This Character is Suspected of Cheating! [Unlimited Flow]

The first ones shocked by these words were not More, but Duan Yuchen and the others.

Gedai exclaimed, “Dead?!”

Zhante narrowed his eyes at More, carefully examining him.

Yuan Ze wore the exact same expression, his face full of suspicion.

Wanrenzhan directly reached out and felt More’s body up and down, his brows tightly furrowed, looking slightly disappointed. “He’s alive. Still warm, too.”

He Yu: “...”

More: “...”

—So, were you actually expecting him to be cold?!

More pursed his lips and looked at He Yu. He said nothing, but neither did he object. In truth, he was resentful. What he resented was not He Yu, but the rules and the mastermind behind everything.

So although he could not speak the truth aloud, he was willing to give some responses.

Even if he believed everything they were doing was useless.

He Yu raised a hand and pushed up his glasses, his voice soft. “Do you know why I became wary of you? When we were on the bridge deck, you reacted too quickly. Even faster than the people from Mechanical Planet. It definitely wasn’t because your perception was exceptionally strong, but because—you’d experienced it before.”

Eugene and Gedai frowned simultaneously.

So He Yu had already begun suspecting them back then.

Zhen Xing and Ling Buchen exchanged a glance, both seeing gravity in the other’s eyes.

—They seemed to have guessed something.

More gave a bitter smile. “We weren’t lying.”

He Yu nodded seriously. “Right, you weren’t lying. At that time, you really did think you had sensed it yourselves. But as time passed second by second, and you spent longer inside Gama Strait, you gradually acquired other memories and perceptions...”

He paused, then calmly added, “For example, the realization that you were already dead.”

More froze and stared fixedly at He Yu. After a long while, he softly said, “You really are smart.”

—He admitted it.

—He admitted that they were already dead!

Duan Yuchen’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. Wanrenzhan wanted to speak, but Zhante beside him pulled him back and shook his head. Wanrenzhan therefore shut his mouth.

At a time like this, it was better to let He Yu control the pace.

He Yu smiled, his eyes curving. “Before entering Gama Strait, there was absolutely nothing abnormal about you. After entering Gama Strait, you only had a vague perception. As we traveled deeper into Gama Strait...”

He paused slightly, then tilted his head, his eyes thoughtful and his voice soft. “No. It can’t be that you regained memories. Your reactions are all too fragmentary. It seems like you only possess one perception—that you died...”

“Let me think... You should only be able to confirm that you’re already dead after passing the point at which you died.”

He Yu murmured softly, “In other words, at this current point in time, all of you are already dead. We’re alive. Maybe we remained alive the entire time, or maybe we’ll die later...”

That was extremely terrifying.

He suddenly looked at More, his gaze sharp. “So after confirming that you were dead—no, that you had died before—you received a system notification forbidding you from revealing it, right?”

More pursed his lips and said nothing.

—Tacit confirmation.

—He could not speak, so his silence was confirmation.

He Yu asked curiously, “Let me confirm something. You don’t actually have memories?”

More said nothing.

He Yu nodded in understanding and continued asking, “Is it a specific realization, or fragmented images?”

More hesitated. He was unsure what kind of reaction he should use to answer. The moment he spoke, the system would definitely erase him...

But He Yu nodded. “I understand. Fragmented images. For example, you saw how you died.”

More looked at him in astonishment.

He Yu’s lips curved. “Don’t be surprised. Your reaction gave me the answer. That doesn’t count as breaking the rules.”

His eyes turned thoughtful. “This reminds me of the <Kill the Prisoner> instance. After daybreak, we only had fragmentary memories. Your abnormal reaction started on the bridge deck. At the time, you were very far away from the bridge, so the fragment of your death you remembered was being swallowed by the corrosive rain?”

More’s pupils contracted. After a long while, his voice turned hoarse. “You really are terrifying.”

“No, I’m not terrifying at all. Someone else is.”

He Yu sneered. “No wonder you suddenly developed such tacit understanding and suddenly joined forces to attack us. Because you belong to the same faction. That’s the powerful ‘binding agent’ that united you and made you act together against outsiders.”

Zhen Xing frowned and asked in confusion, “If they’re dead, why do they want to kill us?”

He Yu raised a hand and pushed up his rimless glasses. They could not conceal the cold light in his eyes, and his voice was icy. “Because they’re dead, while we’re alive. That’s the reason. Once we leave Gama Strait, will they, who are already dead, still exist?”

This was not a question of whether they could survive tonight. They and He Yu’s group already belonged to two different factions—the faction of the living and the faction of the dead. Even if they left Gama Strait alive, if He Yu and the others were alive, More and the others would still die.

—They were already dead.

Wanrenzhan looked completely bewildered. “I don’t understand. What dead people and living people? Aren’t they perfectly alive right now?”

They were clearly alive, so how were they dead people again?

Ling Buchen opened his mouth. After a long while, he finally uttered two words:

“Reincarnation cycle.”

They were alive now, but they had died in a previous reincarnation cycle!

He Yu abruptly raised his head and looked at them, his gaze sharp—

“No. I think it should be called a loop. Reincarnation would mean that all of us died and entered a new reincarnation cycle. But clearly, we’re alive. That makes it a loop.”

None of them were fools. In an instant, the truth flashed through their minds.

Gedai’s pupils contracted in disbelief. “A loop?”

