Old days, dice and investigator's manual

In the cell, Carlo glanced at Li Jiehao, who was standing at attention against the wall: "So you mean that after you performed the Morzur ritual, you had some 'other person's memories' in your mind, but you are still Jacob Hamilton."

Li Jiehao nodded quickly.

Adhering to the principle that "the most brilliant lie is always the truth," he quickly came up with a story, saying that the original owner had some "strange memories" after performing that ritual.

He thought his explanation was rather clever, but Carlo looked at him with a look that suggested he was an idiot: "So, you admit you're possessed by evil spirits?"

"No, wait—"

Looking at the person in front of him, Isaac made a rough judgment in his mind.

This person was probably the "Li Jiehao" he mentioned, who somehow took over Jacob Hamilton's body.

Carlo turned to Isaac, pointed at Li Jiehao, and asked, "Do you know what's going on here?"

"Possessed by an evil spirit?"

"Evil spirits refer to spiritual entities that remain after death through some means, often causing harm, whether intentionally or unintentionally. In that respect, it does fit the description," Carlo said. "However, there's a more suitable term to describe this guy's situation—"

"Time traveler".

"Time traveler?" This was another unfamiliar word to Isaac, so he broke it down into its components.

"Those who can achieve time-space travel in a non-linear way while maintaining the continuity of consciousness, in any case, did not originally belong here. Like this guy who possessed a certain body, it is a very common soul travel."

Isaac understood. If Carlo's statement was true, then this man named Li Jiehao originally lived elsewhere and somehow possessed Jacob Hamilton, resulting in his current situation.

Li Jiehao stared wide-eyed as the two of them discussed what a transmigrator was right in front of him, the transmigrator.

How come this guy is so familiar with transmigrators? Is transmigration a common occurrence in this world?

His mind raced, working even faster than when he was solving math problems, and an idea popped into his head.

This guy using dice, could it be...?

He tentatively asked, "Odd changes, even remains the same?"

Isaac looked at Li Jiehao, and he seemed to say something, in a language I couldn't understand.

Carlo raised an eyebrow: "This code is too old-fashioned."

Isaac looked at Carlo, who was still speaking Common Tongue.

Although he couldn't understand what Li Jiehao had just said, he guessed that it was some kind of language that person was using, and that Carlo clearly understood it.

Based on Carlo's previous strange use of words, Isaac also had a guess.

"Boss, you're not a time traveler too, are you?"

"Oops, we've been found out." Carlo shrugged. "That's right, I'm not from this world."

Isaac was taken aback, not expecting Carlo to admit it so readily.

Li Jiehao's eyes lit up: "Fellow villager!"

"How can you be sure we're from the same hometown? Maybe we come from parallel but similar worlds, or even different eras."

Li Jiehao froze: "Uh..."

"However, the other time travelers I know of, even those with significant time gaps, all come from the same place and the same era, so let's say there are no exceptions."

Li Jiehao became excited again: "Fellow villager!"

"Stop it. Even if we're from the same hometown, why are you getting so worked up?"

"Don't time travelers always stick together?" Li Jiehao said matter-of-factly. "When fellow countrymen meet, their eyes well up with tears."

"That's not necessarily true." Carlo raised a finger and shook it. "The premise of forming a group is mutual trust. You and I are complete strangers. You don't even know who I am, and I don't know who you are. Who knows if you're the kind of guy who would stab someone in the back?"

Li Jiehao panicked: "I'm definitely not that kind of person!"

"Heh, bad people like to say that."

Li Jiehao choked, thinking to himself that this fellow villager seemed rather difficult to get along with.

Isaac listened from the side, and although he could only understand Carlo's words from one side, he roughly grasped the main points.

Carlo looked at Isaac: "Aren't you surprised at all? This is very important information."

Isaac thought for a moment: "Because you always say so many weird things, like baseball, abbot, blue stripes, cappuccino... Now that you know you're a time traveler, you feel more like 'I see' than shocked."

"Tsk, high rationality is so boring, it's more interesting to be a little silly."

Li Jiehao chimed in from the side, "Hey buddy, you understand Chinese, so you must be from the same country as me. Why don't you speak Chinese?"

Carlo glanced at him: "Well... there's something that can sense people who speak a language from another world and hunt them down. There have been cases of transmigrators dying at the hands of this thing, so it's safer to use a common language."

Li Jiehao, who had already spoken several sentences in the otherworldly language, froze on his face with a smile: "Why didn't you say so earlier?!"

"You didn't ask."

Li Jiehao was about to cry. Did that mean he had already been exposed?

"However, that thing's tracking mechanism isn't that sensitive; if you occasionally say a few words, you won't be flagged."

Li Jiehao breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that this fellow villager was talking in a very hesitant manner and was not very reliable.

"Alright, let's get down to business. That ring, you chased after the Sherwood family just for it?" Carlo asked.

Li Jiehao nodded: "The zombie said that it was a sacred object of Morzul and asked me to take it back."

Do you know what specific effects that ring has?

"I'm not sure, but the zombies say it's a sacred object."

"So what are you planning to do after you get the ring?"

"I... I don't know, let's get our hands on it first, it's a good thing after all."

"Even if you get your hands on it, what do you plan to do if you're hunted down by official forces?"

"Well……"

Carlo clicked his tongue: "Typical transmigrator mentality. Do you think you have the protagonist's halo? You don't consider the consequences and don't leave yourself a way out."

Li Jiehao shrank his neck.

"Also, do you know what level of existence Morzul is?"

"Um... I read in a book that it's a god who governs decay and rebirth, something like that?"

"Do you know that this god is believed to have vanished, and even rituals pointing to Him cannot be fulfilled?"

Li Jiehao was stunned: "Disappeared? But that walking corpse was clearly..."

"It still works, right?" Carlo continued. "So, things are getting interesting. A god who was thought to have vanished can respond to rituals, kill the original owner of your body, and even send impure spirits to guide the search for sacred relics."

Isaac continued along this line of thought: if Morzul had truly vanished, then the power behind the ring and the zombie was not Morzul himself; if Morzul had not completely vanished, but was in some dormant state... it meant that He had become active again.

Neither possibility is good news.