Staring at the electronic clock on the wall and the numbers jumping on it, Lin Mo was a little at a loss.

He suspected that the electronic clock itself was a weird thing.

But it turned out not to be.

This is an ordinary electronic clock.

His next reaction was that the electronic clock was malfunctioning, because the time on Lin Mo's watch was normal.

But when he discovered something else, it completely overturned his original idea.

He wanted to wash his face in the bathroom to calm down, but he found that the water droplets on the ground were floating up and into the leaking faucet.

That scene felt like watching a replay.

Lin Mo was stunned as he stared at the water drops rising rapidly from the ground.

The clock goes backwards, the water drops in reverse.

These thoughts went around in Lin Mo's mind for a few times, and finally an idea came to his mind.

Time is really going backwards.

"What happened?"

At this moment, a figure flashed past the toilet door.

Lin Mo hurried over to take a look.

It turned out to be Dad.

But the old man was walking backwards at this time, with an anxious expression. It was obvious that the old man's movements were also being replayed, which was a very strange feeling.

Dad didn't notice himself.

Lin Mo had an idea at this moment, and instead of showing up, he hid himself.

He had a lot of things on him that could conceal his aura, and they came in handy at this moment.

Because at this time Lin Mo suddenly had a bold guess in his mind.

He wanted to confirm it.

If time goes back, then what Lin Mo sees is actually something that has happened in the past.

The reason why Dad was so anxious was because he entered room 8 but he didn't.

Why didn't he go in? Lin Mo took a detour, went up another staircase to the second floor, and then hid in a corner.

He needed to confirm this.

The time on the electronic clock on the first floor was still going backwards, and the time on Lin Mo's watch was also increasing normally.

The time on both timelines is advancing synchronously.

After a while, Lin Mo finally saw his father walking backwards to the door of Room 8.

What you see next is a very artistic action.

It seemed like Dad was banging on the door, but couldn't break it open.

He is shouting.

"Merlin!"

The sound made by turning it upside down is both weird and funny.

At this moment, Lin Mo was completely certain that he was in a time-reversal mechanism. Why did this happen? It was most likely because he entered Room 8.

There is definitely something wrong with room 8.

Keep watching secretly.

Dad struggled at the door for a long time, and his expression gradually relaxed from the initial tension and anxiety. Then Lin Mo saw a classic scene.

The door of Room 8 opened at this time, and then a person walked out of the room.

Lin Mo saw himself.

Myself in another timeline.

This surprised Lin Mo even more than seeing his father.

I exited room 8, which corresponded to my previous action of entering the room.

Lin Mo was very familiar with what happened next, because he had experienced it once before. He closed the door, turned the key in reverse, pulled out the key, talked to his father, and then the two of them walked backwards to that side.

It's time to go back to the room.

No, I was coming out of the room and preparing to go to Room 8.

Everything is backwards.

Watching another self and another old man backing into room 11 and the door closing, Lin Mo fell into deep thought outside.

Time is going backwards.

Why? Because he entered Room 8? But why did the door of the room suddenly close after he entered? Why couldn't Dad get in? Although it was a backward interpretation just now, Lin Mo could see that Dad had tried many times but couldn't get in.

"That is to say, only one person can enter Room 8."

Lin Mo came to this conclusion temporarily.

He stood in the corridor thinking, and time was still going backwards every second.

He went downstairs and checked the time. It was already 1:25 in the morning.

During this period of time, I was discussing with my father in the house.

There was no one else in the entire hotel, so no one saw Lin Mo in the reverse time state.

He tried to walk to room 8 again and tried to open the door.

Can't open.

The door is welded shut.

Obviously there is something strange about this door.

Moreover, the door panel is extremely hard and cannot be knocked even if knocked.

At this time, the door of Room 12 opened, and the murderer secretly peeked out to look. Of course, this was also a way of retreating.

Lin Mo didn't dare to move and just stood there.

The murderer might have seen Lin Mo, but he didn't make any move and retreated.

He will definitely retreat.

Because in fact his entire action just now was reversed. The so-called opening of the door was actually the action of closing the door after he looked at himself.

Lin Mo didn't know what abnormalities would happen to him in the reverse time, so he didn't move.

