Fierce Battle, Princess

He actually knew about the statue too.

But he seemed extremely secretive about it.

Just as Ying Gou and the others and I agreed that we had to give it a try no matter what, he went back on his word about helping me.

He said the spacetime node was inside that cave, but since there was a statue in the cave, it was no longer his place to intervene.

He only told me what to do before hurrying away.

Watching their retreating figures, Ye Jinghong said, "He seems to be afraid of that statue!"

I said nothing, but I had a bad feeling.

What exactly was the statue? Was it really me? As a backup of the system, why was he afraid of the statue?

What kind of relationship did the statue have with him, and even with the system?

My mind was filled with questions.

Still, we headed toward the cave.

But this time, our state of mind upon entering it was different from before.

Ying Gou, who was walking in front, stopped. Pointing ahead, he said, "That node should be over there, but will the statue really appear?"

The place Ying Gou pointed to was where we had previously been attacked by vines.

As long as we went in, found the mechanism that could activate the node, and activated it, we would be able to reach the period before time stopped.

But could it really be that simple?

I did not know whether the statue would appear again, nor did I know whether it would help us or stop us once it did.

I thought this because surely the statue knew the method that guy had mentioned. Why had the statue not told us from the beginning? There were two possibilities: either the statue did not want