Chapter 100
After Qin Zhou left, Lin Yi looked down at the note in his hand again. There was only one thing written on the note — Dad.
‘Father’ did not appear in this closed time loop and “Dad” was more a form of address. Qin Zhou meant to let Lin Yi call out this form of address.
If read out loud, then ‘Father’ does exist in a sense.
Lin Yi covered his chest, not knowing what was going on. He kept feeling uneasy.
This uneasiness lasted until Qin Zhou came back.
Qin Zhou brought him food and some news.
Qin Zhou put the food on the table, and while waving for Lin Yi to come over to eat, he explained why he had been gone for so long. “I went to the news agency.”
Lin Yi took the small bread bun from Qin Zhou and took a bite as he listened quietly for Qin Zhou to continue.
“It was Feng Wan last night.” Qin Zhou said.
Lin Yi nodded.
With three active Rules of Death, it truly wasn’t easy to survive.
“It was a plastic bag that triggered the time rewind.” Qin Zhou said, “Ren Li plans to go to this time rewind tonight to find out the Rules of Death.”
While Qin Zhou’s recounted, Lin Yi ate half of the bread in his hand.
Qin Zhou glanced at Lin Yi, “Better eat and rest for a while so we’ll have enough energy tonight.”
Lin Yi nodded again.
After filling his stomach, Lin Yi lay on the bed to take a nap. He then heard the sound of Qin Zhou lying down to rest. It seemed that Qin Zhou was planning to go with him tonight and so he too was taking a rest before nightfall.
For some unknown reason, the anxiety in Lin Yi’s heart slowly dissipated.
Qin Zhou hadn’t slept at all last night and soon Lin Yi heard the sound of even breathing behind him. He guessed that Qin Zhou had fallen asleep, so he turned over quietly.
The room was small and the two beds were very close to each other. After turning over, Lin Yi’s eyes fell immediately on Qin Zhou’s face.
Both of them were lying like this, one asleep and the other still awake. The atmosphere was calm and relaxed. Lin Yi simply looked at Qin Zhou like this, feeling the uneasiness in his heart slowly dissipating, until it finally disappeared completely. What replaced his uneasiness was a huge sense of security.
A reliable senior, Lin Yi thought.
He stared fixedly at Qin Zhou, staring at Qin Zhou’s brows. Qin Zhou was prone to frowning and there was a very shallow mark between his eyebrows. This mark gave Qin Zhou a constantly somewhat serious look. Lin Yi immediately lowered his eyes, feeling guilty, his gaze now falling to the bridge of Qin Zhou’s nose.
He stared at Qin Zhou’s nose for a long time. He could then feel the tips of his ears heating up.
He had heard someone say that the size of the nose was directly proportional to the, um…
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His fingertips had almost fallen on Qin Zhou’s lips!
Lin Yi: “!!!”
He quickly turned over, rubbing his face to wake himself up.
Because he had turned his back to Qin Zhou, Lin Yi didn’t see the ‘sleeping’ Qin Zhou slowly breaking into a smile.
The afternoon passed quickly. Maybe it was because Qin Zhou had watched over him tirelessly last night, Qin Zhou didn’t wake up at dinner time and Lin Yi didn’t wake him up. He crept up from the bed, went to the curtain, took it down and tied it around his waist.
Lin Yi was afraid that ‘It’ might wake up while he and Qin Zhou were in the time rewind together. If ‘It’ did anything to Qin Zhou at this time, Lin Yi could only commit suicide to apologize.
Clamping down on the strip of cloth between his teeth, he tightened the restraint.
He tied himself up so that even if ‘It’ woke up, Qin Zhou would have to time react and block a possible attack.
Once done, Lin Yi lay down on the bed again.
He closed his eyes, clutching the note in his hand.
While silently reading the content of the note, he recalled the audio content in the MP4 Player.
It was already difficult for him to fall asleep, and now he was also distracted having to read the content of the note. It should have exacerbated the difficulty of falling asleep but he didn’t know if it was because of the close proximity of Qin Zhou’s breathing, after mere moments, he found himself drifting off to sleep.
