In the cell, Carlo glanced at Li Jiehao, who was standing at attention against the wall. "So you mean, after you performed the Morzul ritual, you had some 'other person's memories' in your mind, but you are still Jacob Hamil."
Li Jiehao nodded quickly.
Adhering to the principle that "the most brilliant lie is always the truth," he quickly came up with a story, saying that the original owner had some "strange memories" after performing that ritual.
He thought his explanation was rather clever, but Carlo looked at him with a look that suggested he was an idiot. "So, you admit you're possessed by evil spirits?"
"No, it's not that --"
Looking at the person in front of him, Isaac made a general judgment in his mind.
This person was probably the " Li Jiehao " he mentioned, who somehow possessed Jacob Hamil's body.
Carlo turned to Isaac, pointed at Li Jiehao, and asked, "Do you know what's going on here?"
Possessed by an evil spirit?
"Evil spirits refer to Spirit Body that persist after death through some means, often causing harm whether intentionally or unintentionally. In that respect, it does fit the description," Carlo said. "However, there's a more suitable term to describe this guy's situation—"
"Time traveler."
"Time traveler?" This was also a somewhat unfamiliar term to Isaac, so he broke it down into its components.
"Those who achieve time-space travel in a non-linear manner while maintaining continuity of consciousness, in any case, didn't originally belong here. Like this guy who possesses a certain body, that's a very common case of soul transmigration."
Isaac understood. If Carlo's statement was true, then this man named Li Jiehao originally lived elsewhere and somehow possessed Jacob Hamil, thus becoming what he is now.
Li Jiehao stared wide-eyed as the two of them discussed what a time traveler was right in front of him, the time traveler.
How come this guy seems so familiar with time travelers? Is time travel a common occurrence in this world?
His mind raced, working even faster than when he was solving math problems, and an idea popped into his head.
This guy using dice, could it be...?
He tentatively asked, "Odd changes, even remains the same?"
Isaac looked at Li Jiehao, and he seemed to say something, in a language I couldn't understand.
Carlo raised an eyebrow. "That code is way too old-fashioned."
Isaac looked at Carlo, who was still speaking Common Tongue.
Although he couldn't understand what Li Jiehao had just said, he guessed that it was some kind of language that person was using, and that Carlo clearly understood it.
Based on Carlo's previous strange word choices, Isaac also had a guess.
"Boss, you wouldn't happen to be a time traveler too, would you?"
"Oops, we've been found out." Carlo shrugged. "That's right, I'm not from this world."
Isaac was taken aback, not expecting Carlo to admit it so readily.
Li Jiehao's eyes lit up. "Fellow villager!"
"How can we be sure we're from the same hometown? Maybe we come from parallel but similar worlds, or even different eras."
Li Jiehao froze. "Uh..."
"However, the other time travelers I know of, even those with significant time gaps, all come from the same place and the same era, so let's say there are no exceptions."
Li Jiehao became excited again. "Fellow villager!"
"Stop! Even if we're from the same hometown, why are you getting so worked up?"
"Don't time travelers always stick together?" Li Jiehao said matter-of-factly. "When fellow countrymen meet, their eyes well up with tears, right?"
"That's not necessarily true." Carlo shook his finger. "The premise of forming a group is mutual trust. You and I are complete strangers. You don't even know who I am, and I don't know who you are. Who knows if you're the kind of person who would stab someone in the back?"
Li Jiehao panicked. "I'm definitely not that kind of person!"
"Heh, bad people like to say that."
Li Jiehao choked, thinking to himself that this fellow villager seemed rather difficult to get along with.
Isaac listened from the side, and although he could only understand one side of Carlo's words, he roughly grasped the main points.
Carlo looked at Isaac: "Aren't you surprised at all? This is very important information."
Isaac thought for a moment, "Because you always say so many weird things, like baseball, abbot, blue stripes, cappuccino... Now that you know you're a time traveler, you're more like 'I see' than shocked, right?"
"Tsk, high rationality is so boring, a little bit of stupidity is much more interesting."
Li Jiehao chimed in from the side, "Hey buddy, you understand Chinese, so you must be from the same country as me. Why don't you speak Chinese?"
Carlo glanced at him. "Well... there's something that can sense people who speak a language from another world and hunt them down. There have been cases of transmigrators dying at its hands, so it's safer to use a common language."
Li Jiehao had already spoken several sentences in the otherworldly language, froze on his face with a smile, "Why didn't you say so earlier?!"
You didn't ask either.
Li Jiehao was about to cry; hadn't that meant he'd already been exposed?
"However, that thing's tracking mechanism isn't that sensitive; if it occasionally pops up a few times, it won't get detected."
Li Jiehao breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that this fellow villager was talking in a very hesitant and unreliable way.
"Alright, let's get down to business. That ring, you chased after the Sherwood family all the way for it?" Carlo asked.
Li Jiehao nodded. "The zombie said it was Holy Relic of Morzul and wanted me to take it back."
Do you know what the specific effects of that ring are?
"I'm not sure, but the zombies say it's Holy Relic."
"So what are you planning to do after you get the ring?"
"I... I don't know, let's get our hands on it first, it's bound to be a good thing."
Even if you get your hands on it, what do you plan to do if you're hunted down by official forces?
"Well..."
Carlo clicked his tongue. "Typical transmigrator mentality. You think you have the protagonist's halo? No consideration for the consequences, no backup plan."
Li Jiehao shrank his neck.
"Also, do you know what level of existence Morzul is?"
"Um... I read in a book that it's a god who controls decay and rebirth, or something like that?"
"Do you know that this god is believed to have vanished, and even rituals pointing to Him cannot be performed?"
Li Jiehao was stunned. "Disappeared? But that walking corpse was clearly..."
"It still works, right?" Carlo continued. "So, things get interesting. A god thought to be extinct can respond to rituals, kill the original owner of this body, and even send Foul Spirit to guide the search for Holy Relic."
Isaac continued along this line of thought: if Morzul had truly vanished, then the power behind the ring and the zombie was not Morzul himself; if Morzul had not completely vanished, but was in some dormant state... it meant that He had become active again.
Neither possibility is good news.