Time in a collapsing world

Deep in a forest somewhere on the earth, Li was sitting next to a pothole, looking at the [time] mark deep in his heart with a frown.

Its [Reincarnation] ability had slowly started to activate the moment Li woke up, transforming his body to a certain extent.

Li felt that all the bones in his body had changed, and his originally dense pink hair was slowly shortening, and his memory gradually returned to a certain original state.

Li's eyes widened as she watched her body shrink from big to small, turning into the shape of a baby. The precious memories of her past companions in her mind were gradually disappearing.

This is absolutely unacceptable to Li!

So Li Xin was cruel, and before the memory was deleted to the point of irreversibility, he used his power to materialize all the memories in his mind into a transparent sphere, and held it tightly in his hand, refusing to let go.

It wasn't until he completely turned into a little baby that Li's weak little hand slowly dropped. The transparent sphere "clacked" a few times and landed on the ground next to him, then rolled into the hole he had just crawled out of.

"Huh? Why is there a child here?"

I don't know how long it took, but a soft sound came from the room. It sounded like a woman.

When she slowly approached, stopped next to Li who had transformed into a baby, squatted down, and revealed a fair face and long hair that was also pink, then Li slowly opened her eyes.

Having lost all his memory, he cried out because of fear like an ordinary little baby when he saw the presence of a stranger.

He would never have thought before that he would have slept until the next era, and even humans would have been born.

"Wow wow wow——!"

The baby's cries became louder and louder, and the pink-haired woman also felt at a loss. Although she was married, she was not yet pregnant, so she had no experience in raising children.

Now seeing such a little baby making such a loud noise in the deserted wilderness, she didn't know what to do for a while, but she was afraid that the baby's cry would attract the rare monsters nearby, so she quickly killed it. He picked it up and put it in his broad chest. He gently patted the baby's back with his calloused hands, and softly hummed the cradle song he had just learned in his mouth.

I originally learned this for my future children, but I didn't expect to use it in advance at this time.

Listening to the cries gradually disappearing in her ears, the woman smiled, but the cradle song in her mouth did not stop.

Glancing at the large pothole at her feet, the pink-haired woman was a little confused, then hesitated. Finally, as if she had made some kind of determination, she tightened her hands holding the baby in her arms and turned around to face where she came from. direction.

Adopt a baby before your own child is born and hope your husband won't mind...right?

A troubled smile appeared on the pink-haired woman's face.

But she didn't notice that the surrounding land arched upward in the pothole behind her.

……

Several years later, there was a large village called Yae Village among the mountains.

A girl with shoulder-length pink hair... no, a young man was running in from outside the village wearing a cloth that made it easier to move around.

"Hey, Xiaoli!"

"Going out to look for cherry blossoms again today?"

"Running so fast, if the Lord God sees him, he will be scolded again~"

Hearing the friendly greetings of the villagers, the young man named Xiaoli smiled at them and responded: "Father, he is still sitting in the temple. How can he have time to come to the entrance of the village and squat with me?"

Then he stopped talking and ran quickly toward the center of the village, the Yae Shrine, carrying an empty small cloth bag on his waist.

The boy's full name is Yae Ri. Ever since he was picked up as an infant by the wife of the current Yae Shrine Lord, he has been raised as the heir of the shrine until now.

Everyone in the village knew about it, but they didn't say anything, at least not yet.

The main reason is Yaeri's long pink hair that is very similar to that of the shrine maidens of the past. Even though Yaeri is just an adopted son, the villagers who believe in the Fox God spontaneously believe that this is the god's will.

After all, long pink hair is rare in this era. The hair color characteristic that can only be seen in shrine maidens who have served the fox god for generations appears on an outsider, who is still a man.

There is definitely a reason!

Most people believe that this is the offspring of the Fox God for the Yae Shrine. Only a few people think that the existence of Yae Ri symbolizes impurity and is the enemy of the Fox God... Of course, such remarks were suppressed in the end.

Various rumors had also reached Yaeli's ears, which made him feel a little helpless, but that was all.

As a young man who has just turned fifteen, he is a bit too precocious. Not only does he lack the innocence of a child, but he has an adult-like mentality and abilities.

It is said that the Lord Yae was originally thinking of being more strict with his only son, but after seeing Yae Ri's unparalleled abilities in various aspects, he calmed down.

Although he is an adopted son, Lord Yae treats Yae Ri like his own son. After all, he was picked up by his wife when he was a child. After several years of getting along, there is still more or less affection for him.

Moreover, Yae Ri's long pink hair made him feel friendly. Both his mother and his wife had such beautiful long hair.

Unfortunately, they have all passed away.

They all died in the battle with monsters.

Also since the death of his wife, Lord Yae has changed in some places.

He became more serious and indifferent, not only towards Yaeli, his adopted son, but also towards his two biological daughters.

Yaeli didn't feel anything about this. Being a precocious man, he thought it was normal. After all, his wife died, so it would be nice if he could die in love without being sad.

But the other two little girls are different. They are not like the precocious Yaeli, but are as innocent and innocent as ordinary little girls, and they are younger than Yaeli.

Although they were able to withstand their father's drastic change of attitude to a certain extent, they also left some psychological shadows.

Not only did he feel a little afraid of the Yae God Lord as his father, but his personality also became a bit taciturn and he did not dare to talk to outsiders.

Ugh……

Yae Li sighed silently in his heart when he thought about this.

Fortunately, I was there to protect them, and often helped the two sisters talk back when they were scolded by Lord Yae. Otherwise, the childhood of those two little girls would have been more or less shrouded in darkness.