Chapter 54: Sabbath of the Forgotten (5)
The sobbing gradually stopped, Zihua raised her head, wiped the tear streaks from her cheeks, and her emotions became much more stable.
“I should be the one apologizing… I shouldn’t have taken my anger out on you, knowing full well you still don’t know anything…”
“It’s okay, this is the only time I can be of use, Juncheng.”
“No, no matter when, Juncheng, you’ve always been the most important person to us. But because of that, when we faced such an ending, we seemed so ridiculous. It wasn’t that fate played a trick, but rather that even fate was deceived; it was just a cruel trick… like a joke.”
Zihua shook her head to herself, then looked up at Juncheng’s face again, as if begging, she asked.
“Yes, Juncheng, in the future, no one will die, and the world will be safe. For most people, it might even be a kind of sublimation… Only we are ‘discarded’. We just wanted to be with you, but even that was not allowed… We couldn’t accept such an ending, yet we were powerless to do anything about what happened. In the end, we had to sacrifice everything, exhaust all our options, and bet everything on a desperate plan with almost zero probability of success, attempting to overturn history up to that point.”
“And it really happened. I really made it this far. Perhaps this is a miracle.”
It is indeed a miracle.
In the end, such a reckless plan could never have been attempted, and there were many unpredictable factors. Even just…
The one truly walking on a tightrope was Zihua herself, and it was incredibly dangerous. Having lost her body and soul, she was like someone standing naked in the center of Antarctica—a more unreliable existence than a candle in the wind.
“Actually, for us, the worst outcome isn’t that you, Juncheng, would wish for everything to be as if it never happened. The worst outcome is being unable to change anything. If history repeats itself, I would still choose to go back in time again.”
This, this is simply… infinite Samsara!
Zihua used her time backtrack ability to trap me on that single day.
But that was just a small Samsara, constantly repeating one day. And if this time nothing really changed, Lanhua would become the next Zihua, and return again… This would repeat endlessly, constantly, until Juncheng compromised like me.
“Are you going to freeze the world here!”
“If it achieves the purpose, I will naturally do it without hesitation. What does the world have to do with me? Saving the world is something for righteous companions to do, and maintaining world peace is for heroes. And I am merely Juncheng’s lover; I only need to keep Juncheng. Moreover, by repeating like this, I can always stay by Juncheng’s side. It’s not a bad thing for me.”
Selfish…
But I couldn’t say a single word to refute her, because deep down, I agreed with her viewpoint. What happens to the world indeed has nothing to do with me; Juncheng is the most important.
It’s just that Juncheng cares about these things, so I also hope to fulfill his wish.
But if the world and Juncheng came into conflict, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter.
“Are you… threatening me?”
“That’s right, it’s a threat! If you don’t do anything, I’ll make you live forever!”
Threatening someone to live forever is truly unheard of.
This is also a threat that only Zihua could make.
Juncheng closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then reopened them and prepared to give his answer.
“I understand,……”
“Forget it after all.”
Unexpectedly, Zihua reached out and covered his mouth, showing a regretful and pained expression.
“This is not the way I expected… I don’t want to force you, nor do I want you to make a difficult choice for us. Because if you do, it will again become a twisted relationship where you gave up everything for us… But I still want, want, want, want, want, want… I want more love! Right! You think so too, don’t you, Zi’ai!”
Constantly changing her mind, crying and laughing, in a state of delirium, Zihua’s behavior was like suffering from a mental illness.
She was too unstable, making it impossible to judge how much truth there was in her words.
I secretly looked at Juncheng. A faint bitter smile played on his lips; clearly, he thought the same way I did.
Zihua might have already…
“Ah, what am I even saying… I’m sorry, Juncheng. You must be in a difficult position, worrying about me again… You don’t need to worry so much. In the end, Juncheng, you owe us nothing, and you don’t have to be responsible for us, because you haven’t done anything wrong to us–”
“Zihua!”
“In the end, we didn’t die, but we selfishly ended our own lives. Thinking back now, I think I’m so foolish– a plan to change the future… Huhu, there was no such grand plan. It was just a few crazy women joining forces to put on a reckless farce. In the end, it was us greedy women demanding more… It’s like a boring palace drama; women are always selfish.”
As expected… she has completely gone mad.
Her thoughts were completely muddled, and she probably didn’t even know what she was saying.
Because we had been able to communicate normally before, there was no sense of incongruity. But when it touched her sensitive area, she couldn’t help but erupt.
