Quick Transmigration and Childbirth: The Target is Not Human

The Ruins of Time in my memory is a desolate wasteland.

But the system says that in the beginning, the Ruins of Time were not so ugly.

As we approached the azure lake, our footsteps transitioned from lush meadows to dry, barren ruts, and finally to bare sand and rocks.

Centered on the lake containing the Floating Time Necklace, an irresistible force is eroding life on this planet.

It was as if one moment she was battling an interstellar overlord, and the next she was back here.

The stark contrast between the vastly different yet equally close timeframes made it difficult for Xia Yangyang to adapt.

The wind brushed against her face and ruffled her hair.

Arthur removed the glove from his right hand. Years of wearing gloves had made his five fingers, with their distinct knuckles, appear pale. He touched the lake water with his fingertips, and a piece of shallow ice, about the size of his palm, appeared on the lake's surface and disappeared in an instant, leaving a shallow ripple on the lake.

"What a greedy lake." He smirked, turning to look at the girl beside him. "Why did you stop talking? You just said that you used this time necklace to travel through time and space to come back and find me."

Xia Yangyang came to her senses and saw a pair of beautiful, long, narrow eyes opposite her, with upturned corners, both strange and familiar.

"Yes. This lake has a gravitational field; anything that touches the surface will be pulled to the bottom. You froze this lake with ice to get the necklace."

That's quite a large undertaking.

"Perhaps we could try another approach. Since this ring possesses the power to manipulate space..." Arthur held the shimmering yellow ring between his thumb and forefinger, a soft yellow light flowing between them. "Why not use it to drain this lake?"

"Space weapons aren't something you can just use whenever you want," Xia Yangyang said, shaking her head.

"How can I use it?"

"It will come at a tremendous cost."

Xia Yangyang was reluctant to say more, but Arthur's gaze made her cheeks burn, and she seemed determined to get to the bottom of it: "What was the price?"

His voice had a bewitching magic; his words swirled in my mind like leaves falling in the wind.

At least, she told him that he was someone she could trust unconditionally.

Xia Yangyang pursed her lips: "To give up the life of the one I love most."

"Oh..." Arthur said, drawing out the words.

In his bones, besides Lu Feng's composure, there was also Bai Ye's roguishness, and this unpredictable malice was revealed at this moment.

His lips brushed against her ear, his words as soft as a whispered secret, yet deafeningly powerful: "And whose life did you pay with yours?"

Are you serious?

Arthur, would he ask her that kind of question?

Such an offensive question?

Xia Yangyang lowered her head, then raised it again, looking at him without saying a word.

This moment is complex, interwoven with love and longing refined by time, all looking towards him, yet passing through him, flowing to a deeper and more distant place.

Arthur stared at her for a moment, then looked away first.

He knelt on one knee on the shore, his right hand pressed against the lake surface, and the ice and snow stretched out infinitely from this point to all directions and into the water with the force of thunder.

Xia Yangyang heard Arthur's voice and realized she had returned to normal.

"I don't trust you, I trust myself thirty years from now."

Xia Yangyang didn't understand what he meant at that moment, thinking he was saying that he believed freezing the lake wouldn't deplete his mental energy.

It wasn't until a seemingly ordinary afternoon decades later that I suddenly realized the truth.

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Arthur's speed in collecting cosmic weapons sent chills down Xia Yangyang's spine.

Less than two hours after obtaining the Time Necklace, he also extracted the Soul Blade from the belly of the Rainforest Serpent on the unnamed Wild Star.

He certainly had the confidence to say that collecting space weapons was not a difficult task.

System: [Ding—Humanoid Mimicry Countdown: 3 hours 59 minutes]

Now, of the five cosmic weapons before her, she has collected four; only the Sword of Power remains...

That weapon, the foremost of the five nightmarish weapons.

However, with this last weapon, Xia Yangyang met Arthur's expectant gaze and realized that, it seemed... ever since she met the interstellar overlord, the sword of power had been in his hands.

She didn't know which planet the sword had landed on.

The information provided by the system did not contain even the slightest description of it.

Previously, with the Empress's Compass to guide her, she would never have had such worries, and naturally, she never considered where the Sword of Power had fallen.

Arthur waited for a while, then, sensing through his mind that the magnetic field on the other side was becoming increasingly chaotic, he pondered and said, "You don't remember?"

The air fell silent for three seconds.

"If only I had the Queen's Compass..."

He heard a faint, mournful sound. Arthur narrowed his eyes; anything involving the word "Empress" instantly drew his attention.

"What do you need the Queen's Compass for?"

The girl before me had round, clear almond-shaped eyes. She rested her chin on her right hand and stated the simplest fact: "Because it's the simplest, isn't it? As long as I think about what I'm looking for, it will point the way."

The system, munching on an apple, interjected: "[What, are you planning to tell him your real identity?]"

Xia Yangyang rubbed her temples: [Do I dare say he would believe me?]

She is currently in a mimicry form, and therefore does not possess any Zerg characteristics, nor does she even have the only self-evident mental power.

System: [Your tone doesn't sound like you're afraid to speak... *crackling*... Well, whether he believes it or not doesn't matter, you only have a few hours left before you're back in the egg.]

Xia Yangyang: [Ah...yes, the point isn't what I say, but whether he's willing to believe me.]

Her words indirectly revealed her understanding of the Queen's Compass.

She didn't really care about status, but if this matter could arouse his suspicion and make him willing to bring the Queen's Compass, she could find the whereabouts of the Sword of Power more quickly, so why not?

Sure enough, Arthur's wary gaze held an unusual scrutiny, and his tone turned somber: "Even if it existed, it would be useless. The Empress's Compass was sealed after the fall of the previous Empress, and only the new Empress can open it."

The new queen is still a fragile egg.

In the incubation nest he guarded day and night.

Xia Yangyang smiled without saying a word, her smile radiant.

Until Arthur composed himself, his chin slightly tucked in, the upper half of his face shrouded in the shadow cast by the brim of his hat, and the surrounding air pressure dropped to freezing point.

He strode towards her, stopping when they were only an arm's length apart.

The oppressive atmosphere made it hard to breathe.

"What's so funny?"

Xia Yangyang leaned back against the seat and slowly asked, "If I could open it, would you be willing to help me steal the compass?"