Chapter 95
Ren Li thought for a while and asked, “And the 170cm Shunxi?”
Lin Yi didn’t answer right away but thought for a while before speaking, “If 170cm is the 4-4 Monster…”
Ren Li was taken aback for a moment and then finally came to his senses.
Cen Qian was the protagonist of the 4-4 Rule World, so the items that trigger the time rewinds were all related to Cen Qian; things like the photo, the press release, the cat…
These things are able to disturb Cen Qian’s emotion and they thus become triggers for the time rewind.
But Cen Qian wasn’t the only protagonist in the 4-4 Rule World; the other was the 4-4 Monster, the monster born of evil.
Ren Li lowered his head and thought about the probability of this matter. Qin Zhou though had already thought it through.
It would be a disaster.
Even if they use the same method of finding the trigger items, items that cause the 4-4 Monster inner disturbance, where would they even find the 4-4 Monster? Who was the 4-4 Monster among them? So far, they have absolutely no clue.
This was a disaster.
But they had no choice but to try. Otherwise, they’d stay forever trapped in this closed time loop and sooner or later they will be hunted by the ever-increasing Rules of Death.
Qin Zhou glanced at Lin Yi. He looked at Lin Yi’s expression and asked, “Little genius, who is it?”
Based on Lin Yi’s expression, he seemed to know who it was.
Ren Li asked, “Is it Feng Wan?”
If the 170cm Shunxi was the 4-4 Monster, among the remaining participants, only Feng Wan’s height was about 170cm.
But judging the 4-4 Monster by their height certainly seemed a bit sloppy.
“Feng Wan Xue Jie?” Lin Yi said, “It’s possible.”
After thinking about it, Lin Yi still said, “But there’s another person who I think is more suspicious.”
Qin Zhou waited for Lin Yi to say the person’s name. Ren Li was also waiting but Lin Yi said nothing afterwards as if he didn’t intend to say the name at all.
If his guess was correct, Lin Yi didn’t dare report this person’s name at all.
Because the person he doubted was himself.
That book falling last night had obviously been intentional.
But Lin Yi had been watching Qin Zhou. Someone had appeared in the living room, taken the book out of the bookshelf and threw it on the floor. It was impossible for him not to have heard any other movements.
Lin Yi also had doubts about Ren Li at first. But when he found that Ren Li had hidden nothing about his time rewinds, his doubts about Ren Li were dispelled. If Ren Li was the 4-4 Monster, there was absolutely no reason why he’d tell them about the matchbox time rewind. If he hadn’t told, Lin Yi wouldn’t have known that Cen Qian and ‘Shunxi’ had a confrontation, much less that Cen Qian was the actual Shunxi.
Qin Zhou couldn’t be the 4-4 Monster either.
Qin Zhou hadn’t yet woken up when he went to pick up the book and when he mistakenly thought that he had his face seen by Shunxi, Qin Zhou had stayed with him all night.
If Qin Zhou was the 4-4 monster, he’d had many opportunities to be alone with him and kill him, this participant who tries to break the rules of the world.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Seeing that Lin Yi was silent, Ren Li was about to ask but Qin Zhou stopped him. He then asked Lin Yi, “How do you plan to verify it?”
Lin Yi nodded and answered indirectly, “En, I’ve thought of a way to verify it and this method should work.”
Qin Zhou was silent for a while and then said, “Let’s head to the office first.”
Since the entire time rewind was a customized script, the company’s existence was of little significance. They were going simply to make sure that no one had violated the Rules of Death the night previous.
Despite the existence of the two Rules of Death, no one died last night. With so the many lessons they’ve learned from the past days and Qin Zhou’s special instructions, they didn’t dare mess with anything.
So tonight there will be a third Rule of Death.
After finishing the daily meeting, Qin Zhou called Lin Yi aside, “Little genius.”
Lin Yi walked towards Qin Zhou nervously. He had a feeling that Qin Zhou wasn’t about to say anything good and also ask who was his suspect and how was he going to verify it.
Sure enough, Qin Zhou asked, “How are you going to verify your suspicions?”
Lin Yi thought for a while and said, “I’m still going to the ‘past’ through a time rewind to see.”
After saying this, Lin Yi began to think about how to answer Qin Zhou’s possible questions, such as which part of the past. “Senior, I plan to…”
Qin Zhou said, “Be careful.”
Lin Yi was brought to a halt.
