Chapter 286: 282 Awakening

Fang Mu cursed inwardly; he had not expected that a guy like Wang Zheng, who appeared gentle and modest on the surface, could actually have such a demented side deep down.

Thinking of this, Fang Mu thought of the "Night Wanderer Notes" he had placed in his jacket pocket, and his heart skipped a beat.

That was it; this book was from Wang Zheng's own collection. He must have already read the contents, and not everyone could have such high resistance to this kind of Abnormal knowledge as he did.

Coupled with the fact that Wang Zheng himself might have lived under the influence of Alien God culture since childhood, his natural resistance to this type of Abnormality might be low; he was a potential madman all along, only he had never had the chance to verify it until he saw the Abnormal phenomenon appearing on himself yesterday.

When he could finally firmly believe that supernatural power existed in the Real World, Wang Zheng's mental resistance to "pollution" was greatly reduced, and his defenses were directly shattered.

"Ah... croak..." Fang Mu heard Wang Zheng's own heart-rending screams coming from behind him; the sound shifted from human screaming to sharp frog croaks, eerie and bone-chilling.

He dared not look back, but he could guess that Wang Zheng might have already died because of this.

After all, Wang Ma of the future had already said that his father, Wang Zheng, died young, and this also fulfilled his destiny, Fang Mu thought.

Not knowing how far he had run, Fang Mu could no longer hear the frog sounds around him, only then realizing he had run out of the urban area and turned into a quiet alley.

Relying on his intuition, Fang Mu walked through the quiet alley, turned down a small path, and arrived in a tranquil park.

He could finally heave a sigh of relief, sitting under a banyan tree, resting against the trunk; the warm sunlight filtering through the leaves spilled onto him, and the sound of his gradually calming breathing was the only sound here.

Fang Mu closed his eyes; since waking up this morning, his mind had been tense due to those constantly appearing Abnormal things, which made his thinking incoherent and his sanity unable to persist for long, but running for his life like this was not a long-term solution.

"Fang Mu, oh Fang Mu, think about the suicide note you left for yourself; there should be clues there." Fang Mu tapped his brow, steadying his heartstrings; he was used to forcing himself to calm down this way, just as high monks strike wooden fish and turn prayer beads to temporarily detach their minds from worldly distractions, emptying their brains to engage in purer thinking.

There is more than one who grants us a Blessing... The Toad God and the Frog God are originally one; the Toad God being able to bestow a Blessing upon him also meant that the Frog God had long since added a "protection" to him. At the same time, the Master Who Transcends All Things was also giving him special "care" because he had used her "item." Perhaps it was not impossible that he was also receiving attention from other Alien Gods; the trouble he was in was immense and tangled, difficult to sort out.

"We can only change ourselves... 'We' are in a desperate Mobius Loop, but none of us have found a way to escape yet." Fang Mu muttered, while his brain constantly tried to link it with the other clues he currently possessed.

Mobius Loop... time travel... could it be that the end of my time travel is returning to the starting point? If everything that happens to me becomes an eternal cycle, then time is a shackle, a cage; it can indeed be described as a situation that is "difficult to escape."

No! I missed one point.

"We... 'We'!" Fang Mu suddenly awakened, opened his eyes, and watched the bright sky of the city fade away as gloomy clouds gathered, yet his heart suddenly cleared.

If the Blessing of the Master Who Transcends All Things trapped me in time, then why wouldn't the time that traps me also trap everyone and everything else I have encountered?

The villagers of Wenya Tun through the generations, An Qin's family, Wang Zheng... and the Toad God!

"Clearly, at the beginning of the first and second lives, the Toad God was obviously afraid of the Nail Hammer, but when he met the Toad God again in his previous life, the Toad God suddenly took the initiative to pick up the Nail Hammer, desperately enduring the corrosive power of the Nail Hammer just to open a portal on himself." Fang Mu felt his thoughts were like a roller coaster that had started, accelerating after reaching the peak. "This is because the Toad God, like me, realizes that we are being trapped by time."

But why help me open the portal?

What is the reason?

Because... the Toad God believes that using the Nail Hammer of the Master Who Transcends All Things to help me open the portal gives him a chance to shake off the shackles of the Master Who Transcends All Things that are wrapped around him!"

Fang Mu felt he had grasped the answer, filled with excitement; looking at the changing sky, lightning and thunder, he couldn't help but laugh wantonly.

"Nail Hammer... where is the Nail Hammer of this life?" Fang Mu pondered for a moment, then suddenly slapped his hand; the village of Lin Fengtian appeared in his mind, or more accurately, the river outside the village.

When I first traveled to the 90s in my previous life, the Nail Hammer traveled with me and was right nearby, but unfortunately, it was taken by someone before I woke up.

By the same logic, if the Nail Hammer travels with me every time I travel, then at the bottom of the small river where I first arrived in this life, my Nail Hammer should also be submerged there.

"Go back! I must go back!" Fang Mu had a direction in his heart; he turned around, running against the wind and rain, with the storm raging behind him, as if he were racing against this Abnormal weather.

Bang!

However, Fang Mu's wanton wildness did not last long; he had closed off his five senses and focused on thinking for too long. At this moment, he seemed high-spirited, but in reality, he was just a hollow glass. Neither his superhuman hearing nor his Abnormal vision was deployed, and a heavy blow struck from the shadows landed directly on Fang Mu's head.

Fang Mu's vision went black on the spot; he couldn't even feel much pain, only feeling his head go numb, his body unable to muster any strength, unable to do anything, and he fainted right there.

Whoosh!

Fang Mu struggled to the surface like a drowning person; his breath instantly cleared, his consciousness returned, and his vision recovered as the hood covering his head was removed. His eyes retained lingering terror as he looked blankly at the unfamiliar room, about ten square meters, with green and white walls, and a single bright light source shining in front; this seemed to be an interrogation room.

Perhaps because the light shone too directly and there were too few reflective objects in the room, the light could only illuminate the chins of the two people sitting side-by-side behind the lamp. It was difficult for Fang Mu to see the parts above their chins, but overall, it was clear that it was one man and one woman.

"Where is this?" Fang Mu asked, looking around vigilantly. He looked down at his clothes and found his jacket was gone. His pupils shrank, and upon closer inspection, he realized his jacket had been tossed on the floor, but the items inside were laid out on the table one by one.

Hearing this, the woman hidden behind the light slowly leaned forward, letting a cold and beautiful face appear under the light.

Fang Mu looked at this face, his expression somewhat dazed.

And the woman said coldly: "This is the Xuanmi Group, the Shenzhou Abnormal Affairs Investigation Organization. Mr. Fang Sen, we have some things we would like to ask you."