My portable grandfather refreshes every week

Chapter 292 An Endless Day

That evening, Xue Dinglu and Xiao Jiang simultaneously felt the distortion of the entire world.

The group, who had been getting along well before sunset, seemed to transform into evil spirits the moment the sun went down, using every means to kill everyone around them.

The whole world seemed to have entered hell. Regardless of age or gender, even newborn babies were desperately trying to break free and use their ungrown teeth to bite others to pieces.

The entire city had been transformed into the most terrifying hell, with people killing in the streets, countless vehicles speeding at hundreds of miles per hour, houses set ablaze with flames, and demons crawling out of nowhere killing people by any means necessary.

The young man initially tried to stop her, but he found it was completely useless. If he tried to stop the old woman, she would soon rush out of the house like a madwoman, and then a big man carrying the old woman's body would break down the door and try to kill him.

There were flying cars everywhere outside.

In the latter half of the night, bombs began to detonate throughout the city, sending mushroom clouds, like miniature suns, into the sky.

Then, the entire city was as if it were dawn in the middle of the night, with bombs exploding in the sky. The once prosperous city was instantly turned into ruins. The young man kept using spatial jumps to leave the city. In the suburbs, he saw countless bombs coming from afar and heading towards the center of the city, turning the orderly city into a sea of ​​fire.

What happened that night left both of them stunned.

Xue Lude killed the last male student, and then saw the butcher in the village, who was now dead and only one person remained, holding a blood-stained steel knife.

He reached the top of the mountain and looked down at the city, where he witnessed missiles exploding in the sky above the city.

In the short time it took for the sun to disappear below the horizon, the entire world went from being perfectly normal to being completely abnormal, a change that left both of them bewildered.

If they had just arrived in this world and found it to be a place of mutual slaughter, they would have thought it normal and wouldn't have been surprised, because this is the homeland of mind flayers, and this is how things are supposed to be.

But everything was perfectly normal during the day, while at night, all those people seemed to transform into demons. They seemed to have a telepathic connection, knowing each other's locations. Even the 90-year-old woman became as agile as Hannibal Lecter, killing insanely, finding the nearest target, and then killing her opponent with all her might.

Once one of the two sides survives, the search for the next "murderer" will begin.

The latter half of the night was filled with continuous firelight and incessant explosions.

They didn't know how they got through the rest of the night, but when the sun rose, the world seemed to finally quiet down.

Whether they had returned to normal or most of the people were already dead, everything finally quieted down. They looked at the ruins of the city under the sun, and Xue Lude remained silent.

Even now, his mind is still a complete mess.

Xue Dinglu felt like he had skipped over all the plot points and fast-forwarded to the moment he entered the battlefield as a new recruit.

I was never this bewildered, not even when I was on that spaceship with Old Green and encountered the Twisted Thing.

His mind is currently filled with thoughts like, "Who am I? Where am I? What happened?"

He even felt that there were no living people left in Beifeng City. Under such chaos, he did not believe that there could be any living people here. He was also in chaos every night. Why was the God King's house still exactly the same after a thousand years?
If every night is filled with chaos, the whole world should have turned into a chaotic hell long ago. Either everyone would die, or a Gu King would appear, and in the end, only that Gu King would remain in the entire world.

But now, looking at the city reduced to ruins, Xue Dinglu was speechless.

However, just as he turned to meet the young man, for a moment, it was as if time had been erased, and this distorted feeling made Xue Dinglu pause for a moment.

Something seems... off?
Xue Lude had no doubt about his intuition. He realized the problem in an instant, and when he turned to look, he was stunned.

The city, which was originally in ruins, was restored to its original state in an instant, and the scene of bustling traffic and sparse crowds could be seen in the distance.

Soon, the flow of people increased, and the whole city seemed to be filled with vitality.

Xue Dinglu immediately returned to the original campsite, but there was no campsite here. There was only a large area of ​​bare grass. The tents and the corpses had disappeared, and the garbage left over from the snacks and treats had also vanished. There was no sign of any human activity.

Looking at the city in the distance, Xue Dinglu suddenly had a terrifying thought.

This world seems to be constantly loading save files. For unknown reasons, the entire world's population suddenly developed stress-induced mania overnight, leading to the apocalypse. This outbreak was so rapid that no other disaster could compare to it.

Thus, on the second day, when the world's population had been almost completely wiped out, the world restarted, as if time had reversed, and the world returned to the state it was in the previous day, repeating this cycle.

If this assumption is correct, then the God-King's insane logic seems to be correct. There is no problem that his house is exactly the same as it was a thousand years ago, because such a restart must have lasted for more than a thousand years.

