"Why did it choose me?"
"How would I know? You'd have to ask it." Jinian shrugged. "Maybe you're one of those protagonists blessed by fate from novels? The chosen one of heaven and earth?"
...What bullshit.
Lin Qiye rolled his eyes and continued asking, "Then what about the three divine artifacts you took?"
"I know about that." A look of reminiscence surfaced in Jinian's eyes. "Back then, I followed the hospital's guidance to Cangnan, and a strange man shrouded entirely in shadows, with a Crimson Eye Black Pupil growing from his forehead, came to find me. He also gave me a letter.
"I didn't know who sent it, but it said that if I wanted to find a way home, I had to keep you alive through the great calamity that would soon descend.
"That letter also included a strange array that used three divine artifacts as Array Eyes.
"But I didn't have any divine artifacts on me, so I could only enter that hospital and find a way to obtain artifacts from the patients. As it happened, my realm at the time allowed me to open three ward doors, so I gambled with them one by one."
Hearing this, Lin Qiye nodded slightly. Jinian's account perfectly matched the descriptions from Black Pupil, as well as those from Nyx and the others.
"But how did you win? Those were three gods."
"Their minds weren't quite normal. As long as I found an opening, beating them wasn't difficult." Jinian smiled mysteriously. "I have an innate ability that lets me glimpse the trajectory of the Great Dao for a short time. Using it, I roughly understood each of their situations.
"In the first ward, I bet Nyx that whoever could create something the other had absolutely never seen and couldn't comprehend would