I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 117 It’s over

"boom!"

There was a rumbling roar in Lin Xing'an's ears.

In the turbulent water, he was clearly going against the current, but he seemed to be walking leisurely.

The dense silver threads surrounding his body seemed like a projection screen, with images constantly playing upside down on it...

Lin Xing'an felt that he had only taken two or three steps and returned to an hour ago.

And his physical strength was also decreasing bit by bit...

"Based on this consumption, it wouldn't be a problem to complete the three-day journey in one go..."

Lin Xing'an quickened his pace.

Half a day, one day, two days...

In these images that are constantly played in reverse, there is only him sleeping.

"call……"

When he reached 48 hours ago, Lin Xing'an felt that he still had % of his physical strength.

But as he continued to move forward, he clearly felt that his physical strength was being depleted faster!
And faster and faster...

The physical energy consumed with each step is several times more than the previous one!
Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
The huge consumption of physical strength made Lin Xing'an's heart beat faster and faster!

My vision started to go dark.

Hold on a little longer, hold on a little longer...

Lin Xing'an kept encouraging himself in his heart!
No intention of stopping at all.

The more time he has to go back, the more maneuverable he will be!

"On the note..."

On the screen that was constantly playing in reverse, Lin Xing'an noticed that after one frame, words quietly appeared on the two yellow sticky notes stuck on the electronic watch.

In other words, before that moment, my aunt was alive.

After that moment...

Lin Xing'an's mood cheered up!
He roughly calculated the time by his steps.

One hour, two hours, three hours...

The rumbling sound of the long river of time sounded like a drum in his ears!
After taking only three more steps, Lin Xing'an's eyes went dark!
But he still gritted his teeth and took two more small steps!
Then...

"boom!"

As his physical strength was completely exhausted, the surging river of time suddenly dissipated!
"what!"

Lin Xing'an suddenly sat up from the bed!
But a sudden feeling of fatigue and dizziness made him lose consciousness in an instant, and he fell on the bed again.

The feeling of being conscious yet his body sinking slowly into the ocean reminded Lin Xing'an of the time when he died for the third time on the full moon day...

"Hu! Hu! Hu!"

After fighting this feeling for three full minutes, Lin Xing'an reluctantly opened his eyes.

[Wave] is accumulating his strength again.

At this recovery speed, it would take at least three or four hours to fully restore all of my stamina...

There is basically no change from before.

After all, although his recovery speed has increased a lot, his physical strength limit has also increased.

He gasped for breath again, blinking for a minute before his vision gradually returned to normal.

Lin Xing'an shook his buzzing head.

He looked at the two sticky notes on the electronic clock on the bedside table.

[An An, Auntie's out running some errands. Please be back before 7:00. Don't eat the cakes in the fridge! They're stale! There are dumplings on the table!!!]

[An An, I'm going to clean up after you. There's a little cake I made in the fridge. You're welcome!]

Two sticky notes, one in front and one behind.

After Lin Xing'an tore them off, he saw the time.

17:36
"Excluding the few minutes of recovery just now, I'm completely exhausted and can go back to exactly three days ago."

"After seeing the handwriting on the note revealed... I..."

Lin Xing'an rubbed his eyebrows and closed his eyes.

"I took a little over four steps. If one step takes less than an hour..."

"About four hours..."

"That is to say, in four hours, before ten o'clock in the evening, everyone will..."

Lin Xing'an took a deep breath.

"This time is not enough..."

"Puguang Mountain has been closed since the 23rd. Teacher Juzi and the others must be at Puguang Temple by now. The Taogui ritual should have already begun."

"It takes three hours to get from here to Puguang Mountain by car, so I can't stop anything..."

He thought silently in his heart.

"Huh, let's recover our strength first, and then go back!"

"Go back to a time when we can stop Mr. Orange and the others!"

Lin Xing'an, despite the suffocating fatigue all over his body, got out of bed with Yin Hui's help.

The small coffee shop was still empty.

But on the table, there was a plate of dumplings still covered with the lid and some warm.

【安安】

The Bluetooth speaker flickered with a faint blue light.

My name is Eve. You can think of me as the offline version of Taoyuan.

Eve's cold voice came.

Lin Xing'an did not interrupt it.

Instead, he looked at the wall covered with photos.

Yu Shi and Yu Yu are grinding coffee together.

Yu Shi and Yu Yu made the cake together.

Yu Shi appears in almost every photo.

Lin Xing'an looked at the framed photo behind the bar again.

Everyone, at this moment, is still here.

"When did my aunt go out?"

Lin Xing'an asked after Eve finished speaking.

He tried hard to control himself, making his voice sound just like the tiredness after waking up, rather than the weakness after a relapse.

He didn't want Eve to know that he was from a different time.

