Chapter 108
‘It’ must have agreed.
Lin Yi thought, ‘that’s why the 4-4 Rule only appears in the Unnatural Engineering University every other year’.
He also knew why Yuan Yuan made such a proposition.
The main plot of the 4-4 Rule World wasn’t difficult. What made it difficult was the presence of the closed time loop. The closed time loop must be similar to a script customized to each set of participants; similar to their experience this time, the entire story of the closed time loop played out as a result of the actions of the participants.
In this way, even thought there is a main plot, there are still many uncertainties. For anyone drawn into the 4-4 Rule World, the chance of dying is infinitely higher than the chance of surviving.
For the 4-4 Monster not to appear in the Unnatural Engineering University was impossible. Qin Zhou had said that the participants were the Monsters’ food. It was impossible for 4-4 Monster to give up eating in exchange for birthday celebrations. So Yuan Yuan’s exchange was actually very reasonable .
Although Lin Yi knew that ‘It’ must have agreed to Yuan Yuan’s request, Lin Yi still watched ‘It’ nervously. When a good intention comes with a condition, the sincerity of this good intention is be greatly reduced.
Monsters are bred of evil. What they’ve felt and experienced must naturally be worse.
Lin Yi was worried about Yuan Yuan.
His eyes were fixed on ‘It’. Lin Yi was very afraid that he would hurt Yuan Yuan but as mere viewer, he could do nothing but watch.
It was simply torment.
Lin Yi watched as ‘It’ raised his head, still saying nothing.
Yuan Yuan probably couldn’t figure out whether “It” agreed or refused, so she opened her mouth to repeat her request once again.
“In exchange, I want you…”
Yuan Yuan had just reached the point when “It” finally spoke. “Forever.”
Lin Yi turned pale in an instant.
Lin Yi instantly understood what he meant. “It” would promise Yuan Yuan to reduce the frequency of his appearance in the Unnatural Engineering University. In exchange, Yuan Yuan would stay in the 4-4 Rule World forever.
While Lin Yi was horrified but Yuan Yuan stretched out a hand, the little finger curled into the gesture of a pinky promise. “I originally planned to stay here with you not just to celebrate your birthday next year but to accompany you every year. Otherwise it would be unfair to you. Now that we’ve agreed, we’ll do a pinky promise, a hundred years, never to change.”
‘It’ looked down at the hand in front of his eyes, “Forever.”
‘It’ repeated again and then looked up at Yuan Yuan. “Stay here with me forever, not your whole life, but forever.”
Human beings are alive but Monsters are not. What ‘it’ wanted was always a time beyond the limit of Yuan Yuan’s life.
Yuan Yuan was slightly taken aback but she quickly adjusted. Since ‘It’ was watching her, any negative emotion on her face might cause this agreement to fail.
“Okay.” Yuan Yuan didn’t hesitate any longer, she thrust her hand in front of ‘It’. “Then we’ve agreed. Let’s pinky promise on it.”
‘It’ stretched out its hand, imitating Yuan Yuan’s gesture and raising ‘It’s’ little finger. Yuan Yuan took the initiative to hook their little fingers together, saying as she tugged, “Pinky promise, a hundred years… oh no, forever, never to change …”
Then Yuan Yuan pressed his thumb with her thumb. At his puzzled expression, Yuan Yuan explained softly, “This is called sealing the deal.”
‘It’ said nothing, simply looking down at their sealed agreement.
When ‘It’ stretched out his hand, the black mist went with him but when he came into contact with Yuan Yuan’s hand, the black mist scrambled to avoid Yuan Yuan.
‘It’ pursed his lips and lowered his eyes to cover up the emotions in his eyes.
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As a Monster, ‘It’ certainly knew what the black mist surrounding himself is. When ‘It’ became a Monster, the black mist came with ‘It’. The black mist clung to dirty places and the cleaner the place, the harder it was to maintain the black mist.
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Lin Yi also detected a trace of inferiority under the confusion.
‘It’ was the filth that the black mist loved to cling to. But Yuan Yuan was the clean that the black mist feared and avoided.
Because Yuan Yuan hadn’t seen the emotion in his eyes, seeing ‘It’ suddenly lowered his head, she worried that ‘It’ would change his mind. She stretched out her hand and flicked ‘It’ on the forehead. “Monsters must keep their word.”
‘It’ tensed up all over because of Yuan Yuan’s intimate gesture.
