Yu Xing sat in the grass. He had been squatting, but after a while, he found it too tiring.

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He was patient, observing everything outside Old Zhang's house through the leaves.

Old Zhang had gone out hunting, and his wife had gone to work in the nearby fields. After greeting Mai Mai and telling her to stay at home, the woman left.

Around noon, the flow of time in this world was strange. Yu Xing could only judge the approximate time by the position of the sun. Mai Mai walked out of the house and looked around.

Normally, her mother would have returned home by this time to make her lunch. But today, for some reason, her mother had not returned.

Mai Mai's mood was still affected by the morning's argument. She felt down and decided to go back inside to wait.

Suddenly, a small figure ran towards her from a distance. It was a chubby boy of about twelve or thirteen. The boy smiled and greeted her, "Mai Mai!"

Mai Mai looked at him strangely and recognized him as Li Fugui's son, Li Bao.

Although there were few people in the village, and only a few children, she didn't like to play with this boy, so they had no interaction.

What did Li Bao want from her?

"What's up?" She looked at Li Bao, who was getting closer, and suddenly had a bad feeling.

Mai Mai stepped back and had already retreated to the door. As long as she closed the door, Li Bao wouldn't be able to reach her.

Li Bao seemed to know this, so he slowed down and stammered, "Mai Mai, I've come to apologize. My dad came home and told my mom about this morning. My mom scolded him, saying that when you take things from someone else's house, you should be polite. My dad has no conscience."

Mai Mai stopped retreating and looked at Li Bao again.

She felt a little wronged. If Li Bao's mother spoke up for her, then maybe it wasn't unforgivable. After all, she was just a little girl. "Really?"

"Really, really! My mom also said that she was afraid my dad would scare you, so she asked me to apologize on behalf of my dad. Whether you forgive my dad or not, I want to give this to you." Li Bao said, reaching out his hands. Mai Mai's gaze couldn't help but look at what was in his hands - a paper butterfly.

A small butterfly!

Mai Mai's eyes lit up and she hesitantly took a few steps forward. "I, I don't want to blame your dad, but your dad has to apologize to my parents! ... When my parents come back!"

"Okay, I'll go back and tell my dad!" Li Bao saw that Mai Mai didn't seem angry anymore and raised the paper butterfly to her. "This is for you."

Mai Mai hesitated again. Li Bao was two years older and taller, and he looked a bit intimidating.

However, he was just a child, so he shouldn't be a bad person.

"Okay." She pursed her lips and said reservedly, then walked towards Li Bao and took the small paper butterfly.

But the next moment, Li Bao suddenly grabbed her wrist.

The paper butterfly fell to the ground and was stepped on by Li Bao, who had taken a step forward.

Mai Mai panicked and shouted, "What are you doing!"

She had a bad feeling and struggled with all her might, but Li Bao also used all his strength to hold her tightly, making it impossible for her to leave.

Li Bao shouted, "Dad! Mom! I caught her!"

Several adults ran out from the surrounding hidden places. Li Fugui smiled grimly and pulled Mai Mai away from Li Bao. "The little wild child is quite vigilant. Finally, we've tricked her out. Are you scared?"

In addition to Li Fugui, the people who had caused trouble in the morning were all there, as well as Li Fugui's wife, all staring at Mai Mai with ill intentions.

Mai Mai had never seen such a scene before and burst into tears. She cried for her parents and struggled, even biting Li Fugui's hand fiercely, drawing blood.

"Wild brat!" Li Bao saw his dad being bitten and, without a word, imitated his dad's actions and slapped Mai Mai in the face.

Li Fugui's wife, watching this scene, was not shocked by the violent behavior, but instead patted Li Bao's head. "Good son, helping your dad."

In addition to Li Bao, the others also scolded, using all kinds of inappropriate words that were unbearable to hear.

Mai Mai cried even harder. She wanted her father to come back, and she wanted Yu Xing to come back. These people never dared to bully her when Yu Xing was around.

Yu Xing lay in the grass, expressionless, watching the scene. His fingers moved unconsciously.

He heard Mai Mai's plea for help and felt her blind trust in him.

