Chapter 154 The Ouija Board (31) "Oh, I forgot, you..."
Su He thought she was talking nonsense.
The fire burning on Four Seasons Mountain is no ordinary fire; it's only more dangerous.
It's fine that he didn't enter the ceremony area. This weakling clearly wandered in by mistake, yet he's completely unharmed. Su He thinks he's just pretending to be weak to take advantage of others, with ulterior motives! Even if he isn't, she doesn't need to worry about him!
The spinning pillar of fire swept across, but Su He didn't even turn her head. She raised her hand to gather wind and managed to block it.
His eyes hardened, and he raised his hand to knock her unconscious and take her away. However, he didn't notice that although the pillar of fire was blocked, a leaf wrapped in the fire stuck to his back—the leaf had long since turned to ash, and it was a mouth!
With a swift movement, he bit down hard on Su He's flesh with his fangs and threw her away: "Get lost."
His words became a curse, the concrete incantation expanding and engulfing Su He and Xu Jinbai, whom he was carrying.
"You say no, but you still keep that person in your heart, don't you? At your age, being arrogant doesn't work anymore."
The leaf fluttered down and landed on her shoulder; it was half-burnt too, and she said with a grin.
When he opened his mouth, it was as if a hundred mouths had opened; the teasing words were just one of them, while the others were screaming and crying.
Imitate the bleating of the black goats in the fire.
It was hard to tell whether he found it fun or was also suffering from the heat.
The last part of the leaf slowly burned to ashes: "I can't accompany you on the road ahead for now. I can feel it. I'm sinking into the deepest part of the ritual, about to be melted away. But the separation won't be long, the ritual is almost over! It's strange, you and I were originally supposed to become an Eye of Observation, but I refused, and you wouldn't. I never expected that in the end it would still be you and me, and we would directly become the Eye of Observation. This can be considered fulfilling the old man's lost double pupil plan, hahaha!! My dear sister, in this world we are closest by blood, and also closest by hatred. We are the only family..."
"Okay, don't worry—" she laughed heartily, interrupting his rambling, and slapped the leaves to smash them, sending him one step ahead.
She was now alone in the cage of fire, and her smile slowly faded.
She ran again.
She was disheveled, but her eyes were calm, even cold, as if she were fighting to the death.
The farewell was sincere, and the good luck was also heartfelt, but she was indeed trying to comfort Su He.
She was fully aware of Su He's questions. After all, she was the Eye of Observation, albeit not the complete one, and the only one at that. Moreover, she was the one who initiated the ritual.
This is a dead end, and there's little that can be solved, including for the child.
The child was giving her directions, but not finding a way out; he was making a request.
That's why you looked so silent and heartbroken. Did you feel guilty for not helping her and even asking for her help in return?
That's not true at all. She's very smart.
He came from the future, she knew, and what she couldn't accomplish, he might be able to do, and was doing it.
Even setting aside emotions and looking at it purely from a utilitarian perspective, helping him is also helping yourself.
Besides, she was happy to be able to help him.
She knew what he was asking her for.
She gazed in the direction of the sun.
【Mommy——】
[This woman is so beautiful! No wonder she gave birth to Ah Tan's face!]
[Oh my god, thank goodness the young office worker shouted out, Mommy almost fell!]
[They even took a back road to come up here after the mountain was closed, just to see a meteor shower? I never knew this office worker had such a suicidal tendency in his younger days.]
[After all, they haven't been thoroughly beaten up by society yet, especially not by the society of Fuyuki City.]
This celestial phenomenon sounds like the sun god has appeared; it must be a solar eclipse.
However, it seems that no solar eclipse occurred in this particular timeline of the manga's main storyline.
[It's probably related to Mommy's ceremony; the post next door included a report from a previous series.]
[Waaaaah, Mom and Dad, please stop arguing! Waaaaah, is there really no solution? It's breaking my heart!]
[The eye contact between Ah-Tan and his mother is so heartbreaking! It seems like they're separated by time, but actually by life and death...]
Regardless of the path between life and death, no matter how many layers separate them [crying][crying]
[Wolf Dad's suspicions weren't wrong, were they? They went to watch the meteor shower as a group, but only the office worker brother entered the ceremony. And the timing and location were just right. He saw Mommy first, and called out at the crucial moment, unintentionally reminding her.]
[If it's such a coincidence, then it's not a coincidence. Just as Wolf Dad thought, the 'if' line for the corporate slave is still intact, which means that no matter what, Mommy will not let anything happen to the corporate slave.]
This is a collaboration between mother and daughter across time, perfecting cause and effect, all to make this time-traveling message possible!
That's very important!! Did Ah-Tan bring Mommy a way out?!
No... if that were really the case, Atan wouldn't be like this; he looks so listless.
The cat is about to break.
[Yes, Dao Shen is such a good artist. Even though A-Tan is greedily looking at Mommy, there's also a sense that he's actually afraid to look...]
[As expected, the mother cat knows her kittens best; that's exactly what Sixth Sister said.]
[Mommy, waaaaaah!]
So, why did Ah-Tan ask Mommy to go find the sun?
The sun at this time of day is like a devilish dog!
[Ah-Tan asked Mommy to wash away the Mirror God!]
[Wow, that makes sense!]
[Cult Leader: You're the one who told your mother to wash away the mirror?]
The thought that the cult leader wanted Ah Tan to wash away Lu Lu is hilarious.
Cult Leader: How could my nephew, who is of the same kind as me, be trapped by romantic love!
