Gu Pingsheng watched the heavy rain outside, but what echoed in his mind was Bai Yanren’s advice from back then...
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"There aren’t many people I trust, Ping Sheng, you’re one of them." Bai Yanren said with a smile.
"Go ahead, what do you want to do this ti?" Gu Pingsheng said sowhat helplessly, though he had long been accustod to agreeing to the other’s requests. After all, after so many life and death experiences together, he couldn’t tell if he had saved Bai Yanren more or if Bai Yanren had saved him more.
"From now on, follow Dr. Zhou Tian," Bai Yanren said, uncharacteristically serious, "he has issues."
"You’re the one with issues," Gu Pingsheng said more speechlessly, "look at you, you’re the most different one, and even now I don’t know why Fog Gathering always picks you."
"Haha, do you want to know?" Bai Yanren suddenly asked.
"Would you tell ?" Gu Pingsheng didn’t believe Bai Yanren would say, because he thought Bai Yanren himself didn’t know why either.
"If you want to know, I’ll tell you." Bai Yanren said mysteriously.
"You..." Seeing Bai Yanren actually seed ready to tell him so secrets, Gu Pingsheng suddenly hesitated, "You better not tell , I’ll promise you, I’ll keep a close eye on Zhou Tian from now on."
"No, it’s not about keeping an eye on him, but joining him, no matter what Dr. Zhou Tian does, you need to join him." Bai Yanren emphasized.
"Why? Do you think Zhou Tian would need ? I don’t have the confidence to fully join his ’enterprise.’
"It’s alright... I’ll help you." As soon as Bai Yanren finished saying this, he suddenly leaned close to Gu Pingsheng’s ear.
"Hey, Ping Sheng, let tell you, actually... I’m a living person."
Gu Pingsheng’s heart skipped a beat, he looked at Bai Yanren seriously, and suddenly laughed, "Stop joking, all of us entered Fog Gathering after experiencing death, so, although we feel fear towards various ghosts, if we really think about it, we should thank Fog Gathering for keeping us alive, it’s what has given us the chance to continue living."
"But, I’m telling the truth, you can sense it, right? I’m not joking..." Bai Yanren continued.
"I really didn’t enter Fog Gathering after dying, I walked in through the door."
"Through the door?" Gu Pingsheng was confused.
Bai Yanren was silent for a mont, then as if he suddenly thought of sothing, he glanced at Gu Pingsheng and said, "Ping Sheng, ten years from now, you will also have the opportunity to enter Fog Gathering through a door, if this really happens, then... my hypothesis might co true."
"What hypothesis?"
Gu Pingsheng pressed on.
"Aside from each ti’s blood letter, I suspect the Fog Gathering itself is an exceedingly covert long-term mission."
"If ten years later, everyone enters Fog Gathering through a door, then I’ve guessed right."
Bai Yanren, saying this, looked seriously into Gu Pingsheng’s eyes, "Ping Sheng, in strict terms, you can’t enter the Fog Gathering ten years from now, but I’m really not sure, I’ll figure out a way to get you in, along with so other elders who will enter the Fog Gathering ten years from now, just pretend not to know each other."
"And then, besides keeping a close eye on Dr. Zhou Tian, and verifying whether I can enter Fog Gathering through a door ten years later, what exactly do you want to do?" Gu Pingsheng asked.
He was very clear that Bai Yanren, to date, had only requested the observation of certain phenona, not yet reached the stage of a specific next step, Gu Pingsheng didn’t fully believe Bai Yanren had no further plans.
"Hehe... regarding Dr. Zhou Tian, as long as you receive the news that I’ve returned, you can ignore him, because my return signifies his failure." Saying this, Bai Yanren muttered a laugh, "No matter if the one who returns is still ."
Gu Pingsheng’s eyelid twitched.
"As for observing whether it turns into entering the Fog Gathering through a door, as long as this matter is confird, it proves that I have succeeded, I have advanced a stage of the long-term mission of Fog Gathering itself, pushing it to the next stage... or rather, Fog Gathering itself should have two stages."
"It is a presence woven between the material world and the world of consciousness..."
Upon hearing this, Gu Pingsheng imdiately thought of what Bai Yanren ntioned earlier, about him being a living person entering Fog Gathering.
Now hearing him mutter softly again, that Fog Gathering is an entwining of the material world and the world of consciousness, that Fog Gathering itself should have two stages... It was hard for Gu Pingsheng not to have so conjectures.
For instance... the previous stage is the rule when Fog Gathering is dominated by the Fog Realm.
And the latter stage... is the rule when Fog Gathering is dominated by the Mortal World.
Gu Pingsheng’s serious expression was entirely seen by Bai Yanren.
Those so-called "mutterings," of course, were intentionally spoken for Gu Pingsheng to hear.
He indeed wasn’t lying.
Fog Gathering... or rather, this batch of them inside Fog Gathering, had already gone through the cycle seven tis.
After every "clearing" of Fog Gathering, ti and mory seed to reset, except for a key they got upon clearance, nothing changed.
What’s more troubling is, except for him, no one else even rembers they have cleared Fog Gathering many tis.
Bai Yanren was lonely.
In the nurous investigations, he had learned most of the circumstances.
And confird that apart from himself, only a doctor nad Zhou Tian retained all past mories.
But... it was futile.
He and Zhou Tian, were trapped in a closed, dead-looped space-ti.
Even if they cleared Fog Gathering, they couldn’t break the loop, so-called escape only led to another cycle restart.
This had happened seven tis already.
And soon, it would be the eighth.
This ti, it was also the final attempt Bai Yanren was about to make.
He had been trying since the third ti, but never succeeded. This world... seed real and vivid, but actually, it was rely a "dead" space; even the companions he was familiar with, had long been gone.
And the attempt he was going to make was the last thod he and Zhou Tian ca up with after discussion.
"This world’s ti won’t flow forward, only circumvents and loops back again." Zhou Tian looked at the unchanging starry sky, "I’m certain that this is a world ford by the Origin power of the Fog Realm, whereas you, as the only living person in this world, in this ga, obstruct the ga from continuing, aning, if this world becos completely ’dead,’ and everyone is a ’dead’ person, clearing one more ti at this juncture, Fog Gathering will naturally advance to the next stage."
"However, I won’t let you truly die; over the ti, I’ve thought of many ways, and finally found a gap in space-ti," Zhou Tian’s gaze returned from the starry sky to Bai Yanren, "hide into that gap in space-ti, creating the illusion of your death, but... you must evade the inspection from the Fog Realm and Fog Gathering, and the space-ti for you to hide won’t be pleasant either."
"How long do I need to hide?" Bai Yanren asked.
"About... ten years."
Answered Zhou Tian.
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