The moment when the thread that predicts fate lights up.

Zhize's pupils shrank slightly, and an exceptionally warm and peaceful picture flashed through his mind -

In the soft golden sunset, a hooded young man turned into a street flower shop and bought a bunch of sunflowers.

It's fleeting.

While escaping, Zhize looked back at the leader Yuanguang.

As if by illusion, he seemed to see a hint of relief and admiration in those eyes.

…

The hour lamp sits on the edge of a tall roof.

Xiao Deng rarely praised him: "Your acting skills are really good."

Shi Deng was about to say that if you want to survive in Yuanguang in the future, your acting skills must be good. But thinking about it, this is really a vicious curse to himself, so he chose to keep silent.

Uncle Fu: "Chief, shall we go back?"

Shi Deng: “Wait a little longer.”

He looked at Yuan Ting and the other two who had just escaped from his hands and were trying to save and drive away the monsters with their half-dead bodies, and said, "I don't have that kind of energy anymore."

"If you fail this time, don't reset it again. There will be a price to pay," said Shi Ge.

Shi Deng turned his head and asked curiously: "Brother Shi, what will the future be like with you? I don't just want to save the three of them. The only thing that can suppress pollution is the Yuansui, which has disappeared from the world. The black fog is rampant. Just think about it and you will know..."

How gloomy it is.

Shi Deng: "Actually, I can guess a little bit. Brother Shi didn't do anything to stop me. Maybe it's because the future is not good."

"If I change the future, Shi Ge, will you still exist?"

He stretched out two fingers, pinched the corner of Shi Ge's clothes, pulled it up and down, and blinked: "Shi Ge~"

Shi Ge sighed helplessly, "Don't ask."

He ruffled Shi Deng's hair, leaned over and picked up Xiao Deng, "Let's go."

Xiao Deng lay on Shi Ge's shoulder, curled up into a small ball as if he was embarrassed, and stretched out his hand to Shi Deng: "Let's go."

Shi Deng was silent for a while, then turned around and complained: "Uncle Xiaofu, they bullied me, isolated me, and excluded me and ignored me."

Uncle Fu shook his head and smiled, then stretched out his young, slender hand.

"Chief, it's time to go home for dinner."

Shi Deng jumped down holding his hand.

"Also, I've recently learned to make clothes and embroider. My silk-pulling ability is quite useful in this area."

The boy groaned and said, "Uncle Fu, can you weave a straw hat?"

Uncle Fu was curious: "I can learn it. How did the leader come up with this idea?"

"Because before, I went to visit the sea of ​​sunflowers with Yuan Ting and the other two. It's just behind the Tiangu training base. The old man there was wearing a straw hat."

Uncle Fu: "Well... I'll try..."

They walked away together.

·

Shi Deng gradually began to wake up and struggled to wake up from the illusion.

The rain in the wasteland outside was getting heavier and heavier. His hair had turned completely gray. Little Light was anxiously at his feet, meowing.

The black mist between the three-tailed fox's brows seemed to have faded a lot due to the consumption of energy.

Because he had to concentrate all his energy on dealing with the Time Light, the three people that were originally trapped by its tail were thrown not far away. They were all unconscious, and they seemed to be waking up.

Shi Deng's eyelashes trembled, and he was finally enveloped by the illusion.

·

This is the last battle after the second reset.

The Yuan Sui rushed out from the place guarded by Tiangu, rose to the sky, and the energy gradually dimmed.

As it dimmed, the entire Northern Universe began to tremble slightly, and countless lives were in panic.

The Yuan Sui carries the purest energy, which suppresses the "polluted" energy in this area. Now that the Yuan Sui is about to disappear, the pollution can no longer be suppressed and begins to rise from the ground.

Countless monsters were stimulated, screaming wildly, their strength increased dramatically, and they attacked the crowd crazily.

Tian Gu and the free ability users suffered heavy casualties and began to fight back with all their might.

The black mist inside the lamp, as the main source of pollution, has gone completely crazy.

The time light didn't respond. He was waiting.

He was waiting for the last three seconds. During those three seconds, the power of his Yuan Sui would suddenly rise. As long as he seized the opportunity and absorbed the Yuan Sui into his body, he would be confident enough to suppress the black mist to nearly zero.

The moment when the light seizes the opportunity to rush into the air.

Many people discovered him.

He did not leave a good impression among the group of superpowers. Someone immediately said, "Shi Deng wants to destroy the Yuan Sui!!"

“Stop him!!”

Shi Deng couldn't hear anything. All he could see was the ball of essence in the air that emitted a soft white light.

