I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 546 The God of the World and Him, the Second Him

Disappeared.

With the old man's casual move of his hand, Lin Yuan was wiped out without leaving any trace. It seemed that he died in the old man's hands without any ability to resist.

The old man's figure became more solid, but he did not show any happiness or disappointment. He only had a childlike innocence and curiosity.

He did not look at the location where Lin Yuan was before he was erased, but looked at the surrounding white fog ghost domain, and suddenly laughed out loud, "It has come to this point, just an incarnation, but it can be comparable... No wonder Xiao Qin and the others are helpless. But my era does not need a certain future."

The old man's figure became illusory again and finally disappeared without a trace.

The white mist around kept surging, and soon filled the hole that appeared when the old man invaded. At the same time, as the white mist surged, the bluestone path, the commemorative coin exchange office, and the Ghost Lake and Fish Pond that had been erased by the old man reappeared.

Including Lin Yuan, they all appeared on the trail again, without any scars on their bodies, only the thick white mist in their eyes became deeper.

Looking at the direction where the old man disappeared, Lin Yuan felt heavy in his heart. "The ability of the eraser is really scary. But thanks to this attack, I realized that my existence has never been this body, but..."

With a complicated expression, he looked at the white fog around him, and the Peace Hotel deep in the fog.

Know your mind and see your nature!
Because of the old man's attack, he finally had a clearer understanding of his own existence, including this white foggy ghost area and the Peace Hotel in the white fog.

However, there was still a lack of an opportunity for him to fully see his own existence. "In a month, I have to have a good chat with his... corpse."

Lin Yuan turned around and continued to return to the store with his harvest, but he was no longer in such a happy mood. Moreover, after taking a few steps, he suddenly found something wrong.

Turning his head, he saw that the bodies of the ghost peddler and the first and second generations of the Wang family were rapidly becoming illusory, as if they were about to be wiped out by something.

"Zhang Dong couldn't kill me, so he set his sights on these mediums?"

Lin Yuan's eyes narrowed. Although he didn't know how Zhang Dong did it, he didn't need to know. He just had to protect these media.

The thick white fog surged again, continuously rushing into the bodies of the ghost peddler and the first and second generations of the Wang family.

As the white mist poured in, the bodies of these people and ghosts, which had become increasingly illusory and almost disappeared, regained their composure and became solid.

But this is not enough.

Their bodies are maintained in a boundary between illusion and reality. They look a little abrupt, not like real people, but like projections.

Through their bodies, Lin Yuan seemed to see the old house in the forest in Dazhou City in the Gengshen year. An old man was sitting on the armchair in the main hall, looking at him and even raising his hand to greet him.

"That's quite an impolite greeting."

Lin Yuan snorted coldly. He didn't expect that his first meeting with Zhang Dong was not in this world, but in the Gengshen year more than forty years ago.

But this meeting was not so friendly.

"In terms of attack power alone, Zhang Dong is indeed extremely terrifying. I am no match for him. If his true strength is just what he shows, then there is no need for me to be afraid of him. Even if he holds back, who doesn't?"

Lin Yuan felt relieved a little, but still a little depressed.

This fight between him and Zhang Dong seemed to be evenly matched, and because Zhang Dong was the main attacker and he was the main defender, he seemed to be more at ease.

But in fact?
It’s not that Lin Yuan didn’t want to fight back, it’s that the abilities he could mobilize were simply unable to get close to Zhang Dong, and would be wiped out by that eraser-like ability.

The best defense is offense!

In the implementation of this theory, Zhang Dong can be said to have achieved perfection, at least as far as Lin Yuan's current feelings are concerned.

"No wonder Meng Xiaodong hasn't seen Zhang Dong for decades. There may be other reasons, but there must be reasons from Zhang Dong himself. Could it be that Zhang Dong has lost control of his own spiritual power, so that anyone who approaches him, whether human or ghost, will be wiped out by the spiritual power, so he has been hiding in the old house?"

Lin Yuan didn't know how likely this was. After all, it was just his guess, and he didn't have time to make further guesses. He just went back to the Peace Hotel.

The ghost peddler, Wang Lu and his wife, and the ghosts of the Wang family were all brought back to the store by him at this moment. "Arrange a room for them."

Liu Qingqing: “???”

She even started to doze off behind the cash register. She did think about waiting for Lin Yuan to come back, but when Lin Yuan came back, he brought back so many people and ghosts, and then just disappeared?
Not to mention Liu Qingqing, even Zhang Youhong in her mind was a little confused at this time, "Brother Yuan, what's wrong with you? You're so anxious, are you having diarrhea and need to go to the toilet?"