He was also curious about what he would look like in the eyes of others when he was in reverse time.

Lin Mo needs to think this matter over carefully, and he now has the keys to all the rooms.

My dad stole it before.

It came in handy.

He opened a vacant room and walked in.

Because I'm not sure what would happen if other people saw me in reverse time, especially what would happen if my dad and my other self saw my current self.

So to be on the safe side, Lin Mo hid here.

He has to think things through clearly. If there is no problem, he might knock on the door of Room 11 and have a good talk with his other father and his other self.

How direct.

Suddenly, Lin Mo thought of a very critical question.

"No, when I just came out of Room 8, I didn't see Dad, and I couldn't find him. Where did he go? Later, he seemed to appear suddenly."

Lin Mo thought about it carefully.

The sudden appearance in reverse time is the sudden "disappearance" in the normal timeline.

"Dad in normal circumstances disappeared?"

Lin Mo was extremely shocked.

He thought about the message.

It is said that you must enter room 8, otherwise you will die.

Coupled with what Lin Mo had just deduced about his father's sudden disappearance, putting the two together, Lin Mo had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"I didn't disappear because I was in room 8, but Dad didn't go in, so he disappeared."

Lin Mo muttered to himself.

In fact, there is other evidence to support this conclusion.

That is what Professor Xie said. The files say that the members of the expert group who came to the hotel to investigate never came out again.

And the body in the real world also died.

Then it is understood as death in action.

But Lin Mo knew from actual experience that there was nothing terrifying in this hotel that could threaten the members of the expert group.

Could it be that at 3 a.m., these expert group members were "eliminated" because they did not enter Room 8?

There is this possibility.

And it's very big.

At this time, Lin Mo saw a stack of A4 paper on the table in the room.

There is also a pen in the drawer.

"Oh my god, did I really write that message myself?"

Lin Mo's heartbeat also accelerated at this moment.

Because he found that the two previous clues, if viewed according to the theory of reverse time, might actually have been written by him.

But it's still the same problem.

"Why don't I just go and talk it out with myself and Dad?"

“Why do you need to leave a message?”

"Besides, even if you want to leave a message, you should write it more clearly."

Lin Mo knew that he had not yet written those two messages, and since he had done so, there must be a reason, or in other words, he had to write them.

In that case, let’s give it a try.

Lin Mo has time now, so he sits at the table, picks up a pen and starts writing.

That's what he wrote.

"The secret of this hotel is in room 8. Entering it will cause the external time to reverse..."

Not finished yet.

The words on the paper began to disappear.

The speed is faster than Lin Mo's writing.

Lin Mo was stunned.

He wrote again: "I am Lin Mo, Dad, and myself. You have to find a way to get into Room 8..."

Swish, swish, swish! It was as if an invisible hand was erasing the words above.

Gone again.

Lin Mo took a deep breath.

He understood why he wrote that kind of message.

Because any words that mention reversing time or who one is will be erased by a mysterious force.

That power is everywhere.

There is no malicious intent.

It is simply "rules", fair, but this is terrifying, because when this kind of power comes, you have no way to resist it.

For example, Lin Mo deduced that if he didn't enter Room 8, he would be "erased" when the time came.

My dad is so powerful that it’s no exaggeration to say that he is a quasi-S-level master.

If someone this powerful could be wiped out in an instant, then those expert group members from the safe zone would also be unable to resist it.

"They must have entered Room 8 without knowing it, and were then wiped out, so no one went back."

Lin Mo felt that he was beginning to get closer to the truth.

This feeling is very exciting.

There is a sense of refreshment.

There's still a little bit of tension.

It's more comfortable than playing the scariest horror game.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me take a break first." Lin Mo calmed himself down, he thought of something more important.

Lin Nan.

Lin Nan was the only person who left this hotel alive.

And he also successfully acquired the Curse of the Undead.

"Lin Nan is inhabited by seven terrifying nightmares. Those seven nightmares are not simple and should have helped Lin Nan a lot."

"But the results of my father and I's investigation so far show that there is no undead curse in the hotel. So where did Lin Nan get it from?"

