The author's diary of ghost stories

Water.

Yu Liang looked at the whole bathtub of water in front of him and remained silent.

The water surface is the secret to traveling through different time and space lines, but he cannot actively influence and control it, he can only travel passively.

And he dare not travel passively.

The Cuckoo Bird said that when he travels to any time and space line, he will replace the "Yu Liang" in the original time and space and occupy their abilities.

And their abilities are often used to suppress the barrel man roots in the corresponding time and space line. This temporary replacement is likely to cause a flaw in the cell, causing the barrel man Yu Liang to successfully escape from prison.

If he really escapes from prison, Yu Liang must create a new time and space line cell to imprison the barrel man roots. He now has an idea of ​​"Dream Yu Liang", but he is not fully prepared, so he naturally needs to act cautiously.

It would be best to determine the shuttle route and be able to and only enter the "subsidiary account timeline" of the "Zhi" version of Yu Liang, but I don't seem to have obtained this part of the ability from the barrel man roots.

Yu Liang glanced at the time. The cruise ship would not wait for him. It would only keep heading towards the fixed terminal. Now half an hour had passed since the two-hour mark, but the situation still had not improved.

Li Geng and the magician worked together to look for places where Yu Liang's projection might exist.

The characters created could definitely see the projection of Yu Liang in the future. As for the magicians...

They hadn't tried it, so they were not sure yet.

Of course, they were still very serious in helping Yu Liang find traces of "Future Yu Liang" on the sea, but they were idle with Yu Liang himself.

He had no mobility to speak of, so he simply did not take the initiative to go out and look for it, but was now studying the ability of the barrel man's roots and guessing where Yu Liang would go in the future.

For now, the members of the Sea City Alliance on the cruise ship had nothing else to do. They were either preparing for the invasion of the barrel man at the dock or helping Yu Liang find the projection.

As a member of the alliance, Yu Liang informed the founding seat and others of most of the information he had obtained so far. Since he had to rely on their strength, it was necessary to tell these people the whole story.

Yu Liang still believed in collective wisdom. After all, if he didn't say anything, he would look a little weird now.

The player with the strongest power in the team suddenly started to mutter that the barrel man had invaded in advance, but in fact the barrel man had not invaded, and this guy was still controlling the wooden barrel in a mysterious way, and created a special barrel-mounted whistle beast monster, and was able to directly control the two barrel men hidden on the escort ship.

To be honest, it seemed that Yu Liang was controlled by the barrel man's root mind.

The founders were not NPCs. After entering the ghost story dungeon, they would still have the minimum vigilance and have their own judgment on some things, otherwise they would not have survived until now.

At least before Yu Liang started to explain, someone had really noticed his abnormality and began to secretly doubt his identity.

Fortunately, Yu Liang noticed this, and he would not be completely alone at this time to gamble whether these people in the Sea City Alliance trusted him.

To be honest, if you believe an acquaintance in the world of ghost stories, without considering the possibility that the other party may be replaced or contaminated by ghost stories, you will definitely not get to this point.

Moreover, Yu Liang also knows how "contrasting" his new ability is with these actions. He doesn't want to cause trouble because of his inexplicable personal heroism, which will cause the Haicheng Alliance to doubt his identity.

Our strength is not enough, and it is really the stupidest behavior to be scattered under such a blunder.

So Yu Liang opened his homepage in front of everyone to prove that his composition is absolutely correct, so as not to cause further suspicion from the inside.

He explained the meaning of some of his actions so far, and at the same time exchanged information with these founding seats at a deeper level.

Regarding Yu Liang's seemingly extremely high-risk move, the views and attitudes of several founding seats are not unified.

"You mean... you want to use the cause and effect chain of the copy to make yourself the original bucket man?" The coach listened to Yu Liang's plan, which was considered to be a rebellious plan, and a big question mark popped up in his mind, "Is this really feasible?"

Is this a solution that a normal person can think of?

When facing a powerful Root Ghost, the solution you think of is not negotiation, not suppression, not elimination, but wanting to become Him?

