815 Flowers Are Not Flowers, Fogs Are Not Fogs (1/2)

”I survived and lived on this ship for a very long time, but I still died from old age?”

Qin Mu was dejected. He had a strong sense of defeat.

He didn't believe the words of the tiny human in the lantern originally, but after the series of unpredictable incidents that had happened since he stepped onto the ship, he was left with no choice but to believe in his words.

Didn't that mean that no matter how hard he tried, he would be unable to escape the predestined fate of dying on the ship?

No matter how much he struggled, he just couldn't escape from the ship. No matter how hard he tried to deduce, he would be unable to solve Celestial Venerable Ling's divine art, not even by the time he died?

Dragon Rearing Sovereign's heart was collapsing, and he turned limp on the ground. Tears filled his eyes, and he muttered, ”How are we going to leave this d*mn place? Heaven and earth changes, the unchanging constant, what is the meaning of the unchanging constant of thirty-six people?”

He suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and he sank into great fear. ”Isn't that what the crazy old dragon is mumbling? Why did I repeat his words? Could I really be him?”

Qin Mu took a glance at him and frowned. He forced a smile and said, ”So how many times have we boarded this ship? Why don't we have any memory of boarding this ship previously?”

The tiny human in the lantern said, ”This ship will reset the time and space thirty-six times in a cycle. We will appear in different years, and after thirty-six resets, we will return to the starting point, which is the instant the fog burst forth. The people who boarded the ship in this period will not have their memory, but they will board the ship over and over again, dying over and over again before boarding the ship once more.”

Village Chief suddenly said, ”In that case, how did you manage to retain your memory of the cycle?”

The tiny human said, ”I am also not clear.”

Qin Mu's heart stirred. ”That old dragon howling with grief seems to have his memory of the cycle as well. However, he seems to have gone crazy. What's going on with him? Who is he?”

The tiny human in the lantern said, ”He is Dragon Count. Like me, he didn't fade into the void when the fog burst forth.”

Dragon Rearing Sovereign let out a sigh of relief when he heard his words. ”So it isn't me...”

Village Chief suddenly thought of the crux. ”On this ship, other than you and Dragon Count, who else didn't fade into the void?”

The tiny human was slightly stunned, but he didn't answer.

Village Chief narrowed his eyes and glanced at Qin Mu.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Qin Mu also narrowed his eyes. The sword pellet in his taotie sack secretly flew out, and the Carefree Sword flew out from the sword pellet. The handle of the sword faced Village Chief.

Vital qi poured out from the tip of Village Chief's fingers and coiled around the handle of the Carefree Sword. He said with a smile, ”Heaven and earth changes, the unchanging constant of thirty-six people. The unchanging constant will not change along with the reset of time and space. This ship will go through a cycle after thirty-six resets, and the unchanging constant of thirty-six people means that thirty-six people will not be reset, they will not fade into the void.”

Qin Mu said, ”According to this deduction, every time the ghost ship time travels, one person will survive. The first time, when the fog burst forth, Dragon Count survived. Dragon Count was then the first observer, but he couldn't accept what he was seeing, so he became crazy. Every time he meets someone, he tells others about the unchanging constant of thirty-six people. The unchanging constant isn't just a number, it means that thirty-six people won't be changed by the reset. Since Dragon Count survived during the first reset, how did you manage to survive?”

Village Chief held the sword in his hand, and he said faintly, ”The ghost ship stops in thirty-six different years, and every year there will be different people boarding the ship, but only one person will survive. Lin Xiao, when did you board this ship?”

Qin Mu said, ”When we boarded this ship, you took the initiative to come over when you saw me take out the commander's seal. You sat in the lantern and easily gained our trust so that we wouldn't suspect you. We were clueless about this ship and needed you to guide us. Because of that, we would obviously trust you without any question, and that would be the simplest and most effective method. What so-called darkness under the lamp? The darkness under the lamp can bluff many people, but you can't bluff the old and experienced.”

Village Chief held the Carefree Sword behind his back, and the other hand clutched a sword technique in front of his chest.

It should be a sword in front and the sword technique behind so that the sword technique couldn't be seen, making the sword skill even more mysterious. However, he did the opposite.

Countless sword lights flowed around him, and Sword Picture took shape to shroud the surroundings. Even the tiny human in the lantern was shrouded in the sword picture.

Qin Mu had never seen this kind of sword skill before.

Village Chief had imparted the Nine Forms of Sword Picture to him before, but his current sword skill should be a new Sword Picture that Village Chief had created after becoming a god.

His Sword Dao had reached an all-new height.

”And we, are the old and experienced.”

Qin Mu said with a smile, ”We, the Disabled Elderly Village, never want to hurt anyone, but when we interact with others, we always keep an eye out! In that case, Lin Xiao, are you the one who brought Jue Wuchen on the ship?”

The tiny human stood up from the door sill. He looked at the flowing sword light outside before pulling back his gaze. He stared at the sword technique in front of Village Chief.

”Why does Commander say so?” he asked softly.

”After Celestial Emperor died, Celestial Empress had to get rid of Jue Wuchen so that whatever she had done wasn't revealed. However, the corporeal body of Jue Wuchen was still of use to her, so she needed to preserve it for times of emergency. Since she had to get rid of Jue Wuchen and her body, and yet preserve them at the same time, the best place was this ghost ship.”

Qin Mu said with a smile, ”She would be a big figure at that point, so it wasn't good for her to do this kind of thing herself. Thus, she needed a confidant, a person she trusted to do this for her. This person brought Jue Wuchen's corporeal body onto the ghost ship and opened up Celestial Empress' coffin to put Jue Wuchen inside. Yet this person couldn't leave the ship and is definitely still on the ship. To protect this secret, they need to ensure that everyone who comes onto this ship can't leave.”

Village Chief said, ”They must be the most active person on the ship. When new people board the ship, they would be the first to jump out and send them to their deaths. Or else, they would make them unable to leave the ship and remain here to accompany them.”

”The first one to jump out was you. You are the one who found us according to the commander's seal,” said Qin Mu.

The tiny human in the lantern sighed. ”Why would such a clever person have such a dumb mount? This dumb dragon is the reason I underestimated you guys. You guys are dumb as well.”

He said coldly, ”You should have attacked me when you suspected me instead of saying it out loud. If you guys ambushed me, you might have had a chance at survival, but now you can only die.”