The Beautiful CEO's Close Bodyguard-Chapter 1399 - 1412

The words of the Great Elder left Jian Chunqiu somewhat puzzled. He couldn’t help but ask, "Great Elder, what should we do now?"

The Great Elder glanced at the sky outside the window and shook his head slightly, "There’s no way, in this situation, there’s no way to fix it."

"No way?" Lin Dong, who had been silent, was shocked and stepped forward, "How can there be no way? If there’s no way, does it mean Mr. Chu really can’t come back?"

Jian Chunqiu and Lin Dong exchanged glances. Jian Chunqiu looked at the Great Elder and asked, "Great Elder, do you really have no solution?"

The Great Elder shook his head gently, "My abilities are limited. I can’t forcibly repair the Time-Space Mirror."

"Forcibly repair the Time-Space Mirror?" Jian Chunqiu murmured, repeating the phrase. His brows furrowed; after all this effort, could it really all be for nothing?

"Is there really no way?" Old Wang asked worriedly, "What should our Man Yue Clan do?"

Man Feng also looked worried, and for a moment, the room fell into a dead silence. No one spoke first.

After a while, the Great Elder slowly sat up and attempted to get out of bed, but he was stopped by Old Wang, "Great Elder, don’t move unnecessarily."

"No, I want to go personally to see the Time-Space Mirror. I want to see with my own eyes what it looks like now."

The Great Elder was stubborn; no one could stop him. Finally, they had no choice but to escort the Great Elder to the realm of the Time-Space Mirror.

The Time-Space Mirror was unchanged. Man Feng, who had stationed guards there day and night to protect it and to notice its every movement immediately. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

When the Great Elder arrived, the people gathered around him excitedly, "Great Elder, you’re finally awake."

In the Man Yue Clan, the members always had a special affection for the Great Elder. Without much ado, the Great Elder went to the Time-Space Mirror, furrowing his brows at the six large cracks that appeared on it.

After a moment, he spoke, "Just as I suspected."

Jian Chunqiu stepped forward and asked in confusion, "Great Elder, what do you mean by that?"

"It’s simple, actually. The cracks on the Time-Space Mirror, look, four of them are very short and are horizontal, while the other two are somewhat long!"

Hearing the Great Elder’s explanation, Jian Chunqiu also furrowed his brow, "What does that indicate?"

"It indicates that the incident didn’t occur here."

The Great Elder sighed slightly, "Just now, when I said there was no way to repair it, it’s because I guessed that the incident didn’t happen here, so I can’t remedy the Time-Space Mirror."

"So you mean there’s still a way to fix it, right?" Lin Dong seized on the main point.

The Great Elder gently shook his head, saying no more.

Lin Dong was a bit anxious; this Great Elder was indeed strange—sometimes saying it can be fixed, sometimes it can’t—so which is it?

Lin Dong cautiously stepped forward, pulling Jian Chunqiu’s arm, "Master, isn’t there something wrong with this person? How can his words be so contradictory?"

The thing Lin Dong noticed, Jian Chunqiu also sensed. He gazed deeply at the Great Elder, speculating about something internally.

Is the Great Elder deliberately hiding something?

"Great Elder, are you hiding something from us?"

Jian Chunqiu asked directly, glancing around, noticing the crowd, "If you think it inconvenient to say it here, why don’t we find another place to talk?"

The Great Elder looked sidelong at Jian Chunqiu, lightly pressing his lips together.

The two sought a quiet place alone, and Jian Chunqiu said, "To repair the Time-Space Mirror, do we need something, something extremely important to the Man Yue Clan?"

The Great Elder squinted at Jian Chunqiu, his eyes seemed to be saying, how do you know this?

Jian Chunqiu smiled faintly, "It’s actually nothing much, because I know there are ways to remedy the Time-Space Mirror."

The Great Elder took a step back, nervously eyeing Jian Chunqiu, "How do you know?"

Jian Chunqiu gently shook his head, "That’s not important now, what matters is whether you’re willing to bring it out to fix it."

"Moreover, things have come to this point, you’re still guarding your so-called important thing, but have you not considered when the Time-Space Mirror is truly beyond salvage, what kind of fate the Man Yue Clan will face?"

The Great Elder looked deeply into Jian Chunqiu’s eyes, contemplating for a long time without speaking.

Finally, he spoke, "I know, I know the severity of the consequences, but this is our Man Yue Clan’s Clan Treasure. If you take it away, our clan’s future could truly face danger."

Jian Chunqiu frowned, "Your Man Yue Clan’s Clan Treasure? Isn’t it the Time-Space Mirror?"

The Great Elder shook his head, "If it were the Time-Space Mirror, I would have brought it out. Unfortunately, it’s not. Our Man Yue Clan just had bad luck, choosing a place with a Time-Space Mirror as our retreat. However, this Time-Space Mirror isn’t truly hazardous to our Man Yue Clan."

"What do you mean by that?"

Jian Chunqiu was confused.

"What do I mean? When the Time-Space Mirror has problems, not only the Man Yue Clan would suffer, the entire world would be implicated."

Jian Chunqiu understood that the Great Elder used the Time-Space Mirror as a facade to protect the true Clan Treasure.

Jian Chunqiu furrowed his brow slightly. He saw that the Great Elder wouldn’t give him any answers for now.

He sighed, patting the Great Elder on the shoulder, "Think it over, we don’t have much time. I give you two days to consider."

With that, Jian Chunqiu left.

Meanwhile, in an apartment in Shanghai.

Chu Ge lay quietly on the recliner, gazing out the window. In his world, he always kept himself busy every day like a dog, giving himself no respite. But now, he had nothing to do in this leisure.

Even if he wanted to do something, he had no means, for even if he wanted to, he couldn’t.

He had been sitting there for quite a while, his thoughts in disarray, wanting to return to his own world, but he couldn’t go anywhere now. That person named Jian Chunqiu had told him once, to wait quietly here, and they would find a way to bring him back.

Yet he didn’t know when that time would be.

Chu Ge looked out the window, his thoughts drifting far away. He remembered a battle occurring before he came.

And before the battle, he couldn’t forget the investigation he had conducted into Mu Bingtong’s information.