Chapter 119

"November 7."

"It may seem normal to you, but this is my 70th July 7th."

"I think I'm stuck in a time loop. Maybe you guys think I'm crazy, but this is the truth."

"..."

Li Xingyi sighed after posting a post about time loop on the Internet.

I don't know what to do, because everything described in this post happened to him.

When Li Xingyi wakes up at 6 a.m., he will be woken up by the alarm clock. At 12 p.m., Li Xingyi will lose consciousness, and then be woken up by the alarm clock at 6 a.m., starting the day all over again.

At first he wanted to live his life as usual, but every day was the same.

When I was having breakfast at 7 o'clock, I was disgusted by my one-year-old brother's excrement in the crib.

At 9 o'clock, when I was waiting for the bus to go to university at the bus stop, I witnessed a girl die in a car accident.

When I pass by a lottery shop on my way home at 6pm, I buy a scratch ticket and win 100 yuan.

When you’re watching sports at home at 8pm, the host will happen to mispronounce a name.

Then, at the moment of 12 o'clock midnight, Li Xingyi will lose consciousness and the next cycle will begin.

He didn't dare to do anything strange. What if the cycle suddenly ended and he did something out of line, he would be doomed.

But Li Xingyi also tried to change some things. For example, he would arrive at the bus stop early every morning to remind the girl to avoid a traffic accident.

But what about the next cycle?

Gradually, Li Xing began to get tired of the same exact life day after day.

The cycle showed no sign of ending, so he began to overeat and drink as a way of venting his anger, but fortunately he was back to his old ways the next day.

Perhaps it was the 100th time, the posts that Li Xingyi insisted on posting every time actually received a reply.

"I'm stuck in a time loop too."

These few simple words exploded in Li Xingyi's head like a bomb.

"Is there someone else trapped in a time loop? But what if this person is just joking?"

Li Xingyi contacted the other party without thinking too much, and the two exchanged contact information and secret codes.

Agree to contact each other at the beginning of the next cycle to make sure what the other party says is true.

Through this method, Li Xingyi contacted four people who were also trapped in the time loop.

Everyone was excited as if they had grabbed a life-saving straw when they learned that someone else was trapped in a time loop.

After that, everyone gathered at the beginning of the cycle to exchange information.

"In the last cycle, I went to the edge of Hualan City. There was an invisible barrier that could not be crossed."

Xiao Chen spoke first, followed by Xiao Wang.

"Everyone is trapped in a time loop at the same time, and the events in each loop have the same or similar endings."

"And it can't be affected!"

"..."

but……

The more they know, the more desperate they become, because until now, they still don't know why they are trapped in the time loop.

Not to mention how to get out of this cycle.

In the following cycle, the five people always got together and partyed all day long like friends who could talk about anything.

This seemed to be the only thing they could do, and everything other than pleasure lost its meaning.

Until that day, Xiao Chen had an argument with Fat Brother under the influence of alcohol.

Xiao Chen accidentally pushed Fatty off the balcony. Before anyone could react, Li Xingyi lost consciousness with a dull thud of something heavy falling to the ground.

ding ding ding-

The alarm clock rang. It was 7 o'clock in the morning on July 14th, and Li Xingyi woke up.

Fat Brother died. That was not a dream. He really died in the last cycle. The strange thing was that for some reason, all the information and content related to Fat Brother in this world were erased, as if this person had never existed.

The strangest thing is why the cycle started over again immediately after Fat Brother died.

When the few people met again, Xiao Chen's face was full of self-blame, but he also said something that made everyone shudder.

"Could it be that we have some kind of bug and are stuck in the loop of July 7th? To fix the bug, of course we have to erase ourselves who are trapped in the bug, so that time can resume its normal flow."

"So when Fatty died, the loop was reset. Maybe the way out of this loop is for everyone to die."

"Or maybe only one person can survive, and everyone else who is trapped will die."

What Xiao Chen said makes sense.

What's more, compared to the previous situation where we had no idea what to do with the loop, now we have a possible solution.

