Four Split Personalities

"One-day girlfriend?"

"No cooking for a month."

"Hey, that’s too evil! You’re killing a pure young girl’s few hobbies and interests!"

"You’re not planning on obeying..."

"Hehehe, because pretending to be in love online actually doesn’t cost me anything."

The exposed girl grinned sheepishly.

"You can’t cook in the game or in real life. I remember Cordova knows you outside the game, right? You also have a sister, don’t you think if I ask Cordova to talk to your family, mention our little agreement, they would cooperate?"

Motan, with a God’s Eye View and an amiably cunning smile, said meaningfully, "I think they will."

Bad ideas can still sprout from good intentions, and even the Orderly Good Motan, when cornered, can manage to come up with one!

The effect was outstanding!

"Of course, they will! Xiaoge will definitely support it enthusiastically... They might even use it as an excuse to lock up the kitchen, only giving the keys to Dad, wuwuwu, Mom, I’m sorry!"

Ji Xiaoge sighed deeply in her heart, then extended her small hand toward Motan, saying huffily, "It’s a deal."

Smack!

"It’s a deal."

Motan and the girl high-fived, and then he started to look down, seemingly lost in thought.

"What are you doing?"

Ji Xiaoge poked his shoulder curiously, urging him, "Come on, let’s go! Hurry up and get going!"

"Sending a message to Cordova to be a witness, so you can’t deny it later."

"For the first time, I find you kind of annoying..."

"You said you wanted to become better, not to hold the team back, right? Starting over would be putting the cart before the horse; I’m doing this for your sake."

"Tch~"

...

’Cough cough, Miss Xiaoge, it is said that you’ve made a bet with Mo, and if you lose, you can’t cook for a month. I’m here to be the witness, supervised by Xiaoge. Is that true? Mo wants a written agreement.’

A moment later, Ji Xiaoge received a confirmation message from Cordova who, it was said, had been trapped inside a terminal on the Seventh Outer Mountain for days. The brother was short on everything except time and had been spending recent days chatting and shooting the breeze, so he was also paying attention to the recent incident involving A Sang and had some knowledge about Motan’s upcoming journey to the Dragon King’s Tomb.

’It’s true. I agree. Let it be so.’

Ji Xiaoge sent her lackluster reply to Cordova and then turned her empty gaze toward Motan, "I’ve confirmed it, are you satisfied now?"

The latter nodded slightly in satisfaction after receiving Cordova’s immediate feedback and smiled, "Satisfied. Let’s go then, we still don’t know if the Teleportation Array adjusted by A Sang over a thousand years ago is still working."

With that, he and Ji Xiaoge walked to the circle of Dora Lee Knop stone sculptures and carefully operated it, following the instructions Lujiang had sent earlier.

I have to say, A Sang really is a mysterious person. Despite his repeated claims of being an insignificant character in the long river of time, in fact, this guy who has played The Realm of Innocence for just over three months has quite a bit of energy. Just yesterday, Motan mentioned that his quest chain’s sixth link had fallen into a death loop, losing all evidence of the Dragon King’s Tomb. Guess what, guys?

This dude actually claimed to have a rather decent relationship with the contemporary Dragon King...who, according to the average lifespan of the Dragon Clan, would also be the Last Dragon King, Bosh•Garon himself. He had been invited to visit Sacred Dragon Peak a while ago, so he decided to set off a night early to have a chat with that Dragon King about where he planned to be buried after his death.

I must say, it’s certainly a weird and not exactly polite question to ask, but according to A Sang, Bosh was getting on in years, so it was very likely that he had already prepared his burial site. Plus, considering there definitely is a ’Dragon King’s Tomb’ in the future, the chances of its existence were at least eighty percent.

What he planned to do was confirm the existence of the Dragon King’s Tomb and then have Bosh take him for a visit, while secretly designing a Teleportation Array in the process.