The whole world is caught in a vicious cycle of the day before the end of the world!
This is a guess that Xue Law made based on the information from the God King and his one day in this world.

Thinking of this, he immediately went to an academy in Beifeng City. There he saw a few familiar faces, the same group he had camped with the day before. They seemed to be a small group, chatting and laughing as they walked out of the school gate, discussing how to prepare for the night's camping trip.

At that moment, Xue's Law seemed to understand the logic of how the world works.

He immediately took out the Genesis, and the Noble Phantasm appeared in his hand. He could use Genesis directly without any ritual and connect with the local world consciousness.

However, the next moment, Xue's pupils contracted, because he could no longer connect with the world's consciousness.

It wasn't like the effect on Hell Star when Old Green couldn't contact the world's consciousness. Back then, being unable to contact the world's consciousness was like dialing a number that was no longer in service and immediately being disconnected. But this time, it wasn't a disconnected number. Xue's Law was constantly trying to contact the world's consciousness, but the world's consciousness didn't respond at all, as if it had vanished into thin air.

Looking at this modern city, Xue Dinglu turned to the page that imprisoned the God King's soul again and asked, "Look, don't you see anything? Everything here was blown up last night, your house was completely destroyed, but look at it now, your house is intact. Do you still think that's normal?"

"Isn't this normal? Sir, please, please let me go. Isn't all of this normal? It really is normal, you have to believe me, I..."

Xue Dinglu immediately interrupted the God King, already knowing what the guy was about to say.

The God King's underlying code has been modified, and he has clearly been twisted into something even more hypocritical than a pseudo-human. Xue Law doesn't know if he can still be considered a normal being.

But now, it seems that not only the God-King, but all the people in this world have been twisted, and they are forever repeating the endless day before the end of the world.

The main theme here consists of all the people engaged in the frenzied killing, and the world that resets with each sunrise.

……

Similarly, the young man returned to the old woman's house in shock, and when he saw the old woman who had been killed and the little girl who was about to go to school, his expression was one of extreme horror.

But at that moment, a mysterious figure, completely wrapped in clothing, said, "Come with me!"

The young man was taken aback, but he still followed the strange man. In the alley, the mysterious man said, "Do you remember what happened yesterday?"

The young man's pupils constricted.

"It seems you still remember. I wasn't talking about 'yesterday,' but that distorted 'yesterday.' I'll take you to a place; that's our base," the mysterious man said.

The young man immediately contacted Xue Lude and followed this mysterious man who looked very suspicious.

Then, he asked directly, "What exactly happened last night?"

The person, completely covered in clothing, stopped and simply said, "I don't know either."

The young man was stunned. He didn't know how long he had lived in this time loop either. He immediately voiced his question.

"68 days," the mysterious man in black stated.

If he wasn't lying, then he must have lived in this cycle for 68 days. He might have been reset for an unknown period of time 68 days ago, so long that he completely lost the scale of his memory.

He quickly led the young man to open a sewer entrance, and then crawled inside.

The young man also forced himself to go inside, and the two of them made their way through a maze of twists and turns to a stronghold deep in the sewers.

"Then how can I remember what happened yesterday?" he asked as they walked.

"Survive, and don't die unexpectedly at night," the man said before disappearing into an even deeper cave.

The young man was highly skilled and daring. He was never attacked by the six gods and various sneak attacks. He was like a man in an empty field. The biggest injury he suffered in this job was when he was pinned to the bed by the troll.

He was confident that he could react to anything within a millisecond and move away from the situation, which is why he was so fearless.

“These are our companions. We are a self-rescue team, trying to find the truth in this endlessly looping world and end this cycle and the bizarre killings at night. We have now gathered 12 people, and the longest-lived one has lived for 687 days according to records,” the man in black said.

"How do you keep records? Aren't yesterday's records reset?" the young man asked.

The man pointed to his head: "All the records are here. As long as you survive, this place will not be altered, but everything else will be altered and distorted."

"Let me introduce you to our companions and predecessors." The man opened the door to the safe house, but the next moment, he saw 12 people crowded in the doorway, each with a look of confusion and fear in their eyes.

"So you're the one who kidnapped us and locked us up here?" the leader said.

Their eyes met, and the man in black's pupils contracted.

Because he knew that his companions, who had originally fought alongside him against the world reset, had all been "reset".

The leader, a tough guy named Henrik who had "lived" for 687 days, was now "dead."

Henrik, however, was extremely anxious because today was the day he was supposed to take his daughter to school.

His daughter had to attend a parent-teacher conference, and he wanted to be a good father, so he took a day off. But for some reason, he woke up in this sewer filled with rust and a disgusting smell.

"Thank goodness, I'm still alive," Henrik thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)