Reincarnation NPC, but Arknights

It's like drawing blood with a needle; the whole process is slow and abstract, but after a while, you'll feel noticeably weak.

Rationality value.

Even without opening the game's status panel, Bai Ye was certain that his sanity was slowly declining.

This is not a dream, and the Skadi in front of you is not his Tinti.

So Bai Ye stopped and looked at the girl standing on the beach from a distance across the rocks.

Although the girl was wearing the outfit he had chosen for her, Bai Ye felt that she was a complete stranger.

"Who are you."

Bai Ye raised his hand, watching the girl warily. He wanted to summon a storm, but found that his ability was ineffective.

In this dreamlike place, he seemed to be just an ordinary person.

"Who are you."

Bai Ye slowly walked towards the girl.

"I am Skadi." The girl took off her hat, and her soft, long white hair fluttered in the wind like silk.

Bai Ye could see the girl's crimson eyes.

The girl's voice was ethereal and beautiful, as if she were singing.

However, Bai Ye felt a chill run down his spine. He shook his head and said definitively, "You are not Skadi. Who are you?"

"How did you find out?" The girl walked to Bai Ye's side and sat down on a nearby rock.

I don't know when, but she changed her clothes and became a different white dress.

The girl was barefoot, her toes lightly touching the surface of the sea. Occasionally, the undulating waves would gently wash over her ankles, as if they were washing her.

Although she was beautiful and inexplicably captivating, Bai Ye felt a chill run down his spine. Although the girl in front of him looked exactly like Skadi, she was a completely different being, merely wearing a shell.

This is a completely different creature, using Skadi's face but making different expressions...

"Perhaps I should wear a red dress?" The girl gently swung her legs, stirring the surface of the sea, then turned to look at Bai Ye. "Don't look at me like that. Your gaze should be gentler."

"You must like this look very much, don't you?"

Bai Ye's gaze grew increasingly sharp, and he narrowed his eyes slightly.

"That's terrible," the girl sighed. "But I'm growing to like you more and more."

“Look, you described what the starry sky looks like, so I’ve drawn a star map here.” The girl said, pointing to the sky. “That’s where we’ll end up, and where we’ll begin.”

Bai Ye looked up following her hand, and indeed, as the girl said, it was a vast star map. Such a sight could not be seen on the land of Terra.

The girl seemed quite satisfied with her masterpiece.

"It seems you've never seen the starry sky in person either..." Bai Ye shook his head.

Perhaps it is because he once said that his favorite star is Niandao Zengqi, so there is a pair of twin stars shining brightly in the very center of the starry sky.

However, Bai Ye actually forgot to mention that the Twin Stars of Niandao Zengqi cannot be seen with the naked eye; only a single star can be seen. It can only be seen clearly with the help of a low-powered telescope.

No longer paying attention to the starry sky, Bai Ye turned his gaze back to the girl.

"Your eyes are terrifying. Do you want to hunt me?" The girl opened her arms again.

“I won’t refuse if necessary.” Bai Ye clenched his fist. He wasn’t sure if the “thing” in front of him had inherited Skadi’s power.

If she possessed Skadi's physical strength, I, unarmed and unable to use my innate spells, would likely be no match for her.

"You and she are both hunters..." The girl gently shook her head again, "However, you don't seem to belong here. The land is not your home, nor is the sea..."

"You are a person without a hometown..."

The girl's eyes seemed to express regret, yet also a sense of searching.

Bai Ye clenched his fist. This guy, in the players' words, was someone who had broken the fourth wall.

The girl wanted to say something more, but then seemed to realize something and looked at Bai Ye with a slightly dreamy look: "It seems that there is not enough time... I wonder when we will meet again."

"Believe me, I don't want to be your enemy."

"We don't lie..."

The girl's ethereal voice gradually faded away, and the scene before Bai Ye's eyes receded like the tide.

……

"Huff. Huff—!"

!

In the darkness, Bai Ye suddenly opened her eyes.

He flipped over and landed on the ground, a long sword suddenly appearing in his hand.

The scabbard, which served as a staff, fell into the left hand, and the spellcasting units on it were lit up section by section, becoming the only source of light in the dark room.

However, everything seemed normal. There were no enemies, and no unusual girl, as if everything that had happened before was a dream.

No, it's not a dream.

Bai Ye opened the game system's status panel, and his sanity, which was originally at its maximum of 73 points, was now completely depleted.

"Damn it, what level of existence is that...? Could it be them? But aren't they in the ocean?"

A cold sweat broke out on Bai Ye's back.

In just a few words, his sanity was almost completely exhausted. You should know that 73 points of sanity can last for quite a while, even when killing demons on the border of Yan Kingdom.

Bai Ye slowly sheathed the arc of light and gently crouched down.

There was a puddle of water on the floor.

Bai Ye dipped his finger in it and could smell the salty, fishy odor.

It's seawater.

Only microorganisms in seawater release gases with a similar odor; this is the unique salty smell of seawater.

Looking at the wet marks on the floor, Bai Ye seemed to be talking to himself: "Who are you?"

