Legend Management Bureau Chapter 199

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Weaver Girl and Cowherd returned to the bar after clearing the battlefield.

According to Cowherd, he temporarily handed over An Lushan’s territory for Zhi Er to manage, though there would likely be plenty of troublesome matters to resolve later.

Du Yu explained his situation to the two of them, stating that he needed to hurry back to the Mountain of No Return as soon as possible.

After exchanging a few final words, Du Yu and Cowherd swapped phone numbers. Du Yu then went to bid farewell to Meng Po before departing from the Inner Underworld.

On the way back, the group sat on Weaver Girl’s shawl, flying at high speeds. The Can Kui brothers constantly surveyed the scenery of the Underworld, everything seeming incredibly novel to them.

Meanwhile, Du Yu was preoccupied, keeping his head down in silence.

“Du Yu, are you going to talk about it?” Weaver Girl asked softly.

“Talk… talk about what?”

“You have been acting incredibly strange ever since you killed An Lushan. Did something happen? Was An Lushan your biological father?”

“Hehe!” Weaver Girl covered her mouth and giggled lightly. Seeing that Du Yu could still make jokes, she felt a little more at ease. “So? What is the real reason?”

“I…” Du Yu honestly did not know how to bring it up. The Can Kui brothers were sitting right behind him; if he revealed that they had assassinated him, what would they think?

Weaver Girl watched Du Yu repeatedly glancing toward the Can Kui brothers and could not help but realize something.

“You… you did not run into those two assassins again, did you?” Weaver Girl asked.

“Uh…” Du Yu furrowed his brows. “Weaver Girl, are you a fortune teller? How do you know everything without me even saying a word?”

Overhearing their conversation, the Can Kui brothers hurriedly interjected, “Assassins?! Brother Yu, does someone want to kill you?”

“Well…” Du Yu was lost for words, unsure of how to explain it. “Someone did indeed want to kill me… but it seems everything is fine for now.”

The two brothers nodded slightly and did not press the matter further.

Du Yu continued speaking to Weaver Girl in a low voice, “Weaver Girl, I keep feeling like there is something very strange about all of this… but I cannot quite put my finger on what is wrong. They say the bystander sees things more clearly than the person involved. Do you have any thoughts?”

Weaver Girl thought about it carefully before replying, “Where do you think the problem lies?”

“It is just…” Du Yu did not know how to express it. “How should I put it… The timing of those two assassins’ appearance completely exceeded my expectations. I never would have imagined they would show up at An Lushan’s place…”

Weaver Girl’s expression turned serious. “That makes sense. You could not have anticipated it. In your subconscious, you believed it was absolutely impossible to encounter assassins there.”

Du Yu blinked and asked, “What do you mean?”

“Du Yu, why did you go to An Lushan’s place?” Weaver Girl asked.

“Why? Naturally, it was to help Ah Kui snatch back…” Du Yu froze mid-sentence. He seemed to have overlooked a critically important detail.

“Du Yu, you went to find An Lushan solely to help Ah Kui retrieve that piece of his soul, yet they acted as if they already knew, right?”

Du Yu pondered this with a horrified expression, feeling as though all the answers were slowly surfacing.

‘I clearly chose to help the Can Kui brothers on a spur of the moment whim, yet this was actually history?’

‘I clearly wanted to catch the future Saint off guard, but what happened?’

‘I was destined to help these brothers from the very beginning.’

‘So… the Can Kui brothers were waiting there ahead of time because this was history that had already occurred.’

‘And precisely because of this, Wa Rang stepped forward to stop the Can Kui brothers in order to protect this segment of history.’

“No wonder you said my subconscious believed they would not appear there… because I thought I was altering history. I thought they would never expect it…”

If he reasoned it out like this, everything seemed to make sense, but it also became even more bizarre!

“If everything I have done was destined…” Du Yu said to Weaver Girl, his voice trembling slightly, “Then those two future assassins… their master is…”

“It is you,” Weaver Girl stated.

“Which means… I… I am…” Du Yu could hardly believe the conclusion he was drawing.

At that moment, the Can Kui brothers were casually chatting with Qu Xi.

The older brother, Ah Can, asked in a hushed tone, “Miss Qu, what exactly is Brother Yu’s… immortal rank?”

Qu Xi thought for a moment before replying, “I do not really understand how immortal ranks are divided. Anyway, Du Yu is not an immortal, not a god, not a human, not a demon, not a ghost, and not a devil either.”

Du Yu muttered to himself, “I am… the Saint?”

Qu Xi blanked, turning around to look at Du Yu. “What did you say?”

Du Yu shook his head frantically. This was not right.

‘If I am the Saint, why would I send people to kill my past self?’

‘If I do that, wouldn’t my future self die as well?’

‘Am I the one trying to kill myself?’

He tugged at his hair forcefully. He was clearly close to the truth, yet everything felt even more confusing and convoluted.

Weaver Girl also looked at Du Yu with a grave expression. If the future Du Yu really was the Saint, his actions were far too bizarre to comprehend.

“No wonder… no wonder…” Du Yu gritted his teeth. “No wonder during the legend, they called Medusa Gorgon, Shiranui Asuka Ah Xiang, and Zhongli Chun Little Zhongli… These are nicknames only I would use… No wonder they understand me so well. No wonder they know everything about everyone…”

Du Yu felt the world spinning around him, feeling as though he was about to faint.

