Chapter 172 "Will we spend Christmas together?"

After having an idea, Jiang Lai's action plan became much clearer.

He did not rush to the Tokyo Jutsu High School, but planned to connect with Ryomen Sukuna's living domain at night to learn more information, and then contact the people from the high school in the Fork Road Tower.

Based on the landmarks, Jiang Lai recognized that the mall he was in was one in the central area of ​​Tokyo. He turned out of the evacuated area and glanced around casually.

The doors of most shops are inlaid with iris logos, and the irises on the tops of high-rise buildings in the distance are particularly eye-catching.

Jiang Lai scanned the area and keenly sensed that the regulatory committee in the Forked Road Tower world seemed to have occupied more resources.

Gojo Satoru is having a really hard time here... Jiang Lai can now understand why Gojo Satoru had that attitude towards her before.

In this world full of lies and absurdities, trust is an extremely precious and scarce thing. Gojo Satoru will not entrust it easily.

Jiang Lai walked out of the shopping mall after the chaos and blended quietly into the crowd.

The ability to connect given to me by my patriarch [Yuan] needs to be connected through dreams. Although the Tower of Forked Roads itself is a dream, dreams within dreams are also possible.

Now Ryoumen Sukuna is in Yuji Itadori's body, which is equivalent to being asleep in the realm of life. Therefore, now Jiang Lai only needs to fall asleep and connect with the other party at the same time.

This fork in the road tower has no information of its own, and Jiang Lai did not spend extra time using hacking techniques to forge evidence.

He simply went to the woods not far from the Tokyo Jujutsu High School, picked a large tree with lush branches and leaves, and used the space ritual to weave a hammock.

Let's take a nap here, Jiang Lai thought. Just like thousands of years ago, sleeping in nature is very comfortable.

Anyway, he has the space technique, so he doesn't have to worry about beasts and mosquitoes and can fall asleep easily.

The overlapping green leaves blocked the sunlight, and the silhouette swayed on the cheeks. Jiang Lai closed his eyes, calmed his breathing and heartbeat, and slowly fell into a light sleep.

…

The dripping sound echoed in his ears, Jiang Lai opened his eyes, and saw a vast sea of ​​blood. The eerie floating cow bones rose and fell in the sea of ​​blood.

A familiar pink-haired man sat on the top of Niugu Mountain in the distance. He propped his head with one hand, looking lazy. Glancing at the uninvited guest in the realm of life, he narrowed his eyes slightly, tutted his tongue, and said:

"Why are you here again?"

Uh, [again]? Jiang Lai was startled, realizing that things were not simple.

"Have we met before?" Jiang Lai blurted out subconsciously.

Ryoumen Sukuna on the top of Niugu Mountain looked surprised. He snorted and laughed, "Are you playing this kind of game of not being able to remember people again? The last time you behaved, I believed that you really had amnesia and didn't remember what happened a thousand years ago. But you can't forget the meeting not long ago."

This string of words made Jiang Lai's heart skip a beat. His thoughts raced, and he reacted quickly.

The Ryomen Sukuna that is linked to you is the real Ryomen Sukuna!

In reality, Ryoumen Sukuna still has the impression that Jiang Lai has lost his memory. Because Jiang Lai, who entered the realm of life at that time, pretended to have lost his memory in front of Ryoumen Sukuna and Yuji Itadori for the sake of concealment.

At that time, Ryoumen Sukuna also provoked the relationship between Yuji and Jiang Lai. In the end, Yuji made a straightforward statement, which made Sukuna very unhappy and cut him out of the area.

Before leaving for the last time, Jiang Lai used the excuse of checking in 10,000 steps for health reasons to look for traces of fragments in the living space of Ryomen Sukuna.

——But it was not found. Jiang Lai guessed that Sukuna had placed it in a more hidden place.

At this moment, facing the two realities that were accidentally linked to Sukuna, Jiang Lai fell into a brief silence.

...How could this be! Could it be that everything in the Forked Path Tower is an illusion, and the power of [Source] only targets real family members?

Jiang Lai didn't want to look for Ryoumen Sukuna in the real world at this time. What he wanted to obtain now was the information in the Tower of Fork in the Road.

The two Sukuna on Niugushan in front of him were in a casual posture. They looked too lazy to come down and fight with Jiang Lai. They glanced at Jiang Lai on the ground with their scarlet eyes and said casually:

"Why, you guys, what are you doing here again?"

Jiang Lai couldn't just say that he had linked the wrong thing, that would be too embarrassing. And last time he answered that he didn't know, so it wasn't impossible for him to continue to pretend to be indifferent.

So, he said calmly, "I don't know. But since I'm here, I might as well sit for a while."

Jiang Lai used space magic to scoop out a few cow bones from the sea of ​​blood to build a simple chair, then covered it with a thin layer of spell code. He then sat down to rest with a simple flick of his sleeves.

Ryoumen Sukuna looked at the black-haired young man's relaxed demeanor, and raised the corners of his lips slightly, revealing his canine teeth: "Are you so familiar? How can you be so rude in someone else's territory?"

