I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 38 You will never find Taoyuan Village (end of this story)
So bright...

I can’t open my eyes…

where is this?
Are you back?

very tired……

I must remind Teacher Orange, I must...

This is the last chance...

Lin Xing'an tried hard to lift his eyelids.

My eyes gradually adapted to the light and my vision slowly became clear.

"This is……"

Lin Xing'an was stunned.

He stood on the shore, and before him was a river, a silver river.

Wait…a river?

No, it’s not a river, it’s a line.

They are silver threads, each one looking like dragon beard noodles after being put into the pot.

They are next to each other, with no known source and no end in sight, just like a rushing river rolling forward.

"It's time..."

The not-so-bright silver light made Lin Xing'an think of Qiao Qiao's time ability at the first moment.

"But... why am I here? Did the replay fail?"

"Where's that replica ghost...?"

Lin Xing'an looked at the river in front of him blankly.

"call!"

But before he could think, this river composed of countless timelines seemed to be suddenly lifted up, and instantly rushed towards Lin Xing'an on the shore with a roar!

Lin Xing'an instinctively raised his arms and closed his eyes.

But the imagined feeling of drowning or dizziness did not come.

Instead, it feels like being patted by soft clouds.

"hiss……"

Lin Xing'an opened his eyes and raised his hand.

Those silk threads passed through his sides and his fingertips.

And in these thin lines...

He actually saw a series of pictures...

He fell to the ground. Zhang Yunxi slowly appeared in the heavy rain. The silver light in Qiao Qiao's eyes dimmed...

The pictures that just happened are being played back upside down along with the flow of time, falling into nothingness like a waterfall, and disappearing completely, as if they had never happened.

“This is my ability…”

Lin Xing'an seemed to realize something and his eyes widened.

"This is my [Death Rollback] process..."

"The so-called rollback is not like jumping out and loading the game directly, but 'going back in time'..."

Just like watching a movie, watching everything he had just experienced being replayed bit by bit and disappearing bit by bit, Lin Xing'an's face showed a bit of realization.

No wonder……

No wonder his abilities weren't on that ability list.

Because Qiao Qiao said that all abilities related to time and Class A abilities are not included.

No wonder Lin Xing'an felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity when Qiao Qiao used her ability on him for the first time.

Because his [Death Rewind] is also a kind of time-related ability.

No wonder he loses a lot of energy every time he goes back to the game.

Because the process of looking back is like rowing against the current, it requires a lot of physical strength...

"But why has this never happened before..."

"Why don't you just go back as soon as you open your eyes this time..."

"And... the reverse speed is so slow..."

Lin Xing'an felt the numbness of the timeline passing through his fingers and the continuous loss of physical strength, and his mind was still a little confused.

At this rate, it would take him at least ten minutes to go back to ten minutes ago...

"Lin! Xing! An!"

But suddenly! A resentful voice came from behind Lin Xing'an!
The ghost replica that transformed into his appearance waved its arms with an extremely ferocious expression, gradually pushing aside the dense timeline and walking towards him step by step!
"Human beast!"

"How dare you plot against me!"

The copy ghost shouted with gritted teeth.

But his figure was like an unstable projection, constantly flickering and appearing and disappearing.

In the silver light around it, its voice was also strangely distorted.

Unlike Lin Xing'an who stood safely in countless timelines, every flash of its body would be penetrated by countless timelines!

"Oh it's you……"

Lin Xing'an's eyes flickered.

Because [Death Rollback] is a passive skill, after the clone ghost copies his ability, even if he is aware of it, the rollback will be triggered after his death.

What Lin Xing'an envisioned was to go back to the past with this copy ghost through replay.

After the battle with Wang Xi, the copy ghost has consumed a huge amount of darkness and physical strength, so the time for rewinding will not be too early.

Based on Lin Xing'an's experience of going back many times, it will go back to the time when the ghost realm opens and he encounters Teacher Orange.

If it returns to this state, its physical strength will be drained instantly!

At that time, Teacher Orange and Fang Dajun would have a great chance of winning. In addition, with Wang Xi's ability to restrain it, they would have a chance to quickly end the battle and leave the station before the other gluttons react.

The stakes are high.

But the situation at that time, especially when a group of gluttonous ghosts gathered over.

Lin Xing'an had only one thought in his mind.

No matter what the situation is, it can't get any worse.

Give it a try, there is still a glimmer of hope!
but now……

Looking at the clone ghost that was walking towards him step by step, its body constantly twisting and changing, Lin Xing'an clenched his fists.

"Indeed, the remaining stamina of this ghost and I is different, so the time we rewind to is also different."

"But if we both go back to different times at the same time and face each other in the past or future at the same time, it would easily lead to a time paradox."

"So... this is like getting stuck in the process..."

There was a look of determination in his eyes.

Although the cloned ghost also copied his abilities, Lin Xing'an could clearly feel at this moment the closeness of the surrounding timelines to him and their rejection of the cloned ghost.

Since this is my home ground, let’s solve it here!
Lin Xing'an didn't wait for the copy ghost to come over, but walked towards the copy ghost as well.

"Haha, you beast, you still dare to come here?"

