Gu Mian quickly explained the situation to Chu Changge and 007 in the group chat, informing them of the world resetting and the fact that it had reset five tis in a row.
Before the two could react, Fatty jumped out anxiously.
[Fatty]: What? Doctor, your world reset? What do we do now? If your side keeps resetting, wouldn’t that make it impossible for Doctor, Brother Chu, and Miss 007 to reunite?
Then he began to worry heavily, imagining Gu Mian’s group unable to reunite due to the resets, forever trapped in Paradise World, until he himself grew old with a white beard before they ever ca out.
Thinking of this, Fatty felt sad and began to lant in the group.
[Fatty]: Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
[007]: I just took a closer look at the information Gu Mian sent. This world reset five tis in a row yet only moved ti from tomorrow back to today. That’s sowhat strange.
[Gu Mian]: I think so too.
The two chatted back and forth in the group, completely ignoring Fatty sobbing in the background.
Gu Mian, after sending the ssage, turned to look at the pile of ruins surrounding the statue.
The reset should have been a one-step process, going directly to the desired save point.
Yet this world reset five consecutive tis, without even a mont’s pause for breath.
This seed like a bug when resetting, unable to return to the desired save point, so they kept trying multiple tis without giving up.
He knew Paradise World’s reset was controlled by Earth, and these five consecutive attempts were clearly Earth’s handiwork.
"Is Earth trying to revert ti to before we entered Paradise?" Gu Mian guessed as he looked at the ruins. "Trying to see if they can kick us out?"
But due to an unknown bug, Earth tried many tis and could only reset ti to after they entered this world, and eventually had to give up.
Before he saw the statue, everything was calm here; the world showed no signs of resetting.
Right after he saw the statue, Earth started resetting madly in succession, trying to reset him to another place.
Earth seed unwilling for them to find this statue.
"Is there so secret on this statue? A secret Earth doesn’t want people to know."
But no matter how Gu Mian looked, he couldn’t see anything special about it. He could only go find Slaughter to make him talk about the statue.
But first, he had to reintroduce himself to Slaughter.
Thinking so, Gu Mian glanced at the group chat again, where Fatty and Xiao Qiao were chatting aimlessly about useless things, and after 007 finished communicating with Gu Mian, she hadn’t sent any more ssages.
Chu Changge hadn’t spoken since reporting his location.
It was the sa last ti. Back then, Gu Mian told Chu Changge to go to Ga City and et up with 007, and Chu Changge only responded much later with a single "okay," seemingly busy with other matters and unable to reply in ti.
As Gu Mian didn’t ntion him by na in the group this ti, he didn’t even send an "okay," and one wonders what he’s been busy with.
Gu Mian thought for a mont and typed in the group chat.
[Gu Mian]: Chu Changge, you’re close to 007’s location. Walk south for a while and you’ll see Crazy Ga City, it’s safe there, go and et with 007.
Just after sending this ssage, he heard hurried footsteps coming from above.
Gu Mian lifted his head to look up, his head turning half a circle along the spiraling staircase, and saw the person making the footsteps on the opposite side.
It was Slaughter, dressed in a suit.
Probably due to hurriedly going down the stairs, the once neat suit had a few creases, but he was completely unaware.
At this point, he had already seen Gu Mian directly across and widened his eyes, glaring at the stranger who had appeared inexplicably: "Who are you?"
In a dim room, Chu Changge was looking at a few photographs on the table in front of him.
The photo showed a boy with normal skin color, under ten years old, looking nervously at the cara, although possibly unfamiliar with caras, his gaze was slightly shifted upwards.
Chu Changge was already in the room when he entered.
This is an empty old room, unused for a long ti.
On the ceiling walls of the room are irregular dry yellow marks, with patches of moldy green showing through, suggesting frequent water seepage from the roof, wetting then drying, over and over.
The surrounding walls appear to have been repainted, covering so dripping watermarks, but the new paint couldn’t ultimately fix the leaking ceiling, as a series of long watermarks flow down from the ceiling corner, almost hitting the ground when stopped by the bed-head at the corner.
It’s a worn-out wooden bed, its bed-head and legs faded, showing its age. A bed leg seed slightly short, propped underneath with a thin wooden plank.
Apart from that, there was just a window and a table in the room.
The table was the one before him, with three photos of the boy on top.
Heavy dust settled on the photos and the table, like draping them in a dust-colored tablecloth.
Chu Changge imdiately recognized the boy as Jiang Yang, now he no longer goes by Jiang Yang, having given himself the na Bai Wuchang, always shown in a black cloak.
Heavy curtains covered the window, making the room seem suffocatingly oppressive.
Chu Changge took a few steps forward to the curtains, lifting a slit to glance outside.
This is the second floor, offering a view of crooked, dilapidated buildings outside, looking down to find cracked street pavent, the classic lower-class residential area. But now, this residential area is devoid of people, eerily quiet.
Sunlight seeped through the curtain’s gap, illuminating dust floating in the narrow room air.
Chu Changge lowered his eyes, gazing at the deserted street for a mont, then let down the curtain and turned to check the room’s setup.
Though rundown, the room is quite a luxury for lower-class people.
Upon arrival, he thoroughly checked the room, discovering nothing but a few photos on the table.
"Seems like last ti." Chu Changge already saw in the group chat the reset matter, including Gu Mian’s ssage instructing him to go to Ga City and et with 007.
Though lacking mory from before the reset, he could guess so things from Gu Mian’s ssage.
Last ti, he must have safely reunited with 007 in Ga City, hence Gu Mian didn’t ask about anything before sending him off this ti.
From here to Ga City is indeed safe; the residential area contains no one, and walking outside earlier, he spotted an upper-class residential area not far from here.
Gazing there, he had a hunch he must have ventured in last ti.
Understanding oneself best, Chu Changge knew the world reset, so he started ntally deducing his previous action trajectory.
"Following last ti’s trajectory should lead safely to Ga City and 007 reunion." Chu Changge returned to the window, glancing at the nearby upper-class residential area, noticing so flyers scattered on its grounds.
"It’s possible to make a rough guess of the trajectory, but perfect timing matching last ti is impossible—only approx." He surveyed the upper-class residential area closely. "Such a nearby upper-class area—I won’t miss a chance to dig for clues by entering. But not now; first, must familiarize with geography and patterns."
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