Re-live your life and start speedrunning

It seems to be in a state of 'sometimes there, sometimes not'.

For example, the first evil ghost of the soul core 'Ghost-faced Owl' that Li Re got - he took the initiative to attack but missed. He once thought that it was because the Ghost-faced Owl avoided him in advance, and even not long ago, he still thought so.

But after listening to the two bells,

After seeing the evil ghosts appear and disappear suddenly.

He suddenly had a guess.

He guessed that this Ghost-Faced Owl, like these evil spirits, also appeared suddenly - because of its sudden appearance, he missed it, and because of its sudden appearance, Li Re was unable to bump into it while moving forward or backward!

Also because the "time" in the ghost town is divided,

At that time, Li Re clearly felt that he only drove for half an hour.

When we arrived at the destination, we had already missed 11 o'clock in the evening when the Ghost-faced Owl started to roam.

This is the initial 'point'.

It is also the most critical point to guide Li Re's thinking——

At that moment, he thought a lot in the sedan chair. He thought about what Lao Hu had said at the beginning, that the Ghost-Faced Owl would "start from the center of the ghost town every night and wander around the entire ghost town." It was like a cycle, and also like some kind of "rule" that repeats itself over and over again. He also thought about this personal copy mission, and the player who was doing the novice trial mission and whom he met by chance... In the long time scale, meeting is an extremely unlikely event, but if this time itself has been in a certain cycle - then as long as the number of cycles is large enough, even the smallest probability will become inevitable!

This can also reasonably explain why those few people, who are obviously newcomers, sometimes act very familiar with the ghost town - because they have "experienced" it before, or even "failed" before, but they have forgotten it because they are in a cycle!

...Li Re could also reasonably suspect that if he and others died in this ghost town, they would also be trapped in the looping ball cage.

But now, Old Tang and his friends have met me, a person who does not exist in the "loop", and thus have broken free from the shackles...

Li Re finally understood everything.

He understood and thought to himself how incredible it was.

He understood—and let out a low laugh.

"So the so-called 'Yin Yang Road' is not simply a road from the ghost town to the outside world - it is a passage that connects every 'cage' that has been cut off in the past thirty years in the 'present', and runs through any time in the past thirty years -"

"So, when you lured me into the ghost town and lured me into the 'bridal sedan', what you needed was not my 'person' - but my 'time'!"

"The seal of this ghost town is maintained by 'time'--"

"This can also reasonably explain why the seal of the ghost town can only last for thirty years, no more and no less."

"Because your 'ancestor' only had 30 years to live!"

"And now, the time has come, and a new, suitable person is needed to maintain the ghost town. That person needs to ride in a sedan chair, pass the Yin-Yang Road to reach the 'beginning' of the seal, live in the 'ghost town', and be bound to it. In this way, the 'cage' of time can be moved to the original point."

"Restart the loop!"

Li Re will never forget the initial journey of the "bridal sedan".

Rather than being directed at him, it would be more accurate to say that it was directed at the road leading to the ghost town - which was also a 'yin and yang road'.

It is the 'Yang Road' walked by living people!

But even though he finally took the 'Yang Road' instead of the 'Yin Road', Li Re still arrived here.

Because no matter yin or yang, what is linked is every time cage.

Regardless of Yin or Yang, they can all reach the original cage - the original time.

Li Re deduced that the middle-aged man in front of him had come here via the Yang Road that living people took - that was why he failed to meet him.

This also explains why Li Re could so easily replace the evil spirits here and steal their existence - including the 'ghost bride' itself.

After all, at this initial point in time, they have just become evil spirits.

They do not have as much resentment as they do now, thirty years later.

The supernatural power itself is not high.

However, this replacement is only temporary. The 'ghost' will not die. Even if it dies and turns into a soul core, it will be revived one day. It cannot be permanent.

Just these words fell.

The middle-aged man's expression finally changed slightly, unable to hide his surprise, surprised that Li Re could deduce so much information in an instant.

Li Re's smile became even more hearty. He thought to himself, you want to snatch my chance to show off? No way!

Even though he looked cold and scary under the dim green firelight - what he said just hit the bottom line in the person's heart, and revealed the essence of the seal of the ghost town.

Yes,

The essence of the so-called ghost town seal is time.

And it is the time of the living.

At this moment, Li Re is standing at the end of the seal, upstream of time.

...standing at the first moment thirty years ago!

Chapter 189: Cracking Methods, Past and Present

The sequence of sounds at this moment still echoes.

At this moment, in the large courtyard covered by spiritual fire, a middle-aged man in a Zhongshan suit and a beard stood there in a daze.

He looked at the young man in front of him with a complicated expression, thinking that he seemed to have underestimated the other party... Should he say that he was worthy of being a psychic genius who could break through the "ghost town" in a short time and obtain powerful psychic powers?

Li Re, however, looked at him steadily with his hands hanging down, the curve of his lips bright and passionate.

obviously.

Li Re was very satisfied with the man's reaction.

He was looking forward to whether this man would truly choose to hide the secrets of his ancestors from his opponent, or would he choose to submit to his own decision?

He also thought to himself that he had said so much, although there was a lot of showing off in it, and although he also believed that the so-called reasoning would lose its meaning if the process was not explained in detail from beginning to end - but it was not just for showing off.

