The girl with her hair combed like a woman didn't know the meaning of this sentence. She touched her bulging belly and had a gentle smile that belonged to a mother on her pretty face.
She was immediately pulled aside by her brother. The young man glared at the man wearing the ghost mask, and although he looked fierce on the surface, he was actually frightened in his heart. Before he could think of saying what would better show his masculinity, the man suddenly turned his cold gaze away from him, came to his father, and whispered something.
He saw a look of despair on his father's face.
Then, the father's eyes shifted to his sister. He seemed to hesitate for a moment, but finally made up his mind: "My dear, please don't forget it later."
"I won't forget it." Lu Yanli took one last look at her belly, turned around and left. Lan Zhiyu hurriedly followed.
The young man stood there for a while before he realized what had happened. His voice trembled as he asked in disbelief, "Dad, what did you promise him just now?"
"You don't need to know."
"What did you promise him?" the boy asked regardless. He held his sister's hand tightly, staring at his father with red eyes. His voice rose, "What did you promise him?!"
"Nothing." The middle-aged man looked at the brother and sister's clasped hands, but in the end he didn't say anything. All he could say was just one sentence, "Take good care of your sister."
The young man grabbed his sister and blocked her from behind: "Don't tell me I don't know!"
His father wanted to teach him a lesson, but he just looked at him steadily for a few seconds and said, "It's time to go to your master. I'll go there next month."
"What are we going there for?" the boy was a little resistant.
His family has been studying martial arts for generations, but he was the only one who was not allowed to go out for eight years when he was young, and he never had the chance to see the master who was supposed to teach him.
Unexpectedly, his father did not answer at all and went straight to the inner room. The boy was confused for a while, but finally let go of his sister's hand and followed.
The younger sister stood there looking at her father and brother, feeling worried, she touched her belly, then turned around and followed her mother back to the room.
After the ban was lifted, the boy could not help running around the city all day, playing everywhere, and everything was new to him. Suddenly, he saw a music store with a poster of the kid hanging outside the store, with the kid's name written underneath. He hurried over to inquire about the poster.
Orchid Jade.
Her name is really nice.
The young man couldn't help but feel excited when he thought of her. He looked left and right, and bought a few CDs as recommended by the shop owner, intending to listen to them at home.
Lan Zhiyu, who was always thinking about him, knew what the boy was thinking, but she didn't take it to heart. She followed Lu Yanli with some uneasiness, not knowing whether she had made a mistake.
Why didn't she go there herself? It seemed like she didn't do anything. She just watched him say a few words
Did I do something that made him unhappy
Lu Yanli felt relieved.
He just wanted the eldest son of the Lin family to fall in love with Lan Zhiyu. Lan Zhiyu didn't have to do anything. It was enough for that person to see her and fall in love with her.
Judging from the current experimental results, no matter which time or when, the eldest son of the Lin family will definitely fall in love with Lan Zhiyu and be willing to resurrect her at any cost.
"I should go now." Lu Yanli said after returning.
Lan Zhiyu became even more flustered. She was about to ask, but the latter just smiled and said, "It's okay, God will bless you."
After saying that, he turned and left, leaving Lan Zhiyu staring at his back. That figure quickly disappeared in the crowd and could no longer be found.
"Will God bless me?" Lan Zhiyu comforted herself in this way, but she still felt a little uneasy in her heart.
Really
She looked at the luxurious furnishings in the room and felt uneasy.
Lan Zhiyu didn't know that in the near future she would realize that her premonition was correct.
Lu Yanli ignored it and took the statue with him to another time and space.
He must ensure that everything develops according to the established future, such as the scholar will fall in love with Lan Zhiyu, and she will not hesitate to kill everyone in the city.
For example, Lin Chu’s birth…
Another time and space in another world.
"You can enter now."
He waited for a long time, but nothing unusual happened. After returning, Xiao Gao's body was still there. The blood had dried up. A few crows circling in the sky would occasionally fly down and take away a piece of meat.
Zhuang Ci waved his hand to drive away the crows. The few people were used to seeing life and death, and after a while of sadness, they decided to bury the body on the spot. After brushing off the dirt on their hands, everyone made preparations and approached the tunnel entrance little by little.
This is the passage from the outside world to the psychic town. What will happen if you go the other way
After standing at the entrance of the cave, they finally understood what Xiao Gao meant by not daring to enter.
He was aware of the extremely terrifying aura in the cave, as if there was an unknown beast squatting inside, waiting to eat its prey, and he was the prey.
