I did not experience a mysterious revival!

Chapter 73 The Undying Hell

The supernatural force was suppressed, but Lin Yuan's consciousness remained, allowing him to see his surroundings clearly.

The surrounding water wasn't clear, but at least it was still water, not something like ghost blood. And in Lin Yuan's memory, there was only one type of water capable of suppressing supernatural phenomena:

Ghost Lake!

However, this water is flowing water, and it is moving downwards.

The speed was not fast, but rather gentle, and Lin Yuan's body drifted with the current, gradually sinking into the water.

He was neither an anomaly nor a true vengeful ghost. He was a living person who controlled supernatural phenomena and curses, and as he sank, he immediately began to suffocate.

His body was suppressed by the supernatural force, and he was also unable to make any movements.

Even though he realized he was in a river, and could even see the bank from the water, which should be only a few meters away, he could only quietly wait to die.

"Am I going to die? Well, that's fine, I can start over."

Drowning feels terrible, especially in the time leading up to death. The suffocating sensation caused Lin Yuan great pain. And just as he was about to die, a strange change occurred on the withered branch that served as the pestle inside the ghost bell stuck to his palm.

The previous uses of the Ghost Bell had caused a few traces of green to appear on this withered branch, which was the life force that had been absorbed.

At that moment, as Lin Yuan's life was about to end, one of the traces of green turned gray again, and Lin Yuan suddenly opened his eyes again.

"How...how am I still here?"

The familiar surroundings made him feel a little taken aback.

Before he could react, that terrifying feeling of suffocation returned, but perhaps it was a supernatural response that gave him a slight ability to move.

In this desperate situation, he struggled a few more times, but then, due to the supernatural suppression, he lost control again and could only passively accept the pain of suffocation once more.

"What exactly is going on?"

"Why did I die and not wake up, not return to reality?"

"Multiple dreams? Or is it really time travel, or perhaps, it's that sudden surge of vitality from just now?"

Lin Yuan was thinking frantically, but soon, in his suffocating state, his consciousness began to falter and become scattered. Until one moment, a strange power surged through his body, clearing his mind and restoring a trace of vitality to his body.

This time, Lin Yuan didn't struggle wildly anymore, but instead swam towards the shore.

What should have been a distance of only a few meters felt like an insurmountable chasm at that moment. After only a couple of strokes, his body lost its strength again and he sank back into the water.

Suffocation, near death...

Sober, swimming...

After countless brushes with death, Lin Yuan finally grabbed a rock on the shore and held on tightly, eventually managing to climb ashore.

"Wow!"

Lin Yuan lay on the shore, vomiting painfully. He spat out mouthfuls of filthy water, which smelled terrible, but his condition was rapidly improving.

Finally, he came back to life!

Lin Yuan lay on his back on the shore, not paying any attention to his surroundings, breathing heavily.

What just happened was terrifying. If he hadn't been lucky enough to be close to the riverbank, if his eyesight hadn't been pretty good, if... perhaps he would have been forever trapped in that river, experiencing death and "resurrection"—it was simply hell!

Even now, thinking about it, he still feels a pang of fear and lingering unease.

"Even if it really is just a delusion, I have to be careful, otherwise, the situation just now might trap me in the dream and I won't be able to wake up."

Like a clip from a movie I watched before.

One of the main characters possesses the ability to live forever; even if he is shredded into pieces by a meat grinder, he can be resurrected.

The results of it?

After capturing her, the villain sealed her body in cement, leaving only her nostrils to breathe, and then threw her into the depths of the sea, so that she would be forever trapped in a cycle of drowning and resurrection.

The supernatural power within the mysterious resurrection is too bizarre; it wouldn't be difficult to induce this state in him.

Just like now...

"If I ever encounter an unpredictable crisis in the future, I'll just commit suicide and start over. I can't let this one weakness be exploited by people or ghosts."

Having made up his mind, Lin Yuan finally had the peace of mind to observe the sky above.

Dim and gloomy.

You can't see the sky, let alone the sun, moon, or stars. It's as if the entire sky is shrouded in a thick layer of clouds, or as if you've left reality and entered the firmament of another world.

After staring at it for a while, Lin Yuan suddenly felt a sense of oppression and nausea.

There's something wrong with this sky!

"Hey buddy, where are you from? I've never seen you before!"

A head suddenly appeared above Lin Yuan, blocking his view.

The woman looked to be about forty years old, with a strange smile on her face. Lin Yuan was startled and quickly sat up, looking at the woman in front of him warily.

The woman was wearing thick clothes, not down jackets or cotton-padded coats, but rather layers of thin clothing stacked together, making her look very bulky.

She was also holding a wooden basin in her hands.

The wooden basin was no longer recognizable as its original color; it was covered in stains in many places, looked filthy, and had a strong odor.

Based on this shape and the river water that could suppress supernatural beings, Lin Yuan had a guess in his mind.

This should be the riverbank leading to Ghost Lake in Taiping Town, and the woman in front of me should be one of the few remaining older generation laundry women in Taiping Town who inherited the tailor shop.

but……

"You called me 'brother'?" Lin Yuan asked, puzzled.

He could guess the woman's identity because he had seen "Mysterious Resurrection" in real life, but in the fantasy world, he had never been to Taiping Town.

The laundry woman exclaimed in surprise, "Should I call you 'older brother'?"

This woman is trying to take advantage of me!

This was Lin Yuan's first thought, but he quickly realized something was wrong because the voice he had just heard didn't seem to be his own.

No, it can't be anything but its own; it's just more mature and more hoarse.

His expression suddenly changed, and he immediately got up and went to the shore, looking down at his reflection in the water.

The same clothes, the same Monkey King mask on the left half of his face, but the right half of his face no longer showed the appearance of someone in their twenties, but rather the appearance of a middle-aged man around forty.

"Is this... me now?"

Lin Yuan stood there, stunned.

"Looks like you look quite young, older brother. But what are you doing here? Did you get lost?"

The laundry woman's voice softened slightly as she gently stroked the wooden tub, her gaze brazenly scanning Lin Yuan's back as if she were looking at a... new garment.