Legend Management Bureau Chapter 435

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“‘Time’, do you know? For hundreds of thousands of years, I have been watching you. I so wished that one day I could walk over on my own and embrace you,” You Si said affectionately.

Du Yu felt somewhat confused. He felt as if he had forgotten something important—something he clearly remembered!

If ‘You Si’ appeared, he had to… he had to…

“Now it is fine. I do not know who created me, but my duty was to block that damned Stone Door. Now that I have left, the Stone Door is open… Shall we leave together?”

“Leave…?”

“Yes. I have listened to your stories for hundreds of thousands of years, and I know I have fallen deeply in love with you. Are you willing to leave with me? We can go to a place without ‘eternity’, just like the people in your stories, and experience a life of birth, aging, illness, and death together. Are you willing?”

Du Yu seemed to snap out of it. Right… he had to leave. He could ignore everything else, but he absolutely had to leave.

He had to escape this hellish purgatory trapped in eternity.

He pressed his hands against the chair, trying to stand up. Yet, even as his flesh and blood were torn away layer by layer, spraying copious amounts of blood, he screamed continuously but could never stand up.

“I… cannot leave…” Du Yu suddenly remembered something and silently shook his head. “Someone in this world must become ‘Time’…”

“In other words… if I can find someone else to become ‘Time’, you can leave?”

“Ah… yes…” Du Yu chuckled weakly. “If you can find someone to replace me, I can leave…”

“What is so hard about that?”

You Si, just like ‘usual’, agreed to the request of finding ‘Time’.

Du Yu felt that something was amiss, but too much time had passed, and he simply could not remember.

At this moment, he looked up and saw an illusion of Shiranui Asuka.

The illusion still had not vanished. She remained silent, pointing at a rock on the ground.

Even though Du Yu’s mind was in utter chaos, he still opened his mouth and said, “Could you… fetch that rock for me…”

“A rock?” You Si turned her head and looked. There was indeed an inconspicuous rock resting on the ground.

“‘Time’, if you want rocks, I can bring you many. Besides, you will be able to leave with me soon. We can obtain everything in this world.”

Du Yu blinked and said, emphasizing every word, “I only want that rock. Fetch it.”

Hearing this, You Si did not argue. She nodded, picked up the rock, and placed it in Du Yu’s hand.

“‘Time’, is there anything else you want me to do?” You Si asked.

Du Yu quietly clenched the rock tight and slowly shook his head.

He said, “There is no need. You may go. Remember, whether or not you can find ‘Time’, you must come back to see me regularly.”

“Alright.”

“Hehe… hehehe… This is good… This is absolutely safe…”

After watching You Si leave, Du Yu was just about to lower his head when he saw an illusion of Xiao Nian standing to the side.

He froze, feeling a sense of disarray.

‘Xiao Nian?’

‘Right, I told Xiao Nian to kill Xie Yujiao.’

“Are you… not following her?” Du Yu asked blankly.

But Xiao Nian gave no response.

“Quick, follow her! Run! Run! Follow that Array Formation that came to life, and you will learn everything… Hehehehe…” As Du Yu laughed, he muttered in his heart, ‘Kill her, kill her.’

Xiao Nian’s illusion still did not move. She stared at Du Yu, as if asking, ‘Why aren’t you going?’

“Me…? I am helping you!!!” Du Yu let out a heart-wrenching shriek. It was not until Xiao Nian’s illusion vanished that he finally fell completely still.

“You selfish people… Without me… you would all be dead, hahahaha…”

He silently lowered his head, grasping that small, inconspicuous rock in his hand, and slowly murmured, “I have so many friends visiting me every day, yet only you, A’xiang, brought me a gift… You are too kind…”

Before his voice even faded, the Stone Door in front of Du Yu opened once again.

A person stood there. The man took one look inside, immediately wailed in agony, and vanished on the spot.

The Stone Door closed again, giving Du Yu a start.

He quietly observed the sudden turn of events, trying hard to keep his mind clear.

‘Why was it that the moment You Si appeared, the ‘Du Yus’ were already in the Reincarnation Cycle?’

‘Could it be that all the Du Yus are gears poised on a machine, and now lacking only a single ‘motive force’ before they all start turning?’

The next second, the Stone Door opened again.

Another ‘Du Yu’ stood outside blankly. He looked very nervous, as if trying to comprehend something bizarre.

After a long time, that ‘Du Yu’ finally spoke, “Yo! This stone chamber is already occupied…? My apologies, I will switch to another one…”

Hearing his words, Du Yu silently lowered his head. All of this was already like a train hurtling forward, having begun for no logical reason at all.

“If you are going to ignore me, I am seriously leaving…” the man looked puzzled. “No, wait, you keep dragging me over here time and time again—don’t you have anything to say to me?”

Du Yu shook his head.

“I understand.” The man nodded. “You want to get out, right? Someone locked you in here, so you want to leave. Do you want me to save you?”

The man waited for a while and, seeing that Du Yu showed no reaction, spoke again, “Forget it. Even though I do not know the reason, I opened the door by mistake. If you want to leave, just go. I will not tell anyone, and you do not need to thank me either.”

This exact identical scenario was unfolding as usual.

Du Yu could only speak in a hoarse voice, “I… cannot leave.”

He pondered for a moment, roughly deducing the current ‘timeline’, and said to the person in front of him, “Du Yu, I want to give you a piece of advice. Those two ‘Super Grade A’ Legends will crush everything you possess.”

“How… how do you know my name is Du Yu? And why are you…”

“Remember, do not return to those two Legends… and remember, do not ever come back here…” Du Yu mumbled to himself, but he suddenly realized this would have no effect. The other party was ‘himself’; he would absolutely not listen to advice.

But to Du Yu’s surprise, the man in front of him pondered for a moment and then said, “I have always been a cautious person. Even if you did not say it, I still would not go. But who on earth are you?”

“Wh…?” Before Du Yu could even react, the person before him vanished.

He remained silent for a long time before he finally understood. “So you are not ‘me’, but a doomed individual from some generation destined to die.”

The stone chamber fell quiet again, and Du Yu grew silent once more.

After today’s sudden turns of events, he seemed to have sobered up a bit.

He slowly turned his palm up to look. That perfectly ordinary rock was resting right there, and he could not help but smile bitterly.

‘I must have gone mad a long time ago to actually treat a rock as a keepsake.’

But the very next second, Du Yu clearly saw a line of faintly discernible small characters on the rock.

Unfortunately, he could not raise his hand and completely failed to make out the contents.

This was the first time in tens of thousands of years that Du Yu felt something was different.

It was as if he had remembered his ultimate goal.

He hurriedly struggled to look at the rock. He slightly raised his left hand and leaned his body forward. Vast amounts of flesh were torn away, and massive quantities of blood gushed out.

No matter what, he had to know exactly who could leave behind writing in a cave where even ‘Time’ himself could not move. Could it have been You Si?

Over the course of a few full months, Du Yu had gradually managed to endure the pain.

He could instantly tear off huge chunks of flesh and skin to allow himself to lightly raise his hand and lean forward for a brief moment. Although he would ultimately be sucked back into his seat, he was finally able to memorize the characters on the rock one by one and piece them together in his mind.

Yet even so, he remained powerless.

Because he completely could not understand the text he had pieced together in his mind. It was actually a sentence in the Fusang language.

“A’xiang’s Morning Call.”