"Why was Mountain City destroyed?? Was it the Huaxia Army??"
"I don't know! I don't know!"
The woman backed away in terror, shouting for help at the same time.
A piercing sound rang out in the village, and from the wooden houses all around, people with different faces suddenly poured out.
Lin Yu instinctively took a step back.
He tentatively clenched his fists, only to find that the strength and speed he was once proud of had long disappeared.
Perhaps at this moment, he was no different from an ordinary person.
This was once his dream.
But now, he felt only impending doom.
"Grab him!"
"Capture that outsider!"
Lin Yu took two steps back, then turned and ran.
---- He actually didn't know why he was running.
Perhaps it was just because he was unwilling to die here like this.
There was too little information obtained.
If every death required paying a price of several hundred years, then when would he gather enough clues to escape this world??
Lin Yu sprinted as fast as he could, but this ordinary body made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
It was as if he was running in a quagmire.
Not fast enough, not high enough, and not flexible enough!
Lin Yu stumbled and fell to the ground, and in an instant, his back was hit with a heavy impact.
Someone had pounced on him, knocking him to the ground!
Lin Yu struggled desperately, but it was already too late.
The crowd swarmed over him, pinning him firmly to the ground. He could only press himself against the floor in humiliation, allowing them to bind his hands and feet, string him on a long wooden pole, and bring him back to the village.
No escaping now.
A ridiculous and absurd thought suddenly popped into Lin Yu's head.
---- So, won't these people, like those legendary Cannibal Tribe, roast him to eat?
Or perhaps they would torture him to death like Blood Skull?
No, judging by their appearance, they don't seem to be Blood Skull.
And the way they looked at him wasn't just angry and violent; there was more.... fear.
"Why let him into the village?!"
Lin Yu heard a man who looked like a leader shouting.
"Why let him in?!"
"The Injured Beast is coming soon! We don't have time!"
"From now on, everyone must shut their eyes! I'm saying everyone!"
Shut their eyes?
Lin Yu's heart skipped a beat.
What does he want to do?
Is it to avoid frightening others with too bloody a scene, and that's why he's ordering them not to look?
But why... not simply disperse the crowd?
One by one, questions floated in Lin Yu's mind, and at that moment, the man continued:
"Forget everything you saw!"
"Countdown! Countdown!"
"Start counting down from 10,000!"
"Now! Immediately!"
Orders were given, and the countdown began to sound.
"10,000, 9,999...."
The countdown began scattered but gradually became orderly.
"9,991..."
One voice after another began to converge; Lin Yu watched those people shut their eyes, groping their way to their respective homes.
---- Saying it's groping, but their movements weren't actually unfamiliar.
It's as if they had done the same thing many times before.
Lin Yu stood inexplicably in place, trying to break free from the restraints but found the ropes binding him extremely strong, impossible to break free.
"Let me go!"
"Let me go!"
Lin Yu shouted, questioning:
"What the hell are you doing? Why are you tying me up here?!"
"Shut up!"
The man who looked like a leader stepped forward.
His eyes were already covered with a blindfold, unable to see Lin Yu's position.
He could only barely discern Lin Yu's direction by sound, and after turning to Lin Yu, he scolded sharply:
"Stop yelling!"
"We don't want to hurt you!"
"But if you want to live, you must do as I say!"
"Listen to me, close your eyes, put on this blindfold, and start counting down from 10,000!"
"It won't take you much time!"
"Once the countdown is over, everything will be over...."
"What a joke?!"
Lin Yu inexplicably watched the leader fumbling on his face, shaking his head desperately to avoid the forcibly put-on blindfold.
The leader seemed to have become impatient with his resistance, and after another failed attempt, he shouted:
"You must listen to me!"
"Do you want all of us to die with you??"
"The Injured Beast is coming! We didn't have to die!"
"You!"
"It's all because of you!"
"We don't even know where you came from! But you've dragged everyone down!"
"We're still willing to save you now, but it's forced!"
"Close your eyes, don't let everyone die because of you!"
"Why?!"
Lin Yu had no idea what the other party was talking about.
"Why do I have to close my eyes? Why would you die because of me?"
"What is the Injured Beast?? Will it not kill me if I close my eyes??"
"I don't know!"
The leader's fingers were already starting to tremble slightly, Lin Yu could clearly see that he was indeed terrified, or rather nervous to the extreme.
"If you really want to know, then you go ask the Injured Beast yourself!"
"You can go die... no, you can't die, even if you die, the result will be the same!"
"You must close your eyes, you cannot bring new changes to this village, not even a little!"
"I beg you, I beg you..."
"No matter where you are from, listen to me, listen to me, okay?"
The leader's anticipatory tone became somewhat humble, Lin Yu frowned, but in the end, he cooperated and put on the blindfold.
Instantly, darkness enveloped his sight.
Lin Yu took a deep breath and continued to ask:
"I will cooperate with you."
"But can you tell me now what exactly you are avoiding?"
"Is it some kind of monster? Or some enemy?"
"You don't even know the Injured Beast... you don't belong to this world?"
The leader's hand, which was touching and checking the blindfold on Lin Yu's face, suddenly trembled.
Then, he said fearfully:
"It's over."
"Completely over..."
"You are not from this world... our efforts are futile..."
"Why?"
This was the word Lin Yu had said most frequently in these past few minutes.
Everything about this village puzzled him.
What Injured Beast, what closing eyes, what countdown...
And "not from this world."
He indeed was not from this world.
But... what does it matter?
My situation is just like yours, isn't it?
Are we not facing the same enemy?
He instinctively wanted to struggle, to remove the blindfold.
But at that moment, a strip of cloth tightened around his mouth.
"Don't speak... don't speak..."
The leader muttered to himself as he tightened the cloth strip, Lin Yu panted heavily, making a low growl in his throat, but could no longer utter a complete sentence.
His bound body started to feel sore, and even just standing consumed a lot of his energy.
The countdown sound echoed continuously in his ears, seemingly like some...
demonic chant.
"Nine thousand seven hundred ninety-one..."
"Nine thousand five hundred forty..."
Lin Yu felt his consciousness was gradually blurring from the countdown sound, his thinking having a strong sense of "losing focus."
But it was precisely this feeling that suddenly made him realize.
Wait.
He had used this method before to counter that "mysterious voice's" Mind Reading Technique.
Now, could it be that the people in this village are doing the same thing?
The so-called "Injured Beast," could it refer to the owner of that voice??
Lin Yu instantly calmed down.
Starting the countdown from ten thousand.
It wouldn't take much time.
He should cooperate with them to see what the final result would be!
He took a deep breath, gradually syncing with the rhythm of the sound.
"Nine thousand five hundred twenty..."
....
"Five thousand one hundred twelve....."
...
"10....."
"9....."
....
"2....."
"1..."
At the very moment the countdown ended.
Lin Yu's vision suddenly brightened.
The blindfold was removed.
----No.
It wasn't the blindfold removed.
It was his "soul" leaving his body.
Lin Yu watched in astonishment at his own body still left below.
Then, a flash of white light.
He witnessed with his own eyes the destruction of the village.
The villagers struggled to run outside, then collapsed, vomiting blood.
In an instant, almost all the living people died before his eyes.
And his own consciousness was also gradually dissipating.
Before completely descending into darkness.
Lin Yu saw a... huge, void-like black shadow...
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