Qin Zhou said, “There are three Rules of Death.”
Lin Yi didn’t say anything, just looked at Qin Zhou.
He didn’t know why but hearing Qin Zhou say this, a warm current seemed to flow into his heart. It was like a stove had been set up, warming his heart.
“Senior, I…” Lin Yi’s mind also heated up and said, “I plan to use this to go back to the past.”
Lin Yi took out a plastic cake knife from his pocket.
This was from the mango cake that Qin Zhou bought. When Lin Yi left Cen Qian’s house, he saw this cake knife thrown into the trash can. He was afraid that Cen Qian would throw it away so he took it out.
Qin Zhou looked at the plastic knife in Lin Yi’s hand. The mango cake had had a great impact on Cen Qian’s emotions. The plastic knife might trigger a time rewind and naturally, it would be to the day when he’d bought the mango cake.
On that day, only the fake 182cm Shunxi had appeared.
The 4-4 Monster that Lin Yi wanted to verify naturally wasn’t the fake Shunxi. After all, the 170cm Shunxi was far more suspicious than the 182cm fake Shunxi. But the 170cm Shunxi hadn’t appeared the day before yesterday.
If the mango cake was the subject of this time rewind then the only people who could go in for the verification are him and Lin Yi. Ren Li hadn’t appeared many times during this period of time rewind.
If the person Lin Yi wanted to verify was him, Lin Yi wouldn’t be telling him of his plan.
So the only one left was Lin Yi himself. The person Lin Yi wanted to verify was himself.
Qin Zhou suddenly wanted to smoke a cigarette to clear his thoughts. He was basically sure that Lin Yi was clear. Wouldn’t he know if Lin Yi was the 4-4 monster?
Why bother verifying it?
He thought of Lin Yi’s student status information. Lin Yi’s excellent scores on his three mock exams were enough to prove that Lin Yi came to the Unnatural Engineering University on purpose. In fact, Qin Zhou had been suspicious since the beginning. Besides, it was impossible for anyone in the real world to know about this treacherous university, but Lin Yi knew and even came on purpose.
On the day Lin Yi came, the 16-8 Monster was born.
And the strength of the campus’ Monsters have been greatly enhanced.
But Lin Yi devoted himself to killing these Monsters…
A lot of questions lodged in Qin Zhou’s throat. Finally, he said, “En, be careful.”
Lin Yi smiled at Qin Zhou. “Senior, I know! I will be careful.”
“Senior, doing this verification probably isn’t going to be easy.” Seeing that Qin Zhou wasn’t asking too many questions and was so easy to talk to, Lin Yi made a small request. “Can I stay a little longer?”
Meaning that he didn’t want Qin Zhou to wake him up the next day.
Qin Zhou said, “We’ll go and get a hotel room.”
Even if he wouldn’t interrupt Lin Yi’s time rewind, Cen Qian might. And if Cen Qian is Shunxi, then they couldn’t stay with him anymore. There were three active Rules of Death and Cen Qian’s apartment has become quite dangerous.
Lin Yi nodded. “OK.”
They found a small hotel near the news agency where they could stay without an ID card and booked a standard room. Ren Li wasn’t with them. Ren Li Yi was quite bold and he still wanted to go to Cen Qian’s apartment tonight. He wanted to see what else was stored in the closet in Cen Qian’s bedroom. Maybe there would be clues about the time rewinds or about the 4-4 Monster.
At night, Lin Yi was lying on the bed with the plastic knife in his hand. He closed his eyes and saw Qin Zhou smoking a cigarette by the window.
Lin Yi knew that Qin Zhou had a lot of questions to ask him only that Qin Zhou was holding back. He wasn’t going to take the initiative to tell Qin Zhou his secret. Although, even if Qin Zhou asked, he might not be honest.
He said in his heart: ‘Senior, good night.’
Lin Yi closed his eyes and fell asleep.
It has always been difficult for him to fall asleep. In order to fall asleep quickly, he silently recreated the audio in the MP4 Player.
Qin Zhou had just finished smoking his cigarette. He turned his head back and saw Lin Yi’s lips moving slightly.
Following the shapes his mouth made, Qin Zhou read out quietly.
‘Kakaka.’
‘Kakaka.’
Qin Zhou’s eyebrows furrowed.
Lin Yi fell asleep and when he saw the white light, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the plastic knife really had triggered a time rewind.
Lin Yi quickly went to open the door. He found himself outside Cen Qian’s house. It was early in the morning.
