The swaying wind and rain fell on the deserted mountain road, and a figure in a pure black kimono climbed up the steps holding a red paper umbrella.
Raindrops dripped along the edge of the paper umbrella. The paper umbrella was lifted gently, and the surface of the water droplets reflected a handsome face.
Ding ding ding——!
The crisp phone ringing.
The figure paused for a moment, and after a moment of hesitation, he took out his cell phone from his arms and put it to his ear.
"Hello?"
"Hello?! Brother Amamiya!"
"Xiao Youli? What's the matter?"
"I went to that cliff again today! Guess what I found!!"
Hearing Yurina's tone of voice was so exciting, Amamiya Haruki was startled, thinking of some possibility, and a glint of hope flashed in his eyes.
"He is back?!"
"No, I found an old man!"
"..."
"This old man also drifted here with the ocean current, and when I picked him up, his time was also frozen, just like Brother Nanaya at that time!" Yurina became more and more excited as she talked, "I feel that he might be the same as Brother Nanaya.
From the same place!”
An old man from the same place as Lin Qiye?
Isn’t that Daxia?
Amamiya Haruki raised his eyebrows.
"Can he understand us?"
"It seemed like he couldn't understand. After he woke up, he kept sitting silently in the corner. No matter how I talked to him, he ignored me."
"...I understand. After I finish what I'm doing, I'll go to Fengji's house to have a look."
"Brother Amamiya, haven't you found the last Fukutsu sword yet?"
"not yet."
"Okay, then I'll wait for you at Fengji's house."
"Um."
Amamiya Haruki hung up the phone and walked along the mountain road for a long time. After searching the entire mountain, he sighed helplessly.
"Is the prediction given by Shota today wrong again..."
He shook his head, held the paper umbrella, turned and walked towards the road down the mountain.
…
"Yesterday at four o'clock in the afternoon, another gang wounding incident occurred in Shinsaibashi. Eight drunken thugs broke into a gold store with knives. After stabbing the store manager sixteen times, they took away all the valuable goldware in the store. The store manager fell to the ground.
He asked passers-by for help, but no one helped him, and he eventually died of excessive bleeding..."
"...As of yesterday, within this week, there have been 132 consecutive incidents of vicious injuries by passers-by in Osaka, involving thousands of casualties. The Osaka Police Department is short of peacekeeping manpower. At present, the gang has intervened armedly to replace the police in suppressing
All vicious riots in the Kansai region, maintain the situation..."
"...Here, Dawn Broadcasting reminds all residents not to go out unless necessary. If you find yourself suffering from red eyes, insomnia, inexplicable mania and other symptoms, please go to the nearest hospital for isolation treatment as soon as possible..."
Snap——!
In the Japanese-style courtyard of Fengji's house, Yurina turned off the radio switch and stood up from the tatami.
Not long ago, the [Night] team attacked [Pure Land] and shut down 92% of the electronic equipment in the "human circle". All TVs and electronic large screens could not be activated, and all TV stations were shut down. Now throughout Japan,
Information can only be transmitted through radio, a relatively least energy-consuming broadcasting method.
"This world is getting more and more chaotic..." Yurina sighed, went into the kitchen to make a cup of tea, held it in her hand, and walked to the corner of the room.
There, a white-haired old man was looking up at the drifting cherry blossom trees outside the window, lost in thought.
The breeze blew by, blowing the pale hair at his temples, and a few pink cherry blossoms fell on the back of his wrinkled hands with the wind. He sat there blankly, his eyes dim, like a lost stone statue.
In his hand, he held a mask with the word "王" written on it. There was a fine crack in the center of the mask, as if it had been knocked somewhere.
"Grandpa, would you like a glass of water?" Yurina handed the teacup in her hand to the old man and said softly.
The king's face remained unmoved.
Yurina pursed her lips, placed the steaming tea cup next to him, and patiently made gestures with her hands, probably to tell Wang Mian that this cup of tea was not poisonous and could be drank.
After gesticulating for a long time, Wang Mian still ignored her and remained motionless.
Yurina, who was busy and sweating profusely, seemed a little angry. She stood up from the tatami, pursed her lips, and muttered resentfully to herself: "Why is this person so stupid? I couldn't understand it after making gestures for a long time..."
It seems that not all people in Daxia are as smart as Brother Qiye."
After hearing the last half of the sentence, Wang Mian was slightly startled.
He suddenly turned his head to look at Yurina, opened his chapped lips, and asked in somewhat obscure Japanese: "Daxia? How do you know Daxia?"
This time it was Yurina's turn to be stunned.
"Do you understand Japanese?!" Yurina stomped her feet angrily, "Then I've been talking to you for a long time, why are you ignoring me?"
Wang looked directly into her eyes and repeated the question, "How do you know Daxia?"
"Because Brother Qiye drifted over from the sea, and his body was frozen in time at that time, just like when you came here... Brother Qiye told me that he came from Daxia."
"Brother Qiye?"
"That's Asaba Qiye." Yurina paused and added, "His original name is Lin Qiye."
Lin Qiye?
Hearing this familiar name, a glimmer of light flashed in Wang Mian's eyes. He leaned against the wall in a daze and smiled bitterly.
What a coincidence...
After being awakened by Yurina, it only took a short time for Wang Men to realize where he was.
As the captain of the [Masked] team, he knew that all the major divine kingdoms in the mist had "human circles", and some time ago he heard about the "Yemu" who had just returned from the "human circles" in Japan.
Know what’s going on inside the “circle of people”.
The most important thing is that as the agent of the gods, he promised the God of Time to help him take out something from Gao Tianyuan.
In order to take out this thing, Wang Mian began to make preparations long ago, which of course included the study of Japanese and a brief analysis of Japanese culture. He knew that one day he would embark on a journey to find Takamagahara.
But he never expected that before he took the initiative to look for Gao Tianyuan, he would be directly involved in Japan's "human circle" by the ocean current, and the first person he saw when he opened his eyes actually knew Lin Qiye...
All this is too coincidental.
If it were before, Wang Mian would explore this "human circle" with curiosity and look for traces of Gao Tianyuan, but now... he is not in such a mood.
Whether it is the "circle of people", Gao Tianyuan, or the agreement with the God of Time, none of it matters.
The moment he was awakened by Yurina on the shore and the time stasis was released, the first thought in Wang Meng's mind was to immediately go back in time to before [Persona] entered the fishing village to prevent all this from happening and save him.