Chapter 882
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Chapter 882: The Truth of the Fishing Village
Even if you persist until the end of the loop, the laws of time will mercilessly erase you. Here, there is no escape!
This fishing village is a deadly trap that can eliminate any being below the divine realm!
Your only way out is to pull out this cursed blade of time, end this endless loop here, so you can escape from ‘their’ gaze and avoid being erased by time…
Lin Qiye took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the turmoil in his heart, and spoke coldly:
“Pull it out, and then what? Let this giant beast revive under the red moon, leading to mass destruction?”
Hearing these words, Chen Yangrong was slightly stunned.
He looked at Lin Qiye with surprise and asked puzzlingly: “How did you know?”
“Isn’t it obvious?” Lin Qiye stretched out his hand, pointing at the constantly writhing stomach wall behind Chen Yangrong, “Since your so-called red moon appeared, life force has resurged in the previously lifeless giant beast, and it began actively devouring your body. Moreover, as this emotion-affecting power grows stronger, its writhing becomes faster.
When the red moon’s power reaches its peak, the stomach walls here will completely devour your body, and this giant beast will be resurrected… This is what it wants.
Combined with your recent ravings, I can basically guess the truth about this fishing village.”
“Oh?” Chen Yangrong raised his eyebrows, “What is the truth?”
“The time in this fishing village isn’t just a simple loop… it’s also a prison.” Lin Qiye slowly spoke, “And the prisoner confined within isn’t you, Chen Yangrong… it’s it.”
Lin Qiye’s gaze fell on the enormous stomach wall before him.
“If I’m not mistaken, this giant beast corpse sunken in the deep sea must have a close connection to the Cthulhu mythology.
According to what you said, the Cthulhu gods exist on the moon, yet are waiting to ‘return’, which suggests that ‘they’ are currently in some kind of imprisoned state, unable to freely return to Earth. Therefore, that giant beast corpse at the bottom of the deep sea might be ‘their’ only remaining means on Earth.
So, ‘they’ want to resurrect this beast.”
Lin Qiye paused, large beads of sweat rolling down his cheeks. He took a deep breath, reorganized the clues in his mind, and continued:
“You said earlier that we would either die from time erasure or under ‘their’ gaze… and this ‘gaze’ from the moon must be manifested as the red moon.
Fifty years ago, something might have happened on the moon, allowing the imprisoned Cthulhu gods to project their gaze to a corner of Earth, and this gaze from the moon became the red moon in human eyes.
This gaze fell on the waters where the beast’s corpse lay, simultaneously covering the fishing village on the shore.
From the beginning, ‘their’ goal was to resurrect this beast through the red moon. Both you, Chen Yangrong, and the village on the shore that was also encompassed by the red moon were just accidental byproducts…
You, Chen Yangrong, were just an ordinary person who encountered a shipwreck before the red moon’s arrival and accidentally got trapped in the beast’s stomach wall. But with the red moon’s descent, your body was gradually devoured by this beast, its power and thoughts frantically eroding your consciousness, turning you into its puppet without you even realizing it.
You mistook its will for your own thoughts, becoming a fanatical follower of Cthulhu in just a few days, even wanting to personally guide the Cthulhu gods’ return from the moon.
Since the red moon cannot be stopped, meaning the beast’s resurrection cannot be interrupted, Old Wang could only lock this area’s time in a loop, reversing time back three days when the red moon reaches its peak, at the moment the beast is about to revive, thus reversing its resurrection process.
Therefore, under this temporal prison loop, this beast’s resurrection has been delayed for fifty full years.
Am I… correct?”
The last sentence, Lin Qiye didn’t direct at Chen Yangrong, but at the black stomach walls around them… he was attempting to dialogue with the awakening beast.
After saying all this while enduring the red moon’s influence, Lin Qiye felt his brain was about to explode. His breathing became increasingly heavy, his consciousness began to fade, and an unprecedented feeling of agitation surged in his heart.
Chen Yangrong stared at him for a long time before speaking in disbelief:
“Just from those few words I said, you deduced all of this?”
Lin Qiye didn’t answer, he just silently clenched his fists, the veins on the back of his hands bulging one by one…
“It seems you’re much smarter than the last batch of rats.” Chen Yangrong couldn’t help but sigh, “They only discovered the truth after seeing the timeline recorded in this circular ring, yet you figured it out just from my few words. Truly remarkable.”
Hearing these words, Lin Qiye slightly froze.
“Last batch?”
“Yes, they were also seven people, wearing gray cloaks, who came in on the last day about three loops ago…”
Images of the [Mask] team quickly flashed through Lin Qiye’s mind, and he suddenly raised his head, “Where are they? What happened to them?!”
“What happened?” Chen Yangrong sneered, “I should have told you, this is a deadly trap that can eliminate any being below the divine realm.
They did well to endure the red moon’s influence, but unfortunately, they still didn’t choose to pull out this blade even until they were erased by the laws of time… They were really stubborn.
However…”
Chen Yangrong paused, then changed his tone, “There seemed to be a young person who finally outran time and disappeared.”
Lin Qiye stood frozen in place.
[Mask]… was erased by time?
Calculating from when they entered the village, the [Mask] team entered the loop about twelve days ago… but until now, the loop here hasn’t been broken, which means they didn’t choose to pull out that blade then.
Without pulling out the blade, the loop wouldn’t end, and their final fate could only be death by killing each other or being erased by time.
[Mask] survived the red moon but couldn’t outrun time.
This result, Lin Qiye should have expected it, he just subconsciously avoided this question, not wanting to face such an ending…
He still refused to believe it!
“You’re talking nonsense!”
Under the red moon’s influence, Lin Qiye’s agitated emotions instantly ignited, and he roared with bloodshot eyes.
“You don’t believe it?” Chen Yangrong sneered, “The circular ring at the end of this blade records the timeline of every loop here. If you don’t believe it… see for yourself.”
Lin Qiye’s gaze fell on the slowly rotating ring of light at [Yiyuan]’s end, determination flashing in his eyes. He suddenly rushed out of the anglerfish’s light range, coming before Chen Yangrong’s chest, staring at a certain spot in that circular ring…
