Chapter 1922 - 988: The Craftsman's 'New Clothes

Although eager to make a move, Ji Jue eventually restrained himself.

In fact, for the sake of the show's effect, he forcibly held back until several hours later when the door of the Doomsday Special Train slowly opened.

Ji Jue cautiously peeked around, and only after confirming that there was no one in the picture frames around him, did he lower his head and tiptoe towards the departure level.

As the elevator doors opened, he saw a familiar picture frame.

Old Deng, who had been waiting for God knows how long, grinned at him.

"Yo, isn't this the Ember's chosen one, Master of Glory, the present-day Optimus Prime, the Federation Purple Gold Beam, Mr. Ji Jue?!"

The dispatcher was shocked: "No wonder the elevator was about to overload suddenly, it can't fit that many people...

Where are you heading?"

"To work, ahem, to work!"

Ji Jue coughed twice, putting on a serious expression: "To be honest, just thinking about the uncleaned pollution in the Border Hell Layer, the surveillance of the bugs, and the impending danger of the Jiedi Law, I can't sleep. I sincerely love the Sky Rail and I voluntarily work overtime..."

"No rush, no rush, oh!"

The dispatcher examined Ji Jue, his gaze independent of the timeline first peeked into the future's light and shadow, looking increasingly sly: "You've been busy for so long, and put in so much effort, is it over just like that?

With such a big scene, it must be something incredible from the Heavenly Artisan, right? Let me have a look to broaden my horizons, can I?"

"Ahem, there's a long story to that."

"It can be a short story, I'm not in a hurry, take your time."

"Although it succeeded, there's a small problem, so..."

"No worries, I trust you!"

The dispatcher pressed on step by step, "Just let me take a look, just seeing it makes the overtime worth it. If I see it a couple more times, I might work a few more years!"

"So..."

In Ji Jue's embarrassment, a trace of understanding emerged, as if he'd discovered something, trying to suppress his mockery:

"You really didn't see it, did you?"

[???]

For a moment, the dispatcher seemed perplexed.

Yet in this brief instant, he had already detached from the present, looking at Ji Jue's past few minutes, frame by frame, then into the future, that look of seemingly stubborn debate, pointing at his own head as if showcasing something nonexistent.

Making Old Deng's expression become sympathetic.

Almost pitying.

"What's this? The Emperor's New Clothes?"

He shook his head and sighed: "Ji Jue, at your age, you should have long since learned life's lessons from fables, right?"

He didn't see future silhouettes, except for Ji Jue's stubborn resistance, nothing else was visible.

"Oh, is that so?"

Ji Jue stopped arguing, nodded.

As if suddenly struck by a whim, his hands in pockets, looking sideways at the dispatcher, grinning, uttering lines that have put countless men on edge, hauntingly like a nightmare:

"Did you notice, anything different about me?"

"Particularly conceited indeed, always posing." The dispatcher shook his head: "Even if you look a thousand times, ten thousand times, hard... I speak 'Ancient Elegant Words'!"

Before the words finished, as Ji Jue reached out, suddenly pointing at him.

He couldn't help it anymore, cursed aloud.

Instinctively, squinting his eyes, carefully scrutinizing.

"——What the hell is that?!"

Strangely enough, he truly saw something that wasn't visible before.

Specifically, only when Ji Jue intentionally dropped the disguise and revealed a trace...

When he followed that wisp of bizarre disturbance, abandoning the lofty observation, descending into the present moment shared with Ji Jue, finally seeing it.

Something he had never seen!

Right above Ji Jue's head, in those strands of hair faintly appearing, yet so conspicuously obvious, an utterly undisguised, simple hair crown!

How could he not see it?

It had always been before his eyes, yet...

Wait a minute!

When the realization hit, the dispatcher broke into a laughter.

Cunning, truly cunning!

All that posturing, just to use him as a guinea pig, right?

If Ji Jue hadn't specifically pointed it out, even he might have overlooked it because that hair crown could only be confirmed and observed at this moment together with Ji Jue!

No traces in the past, no sign in the future.

Only now.

Because this thing is already fully anchored with Ji Jue's [Anchor]! It'll always follow Ji Jue, appearing only in Ji Jue's present experiences.

Everything the Temporary Worker did was outside the Jiedi Law, yet the results will ultimately be incorporated into it.

Through the special positioning of the Central Station and the inherent interference of Jiedi Law, its past and future have already been consolidated in time and space.

In truly difficult areas, he easily bypassed them under the Jiedi Law's protection.

Under weaving of the Non-Attack Circle Realm, it's now entwined with Ji Jue's present, becoming a Möbius Knot without beginning or end.

From now on, only Ji Jue can touch and control it. For everyone else, even just seeing it may only appear as an unreachable Mirage.

This thing is specifically targeted at those who like to foresee and backtrack!

Even if Ji Jue consciously displayed it, those who habitually read target status through the future's glimmer and past's shadow wouldn't detect any trace of it.