Chapter 895
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Chapter 895 Breaking Free from the Loop
Cao Yuan looked at the broken and sunken ground before him, and the ruins that had been razed to the ground around him, falling into confusion…
Who am I?
Where am I?
What is this ruins?
Cao Yuan’s last memory was still when the red moon hung in the sky, and he was tied up by Brother Zhuai… Later, as his emotions spiraled out of control, he completely lost consciousness, and he had no recollection of what happened afterward.
Anyway, when he opened his eyes, the surroundings looked like they had been bombed several times with nuclear weapons, and not even a speck of house debris could be seen.
This scene… seemed somewhat familiar?
Cao Yuan suddenly remembered that when he was surrounded by the Oracle Users in Japan’s “Human Circle,” it was the same scenario – a red beam of light fell from the sky, he lost consciousness, and when he woke up again, the surrounding city had disappeared, and the Oracle Users before him were mostly dead or injured.
What exactly happened?
Just as Cao Yuan was puzzled, the charred carriage in the sky slowly stopped in front of him. Teacher Chen and Shen Qingzhu jumped down from the carriage one after another, looking at him with complex expressions.
“Teacher Chen?”
Seeing that familiar face, Shen Qingzhu was slightly stunned, then turned to look around, only to realize that he had already walked out of the fishing village and into the outside world.
Teacher Chen looked him up and down, “How do you feel now?”
“Feeling okay, just a bit of a headache.”
Cao Yuan rubbed his eyes, feeling an inexplicable fatigue from deep within his soul.
He turned to Shen Qingzhu and asked in confusion: “Brother Zhuai, what exactly happened after I passed out? Why did this place become like this? How did we get out?”
Shen Qingzhu’s expression became subtle.
Undeniably, everything that had just happened had completely exceeded his understanding.
Whether it was An Qingyu killing Cao Yuan, the appearance of the terrifying towering shadow, withstanding the laws of time, or Cao Yuan’s final resurrection… all of it made him feel like a completely ignorant country bumpkin.
After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head and said: “Wait until An Qingyu comes back, let him tell you himself.”
“Comes back?” Cao Yuan was slightly stunned hearing these words, “Where is he?”
Shen Qingzhu fell silent.
…
Cangnan City.
In the dust-filled underground cavity.
Bang–!!
In the cavity that had been silent for several years, there was suddenly a resonating boom, and a white test box lid carrying rolling cold air automatically popped open.
A fair arm reached out from inside, grabbing the edge of the box, followed by a naked young man slowly sitting up…
An Qingyu sat quietly in the cold air for a moment, took a long breath, and muttered:
“The power of the Black King is even more terrifying than I imagined…”
In the fishing village, when the Black King emerged, An Qingyu, who was closest to Cao Yuan, felt his body instantly evaporate without any chance to fight back. If it weren’t for these avatars he had prepared underground in Cangnan City, he would have truly died at Cao Yuan’s hands.
An Qingyu stood up, casually took out a clean research robe from a nearby box and put it on, wore his glasses, and stood in front of a dust-covered mirror.
In the mirror, he had grown quite a beard on his chin, his nails were long, and his hair had grown to his shoulders, making him look like a wild man.
Although this avatar was made and stored here several years ago, as time passed, the age of this body continued to increase, and because An Qingyu’s original body had been time-frozen for nearly a year, this body actually looked even older than his original one.
The good news was that his spiritual power level returned with his soul to the avatar, remaining at the peak of the “Sea” realm, and didn’t revert to the initial level due to the body change, which was within An Qingyu’s expectations.
Looking at his wild man-like reflection in the mirror, An Qingyu didn’t choose to groom himself, but quickly walked outside, his brows furrowed and expression somewhat anxious.
Although he had successfully liberated the Black King, whether the Black King could break the time loop was still unknown, and whether Lin Qiye and the others could survive leaving that fishing village was also uncertain… Before seeing everyone alive with his own eyes, he had no mind to care about other matters.
…
Deep sea.
With the disappearance of the silver loop in the sky above, Lin Qiye didn’t feel relieved yet. He turned to Merlin and asked worriedly:
“Lord Merlin, my brothers…”
“Don’t worry, they’re all fine,” Merlin smiled.
Only then did Lin Qiye breathe a sigh of relief.
As the time loop reached its conclusion and the red moon in the sky dissipated, Lin Qiye suddenly felt the arms around his neck loosen, and Jia Lan’s form uncontrollably fell towards the deep sea…
Lin Qiye caught Jia Lan’s wrist, only to find that she had fainted.
Jia Lan had been resisting the red moon’s erosion through sheer willpower, her spirit had already reached its limit, and now with the red moon’s disappearance, endless fatigue rushed to her mind, causing her to lose consciousness directly.
Lin Qiye sighed and picked up Jia Lan. Just then, the surrounding seawater began to surge violently.
The dried stomach walls began to writhe, as if stained with blood. Lin Qiye looked up at the sky and saw that at the esophagus at the top of the stomach wall, a huge seawater vortex had appeared, pulling all the water in the stomach towards the outside.
“This is…” Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed tightly.
“It’s this giant beast,” Merlin calmly spoke, “The time loop has been broken, and this beast revived by the red moon wasn’t erased and reset by the laws of time… It’s about to revive.”
Hearing these words, Lin Qiye’s expression changed slightly, “Can we stop it?”
“Stop it? Why?” Merlin asked in return.
Lin Qiye was stunned, “After it revives, won’t it cause large-scale destruction? Won’t it trigger some kind of catastrophe?”
“There will indeed be a catastrophe, but it won’t be primarily because of it. It’s just a trigger,” Merlin smiled,
“That red moon isn’t as powerful as you imagine. Its function was just to temporarily restore some consciousness to this already-dead giant beast’s corpse, not truly revive it, and it won’t possess the same powerful abilities it had when alive. At most, it’s just a moving mythological creature corpse.
A beam of light traveling through space from the moon to this sea area, completely reviving a god-level giant beast? That would be too absurd.”
Hearing this, Lin Qiye finally understood.
From the beginning, his thinking had been misled by Chen Yangrong.
Under his exaggerated descriptions, he subconsciously elevated the power of the Cthulhu gods to an omnipotent level, thereby ignoring practical feasibility. While the existence of the red moon was indeed terrifying, to say that this single beam of light could completely revive a god-level giant beast was truly a fantasy.
Since Wang Mian set up a time loop here, it must have been to prevent something, but if the catastrophe itself doesn’t come from this revived beast, then where does it come from?