After calming down, Lin Chu walked in front. For a moment, several teammates were afraid to step forward, and only Lu Yanli raised his leg and stepped in.
It's dark.
The darkness was cold. He heard the faint sound of human voices, but he couldn't make out what they were saying, but he felt irritated for no reason.
His only purpose was to find the Faceless Man, but the tunnel that could travel through the world was not that easy to explore. He walked along the wall, but couldn't see clearly. Lu Yanli knew that he couldn't see or hear, so after entering the cave, he kept his head down and moved forward.
Unlike others, he was more interested in what happened to the little mountain. After calculating his position, Lu Yanli slowly moved forward, intending to find something to crush.
Outside the tunnel, in the forest.
A tall, faceless boy slowly sat up surrounded by green trees.
She was so tall that even when she was just sitting, her head was much higher than the tree. She seemed to be in a daze for a while, not knowing where she was looking, and then she got up little by little and staggered towards the center of the psychic town.
Her hair... was completely wet, spread out behind her head, dripping with water.
The moment Wu-Mian took a step forward, her long skirt fluttered. And under her skirt was...
Lin Chu, who was walking in the tunnel, suddenly stopped.
For no reason, she had a huge sense of uneasiness that made her feel like turning back and rushing out. She didn't know why she had this feeling, but Lin Chu was very sure that some extremely terrifying and irreversible change must have occurred.
She stopped.
In the tunnel to the other dimension, she couldn't see, hear, or make any sound, and she couldn't stop for too long, otherwise, she would be lost in the endless darkness. Lin Chu paused for a while, and finally chose to trust her intuition, resolutely turned around, and walked back.
Even though this might temporarily separate her from her teammates and Lu Yanli, she had to do it.
On the other side, Lu Yanli continued to move forward in the darkness. He did not lean against the wall, but only relied on the data he inferred, walking straight in the darkness. If someone looked up and down at his route, they would find that his route did not bend at all.
Lu Yanli walked for a very long time, until he almost forgot the time, when he was suddenly tripped by something and belatedly smelled a bloody and rotten smell in his nose.
Sure enough, the car hit someone, or a corpse.
He squatted down and felt the body bit by bit.
It was completely cold, soft, and a little swollen. After being crushed, some of the flesh was stuck to the ground, and the bones were broken and pierced through the surface skin. He touched the clothes along the tip of the shoe, roughly distinguished the material and style, and even imagined the color. Then, he touched the man's face little by little, wanting to know what the other person looked like.
This is a skill he has mastered after experiencing life and death for a long time. As long as he makes contact with something, Lu Yanli can draw the object he touches.
However, this time... his fingertips touched nothing. He felt around in disbelief, but the place where the eyes and nose should have been was completely smooth, with nothing on it.
This corpse has no facial features.
Lu Yanli stood up and subconsciously took a step back.
The lack of facial features means that his death was definitely not as simple as being run over by a car.
Lu Yanli stood there for a while, thinking about something. Just before he was about to get lost, he decided to keep moving forward.
Escaping from an alternate dimension is not as simple as just walking backwards. For example, he once experienced a strange blood mist space connected to a subway station. He needed to decipher the strangeness of that space before he could leave. If he simply walked forward along the railroad tracks, he didn’t know where he would end up. And this time…
He didn't know which space he would go to.
In the darkness, there were still people moving forward silently with him.
What they didn't know was that Lin Chu had already changed her mind and planned to return to the psychic town. Unfortunately, her wish might not come true.
Gradually, light appeared in front of him, and Lu Yanli knew that he was about to speak. He could not help but speed up his pace.
Like him, there were several other investigators who quickened their pace.
To be on the safe side, Lin Chu chose to let only three people enter the tunnel, and the others would support them from outside. Now, the number of investigators has become eight.
Lu Yanli walked quickly towards the light, and just before he stepped out, he saw the outside world...
Another world.
Lu Yanli held a red statue in his arms and went to another time and space.
To be precise, he went to this world three years later.
Many things happened in these three years. For example, the eldest son of the Lin family finally officially became a disciple. He was extremely intelligent and showed amazing talent in just a few years.
For example, Xing Lan Zhiyu, who was once very popular, died suddenly and in a very strange way. After her death, many people quickly forgot about her.
For example, the Lin family successfully gave birth to a baby.