"You think you can kill me? What tricks do you have now? What else do you have..."

"Oh!"

Lin Xing'an threw a punch!
The clone's already limping figure stumbled a bit, then stumbled to the ground. "I still have my fists, my arms, and my legs."

Now, no one has the ability, and no one is better than anyone else!

"Humans and animals?!"

"Why are you calling me daddy?"

Lin Xing'an's eyes were full of fearlessness and ruthlessness!
All around, countless images flashed by in reverse.

Teacher Orange, whose arms were torn off, collapsed in tears in his arms...

The humiliation of Qiao Qiao being controlled and barking like a pet dog...

Wang Xi recklessly burned with his own determination...

Zhang Yunxi's body, ripped apart and left tragically dead, still clutched the statue tightly...

"You really deserve to die..."

Lin Xing'an gritted his teeth.

Pictures filled with blood, pictures that made him tremble all over, pictures that made him shudder and fear, kept flashing by as time went backwards!
But now, all the fear, all the despair, all the powerlessness, were thrown behind Lin Xing'an's mind!
"Now, it's you who should be afraid!"

He punched the frightened replica ghost in front of him one punch after another!

Every punch hits the flesh, without any ambiguity!
Every time the fist landed, the clone ghost's body became more illusory, and silver timelines passed through his body!
"what!!!!!"

A silver thread suddenly pierced through the clone ghost's eyebrows.

Immediately afterwards...

One after another...

Its eyes widened instantly! Its body trembled suddenly, and then it began to move uncontrollably!
It’s as if countless selves from different periods of time have simultaneously entered the body at this moment!
The clone ghost's face changed into thousands of different appearances in an instant!
All the abilities it copied also manifested in him at the same time!
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

The intense pain made the clone ghost's voice extremely shrill!

Countless images flashed rapidly in its constantly stalling body.

Its body was also carried away from Lin Xing'an by the thin line passing through its eyebrows, and walked towards the nothingness behind!
“Don’t…don’t, don’t, don’t…”

The copy ghost seemed to have noticed something, and his expression changed instantly!

"help me!"

It looked at Lin Xing'an.

"I'm going to disappear! Save me! Save me! Why are you standing there?"

"I'm going to disappear!"

"At most, I just wanted to eat you! But you actually wanted me to disappear?! How can you be so vicious! Save me!"

The clone ghost stretched out his hand, and his expression of fear seemed to overflow from his body!
"Come on! What are you standing there for? I don't want to disappear!"

The flow of time suddenly accelerated, and the replica ghost reached the edge of the cliff of nothingness!
Beside him, the scenes of what had just happened were falling into nothingness.

"I know Taoyuan Village! And that statue!"

"Save me! I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything! I..."

"Snapped!"

At the moment the ghost replica fell off the cliff, Lin Xing'an grabbed its hand.

"Tell me what you know, and I'll pull you up."

He stood on the shore and said.

The countercurrents around him didn't seem to have any effect on him.

"The statue will guide the direction of Taoyuan Village!"

"The statue will... you... what are you going to do..."

Seeing Lin Xing'an extending his second hand, the copy ghost's face lit up with joy.

But Lin Xing'an did not catch him again.

Instead, he pried open its fingers one by one with an expressionless face.

"Don't you want to know how to get to Taoyuan Village? You..."

"Do you think I'm really naive enough to believe in gluttonous ghosts?"

Lin Xing'an said calmly.

"You said you would pull me up! You..."

"Because I'm lying to you."

Lin Xing'an looked at the ghost clone calmly, "Why are you so stupid?"

"you……"

The copy ghost seemed to have just realized that Lin Xing'an really wanted to kill it, and its face turned pale little by little.

“…You’ll never find Taoyuan Village.”

It stared at Lin Xing'an intently, and under the interweaving of countless timelines, its body fell into the abyss like a stone in a waterfall.

"Humans and beasts! You will never find Taoyuan Village!"

"There is no such thing as Taoyuan Village!"

"You'll never escape!"

"You will always be cattle!"

Its resentful voice came from the abyss like a stuck old radio.

His body turned into spots of light and disappeared along with the desperate scenes that Lin Xing'an had experienced.

"call!"

A dark mass entered Lin Xing'an's body after he disappeared.

"Wow..."

The silver timelines suddenly became light as if they had excluded the aliens.

Lin Xing'an also walked forward step by step.

With every step he took, his strength dissipated a little.

The picture kept playing in reverse, and a white light appeared in front of his eyes.

Lin Xing'an's physical strength was gradually drying up.

"elder brother!"

Just when Lin Xing'an was about to step into the white light!

Suddenly, a clear female voice came from behind!

Lin Xing'an turned around in surprise.

It was a girl with thick long red hair like flames, running towards him barefoot through many time streams!

"Whoosh!"

Her red pupils were filled with worry and self-blame, and she kept shaking her head and shouting something.

But Lin Xing'an's ears were filled with the deafening sound of the long river of time.

“…Taoyuan Village!”

The white light in front of him swallowed Lin Xing'an.

At the very end, he only vaguely heard the red-haired girl seem to be shaking her head and saying "Taoyuan Village"...

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