Wan Jie Hospice Care Company

Chapter 67 Cycle

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Upon hearing the sound outside the door, Xiang Yu immediately felt a surge of tension.

Could that thing actually catch up with us?

"Anling—can you turn back time right now?" Xiangyu whispered to Anling.

"I'll give it a try!"

Under extreme tension, Anling began to chant slowly.

Her voice trembled, like a candle flame in the wind, as if it might be extinguished at any moment.

Unfortunately, nothing changed after the chanting.

Everything around was still so terrible; the paint was peeling off, dust was flying everywhere, and the sticky sound from afar hadn't gone away.

Instead, it was getting closer and closer, like some kind of huge mollusk wriggling on the ground, making a nauseating, slippery sound with each movement.

Xiang Yu frowned and immediately stepped back, shouting, "Everyone, get away from the gate!"

His voice boomed through the morgue, shattering the eerie silence. Everyone was jolted awake; those at the card table rose to their feet, the chairs screeching as they sat up.

As the monster's roar outside grew closer, Xiang Yu began directing the evacuation of the crowd. His mind raced; theoretically, besides the main entrance, the morgue had another emergency exit—a fire escape—located in the innermost corner of the morgue.

Fire exits are so important!!!

Fear spread like a plague through the crowd; everyone trembled with terror, their faces ashen. Some people's legs went weak, as if their bones had been removed, and they collapsed to the ground, unable to stand. Others screamed, their voices shrill and piercing.

Others started rushing around haphazardly, running around like headless flies, which blocked the escape routes.

Sure enough, only a few people can remain calm in such situations.

Ji Zhuo and Li Yiheng, standing to the side, were clearly professionals. They had undergone specialized training, witnessed various emergency situations, and knew how to remain calm in chaos. They began to lead a few of the leaders to retreat first, using their bodies to block those who tried to rush forward, and using firm voices to reassure the panicked people.

Then they helped up those who were slumped on the ground with weak legs, supporting them one by one with their arms and guiding them away.

Finally, the evacuation began to proceed in an orderly manner.

The problem is that there are too many people and too few people responsible for evacuation, and the monster is approaching too quickly.

Xiang Yu watched as the crowd flowed toward the emergency exit, and fewer and fewer people remained—twenty, fifteen, ten—until only about ten were left.

"call----"

A howling wind came from outside the gate, as if the monster had opened a hole between hell and the human world, making it seem as if one could hear the terrifying sounds of another world.

"Five left!"

Li Yiheng counted the number of people present. There were four elderly people with limited mobility and a hospital patient with epilepsy who collapsed to the ground and convulsed the moment he heard the ghost make that sound.

But there wasn't enough time.

Ji Zhuo and Li Yiheng decided to take a gamble. They carried the elderly people with mobility issues on their backs and the epileptic patient in their arms, slowly moving towards the emergency exit.

Just then, as if sensing the arrival of something, the door slowly opened.

"!!!"

Before the others could react, Li Yiheng, who had just left, subconsciously glanced back. By the time Xiang Yu tried to warn him, it was too late.

The red figure, shrouded in white mist, stood at the entrance. Only then did Xiang Yu see the true appearance of the thing. Its body was composed of countless threads, which were incredibly thin. Each thread had no width, but when countless threads were stacked together, they seemed to gain volume, forming a humanoid outline that looked very eerie.

The threads were constantly wriggling and twisting, like countless tiny snakes coiling around each other.

And in those "heads" woven from silk threads, Xiang Yu saw two dark eye sockets.

"Click!"

Li Yiheng suddenly felt lightheaded, and then everything went black before his eyes; he could no longer feel his body.

Ji Zhuo immediately roared, "Old Li!"

Li Yiheng's head had been twisted 180 degrees, and he no longer had the strength to maintain his posture, so he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

An Ling, who was helping the old man move, stared wide-eyed at the scene and murmured, "No—no! Uncle Li!"

Her voice trembled, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Just as Xiang Yu decided to ignore the people present and prepare to take An Ling away quickly, An Ling shouted out in desperation.

"Flying Light, Flying Light!"

The voice was choked with sobs and filled with despair.

Then time stood still.

Everything was still.

Li Yiheng's body hung suspended in mid-air, his blood ceasing to flow and solidifying into eerie arcs.

Ji Zhuo's roar abruptly stopped, his mouth agape, frozen in place. The red figure also stopped, the threads ceasing their writhing, like a scene that had been paused.

Only Anling is still moving.

Her eyes were closed, tears streaming down her cheeks, her lips trembling as she sang, "Flying light, flying light—"

"I urge you to drink a cup of wine—"

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Suddenly, two voices rang out, one after the other, chasing each other.

The first voice was An Ling's, a girl's voice, clear and crisp, with a hint of crying.

The second voice came from who-knows-where; it was a woman's voice, deep and ethereal, with a strange echo, as if it came from a very, very far place.

The two voices are so similar that they could almost be merged into one if it weren't for the time difference between them.

They were singing a duet.

One exists in reality, the other in the void.

One is in the world of the living, the other in the realm of the dead.

Then time began to rewind.

Xiang Yu suddenly remembered something: the female ghost's previous ability was also related to time, and it was also time reversal, exactly the same as An Ling's ability.

However, in addition to reversing the flow, the female ghost also had a portion of the ability to cycle.

"cycle----"

In an instant, countless thoughts surged into Xiang Yu's mind.

When the catastrophe strikes, humanity will never reach the new millennium; instead, it will arrive on December 32, 1999.

Humanity will be trapped in time.

We can never reach tomorrow.

[This can never be changed.]

Every day I wake up, it's December 32, 1999.

Every time I fall asleep, I forget what happened on the previous December 32nd.

[This cycle will continue forever.]

Humanity in this world will slowly lose hope, lose reason, and lose everything that makes us "human" in an endless cycle.

Ultimately, it becomes nourishment for something.

This was the original mission description; the world was destroyed because of the cycle.

But does "destruction" really mean "destruction"?

Does the destruction of one world also signify the birth of another?

For example, in this mission description, the culprit who destroyed the world is the guy who caused the time loop, but in a sense, wasn't the world that started on December 32nd also created by this so-called "destroyer" of the world?

It's just that that world no longer has any meaning.

and many more!

The female ghost's power is time looping —

Xiang Yu was startled. He tentatively asked the mission system, "Was the person who created this world the female ghost who sang 'The Short Day'?"

Congratulations on completing side quest three!

[Task Reward: 10 Points!]

correct!

The completion of this task surprised and delighted Xiang Yu. The biggest gain from completing the task was not the points, but the verification of an important conjecture of his!

If the female ghost created this world through a time loop, then it means that she didn't actually travel to December 18th, but rather arrived after December 32nd.

He had arrived in a new world where the cycle had already begun.

Once December 32nd arrives, we will return to the beginning of time, and the world will never move forward, trapped in this period, like a Möbius strip, never able to escape.

So the key point is—

How do we resolve this?

Xiangyu turned his attention to another task.

Side Quest 2: Find the ghost that destroyed this world.

My mission from the beginning was to destroy this world and provide it with end-of-life care.

In other words, one must help the demon that destroys the world, so that it can destroy the world, free it from the cycle, and liberate the people of the world.

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