CHAPTER 164: CHAPTER 125 THE ERASED TIME

Ye Luanyun struggled to catch his breath and remained stifled for quite a while before he finally spoke.

"Aren’t you going to ask about your grandma?"

He thought that if she proposed to exchange his life for her grandmother’s, it would alleviate some of his guilt, rather than being so contemptuously spared by someone of a younger generation...

However, Sui Yi’s words soon made him cough up blood again.

"If everything was done by you, and you say Seventh Uncle is actually not that bad, then considering the old generation’s friendships, they should definitely not ignore Grandma. I think, even if Seventh Uncle doesn’t take action himself, you shouldn’t let him die with his eyes closed," Sui Yi said.

Are you saying I’m unfilial if I don’t save your grandma?

Ye Luanyun clenched his teeth, a fierce look in his eyes, but in the end, he could only exhale weakly.

"My father has already been to Aunt Ye’s place, and he removed the Green Corpse Gu I had placed there. You can be at ease," he said.

"Okay," Sui Yi replied as she turned to leave. Before taking a step, she looked back at Ye Luanyun.

"As for the feud between you and me, if you seek vengeance, come after me personally in the future. Do not afflict the family members; I suppose you can understand such a rule better. Since you’ve already broken it once, don’t do it a second time. Otherwise, I think Seventh Uncle would be ashamed even in the netherworld."

Harm should not reach the family...

Ye Luanyun, whose family had been ruined and decimated, could only offer a bitter smile without response, but Sui Yi knew he had taken her words to heart.

She was about to leave.

"I used to think that Aunt Ye’s rescue of you was an accident, that you were just a passerby. It was not until I sank to the bottom of the palace that I realized... perhaps you are the person closest to the secrets of this palace," Ye Luanyun said.

His voice faded with the distance of Sui Yi’s departing footsteps, but his resentment grew deeper.

If this truly involved Sui Yi, then naturally, the Curse was her greatest calamity.

This was precisely why Ye Luanyun refused to let go of his hatred.

Hearing his words, Sui Yi simply touched her forehead and looked towards the sky.

The closest?

How could I not know that... It’s exactly why I must spare you this once.

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When Sui Yi walked out of the village, she saw a simple-looking youth. She paused for a moment, her gaze withdrawing, and then walked over.

Upon seeing her, Wang Pu’s grip on his backpack tightened slightly, and he asked with some dryness, "Are you going home to visit Grandma Ye?"

"No, I’m going to the hospital first. Could you please go to my house and look after Grandma for me?" Sui Yi replied.

"Ah?"

Wang Pu was obviously startled, but he quickly composed himself and nodded, "Okay."

After that, the two of them returned to Nanxun Town together.

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Earlier, Jiang Yunxiu had said that she sent Gong Jiu and the others to the hospital in Nanxun Town, which saved Sui Yi the trouble of going back and forth.

Worried about the safety of Gong Jiu and the others, Sui Yi did not go home and visited the best hospital instead.

It was the hospital where she often bought medicine from.

The hospital was still bustling with people since there were many townsfolk and not many hospitals, so naturally, most patients came here.

Sui Yi, who had been frequenting the hospital for years, was a witness to its changes. Just a few years ago, it was in disrepair, but two years ago, with proper funding from above, the hospital was renovated, which earned the leaders much support from the public...

Sui Yi, well-acquainted with the place, found her way to the ward where Gong Jiu and the others were.

Inside the ward...

Gong Jiu and Flower Demon had somber faces with clouds of worry, their eyes reflecting uncertainty. On the other side, Brother Ma, with his arm wrapped in a bandage, looked vacantly at the clock on the wall.

The room was so tense and ominous that even the nurses were too scared to enter.

Sui Yi paused when she saw everyone looking so forlorn.

She asked the accompanying nurse.

"Are they... suffering from brain swelling? They don’t seem too sharp?"

"Not too sharp" was just a polite way of calling someone stupid.

Her voice was clear, and she exuded an ethereal beauty, with an air of cool, polished jade...

Which left the young nurse bewildered.

The reaction from everyone in the room was instantaneous.

-- Damn it, who are you calling!

The nurse shivered, struck by a glare from the formidable Miss Gong, and ran off in fear.

My goodness, how could such a beautiful and spirited woman have such a fierce look!

Once the nurse left, the door was slammed shut by Brother Ma.

The room fell silent, all eyes fixated on Sui Yi.

Casually dressed, tall and slender, with shoulder-length hair, she was enchantingly beautiful and carried a long object slung across her back. With her fair, unblemished skin and hands tucked into the pockets of her leather jacket...

In any setting, she would be the center of attention, especially in a hospital.

But standing before Gong Jiu and the others, she immediately provoked a chorus of moans.

"Damn it! Why is she completely fine!"

"Shit! I’ve got so many casts on me I could be in an Alien movie!"

The resentment from Gong Jiu and Flower Demon was especially deep.

The woman who almost died before, who suffered so many fractures – it couldn’t be this outstandingly elegant girl, could it?

