I Topped the Aloof Omega in a Scummy Alpha Novel - Chapter 55

Her family will avenge her.

The butterfly landed on the dog’s nose, and it let out a “woof woof woof” sound.

It fell into the ears of Madam Bai next door, which was really annoying. She chopped the vegetables with more force, as if she wasn’t chopping a cabbage, but the dog in the courtyard next door.

The Bai family’s daughter, only ten years old, heard the dog barking and immediately leaned by the window, opening a crack in the pane.

There was little entertainment in those days, and watching the Xuan family’s dog next door counted as one.

It turned out that the Xuan family’s daughter, of similar age to the Bai family’s daughter, was holding a piece of meat, causing the yellow dog to bark incessantly.

“Wangcai!”

“Wangcai…”

The Xuan family’s daughter ran out excitedly, and the Bai family’s daughter also pushed open the door and chased after her.

The two families lived in the mountains. Running out of their homes, they stepped on fiery red fallen leaves along the way. Children had good energy, and it was a long time before they stopped.

The Xuan family’s daughter was tired and flung the piece of meat out playfully. The dog excitedly leaped towards it.

The piece of meat landed at the feet of the Bai family’s daughter. She was panting heavily, her small face glistening with sweat. Her shoe already had a hole in it, and the dog licked it while eating the meat. She smiled, squatted down, and stroked the dog’s head.

She rarely had a chance to touch it usually; her mother didn’t allow it, and the neighbors didn’t like it.

“Don’t touch it!” The Xuan family’s daughter picked up the dog, looked down at her, her face a bit fierce, and added, “Your family doesn’t even like dogs.”

During the famine year, Madam Bai killed a dog, the very one that had grown up with the Bai family’s daughter.

The Bai family’s daughter was touched on a sore spot and stared directly into the Xuan family’s daughter’s pitch-black pupils.

A thought process: Eliminate distractions, see the future of people.

The Bai family’s daughter clenched her fists, her mouth twitched, showing a very strange smile. Immediately after, she pushed the Xuan family’s daughter, snatched the dog, and sprinted into the deeper part of the woods.

The Xuan family’s daughter climbed up from the ground, cursed, and chased after her.

A stone got into the Bai family’s daughter’s foot, piercing the sole of her foot. With every step, the stone rubbed against the arch.

It hurt, but this was nothing.

She ran wildly along the route she saw in her mind. The Xuan family’s dog, following its owner, was foolish and thought it was a game, wagging its tail.

The ground ahead was still flat. The Bai family’s daughter slowed down and observed with her peripheral vision. Just as the person behind was about to catch up, she flashed to the side.

The leaves on the flat ground collapsed, and the Xuan family’s daughter fell miserably into a pit.

The Bai family’s daughter heard her last words.

“My family, they definitely won’t let…”

The Xuan family’s daughter hit the back of her head on the ground, and blood flowed all over the place.

A blood-red stain was on her philtrum. Representative Ren pulled out a piece of paper and wiped away a nosebleed.

Fengxia Island was doing some environmental cleanup the day before yesterday, not allowing people to enter the island for vacation. Representative Ren inwardly cursed the boss behind Fengxia Island for disrupting her plans. As she cursed, she got a nosebleed.

She held the phone and said to the person on the other end, “Ugh, I’m burning up; I’ll have a seafood meal later to nourish myself… It’s all because of Xuan Weiming, constantly causing trouble for us. Remember to investigate her dirt and make her lose the party nomination. I don’t want to see her in the general election; she’s bad luck!”

“Ugh, okay, okay, I know, I won’t eat seafood… If there’s no dirt, just frame her with some.”

Representative Ren stomped her foot in anger. The sand under her feet splashed up, a large portion of it entering her flip-flops. She looked down and found that the piece of ground under her feet was different from the others, looking like it had been dug up.

“Gotta go, I found something fun.”

Representative Ren hung up the phone and started digging the dirt.

It was nearby, and the seaside was chilly, but it didn’t dampen her curiosity at all. She dug there for more than ten minutes and unearthed a jar of wine.

It must be good wine.

Otherwise, why bury it here so secretly?

Based on the principle that if it’s unsigned, it’s public, and if it’s public, it’s hers, Representative Ren happily accepted the entire jar of wine, casually threw away the jar, and walked toward the beach.

She underestimated the alcohol content of the wine, but her heart was filled only with the sea.

She, Representative Ren, the self-proclaimed next President of the country, was going to conquer the sea now!

She lay in the sea but thought she was flying.

As dawn was breaking, a body floated on the surface of the sea.

A car drove from the highway to the ramp, speeding along the winding mountain path.

Xuan Yuchi’s palms were sweating a little. She and her mother had set off in the middle of the night and driven for five hours straight without stopping. She had drunk two cups of iced Americano, and while excited, she was also nervous due to the excessive speed.

“We’re almost there, hang in there.” Xuan Ling glanced at her.

At the fork in the road ahead, Xuan Yuchi firmly remembered what Xuan Ling had told her to memorize before departure, turning the steering wheel to the right. Less than three hundred meters later, there was another fork in the road. After fifteen consecutive choices, Xuan Yuchi breathed a sigh of relief and slowed down.

The heavy fog and complex routes made it impossible for anyone to follow them.

Except for… the one who had been hiding in the trunk from the start.

The sedan barely made it to the thatched house, and the two got out of the car.

Xuan Yuchi was wearing a windbreaker, but it was a bit warm now, so she took off her jacket. The coldest time in the capital had passed, and the temperature here was even a bit higher than in the capital.

