is urgent, and there's no time to think.

Without slowing down at all, Su Ning controlled the motorcycle with one hand as it approached at high speed, while steadily raising the pistol he was holding with the other!
"Bang! Bang!"

Two crisp and decisive gunshots suddenly echoed through the valley, breaking the emptiness of the plateau.

The bullets struck the two burly men precisely in vital areas. Before they could even see who it was, they fell to the ground, instantly losing their lives.

Then the motorcycle executed a beautiful drift and came to a steady stop next to the off-road vehicle.

Amidst the rising dust, Su Ning nimbly got out of the car, not even glancing at the two corpses or the bloodstains splattered on the ground, as if he had merely cleared two insignificant obstacles.

His target was clear—the trunk!

As for the woman who had been released, she slumped to the ground, clearly terrified by the sudden bloodshed and the mysterious motorcyclist. Her face was deathly pale, and she was trembling all over.

Su Ning had no time to pay attention to her; he rushed to the back of the car and forcefully opened the trunk...

Sure enough, a man, unconscious and covered in blood, was curled up inside, breathing weakly.

At this moment, Su Ning was certain without asking that the person was Qin Fang and the woman was another NPC, An Man.

"Who...who are you?!" Anman finally recovered slightly from her extreme shock, her voice trembling as she asked with fear and wariness.

"It's not important!" Su Ning replied quickly without turning her head, checking Qin Fang's vital signs as she asked, "Your name is An Man, right?"

He still wanted to confirm the target person indicated by the system.

When An Man heard the other person call her name accurately, her pupils contracted. She subconsciously connected it with what had happened before and blurted out, "You were sent by Zhao Jianglong?!"

She thought this was another group of people who wanted to silence her and harass her.

"What Zhao Jianglong? I don't understand what you're saying," Su Ning replied impatiently, her mind preoccupied with how to wake Qin Fang.

He tried pressing Qin Fang's philtrum and patting his cheeks.

However, Su Ning's "inexplicable" appearance, his cold-blooded methods of killing, and his seemingly perfunctory answers appeared dangerous and untrustworthy to the still-shaken An Man.

As she watched Su Ning with her back to her, focused intently on rescuing Qin Fang, a ridiculous and deadly thought, born of extreme fear, suddenly seized her...

This man is more dangerous than the other two!
He must have had another purpose in saving himself and Qin Fang!
So you must strike first!

Her gaze fell on a pistol lying on the ground not far away; it belonged to one of the burly men who had just been shot dead.

The instinct for survival and immense fear overwhelmed all reason.

Just as Su Ning noticed Qin Fang's breathing gradually stabilizing and he showed slight signs of waking up, and she breathed a sigh of relief...

"boom!"

Another shot rang out!
But this time, the bullets didn't come from Suning.

A tremendous impact suddenly came from my back, and excruciating pain instantly swept through my entire body!

Suning's body stiffened abruptly, and his movements came to a complete halt.

His face was filled with extreme shock and disbelief as he turned his head slowly and with difficulty.

But what I saw was Anman holding a pistol with trembling hands, the muzzle still smoking, her face a mixture of fear, madness and a twisted determination.

“I… damn… mother…” Su Ning squeezed out these three words through gritted teeth.

He never imagined that the target he was ordered to rescue would shoot him in the back!
What the hell is this plot?!
The excruciating pain and rapidly depleting strength made it impossible for him to maintain his balance.

Anman seemed frightened by her own actions, but fear drove her to do even more crazy things...

She screamed and rushed forward, using all her strength to shove the swaying, shot Su Ning off the cliff!
A sudden feeling of weightlessness came over me, and I could hear the whistling wind in my ears.

The last thing Su Ning saw was An Man's terrified and distorted face and the cliff top rapidly receding into the distance.

"Damn it..." The endless darkness and icy chill quickly engulfed him.

……

The cold, weightless sensation was followed by a violent impact and a tearing, excruciating pain!
Su Ning felt as if he had been pierced by a tremendous force, and his consciousness almost dissipated in extreme pain.

He looked down with difficulty and saw a sharp piece of dead wood piercing through his chest, blood gushing out.

Strangely, he did not die immediately; instead, his consciousness was trapped on the edge of lucidity and unconsciousness.

In his hazy dream, he saw the back of a woman in a white cheongsam, with a graceful figure and a powerful aura. She was surrounded by an inhuman, ancient and mysterious aura.

He tried to see her face clearly, but was blocked by an invisible force.

"Ugh!" Su Ning suddenly woke up from this bizarre dream, and the sharp pain came clearly again.

He remained nailed to that dead tree, unable to move, his life force rapidly draining away with his blood.