The moment he reached out and grabbed it——

The essence entered his body, and the black mist in his body let out a scream and continuously escaped from his body, making Time Lantern look like an unforgivable and polluted demon.

Before Shi Deng could smile, he felt a mixture of cold and burning pain in his chest and abdomen.

A long knife emitting black lightning pierced his abdomen. A long and sharp vine broke out of the ground, dancing wildly, and after passing through the right side of his chest, it froze.

The boy was pinned in the air.

Shi Deng was stunned. He looked up and saw Yuan Ting's much more mature face. His face was full of indifference and disgust. "The Yuan Sui suppresses pollution. No matter what you do, you shouldn't touch it."

The wind blew past his ears, and a strand of hair beside the boy's ear turned white quietly.

Shi Deng lowered his head, and many psychics below stopped and looked up, watching him being pierced through the chest by vines and nailed in the air.

On those people's faces, there was anger, fear, panic, indifference, disgust, and resentment...

He rolled his eyes and saw the supernatural light in Zhize's hand, supporting the vine that hurt him. Cen Le behind him was amplifying Zhize's supernatural domain.

"The light of the Yuansui is extinguished!"

"It's him! It's the time light!"

"It was him who did it! Kill him! Kill him!"

“…”

Wherever you look, everyone is filled with indignation.

The young man withdrew his gaze, slowly lowered his hands, and looked at the black mist that continued to overflow from his body. Indeed, he looked like a bad guy, but he did do a lot of bad things this time.

Tokito laughed briefly.

He said, “That’s good too.”

Unfortunately, the sudden change happened in an instant. The black mist that had already dispersed began to absorb similar substances on the ground, quickly growing larger, and at lightning speed, it contaminated all the psychics present.

The part of the black mist core locked inside his body screamed: "Tokyo! You can't kill me!"

As if in revenge, in the darkness outside, he killed Yuan Ting, Cen Le and Zhi Ze in front of Shi Deng at the first moment.

The vine disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the boy fell down.

He gritted his teeth and stretched out his finger: "Reverse time!"

…

Nothing happened.

He fell heavily to the ground, looking at the bodies of the three people, speechless for a long time.

"There is no such thing as time reversal...it's all just your imagination," Black Mist whispered in his ear.

Shi Deng: “That’s not the case.”

He seemed to vaguely remember that he would reverse time again and enter the second reset with the black mist.

The boy looked at his hands blankly...but why, nothing happened this time.

“I obviously succeeded the first time.”

Black Mist: "Did it work? Look, what is this?"

The scene before my eyes distorted again.

There were still corpses all over the ground. Yuan Ting, Zhi Ze and Sister Le were still dead, lying in front of him, but the way they died was different from before.

This is...

The first death of the three people before he could turn back time.

Black Mist said, "They died the first time, but you don't believe it. Reset and time reversal are all just dreams. They are all made up by you. They are all fake."

“…”

Shi Deng was silent for a long time, and his eyes gradually became clear. He said calmly: "You lied to me."

The boy stood up slowly and looked around.

This illusion is so realistic.

The ending of the first reset really broke his heart. Even though he knew that Yuan Ting, Sister Le and Zhi Ze would treat him like that, he still got over it on his own.

But when he saw the looks of disgust towards him on those three people's faces, he couldn't help but think more.

The black mist seized upon this loophole in his heart, and first made him relive the feeling of being hated by everyone and the hopelessness of having no solution, and then regained control of the illusion, creating the scene of the first death of Yuan Ting and the other two.

And intended to make him believe that he did not go back in time and break down his psychological defenses.

The black mist was still repeating its previous remarks.

Shi Deng: "You forgot a very important point. I didn't fall to the ground at that time."

The black fog stopped.

The vines disappeared, and when he fell from the sky, he performed time reversal in mid-air, but time reversal takes several seconds to activate.

During these few seconds, except for him, Shi Ge and Xiao Deng, time for everyone else, including Hei Wu, stopped.

So Black Mist didn't know.

When he fell from the air, Shi Ge caught him.

He was not hurt.

——

The black mist disappeared and the illusion dissipated.

The three-tailed fox fell to the ground instantly, lifeless. Blood began to seep out of its body and flowed to the ground, being washed away by the rain.

The wilderness was silent except for the sound of the rain.

Shi Deng was soaked by the rain. His eyelashes trembled slightly and he opened his eyes. He heard Xiao Deng's anxious voice in his ears.

Not far away, Yuan Ting and the other two slowly got up and looked around dizzily.

Yuan Ting obviously still remembered what happened before he fell into a coma. As soon as he woke up, he shouted in panic: "Where's the time lamp, where's the time lamp?!"

