Zhou Bai then saw a loving father-daughter interaction and, after eating breakfast made by his mother, left the house together.
Lin Muqing pondered, "Zhou Bai, follow these two, Jiang Dong and Jiang i, and see what happens to them. I’ll stay here and keep observing Gao Qing. If anything unexpected happens, co and inform right away. If nothing out of the ordinary happens after half an hour, co and find ."
Zhou Bai nodded and followed them. However, a few dozen ters from the door, he saw the two suddenly vanish before his eyes.
"What happened?" Zhou Bai was slightly startled and imdiately rushed to the spot where they disappeared. His Primordial Spirit forcefully expanded, inch by inch, inspecting the surroundings for any potential clues.
He even swept through the ten-ter radius around him and other people’s rooms with his Primordial Spirit.
Despite Zhou Bai’s thorough inspection, he still found nothing—no traces of Dao arts, no unusual spiritual chanisms, no hidden doors or chanisms, not even a single hair or flake of skin from Jiang Dong or Jiang i.
Their disappearance was so abrupt and clean, as if they had never existed in this world.
Zhou Bai frowned and rushed back to the house only to see Gao Qing still cooking with her back to him, while Lin Muqing, who had previously been observing, had now also vanished.
"Gone? A fifth realm expert just vanished?" Zhou Bai was shocked, glanced at his watch, and realized it had been about four minutes since he and Lin Muqing had separated.
"My ti reversal now has twenty minutes. That ans, at most in sixteen minutes—just to be safe, fifteen minutes later—I should activate ti reversal to retrieve the missing Lin Muqing and avoid a scenario where he might have been hard."
After considering, Zhou Bai input his Primordial Spirit energy into his watch, and following Xia Li’s instructions, set a tir alarm to go off after fifteen minutes, reminding him to reverse ti and find Lin Muqing before he disappeared.
Just then, a creak sounded as the bedroom door opened, and Jiang Dong and Jiang i walked out from the room again and sat down at the dining table.
Zhou Bai’s heart sank, ’Again? Is it going to keep repeating the past?’
While Zhou Bai pondered, the father and daughter quickly finished their al and once again left the house together.
This ti, Zhou Bai did not follow them but instead cautiously hid behind a wall, listening carefully to the room, particularly to what the woman in the kitchen was doing.
The sound of running water rustled, and it seed like she was washing her hands; then the next mont, the tap turned off, and the room went completely quiet.
’No sound at all, what is she doing?’ Zhou Bai furrowed his brows, waited a while, and finally couldn’t help but poke his head out to look towards the kitchen.
To his shock, the kitchen was utterly empty; the previously cooking Gao Qing had vanished.
’Gone again.’
The room seed to emanate a hint of eeriness everywhere.
Suddenly, Zhou Bai felt a chill at his back, as if soone’s gaze was upon him, a shade sinister.
He swiftly turned around, his pupils dilating, and unavoidably drew out his Chengying Sword.
Behind him, astonishingly stood another Zhou Bai and Lin Muqing, both looking towards the kitchen as if observing sothing.
Zhou Bai instantly realized, "This is... us, from before? Is this house constantly repeating past events?"
He watched the Zhou Bai and Lin Muqing before him and observed that they seed completely unaware of him. Then that Zhou Bai left the room, evidently chasing after soone just like he had before.
Therefore, Zhou Bai focused intently on the remaining Lin Muqing, wanting to see exactly how she disappeared.
He then watched as Lin Muqing ascended the stairs, her footsteps damping away until she vanished.
Zhou Bai pondered for a mont, about to follow, but he stopped, scanning everything around him with his Primordial Spirit, while following Lin Muqing upstairs.
"After going upstairs, he disappeared? Right, that must not have been the real Lin Muqing, but a vision from the past, yet it proves that the real Lin Muqing did go upstairs."
Suddenly, Zhou Bai’s eyes sharpened, turning towards the dining table.
On the dining table, lines of characters kept erging as if soone was writing on it.
"Why does ii want to cultivate?"
"I can’t let her cultivate."
"I need to protect her, keep her at ho forever."
The writings seed to have been written by Jiang Dong. Zhou Bai read a few sentences, only to see the graffiti disappear, and he frowned slightly, "Gone again? Are these writings on the table also visions from the past?"
Just then, another discovery ca through his Primordial Spirit. Zhou Bai entered the bathroom and found red words appearing on the mirror, as if an invisible person was writing with lipstick.
"ii talked to about cultivation again."
"She wants to leave ! Just like a wife."
"Her personality is really not suited for cultivation."
"ii is too gentle."
"There will definitely be trouble..."
"There will definitely be %...&*"
The remaining words were all nonsensical, and Zhou Bai found them incomprehensible after reading through them.
"It looks like a ssage left by Jiang Dong, as if he had gone mad." Zhou Bai couldn’t help but suspect, "Could it be that Jiang Dong has beco distorted?"
Zhou Bai shook his head, "My naked eye can see the energy of divination symbols. Maybe I should search one by one. As long as I can find the divination symbols, everything will be easily solved."
He then went to his father’s room, which was clean and tidy as if it was well maintained daily.
Zhou Bai shuffled through the bookshelf and the desk, finding nothing unusual, but he frowned slightly when he saw a few design plans on the desk.
Just as Dr. Zhuang said, the current human society, almost everyone has abandoned the study of various physical and chemical sciences.
Although many technologies were regressing, so basics were still being used, or aided by the use of Arrays.
For instance, the hydroelectric system of Dao School was increasingly relying on Arrays due to the constant technological decline.
Zhou Bai had seen many of such instances recently at the sewage treatnt plant.
But the items appearing in the design plans at the mont left Zhou Bai slightly puzzled, it really did not match the style of other constructions in Donghua City: "It feels quite high-tech."
Just as Zhou Bai was about to continue searching, there suddenly ca a thud from upstairs, followed by a woman’s scream.
"That voice... sounds a bit like Lin Muqing?" With a focused look, Zhou Bai held the Chengying Sword and rushed straight to the attic.
There he saw Lin Muqing kneeling on the ground, staring blankly ahead with lifeless eyes, as if struck by a profound ntal blow.
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