You call this a black hand?

Mellen was a little confused by all this.

But after thinking about it, I simply gave up thinking about the principle and reason of this transformation. No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't figure it out.

Seeing the follower skeleton approaching and sizing up "it" in the coffin, Meren patted its forehead and motioned for it to sit in front of the sarcophagus with him.

The skeleton was very obedient and did as he was told.

Mellen then began to meditate and channel.

This living skeleton and the changing time and space around it were accidental encounters. His original purpose of coming here was just to meet the two female savages.

So now that everything has returned to normal, Meren naturally has to get down to business.

Originally, he suspected that if the skeleton came to life, then he might not be able to use it to see the two female savages.

It turned out not to be the case.

As the entire white jade skeleton was outlined in his mind, his thinking fell into a dark state again.

When he came back to his senses, he had already arrived at a river filled with heavy snow.

However, what was different from last time was that the skeleton actually followed...

"Isn't this its spiritual world?"

Mellen raised his eyebrows when he saw this.

Visualize the other person, connect with the other person's spirit, and then enter their spiritual world.

This guess is very reasonable.

The two female savages in the spiritual world are most likely the embodiment of the two personalities of the skeleton.

This was a suspicion he had.

Now it seems that the second guess is no longer possible.

The first guess seems somewhat untenable.

And then, some traces and clues found here made him more and more convinced that this place was the same as before, another different world!

The clue was that some clothes, red, blue, green, and purple, were scattered around in the ice and snow. The styles were different, but the general outline did not deviate from the student uniforms of Fort St. Grant.

Mellen had not forgotten that the last time he saw the two female savages, they were not wearing any clothes, so they copied the clothes he wore.

And everything here now seems to look like, during the time he left, the two female savages were bored and kept changing their clothes, and as a result, the failed products were thrown everywhere...

This suddenly flashed an idea in his mind.

They didn't wear clothes before, probably because there were no outsiders in this place and they were not afraid of the cold.

Now that outsiders have come, they put on their clothes, but they end up tossing and turning around this one style...

Does this mean that they have only seen this type of clothes and nothing else?

In other words, is this the first time something like clothes appears here?

"If the world where the sarcophagus is located is the future, then why can't this place be the past?"

The emergence of this speculation immediately stunned him.

What surprised Mellen even more was that when he realized this possibility, the skeleton behind him disappeared inexplicably!

"what happened?"

There were more and more weird things happening, and Mellen was almost dazzled.

He searched nearby for a while, but could not find the missing skeleton, not even the footprints of its departure.

However, something happened not long after that made him vaguely aware of the skeleton's current traces.

At this time, he was in a clearing between a river and a forest, surrounded by white snow. Except for the sound of running water, it should have been silent.

A beautiful silver-haired girl in a black robe suddenly ran out from the depths of the forest covered with hoarfrost.

After seeing Melen, the expression on the girl's face was not as wary as last time. Instead, she looked at him boldly, with a curious and slightly shy expression, as if she had received some signal and came specifically to find him.

Then, she hesitated and moved her steps behind Melen, then raised a delicate white hand and gently pinched the corner of his clothes...

"Who are you……"

Mellen probably understood something from this.

This action is exactly the same as that of the skeleton just now!

What made him a little confused was that before he could say anything else, another silver-haired girl appeared from deep in the forest not far away.

Different from the bold approach of the person behind him, the person stopped after running to the edge of the woods, and then hid most of his body behind the tree, only poking out a small head with long silky silver hair, alert and scared.

The ground looked over.

After seeing the intimate posture of the girl who looked exactly like her, Melen, a trace of sadness suddenly flashed across her face.

It was as if his sweetheart had been robbed.

The person behind Melen turned his head and called to her, the syllables he made being vague and incomprehensible.

As a result, when the other party heard this, he just shook his head, his expression inexplicably becoming full of grievance and grief.

Then she turned and ran away.

Then, the man behind him looked at Melen with a faint look of pleading.

As if hoping that he could follow up and find the one who ran away just now.

"Why don't you go find it yourself and insist on dragging me along?"

Mellen couldn't help but ask.

As a result, the other party just blinked, with a puzzled look on his face.

I don't seem to understand what he is saying.

Melen then had no choice but to take her and walk toward the depths of the forest.

During this period, he began to guess what was going on.

"If this is the past, then the skeleton that traveled from the future should have been fused with the one behind it. In other words, this female savage is the skeleton's past body and the mother mentioned by the Holy Spirit."

"After the two parties merged, she obviously inherited the memories and emotions related to the skeleton, but the skeleton didn't seem to remember anything. The one who impressed me the most was probably me."

"But now she is just a blank slate and doesn't understand anything, so she followed the relatively complicated feelings and memories of the past and came to me."

"If she is the mother, then the man just now should be the father she created?"

"The Holy Spirit said that my father and my mother basically look the same."

"In this case... wouldn't I be regarded as a third party by that father?"

Thinking of this, Meren turned his head and looked at his "mother" who was following behind him, and found that the other party was looking at him curiously.

After being hit by Melen, she did not avoid her eyes, but boldly looked at him.

In the blink of an eye, those purple eyes were pure and beautiful, and there were many close emotions in them. Inexplicably, Meren even felt a trace of admiration and attachment, like a child seeing his parents.

"She doesn't think of me as her father, does she?"

This thought suddenly flashed through Mellen's mind.

Whether in the past life or in this world, there is a saying that whoever a newborn cub sees first when it opens its eyes will regard that person as its parent.

And the skeleton that had been sleeping for who knows how many years obviously had no memory of the past.

Awakening it yourself, isn't it very similar to this statement?

(End of chapter)