The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

320: The Reappearance of the Mysterious Man

As the girl with most prestige in class, Yanaimo wasn’t just rich and powerful, she was also classy.
As long as you didn’t get in her way, she was willing to share some of her wealth with you.
The little crumbs she threw out was more than enough for most people.

Take the flower/butterfly line.
A single jar cost one hundred gold.
It wasn’t something ordinary people could afford, but Yanaimo willing to give it away for free.

“Considering her family’s business, it’s not surprising they were able to find the descendent of the flower/butterfly line.” Jier leaned in closer to sniff the powder.
He didn’t like it.

“Yanaimo is from the Gaodon clan.
I read it in a book.
They were a direct-family line that owned the flower/butterfly brand.
One hundred years ago the entire clan was wiped out.
No one survived.
It was a big tragedy in the maritime world.”

Feng Wu had read a lot of books and one of the books she read was called The Fantastical Stories of the Maritime World.
It was a compilation of stories, one of which happened to be about the Gaodun clan.

How the Gaodun clan was completely wiped out was still a mystery even today.
No one knew a thing.

“There may be something useful in The Fantastical Stories of the Maritime World.
The book said the patriarch of the Gaodun family spent a lot of money to celebrate the birthday of his only child.
He especially purchased a beautiful island and gave it to her as a birthday present.

The island was called Songwei.
His daughter’s name was Yanaimo Gaodun.”

The others were reeling from the information dump.
They understood what she was saying; it was just that it was unbelievable.
The disbelief showed in their eyes.

Who could stay calm after hearing such a story? A hundred years ago.
They were in the past.
Only a god could do something like that – no way could another human do it.

So then, did a god trap them on the island? But that was impossible.
They weren’t so stupid as to believe a god would be bored enough to do something like this.

Besides, gods didn’t generally come to the human world.
The three realms had created the Three Realms Peace Treaty after the war ten thousand years ago.
No god had set foot in human territory since then.

On the other hand, demons, for selfish and sinister reasons, did sneak into the human world.
The Star Marshall division of the temple caught many of them.

“We’re really one hundred years in the past?” Ink found it hard to believe.

“Impossible.
Only the god in charge of time, the God of Time, can do that.
The other gods can’t reverse time.” Leo interjected.

The whole thing was incredible.
No sensible person would believe it.

Ming Xi shared his guess.
“I suspect we may have entered an illusion.
Everything here is a reenactment of what happened one hundred years ago.”

“Illusion?!” Both Ink and Leo were surprised.
Why hadn’t they thought of this? If it was an illusion, then everything made sense.

“I’ve known something was wrong with this place for a long time now.
I can’t open my seal.
Theoretically there isn’t a power in this world that can restrict a god seal, but my connection to the seal completely disappeared when we got here.” Jier knew something was wrong from the first morning they arrived on the island.
The inability to connect with his power drove him up the wall.

“The same is true for me.
I could not hear the voices of the flowers and plants or the voices of the small animals.” Feng Wu spoke sadly.

“The same is true for me as well.
There’s no life in this place.
Everything feels artificial – the sun, the moon.
Even the people are fake.
They should be memories created by someone.”

As the prince and future ruler of the Ancient Silver Moon kingdom, Ming Xi’s strength was beyond doubt.
Then there was his god bloodline.
Logically speaking, even if his strength was somehow sealed, the power of his blood shouldn’t have disappeared.
But on this island, it had.
He would be a fool to not realize something was wrong.

Indeed, Ming Xi had known they were in an illusion, in a world shaped by memories, for quite some time.
There were few people who had the ability to do something like this.
He couldn’t phantom who it was or even what their intentions were.

Ming Xi was only able to figure it out after Feng Wu shared what she knew.
Even though he didn’t know who the mysterious person was, he could guess what the other person wanted.

“Fuck! This mysterious person is that good at illusion creation?!” Ink almost bowed in respect to the person for their abilities.
It was awesome.
Compared to that, their own skills were crap.

“If we want to know what this person wants, we’ll have to ask.” Ming Xi raised his voice.
“I know you’ve been watching us.
Please show yourself.” A sudden smile appeared on Ming Xi’s face as he spun around.

The others got excited upon hearing his words.
What?! The mysterious guy had been watching them the whole time?!

The three boys looked around the room, but they didn’t see anything.

Suddenly the elderly voice sounded out.
“Sure enough, I didn’t choose wrong.
Looks like I got the right people this time.”

“Who are you? Why did you trap us here? What is your relationship with the people on the island and the events from a hundred years ago?” Ming Xi asked the questions in quick succession.

The voice was strange.
They couldn’t figure out where it was coming from because it felt like it was being spoken directly into their ears.

“Such capable youngsters.
I don’t believe you will let me down.
Go and find the truth.
Only then will you be able to leave.”

“Not just us, but all of us.” Ming Xi’s smile was refreshing.
Even if he was in a different body, his mannerism still shown through.

The mysterious voice was taken aback.
He did not expect this young man to have already figured that part out.

“Indeed, I did not misjudge.
Now that you have come to that revelation, I won’t hide it.
There is something hidden on this island.
If you can find it, all of us[notes]can leave.
But if you can’t find it, then you will remain on this island forever.
None of you will ever return to the real world again.”

And with that, the mysterious voice disappeared.
There was no further response no matter what Jier and the others shouted.

“You can stop shouting.
He’s gone.” Ming Xi walked to the table and poured himself a glass of water.