I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 436: How to decipher the contents of the diary and cut off the path to the past
The supernatural pendulum clock is a supernatural item created by the Wang family, that is, Wang Chaling’s grandparents.

Taking advantage of the ghost's own restarting property, the ghost is imprisoned and forced to stay in a state of restarting all the time. The ghost will never be able to completely turn its neck because it will restart every half an hour and everything will go back to the beginning.

What a genius idea.

As Wang Chaling looked at the record, he was amazed at the wisdom of the Wang family, which had nothing to do with the fact that they were his grandparents.

But this information is not the most important.

Including Wang Lu using the supernatural pendulum clock to turn the Wang family ancestral home into a terrifying supernatural place. According to the idea, it is completely enough to imprison some terrible evil spirits forever, but it is also not the most important thing.

What shocked Wang Chaling the most was.

It was clearly mentioned in this diary that the reason why Wang Lu was able to have such an idea and even achieve this step was because he received... His guidance and help!

"Gengshen year? This is the year in the Ganzhi calendar. The most recent ones are 20 and 80. According to my father's life span, it should be 80? The spiritual balance in the ancestral home was established in 80? Moreover, the store manager appeared in that era? He was a person of the same era as my father?"

Wang Chaling did not take back all the notebooks, and was not aware of the stories recorded in the year of Guisi, which was 53. Otherwise, he would have definitely moved Lin Yuan's generation forward and made him a person of the same era as his grandparents.

But despite this, Wang Chaling was already very shocked, but he quickly regained his composure.

"The store manager's strength is too terrifying. He doesn't seem like an existence that should exist in this era. If he is really a ghost rider, it is normal that he does not belong to this era. And judging by my father's respect and awe for Lin Yuan, perhaps he existed even earlier."

Wang Chaling stroked the notebook.

Even if there was only one diary entry in the notebook, he would have read it for several hours, analyzing every word and sentence for a long time, trying to get more information.

But it's a pity.

No matter how powerful his analytical skills are, without sufficient information, he won't be able to get too many answers.

"If you want to see more of the diary, you need the mysterious pendulum clock, but now the mysterious pendulum clock is missing. It is very likely that it was taken away by the store manager."

Wang Chaling just went to the Peace Hotel, but did not go into the store. He just exchanged the evil spirit for commemorative coins at the commemorative coin exchange counter. Naturally, he did not see the pendulum clock that had just been hung on the wall opposite the Peace Hotel’s gate, but he could guess it.

"According to the contents of the diary, although the mysterious pendulum clock was made by my grandfather, the balance in the ancestral home was completed by my father under his guidance. Now the pendulum clock has been taken away by him... Wait! Could it be that he is not only a ghost rider of my father's generation, but can also trace back to the era of my grandfather and his people? And the creation of the mysterious pendulum clock also had his help, right?"

"If that's the case, then it seems that there is a reason why He took the pendulum clock away."

Wang Chaling only saw one entry in this notebook and had no idea about the contents of the other five notebooks, but he dared to make a bold guess.

The situation he just guessed made him terrified.

"Although the store manager is strong and will force transactions, he is fair in the process and will not cheat people. So my guess is very likely to be correct, but to know the final answer, I still need to see more of the diary. If my father kept a diary, there would definitely not be only this one. There must be other notebooks. Were they taken away?"

Wang Cha Ling rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.

"This will be troublesome. They dared to hide the notebooks without the store manager's knowledge, so there is no way they would return them to me. But we still have to give it a try. If it doesn't work, we can also... summon the soul! He Yin'er is the fourth generation of necromancer in Taiping Ancient Town. As long as we can convince her to summon the soul of my father or even my grandfather, I can directly ask about the store manager and the Peace Hotel."

"I have nearly a hundred three-yuan commemorative coins in my hand. It shouldn't take much to ask He Yin'er to help. If the other party really asks for a lot, I can also ask the store manager directly."

In Wang Chaling's mind, the "store manager" must be able to do this.

But what he wanted to inquire about was the information about the "store manager". If it was not necessary, it would be better to avoid asking.

He even didn't want to accomplish all this in the Peace Hotel, within the scope of the white fog ghost zone.

Benedict! Benedict! Benedict!
"Mr. Wang, there's a call from headquarters." Ah Zhen's voice came from outside the door.

Wang Chaling frowned slightly and asked Ah Zhen to bring in the satellite positioning phone. "You go out first."

