Chapter 45 Those Who Left Me (End) (3.5 Updates Combined) [VIP]
Everyone was sitting in a wobbly minibus. Bai Jinshu was sitting in the last row of the bus. Lu Changfeng was sitting in the seat a little in front of him, leaning on the back of the chair and calling him.
"Brother Chu, Brother Chu?" Lu Changfeng saw him open his eyes and asked quickly, "Shall we start now?!"
"Wait a minute, stay away from me. My head hurts when you shout so loudly," Bai Jinshu unceremoniously pressed Lu Changfeng's forehead and poked him back, and finally he saw the situation in front.
The seats in the front were filled with members of the exploration team. At the front was a man who looked like a guide. The clothes he wore were somewhat out of place with the others. He looked familiar and should be a villager in the village.
The man was talking excitedly to the teacher in charge.
"Teacher Ma" was sitting at the front row, his face full of indifference and impatience, and it was almost written on his face that he didn't want to listen to the other person. When he found that Bai Jinshu had woken up, he reluctantly responded with a few nasal sounds and turned to the direction of Bai Jinshu.
Bai Jinshu gave the evil god a well-behaved smile, trying to cover up the fact that he had rushed into the other party's tent at full speed to drop weight as soon as he arrived at the cave last night.
It's horrible. When he graduated from undergraduate school, he was writing his thesis while joining the crew. When he was rushing to finish his thesis and filming at the same time, the weight reduction was never so drastic.
Unless necessary, he should stay as far away from this kind of restraint world as possible in the future.
Moreover, this unknown space is a variant of the Cthulhu world. Although it follows the operating laws and san check and other basic rules in the Cthulhu world, all the mythical creatures in it are things that Shemochu has never heard of or seen before, which is too unfavorable for him.
As a veteran investigator, his advantages against those familiar creatures were completely gone.
If Bai Jinshu hadn't accidentally brought down Huaijiamu, it's not certain whether he could get out of here safely.
The only flaw is that Huai Jiamu is representing an unknown creature other than the team members here. He cannot lower the synchronization rate all the time, but has to wait until the exploration is over before it can be reset to zero once and for all.
This is too inconvenient.
Bai Jinshu was thinking about how to get the evil god to join the exploration as a team member. If he was right, when he came out of the copy, he should have logged out like Fang Shaoning, replacing the identity of the foundation's exploration team member.
Fang Shaoning replaced Chen Fei, and Huai Jiamu replaced Yang Pei.
If that's the case, then they should be able to use this identity to enter the copy.
There is nothing wrong with the believers. They just don't want to be away from the evil god for too long.
Bai Jinshu thought about all this in his mind and decided that after he got out, he would ask the logistics customer service if they could contact Fang Shaoning.
For the time being, he didn't want to connect his true body with the evil god outside of the unknown space, but Fang Shaoning could ask.
Inside the bus, all the sleeping exploration team members had woken up one after another. After Xu Zichen woke up, he touched his head first, and when he found that it was still alive, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Yesterday, when Bai Jinshu and Yun Guang were discussing how to reach the seventh day, they were giving Xu Zichen an opening. Now, when Xu Zichen opened his eyes, he found himself at the end of the countercurrent time, which was the first day of arriving at the mountain village. He immediately understood what was happening.
After confirming that his head was still intact, he stood up from his seat and staggered over to Bai Jinshu: "Shall we start now?"
"Wait a minute," Bai Jinshu glanced at the scenery outside, "wait until we enter the mountain village."
He didn't know exactly when the bugs infected everyone. In order to close the timeline of the first six days, they'd better wait until they were sure that the bugs had taken root in everyone's brains before eliminating them.
Lu Changfeng made room for him. Xu Zichen sat next to Lu Changfeng and asked Bai Jin: "She Mochu, I have a question. If you are the only one who can see the bugs, then doesn't that mean that only your bugs are difficult to remove?"
He has been everyone's guinea pig. Now She Mochu roughly knows where the worms are parasitic in the human brain. The problem is that after he has removed everyone's brains, how can he remove the worms from his own brain?
There is also Lu Changfeng. Lu Changfeng is the tolerance rate that allows She Mochu to make mistakes with the knife. He is the biggest guarantee for everyone's brain to not have problems, because no matter what She Mochu does, he can recover in the end.
So if we get rid of the bug in Lu Changfeng's brain first and let him get from point A to point B, what should we do with She Mochu who is left alone?