Lin Mo stood up and walked around, then sat down again and drew a line on the paper with a pen.

Then draw several nodes on this line.

Lin Mo defined one of the nodes as the time when he and his father entered the hotel.

After that line, he wrote a nothing.

Then, in the time period before they entered the hotel, a had was written.

At the back, a big 'question mark' was drawn.

"The only explanation is that there was once an undead curse in the hotel, but not after we came in, but before we came in. In other words, if you want to obtain the undead curse, you have to wait until time goes back to before my father and I moved in."

This thing was completely "deduced" by Lin Mo.

To be honest, the evidence and clues are not sufficient to support this conclusion.

But at least Lin Mo had a rough guess about the curse of the undead.

"Also, after Lin Nan was cursed by the Undead, he returned to the normal timeline, but he lost all his memories of the hotel. So what did he experience?"

Lin Mo unconsciously drew question marks on the paper.

There are unknown dangers hidden in this.

Danger and the unknown are the most terrifying things.

Now he was worried that he would also be deprived of his memory.

This is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is what to do with Dad.

According to the normal timeline, Dad was "erased" by the invisible and powerful force in the hotel.

Of course, the dad in reverse time still exists.

Lin Mo knew that he had to find a way to get his father into Room 8 as well.

In this way, Dad can also jump out of the normal timeline. There are two benefits. One is to avoid being "erased" again; the other is that Lin Mo himself has an extra helper.

But Room 8 seems difficult to enter.

Lin Mo has to figure out the secret of Room 8, otherwise there will still be trouble.

Thinking of this, Lin Mo looked at the time, pushed the door open and walked out of the house.

He plans to try again.

The corridor is very quiet. It is currently 12:15 in the morning.

Walk to the door of Room 8, insert the key and open the door.

The door opened! Lin Mo was stunned.

It really opened, so easy?

Lin Mo walked in.

It was still pitch black inside.

But this time Lin Mo found that he could retreat from the house immediately.

I closed the door and tried to open it again, but it wouldn't open! "I see, there is a CD time for opening Room 8. After opening it once, it can't be opened again in a short period of time!" Lin Mo calculated the time.

I feel that this 'short time' may be half an hour, but it will not exceed an hour anyway.

After figuring out the situation, Lin Mo actually breathed a sigh of relief.

He ran downstairs to look at the electronic clock and was surprised to find that time was flowing forward again.

Lin Mo got a lot of clues this time.

"That is to say, if we enter Room 8 again, the timeline will be restored..."

It's like a one-way switch.

Press once for reverse direction; press again for forward direction.

Now Lin Mo had a plan in mind.

First of all, the mysterious power here will prevent me from revealing any clues about "reverse time" to my other self, not even a single word.

All messages would be erased, so if he tried to make direct contact, Lin Mo guessed that he would most likely be "erased".

This cannot be attempted.

One failure and you're done for.

So I can’t meet my other self.

And he and his father had to follow the original script.

In other words, the hint for Room 8 must be sent out, and you must also enter Room 8.

Otherwise, there will be nothing afterwards.

"What about Dad?"

Lin Mo thought about it.

He entered Room 8 a little after 1 a.m., so there was enough time for Dad to enter again, and in this way, Dad could be "jumped out" from the normal timeline.

Waiting for time to go back with me, back to the time before my father and I entered this hotel, back to the time period when the curse of the undead appeared.

Then get infected with the curse, and after success, enter room 8 and let time flow normally.

After the minibus brings me and my father to the destination at normal time, I will get on the minibus and leave here safely.

The plan was perfect.

This is the ideal situation.

There will definitely be many difficulties in actual implementation.

But now Lin Mo has no other choice.

"Pull dad out first."

This is the most important thing.

But how to get Dad out? Lin Mo pondered for a while.

He remembered the murderer in Room 12, who had opened the door and seen him before.

The invisible rule was not triggered at that time.

In other words, any method can be used as long as it does not make people aware of the existence of 'reverse time'.

Lin Mo concluded that one cannot let "oneself" see oneself.

That could easily lead to uncontrollable problems.

But if it's just to let my dad see me, it won't be a big problem.

Lin Mo has a solution.

