Chapter 34
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The longer the time reversal, the higher the burning temperature rising in Lou Yan’s body.
This time, Lou Yan directly went back five minutes.
The scene before his eyes changed rapidly. In the blink of an eye, he was sitting by the newly lit bonfire, warming his cold hands and feet.
The high temperature emanating from his body instantly steamed the damp clothes, enveloping Lou Yan’s face with an abnormal blush, sweat replacing the chill. He took a few deep breaths of cold air to alleviate the uncomfortable heat inside his body.
For him now, this high temperature was actually a good thing, at least it instantly warmed Lou Yan’s trembling body, and the emitted heat made the clothes hot.
Before the eerie beings carrying the blood-red coffin could come to find him, Lou Yan quickly put out the fire, regained his senses, and hurriedly left the place, running in a random direction along the river.
He looked down at the time, and as soon as he raised his head, the familiar sight of four men with eerie makeup and a sedan carried by them appeared in front of him.
They grinned, their eyes, black without pupils, maliciously fixed on Lou Yan.
Lou Yan stopped in his tracks, his face tense.
As expected.
The time of appearance of these eerie beings this time was different from the last time. But what they had in common was that whenever Lou Yan shifted his gaze, they would immediately appear in front of him.
While these four eerie beings hadn’t spoken yet, Lou Yan decisively plunged into the river, with only his eyes exposed in the water.
He didn’t swim too far from the riverbank because Lou Yan was also worried that there might be dangers in the river that he didn’t know about.
The current distance was just right; he even had to bend his knees to bury himself completely in the water. Lou Yan held his breath and stared at these eerie beings, hoping that his guess before the time reversal was correct, and these eerie beings would be afraid of water and wouldn’t dare to enter.
Seeing him entering the water, the four identical eerie beings exchanged glances, their grinning smiles unchanged. They walked to the edge of the river with the sedan, their steps stopping right in front of the damp water. Their tone was sinister, full of ill intentions, “Please, bride, get into the sedan.”
They showed no intention of entering the water, but they also showed no intention of letting Lou Yan go. They stared straight at Lou Yan, as if waiting to see what he would do.
Refuse? No, refusal would result in what happened last time – Lou Yan would be killed by them.
At the moment, hiding in the water seemed to be a third option besides “accepting” and “refusing.” Lou Yan had an intuition that it was best not to say or do anything and see if these eerie beings would leave on their own.
He cautiously hid himself in the water, while also paying attention to any movement behind him in the river, demonstrating what “silence is golden” meant with his actions.
Lou Yan and the eerie beings remained in a standoff.
Soon, the four eerie smiles softened slightly, but their gaze on Lou Yan became more malicious, their tone more menacing. “Please, bride, step into the sedan.”
Lou Yan could sense that these entities were starting to get angry.
He was certain now that the river water had some inhibitory effect on these entities. But Lou Yan wasn’t sure if there would be another way to kill him if these entities were thoroughly provoked.
He only had 10 points of mental strength left and couldn’t use time reversal again to save himself. But Lou Yan inherently didn’t know how to submit. At least for now, there was something restraining these entities, and it hadn’t reached the point where he must surrender. Lou Yan wanted to see how far these entities could be provoked, so he remained silent, as if he hadn’t heard their words at all.
As time passed by, the eerie smiles on the four men’s faces turned into a grim straight line. Their gazes at Lou Yan became exceedingly resentful, as if they wished to devour him in the next moment. With their changing expressions, the color of the crimson coffin became thicker, and even droplets of red blood flowed down from the coffin, dripping onto the muddy ground and slowly seeping into the river.
Watching the changes in the coffin, Lou Yan’s eyelids twitched.
The four entities seemed to be issuing a final ultimatum, staring at Lou Yan and saying for the third time, “Please, bride, step into the sedan!”
In the midst of speaking, their crimson tongues had already extended from their mouths, thick viscous liquid dripping down their necks.
Past experiences told Lou Yan that these entities had reached the limit of their patience.
And the chill in the river had completely taken away the body heat associated with time reversal. Lou Yan could feel his body rapidly losing warmth. If he didn’t leave the river soon, he might be frozen in place forever.
This is the time when I have to bow my head…
Lou Yan stood up expressionlessly from the river, walking step by step towards the eerie beings. As he approached, the eyeballs of the four eerie beings followed his movement. When Lou Yan reached them, the eerie beings began greedily salivating, their tongues hanging out continued dripping saliva.
Lou Yan ignored them, his sharp eyebrows revealing his displeasure and suppression. “How do I get into the sedan?”
As soon as he said this, the blood-red coffin immediately stopped bleeding, and the four eerie beings resumed their grinning smiles. They placed the raised coffin on the ground, two of them opened the coffin lid, and then all four pairs of eyes stared at Lou Yan.
Lou Yan walked to the side of the coffin with long strides, bending down to take a look. The coffin was empty, with only a layer of black-red velvet blanket inside. Lou Yan calmly laid down inside.
Coincidentally, the coffin was just big enough to accommodate his adult male figure.
“Hehehe.”
