Fu City, a bench, two people.
Shen Hai explained the reasons to Yan Xiao. Though it was hard to believe, Yan Xiao finally understood the broad strokes.
"You're saying Qin Manjiang's ghost story took him back twenty years? Then he learned that [It], who created the Eye Realm and the real world, was very likely already dead, and the Bai family now controlled the [Eye Realm]?"
"Right, but my impression after hearing it was a little different from what Qin Manjiang himself said." Shen Hai rubbed his chin. "That Jiang Du seemed to have planned everything long ago. Having Qin Manjiang go back twenty years to obtain the Red and White Pupils was a necessary condition for restarting the Eye Realm twenty years later. It was as though he paused time twenty years ago to save this future we're living in."
"Think about it. If the Red and White Pupils were both in the past, why didn't they restart the Eye Realm twenty years ago themselves?"
Shen Hai's question made perfect sense. Without a clear explanation for this, the basic logic of the whole affair was flawed.
"I have a theory."
Yan Xiao looked at Shen Hai beside him.
Shen Hai's eyes lit up. "Wait, let him hear it too."
Shen Hai took a broken piece of porcelain out of his clothes. On closer inspection, it was a piece of a Guanyin figurine.
The moment he took out the broken shard, Qin Manjiang's voice came from the Guanyin Porcelain Shard. "What happened?"
"Nothing. Yan Xiao's here too. He has an idea. Interested?"
"Of course... Yan Xiao, make it quick. I can't maintain this state for long." Qin Manjiang's voice came through the porcelain shard.
Yan Xiao glanced at Shen Hai, then at the broken shard emitting Qin Manjiang's voice. This