Chapter 168 The Fifth Day After the God's Departure (5) [A-Tan Knows Everything...]
The ominous premonition came true, and the confrontation between the cult leader and Su He brought the bloody truth to the forefront.
[Wait, wait, wait, what are they saying? I don't understand.]
[Holy crap! No wonder the cult leader was so understanding and helped Mommy throw Wolf Daddy out!]
I thought he was afraid Mommy would get distracted and ruin their plans, but it turns out he did it on purpose!
[The cult leader dared to ask Ah Tan about the Ouija board, he's selectively lying with the truth! I hate you, you underworld uncle!]
[The wolf dad is the "knife," which is probably what Lulu meant when she said her mom lacked something.]
[The fact that a word was missing from the prophecy actually concealed another word; who would have thought...?]
[The "group of mouths" has become a complete smokescreen! What a cunning cult leader!]
So, Wolf Dad wasn't actually observing Twelve; he just escaped this timeline. His nephew was brainwashed by the family head and took his place, but because he was a defective replacement, he wasn't human. The real blade should be Wolf Dad in this state... his heart as a blade, damn, combined with Aztec mythology, what hell!
That makes sense. The reason Wolf Dad could understand the truth behind the ritual and even grasp the sun's fire is because he was also part of the Eye of Observation.
【？？？】
【!! And here comes the even more shocking part: champagne was popped at the halfway point, just as expected!!】
[Damn it, I knew that red paper looked familiar. Someone next door said it looked like the wedding paper that Wolf Dad used, but I didn't believe it! I hate it!]
Orbit determination is actually used here!
[That old bastard is too cunning. The cult leader is truly an evolved version of the patriarch; both of them are more ruthless than the other.]
[Ahhh, no! Ah Tan, someone help me! Someone help me!]
[It's hopeless, waaaaaah! The furnace lid is already on, which means it's done! Ahhh!]
[A-Tan's cyberpunk memorial post has been pushed to the top, I can't take it anymore]
Everyone's gone mad.
[OMG, does anyone remember that the Ouija board said the mastermind was "S", the two observers were "S", and "Su" was also "S"...]
[Ah Tan was fooled by this answer, oh my god!]
So Ah Tan went up the mountain! Was he lured by the ritual?
What's in this fog? Why was Atan lured away? Atan definitely wouldn't leave so easily.
Xie Tan stared blankly at the comics and the forum discussions.
That red paper… So that’s how it is. He had said that the patriarch’s death was a bit too easy.
But was the appearance of that fog luring him up the mountain?
He did indeed sense something familiar on the mountaintop, which prompted him to investigate.
This chapter of the manga ends, and the next chapter returns to his and the girl's story, like a flashback to their deaths.
And what attracted him to the mountain is already quite clear.
After the girl said, "You seem to know everything," the boy seemed to smile faintly, but it was more illusory than a mirage in the mountains and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
It is both creation and destruction; he found the former, the place where the Smoke Mirror originally stood, the origin of all stories.
No wonder Atan was tricked into going up the mountain; is this the root of the problem?
So Ah-Tan came to see Lu-Lu's shell.
[Lu Lu hasn't been born yet, but the black mist still managed to snatch A Tan away in an instant, haha, loving A Tan is purely instinctive]
[This feels like hell for us young couple. The little girl didn't say anything at first, but then Atan came in. He probably didn't know that the Smoke Mirror was on the mountaintop... He sensed Lu Lu's presence, so he came up to check it out.]
[So the ritual used Lu Lu to trick A Tan into heading towards death... Ahhhhhh, I killed the patriarch, I killed the cult leader, I hate it!!]
【No, is there no way to turn things around? qaq waaaaah】
[It's definitely true! Haven't you noticed that A-Tan's observational abilities are getting stronger? Those monsters can sense him now; he's becoming "complete"—he's being refined!]
The comic depicts the scene Xie Tan sees in the mirror.
The boy quietly observed the girl's various unusual behaviors and her plans.
At first, she thought he was a monster, then she thought he was a human, and later she thought he was still a monster, but by then, it didn't matter what he was anymore.
From the moment they reached the summit, her objective was to silence them.
She needed that mirror, so when Xie Tan suggested going to the mountaintop, she treated him as a hunter who was also searching for treasure.
Xie Tan, who was watching all this in the mirror, showed no extra emotion on his face, as if he had known all along and didn't care.
He just watched, as if waiting for something.
[The Jiang family? Is the girl Director Jiang's childhood daughter? What a toxic family! Director Jiang was extraordinary even at such a young age.]
But she probably didn't expect that Ah Tan wasn't eaten by the spider, but instead was hidden and stuck to the mirror.
[With Ah Tan's brain, he couldn't possibly be still unaware of this, right? How can he be so calm? Does he have some kind of backup plan?]
What is Ah Tan waiting for?
Waiting for the head of the household.
The boy in the comic caught a glimpse of the Black Goat and his group, and all the fog closed up, revealing a mirror in front of him. He then jumped into that time.
He watched Su Huang's every move clearly, watching Su Huang approach.
[I want you dead.]
He finished whispering in a voice only he could hear, and then reached for Su Huang's hand.
Su Huang was terrified and stared sharply into the mirror. He saw black mist swirling and swirling, and as it was swallowed up, it seemed to be a human figure, coldly watching him.
God... there is a God in the mirror!
[Holy crap, we caught them!]
[Is this all Ah Tan did?]