“Perhaps I’ve already gone mad. When I was chosen as the executor of the plan and killed my companions one by one before committing suicide, I ceased to exist… The me now is not even Lanhua, not even Lanhua’s resentment. Zihua is just a false name; I am neither human nor ghost, nothing at all… Just a ‘forgotten one’…”
Zihua lowered her hand, faced us again, and said with a dazed expression.
“Juncheng, you’ve already learned what’s going to happen from that demon maid, haven’t you?”
“Mm, more or less. Shirley didn’t directly tell me what would happen, she just told me the location and that I should go confirm it myself before making a decision.”
“Huhu, that sounds just like that Head Maid… Well then, Juncheng, you do that. Don’t mind what I said. It’s a one-time thing, it can’t be replicated. Fate won’t obediently let us manipulate it multiple times.”
Won’t an infinite Samsara occur?
Hoo, like this… at least it won’t make the real world feel like a spiraling nightmare, repeating endlessly.
…situation…
Rumble rumble rumble!
Suddenly, a tremor spread, and the ground shaking sensation made me almost fall. Everything in my field of vision was shaking.
What’s going on?!
Is it an earthquake?!
“What’s happening?”
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“Quick, hide under the table!”
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Juncheng pulled me under the table, but Zihua didn’t hide in time.
“It’s here… I was just thinking ‘It’s coming soon’ and it appeared. It really never misses a crucial moment.”
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Who is it?
The chandelier swayed, the doors and windows rattled, and plates from the kitchen crashed to the floor.
Even more dangerous, knives flew out!
But Zihua still stood calmly, speaking. Amidst the noisy roar, I could barely make out her words.
“Because I spoke of what would happen in the future, it discovered me.”
So this is why Zihua couldn’t tell me what would happen in the future?
This earthquake was caused by that person? Being able to cause earthquakes… such an ability is comparable to Zihua who used Destiny Power to create a tsunami before!
Who could possess such immense Destiny Power!
I shouted back in the direction Zihua was standing.
“Who discovered me!”
“Of course, it’s Fate.”
“Huh?!”
The floorboards were shaking, the walls were collapsing, constantly shaking, cracking, and tilting. This building could barely hold on!
“It’s not safe hiding here! We need to escape! Zihua! Come quickly!”
“No, I’m wearing a ‘naked apron’ right now. My body can only be seen by Juncheng. How can I be exposed to the eyes of other men.”
“Even now, you’re still saying…”
“Don’t worry, Juncheng, I can still ‘ reload’… reverse Samsara.”
The world froze, time stopped, and then reversed. It wasn’t the first time I had experienced such a profound event, but this time the visual experience was extraordinary.
The collapsing and deformed house returned to its completeness, the cracks in the walls all healed, and the damaged objects were restored and returned to their original places. The scene of the sky collapsing and the earth shaking returned to peace.
The world was being repaired, this feeling of everything being mended was truly awe-inspiring.
Finally, time returned to when Juncheng and I had just entered the room. Was this time point too far back?
Right, I remember Zihua’s ability targeted one person. I could see the entire process of time backtracking, meaning she set me as the target again? So Juncheng doesn’t remember what happened just now at all?
“…We went back to the past? What’s going on?”
“Eh? Juncheng, you still remember?”
“Yes, there was a sudden earthquake earlier, and when I was about to escape, time suddenly reversed…”
Juncheng also remembered!
What is this!
I rushed into the room and shouted at Zihua.
“What’s going on! Zihua!”
And Zihua had already prepared her answer.
“Because all three of us have Juncheng’s blood, our karma is connected, so retrograde Samsara will affect all three of us simultaneously.”
“Then what was that earthquake just now?”
“Because I spoke of the future, my existence was detected by Fate. The three of us are outsiders who do not belong to this world, an existence that disrupts order, so it wants to eliminate us.”
In other words…
We are orchestrated by Fate, considered as those to be expelled by the world, so Fate is hunting us!
“What the heck! Is this Final Destination?!”
Juncheng couldn’t help but retort.
It is indeed similar to Final Destination, but the difference is that in order to kill the three of us, the world clearly doesn’t mind killing a few more people, preferring to kill the wrong person rather than let them go.
This unseen attack, which could come from anywhere at any time, of any kind, triggered by any event… all unknown…
I collapsed on the ground in despair.
How could this possibly be avoided…
For the next twenty-odd days, we had to constantly evade this unpredictable danger. Where is there a safe place anymore? Is it simply non-existent?
Caught in an endless stream of danger, the three of us became enemies of the world.
