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Chapter 1076 The People in the Book Have No Life or Death (4K)

Carter fell silent, as if lost in memories. He didn't really want to talk much about the man named Xia Shou, even though Yin Mingzi kept emphasizing that he was important, he still didn't care much.

After all, it's absurd to expect a normal person to develop murderous or romantic feelings for a complete stranger based on a single sentence.

He did initially refuse the offer, even when the "brother" in his dream, who claimed to be his younger brother, tried to persuade him with various promises of family honor, he remained unmoved.

It wasn't until Yinmingzi told him that this man named Xia Shou was Alice's master in the outside world, and Alice was considered his personal maid.

These words were like a sharp chisel, opening a barely perceptible yet profound crack in the seamless, solid walls of his heart. So much so that when he awoke in the other world, this whisper from his dream haunted him like a nightmare, refusing to leave, and ultimately prompting him to make the decision to plan this absurd murder.

However, he never expected that the person he was going to kill would be such a monster. His wife, that terrifying red-haired woman, was so frightening that Carter would still tremble at the mere sight of her barefoot going upstairs.

He had thought about it more than once: what would have happened to him if that woman had found out? Would he have been cut into pieces and stored in the refrigerator like his five assassins?

This outcome was not a casual remark he made up, but the final result he witnessed firsthand.

After the assassination attempt failed, he survived by chance and then left the country through a pre-arranged smuggling route.

His memory of escaping and rushing along the way was blurry at the time. He seemed to be constantly haunted by a fear mixed with mystery. He ran away step by step based on instinct. By the time he regained his ability to think freely, he was already on a smuggling boat back to China.

He learned of the assassins' fate a few days later when the assassin organization called to apologize for their failure and subtly criticized him for not informing them immediately after the operation.

The assassin organization also asked him for specific information about the target, as they hoped to eliminate him personally to protect their professional reputation.

It was then that Carter learned that a freezer had been intercepted at Annam customs that morning because someone had discovered that the vacuum-packed meat slices inside were human corpses.

What shocked Carter even more was that the other party was able to process the body in this way and then transport it out! It was unbelievable that such a thing could be accomplished in that country!
Undoubtedly, it was a provocation, and even more so, a demonstration—"Come and kill, but the consequences will be so bizarre that you can't even imagine."

For a long time, Carter was immersed in intense paranoia.

However, although he didn't kill Xia Shou, he did kill another person.

Carter had just organized his thoughts and was about to speak when the girl on the next bed suddenly sat up and yelled a long "Mommy" in a frightening voice, startling everyone around her.

"Kanae, you're awake?" Kanae, wearing a mask, looked around blankly, then lowered her head and began to sob.

Carter felt a pang of guilt upon seeing this.

Because Kanae's mother was either killed by someone else, or he killed her.

"It seems you've seen your mother. I told you I wouldn't lie to you, didn't I?" Yin Mingzi smiled, his eyes narrowed. "Now you can truly wake up."

As soon as she finished speaking, Yinmingzi reached out and removed the mask from Kanae's face.

In an instant, Kanae was stunned; her thoughts and perspective underwent a complete transformation.

Before she wore the mask, she was an ordinary person who grew up in a world without supernatural abilities, with a happy family. The only strange thing in her life was that she would occasionally have some very realistic and strange dreams.

But after removing the mask, her self-identity suddenly shifted from the character she played in the book to the real Kanae in reality—the prospective heir of the extraordinary Yasuo family in Japan, Kanae Yasuo.

Thus, the heart-wrenching pain of losing one's mother gradually faded and became less intense, like dreaming of one's deceased mother being murdered. A dream is just a dream; only a fool would take it as reality.

Of course, the realism of this dream is incomparable to that of ordinary dreams.

Kanae Angang let out a deep breath: "Did Natsumori kill Mom?"

Yin Mingzi nodded: "That's right, but this time it wasn't Xia Shou who killed him, but I asked Prince Carter to do it."