If one were to ask who Du Yu least wanted to make an enemy of, the answer was undoubtedly himself.

Because sometimes, even he did not know what outrageous thing he might do next.

Compared to his present self, his future self undoubtedly held an absolute crushing advantage in both connections and strength. If his future self wanted him dead, his chances of surviving were infinitesimally small.

He would formulate a meticulous plan and use unexpected methods to ensure he died without a burial place.

For the first time, Du Yu felt a sense of sheer panic.

“Weaver Girl… what should I do?” Du Yu asked.

“You are asking me?” Weaver Girl offered a bitter smile. “Du Yu, aren’t you grasping at straws out of desperation?”

“Grasping at straws?” Du Yu sighed in disappointment. It was true; he was really losing his mind in a panic. He had only known Weaver Girl for a few days—what good advice could she possibly give?

But who could help him now?

Du Yu turned around and quietly stared at the Can Kui brothers, his intense gaze sending chills down their spines.

A terrifying thought involuntarily arose in his mind: ‘If I kill these two men right now, would I be safer?’

‘At the very least, the future Can Kui brothers would not come back to kill me.’

“Du Yu, I know what you are thinking,” Weaver Girl said. “But think about it carefully… is that the right thing to do?”

Du Yu turned his head to look at Weaver Girl and immediately understood what she meant.

The Can Kui brothers were following his orders to kill him. They had done absolutely nothing wrong. On the contrary, they were more fiercely loyal than anyone else. They did not deserve to die for this reason.

Before Du Yu could shake off his chaotic emotions, the group had already flown back to the Mountain of No Return.

Many of his colleagues had already brought a few elders to wait outside the doors. Seeing Weaver Girl’s artifact flying toward them, several people hurriedly stepped forward to greet them, helping the Can Kui brothers down and taking them away to treat their injuries.

The moment the members of the Legend Management Bureau saw the two brothers’ appearances, their eyes widened in shock.

Weren’t those the two assassins?

Du Yu quickly sent the Can Kui brothers away and explained the entire sequence of events to Dong Qianqiu and the others, though naturally, he concealed the part about him being the Saint.

Everyone wore expressions of concern after hearing the story, but upon careful reflection, they agreed that Du Yu had done the right thing. It was far better to become friends with them than to remain enemies.

“Sister Qianqiu, what is the situation now…? Where are the two of them?”

“They have already packed their belongings and are waiting in the courtyard. Since I did not know your intentions, I did not dare to ask them to stay,” Dong Qianqiu replied.

“What other intentions could I possibly have?” Du Yu said anxiously. “The Legend Management Bureau is exactly in need of manpower right now. We definitely have to make them stay!”

Du Yu hurriedly sprinted into the courtyard, and just as expected, he saw Medusa and Shiranui Asuka chatting there.

“Gorgon, Ah Xiang, are you leaving?”

“Ah! Senior Du Yu!” Shiranui Asuka waved at Du Yu. “We could not find you anywhere, so we thought we wouldn’t get to see you before leaving!”

Medusa also looked at Du Yu with a complex expression and said, “There are still many matters that need to be handled back in the Hellenic Domain…”

Du Yu could not help but feel a lingering sense of reluctance to part. Although he had not known these two for long, they were life-and-death companions who had gone through thick and thin together. He and Shiranui Asuka had gone from being complete strangers to understanding each other; they were fellow comrades in arms.

Medusa walked up to Du Yu and asked, “Du Yu, I will ask you one more time. Do you truly not need the sacred relics of the Hellenic Domain? I can even give you Zeus’ spear along with the rest right now. It seems someone in Huaxia is trying to kill you. Carrying these sacred relics will offer at least some measure of assistance.”

Du Yu smiled bitterly and replied, “Gorgon, I really am extremely grateful to you. You traveled all this way just to deliver a gift to me, only for me to drag you into a legend and put you through so much torment…”

“No, I am very happy,” Medusa hurriedly interjected. “Your actions did not make me unhappy in the slightest.”

Du Yu nodded and continued, “You know, when I was alive, I loved playing video games.”

“Games?”

“Yes, computer games,” Du Yu explained. “While playing games, I discovered a profound truth. If I calm down and just play normally, a single game is enough to keep me entertained for months. But if I use cheats and run modification software, then no matter how good the game is, it quickly becomes dull and meaningless to me. Its lifespan will dwindle to a mere two or three days.”

“I… do not quite understand.” Medusa shook her head.

“Those immensely powerful sacred relics of yours are basically cheats to me. They are strong, but they would render the rest of my days utterly boring,” Du Yu said. “I want to live my life a bit more wonderfully, so I can only decline your offer.”

“I see.” Medusa finally understood what he meant.

“But the future is unpredictable. Perhaps one day I will encounter a situation where even cheats will not help me win. When that time comes, I really will have to ask to borrow the Hellenic sacred relics from you.”

“Not a problem.”

Medusa nodded, then stepped forward and pulled Du Yu into a hug.

An exotic fragrance washed over him. Before Du Yu could even react to the situation, Medusa’s slightly warm body pressed against his own.

“Uh? G-Gorgon…” Du Yu was somewhat at a loss.

“Du Yu, it is not just the sacred relics. If there comes a day when you need me, the entire pantheon of the Hellenic Domain will fight for you,” Medusa whispered softly into his ear.