Chapter 175 The Fifth Day After God's Departure (12) [So! So...]
The new episode opens with the timeline of the other main characters, all searching for the missing Xie Tan and Lu Jinzhao, but with little success.
They sensed an ominous feeling, yet were relieved that nothing was certain yet.
When Xi Rui arrived, it was during his conversation with the vice leader.
It was the end of the semester, and even Diqiu University was bustling with activity, dispelling the eerie atmosphere caused by the frequent ghost incidents. It wasn't easy for Xi Rui to find the Vice Master alone in his office. After reporting on his work, he asked in a businesslike manner what else needed to be prepared for the refining ceremony, as well as some well-timed questions from someone who was also involved.
Jiang Linji was busy processing documents and didn't even look up: "Just say what you want to ask—these are the books your teacher wants to borrow, give them to him in the next class."
Xi Rui's rambling words stopped abruptly. He took the test paper and looked at her expression: "I was just worried about the safety of our leader as a member of our cult. Fortunately, with you here, the cult is in good order."
Jiang Linji understood that he was subtly inquiring about Xie Tan's safety: "You should trust his wisdom."
Unexpectedly, even her confidant became relentless towards her. Xi Rui said, "Your wisdom is just as terrifying as his."
Jiang Linji finally looked up at him and smiled: "Still so perceptive."
Xi Rui gripped the exam paper tightly in his hand. Could it be that the Vice Leader's goal really is...?
Under pressure, he asked, "Can I know the reason?"
In his view, Xie Tan and the Vice Leader did not reach this point of conflict.
Jiang Linji: "I'm not targeting him. Do you think Su Huang deserves to die?"
"certainly."
"What about the Order?"
"grown ups?"
"answer."
"...Everything is for the sake of order."
Xi Rui understood; she wasn't trying to kill Su Huang and... the cult leader, but rather the "Eye of Observation" and the "Tongue of the Masses."
This is the world "out of control".
After Xi Rui left, Jiang Linji continued working as usual until he heard the sound of rain outside the window.
She put down her pen and looked out the window, lost in thought.
Memories unfold slowly, like a dream.
I thought updating would help me recover, but I was wrong. Waaaaah, Ah Tan, do you know how worried everyone is about you?
Everyone's felt it, right? Sigh.
[I'm speechless. I'll just light some incense and continue crying at the grave. Waaah, my little Atan, please come back soon! Can't I just drink coffee at full price from now on?]
[Huh? What's the meaning behind Rui Rui and Director Jiang's conversation?]
[Is Rui Rui worried about the cult leader? How strange]
[Director Jiang said Rui Rui was perceptive again. Was Rui Rui asking about the leader?]
[When it comes to wisdom, you're asking about A-Tan, right? In other people's eyes, A-Tan and the cult leader are still in cahoots. So, let's ask A-Tan, not the cult leader.]
[RuiRui is so perceptive! She realized that Atan is in danger.]
[Is Ruibao, a confidant of Director Jiang, aware of Director Jiang's subtle attitude towards the cult leader?]
[I guessed the cult leader was going to do something bad to Ah Tan]
[Wait a minute, it's not just a simple matter of danger, is it? This sounds more like... the danger stems from a power struggle between Director Jiang and Ah Tan?]
Aren't Ah Tan and Director Jiang true allies?
[Holy crap! You guys need to look at Director Jiang's past!]
So that's how it all started! Director Jiang was practically the perfect embodiment of a cult leader since childhood!
[Terrifying! To be able to carry out such a meticulous plan at such a young age—human potential is truly unparalleled in survival mode.]
[But due to the extraordinary power of the sun, the plan went out of control, Grandma died, and Director Jiang took revenge on Black Goat and the cult leader because of this? Is that right? That's strange.]
[Director Jiang has always emphasized the concepts of loss of control and order, something beyond the norm. Her enemies are the Eye of Observation and the Gossip of the Masses. Damn, Ah Tan is also the Eye of Observation! Could Ah Tan's death also be part of Director Jiang's scheme?]
【Wait a minute, what happens after Ah Tan dies? It's not over yet, is it? Isn't Director Jiang's ultimate goal...?】
【！！！！！Ah Tan isn't dead!！ ...
In the comic, Director Jiang's memories are drawn into the boy's eyes like mist, and he is trapped in endless darkness, imprisoned in a complete smoke mirror!
He saw Jiang Linji in the empty office and said to him, "Take a rest. When you wake up, the world will return to order and usher in a new life."
[now! ]
The boy's pupils contracted, and he struggled violently, searching for an exit.
I've never seen Xie Tan so crazy or out of control since his first appearance.
【Ah Tan ahh ...
[Baby, baby, you're not dead! I wished for an extra bowl of rice today!]
So Ah Tan didn't die!!! He was just banned!
[I'm not saying anything more, I'm going to fulfill my vow in the next thread.]
[Just like how Atan banned Lulu? So that's what the last blind box meant; Atan is stuck in the fifth-day loop!]