“Hey! You…” Carter glared at Yin Mingzi, then immediately turned his head away. Kanae stared at them with wide eyes, her eyes burning with unbearable anger.

"Kanae, I didn't know she was your mother before I took action. It was only after I finished those things and saw you walk into that house after school that I realized Yinmingzi wanted me to kill your family!"

"Besides, at the time I only felt you looked vaguely familiar, and then I remembered we'd met in a dream." Carter hurriedly defended himself.

Yin Mingzi covered his mouth and chuckled softly a few times, then waved his hand to dismiss the other servants, leaving only him and Carter and Nae in the room alone.

Yin Mingzi raised his hand to signal the two to relax, and then explained:

"Don't be nervous. Why are you making that face, Kanae? Your mother passed away a long time ago, didn't she? Have you forgotten what I said before? Don't use the normal world's concept of time to look at the events in the book."

Your mother was killed by His Highness Carter, but that was a year ago.

I'm not talking about a year ago now, but about a year ago in the book.

As she spoke, Yin Mingzi took out a copy of "The Season When the Stars Fall," turned to a page, pointed to the passage, and said, "Look, isn't Ms. Matsumoto rushing to finish her manuscript?"

Kanae calmed down a little. Although her instinctive anger and hatred were still stimulating her emotions, she slowly began to understand things after shifting her focus.

But she still didn't understand why Yin Mingzi wanted Carter to kill her mother.

“If I don’t let Carter make the first move, then Xia Shou will be the one to act. If that person makes a move, he will completely erase the power left by your mother. Well… or sealing it would be more accurate, but it will definitely be erased.”

Yin Mingzi carefully considered his words as he described the situation.

"In short, it's definitely better to die in some other way than to be killed by Xia Shou."

Also, don't be naive enough to think that this is the end of it.

It's important to understand that, from the outside world's perspective, the lives depicted in the book have no concept of time.

Therefore, if the regulatory authorities discover this, they might use the same method to notify Xia Shou, so that they can kill Ms. Matsumoto again at an earlier time, before Carter does.

At that time, we were completely powerless to stop him. Even if we could use the Great Dream Possession Technique, we could never truly defeat him. This is determined by the very nature of existence.

If you die, then you will really die in reality. But Xia Shou is different. Even if you are lucky enough to kill him in the book, what about him in the past?
Before you killed Natsumori, he must have been alive in the past, right? On the other hand, you can still summon Natsumori from the past, allowing him to change his fate of being killed in the book's past.

That alone makes him invincible, not to mention... he also has secrets that even the Six-Eyed Cult doesn't know.

In short, having Carter kill your mother was merely a way to buy time. Please understand that your mother was not truly alive or dead.

If you don't believe me, you can ask your grandfather yourself. I've already talked to him, and I have to say, he's really scary. I almost thought he was going to kill me.

If that's the case, then the former perpetual calendar official will have no choice but to give up on advancing to the next level in this era.

Carter, who still sees herself as a character in the book, has begun to lose her ability to understand Yinmingzi's explanations. Kanae, whose understanding has returned to the real world, is starting to have her thoughts gradually become clearer.

Yin Mingzi did not deceive her; she really did see her mother.

Although Yinmingzi's decision to have Carter murder her mother was very upsetting, Kanae knew that this matter couldn't be judged by emotional instincts, because there was no truly satisfactory option for her.

Even if Carter doesn't make a move, Xia Shou will.

But Xia Shou... Xia Shou... what kind of monster is he?

She already knew he was the ferryman of the river of time, but why was he in this strange book again...?

What exactly happened? My mind is a mess.

Yin Mingzi smiled and said, "It's alright if you don't understand for a while. I think a professional will come to answer our questions soon. That person should know more than I do."

"More than you know? In modern times, is there anyone who knows more than your Six-Eyed Cult?" Kanae looked puzzled.

