Xiang Beifei remembered Kong Daming and Chen Xiuqin, but it was only today that he had actually met these two in this world and witnessed their systems.
He had been browsing through Kong Daming's system, and given enough time, Xiang Beifei could even flip back to the day when the system first awakened.
In recent years, Kong Daming's system tasks were almost all related to ingredients. His system points were related to feedback from diners; creating an excellent dish or killing a desolate beast could also earn him system points.
He continued flipping and then came across several task logs:
[July 16, 3026, with the assistance of Xiang Tianxing, you killed the desolate beast Dang Kang. You obtained Dang Kang meat, gluttony value +2369]
[July 16, 3026, you abandoned the mission in the Northern District of the Essential Domain]
...
[July 29, 3026, you spent 1600 gluttony points to purchase a Heaven-Sniffing Hound Beast Pill]
[August 2, 3026, the Heaven-Sniffing Hound Beast Pill expired, Xiang Tianxing not found]
...
[August 2, 3026, you spent 1600 gluttony points to purchase a Heaven-Sniffing Hound Beast Pill]
[August 6, 3026, the Heaven-Sniffing Hound Beast Pill expired, Xiang Tianxing not found]
...
Xiang Beifei was somewhat surprised.
3026, that was four years ago, and also the time when his parents disappeared.
He continued to scroll through Kong Daming's task logs, and for over a month, Kong Daming kept spending various gluttony values, totaling roughly 20,000, to purchase Heaven-Sniffing Hound Beast Pills, but always failing to find Xiang Tianxing.
"Northern District of the Essential Domain?"
Xiang Beifei pondered.
In high school's comprehensive system subject, he had already basically learned about the structure of this world.
If the domain outside the wilderness was likened to a vast and boundless ocean, the area where humans resided was like an isolated island in the ocean.
To determine the danger level of the wilderness outside the domain, humans divided the wilderness into five areas, called "Five Domains."
The scene of that teenager four years ago, locking himself in his room and weeping under the covers, was still vivid in his mind.
After his parents' disappearance, that fourteen-year-old boy stood by the bedroom window every day, watching the path home.
Watching people come and go, watching parents hold their children's hands, watching the smiles on their faces, watching the parents' laughter playing with their children...
The teenager silently observed all of this, envying, resenting, being jealous, yearning... and then continued to watch the end of that path.
How many times he thought he saw those familiar two people returning hand in hand, hope flaring in his heart.
But as many times hope was born, disappointment returned just as many times.
The teenager's parents often came home at night, so he slept during the day in class, and then stood by the bedroom window every night to keep watch.
Standing there, guarding the road of return, until midnight, until dawn.
He kept watch for four years.
Then one day, when taking the comprehensive examination in the examination hall, the teenager saw questions about pioneers and the Wild Domain, read about the SR system, the emotions suppressed for four years suddenly made him break down, he lay down and never woke up again—
The one who woke up was Xiang Beifei, who had transmigrated.
"You really want to find them, don't you?" Xiang Beifei silently asked himself.
The teenager who had been watching might no longer be able to hear him speak—or perhaps he had already become that watching teenager.
Xiang Beifei didn't know.
All he knew was that he needed to do something.
A strange feeling.
Even though he had no real interaction, there were countless ties that bound them.
If only Xiang Tianxing and his wife had made the right choice just once, remembered they had an underage child at home, remembered there was an elderly father waiting for them, chosen to return home, to retreat from their adventures like Kong Daming and his wife did, to go back and take care of their own child and the aging father...
Just one right choice.
Perhaps there would not be the current transmigrated Xiang Beifei.
"If I have the ability in the future, I should investigate this matter," Xiang Beifei thought.
Since he had become that watching teenager, he needed to fulfill some wishes.