As for how exactly he convinced Bosh, A Sang didn’t say much, just expressed his confidence before cutting off communication and departing the Timing Tower for Sacred Dragon Peak.

And earlier today, Lujiang sent a message to inform the two that A Sang had already taken care of the related matters and set up a Teleportation Array at the location of the Dragon King’s Tomb that was comparable to the one in the Shuangshi Fort garden. If all went well, Motan just needed to use the Teleportation Array located in the small workshop within the Timing Tower, and he could directly reach the sixth link in his quest chain—the Dragon King’s Tomb.

As for the so-called accidents, they primarily involved two possibilities—

First, over the span of more than seventeen hundred years, the Teleportation Array inside the Dragon King’s Tomb might have collapsed due to disrepair, which would mean Motan couldn’t teleport there. But this possibility wasn’t high, considering that the Teleportation Array in Shuangshi Fort gardens, which was constantly exposed to wind and rain and occasionally vandalized by children, never had any issues. So, one that had been built with more durable materials just last night (the one inside the Dragon King’s Tomb) shouldn’t have any major problems.

Second, aside from A Sang himself and the contemporary Dragon King who fought fiercely to the end and fell at the Pride of Giant Dragon, there might be others who knew the exact location of the Dragon King’s Tomb and the situation. Maybe even in the future (for A Sang), someone had entered that place knowing there was no Teleportation Array. If so, as long as the person involved was still alive or had left some hidden records, it would trigger the ’established facts cannot be changed’ condition, which could result in A Sang’s newly placed Array being corrected last night. This possibility wasn’t big, but it wasn’t small either.

After all, even Cordova of the Sky Pillar Mountain knew about the existence of ’Dragon King’s Tomb’. Hence, it was entirely possible for other giant dragons to know more detailed information. Or the Sun Dynasty during the war might have discovered that place and recorded it before being discontinued from serialization by Tianzhu Mountain’s Finishing Cannon. Anyway, there were countless similar possibilities.

’Brother said, please try without having too high expectations, he has already done his best...’

This was Lujiang’s exact message.

So, after a lapse of seventeen hundred and fifty years, in the standard time of the The Realm of Innocence system: Holy Calendar 9571, Poem of Prayer Month, Day 2, AM 11:37, two young men by chance stranded in the ruins of the Timing Tower began their attempt, hoping to use the Teleportation Array, sealed for many long years, to travel to the Dragon King’s Tomb that wasn’t even recorded in the Tianzhu Mountain version of "Continental History".

"Move Dora Lee Knop’s soccer ball from his right foot to above his head..."

Motan carefully adjusted the statue in front of him.

"Take Dola Nikov’s... um, it should be this one, lower his scarf a tad and stuff the hot sauce into his mouth."

Ji Xiaoge carefully confirmed the details with Motan while pinching the tiny hot sauce on the statue’s waist.

"Rotate Yale Matadora’s horns 45 degrees clockwise..."

"Take off Dola’s cowboy hat and trade it for Dola King’s melon cap..."

"Pull out a pair of magnet ears from Dora A’s pocket and place them on his head..."

"Then... push down!"

Buzzzzz!!!

Just as the two completed the last step, a brilliant light immediately shone at their feet. A complex Array twice the size of the one at Shuangshi Fort garden emerged from the air, and at the same time, that Dora A adorned with ears emitted a hoarse, ancient voice—

"I have witnessed the rise and fall of empires, the birth and extinction of species. In countless eras, only the folly of mortals remains eternally unchanging. Your arrival confirms this... damn it, why can’t this part be deleted, it’s so embarrassing, ugh, forget it. Congratulations, Silent Brother, the Array is running smoothly. By the way, you can return through the Array over there if you run into danger. Don’t be a hero; Boss’s head isn’t exactly on straight, and you might face something non-..."

Pfft!

The two felt a blur before their eyes, and before they could finish listening to A Sang’s message, they disappeared from their location amidst a blinding light.

Chapter 578: The End