Rules Strange Tales: SSS Talent? I Play With Them All

Jiang Ran's soul swapped with his parallel world self, and he arrived in a strange world of rules. Amidst rules that are hard to distinguish between true and false, and a succession of ill-inte...

Chapter 416 The Beginning of the Cycle

The moment Jiang Ran saw this thing, he had a bad feeling. Logically speaking, with their team's current configuration, unless a god descended, how could they possibly be defeated by something?

A piece of white paper was nailed to the scarecrow's chest, on which four large characters were painted in some kind of red paint: "Keep Out!"

"It's just a scarecrow, what are you so afraid of!"

Shan Shang also stepped forward, raised his shotgun, and fired a shot!

Bang! Straw flew everywhere, and a figure slowly emerged from the darkness. It was none other than that tycoon, Marid!

"Gentlemen, you've come to visit so late at night without even informing your host. Isn't that a bit disrespectful?"

Marid pulled out a dagger from somewhere, the moonlight casting a long shadow of him, and the fluttering straw finally fell to the ground.

Shan Shang also raised his gun and pointed it at Marid: "I didn't want to bother you, but since I'm already here, there's no point in hiding anything! How did you turn those two into dogs?"

At the same time, Shan Shang took a step back and said in a low voice to Jiang Ran beside him, "The best thing to do now is to tie this guy up so that we don't violate the rule of hurting people. But if there's really no other way, I'll just shoot him. Let's go back to the base and remove the contamination first!"

But even if they kidnapped Marid, it wouldn't be the best solution. It would be fine for others, but this guy was clearly a celebrity in the whole Tianguang Town. If no one saw him walking his dog tomorrow, they would definitely find out that he was gone!

At that time, it's only a matter of time before these outsiders become the prime suspects. So Yamaue's idea is that after dealing with Marid, he must return to the base and restart Tianguang Town no matter what!

Aransta... well, we'll talk about that next time!

"I'll do it!"

Alice threw out countless white threads, trying to bind Marid tightly. At the same time, Marid waved his hand and scattered some red powder, and the threads in the air just hung down limply!

Gwen instantly saw through Marid's scheme: "That's Blood Butterfly Flower powder! This guy used himself as the array point, the Blood Butterfly Flower as the medium, and communicated with the straw on the ground to form a simple sealing array!"

The formation is simple; it can only buy him five seconds!

Marid raised the dagger high, and then... plunged it into his own heart!

The mountain dweller was also taken aback: "What's this? Are you going to commit suicide just because we disagree?"

Although Marid's suicide will bring them a lot of trouble, it will not corrupt them. They can decisively abandon this timeline and restart the entire Tianguang Town!

The next moment, he felt dizzy and unsteady, and collapsed to the ground!

Jiang Ran approached Rusgerer: "What exactly happened to you before?"

Time was of the essence, and after rescuing the two, Jiang Ran hadn't even had a chance to ask the most important question!

"I don't know!" Rusger quickly explained, "It was the moment you left town that I suddenly felt a little dizzy, yes, just like now..."

boom--

Jiang Ran's vision went black, and she lost consciousness.

"Brother Jiang Ran! Brother Jiang Ran!"

Jiang Ran vaguely heard someone calling her. When she woke up in a daze, she found herself lying on a large bed in a hotel. Alice was standing by the bed, seemingly sulking.

"Why are you sleeping in too, just like that guy, Brother Jiang Ran!"

Staying in bed? Wait, why is he in a hotel?

Jiang Ran immediately came to his senses. This was the hotel where they had stayed when they first arrived in Tianguang Town. Gwen was lying next to him, looking like she couldn't be woken up no matter what he did!

"Alice? What time is it now?"

"Huh? Brother Jiang Ran, are you still half asleep? Isn't it the morning of our second day in Tianguang Town?"

Back to the morning of the second day?! Jiang Ran instinctively grabbed Alice's shoulders: "Alice, you don't remember anything at all?"

"Remember what? Was the person across the street snoring last night?"

Jiang Ran first confirmed one thing: because of Marid's death, the timeline of the entire Tianguang Town had been restarted, and they were trapped in a cycle!

So there are currently two ways to trigger the loop. One is when someone leaves Tianguang Town. In this case, the person who leaves Tianguang Town will not be affected, while the person who stays in the town will be severely affected, such as Rusgerer!

Secondly, there's the death of Marid. Marid isn't the only one whose death triggers the loop; most of the important characters in Tianguang Town should be included. And the save points are different after the two loops are triggered!

The save point after leaving Tianguang Town is the morning of the first day; the save point after an important person dies is the morning of the second day.

Jiang Ran understood! Because Rusgrelle, Aransta, and the others weren't in the timeline of the first morning, their behavior was distorted by the local rules, allowing them to integrate into the town in a more "reasonable" way. Rusgrelle turning into a dog was probably lucky; who knows what Aransta turned into...

"The current record point is the next day, the next morning. We were already here, so the timeline won't be messed up... Wait! Neither Shanshang nor Aisha are here!"

"Brother Jiang Ran, what are you muttering about?"

Jiang Ran immediately contacted Wips through his talent connection to ask if Aisha and Yama were at the base, and as expected, he received a negative answer!

No matter how many cycles Tian Guangzhen goes through, it won't affect the outside world. So, in the eyes of Weipus and the others, time is still passing normally, and it is now the morning of the third day!

That's right, it's the morning of the third day, not the evening of the second day! This means that the time in Tianguang Town is still basically the same as the outside world. It's as if the entire Tianguang Town stopped operating last night and only restarted this morning.

"Gwen!"

Jiang Ran quickly turned Gwen over. The current situation made his heart sink. Gwen was indeed asleep and did not wake up as before. She had obviously been corrupted by the rules. In other words, everything in Tianguang Town had been reset to this time in the past!

If we leave Tianguang Town now and take Gwen back for treatment, then Aisha and Shanshang will have to undergo a second reboot in the town, and who knows what will happen. If we don't do this, we won't be able to remove the pollution from Gwen's body!

Jiang Ran is undoubtedly facing a difficult choice.

"Given the commotion you're making, what happened?"

Aransta rubbed his eyes and slowly pushed the door open to enter.