Chapter 398
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Chapter 398: The Closed Loop
Upon hearing this, Chu Jiang immediately looked around, but he didn’t see Soga Hayayuki. So he asked, "Did you see me?"
Soga Hayayuki was a little confused. "No, we shouldn’t be on the same side, right? We entered from different directions."
"Perhaps there are two separate Guardian Deities," Chu Jiang first shared his own experience, then said, "Now I can’t be sure if the Guardian Deity on your side and the one on my side both conceal a Yamata no Orochi."
"If that’s the case, the situation is even more complicated than I imagined."
"I’ll give it a try and find out," Soga Hayayuki replied, approaching the old Guardian Deity statue.
"Wait a minute," Chu Jiang suddenly had an idea and immediately stopped Soga Hayayuki.
"It’s better if I try, not you. Because I’ve already touched the Guardian Deity, so if there are any hidden dangers, like a curse for example, touching it again shouldn’t have an additional effect."
Soga Hayayuki was surprised, "But won’t it be troublesome for you to come all the way here?"
"It’s not about whether it’s troublesome or not right now. I’m thinking of a solution to break the deadlock. Standing here or there doesn’t make a difference, so just wait for me." Moreover, Chu Jiang was very fast and didn’t mind the extra time.
He merged with the Ghost Domain and transformed into a black and gold beam of light, attempting to wrap around the Ghost Abyss from the right side, and reach where Soga Hayayuki was.
But after a few tens of seconds, Chu Jiang saw another Headless Guardian Deity, but strangely, there was no one next to it…
Chu Jiang felt a bit confused for a moment, did he fly too far and suddenly return to the original location??
He landed and took a closer look, because there were his footprints on the ground.
So Chu Jiang flew again, this time intentionally flying slower, but in the end, he returned to the side of the Headless Guardian Deity.
Now, Chu Jiang’s face turned serious, he tried to fly upward, trying to escape the Ghost Abyss.
But after a few tens of seconds, he saw the Headless Guardian Deity again, and saw his own footprints…
Ghost Maze? Ghost Realm? No no no, Chu Jiang felt it was something even more special, after multiple attempts, he sensed that something was not right, but didn’t know where the problem was.
Chu Jiang immediately called Soga Hayayuki again, "I have a problem, I can’t leave the Guardian Deity too far, don’t touch that Guardian Deity for now, try to come to my side."
Hayayuki agreed, and this time they kept the call going, not hanging up the phone.
But not long after, Soga Hayayuki spoke with a serious tone and said, "I am experiencing the same thing here. It seems like I am trapped near this Guardian Deity. No matter which direction I walk, I always end up back next to the Guardian Deity."
"In that case, there’s no other option. Try touching the statue and see what happens."
While Chu Jiang was speaking, he kept trying to break free, over and over again. He was starting to have some ideas.
……
Soga Hayayuki cautiously touched the statue, but she didn’t see any of the spirits or the giant snake that Chu Jiang mentioned.
This puzzled her even more. Just as she was about to report back to Chu Jiang, suddenly! She saw a scene flash before her eyes:
Beside the Headless Guardian Deity, there lay a lifeless body of dark greenish-black color. The body had a Japanese-style long sword inserted into its head, from which droplets of water, resembling rain or dew, trickled down the blade…
Hayayuki felt a sudden headache, and when she looked again, everything was gone. It felt as if the previous events were just an illusion she had fallen into.
But why did the face of that body resemble Chu Jiang a little?
……
After listening to Soga Hayayuki’s report, Chu Jiang became even more certain of his speculation. He stopped his meaningless attempts and returned once again to the side of the Guardian Deity.
"Of course, for you, it may already be a possibility of the past, maybe even a fact."
"What do you mean?" Soga Hayayuki didn’t understand.
"I will do one last experiment. Pay attention to the Bodhisattva’s left shoulder." Chu Jiang said as he reached out his hand towards the left shoulder.
"I will perform one last experiment. Pay attention and look at the left shoulder of the Headless Guardian Deity," Chu Jiang said as he reached out his hand towards the shoulder of the deity.
Then, she was surprised to find a tiny scratch on the left shoulder of the statue, as if it were made by someone’s fingernail.
"Did you see it?" Chu Jiang withdrew his hand.
"Do you see it?" Chu Jiang pulled his hand back.
"Did you see? Did you carve a mark on the statue?"
"Yes, the Guardian Deity statues next to both of us are the same, so when I made a mark on the statue, you can also see the corresponding change on your side."
"Then why can’t we see each other?" Soga Hayayuki was still trying to find Chu Jiang’s figure.
"No need to look," Chu Jiang said something unbelievable to Soga Hayayuki, "We are not in the same time period, or in the same time flow."
"Based on the phenomenon of ‘I make the mark first, and you see it later,’ I am in the past, and you are in the future."
"And the reason why we can’t leave the side of the Guardian Deity is because the period of time we are in is a closed loop, just like a Möbius strip."
When talking about this, Chu Jiang also felt a bit of a headache. "It’s the power of time again. If I didn’t have some control over this power, I’m afraid I would end up dying here, not knowing what happened."
It is because of the Black Sun inside him, possessing the ability to restart time, that Chu Jiang is able to quickly find the "patched" point in each cycle, which is the source of his unease.
Hayayuki hesitated for a moment, "Then how are we able to communicate? These two mobile phones are not any special artifacts."
"Take a look at your phone, is there no signal? Maybe we’re not talking through radio waves, but through this statue beside us."
Soga Hayayuki glanced at it, she remembered there was reception at first, but now there’s nothing…
"So what do we do next? The ghosts on me aren’t affected by time. If no one comes to rescue us, will we be stuck in this loop forever?"
"Then you can only pray that I don’t die here." Chu Jiang glanced at the statue.
"The images you just saw were not by chance. I might actually be killed by Yamata no Orochi, and there really is a divine sword inside its tail."
"Of course, it doesn’t have to be the Heavenly Cluster Cloud. From your description, I strongly suspect that the rain falling since we entered the Ghost Abyss is caused by this sword. So let’s call it temporarily ‘Sky Crying’."
"By the way, the body you saw, was it only the head that resembled a person, and the rest of it was a pale black zombie?"
"Yes," Soga Hayayuki confirmed Chu Jiang’s guess.
"Then I’m not wrong, I haven’t reached my limit yet…" Chu Jiang muttered to himself.
