Chapter 452: Timeline
Lin Ye did not try to pull out his right hand. Instead, he licked his lips with his tongue.
'Am I a paper doll now too? Is this the power of some floor? Did a floor leave the Bottomless Pit, or am I currently deep within the Bottomless Pit?'
Lin Ye hadn't expected the situation to become this terrible after he obtained the future information.
The door of the simple laboratory opened. Maggie and the others walked into the lab. Weird smiles hung on their faces as they approached Lin Ye step by step.
'If I die here, will I enter the Time Node generated in the previous timeline?'
Lin Ye wasn't very sure. After all, he was no longer within that timeline. Theoretically speaking, the remaining Time Nodes shouldn't exist at all.
'Although I still haven't used Reality Simulation, I should still figure out the current situation first.'
Lin Ye controlled the spiritual energy blade to cut off his right arm, then climbed out of the lab's side window into the corridor.
He wasn't clear about these paper dolls' abilities yet, so he wasn't planning to make contact with them.
The clubhouse base was almost identical to the one from the previous timeline, except now the entire clubhouse had turned into paper material. Lin Ye quickly ran out of the clubhouse base. All those young men had turned into paper dolls. They tried to grab Lin Ye, but it was obvious that even if Lin Ye couldn't lay a hand on them, they couldn't catch Lin Ye either.
After leaving the base, Lin Ye discovered that Free City here was completely intact. It was just that the entire Free City had become paperized.
Lin Ye ran to the street and started a paper sports car. The paper pedestrians around him swarmed over like zombies, even though he was acting perfectly normal.
'What the hell is going on?'
Lin Ye really disliked this feeling of all the familiar things around him spiraling out of control.
There were almost no vehicles on the road. Lin Ye floored the accelerator and drove the sports car straight out of the city.
Clearly, something was wrong with Free City now, and this problem was related to the Bottomless Pit. Going to the Bottomless Pit would probably yield some information.
On the road leaving Free City, Lin Ye saw a woman by the roadside wanting to hitch a ride. He executed a drift, stopping the sports car right in the middle of the road, opened the car door, and invited her to get in.
"I am Sera, a researcher from Carnot Heavy Industries. You've noticed the anomaly in the city too, right?"
Just like the first time she met Lin Ye, Sera spoke to Lin Ye using the tone of a researcher's assistant.
"Yeah, the entire city has turned to paper. Do you know why it became like this?"
Lin Ye hadn't expected that this time he hadn't gone to deal with that Pit Product related to the future.
"I don't know what happened either, but this is likely related to the Pit Product that disappeared earlier."
Sera seemed like a genuine researcher, not a Salvation Cult cultist.
"Disappeared Pit Product?"
Lin Ye asked curiously.
"Ah, sorry, that's classified information."
Sera continued maintaining her persona.
Lin Ye didn't ask further. He could roughly guess what had happened. Compared to that potentially inaccurate information, he wanted to know the current state of the Bottomless Pit more.
Soon they arrived near the jungle, but the jungle had now turned into a wasteland. Lin Ye simply drove the sports car into the wasteland. As a Veteran Driver, he was very good at handling troublesome road sections like this.
The wasteland was completely silent, with only the noise produced by the sports car.
"Did you take a wrong turn? Where's the Bottomless Pit?"
Sera looked at the dark red lake water in front of her and asked.
"As a Veteran Driver, I can tell you very responsibly, this is the Bottomless Pit."
Lin Ye looked at the endless expanse of red lake water before him and felt a headache coming on.
This was indeed the Butterfly Effect. Even the Bottomless Pit was gone.
'What exactly did I do in this timeline?'
Lin Ye suddenly realized he might have underestimated his own troublemaking ability. A butterfly flapping its wings could mess up the future, let alone himself knowing future intelligence.
'The me in this timeline probably wanted to rely on that intelligence to do something, which resulted in the current situation. The problem now is I don't have memories of this timeline and don't know what to do next.'
Lin Ye couldn't speculate about his own goals because he lacked information from this timeline.
Sera got out of the sports car. She looked around, seemingly searching for something.
"What are you looking for?"
Lin Ye took out a paper Fishing Rod from his item space, sat on the car hood, and cast a line.
"...Strange, it shouldn't be..."
Sera suddenly turned to look at Lin Ye, revealing an expression of sudden understanding.
"So that's it... Someone asked me to give this to you."
Sera pulled a white envelope from her chest and handed it to Lin Ye.
Lin Ye took the envelope. It was made from material that blocked mental energy, so he couldn't sense what was inside either.
Opening the envelope, there was only a single letter inside.
"Sorry, I messed up~
Because I got future information, I tried some slightly dangerous experiments, and ended up crashing this world~
My apologies~
The things inside the Bottomless Pit are extremely dangerous. If you found a solution last time, try not to change the future. Absolutely cannot let the things inside the Bottomless Pit come out.
There's a discrepancy between the information in the Mental Mark and the information left on the body. If you didn't make a mistake, it's likely the spiritual imprint was affected by something and became erroneous.
You should be in a paper doll state now. Absolutely do not die, and do not kill other paper dolls, otherwise it will be very troublesome.
If you want to commit suicide to try if you can restart, you can enter the lake to dissolve the paper doll's body. This is a suicide method I managed to create with great difficulty.
Finally, the creatures in the lake are extremely dangerous. Please do not fish by the lakeside."
The moment Lin Ye finished reading the letter, something in the lake used the Fishing Rod to drag him into the water. He couldn't even let go.
"Damn!"
Lin Ye sank into the lake. His body began slowly dissolving. The thing that pulled him down didn't eat his body—perhaps because he was a paper doll, or perhaps because it was just enjoying the process of fishing for people.
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"So that's how it is. Go handle it."
Ms. Carnot said to the Old Butler.
"I'm going to the restroom."
The moment Lin Ye entered the restroom, he began controlling his blood to carve information on his body. He mixed Chinese and English within the sentences. Even if others could sense this information, they wouldn't be able to figure out its meaning.
Besides the future information, Lin Ye also carved the hints left by himself from the previous timeline onto his body.
Blood flowed beneath Lin Ye's epidermis. Lines of bloody text appeared under the epidermis. It only took fifty seconds for Lin Ye to carve all the information.
To prevent the Butterfly Effect from affecting the future, he meticulously recorded all the important information from the first timeline.