His lips trembled. “In other words... this isn’t the first time we’ve been on this cruise ship?!”

He Yu nodded, his expression cold. “Right. This isn’t the first time.”

—How could that be possible?!

Gedai instinctively wanted to refute him, but very quickly, all sorts of clues flashed through his mind: the third supplementary plank he and He Yu had taken, the traces of people having lived aboard the cruise ship, the supplies that had already been consumed aboard the ship, the traces of He Yu’s blood...

Those had not been left by other people.

They had been left by them.

This was not the first time Wanrenzhan had kicked apart the cruise ship’s door either.

Only after a long while did Gedai speak softly. “The third time. We’ve already looped twice. This is our—third time passing through Gama Strait.”

Their third time boarding the ship, their third time kicking apart the door, their third time crossing Gama Strait...

Wanrenzhan sucked in a sharp breath.

At that moment, a chill spread from his feet throughout his entire body. His hair stood on end, and a cold shiver ran down his spine.

How terrifying.

They had clearly entered an instance normally and had normally, actively searched for ways to advance. Yet now, someone suddenly told them—

This was already your third time doing all of this.

Then what about the first two times?!

Zhante gritted his teeth. “Fuck, what the fuck is this goddamn thing?!”

No memories. No knowledge of what had happened. Things they had clearly experienced, yet their memories had been dug right out of them...

What did it take them for?!

Qiong was meticulous, and she immediately noticed the problem, her voice sharp. “If this is our third loop, then what about the first two? Did we succeed or fail?”

Yuan Ze pursed his lips. “If we succeeded, we wouldn’t be here.”

Bo Jingshan frowned. “More and the others wanted to kill us.”

According to He Yu’s earlier analysis, More and the others wanted to kill them because More and the others were already dead while they were still alive. So if the “dead” killed the “living,” only then would the “dead” have a path to survival.

But if they had failed, then they should also be “dead.” Why would More and the others need to kill them?

Success did not make sense.

Failure did not make sense either.

It was too contradictory.

Eugene stepped forward and stared intently at More. “I’m only asking you one question. Are we living people?”

More said nothing, merely pursing his lips.

—Tacit confirmation.

His lips moved. He seemed hesitant, but because he could not speak, he closed his mouth again.

Eugene let out a long breath, but his expression did not relax. Instead, it became even more solemn. “Those who died in the previous loop possess memories of their deaths, so they know they died. Or rather, once they pass the point of death He Yu mentioned, they become ‘dead.’ The ‘dead’ can distinguish between the ‘living’ and the ‘dead.’”

Eugene looked at He Yu. “There’s one thing I don’t understand. How do they tell the difference?”

He Yu stared intently at the hesitation on More’s face. Hearing this, his lips curved. “Everyone who died already knows about the loop, so there’s no secret to reveal among themselves. The system has to at least tell them who they’re forbidden from revealing it to, right?”

He bent down, bringing his face close to More’s, staring fixedly into his eyes and refusing to miss even the slightest change within them—

“You’re actually not certain whether we’ll still be alive later. You can only confirm that we’re alive right now.”

“Some of you died when the corrosive rain descended, but some of you died at our hands, right?”

“There are only ten advancement slots. If you, who have already died, want to live, you have to turn the ‘living’ into ‘dead’ people just like you. Regardless of whether the loop happens again, we have to die once. That’s your goal, right?”

More and the others also possessed only fragmentary knowledge, but they were certain that they had died before, while He Yu and the others were still alive.

If they wanted to live, they had to turn the “living” into people like themselves.

The faction of the dead and the faction of the living were inherently opposed. He Yu’s team and theirs were also opposed. Those two layers of opposition combined were more than enough reason for them to attack He Yu and the others.

—After all, they were already “dead.”

More’s voice was hoarse. “He Yu, I’ve figured something out.”

He Yu looked at him, indicating for him to continue.

More: “You came back too. By killing us, you made the outcome of this loop the same as before. You still came back.”

—Which meant they were currently repeating what had happened before!

—If the process repeated, the outcome would repeat as well.

Wanrenzhan barely managed to sort out the sequence of events. He asked He Yu, “We killed them, making the outcome repeat what happened before. So that means we’ll still die? And loop again?”

Ling Buchen sneered. “No. If we die, there won’t be another loop.”

Wasn’t the mastermind’s goal precisely to kill them?

If they died, how could there possibly be another loop?

They were still alive, so the mastermind sent them back through the loop, allowing More and the other “dead” to kill them.

He Yu nodded. There was a smile at the corners of his mouth, but not the slightest warmth in it. “As expected, how could an instance designed to kill us possibly be simple? We followed the instance rules. We reached Legendary Island alive. No—we didn’t reach Legendary Island alive. The strangest place is Gama Strait. As long as we leave Gama Strait alive, we’ll be sent backward and enter the loop again, until—”

Zhen Xing’s eyes were unfathomably deep, his voice hoarse.

“Until our entire team is wiped out.”

He Yu smiled. “This is the true semifinal instance. This is the true Death.”

The moment his words fell, everyone heard a clear notification sound—

[The deepest secret of the Death has been triggered. After the mysterious Death enters the mysterious Gama Strait, a strange magnetic field is generated, triggering a loop.]

[Congratulations to all contestants for uncovering the truth of the instance. The <Ferry> instance has been renamed <Ferry Loop>!]

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