Yuan Yuan smiled at ‘It’ and then looked around at the structure of the house. “The house is a bit dirty, let’s clean it together. Oh, that’s right.”
As she said that, Yuan Yuan pointed to a room. “That’s your room, isn’t it? Then…” She moved her hand horizontally and pointed to another room. “Then that’s my room. Would you like to come with me to see the room? ”
Looking at Yuan Yuan’s happy face, ‘It’ obviously didn’t know how to deal with the situation.
Yuan Yuan reached out and grabbed ‘it’ by the wrist, dragging him to the room she had chosen.
And so, only Lin Yi, the movie viewer, was left in the living room.
He was now a little confused.
The living room was dimly lit, Lin Yi hung his head and stared at the tips of his shoes.
Given this new information, the reason why Yuan Yuan’s body disappeared must be because of this agreement with the 4-4 Monster. As for the duration of the agreement, Lin Yi heard very clearly that Yuan Yuan would be staying here forever…
And Lin Yi has affirmed at this moment, he didn’t seem to be Yuan Yuan’s own biological…
But why?
Why did Yuan Yuan reappear in the real world?
How did Yuan Yuan become his mother?
Why does he look the same as the 4-4 Monster?
Does his body belong to him, or does it belong to ‘It’?
What about him?
Who is he?
Is he the 4-4 Monster?
Can he still be called Lin Yi?
Lin Yi just hung his head like this, looking down at his feet, when he saw his shadow reflected on the floor out of the corner of his eye. To be honest, he was a little confused right now. But Lin Yi didn’t dare let his thoughts go out of control. ‘It’ was still in his body. Before falling asleep, he heard the conversation between Qin Zhou and Ren Li. If he didn’t control ‘It’ and allowed ‘It’ out, ‘It’ would cause a lot of trouble for Qin Zhou.
He took a deep breath. He then raised his head to look at the wall clock in the living room.
Having gone through several time rewinds, Lin Yi knew from experience that the flow of time in a time rewind is consistent with the flow of time in the ‘present’. Qin Zhou asked Ren Li to wake them up four hours later, that is to say, he could only stay here for four hours.
Lin Yi looked at the time. Four hours was almost up.
Knowing that after waking up, Qin Zhou would be looking for ‘It’ for a Replay to get them out of this Rule World, Lin Yi turned to look at Yuan Yuan. He hadn’t seen his mother speak and breathe for so long. Knowing that he was about to leave, Lin Yi made to walk towards Yuan Yuan.
He wanted to bid Yuan Yuan farewell, just like how in the real world, he would let his parents know whenever he leaves the house.
Just as he took a step, Lin Yi suddenly stopped.
He suddenly lowered his head to look at the floor again. He was a bystander, this was a time rewind. How could his shadow be reflected on the floor?
There was still the shadow on the floor. Lin Yi realized that this shadow wasn’t his own shadow at all. It didn’t match the outline of his body. This shadow was more like a curled up animal.
The strange thing was that although the outline of this shadow was unclear, Lin Yi had an inexplicable sense of familiarity towards it.
He stepped back, warily looking at the shadow. But he hadn’t had time to distinguish whether the shadow originally belonged to this time or came here from another time like he did, when Lin Yi saw two circles of light appear on the black shadow’s head, like the shadow’s eyes.
However, the shadow wasn’t looking at Lin Yi, instead quietly watched Yuan Yuan.
Suddenly, the shadow moved towards Yuan Yuan, like a shark swimming in the ocean, revealing its pointed dorsal fin.
Lin Yi suddenly raised his head. Yuan Yuan hadn’t noticed at all but ‘It’ had.
Lin Yi saw ‘It’s’ expression turned panicked as if he had been found out doing something bad.
But ‘It’ pushed Yuan Yuan behind him, protecting her.
“What’s the matter?”
Yuan Yuan standing behind ‘It’ was completely clueless. But when Yuan Yuan looked towards ‘It’, she saw the shadow that seemed to be swimming across the floor. Her expression froze. “What is that?”
‘It’ looked flustered, trying to block Yuan Yuan with his body, “That’s…”
At the same time, the white light that opened the time rewind suddenly appeared.
Four hours had passed and Ren Li was waking him up in the ‘present’.
What is that?
The white light came too fast. When the white light arrived, the surrounding voices also disappeared.
Lin Yi only saw ‘It’ mouth the words and then Yuan Yuan’s expression suddenly changed.