Lin Yi felt as if he was awakened by a strong light, stronger and more dazzling than the light from the previous time rewinds.
His heart tightened. After the light subsided, he opened the door and walked out, blinking to adjust to the glare.
After stepping through the door, a burst of noise fell into Lin Yi’s ears.
It was the kind of noise like a lot of people were talking together but Lin Yi couldn’t hear a single word.
When he saw the scene in front of him, it was like a stone had smashed against his heart. His heart dropped and his throat closed up, making it hard to breathe.
At this time, Lin Yi found himself in a room.
He was very familiar with this room, this house. It was the house he grew up in.
At first glance, Lin Yi suspected that it was only similar to his own house. But the furnishings prevented him from making such an assumption.
The sofa was an old wooden sofa with many marks on the armrests.
The door of the room also showed familiar traces borne over the years. Many of the marks on the door panel seemed to have been made by a knife.
Lin Yi had seen these very same traces for many years. These traces now appeared here in their original form, as if the 4-4 Monster had moved his home here.
Lin Yi tried his best to suppress his emotions. He had caught sight of Qin Zhou. Qin Zhou was right in front of him and he couldn’t reveal anything. Qin Zhou was too sharp and perceptive. If he showed any expression, Qin Zhou would definitely see something from it.
“Senior.” Lin Yi didn’t look at the room but looked up at Qin Zhou.
Maybe it was due to a guilty conscience, Lin Yi intentionally chose a question so that Qin Zhou wouldn’t focus on him. He asked, seemingly unintentionally, “How long has Senior been waiting for me?”
“Not long,” Qin Zhou said.
The time rewind started with the first ‘Dad’ that Lin Yi called out and Lin Yi fell asleep fairly quickly this time, so Qin Zhou hadn’t been waiting for him for long. But during those few minutes while waiting for Lin Yi, Qin Zhou had already made a discovery.
Lin Yi found a trace of inquiry in Qin Zhou’s gaze. He looked back at Qin Zhou, feeling the pressure but showing nothing on his face. In his heart he was anxiously waiting for Qin Zhou to tell what he had missed.
Unexpectedly, Qin Zhou raised his chin and signaled Lin Yi to look into a certain bedroom.
The bedroom door was closed. Qin Zhou said, a complicated look on his face, “Inside there.”
Qin Zhou didn’t say who was inside.
But Lin Yi knew who was inside — the 4-4 Monster. The way Qin Zhou was acting made Lin Yi even more sure that it was ‘It’ in the room and barring anything unexpected, ‘It’ should have the same face as himself.
Lin Yi pretended to be confused. He asked Qin Zhou in a low voice, “The 4-4 Monster?”
He couldn’t let Qin Zhou know that he knew that the 4-4 Monster had the same face as himself, otherwise there would be a lot of things he wouldn’t be able to explain.
Qin Zhou stared at him for a while and then after a long moment, gave an ‘en’.
The reply was very short and Lin Yi didn’t know how he should react to that. What should he say and what should he do next? Lin Yi was momentarily at a loss.
“He can’t see us.” Qin Zhou said suddenly.
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment: “Ah, oh.”
He then scratched his nose.
He guessed that Qin Zhou must have mistaken ‘It’ for himself. But when ‘It’ didn’t respond to Qin Zhou, Qin Zhou concluded that ‘It couldn’t see them’. After all, this place was the exact same as his home, it’s no surprise that ‘It’ would have his face.
Click——
Not far from where they were came the sound of a door opening. Lin Yi subconsciously turned towards the sound.
Both he and Qin Zhou saw ‘It’.
Lin Yi was momentarily stunned. ‘It’ was different from him, not because ‘It’ had a different face but because ‘It’ was a different age.
Lin Yi had been quite short when he was a child. When he was in elementary school, he couldn’t see what was written on the blackboard if he didn’t sit in the first row. However, after entering junior high, his height increased rapidly and some classmates began to protest that he would block other people’s view.
