Chapter 884
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Chapter 884 Time That Cannot Be Outrun
The red moon descends, all creatures turn on each other, and the giant beast awakens… So, the purpose of this time loop’s existence is to prevent this beast from reviving?
After hearing Wang Mian’s narration, everyone in [Mask] team stood stunned.
“That’s right.” Wang Mian nodded.
From the looping timeline, Wang Mian had understood all the secrets of this fishing village, and could guess why his future self set up a time loop here. Similarly, he was the only one among those present who realized the severity of the situation.
Until now, he had reversed time twice, and he knew clearly in his heart how terrifying the side effects of [Time Sequence Rogue] were. Since his future self was willing to spend his life to return here and lock this place in a loop, it meant that once that giant beast awakens, it would cause an extremely terrifying butterfly effect…
The best way to solve an error is to prevent it before it occurs.
“So you’ve discovered it…” Chen Yangrong, embedded between the stomach walls, shook his head with some regret, “In that case, you should know what will happen to you if you don’t pull out this sword?”
“What, failed at persuasion, now turning to death threats?” Xuanwo laughed, “You’re underestimating us too much. We’ve weathered so many storms over the years, you think just one threat from you would scare us?”
Xuanwo looked at Chen Yangrong contemptuously, quietly stepped back half a step, and elbowed Wang Mian, asking in a lowered voice:
“Captain, what should we do? We’re not really going to die here, are we?”
Wang Mian’s brows furrowed tightly.
After careful consideration, he said: “Wait here and keep your emotions in check, don’t let that red moon affect you… I’ll reverse time and see if I can go back to before we entered this village, to prevent all this from happening.”
The [Mask] team members all nodded.
Wang Mian gripped the hilt of [Yiyuan] at his waist, releasing the aura of peak “Klein” realm. He slowly closed his eyes and pushed his divine void to the extreme.
The flow of time around him rapidly slowed down.
Dust floating in the air gradually stopped, Wang Mian’s breathing became more prolonged, pale hair strands suspended in mid-air, he stood there like a statue frozen in time.
In an instant, his eyes suddenly opened!
Silver circles rotated and intersected in his eyes, like reversed precision clock parts, making one dizzy just looking at them, as if containing some extremely profound rules.
Meanwhile, he stepped forward forcefully, his form shattering the void. A white light instantly enveloped his body, and the next moment he completely disappeared.
Time passed minute by minute. After several dozen minutes, the surrounding time disturbed again, white light flashed, and Wang Mian’s figure stumbled out, coughing violently, a streak of black hair at his temple visibly turning silver-white…
He bent over, removed the “Wang” character mask from his face, large beads of sweat dripping down as he breathed heavily.
“Captain!”
“Captain, are you alright?”
Seeing this, all members of [Mask] team immediately stood up and ran to Wang Mian’s side.
Wang Mian raised his head, looking toward the void above, his eyes full of fatigue and unwillingness.
“It’s no use… I can’t run out of this loop…”
If it were in the normal time flow outside, it wouldn’t be difficult for Wang Mian to use divine void to reverse time and return to a day ago, but it was different here.
The time here was distorted by the light ring at the end of [Yiyuan], not a straight line but a circular loop where head meets tail. Moreover, this loop was formed by time laws, not simple divine void. At Wang Mian’s current time reversal speed, he simply couldn’t catch up with the loop’s cycling speed.
He was like a hamster trapped in a circular running wheel, no matter how hard he ran, he couldn’t escape this cage.
He couldn’t return to the past to change the history of [Mask] team entering the fishing village.
Hearing these words, the [Mask] team members exchanged glances, and Tianping reached out to pat Wang Mian’s shoulder.
“It’s okay, Captain. If this method doesn’t work, there might be other ways… Yuegui, Tanxiang, Xinghen, you three form one group, I’ll go with Xuanwo and Qiangwei in another. Let’s search the village edges separately, there might be gaps we haven’t discovered yet.”
Tianping calmly directed the [Mask] members, and others nodded, quickly leaving this place.
Tianping turned around, looking at the exhausted Wang Mian, hesitated for a moment before saying: “Captain, you rest well here, leave the rest to us.”
Just as Wang Mian was about to say something, Tianping’s form had already turned into an afterimage, disappearing from Wang Mian’s sight.
“Hehehe…” Chen Yangrong laughed coldly, “Wasted effort, I’ve already told you… you cannot leave this place.”
Wang Mian gazed in the direction where everyone had left, remained silent for a long time, then lowered his head to put on the “Wang” character mask again. Taking a deep breath, determination appeared in his eyes.
Having witnessed the loop timeline countless times, he knew clearly in his heart that Chen Yangrong wasn’t wrong. If there were gaps in this loop, the red moon’s power would have leaked out long ago… Since there were no other ways to leave here, the only way out was still time reversal.
No matter what, he must outrun time here. If once isn’t enough then twice, if twice isn’t enough then thrice… He had no other choice.
Because he carried the lives of all [Mask] team members on his shoulders.
He placed his right hand on the sword hilt, activating [Time Sequence Rogue] again, his form plunging into the river of time and disappearing.
This time, he was gone for a full two hours.
When that white light appeared again, Wang Mian’s body fell heavily to the ground. He curled up in pain, all his hair had turned silver-white, his haggard and pale face showing shocking wrinkles, aging nearly ten years compared to before.
Now he was a man close to sixty years old.
“Cough cough cough…” Wang Mian’s weak coughing echoed in the empty stomach walls.
He had run against the time flow for a full two hours, yet still couldn’t escape this loop…
He had failed again.
Damn it! Damn it!!
Why still not possible?! Why couldn’t he still outrun time?!
Wang Mian’s wrinkled hand clenched tightly into a fist, heavily pounding the ground, those turbid eyes full of frustration and unwillingness.
