Legend Management Bureau Chapter 420

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You Si seemed to understand, prompting her to ask, “Hey, if I teach them to stand up, does that count as having humanity?”

The Old Woman looked at the young woman before her, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. “Silly Yatou, this is not just humanity, it should be your fundamental nature. Every one of us who comes into this world requires the guidance of others, otherwise we are no different from Wild Beasts. As for you… there must be someone in this world who once taught you, right?”

“The person who taught me…”

The figure of Time instantly surfaced in You Si’s mind.

Her entire understanding of this world came from Time’s constant muttering.

It was just a pity that she never knew humans were so fragile—so fragile that they even needed to be taught how to walk.

“The person who taught me is trapped. I need to save him,” You Si declared.

“You really are a Yatou with a bitter fate,” the Old Woman nodded. “Did you wander here? I still have some surplus grain at home. Do you want to take some with you?”

“There is no need,” You Si shook her head. “I am going to teach these two children how to stand up now.”

Watching the Old Woman’s retreating back, You Si chuckled. “I have truly learned some interesting things in this tribe. I am in a rather good mood, so I will spare their lives.”

After about half an hour had passed, the Old Woman slowly returned with several coarse grain cakes in hand, only to find the young woman and the children nowhere to be seen.

On a mountain a few miles away from the tribe.

You Si stared at the two little ones before her and coldly commanded, “Hey, the two of you, stand up for me!”

A Can and A Kui did not understand You Si’s meaning at all, so they could only quietly watch her.

“Stand up!” You Si roared. “Just like me, stand on your own two feet!”

A Can seemed to understand something. He slowly crawled to You Si’s side, then reached out his tiny hand and tugged at her clothes.

“You!” You Si grew a little anxious and took a step back, breaking free from A Can’s grasp. “Do not expect anyone to help you! If you do not stand up now, you will crawl on the ground forever!”

“Ah—Ya—” A Can raised his hands as if he wanted to say something, but no one in this world had ever taught him how to speak.

“You cannot speak and you cannot stand. Are the two of you completely useless?!” You Si scolded loudly. “If I had known you two would always be this worthless, I really should have killed you with a single palm strike!”

Du Yu sensed that the situation was taking a turn for the worse. Although he was currently merely witnessing this story, he already knew the ending—

A Can and A Kui would ultimately meet a Wrongful Death.

Judging from the current situation, the most likely cause of their deaths was being killed by You Si.

Even though You Si had shaken him off, A Can still slowly crawled forward and grabbed onto her skirt once more.

You Si furrowed her brows, but this time she did not rush to cast him aside. “What? Do you know you are going to die, so you want to beg me for mercy?”

But in the next second, A Can actually mustered all his strength. Clinging tightly to You Si’s skirt, he slowly pulled himself up to his feet. He extended his other hand, constantly waving at You Si as if asking her to pick him up.

However, this was his first time standing, and he quickly lost his balance and fell backward.

A trace of panic flashed across You Si’s face. She hurriedly squatted down to support A Can, firmly catching the tumbling infant in her arms.

The moment she held A Can, she felt something deep within her heart stir to life.

A moment later, a smile she didn’t even notice herself graced her lips. “What is this… Little guy, aren’t you perfectly capable of standing up?”

You Si seemed to understand a little better now.

Looking at these two clumsy little ones, she felt as though she finally grasped the meaning of humanity.

Time began to shuttle forward at a blistering pace.

The scenes before Du Yu’s eyes shifted continuously. In the center of his vision was You Si, but everything around her underwent Profound Changes Over Time.

You Si appeared to become a completely different person. During this rapid leap through time, she interacted with many people.

Although the images flashed by at lightning speed, Du Yu still managed to catch glimpses of a few familiar faces. For example, Yi Di, whom he had met once before, and Chang Xian, who stood by the side of the Yellow Emperor.

You Si arrived at the scene of Xing Tian’s death, and in the blink of an eye, she was at the site where Fuxi perished.

They all seemed to have communicated something with You Si, but the scenes flashed by too quickly to gather any useful information.

When everything finally returned to normal, A Can and A Kui looked to be young men in their early twenties.

“Mother,” A Can turned his head to gaze into the distance. “Do we still need to go kill people today?”

“There is no need.” You Si reclined on a stone bed. “I am a bit tired. It seems… that mission is impossible to complete.”

At this moment, A Kui was stripping a cow’s hide with his bare hands. He cast a sidelong glance at You Si and asked cautiously, “Mother, why must you find someone to become Time? Can’t Elder Brother and I complete this mission for you?”

“You two…?” You Si pondered for a moment. It was indeed a good idea, but the moment she recalled the Burly Man being torn apart by space and time, lingering fear gripped her heart.

The two youths before her were now her most capable assistants. With just a word from her, they would risk their lives on her behalf.

Such excellent labor would be hard to find again; she could not let them die so easily.

You Si had finally realized that by raising two people and giving them a few minor favors, they would recklessly lay down their lives for her. This was the profound mystery of humanity.

“You two should hold off on becoming Time for now. Time is trapped in eternity anyway, so I am in no rush.” You Si fiddled with her nails and asked, “Are there any villages left within a fifty-mile radius?”

“No, they have all been slaughtered,” A Kui replied. “Aside from us, it seems someone else has been massacring villages lately.”

“What?” You Si froze. “I have yet to interrogate those people. Who dares to kill them?”

A Can and A Kui knew absolutely nothing about the culprit. They only knew that the corpses were left in a peculiar state, distinctly different from the handiwork of their trio.

You Si was clearly angered. Even though it was murder, she first had to confirm that those people were unwilling to become Time before their deaths could be fully justified.

“I had intended to rest a bit, but forget it.” You Si stood up. “Come with me to drag that person out.”

Du Yu followed the three of them to a nearby settlement, only to discover that the surrounding villages were practically filled with corpses, with countless wild wolves gnawing at the remains.

Most of the villages had been wiped out by the Can Kui brothers personally. They clearly remembered leaving a few small, struggling villages behind, but now even those had been utterly massacred.

You Si touched down in one of the villages. Looking down at the state of the dead villagers on the ground, a hint of suspicion flashed across her face.

If an expert had struck, it definitely would have been a fatal one-hit kill.

Yet, observing the wounds on these villagers, they were almost entirely the work of amateurs with no cultivation whatsoever.

Some had been battered by stones, some slashed by sharp tools, and others strangled to death.

“How truly strange…” You Si muttered to herself. “These are entirely Mortal methods. Could the person who massacred this village have no cultivation? If they have no cultivation… how could they kill an entire village at the same time?”

Du Yu closely examined the attire of the villagers, and he too couldn’t help but look perplexed.

They were not wearing animal pelts, but rather coarse cloth garments.

‘Strange… their clothing is completely different from the ancient era… How much time just passed?’ Du Yu pondered for a moment. ‘Could it be that instead of a dozen years, several centuries have already gone by?’