This should have been a happy event worth celebrating, but the Lin family kept it a secret, no banquets were held, and the existence of the child was not announced to the public. As a result, the young woman who had married early and returned home after her husband's death was depressed all day long.
She couldn't think of anything.
It happened that her brother came home to visit. She had the best relationship with him in her life, and she could tell at a glance that he seemed to have encountered something outside. The brother and sister sat together privately to talk, and the baby was sleeping soundly beside them, with his small hands clenched into fists and breathing lightly.
The elder brother was reluctant to talk about what happened to him, and gradually, the younger sister lowered her head and wiped her tears, telling her grievances. After listening, the elder brother was furious.
"How do I know this is the case?" The elder brother gritted his teeth. "This is all because of that guy. He must have told father something. Just like me, I was locked up for a few years. Now it's her turn."
He also remembered not to speak too loudly so as not to wake up his little nephew, so he kept his voice low and urgent.
The younger sister's face was full of sorrow: "Then... what should I do? She can't always be so nameless and without status. That person didn't say a time, what if..."
"Nothing will happen. I'm learning from my master now. I'm definitely better than him." The young man patted his chest and promised, "In the future, no matter what he says about bad luck or not, I say good luck is good luck."
The sister burst out laughing, and suddenly there was a knock on the door. His mother knocked on the door and walked straight in.
"Hurry, we have an honored guest coming today, Xiao Yuan, bring Chu Chu up."
The younger sister's name was Lin Yuan. She responded subconsciously and turned to pick up the sleeping child. However, the young man was particularly wary of the word "distinguished guest" and asked, "Who are you talking about?"
His mother ignored him and only told him not to be rude. Lin Yuan looked back at his brother, then turned around and walked with his mother. His brother sulked for a while, then followed.
The thing he least wanted to see happened.
Just like the previous year, the man who had brought him eight years of suffering was sitting in the living room, wearing a mask that covered most of his face, revealing his pale chin. The boy panicked for a moment, turned around and ran, hiding in a nearby room and deciding to wait until the man left before coming out.
Damn, why is this guy here
He peeked through the window, his mind a little dazed.
Why, he always felt that the man... should have a child
Strange, did he bring someone with him when he came last time
The boy was in a state of confusion, banging his head.
The atmosphere in the hall was not very tense.
"Long time no see." The man nodded to him coldly, his eyes falling on the child in Lin Yuan's arms.
He walked straight to Lin Yuan and opened his arms. Lin Yuan looked at her father at a loss. Her father nodded. The young man with a woman's hair style was a little uneasy, but he still handed the child over.
The moment they inevitably touched, she felt the coldness of the other person, and was startled to get goose bumps all over her body. However, the other person steadily caught the sleeping child, held him in his arms very skillfully, and patted the swaddling clothes gently, with gentle movements.
"Then I'll take the child away." The middle-aged man nodded.
Father Lin felt bitter, but he gritted his teeth and nodded.
What?!
Lin Yuan's eyes widened in disbelief, and she turned her head to look at her father, and then at the man wearing a ghost mask. She thought she had heard it wrong, but she found that it was not a mistake, it was real! She opened her mouth, her voice dry: "Why... are you taking the child away? Are you going to take her away?"
"Yes." Lu Yanli did not shy away from the question, "Only in this way can everything be on the right track."
This sentence immediately ignited Lin Yuan's fuse, and she screamed immediately: "No! Where do you want to take her? She is still so young, what do you want to do to her?"
Lu Yanli took a half step back, just avoiding Lin Yuan who was trying to pounce on him and snatch the child away. He nodded to everyone again and said, "Goodbye." After that, he turned around and left with the child in his arms.
"Stop it! Stop it!" Father Lin stopped Lin Yuan who was about to pounce on her again and held her hand tightly. "There are some things you still don't know. Give the child to him. There is nothing we can do about it."
"Why is there no way? What else does he want? You have locked my brother up for eight years. Now you have to listen to him. What are you going to do?!" Lin Yuan broke down and cried. Her father grabbed her hand and she couldn't break free. She could only watch the man take the child away. "Give the child back to me! Give it back to me!"
“Give it back to me!!!”
"Hey! Wait! Where do you want to take Chuchu?" Lin Yuan's crying startled the boy. He came out a little late. Just as he saw Lu Yanli holding the child and about to step out of the corridor, he jumped in front of Lu Yanli. The boy gritted his teeth and held up his subconsciously trembling body, and pointed his sword at the other party, "What do you want to do? Hand over the child!"