Familiar, why this adjective again? Jiang Lai's mind paused after being struck by this word again. He raised his eyes:

"You said this is your territory, so it is your territory? How do you prove that your territory is your territory? How do you prove that you are you?" Jiang Lai spat out a series of questions, and responded quickly with sharp teeth, "——You are talking to me for no apparent reason, and you sound so familiar."

Ryoumen Sukuna's expression darkened. He was not a person with a good temper. His sharp black and purple nails instantly slashed through the air, and a huge wave of blood suddenly rose in front of him!

Jiang Lai had already sensed the fluctuations of cursed energy in the air. He flicked his sleeves to create a space wall to block the rushing blood, the extremely hard cow bones, and the more hostile cursed blade.

Ryomen Sukuna jumped down from Oxbone Mountain.

Jiang Lai stood still, pulling up his sleeves and smoothing the corners of his clothes, but suddenly changed the subject: "Although I have no impression of you, perhaps we have a common enemy."

This sudden change of topic made Ryoumen Sukuna stop attacking and raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

"It's just some discoveries during exploration." Jiang Lai said, "We will meet again - and then we will discuss this topic in detail."

After saying this lightly, Jiang Lai awakened his consciousness and left Sukuna's living area in an instant.

It's not that he deliberately made people feel confused, but he is still dealing with Wu's affairs now, and has not yet figured out how to cooperate with Ryomen Sukuna, so he just made a preview, left a suspense and then left.

But Ryoumen Sukuna would probably be very upset. As the King of Curses, he has always been able to control others with ease, and he has never been tricked like this before.

Anger will not disappear, it will only accumulate. Jiang Lai silently sent a wooden fish emoticon in his heart.

It doesn't matter, he and Ryomen Sukuna have always been bad friends.

At this moment, Jiang Lai withdrew from the domain and returned to the world of the Tower of Forked Roads.

Unable to obtain intelligence through the connection ability, Jiang Lai can only choose another option - reading comics.

I don’t know if it has been updated now. Logically, the official should have more information.

Thinking of this, Jiang Lai turned on his mobile phone and visited the official website of the comic.

What made him quite happy was that there was indeed an official update, which was released just ten minutes ago, at the perfect time.

Jiang Lai clicked directly on the latest update.

Most of the content was similar to what Jiang Lai had experienced, so Jiang Lai flipped through this part of the story very quickly. He was looking for content from a God's perspective.

After the separation at the dessert shop, the comic shot depicts Jiang Lai's back as he leaves the commercial street, and then in the next frame he suddenly turns and returns to Gojo Satoru.

Somewhat surprisingly, the teleported Gojo Satoru did not go far away. He stood on the rooftop of the tallest shopping mall building, looking down from above.

The comic depicts Gojo Satoru's perspective. Looking down from such a high distance, everything below seems so humble and tiny, as if he could destroy it all with a wave of his hand.

The wind from high in the sky blew up Gojo Satoru's white hair. He had no expression on his face and just stood at the edge of the rooftop.

At this moment, a voice came from behind him.

"……teacher."

The black-haired boy with a sword bag on his back and wearing a technical secondary school uniform stood there with dark circles under his eyes. He called out softly.

——It’s Yuta Otsutsuka from the world of Forked Path Tower!

Jiang Lai recognized him. In this world where Gojo Satoru became a curser, Otsutsuki was not away, but returned to Japan.

In the comic, Gojo Satoru did not turn around. He still faced forward and said, "Did Rotten Orange send you here?"

"No." Otsutsuki shook his head. "I read the news and guessed that the teacher would be here, so I came to see you."

"Oh, why are you still calling me teacher, Yuta? If you call a curser like that, you'll get in trouble~"

Gojo Satoru spoke in a cheerful voice, as if he was smiling, but from the picture it could be seen that his expression did not change at all.

"A teacher is a teacher." Otsukotsuki Yuta was quite insistent on some points. He said, "You taught me, saved my life, and helped me to remove the curse with Uta-I will always regard you as a teacher. Maki and the others think so too."

“Even if something happened later, and the teacher did something we couldn’t understand, but... you are still our teacher.”

Gojo Satoru was silent for a second, then said half-jokingly, "It sounds like I'm actually quite popular? This is really unexpected. Even back then, the cute students didn't give me any Christmas presents~"

"We have been prepared for this...but the teacher never spends Christmas with us."

"Haha, I don't know why, but on Christmas Day, I just wanted to be alone~"

Otsukoshi paused for a moment and said, "Gojo-sensei, will you celebrate Christmas with us this year? There will be new first-year students, and it will be more lively."

The real hidden message behind this invitation is that Gojo Satoru wants to return to the high school.

At this time, Gojo Satoru finally raised the corners of his lips slightly. He half turned his head and said something that was not what the other party wanted: "No, Yuta."

He said quietly, "I have chosen another path, and there is no other way. I must create an end."

Okkotsu Yuta was silent, and the dialogue box given in the comic was a string of ellipsis.

Gojo Satoru turned sideways, a black eye patch covering his eyes, but the comic seemed to show the direction he was looking at far away.

As if chatting with a former student, he casually mentioned: "Oh, I also met a strange paranoid patient today. From what he said, it seems that I don't have only one way... It sounds quite interesting."