1TWITF[C Chapter 100

Chapter 100

On the long street, there was only a figure running swiftly. He was running as fast as he could, as if something was chasing him.

Indeed, something was chasing him.

“Bang!”

Who was trying to kill him?

With a loud bang, a heat wave surged into the sky, engulfing the trees, billboards, and countless gravel on the side of the street, before crashing back to the ground.

A flash of a blade.

Lu Yanli put on his hood, covering the wounds on his face, and picked up the axe, walking out.

He would die in the future, so he made a wish to the god, to return to the past so that he could change his future.

The god agreed.

But this time, it finally added together the price of the previous wishes, the condition being the lives of all the residents of the Spirit Medium Town.

Clearly they were ordinary people in his memory, why couldn’t they live like ordinary people?

He naturally agreed. In the future he had experienced, these people would also die.

Anyway, as long as this mission was completed, the people of Spirit Medium Town would naturally be “reborn” in another form.

But…

He took out two small knives from his pocket and placed them in front of his eyes.

The two knives were exactly the same.

One was his own, the other was the weapon used to attack him that had failed.

He stood still, looking around.

There was no mistake, the person attacking him was also himself. He just didn’t know if it was the future him, or him from another timeline, and what the method of time travel and the reason for the attack were.

Lu Yanli put away the small knives and continued running forward.

Another bomb fell, and before it could land, Lu Yanli grabbed a piece of rubble from the ground and threw it at the bomb, knocking the homemade bomb falling in the air away. It landed in the window of a nearby residential building, while he took a step back.

Screams, wails, calls for help… Siren sounds came again from afar.

The other end of town.

Lu Yanli wasn’t asleep, but was resting with his eyes slightly open, leaning against the wall.

He had guessed correctly, that thing… was hiding in his eyeball. Therefore, the person making the explosions couldn’t let him see a mirror, otherwise, that thing would find him through the mirror.

Tonight, presumably most people wouldn’t be able to sleep. At least twenty explosions had broken out in the town, and the number of deaths was unknown.

Another explosion sounded, and Lu Yanli looked towards the sound.

Far away outside the window, across two streets or so, flames soared into the sky.

The future him didn’t seem to intend to kill him.

Indeed, he could attack his future self, because as long as the mission was completed, he could continue to live. But if the future self killed the past self, would the future self still exist?

Inside a room, several people were holding a temporary meeting.

They were the ones with relatively high authority among this batch of mission takers: Di Ying, Ximen Yuan, Jiang Yu, Ling Tong, Tan Xu.

Di Ying: “I notified her, but she didn’t look too good today, maybe she’s resting.”

This map was hand-drawn by Jiang Yu himself, completed based on everyone’s oral descriptions, and was very detailed. He took out a plate of small flags with bases from under the table and placed them on the map one by one.

There were a total of twenty-three places, which seemed to have no pattern, and didn’t form any pattern as described in general suspense novels.

Di Ying asked, “Are most of them residential buildings?”

Residential buildings meant high traffic, especially at night when everyone was asleep, making it basically difficult to escape after an explosion.

“Not only that. Take another look.” The man’s finger pointed to a certain place.

That place happened to be the building they lived in.

“The place we live in is also a residential building, with equally dense traffic, and plus we are all here to do missions, the attraction to ghosts should be greater. Why did the explosion bypass our residence?”

Indeed, even if the location of the explosion was elusive, according to the route of travel, it shouldn’t have missed them.

As for believing that the mission was “protecting” them in the background? Ha, they might as well believe in science.

As for why that person wanted to avoid the place they lived in, that was very interesting.

“You can’t say it too surely, let’s see if it will affect us in two days.” Ling Tong added.

He didn’t finish his words, everyone present understood what he meant.

“It’s hard to say.”

If it was really Lu Yanli, why didn’t he attack them? Among the people who died in the explosion, there were almost no mission takers, basically all local residents.

The mission couldn’t be unsolvable, since it was clearly proposed to kill Lu Yanli, it meant that there must be a way to eliminate him.

Everyone couldn’t think of the other party’s reasons, and after thinking for a long time, Di Ying said, “Is there any news from Lin Chu’s side?”

Jiang Yu pointed to his ear, which had a small earpiece on it, and said, “She’s asleep.”