The ground around him seemed to tremble slightly, and the birds and beasts in the forest seemed to sense some kind of extreme fear, scattering in panic and fleeing away from this area.

Meanwhile, far away in Cangcheng Mountain.

Yan Furui, a descendant of Xingyun Pavilion, was awakened from his sleep by a loud explosion in his backyard.

He ran out in a panic and discovered that the mysterious stone tablet left by his master had exploded.

Beneath the rubble, a yellowed old booklet was revealed.

Yan Furui trembled as he opened the book. It was written in his master's handwriting: "Disciples of Xingyun Pavilion should take the extermination of the Kai clan as their primary task!"

The booklet also details the life and horrors of a Kama tribe member named "Si Teng".

……

Dana, at the bottom of the cliff.

Just as Su Ning's consciousness was about to fade again, he watched in disbelief as an inconspicuous white blade of grass in the distance began to grow, twist, and differentiate at a visible speed...

Ultimately, it evolved into a clear human shape!

That figure was exactly the same as the one he had seen in his dream!
Dressed in white, with long hair like a waterfall and a slender figure, she exuded a suffocating sense of oppression.

The next moment, as if space itself had shifted, Su Ning found himself instantly freed from the withered tree that had pierced him, standing perfectly unharmed in front of the woman in white.

The woman's slender, pale fingers had just brushed across his chest when the horrific penetrating wound and the gunshot wound to his back miraculously disappeared completely, leaving not even a scar!

Su Ning stared in shock at the woman before him, whose beauty was otherworldly and whose methods were almost divine. He instinctively took a step back and turned to flee this extremely eerie place.

However, as soon as he took a step, he felt an invisible force pull him back firmly, making him unable to move.

The woman in white slowly turned around, revealing an exquisitely beautiful yet cold and indifferent face.

She ignored Su Ning's fear and surprise, merely sensing the aura of heaven and earth, and asked calmly, "What year and month is it now?"

“…2020,” Suning replied with difficulty.

The scene of being pushed off the cliff by Anman replayed rapidly in his mind, and he still found it hard to believe that he was still alive.

“2020…” A complex mix of reminiscence and coldness flashed in Si Teng’s eyes. “My name is Si Teng. From this day forward, you will be my servant.” Her tone was calm, yet it carried an unquestionable absolute authority, as if it were a matter of course.

"Is it really necessary to rush this?" Su Ning was at a loss for words, both amused and exasperated.

"Then what do you want to do? Do you still want to hold a servant-acceptance ceremony?" However, this incredibly beautiful Si Teng was clearly also a sharp-tongued person.

"It can't be that bad! The problem is we're not familiar with each other, and you're asking me to be your servant right off the bat?"

"Don't forget! I'm the one who saved you."

"..."

……

On the other side, Yan Furui from Cangcheng Mountain was terrified, holding the booklet.

The booklet clearly states: "If Si Teng is resurrected, there will be unusual signs in the Nebula Pavilion as a warning!"

He remembered the stone tablet exploding earlier, and hurriedly ran out of the house. Sure enough, he saw a corner of his yard collapse, revealing a bottomless ancient well that exuded a cold aura!
Yan Furui plopped down on the ground, his face ashen.

On the cliffside highway in Dana, Suning returned to the roadside with the strange power bestowed upon him by Si Teng.

However, the off-road vehicle was nowhere to be seen, leaving only tire tracks and a few traces of blood on the ground to indicate what had happened here, as well as the broken motorcycle he had just ridden there.

It was obvious that the venomous An Man had taken Qin Fang away.

Sito felt unfamiliar with everything in front of her, but she didn't seem to care.

She took it for granted that Su Ning was her possession and servant, ordering him around to handle all sorts of trivial matters.

Although Su Ning was extremely dissatisfied and frustrated, he could only endure it for the time being, considering the other party's life-saving grace and unfathomable terrifying strength, and carefully took care of this "ancestor's" daily life along the way.

After finally finding a simple inn in a nearby town to settle down, Si Teng instructed Su Ning to prepare hot water for her to take a bath.

She soaked in the hot water, closed her eyes and pondered the most crucial question: Who on earth had gone to such lengths to bring her body from Shenhai to this land of Dana?

Just as Suning finished his work and caught his breath, that familiar electronic notification sound finally rang out again:
【ding dong】

[Main Quest (One) Completed: Successfully rescued key NPCs Qin Fang and An Man. (Note: Although an unexpected incident occurred, the targets are now out of immediate danger, meeting the quest completion criteria.)]

