"Is Liangzi that fierce?"

"If he weren't fierce, how could he manage to intimidate others and leave a lasting impression in the shadows of history?"

Lin Yi's heart trembled slightly, suddenly realizing that his cognition of Wei Liang seemed to have significantly deviated.

Could this be something he originally knew in his altered memories?

He now increasingly wants to know their true purpose for coming here, but unfortunately, they need to find the Principal first.

However, rationally speaking, everything is proceeding as planned, and the time for the Principal's return seems not far off; he will soon learn the truth.

While talking with Tian Bufan, Mao Feiyang had already walked to the desk and picked up a scroll from the neatly arranged stack of sheepskin scrolls and bamboo slips.

He doesn't hurry to open it; instead, he fiddles with it in his hand, as if stroking an ancient musical instrument, a jade flute.

Lin Yi looks at Mao Feiyang and curiously asks, "What are those things?"

The sheepskin scrolls and bamboo slips on the desk look very ancient, with different styles, as if they are from multiple eras.

Tian Bufan sneers, "Isn't that the stuff you've always wanted to know?"

Lin Yi was slightly taken aback, involuntarily pondering, what have I always wanted to know? How come I wasn't aware?

Suddenly, a flash of insight came to his mind, like a thunderbolt cutting through the night, he exclaimed, "Are you saying... this is the so-called 'Law Code'?"

Tian Bufan laughs, "Yes, that's the Law Code. Part of it has been translated by some organizations in the present world and is stored in the highest privilege file cabinets of various major forces."

"And another part has yet to be translated, it's right beside you."

"This is the true secret of world history on the mysterious side, the legends among legends, the myth of documentation. Its status is comparable to the so-called 'historical text'."

The historical text of world history on the mysterious side!

Such vital and precious documentary classics are now placed casually in front of them!

Thinking of this, Lin Yi's breath became subtly heavy.

But then he thought again, with doubts, "Such important things are here, aren't you a bit curious?"

Tian Bufan laughs, "I've told you before, even things recorded in the Law Code may not be the truth."

"Then what is the truth?" Lin Yi asks.

"The 'truth,' you've truly stumped me." Tian Bufan gives a bitter smile, "The ancients said seeing is believing, but actually, seeing is not necessarily believing, even what you and I have experienced may not be entirely real."

"Just like Jiang Wei, if Liu Chan hadn't preserved the secret letter Jiang Wei left before his rebellion, the truth in the eyes of posterity would be nothing but Jiang Wei betraying his master, yet only they know the truth was otherwise."

"Then what is the truth of the Law Code?" Lin Yi asks, "Could it be that what the whole world knows and has translated is false?"

"If the facts are indeed like that, then what would happen?" Tian Bufan says, "If Jiang Wei's letter had not been discovered, wouldn't the so-called 'truth' be misplaced?"

"And most parts of the Law Code are accurate, but some parts differ from the truth—tremendously."

Lin Yi pondered, "Then... what do you mean by Jiang Wei's secret letter in the Law Code?"

Tian Bufan squints his eyes but doesn't answer because Mao Feiyang speaks.

"It's about the 'Contractor' part..." Mao Feiyang slowly places the sheepskin scroll down.

"Contractor..." Tian Bufan sighs, "She was the first to perceive anomalies, but at that time, she had no good way to prevent the tragedy from happening."

Lin Yi pursues further, "What kind of tragedy, why don't I know?"

"Your memory part hasn't recovered yet."

"Oh? Wait a minute... 'my memory part'...?!" Lin Yi's mouth opened wide, "Ancient events, why do I have memories of them? Did I retrospect history through the Dream Boundary?"

Mao Feiyang purses his lips.

Tian Bufan interrupts, "That's about right... yet at that time, we experienced not much."

"Fortune Life Wei Liang the Celestial is the one who bore all the suffering."

"Dark blood disaster, Holy Sun fell, ultimate judgment, Time Exile..."

"Sigh..."

Tian Bufan takes a long sigh.

"The entire event, is just a gigantic paradoxical cycle..."

"If we can finally succeed, then no one will remember all of this; everyone will be sheltered by Utopia, forgetting, no, they won't even know what happened, except Fortune Life Wei Liang the Celestial."

"What does 'success' mean? What does it mean to succeed?" Lin Yi asks.

Tian Bufan remains silent, just stares at the Root on the desk, with an assortment of Law Codes.

Mao Feiyang is also silent, merely caressing them gently, as if reading Braille.

"Hey hey hey, if you all stop talking, it really unnerves me…" Lin Yi smiles wryly.

Tian Bufan says, "Success is to solve the problem once and for all... you will soon know, just like when you gained memory earlier, you will soon know."

"Soon, does that mean... when the Principal returns?" Lin Yi asks.

"Yes." Tian Bufan affirms, "Or, you might even know before then."

"I don't understand." Lin Yi slightly shakes his head.

"That's because you haven't met the one who gives you three moles yet."

Lin Yi purses his mouth slightly, "I don't believe in Destiny."

"This isn't Destiny," Tian Bufan states, "It's merely a part of the plan."

"Alright then..." Lin Yi spreads his hands, "What do you mean by 'private task'?"

"Release 'her'," Tian Bufan says.

"'He', 'Her'... 'It'?" Lin Yi hesitates.

"'Her'—Contractor, who is one of the 'Original Apostles' as a 'Contractor'."

"'Contractor'... calling her like that, we're... very familiar?"

"Very familiar," Tian Bufan nods, "And some others, like the one in the well."

"That one, can't you tell me his Honorary Title now?" Lin Yi purses his lips.

"'Butcher'." Surprisingly, Tian Bufan says it this time.

"He's the 'Butcher'?!" Lin Yi is astonished, previously in the flashback scenes, he seemed to hear ramblings about 'Divine Craftsman', who mentioned the Butcher's Honorary Title.

"That's right," Tian Bufan affirms, "It's him."

Lin Yi inquires, "We, him, and Contractor, we're in the same team?"

"Exactly."

"Then why is Butcher's corpse over there? The Law Code was wrong; wasn't he thrown in the well after being killed by Contractor?" Lin Yi remembers Night Watchman-02 told him that Contractor blackened and killed many of the Original Apostles, including Butcher in the well.

Tian Bufan says, "Indeed, it was Contractor's doing, but there's a secret in it, like back then Butcher already went crazy, and Contractor had to kill him, allowing him to cool on the brink of death, thereby recovering."

"Killing a companion is actually more painful than killing a blackened one. If Butcher truly fell into depravity, killing him wouldn't have much psychological burden."

"However, at the level of the 'Original Apostles', ordinary death holds no meaning."

"Thus, rather than saying it's killing, it's better to say it's sealing."

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