Mysterious Resurrection: What If

Chapter 240, Section 301 (Part 5)

It was a faint sound.

Ethereal, eerie.

It lingered in Shen Lin's ear.

But without any hesitation, he raised his axe and swung it down.

The target of the attack was not Li Leping, but the old man standing in front of him.

A pair of lifeless, numb eyes peeked out from deep-set eye sockets, with an abnormal black and white coloration appearing around the body.

The falling axe is slowing down.

As the distance between the axe blade and the old man decreased, the speed also decreased.

At the same time, the axe, which originally had a cold luster, gradually became dull and lifeless.

When the two finally came into contact, the axe merely brushed against the old man's cloth garment, having no effect whatsoever.

The eerie color quickly spread from the axe to Shen Lin's body.

"Unstoppable; contact will result in death."

Even if Shen Lin himself wasn't the one triggering the killing pattern, this unsolvable invasion still resulted in a fatal attack.

Those hands, covered in age spots, pressed against Li Leping's face. The conditions had been met, and he could no longer rely on forgetting to start over.

His eyes quickly lost focus, his memory kept fading, and a coffin nail appeared in his hand without him even realizing it.

As if it were an instinctive action, he raised his hand and stabbed.

But the next second, his arm returned to its original position. The forgetting had taken effect, and Li Leping was trapped and killed by his own forgetting in that instant.

What's even stranger is that no one noticed the coffin nail in his hand, as if Li Leping had deliberately hidden it. Even though it was right there in his hand, everyone subconsciously chose to ignore it.

But at this moment, this protection, which Li Leping originally intended to prevent the coffin nails from being taken away, is now costing him his life.

"There is still hope."

Shen Lin's entire body was filled with an eerie black and white aura, yet he was still alive and in surprisingly good condition.

Experiencing this state where one is almost completely transformed into a vengeful ghost.

"I could certainly imprison this ghost while the music continues."

He immediately said to Ye Zhen, who was fighting the second vengeful ghost, "I will pull it into my memory, but only briefly. You should take this time to get Li Leping out."

“Li Jun, I need your memories as an anchor point. This body shares the same memories with me, so I can't go in. Otherwise, my mother will come looking for me, and that will be troublesome.”

Li Jun was taken aback. "Your mother?"

"Mm." Shen Lin nodded.

"Don't worry about that for now, just cooperate with me."

“Okay, no problem.” Although Li Jun didn’t understand, he still agreed. As long as he could rescue the people, it didn’t matter to him what he did.

As he listened to the clear music, Shen Lin was dying repeatedly, but every moment the eerie melody would pull him back.

As long as the music box continued to play, he believed he could not be killed during that time.

He raised the axe in his hand and swung it at Li Jun.

The view began to change within the small room.

The walls are gone, replaced by a scene of reinforced concrete. This is the headquarters, the most important place in Li Jun's memory.

Shen Lin brought this memory into reality through his own vengeful spirit.

"It really works. With that music box, I can experiment with many methods that I've simulated before."

The old man stopped completely. It seemed that he and Li Leping were still in the same room, but in reality they were in two completely different locations.

Immediately afterwards, in Ye Zhen and Li Leping's memories, Shen Lin's figure in this room was frantically overlapping, quickly filling the entire space.

The next second, Shen Lin, Li Jun, and the old man vanished instantly, leaving only Ye Zhen and Li Leping in the room.

The attack on Ye Zhen also disappeared. He was slightly stunned, not expecting Shen Lin to be able to do this. Without hesitation, he rushed towards the dazed Li Leping, grabbed him, and ran towards the door.

"Walk."

Ye Zhen was about to open the door.

But the moment they touched the doorknob, their memories suddenly changed.

In his memory, the old man appeared behind Li Leping, raised his hand, and slowly reached towards his back.

Li Leping turned his head and saw a black and white color rapidly spreading down his shoulders.

The attack began, and Shen Lin failed to completely stop it; he had overestimated the power of possessing the music box.

"What are you standing there for! Let's go!"

Shen Lin leaped down from the roof with an axe and swung it fiercely at the old man, who then vanished from the spot.

But the attack had already occurred, and Li Leping, who was invaded again, had completely lost his memory at this moment.

Ye Zhen tried to pull Li Leping, but he stood still without moving.

Suddenly, Li Leping grabbed Ye Zhen's face, an attack that came without warning, catching Ye Zhen completely off guard.

"He's lost his memory again."

However, Ye Zhen did not choose to stop Li Leping.

He was hesitating.

His purpose in coming here to find Li Leping was for this very moment.

He stared blankly at the outstretched hand, making a decision.

Ever since the destruction of the Great City and the death of Takeru, he has been living in agony.

Ye Zhen's condition is different from other ghost tamers. Because of the substitute ghost, he has all the emotions of a normal person.

He even wished he could be like a demon tamer, eliminating all his emotions.

But he couldn't do it, so he could only silently endure it all.

He knew in his heart that continuing like this was a mistake, and he wanted to wake up, but he couldn't. As a human being with all emotions, he couldn't so easily turn a blind eye to the lives of tens of millions of people.

He needs more time, but at least for now, he cannot live with this painful memory.

He opened the door behind his back, and Li Leping's stiff palm was pressed against his face at the same time.

He chose to accept being forgotten, but in a slightly different way.

Under the influence of the supernatural, he suffered amnesia again, and it seemed as if he had developed two personalities.

However, he wasn't entirely without a backup plan; he was still worried that his adolescent personality might do something dangerous.

He plans to store this personality in a figurine as a scapegoat, so that he might need to awaken again to deal with certain special situations.

Then, the memories began to become confused and faded away.

The supernatural began to clash.

Li Leping stood motionless. On the arm that had been attacked by the old man, an abnormal black and white color quickly covered him, then gradually faded and receded, only to reappear again in a cycle.

Shen Lin's figure appeared and disappeared in the room, sometimes alone, sometimes in a group.

Each time he teleported, a lifeless old man appeared.

No one knows how much time has passed. In this room, time no longer matters. Memories and reality intertwine, the past and the present overlap, and countless deadly supernatural beings clash madly.

Ye Zhen slowly opened his eyes, and in front of him was Li Leping's palm, pressed tightly against his face.

"A humiliating disgrace."

A buzzing sound rang out, and the long sword cleaved the door open from above.

"Come on, Li Leping!"

(End of this chapter)