But he chose to stay where he was and told himself:

This is just a reenactment of the past... Even if he saved someone now, it wouldn't change what had already happened. What he needed now was to follow these villagers and see the truth of what had happened in the past.

It made sense, but Yu Xing's palm was already embedded with his own fingernails, leaving behind drops of fresh blood.

Li Fugui and his group caused quite a stir at Old Zhang's house, and every household in the small village could hear it.

They came out one after another, pointing and gossiping about Mai Mai's rising and extinguishing hopes.

"Is Li Fugui going to send her to the neighboring village?"

"If Old Zhang finds out, won't he confront Li Fugui?"

"Old Zhang? He's been back for a while. Besides, so many people kidnapped Mai Mai together. If Old Zhang wants to confront them, can he settle scores with each family?"

"Why hasn't Old Zhang's wife come back?"

"My wife is responsible for holding down Old Zhang's wife in the fields. She definitely won't be able to come back."

"I heard that the neighboring village has a habit of eating people."

"But the material conditions are good. Li Fugui has gone to the neighboring village for negotiations many times. I heard that as long as the shaman is satisfied with the person sent, our village will receive meat to eat every month."

"In fact, Old Zhang has given a lot of meat to my family. I can't bear to see Mai Mai like this..."

"If you can't bear to see it, then don't look. He gave it to your family? Hmph, he didn't give it to my family! We can all eat meat in the village. Isn't it better than Old Zhang's family being the only one to benefit? Everyone has to cater to him?"

This was really heartless.

Old Zhang was a simple and kind person. He only gave in when others were being unreasonable. This kind of character, whether good or bad, was too easily taken advantage of, and everything he gave became a matter of course.Yu Xing roughly listened to it, and it turned out that these villagers were all aware of what happened today, and many of them were directly involved!

So, the kind and capable Old Zhang family, after showing goodwill, was deceived by everyone in the village and had their child taken away.

Mai Mai's voice was hoarse from crying, and she was forcibly taken away by Li Fugui and his group to the outskirts of the village.

Just a minute or two later, Old Zhang's wife hurried back and, seeing the wide-open door and the villagers who hadn't had time to return to their houses, she was first stunned, then a wave of fear rushed over her.

She rushed into the house to search, but found nothing. Then she searched around the village for a while and shouted hysterically at others, "Where is my daughter?!"

No one answered her, and the evasive attitude of everyone made Old Zhang's wife realize something, leaving behind a string of despairing wails as she rushed into the woods in the direction of the village where the shaman lived.

Yu Xing's gaze gradually turned cold.

Betrayal and greed, he already knew what was going on.

Obviously, even though Li Fugui had taken Mai Mai there, the shaman had no intention of "sharing the meat" with them. Instead, with a mocking tone, when talking to Yu Xing about this small village, it was as if he was telling a joke.

He slowly got up, adjusted to the dizziness in his memory that he had never experienced before, ignored the pain in his palm, and began to chase after Li Fugui and his group.

He was not afraid of losing them, because that group of people was definitely not as fast as him.

"How despicable can human nature be in the end?" When Yu Xing left, he left behind a chilling and mocking remark, along with a few drops of uncoagulated red blood.

What happened next was exactly as Yu Xing had expected. He caught up with Li Fugui and the others in the woods, even a little faster than Old Zhang's wife, and continued to follow them stealthily in the woods.

So, when Old Zhang's wife found them in anger, the tragedy that occurred, he also watched it without missing a single detail.

When Mai Mai saw her mother, she began to desperately cry for help, and Old Zhang's wife also went crazy. She was probably never as angry as she was today, because the villagers who had lived together for so many years actually wanted to send her child to her death.

Naturally, she lost her reason and just wanted to snatch her child back, so she got into a fight with these people.

She was just a woman, even though she had a bit more strength from working in the fields, she was still just a woman.

As for Li Fugui and the others, since the deed was already done, it had to be successful. Otherwise, when Old Zhang returned from hunting, along with that outsider who had always had a bad temper, they might really lose their lives.

They felt that they had no way out, so several men... beat Old Zhang's wife to death.

Mai Mai's cries changed from "Mom, save me" to "Mom, run quickly," but it was too late.

