Chapter 1988: Ghost Skull Mystery 49

Lin An, restarting does not mean resurrection, but rather restarting progress; only you retain your memory, but you will have a part merged into the mission.

Lin An, actually we saw a flash of light when we were downstairs.

That ghost has been following us! The photos it took are all from the perspective behind us!

The photos taken before and after by the camera feel different in technique...

After a long time, deathly silence.

Lin An's body went stiff, trembling like a machine as he picked up the fallen camera from the ground, his mind blank.

The mystery seemed to be solved, but the truth was hard to accept.

He actually sensed something was wrong after the restart, but he either didn't think of it or dared not face the truth.

He saw himself, saw Qing Kai, and even saw the Divine Archer.

But they couldn't see him.

When all the clues were connected together, a cruel, horrifying truth finally surfaced.

Under the huge impact, Lin An threw the steel bar in his hand aside, merely holding the camera with both hands as if holding a head, making an indistinct sound from his throat.

I...

Dead...

I actually died!

His body swayed, Lin An slowly closed his eyes, hardly able to accept this fact.

The photo was taken by him, the flash was caused by him, nobody could see him, his countdown was gone. Then the one appearing outside, not dead, could only be the ghost that had always been in Lin An's speculation and had disappeared.

So it's not necessarily that after completing cognition, the Ghost Skull does not appear.

But because... I am already dead, and have become one with the mission...

Have I already restarted once?

How many times have I actually died?

Am I actually completely dead, just unaware, still treating it as the first restart?

Who am I!! Am I the Ghost Skull or who!!

Am I still Lin An!! If I'm not, then who is!! But if I am, then who is the Lin An in the apartment!!

It's as if a hundred years of life is a dream, even the self in the dream is not oneself.

Even though Lin An's will is steadfast, for a moment he was also struck by this absurd fact, unable to recover.

I don't know how long passed.

Maybe it was one minute, maybe two minutes.

Lin An strained to open his eyes, lowered his head to look at himself on the screen.

Clearly identical, clearly everything was so real, he was certain he had all of Lin An's memories. He remembered Zhang Tie, remembered Mo Ling, remembered An Jing Tian, remembered his own solemn gaze before entering the mission, at number 77.

But reason tells him, logic tells him, he is not Lin An, and cannot be.

So, I am the Lin An who merged into the mission after restarting, so I have no countdown and do not appear in the light shield. I know what the Ghost Skull is, I am not dead, and no one can see me...

Heh...

A low laugh with indeterminate meaning.

Lin An's shoulders shook, he felt all this was utterly ridiculous.

Maybe 'he' had experienced the Long An mission, maybe his mind was still like Lin An's, able to retain reason even in utter despair, something even Lin An himself hadn't thought of, yet he accepted all this.

Even so, he could still continue thinking.

So...

Is this the second restart? If we don't consider that I have completely died, everything is merely an endless cycle...

After the first restart, I also, like now, realized I was a ghost, then gave the camera to myself? Hope I could solve this mission? Because the camera is actually not in the studio? And this is my previous cause of death?

Without the camera, I couldn't hold out until Jiang Haochen's rendezvous...

Then I failed? But what about that other me? Did the restart make him disappear?

No.. not right.

If my previous self was the Camera Ghost, how did I realize I am the Camera Ghost, what am I doing, what did I do wrong?

In my previous cycle, did I not notice there was another me? What about my memory? Or is it that the ghost version of me and I have two sets of memories?

Confusion, pain.

When logic began to nest and a loop appeared, Lin An only felt that the originally clear mission now truly revealed its terrifying side.

If the ghost in the studio in the previous cycle was me, then who was its previous cycle? Why do I and my previous self have no memory of the restart before that?

If each restart eliminates me, but my original body inherits memory, then how did my previous-previous cycle die? Even if I have no memory of the previous ghost, I should still have the original body's memory...

Lin An subconsciously looked toward the third floor, his gaze as if it could penetrate the wall, seeing himself.

He noticed that when Lin An poked his head out to observe the surroundings, he was different from his previous cycle's self.

Lin An only looked for one or two seconds, as if merely confirming his position.

This detail is enough to show: the Lin An in the apartment shares the same memories as him, and the Lin An in the apartment remembers that he restarted.

I am a ghost, he is Lin An.

He is acting according to my previous thoughts...

Outside the apartment, Lin An gulped, after accepting his identity, he began to think about what he should do.

Regardless of whether he is now human or ghost, he wants to 'survive'; if, starting from after the restart, he didn't know he would become a ghost, then it means this round Lin An will fail again and he will die.

Moreover..

If this is the third time, then neither I nor my original body have any chance to restart...!

So...

"So what should I do!? What can I do, how can I help myself complete this mission!?"

Lin An took a deep breath, gripping the camera tightly in his hand.

The camera is now in his hand, meaning he won't give it back; this round, Lin An won't be able to get the camera, and will certainly be misled!

Moreover, when he was transmitted from the hospital here, he noticed that the content of the TV's second broadcast was not looping!

This way, Lin An might not be able to see the content inside!

Under continuous errors and Shi Xian changes, he is highly likely to fail again!