Without waiting for everyone to think much, the man whose face couldn’t be seen spoke to himself: "However, that’s not important. Since you can see , it ans you’re nearing the end, and it’s ti to hand this key to soone more suitable."
Gu Pingsheng, who hadn’t spoken, suddenly asked, "Have we t before?"
The man with the indistinct face was silent for a mont: "In your ti, yes."
"What do you an by in my ti?" Gu Pingsheng frowned, puzzled.
"In my ti, it’ll be a while before I et you."
He said the words "you."
Not only Gu Pingsheng heard it, but everyone else present heard it too.
What no one expected was that, although the mysterious person spoke like a madman, he was very candid—unexpectedly candid. He said whatever he could, answered whatever he could, without any concealnt.
But problems also followed.
"Since you haven’t t him in your ti, why do you know about this now?" Yu Wenxuan asked.
The mysterious man seed to smile: "Because I have stepped out of ti at this mont."
"Stepped out... of ti?"
Song Que murmured these words, feeling they were sowhat familiar.
"That’s right, I’m already dead," he said astonishingly, "so I can browse through all the mories in my life at will."
The five of them were accustod to dealing with abnormalities, but seeing soone truly dead standing before them still made their brains freeze for a mont.
They didn’t think the mysterious man was lying, firstly because there were no signs of deceit, and secondly, he had no reason to lie.
Considering the current situation where they were at his rcy, he had no reason to fabricate such an inexplicable lie to deceive them.
"I know you have many questions, my ti is short, but I can try to answer them. However, to let answer the following questions, you must agree to two conditions."
"First, you must choose one among you to take this key."
After saying that, he fell silent.
"What’s the second?" Gu Pingsheng asked.
He vaguely rembered who this person was.
This way of speaking, this tone—who else could it be but that person?
However... why did that person appear in the story "Sailing Under the Moon, People Die in Water"?
It’s impossible, he had clearly returned to Ye City, from that dark fracture...
"Agree to the first and then I’ll say the second."
The mysterious man continued.
"I agree to it." Gu Pingsheng had already guessed the man’s identity and agreed readily.
He knew that although he and this man might have chosen different paths, the endpoint might very well be the sa.
The other four glanced at Gu Pingsheng and didn’t deny anything.
After all, that crimson key was clearly a master key and might also be the reason this mysterious person could open this mysterious space and bring them here.
"Good, then I’ll tell you the second."
The mysterious man paused for a mont, seeming to once again gaze at everyone.
"You should know soone nad Bai Yanliang."
These words made everyone’s heart skip a beat.
Although he clearly jumped with Xu Zhifei into the reverse sea, Bai Yanliang didn’t appear here, and now there seed to be an answer.
"Soone released calamity, soone saw the future, soone stepped out of ti, soone hid among the people..."
He whispered as if chanting, the last few people almost indistinct.
"You must... kill him."
The mysterious man’s voice echoed in the not-so-spacious room:
"Kill him completely."
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"Knock, knock, knock—"
"Knock, knock, knock—"
Bai Yanliang’s eyelids were extrely heavy, but his body was relaxed. It had been years since he had slept so comfortably.
He heard soone knocking at the door, then entering.
Lazily opening his eyes, Bai Yanliang looked towards the door, first stunned, then slowly spoke.
"Brother..."
"It’s okay, you can eat sothing and then sleep so more." Bai Yanren placed the breakfast of soy milk and buns on the bedside table and smiled, "You talked a lot last night, seed tired, and even fell asleep at the grilled fish shop table."
"Did you carry ho?"
"Of course," Bai Yanren pointed to the room next door with his chin, "just be careful not to run into your younger self."
He smiled slyly.
Bai Yanliang tried to smile back and then looked around.
Yes...
This was definitely his ho, the mory too deep to erase.
However, more of the mory was filled with dismbered limbs and blood.
His brother died here.
Bai Yanren had already returned to the living room, seemingly organizing the desk and getting ready to work.
Bai Yanliang glanced at the still steaming soy milk and buns, then got up and walked to the window.
The scent drifting in from outside...
was of rot.
Looking at the sky, strips of black cracks were clearly visible in the blue sky, the deep black within the cracks resembling a vast starry sky, or an endless abyss.
On the street, workers with half-rotten faces walked and talked while clutching their bags.
The breakfast shop owner, with maggots crawling out of his eyes, skillfully made buns.
A child, with only half a head and a pulsating crimson brain, played on the street with a backpack...
The sun... was dark red.
Like blood about to coagulate.
Is this truly the real past world?
Bai Yanliang gazed up blankly.
"Yanliang!" His brother’s voice called from the living room, "What do you want to eat for lunch today?"
What do I want to eat...
Bai Yanliang walked step by step out of the room and into the living room.
Neck, arms, waist, abdon, chest, knees, ankles... everywhere were bloody horrifying scars, and Bai Yanren smiled at him.
At this mont, Yanren looked like a stitched-together body, long since dismbered...
"Brother..."
The next second, Bai Yanliang walked forward and hugged this terrifying corpse.
"Yanliang..."
Bai Yanren seed startled, but he soon cald down, hugged Bai Yanliang back, and asked, laughing, "What’s wrong? Did soone bully you in the future?"
"I don’t know..." Bai Yanliang, devoid of emotion, suddenly began to choke up, but his expression was fierce, as if he couldn’t make an expression, his eye sockets dry, as if he couldn’t shed tears at all.
"I seem to have... forgotten many things..."
"I don’t rember my younger self..."
"Nor do I rember the faces of mom and dad..."
"Don’t rember childhood friends..."
"Don’t rember neighbors’ nas..."
"I only rember..."
Bai Yanliang didn’t continue.
His voice was indeed choking, but no tears fell.
His clearest mory was of the night Bai Yanren died.
And... everything after that when he was admitted to the ntal hospital.
As for earlier mories, they seed covered with a veil, vaguely visible yet unreachable, unattainable...
Bai Yanliang hugged Bai Yanren; at this mont, the surrounding walls were already covered with cracks like those in the sky.
"It’s okay, as long as your brother is here, these things don’t matter..."
Bai Yanren, like a corpse stitched together, patted Bai Yanliang’s back, speaking gently: "Don’t worry, as long as your brother is here... no one can hurt you."
"But... what if I wake up?"
Having never shed a tear, Bai Yanliang suddenly burst into tears at this mont.
"..." Bai Yanren’s expression suddenly turned eerily silent.
"Brother... what if I wake up..." Bai Yanliang cried painfully, "If the one who wants to hurt is you... what should I do..."
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