Chapter 163

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Chapter 163: Did I Time Travel?

Chen Yehua, as the highest-ranking member among the first group of support personnel; he was appointed in the face of danger to lead the captains in investigating the whereabouts of Chu Jiang and Black Sun.

The first person they approached was Xu Shengtian, who had released the video.

Although Xu Shengtian was the first eyewitness, he didn’t know much, only that Chu Jiang did indeed come forward to save the city and pointed out the area where Chu Jiang was thrown away.

Therefore, Expert Chen started to divide the manpower and sent some to Tianfeng Mansion to search for local branch members, to see if there were any survivors who knew something.

Meanwhile, he personally led a team to go to the area where Chu Jiang disappeared to search.

Due to the large area marked by Xu Shengtian, the efficiency of the search by Expert Chen and his team was not fast. The main reason was that everything in this area seemed normal.

Soon after, there was news from Tianfeng Mansion that there were three survivors in the local branch.

This is also related to them being on the top floor of the building. At that time, the black fire skeletons started invading the houses, and the first to die were naturally the people on the lower floors.

Although there were some places in the buildings where sunlight could shine through, there were not many.

Although they found survivors, whether it was the operator Lin Yun, the finance worker Chen Keai, or the special envoy Li Xiaolang, they were all unaware of Chu Jiang’s whereabouts.

Chu Jiang never told them about his plan, fearing that it would be discovered by Black Sun.

Lin Yun was slow to wake up because he had been deeply contaminated before; Chen Keai was just an ordinary person and didn’t know much.

However, Chen Keai provided some information. Chu Jiang told her, "If I don’t come back, it means I’m dead."

Lastly, there was Li Xiaolang. He only knew that Chu Jiang should have used Curse Tape, but he had no idea about Chu Jiang’s actions.

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The clues from Tianfeng Mansion are gone, so Expert Chen and his team have to keep searching for clues in this area.

Chen Yehua has a clear idea. Even though the local head is missing and the assistant is presumed dead, there should be records of the unusual events that have happened in various places, both in the branches and the headquarters.

Soon, he found that the local branch had submitted a special location file called "Lin Ancestral Hall."

The file indicated that the former head, Wang Lei, accidentally entered this temple and experienced a special feeling of oppression. The details are still under investigation.

Although there is very little specific information, the places where Chu Jiang and Black Sun disappeared happen to be near this temple. Naturally, Expert Chen immediately took his team to investigate the temple.

Of course, he was not reckless; he just asked the eager Yan Wanli and Zhang Haoran to go in and check the situation first.

This partnership can be said to be perfect—one is powerful and the other is not affected by the supernatural.

However, after going around several times, the two of them didn’t find anything, and Yan Wanli didn’t even notice any so-called "feeling of oppression."

After communicating inside and outside, Expert Chen had to continue adding more people.

When they searched everywhere and finally went inside, no one could find anything strange.

In the end, Chen Yehua had no choice but to personally go inside the ancestral hall and walk around several times.

After observing, he didn’t let anyone touch anything here. Instead, he went to the nearby surviving households and asked some questions about the ancestral hall.

Although there were surviving descendants of the Lin family nearby, and even people who had heard Chu Jiang’s voice before.

But don’t forget, time had reset, and those who didn’t have supernatural powers would lose that memory after the reset.

So, faced with Expert Chen’s questions, the Lin family descendants who were receiving assistance all shook their heads, indicating that they didn’t know the details.

However, some people heard a huge crashing and shaking sound coming from the ancestral hall, like a meteorite hitting the ground.

This made Expert Chen even more suspicious that Chu Jiang and Black Sun had disappeared in this ancestral hall.

Moreover, Expert Chen had a question, who is Lin Daosheng? Why is the sixteenth generation ancestor’s tablet placed above the fourteenth generation ancestor’s?

When asked about this, the descendants of the Lin family immediately started talking, saying that they survived this time because they were secretly blessed by the old master…

Anyway, Chen Yehua and his companions worked until late at night, but still couldn’t find any trace of the ghost or Chu Jiang.

However, Chen Yehua did find some crucial clues and he asked the people at the research institute to secretly seal off the Lin Ancestral Hall.

What does it mean to secretly seal off?

It means we don’t let any strangers in or out of here, but we still have to pretend that everything is normal. We even let the gatekeeper continue to guard the gate, and people still perform ancestral rituals when it’s time.

There are always people lurking around the temple. We have to pay attention to whether there are any strangers trying to enter the temple, as well as whether there are any strangers coming out of the temple.

This is a very crucial place, where there might be a trapped S-class ghost and a Ghost Master who can contend with an S-class ghost.

If someone wants to cause trouble, this is a very suitable location.

Therefore, Research Institute No. 21 cannot let anyone discover the uniqueness of the Lin Ancestral Hall, both for emotional and logical reasons.

And they also had to be on guard for one day in the future, when suddenly a ghost would appear or when suddenly someone would come out from inside.

……

With the help of official rescue personnel and the research institute, the situation in Luohe City was getting better day by day.

The remains of the deceased were properly taken care of, and the survivors received appropriate medical and psychological treatment, as well as a living allowance similar to a "hush money."

Even those deeply infected who had once fallen into a coma returned to normal after waking up.

Even though a few individuals still had a deep impression of phrases like "heaven," they rarely mentioned them and no longer had distorted understanding.

However, the people from the research institute still hadn’t found Chu Jiang or Black Sun, as if both of them had disappeared from this world forever…

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Darkness, endless darkness. Chu Jiang felt like he had had a long dream.

In his dream, he felt like taking part in an ancient ritual. There were distant and mournful melodies, and the peculiar scent of aromatic herbs…

When Chu Jiang struggled to open his eyes, he felt a headache and was in a dazed state. Moreover, he seemed to be wrapped in white cloth, lying on a bed, just like a mummy.

Struggling to sit up, Chu Jiang felt that he was probably saved by a kind-hearted person. The person saw that he was burned all over and kindly bandaged him.

But what about the Black Sun? Did the old man seal it away?

Just as some questions popped into his mind, Chu Jiang became stunned.

Because he discovered that he was actually lying on an antique bed.

Moreover, the room he was in was completely like those chambers from ancient times. There were dressing mirrors, screens, round wooden tables and chairs, and even the windows with hollow carved patterns were made of paper.

This completely confused Chu Jiang. Did I freaking time travel??