Next comes the practice process.

He continued to hide back in the house, waiting for time to pass.

He calculated that according to the normal timeline, he entered Room 8 at 1:17 in the morning.

There is still more than an hour until 3 a.m. According to the rule of entering Room 8 half an hour later, Lin Mo needs to stick to the time and enter Room 8 at 3 a.m.

Then we waited until around 2 a.m., when the CD time for Room 8 was over, and let Dad in.

In this way, both my father and I can jump into 'reverse time', and the first step of the plan will be achieved.

The most troublesome thing about this first step is the control of time. It cannot be too much or too little, because if you make a mistake and cannot get in, then everything will be ruined.

After carefully reviewing it and finding no problems, Lin Mo began to wait quietly.

At around 1 a.m., Lin Mo heard some noise outside. It was himself and his father in the normal timeline preparing to check Room 8.

Then he entered the room and his father was blocked outside.

Then continue to wait.

The time was a little after 2am.

Outside, I could hear my father's footsteps walking back and forth. He might be thinking of a solution, or he might be looking for me.

At 2:55 in the morning, Lin Mo pushed the door and walked out.

He had to enter Room 8 on time.

To be honest, Lin Mo is very nervous now, because mistakes are most likely to occur during this period of time.

For example, if someone else enters Room 8 and takes up the usage points, then both you and your dad will be doomed. Or if your dad keeps trying and finds that Room 8 can be entered, that would also be troublesome.

If there is a mistake, the whole game is lost.

Fortunately, this did not happen.

Dad was on the first floor. He seemed to have woken up Old Lu and was asking him something.

Lin Mo looked at the time, and at 2:59:50 in the morning, he opened the door of Room 8 and walked in.

Then exit immediately.

Try to push the door.

It turned out that it couldn’t be pushed open.

Lin Mo ran to the first floor and secretly saw his father and Old Lu talking, but it was in reverse order. The electronic clock on the wall was going back in time.

It worked.

Then the next step is to guide Dad to enter Room 8 when he can enter.

Lin Mo waited quietly.

He saw Old Lu go from being full of energy to breathing heavily, and then he walked backwards into the small room behind the counter, closed the door and turned off the lights.

Dad walked backwards up and down the first floor.

It's like watching a movie in reverse.

Feeling that it was almost time, Lin Mo took a deep breath and knocked on the wall, making a bang bang sound.

Dad was immediately attracted, and some kind of phantom appeared on his body, which seemed to conflict with his original behavior.

Fortunately, nothing went wrong.

Dad saw Lin Mo in reverse time and walked over with a shocked look on his face.

He speaks.

But what Lin Mo heard was still being read backwards.

But I can understand it.

What I mean is, where did you come from?

Lin Mo said nothing.

Because of what he said, it is possible that his father would realize that time is reversed, and then the invisible rules would either wipe out his father or himself.

Lin Mo made a gesture to follow me, then went upstairs and stood at the door of Room 8.

Dad followed.

No matter what his father said next, Lin Mo remained silent.

He is waiting.

Dad seemed to realize something and did not continue asking. Instead, he looked at Lin Mo and waited.

Time passes by every second.

This period of time was extremely difficult, because Lin Mo was afraid that his inference was wrong, and he hoped for success even more, and his heart was full of expectations.

Finally, it was past 2 a.m.

Lin Mo tried to open the door.

Thank goodness it opened.

Lin Mo gestured to his father to go in.

Dad understood.

Or they are father and son, and the father has no doubt about his son.

He walked in and then walked out quickly.

Lin Mo didn't know whether his father had entered the 'reverse time', so he said, "Dad, say something."

"What did I say?" Dad asked back.

The word order was normal, and Lin Mo felt relieved. Now it was settled!

This is a big chapter of 5500 words. Please support me with monthly votes. It’s the end of February now. If you have monthly votes, please vote for a few more chapters. Thank you.

In addition, this chapter is quite complex and requires careful reading, otherwise, you may not understand it. I don't want to try similar settings again in the future. It is not only time-consuming, but also easy to make mistakes. This chapter is inspired by various novels and movies with reverse timelines. You should be able to see the shadows of many familiar works.

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