NOVPUBChapter 469: Chapter 467 The Truth Behind Welly’s Investigation
Chapter 469: Chapter 467 The Truth Behind Welly’s Investigation
Primordial Beast Forest.
Sally took out the body of the giant serpent and had Xiaomei restore the crime scene to how it had looked at the time.
Zulu recalled the incident.
Sally even showed him the video, and Zulu stood where the spatial rift had appeared, closing his eyes to recall.
Sally sent a Sound Transmission Talisman to Welly, telling her that she had returned and was in the Primordial Beast Forest.
Welly arrived soon after.
He saw Zulu standing there, alive and well, his eyes widening slightly with unrepressed astonishment, “How is he…?”
Sally didn’t answer, “How’s the investigation going?”
“There’s some lead. Where’s my son?” Welly looked at her face, which had grown thinner, signaling that the mission hadn’t been easy.
“He’s attending the monthly exam on Jiushen Mountain.”
“At Qing Linghuan’s place?”
“Yes, how much did Little Fengning score last time?”
“Math 4 points, language 4 points…”
“Mm, not favoring any subject is very good, and there’s a huge room for improvement. He has great potential.”
“…” Was that a suggestion that his talent wasn’t genetic?
“What clues?”
“I need to go to Jiushen Mountain.”
“That’s fine. I was actually thinking of summoning you for help. Right now there are more than ten children with just Qing Linghuan looking after them.”
Welly handed an envelope to Sally, “The one who killed Zulu, it’s probably the Time Sand Beast.”
“Time Sand Beast? What’s that?” Sally took the envelope and opened it, finding nothing inside… Wait, there seemed to be some grains of sand.
She poured them out, “Sand?”
“Right. Whenever they appear, they leave traces behind,” replied Welly.
Suddenly, Zulu remembered something, “Yanyan!”
Sally looked at him, “What did you say?”
“I remember now! The face of the man in black, it was Yanyan’s face!” Zulu furrowed his brows, recalling carefully, “But that face was completely made of sand.”
“The Sand Beasts can take on countless forms. They can transform into the shape of the one resurrected by time, the one that is least expected to guard against, and then attack.”
“The one resurrected by time?” Sally said, astonished.
“Ten thousand years ago, time reversed. However, reversal has its rules, for example, Zi Qi remains the Beast Emperor, the Holy War still exists, and you are still the Holy Mother. And those who died will still die, just sooner or later. I went to the Western District and found out that Zulu had once been critically injured by Demon Beasts on the brink of death, and it was you who saved him.”
“Having survived a deadly calamity, shouldn’t one then continue to live?”
“It’s not as simple as you say. He isn’t an Ancient Divine Beast; he’s just a member of the Beast Clan, with a single thread of time defining his life. When I was in the Beast Emperor’s Palace, I discovered that his life thread of time had already been severed.”
“You noticed then? Why didn’t you tell me.”
“You were so happy, I’ve never seen you that happy before. I asked you if he was your weakness?”
“When did you ask me?”
[He did ask, but the host was busy taking care of the children at the time and didn’t listen carefully.] Xiaomei reminded Sally.
Sally: […With everything so lively at the time, of course, I’d prioritize the children.]
“Even if you asked me… you, couldn’t you have just told me directly! I would have figured out a way to extend his time line or anything, I’d even give him my own lifespan if necessary.”
“It’s not about lifespan, it’s about the time laws set by the Time Ruler, the deity who reversed time, who made a life thread of time for all beings except the Ancient Divine Beasts, not sparing even the new Divine Clan. The Time Sand Beasts are the puppets scattered throughout the realms by the Time Ruler.”
“The Time Ruler…” Sally frowned, “Wasn’t he supposed to sacrifice himself to reverse time, how could he still be alive?”
“Naturally, there’s a new Time Ruler. What’s currently uncertain is, the moment for the reversal of time is set according to which point in time. As it stands, it seems to be at least after Zulu’s death,” Welly replied.
“Let me get this straight. The life thread of time is assigned by the new Time Ruler at a certain point.”
“Yes, those who are alive after this time node are considered to be born with the flow of time, with their timeline and lifespan coinciding, based on lifespan. As for those who died before this time node, their timeline will not coincide with their lifespan; you can see that it’s broken, forming a time stele, which becomes a target for Time Sand Beasts.”
“How do we investigate this time point? What about Zulu now?”
“That’s what I find strange—Zulu’s timeline and lifespan line within him are currently aligned, which means he is normal now. How did you do it?”
“Spent money to buy life.”
“Spent money?”
“So Zulu is out of danger now, is that right?”
“Yes. But the Time Sand Beast still exists. I’ve asked Pei Xuan if there was anyone who had died before the reversal of time but is still alive now. He said Xiaoqi’s birth Father Beast is one too.”
[Xiaomei, how is Rong Ruo doing now?]
[Rong Ruo has entered the early stages of Saint Rank, doing pretty well. He is now the Beast Emperor of the Southern District.]
[Can you see the timeline thing?]
[No.]
Sally looked at Zulu, who had just finished dismembering the giant python, and asked Welly, “Are you sure he’s out of danger?”
“If you’re referring to the Time Sand Beast, indeed it won’t attack Zulu anymore. I can’t guarantee other dangers, though.” 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝔲𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
“That’s good enough. You’re going to Jiushen Mountain, right?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, I’ll take you there.” Sally said to Zulu, “We’re going back to Jiushen Mountain.”
Zulu promptly replied, “Right away, I’ll make some dried snake meat; I wonder if the children will like it.”
“As long as it’s jerky, they’ll like it,” Sally said with a smile.
…
Jiushen Mountain was filled with the sound of children’s laughter.
Manman, with Little Shiba in tow, a big and a small, flew through the air while spraying fireballs.
The massive form of Qing Linghuan, the Nine-tailed Fox Beast, was immensely intimidating, but at the moment, it played with the children like one big cub.
Realizing Sally had returned, Qing Linghuan flew over.
Upon seeing Welly, it was visibly annoyed.
Welly’s smile didn’t quite reach his eyes, “Where’s my son?”
“Still alive,” huffed Qing Linghuan, naturally finding Welly displeasing.
Sally couldn’t be bothered with these natural adversaries and went with Zulu to check on the children.
She had initially thought it would take some time to investigate, but without giving Welly any clues, he somehow managed to uncover the truth.
Yet, the Time Sand Beast was too strange an entity.
“Zulu, you go see the children first; I have some matters to deal with,” Sally stopped in her tracks.
“I’m not much help anyway,” Zulu said, scratching his head with an embarrassed look.
Sally embraced him tightly, “You are my anchor. You might not solve every problem, but with you here, I feel at peace to face a myriad of difficulties.”
“I’ll listen to you,” Zulu patted her back, his resolve to cultivate growing firmer.
Sally teleported back to where Welly and Qing Linghuan were, these two still glaring… at each other!
Their eyes were not small at all!
“Welly, come with me, I need to verify something.”
“Let’s hurry up and go; this creature really stinks,” said Qing Linghuan, and then it flew away.
Grinding his back teeth, Welly muttered, “… Looks like it’s because he has too many tails!”
