"You can only choose one person to take away, right?"
After a long silence, Jiang Cheng suddenly spoke up. Wu, who had been lost in thought, was interrupted. He slowly opened his mouth, seemingly about to answer Jiang Cheng's question without thinking, but a moment later, reason made him shut it again.
"You took me away, but abandoned him."
"Left him alone in this world."
Jiang Cheng wasn't angry. Every word came in a mild tone, but to Wu, it was a torment unlike anything he'd ever experienced. "It wasn't me. All of this was..."
Wu reined in his emotions and fell silent. His eyes fixed on the space behind Jiang Cheng. He couldn't tell him that all of this had been the decision of the person he used to be.
And besides... Wu looked at the layers of thresholds. He didn't want to see the Fatty again. Because the next time they met, the gears of fate would start turning anew. And now... he had a chance to escape, a chance that would never come again.
Inside the main hall, Fatty looked at Newspaper Man. That terrifying face, one that had never even appeared in his nightmares, was tormenting his nerves over and over. With neither Wu nor the Doctor here, he was truly all alone.
"What did you do to the Doctor and Wu? Where did they go?"
Fatty put on a show of confidence as he questioned him, though inside he was panicking. He didn't forget to tack on a few more words at the end. "I'm telling you, Brother Wu is really powerful. You probably know just how powerful, so I won't go into the details. How about this—you let me go, and I'll get him to let you off too."
Under Newspaper Man's blood-red gaze,