Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 908 Winter Crow's Analysis

“Let’s not dwell on what has already happened. The current situation is that Lao Ji and Zheng have both gone back and won’t be coming down again anytime soon. Xiao Li is also missing. He may have gone back, but he may just be hiding. Even if he wants to hide, I won’t be able to find him. So this time, I’m afraid no one will come to help the master,” Dongya said.

"Heh, I didn't see you guys here before this," Shangguan Yan said sarcastically.

Winter Raven: "Unless we fabricate a special human form like Old Lady, we can't stay in the mortal world for too long. What's the point of coming here? We meet our master, exchange a few words, and then the traitor doesn't show up, but we have to go back first. After going back, we can't come down again for a long time, giving the real traitor an opportunity for nothing?"

"But when the other side slipped up a few times before, none of the rest of you came. Only the time with Shenlu did Old Ji and Zheng come. What are the others up to?" Shangguan Yan asked casually.

"Do you think Master has lost his memory?" Winter Crow suddenly asked.

Shangguan Yan raised a hand to smooth his sideburns and smiled, "Hehe, who knows?"

She actually knew that Xia Shou must have lost his memory.

If Xia Shou hadn't lost his memory, he would have noticed her feelings for him. In that case, she would have long since lost her humanity due to the contract with the thirsty goat and was forced to ascend passively.

But the fact is she's still standing here perfectly fine, which proves that Xia Shou must have lost her memory, at least the memories about her are definitely gone, that's for sure, but she can't tell this secret to this group of people.

Because she knew very well that the traitor was always afraid, afraid that Xia Shou was faking it. That's why the other party was cautiously probing, like a tiger using the tip of its claws to touch the fur on a little rabbit's ear, afraid that the slightest overreaction would tear the little rabbit's fur and reveal the true form of a Tyrannosaurus Rex underneath.

But in fact, a little white rabbit is a little white rabbit. Even if it was a Tyrannosaurus Rex before, it is now a little white rabbit.

She had always kept her care for Xia Shou to a minimum. She was often worried about him, but she would never overprotect him. Overly strict protection would only expose Xia Shou's true colors, while perfunctory protection would be seen as a strategic weakness.

To make the real appear real and the false appear real—that is the art of deception.

The principle is simple, but the difficult part is finding the right balance.

Shangguan Yan even knew what Dongya wanted to say. She could guess Dongya's reasoning and analysis. He must have categorized and discussed the thoughts of everyone in Moyu Division.

There must be someone in the Moyu Division who thinks that Xia Shou is currently suffering from amnesia and is at his most vulnerable, needing the most protection and assistance.

The other side certainly believes that Xia Shou has not lost his memory, and all his weakness is just a superficial disguise, a bait to lure the traitor into making a move.

One group consists of those who have lost their memories, and the other group consists of those who remain hidden. The two groups will make different choices based on the truth they believe in.

Of course, there will also be simple-minded outliers who may not think about anything at all.

Winter Raven's conclusion should be that all the previous probing attacks by the traitors were merely to exhaust the human time of the "Amnesiac Faction" and deplete all the slots for the reincarnation of Amnesiac Faction members.

When these human beings' life force is exhausted, they will return to the Origin Sea on their own, or they will be killed and forced to return to the Origin Sea.

Afterwards, the traitor can descend to the mortal world in human form, maximizing their influence and increasing the chances of assassinating Xia Shou to the highest level. Meanwhile, the hidden faction remaining in the divine kingdom who can still descend to earth are highly likely to avoid the battle. This is because they already believe Xia Shou is merely hiding his strength to lure out the traitor; if they were to intervene now, it would only give the traitor an opportunity to fish in troubled waters and cry wolf.

Shangguan Yan guessed that Dongya probably thought the same thing.

She knew, but she had to pretend she didn't.

Winter Crow stroked the tattoo on his neck and spoke in a contradictory tone, both lazy and serious:

“I sensed it too that time with the divine law.”

The traitor's malice and murderous intent towards his master reached an extreme, and I guess Old Ji and Little Li must have felt it too... that anxious calmness, that hidden malice, yet hysterical and insane extreme malice.

It was like a last-ditch effort. Until this happened recently, I thought it was the other side's last stand. If that failed, the traitor would probably give up attacking his master and instead disguise himself as a loyal subject to infiltrate our ranks.

But the fact that the underworld fell into the netherworld made me feel that this was actually the real decisive battlefield set up by that traitor. The Godly Law's desperate stance was just a decoy to lure others into making a move, so that they would play their most crucial card and then completely lose their eligibility to participate in the war.

The reality is pretty much the same. Zheng is still furious, and everyone is avoiding him. Lao Ji keeps looking for me; she seems to think I'm a traitor and wants to keep an eye on me so I won't come down.

But I know I'm not, so I have to come down.

"Then why didn't you show yourself before?" Shangguan Yan subtly displayed his "foolishness" to make himself seem a little stupid, but at the same time, he was trying not to reveal it.

“Because I saw through it, I completely saw through that mole’s plan.” A very subtle sense of pride flashed across Dongya’s pale and dejected face, and his pleasant mood was expressed undisguisedly through the corners of his mouth. “I have figured out what he’s going to do.”

"Oh? Then I'd like to hear the details."

"To become a member of the Moyu Division, one must master the forbidden knowledge of time. Due to the special nature of the Moyu Division, the gods have imposed restrictions on these forbidden knowledges. That is, apart from the head of the Moyu Division, everyone can only be familiar with one forbidden knowledge of time. Once one is known, it is impossible to learn another forbidden knowledge of time."

Each of us in the Moyu Division possesses a unique ability, which serves as our label and our distinctive identity card. Once an ability is used, it becomes immediately clear who is using it.

As Dongya spoke, she walked to the edge of the rooftop, took off the rings on her fingers one by one, and placed them on the wall.

"Time is a toy that can be manipulated at will. It can be stopped, sped up, rewound, cut, or looped, just like what a film editor can do to a film. Among the many techniques, there is one that is quite special."

However, these powers cannot be used in the mortal world in a named dimension, as this is not permitted. If they were used in the mortal world in a human form, the power would be reduced to almost nothing.

But... that applies to the present world, while the cyclical history is not the present world. The existence of the Moyu Division itself is responsible for managing and revising special histories, and it has considerable autonomy in the matter of non-permanently modifying special histories.

Among our people is one known as the Fisherman of the Time River.

(End of this chapter)