Chapter 80: An Alternative “infinite Restart”
“Ah!? What’s wrong, Brother Jiang, I I..”
“Stay away from us, circle around the Wooden House, don’t stop, keep walking.”
Hearing Brother Jiang’s icy tone, Liu Yingying was startled and somewhat dazed, but her footsteps didn’t dare stop. She walked a bit farther and began circling the Wooden House.
At this time, Ren Ying, who noticed the anomaly, patted Ren Xue who was still sleeping. After seeing Ren Xue wake up, she gave her a vigilant look.
As Liu Yingying’s footsteps sped up, Brother Jiang noticed.
The coverage speed of the Ghost Footprint remained unchanged, but under more footprints, it began to appear somewhat sluggish.
Seeing Ren Ying walking towards here, Brother Jiang immediately said:
“Don’t get close to Liu Yingying, stay away from her footprints, there’s a ghost following her.”
“Ghost?”
Hearing Brother Jiang’s words, Ren Ying’s expression changed, and she immediately dismissed the idea of joining in. She slowly backed away while her gaze swept towards Liu Yingying’s feet.
Because of the Ghost Soil’s bright red color, Liu Yingying’s footprints were exceptionally conspicuous.
But within a few seconds, a pitch-black Ghost Footprint would appear out of thin air and cover it. Not only that, the bright red Ghost Soil around Liu Yingying’s previous footprints all turned pitch black.
Time passed bit by bit,
For this Ghost Footprint, Brother Jiang and Ren Ying once again launched an attack on it together, attempting to suppress this ghost.
It wasn’t that they were overflowing with compassion, unwilling to use ghost powers to save an ordinary person, but if Liu Yingying died, then this ghost would transfer its target and attack them.
Because of the Wooden Fish Ghost, Brother Jiang and the other two all had some shadows in their hearts, so they chose to act together, using the fastest and safest method to solve this ghost.
But this suppression failed the same way.
Due to prolonged walking and discomfort in her body, Liu Yingying’s stamina was quickly exhausted. Ever since Brother Jiang and the others’ suppression failed, the atmosphere at the scene fell into deathly stillness.
She also knew that as soon as she died, the Ghost Footprint would immediately attack the others, and from the current situation, whoever it attacked would surely die.
Although continuous walking would delay the ghost’s Killing Pattern, what use was that.
Liu Yingying glanced at Brother Jiang and squeezed out an ugly smile on her face, then said with silent sorrow in her tone:
“Thank you for saving me so many times on the road, Brother Jiang. This ghost has latched onto me, I’m doomed to die, but I absolutely won’t harm you.”
“I’ll stay far away from you all. I don’t know if this can help everyone escape it, but it’s the only thing I can do now. Even if it only delays some time for you, Brother Jiang, I’ll be content.”
With that, Liu Yingying immediately changed her walking direction and began heading towards the Wooden Fish Ghost.
Her idea was simple:
As long as she walked out of the Ghost Soil, without the Killing Pattern of certain death upon escape, she would sprint and run to the Wooden Fish Ghost and kick it.
“The ghost on the ground follows its own footprints, right? By then, the Wooden Fish Ghost will also have footprints on it, maybe those two ghosts will fight each other.”
“Use ghost against ghost.” She had firmly remembered Brother Jiang’s words.
Along the way, she had received too much care from Brother Jiang, so even if she died at the hands of two ghosts, she absolutely wouldn’t implicate him.
As Liu Yingying’s footsteps grew faster, at the moment she stepped out of the Ghost Soil to run, something horrifying happened to everyone.
Her head suddenly dropped off!
No one sensed any Supernatural occurrence, yet Liu Yingying died abruptly without warning after leaving the Ghost Soil?!
Brother Jiang’s expression changed, his brows furrowed tightly as he stared dead at Liu Yingying’s head on the ground.
On her neck that was spurting blood, there was a row of uneven knife wounds. From the angle of the wounds, it was as if Liu Yingying had been beheaded by someone, her severed neck presenting a strange Weirdness.