"...Yes." Ah Zhen didn't want to leave, but looking at Wang Chaling's cold eyes, she could only leave with grievance, looking very pitiful.

call!
Wang Chaling secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This woman is really... He couldn't stand it, but after he got through the phone, he couldn't sit still any longer:

"Deputy Minister? Any instructions? ... What, you have five notebooks with my father's diary in them?"

Dajing City Headquarters.

It was still the routine meeting held at the Peace Hotel after get off work every day, but this time, the content of the meeting was very important and completely different from previous meetings.

Cao Yanhua hung up the phone and glanced at everyone present.

Wang Xiaoming was not there. He chose to avoid suspicion. He was worried that because of the supernatural phenomena in the Peace Hotel, he might do something unpredictable without realizing it.

Although Cao Yanhua felt that his worries were a bit unnecessary, he did not force Wang Xiaoming to attend the meeting.

There weren't many people present.

Tong Qian, Guo Fan.

They had just returned from get off work at the Peace Hotel and were the most important figures in this meeting, especially Tong Qian. The five notebooks she brought back contained extremely important information about the "store manager".

Mr. Qin, Lu Zhiwen.

Old Qin is the driver of the supernatural bus. This information was brought back by Lu Zhiwen after he got on the supernatural bus. Cao Yanhua and others had doubts in their hearts, but Old Qin did not take the initiative to raise it, and they did not take the initiative to ask it either. They had a tacit understanding of each other.

Lu Zhiwen was chosen by Mr. Qin to be the next driver of the haunted bus, and his own resurrected ghost state has been temporarily suppressed.

Although he has not been eroded by the white fog ghost domain, he is still the best recorder of supernatural files.

Li Jun, Ah Hong.

One of the three captains of the headquarters, like Lu Zhiwen, he tries his best to avoid the erosion of the "store manager"'s supernatural power and exists to provide a backup for the other captains.

Ah Hong is Li Jun's best assistant.

At the same time, she is also the partner appointed by the "store manager", and they often build up a tacit understanding together to avoid revealing themselves in front of the "store manager".

Even Li Jun and Tong Qian were prohibited from being alone together to avoid the collapse of their characters.

In fact, Wei Jing and Cao Yang are also at the headquarters. They have close ties with the Peace Hotel and are captain-level figures. Logically, they should be able to participate.

But they had already stayed in the Peace Hotel for several nights and might have been affected by the spirituality of the Peace Hotel.

Even Wang Xiaoming chose to avoid suspicion, so it was naturally impossible for them to come here for the meeting. They could only make the same choice to prevent the secrets of the headquarters from being leaked unconsciously.

"Wang Chaling has been notified, he will be here soon."

Cao Yanhua explained the situation, then cast his eyes on the five old notebooks on the conference table and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Qin, do you think the contents of these notebooks are true?"

At present, Mr. Qin is the strongest, and given his age, his opinion is very important.

Old Qin picked up a notebook with a look of deep doubt in his eyes. "These notebooks have specific supernatural powers. I have dealt with Mr. and Mrs. Wang Lu before. Logically, they should be the ones who did it."

Lu Zhiwen held the pen and tilted his head to ask, "Should?"

Old Qin nodded. "When we were on the bus before, the little boy asked me a question that you all asked, which was whether I had met the manager before and whether I knew the Peace Hotel."

Cao Yanhua nodded. "That's right. I remember your answer at that time was no. Could it be that you have another answer this time?"

The headquarters wants to find traces of the "store manager" in history. In addition to searching for historical archives in various places, they will naturally also ask some old people in the paranormal circle.

And Mr. Qin was the person they trusted the most and was the most qualified to answer this question.

The timeline in the virtual game Taiping Ancient Town is forty years ago, and by that time, Old Qin had already lived for many years.

Including the news we got this time.

Even if we push the timeline forward forty years, Old Qin would still have existed.

Moreover, Mr. Qin's strength is terrifying. As the driver of a supernatural bus, he is naturally knowledgeable. He knows many ghost riders and has seen many supernatural places.

They are not stupid, so they would not ignore Old Qin and just go out to look for information.

But the answer given by Mr. Qin was no, and very affirmative.

Old Qin shook his head. "The answer I gave to Xiao Tong at that time is still the same. Even now, in my memory, at least a year ago, I have no memory of the Peace Hotel and its manager."

