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Chapter 37: Stunned Bai Luo
This time, however, Sadako remained silent for quite a long time. Bai Luo sensed something was off and finally snapped out of his overwhelming confusion. In the pitch-black depths of the well, he tentatively called out, "Sadako?"
As soon as his voice echoed, the surrounding darkness receded like a tide, and light began to fill the space.
Bai Luo opened his eyes.
—He had opened his eyes in the real world.
The first thing Bai Luo saw was a dilapidated room. The wall closest to him had a massive hole in it, and a chilly wind was seeping in from that direction.
The room felt cold and damp.
It appeared to be an abandoned house, long uninhabited.
However, judging by the current situation, Bai Luo realized he hadn’t actually fallen to his death from the plane.
He estimated that this must be thanks to Mizumura Memeko. Of course, with the Iron Body Talisman still on him, even if he had truly fallen from the sky, he wouldn’t have turned into a bloody mess.
But Bai Luo had no idea how long he had been trapped in Sadako's memories. His body felt extremely stiff, and he sensed that something was not quite right. When he tried to move, he found himself unable to sit up from the ground—after all, he still had the Iron Body Talisman on him.
Soon enough, Bai Luo would discover just how long he had been unconscious.
As he regained consciousness, the excited voice of Mizumura Memeko echoed in his mind: "Bai Luo, you finally woke up! Did you bring Sadako out?"
Bai Luo furrowed his brow and looked around, but he did not see Sadako. To be honest, he wasn't sure if Sadako had come out, but given the current situation, since he had already emerged and Sadako's memories had been restored, then...
At that moment, Bai Luo noticed something.
His hands.
The hands that should have belonged to a nine-year-old child had suddenly transformed into those of an adult without him realizing it.
In an instant, Bai Luo understood what was happening. He pushed himself up with the hand that had just regained sensation and looked down.
He saw his current body.
Although a tattered piece of linen was draped over him, it could not hide one undeniable fact.
Bai Luo was no longer a child.
The body he saw even exceeded six feet tall. He touched his chin and then decisively felt his groin, finally asking in disbelief, "How long have I been unconscious?"
"Twenty years," came a cold response.
Bai Luo turned to see Sadako leaning against the doorframe. Her long black hair framed a beautiful face that turned toward him. The pure gaze from his memories was long gone; standing before Bai Luo now was still the cold Shan Village Sadako. However, it seemed she had indeed regained her memories. She said, "Time—time is synchronized. The years you spent in my memories are equal to the years you spent in the real world."
Upon hearing this, Bai Luo's expression was nothing short of spectacular.
What on earth is going on! It's been twenty years! The readers are going to explode! What kind of plot twist is this! This is a divine revelation!
He held his head, feeling somewhat disoriented.
However, the first thing that came out of Bai Luo's mouth, furrowing his brows, was, "Twenty years... then why am I not dead?"
This was a question of considerable significance. Given the current situation, it seemed that during the plane crash, Mizumura Memeko must have saved Bai Luo and brought him to an isolated place, waiting for him to wake up. With Mizumura Memeko's ghostly and adorably naive loli persona, she would never have thought that Bai Luo would need life support while in a coma. A normal person would have long since perished without life support after being in a coma for twenty years. Moreover, Mizumura Memeko had simply tossed him down and covered him with a rag.
So...
Could it be the Talisman?
For the past twenty years, the Iron Body Talisman had been on Bai Luo's body. Perhaps its presence ensured that Bai Luo's bodily functions remained intact, even allowing him to regain control over his body in such a short time.
Moreover, it might also be the reason why Bai Luo appeared remarkably youthful, looking as if he were just barely over twenty years old.
Thinking about the Talisman, Bai Luo pulled up his pant leg and began to search. Sure enough, the Yellow Paper Talisman was stuck there, worn with the marks of time. As Bai Luo gently touched it, the talisman disintegrated into ashes.
Bai Luo stared in shock at this scene, wondering if such a thing was even possible.
Two thousand points just turned to dust like that?
Bai Luo truly felt as if he had been transported to another world. In the memories of Sadako, he had lived through a real twenty years, and in the real world, twenty years had indeed passed. Bai Luo's memories were still frozen at the moment of the plane crash in 1988, while now it was already 2008.
2008 was the year Iron Man was born.
Bai Luo struggled to stand up. Although he had been protected by the Iron Body over the years, his body still felt somewhat stiff.
He stood in the dim light, looking at Sadako standing at the door, and asked Mizumura Memeko in his mind, "Where are we now? What is the exact time?"
As for these two questions, Mizumura Memeko's answer was:
"Uh? I... I don't know."
Well, as a wandering ghost, Mizumura Memeko had no concept of time or place.
What Bai Luo was thinking at this moment was—twenty years have passed; wouldn't his older sister Bai Chu have turned into an old woman?
If his sister found a foreigner during this time, he might even have a mixed-race nephew with blonde hair by now.
However, for a traveler like him, twenty years wasn't really that long. Moreover, with the Talisman in hand, extending his life was definitely not a problem. If Bai Luo successfully turned himself into a Talisman body, his lifespan would increase exponentially. Yet, the twenty-year gap still left him feeling somewhat out of sorts.
Sadako glanced at him and said, "Twenty years is what I owe you. Without you, the moment I regained my memories would be the moment I was once again controlled by resentment. Therefore, I will stay by your side for twenty years as compensation. Whatever you command, I will do my utmost to fulfill it—my abilities far surpass that girl inside your body when I lost my memories; now they are only stronger."
With Sadako's words, Bai Luo felt that at least these twenty years weren't too much of a loss. Looking on the bright side, he had at least recovered a top-tier Vengeful Spirit as an ally, hadn't he?
But he wondered, why is it that for others, crossing over to meet Sadako happens in an instant, while for him, it has been such a "bumpy road"?
However, as he looked at the currently frosty-faced Sadako, what occupied his mind was that kiss from deep within the well.
That was Sadako's kiss.
Everything was still fresh in his memory.
So, what exactly was this cold-faced Shan Village Sadako thinking at this moment?
That was something only she would know.
It was Mizumura Memeko, this Loli, who hit the nail on the head: "Hey, even though she's talking bad about me, I feel like she really wants to follow you."
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