Jiang Cheng had to suppress Dong's questions, go out confused, and summon everyone to the room. What made him feel weird was that after falling asleep, everyone returned to their original positions. Except for the dead strange man and the female returning believers. After everyone woke up, they were all at a loss. The two policemen thought that everything that happened before was just a weird dream.
But they soon discovered something weirder than their dreams, that is, it was twelve o'clock at midnight. Moreover, it was as if time had stopped. No matter how much time passed, the time on the clock was always twelve o'clock, not even one second longer.
After discovering that, everyone quickened their pace. They urgently needed Xu Dingjia to explain their doubts. Along the way, everyone was silent. Whether they realized it or not, the fear of the unknown had already occupied their hearts.
Among that group of people, there may be one exception, and that is Ren Zhifei. Perhaps because of his child, he was more curious about all the weird imaginations than fear. He was the only one who didn't give up thinking completely, trying hard to ask Black Cat to analyze everything in front of him.
"Then what happened? The time has reached twelve o'clock. Could it be that time has gone back?" Ren Zhifei was discussing with Black Cat in confusion.
"He doesn't think so." Black Cat's tone was no longer as lively as before, and he seemed to be thinking very hard. He said, "What do I think of the concept of going back in time? Everything goes back to that point in time. If so, Will consciousness and memory return to that point? In other words, if time reversal once happened to them, then their memory will return to the previous state, and they will not remember it at all. The thing about time going back happened. In addition, looking around them, the man and woman have disappeared. Assuming that their memories are not affected, then if time goes back, should they go back to the man's death and heavy makeup? The time period when the woman was alive is obviously not like that now. From this, he can temporarily conclude that everything happening now is not going back in time."
"How can we explain the time when the clock is on?" Ren Zhifei asked, "Everyone's time has changed to twelve o'clock again, and during the time he was upstairs, at least half a minute had passed, but Time has never changed. Could it be said that time has stopped?"
"There is no need to worry about time, otherwise my thoughts will go into a dead end." Black Cat said, "Didn't I listen to the conversation between Xu Dingjia and the girl with heavy makeup? They called the situation they are facing now... It's called Midnight...what's that?"
"Midnight hunting." Ren Zhifei's memory was not bad, he said: "And, from the woman's tone, it seemed that midnight hunting was a game."
"Never mind what game is not a game, the key is the word 'midnight'." Black Cat said, "Obviously, that game... let's call it a game. That midnight hunting game, does it regard twelve o'clock at midnight as everything? Revisit the key points of the stage. Therefore, they are not surprised that everyone's leg watch has the same time, not even a few seconds error, because that game or ceremony has been deliberately creating that atmosphere."
"Is that ritual really that scary? If those Guixu believers actually have that kind of power, wouldn't they be very dangerous?" Ren Zhifei thought deeply and finally felt the fear lurking in his heart.
Black Cat said in a deep voice: "All the information is very unclear now, and it is difficult for him to make any accurate judgment. Looking back on the previous conversation between Xu Dingjia and the girl with heavy makeup, they were not completely in despair. What should be done specifically? You won’t know until you meet Xu Dingjia.”
"That's fine." Ren Zhifei sighed and looked up to find that he had walked outside the room door.
Walking into it, Ren Zhifei couldn't help feeling frightened when he saw Xu Dingjia walking on the bed. He found that the wrong person's complexion was very bad, and the air between his brows seemed to be gloomy. Just looking at it made people feel from the bottom of their hearts that this person was already dead.
Everyone has arrived, and the atmosphere in the venue is extremely depressing. Feng Ye couldn't help but ask: "What happened to all that? Why did the time become twelve o'clock again? No, no, I'm playing tricks on you!"
"Quiet!" Xu Dingjia said two words slowly, his tone very serious.
As a police officer, Feng Ye was frightened by the opponent's aura and wanted to shut up again, but he was stopped by his father.
"Listen to what he said." Guo An said calmly.
Xu Dingjia nodded and said: "He knows that we must be confused now, but he doesn't have much time left. He hopes that the time in the last words phase will be enough for him to explain everything. So, please come here quietly."
Ren Zhifei could almost feel that everyone was holding their breath, and he too was concentrating almost all his energy on his ears, trying to carefully hear everything Xu Dingjia was about to say.
After thinking for a moment, Xu Dingjia continued: "First of all, he said before that they were all caught up in the ritual of the Guixu believers. That ritual was not some mysterious illusion or some magic trick. What we saw Everything is not a scam, but is real. But at the same time, everything is not an illusion."
"Real and illusory?" Ren Zhifei frowned. He had never heard such a contradictory statement before, and the doubts in his heart deepened.
"It's very contradictory, isn't it?" Xu Dingjia showed a helpless smile and said: "Although he didn't want to waste time explaining here, but he looked at our expressions and really wanted to explain everything clearly. Because there are people who understand all that. If you first put Dong in front of him, then what he will say after he comes back to Dong will be more acceptable to us."
Xu Dingjia stopped talking nonsense and said directly: "Midnight Hunting, a game created by the Guixu believers through evil rituals... How to say? Game? No, just a game. Regarding the Guixu believers, some of us know that they There is no time to explain it to us here. To put it simply, they are a group of cultists with extraordinary spiritual power. Although their spiritual power is powerful, it is limited after all. Yuanji has not reached the level of other ancient messengers. . In terms of power, the Ancient God’s envoys can directly decide the life and death of ordinary people, but what the Returning Envoys can do is to confuse people’s hearts. Even if they are not so, they are still very dangerous. Precisely because they cannot directly kill people , instead they created a very evil and sinister sorcery. Through rituals, they connected with the target's dreams, dragging everyone, including themselves, into a game of intrigue."
"A game is actually more like a gamble with complicated rules. If the Guixu believers win, they will directly take over our bodies and minds. Even if they ask us to die immediately, we will not even have the idea of resistance. But if If the Guixu believers fail, they will suffer a backlash from their spiritual power and fall into absolute madness until they die!"
Feng Ye was listening and suddenly shouted uncontrollably: "That's nonsense!"