[I'm completely confused! Wasn't A-Tan supposed to be fully transformed? And yet, the side effects kicked in, filling the entire city with his fragrance (which is a boon to the ghosts of Diqiu City!), what's going on?!]
The fragrance is probably because Ah-Tan is reflected in the mirror, and the mist at the source is tinged with it, like the water flowing throughout the city.
[Holy crap, Ah Tan is shouting today! Director Jiang's ultimate target is definitely Lu Lu!!! She wants to eliminate the source! That's why she locked Ah Tan up!]
【!! Look down, everyone! It's Mommy! Oh my god, I get it!】
In the comic, countless scenes change before Xie Tan's eyes, reflected in his dark irises, seemingly reflecting his chaotic heart, especially the various things Xiao Liu has experienced along the way, as well as the bits and pieces between him and Lu Jinzhao.
The more he looked at it, the more his head ached, as if all their misfortunes and their worst endings were caused by him.
He murmured blankly, "Mom, am I your curse?"
The woman's figure emerged from the mist, bent down and embraced him, an invisible umbilical cord connecting them, as if they were one.
The comic concealed the existence of another world, and her gentle words brought a tear to Xie Tan's cheek.
You are not my curse, you are my miracle.
[My child, I love you.]
[Mommy didn't die either?? Oh my god!]
It's more like they've transcended humanity and become beings of a higher dimension.
Therefore, Ah-Tan's third guidance was not only about setting the course and fulfilling the bet, but also about bringing another "unpredictable" event to Mommy. The ritual failed, but Mommy still became the complete being!
【!! Is that it?! The Double Pupil Project!】
[Observations 6 and 7!]
[! There are always fans of Tan organizing in A Tan's personal thread. A Tan occasionally looks into the void, and in rare cases, it seems like he is communicating silently with something with his eyes. Everyone guesses that he is activating the Eye of Observation.]
If this is truly the Double Pupil Project, activating the eyes will allow you to see the other half, right?
Therefore! Therefore! Ah Tan was the complete Eye of Observation from the very beginning!
[Holy crap, that makes sense! So the red paper ritual was useless! Ah Tan is already complete; even if he goes up the mountain, the ritual won't refine him, it will only lure the only incomplete family head up!]
[Holy crap, holy crap, so the eye that was being refined was actually the head of the family!!!]
[! I knew I hadn't seen him!]
[Damn, no wonder the mist formed by the black goats was so obedient at the end; it turns out the eyes belong to the head of the family!]
[And Ah Tan, in the mirror, used the family head's ceremony to perform a large-scale purification technique; this was probably Ah Tan's purpose in coming up the mountain!]
[In the Yin Peach Blossom chapter, A-Tan was able to use mothers of the same level as anchor points because the mother and child were observed in overlapping patterns?]
[The red paper explains it all! Ah Tan kept looking at that red paper because he had observed it, right? His rank is higher than the family head, so he could observe it!]
[The past Mommy could also "see" Ah-Tan! Because her eyes were complete, the three "miracles" not only brought about impermanence! The first was that the complete eyes led to the eyes' owner, Lu-Lu's birth; the second was using the power of the complete eyes to make the abandoned observation jump directly to the incomplete state; the third was the complete closure of the eye! It resolved Mommy's death by splitting her eyes in half, allowing her to take revenge herself... This Ah-Tan is a complete scheming god!]
[Wow, if it's that strong, why wait 19 years?]
[To ensure a closed-loop cause-and-effect relationship! This is how big Ah-Tan was when Mommy first saw him.]
[There are also side effects, the incomplete patriarch no longer has a human form, let alone a complete one.]
Since it's a combined observation, I guess Atan and Mommy each bear half the cost; one gets the incense, and the other might be in a deep sleep, since Mommy isn't always there.
[They likely spend most of their time sleeping]
[Damn, death and sleep are twins, so Ah-Tan traded his sleep for his mother's death? God!]
[Another reason is that intact eyes are supposed to be returned to the sun, right? More often than not, having one party online helps prevent them from being recycled.]
This also corresponds to the half-sun in the smoke mirror.
[This is like Mommy getting revenge herself, waaaaaah!]
【!! S! Six! Observation Six! Mommy is also the mastermind!】
[Holy crap, this is amazing! The spirit of the Ouija board must have come from the eyes drawn by Atan. It has the power of a complete eye. No wonder it kept giving this one letter. It's all interconnected, like Russian nesting dolls.]
[So that's how it is. Since it's complete, this new double pupil plan also has a pointer, right? Mommy used the pointer to hide Ah Tan in other times...]
[Waaaaah, you're not a curse, baby! You're Mommy's miracle!]
[Our mother-son group, sob sob sob]
[So Ah Tan's entry into the Smoke Mirror was intentional. The Smoke Mirror is the source, and the time and events he chose are also the source, echoing the prophecy of "both the beginning and the end"?]
[But unexpectedly, the vice-leader tricked me! I'm trapped here and can't get out.]
[Is it true? Tan Shen was actually the one who lost by a hair's breadth?]
What else could it be?
