Chapter 884 – Time That Can’t Run Away
”The red moon descends, all the creatures kill each other, and the giant beast revives …… So, the purpose of this time closure ring’s existence is to prevent this giant beast from reviving?”
After hearing Wang Mien’s narration, everyone in the [Mask] squad froze in place.
”That’s right.” Wang Mask nodded his head.
From the looping timeline, Wang Mask had already gained insight into all the secrets of this fishing village, and could also guess why his future self had set up a time closure here, and likewise, he was the only one among all the people present who realized the seriousness of the matter.
He has gone back in time twice up to now, how horrible the aftermath of [Chronological Thug] is, he knows it best in his own heart, since his future self wants to go back here even at the expense of his life, and use the closed ring to lock the time here, it means that once that giant beast is revived, it will cause an extremely horrible butterfly effect ……
The best way to fix a mistake is to stop it before it even happens.
”Did you guys find out ……” Seeing that the [Mask] crowd already knew the truth, Chen Yangrong, who was embedded between the stomach walls, shook his head somewhat regretfully, “In that case, you guys should know that if you don’t pull out this knife. What will happen to you all?”
”What, after failing to lure us, you start threatening us with death?” Whirlpool laughed, “You’re underestimating us too much, we’ve come through all the storms and waves over the years, you think you can’t make us afraid with just one threat?”
Whirlpool looked at Chen Yangrong with contempt, silently took half a step back, arched his elbow over Wang Mian, and lowered his voice to ask:
”Captain, what should we do? It’s not really going to be accounted for here, is it?”
Wang Mian’s brows tightly furrowed.
He thought carefully for a moment and spoke, “You guys wait here first, pay attention to controlling your emotions and don’t be affected by that red moon……. I’ll go back in time and see if I can go back to before we entered this village and stop this from happening.”
[Mask] and the others nodded their heads.
Wang Mask reached out and gripped the hilt of the [Eagle Duck] blade at his waist, the aura of the peak of the “Klein” realm was released, he slowly closed his eyes and pushed the Divine Ruin to the extreme.
The flow of time around him slowed down rapidly.
The dust floating in the air gradually came to a standstill, Wang Mian’s breathing grew longer and longer, his pale hair hovered in midair, and he stood there silently like a sculpture frozen in time.
In a flash, his eyes suddenly opened!
A silver-colored round wheel crisscrossed and rotated in his eyes, as if they were reversed precision clock parts, causing one to feel dazzled at a glance, as if they contained some kind of subtle and extreme rules.
At the same time, he fiercely took a step forward, his figure crashed into nothingness, a flash of white light instantly enveloped his body, and in the next moment his entire body disappeared without a trace.
Time passed minute by minute, tens of minutes later, the surrounding time disturbed again, the white aura flashed again, Wang Mian’s figure staggered out from it, coughing violently, a smattering of black hair at the corner of his forehead dyed silver and white at a speed visible to the naked eye ……
He bent down and took off the “King” mask on his face, a bean-sized bead of sweat dripping down, panting heavily.
”Captain!”
”Captain, are you alright?”
Seeing this scene, the crowd of the [Mask] squad immediately stood up and ran to Wang Mian’s side.
Wang Mask raised his head and looked into the nothingness above his head, his eyes filled with exhaustion and unwillingness.
”I can’t …… I can’t run out of this closed ring ……”
If it was under the normal flow of time in the outside world, Wang Mian utilized the Divine Ruins for time regression, and going back to a day ago wasn’t a difficult task, but it was different here.
The time here, distorted by the flowing circle at the end of the [Eagle Duck], was not a straight line, but a ring with a head and tail, not to mention that it was the Laws of Time that made up this closed ring, not simply the Divine Ruins, and just by the current speed of Wang Mian’s time backtracking, he simply couldn’t catch up with the speed of the closed ring cycle.
He was like a hamster locked in a circular running cage, no matter how hard he ran, he could not get out of this cage.
He couldn’t go back in time and change the history of the [Mask] squad entering the fishing village.
Hearing this, the people of the [Mask] squad looked at each other, and Tian Ping reached out his hand and patted Wang Mian’s shoulder.
”It’s alright captain, this method won’t work, there might be another way out …… Moon Ghost, Sandalwood, Starscream, the three of you in a group, I’ll be in a group with Whirlpool Rose, split up and search the edge of the village, there might be a gap we haven’t discovered.”
Tian Ping calmly commanded the crowd of [Mask], the others nodded and quickly left the area.
Tian Ping turned around and looked at the exhausted Wang Mask, and after hesitating for a moment, he still said, “Captain, you rest here first, and leave the rest to us.”
Wang Mian was about to open his mouth to say something, Tian Ping’s figure had already turned into a residual shadow and disappeared from Wang Mian’s field of vision.
”Heh heh heh ……” Chen Yangrong laughed coldly, “Wasted effort, I’ve already said …… that you guys can’t leave here at all. ”
Wang face looked at the direction that the crowd left, silent for a long time, once again lowered his head and put on the “king” mask, took a deep breath, a touch of determination appeared in his eyes.
He personally witnessed countless times closed loop timeline, his heart is very clear, Chen Yangrong said is not wrong, this closed loop if there is a gap, the power of the red moon has long been leaked …… since there is no other way to leave here, then the only way out, or only time to go back.
In any case, he must run to win the time here, once not work then twice, twice not work then three times …… He has no other choice.
Because on his body, he was carrying the lives of everyone in the [Mask] squad.
He put his right hand on the hilt of his sword, and once again urged the [Temporal Sequence Thug], and his figure once again rushed into the long river of time and disappeared.
This time, he disappeared for a full two hours.
When that white light reappeared, Wang Mian’s body fell heavily to the ground, he curled up painfully, his head full of hair had all turned silver white, a striking wrinkle emerged on his gaunt and pale face, his entire person had aged nearly ten years older than before.
The current him was already an old man of nearly sixty years.
”Cough cough cough ……” Wang Mian’s weak cough echoed through the empty stomach walls.
He met the current of time and ran against it for two hours of time, and still failed to run out of this closed ring ……
He still failed.
Damn! Damn it!!!
Why still couldn’t? Why was he still unable to run against time?
The king’s face covered in mottled palms clenched his fists tightly and hammered heavily on the ground, those cloudy eyes filled with chagrin and unwillingness.