"All dead or killing others for your own reasoning loop?"

Li Xingyi still found it difficult to accept this approach.

Those who die in the cycle will be completely erased, which will indeed not be a burden to those who survive.

But...does this make sense?
Xiao Chen also proposed a method where everyone could draw lots to decide who would survive. This was indeed a good idea, but it was also very cruel.

After the idea was accepted by everyone, each of them spent dozens of cycles to do what they wanted to do.

Finally, in the 174th cycle, the four of them gathered together to draw lots. The result showed that Li Xingyi was the lucky one who survived.

Faced with such a result, some of the other three remained silent, while others couldn't help crying.

We sat together and talked about many things until midnight was approaching.

The three people except Li Xingyi jumped down from the roof.

……

ding ding ding-

The alarm clock rang, Li Xingyi quickly got up and turned on his mobile phone to check. A feeling of despair surged in his heart, and his eyes began to wander.

"It's 7am on July 14th and the cycle has not ended."

Li Xingyi quickly adjusted himself after a brief moment of despair, which was not too surprising because he had already made plans for the worst.

Maybe it's true that they are a group of people trapped in a time bug, and the only ending waiting for them from the very beginning is death.

When I was having breakfast at 7 o'clock, I was disgusted by my one-year-old brother's excrement in the crib.

At 9 o'clock, when I was waiting for the bus to go to university at the bus stop, I witnessed a girl die in a car accident.

……

Every day is exactly the same, and it seems like July 7th will never come.

As if it was decided, at the beginning of this cycle, Li Xingyi hugged his parents and changed his younger brother's diaper with his own hands.

"Brother will be gone in the future. You have to grow up well and take good care of mom and dad."

"Also... call me brother!"

Surprisingly, the younger brother in the stroller actually called out "brother" clearly.

This made Li Xingyi feel very relieved. He could actually hear his younger brother calling him brother before he died.

Then Li Xingyi went out. In order to ensure that others could live well on July 7, he still had a lot of things to do. 15:8.

During this cycle, Li Xing arrived at the bus stop early, looking for a figure.

Yes, that girl!
If he had to choose to end his own life, Li Xingyi hoped to be a hero. When the car was about to hit the girl, the van quickly pushed him away, but he stood in front of the speeding car.

The oncoming car suddenly stopped unscientifically when it was less than half a meter away from Li Xingyi.

Li Xingyi covered his eyes with his arms and clenched his teeth, but the pain he imagined did not come. He opened his eyes and found that the car had stopped.

"What's going on? If he could have stopped, the girl wouldn't have died."

He glanced around and everyone was still.

"Is time paused?"

Li Xingyi was not surprised. After all, the time loop had happened countless times. What did a time pause matter?

The space in front of him tore open, revealing a deep red projection screen.

【Time loop weird story】

[Complete the goal: Survive until only one person is left]

"Only one person left? Am I not the only one left now? If I had known this would happen, it would have been better for the four of us to enjoy life together in the loop."

Li Xingyi said helplessly, and then continued to look down.

[Current number of survivors: 2/6]

? !
"There are six people in total... and now there are two left?"

Li Xingyi's tone became less and less confident. They had figured out the entire city through countless cycles.

He was having trouble figuring out who the person who was still alive was.

Li Xingyi tried his best to calm himself down. Being anxious was of no use. He needed to find the unusual condition in his memory.

"Was it Fatty? No, Fatty was the first to die, and the time loop was reset immediately."

"Xiao Chen and the others also jumped from the roof. There is absolutely no chance of them surviving."

As he was thinking, the image of his younger brother in the crib appeared in Li Xingyi's mind, but he immediately rejected the idea.

"Brother? How is that possible?"

My younger brother is so good, even though he is always disgusted by excrement. But today I am ready to die, but my younger brother still calls me brother!

"Wait, something seems wrong?"

After thinking about it carefully, Li Xingyi recalled that his younger brother was only one year old. Could the word "brother" really be said by his younger brother?

