The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

359: An Alternate Version

Perhaps it was because she was so pure and simple that she was able to judge others based on their aura.

Take Zi Cheng for example.
Many people saw her as a kind and gentle person, but Feng Wu felt she was very complicated.
The aura surrounding her was just too messy and gave Feng Wu a strange feeling, so Feng Wu didn’t like her.

It wasn’t that Feng Wu would ignore someone like that, it was just that she wouldn’t be friends with that kind of person.

The same went for Ai Lin.
Her eyes were always wandering and looking at everything, gathering information.
It was confusing and strange.
Feng Wu didn’t understand and she wasn’t interested in being friends with her either.

They had spent time together and survived many adventures, but their relationship was not as good as the relationship Feng Wu had with Elena.[notes] For her, they were just classmates.

Feng Wu trusted her feelings, so since Zo didn’t give her a bad feeling, she was fine with being allies.

But does she even understand what allies were? Probably not.

Right now she only regarded the boy as a potential friend, so she didn’t mind protecting him from danger.

“My name is Zo,” said Zo with a slight smile.

Feng Wu replied with her deadpan expression.
“My name is Feng Wu.”

And thus was their alliance formalized.
Others on the island also struck up alliances with acquaintances as well.
Most didn’t know anyone so they remained solo, better solo than take a risky alliance and be stabbed in the back.

In no time at all, more than a hundred people appeared on the island.
Zo did a visual count and saw that there were over two hundred.
The number of new arrivals petered after a half an hour, until eventually no more showed up.

People guessed no one else was going to arrive.
There were so many people who entered the tomb.
Even if hundreds of them died in the corridor, there should still be more than the two hundred or so on the island now.
So where was everyone else?

Could there be several places like the island they were on? Were they separated on purpose? To be tested?

Zo remembered Ai Lin telling him how strange the tomb was.
Even Zi Cheng, who was loved by the world, had nearly died.
The danger to normal people entering would be ten times worse.

Ai Lin had tried to dissuade him from going into the tomb, but he really wanted to use the heart of water.

As for Ai Lin, she was on another island together with Eliza, and both of them were worried about Zo.

Ai Lin kept cursing the author out in her heart.
She’d read the novel before, so although she knew how dangerous the tomb was, she wasn’t too concerned because she knew what would happen.
But what was going on? Suddenly things were different from the story.

Even the way of clearing the tomb was different.
What she was experiencing didn’t resemble the original plot anymore, even the entry into the tomb was different.
There had been only two keys in the original text as no one had been able to find the third key.

LeWuji and Caesar, along with several powerful figures from bigger families, pooled their resources to gather hundreds of powerful master magicians to break the formation forcefully.

It took a month to gather enough, but they finally succeeded in opening the door.

Just when everyone thought they could enter the tomb, the giant beasts carved into the gates acted, massacring everyone who dared move forward to try to enter the tomb.
The only ones spared were those holding the keys.

Those who hadn’t died from the initial run fought a fierce battle with the beasts; the sword masters and magicians barely stood a chance.
Though the people eventually managed to wipe out the beasts’ consciousness, it was at the cost of many lives.
In fact, very few survived at all.

Those few who survived entered the tomb either as a part of LeWuji’s group or Caesar’s group.

That was the way the story originally went, but it wasn’t the case now.
Was it because all three keys had been gathered that things were so different?

Ai Lin had made up her mind to join Caesar’s team after the masters’ broke the formation, then retreat with Zo and Eliza until the beasts were taken down.
After that she was going to join Zi Cheng’s team and enter the tomb.

She had not expected the tomb to open so easily with all three keys present.
No one died and everyone entered the tomb successfully, unlike what was originally written in the story.
Because their entry was done properly with the keys, and because the two impassable mythological beasts were not present at the entry, the tomb itself was much less dangerous to enter.

Ai Lin got a headache just thinking about it.
Seemed like her recollection of the story wouldn’t help much here; she would have to rely on herself in the future.

What she didn’t know was that the trials in the tomb were all controlled by the beasts.

If the original protagonist’s entry was difficult, then the difficulty level now, with all three keys present, would mean both easy and nightmare modes were open.

Who would encounter which, was all dependent on luck.

So, after losing her sense of foresight from having read the novel, except for a few dangerous situations, everything went well for Ai Lin.

Zi Cheng’s road to getting the heart of water was also much easier.

…

Dark clouds covered the sky while savage winds roiled the sea and bit into the flesh.
Everyone felt incredibly cold.

People were getting restless.
They were all thinking the same thing: should they stay and wait to see what would happen or should they forge their way off the island and explore?

It was difficult to choose.
The right choice would be great, but the wrong choice would be catastrophic and lead them to untold dangers.
They were all waiting to see what other people would do, but because everyone had the same plan, no one ended up moving.