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Chapter 660: The Intricately Distorted Timeline
Standing on the high platform, the cold wind kept blowing past him. Yu Liang looked at the wooden barrels below that were rising and falling with the waves, and couldn't tell what emotion was in his heart.

Anger needs a suitable object, but now he unconsciously felt that he dared not be angry at the root of the barrel man.

He didn't know when it started, but he had become so cowardly that he couldn't get angry at Barrel Man Root, because his anger would probably make Barrel Man Root feel genuinely happy, and thus become even worse.

So is this actually fear?

Without the root ghost story as his anchor, he couldn't even accurately determine what was happening to him and could only rely on constant guessing.

Every time he felt that his guesses were in line with common sense and the settings of the ghost story, but before long a new special event would occur that made him realize that he was completely wrong.

But is it really completely wrong?
It's just that I can't tell which one is real.

Damn, where did all the root weirdness in me go?

Yu Liang rarely feels that "man cannot overcome nature", but now he really feels that the path he is taking is extremely difficult.

If it is just human power, I am afraid that even pure memory cannot be maintained. In the face of the root ghost story, human power is indeed limited.

Yu Liang did not think any further. He only knew that everything he encountered since entering the copy might have been premeditated. It would be easy for a Root Ghost who possessed a series of abilities such as [Creation], [Memory Implantation], [Retracement], and [Suspicion] to deal with him.

All you need to do is give out ten thousand false information and then watch him wander in pain in the ocean of falsehood.

Falsehood can only lead to falsehood. Yu Liang felt that countless people were deceiving him in secret, and even his personal page could be tampered with.

Ever since he fell into the sea on Anbuchen Island for the first time, his consciousness had been sealed and restricted, and certain functions in his brain had been affected.

The information collected by the five senses is ultimately presented in the brain. After his brain is tampered with, there may be differences between what he sees and what he hears. In this case, he will only sink deeper and deeper.

While the false consciousness is running, the barrel man's root can steal and occupy his abilities. This may be the reason why he did not become a barrel man but his abilities were stolen.

No, not only that, the Barrel Man Root did not directly turn him into a Barrel Man, there may be a reason for this.

Or there may be no reason at all.

It is merely the ultimate manifestation of the malice at the root of the barrel man.

He is such a bored and evil guy.

The cruise ship is real, but the cruise ship replica is fake.

Failure is real. An Buchen and the others had already fallen a long time ago. They could only give him some hints under limited circumstances, so Li Huachao and the others on the cruise ship were fake.

Yes, we should have thought of this from the beginning. Their appearance on the cruise ship was too unscientific and simply impossible.

This is clearly an unsolvable copy given by the official Ghost Story World. How could they gather everyone so easily?
They were even preparing to attack the dock full of barrel men, ready to occupy that dock as their new territory, in response to the cruise ship.

Isn’t this a symbol of the barrel people’s roots invading the land from the ocean?
In the fake world, it was the Haicheng Alliance that recaptured the dock; but in the real world, it was Yu Liang who led the barrel people to invade the reality of Wangcheng.

Do you find this scene unusually familiar?
Isn’t this what Xue Wubin, the barrel man in the strategy team’s memory, did?

Maybe Xue Wubin suffered the same treatment at that time, which is why he almost completely lost his mind.

Yu Liang sighed, turned and entered the corridor. The current situation was basically certain. Since falling into the sea, he had entered a false world, and only now had he finally escaped temporarily.

The best thing now would be to stop these barrel men from invading the dock. You can try to re-enter the virtual world to prevent this invasion from happening.

The virtual world must be connected to the current real world. At least since Yu Liang did not directly break off relations with the Haicheng Alliance, they would always listen to his advice, and perhaps the situation in the real world could be changed without bloodshed.

The cruise ship is still three days away from the opposite dock. During these three days, he needs to find as many clues as possible on this real-world cruise ship.

These barrel people are in a dormant state. Logically, they will gradually wake up in these three days. Now, as a human being, he must be vigilant enough to keep himself safe.

Yu Liang returned to his original room and reinstalled the airbag flotation device on his body. In this way, if he encountered danger, he could still escape back to the cruise ship in the fake world in time to hide.

