Reincarnation space, but the style is wrong

Chapter 233 A dead Taoist friend is not dead but a poor Taoist

It was still the small courtyard of the Taoist temple. Chen Xingzhi sat on a recliner, sipping tea, observing the behavior of those trapped in the time loop, and commenting from time to time.

"Oh? The first escapee finally appeared."

He took a sip of tea with a smile, turned to look at the man who suddenly appeared beside him, and clapped his hands in encouragement.

Hermann had just returned to reality from the brink of death. He opened his eyes, and there was no more fatigue in his body. He was back to his peak state.

"What happened to me just now?" His mind was a little confused, and after a while, he remembered what he had just done.

After coming into contact with the mirror, he learns that he is trapped in a time loop and that to escape he must kill his other, or past, self.

At this moment, he realized that the person he had killed was actually another self, that is, his future self.

No doubt, what he wanted was to kill his past self and break the cycle.

But Hermann didn't think so at this time, because the magic power reserves in his body were not enough to kill his past self. If he chose this path, he would undoubtedly be killed by his past self, just as he had done before.

As for snatching control of the opponent's magic engine? This is also unrealistic, because the opponent is his prime self and can easily take control back.

Now he seemed to be in a dead end.

Fortunately, his mind was still clear and he had not yet lost his mind in order to escape the cycle. In this situation, he came up with an idea.

In order to break the time loop, he followed this idea and did something extremely crazy.

After passing through the bronze mirror, he immediately rushed to the other self, grabbed him tightly, and activated the self-destruct program of the magic engine in his body.

As the alarm of the magic engine sounded, he saw another of himself trying desperately to break free.

Fortunately, he was one step ahead and did not let it escape.

The moment the magic engine exploded, his consciousness fell silent. Although he did not see what happened afterwards, he could guarantee that even if the magic engine's self-destruction was weakened, it was still enough to kill someone who was so close to him.

Now it seems that he has undoubtedly succeeded.

Another self was killed in the explosion. Although he also died, the fact that he appeared here meant that his idea was correct.

Wait, this seems to be the small courtyard of Xuanjun Temple.

As soon as this thought came to his mind, his eyes almost went dark. At this moment, he heard a voice coming from the side.

"Yes, you are the first one among this group to escape the time loop."

He glanced around and finally found a young man in a black Taoist robe sitting on a rocking chair not far from him. The young man looked familiar to him.

Because he was trapped for too long, Hermann's brain functioned a little slowly. After a while, he remembered that this was his mission target, Xuanjun.
A chill surged from the bottom of his heart. He was terrified as he looked at the smiling young man and could not help but take several steps back.

Seeing Chen Xingzhi standing up from the recliner, he immediately slid down to his knees.

"Please, please spare my life, I really don't want to enter the time loop again." Hermann stuttered.

"Don't be nervous. Since you have escaped the cycle by yourself, I will naturally not make things difficult for you," Chen Xingzhi waved his hand to show his magnanimity.

Hearing this, Herman breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could completely relax, he heard him say the following sentence:
"The premise is that you have to do one thing according to my instructions."

Hermann swallowed his saliva and said carefully, "Please go ahead."

"Take this to the association's position at the foot of the mountain."

Chen Xingzhi took out a piece of purple crystal from his arms and threw it to Herman, saying:
"Take it to the association's position and drop it off somewhere. You will have one minute to flee the scene. Stay at least ten kilometers away from the crystal to ensure your own safety."

After saying that, he added, "Don't think about throwing it away or destroying it halfway, otherwise... You don't want to enter an upgraded time loop again, do you?" Helmer took the amethyst gently, put it away carefully, and nodded, "I understand."

Although he didn't know what effect this amethyst would have on the people in the association and his colleagues, he had to take this job for the sake of his life that he had managed to save.

After watching Hermann walk out of the Taoist temple, Chen Xingzhi took another sip of tea and turned his attention back to those who were still imprisoned in the time loop.

"Among the first group of people who entered the time loop, only Hermann escaped. The rest are probably rotting in there."

The time loop, which he also calls the Time Maze, is a manifestation of his power as the Time Worm.

He specially created a complex time maze, not to see how those people struggle in it, but to see how they would break the cycle and perfect this technology.

But now it seems that there are not many areas that need to be improved. So far, only Hermann has found a loophole.

"Maybe it's because the scenario is not complex enough and the number of people tested is not large enough, and these two points will be solved soon."

After leaving Xuanjun Temple, Hermann hurried down the mountain.

Along the way, he was still thinking about what excuse he should use to contact the association members.

"No, I don't need to contact them at all. I can just put the crystal in the association's position and leave directly."

He knew very well that his troops had been annihilated and he could not escape blame no matter what. His only option now was to change his appearance, stay away from the company and association he once worked for, and live in the shadow for the rest of his life.

Thinking of this, he cursed: "Damn Forging Hammer Company, and damn Association, how could they have gotten into trouble with such horrible guys?"

As for scolding the culprit who caused all this? He didn't dare to do that, after all, he was still in Mushan, in the other party's territory.

Speaking without restraint may result in death.

"Fortunately, I destroyed the locator in my body in advance at Xuanjun Temple, otherwise I would have been discovered by the company's people."

He was extremely glad for his decision. Since he had already decided to betray, he might as well go all the way.

After a while, he returned to the foot of the mountain and could already see the members of the association and the soldiers of the Fourth Army sent by the Forging Hammer Company.

The ritual that had been prepared long ago was activated instantly, and Hermann's figure disappeared.

He quietly entered the position, made sure that no one was around, then took out the amethyst from his arms and buried it in the soil.

"Don't blame me, I just want to survive." A trace of gloom flashed across his face, and then he ran without stopping to a place far away from Amethyst.

Because he acted very secretly, the patrolling association members and the soldiers of the Fourth Army of the Hammer Company did not notice anything unusual, and everything seemed very calm.

It was in this silence that death came.

Thick purple fog spread out from the crystal without warning, enveloping people before they could react.

The signal was cut off, and they were unable to contact their superiors or take any other action.

The equipment that the association had specially prepared for the purple mist was of no use at all. They could only watch themselves being swallowed by the purple mist and gradually losing consciousness.

This time, the purple mist did not intercept their existence, but teleported them all to different small dimensions.

Horror cruise ship, endless stairs, weird mountain village.
The Time Worm hangs outside the world, watching over the dimensions it spawned, its scarlet compound eyes reflecting the future of these dimensions and their ever-present cycles.

He can draw strength from time, and his strength increases with each completed cycle.

Until he was powerful enough to pull the entire timeline into its own endless loop.

(End of this chapter)