Lu Zhiwen asked: "A year ago?"

"Yes, it was a year ago. In fact, after the Peace Hotel appeared this time, I met the manager. Not the manager who was put on the surface and forcibly blocked from recognition, but the real and complete version of the manager."

The people present instantly perked up and looked at Old Qin with burning eyes.

Cao Yanhua was so excited that he was shaking. "Mr. Qin, are you serious? Have you really seen... Him? What kind of existence is He?"

The headquarters tried every possible way to find out his background and have a good communication with him, but in the end, nothing was gained.

I never thought that this meeting would bring an unexpected surprise. But Mr. Qin clearly had such information, but he never revealed it, and waited until now. This seems a bit...

"He... is terrible."

Old Qin looked solemn, and he recalled the time when he was in Dachang City.

In Dachang City, it was because the future chosen by a group of older generations represented by him - Yang Jian's experience was affected, and Yang Jian's growth path was greatly distorted, that he had to take action and wanted to forcibly correct everything to the future progress line that they believed was correct.

That time, he lost all ability to resist just because of a look from Him.

The terrifying power, like the sea and the abyss, made him, a natural alien and a top ghost rider since birth, feel extremely threatened and even terrified.

Later, he met Him several times.

To be precise, it was when he wanted to use his supernatural powers to talk to his future self and learn about the impact of the Peace Hotel and the "store manager".

He actually wanted to use his own power to peek into the future!
That kind of power was unknown and terrifying. Even Old Qin couldn't understand how the other party did it. But from then on, he understood a truth:
The store manager is invincible!
He even dared not use his unique spiritual power again, because... He would take it away.

He was already terrifying enough, and he couldn't imagine how much He would grow when He could peek into the future.

Perhaps by that time, now and in the future, we will not be able to escape the shadow of the Peace Hotel.

His comment made the atmosphere even more solemn, as if there was an invisible pressure pressing on everyone's heart, as heavy as a mountain, making it hard to breathe.

It was not until Elder Qin came out of his thoughts that the heavy feeling dissipated a lot. "In my memory, there is no Peace Hotel and the store manager. This is very abnormal. If the contents of the diaries in these notebooks are true, there may be a possibility that my memory has been affected."

"I once asked He Yiner, and there are also some elderly people in Taiping Ancient Town. They were also personal witnesses of the incident at least 40 years ago. But the answer I got was that their memories may have been affected, and they have no memory of the Peace Hotel and its manager." Tong Qian said.

Li Jun frowned and said, "This situation is too abnormal. It's as if at a certain time, the news about the Peace Hotel and its manager was instantly erased from everyone's memory."

"If there really is such a special time period, could it be here?" Lu Zhiwen picked up a notebook and pointed to the only diary entry on it.

This diary entry is a few sentences from the one in the Dingchou year:

[His smile was still as gentle as ever, but the Peace Hotel had closed down for unknown reasons. His condition had also become very bad, and he was only awake half of the time every day.]

[He told me that his time is almost up and he will be revived soon. This time, he will solve his own problems. If he wakes up one day in the future, he will completely get rid of the restrictions of evil spirits and supernatural beings and become the most special kind of existence.]

Lu Zhiwen said: "According to Wang Lu's diary, the store manager is at the beginning of his transformation from 'he' to 'Him' at this point in time. According to Professor Wang's previous analysis, the current store manager may already be referred to as 'Him'. Is there a possibility that the store manager's identity has completely changed, thus affecting everyone's memory of him and erasing all traces of him in the world?"

"Based on the current information, this possibility is still very high. Mr. Qin, what do you think?" Cao Yanhua asked.

Old Qin sighed and said nothing, but everyone could see that he was skeptical about this statement, as if there was some reason he couldn't express.

In fact, it is true.

Because of the Peace Hotel, he once drove a haunted bus to the old house to meet the recognized "god" of the Republic of China period - Zhang Dong!
The terrifying old man who once suppressed an era with his own strength, turned evil spirits into legends, and brought peace back to the world.

I also asked about the Peace Hotel and the "store manager".

The answer you can get is still three words:

do not know!
According to the contents of these diaries, the store manager had existed at least a hundred years ago, and Zhang Dong, as a terrifying existence that dominated that era, it was impossible that he had not heard of him.

According to Lu Zhiwen's guess.

Twenty years ago, the store manager tried to transform from "he" to "Him", from man to God, and he succeeded. At the moment of success, a special spiritual power erased all traces and memories of him in the world.