The current “It” looked to be around 170 cm. Lin Yi calculated based on his own age. If “It” grew the same way he did, at this time, “It” should be around 14 years old, in second year of junior high.
And that was indeed the case. Although ‘It’ has always had a calm face, ‘It’s’ eyebrows and eyes revealed the immaturity of adolescence.
Lin Yi stole a glance at Qin Zhou. Now, it was clear that Qin Zhou hadn’t mistaken ‘It’ for himself but perhaps he had simply found that ‘It’ resembled him and felt puzzled.
With a glance, he found that Qin Zhou was staring at ‘It’, frowning slightly, as if he was pondering something.
Lin Yi quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
His eyes fell on ‘It’ again. Just as Qin Zhou said, ‘It’ couldn’t see Qin Zhou and Lin Yi. He could even pass through their bodies.
“This isn’t a closed time loop.” Qin Zhou said.
Lin Yi nodded, he agreed with Qin Zhou’s statement. Unlike when they go to Cen Qian’s time rewinds, they were more like a bystander at this time rewind. The 4-4 Rule states that time cannot go back so there’s no such think as the Grandfather Paradox where the past affects the present, the present affects the future and the future can affect the past.
They can not change what has happened in the past, all they can do is watch like they’re watching a movie.
Not only because this “past time” most likely contained the main plot of the 4-4 Rule World, but also because of ‘It’s’ face, both Lin Yi and Qin Zhou were watching ‘It’ intently.
They watched as ‘It’ walked to the landline. He stared at the telephone for a long time, as if it was going into some fierce battle. The stand off lasted for about five or six minutes, before he reached out and pressed some buttons on the telephone.
Lin Yi had good eyesight, so he clearly saw that ‘It’ first pressed the speakerphone button and then pressed a series of numbers.
‘It’ then stared at the landline quietly, waiting for the call to connect.
The beeping sound echoed in the house for a long time and just when Lin Yi thought that the other party wouldn’t answer, the call was connected.
“What is it?”
A female voice, sounding extremely impatient.
‘It’ lowered its eyes, pursed his lips and said, “Teacher sa–…”
Just after saying these words, a child’s cry came from over the phone. The woman who had been impatient just now hurriedly spoke softly to coax the child.
“Be good, baby. If baby doesn’t cry, mother will play with you right away.”
After coaxing the child, the female voice suppressed the irritability in her voice and said to ‘It’. “Are you asking for money? Didn’t I just give it to you last week?”
Lin Yi saw ‘It’ curl his fingers. ‘It’ moved his tightly pursed lips, as if he wanted to explain something.
Over the other end of the phone, the woman said, “I’ll give you 200.”
‘It’ took a deep breath, reached out and cut off the call.
Translator’s note: I can’t believe its already been 100 chapters…
??? I am confusion, what’s happening… Eh, let’s just lay back, air out our brains, and let Qin Zhou and Lin Yi solve everything, like always!
Also: Yay, happy 100 chapters~!
Thank you for the chapter~
Wow it’s already been 100 chapters!!!! So is ‘it’ the father?????? He had a child when he was in high school??? 170cm though, at least we know who the 170cm Shunxi is
Thank you for the chapter! <3
so that’s lin yi’s past? wasn’t he close to his parents?? i am sooo confused right now can’t wait for the next chapter…
and congrats on reaching 100 chapters!!!
This was “it” past means cen right? That was his mom? They were talking abt dad but we see mom here so is it daddy issue or mammy issue and is his “illness” inherited from his father? And lin real went missing in this world …hmmmm makes you think
Who’s the woman on the side? The mom who disappeared?
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Happy 100 chapters
Thanks for the chapter
100 chapters..yay!!
Excited for the next chapter
Thank you for the update!
Thank you for the update 🙂
🎉✨!100!🎉✨
Holly damn, imagine a 14 year old 170cm tall. That’s pretty scary.
I once met a 15 year old boy who was over 170cm and still growing.
Some people are just built different.
………..who was that woman ..his mother ..?….i didn’t realize it was already 100 chapters..whooo