Infinite Reincarnation: Survival Begins from Ishimura

Hearing this, Mu Xing frowned, "So, luring the Survival Frontline to attack is the real purpose of 'It'?"

Ye Changfeng shook his head: "I can't see through it, but the Chaos side seems to believe all of this and wants to retrieve the key at all costs."

Mu Xing continued to ask, "Was Han Zhou sent by you?"

"Yes, Han Zhou and his team are one of the teams we sent out. Their purpose was to go to Cainhurst to investigate Chaos's plan."

"Then what about Meng Yu? What's going on with him?"

"He is a part of the plan. After we learned about Chaos's plan in Cainhurst, we chose to reach an agreement with Master Willem and the Old God Spider Rom."

"The Meng Yu you saw may not be a living person, but an artificial human. He serves as the anchor point for time reversal, allowing the Old God Rom to reverse time and restart the cycle again and again."

Mu Xing was silent for a moment: "So, who proposed this plan?"

"It was Han Zhou, no, to be precise, it was Meng Yu!"

"We thought this plan was the most reliable at the time, so we planned to rely on this plan to hold on and wait for reinforcements from the Survival Frontline."

"So, Han Zhou and his team were not sent out to deliver a message?" Mu Xing continued to press.

"No, their purpose was to monitor the situation in Cainhurst. The team that delivered the message was someone else."

Mu Xing narrowed his eyes, his expression becoming serious.

"What's wrong?"

Ye Changfeng also obviously felt something was wrong.

"The people you sent to deliver the message didn't make it back to the frontline. Instead, Han Zhou and his team returned, in a bizarre state of death."

"What do you mean?" Ye Changfeng was also stunned on the spot.

Mu Xing waved his right hand and played a video.

"How is this possible?"

They stared at the creatures in the video, each of them transformed into a grotesque mixture of fish-men and octopi.

They could barely recognize their appearances.

And Meng Yu's form was the most twisted, as if he were a deep-sea creature by birth.

"This..."

Beside him, Man Shan also frowned, patting his head: "No wonder I always felt that Meng Yu was a little strange. He... he's not human?"

Ye Changfeng also seemed to suddenly wake up from some kind of confusion: "I remember now, this Meng Yu was temporarily added to the team before we entered the anomaly point."

"At the time, the higher-ups only said to add a few people to our team, and I didn't think much about it."

"But later... my cognition and memory seemed to be affected."

He realized the seriousness of the problem.

Looking at Mu Xing: "Have you discovered something?"

Mu Xing said with a solemn tone: "You may have indirectly helped the Holy City's Sealer, the Lord of R'lyeh, complete a plan."

"Plan?"

"A plan related to the time loop. What 'It' wants is not to destroy the Chaos ritual, but the infinite loop plan itself."

"Or, the loop is the key, the key to helping 'It' escape."

Mu Xing raised his head, as if he had figured something out.

While Ye Changfeng and Man Shan were still confused, he teleported back to the Moonlit Lake in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the other two followed.

They walked to the frozen spider Rom.

"The dream realm is a place where time does not exist, a nihilistic, idealistic existence."

"The Holy City's Sealer is sealed at the end of time and space, or rather, in an eternal dream."

"This dream makes 'It' sleep, never to wake up."

"Because there is no space or time here, so naturally 'It' doesn't know when, where, or how to wake up."

"It's like when we humans sleep, we are awakened either by our internal biological clock and subjective consciousness, or by external stimuli."

"And when both of these factors disappear, we may become like a permanently comatose vegetable, unaware of warmth or cold, unable to wake up."

"And when facing such a vegetable, the doctor's suggestion is to give the body as much stimulation from the outside world as possible."

"So, if the Great Sealer who is trapped in an eternal dream wants to wake up, 'It' will inevitably need a stimulus to perceive when the dream begins and when it can end."

At this time, Ye Changfeng came back to his senses: "Like time?"

"That's right, but a short period of time is useless. This is the boundary of the dream realm, and the existence of the dream worlds born here is also extremely short."

"So, 'It' came up with a way, which is to use those ancient gods who once set up the seal to break through the seal."

"'It' first created a small world, creating the first Sumerians."

"Then, during the Sumerian period, 'It' influenced the Sumerians through dreams, giving birth to the first native Old God: Kos."

"Kos has two missions: first, to expand the scope of the world; second, to create more native Old Gods."

"Kos perfects this vague dream world by creating more Old Gods, making its rules perfect and the world real."

"And doing so finally attracted the attention of those Old Gods."

"In order to prevent this world from continuing to expand, they did not hesitate to send down their avatars or bodies. After they descended, they quickly controlled the world, controlled the rules, and destroyed the native Old God system."

"Finally, they joined forces to kill the first native Old God: Kos."

"However, this was exactly what the Holy City's Sealer wanted. After the two sides reached a causal relationship, the Sealer cursed the gods using this strand of causal relationship."

"Causing them to fall into an endless pursuit of offspring, forcing the gods to set up an infinite loop of the Blood Moon Dream in Yharnam, so that 'It' can lengthen the time 'It' needs."

Beside him, Man Shan asked in confusion: "Will this allow the Holy City's Sealer to wake up? Those Old Gods aren't stupid, are they?"

Mu Xing nodded: "Of course, if it's just this little stimulation, it's certainly not enough for 'It' to wake up from the eternal dream. 'It' needs more stimulation, such as... Chaos!"

Man Shan widened his eyes: "No way, are you saying that 'It' actively attracted the attention of Chaos?"

"Otherwise, why would Chaos summon the projection of the Bloodborne world into the Nightmare Frontier?" Mu Xing asked back.

Man Shan paced back and forth: "If that's really the case, isn't 'It' afraid of accidentally playing too hard? If Chaos really controls 'It' through a ritual, I'm afraid 'It' will forever lose its freedom and become a henchman of the Chaos camp, right?"

When Man Shan said this, Mu Xing suddenly raised his head from his thoughts: "I finally understand what the Survival System discussed with 'It'."

"What? How is the Survival System involved?" Man Shan was even more confused.

Mu Xing didn't intend to hide the news of the Survival System's meeting with the Holy City's Sealer, and told them the general course of events.

Ye Changfeng stroked his long beard: "In this case, the Survival System may have reached some kind of agreement with the Holy City's Sealer?"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend?"

Mu Xing nodded: "I don't rule out this possibility, of course, this is just my guess."

Saying that, he looked at the frozen spider Rom in front of him: "And if we want to prove my guess, we can do an experiment."

"Experiment? You don't want to kill Rom, do you?" Man Shan couldn't help but say.

"No, just to prove one of my guesses."

He looked at Ye Changfeng: "Senior, what do you think?"

Ye Changfeng seemed to understand Mu Xing's meaning, and waved his hand to directly解除 (jiechu - remove/release) the ice封 (feng - seal) 结界 (jiejie - barrier).

Mu Xing took a deep breath and directly walked step by step towards the Old God Rom, who looked like a meteorite.