“What do you think of her?” Not expecting that the other party could actually fall asleep, Di Ying frowned, but didn’t say much.

Ximen Yuan: “She’s a suspicious person.”

Ling Tong: “I don’t believe she doesn’t know, but she probably doesn’t have other methods to break the game as we guessed.”

“Perhaps, she has other reasons we don’t know.”

Di Ying asked, “What about the man who’s always helping her, Yu Huaiyao?”

“Also asleep.” Jiang Yu said.

“When we get back to reality, everyone should investigate the identities of these people. I think Lin Chu isn’t that simple.” Jiang Yu added, “She might be the most dangerous one among this batch of newcomers.”

To be described as dangerous by Jiang Yu, she must not be simple.

“Do you think it’s possible that the mission she received is different from ours?”

In a moment of silence, someone raised this guess.

“How is that possible?” Ling Tong retorted loudly, but stopped as soon as the words came out of his mouth.

Yes, why was it impossible?

The group discussed for a while longer before leaving separately. Only Jiang Yu was still sitting in the room.

“Lu Yanli… Jiang Bai… Lin Chu…”

He thought silently, his mind covered in a layer of thick fog, unable to see the truth clearly.

If Jiang Bai was Lu Yanli, the first mission could be easily completed, but where should the missing person be found?

*

On the other side, Lu Yanli was still running away.

The person who was chasing him with thermal weapons had already hidden himself, and even provided the police with information about his location. Now, chasing him was a small team of police officers.

In order not to interfere with himself on this timeline, he hid the axe midway, randomly found a motorcycle, broke the lock and started to escape.

But…

Lu Yanli took a breath and retreated backwards, hiding in the shadows.

He didn’t expect that the future him had actually placed three metal wires at the intersection!

This way, whether he was running, riding a bike, or driving, he would definitely be interfered with. If he hadn’t jumped out of the car at that time, he might have been like those people.

There were two police cars coming. Seeing the tragic state of their colleagues, the second car braked urgently. However, the distance was too close, they were still scraped off the roof and the heads of the two people sitting in the front row.

But the two people in front didn’t have time to react, they were already beyond saving…

He raised his head and saw the face of the person they had been chasing through the gap of the opened car.

He scrambled out of the car, turned around, saw the vehicles in front that had crashed halfway into the building, the upper and lower parts were cut off and were on fire, saw several heads rolling on the ground, and… and a motorcycle.

It was the tool that guy used to escape.

That person had already slipped away.

He limped over, wanting to see if he could find any information from the car. Searching around, he found a piece of bloody gauze.

Having this was good too, at least he could test some information about the other party.

*

“You saw his face?”

As he described, the artist gradually sketched out the image of a young man on the paper.

The artist understood, and the tip of the pencil painted out the scars on the paper.

“Yes, that’s it, there’s no mistake.” Xiao Yang nodded repeatedly.

The newly released suspect’s portrait immediately circulated in the police station. After being printed out, they prepared to issue an arrest warrant the next day.

Except for the scars, it was exactly the same.

Early in the morning, Lu Yanli came out of the building opposite the building they lived in.

The mission takers didn’t all leave. Seeing the main character appear, pairs of eyes looked over in unison.

It was too similar…

However, the face on the arrest warrant clearly had a large area of ​​wounds, but Jiang Bai’s face was clean, with nothing at all.

“Jiang Bai” smiled at them with good temper, his slightly pale face looked a little weak: “Good morning, what are you looking at?”

He looked like he hadn’t rested well, but he was clean… his nose twitched, but he didn’t smell the gunpowder on the other person.

Could there really be two people who look so similar?

“You’ll know when you come and see for yourself.”

Lu Yanli came closer, saw the face on the arrest warrant, and was immediately stunned, subconsciously raising his hand to touch his face: “How could it be? This person…” He waved his hand repeatedly, “It’s not me, I didn’t, I was resting in the room all night.”

“So, Mr. Jiang Bai, do you have a twin brother?” Jiang Yu asked.

“Jiang Bai” shook his head, looking confused.

Lu Yanli was about to say his previous reason, his eyelids twitched, and he stopped immediately.

His current identity was Jiang Bai, what if they asked to see his press card? He couldn’t let them see any of his documents.

