Chapter 412 Past
Gu Pingsheng looked at the heavy rain outside, and what echoed in his mind was Bai Yanren's instructions back then...

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"There are not many people I can trust in my life, and you are one of them." Bai Yanren said with a smile.

"Tell me, what do you want me to do now?" Gu Pingsheng was a little helpless, but he had long been accustomed to agreeing to the other party's request. After all, after so long of living and dying together, he could no longer tell whether he saved more people from Bai Yan or Bai Yan saved him more.

"From now on, you will follow Dr. Zhou Tian," Bai Yanren said seriously, "He has a problem."

"It's obviously you who has the problem," Gu Pingsheng was even more speechless, "Look carefully, you are the most unique one. Until now, I still don't know why Wu Ji always chooses you."

"Haha, you want to know?" Bai Yanren suddenly asked.

"Are you willing to tell me?" Gu Pingsheng didn't believe that Bai Yanren would tell him, because he felt that Bai Yanren himself didn't know why.

"If you want to know, I'll tell you." Bai Yanren said mysteriously.

"You..." Seeing that Bai Yanren seemed to really intend to tell him some secrets, Gu Pingsheng suddenly backed off, "You'd better not tell me. I promise you that I will keep a close eye on Zhou Tian from now on."

"No, it's not about keeping a close eye on him, but joining him. No matter what Dr. Zhou Tian wants to do, you should join him." Bai Yanren emphasized.

"Why? Do you think Zhou Tian will need me? I don't have the confidence to fully join his [cause]."

"It's okay... I will help you." Bai Yanren had just finished saying this when he suddenly leaned close to Gu Pingsheng's ear.

"Hey, Pingsheng, let me tell you, actually... I am a living person."

Gu Pingsheng's heart skipped a beat. He looked at Bai Yanren seriously and suddenly laughed, "Don't joke. All of us entered Wu Ji after experiencing death. So, although we are afraid of all kinds of ghosts, to be honest, we should thank Wu Ji for being alive now. It gave us the opportunity to continue living."

"But what I said is true, you should be able to feel it, right? I'm not kidding..." Bai Yanren continued.

"I really didn't enter the Mist Collection after I died. I pushed the door open and went in."

"Push the door?" Gu Pingsheng was puzzled.

Bai Yanren was speechless. In a flash, he seemed to have thought of something. He glanced at Gu Pingsheng and said, "Pingsheng, ten years later, you will also have the opportunity to push the door and enter Wu Ji. If this really happens, then... my speculation may come true."

"What conjecture?"

Gu Pingsheng asked.

"In addition to the bloody words every time, I suspect that the fog itself is also an extremely obscure long-term task."

"If, ten years later, everyone enters Wu Ji by opening the door, then my guess is correct."

Bai Yanren said this, looking seriously into Gu Pingsheng's eyes: "Pingsheng, strictly speaking, you can't enter Wu Ji ten years later, but I'm really unsure, I will find a way to let you in. In addition to you, there are other old people who will also enter Wu Ji ten years later, you... just pretend not to know each other."

"Then what? Apart from keeping a close eye on Dr. Zhou Tian and verifying whether I can push the door and enter Wu Ji in ten years, what exactly do you want me to do?" Gu Pingsheng asked.

He knew very well that Bai Yanren's requests up to now were just to observe certain phenomena and had not yet reached the stage of specific next steps. Gu Pingsheng did not believe at all that Bai Yanren had no plans for the next step.

"Hehe...Dr. Zhou Tian, ​​as long as you get the news that I'm back, you can ignore him, because my return means he has failed." At this point, Bai Yanren muttered with a laugh, "No matter if I am still myself when I come back."

Gu Pingsheng's eyelids twitched.

"As for whether the observation has turned into pushing the door to enter Wu Ji, as long as this is confirmed, it proves that I have succeeded. I have completed a certain stage of Wu Ji's long-term mission and pushed it to the next stage... In other words, Wu Ji itself should have two stages."

"It is an existence where the material world and the world of consciousness are intertwined..." When Gu Pingsheng heard this, he immediately thought of what Bai Yanren had mentioned just now, that he was a living person who entered Wu Ji.

Now he heard him muttering that the fog gathering was the place where the material world and the world of consciousness intertwined, and that the fog gathering itself should have two stages... It was hard for Gu Pingsheng not to have some guesses.

For example...the previous stage was the rules when the Fog Set was dominated by the Fog Realm.

And the next stage... is the rules when the Mist is dominated by the human world.

Gu Pingsheng's serious expression was completely seen by Bai Yanren.

Of course, those so-called "murmurs" of his were deliberately meant for Gu Pingsheng to hear.

He did not lie.

Wu Ji...or rather, this group of people in Wu Ji have been reincarnated seven times.

Every time after "clearing" the Mist, time and memory seemed to be reset. Except for the extra key obtained when clearing the level, there was no change at all.

What's even worse is that, except for myself, no one else has even remembered that they have already completed the Mist Collection many times.

Bai Yanren is lonely.

Through repeated investigations, he had already understood most of the situation.

He also confirmed that apart from himself, there was only one doctor named Zhou Tian who retained all the memories of the past.

But...it didn't work.

He and Zhou Tian were trapped in a closed, dead-loop space and time.

Even if you clear the Mist Collection, you cannot break the cycle. The so-called escape is just the beginning of the next reincarnation.

This has happened seven times.

And soon, it will be the eighth time.

This time, it will be Bai Yanren’s last attempt.

He has been trying since the third time, but he has not succeeded once. This world... seems real and vivid, but in fact, it is just a "dead" space. Even his familiar companions have died long ago.

What he was going to try was the last solution he came up with after discussing with Zhou Tian.

"The time in this world will not flow forward, it will only go round and round and cycle again." Zhou Tian looked at the unchanging starry sky, "I can be sure that this is a world formed by the original power of the fog world, and you, as the only living person in this world and this game, are the ones who hinder the continuation of the game. In other words, let this world die completely and let everyone become dead. At this time, if we clear the level again, the fog will naturally advance to the next stage."

"But I won't let you really die. During this period of time, I have thought of many ways, and finally I found a gap in time and space." Zhou Tian's gaze fell from the starry sky back to Bai Yanren, "Hide in that gap in time and space, and create the illusion that you are dead, but... you need to avoid the detection of the Mist Realm and the Mist Collection. The time and space where you hide is not easy."

"How long do we need to hide?" Bai Yanren asked.

"About... ten years."

Zhou Tian answered.

(End of this chapter)