Chapter 1005: Chapter 1003: Breaking the Limits
"William, where did you get this camera?"
William rubbed his chubby face, "Huh? Haven’t I always had it?"
"Did you have it before we boarded the plane?"
"Of course!"
"Is that so..."
"Mr. Yi, what’s wrong with you? Are you experiencing airplane amnesia syndrome?"
"Syndrome... illness... Those words sound so familiar."
"Alright! It’s time to get off the plane, you two. Once we find that thing, we’ll be well-off for quite some time!"
As William maneuvered his hefty body to clear the path, Yi Chen didn’t follow but stayed in his seat, unresponsive even when Lene stepped over him.
Once all the passengers had disembarked, William’s large head was still blocking the doorway, the camera pointing at the sole remaining Yi Chen in the cabin.
"Why isn’t Mr. Yi leaving yet? While we don’t have a time constraint, other clients might beat us to it."
"You guys go ahead, I’m not going."
"Why not?" William walked back with the camera, keeping it focused on Yi Chen the entire time.
"It’s meaningless. I don’t want to raise money anymore; my mother’s life or death is irrelevant to me."
"Huh? That’s a joke, Mr. Yi... If my mom still had a breath left, I’d definitely shell out a million, not to mention fifty thousand~ not even ten thousand? No way. I still need to buy lubricant for my wife and maybe get a backup wife too.
Forget it, I have no right to judge you~ If I didn’t want to spend money either, death and illness are part of life, but don’t you want to take such a large sum of money and have fun, Mr. Yi?"
"No."
"Then sorry~ I’ll go with Lene alone to find the VHS. It’s great! I get to monopolize Lene’s voluptuous body, even if she’s not as good as my wife, she’s still nice among 3D women, hissing goodness!"
With William’s complete departure,
Yi Chen remained seated on the plane, feeling something was off, a sense of discord.
Why was he on the plane?
Why did he accept this weird assignment?
Why did William seem so familiar?
Why did he hate being on camera so much?
"Sir, please deplane quickly! We’re about to clean the cabin."
"Okay."
Yi Chen left the cabin following the flight attendant’s prompt, intending to buy a return ticket in the hall and get away from this haunted place.
However, the entire airport passage was completely deserted.
He even deliberately checked a mid-way restroom, but there was no one in either the men’s or women’s.
A deserted passage he could explain, since he disembarked late, but when Yi Chen reached the airport lobby, it too was empty.
Sensing something amiss, he prepared to run to the nearest airport exit.
Click!
The entire airport’s power was cut, and even the sun outside, which hadn’t set, was forcibly wiped away, plunging the whole lobby into darkness.
Despite the outage, the airport lobby screens still glowed like an old TV with static snow.
Yi Chen’s gaze was naturally drawn, staring at the massive screen.
Click~ The lobby emitted another strange noise, as if a videotape had been inserted into a player.
"Don’t look!"
Something in his subconscious urged Yi Chen to lower his head, knowing instinctively that one glance could be deadly.
He quickly turned around and sprinted for the airport exit, eyes on the ground but catching a glimpse of pale old legs beside him.
Turning slightly,
there was an old man enveloped in aged wrinkled skin, with camera lenses replacing his eyes, staring at him.
Yi Chen wasn’t frightened, instead an instinctive urge surged from deep within—to slay, as his hand became a blade to strike at the old man’s neck.
Click!
Something was severed,
but it wasn’t a head on the ground, only a broken flight attendant’s sign, with no sign of the supposed elder.
"Why do I feel like killing someone?" Yi Chen was bewildered, remembering himself as just an ordinary college graduate.
Harboring questions, he continued racing towards the exit, pushing through the airport glass doors.
Tap!
The moment his shoe stepped out of the airport, he found himself in a room piled with videotapes, facing a TV showing deadly scenes.
However, this time was different.
Knowing he wouldn’t escape this time, feeling the impending [Deadly], Yi Chen didn’t wait for the effect to set in. Instead, he preemptively swung the hand blade to sever his own head.
This death was easy, comfortable, even accompanied by the sound of ocean waves.
...
"The plane has landed at Aliona Airport..."
William’s camera panned slowly from Lene to Yi Chen, whose arm reached forward, not to block the lens but to grab William’s chubby face.
"William, we’re ’restricted,’ aren’t we?"
"What restriction? Don’t go crazy, Mr. Yi, we still have to find the VHS."
"Memories, abilities, even space must be restricted. I even suspect we’ve cycled through this many times, so many that my brain can barely handle it.
But the last cycle, I seemed to do something, causing a strong sense of discord this time, allowing me to realize something is wrong."
"What nonsense are you talking about? I should cut this part. If the employer sees it, they’ll think you’re nuts."
Sigh...
Yi Chen stopped chatting with William and chose to close his eyes.
With regulated breathing, he entered a state of absolute concentration, emptying his heavy mind with breath, purifying everything.
He stopped questioning if anything was wrong and instead entered a state of ’nothingness.’
Ha...
The moment he exhaled,
Yi Chen swiped out blindly, click! Something shattered.
Reopening his eyes, the scene hadn’t changed, still on the plane, with a hefty William waving from the exit, "Mr. Yi, come quickly!"
"Coming."
Noticing the hole in the back of William’s pants from being kicked by a flight attendant’s heel, it seemed nothing had changed.
"I’m going to the restroom."
As Lene once more headed for the restroom, a sly William followed with the camera, only to be tossed out by the muscular matron.
Fearing damage to the camera, William pouted and shut it off, closing it up.
But this time,
Yi Chen’s vision didn’t withdraw with the camera’s closure, instead, all other airport personnel, including the muscular matron and recently disembarked passengers, vanished.
William reverted from his sly look to normal, wiping the sweat off his forehead.
"Phew... Yi Bao, you finally severed the ’restriction’! Took longer than I thought, nine entire cycles. Seems you’re more suited to killing and less adept at thought intrusion."
"Nine times? I thought it was only four... And stop messing with titles."
What Yi Chen severed on the plane wasn’t tangible but the ’restriction,’ letting him regain his original memories.
Although his power remained sealed, experiencing everything as a ’normal person,’ he at least regained his freedom.
Yi Chen continued questioning, "Is it okay for us to speak so freely?"
"Of course, it’s okay. Even though we’re deep in the VHS loop world, this is the ’unfilmed part,’ the Fourth Disaster can’t see this.
Our communication here won’t be discovered; only when the car starts rolling do we officially enter the ’filmed part.’
The reason I never reminded you, always filming to disrupt your thoughts, was so you could break free independently. If you can’t break the most superficial restraints yourself, facing the true Fourth Disaster, it’s a dead end."
"What about Lene?"
"She realized the problem on the third go."
"How did she do it?"
William pinched his fat face and belly, "Isn’t it because I’m handsome! What girl can resist my looks... Lene really likes me, and seeing me made her aware of the discord, realizing we knew each other long ago.
But Mr. Yi, you didn’t sense anything wrong from me, which breaks my heart.
Lene is clever, taking advantage of restroom breaks to undergo self-fertility, breaking the ’restriction’."
Just as William finished, the restroom echoed with a child’s cries, a young Lene covered in viscous fluid, growing every second, emerged.
Every loop, she re-birthed herself, suppressing the videotape’s maximum restriction.
William pointed ahead, "Alright~ Next, we need to continue acting, head to the cabin, and kill the current World’s cycle hub."