By the time Urashima got up from the ground, there was nothing to be seen.
Although initially, he saw nothing either.
"You never saw the person who attacked you from the beginning to the end?"
Hui Lijing looked at Urashima in astonishment.
Faced with such astonishment, Urashima felt very ashamed.
He hung his head and shook it.
Then he said with certainty,
"He seemed invisible."
"Where in the world is there an invisible person, even if there is, it’s just some technique we don’t know about!"
"I’m telling you, next time bring a bag of lime, take the initiative and throw it in his face."
"Since when can’t a cop carry lime?"
Faced with Hui Lijing’s retort, Urashima was at a loss for words.
Lime isn’t something that’s strictly regulated, and there’s no need to register when purchasing it.
It’s even easier than buying a kitchen knife.
And it seems to have quite good effects.
Should I get some for self-defense?
Urashima felt vaguely tempted.
Jason watched as Urashima fell into thought.
"Named me specifically to go."
"More impatient than I thought!"
"Is it because of the time, or because of..."
Jason almost instinctively thought of the contents of ’his’ notebook.
He would not forget that he traveled across the ocean to come here.
He is not a local by birth.
And the reason why he came here was to avoid ’pursuit’, to find ’truth’.
Does that ’truth’ have anything to do with all this?
Has the ’pursuit’ really stopped?
The Planner knows a little more than he imagined.
With this in mind, Jason lingered no more.
He turned and walked to his desk, took out a mask and a machete, put them in the backpack beside him, and then headed straight for the door.
Originally standing still, watching Jason think, Hui Lijing shouted when she saw him move.
After shouting, she immediately followed.
Urashima said, standing up.
But just as he stood up, the pain in his waist and abdomen made him fall back onto the sofa.
After a good while, Urashima finally came back to his senses.
By the time he stood up again and walked out, the figures of Jason and Hui Lijing had long since vanished.
Standing there dumbfounded, the young man couldn’t help but sigh.
"Are you sighing because you feel useless?"
The rock shop owner, carrying a lunchbox, walked up the stairs.
"It’s alright, you just feel useless now, give it a few years..."
"What will happen in a few years?"
Urashima looked at the old man before him, expecting him to inspire him with his words.
"In a few years, you’ll get used to it."
The old man spoke naturally as he handed over the lunchbox to the young man.
After saying that, he passed the lunchbox to the young man.
The young man, stupefied by the rock shop owner’s discouraging words, uttered his thanks and then raised his head only to notice that the rock shop owner was looking into the distance.
There, the last glimmer of the sunset was about to vanish.
At this moment, at the end of dusk.
"The sky’s getting dark, don’t wander off."
"Wait quietly for Jason and Hui Lijing to return."
The rock shop owner said as he pushed the young man back into his room.
Then he rushed back to the store quickly and locked the door.
It was at this moment that the street loudspeakers began to blare—
The evening glow is fading, the sky tinged with red.
The sun has set, let’s all hold hands and head home.
After the children return home, the little birds will dream.
A bright moon rises in the sky, the stars twinkle.
Within the crisp sounds.
Shadows, bright and dark, began to appear.
They bathed in the blood-like sunset.
But in the eyes of ordinary people, it was just the sound of the wind.
The wind of the night.