Restricted fantasy invasion

Chapter 426, Page 423
"Alas!"

Upon seeing the silver dagger gleaming in the moonlight behind her, Bai Yi was stunned. Her anemia, which had not yet fully recovered, caused her vision to flicker.

"careful!"

Fortunately, at the crucial moment, Yan Huan behind her saw that things were not going well and kicked her head to the side with a flying cat kick.

"Om!!"

In an instant, the silver light brushed past her hair, leaving strands falling.

"How...how could this happen?"

Bai Yi sat on the beach, still shaken, and took a few steps back. Only now, having narrowly escaped a fatal blow, did she realize what had happened.

She looked up at the half of Yuanlina's eye that had turned a deep purple, and exclaimed in shock,
"Isn't this if line...? Haven't all the modifiers been fixed?"

"It doesn't look like it yet. It's the index finger!"

When faced with the same thing, different brains can arrive at completely different conclusions.

The instant she saw that the index finger was still there, Yan Huan's mind raced, processing even more information, such as:

"It's impossible that only the index finger is still there; there must be other mods that haven't been abandoned! It's most likely you!"

Having experienced what happened in Tokyo, Yan Huan understood better than anyone else:
If the modifiers are not abandoned together, the progress of the abandoned modifiers will only be added to other hosts.

If all four modifiers are abandoned at the same time, the index finger will instantly enter the fourth stage and cause the evil god to descend, even if it does nothing.

The fact that this situation hasn't occurred in the current IF line only indicates that other mods exist and are sharing the corresponding progress.

"But... Waaah!"

Bai Yi was still wondering what was going on when she saw Yu Anlina, her face streaked with tears, raising her knife and slashing again. Startled, she turned and ran towards the abandoned factory.

Seeing her run that way, Yan Huan on her shoulder and You Anlina, who was being forcibly controlled, both alerted her at the same time.

"Don't run that way!"

"No, don't go there, Bai Yi."

"Hey, hey, hey?!"

"Click~"

Ahead, the gates of the abandoned factory opened, revealing a deep, abyss-like purple aura.

A red-haired demon, head bowed, slowly emerged, following the purple light.

She was also holding a long knife in her hand.

"Alas!!"

Upon seeing that Tong Yingying had also been hypnotized, Bai Yi was so frightened that he stopped in his tracks and turned to run in the other direction.

"You can't escape like that, you have to use a cheat engine!"

Yan Huan anxiously reminded him from her shoulder, while Bai Yi cried out with a mournful face,
"I tried it in the bathroom before, and I couldn't summon the pocket watch! You must be mistaken!"

"Impossible! The index finger needs to choose a host to share the desire, and the thumb cannot be hypnotized. Sakuramiya Hitomi and Anle are too smart."

Upon hearing this, Yan Huan shook her head and said with great certainty,

"Therefore, if the host of the index finger has even a shred of sense, they will definitely choose you!"

"Huh?! You're going to call me an idiot at a time like this?! You useless Yan Ye, does Areya even look like a brain?!"

Yan Huan's face darkened; she truly felt a sense of utter helplessness, like casting pearls before swine.
"You still don't understand, meow?! If Areya were the host, she wouldn't have faked abandoning the modifier!! The real host of the index finger is someone else!!"

"Right, right! And since your cheat avatar is still here, I should still have the cheat!"

"You're finally being smart for once, meow!"

Bai Yi finally understood, but at that moment, Tong Yingying's footsteps, like those of a demon, rushed up behind her, startling her so much that she quickened her pace again and cried out.
"But the problem is, if I still have the mod, why can't I summon the pocket watch?"

".I have a solution."

Yan Huan turned around and looked at Tong Yingying, who had rushed behind him. After thinking for a moment, he opened his mouth and prepared to spit out the bull horn he had obtained earlier.

That was the item he had obtained in his palm before. Drinking it would grant him 100% resistance for 24 hours.

But before he could spit it out, the bull horn seemed to get stuck in his throat, and then a phantom page appeared before Yan Huan's eyes.
The item in your palm can only be used by yourself or the host of the corresponding authority.

For example, this object in the palm of your thumb can only be used by you or the thumb's original owner.

Upon seeing this, Yan Huan's face darkened.

The problem is, this item already provides resistance that Areya already has, so why would you need to give it to her?!

"What method?"

Meanwhile, Bai Yi, who was running away, was still wondering about it.

Upon hearing this, Yan Huan looked as if she had swallowed a fly and whispered,
"That's all."