She Mochu sat in the last row of seats and looked at him for a long time as if he was a fool: "You don't remember... Oh, of course you don't remember, you were not here on the first day."
"Don't remember what?" Xu Zichen was puzzled.
"Remember one person," She Mochu waved at Yun Guang, and waited until Yun Guang sat over before saying, "The first six days are in a cause and effect chain. For example, because you died on the second day, you would not appear on the third day. From our perspective, it is because you died on the second day that you would not appear on the previous day."
"I know this. What does this mean? Does it mean that we are in a period of time with fixed cause and effect?" Xu Zichen touched the tip of his nose. He felt very relieved about talking about his own death.
"No, it means that these six days, no matter whether we go backwards or forwards, can be explained. In our reverse concept, what we did in the next few days has actually happened forward in this world. That is, no matter what the result is, all our actions will point to this result." Yun Guang said in a very firm tone.
She Mochu raised the corners of his lips: "After you proposed the idea of opening the cave yesterday, I knew that we would definitely be able to get out today, because the event that supported our escape had already happened on the positive timeline. When you were erased, Yun Guang and I's speculation was established."
Someone told them the answer to get out on the last day, but none of them noticed at the time.
In front of the bus, the guide was a chatterbox. After the team leader, Mr. Ma, took a long time to respond, he had no choice but to ask a young man sitting in the front row with a blue suitcase, "He, your father said you were working in the capital. It's not a holiday, so why did you come back? If we hadn't seen you when we passed by, you don't know how long you would have to wait for the bus."
"It's vacation," He Wazi pursed his lips and replied. He subconsciously used Mandarin when he said the first sentence, and then changed to the same hometown accent as the guide, "I'm on vacation and came back to see my dad."
"Oh, that's good! You're filial!" The guide patted his shoulder and praised him, "Unlike my kid who doesn't know anything! You should work hard in the city! When the tourist attraction is built and we have money, your father will buy you a house in the city!"
In the last row of the car, Yun Guang activated the miracle of sound shielding, and everyone gathered together. The back row of the minibus, which could only accommodate four people, was now packed with ten people.
Receiving She Mochu's gaze, Guan Hongyan took the initiative to speak: "If you remember, on the first day we came here, the driver said that there was only one college student in the village who passed the exam. He studied brain science and is now a doctor in the capital."
This was the information that the driver inadvertently said when chatting with Teacher Ma.
"Then, on the third day, the uncle who came to deliver breakfast said that it was his son. The strange thing was that he had three days off, but he left in a hurry because of the emergency notice from the hospital before the bridge collapsed."
The day before the bridge collapsed was today.
Yun Guang took over the conversation: "Do you think he really left because of the hospital's notice?"
A brain surgeon hurriedly left during the time period when they just needed to remove a bug in the brain. Was it really because the hospital notified him by such a coincidence?
It's easy to imagine that they must have done something that caused the doctor to leave.
For example...letting the other person see something incomprehensible.
"Chekov said..." Lu Changfeng, who had been quietly standing by, suddenly sighed, but before he could finish his sentence, he went off topic and said, "Hey Jiang Jinming, don't squeeze me. You definitely don't have Chekov's stuff."
"I know there isn't one," Jiang Jinming said bluntly, "The seat is so small, and I don't mean to squeeze you."
"You two stop pushing! What is Chekhov talking about? Why are there always people talking to each other in your place?" Li Ren was speechless.
"He said," Lu Changfeng made a firing gesture and fired a shot at Li Ren's forehead, "If a gun appears in the first act, then his gun will definitely go off in the third act."
And now, the first shot of the act has begun.
So if they learned on the sixth day that a brain doctor had hurriedly left the village on the first day, then something must have happened to him on the first day.
In reverse time, all events that happened in the past are what they will do in the future.
"Then...what if he doesn't want to?" Cen Qiwen was a thoughtful and sensitive person, and couldn't help but worry.
"Tie him up," She Mochu raised his chin and pointed at the young doctor who was chatting with the guide in front of the vehicle. He smiled mysteriously. "There are ten of us and he is alone. It's such a small mountain village. Even if he calls the police, no one will come for a while."
Besides, once the doctor sees the worms in their brains with his own eyes, it is not certain whether he will remember to call the police.
When he saw those C-type creatures that he couldn't understand, he probably wouldn't dare tell this information to his fellow villagers, right?