The word "brother" was so clear, as if he had been learning it for a long, long time.

Li Xingyi was unwilling to accept this idea, but the facts were before him. His younger brother's call of "brother" was too strange.

Once he reached the sidewalk, the pause in time ended and he quickly ran back home, where his brother, unsurprisingly, was still beside the stroller.

"Feel sorry……"

……

[Congratulations on completing your first ghost story]

[Reward: Memory preservation (memories will be preserved in subsequent rule-based weird challenges)]

While completing the time loop weird story, Li Xingyi bounced out of that strange space.

The sealed memories instantly flooded into his mind, and Li Xingyi finally remembered the causes and consequences of all the events.

One day in April 2025, these so-called regular ghost stories began to appear randomly in various corners of the world, forming ghost story fields of different diameters according to the difficulty of the ghost stories.

Once you step into it, you will be sucked into the strange story, but as long as one person can overcome it, the strange story will be resolved, and the strange story can also give you some extraordinary abilities.

These people are called ghost story hunters.

Li Xingyi traveled through time after an accident and awakened the system.

However, in a ghost story, some memories will be sealed according to the content of the story. The first ghost story challenge given to Li Xingyi by the system is even a rare ghost story that seals all memories.

Fortunately, Li Xingyi completed it successfully, and turned a disaster into a blessing by obtaining the buff of entering the ghost story to preserve his memory. Although he has no combat power, his memory can definitely be regarded as a great help in conquering the ghost story.

"Look! That's a new guy!"

Looking in the direction the passerby was pointing, it was Li Xingyi who was slowly walking out from the alien space. Suddenly, thunderous cheers broke out all around.

"It's incredible!"

"A newcomer actually overcame the 1.5-star rule of a complete memory ban! This is the greatest performance I have ever seen in my 20 years of life."

"You're right, but this is a pedestrian area. So, I still need to practice..."

As Li Xingyi got closer and closer to the crowd outside the isolation zone, reporters rushed forward.

They were all preparing to interview this incredible newcomer.

Li Xingyi was secretly happy.

I have become famous in one battle and it is inevitable that I will receive resources from all walks of life.

Li Xingyi immediately locked onto a TV station called "Aili Ai Li", which is considered to be the top in the world of ghost stories.

It couldn't be too obvious. Li Xingyi's eyes were still looking straight ahead, but his legs were moving further and further off to the side.

That's right, he came right in front of the reporter from the 'Aili Aili' TV station.

Cameras and guns immediately came at him, and a reporter from a small TV station spoke first.

"As a newcomer, how difficult do you think this ghost story challenge is?"

"That's about it. How difficult can a 1.5-star ghost story be?"

Li Xingyi said this indifferently, but the others were stunned when they heard this.

What is the difficulty of a 1.5-star ghost story?
Are you kidding me?
Some senior ghost story hunters don't dare to say this, so how dare this newcomer who doesn't even have a name say it?

Seeing the reactions of others, Li Xingyi knew that he had achieved his goal, except that he was still missing a spark.

He adjusted his standing posture, assumed a superior attitude and then said:

"What's so surprising about this? You can't look down on me just because I'm a newcomer."

"Thousands of years ago, Cao Chong also became famous at a young age. Why can't it be me?"

Most people were still shocked, but a few began to question.

After all, becoming famous at a young age is not something you can just say.

Finally, Li Xingyi got the question from the reporter he wanted.

"Li Xingyi, your performance today was truly amazing. There are so many people praising you! As a reporter for Airi Airi, I want to ask you if you have any plans for your future development."

It can be said that Airi Airi is indeed at the forefront of the industry.

In the short period of time when other TV stations were interviewing, Airi Airi had actually searched out Li Xingyi's information.

Li Xingyi really has no plans for the follow-up.

Regarding his thoughts at the moment, Li Xingyi was completely prepared to follow the system.

“As for the future development, I don’t have too many ideas yet. I’ll just take it one step at a time. But I would tend to set up a studio specializing in rule-based weird stories.”

(End of this chapter)