"Don't speculate about Brother Yuan with your dirty thoughts. Also, change your name and don't call him Brother Yuan!" Liu Qingqing directly retorted.

Zhang Youhong was not angry. She had already figured out Liu Qingqing's personality, and she would occasionally make a few jokes when the opportunity arose. "People have three urgent needs, how can that be considered dirty? Besides, maybe he existed longer than me. If I call him Brother Yuan, I might even be calling him younger than he actually is."

"Hmph! Pretending to be young!" Liu Qingqing complained and ignored Zhang Youhong. However, it was this remark of hers that almost broke Zhang Youhong's defense.

For women, whether they are alive or dead and only a remnant of their soul remains, age seems to be a hurdle that they cannot overcome.

Liu Qingqing knew this very well, so she hit Zhang Youhong's weak spot directly, and then "ran away" after the attack, not giving Zhang Youhong any chance to fight back.

She still has work to do, but these people and ghosts seem familiar.

"Wang Chaling's grandparents, and parents? This one, is he a vendor?" Liu Qingqing had a strange look on her face. She was only interested in the ghost peddler's attire and appearance, but was really curious about Wang Lu and his wife.

You know, Wang Chaling was playing virtual games in the store tonight, and he also brought the ghosts of his grandparents here.

But now?

Another pair of ghosts from the Wang family generation appeared, and they also included Mr. and Mrs. Wang Lu… But looking at the state of Mr. and Mrs. Wang Lu, their eyes were confused, as if they had been drugged.

This couple are not ghosts at all; they are clearly two living people!

But aren’t Mr. and Mrs. Wang Lu dead?

Liu Qingqing was confused, but she suddenly remembered the young version of Meng Xiaodong who was just brought by Lin Yuan, and the living Yang Xiaotian, and she couldn't help but be surprised: "Could this also be the second generation of the Wang family from decades ago?"

"It's not impossible. They are indeed alive, and their bloodline is indeed inherited from the Wang family. And this peddler..."

Zhang Youhong has experienced many ups and downs.

The rule-based weapon "a woman's age" did cause her considerable damage, but her "blood bar" was very thick and she didn't care about that at all.

Instead, it was the situation in the hotel that made her even more curious.

"Forget it, let's go arrange the rooms first." Liu Qingqing felt like she was starting to grow some brains, so she quickly stopped thinking and stopped herself from letting her thoughts run wild. But soon she felt something was wrong, "The rooms... should still be enough..."

The only places in the Peace Hotel that are habitable now are the e-sports rooms on the second floor and in the basement.

There are a total of sixteen rooms on the second floor. Room 201 is occupied by Meng Xiaodong, room 202 is occupied by Li Qingzhi, room 203 is occupied by Zhang Bohua, room 205 is reserved for Tong Qian, room 206 is occupied by He Yiner, room 207 is occupied by He Yuelian, room 208 is occupied by Liu Qingqing, room 210 is occupied by Fang Shiming, and room 212 is occupied by the ghost catcher.

Meng Xiaodong and Yang Xiaotian who came before.

孟小董自然是去的201，而杨孝天则是被柳青青带去了216住着，空着的房间就只剩下了204、209、211、213、214和215。

There are two people and three ghosts here now. If each person or ghost lives in one room, there will still be some room to spare.

but……

Glancing at Wang Lu and his wife, Liu Qingqing asked, "You two, you should be a couple, so you want to stay in the same room, right?"

At the same time, Yang Xiaotian in Room 216 did not rest. He was still sorting out what happened today, especially the Peace Hotel, which made him feel very strange.

He had never imagined that there would be such a mysterious place in the world.

"Is this a hotel that exists above time and connects the past and the future? If so, maybe this is not a bad thing. At least I can use the information from the future to adjust my choices. If I can really do that..."

Lin Yuan had told him before that the memories here cannot be taken away.

Yang Xiaotian sighed secretly, always feeling that his era was being targeted, but the situation was stronger than the person, and he couldn't refute anything.

We can only take one step at a time and see how it goes, at least get in touch with people from the "future" first.

They come, the security.

Yang Xiaotian understood this principle very well, and this room gave him a good feeling. Given the huge gap in strength, he only maintained the most basic vigilance, then lay down on the bed and began to rest.

But as soon as he lay down on the bed, his body began to change, the same changes as the Wang Lu couple, the ghosts of the Wang generation, and the ghost peddler: illusory, almost disappearing!
The change happened so quickly that in almost the blink of an eye, Yang Xiaotian's body became almost nothingness and invisible.

However, there was no reaction to his own spiritual power at all, as if this disappearance was a normal physiological state and had nothing to do with the spiritual power.

