Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 382 - 310: Monster

Chapter 382: Chapter 310: Monster

Upon realizing that Lin Xing’s parents hid a huge mystery, and that his father was the prime suspect in a massacre of humans,

the young man’s thought process underwent a significant change.

He began to see Lin Xing’s father as a more important target.

The first approach the youth tried was a direct confrontation.

If it were his first or second rebirth, he clearly would not have dared to do so.

But after rebirthing time and again, his courage had grown considerably.

On the way to his job, the young man blocked him directly in his path.

Right there on the bustling street, he looked at Lin Xing’s father and said, "What exactly is your relationship with Lin Xing?"

In the face of the other’s puzzled gaze, he slowly pulled out his phone and displayed the video playing on its screen to the other man.

Watching the face being torn apart in the video, the other’s gaze immediately sharpened.

He then said, "I’ve saved the video online. If you kill me, these videos will be published. Now answer my question..."

But before he could finish, the other man had already leaned in, with a light touch on him, and the youth felt his body lose control, moving like a puppet to the actions of the other’s hand.

He just felt himself being taken back to the house by the other, watching Lin Xing’s mother approach emotionlessly, and then he only felt a pain in his body before slipping into limitless darkness.

"He didn’t even hesitate, just killed me straight away."

Reborn again, the youth remained incredulously aware of Lin Xing’s father’s decisiveness.

So he tried many other methods, like anonymous letters, phone calls, social media threats, trying to extract more information.

But Lin Xing’s father never showed any signs of compromise, and as soon as the youth slipped up, he would be tracked down and killed.

He also tried directly leaking and spreading the content of the videos, but it was always dismissed as interesting special effects, failing to cause much of a stir, not even alarming the police.

With each rebirth, his courage grew and his caution lessened, gradually getting accustomed to the ability to be reborn.

So he began to take even more dangerous actions.

Such as ambushing Lin Xing’s father, poisoning him, attempting to electrocute him, or leading him into traps.

With each action, each death, his ethical boundaries were pushed lower.

"Anyway, I can be reborn..."

"Anyway, I’ll come back to life..."

With such thoughts, he began to employ more radical means.

Such as using gas to blow up the other’s home.

Or setting fire to the entire building.

But each failure only made the youth more aware of the other’s formidable nature.

Not only was he impervious to blades and fire, but he also possessed strength and speed far beyond any living creature, and many superhuman powers that were hard to comprehend.

The various attacks in his plans were almost entirely ineffective against the target, only provoking a full-force counterattack.

During the other’s actions, he was ruthlessly decisive, any obstruction would be instantly annihilated, no survivors left behind.

All kinds of threatening methods were also utterly useless, only leading to increased vigilance and investigation by the other.

"Lin Xing’s father... he’s like a monster that salt won’t melt, invulnerable."

During the continuous process of investigating and countering Lin Xing’s father, witnessing his repeated killings, the youth became more and more convinced that the creature that instigated the apocalyptic crisis and massacred humanity must be Lin Xing’s father.

"Lin Xing has never shown any superpowers, he has always been a good person."

"The true culprit behind the massacre is likely Lin Xing’s father, but because his true appearance is too similar to Lin Xing’s, he was mistaken for Lin Xing."

Although he felt he had discovered the apocalypse’s real perpetrator, a string of failures had gradually led him to the realization that against such a profound and unfathomable monster, he stood almost no chance of winning.

He couldn’t help thinking, "This monster is too powerful, maybe... I should still focus on Lin Xing. He’s easier to communicate with, easier to break through, and I can learn more information through him."

So, after refocusing his attention on Lin Xing, the first issue he encountered was the night Lin Xing told him about time reversal, when he would be killed by Lin Xing’s father.

At first, he tried to hide in other places, in crowded areas, even at the entrance of a police station.

But one can only hide for so long – at best delaying a few days or even weeks before he would eventually be killed by the adversary.

"Why must he kill me?"

"Is it because I know Lin Xing has the power to reverse time?"

Therefore, he tried to intentionally avoid Lin Xing on the day of Lin Xing’s first time reversal.

However, he found that if he avoided Lin Xing that day, it would be very difficult for him to get closer to Lin Xing’s heart.

"I have to share his secret to further bond with Lin Xing and to gather more information."

"But at the same time, I need to avoid being killed by Lin Xing’s father... Come to think of it, Lin Xing’s father probably wants to kill me because I know Lin Xing can reverse time."

"What if he doesn’t know that I know?"

So he began to try to hide from Lin Xing’s father the fact that he was aware of the time reversal.

And the key to concealment rested on Lin Xing himself, who was still in elementary school.

After trying many methods, he finally convinced Lin Xing to keep the time reversal a secret between the two of them and not tell a third person.

Aside from elementary school, Lin Xing triggered time reversal two more times, once each in middle school and high school.

By that time, Lin Xing had fully confirmed that it was his own death that activated this ability.

Unfortunately... although his relationship with Lin Xing deepened, and he knew the secret of Lin Xing’s three time reversals, he still couldn’t uncover more information about Lin Xing’s father.

"Lin Xing seems completely oblivious to the strangeness and extraordinariness of his own parents."

"Why would such a homicidal maniac teach his son to be a good person?"

"Why did Lin Xing’s father, who disguised himself for nearly a decade, initiate the massacre?"

He was utterly baffled by these questions.

Therefore, three days before the predicted apocalypse, he filled Lin Xing’s room with cameras and observed him almost 24 hours non-stop.

He wanted to know what exactly Lin Xing’s father did to him in the days leading up to the apocalypse, how he replaced Lin Xing, and why he started the massacre.

But just as he drank dozens of cans of coffee, and his brain’s fatigue became increasingly hard to resist, making him more and more sleepy,

the scenes on the surveillance screen instantly jolted him awake.

In the past, no matter what he tried, he couldn’t leave the slightest injury on Lin Xing’s father.

But at that moment, that seemingly impervious and immensely strong body was as fragile as tofu in Lin Xing’s hands.

Easily torn, ripped, twisted apart...

But what shocked the young man most was not this, but what was inside Lin Xing’s father’s torn body.

It didn’t look like normal human flesh at all but rather some kind of fabricated material, even containing a large amount of suspicious mechanical structures.

The mother, who rushed over to stop Lin Xing, was torn into a similar state.

"Robots? Or aliens?"

"What exactly are Lin Xing’s parents?"

And watching Lin Xing, who soon after began the massacre, he fully understood, "Indeed, it was Lin Xing who started the apocalypse. He killed his own parents and then more and more people until he began the massacre."