Techniques and Dao

Chapter 153 Confrontation
This wooden house should have been hundreds of miles underground, but it was right here in the forest.

Jane should have disappeared long ago. But Jane seems to be living in the space before she disappeared.

Everything was in complete chaos.

For Jane, she had not disappeared; the problem lay with Hua Sheng and Mie Ying.

"Who exactly are you two? Who are you people?!"

Hua Sheng retorted sharply, "Who knows who's outside! We're the real ones!"

"Nonsense! How could you possibly be in two places at the same time!"

"There's no way to explain it now. But we saw you enter this house earlier, and when we chased after you, you were already gone!"

As she spoke, Hua Sheng pulled up the iron ring on the ground, revealing the black hole, and said, "We all thought you had been kidnapped, so Mie Ying and I jumped into this black hole, and ended up coming here through that chimney. Then you knocked on the door."

"Wait!" Jane said, frowning. "You mean you jumped into this hole and ended up right before I entered this house?"

"As expected of a top student from Klin Magic Academy!"

"So you entered the black hole to find the person who kidnapped me, but ended up back in time a few minutes ago, and now you're planning to kidnap me?"

“I didn’t mean to kidnap you…but…okay, I did open the door and lead you into this house.”

For a moment, Hanamoto didn't know how to explain this strange situation.

Time and space are disconnected. Or rather, neither of them is linear here.

Mie Ying chimed in, "My mind is a mess. What you're saying sounds like time travel? But we don't have the Sui Xing Sha, and we're not in the Pan Xian Cave, so how could we possibly travel through time?"

Faced with the current situation, Hua Sheng's mind began to race.

Mieying's previous guess was not without reason. The most urgent task is to confirm whether the Jane in front of him is the real person.
Currently, he and Mieying seem to be facing two choices:

First, let's assume Jane is an imposter. Then they must not only absolutely distrust this person, but also expose her true colors. They absolutely must know her purpose in going to such lengths!

Second, assuming the Jane before us is the real person, then either Jane has traveled through time, or Hua Sheng and Mieying have. Not only in time, but Hua Sheng and Mieying have also traveled through space, because they clearly passed through a black hole hundreds of miles away, yet they are still in the same wooden house.

Hua Sheng had just watched Jian walk into the wooden house. If what he saw was the moment Jian entered the wooden house and closed the door, then it must have been himself and Mie Ying who had traveled through time.

The "bottomless pit" passage that Hua Sheng and Mie Ying just mentioned might actually be a time wormhole.

This suggests that this place, like the Panxian Cave in San Phoenicia, functions as a time wormhole, allowing people to travel through it.

So here comes the question!
If there is a place similar to the Saint-Pinne String Cave in the Panbon Forest in France, then it is very likely that the energy string entity also exists there.
If so, it means that the Jupiter thread and the energy string can be found simultaneously in two very close locations.

If we follow this line of reasoning, then the person who stole the Jupiter Silk from the Klin Magic Academy's treasury might not have been from the Magic Academy, since both items could be found in France.

The thief's act of placing the purple-gold thread from Hanamori's body in the treasure vault could very well be a setup. But why would the thief frame a disciple of the Soudo Academy on the other side of the world?

Of course, that's a story for later; right now, he has to figure out the true identity of the person in front of him, Jane.

If it is Jane herself, then there must be something in this cabin that can travel through time.

Hanamori believes that one of the two possibilities must be true, because only in this way can the two of them, at different times, meet in this wooden house.

However, there was something else that made Hua Sheng even more uneasy.

His intuition told him that he might have missed something, and it was an extremely important clue.

Of course, there are too many mysteries in front of us. Why does this strange wooden house look like a vacation cottage for an ordinary family of three?
Hua Sheng had no time to worry about any of that. He needed to know whether the "Jian" in front of him was real or fake. He absolutely could not allow himself, Mie Ying, and this person of unknown identity to be in a small, inexplicable space.

He pressed his golden cudgel against Jane's wand and asked, "What's missing from your Klin Magic Academy?" Jane frowned. "What did you say?"

Hua Sheng demanded sharply, "I need to prove who you are! Answer me now!"

“Jupiter Silk. And the Demon School also lost me, because I was kidnapped by you guys, right?” Jane said, as if telling a lame joke.

Where did you kick me in the treasure vault?

Jane laughed: "Between the legs?"

"Which hand did I use to touch you in the car just now?"

Jane frowned and said, "Your right hand! You lecher!"

With a loud bang, Hanamori was hit on the back of the head by a coaster that flew from behind.

A voice called out from behind, "You're secretly thrilled that you took advantage of her!"

Hua Sheng quickly turned around and replied, "I need to confirm whether she's an imposter! Of course, I have to ask questions that only the real Jane would know the answers to."

"Hmph! Why can't you just ask her how much that Ferrari outside cost?"

"This..." Hua Sheng was momentarily speechless.

Mieying cursed, "You're just trying to flirt with her again while confirming her identity, aren't you! Humph!"

Hanamori covered her face and said, "Is this the time to discuss this?"

But through these questions, he did indeed prove that the person in front of him was indeed Jane.

Could it be that he and Mieying really traveled through time inside the wooden house?

All that has happened so far is nothing more than a strange, inexplicable adventure that the three of them experienced in this eerie, dark forest.
Thinking of this, Hana's unease began to intensify rapidly.

At this moment, Jane asked with doubt, "You said you came here through some kind of tunnel?"

Hua Sheng pointed to the ground and answered, "We passed through the tunnel."

He added, "But now I'm starting to wonder if it really was time travel..."

Mieying said, "How could it not be? The Jane in front of us is clearly the real Jane. We clearly started from behind her, but now, after so much time, we're ahead of her. Isn't this time travel?"

What Mieying said made sense, but Huasheng had a strange sense of "incongruity".

He had a vague feeling that the truth might not be what everyone was seeing.

Hua Sheng's intuition told him that the reason why the purple-gold thread of the Magic Academy was left in the treasure vault of the Magic Academy meant that the thief really came from the Magic Academy, no, at least from Saint Pingning.

He speculated that the energy string must be somehow connected to the time wormhole, and considering that Klin Magic Academy had never obtained an energy string before, the possibility of a real time wormhole existing in France was very low, especially in such a vast forest.

Thus, Hua Sheng began to think of a seemingly impossible "third scenario," otherwise he could not reasonably explain his current situation.

In other words, assuming that Jane is the real person, he and Mieying did not travel through time but cleverly came from behind Jane to in front of her and became the people who opened the door to the wooden house for Jane!
Not only that, he and Mieying had clearly demolished the wooden house before entering it.

Unfortunately, this wasn't what Hanamori was most worried about.

What troubled him most was the possibility of him being able to prove his suspicions.

That means that this is all a carefully designed trap.

He, Mieying, and Jane have already fallen into this trap!
(End of this chapter)