The eerie beings chuckled as they closed the coffin lid, their blood-red smiles hidden behind the last gap in the coffin. Lou Yan once again plunged into darkness.
The coffin was lifted by the eerie beings, and Lou Yan couldn’t see the outside environment, but his senses became more acute. He thought the eerie beings would teleport him directly to the destination, but unexpectedly, the coffin swayed as if the eerie beings were walking step by step.
Well, that’s good. If it’s not teleportation, it gives Lou Yan more time to prepare.
The coffin was extremely cramped, so much so that if Lou Yan lifted his head slightly, it would hit the coffin lid. He could hardly turn over or make any other large movements in the coffin, only carefully using his feet and hands to feel around.
After searching once, Lou Yan found no clues or anything terrifying. The inside of the coffin was also quiet, seemingly not intending to harm Lou Yan.
Lou Yan figured that he should be safe for now.
During the time before reaching the destination, as long as nothing unexpected happened, the four eerie beings and the coffin shouldn’t take his life.
Lou Yan temporarily relaxed, closing his eyes to rest and hoping to recover some mental power while he could.
Even if the current situation wasn’t suitable for rest, Lou Yan had no choice. In his current state, if he encountered dangerous eerie beings, he would die in minutes.
The coffin swayed, making Lou Yan dizzy. He dozed off for a while, fortunately the path the coffin bearers took was long. By the time the coffin landed, Lou Yan’s mental power had gradually recovered to 23 points.
Lou Yan opened his eyes, tense, listening to the sounds outside.
But it was very quiet outside, exceptionally quiet. Those eerie beings for some reason didn’t utter a word, neither urging Lou Yan to come out nor telling him if they had reached the destination.
After a few minutes, the coffin still remained quietly in place.
The world inside the red coffin had quickly alerted Lou Yan that it was very dangerous here. Lou Yan was now clueless about the outside world; he didn’t even know if this silence was a trap set by the eerie beings.
But the air inside the coffin was becoming increasingly thin.
Lou Yan slowed his breathing frequency, unwilling to continue the stalemate. He decided to leave the coffin.
Reaching out to push the coffin lid, Lou Yan found that the thin coffin lid couldn’t be pushed open now.
Lou Yan’s expression changed, his strength instantly increasing. This time, he exerted all his strength to push the coffin, but still couldn’t move it.
Not only did the coffin lid not move, but it seemed as if it suddenly discovered there was still a human inside, and the four sides of the coffin began to compress towards the inside at a visible speed, compressing Lou Yan’s living space!
“F*ck.”
Lou Yan cursed lowly, his arms and shoulders sore from being pressed by the coffin board, and a crackling sound came from between his bones. Such force was completely unstoppable; Lou Yan knew that if he didn’t get out quickly, he would be squeezed into a pile of meat pulp by the coffin.
Lou Yan quickly adjusted his posture, stepping on the two sides of the coffin board with one foot each, trying to reserve a safe area for himself, and pulled out the sharpest dagger from his leg, inserting it into the gap to pry open the coffin lid.
The coffin became more and more cramped, and the air became thinner. Sweat poured down Lou Yan’s face, his whole body tightly compressed, his legs slightly bent, and his nose even touched the coffin lid.
It was difficult to exert force in such a narrow space, especially with dizziness and chest tightness caused by suffocation. Pain spread throughout Lou Yan’s body as it was compressed, but he kept his eyes fixed on his hands, continuously exerting effort.
“Crack,” the sound of bone breaking echoed.
Lou Yan gritted his teeth, his sweaty hair sticking to his forehead, his arms rubbing against the tightly squeezed coffin boards, and suddenly pushed down hard. With a creak, the coffin lid was finally pried open!
Cold air rushed into the coffin, Lou Yan took a deep breath, pushed open the coffin lid, and sat up, supporting himself on both sides of the coffin.
The originally somewhat suitable coffin had now become extremely narrow. If Lou Yan’s figure weren’t slender, the coffin would probably have already squeezed him to death.
Lou Yan’s foot bones hurt a lot, and he was scratched in several places, but he didn’t have time to check his injuries now. Maintaining his posture sitting on the edge of the coffin, he first looked around the surroundings.
It was a somewhat antiquated bedroom.
Surrounded by yellow and white bed curtains, a square wooden antique bed, a dusty dressing table, a deep red wardrobe, and tables and chairs, it looked like an old-fashioned traditional style from fifty or sixty years ago.
There was no one in the room, and the four eerie beings who carried the coffin had disappeared. Lou Yan looked around and retracted his gaze to feel his foot bones.
“Hiss…”
Good, it’s really broken, not dislocated.
Lou Yan thought expressionlessly, he was useless now.
Someone outside suddenly knocked on the door, a woman’s voice saying, “New bride, we’ve come to dress you up.”
Lou Yan glanced at his foot bones and saw the faint reflection of a slender figure made of paper pasted on the door.
He remained silent.
The woman’s figure suddenly pressed against the door, a pair of eyes peering at Lou Yan through the crack in the door. The woman chuckled strangely, “New bride, can you hear me?”
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Today, Lou has suffered again!
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