The bullet flew out of the gun barrel and in Tang Ye’s eyes, it moved at a snail’s pace, as if it were a snail on the steps in front of his house, slowly and painstakingly inching forward. However, no matter how hard it tried, its pace was still sluggish and slow!
Subconsciously, Tang Ye raised his hand to try and catch the bullet flying toward him, but his body seed to have lost control and remained motionless... No, that’s not entirely accurate, he could feel his body moving slowly, but too slowly, even slower than the bullet!
He did indeed see the bullet flying towards his forehead, but his body couldn’t keep up!
Just like that, the bullet made contact with his forehead! In an instant, he saw a spurt of fresh blood splatter from his forehead, and then, the scene before his eyes abruptly stopped. The smashed-in living room door, the wall cabinet cluttered with assorted items, the fine dust floating in the air, the gun in his hand, and the cold gazes of the soldiers, all paused in that mont, halting their movent.
After about ten seconds or so, the scene before his eyes began to crumble, the fragnts of these images falling away and fading into points of light that vanished into the abyss of darkness. Now Tang Ye could see nothing but endless darkness, as if he had his eyes closed.
He tried to open his eyes, and to his surprise, he actually could. The first thing he saw was the dazzling sun to the west and the dilapidated Building Group in front of him, and not far to his right was a wall covered in graffiti.
Indeed, Tang Ye had returned to the starting point!
"Did I lose the ga..."
The experience just now seed futile, but Tang Ye was certain about one thing: the key to clearing this "ga" was in Dairya’s ho, as evidenced by his return to the starting point after "dying" there.
But what was he supposed to do to clear the ga?
Could it be that he was overthinking? Maybe helping Dairya’s family avoid being killed by those soldiers counted as clearing the ga?
It seed too simple, but deep down, Tang Ye felt it couldn’t be that easy. Nonetheless, the truth lies in the results of experintation.
Standing in front of the graffiti-covered remnants of a wall, Tang Ye reviewed the contents of Lu Xiaojie’s letter, his biggest confusion now stemming from the part in the letter about a fifty percent chance of finding the other party.
"What exactly do you an?"
Looking at the wall, the graffiti offered him little information, and just as he was deep in thought, a sudden noise ca from not far away.
"Hm?"
He looked up in that direction and walked over, finding a man sleeping on the ground inside a ruined building, wearing only a thin coat, with his abdon exposed, his body emaciated. By the ti Tang Ye got close to the man, he could feel that there was no breath left in him; body warmth suggested that he had not been dead for long, and there were no fatal wounds on him, indicating he likely died in his sleep or from starvation.
Ignoring the deceased, Tang Ye walked out and looked in the direction where the presence of seven living beings was converging. That was the location of the group of soldiers he had encountered before, but at this mont, they were still a long way from Bick’s family’s ho.
"Let’s try it out first."
He took out his mobile phone to check the ti: 12:41 PM. Three minutes had passed since he had just returned to this place, yet the sun was already showing signs of setting. What he had to do next was to reenact what had just happened.
If things turned out as expected, he was now like the protagonists in so movies, trapped in the sa day. He began to wander through Kimberlite City. In the process, he encountered the second vagrant, handed the two ard robbers a lesson before eting with them, and asked if they recognized him. As expected, after returning to the starting point from Dairya’s ho, everything reset to the initial mont.
Also, he flew into the Sky again, attempting to leave Kimberlite City. After colliding with a barrier and returning to the starting point, he checked the ti on the mobile phone: 1:37 PM. This confird that the tiline did not change when he encountered the BUG and returned to the starting point.
Through his observations, there were a total of nineteen living people in the city, excluding the father and son duo, the ard robbers, Bick’s family, and the seven soldiers, the rest were living alone.
As Tang Ye deliberately passed the ti, it went by quickly. The sun to the west soon hid its entirety behind the hills, and the ti once again reached 5 PM. As darkness draped over the city, Tang Ye arrived at the residential building where Bick’s family lived and, as expected, encountered Bick searching for sothing downstairs. Following the previous experiences, Tang Ye played out his part and entered his ho successfully, eting Dairya once more.
After teaching Dairya to play a ga on the mobile phone, Bick called Tang Ye to start eating.
"Eat, don’t be shy."
Nodding his head, Tang Ye did the sa as before, picking up a fork and knife to take a bite of a green vegetable, the sa taste, bereft of oil and with a dry texture. Tang Ye suspected Bick’s wife hadn’t used any seasoning at all while cooking this dish.
He glanced outside the door, his nose had already caught the scent of the soldiers. They seed to be making their way up the stairs now. Glancing at the candlelight, he seed to understand why the soldiers knew about Bick’s family living here. The white paste on the window did block the view from outside during the day, but at night, the candlelight inside would make the windows look brighter than the others.
Soon after Tang Ye swallowed the vegetable bite, noises started outside the door as expected. In an instant, Bick and his wife rose from their chairs like cats with their fur puffed up in fear at the sudden sound!
The sa scene unfolded before Tang Ye, Bick saying the exact sa words as before and his wife quickly and frantically clearing the food from the table. However, the greedy children refused to stop eating; under Bick’s scolding, one of the boys burst into tears, and the next mont, the door was violently broken open, with the figures of the soldiers reappearing before Tang Ye.
He clenched his hand; his power was still there, and taking down a few ordinary people was an easy task!
The icy gun barrels were now aid at Bick’s family of five. The atmosphere in the room beca tense and panicky as the soldiers shouted, demanding Bick’s family to halt their actions. This ti, Tang Ye seed to understand—they were apparently telling Bick’s family not to touch the food on the dining table!
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