Just when he was about to disappear completely, countless white mists appeared instantly, poured into his body, and stabilized his existence.

It’s just that his current state is the same as Wang Lu and his wife’s, becoming illusory and unreal, but fortunately he did not continue to disappear.

All of this was Lin Yuan's work, but he did not show up. Instead, he came to room 201, which was where Meng Xiaodong was.

But he didn't go in immediately, but knocked on the door.

The door opened, and two Meng Xiaodongs stood behind it, one was the Meng Xiaodong in real life, and the other was the Meng Xiaodong born in the year of Gengshen. The two stood together, both very old, yet 70% similar, looking like a mother and daughter.

"It seems that he is indeed special to you."

The reason why he was not so anxious was that Meng Xiaodong was in a pretty good condition in the Gengshen Year. He was not like Yang Xiaotian. If he hadn't helped, he would have been wiped out by the old man across time and space.

He didn't even need to use supernatural powers to invade the Peace Hotel, because what he was erasing were all traces of Yang Xiaotian and others' existence in the Gengshen Year.

Even if Lin Yuan does nothing, as long as Yang Xiaotian, Wang Lu and his wife do not leave the Peace Hotel, they will still exist. It's just that they have no way to go back to the Gengshen year, nor can they appear in the reality where Lin Yuan is. They are like lonely ghosts, and can only exist in the Peace Hotel. They can no longer serve as Lin Yuan's coordinates to anchor the Gengshen year.

Logically speaking, the old man...or Zhang Dong, should not have missed Meng Xiaodong, and it is even more impossible for him to show mercy because of so-called feelings.

"My existence is quite special. As long as I have appeared in the past, no one can erase me, and the same goes for him." Meng Xiaodong said with a smile. His voice was old and soft, but with enough confidence and determination.

Lin Yuan didn't quite believe it.

If Meng Xiaodong was really that terrifying, he wouldn't be just one of the Seven Elders of the Republic of China. He would have to be a god on earth of that era like Zhang Dong.

Instead, when he was still not awake, he felt so powerless in the face of his separated normal human consciousness.

However, he was still very understanding of human relationships and did not expose Meng Xiaodong's self-confidence, but Meng Xiaodong was also a little surprised, "Boss Lin, I didn't expect you to come out at this time..."

Lin Yuan's face turned dark.

What do you mean by come out? It's as if he was locked up... Never mind. Lin Yuan was too lazy to talk nonsense with Meng Xiaodong. He glanced at Meng Xiaodong in the Gengshen Year and said nothing more. "Let's go."

Watching Lin Yuan leave, Meng Xiaodong's eyes were eager to try, but Meng Xiaodong quickly stopped her, "He is usually easy to talk to, but the premise is not to touch his bottom line, otherwise our existence may be erased."

"This is not like you. You just said that even he can't wipe us out." In the Gengshen year, Meng Xiaodong is more than 40 years younger. Although he is in his sixties or seventies, he still has more spirit than the real Meng Xiaodong.

Reality·Meng Xiaodong shook his head. “You also know how strong we are. There are things you can say, but you can’t do. Their strength may be on par with ours, and… your existence itself is an uncertain medium. If he can wipe out that young man, he will definitely not keep you.”

Speaking of the possibility of being erased, in reality Meng Xiaodong has no resentment at all.

Meng Xiaodong nodded, "You are right, their strength is indeed much greater than ours, and we are no longer on the same level."

Reality Meng Xiaodong sighed, "No matter what, I'll just keep what happened tonight to myself, including his appearance."

Gengshen Year Meng Xiaodong glanced at her and said, "You would think that I can still leave with the memories of this place, right? But it's useless to say this now. The one who really needs to be worried is Boss Lin. He can't let Boss Lin take that step so easily, even though this is what we all expect."

"You are right. If a god really appears in the world, his power must crush all people in the world. Otherwise, he is not qualified to be a god. No matter how much we hope for a real god to appear and put an end to all the supernatural things, what we need is not a false god."

Just as the two Meng Xiaodongs said, Lin Yuan is not having an easy time now.

In the Gengshen year, Zhang Dong's methods were terrifying. What he wanted to wipe out was never Yang Xiaotian, not the Wang Lu couple, not the souls of the Wang family generation, and certainly not the ghost peddler.

What he wanted to erase was the medium that Lin Yuan had built with the existence of these people, which would allow him to easily travel to the Gengshen year.

Directly erasing the existence of these people is the best way to deal with these media, but with the Peace Hotel and the White Mist Ghost Domain, Zhang Dong’s power here will seem a little powerless.

