Chapter 873

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Chapter 873: Loss of Control Over Emotions

“Dreaming of the dead?!”

An Qingyu was stunned when she heard these two words.

“For the past few days, I’ve been having a strange dream. I dreamt that the moon in the sky turned red, and there was blood and corpses everywhere. My father crawled out of the sea, his eyes bloodshot. He knelt in a pool of blood, muttering something madly while worshipping that red moon.”

Chen Gou’s brows furrowed tighter. “At first, the dream ended there. I thought it was just a nightmare caused by my excessive sadness, and I quickly forgot about it. But every day since, I’ve been repeating this dream. His voice in the dream became clearer, and he seemed to be getting closer to me…

Last night, after he had been muttering madly for a long time, he suddenly turned to look at me, making me kneel in the pool of blood, pressing my head down with his bloodied palm, forcing me to knock my head against the ground, worshipping that red moon together with him.”

After saying all this, Chen Gou took another puff of smoke, and a hint of fear flickered in his eyes.

“I don’t know why I’m having this dream, but I can’t shake the feeling that… something bad is about to happen.”

An Qingyu fell into deep thought.

Dreaming of the dead, blood pools, red moons, worshipping…

It sounded like just an ordinary nightmare, but at this critical moment, An Qingyu sensed an unusual aura.

Is this really just a dream?

Instinctively, An Qingyu looked up at the azure sky. The sun hung high in the clear sky, radiating brilliant light, while the moon on the other side was half-hidden, revealing only a rough outline.

The sun was shining brightly, and the weather was pleasant, just as the fishermen said, today was a good day.

An Qingyu squinted her eyes, staring at the moon for a long time, her brows unconsciously knitting together…

She couldn’t tell if it was her illusion, but the surface of that blurry moon seemed to be tinged with a hint of red.

…

Meanwhile, on the other side of the coastline.

Lin Qiye walked alone to the empty beach, staring at the vast sea, lost in thought.

“Qiye!” A familiar voice came from behind.

Jialan, dressed in a deep blue Hanfu, ran up to Lin Qiye, her bright eyes blinking with concern as she looked at him.

“Jialan? What are you doing here?” Lin Qiye asked in surprise.

“I… I was a bit worried about you.”

“Worried about me?”

“I felt that your emotions were a bit off just now.” Jialan hesitated for a moment before speaking honestly, “You never lose your temper, and even if you were trying to mediate just now, your words were a bit too extreme. And your gaze… I’ve never seen you like this.

It’s not just you; Fatty and Qingyu, their emotions are also quite strange!”

Jialan looked at Lin Qiye seriously, her worry almost spilling over.

Lin Qiye was taken aback for a moment, recalling what An Qingyu had said to him, his expression growing heavy.

Jialan was right; just now, he, Baili Fatty, and An Qingyu’s emotions were indeed very off.

Baili Fatty, although meticulous and very concerned about the “Masked Man,” wouldn’t normally argue with An Qingyu. Their words had even reached the point of being unreasonable. With his emotional intelligence, he shouldn’t have acted like that…

And An Qingyu, with her high intelligence and emotional quotient, shouldn’t have failed to see that Baili Fatty was just seeking psychological comfort, yet she still pressed him, unwilling to back down even a little.

As for himself, when he saw the two arguing, his own anger inexplicably surged.

This was not how they should normally behave.

At that moment, Lin Qiye recalled the countless insect and ant corpses, as well as the self-destructive birds, and as if realizing something, his brows furrowed tightly. “You’re right… our emotions are indeed problematic.

Perhaps this is related to what Qingyu said about the emergence of the closed loop.”

“The emergence of the closed loop is due to emotional instability?”

“That can’t be confirmed yet; we can only say that the two may be related.” Lin Qiye began to analyze calmly. “If there is indeed some force in this fishing village that can influence emotions, causing people to become irritable, aggressive, and less intelligent, then it must be growing stronger over time.

Insects, bats, rats, birds… now, it can even affect our emotions. If this continues, human rationality will eventually collapse, leading us to self-destruct like those insects and birds.”

“You mean, in the end, we will also start to kill each other?” Jialan’s face turned pale, “What should we do?”

Lin Qiye shook his head. “I don’t know. We currently have too little information, not even knowing where this force that influences emotions comes from… let alone how to stop it. Our only option now is to find a way to break the time loop and leave here.

Otherwise, whether it’s the erasure of time after the loop ends or the self-destruction after emotional instability, it will lead us to an irreversible end.”

At that moment, Lin Qiye suddenly felt that his decision to have the team members spread out to search for clues was indeed wise.

After spreading out, even if emotions became severely unstable, as long as there were no people around and no conflicts arose, they wouldn’t start to kill each other…

Just then, Lin Qiye seemed to think of something, turning to Jialan with an unprecedentedly serious and earnest expression.

“Jialan.”

“W-what is it?”

“You are an exception.” Lin Qiye’s eyes brightened slightly. “Your ‘Immortality’ allows you to remain unaffected by any external factors. The force that influences emotions here is ineffective against you, which means… you are the only one among us who can maintain absolute clarity in any situation.

If it comes to the worst, and all of us fall into a state of mental breakdown, we will have to rely on you…”

Jialan was stunned.

Under Lin Qiye’s solemn and hopeful gaze, Jialan suddenly felt an overwhelming pressure. She took a deep breath:

“Okay, what should I do?”

“Adapt to the situation.”

“…”

“No one knows what kind of situation we will be in then; you just need to act according to your own will.” Lin Qiye patted Jialan’s shoulder, “I believe in you.”

Jialan: (◕ᴗ◕✿)

“I understand.” Jialan nodded firmly.

Lin Qiye turned his head to look at the sea in front of him, pondering for a moment before saying, “I want to go down and take a look.”

“To the seabed?”

“Yeah, I’ve already searched the entire fishing village; there’s nothing to find. If that thing maintaining the time loop really exists, it can only be hidden in the sea…”

“I’ll go with you.” Jialan didn’t hesitate at all.

Lin Qiye looked at her and smiled slightly, “Alright.”