—–
“Lin Yi.”
Ren Li pushed Lin Yi and then pushed Qin Zhou who was lying next to him, “President.”
Lin Yi suddenly opened his eyes. The scene in front of him had disappeared and he was back in Cen Qian’s apartment.
Seeing that Lin Yi’s expression was somewhat wrong, Ren Li immediately asked, “What happened?”
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head. “No-…nothing.”
They’ve now returned to the ‘present’. He had to , so I forced myself to withdraw my thoughts from the ‘past time’, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to Qin Zhou.
Lin Yi suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind and said, “I didn’t fall asleep.”
Ren Li glanced at him, said nothing, then pushed Qin Zhou. “President.”
Lin Yi turned over and pushed Qin Zhou as well.
Only then did Qin Zhou open his eyes.
Ren Li said, “Time’s up.”
“Yeah.” Qin Zhou cleared his head for a while then sat up.
Lin Yi whispered, “I’m sorry, Senior. I didn’t fall asleep.”
“I guessed as much.”. Qin Zhou leaned against the headboard and rubbed the bridge of his nose. Ren Li asked: “President, what happened?”
Qin Zhou said, “It was on purpose.”
Ren Li didn’t say anything anymore.
Lin Yi’s finger, hidden behind his back, couldn’t help from curling.
On purpose?
How could that be? Yuan Yuan had voluntarily stayed here forever in order to reduce the frequency of the 4-4 Monster appearing in the Unnatural Engineering University. How could she deliberately lead Zhou Qi to violate the Rule of Death?
Lin Yi really wanted to ask Qin Zhou if maybe he’d seen wrong; but he held back.
Qin Zhou hadn’t seen wrong, Qin Zhou sought surety. Just like in the 7-7 Rule World, though they already had the general outline of the main plot, Qin Zhou still needed details to fill in.
If it weren’t for all the details pointing to Yuan Yuan deliberately leading Zhou Qi to violate the Rules of Death, Qin Zhou would not have come to such a conclusion.
Lin Yi suddenly thought of the black shadow he saw last.
He then thought of the last sentence that ‘It’ said to Yuan Yuan.
Lin Yi had never learned lip reading and ‘It’ had been shrouded in black mist, so the shape of his lips was actually blurred and indistinct.
Lin Yi could only make wild guesses.
That silent word that ‘It’ said…
Was it ‘the master’?
‘The owner’?
“Little genius,” Qin Zhou called him.
“Ah.” Lin Yi hurriedly came back to his senses: “Senior, you were calling me?”
“Yeah.” Qin Zhou could see Lin Yi’s expression from his eyes but he didn’t say anything, simply saying, “I asked Ren Li to go out.”
Lin Yi quickly suppressed his thoughts, nodded and said, “Okay.”
He understood that Qin Zhou wanted to help him keep the matter of his multiple personalities a secret, so he asked Ren Li to stay outside during the Replay.
Qin Zhou asked, “Can you let him out now?”
Lin Yi wasn’t sure. ‘It’ obviously didn’t want to let Lin Yi know too much. They hadn’t performed the Replay when ‘It’ expected them to; Lin Yi wasn’t sure if ‘It’ would come out now.
“Let me try.”
After waiting for a while to no avail, Qin Zhou spoke.
Lin Yi looked at him with obvious disbelief in his eyes.
Qin Zhou shouted, “Cen Qian.”
Lin Yi’s heart felt a pang of agitation at hearing this name and then, he knew nothing of what came after.
All that were left in the room were Qin Zhou and ‘It’. Qin Zhou said, “I want to do a Replay.”
‘It’ said, “Okay.”
That… fish(?) like shadow, that sounds really scary. My mind made it into the manifestation of a shark shaped shadow, with glaring white eyes like inverted black holes, swimming through the ground, staring at Yuan Yuan… Hng, if I had nightmares, then that would be fuel!
Also, what is Lin Yi? All the question he has — this cat also wants to know. But I’m very willing to continue reading to find out!
Thank you for the chapter~
For a monster to be scared that means that thing was the real controller who maintain this monster world and looks like our captain got some things to ask he wouldn’t be doing reply so easily
Thank u for the updates!
Omg so exciting!(☆∀☆)(⊙o⊙) XD
Binging was nice , thanks for all the chapters 😊
Can’t believe we’re already past 100
‘the master’..?…then is it the master of all the rule world ….the entire university