Artifact Report

Chapter 250 Osmosis
"...Han Liuyue?"

He had never been so cautious in his life.

He remembered that he had very lightly crossed the border, leaving his feet behind him, outside the darkness. He didn't know what he was using, but he slowly walked forward.

But it doesn’t matter, disabled people without legs can still move around; isn’t this a common thing?

In the pitch darkness, there was no light and no answer.

Chai Si waited quietly for a while.

He felt that he should try calling Han Liuyue's name out loud.

After all, since he came in, he has not used this simplest method of finding people.

"Han Liuyue?" Chai Si called softly. "Can you hear me? Where are you?"

While waiting for a response, he continued walking deeper into the darkness.

He had never been so cautious in his life.

He remembered climbing over the border very lightly, leaving his feet behind him, outside the darkness.

Chai Si felt that he should try calling Han Liuyue's name once.

After all, he hadn't called her since he followed Han Liuyue in.

"Han Liuyue?"

Maybe sound can be transmitted in the dark, maybe Han Liuyue can hear it.

He should call her, just give it a try. After all, he hadn't said a word in the past few minutes...

Wait, how long has he been in here?
Chai Si couldn't recall, but he felt it wouldn't be too long. He remembered that he was very sensitive to the passage of time and could grasp it accurately...

It's a bit strange.

It was clearly his own business, but when he thought about it now, it felt like he was recalling the characteristics of a movie character, very far away from him; as if it was written for him by a screenwriter.

Forget it, that's not important.

To be more precise, he was now unable to muster the necessary tension to feel that something was important.

All in all, Chai Si has an accurate sense of time; since he felt that not much time had passed, he must have just come in.

There was no point in looking down anyway; in the endless darkness, he couldn't see the watch on his wrist.

Although he couldn't see the watch on his wrist, Chai Si could occasionally see the person behind the darkness.

Those figures only flashed by, sometimes they were people he knew, sometimes they were not; occasionally, they would drag along a piece of the background or environment around them, floating hazily in the darkness.

At such moments, Chai Si would walk over quickly and carefully look at the face and the environment one by one.

Once, he saw a fat man sitting in a booth in an unfamiliar small restaurant, his eyes blank and lifeless, as if he was lost in thought.

Chai Si walked over slowly, wanting to get to the fat man first, and then enter the small restaurant from him to look for Han Liuyue - because the fat man's table was at the front, the restaurant seemed to start from him and existed only as a background for the fat man.

It was not until Chai Si approached the table that he suddenly realized that there was a mirror on the wall next to the booth.

The fat man just turned his head and his eyes fell on the mirror, meeting Chai Si's gaze.

His face suddenly changed, he gasped, and jumped up suddenly. His stomach knocked the plates, forks and coffee cups on the table, making them shake and clink. When the fat man opened his mouth, as if he was about to scream, everything around him seemed to be sucked away, and in the blink of an eye, it sank back into darkness.

...Why are you so afraid of him?

Chai Si stood in the dark in a daze, unable to figure out where the fat man and the restaurant had gone.

If he remembered correctly, people could stand up and move around, yes, but buildings couldn't... right?

Yes, buildings cannot just disappear or retreat into darkness...that's right.

But it doesn't matter, it's not important.

The key is to find Han Liuyue.

Han Liuyue is nearby... He can't give up any hope of finding her.

Although Chai Si didn't know where "here" was, he was very sure that Han Liuyue was here; after all, he came in with Han Liuyue.

It seems that the only continuous thought that Chai Si can hold on to is "finding Han Liuyue" - rather than saying it is an idea, it is better to say that it has become an "obsession"; driven by the obsession, Chai Si walks further and further into the darkness step by step.

Apart from this, Chai Si's other thoughts and ideas were like particles immersed in liquid, constantly seeping and diffusing, moving farther and farther away from him.

The memory of the fat man and the small restaurant seemed to be softened and gently separated from him, drifting away into the depths of darkness.

Chai Si remembered that in addition to the fat man and the small restaurant, he seemed to have seen other people, entered a place he was very familiar with, and walked for a long time... Was it the Kai family mansion?
He couldn't remember clearly, but in short, the building that looked like the Kai family mansion finally stood up, stared at him, took small steps backward and disappeared into the darkness.