Guan Hongyan rubbed her hands in anticipation, apparently finding her first chance to use her skills in this place filled with mythical creatures of the Cthulhu type: "I'm ready! I'm ready!"
Xu Zichen raised his hand with interest: "Add me."
"Rice noodle rolls! Don't just stand there!" Guan Hongyan patted Lu Changfeng on the shoulder without any hesitation, "Those smart people are going to fill in the rules, you should come with us!"
Lu Changfeng: "Okay... okay."
What does it mean that "those with brains have to fill in the rules"? Then are those who kidnap doctors brainless? Isn't Guan Hongyan scolding herself as well?
Guan Hongyan automatically classified herself as the same kind as him.
The minibus was suddenly filled with a strange atmosphere of eagerness and joy.
The barrage also became joyful again after a long absence:
【Sister Yan'er, charge! 】
[Sister Yan'er, come on! ]
[Sister Yan'er is still full of confidence in her ability to analyze rules. ]
[It’s so funny, she is not only confident in her own abilities, but also in the rice noodle rolls. ]
【A moment of silence for the doctor who will soon see things he cannot understand. 】
[Hope everyone is OK (praying for nia)]
[Hope everyone is OK (Palms together)]
【The Lord showed a villain's smile behind the crowd. 】
[How can you call it a villain's smile, you fake believer? The Lord's expression is clearly one of confidence in victory, Truman.]
After a shaky ride, the minibus arrived at the foot of the mountain village. The village chiefs had already been waiting at the entrance of the village and warmly welcomed the investigation team.
The young doctor who came with their ride got off the car with his suitcase. The person who came out to greet him was indeed the uncle who had been delivering breakfast to the exploration team members in the past few days. Next to the uncle stood a middle-aged woman who looked very similar to the young doctor. They should be his parents.
The members of the investigation team were welcomed into the mountain village. They followed the young doctor as he entered the courtyard of the uncle's house, and they exchanged glances tacitly.
Lu Changfeng, Guan Hongyan and Xu Zichen quietly left the main group. Guan Hongyan even held a sack with "urea" written on it, which obviously was taken from a fellow villager's house on the roadside.
Cen Qiwen, the only conscience in the team, silently shifted her gaze away, allowing the three team members to rush towards the young doctor like birds out of a cage.
I hope the young doctor is okay.
The group headed straight for the cave as they had done countless times in the mornings before. After setting up camp, everyone gathered together as they had done in the previous few days.
Finally it was the last moment, Bi Wu opened the task panel and signaled everyone to start.
Investors on the barrage are also gearing up, apparently ready to make additional investments.
【Go, go, go! 】
[This is the first time my child has invested in a high-end space. Hehehe.]
【Leaving Me Behind, the first high-end project for young people. 】
[Everyone, please be cautious when investing. There are hundreds of thousands of people in this live broadcast room. With so many people investing, and the rules for time reversal in this space have not yet been released, you won’t make much money.]
[You don’t understand. Whether you can make money is not important. The main thing is that the atmosphere is already here. It would be embarrassing if you don’t participate.]
[Indeed, I haven’t invested in high-end space yet, so it’s okay to test the waters.]
On the screen, Shemochu spoke first: "This space contains the worldview of Cthulhu and above. After entering this space, intruders will be given the concept of sanity value. If they see things beyond their understanding, they will undergo a san check and deduct a certain amount of sanity value. When the sanity value is deducted too much or drops below the safety line, they will lose their sanity and fall into short-term or long-term madness."
"OK," Bi Wu made an OK gesture, "This one passed."
This is the underlying operating rule in Cthulhu Direct. No matter what the situation is in the unknown space, this one will definitely pass.
"There is a mythical insect-shaped creature in this unknown space. The larvae of this creature float in the air and cannot be caught by human eyes. Once you know the relevant information, you need to pass one or more sanity tests. This kind of mythical creature can enter the human body through the respiratory tract and lay eggs and cocoons in the brain. If you are parasitized, please be aware that once you are injured, the eggs will mature prematurely, causing the host to die the next day. There is only one way to prevent this mythical creature, which is to eat specific wild vegetables before being parasitized to expel its larvae from entering the human body."
"Specific wild vegetables need to be marked." Bi Wu looked up.
"There is a special mythical plant in this space that has an inhibitory effect on the larvae's host. It sprouts and grows mostly in the spring, and after spring, it takes root in the soil and lives in the adult's body, forming a complex with it."