Suddenly, his eyes focused and he saw the figure of the gray-haired young man standing silently in the rain. There was no trace of life in his body, as if he was already dead.

Yuan Ting's face turned pale, and he tried to get up but fell to the ground. They had already fought with the three-tailed fox before and had used up all their supernatural powers.

"Is that Tokido?!" Zhize coughed, "Why is he here? His hair..."

Cen Le: "Go first!"

Yuan Ting's eyes were filled with tiny red bloodshot as he looked at the three-tailed fox lying on the ground and Tokido's hair suddenly turning white.

"...The light saved us, quickly...I saw it with my own eyes, he walked into the trap of that dark, evil thing for us..."

Cen Le: “What?”

Yuan Ting gritted his teeth and said, "Go save him first, and I'll explain it to you later."

Every time they reset, the clock is turning towards them.

This time, the three of them supported each other and walked towards the hour light.

But the young man with long gray hair took half a step back. His fingertips trembled, and his pupils dilated slightly uncontrollably. A huge fear appeared in his deep blue eyes, and his breathing began to quicken.

He lowered his head and quickly searched for the medicine bottle in his small bag. After finding it, he tried to squeeze it open, but his shaking hands could not hold a single pill.

He hastily poured it into his palm without seeing how much it was, and mixed it with rainwater, directly into his mouth. He suddenly choked and started coughing violently. His foot hit a stone and he fell directly to the ground, with the medicine bottle falling beside him.

The young man heard Yuan Ting and the other two shouting his name as they got closer and closer. He couldn't find anywhere to hide, so he quickly curled himself up into a ball, closed his eyes, and covered his ears tightly.

Don't look, don't look...

Those people are real, they have not been replaced by monsters, it's just that he is sick...

He took the medicine and will be well soon.

But there is a voice in my heart shouting: They have been replaced by monsters. They are wearing the skin of your partners and saying what your partners would say, but they are fake.

Just kill them! Just kill them and your friends will come back.

The cat at the boy's feet meowed more and more urgently.

Shi Deng suppressed the huge anxiety and violent impulse in his heart and whispered, "Don't come over..."

As the drug took effect, his consciousness gradually began to fade into darkness.

The hands covering the ears slowly loosened.

"Time light!"

A second before he fell to the ground, Yuan Ting rushed over and rested on his back.

The boy's face was pale, and even though he was unconscious, his brows were still furrowed.

Cen Le didn't find any external injuries on Shi Deng, but the pills scattered on the ground were too strange.

She picked up the medicine bottle and looked at it. On the inside of the lid that fell to the side, there was a line of words engraved. Cen Le carefully identified it and found that it read:

Capgras delusion.

Privately made supernatural medicine, one pill per day.

"Capgras delusion..."

Zhize's pupils shrank slightly.

He knows.

The patient will think that his relatives, friends, lovers or everything around him have been replaced by monsters. It is usually accompanied by huge insecurity and aggressiveness.

The unconscious boy was obviously in great pain. He gritted his teeth and a trickle of blood flowed from his mouth. It was unknown what he dreamed about, and a faint sob came from his throat.

Xiao Deng lay on the boy's neck, with mist in its eyes. It stretched out its claws to wipe the blood off the corner of Xiao Deng's mouth.

“There are words here!”

There is a line of words on the side of the medicine bottle, which reads: If the owner of the medicine bottle gets sick and there is no one around to treat him, please call your parents...

Zhize carried the lantern on his back and said as he walked:

“Whose phone still works?!”

"Let me ask you what to do first. I just saw him eat so much in one breath."

"Mine, mine," Yuan Ting took out his cell phone which was wrapped in a plastic bag and placed in his pocket. The screen was broken, but fortunately it could be used.

He called the number and was answered almost instantly. A deep and cold voice came from inside: "Hello."

Yuan Ting almost burst into tears. He was really afraid that something might happen to Shi Deng. He wiped his nose and said, "Are you Shi Deng's parent? He had an attack. We were all in the wilderness. There were foxes howling, blood, black mist... He took a lot of medicine and fainted..."

incoherent.

Next second.

A long flash of blood flashed across the gray sky.

A slender figure appeared in front of them. Shi Ge hung up the phone and his eyes first fell on the young man behind Zhize.

Then he glanced at Yuan Ting and the other two from Langxi.

"I am his parent," Shi Ge lifted his hood, revealing an extremely convincing face.

He held out his hand. "Give him to me."

The author has something to say:

Brother Shi (shaking the drowned cat in his hand): I didn’t keep an eye on it for just a moment.

The explanation of Capgras delusion comes from Baidu summary.

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