Chapter 81 Yin Peach Blossom (11) [Was Wolf Father's treatment of Ah Tan ultimately murderous...]
[It really is a smoke mask!]
[There's not enough room for all these people.jpg]
[I knew it! How could these ghostly fellows believe in the sun god who shines upon the earth? Turns out, the sun god is even more ghostly.]
[Horror Comic! Kid!]
This is the authentic flavor.
[Sounds like a real joker... a joke god]
[Not necessarily. The God of Blades has already created a contrast with the Sun God, so maybe there will be another twist.]
[A smoke-filled mirror signifying a complete change of heart? Such a niche term. Let me just say it directly: Lu Lu is the Sun God!]
Hahahahaha
[Hahaha, stop messing with our angel dog! Uncle Hong himself certified him as a descendant of Ji Gong, hahaha!]
[That's true, maybe I've been reading too many conspiracy theory posts next door, but the simplest guess is that Lu Lu is the main character, and she's definitely connected to this sun god.]
Are we going to have another shonen manga?! Fighting an evil god boss?!
[Horror movies featuring boss battles are quite niche; let's just say they're a record of the main characters' gruesome deaths.]
[Holy crap, here it is! Matryoshka dolls! What is this thing? A snake? An octopus? Pudding? It's so slippery, where did this seafood come from!]
[Wolf Dad! These few steps of his are absolutely mesmerizing!]
[Wait, so the Black Goat can monitor the cult?? How did that old goat end up in this sorry state?]
Why is the head of the family underwater? It looks like he's hiding in the light. Are you even human?
Wolf Dad had indeed kept it from Ah Tan.
[The patriarch's sudden question really startled me!]
[However, the wolf father is still the wolf father; he continues to provoke the patriarch without hesitation, hahaha]
[So cool! Wolf Daddy: I don't care about this or that, if you're not happy, let's fight!]
This is the real father; he even made the head of the family crawl.
[Patriarch: Who is the patriarch?]
[Wolf Father: You are the head of the family, I am your ancestor]
Hahahahaha
[You'll get used to it. To exaggerate a bit, it feels like Wolf Daddy has been like this to everyone ever since he appeared in the Legends... well, maybe a little different with Ah Tan?]
[It's alright, it's probably still related to Wolf Dad's own interests, so he silenced Old Man Su.]
[Wow, it's not about profit! The patriarch's meaning... oh my god, this "deceased person" refers to the owner of the coffin, right? Is the wolf's close relative, Wolf Father, being used for surveillance?]
[My God, what is this? It's so smooth and eerie! What kind of creature is this? Master, are you really not human?!]
This is the head of the household.
[Listen to your words]
[This is terrifying! But it looks like an octopus!]
I think it looks more like egg white.
[My upstairs neighbor told me they were hungry; I support the head of the household's freedom to boil food!]
Can't it be braised? I prefer strong flavors.
[Patriarch: You've all become so insolent!]
[The person upstairs has completely lost their character; the patriarch can only sigh and lament.]
[He's already very good-tempered. Wolf Dad was practically telling him to get out and that he'd take over as family head. The family head was even thinking of helping Wolf Dad kill Ah Tan.]
[I take back what I said! Whose egg white has such a huge eye cracked open? You're so grotesque! Is this the price of being the head of the family?! Then I disagree with Wolf Dad's usurpation; Wolf Push swears to defend the face of a mature old man to the death!]
【What the heck? This thing claims to be the eye of observation?! ???】
[Oh my god, everyone knows that, so asking Wolf Dad was actually a test of his attitude, or a warning? I'm speechless.]
But he's so gentle.
[The person upstairs wouldn't survive three episodes in a palace intrigue drama; that's the scariest part, okay?]
This little 12 is such a loyal dog! It's even doing observation; I wonder if its head will be full of eyes when I open it? No way!
[So, A-Tan wasn't one of the observers? Many people on the forum are guessing this, but now it seems the coffin owner's long hair triggered the prophecy. This deceased person was definitely an observer during their lifetime.]
[And this isn't ordinary observation; the manifestation points to the "Eye of Observation." The patriarch also possesses the Eye of Observation; aren't they similar?]
[Could it be that the prophecy contains new instructions, and that the head of the family has actually succeeded, while other abandoned observations are being used as a smokescreen?]
[That makes sense, because I have a question: Did Wolf Father know that the patriarch was the Eye of Observation? My feeling is that Twelve only saw the patriarch's true form because he was a confidant, and the patriarch was hiding it from most of the clan.]
Combining the two guesses makes sense. I suspect the coffin's owner was the previous Eye of Observation, but something went wrong and he died.