"OK, passed." Bi Wu's hand quickly swept across the screen, and this rule was judged to have passed.
Yun Guang also spoke up, "There exists a mythical creature in this space that has an irregular form and is mostly similar to wolves and dogs. If a person is injured while being parasitized, the eggs in the brain of the injured person will emit mature pheromones, attracting this mythical creature to appear and prey on them."
"There's a mistake," Bi Wu frowned, "I can't pass this one. I have used up my three attempts today."
Jiang Jinming took the initiative to open the panel and wait.
"Outside the space, not inside, but outside," Bai Jinshu corrected. "Change the following sentence to: If someone is already injured while being parasitized, the mature eggs in the injured person's brain will emit a certain type of pheromone, attracting the dog-shaped mythical creature to break through the boundaries of time and space, appear in the space, attack the parasite, and prey on it."
"Okay, that's it." Jiang Jinming typed a little slowly and nodded after a while.
"The insect-shaped mythical creatures in this space live in the human brain. If the host is accidentally injured, please refer to the previous rule. After entering the mature stage, it will expand rapidly. If the dog-shaped mythical creature does not appear in the space, the injured person will die when the insect-shaped mythical creature matures and his skull will be cracked by the adult insect."
Jiang Jinming: "Pass, next one."
The five rules and one supplementary explanation were quickly verified, and the expressions on the faces of everyone gathered together couldn't help but relax a lot.
The three people on the other side also began to receive information that the rules had been verified. Guan Hongyan, carrying the urea bag, glanced at the task panel and said, "They have already started, so we have to hurry up here."
After all, they came to the village secretly to kidnap people, so of course they couldn't be too blatant. It would be too arrogant to kidnap someone's son in broad daylight and use the villagers' car to go up the mountain. Of course they had to climb up on foot.
Fortunately, the three people who came to kidnap people were all in good physical condition, and they had some physical supplements from the foundation mall. The three of them took turns carrying the doctor, and when they reached the cave it was not too late.
The team members who have completed the verification of all existing rules in the cave have been waiting for a long time.
The unlucky doctor was taken to the cave by them. Guan Hongyan withdrew the miracle that could make others unconscious for a short time. The doctor woke up slowly, and the first thing he saw was a pair of gray vertical pupils that absolutely could not appear on a human face.
Those were a pair of strange eyes that should never appear on a human being. When he was stared at by them, he seemed to feel that every nerve in his body was sending out a signal to leave, warning him to get away quickly.
The doctor leaned back, the warning signal in his heart wanting to leave even overshadowing the panic and fear he felt after being suddenly knocked unconscious and brought to an unfamiliar space.
Fortunately, the owner of the eyes only opened his eyelids, looked at him, and then lowered his eyes again.
Only then did the doctor turn his extra attention to the owner of the eye.
He suspected he was dreaming.
If this was a dream, it would be reasonable to have a young man with such a familiar, strange and gorgeous appearance and weird gray vertical pupils appear in the dream.
He was in a daze for a few seconds before he remembered why the face looked so familiar.
This seemed... seemed to be the face he had caught a glimpse of when he entered the village and hitchhiked with the geographical survey team.
"Are you awake? Are you awake?" A hurried female voice interrupted his recollection. "You are awake now, what are you two looking at here?"
The owner of the vertical pupils glanced at the girl who spoke and said, "You mean I'm a mung bean?"
The girl seemed to be a member of the investigation team, with red hair: "So you mean you want to be a king... I am a turtle, I am a turtle, okay."
She raised her hands in surrender and looked at him: "Are you awake? We don't have any bad intentions. We just want you to come and perform surgery on us."
"What surgery?" The doctor struggled to turn his eyes away from the young man with vertical pupils. He looked around at everyone around him in confusion, "How much ransom do you want?"
"No," the red-haired girl frowned, revealing an expression that was difficult to describe. "We are not kidnapping you. We just want you to come for an operation, and then you can leave. You can go wherever you want. We don't want your money. If you need medical expenses, we can give them to you."
"...Ah?" The young doctor looked confused. "You want me to perform surgery?"
Then why don’t you go to the hospital to register instead of kidnapping the doctor!
He even saw urea sacks from his own home nearby. If this isn't kidnapping, what is it?
