Buddhist player

The warm yellow light rippled gently, stirring the night.

"And then?"

Looking at the figure in front of her, Xiao Qi couldn't help but ask a question.

"And then? And then, naturally, I successfully escaped. Otherwise, how would you be able to see me now?"

Bai Chen looked serious.

"Children shouldn't be too curious; it's not good for their development."

Xiao Qi: "..."

To escape the pursuit of Qing Shiyi and the others, he must first unlock his location lock; otherwise, even with ample supplies, it would take him this long.

Assuming that the pharmacopoeia test showed no abnormalities in his body, the only way Bai Chen could think of for the other party to locate him was through external objects.

...For example, the rice we eat at noon.

Compared to other medications, emetics have a very low potency, but to ensure absolute safety... he ruthlessly gave himself a strong dose.

And so, after nearly vomiting up all his stomach acid, he successfully escaped the pursuit of those men.

At this point, he was in a very bad state and desperately needed a safe and quiet place to rest. Since he had just seen a car that looked very familiar parked in front of a villa during the chase, he finally chose this place as his temporary lodging.

But he never expected that the person in the only lit room in the villa would be a little girl.

"Alright, kid, stop looking at these things and turn your head away."

Just as Bai Chen was about to treat his wounds, he noticed that the little girl was still staring at him, and he couldn't help but frown.

Although he successfully evaded capture, his current condition is far from good. Due to a lack of effective rest, many of his wounds have worsened and become bloody and mangled.

But faced with a wound that even a doctor would unconsciously frown over, the little girl remained calm, as if she were already used to it.

"A little kid? You're probably not even older than me."

She glanced up at him, and the little girl remained remarkably calm... or rather, indifferent.

"Based on my actual age, I should be twenty now."

"Actual age..."

As if remembering something, Bai Chen took another careful look at the black-haired loli in front of him, his expression subtle.

"How long have you been in this cycle of reincarnation?"

"3721 days."

Looking directly into his eyes, the girl spoke calmly.

"In terms of age, it's been about ten years."

"Ten years... okay, I admit you're a bit older than me."

After calculating in his mind for a while, Bai Chen nodded somewhat unwillingly.

"But I will never call you 'sister,' so give up."

Xiao Qi: "..."

...She suddenly felt that the person in front of her might have a slightly abnormal thought process.

"So, would you mind telling me about your situation?"

While tending to his wounds, Bai Chen began to discuss something with the little girl in front of him.

"I believe in reciprocity. I told you about what happened to me before, so now, isn't it your turn to tell me?"

"...It's not a very interesting thing."

After a brief silence, the little girl looked up towards the doorway of the room.

"However... if you want to hear it."

..........................................

Although it spans a decade, strictly speaking, it is not a long story.

This little girl had a happy family and loving parents, but everything changed after they came to this town that day.

She couldn't remember what happened on the day her family first arrived in the town; she only knew that after that day, a terrifying cycle began to play out on her.

No matter what happened to her the day before, she would inevitably wake up on the bus to the town the next day.

Along the way, she tried many methods, including but not limited to making a scene to get her parents to change their plans, telling others everything that was happening to her, and even the more extreme method of trying to break free from the cycle through death, but all of her attempts ended in failure.

If they don't go to the town, their car will get lost in the fog, and the whole family will meet a tragic end. If they do go to the town, even if they manage to survive the many strange events that occur there, everything will start all over again the next day.

An endless hell, an endless cycle.

At first, she still had a glimmer of hope, because even if she was trapped in a terrifying loop, at least she had her parents by her side. Even if her parents didn't have the memories of each loop like she did, their love for her was still real.

For her, that was enough.

But as the number of cycles increased, and she didn't know when it started, some terrifying and bizarre changes began to occur in her parents. The people who were once closest to her gradually became more and more unfamiliar.

There were even several cycles in which she died at the hands of her own parents...

3721 days, 3721 cycles.

Over such a long period of time, she has lost count of how many times she has died. She only knows that, at some point, she began to feel numb to death.

During those unchanging ten years, several new changes occurred around her. She thought they would be her salvation, but reality repeatedly plunged her into the abyss.

"Has anyone like us been here before us?"

Unable to resist, Bai Chen interrupted the other person.

"You are the fifth batch."

She glanced up at him, but there was no warmth in the little girl's eyes.

"You call yourselves the chosen ones, the chosen ones, the players. At first, you were all full of confidence, saying you would help me achieve liberation, but in the end, most of you stayed here."

"Yeah?"

While using his teeth to help tighten the bandage on the wound on his hand, Bai Chen nodded thoughtfully.

"So it seems they're pretty bad."

...For some reason, he suddenly remembered the fog monsters he had seen during the day that he could never kill no matter what.

Not only that, it seems that Kiyoshi also gained some kind of strange ability to resurrect from the dead... but there seems to be a difference?

"...Try to hide."

After a brief silence, the girl lowered her eyes and spoke calmly.

"Your teammates are beyond saving. They've been assimilated by this town; they've become part of it. There's no going back."

"They are beyond saving."