That's when.

The spiritual fire around was swaying and making crackling sounds. The airflow generated by the fire made the window behind the middle-aged man sway gently, and also blew the bamboo window in the bedroom open.

A wisp of torn paper floated down in the wind.

But it was not ignited.

But it is like snow falling on the grass and trees.

The middle-aged man finally came back to his senses. He glanced in the direction where the paper was flying, and his eyes passed through the cold fire and looked out the window - this deep courtyard was located at the deepest part of the alley that Li Re could see after he got off the sedan chair. Looking out the window at this time, he could naturally see the roadside buildings with a strong Republican style.

The ancient stone house at first glance,

The scenery of Jiangnan at a glance.

The sky was gray and gloomy, so gloomy that it seemed to be slowly pressing down.

This was the scene thirty years ago.

It is the past at the end of the Yin-Yang Road.

There was another moment of silence.

The man's voice once again echoed in the mysterious fire scene.

He said with a slightly hoarse voice: "...I lost."

Although it was a little hard to believe, if the exchange just now was regarded as a battle, then he had been completely and irreversibly defeated in the confrontation with this young man!

"Ok?"

Li Re raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "So, are you going to follow my decision?"

"Listen to me, unlock the seal of this ghost town - and completely get rid of the evil spirits that have been trapped until 'now'?" Li Re raised his hand slightly and made a gesture of chopping with a knife while speaking.

It doesn't look like it's going to take care of hundreds of thousands of evil spirits.

It's more like inviting others to play a simple game.

If it were before, Li Re's frivolous attitude would certainly cause the middle-aged man to be slightly dissatisfied and disdainful. He would think that Li Re was simply ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth - but now it is different. The other party can say those previous words and can tell the whole story of the seal, which is already much better than himself.

however.

"It can't be done."

The middle-aged man said so.

He did not look at Li Re, but instead fixed his gaze outside the window. He said, "This is still my answer to you."

"It's not that I don't want to help you, but even I don't know how to unlock the seal of the ghost town. Or maybe when my ancestor created the seal of this ghost town, he never thought that one day someone would take the initiative to unlock it?"

That's crazy.

He added in his mind.

He added, "And even if you unlock it, how are you going to deal with hundreds of thousands of evil spirits? That's simply impossible. Not to mention making these huge numbers of evil spirits 'crash' and then dealing with the unrealistic 'soul cores' that can only be produced by powerful evil spirits, even if there is only one in ten thousand, but even if there is only one, it can still cause great harm. Even if you really have the wisdom to see through the laws of evil spirits and find the source of their resentment, and can dispel the resentment of evil spirits and make them break free from their instinctive constraints, you will still be facing an evil spirit with wisdom that does not know good and evil. It is still an evil spirit. Even if its power is stable and its spiritual wisdom is just beginning, it is still a ghost, an immortal and unknown and terrifying ghost."

“Not to mention, even if you can dispel the resentment of one or two evil spirits, there are more than 100,000 evil spirits in the ghost town right now!” The middle-aged man was firm and resolute!

"Yes, I can do it."

Li Re responded with great certainty: "As the descendant of the person who created the ghost town, you don't stop me, then-"

"I can do that."

"Whether it's dealing with hundreds of thousands of evil spirits, or the current..."

"Unlock the seal of the ghost town!"

This time.

The middle-aged man listened to his words but did not refute or respond again.

At this moment,

The spiritual fire flickered and burned more and more intensely, and even the scenery outside the window in his sight seemed to be stained with a layer of green... No, not as if, but really - the spiritual fire that had been raging in this bedroom, in the deep courtyard at the deepest part of the alley, had unknowingly flown to the outside world!

The buildings you see seem to be covered with layers of green screens, or more like deep lights rising from the ground.

The wind blew violently, bringing with it pieces of paper all over the sky.

It also brings a magnificent sound——

block! block! block!

This is the sound of a bell.

The sound of a bell represents the loosening of the seal.

It also represents the bell that divides time.

“When the bell rings, the cage formed by the cut time will have a momentary connection with the ‘now’.”

"At this time, we just need to calibrate and align the cage's time with reality."

“——That’s it.”

Li Re's voice rang in the middle-aged man's ears again.

He suddenly came to his senses, and finally understood what Li Re wanted to do - he understood that Li Re wanted to use his own supernatural powers to cover the original node of the seal, thereby completely changing the 'time' of this piece of land that was forcibly stopped at a certain moment thirty years ago by the supernatural powers, and forcibly changing the scene that was constantly repeating at this moment - aligning it with the 'present'.

And align the 'first' with the 'last',

Then align the two ends of a line.

After that, just need to 'straighten' it.

Then the other separated "time cages" will naturally be located in the same time, and will be calibrated and aligned together, and return to the "present" together.

All evil spirits will appear 'now'.

This way.

Even if the power of this seal still exists,

It is equivalent to cease to exist!

However, the middle-aged man understood the reason why Li Re did this, but suddenly shook his head.

He said: "Your idea is good, but it is still not enough."

"After all, you can change the time here, but if you can't change the time of 'now' - you still can't align the 'beginning' with the 'last'..."