“This is where your great-great-grandmother used to live,” Xuan Ling said, pointing to the courtyard on the left.

Xuan Yuchi was surprised: “Didn’t our family live in the capital for generations?”

Xuan Ling coughed: “It just so happens that your great-great-grandmother’s generation didn’t.”

“Is the house next door ours too?” Xuan Yuchi pointed to the courtyard on the right, which looked more dilapidated.

Xuan Ling: “This one isn’t. That family also seems to have moved away later.”

Xuan Ling’s knowledge of this place came from her mother. Only after her mother handed over the Xuan family to her did she bring her here.

Xuan Yuchi nodded, feeling that her ancestors had a miserable life. If she lived in this kind of environment, she wouldn’t survive three days. She clasped her hands and bowed towards the thatched house.

“Take off your shoes,” Xuan Ling said, having already taken off her own shoes.

Xuan Yuchi followed suit, entering the woods with her mother, constantly looking down at the ground, afraid of being pierced by stones.

An invisible protective film formed on her feet, separating her feet from the ground. She walked with more confidence.

Xuan Yuchi: [666, thanks.]

System: [You’re welcome. One lottery chance has been automatically consumed.]

The trees gradually lessened, the ground leveled, and the path ahead was open. Xuan Ling counted the camphor trees in front.

Five trees, this was the place.

There was a large pit in front of her. There were many such pits along the way, seemingly dug intentionally to cover their tracks.

Xuan Yuchi leaned over and stared into the pit. She didn’t dare stand too close. Based on her estimation, falling into this would surely kill someone.

Xuan Ling stood with her head bowed. Xuan Yuchi asked, “Mother, what exactly did you bring me here to see? There’s nothing down there?”

“Shh.” Xuan Ling motioned for her to be quiet, waiting in a respectful posture.

A few minutes passed. Xuan Yuchi sat bored on the ground, chatting with the system.

Xuan Yuchi: [666, will you disappear when the mission is completed?]

System: [Of course.]

Xuan Yuchi: [Then if I die, I’m really dead, and I won’t loop again?]

System: [Yes.]

Xuan Yuchi: [Ah? Doesn’t that mean I can live forever as long as I don’t complete the mission?]

System: [Theoretically, yes.]

However, in that case, the Omegas would have a miserable life.

Xuan Yuchi shook her head and caught sight of a faint light flickering in the pit. She stood up, eyes wide open.

The faint light flickered and continuously expanded, gradually forming the shape of a person. Like a bad connection, it went dark for a second, and in the next second, it became a person.

The young woman was wearing rough cloth clothes, looking at Xuan Yuchi with a hint of confusion. She shifted her gaze, saw Xuan Ling, and smiled with relief: “You’ve come?”

“Are you well?” Xuan Ling’s body leaned slightly forward.

“I am well,” the young woman said, then looked at Xuan Yuchi.

Xuan Ling: “This is my daughter, and the next heir of the Xuan family.”

“Yuchi, quickly greet your ancestor.”

Xuan Yuchi’s scalp tingled. This scene was too much like a folk horror movie trope.

She had to call a girl who looked younger than her “Ancestor”… Xuan Yuchi did as she was told, breaking out in a cold sweat, not daring to look directly at the ancestor’s face, afraid that a bloody gaping mouth might suddenly appear on her face.

“Mm.” The young woman’s voice carried an old age, as if she was about to fall asleep.

Xuan Yuchi was staring at her clothes, guessing what era she was from, and while she was still thinking, the ancestor’s figure suddenly disappeared.

“Mother, what is going on?” Xuan Yuchi suspected that what she had just seen was not a real person but a synthesis of light and shadow technology, or maybe AI.

Xuan Ling’s expression was serious: “The things I’m about to tell you, do not reveal them to anyone other than the Xuan family heir.”

“In our world, your great-great-grandmother grew up safely, moved to the capital, and laid the foundation for the later development of the Xuan family. The one you just saw is the ancestor from another world. She was killed by someone when she was a child. Due to some inexplicable reason, she appeared in this pit in this manner.”

“The Xuan family has always speculated that there might be a passage here leading to another world, and the ancestor is stuck here.”

No ghosts, this was much more reasonable, especially since Xuan Yuchi herself had experienced something like the loop.

“Who killed the ancestor?” Xuan Yuchi asked.

Xuan Ling: “Regarding that matter… the ancestor can’t remember either.”

Xuan Yuchi: “Did anyone else see the ancestor before? Why are there rumors outside that the ancestor didn’t die? How did they know?”

Xuan Ling sighed: “When your grandmother was still in charge of the Xuan family, the family suddenly experienced a upheaval and almost couldn’t sustain itself. She once tried to use this secret as a bargaining chip to secure the Xuan family’s safety.”

Later, the person who learned the secret died suddenly not long after, only leaving behind some gossip.

Xuan Ling: “Yuchi, you must keep this secret safe and pass it on to your successor. The best time to announce it is when technology is advanced enough, preferably when our Xuan family has the capability to conduct research.”

The person in the pit refreshed, and the ancestor appeared again. Xuan Yuchi solemnly said to the ancestor, “Ancestor, please rest assured, I will guard your secret well.”

Behind the big tree, Huo Xiaoli observed everything. She was not noticed, just as she had often walked past Xuan Ling and Huo Tian in this lifetime without ever being noticed.

After the Xuan Ling mother and daughter left, Huo Xiaoli returned to the thatched house and sent the location via her phone.

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