After making preparations, Yu Liang began to search the entire cruise ship. He first followed the area instructions on the corridor to the crew's office area, which contained the captain's room and several first mates' offices.

No one knows how many years this cruise ship has been on the ship, but the door handle is very brittle, and even Yu Liang can kick it open easily. He walked into the captain's room and looked through the documents there.

The layout of the captain's room was exactly the same as that in the original fake world. Yu Liang tried to turn on the computer, but the entire room was out of power.

Not only this room, the entire cruise ship seemed to be at a standstill. If it weren't for the waves pushing the cruise ship forward, Yu Liang would have almost thought that the world was stagnant.

Brushing off the dust on the documents, Yu Liang came to the window and started looking through the documents in the gloomy sky.

Most of the documents here are about cooperation contracts signed between cruise ships and some corporate groups from the shore, such as daily necessities and food, etc. Yu Liang noticed that when writing locations or certain company names, they are basically replaced by black spaces, such as "██ Future Food Co., Ltd.", "██ Milk", "██ City Library", etc.

If you think about it carefully, the erased trace is probably the "City of Forgetfulness".

But what made Yu Liang curious was that Wangcheng was indeed not near the sea, and this cruise ship had signed food supply contracts with some companies in Wangcheng, which meant that it was in the waters near Wangcheng...

Could it be some kind of big river?
But judging from the size of the cruise ship, even the Yangtze River cannot accommodate a cruise ship of this size, right?
A cruise ship of this size should not be able to pass through the bridge on the Yangtze River and is subject to navigation restrictions.

So what is the real-life prototype of this cruise ship?
Yu Liang quickly flipped through the other parts of the documents. This information seemed redundant and ineffective, but it would play an extremely critical role in constructing the causal trigger theory.

It never hurts to know more about the real world.

While collecting information, Yu Liang checked his personal page. Now his alienated professional abilities have all returned to normal, and have changed from being occupied by the Barrel Man Root to being "idle".

He looked at the [Create] and other functions on his personal page, and there was still permission to use them, which proved that Tongren Genyuan did not forcibly log into his account and use his abilities.

It wasn't like "Zhi" logged into the account remotely, but more like he secretly simulated his abilities after he fell into the sea.

Of course, if the source of the Barrel Man was to log in from a different location and use the Confessor's ability to reset the cooldown interval of his ability, then Yu Liang would have nothing to say. He even felt that the source of the Barrel Man might really be able to do such a thing.

But if you look closely, the part about the created characters in the universe in [Creation] remains unchanged. If he is the root of the account theft, he will definitely use the garbage can people under his command to completely destroy the writer's alienated professional account.

Soon, Yu Liang finished looking through all the documents in the captain's room. Except for some inexplicable books that he ignored, he memorized all the other useful information.

The name of the cruise ship was "Dongfang Yimu". Yu Liang could not figure out any other meaning from the name. Like most cruise ships, it had a fixed route, but Yu Liang could not find any records about this route.

It may have been erased, or the cruise ship may be in a copy and the original route in reality cannot appear. It is probably a special shielding mechanism.

Unable to find many clues in the captain's room, Yu Liang turned around and entered the first mate's office. He noticed the birdcage in the first mate's office again, but there was nothing where the birdcage should have been, and the whole office was filled with a strong smell of mold.

At this moment, Yu Liang suddenly heard a creaking sound of footsteps on some plastic product outside the corridor. He quickly became alert and summoned all the strange creatures who were guarding him to be on high alert.

The first mate's room fell into absolute silence. Yu Liang stared at the door of the office, while the snake beside him was on guard against the window behind Yu Liang to prevent any unknown danger from coming in through the window.

After waiting for about three minutes, Yu Liang saw a furtive head poking in from the lower part of the office door.

It’s Aze.

He was relieved when he saw Yu Liang, and then said with a smile: "So it really is you~"

"Stop talking nonsense, tell me everything you know, and then tell me why you are here." Yu Liang subconsciously felt that Aze's appearance was extremely reasonable, but then he became alert.

In this copy, all reasonable encounters may be imagined in your mind and should not be taken seriously, otherwise you will be deceived badly by the barrel man's root.