[I still think you, Tan Shen, couldn't possibly have been unaware of being imprisoned. You should have had a plan in place. Why are you so agitated? Did you really miscalculate?]
The comic continues with Xi Rui and Chang Mingai, who have left, talking about Su He's disappearance.
Then, on the fifth day, Jiang Linji obtained the obsidian knife and waited for the black sun to fully appear after the fog.
【Wolf Dad——】
[Waaaaah, Wolf Daddy is heartbroken, completely turned into a knife.]
So the mirror wasn't broken by the cult leader, but by Director Jiang? Wait... is the final boss here?!
[How strange, it's already noon, and since the ceremony is complete, why hasn't the sun appeared yet?]
Does the process of recycling and completing the system take time?
However, amidst the raging inferno, on the fourth day when there was no escape, the sun god, on the verge of madness, unexpectedly encountered his blade.
【Lu Lu! Waaaaah!】
[Wishing Ribbon! It turns out Ah-Tan sent Wolf Dad away!]
[Mommy actually prepared an escape route for Wolf Daddy so early on, sob sob]
But that's not what the wolf father wants at all. The more the mother and son act this way, the more...
【Aaaaaah, Wolf Daddy, no!】
[Wow, I actually see liberation in Wolf Dad!]
He doesn't care about living or dying; he only cares about whether he can help, even just once.
[Lu Lu is the same... The solar fire that should have backfired couldn't hurt him because A Tan didn't want him to get hurt... Let alone Lu Lu, I'm going crazy too...]
[It's alright, it's alright! Lu Lu was able to come out, right? Everything'll be fine!]
I think Ah Tan knew all along that Director Jiang wanted to kill Lu Lu, which is why he locked Lu Lu up!
[If Lu Lu goes out, we're doomed! She's not allowed to go out!]
[Ah Tan is doomed too! Ah Tan is trapped on the fifth day! Lu Lu can't get in!]
[Oh my god, how is Atan going to save Lulu? How is Lulu going to save Atan? Why is it so hard for us lovers?!]
Does anyone remember the last time they used a Ouija board...?
[! I thought that was being said to Mommy!]
In the final instance of summoning the spirit through the Ouija board, Xie Tan looks across at the woman's figure, which overshadows Lu Jinzhao's.
He whispered, "How...can I save you?"
[Damn, Ah Tan has the eye of observation, he could definitely see Mommy at the same time, so that sentence was actually said to Lu Lu!!!]
In the comic, the cycle ends on the fourth day, and this chapter ends as well.
The blind box that followed featured Xi Rui and Chang Mingai returning to Art Harbor to have Qi Shiheng perform a divination.
Qi Shiheng: "Are you sure this is his birthday?"
Xi Rui hesitated: "That's what it says in the file."
"Then there is no..."
"But the documents are forged."
"..." Qi Shiheng took a deep breath, held up the bone fragment engraved with the image of "half a sun" and the symbol of "eagle", and said, "If this is Mr. Xie's birthday, I think you don't need to worry."
Chang Mingai: "Are you sure?"
Qi Shiheng remained remarkably calm: "If there truly is a great calamity in the future, it will surely be because of the Smoke Mirror, right?"
The two people in the group who know the most right now: "...Yes."
"The sacred calendar combination of the day a person is born determines their guardian deity and destiny. Their day symbol is 'Eagle,' and the main guardian deity of a person born on an 'Eagle Day' is the Smoke Mirror. Their destiny is also inseparable from the powers of the Smoke Mirror, such as night, change, and fate."
"He is still the number '1', which is '1-Eagle'. He is the beginning, the source, and unique. He is the most concentrated manifestation of the power of the Black Sun. Being born on this day can be considered as the reflection of the Smoke Mirror on earth."
"Of all the birthdays you gave me, only Mr. Xie and your leader share an Eagle Day, and they are on the same day. People with such a destiny-based nature are likely to be mad warriors, powerful leaders, unpredictable reformers, those who sense fate, or hidden observers... This also corresponds to them."
“In my opinion, this divination is more like saying that he is protected by the Smoke Mirror and is actually fine—your leader is different in this respect. Rather than being protected, he is closer to the 'destructive' nature of the Smoke Mirror and resonates with it highly.”
Xi Rui and Chang Mingai exchanged a glance, feeling slightly relieved.
They exchanged thoughts: The cult leader was once "Tehiputra", no wonder he resonated with the Smoke Mirror. If he can also represent the Smoke Mirror, could it be that Lu Jinzhao and the cult leader saved Xie Tan?
[Wow, Atan's guardian angel is Lu Lu!]
"Then everything must be alright, right? Lu Lu must have rescued Atan."
[…Holy crap, you guys need to go watch the new chapter!]
【Lu Lu!!! !!! !!! !!! 】
【Oh no! The mirror shattered like this!】
So the sun didn't appear on the new day because it shattered first and then was repaired. Damn!
[Is this what "guardian angel" means?!]
It is both a beginning and an end... both creation and destruction!
[Exactly 52 years, indeed there's an even bigger cycle of cause and effect, no way!!!]
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