Sorry, I don’t know.

I don't have monitoring permissions.

[I was on standby until you woke up] "Then how did you know when I woke up?"

[I don’t know, Taoyuan knows]

[Before going into hibernation, Taoyuan set up an automatic program]

[When the camera captures you, the program will activate me]

On the small display screen of the Bluetooth speaker, a small pixel was constantly jumping.

Lin Xing'an also looked around the room.

【On the sweeping robot】

Eve seemed to have guessed what Lin Xing'an was looking for and reminded him lightly.

indeed.

In the entire cafe, only the robot vacuum cleaner in the corner has a camera attached to it...

"As for Yu Yu's matter, let's talk about it with us when Auntie comes back."

"She must be curious too."

Lin Xing'an answered the same way as last time, and then turned off the Bluetooth speaker.

Then turn the robot vacuum cleaner around so that its camera faces the wall.

In the quiet little shop, Lin Xing'an took the lid off the pot on the table and started eating dumplings.

Celery and pork filling, very delicious.

"Active rollback seems to only be usable when your stamina is full..."

As his physical strength continued to recover, Lin Xing'an also had an inexplicable feeling about his ability to recover.

Faintly, he seemed to be able to sense the existence of that long river of time...

He also felt that this long river of time was not something he could use anytime and anywhere as long as he was determined to die...

"Huh... If you really need to be at full strength to automatically rewind, then I'll need to rest for at least another four hours, maybe even more."

"After eating dumplings..."

"Hiss...that's not right..."

Lin Xing'an looked at the last two dumplings on the plate and was stunned.

The dumplings were still warm.

This means the first note was written by my aunt today. She just left not long ago, maybe less than an hour ago...

And on the note she wrote to come back before seven o'clock.

"The last time I woke up, there were no dumplings on the table, which means my aunt did come back before she disappeared..."

"That is to say... my aunt didn't go to Puguang Mountain with Teacher Juzi and the others..."

Lin Xing'an put down his chopsticks.

My heart sank a little bit...

"That means my guess was correct..."

"Even if you don't go to Puguang Mountain, no matter where you are, as long as you are a sacrifice, you will disappear..."

"Or... there's another possibility, where everyone didn't disappear at the same time..."

"but……"

Just as Lin Xing'an was thinking, the clear sound of wind chimes suddenly rang out outside.

He looked back.

"An An! You're awake!"

Outside, Yu Shi's surprised voice came!

"Little brat, are you Sleeping Beauty? How can you sleep so well?"

Behind Yu Shi, surprisingly, was Teacher Juzi...

Teacher Juzi didn’t go to Puguang Temple either?

Lin Xing'an was stunned.

"Oh my, I can really tell. An An is really starving. She ate the whole plate of dumplings!"

"Are you full? If not, I'll cook more for you. There's still plenty in the fridge!"

Yu Shi put down the various caramels and milk in her arms, squatted down and pinched Lin Xing'an's face.

"Thin."

She rubbed Lin Xing'an with some heartache.

But Lin Xing'an shook his head.

Since Sister Orange and Auntie are here, let me follow my guess and let them delete the memory of Taoyuan Meng and see what happens!
If nothing happens after four hours, then wait until your strength is fully restored and go back next time to save more people!

"Sister Orange, can you restore the memories you deleted?"

Lin Xing'an took a deep breath and asked in a serious tone.

"…Give me some time, I can delete it to the point where it cannot be restored."

"But the memory has to remain coherent."

Seeing Lin Xing'an so serious, Teacher Juzi also frowned and said.

"That's great."

Lin Xing'an nodded.

Then there was a pause.

He still hasn't revealed his ability to rewind.

"Sister Orange, after I passed out in Villa No. 6... I had a dream. A very real dream."

"I dreamed... that the Tao Ghost was performing a ritual on Puguang Mountain today. Once it progressed to a certain point, everyone would die."

"Anyone who dreams of Taoyuan Village will die."

"There's still time, Sister Orange. Can you completely erase the memory of the Peach Blossom Dream?"

Lin Xing'an took a deep breath, went straight to the point, and spoke out loud and clear!
After all, it was impossible for him to tell everyone about the light gate, the angel, and his analysis now.

Let's get straight to the point first, and then he'll find a way to explain when Teacher Orange asks further!

After hearing what he said, Teacher Orange did not ask directly.

The expression on his face became increasingly strange.

The shop fell into silence.

"Pfft!"

She and Yu Shi looked at each other and both laughed out loud.

"Little brat, it's just an ordinary nightmare you had, don't worry."

"No, no, no, Auntie, Sister Orange, I..."

"Little brat, the Taogui's ceremony at Puguang Mountain has ended. It ended yesterday."

(End of this chapter)