Chapter 919

In his mind, the adorable girl was stunned.

She understood Fang Yue's meaning, but the idea was simply too insane.

【What are you going to do? According to the current speed of my backlash, and the dangerous situation before you exit the game, even if we found a smuggling route and went backward through it into the game world, it would already be too late—we'd be dead before then.】

【Not to mention, those smuggling routes are one-way only—always from their side to ours, never the other way around.】

"If there isn't one, then create one!"

【How?】

"It's simple—I have an idea…"

Huh-cht!!!

Before Fang Yue could finish speaking, the parchment on his right hand suddenly burst into blue flames, the fire exploding wildly.

At the same time, the parchment in his mind screamed wildly, writhing in agony on the sheet—no flame was visible, yet every inch of its delicate skin was injured to varying degrees!

【Fang Yue, hurry! Hurry! No matter what method you thought of, act now!】

I know of course…

Chit!!!

A spray of blood erupted without warning from Fang Yue's neck.

Only afterward did a thin red line slowly appear on his neck…

Fang Yue's mind went blank with a sudden buzz.

He numbly touched his neck—the familiar sensation made him instantly realize what had happened.

I… was slashed?

A throat-cutting strike?

But…

In reality, I did nothing, faced no danger—so now… my in-game self was killed, was… slashed across the throat!

Realizing this, Fang Yue's back hairs stood on end, his entire body broke out in goosebumps, trembling uncontrollably—his in-game self had been slashed, meaning his real self had little time left to live!

In that instant, he felt unprecedented panic and fear.

But at the same time, in this absolute moment of life and death… he felt excitement.

Unparalleled excitement, a sensation of blood surging, almost setting his entire body ablaze.

【Fang Yue!!】

The parchment, immersed in blue backlash, screamed in horror upon seeing this, tears pouring down like rain.

At the very moment she cried out, two voices sounded nearly in sync.

Crack!

"Stop the World!"

The first was the sound of neck bones shattering; the second, Fang Yue's voice, screamed with all his strength.

The next instant.

A black moon emerged without warning behind Fang Yue!

That was the power of the Strange Spirit Root!

It was the method he had conceived in his mind at high speed during his final moment of life and death.

As his neck emitted a sound like shattering bone, his head tilted slightly, beginning to slide sideways, gradually separating from his body…

Time slowed down, slower and slower, until… nearly stopped!

And Fang Yue's remaining moments of life were extended.

His active thoughts could continue pondering more questions.

【Fang Yue! Fang Yue! Don't die, don't scare me!!】

The parchment and Fang Yue, soul-bound, were unaffected by the Stopped World, weeping uncontrollably within his consciousness.

Had this not been a life-or-death moment, Fang Yue would have teased her, retaliating for her usual petty antics.

But now…

"Parchment, prepare Time Reversal!"

【What?】

The parchment paused, then snapped back to awareness.

【Yes, yes! Time Reversal—I'll save you!】

"No, not just to save me—we're going… back!"

【Back? So… the method you mentioned earlier, using a route to return to the game—is…】

"Exactly—Time Reversal! With Time Reversal, we rewind our bodies to the moment we entered the game—then, that body, that version of us, can enter the game again! We don't know what mechanism the Game Watch uses to detect my account anomaly, but the physical interface has always been that unbreakable Game Watch! Let's gamble—we rewind to that moment and bet it won't detect our account issue, letting us re-enter the game!"

【Got it, got it—then let's… Time Reversal!!】

Boom!!

Lifespan began burning furiously—rising from 1 day per second to 15 days per second!

Each second of reversal burned lifespan wildly.

Simultaneously, Fang Yue's body—the head, though slowly, still detaching from his neck—began reversing time, defying life and death, reattaching to his neck as if time flowed backward!

The shattered fragments of neck bone that had flown outward also returned, like time reversing, back to his neck.

The sprayed blood likewise vanished, retracting invisibly into the neck's vessels.

The wound reversed and healed; Fang Yue's body returned to the moment just before he was slain.

At that instant, the lifespan burn rate shifted from 15 days per second to 1 month per second!

Time Reversal seemed to encounter resistance—its demand for lifespan and power surged abruptly.

Fang Yue felt his lifespan being drained like water sucked out by a pump, evaporating wildly!

Fang Yue vaguely guessed what was happening.

This bizarre and arduous regression was very likely because… the body in the game was also gradually recovering its physical form thanks to the power of this regression!

In the game, that would probably count as returning from the dead, but for Fang Yue, he hadn't died completely — he was being rewound in reality, regressing into the past!

After his body had fully returned to its original state, the power of regression kept regressing!

After the arduous and frantic regression phase passed, Fang Yue noticed the power of regression suddenly pause.

【Fang Yue, we've regressed back to the moment we Synchronize our power in reality! What do we do next?】

Is that even a question?

Fang Yue touched his perfectly restored neck, stared at the Game Watch on his wrist, and let out a cold laugh.

"Continue the regression!"

【Continue the regression!!】

The parchment shouted excitedly.

As the Time Regression progressed, the blue flames on her body had gradually shrunk.

This meant everything was heading in a good direction!

Regression, begins once more!

This time, the power of regression — which should have halted at the moment of power Synchronization — pushed forward again! Back into the past!

Everything about his body was regressing backward!

At first everything was going smoothly, but at a certain moment — roughly the moment his account went anomalous — the burning of his lifespan suddenly skyrocketed! From ordinary consumption, it abruptly surged to a frenzied burn of one year, several years, even ten-plus years per second!

Fang Yue felt his entire body on the verge of igniting, feeling the searing heat of his burning lifespan scorching him from head to toe.

It was as if the power of 【Time Regression】 was locked in some kind of struggle against a terrifying force.

His lifespan was being drained like it cost nothing, pulled away with ever-increasing intensity, growing larger and larger, until it grew so great that Fang Yue felt panic, even making him wonder if he was about to have his lifespan burned clean by the consumption of the regression power and drop dead on the spot.

The pump-like power of regression frantically drained the lifespan from Fang Yue's body, making his heart pound wildly. Just as the lifespan consumption jumped from high to thirty years per beat, then to a hundred years per beat in an instant, Fang Yue's heart nearly stopped.

He didn't even have three hundred years of lifespan total, damn it!!

Fortunately, right after that hundred-year jump, the lifespan consumption suddenly seemed to have passed some enormous hurdle, and dropped from a vast ocean back to a thin little pipe, plummeting to one month per beat, then a few days per beat, and even suddenly stopping altogether!

At that very instant, Fang Yue suddenly felt an incomprehensibly powerful pulling force.

His vision went black, and he collapsed to the ground on the spot.

And lying on the ground, the Game Watch on his wrist, which had been showing a red light, had turned… green!

……

The recent plot is at a critical juncture and requires more thought, so updates will be slower.

(End of this chapter)