Zeng Dajiang and I left the manor just like that. The outcome I had expected never came to pass.
There was no fighting, no clash of blades.
The monkey clearly had no use for itself.
Still, I admired that other me for his decisiveness. He was an extremely ambitious person, and everything he had done was for a single purpose.
But after my words woke him up, he resolutely abandoned his previous ideas. He believed my guess, so he wanted to fight fate. Afraid that he was too weak on his own, he also wanted to awaken more people.
Zeng Dajiang asked where we were going now.
I asked whether he had found young Xu Qiuyan.
He said not yet.
I said that since he had not found her, he should stop looking. I would think of a way.
He asked what way I could possibly come up with. I said I would handle it and hoped he could return to our world. Him staying here was always a source of worry for me.
Because I would be on edge all day, afraid someone would kill him. If that happened, I would suffer too.
He seemed a little unhappy. He felt he could not leave yet, since there were still things about the Void Realm he had not figured out.
Actually, there was no need for us to figure them out. The Void Realm did not really have much to do with us.
It came from the future, and that Doctor came from the future too. He had conducted this experiment in the future and even created the Void Realm, obviously to understand certain things about parallel space-time.
"Aren't you leaving?"
"Of course I'm leaving too, but we're not headed in the same direction."
I had also wanted to say