"Huh? You piece of trash!"

"Meow?!"

Before Yan Huan could retort, a gust of wind came crashing down from behind like a sudden storm.

His eyes narrowed, and he quickly reminded him.
"careful!"

"Hey?"

In fact, even without Yan Huan's reminder, Bai Yi felt that unease, like a thorn in his back.

meeting.
will die!

"Woo!"

When that inexplicable feeling overlapped with the earlier sensation of the ambulance about to hit his face, Bai Yi immediately closed his eyes and lunged forward.

In an instant, she narrowly avoided Tong Yingying's slash from behind, which could have instantly cleaved her in two.

"hiss"

Bai Yi collapsed onto the beach once again, her face pale as she turned to look behind her.

Only then did they see that Tong Yingying's hands were trembling slightly as she gripped the knife, the blade stuck in the sand, yet she couldn't pull it out for a long time.

The direction of this slash.
She didn't cut herself?

"Sister Tongtong"

Bai Yi's legs went weak, but she couldn't understand why she didn't continue to draw the knife. Instead, she seemed to be stuck and her body trembled on the spot.

In the distance, inside a black sedan speeding towards them, Elvira's eyes were a deep purple, and she seemed to be monitoring the situation live through a phone held up by Sakuramiya Hitomi behind her.
After being hypnotized, Yu Anlina and Tong Yingying both had strong physical strength, but Sakura Miyako's body was very weak. Without the modifier, hypnosis could only be used as a human camera.

"Kill her, quickly, kill her!"

Beside her, on Elvira's phone, the winged lion that was her index finger was pacing anxiously, constantly urging Elvira to take action.

Upon hearing this, Elvira nodded, a glint of something in her eyes, and continued to manipulate Tong Yingying into speaking.

"Bai Yi, I'm now dispelling your hypnosis and returning your pocket watch to you."

"!?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Huan narrowed her eyes, while Bai Yi was so shocked that she opened her mouth wide, staring at Tong Yingying in disbelief.

Inside the car, the pterosaur, represented by the index finger, also looked horrified.

It immediately looked at Elvira and questioned her.

"What are you doing?"

However, as soon as she turned her head, Elvira gripped her phone tightly in one hand and looked coldly at the winged lion among them.
"Do you think I'm stupid?"

"The ability to travel through time belongs to Bai Yi. If only she could take me to the timeline where Aruya is still attached to me, why did you have to kill her?"

"You want me to use my abilities to kill her, but your promise is nothing but an empty check. Do you think I'll believe it?"

The index finger's eyes widened, and it was only then that it realized its hasty and misguided approach had revealed its flaw.

"You, you, you can't do this! You don't know what will happen if you continue to let her run wild! Besides, the modifier can only be activated by the host's desires; you're forcibly controlling her."

Elvira remained expressionless, gripping her phone tightly in one hand until cracks appeared on it, before she spoke coldly.

"I don't care, all I want is for me, Ariya, and Yan Huan to live happily together!"

"Kakakaka!!"

In the blink of an eye, the phone screen shattered into pieces.

The car carrying Elvira stopped by the beach.

Elvira got out of the car immediately with a cold face and walked towards Bai Yi.

"Auntie?"

Bai Yi was still staring at the pocket watch in her hand in shock when she heard the sound of the car door opening and closing behind her. She turned around and saw Elvira walking towards her expressionlessly.

Upon seeing the other person, Yan Huan almost breathed out a puff of air.
"Forget about 'Auntie,' she's the host of the index finger in this 'what if' scenario! Be careful!"

"Huh? It's her again? She's not even in my rank, she beats me like a fish in a pond."

Upon seeing that it was Elvira, the loan shark, who had become the host again, Bai Yi was about to move when Tong Yingying's knife was already at his neck from behind.

Now she was completely frozen in place, only daring to roll her eyes and come up with an idea.

She plans to simply drive off without a care in the world.

Without further ado, as Bai Yi thought this, her fingers had already quietly touched the minute hand.

However, when she actually tried to do it, she suddenly realized that she couldn't move her fingers at all.

It was as if a tremendous burden was pressing down on those fingers.
怎.
how come.
"Bai Yi, you can travel to other timelines, right?"

Before her eyes, Elvira had slowly squatted down.

She gently reached out and grasped Bai Yi's shoulder, her eyes gleaming with a deep purple light as she looked at him.

That look.
It was as if they wanted to completely devour Bai Yi, as if she were now their only hope.