Judging from the current situation, in the confrontation between Zhang Dong and Lin Yuan, if Zhang Dong can be said to be the ultimate spear, then Lin Yuan's strength is the ultimate shield.

There was once a prophecy story that involved the paradox of spear and shield: Can the sharpest spear in the world break through the most defensive shield in the world?
The story has no conclusion, and for now, Zhang Dong has backed down.

He also didn't need to break through Lin Yuan's defense and wipe out these people in Lin Yuan's territory. What he was doing now was to erase the existence of these people in the Gengshen year.

In other words, it is to erase the concept of their existence in the Gengshen year!
Standing at the end of the bluestone path, this is the outskirts of Dadong City in the Gengshen Year, and is the location of the Gengshen Year Peace Hotel built by Lin Yuan.

Ten minutes ago, he could easily step out from here and go to the Gengshen year.

But now?

In front of him, at the end of the bluestone path, Zhang Dong's figure was standing there calmly, blocking Lin Yuan's way forward.

The white fog rolled in, but it could not break through the blockade of Zhangdong, and once again successfully invaded into the Gengshen year.

White mist surged in Lin Yuan's eyes, and the world in his eyes began to change differently. He saw seven red silk threads extending from the Peace Hotel behind him and spreading to the world behind Zhang Dong.

These seven red silk threads are the medium created by Lin Yuan.

They represent Meng Xiaodong of the Gengshen year, Yang Xiaotian, the Wang Lu couple, the ghosts of the Wang family generation, and the ghost peddler. It is through these seven media that Lin Yuan can build a bridge between the reality and the past.

But now, under the influence of Zhang Dong's magic, the seven red stripes are gradually fading, and it won't be long before they are completely weathered and finally disappear.

However, Lin Yuan did not get angry. Instead, he looked at the old man standing in a different world opposite him with a calm and curious look on his face. "Can you tell me the story of you and Meng Xiaodong?"

There was a hint of surprise in the old man's cloudy eyes, but he immediately shook his head and started chatting with Lin Yuan like an old friend, "These are just some old stories. If you can keep going, you will naturally see them, or even experience them yourself."

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "But you will stop me."

"I just want to see how far you can go. If you can't even break through my blockade, it means that you haven't grown enough. I look forward to the day when you can bring me to your restaurant, but from the current situation, you are still a little bit short."

There was genuine regret in the old man's words, and he was not lying at all.

Lin Yuan also laughed, "Is that so? To be honest, I still admire you guys. If it were me, I would probably go crazy if I had to live alone in a place surrounded by evil spirits for decades."

"I can't tell. After all, you have a good idea and you have the ability to realize it. If you really make it to the end, maybe that magical place will become a wildlife sanctuary. At that time, what you have to guard against is not the wild beasts coming to the real world, but to prevent poachers from passing through."

Zhang Dong seemed to have seen that future, and the anticipation in his eyes became more and more intense.

"If you don't stop me, that day will come faster." Lin Yuan said.

Zhang Dong shook his head and said, "That will only hurt you. Having said that, if you want to chat with me, I'm still happy to do so. At least you didn't use a segmented consciousness to tease me like you did with other people. If you want to take that step, then defeat me head-on."

"Is that so? That's really a bit troublesome."

Lin Yuan had a headache. "It seems that I am not the protagonist, otherwise my mouth-to-mouth skills would not be so bad. I finally met the old man, but I couldn't convince him to help me with all his strength. Instead, he blocked my way."

Despite this, he was not discouraged.

In his sight, red lines began to appear one after another. There were not many in number, but there were thousands of them, densely packed, passing behind him, but not leading to the world blocked by Zhang Dong.

Lin Yuan found one of them and fiddled with it casually, and a cold aura surged through his body.

Zhang Dong narrowed his eyes slightly. "Such a familiar power. I have to admit that the Peace Hotel is indeed a genius idea."

"Thank you, but I hope you can hold on."

Lin Yuan remained polite, and as the cold aura continued to surge from his body, a burst of crisp footsteps suddenly came from the white mist behind him.

At the same time, another bluestone path invaded from an unknown space, and the footsteps came from this second bluestone path.

Soon the owner of the footsteps walked out of the white fog and came to Lin Yuan's side.

And this person, surprisingly, looks exactly like Lin Yuan!
In other words, he is Lin Yuan, but not the Lin Yuan of today, but the Lin Yuan a month ago in reality, the manager of White Fog Ghost Domain and Peace Hotel, Lin Yuan!

In reality, the store manager Lin Yuan from a month ago came to Lin Yuan's side through an unknown spirit, "If the power of one me is not enough, then... what about two of me, or even... more of me?"

(End of this chapter)