Then he saw himself, Qin Zhou and Ren Li walking down from Cen Qian’s apartment, looking like they were heading to the news agency. He hurriedly hid behind a tree trunk and when they’ve moved farther away, Lin Yi went upstairs to knock on Cen Qian’s door.
“Who is it?” Cen Qian asked.
“Lin Yi.” Lin Yi said.
Cen Qian opened the door. “Why are you back?”
Lin Yi pretended to be anxious. “I’ve lost my salary slip.”
Cen Qian: “…You can just throw that away.”
Lin Yi nodded pitifully and said exaggerated, “But what about my three-month salary? It’s lost along with it. Have you seen it?”
Before Cen Qian could shake his head, Lin Yi pretended to remember and said, “I remember rummaging through my pocket outside before I came back last night. My salary slip disappeared after that. What should I do? Ahhh, what should I do?”
Cen Qian said, “Don’t worry, do you remember where you looked through your pocket?”
Lin Yi said, “I was just this area. Could someone have picked it up? Qin Zhou and Ren Li are in a hurry to go to work and they don’t have time to help me look for it.”
He then looked at Cen Qian expectantly.
“…” Cen Qian said, “Push me downstairs and I’ll help you look for it.”
Lin Yi said gratefully, “Thank you.”
He pushed Cen Qian downstairs and after searching for a while, Lin Yi said, “Why don’t we search separately? I’m afraid it might get picked up by someone else.”
Cen Qian had no suspicions against him. “Okay.”
Cen Qian rolled away in his wheelchair to look for Lin Yi’s salary slip. Lin Yi took advantage of this moment to sneak back into Cen Qian’s apartment. He ran straight to Cen Qian’s room and flung the closet open.
Sure enough, there was that cloak in the closet. He took it out and put it on himself. He then disregarded Cen Qian completely and chased after himself.
He remembered that the three of them had talked for a long time by the flower bed of the news agency that day, resulting in them arriving late for the morning meeting.
All Lin Yi had to do was to wear the cloak and dangle himself front of his ‘past’ self. If necessary, he was going to make himself mistakenly think that he’s had his face seen by Shunxi.
He knew that on this day, when he bought the birthday candles for Cen Qian, he had acted alone.
This was a good chance to verify what had actually happened.
Whenever he’s in danger, ‘It’ will come out. Provided, that is, that ‘It’ isn’t the 4-4 Monster.
His method of verification was to look at the reaction of his “past” self when facing a life-threatening situation. After all, at this time, he still believed that the Rule of Death was to have one’s face seen by Shunxi.
By the time he reached the news agency building, the three people from the ‘past’ had already reached the end of their discussion.
Lin Yi saw Qin Zhou throwing the stones that had served as pieces into the flower bed. When the three of ‘past’ selves walked into the news agency building, Lin Yi stepped forward and picked up one of the stones from the flower bed.
The stone still had the Qin Zhou’s warmth. Lin Yi put the stone in his pocket and prepared himself to give his ‘past’ a scare depending on the situation.
His hand was beautiful. The weather today was very good, the sun was bright and there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky. The stone was a white pebble, smooth and delicate to the touch. Lin Yi’s fingers, when he bent down to pick up the stone, were slender and narrow. These fingers, whose beauty Qin Zhou has always admired, shone under the sunshine like jade.
I knew that description of the jade like hand was for Lin Yi 😀
Shoot, when was the other time it was mentioned?
Chapter 88, last line.
Ah ha! Thank you! Jade is always our sweet protagonist <3
😌😂😂 Gud, somethings became clear now QUESTION time lin think “it” is possessed by the 4-4 monster but he didn’t have laps in his memory that time we think “it” is a real monster of this world so how did lin in real worl get possessed (that kakaka sound was so monster like👌) hv a doubt abt 170 but lets wait
I personally don’t think that “it” would get itself possessed by a monster, as “it” seems to be a powerful being that scares other monsters.
But, I’m excited to find out if “it” really is possessed by the 4-4 monster!
Thank you for the chapter! ❤
Thanks for the chapter ^^
OH SO IT IS HIM-
AHA I knew the figure Lin Yi saw was himself! This is a fun explanation for it.
Soooo the 4-4 monster possed the “it” but not Lin Yi? Eh?????
damn i knew i knew it ….the author couldn’t have described other fingers as beautiful as jade fingers …..hahhhh..