Buddhist player

...fear, despair.

Although he couldn't remember it, his reaction when he faced that thing was still deeply etched in the old man's mind.

Even though a long time has passed, that fear and despair still clung to the other person.

"despair?"

Looking at the trembling old man in front of him, Bai Chen raised an eyebrow.

"What's wrong? Did you see something beyond reason, or something else? Can you try to remember?"

"...No, I don't know, I can't remember..."

Seemingly gripped by immense fear, the old man trembled all over and shrank back incessantly.

"It was huge, enormous...it blotted out the sky...that was...that was..."

Before he could finish a sentence, as if he had been greatly stimulated, the old man's eyes bulged out, and he slammed the back of his head against the rock wall behind him.

Bai Chen reached out and grabbed the other person in time.

"Alright, if you can't remember, then don't think about it anymore."

Silently transferring some internal energy to the other party, Bai Chen's tone became calm as he began to form a vague guess in his mind.

"That's enough, I've finished asking my questions, you can rest now."

As he finished speaking, the old man's head drooped, and he actually fell asleep within a few seconds.

—A severed hand perched on the old man's shoulder gave him a peace sign.

"Have you finished asking?"

Just then, Xiao Qi's voice rang out from the side.

"More or less."

Bai Chen shrugged and stood up.

"Compared to before, at least there have been some gains."

When the old man was telling the story, he felt that it was familiar, as if he had heard or seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't quite remember it.

But right now, he has already made up his mind.

Before entering the instance, he had specifically looked through the information about mandatory missions that the relevant departments had sent him. The information contained a lot of information about mandatory missions, as well as many typical cases.

The story the old man told earlier was very similar to one of the backgrounds in those many typical cases.

In that case, a team of players went to a foggy town to carry out a mission. Everything went smoothly, and everyone fought to the end without taking any damage. But in the final ending, a giant foot that descended from the sky and emerged from the fog ended everything.

Although there is not enough evidence to prove that the two copies are successors under the same worldview, such a high degree of similarity makes it hard not to associate the two.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Bai Chen found with a bit of a wry smile that this seemingly useful discovery, apart from filling in some gaps in his worldview, was not of much use in the current situation.

At most, it only proves that the lord had some ulterior motives from the very beginning...

Bai Chen pressed his temples hard with his hand and frowned.

The pain kept him awake, but it also disturbed his thoughts. He felt as if he had somehow found a thread that could connect everything, but he couldn't pinpoint the exact location of this "thread" for the time being.

This feeling of being stuck in the middle is the most uncomfortable.

After thinking for a while, Bai Chen shook his head helplessly, realizing that he had started to get stuck on a rut.

"Don't worry, it's alright."

Facing the worried gaze from the little girl beside him, Bai Chen straightened up and dusted off his clothes.

"Let's go, we should head back too."

Actually, compared to these background stories, what he most wanted to ask was about the lord here, but unfortunately, just as Qing Shiyi and the others had investigated before, everyone here had a different impression of that lord.

Tall or short, fat or thin, male or female, young or old, the main point is to create a unique experience for everyone, you say yours, I say mine.

He had originally intended to lock the lord's appearance into a fixed quadrant, but when he collected the 100th appearance description, which was completely different from the previous 99, he had to abandon the idea.

The lord of this town was far more mysterious than he had imagined.

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

"No... what do you mean you captured the lord of this town?"

In Xiaoqi's living room, Bai Chen looked at the smug-looking Quantum Self-Binding with a strange expression.

Almost subconsciously, his gaze bypassed the other person and went to the burlap sack on the ground behind him that was still struggling... Wait, why a burlap sack?

"Ahem... While I can't be sure, I can guarantee that this guy definitely has something to do with that lord."

Quantum coughed and abruptly stepped aside, revealing the sack behind him.

"I found him in the wardrobe in the lord's room in the lord's manor. Even if he wasn't that lord, he's definitely connected to him."

As he spoke, Quantum Automatically kicked the sack.

"...Shall we untie it and see?"

After a moment of contemplation, Bai Chen looked up at the other person.

"Okay, just a moment."

Without saying much, Quantum Self-Binding swiftly and decisively untied the ropes binding the sack. As he moved, the face of the figure inside the sack quickly appeared before Bai Chen's eyes.

Even though he had made all sorts of guesses in his mind beforehand, Bai Chen was still stunned when he saw the other party's true face. At this moment, the other party also recognized him and immediately started gurgling excitedly on the ground... and then successfully received another kick from Quantum Self-Binding.

"You don't recognize him?"

Bai Chen frowned slightly and looked up at the quantum self-braking device in front of him.

"What, is this guy famous?"

While using his foot to step on the other person's body to stop them from rolling around, Quantum Self-Stop looked completely bewildered.

"...Take the sock out of his mouth first."

After a brief silence, Bai Chen reached up and pressed hard on his brow.

The guy that Quantum Self-Brake brought back from the Territory Government was none other than the guy he rescued on the bus yesterday. He thought that with the reset of the cycle, the other person should also start over, but the complexity of the matter seemed to be beyond his imagination.

Today, he flagged down the bus midway through the journey. When he boarded, he didn't see the man on the bus and assumed that he was too late and the man had already been thrown off. But judging from what happened just now, the man not only didn't enter the loop, but even retained his memory of him...

Just as Bai Chen was struggling with his decision, Xiao Qi suddenly reached out and tugged at his clothes.

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

Bai Chen lowered his head and looked at the other person.

"...I know this person."

He seemed to take a deep breath, then looked up at him, turning his gaze away from that direction.

"The person who came to see me a few days ago with the woman with the scar on her face was him."