[Right? Director Jiang said Ah Tan seems to know everything! Ah Tan wasn't tricked into coming here; he's been walking through fire all along, just waiting for this moment!]
What's the use of this?
[Holy crap, there's no god in the smoke mirror at this point! The Black Goat wanted to use the mirror's power to control the entire Fiddle Hill, but Ah Tan's grab caused the head of the family to misunderstand that there was a god in the mirror, making him wary and delaying the process for a long time. It wasn't until the Black Goat was certain the mirror was empty that Mommy forced Lu Lu to be born. Ah Tan was closing the causal timeline!]
So, Ah-Tan seeing those scenes was also to clear away the fog and guide Director Jiang, making her believe that there was a god in the mirror, and that everything was interconnected.
No wonder Ah Tan never gets lost.
[They should all die! I frantically searched for ages, and Ah Tan's reaction to the phrase "You know everything" gave me the feeling that it wasn't just about Director Jiang and the smoke screen... Did he know this was a ritual deliberately provoking him?]
【!! I feel the same way!】
[Yeah! In that close-up shot when they passed the liquid octopus, Ah Tan clearly paused for a second; he definitely noticed!]
[And before he entered this fog, he burned Mommy's last remaining hair knot—look, I found it! The last talisman's incantation floated into Wolf Daddy's hairband! It must be to protect Wolf Daddy; this is him making his final arrangements! Aaaaaaah!]
Xie Tan was taken aback and went back to the comic strip section mentioned by the original poster.
After Su He realized the red paper's trajectory, a pillar of fire containing incantations swept over him, but Su He was trapped by his death and was completely unaware.
In the close-up of his most terrified expression, amidst his wildly flying hair, the incantation on the red wishing ribbon had grown an extra ring and was glowing.
It's clear that a spell has been activated.
Seeing this, Xie Tan felt a sense of relief.
Every step she took proved useful.
[And most importantly! Everyone, go back and watch the Ouija board episode! After Ah-Tan gave Mommy directions, he looked at the captured patriarch and was the only one who showed no emotion. Some of the sisters were puzzled at the time, as this didn't match Ah-Tan's usual hatred for the patriarch; it was too calm, something was wrong—because Ah-Tan knew the patriarch wouldn't die from this!!]
[Holy crap, so Ah Tan knew about the red paper's trajectory back then.]
[That makes sense! There was a scene where Ah Tan was so upset, and he kept looking at that red paper!!]
[So Ah Tan knew everything, and he died voluntarily??]
Why?!
[I don't believe Ah Tan would choose to end his own life at this point. He's doing it to avenge his mother! If even the Red Paper Decree knew about it, Ah Tan must also know that the cult leader lied. His parents and the cult leader, two of their enemies, aren't dead, so why would Ah Tan die? It doesn't make sense!]
[Damn... Keep reading, Ah Tan isn't just after revenge on those two, he's after something much bigger...]
So that's where they were waiting. No wonder they only said "I want you dead" at this point.
[Ahhh, Ah Tan did it to fulfill Mommy's wish!]
So, the reason the Smoke Mirror swallowed Ah Tan and hugged him was probably to prevent him from being burned alive. It wouldn't be bad if he could fall asleep in a gentle dream...
Death and sleep are twins...
In the comic, the last scene the boy sees is depicted: he sinks into the black mist, watching Xiao Liu face countless world lines and witness them heading towards their collapse.
Of course, nothing in the world is perfect, and happiness is everywhere; that's a false utopia.
But it shouldn't all be sad things.
This shouldn't be the case.
She thought that she was partly responsible for the arrival of the Smoke Mirror, or rather, she was the culprit. Even though in her eyes it was just as ignorant a child, the power and destruction it brought were real.
Among the millions and billions of possibilities, is there even one where everyone can have a reasonably good ending?
Just like Tan Tan said, it's not enough. These worlds are not enough. Everyone who is caught up in this deserves a better possibility, including God himself.
Also includes...
Upon hearing this, the boy in the mist closed his eyes, completely swallowed by the black mist, as if he had melted into it.
So much so that he didn't hear the last sentence.
As for that child... I hope he is healthy and well, able to feel love, understand love, and love in return.
He deserves all the love.
But this time he really didn't hear it.
The screen suddenly went dark, plunging into complete darkness.
In the next shot, countless black mists surge from the mountaintop, covering Four Seasons Mountain like an earthquake and tsunami, and sweeping across the entire city.
Black flames are burning.
They're everywhere.
Every inch of land and every living being in Diqiu City stands within the incantations constructed of black flames.
Countless identical double images flickered behind them.
Looking down at the city, it appears so densely packed that it seems to merge into one, like a churning mass of silt or an endless fog.
Those are all their if lines.
Then one by one, they were burned by the flames, like an extremely rigorous selection process.
Just to choose "the best ending".
The ghosts and monsters that had hidden themselves because of the ominous day suddenly went into another kind of madness.
A fragrance wafted from the mist.
Like never seeing the light of day, like the wailing of demons being burned alive, like a sinister sin that will never dissipate in ten thousand years, like gravity, dragging down everything that is in the same place as that source.
source……
All the ghosts and monsters turned their heads and looked at Four Seasons Mountain.
Four Seasons Mountain.
The black flames covering the entire mountain swirled and arranged themselves.
Suddenly, he opened one eye.
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Author's Note: I've got a new pre-order for "Stop F***ing Reloading!", please be kind to me [please], I might start this next book too!
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