Chapter 592 – Grandma Crane

　　Yuzurina was a bit stunned.

　　She hadn’t heard Lin Qiye climb up the steep slope at all, and she didn’t even know when he came up from below; he was like a black ghost that flew up from the bottom of the steep slope in a flash.

　　”Your stance is quite good.” Yuzurina sighed in Japanese.

　　Lin Qiye smiled without saying anything.

　　The two of them walked along the highway on the wall with their heads in the azure sky, one after the other towards the other side of the road.

　　Yuzurina walked in front, her bare feet, her paws stepping on the gray asphalt, leaving shallow water stains, her old black cherry blossom kimono seemed to be a bit loose, not like her size, and it was even a bit open at the sleeve tubes, which had been woven together again by a single strand of gray silk thread.

　　With every step she took, the light pink hairpin stuck in her doughnut-like black hair would sway gently, reflecting a crystal shimmer.

　　Lin Qiye was draped in a black trench coat and calmly walked behind her.

　　In his mind, he quickly combed through all the known information.

　　The cause of everything was that white-haired old man who stepped on a flat boat in the mists, suspected to be King Face.

　　He wore the mask of Wang Mien, the cloak of the [Mask] squad, the [Eagle Kite] on his waist, and his abilities were also related to time, Lin Qiye was almost certain that that person was Wang Mien ……

　　But the contradiction was that Wang Mian wasn’t that old, and he was still far from stepping into the God Realm.

　　Could it be that he came from the future?

　　The moment this idea appeared in Lin Qiye’s mind, he labeled it as “highly probable”. It wasn’t a secret that Wang Mian was capable of time travel.

　　When Instructor Yuan Gang explained the medals of the Night Watch, he mentioned Wang Mian’s accomplishments. Five years ago, when the Orochi Orochi landed in the East Sea, Wang Mian had expended his longevity to travel through time, returning to an hour before the Orochi Orochi’s appearance, and saved an entire city of people.

　　At that time, Wang Mian was only a newcomer to the Limitless Realm.

　　If Wang Mian really broke the ceiling and entered the God Realm in the future, it might not be impossible for him to travel back in time.

　　The question now was, if this speculation was correct, from which point in the future had he traveled back to the past, and for what purpose had he come back?

　　Was it just to send him to this place?

　　And what about the rest of the crew? Are they here too?

　　Is this place …… really Japan?

　　Countless doubts flooded Lin Qiye’s mind, and the more he pondered, the more confused he felt.

　　Suddenly, he thought of a certain possibility.

　　If Wang Mian was able to manipulate time, was it possible that he was sending the crowd to Japan a hundred years ago, when the mists hadn’t yet appeared?

　　Lin Qiye jerked his head up and looked around.

　　At this moment, the two had already stepped out of the highway and onto the city streets.

　　This place was not yet in the city center, there were very few pedestrians on the road, the gray asphalt road had lanes painted with clean white signs, on the right hand side was a small sea urchin-covered rice store that had not long opened, and on the left hand side was an electrical appliance city that had already closed down and gone out of business.

　　There were a few locked bicycles parked on one side of the driveway, and then a black sedan parked in front of it; Lin Qiye didn’t recognize the logo, but judging from the shape of the car, it wasn’t a product of decades ago.

　　Yuzurina, who was walking in front of him, suddenly stopped and waited until the signal light above his head flickered into green before continuing to march forward.

　　This was by no means the Japan of a hundred years ago.

　　This was a modern city.

　　Lin Qiye dismissed the idea of going back in time and continued to ponder the nature of this place ……

　　Since he hadn’t traveled through time, how exactly did this country, which wasn’t shrouded in mist, appear?

　　This country shouldn’t have existed in the first place, but on the contrary, he had already been in it, and he could vaguely feel that underneath this serene and beautiful exterior, there must be some sort of unknown and dangerous secret hidden.

　　Unable to figure all this out for the time being, Lin Qiye could only put it aside for the time being and think about the dilemma that was close at hand.

　　Unfamiliar environment, unfamiliar language, unfamiliar culture …… Lin Qiye the first thing he needed to solve was the problem of the language barrier.

　　Not speaking all the time and not being able to read the words, but it’s hard to figure out what’s going on here.

　　But language is something that can’t be learned in a day or two.

　　Just as Lin Qiye was secretly agonizing, the two of them had already walked to the edge of the city center, the buildings around them gradually became shorter and sparser, and eventually, they stopped in front of a deserted vacant lot behind the park.

　　There were no houses that could be inhabited here, and there wasn’t even any lighting to illuminate the area; at the edge of this vacant lot, there were only a few containers that looked abandoned for a long time lying around in a messy manner.

　　Yuzurina turned her head towards Lin Qiye and said in Japanese:

　　”Follow me and don’t make a sound.”

　　After saying this, she also used her finger to gesture an “x” in front of her mouth.

　　Lin Qiye instantly understood what she meant and nodded.

　　The two of them gently walked to one of the containers, and Yuzurina carefully looked around to make sure there was no one else around before opening the lock on the door of the container and quickly stepping inside.

　　Inside the container was a small living space.

　　A worn-out thick mattress that had been moved from somewhere, with two piles of thin blankets folded on top of it, and next to it was a simple hanger made from a bent pipe, with two pieces of clothing hanging on it, and then some of the most basic toiletries.

　　On the other side of the mattress, there was a wooden chair, and at the moment a grandmother with gray hair was sitting there, squinting her eyes, her wrinkled hands trembling as she folded white paper.

　　Her speed was slow, but her technique was very skillful, and in a few seconds she had folded a delicate thousand paper cranes and gently placed them at her feet.

　　Under her feet, a small mountain of thousand paper cranes had already piled up, drowning her shoes in it.

　　She heard the door of the container being pushed open and slowly looked up to see the petite figure, a bright smile emerging from the corners of her pale mouth.

　　”Little Yuzu Pear, you’re back?”

　　”I’m back.” A smile surfaced on Yuzurina’s small face, “Grandma Crane, I also brought a guest back.”

　　”A guest?”

　　Hearing those words, the old man’s gaze fell behind Yuzurina and saw the man in a black trench coat.

　　She gently put down the white paper in her hand and put her hands on the handle of the chair, forcefully trying to get up from the chair, her legs trembling a little as she stepped on the ground.

　　”A guest has come …… quickly, quickly sit down, I will go to make a cup of tea for the guest.”

　　”Grandma Tsuru, you quickly sit down, leave such things as entertaining guests to me.” Yuzurina panicked and assisted her, helping her back to her chair while opening her mouth.

　　Grandma Tsuru opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to say something else, but her body really couldn’t exert any more strength, and she could only comply with Yuzurina’s force and sat back down on the chair.

　　Yuzurina turned back and saw Lin Qiye still standing in the doorway, her brows slightly furrowed.

　　”What are you still standing there for, quickly come in and close the door, being letting others see us here.”