If you say so, this is indeed the most perfect way to capture the Ghost, but as for the success rate...

"I succeeded once, not on me, but on the Moon Steward, and the fact proves that I did it." Yu Liang said immediately, "It is theoretically feasible, and this is the only way to stop the Root of the Barrel Man at present."

He looked around at the people around him and told them a piece of information that was not good news: "Until now, you have not directly faced the Root of the Barrel Man, so you don't know how terrifying He is."

Yu Liang tried to describe what was happening in a calm tone: "The Root of the Barrel Man is not just a lord boss waiting for you to attack at the dock. This is not a tower defense game at all. We are facing only one-sixth of the Root of the Barrel Man. The reason why He did not come to target us is simply because He encountered more difficult troubles in other time and space lines."

He sighed quietly: "With only one-sixth of the barrel man's origin, He was able to suppress us in the copy, and directly controlled the moon steward and turned him into a barrel man, so before recovering the moon steward, many things in this main timeline are useless, because the barrel man is likely to reverse the situation by backtracking."

The coach and others looked as calm as water. Before this, when Yu Liang communicated with the two-dimensional Yu Liang through the shadow of the wooden barrel, they had some guesses about the current situation, but Yu Liang did not elaborate, so their understanding was not deep enough.

Now they really understand what they are fighting against.

Only one-sixth of the state can suppress their living space on such a small cruise ship, and the barrel man's origin did not come to deal with them because it felt unnecessary.

With the moon steward's ability to backtrack, the barrel man's origin in the main timeline is already invincible, so He is very relieved to put almost all his energy on several other time and space lines, striving to escape from prison as soon as possible and let the power return.

As long as the will of the Root Ghost is firm, there is no one in this world who can endure and delay time better than Him.

And He is too lazy to directly attack the current "Yu Liang". Perhaps He knows that "Yu Liang" is a creation, and there are people hiding behind him, so it is meaningless to attack, or because the current Barrel Man Root is deeply bound to "Yu Liang", He cannot eliminate "Yu Liang" in the main timeline.

However, there are still many problems at the same time. Yu Liang still does not know the meaning of the characters such as Barrel Man An Buchen appearing around him, nor does he understand why there are contradictions in some of the words said by Moon Barrel Man and Aze.

He guessed that Barrel Man An Buchen was a character sent by the Barrel Man Root to disturb his mind. With Barrel Man An Buchen, Moon Barrel Man's suggestion that he leave the dungeon would basically not be accepted by him.

So the Barrel Man Root wants me to stay in the dungeon to fight Him?

But this is a bit unreasonable, right?

The result of a Root Ghost plan may be accidental, but the purpose of His plan can never be accidental.

The barrel man An Buchen must have a more important meaning than this. The bad news is that I can't think of it now, but the good news is that there is no need to think about it, as long as we find this An Buchen.

After obtaining some of the abilities of the barrel man's source, Yu Liang tested his ability to control the two barrel men "Ma Debang" and "Sister Hua" on the escort ship, and found that it was difficult for the two of them to control themselves in front of him. As long as he wanted, he could make the two barrel men commit suicide.

After obtaining the barrel man's rules, he already had a transcendent status in front of the barrel men, surpassing all the barrel men.

At least normal barrel men can't resist this kind of forced order. As for the irrational infected barrel men and the absolutely rational mad king Xue Wubin...

That may be another story.

Thinking of this, Yu Liang also understood to some extent why the barrel man's source took away the barrel men's sanity when he first met him.

Rational barrel men will be controlled by "Yu Liang", which is definitely not good news for the barrel man's source, so He simply destroyed all the barrel men with infected people.

It is not difficult to see from the rare two contacts with the barrel man's source that He always pretends to be sure of victory, showing his strong side to Yu Liang without reservation, giving Yu Liang absolute mental pressure.

And now Yu Liang seems to have a sense of being strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

The barrel man's source is very strong, but it is definitely not as strong as He shows, right?

