Interesting.
Brother Behind-the-Gate People hadn't been bragging after all? He really was close to the answer?
The concept of a "notebook" had undoubtedly kept cropping up ever since they found this place.
But honestly, in most situations, it was easy to chalk it up to self-aggrandizement. If you hadn't found it, you hadn't found it. What was this about being close? It was no different from claiming the dog had snatched your homework halfway through.
And yet, now that the man himself was missing, the fact that his notebook hadn't gone missing made it hard not to see him in a new light.
Yes, only an insider could see what was really going on.
To anyone else, the same sentence, written at least hundreds of times, might have seemed like a horror story.
The notebook's owner couldn't find the answer, and had driven himself mad trying.
But to Fu Qian, it seemed to answer one of the questions he'd been wondering about earlier—
Why did the researchers here keep putting "the beginning of the world" and "the end of the supernatural" together?
It turned out his earlier guess hadn't been entirely off the mark. This research organization had already concluded that the two were one and the same.
They still hadn't found the exact location, but they knew the two points overlapped...
In that sense, Behind-the-Gate People's words back then had been perfectly accurate. He really was just one step away from the answer.
So here's the question: why was "the beginning also the end"?
There were still several blank pages left. Surely it wasn't a case of "this place is too small to fit the wonderful answer"?
Even children knew you'd lose points for writing down only the conclusion.
Even as he mused, Fu Qian didn't hold back from