Yin Mingzi hissed and touched the black line on his brow bone, saying meaningfully, "Miss, you seem to have a misunderstanding about our sect. In terms of the total amount of intelligence, I would say that our Six Eyes Sect has the most among existing organizations, even the Control Bureau is far inferior to us."

However, the Six Eyes Cult's primary mission is more like archaeological research, which is to exhaustively explore the possibilities of a fixed, cyclical history. But we do not have much investigative power when it comes to the ever-changing present and future.

Otherwise, the world's number one supernatural organization should be our Six-Eyed Cult, not the Control Bureau.

Moreover... some secrets are top secrets sealed by the gods, treasures whose right to know is only granted for a limited time, and even the right to know itself is subject to a time limit.

Such secrets can only be known by God's permission; if God does not permit them, mortals will never know them.

Yin Mingzi paused for a moment and raised the book "The Season When the Stars Fall" in his hand.

"This book...our sect has held it for quite some time, but now I suddenly feel that there are many details in this book that are worth studying and exploring in depth, and many unknown mysteries."

This feeling is really wonderful. It's like air always exists but we can't see it. But then one day, a voice tells you—look in front of you, look at the empty space between you and the objects in front of you, what fills that space?
Yes, that's pretty much the feeling.

Sorry, I was rambling.

In short, let's work together. I have a strong feeling that this time, Prince Carter, you, Miss Kanae, and I will all get what we want.

Boom boom boom!
A knock suddenly sounded at the door, and a man's voice came from outside: "Boss, Li Ying and I have brought Edward back."

Kanae was startled when she heard the name.

Edward? Is that Edward?!

She remembered that Edward had been expelled from the Bureau of Control, but after all, Edward had once been a member of the Bureau of Control, and a legendary one at that. So it wasn't necessarily true that someone like him had been expelled.

After all, the Control Bureau has used this tactic before. In the past, many people who were expelled from the Control Bureau have infiltrated other organizations, only to defect and return at a crucial moment.

Therefore, the Extraordinary Realm has its own judgment process for those who have been removed from the list by the Control Bureau.

I. The extent of personal harm suffered by the person being removed from the list.

2. The tendency of those expelled to retaliate against the Control Authority.

Basically, if a person who has been removed from the list is unwilling to take strong retaliatory actions against the Bureau of Control, they will be tacitly regarded as a fake person who has been removed from the list by other supernatural organizations.

That's why Kanae was so surprised to see Edward at her house; she didn't think that someone like him would really be at odds with the Control Bureau.

Now, the Angang family and the British royal family can be considered to be in opposition to the Control Bureau. Although they are not completely hostile on the surface, both the royal family and the Angang family have strengthened their ties with the Tower of Babel.

"Come in," Yin Mingzi called to the person outside the door.

Wei Fugui pushed open the door and walked in with Li Ying and Edward.

"Mr. Edward, I've heard so much about you," Yin Mingzi greeted him with feigned politeness.

Edward adjusted his decorative glasses, smiled slightly, and greeted the two people on the hospital bed: "Miss Kanae, Your Highness Carter, it's an honor to meet you."

"How did you know me!" Carter exclaimed in shock.

If it were the normal Carter, he would never be shocked by such a trivial matter, but the current Carter is just a character from a book and is not adapted to the fast-paced social interactions of the supernatural world.

Edward glanced at Carter and pointed his thumb toward the door: "His Highness William is right outside, so even if you're wearing a mask, I can guess who you are."

After saying that, Edward took the initiative to extend his hand to Yin Mingzi: "You must be Xiaoying's boss. It's a pleasure to meet you. My Xiaoying has been taken care of by you."

"Please understand, I only made that contract to be on the safe side. As long as the contract is completed, she will definitely be fine."

"If it were just us, we might not be able to do it, but if you could participate and assist, the success rate would definitely be 100%. I think you should have that confidence too." Yin Mingzi squinted and smiled hypocritically.

Edward's eyes were bright, showing no anger. Instead, he easily raised an eyebrow: "Then how can I assist you?"

(End of this chapter)