Chapter 549: Copy Equipment

Lin An stared at Zhang Tie with great interest.

He too, after seeing Xiong Hanzi and having his life force drained by the Causal Sequence, only then thought of this:

"So every time the devastated village is restored, we participants are also forced to restore."

"But we don't belong here, and our physical makeup naturally lacks the 'trait' of the Secret Realm's rules!"

"It's like the things in the devastated village are mud, while we are iron. But this world has no iron!"

"So every time we recover... it's the system helping us recover."

"And the system's recovery is repeatedly copying us and then tossing us back into the Secret Realm!"

After a pause, Zhang Tie was obviously shocked by this explanation.

Lin An took a deep breath; when he realized this, his heart was also shaken for a moment:

"Three points can prove this."

"First, when you activate the Causal Sequence, you draw too much energy, right?"

"The Causal Sequence reversing an ordinary person, no matter how much, wouldn't drain you to death."

"Fine, even if the time span is too long and the required energy is huge."

"Then have you noticed that the final surge of suction is your talent helping you provide energy to get through?"

"Three seconds invincible! Undying and indestructible!"

"In other words..."

"It is the system providing energy, forcing a copy."

"And we..."

"Then we are just free-riding..."

His mouth was dry.

Xiong Hanzi's heart pounded wildly.

He understood Lin An's meaning.

After all, not long ago he was still pleased with himself for having exploited a bug (system error).

How great, to infinitely activate the Transcending Death talent.

Now thinking about it, that's indeed the case.

Free-riding...

Wait a moment!

Seeing the ground covered with Lin An's corpses, and upon suddenly realizing something he had overlooked, his whole body trembled with excitement.

Holy shit, he was just scared by the corpses, but he didn't think of the most important thing.

A huge number of corpses have been copied!

Although he didn't know where the attribute reward Lin Dui mentioned was, he knew...

Hundreds of Lin An corpses don't mean hundreds of full sets of equipment!?

How awesome Lin Dui's equipment is, it's simply exaggerated to the point of explosion!

Since the auction ended and the city defense battle, Lin An's gear from head to toe, even the worst, is blue.

Even to bolster his combat power, he deliberately collected a set of fake suit armor at high cost.

Compared to when he fought nine forces alone, Lin An's combat power now has increased by another fold, more than double.

It can be called an existence invincible below the third rank in normal state.

We've struck it rich!

Upon thinking of this, Xiong Hanzi felt he was about to faint from happiness.

Forget anything else, a hundred Epic Tier pieces of equipment—who could withstand that!?

His speech sped up, almost to the point of taking off:

"Lin Dui!"

"Has the Apocalypse Ring been copied!?"

"Damn it! We've struck it rich!!"

"After we go back, couldn't we equip a hundred copies of you!?"

Excitedly, he jumped around on the spot.

But Lin Dui doesn't seem all that excited?

"Lin Dui...?"

"Did I get it wrong? And what are the remaining two points you just mentioned?"

He had an ominous feeling.

Zhang Tie carefully observed his expression, his right hand unable to stop rubbing over the corpses.

The feel of this equipment is truly great... truly smooth...

Lin An, seeing this, touched his nose, his expression somewhat strange:

"Hmm..."

"Your guess is correct, the equipment has indeed been copied."

"Of course, the Apocalypse Ring wasn't copied, but besides that, even the Death God Crystal was copied."

"Even the Black Dragon was copied..."

"But..."

"Fear not ten thousand, but fear the 'but'."

Zhang Tie gazed at him eagerly, afraid that Lin An's next words would shatter his dream.

However, Lin An sighed:

"These equipment can only be used in this instance."

"Actually, I was even more excited than you at first..."

Who knows how intense the ecstasy was in Lin An's heart when he first realized this.

But after quickly checking the equipment attributes, he helplessly discovered that each piece of equipment had a serial number marked on the back.

From 1 to 117, the notes all read 【Cannot be taken out of the Secret Realm world】.

The note is special, coming from the Savior System.

For fear he wouldn't see it otherwise, the Savior System deliberately marked it in huge red letters, afraid he would take the equipment out of the Secret Realm...

Regrettable.

After thinking about it, he also understood.

Every piece of system equipment is unique; in this strange Secret Realm, copies might still exist.

But once out of the Secret Realm, the equipment's "numbering" will cause a conflict.

In the system's judgment, it's as if over a hundred similar data entries have been added.

Like printing counterfeit money.

Such an obvious error, the Doomsday System will naturally enforce a repair.

Even... he cannot take his own corpse out.

Just as Huang Shaohua said.

The system's supervision is weak in the Secret Realm world, allowing loopholes to be exploited.

But once out, one awaits punishment missions or outright erasure.

Not paying attention to Zhang Tie's expression, which looked like an eggplant hit by frost, Lin An exhaled and gazed thoughtfully:

"As for the second point..."

"Do you still remember how we felt when we entered the Secret Realm?"

"Long, plunged into darkness, waking up as if reborn."

He gave a bitter laugh.

"I think, if we say the cycle begins, discarding the concepts of cause and effect and time."

"Then the us who woke up then might actually have died once before... or say we have gone through many cycles."

"We only have the memories from the 【true surviving timeline】..."

"Just like my maternal grandfather's refutation."

"If a person travels back to the past and kills his own maternal grandfather, then he cannot be born, so naturally there would be no future him to travel back."

"Likewise can be proved."

"He can travel back, but cannot kill his own maternal grandfather."

"He can be seriously injured, can cause an accident, but his grandfather... that is, the 【cause】 of his existence cannot die."

He was dazed.

Zhang Tie vaguely understood this concept and subconsciously blurted out:

"Then what's our situation? We've died so many times, doesn't that mean every time has the same outcome?"

"Without memory, I shouldn't keep doing foolish things, right?"

"Moreover, why do we only have memories of this time?"

Curious.

Lin An shook his head and briefly explained:

'"Your question is exactly what I want to say as the third point."'

"Only the living deserve to have memories."

"You can treat what happened to us as a film constantly NG (failed retakes)."

"If shot wrong, just retake. The final product film is our present memories."

"Failures are naturally destroyed."

"Because we are trapped in a dead loop."

"If you keep failing to find a way, the final result is being trapped to death here."

"After dying, the Secret Realm restarts the cycle over a long time, which is a new beginning."