"Yes, yes." The red-haired girl seemed to want to say something, but was stopped by a gentle-looking man next to her. "Hello, our situation here is special, so we have no choice but to resort to this desperate measure. We definitely don't mean to do anything bad to you."
The young doctor was stuck for a few seconds.
"Okay... okay," he accepted this with difficulty, and said earnestly, "But brain surgery can definitely not be done here. Surgery requires a sterile operating room, professional instruments, anesthesia, an electrocardiogram and other things. You don't have anything here. Even if you tie me up, I can't do it."
He didn't know what misunderstandings these people had about brain surgery, thinking that kidnapping a doctor would solve all problems, but he was now extremely sure that it was impossible for him to perform the surgery here.
Besides, these people are weird. They can’t just go to the hospital to make an appointment, but they also kidnap him as a doctor. Could the person who needs surgery be a wanted criminal who cannot appear in the outside world?
The young doctor suddenly became alert.
If that's the case, he must call the police.
There is actually a wanted criminal hiding in the government's investigation team. Or, could it be that all members of this investigation team have been killed long ago, and a criminal group has replaced their identities and entered the mountain village?
What were they here for? Were they here for me?
He is just an ordinary doctor, not worth the risk...right?
"No, no, no, you can. Even an amateur can do it. You can do it too," the doctor seemed to be lost in thought. Xu Zichen popped up from the side and said impatiently, "Don't worry, we are very capable. You don't have to worry about anesthesia. We have scalpels, electric drills, and anesthetics. If you forget the professional knowledge, we even have textbooks."
Young Doctor:?
It seems like these people are not mentally normal...
"You..." He decided to go along with what the desperate criminals said to protect his own safety, "Who among you needs surgery?"
Everyone here looks healthy, and no one looks sick, right?
"All of us," the gentle young man who looked the only normal person in the group smiled at him and continued calmly under his shocked eyes, "I mean, all of us need to do it."
The gentle young man turned around and opened a supply box.
Neatly stacked in the box was actually a set of medical equipment, an extremely complete set of medical equipment.
The young doctor was stunned and was pushed to the medical equipment by this "criminal gang". Bai Jinshu, who had been waiting for a long time, scratched his eyes.
"Picking" the eyes in the physical sense.
The strange young man with vertical pupils actually took off one of his own eyeballs.
Young Doctor:!!!
“He he he…” He pointed at the strange young man with wide eyes and stammered.
He dug his eyes out!
"We saw it," Yun Guang comforted him in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, we just lent it to you for a while, otherwise we're afraid you wouldn't see it."
"Brother Chu's eyes are hot-swappable, don't worry!" Lu Changfeng, who had already learned about the structure of She Mochu's eyes in detail, was very positive, "I wanted him but he didn't give it to me."
Young Doctor: ???
"I think I might be dreaming." He said this with difficulty.
Bai Jinshu: "No, it's impossible."
The young doctor felt a darkness before his eyes, and then he seemed to have a new set of vision.
It was an extremely strange, distorted vision that had nothing in common with his previous perceptions. He saw strange larvae floating all over the sky, and all the people standing in front of him were surrounded by black holes of unknown size. The young man with a shocking appearance...
His appearance was even more striking.
It was a face somewhere between that of a human and a snake. His skin seemed to be covered with countless snake scales. The difference was that those scales were not cold and stiff like those of a snake. They seemed to be soft, and would dent when poked, and had a pearl-like luster.
There is another pair of pupils under his pupils, so there are actually two pairs of eyes on his face!
The left eye socket was now empty, and the pair of brown eyes under the eye socket were actually rising slowly. But even in this weird way, he still looked creepy and sacred, and nauseatingly charming.
“Pah.”
He snapped his fingers in front of his eyes.
"Come back to your senses," Bai Jin said, "You still have a lot of san checks to go through. I won't lock you."
An electric drill was pressed into the young doctor's hands.
"Then let's start with him."
Xu Zichen lay down on the operating table very actively.
"You can see," the voice was like a snake, slowly sliding through his ear canal and eardrum, "there is a kind of insect egg in his brain."
"Take it out."
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Birds singing.
The extremely noisy sound of birds singing.
Lu Changfeng jumped up from the bed with a start.
The birds outside the window chirped louder.
"Knock knock, knock knock!" Someone is knocking on the door.
