Cao Yuan looked at the broken and sinking earth in front of him, as well as the ruins around him that had long been razed to the ground, and fell into confusion...

who I am?

Where am I?

Where is this ruin?

Cao Yuan's last memory was when the red moon was hanging in the sky and he was tied up by his brother... Later, as his emotions got out of control, he completely lost consciousness. He had no idea what happened afterwards.

Anyway, when he opened his eyes, the surroundings looked as if they had been bombed by nuclear bombs several times, and there was not even a speck of dust from the remains of the house.

This scene... seems familiar?

Cao Yuan suddenly remembered that when he was besieged by oracles in Japan's "human circle", it was the same situation. A red beam of light fell from the sky, and he lost consciousness. When he woke up again, the surrounding cities had disappeared, and most of the oracles in front of him were killed or injured.

What exactly happened?

Just when Cao Yuan was puzzled, the charred carriage in the sky slowly stopped in front of him. Master Chen and Shen Qingzhu jumped off the carriage one after another and looked at him with complicated eyes.

"Master Chen?"

When Shen Qingzhu saw the familiar face, he was slightly stunned, then turned his head and looked around, only to find that he had already walked out of the fishing village and came to the outside world.

Master Chen looked him up and down, "How do you feel now?"

"I feel fine, just a little headache."

Cao Yuan rubbed the corners of his eyes. For some reason, he felt a sense of fatigue from the depths of his soul.

He turned to look at Shen Qingzhu and asked in confusion: "Brother, what happened after I fell unconscious? Why did this place become like this? How did we get out?"

Shen Qingzhu's expression became subtle.

It has to be said that everything that just happened was completely beyond his understanding.

Whether it was An Qingyu killing Cao Yuan with his own hands, the appearance of the terrifying giant shadow, resisting the law of time, or Cao Yuan's resurrection in the end... they all made him feel like a country bumpkin who knew nothing.

After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head and said, "Wait for An Qingyu to come back and let him tell you himself."

"Come back?" Cao Yuan was slightly stunned when he heard this, "Where is he?"

Shen Qingzhu fell silent.

…

Cangnan City.

In a dusty underground cave.

Bang--!!

A loud buzzing sound suddenly came from the void that had been silent for years, and the lid of a white test box automatically popped open, bringing with it a billowing cold air.

A white arm stretched out from it and grabbed the edge of the box. Then, a naked young man slowly sat up...

An Qingyu sat quietly in the cold for a while, took a long breath, and muttered to himself:

"The power of the Black King is even more terrifying than I imagined..."

In the fishing village, when the Black King was born, An Qingyu, who was closest to Cao Yuan, felt that his body was evaporated in an instant, and he had no power to fight back at all. If it weren't for the clones he prepared underground in Cangnan City, he would have really died at the hands of Cao Yuan.

An Qingyu stood up, casually took out a clean scientific research robe from the box next to him and put it on, put on his glasses, and stood in front of a dusty mirror.

Looking in the mirror, he had a lot of beard on his chin, long nails, and shoulder-length hair, looking like a savage.

Even though this clone was made and stored here several years ago, the age of this body is still increasing with the passage of time. And because An Qingyu's original body was stagnant in time for nearly a year, the age of this body looks even older than his original one.

The good news is that his spiritual power realm returned to the clone along with the soul, remaining at the original peak of the "sea" realm. It did not return to the original realm due to the change of body. This was also within An Qingyu's expectations.

An Qingyu looked at his savage self in the mirror and did not choose to take care of his image. Instead, he walked out quickly with a frown and an anxious look on his face.

Although he successfully liberated the Black King, it was still unknown whether the Black King could break the time loop. It was also unknown whether Lin Qiye and others could leave the fishing village alive... Before seeing with his own eyes that everyone survived, he had no time to care about other things.

…

deep sea.

As the silver closed circle in the sky disappeared, Lin Qiye was not relieved. He turned to look at Merlin and said with some concern:

"Sir Merlin, my brothers..."

"Don't worry, they are all fine." Merlin smiled.

Lin Qiye finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The closed loop of the timeline came to an end, and the red moon in the sky also disappeared. Lin Qiye suddenly felt the hands around his neck loosen, and Jia Lan's body could not help falling into the deep sea...

Lin Qiye grabbed Galan's wrist and found that she had fainted.

Galan relied on his willpower to resist the erosion of the red moon. His spirit had already reached its limit. At this moment, after the red moon dissipated, endless fatigue surged into his heart, causing him to lose consciousness.

Lin Qiye sighed and picked up Galan. At this moment, the surrounding sea water surged violently.

The dry stomach wall began to wriggle, as if stained with blood. Lin Qiye looked up at the sky, and saw that a huge vortex of sea water had appeared in the esophagus at the top of the stomach wall, rolling all the sea water in the stomach to the outside.

"This is..." Lin Qiye frowned tightly.

"It's this beast." Merlin said calmly, "The closed loop of time has been broken. This beast that was revived by the red moon was not wiped out and restarted by the law of time... It is about to be revived."

Hearing this, Lin Qiye's expression changed slightly, "Can we stop it?"

"Stop it? Why?" Merlin asked back.

Lin Qiye was stunned. "After it revives, won't it cause large-scale casualties? Won't it cause some kind of catastrophe?"

"There will be a catastrophe, but it is not the main event. It is just a trigger." Merlin smiled.

“That red moon is not as powerful as you think. Its function is only to temporarily restore some consciousness to this giant beast that has become a corpse. It is not a true resurrection at all, and it will not have the same powerful strength as when it was alive. At most, it is just a moving corpse of a mythical creature.

A ray of light from the moon through the universe, landing in this sea area, can completely revive a god-level beast? This is too outrageous. "

After hearing this, Lin Qiye suddenly realized.

From the very beginning, his thinking was misled by Chen Yangrong.

With his extremely exaggerated description, he subconsciously elevated the power of the Cthulhu gods to the point of being omnipotent, thus ignoring the feasibility of reality. The existence of the red moon is indeed terrifying, but to say that a god-level behemoth can be completely resurrected with just this one glance is indeed a fantasy.

Since Wang Mian set up a time loop here, it must be to stop something. But if the catastrophe itself did not come from this revived behemoth, then where did it come from?

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