[Task Reward Distribution:]

[1. System repair progress +2%, current total progress: 11.3%]

[2. Partial memory fragments restored (unlocked, can be viewed at any time)]

[3. Mission reward: 10 million RMB (already deposited into the host's real-world account, legal source)]

"..." Su Ning looked at the prompt, especially the note "although an unexpected incident occurred during the process", and couldn't help but twitch her lips.

The criteria for this system are really...

Relaxed.

However, the rewards are real.

He took a deep breath, feeling the power within him seem to be increasing, and glanced again in the direction of the bathroom.

In this world of the Khitan tribe, filled with unknowns and dangers, the enhanced system privileges and funds may become his most important asset.

And for Miss Sito, who regarded him as a servant, their master-servant relationship seemed to have only just begun.

……

The atmosphere in the simple guesthouse room was somewhat stagnant.

After taking a bath, Si Teng changed into a modern dress that Suning had managed to buy for her. Although it didn't suit her temperament as well as a cheongsam, it still couldn't hide her aloof and otherworldly demeanor.

She sat on the only chair by the window, her gaze sweeping over the room's sparse furrowed, clearly extremely dissatisfied with everything.

Seeing Suning standing to the side, seemingly lost in thought, he was actually processing system information and observing the environment.

However, Miss Sito's temper flared up immediately.

She snorted coldly, her tone commanding and leaving no room for argument: "What are you standing there for? Do I have to teach you how to serve people? Go and see where you can find some decent tea and snacks."

His demeanor and tone made it clear that he regarded Su Ning as his private property and personal servant, ordering him around as if it were his right.

Su Ning felt a surge of frustration. He was someone who had weathered many storms and possessed a system and a huge amount of money. When had he ever been ordered around like this?

But when he thought of the other party's unpredictable resurrection methods, his ability to heal fatal injuries with a wave of his hand, and that cold pressure that seemed to come from the depths of his soul, he still suppressed all his dissatisfaction.

"Okay." He tried to make his tone sound respectful, but in his heart he thought, "A good man doesn't fight with a woman, and a wise man doesn't suffer a loss in front of him! This woman is too strange, I can't afford to mess with her for now."

He obediently turned around and went out to try and get some "decent tea and snacks".

In this remote town, this is no easy task.

When Suning finally returned with some local specialties, butter tea and tsampa, she found Si Teng standing in front of the old television in the room, staring blankly at the black screen with a hint of confusion and curiosity in his eyes.

She has been "dead" for too many years, jumping directly from the Republican era to 2020.

The little box that lights up, the little brick that can transmit sound over long distances, and the cars whizzing past the window...

Everything felt incredibly unfamiliar to her, as if she had entered a completely new world.

Although she maintained a cool and composed demeanor on the surface, deep down, an indescribable sense of alienation and an urgent desire to understand this new era were intertwined.

Seeing Su Ning return, she immediately looked away, reverting to her indifferent demeanor, as if the curious child from just moments ago wasn't her.

Su Ning placed the tea and snacks on the table. Looking at Si Teng's obviously curious but pretending not to care, she found it somewhat amusing, yet also somewhat understandable.

He spoke up first, pointing to the television: "Sito, if you want to understand the world now, you can watch this, it's called television. It broadcasts a lot of programs, news, dramas and the like, which can give you a quick overview of the changes that have taken place in the past few years."

Sito glanced at the dark screen, raised his chin slightly, and refused with an arrogant tone: "Hmph! What's so special about mere illusions? Do I, Sito, need to understand the world through such mundane things?"

She would never admit that she had actually been trying to figure out how the box lit up.

Seeing Si Teng's appearance, Su Ning touched her nose and didn't try to persuade him any further.

In fact, he himself was also filled with curiosity and a subtle sense of alienation about 2020.

In his real-world timeline, the world he perceives is still in 2013.

These seven years were also a blank for him.

The rapid iteration of smartphone functions, the explosive growth of social media, emerging technological products, popular internet slang, and even subtle changes in the world order...

All of this was new and unfamiliar to him.

He picked up his phone, which was considered advanced in 2013 but looked outdated in 2020, and tried to connect to the weak network. He browsed the pop-up news feeds, feeling both familiar and strange.

For a time, in this small room of the guesthouse, there were two people who were "out of touch" with the times...

An ancestor of the Bai ethnic group who has been asleep for decades and has been resurrected in modern times; a system host who has lost seven years of life due to a special experience.

They appear to be master and servant, but in some ways they are both "newcomers" to this rapidly developing era, and they all need to relearn and adapt to everything before them.

This peculiar commonality may play an unexpected role in their uncertain future relationship.

As Su Ning browsed the news, he secretly pondered: It seems that not only do I need to find a way to deal with this difficult Miss Si Teng, but I also need to make up for the seven years I've missed as soon as possible.

...(End of chapter)