Lu Changfeng felt that his mind was not clear. He got out of bed in a daze and opened the door. Outside the door was a familiar face. The uncle was holding breakfast and looked at him strangely: "Hey, Xiao Lu, what's wrong with your expression?"
The uncle brought in the porridge and put it on the table, saying with concern: "Are you still sleepy? Even if you are, you have to wake up quickly. We repaired the bridge overnight last night. The car to pick you up will be here soon. Hurry and wake up the others."
Lu Changfeng woke up suddenly.
"Uncle," he grabbed the old man without caring about his image, "This is our first day in the village."
"Which day?" The uncle looked at him strangely and counted on his fingers. "When you came, it was the day my son came home, which was the 7th. Today is the 13th, so you should have been here for 7 days..."
"Why are you asking that?"
He looked at the absent-minded Lu Changfeng with surprise.
"Seven days... can we leave the village today?!"
Lu Changfeng widened his eyes and asked as if to confirm.
"Right, right..." The uncle was puzzled. "Now that the bridge is repaired, can't you just go? Was it because yesterday's mission was too heavy and hectic? Why is it so strange?"
Lu Changfeng no longer cared about the uncle behind him. He took a few steps and opened the door of the next room.
The person in this room is Li Renjiang and Jinming.
This room is Zhang Lucen Qiwen.
This room belongs to Bi Wu and Guan Hongyan.
He pulled open the last door. She Mochu was yawning inside and glanced at him with his brown eyes: "What's wrong with you so early in the morning?"
"Brother Chu! Brother Chu!" Lu Changfeng was scolded by his brother Chu, but he didn't feel guilty at all. Instead, he grabbed She Mochu's hand excitedly, "We are on the seventh day! No one is missing!"
"I heard it," Bai Jinshu pulled his hand away in disgust, "Your voice was so loud that everyone in the hospital heard it."
Lu Changfeng covered his intact head and felt like he was reborn.
During the first six days in this unknown space, all of them were weighed down by the question of what would happen on the seventh day. And now, during the time of the countercurrent, they actually found a way to escape the countercurrent and reached the seventh day from the first day.
Inside the room, other people also came out one after another. Guan Hongyan complained while tying her hair: "Why do I have to shave my head for brain surgery? Fortunately, my hair is back now, otherwise I would have to ask the logistics customer service to find me a hair growth water from the mall..."
Before she finished her words, she looked at Bai Jinshu in shock: "She Mochu?"
"Yes," She Mochu glanced at her lazily, "What do you want to do?"
"You...where are your eyes? Did you forget to bring your eyes back?" Guan Hongyan said in shock.
The original gray vertical pupil in She Mochu's left eye socket had disappeared, replaced by a pair of extremely ordinary and normal human brown eyeballs.
It turns out that She Mochu also has normal eyes in his eye sockets.
Now when he looked over, the right half of his face looked even more weird because he was missing a vertical pupil.
"I left it to the doctor, and it stayed in his body," Bai Jinshu pulled out a stool, sat in front of the stone table and picked up his bowl. "From now on, that eye will guide him to avoid everything related to the world of mythical creatures. As long as he doesn't take the initiative to contact them, he can maintain his ignorance, which is rare even among ordinary people, until he grows old."
"Just consider it as medical expenses."
They can't just kidnap someone and then abandon them after using them.
"You..." Guan Hongyan grinned, "Your medical expenses are really good."
But it is undeniable that this is the best beginning and ending an ordinary person can get in the world of Cthulhu.
The other team members also sat down at the dinner table one after another. Yun Guang was explaining to everyone the principle by which they could all return to the seventh day from the first day.
In the causal chain timeline of this space, they only have days one to six, and the seventh day, which can never be reached, has never appeared in their timeline.
If time must be continuous, then their continuous time is only from the sixth day to the first day. The extra seventh day is the day they jump to from point A through time leap. It is like point B on another piece of paper. It does not exist on the original timeline and is not affected by what happened in the previous six days.
"If Bai Jin's theory of the reverse elevator is meant to make it easier for everyone to understand, then in this space, to use a more precise metaphor, we should be walking on a production line track," Yun Guang said in a gentle voice, "This production line track corresponds to a total of six processing grids. Every certain period of time, the production line moves back two grids, and we who are walking on it walk from the left to the right of the sixth grid. Then when the time is up, the production line moves back two grids, and we start walking from the left to the right of the fifth grid. When we reach the last day, we will fall down."