“I heard that the town is going to hold a traditional culture festival recently, so I came to gather inspiration.” Lu Yanli said, “To be honest, I’m a painter, and I plan to hold an exhibition after I go back. I just didn’t expect to encounter such a thing when I first came…”

“Traditional culture festival?”

The others looked at each other, how could they not know?

“Yes, a traditional culture festival.” Lu Yanli took out a flyer from his pocket and showed it to them.

It was the one he had received before.

The flyer had changed, the masks were still there, but a few rows of blood-red words had been added, indicating the time and location of the culture festival.

And the time of the culture festival was at the end of this month!

“I see you guys look like outsiders too, I thought you were all here for the festival.”

Faced with Jiang Bai’s probing, Ximen Yuan said, “We haven’t heard of the Culture Festival, we just heard that the scenery is good, so we came to play.”

“Then, are you going to participate in this culture festival?”

A bold idea suddenly popped up in Lu Yanli’s mind.

Rushing to stop a ghost, did he want to die?

“You… going… culture festival?”

“Jiang Bai” looked a little abnormal, staring at them intently, his face twisted and hideous, his throat making a cold hiss that was almost inhuman.

“You saw the flyer, you must come…”

Faced with ordinary people, they could still negotiate, but faced with people possessed by the strange, the fact that the mission takers didn’t run away immediately was a testament to their strong psychological endurance.

As soon as the words fell, “Jiang Bai” rolled his eyes, as if he was about to faint. Jiang Yu, who was closer to him, reached out to support him. The next second, the other party stood still again, looking up in confusion.

“Jiang Bai” covered his forehead hard, breathing in a low voice. After finally recovering, he smiled apologetically to the others as if nothing had happened, saying that he was going back to his room and asked them not to mention him to the police, otherwise it would be very troublesome.

“He was just now…” Just as one person was about to mention the abnormality of “Jiang Bai,” he was immediately stopped by a look, and turned to talk about other topics.

Although he didn’t say it, it was obvious that he was possessed by a ghost, right?

“Culture festival? Why has no one else ever mentioned it? The town doesn’t seem to be responding either.”

“Perhaps it’s because of the explosions, everyone’s attention is on the explosions. This Culture Festival may not be able to continue.”

Jiang Yu watched “Jiang Bai’s” back until the other party disappeared into the corridor, and said, “Let Lin Chu out, let her test this ‘Jiang Bai’.”

Fang Tu nodded regretfully, indicating that he heard.

Just now, his gaze had also been cast on “Jiang Bai” all the time.

This kind of person… if he was really a person, that would be great. Dissecting him would definitely be very interesting.

Would an NPC who had been possessed by a ghost be any different?

Jiang Yu gave him a warning look: “His danger is still unknown, restrain yourself.”

Fang Tu nodded casually and walked away.

Fang Tu walked over and untied the rope on her wrist. His skin was cold, and his soft and slender hand slowly climbed on Lin Chu’s skin like a snake.

He was like a snake hidden in the shadows, spitting out its tongue at its shivering prey: “You better be clear about what should be said and what shouldn’t be said.”

Lin Chu trembled: “I… I know, I definitely won’t talk nonsense.”

Fang Tu escorted Lin Chu towards the place where “Jiang Bai” lived. He hid at the entrance of the stairs and personally watched Lin Chu knock on the other party’s door before leaving with peace of mind.

*

The other side of town.

A man wrapped in dark clothes sat in an abandoned building. There were many raw materials in front of him. At this moment, he was quickly completing the work in his hands.

He knew that the past him would die in this mission, on the day of the Culture Festival.

He had to stop this time’s him! And he had to survive this Culture Festival!

On the table in front of him was an arrest warrant, the face on it was exactly the same as him, except for the scars. There was also a cluster of recently extinguished gunpowder tubes on the table, made of metal, scalding hot.

He reached out and put the gunpowder tube on his face.

Intense pain and burning sensation came, with a scorched smell. Lu Yanli endured it, slowly restoring the scars.

This time… he must survive.

*

Another world.

After Chu Xiu and An Ru separated, he returned to his residence.

This was a god… how could it be desecrated?

Chu Xiu didn’t feel that he was doing anything wrong at all. After wiping the statue clean respectfully, he placed it on the shrine.