What is left in the end is only darkness that seems to be nothing but is actually filled with countless thoughts.

However, just as diffuse particles float around, occasionally one or two memories or thoughts belonging to Chai Si will float back to Chai Si, like a fish, gently touching him a few times, as if wanting to see if he will open a hole to let it go home.

...He should call out to Han Liuyue, maybe she could hear his call.

After all, he had never called Han Liuyue's name once since he came in.

"Han Liu--" This time, Chai Si suddenly stopped.

He stopped - this was of course just an explanation, he didn't remember bringing feet with him, so he probably didn't bring any - and stared fixedly at the darkness ahead.

Behind the layers of chaotic, tangled, mixed, and rolling darkness ahead, there was a person squatting.

He couldn't see it, but he could feel it.

"...Han Liuyue?" Chai Si could only softly call out the only name left in his mind. "Is it you?"

Although it was clearly just the other side of the darkness, it seemed so far away from him. The person was silent for a moment, then replied, "...It's me."

Chai Si hoped to recall Han Liuyue's voice from his memory and compare it with what he heard now, but he failed. The memory of Han Liuyue's voice had long since drifted away like a speck of dust in the water, and no one knew where it was.

He remembered that Han Liuyue was a woman, and the voice that answered him was also a female voice - it seemed like a good sign.

"Why are you here?" Chai Si asked tentatively. "Are you okay?"

"...I was going to ask you this question. Where are you from?"

Chai Si thought about it for a while.

Yes, where did he come from? He still remembered that he followed Han Liuyue in. This part of his memory had not faded, but before coming in...

"Blackmore," Chase said. "I can't remember exactly where it was, but it was definitely Blackmore."

The figure in the darkness took a small breath, as if he were somehow impressed.

"You've come a long way, then."

Really? Chai Si wasn't sure how far he had walked, but it seemed like a short time had passed.

Chai Si's sense of timing is very precise.

Since he felt that it had not been long, he must have just come in.

"Put your hands down," he demanded. "You had your hands covering your face, and I couldn't see who you were."

The word "see" is naturally inaccurate. All the scenes at this moment - such as the other party squatting on the ground with his hands covering his face, are like particles, slowly drifting into the darkness and penetrating into his mind from the darkness.

But human language is always at a loss when faced with something unprecedented, so we have to use old words to make do.

The man in the darkness smiled and said, "Then I'll show you my eyes. But I can't show you my mouth."

It seemed that he should ask her why she didn't show him her mouth, but at the same time, Chai Si immediately realized that it would be meaningless even if he looked at her mouth.

...What do Han Liuyue’s eyes look like?

Are her eyelids heavy and thick, piled up layer upon layer, covering half of her cloudy eyeballs?

He couldn't remember.

"Chase... Chase Monroe." Someone in the dark suddenly called out.

Yes, that's his name.

Since she knows her own name, then... is she really Han Liuyue?

Otherwise, in this darkness where it seemed as if the world had ceased to exist, who else could recognize him except Han Liuyue?
No matter what, take her out first.

"Come with me," Chai Si said, "I'll take you home. Don't worry, the one who occupies your body... that..."

Whatever had once occupied her body turned into a small piece of white that kept moving away and seeped into the darkness, and could no longer be seen.

"Anyway, it's gone. You're okay." Chai Si said softly, almost in a murmur, "I'm sorry... Fortunately, you've held on until now."

The person in the darkness covered his mouth, squatted on the ground, and giggled a few times.

"I can't go with you," the man said.

"why?"

"Weren't you just looking after Kai's family?"

Did this happen? How did she know? Chai Si himself had to wait for those memories, thoughts and ideas to return and encounter him before he could remember them.

"Do you want to continue looking after the Kai family?"

Of course he does.

This is his only mission in this world bearing sin.

"Eliminate the threat... I'll take you there and eliminate the biggest threat to the Kai family... As soon as you see it, you'll remember everything, believe me."

Han Liuyue squatted on the ground and started giggling again.

　The God of Wealth has left, but he left everyone Ma Yinglong's bank account number and withdrawal password. Look for them at home.

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(End of this chapter)