"?!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Yi's eyes widened, and she immediately realized that she had let something slip earlier.

With a mournful face, she apologized to Yan Huan in her mind.

"I...I'll never call you useless again, I'm sorry."

"What's the point of saying this now?! Can we even activate the trainer?"

"My fingers... I can't move them."

Yan Huan took a deep breath, but before she could speak, Elvira's expression suddenly turned ferocious.
"Stop trying to pull any tricks! Tell me, can you do it?"

"Buzz!"

Under the gaze of those deep purple eyes, Bai Yi's voice seemed to slip out of her control, and she spoke on her own.

"Maybe"

"Take me there, now! Take me to that timeline you mentioned, the one where Areya is so clingy to me!"

"..." Bai Yi was startled by Elvira's red eyes. She tried her best to control her body, but at this moment, her hand uncontrollably reached out to turn the clock hands in the opposite direction.

"it is good"

She watched helplessly as her fingers moved the clock hand in the opposite direction—a power known as time acceleration.

"Snapped!"

Seeing this, Elvira, her eyes flashing with madness, immediately grabbed her. She was clearly aware of the time acceleration ability; only by touching her could she accelerate along with her.

At the same time, her eyes flashed slightly, and she made Tong Yingying put the knife away.

but.
What Elvira didn't know was that she hadn't accelerated time enough times!

Seeing that Tong Yingying had sheathed her knife and Elvira's attention was entirely on the pocket watch and Bai Yi, Yan Huan instantly realized that her opportunity had come.

"Roar!!"

Yan Huan immediately materialized, holding a mouthful of sparks in her mouth and aiming them at Elvira.

"cat?"

"Swallow Leaf!!"

“Didi. Ta-da.”

Just as Bai Yi's fingers touched the pocket watch, the pocket watch seemed to sense something.
As the hour hand turned, the originally pleasant ticking sound of the water droplet clock suddenly became eerie.

It's like the "cooing" sound made by some kind of toad.

Immediately, the hour hand on the pocket watch began to spin wildly.

"Boom!"

An invisible wave shot out like a nuclear explosion, blasting everyone except Bai Yi and Elvira away.

"Meow?!"

Yan Huan was shocked to the point of being thrown into the sea with the fireball still in her mouth, while Tong Yingying, You Anlina, and Sakura Miyako in the distance were also sent flying backwards.

As the clock hand rotates, the timeline along the entire "if" line begins to jump strangely.

This is not a simple acceleration of time, but more like a disruption of time.

At that moment, the night sky suddenly brightened up.

The next second, time jumped from morning to afternoon, causing the setting sun to plummet straight down towards the horizon.

"puff!"

At the same time, as time ticked by, the "Ring Finger Counterattack Curse" on Elvira, which should have taken a while to activate, instantly took effect.

Her eyes instantly became incredibly cloudy, and a sharp pain seemed to emanate from them.

Even so, she still refused to let go.

"Arya, I saw a timeline where Arya doesn't hate me."

"click"

She lowered her head, but seemed to sense something.

At this moment, the wildly jumping "if" lines became extremely fragile.

The spatial rift, which was supposed to appear at 4:44 PM the next day, began to shatter little by little at this moment, making Elvira seem to feel the call from beyond the timeline.

There, the sun should shine brightly, and her daughter, unaware of her shameful affair, stays by her side every day.
"If you weren't like this, how could Areya possibly hate you?!"

Bai Yi gritted her teeth and uttered this complaint.

She was still concerned about the swallow that had been blasted away, but when she turned her head, she also saw the spacetime rift that had broken through.

From it, one can still vaguely see the real world line that is gradually coming to a boil.

As Elvira drew closer to the spatial rift, the world line reacted even more violently, on the verge of annihilation.
If the characters from the "what if" scenario were brought into reality, would this result be produced?

"Yan Huan."

Looking at the crumbling timeline of reality, Bai Yi's eyes narrowed, and he immediately realized that if things continued like this, Yan Huan would be completely beyond saving.

"Elvira! Stop right there!!"

But for some reason, when she realized this, Bai Yi's expression, which had been full of heartache and helplessness, instantly became resolute.

Her eyes were slightly red, and her emotions were so intense that she broke free from the hypnotic control and suddenly grabbed Elvira's body.

"Let go!"

Elvira was suddenly pulled back and looked back in surprise.

Because this was the first time she had ever seen that good-for-nothing make such an expression.

But then she saw Bai Yi behind her, her eyes red, hugging her tightly and biting her hand, making her gasp in pain.
"You bastard!"

