Sequence: Waking up in the secret room and letting me play the fortune teller

Yu Ji took a long time to calm down her turbulent emotions. She widened her eyes and asked Qin Yangming:

"Different...time and space?"

At this time, Guan Chong outside the cave was still yelling at them to open the door, but no one moved. Qin Yangming looked at Yu Ji and said:

"Yes, I think that when Guan Chong opened the cave entrance and the red light shone in, the time and space inside the cave became disordered!"

"At that time, Guan Chong was illuminated by the red light, and the red light forcibly changed Guan Chong's will, so Guan Chong called a horse a zebra and said that the weather outside had become normal."

Yu Ji understood the meaning of Qin Yangming's words, and asked in disbelief:

"You mean, the red light wants us all to go out? Does this red light have its own will?"

Qin Yangming shook his head slowly and said:

"It's hard to say. In my opinion, this entire second layer is like a huge system with self-regulating capabilities. I don't know whether it is a biological system or some other system."

Qin Yangming continued:

"Although Guan Chong said that to us when he walked out of the cave, in fact, there was always red light outside!"

Everyone in the opera house was terrified and shocked beyond words when they heard this.

At this time, another scream came from Guan Chong outside the cave, and a new Guan Chong's shout sounded:

"I am the real Guan Chong. Just now a thief pretended to be me and I killed him!"

Then, everyone heard the familiar knocking sounds again, two short and one long, one light and two heavy.

"Hide the silver screen and protect the daffodils!"

Guan Chong shouted loudly, but no one in the Jade Emperor Palace answered him.

An old man from the Liyuan raised his hand and said:

"The poem he said is from my memory: 'The silver screen is hidden to protect the daffodils, and the bright moon comes to the window in the deep night!'

However, Qin Yangming shook his head slowly at him.

Qin Yangming whispered to everyone in the cave:

"That was the fourth Guan Chong. Except for the first Guan Chong, every other Guan Chong who came to the cave would kill the Guan Chong who was chopping with a knife in front of the cave. Then the new Guan Chong would start to strike the drums and recite poems. When he got no response, he would also start to chop with a knife. This cycle would repeat over and over again..."

As if to verify what Qin Yangming said, Guan Chong outside the door became angry and started slashing with a knife.

This extremely bizarre and absurd scene happened right in front of everyone. At this moment, their hair stood on end and they even moved away from others involuntarily.

Yu Ji stood beside Qin Yangming without moving. She murmured:

"This is too... ridiculous!"

Qin Yangming squatted down and drew something on the ground with his fingers. He said:

"Why did this happen? Here's how I understand it."

Everyone gathered around and leaned over to stand around Qin Yangming, looking at the pattern he drew on the ground.

He drew several circles to represent caves, and then drew several lines between the circles to represent the tunnels connecting the caves.

Qin Yangming pointed at the circles and said:

"Here's what I think. You see, these caves were sealed when the red light descended, so the flow of time in these caves is still normal."

He pointed to the lines connecting the caves and said:

"However, the tunnels connecting the sealed caves, including those that were not sealed, were illuminated by the red light, and the flow of time in these places changed under the influence of the red light!"

"It's no longer linear, it's become circular!"

"So, every once in a while, a new Guan Chong will appear from the hole outside the Jade Emperor Temple. Please note that every new Guan Chong will be illuminated by the red light like the first Guan Chong, and his will will be rewritten!"

"Then, every new Guan Chong will hold the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade and walk outside for a quarter of an hour according to our agreed plan, and then return to the entrance of the Jade Emperor Hall."

"However, except for the first Guan Chong, the second, third and all the subsequent Guan Chongs, when they returned to the gate of the Jade Emperor Temple, they would find a "thief" pretending to be them, hacking with a knife in front of the cave, and then..."

Everyone knew what happened next, because what Qin Yangming said was continuing to happen outside.

Yu Ji thought for a moment and asked:

"Then benefactor, are all of us now affected by the sudden red light, so people from different time and space are intertwined?"

Qin Yangming nodded and said:

"That should be the case. Guan Chong's repeated appearances outside the palace can prove it."

Under the gaze of the crowd, he said:

"Those Guan Chongs are actually Guan Chongs from different time and space who appeared here. The poem is the proof!"

He looked at everyone present with a burning gaze and said:

"Four Guan Chongs have already appeared. I think some of you have already discovered that the poems in some of your memories can match the poems of a certain Guan Chong outside the cave."

"This proves what I just said. The Guan Chongs that appear one after another outside the cave are actually Guan Chongs from different time and space."

Yu Ji suddenly remembered the question Qin Yangming had once asked her. Qin Yangming had asked her what the poem she remembered was and what Guan Chong said when he walked out of the cave.

Her eyes met Qin Yangming's, and she saw Qin Yangming nodded slightly to her.

What Qin Yangming meant was that his memories were consistent with Yu Ji's, which showed that he and Yu Ji came from the same time and space.

Everyone looked at the circles and lines Qin Yangming drew on the ground. For a moment, they felt as if their heads were blocked by paste and could not be stirred no matter how hard they tried.

Qin Yangming continued:

"That is to say, time flows normally for us inside the sealed cave, but time becomes circular in the places outside the cave illuminated by the red light."

"Time becomes circular wherever red light shines on it. Every once in a while, all processes will be reset to zero and return to the starting point."

"The starting point is when Guan Chong walked out of the cave."

"Because we were briefly illuminated by the red light in the cave, we were also affected. Time and space became disordered. However, because the degree of illumination was relatively weak, it was just that people from different time and space were intertwined. The flow of time was still linear."

At this time, Guan Chong’s wailing was heard again from outside the cave, with a hint of shock in his pain.

Afterwards, they heard Guan Chong's urgent roar again:

"Hey! How are you guys?"

Two short and one long, one light and two heavy knocking sounds were heard at the entrance of the cave.

"Just now a thief pretended to be me to trick you into opening the door, but I killed him!"

"Don't worry, I am the real Guan Chong!"

"I just walked around outside and everything has returned to normal. Everyone can come out now!"

"How's Yinping? Is she okay?"

"Why... aren't you talking?!"

"Oh, yes, poetry!"

I only heard Guan Chong outside the cave shouting:

"When I wake up from my dream, the screen is still empty!"

Qin Yangming and Yu Ji looked at each other, and both saw surprise in each other's eyes.

Because this Guan Chong is exactly the Guan Chong that concerns them in the same time and space.

When I wake up from the dream, the silver screen is still empty, and the cuckoo's cry is heard through the curtains.

This was exactly the poem they and Guan Chong agreed upon at the beginning.

Can this door be opened?

At this moment, the flame that had been burning and bringing light to everyone suddenly went out.