"Oh, you're threatening me now. You look so ignorant, like you don't know anything." Aze casually pulled a wooden box over as a small stool and sat down. He took out a handful of melon seeds from his pocket and said while eating them, "Don't worry, I've been hiding in this world since I entered the dungeon. I'm a good person who is naturally unpolluted. If you don't believe me, ask the prophet to verify me after dark."

This is Aze's speaking habit. If I guess correctly, Aze will probably get to the point soon. He is not the kind of person who cannot distinguish the important from the unimportant.

Aze coughed twice, then started to mutter like a chatterbox: "This is another timeline. Normally, we shouldn't meet each other, understand? Maybe some root power of this barrel man has leaked. It's quite strange anyway. Or maybe there should be two Yu Liangs in this world? Okay, it's a bit confusing. I know you can't understand what I'm saying now, but you just need to remember one thing. There's no need to work hard towards becoming a system administrator or creating a copy. It's useless."

"What?" Yu Liang was stunned for a moment, somewhat surprised as to why Aze knew about this matter, as this was clearly his plan deep in his heart.

Could it be that this damn thing has been snooping at my script again?

Or maybe he was just a transformation from the root of the Barrel Man, and appeared here just to become a new interference factor.

"Well, there is no need to create copies. Double and triple copies have the same effect. The ocean has the highest priority in suppressing them. Involving other root ghost stories will only further enhance the strength of the barrel man's root. This guy is almost invincible in the ocean." Aze talked freely and quickly gave Yu Liang several directions. "Now you don't have too many choices. You could have seen if he would get carried away and trick him into the city of oblivion to kill him. It turned out that this bastard is more cautious than you thought. Now you can only see if you can trick him into the barrel. If you transport him to land, the game will be easier."

At this point, Aze looked at Yu Liang and asked, "You should know this, right? Use something like a 'seal' to force that guy to regenerate in another barrel, and then just use a specific word symbol to lock the barrel man and you can take him around the map."

He pointed at the countless wooden barrels outside the window, and said with some pride and helplessness: "The only problem is that you must think clearly about how many barrel men there are before you do this. I actually forgot about this. This guy is hiding in the barrel and won't come out. I can't find him at all. I can only try to kill him one by one, but I guess there is not enough time."

Yu Liang fell silent. For a moment he didn't understand what Aze meant.

How does this guy know all my plans?

Doesn't the script only tell us what happens within half an hour or an hour?
I came up with these plans in the past few days, and I haven't met Aze yet. When I first met him, I didn't think about these plans at all. How did he know about them?
Next, should we talk about the thoughts of the Snake Barrel Eater?
"Oh, by the way, I forgot about the Snake-Eating Barrel Man. It could have been done, but there are no barrel men to kill them all, and that guy has some powerful barrel man monsters in his own lair. Unless he wants to be reborn in the Snake-Eating Barrel, he can't be dealt with." As if he had guessed Yu Liang's thoughts, Aze smiled and continued to talk about the Snake-Eating Barrel. Then he patted Yu Liang on the shoulder cheerfully, "It's also possible that you are a fake, and I am just a last gasp now, but it doesn't matter. What if you are real? Of course, I can't use you as a real anchor, but you can use me as an anchor. Trust me, and I will take you away~"

Just as Yu Liang was lost in thought, Aze suddenly exerted force with his hands and pressed Yu Liang's head down. Just below his head, a basin of water suddenly appeared, and Yu Liang's entire face was immediately submerged in the water.

This basin of water seemed to have some special magic power, and it instantly sucked Yu Liang in. Ah Ze showed a slightly surprised expression on his face: "Oh, it's true. This bucket of water is stupid, but it's actually quite awesome. It can connect the two timelines. It's interesting."

But after doing this, he raised the dinner knife that appeared in his hand without knowing when, and left the office into the corridor while humming an inexplicable song: "Lift up your veil, let me see your face, your face is so white, as if that person in the bucket is dead~"

At the same time, Yu Liang suddenly raised his head from the basin. He looked at the surrounding scene in confusion. This was still the bathroom in his suite, and he looked like he had just washed his face, with some water droplets flowing down his face.

"No, Yu Liang, where are you? Died in the bathroom? If you don't want to come out and seek justice, there's no need to hide in the bathtub and play with ducklings!"

Li Huachao's voice came from outside the bathroom.

(End of this chapter)