"Kakaka!"

But at this moment, the pocket watch in Bai Yi's hand was still spinning wildly as if in response to an emergency.

Even though Elvie couldn't pull them away, the ever-expanding spatial rift generated a suction force, trying to take them all with it.

Aria

"Woo!"

As the spatial rift drew closer, Bai Yi realized something and quickly looked down at the pocket watch in her hand.

Since this mess was caused by her controlling herself to turn the hour hand, as long as I turn the hour hand in the opposite direction to activate time stop, the pocket watch should calm down!
"Time. Stop!"

Thinking this, Bai Yi held Elvira tightly while reaching out to fiddle with the pocket watch on her wrist.

But this time...
The exact same feeling as during the previous car accident washed over me again.
Just as she touched the hour hand, a wave of pain, caused by her extremely poor physical condition, surged up and stopped her from turning the pocket watch.

Previously, she was unable to activate time stop because she had been running all night.

Right now, it's because she's anemic from just cutting her wrists that she can't activate time stop.

So before, she chose to wait for death, and when she opened her eyes again, she watched helplessly as Yan Huan was hit and killed right in front of her.
So now, if she chooses to do nothing, she will have to watch helplessly as...
Aria

At that moment, Bai Yi's slightly reddened starry eyes suddenly lifted up.

Before her, in the gradually boiling world line, she immediately saw the line that collapsed on July 1st.

"boom!"

But in that instant, the nightmare-like, most unbearable image of Yan Huan being hit by a car and left bloodied and mangled in front of him surged into his mind once again.

"!!"

The next second, a single tear slid down Bai Yi's cheek.

And she, gritting her teeth, once again pressed down hard on the hour hand of her pocket watch with all her might.
"This time, I will definitely save Yan Huan!!!"

"Kakakaka!!"

As she desperately pushed the incredibly heavy clock hand, an unprecedented pain instantly surged into her soul.

But Bai Yi gritted her teeth and kept shouting as she pushed the clock hands forward.

"Yan Huan!!!"

“Ding. Ta-da!!”

The next second, an equally terrifying invisible wave erupted once again.

The time stop, which seemed to freeze everything, instantly covered the restless "if" lines, shoving away the hopeful Elvira in front of her, and also instantly closing the time rift that had been opened.

The pulsating time cooled down, and the night returned to its usual bright and clear state.

"Wow."

Time did not stop.

But everything returned to normal.

The beach was silent, except for the sound of the waves crashing against the shore.

"."

Elvira collapsed to the ground, seemingly having completely lost consciousness.

but.
The phone in her hand, which had been off, suddenly lit up.

A winged lion with an expression of icy indifference suddenly appeared among them.

It looked at the unconscious Elvira and said coldly.

"idiot."

The index finger didn't disappear just because Elvira crushed the phone; it just kept waiting.

It seems that it knew all along that Elvira could not succeed.

It was merely a matter of using the frenzied Elvira to check the condition of the ring finger and deplete its power.
And now, the time has come.

"We must kill the host of the ring finger."

At that moment, the index finger looked up at what was in front of it and spoke softly.

The next second, Tong Yingying and You Anlina, who had previously lost consciousness, stood up again, their eyes turning a dark purple, and holding their knives.

"Ah I."

On the beach, Bai Yi, clutching her pocket watch, trembled.

Her eyes were lowered, and drops of blood seeped from her nose.

But at this moment, her whole body felt as if it had been injected with a thousand anesthetics, completely out of her control.

Even consciousness.
not good
Bai Yi was panting, looking at the few people who were eyeing her menacingly as they approached. No matter how anxious she was, it was all in vain.

She could no longer even stand steadily.

"I...I haven't been able to save you, Yan Huan...No...No!"

Before losing consciousness, Bai Yi uttered these words in a desperate, tearful voice.

As soon as she finished speaking, she closed her eyes and her body tilted backward uncontrollably.

However, she did not fall to the ground.

Because from behind, a hand gently embraced the unconscious girl.

"?"

Upon seeing this, the winged lion controlling the two on the phone was slightly taken aback.

Because at that moment, something suddenly appeared behind Bai Yi.
He was a handsome young man with a cold expression.

"Yan Yan Huan?!"

Upon hearing this, the young man gently pulled the limp girl into his arms.

Gazing at her sleeping face, filled with pain and despair, his eyes flickered slightly, and he said softly,
"I'm here."

(End of this chapter)