Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 122: Online Therapy

Chapter 122: Chapter 122: Online Therapy

Network Therapy Group, command room.

"Why was he kicked out?"

"Let me check...Ah."

"Got it... It’s a student group, he reported the admin for posting lewd pictures."

"...Wait, why would the admin... and why would he report it... never mind..."

"Can our people pretend to be his classmates or teachers?"

"I’m afraid not, we haven’t had enough prep time; it’s too easy to be found out."

"He’s checking other groups now."

...

Lin Xing opened one group after another on his social app, looking through the chat histories, and suddenly felt a sense of unfamiliarity and distance.

"Did I join these groups?"

"Who are these people?"

Lin Xing frowned and then opened his friend list, which only deepened his confusion.

He found that he didn’t recognize several people from his friend list when he randomly clicked on them.

Lin Xing opened these strangers’ profiles and feeds, growing more and more bewildered as he read.

"How is this possible...?"

"Why don’t I have any memory of them?"

"Have I really forgotten so much?"

At that thought, a strong sense of panic surged from Lin Xing’s heart.

Just then, the Puppet Girl put away her pen and paper and calmly announced, "Done."

"Lin Xing, I’ve finished writing. Do you want to take a look?"

Lin Xing hurriedly started reading what Bai Yiyi had written.

It was about the adventure he and Bai Yiyi undertook starting from the Mirror World’s Jiang Family Village.

"Lin Xing arrived at Jiang Family Village and, under my guidance, he killed an old man."

"Lin Xing returned to the hospital for a few days, then came back to Jiang Family Village and killed two soldiers and several villagers under my guidance."

"Lin Xing visited Jiang Family Village again, this time under my guidance, he crippled two villagers and killed the Mountain God..."

"Lin Xing came to Jiang Family Village and found it had been burnt down, he couldn’t kill those soldiers, and under my guidance, he decided to retreat for the time being..."

Lin Xing read about his own experiences written by Bai Yiyi and felt that every day in the Mirror World he was either practicing his skills or killing people, or just being in a daze. The more he read, the more uncomfortable he felt.

"Is this how outsiders see me?"

"No, this isn’t the real me."

"Master Bai’s perspective is still too biased. Although it can help me remember some things, it can’t describe my true experience."

Suddenly a thought flashed across Lin Xing’s mind: "I should ask my former classmates in reality. They’ve been around me for so long, they should know my true character and can help me reinforce my self-identity."

With that thought, Lin Xing clicked on a stranger’s avatar and sent over a smiley face: Hello, Shang Dazhi

...

Network Therapy Group, command room.

A young man with glasses said, "Team leader, he has started messaging friends on his social app."

Everyone looked towards a short-haired woman with an icy expression as if waiting for her instructions.

After a moment of contemplation, she slowly said, "Review all his incoming and outgoing messages. Only the messages that pass our inspection can be sent to him."

"The information and chat team, be prepared; we might need to forge messages at any moment."

"Network team, also be ready, in case we need to cut off the target’s network..."

...

In East Sea City, within a chaotic bedroom.

Shang Dazhi, who was home for the summer holidays, was playing a video game.

Suddenly seeing a message pop up on his social app, Shang Dazhi asked in surprise, "Lin Xing? Why is this guy contacting me out of the blue?"

"What kind of person do you think I am?"

He read the message sent by the other party and laughed, "What’s this guy up to?"

Shang Dazhi shook his head and sent a nonchalant response, "Certainly a good guy, reported the Immortal, solved the whole class’s problem with finding movies."

...

Lin Xing waited for the other party’s message, feeling somewhat expectant for the reply.

Suddenly the other party’s avatar flashed, and Lin Xing quickly clicked on it.

Shang Dazhi: A noble person

Lin Xing nodded to himself and thought, "I should ask others as well."

...

That day, many people received messages from Lin Xing. Observing their old classmate, whom they hadn’t contacted in a while, they sent back their responses politely, bluntly, or even automatically by the system.

"You’re quite good, always seemed honest when you were little."

"Lin Xing, stop messaging me in the future, I don’t want my boyfriend to misunderstand."

"Quite smart, just a bit silly."

"The user has enabled friend verification, you are not yet their friend. Please send a friend request first. After the other user accepts your request, you can chat. (Send friend request)"

...

Lin Xing watched the jumping avatars, one by one, and began reading the new messages he received.

"Always thought you were full of integrity since we were little."

"Very rule-abiding, never messes around."

"You’ve always been my mentor and friend."

Lin Xing put down his phone and took a deep breath. He felt as if the self who had been immersed in those countless killings, deeply affected by those memories... at this moment seemed to be distancing from that influence even more.

He felt his heart calm down a lot all at once., no longer carrying the heaviness of earlier bloodlust.

"If I reinforce my self-identity like this every time I return, the effects of the long battles to the death in the Mirror World will have a much smaller impact on me."

But he was also a bit troubled as he scratched his head, "But why can’t I still remember a lot of my friends?"

Thinking about the imminent start of the school term, Lin Xing muttered to himself, "With so many troubles at hand, when do I have the leisure to study?"

"I should go to school and arrange a leave of absence, and at the same time try to recover some memories."

The Lin Xing of the past might have been distressed about taking a leave of absence, but the current Lin Xing upon thinking it jumped into action and started to call someone.

Zhao Wanxi beside him seemed startled again, since although she had been researching the television, she couldn’t help but watch Lin Xing anxiously.

Watching him alternate between laughing and crying at a small box, then suddenly getting angry and then happy, she felt the room was becoming increasingly dangerous.

After Lv Ming arrived, Lin Xing expressed his request, and then turned to Bai Yiyi and Zhao Wanxi, "You guys rest here, I’ll go get the leave of absence sorted and come back."

Bai Yiyi, who had been staring at Lin Xing’s phone for a long time, said, "It’s so boring waiting here, what’s that thing? Let your ancestor play with it too."

Thus, Lin Xing gestured at the Puppet Girl, and then said to Lv Ming, "Could you get her a phone as well?"

Lv Ming nodded and immediately made a call to have a phone set up for Bai Yiyi.

At the same time, he sent out another message, thinking to himself, "This woman needs to be monitored as well."