“Die as soon as leaving this Weirdness area?” Brother Jiang guessed in his heart.
He saw Liu Yingying’s foot just step out of the Ghost Soil boundary, and then she suffered the Ghost Attack. He didn’t know what attacked Liu Yingying causing her death, but he noticed this anomaly.
The current priority wasn’t that Liu Yingying died, but that the Ghost Footprint seemed to have changed its Killing Pattern target.
The living must continue, especially in this situation, they couldn’t fall into grief and hesitate due to one person’s death.
Brother Jiang was covered in cold sweat, he unhesitatingly activated his Ghost Domain and began searching for traces of the Ghost Footprint.
Not only him, Ren Xue also activated the Freeze to Death Ghost’s pale white Ghost Domain with a grim expression.
One gray and one white Ghost Domains intertwined around the Wooden House, the colors were beautiful, but an ordinary person in it would only feel deep Weirdness.
“Hm? What’s with the Ghost Footprint, has it gone dormant?”
On the footprint where Liu Yingying stepped at the edge of the Ghost Soil, Brother Jiang discovered traces of the Ghost Footprint.
A pair of rotting, pale-to-slightly-black Broken Foot appeared at the edge of the Ghost Soil. If nothing unexpected, this was the Ghost Footprint’s body.
But that pair of Broken Foot made Brother Jiang feel a trace of anomaly. He didn’t sense the Fierce Ghost’s chilling cold on the Broken Foot, but rather a familiar state.
“Restart?!”
Brother Jiang was startled in his heart. He realized what that familiar state was—it was the feeling every time he used the Dead Face Ghost to Restart.
“The Ghost Footprint is actually Restarting? No, its Restart state is wrong, why does it seem like it’s being forced to Restart?”
Looking at the Ghost Footprint like a Dead Machine, his doubts grew stronger.
The Restart time was very short. Even Brother Jiang’s forty-minute Restart could be completed in just a few seconds, which he knew very well.
Moreover, most Restarts were a reproduction of a state, not a Rewind of time. Although the result looked like time travel, it wasn’t.
Some Restarts, like the Wang Family’s Pendulum Clock, could Rewind time, detaining the ghost in different Timelines, thereby detaining it.
His gaze fell back on that pair of Broken Foot.
Unlike Brother Jiang’s Restart, the Ghost Footprint remained completely still in place, as if time had stopped for it.
Brother Jiang had another guess: the Ghost Footprint was continuously Restarting, continuously Rewinding its own previous states.
“Infinite Restart?”
Even the Ghost Messenger, the Fierce Ghost recognized as having the highest Terror Level, its so-called infinite Restart was only within a range, constantly Restarting itself—and that entire range was the Ghost Messenger’s body.
Infinite Restart was actually, after the Ghost Messenger suffered Suppression, everything in the Ghost Domain could bear its Supernatural, appearing in another identity or form, so it looked like infinite Restart.
But this Ghost Footprint was different from Huanggang Village’s Ghost Messenger; it hadn’t suffered Suppression, so why was it constantly Restarting?
Brother Jiang’s figure instantly appeared beside the Ghost Footprint’s body, and the next moment, he put on the Gold Gloves and grabbed at that pair of Broken Foot.
“As expected!”
The instant he grabbed the pair of Broken Foot, the continuous Restart feeling transmitted from Brother Jiang’s hand. Because he wore the Gold Gloves, this feeling was very weak, but the sensation of non-Existence in Reality during Restart was unmistakable.
This ghost was in a special state.
Although its Restart time was very short—Brother Jiang felt it wouldn’t even exceed one second—it kept Restarting continuously.
A Fierce Ghost in this state not only couldn’t move, but also couldn’t activate its Killing Pattern.
Because of this unique “infinite Restart,” it was equivalent to forcibly keeping the ghost’s time infinitely still.
This ghost was detained by a special Supernatural to the previous moment, in this extremely brief Timeline of the next second!
