Chapter 66 The Line of Time

"What the hell is this?"

Lin Yi felt even more strange when he saw the silk thread emerging from the ground connected to Zhou Kai's ankle.

"Did you see those threads again?"

Zhou Kai's body swayed a little, but he still maintained his walking movement, with his raised leg always hanging in the air.

Lin nodded, squatted down, stretched out his hand and grabbed the thread.

With a strong tug, just like what happened to An Chengdao before, the thread was torn off by Lin Yi.

At the same time, Lin Yi suddenly heard a "click", followed by a sharp pain in his ankle.

"hiss--"

Lin Yi gritted his teeth, enduring the pain and not daring to scream.

Zhou Kai saw Lin Yi's frown, as if even his facial features were coming together because of the pain.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Kai took back his stepped foot and squatted next to Lin Yi and asked.

"I tore off the threads I saw."

After the pain in his ankle eased a little, Lin Yi spoke.

"There's something wrong." Lin Yi thought for a while.

Picking up a branch from the roadside, Lin Yi stabbed the branch towards the place where the thread emerged.

There was just a "click" sound, and something popped out of the ground instantly, tightly clamping the branch in Lin Yi's hand.

"Bear Trap?!" Looking at the thing that suddenly appeared under the ground, Zhou Kai had a hint of surprise in his eyes.

If Lin Yi had not stopped him, what was caught at this moment was not the branch in Lin Yi's hand, but his feet.

The jaws of the bear trap were rusty and covered with dried blood, which was mixed with soil and turned black.

The pain in his ankle had disappeared. Lin Yi stood up and continued to test the nearby ground with the branch in his hand and the animal trap attached to it.

About four or five steps away, when he stabbed hard, there was another "click" sound, and another bear trap was triggered, clamping the top of the branch that had not been removed.

"There are even more." Zhou Kai frowned, "Could it be that this road is full of such things?"

He looked around and felt a little strange: "Why are these bear traps placed here?"

"To prevent rats from the woods from entering the village?"

"We have walked all the way, and this is the only place where there is a bear trap. If it is to deal with the rats in the forest, the bear trap cannot be placed only here." When he said this, Lin Yi raised his head.

He glanced at the roofless house in the distance, frowned and said, "This road leads to that house."

"You mean these animal traps are to prevent anyone from going to that house?" Zhou Kai asked.

Lin Yi thought for a moment and said, "Maybe... it's to prevent the people in that house from entering the village."

To enter the village from that house, there are two roads to choose from. The first is the road where the animal trap is placed, and the other is to enter the woods and bypass this road.

If that house was full of wounded people, once they entered the woods, the smell of blood from the wounds would attract rats and strange birds.

Not only that, because they were injured, they may have difficulty moving. If they choose to walk through the woods, they may be pricked by thorns on the trees due to their inconvenience.

The final result is a dead end.

Even if they didn't enter the woods and chose to take this path, the result might not be much better.

"In order to prevent the smell of blood from the injured from attracting rats and strange birds in the forest to the village, I can understand the idea of ​​temporarily placing them outside the village." Zhou Kai looked at the ground.

"But, even if it is to prevent them from entering the village, is it necessary to put bear traps on the road?"

"This approach doesn't seem to be taking care of the injured at all, but it seems to be..."

"To kill the people who ran out of the house." Lin Yi followed Zhou Kai's words.

What Lin Yi and the others saw was completely different from what Tian Wenlei told them.

"I should have thought of it earlier." Lin Yi continued.

"This place is different from the city. Due to the lack of supplies, once you get sick or injured, recovery does not happen overnight."

"It would be okay if it was just a minor injury like a scratch, but if the injury becomes more serious, there is no medicine in the village to treat them."

"It is difficult to allow the wound to recover on its own in this environment."

"So..." Lin Yi did not continue.

If this village is really what he thought, then the house in the distance is not a house for the injured at all, but a place for the injured to kill themselves.

The people who were sent into that house must not want to die like this, but when they wanted to escape, they would face either rats and strange birds in the woods, or bear traps on the road.

"Wait a minute." Zhou Kai looked at Lin Yi, "Are you sure the thread you saw just now came out from where the animal trap was placed?"

"And you also said that this line is connected to my ankle."

"If you didn't notice, if I stepped on it directly, this animal trap would just catch my ankle."

Recalling the sound he heard and the pain he felt after tearing off the thread, Lin Yi felt a little incredible.

Whether it's sound or pain, you can only feel it after the bear trap is triggered.

"Could it be that the threads I saw were not because the people in the village were aliens, but because of myself?" Lin Yi guessed.

"Isn't your ability to control time?" Zhou Kai asked curiously.

"Why did it suddenly become a thread again?"

"The future." Lin Yi said in surprise, "After breaking the thread, will I feel what might happen in the future?"

"Is it possible that these glowing threads are a kind of time line representing the 'future'?"

"It's not impossible." Zhou Kai thought about it and continued, "But I always feel that your ability is getting weirder and weirder."

"I think it's good." Lin Yi smiled.

"Whether it's returning to the past after death or time standing still, these situations are unstable."

"But the time line I see is different, at least it can avoid danger."

"Do you mean that you can see these lines stably now?" Zhou Kai asked.

Lin Yi shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I can always see these glowing lines when you may be in danger these few times."

"Moreover, the place where the thread emerges is the source of danger, and the target of the thread is the person who is about to be in danger."

When he said this, Lin Yi's face suddenly became a little ugly.

"Oh no, Uncle An!"

If the existence of these threads was really as Lin Yi thought, then before An Chengdao entered the woods, he clearly saw the threads coming out of Lei Ge's hunting rifle floating towards An Chengdao's chest.