"With the magician here, we will definitely try to land at the dock in two days to find the barrel man's source. Even if there is no way to directly deal with the barrel man's source, it can still greatly weaken the strength of the barrel man's forces. I am confident of this." The coach finally made a decision. He is not good at leaving everything to others to deal with. He is very willing to help Yu Liang with some things.

In any case, killing more barrel men can always relieve Yu Liang's pressure, which is not difficult for him.

As one of the leaders of the Haicheng Alliance, the coach has a strong desire and execution ability for execution, and he will not easily give up on things that have been decided.

"Okay." Yu Liang did not refuse. What the coach said must make sense. Eliminating the barrel man must be a good thing for the human side. Moreover, this trip to the dock will definitely bring him more accurate information.

Except for Aze's brief revelation of the specific situation of the barrel man's origin, he had no idea about the barrel man's origin inside the dock.

It just so happened that the barrel man's origin was dealing with problems in other time and space lines, so he could take advantage of it.

After the simple meeting, Yu Liang returned to his room. When he went to the bathroom, he noticed that the sink was full of water again, and he should have drained the water when he left.

"The highest good is like water. Water benefits all things without fighting."

As doubts arose, Yu Liang got the answer in his heart. He quickly turned around and looked at the bathtub behind him. Just as he expected, a barrel man An Buchen had "grown" out of the full water in the bathtub.

It was like some kind of plastic shell air ball floated up from the water, and then opened, and the barrel girl An Buchen emerged from it.

"It's not the time for the moon to come out, but you still appear." Yu Liang still remembered that the time outside was afternoon, but the last time the barrel man An Buchen said that "she will appear again when the moon comes out", which has already contradicted the last time.

"Thanks for remembering." An Buchen's pale face showed a little smile, and her lips were also a dark color as if they were soaked in water for a long time, with a little red inside, but a grayish white outside, no longer the previous deep red, nor the previous beauty.

She slowly said, "Thanks to you, the power of the barrel man's origin is even weaker here, so I took the opportunity to escape during the day."

"Are you trapped by Him? Or are you His product? I have seen the real An Buchen, and you give me a completely different feeling." Yu Liang directly exposed her words, "To me, she is closer to her true appearance."

"Of course, that guy is naturally more real." The barrel man An Buchen admitted Yu Liang's judgment without hesitation, "Because to you, I am a fake thing. I can be a product created by the barrel man's origin, or I can be a survivor who escaped from an alternative time and space line. There is no difference."

Her eyes looked straight at Yu Liang: "You only need to confirm one thing."

Yu Liang was silent, waiting for the other party's next words.

Through the ability of the barrel man's origin, he can feel the energy in the barrel man An Buchen's body and the priority of this energy being directly controlled by himself.

"No matter what kind of An Buchen is, he will dedicate himself to 'Yu Liang', just like no matter what kind of 'Yu Liang' is, he will keep working hard for the same goal." Her words were not sincere enough, and her emotional fluctuations were not intense enough, but it seemed that the declaration of "nothing is more sad than a dead heart" could directly hit Yu Liang's heart at this moment.

If the barrel man An Buchen showed opposition to the existing An Buchen and threw out new information to tempt Yu Liang to stand on her side, then Yu Liang would probably sneer at it, because he had his own judgment.

However, it was this barrel man An Buchen who once again made him hesitate in his heart.

After all...

He himself was not the real Yu Liang.

"Tell me the truth about your purpose of entering the cruise ship this time." Yu Liang used the power of the barrel man's root to give An Buchen an order.

The bucket man An Buchen did not hesitate at all: "Time, the time of falling into the water determines which timeline you will go to. Five minutes later is an absolutely scarce time. The water surface leads to the technological character timeline of the consciousness of the soul. Before you, three Yu Liangs have gone to that timeline."

Before me...

Three Yu Liangs?

Almost instantly, Yu Liang thought of which three Yu Liangs they were.

Two hours later, four hours later, six hours later.

Three Yu Liangs.