The tip of the sword stayed on the man's face, shaking a little, but the man did not react at all. Instead, he took out one of the hands holding the child and took out an unknown book from his other hand and handed it to him.
"This is for you."
"What is that?" The young man took it subconsciously. At the moment when the sword deflected, the man had passed by him.
He hesitated for a while, but decided to open the album. Then, the boy froze in place.
"Don't go! Stop him! Brother, stop him!!"
"My child..."
He heard his sister's hysterical crying behind him, but the boy stood there, as if he didn't hear it, and didn't move.
The long sword in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
He was holding a picture album in his hand. On the first page of the album, there was a poster of a young man. His eyes were looking at the boy with a smile.
He... He finally remembered.
She is dead.
She's dead! Everyone has forgotten her, even I have forgotten her.
Hahahahahaha…
The young man stood there, suddenly crying and laughing, his crying was shrill and his laughter was sharp.
The twin sons of the Lin family went crazy on the same day.
Lu Yanli didn't care, or rather, this was exactly what he wanted to see. He wanted to get the origin of everything back on track, and then, in one reincarnation after another, he would look for flaws. Only in this way could he transcend.
The child in her arms was sleeping soundly, not knowing what was happening. She was brought into another time and space without knowing it.
These days, Lu Yanli had to keep moving. He couldn't stay in one place for too long, or he would get lost. After finding a stable time and space in his memory, he began the cruel training of young Lin Chu.
"If you can't run 100 laps in three hours, you won't get any food."
The man in the ghost mask closed the room after he finished speaking, leaving the little girl, who was only a few years old, standing in the room wiping her tears. After wiping her tears, she ran in circles with her short legs.
Lin Chu was very, very smart, not like a 3-year-old child. She knew that she was taken away from home, and she also knew that the man in front of her would never be soft-hearted just because she was a child. If she didn't obey, she might really die.
After Lu Yanli left, he went to the next room to monitor her.
There was more than one child on the monitor screen.
Lin Chu, Chu Xiu, Chu Xian, Zhuang Ci...
Lu Yanli silently recited his name with a cold look in his eyes.
Time and time again, can he succeed this time
He didn't know, but he still had to do it. The time loop had been formed, either break it or... die.
After running a hundred laps, the young Lin Chu collapsed to the ground. She still remembered the man's instructions and did not lie down. Instead, she tried to get up and walked around in circles little by little.
"Very good." The man wearing a ghost mask appeared for the first time, gave her a simple compliment, massaged her limbs, and then injected her with an unknown medicine.
Lin Chu didn't cry.
I heard that this medicine was for strengthening her physique. Lin Chu was not sure, but she did feel that she had become much stronger and her running speed had become much faster.
After dinner, she was asked to complete training in gun assembly, shorthand, and imitation writing. After everything was passed, Lu Yanli took her to an open room.
There was a dying man there, gagged and with his limbs unbound.
Lin Chu remembered this man. He once looked at her with a very disgusting look. On the way back when the man took her out and asked her to remember the route, the man started a conversation with her and wanted to do something else, but he was quickly stopped.
"Five minutes." Lu Yanli handed her a knife. "Either you live, or he lives." He touched the girl's soft head, his voice was equally gentle, but the cruelty in his words terrified the man who could no longer get up from the ground.
“Mmm… Mmm!” The man on the ground struggled desperately like a fish on a chopping board, his eyes full of pleading.
Lin Chu looked at the knife, reached out to take it, and slowly walked towards the man.
Without any hesitation, he killed him with one blow, and blood splattered all over his face.
"It's very well done."
Lu Yanli took her to wash her hands, wiped them clean bit by bit, squatted down, and looked into her eyes with his dark eyes through the mask, "Now, you are qualified and can go anywhere."
Lu Yanli made her forget everything, forget his teachings, and forget the Lin family. Then, he entered the ancient tomb with the sleeping child in his arms, and through the statues and the time and space tunnel, he entered a new world.
He came to a city that was almost a wasteland, and waited quietly.
"Who's there?"
Someone is coming.
Lu Yanli stood up, made sure the arriving investigator could see him, then turned and left.
The boy was lying there, sleeping soundly.
"... Gone... Only a little girl... Yes, she doesn't remember anything..."
Lin Chu listened to the whispers of those people and waited quietly with his eyes open.
"Do you remember your name?" one of the men asked her.
"... Lin... Chu..." The kid who had been shaking his head nodded and said this word.
She remembered nothing except her own name.