The patriarch, exploiting an old grudge, used the coffin of Observer II to lure out the relics of the previous Eye of Observation, thus fulfilling the prophecy of Enmusubi. He concealed himself, identified the person possessing the relics, and sent men to eliminate him.
But regardless of who is in charge, has it truly become the eye of observation?
[Ahhh, I'm more worried about Wolf Dad's attitude. We know the coffin's owner was someone important to Wolf Dad, but Ah Tan, who has these belongings without any explanation... I feel like Wolf Dad's chances of killing him are greater than protecting him??]
[Same question, should Wolf Father kill or protect Ah Tan?]
[Wow, is this ending a coincidence, or is it intentional composition? It feels like Ah Tan is looking out of a mirror.]
[This has happened several times already, hasn't it? Is Atan really not just observing? He seems to notice it every time.]
Upon seeing the end of the first episode of the new story, Xie Tan's first reaction was: Did Observation Twelve see reality or the future in the mirror?
After all, since the start of the new unit story, first the Mirror Cult, then the Black Goat, Xia Wujin, as the protagonist of the unit, has not had his story unfolded at all, and now it has jumped directly to the plot of the side hall of the Xia family?
Even if we could use a flashback, it would be better to put the paper rose at the beginning, which is what the teaser image shows.
Watching a live broadcast and seeing the future are not the same thing.
Xie Tan carefully observed the route taken by the Twelve after they left the round hall.
Eliminating Xie Tan was just a side task; Twelve's primary task was to retrieve the other observations and take them back to feed the patriarch, who called himself the Eye of Observation.
The religious order is holding a religious ceremony, and the order's so-called "recovery" has been clearly defined: it is to return the power of the sun to the sun god.
Those demons and black goats who wield the power of the sun are naturally disrespectful. As messengers of God on earth, they should naturally protect God's majesty.
Naturally, as the orthodox and loyal sole believers of the sun god, they could also benefit from the light.
Xie Tan saw that they were trying to monopolize the solar energy industry.
The Black Goat's observation of the second energy was enormous, enough for the Sun God to absorb for a while. Therefore, holding the Dharma assembly to consolidate the faith within the cult was also a way to let them taste the power of destruction.
Meanwhile, Twelve took advantage of the cult's religious ceremony to steal the tower and retrieve two observation points that the cult had already tracked down.
There's a museum in the local area of Diqiu, the same place where the pair of jade geese were lost, and one of the abandoned observation posts is actually one of the museum's exhibits.
The jade goose went missing during its return journey, and the museum is not haunted and is open as usual.
But Xie Tan searched again and found that just yesterday, before he and Lu Jinzhao went to the Xia family, the museum announced its closure for routine maintenance and upkeep.
Also, last night, because of the young lady's matter, their group (the main characters' group excluding the office workers) had intermittent chats.
Xi Rui only managed to reply with an emoji when he had a spare moment, clearly still busy, but this guy messaged him privately.
Of all the contacts in Xie Tan's phone, Xi Rui was the second person he could message, spouting a bunch of nonsense and rambling on like he was playing a board game.
Xi Rui knew he was too lazy to reply, so she didn't care whether he replied or not. She treated him like an anonymous confessional, bothering him whenever she felt like it.
Moreover, ever since they revealed their cards, the cult's higher-ups have been completely uninhibited. Their chat logs even contain his complaints about his colleagues and specific details of the cult's missions, essentially giving him free intelligence about the cult.
However, Xie Tan guessed that Xi Rui must have known all of this and was completely unaware that he had given it away for nothing.
This guy is really annoying, and the occasional probing remark hidden in his words is what catches you off guard. Xie Tan doesn't reply because he doesn't want to waste his brainpower dealing with him.
The Dharma Assembly allowed the president a few days of peace and quiet, but that night, the message about being silenced popped up again. It was Xi Rui complaining that the security at one of his workplaces had been breached and that rats were attacking him while he was working overtime.
Lu Jinzhao and Xi Rui are both history majors. They often visit historical sites and museums together. The observations at the Diqiu City Museum were likely tracked down by Xi Rui.
The timing was right, so it was just a live broadcast, and Xie Tan breathed a sigh of relief.
So, are there no restrictions?
You can see the Dharma assembly of your mortal enemy, which means you can see wherever you want.
But if that's really the case, how could it have declined and been replaced by the Mirror Cult?
Xie Tan, drawing on the forum's discussions, recalled the hotel owner who had fallen and gouged out one of his eyes to use as a real-time monitoring device.