"And now," Bai Jinshu said lazily, "we have removed the bugs, shut down the track movement of the assembly line, and pressed down the robotic arm."
"The robot arm of the factory that had been parked in the first grid stretched out its gripper and moved all the goods to the processing workshop outside the assembly line track."
They jumped out of the original timeline and completely left the track that was moving backwards.
Now, everything was clear, except why time was inexplicably flowing backwards.
The team members packed up all their luggage and backpacks and boarded the minibus to leave.
The vehicle drove past this dilapidated little mountain village and passed the foot of the cave they had once explored, leaving behind the old village site that had long been buried by a landslide in the deep mountains.
【Applause! 】
[Congratulations to everyone for leaving here and successfully completing this exploration! ]
[Gee, geee! I hope to see you all again in the next project! ]
【Happy cooperation! Happy cooperation! 】
[Wu…Sister Yan’er, I can’t bear to leave you. I haven’t seen you for three years since you went to the high-end space. I don’t know when we will meet again after this project is over! You have to be happy! You have to be happy! Did you hear me! Be happy! ]
[Wuwuwu, you should be happy too! I will never see you again, a rookie who is only qualified to invest in low-end space! ]
【Brother Yunguang is happy! Blessed! 】
Congratulations and blessings from investors popped up on the screen.
At this moment, Bai Jinshu's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He felt a panic that came from nowhere. This panic came suddenly, like when you go out and then remember that the gas at home seems to be turned off, when you leave the examination room and remember that you seem to have not filled in your name and student number, when you arrive at the company and realize that you forgot to bring the USB drive.
Every nerve in my body seemed to be in inexplicable panic, or rather, it was not panic, but an anxiety that came from the foreknowledge that "something is about to happen."
It's a premonition of impending storm.
Bai Jinshu grabbed Lu Changfeng's shoulders and pulled him out of his chat with Jiang Jinming and Li Ren: "Do you feel something is going to happen?"
"No?" Lu Changfeng was puzzled.
"What's wrong, Brother Chu?" He didn't dare to neglect it and asked quickly, "Is there any clue we forgot? Is there anything that needs to be confirmed?"
Lu Changfeng's shout made everyone stand up. For a moment, all the team members were extremely nervous and turned their heads around: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
"What's the matter?"
"What did you forget?"
Under the gaze of a group of people, Bai Jinshu only felt his heart beating faster and faster, as if it was about to jump out in the next second.
This heartbeat frequency has exceeded what a human can achieve. He feels that the blood in his body is beating, and is rapidly flowing through every inch of his blood vessels, stimulated by the madly beating heart.
This is not panic, this is not anxiety, this is excitement.
She Mochu was excited.
The non-human part of Shemochu was excited.
Something must be happening.
Bai Jinshu tried to suppress the voice that was about to get out of control: "A few days ago, think about the past few days, did any of you see anything other than the rules we filled in?"
This strange excitement in She Mochu's body must be inextricably linked to something that is about to happen in the Cthulhu world.
A few days ago…
Everyone racked their brains to think about it.
"No..." Guan Hongyan frowned.
"I don't remember anything we didn't fill out." Li Ren and Zhang Lu couldn't remember either.
Yun Guang showed a trace of embarrassment on his face: "No."
"I have," Lu Changfeng suddenly spoke up in the midst of silence and doubt, "If you count, I seemed to see the stars moving a few nights ago."
The stars...are moving...
Bai Jinshu quickly opened the window of the minibus and leaned half of his body out to look up at the sky.
Everyone followed his lead and looked up, not knowing what was going on.
The sun was still shining brightly in the sky, covering up the light from the stars, so they could see nothing. But with Bai Jinshu's only remaining eye, he saw that the starry sky was indeed moving.
And it's about to get to the right place.
Three seconds left.
three.
two.
one.
“Huai Jiamu!” Everyone heard She Mochu shout out a name they had never heard before, “Your eternal time!”
The Foundation's cameras had gone haywire seconds ago.
Before everyone had time to figure out what was going on, time suddenly stopped for them.
In other words, time suddenly stopped for everyone except Bai Jinshu and Huai Jiamu.
In an eternity, Bai Jinshu took a deep breath.
He knows!
He knows!
He knew why the bugs reversed their time!
Because on the seventh day, the stars will reach the right position, and something unknown that is sealed on the earth will wake up, and the whole world will be over!
The bugs are running for their lives! The bugs are running for their lives!