She watched as her mother, who had always doted on her, was beaten to the ground by a group of people, then looked at her with eyes wide open, for one minute... two minutes... forever with her eyes wide open.

Yu Xing blinked, feeling the violent rage surging in his heart, a feeling of sourness and anger intertwined in his chest.

"I must not have let this group of scoundrels live in the past."

The look of despair on Mai Mai's face appeared repeatedly in his mind, and his memory barrier loosened once again.

...

Old Zhang's face flashed before his eyes. In this new memory, he seemed to be running from a distance to Old Zhang's house, and had just arrived nearby. He saw Old Zhang, with a ferocious expression, raising an axe to strike at Li Fugui, but was hit from behind by another man.

Old Zhang fell with his eyes wide open, and the men with sticks attacked him from all sides with expressions of fear and pleasure. Soon, he could no longer get up.

The Yu Xing in his memory stopped, standing in place, seemingly lost in thought, as if digesting the fact that Old Zhang, who had taken him in for half a year, had died like this.

A few seconds later, a rain of blood poured down from the sky.

The viscous liquid, with a sweet and bloody scent, drenched the earth, staining this small village red.

Everyone who had been immersed in the joy of success turned to fear in that instant, looking up at the sky, then at Yu Xing, who was advancing step by step.

He picked up the axe that Old Zhang often used and cut the men with sticks in half.

A pervasive blackness emanated from him, a cold aura of death with the power to consume everything. Yu Xing, with his body at its peak, moved through every house, subjecting these people to torment and fear in their final moments, then killing them with the axe.

In less than thirty seconds, this small village had turned into a small hell on earth, and at that moment, Yu Xing looked on with a sickly smile.

Perfect, isn't it? These people only deserve to wail in hell.

...

Yu Xing fell into a daze, taking a long time to break free from the memories.

He shook his head, trying to shake off the negative emotions that filled his chest.

"In the past, I didn't realize that Mai Mai and Old Zhang's wife had been killed while hunting, and after the hunt, I couldn't save Old Zhang, who was outnumbered... Even if I had buried the entire village for them at the time, what use would it have been, I'm really useless." He scolded himself, then looked up.

"Hmm?"

The scenery in front of him was different from before. There were no bodies of Old Zhang's wife on the ground, nor any footprints of others passing by. Instead, it was the familiar scenery from the village where the shaman lived to the woods between the village and the lake.

During the time he was lost in a daze, his location had changed without a sound.

"Wait, did I jump through the timeline again?" Before, he would at least have to sleep before the jump, unlike now, where he just stood there for a while and it happened.

Was it because he remembered part of the events, so he didn't need to relive them and just continued to jump? Yu Xing thought to himself, then looked down at himself.

The bandages on his body had disappeared at some point, and the skin under his clothes was as smooth as ever, as if the terrible injuries had never existed.

"I'm back, Shi Wei, are you getting impatient?" The voice of the shaman sounded from behind him, and Yu Xing turned to see the shaman, now in a different dress, walking towards him with a bowl.

In fact, Yu Xing had already figured out the way these timelines appeared.Between two villages, in the small village where Old Zhang's family lived, the timeline was jumbled, and it followed the history that had occurred. Even if he made different choices, upon visiting another timeline, nothing could be changed.

For instance, in reality, after he escaped the experimental base, he didn't lose his memory. In the fabricated version, due to his amnesia, he didn't tell Old Zhang's family his name. However, after jumping to a different time in the small village, Old Zhang's family still knew his real name, which must have been told to them by him in reality.

In the larger village where the witch resided, the timeline moved forward, and all events changed based on the choices he made at the moment.

In reality, Yu Xing had always lived in the small village. Knowing that Old Zhang had died and after slaughtering the village, he went to the larger village in search of Mai Mai.

Now, he entered the larger village without knowing anything and was persuaded by the witch to stay. Each shift in time was predicated on the latter scenario.

Take, for example, the witch currently holding a bowl.

"Shi Wei, you promised me. Drink this bowl of blood, become a disciple of the divine officer, and stay with me forever." She placed the bowl in Yu Xing's hands. He looked down to see a whole night's worth of opaque, thick blood and the reflection of his clearly distressed face in the blood.

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