[If it weren't for being troubled by his feelings and wanting revenge for his mother, Ah Tan wouldn't have paid any attention to his uncle, hahaha, his uncle is so clueless.]
[Wow, Mommy washed away the Mirror Spirit back then because of Ah Tan's guidance. Now that the Mirror Spirit has reappeared, is it seeking revenge on Ah Tan?!]
But even the devilish dog has illicit romantic relationships; he's definitely not innocent.
I think Lezi Shen will only get interested; he's just genuinely excited.
The camera follows the running woman forward, and in the firelight, the white bones, slowly being burned through, move like a sacrificial dance.
The incantation was clearly visible to her.
But gradually, the fire actually got smaller.
No, it's just that the fog is getting thicker.
Tick-tock, tick-tock—
What was that sound?
The black mist engulfed the flames.
When she came to her senses, the mountain was shrouded in layers of mist, and the rumbling sound that seemed to threaten to topple the sky had subsided into silence.
An endless night enveloped her.
For a moment, she thought she had traveled through time and arrived in the chaos before the world was born.
Wait… she suddenly realized that time had really gone backwards, and what she heard was the sound of clock hands ticking!
What time is it now? It seems she's still on Four Seasons Mountain.
The fog gradually dissipated, revealing a path leading to the mountaintop, which she cautiously made her way up.
A young man sits on the edge of a cliff.
The cliff is steep and too high for any plants or trees to survive; all that remains are charred rocks, and one step forward leads to a bottomless abyss.
He was dressed in a simple black shirt and trousers, barefoot, his body shape graceful and powerful, like a lazy leopard.
The wind was much stronger at the mountaintop, lifting the ends of his hair, making them linger and ethereal, like swirling smoke.
Except for his skin, his entire body was black, like a physical entity formed from those terrifying mists.
However, when he turned around and smiled, she was startled to realize that he had an unusually bright pair of eyes.
It shines brightly in the darkness, like gold being refined.
No, even gold is insufficient to describe this purity.
This is the firelight of the sun.
She was like someone who had stumbled into the deepest part of the forest, the territory of a wild beast, oblivious and unaware, bumping into the beast's claws in the darkness. Then the sleeping lion slowly opened his eyes, and as his gaze fell downward, she was completely captivated by those eyes, afraid to make the slightest movement, so much so that she didn't even dare to look at him... His face.
Everything was twisted and tangled in the darkness, except for His eyes.
"Oh, it's you."
Countless sounds rang out simultaneously, exploding in her ears.
It wasn't just the timbre; the intonation, pauses, and emotions were all different. Some were spoken by men, some by women; some were melodious, some were hoarse; some were laughing, some were crying; some were shouting, some were murmuring, as if the entire city's residents were reciting this sentence with their very souls.
This is far more terrifying than her cheap brother's mouth...
Smoke mirror.
Black Sun.
That one and only god.
"The fireworks were beautiful."
The cacophony of voices rose again, this time with more joyful sounds, especially the voices of many children, who were excitedly exclaiming as if they had received a fun toy.
Fireworks? What fireworks?
Seemingly sensing her doubt, the largest area behind Him, within her field of vision, instantly ignited with black mist, turning into a vast expanse of fire.
She took a step back in surprise. The fire was right in front of her in an instant, but when she touched it, it still felt like mist, though it was hot.
She suddenly realized that this was the burning Four Seasons Mountain!
Like a scene reflected in the black mist, it was even clearer than what she had seen with her own eyes before. The fire images had been revealed layer by layer, and as she continued to delve deeper into them, she could see everything clearly.
Every inch of land, every inch of fire, fleeing creatures, the wailing across the fields—even the broken glass of a window in the Summer Garden could be clearly seen shattered into thousands upon thousands of pieces, each one heading in a different direction.
Every detail of the entire Four Seasons Mountain was shrouded in mist, all of it crammed into her eyes at once.
And the person sitting in the fog is laughing.
Joyful, pure, laughing for a beautiful fire.
Therefore, it appeared extremely terrifying and utterly evil.
She suddenly closed her eyes and pressed her head against the ground.
"Oh, I forgot, your eye..."
His cacophony rang out again, reaching her ears, which were somewhat dazed, like the sound of a static screen flashing wildly.
She finally managed to distinguish from the "buzzing...buzzing..." sounds that were saying the same thing, even though they were completely different.
Eye?
Oh, by the way, the so-called "eye of observation" in the prophecy is the eye gouged out from the black sun.
A thought flashed through her mind, startling her instantly.
If that's the case, then the Eye of Observation must be a part of the Black Sun that has become sentient and escaped... The rest of the Black Sun probably doesn't have that ability, right?
This deity had just given her a free live stream of the burning Four Seasons Mountain, but now they were on Four Seasons Mountain, and apart from the thick fog, there was nothing else on the mountain.
Even... the new stadium at Shengxia Garden hasn't been built yet.
This is the past timeline.
Yes, the ritual to forge the Eye of Observation involves the hands of a clock. With the sun's fire raging across the mountains and fields, it's hard to say where the hands might align, otherwise they won't start moving.
At this time, the sun had not yet lost its eyes.
When was that?
She thought of those "what if" scenarios, the eternally shattered black sun on the horizon—was that the moment the sun was smashed? Did the Eye of Observation fall from it?
These thoughts flashed by in an instant, and before she could think any further, not just that patch of fog, but all the fog itself transformed into all sorts of different scenes.
With her flawed eye of observation, she saw the world seen through the smoky mirror.
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