They reversed the host's time! In order to escape!
"Huai Jiamu," he didn't care about anything else and grabbed the hand of Huai Jiamu who walked to his side and looked up at the sky together, "Can you permanently pause part of the time in this world? Pause the time of the starry sky!"
Huai Jiamu narrowed his eyes: "Do you want to pray to me? Sure."
"But... praying has a price."
"What's the price?" Bai Jinshu asked nervously.
By this time, he already knew that if Huai Jiamu paused the starry sky time, he would be against something.
If this space is an alienated Cthulhu space, then the counterpart of the hound is "coriander", the counterpart of the Shaggai Zerg is "bugs", and the counterpart of Cthulhu who will wake up when the stars reach the right time must be an Old One who is also sealed on the earth!
In the war of gods above humans, if he prevents the opponent from coming, he will also replace the opponent's faith.
Huai Jiamu narrowed his eyes and said nothing.
Meeting Bai Jinshu's confused eyes, he briefly reminded him, "Just like the last time you prayed."
Emotions...extremely strong emotions???
At this moment, Bai Jinshu suddenly had an epiphany.
He slowly looked towards the evil god in disbelief, and was devastated to find that the other party seemed to really think so.
Paying the price of praying with strong emotions, wouldn't that mean doing what Skao did all over again?!
He can't reach the same level of emotional intensity as Skao did at that time!
It’s over. Emotions are not enough, so I can only make up for it with actions.
Bai Jinshu closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, called up the task panel and typed a few words, then kissed the corner of the evil god's mouth with a fearless attitude.
In the frozen time, the evil god was astonished and embraced the believer who took the initiative to throw himself into his arms.
On the Foundation's mission board, the last rule of this space was passed: [Seven days after entering this space, the stars will reach the correct position, awakening a certain Old One to reawaken here. In order to survive, the insect-shaped mythical creature will reverse the host's time, erase its seventh day, and reverse from the sixth day forward.]
All clues have been collected.
All Foundation members log out.
*
In a sea area outside the mountain village.
In a sea far, far away.
Countless people fell in the hollow area of an extremely strange building complex on the seabed, gasping for breath.
"Did it succeed?" the European-looking investigator asked in Chinese with a thick accent, "Did you succeed in preventing Him from waking up?"
"Success." At the front end of the cavity area, there is a statue that cannot be understood by human language and concepts. In front of the statue, the investigator with an Asian face turned his head.
"The stars... stopped moving," he looked at the sky hundreds of meters above the sea and made an incomprehensible sound, "We...we should have failed!"
"It doesn't matter," the European-looking investigator fell back suddenly, "I just need to know that we saved the world again."
"Yes, we saved the world again." The Asian-looking investigator touched the back of his head.
"I think..." After a while, he opened his mouth again, "I think someone... is helping us."
In another corner of the world, is there another team of investigators walking on the edge of a knife for the same cause?
The author has something to say:
This copy is over!
The last paragraph is the best ending that Hantang wants to give to this Cthulhu world. The investigators successfully prevented the evil god from coming, and the world was saved again.
Although Jiamu, the brother who saved the world, actually just wanted to trick the little believer and act like a spoiled child at the beginning (Hey
By the way, Xiao Chu has a single pre-collection, which is the original line. If you are interested, you can go to the column to collect it. It is called "The One Who Left Me"
————Let me put the text here as well————
A top-secret file is sealed in the Chengchao City Archives.
Seven years ago, at the graduation ceremony of Chengchao No. 1 High School, the cultists who had been planning for a long time summoned the Snake King in public, and all the teachers and students of Chengchao No. 1 High School, a total of 3,753 people, died.
When members of the special investigation team arrived, they saw a young boy with vertical pupils crawling out from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood in full view of everyone.
He slithered over the bodies of his companions like a snake, as if he had no bones and was covered in blood.
When I looked up at the team member walking in front, the face, which had not yet fully grown, looked almost inhuman in the dim light, like a beautiful snake that could take people's lives.
After that day, no one present could forget this face.
*
Seven years later, a pair of bony hands pulled the file out of the bookcase.
"Shemochu," the owner of the hand placed it in front of the administrator, lowered his eyes, and spoke lazily, "I graduated from Miskatonic University with a master's degree in mysticism."
He said, “I’m here to retrieve my files.”
Then, find those who were responsible for this bloody incident.
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