Chapter Sixty-Five: Two White-Haired Men

In the latter half of the night, Bai Ye couldn't fall asleep. After being disturbed like this, he couldn't sleep at all.

Fortunately, his mental state had fully recovered, and by dawn, his lost sanity had been fully replenished.

The next morning, Bai Ye and Skadi met in the cafeteria.

Titi, on the other hand, rested very well and didn't dream. She had no idea what happened last night.

After seeing Skadi as usual, Bai Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong?" Skadi was puzzled by Bai Ye's inexplicable reaction.

Bai Ye shook his head: "Seeing you as simple-minded as ever, I'm relieved..."

The lively expression and ethereal voice of "Skadi" last night really startled him.

Fortunately, seeing Skadi as goofy as usual, my initial worries and panic vanished.

“What do you mean…” Skadi said, somewhat displeased. “I’m not stupid.”

"Ah, right, right, right." Bai Ye nodded in agreement, then took some donuts for himself.

After leaving Lungmen, he actually started to miss the breakfasts there. The Yan chefs in Rhodes Island's logistics department rarely worked shifts in the mornings, so getting a Yan breakfast depended on luck.

Even so, it was still better than what Bai Ye ate on the Ursus frozen ground; he was tired of fast food, potatoes, and rye bread...

Skadi, on the other hand, didn't care much about food. Deepsea Hunters could operate at high power for extended periods without eating, which was simply illogical. For them, eating was merely a means of replenishing energy.

Perhaps this is what makes Skadi seem simple-minded; they don't have a concept of "life," which makes them incompatible with ordinary people.

"Don't you really feel anything is wrong?" Bai Ye asked Skadi many more questions before finally putting his doubts back to himself.

His intuition told him that he shouldn't tell Skadi about what happened last night.

not the right time yet.

However, Skadi still sensed something was wrong. She looked at Bai Ye intently and asked, "Did something happen yesterday?"

"No, I just had a nightmare." Bai Ye shook his head.

However, Skadi stared at Bai Ye with her crimson eyes, then leaned closer to Bai Ye and gently sniffed him.

“You’re lying.” Skadi looked up and said with certainty.

"What kind of power is this?" Bai Ye was stunned. He had only heard that some people could detect lies by licking them, but no one had ever told him that he could detect lies just by smelling them.

Could it be that when a person lies, they secrete special pheromones, which Skadi detected with her extraordinary sense of smell?

Deep-sea hunter or human lie detector?

"You smell of the sea, which is not normal."

"Very unusual."

Skadi's eyes sharpened, and she instantly shed her naive demeanor.

“Let me into your room!” Skadi said firmly, her tone leaving no room for Bai Ye to refuse.

"What...are you doing?!"

Just then, a familiar voice rang out from the side. The owner of the voice was very excited, and his voice was full of surprise.

Bai Ye turned his head and saw that the typing girl was standing to the side, holding a plate, looking at the two of them incredulously.

"How...how shameless! To...to actually extend such an invitation in broad daylight...and it's still morning!"

"Supervisor, I have no objection to your private life, but... but you also represent the reputation of the field department. What am I even talking about?!"

The typist blushed and stammered incoherently, babbling incoherently.

Long before Typing Girl's loud voice attracted everyone's attention, Bai Ye had already activated a soundproof barrier. He knew how loud this girl's voice was.

If all sorts of rumors were to spread here, it would be no surprise that the entire Rhodes Island would know within 30 minutes.

"Who is she? What happened to her?" Skadi turned around, tilted her head to look at Typing Girl, and asked with some confusion.

She then said, "Please leave. We don't have time to waste with you."

Bai Ye covered his forehead.

Upon hearing Skadi's words, he knew something was wrong.

Skadi is completely inarticulate.

Right now, the typist is inexplicably furious, and these words are like pouring water into boiling oil...

"This, this, this!"

As expected, Typing Girl turned red. Her face flushed, and she pointed at Skadi, unable to speak.

“It’s endless…”

Bai Ye clapped his hands, summoning a stream of air to silence Skadi and Typing Princess. He then looked at Typing Princess and said, "Although I don't know what you've misunderstood, we are indeed very busy right now, and it's not the kind of thing you're thinking... We're discussing a more profound issue."

"Skadi, calm down. It's nothing serious, just some seawater."

After speaking, Bai Ye dispersed the airflow again.

"What am I thinking about... I wouldn't think about such things!" Typing Girl's first words were defiant.

Skadi shook her head, ignoring the lively Typing Girl beside her, and looked seriously at Bai Ye: "Seawater doesn't appear on land out of thin air, this is no small matter. Unless... no, impossible, you have to take me to your room to see."

Skadi initially thought other deep-sea hunters had come ashore, but she couldn't smell anything.

Bai Ye sighed. He knew that Skadi wouldn't back down on this kind of thing; once the deep sea was involved, she seemed like a completely different person.

and many more.

'You seem like a completely different person?'

Bai Ye suddenly paused, and in that instant, he felt as if he had grasped something.

"Another black snake?" Bai Ye muttered to himself.

……