In the midst of all the complaints and chaos, Sui Yi had already calmly placed the fruit basket to one side, sat on a chair, picked up a small knife and a pear, and meticulously began to peel it, casually asking, "Have you all taken your medicine?"

Even though it was a caring and gentle inquiry, everyone present couldn’t help but misinterpret it.

Mainly because this woman’s scheming mode often ran in tandem with her saintly mode...

She had a knack for grasping both cunning and tenderness at once!

Gong Jiu narrowed her eyes, staring at Sui Yi’s beautiful, fair, and slender wrists, and instead of answering her question, asked, "Don’t you have anything else you want to ask?"

Hmm?

Sui Yi looked up, eyed her, her gaze clear and tranquil, and asked softly, "Haven’t eaten yet?"

Dammit!

Gong Jiu rolled her eyes and glared at her, irritably retorting, "Just look at that clock."

Following the direction Lady Gong Jiu’s arm pointed—similar to the leg of a small elephant—Sui Yi turned to look at the wall clock.

It was exactly four o’clock in the afternoon, September 21st, 2007. (I didn’t set a time before, did I? I’m afraid I’ve made another blunder, please forgive me if you’re particular about details!)

At four o’clock, Sui Yi was aware of the daylight and knew the time was about right, but as for the year and month...

The 21st?

Sui Yi frowned.

Her brows tightly knitted.

Does this mean today is Sunday? No wonder Wang Pu was still in the village... Something had been nagging at her, but she had too much on her mind to connect the dots immediately.

Whether it was coming to the hospital or doing anything else, she was primarily motivated by the thought that she had missed so many days already, so there was no rush to head back to school immediately. In a "might as well" attitude, she had resigned herself to the situation, but she hadn’t considered...

Today was only Sunday!

"We set off on Saturday, the 20th, and we arrived at the tomb by 8:10 am. How long did we spend from entering the ancient tomb to leaving?"

Gong Jiu’s tone was very cold, and so was her expression.

No sooner had she finished speaking than Yaofei casually took an apple from the fruit basket Sui Yi had brought and took a bite.

"Anyway, we entered on the evening of the 19th, a good half-day before you. Inside the ancient tomb, we probably stayed for about two nights."

Two nights? From the 19th to the 21st, the timeframe seemed right, but the problem was...

They rarely slept while inside the tomb.

The active period was very, very long.

The only time they had slept soundly was when they were drugged by Ah Guna... And since then, a long, drawn-out stretch of time...

The group couldn’t recall exactly how long they had spent, but it was definitely more than just a day or two!

At the very least, it had been three days!

So, the fact that today was only the 21st was simply impossible!

Of course, the most direct way to confirm was...

Quickly.

Five wristwatches lay on the table, all showing the same time.

8:00 am, September 25th, 2007.

Sui Yi stared at these wristwatches, then at the clock.

Silence fell, a deathly quiet.

"So, it seems we actually lost about three to four days of time in the ancient tomb," Feng Sha concluded gravely, looking around at the others with a chilly gaze.

"Instead of saying we lost it, it’s more like... time stood still."

When Sui Yi uttered these words, ’time stood still,’ everyone lapsed back into silence.

Those words seemed too frightening.

Like a dream.

"Perhaps we were under an illusion," she suggested.

"Maybe... who knows, anyway?" the others said slowly, trying to sound relaxed, but in reality, everyone’s thoughts were in disarray.

Sui Yi remembered the failure of her Magnetic Sensation, her eyelids drooping slightly; when had she noticed it stop working? It was after entering that underground world, right?

Time standing still... The Jade Bi... fragments...

She subconsciously touched the palm of her hand, where she could still feel a slight burning sensation, her eyes growing deeper.

Time reversal, resurrection, that would make sense, wouldn’t it?

But since Sui Yi didn’t say anything, others quickly came up with various other far-fetched explanations for the weirdness. In the end, it was Yaofei who tossed the core of the thoroughly eaten apple into the trash and simply stated,

"Anyway, since we’ve already escaped, let it be. Whoever wants to ditch their wristwatch, do it. Whoever wants to adjust the time, go ahead. And those who need to keep their mouths shut better do it. I doubt there will be any idiots foolish enough to blabber nonsense," she said, her gaze sweeping over them, making everyone tense up.

As long as they didn’t want to die or be troubled, they would naturally not speak.

Besides, even if they did, no one would believe them.

They didn’t even believe it themselves!

Brother Ma and Gen Fengsha left quickly and without incident.

Now only Yaofei, Gong Jiu, and Sui Yi remained in the hospital room.

Being always meticulous, Sui Yi wondered why she had only seen Gong Jiu and her group; the hospital wasn’t large, yet there was no sign of Lin Feng and the others. She didn’t know...

"Those jerks... left early, seemed like someone came to pick them up, just found out from that little nurse, huh, they’re pretty quick," Gong Jiu said with a disdainful curl of her lip.

Yaofei shifted into a more comfortable position, wrinkling her nose at the faint smell of formalin in the air, saying, "It’s a shame we haven’t figured out who these people really are, otherwise we’d definitely get back at them." (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to qidian.com to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read on m.qidian.com)