Theoretically, this statement makes sense.

But everyone's memory could be erased, except Zhang Dong. Can only his memory be erased?

Discussions about the contents of the diary are still ongoing, but most of the speculation revolves around the possibilities proposed by Lu Zhiwen.

In other words.

The possibility proposed by Lu Zhiwen has been recognized by most people. The subsequent discussion is about how to restore the contents of the diary and find more erased memories.

"According to our speculation, part of the handwriting in the diary was left in the past. We need to have the ability to restart and find the correct time to bring the text back. The mysterious pendulum clock in the Wang family's ancestral home has this effect, but now we can only think of other ways." Tong Qian said and looked at Old Qin.

She had mentioned this news to Mr. Qin when they were on the supernatural bus.

It’s just that the “store manager” was there at the time, so it was difficult for Mr. Qin to conduct experiments. But now that there are only his own people, there is naturally nothing to worry about.

As the headquarters' greatest asset, Mr. Qin's strength is terrifying, and is also the basis for the headquarters to suppress various forces.

It was not until the Peace Hotel and the "store manager" appeared, especially when Old Qin was turned into a white-haired gorilla in front of the "store manager", that his confidence was broken.

But it is undeniable that Mr. Qin has unprecedented strength.

It's just a restart, which is not too difficult for Old Qin. The only thing he needs to worry about is Old Qin's current physical condition. Can he support him to use the restart to find the right time among the countless past times and bring back the traces of text from the past.

"Try it."

Old Qin’s smile is very kind, but if you look closely you can see that behind his smile is endless coldness, and his smile is more like an acting skill, or a mask.

A cold aura surged out from Old Qin's body, causing everyone present to shiver uncontrollably.

This kind of coldness is not physical, but seems to come from the level of consciousness, making people feel deeply uneasy and even fearful.

Li Jun and Lu Zhiwen looked at each other and saw the solemnity and emotion in each other's eyes.

Their strength is much stronger, their perception of Old Qin's supernatural powers is also clearer, and they can better see the gap between them and Old Qin.

"Mr. Qin, you are indeed the headquarters' last trump card, the basis for suppressing all forces. This strength has completely surpassed the top captains of this era!"

"Unfortunately, he is still far behind the store manager."

Old Qin's supernatural power did not have an impact too far away. The range of the supernatural power that was restarted was controlled by him to only include himself and the notebook in his hand.

One second, two seconds... five seconds...

One point, two points... five points...

One hour, two hours... five hours...

I don’t know how much time has passed, but after the first diary, the incomplete words on the second diary finally began to be completed.

Unknown traces began to appear, as if someone was using an invisible giant hand and a pen to write the contents of the diary.

"effective!"

Tong Qian was delighted. Even just one night would be enough for them to completely decipher the contents of the diary.

At least, we can see the Peace Hotel and its manager from Wang Lu’s perspective.

His origins and his growth experiences may all be revealed in these diaries.

Thinking of this, Cao Yanhua, Lu Zhiwen and others all became excited. They all looked at the notebook in Old Qin's hand expectantly, looking forward to a new diary entry so that they could see more of the past history and more news about the "store manager".

"Humph!"

With a muffled groan, Old Qin's breath instantly became extremely weak, like a candle in the wind, as if it would be completely extinguished in the next moment.

"Mr. Qin!"

"Mr. Qin, are you okay?"

The sudden change startled everyone present and they all rushed over. Only then did they realize that the handwriting that had originally appeared on the page of the notebook in Old Qin's hand quickly disappeared at this moment, and even more than half of the original traces were gone.

On the entire page, the incomplete pen marks left large areas of blank space.

"how come!"

Old Qin's face was pale, and his usually calm eyes revealed a deep fear. He was clearly looking forward, but not at Cao Yanhua who was concerned about him, but seemed to see a pair of eyes full of smiles.

This smile is not one of kindness, but... a mockery, a reminder, or rather, a warning!

“Is this His warning to me?”

Old Qin's eyes were gloomy and uncertain. He remembered the last time he wanted to use his supernatural powers to talk to his future self and inquire about the future of the "store manager", but He came to him directly.

At that time, He, in the long river of time evolved by his spiritual power, blocked him directly, and wanted to borrow his power to explore the future.

Shocked!

fear!

But facing... God!
(End of this chapter)