Chapter 261
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Chapter 261: Erasing Cause and Effect
Looking at the strange baby in his hand, Chu Jiang remained calm. The worst outcome was that Michiko had already died, and now what occupied her body was a demon or a Ghost Bride.
As long as he realized this result, there was nothing to fear. Chu Jiang had already planned to fight with the evil spirits, so one more wouldn’t make a difference.
However, at this moment, another unpleasant thing happened. From the pit of ten thousand people, there were "rustle, rustle" sounds, as if ghosts were coming towards them.
This was probably because Chu Jiang and the others had stayed in one place for too long. Once they entered this castle, there was no such thing as a "safe zone."
They couldn’t delay anymore. If they kept dragging it on, they would be attacked from all sides. Chu Jiang looked at the baby, at least he had to break free from her grasp before doing anything else.
But what Chu Jiang didn’t expect was that at this moment, the baby actually revealed a strange smile.
You could call it a smile, her lips slightly curved upward, but her facial features hardly moved at all. Combined with her lifeless eyes, it gave off an eerie feeling.
And then, something unbelievable happened. A dim light around them began to alternate between day and night.
Under the shining light, everything around them started to quickly move backwards. Chu Jiang and his friend went back to Room 5, where they saw the thin man still fighting with fourteen crows.
The thin man clearly saw Chu Jiang and his friend too, but he was only surprised for a moment before they quickly disappeared, moving backwards.
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By the time Chu Jiang realized what was happening, they had already gone back to Room 4, inside the underground hall of the temple.
And at that moment, the light around them suddenly went out; the baby blinked several times and looked sleepy.
The half-naked statue of a goddess was still here, very close to Chu Jiang and his friend.
As soon as it sensed someone approaching, it turned around and raised its right hand, trying to kill the two of them.
This made Chu Jiang suspect that the statue was a supernatural killer without discrimination. Once activated, it would kill any living creature it saw.
At this critical moment of life and death, Chu Jiang had no time to think. He was preparing to let go of the baby’s hand and fight against the statue.
But what he never expected was that the baby actually reached out with another hand and grabbed the hourglass on the left hand of the statue.
With this grasp, the surrounding scenery began to rapidly reverse, with Chu Jiang, the baby, and the goddess statue all retreating together.
This made Chu Jiang somewhat bewildered, what kind of existence could occupy Michiko’s body??
Moreover, the current situation reminded Chu Jiang of a certain captain from Research Institute No. 21 who wore a red uniform.
That captain’s surname was Yao, named Tao Ji, she possessed a strange ability that could forcefully cause a phenomenon similar to "rewind" to occur.
In other words, the surrounding time still flows normally, but the individual’s personal time will flow backwards like a river.
Of course, the ability of Captain Yao at that time was not as terrifying as the baby’s ability now displayed, they almost retreated to the underground hall in a matter of seconds.
It didn’t stop there, Room 4, Room 3, Room 2… Chu Jiang was amazed to find that the baby seemed to be making them retreat all the way back to before they entered the castle.
But why would she, or rather it, do such a thing??
Because there was a strange light before and now the statue is moving backward with them, Chu Jiang suspects that this mysterious power related to time is not from the baby itself.
On the contrary, it has some sort of dominating power, just like Ghost Diary can forcefully borrow the abilities of other ghosts, it is also forcefully borrowing abilities from other supernatural beings.
The most surprising thing is that the goddess statue seems unable to resist, just being dragged backward by the baby, motionless.
When they were about to leave the castle and return to Room 0, the scenery that was crazily moving backward finally stopped.
This is not because the baby has exhausted its strength or the statue has exhausted its strength, but because a pitch-black gigantic hand came out from nowhere and blocked Chu Jiang and the others.
At this moment, the baby’s eyelids became even heavier, as if it was about to fall asleep, but it still persisted.
Seeing this, Chu Jiang shook his head, he pried the baby’s hand off his own and hung her on the hand of the stone statue, then looked at the gigantic hand.
This thing, before everyone started exploring, it caught the bald guy who ran back to Room 0 and brought him back.
It didn’t fully reveal its true form, or should I say its whole body, only showing one hand.
This hand looks like a human hand, flesh and blood, but it is very big and the color is abnormally pitch black.
This made Chu Jiang inevitably doubt, could this be the puppeteer behind the castle? Is it a black giant?
"Whoosh~!" The black palm suddenly slammed with an irresistible force.
"Bang~!" Chu Jiang extended his dark blue-black hands and fully blocked the opponent’s attack without stepping back.
This time he managed to catch it, but something strange happened, Chu Jiang vanished.
His body disappeared inch by inch from this world, from his head, to his neck, to his chest, and then to his limbs, lower body…
It’s as if Chu Jiang’s "existence" doesn’t exist in this world. This mysterious and strange large hand not only erased the causes of Chu Jiang’s past birth, but also erased the consequences of Chu Jiang’s future.
Since causes and effects are all gone, Chu Jiang’s true self naturally disappears as well.
And if he is truly completely erased from cause and effect, it means that there will no longer be this person in the world, and no one will remember anything about him.
In just a few breaths, Chu Jiang disappeared, leaving only a pair of dark green arms frozen in the air, holding the defensive position against the big hand.
During this process, the Ghost Diary also appeared because Chu Jiang entered the state of near-death again.
But then another black big hand appeared, and in the palm of this hand, it seemed like a whole world of darkness with three hundred and four chains of diaries shooting out, and they were drawn in.
Although it was unknown how long this world could hold the Ghost Diary, for now, it didn’t have time to gnaw on Chu Jiang.
On the other side, the other big hand was still advancing step by step, seemingly about to erase the baby who was hanging on the arm of the statue of the goddess, nodding continuously and almost falling asleep.
But at this moment, the dark green zombie arm exerted force again!
The presence of zombies spread, originally just a pair of arms resisting the big hand.
It’s different now, those dark green arms, as if they could grow on their own, first the new bones quickly rebuilt and regenerated, and then the ligaments, veins, blood vessels, muscles, and skin also swiftly followed along the black bones.
Chu’s Jiang’s body gradually extended from the elbow to the shoulder, and it was still spreading further.
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