Black goats can use their own people as sacrifices and experimental subjects, so obviously they would not feel burdened by monitoring their own people. The evidence is that some of the lifeblood of the tribesmen is buried in the big eyes of the patriarch.
There's no need to expose it externally, since there's always someone watching and there's always the risk of being discovered.
Those who are born into the tribe can be nourishment for the Eye of Observation, and the eyes of other tribes can also be eyes of the Eye of Observation.
The observational eye is the central control, and the tribesmen are the long-legged surveillance.
So that's what it means to be able to escape the eyes of a black goat?
Indeed, brainwashed clansmen like Su Han and Twelve would only think that this is what they should do and that it is an honor.
However, knowing that it was just a live broadcast, Xie Tan remained cautious about whether the head of the household and the former homeowner would become the sole observers.
As for Su He, Xie Tan and the forum agreed that the patriarch did not trust Su He that much and only used him, so Su He was likely unaware that the patriarch had become the Eye of Observation.
But Su He wasn't with them at the time.
Is the surveillance coverage so extensive that it includes them?
Another theory is that another member of the clan was also among them, relaying the message to the head of the family.
Among these masters, there might also be a member of the Su family.
But the perspective is suspended behind them, not directly in anyone's eyes, so it's a bit difficult to lock onto them.
This is the first reason why Xie Tan ran away.
A hidden surveillance camera, a Su He whose attitude is ambiguous on the surface, and behind the camera is Twelve, waiting to take his life in the final wave.
The second reason is that the next episode doesn't start with Xia Wujin's story, but rather with him and Lu Jinzhao going downstairs together in the morning and seeing a funeral being held in the neighborhood.
In the comic, he pulls away the distressed Lu Jinzhao, leaves the residential area, turns right, and heads towards the school.
Meanwhile, an office worker just missed them. He was the last member of the main group, Mr. Corporate Slave, who entered the community with a folder in his hand and a miserable look on his face.
As he passed the mourning tent, he stopped and stared at it silently for a while, his mind filled with "..." six points.
Then he sighed, bowed, and went up to Building 9.
He knocked on the door of apartment 602 downstairs in Xietan, which was the deceased's home.
The door of this house was still clean and empty, unlike the long mourning tents that lined up in the neighborhood, where everyone could see that there was a funeral. So there was a strange sense of nonchalance.
He typed for a long time and gave a lengthy self-introduction, but towards the end, it seemed like he was awkwardly making conversation.
The door creaked open a crack, revealing a dark room with no lights on.
The woman of the house who appeared in the Joker movie was behind the crack in the door, her pale face showing one wide-open eye that stared at him emotionlessly, like a black hole.
The office worker was already at a loss for words, and the rest of the conversation was just repetitive. Being stared at like that gave him a jolt, and as a reflex, he first bowed to the eerie-looking hostess and said, "Please accept my condolences!"
The woman in the comic and Xie Tan, who was reading the comic, both said: "..."
How can a simple "please accept my condolences" convey the force of someone committing seppuku?
If Xie Tan hadn't rewatched the previous series and known that this was typical of corporate slaves, he would have thought the girl was killed by them.
"Hello, I called you in advance..."
Before the office worker could finish speaking, the door slammed shut, clearly indicating that he was not welcome.
The overworked office worker stared at the closed door, feeling like crying but unable to. He sat on the stairs for a while, feeling melancholy, but he couldn't completely clear his mind. As soon as his phone rang, he had to reply to a work message.
The more I sat there, the lower my mood became, and my back almost hunched over to the ground. But then I accidentally saw Lu Jinzhao's WeChat Moments from last night. Lu Jinzhao had rescued a kitten that couldn't get down from the second-floor balcony on his way home from his night run.
In the photo, the young man, with a speck of dust on his nose, smiles broadly as he poses for a close-up picture with a dirty tabby kitten.
The overworked office worker scrolled through this post on his WeChat Moments, and his miserable mind and body finally relaxed. He took a deep breath, as if he had inhaled positive energy from an angel, and recharged himself.
This gave him the strength to continue fighting.
He rallied his spirits, knocked on the door to say he would come back tomorrow, and then left the neighborhood.
The story then continues with Xie Tan and Lu Jinzhao being all lovey-dovey in the library... The parties involved questioned why this part needed to be released.
When Xie Tan saw that the question "What's your name?" wasn't actually asked by the senior student in the same major, he thought, "Okay, there's still a story behind it."
After they left, a fleeting shadow flashed past the window, resembling the shape of a wingtip.
Xie Tan immediately thought of the pairs of wild geese that had come uninvited.
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