I Can Upgrade Everything Infinitely

Chapter 211: Chapter 198: Time Loop

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian overheard these things at the tavern and had a feeling it would be the key to the second trial, so they headed to the County Magistrate’s Office in Ye Family Town.

Because it was nighttime, Ye Family Town was bustling with activity. The County Magistrate’s Office also had quite a few people inside, including many constables. But with Xu Qing and Ye Langtian’s skills, they snuck in without a sound.

However.

Time passed.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian turned the County Magistrate’s Office upside down, nearly getting discovered in the process, but they couldn’t find the Ancient Well everyone was talking about.

“Nothing?”

Xu Qing frowned, looking at the main hall of the County Magistrate’s Office. “Didn’t they say the Ancient Well was right here in the main hall?”

“This…”

Ye Langtian fell into deep thought.

Originally.

They had heard about this and rushed over, full of excitement. But finding nothing, discovering nothing, was like having a bucket of cold water dumped on them.

“Master.”

Suddenly.

An idea struck Ye Langtian. “I just remembered. The people in the tavern said the Ancient Well appears in the main hall in the morning, but it’s nighttime now. Could it be that the Ancient Well’s appearance is time-restricted?”

“That’s possible.”

Xu Qing pondered, nodding. But then he added, “But you know the nature of Mysterious: Deserted Village. During the day, it’s desolate and empty, without a single trace or shadow of anyone.”

“If that’s the case,”

“then how did they see the Ancient Well in the morning?”

“This…”

Ye Langtian fell into thought once more.

“Let’s wait.”

Xu Qing said, “We’ll see when morning comes.”

“Okay.”

Ye Langtian nodded.

「In the blink of an eye.」

Soon.

Daytime arrived in Mysterious: Deserted Village.

To find the Ancient Well, Ye Langtian and Xu Qing didn’t even leave the County Magistrate’s Office. Instead, they hid inside all night, quietly waiting for dawn.

The result…

Nothing.

Still nothing.

Dawn.

Daylight had arrived.

It was morning.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian stared at the main hall of the County Magistrate’s Office, but they still couldn’t see the Ancient Well. There was nothing in the main hall—no objects, no traces, no signs of anything.

“This…”

Ye Langtian and Xu Qing exchanged a glance, a look of bewilderment on their faces. Ye Langtian couldn’t help but say, “Where’s the Ancient Well? Weren’t they saying an ancient well would suddenly appear here?”

Involuntarily.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian fell into deep thought.

“Could we have been tricked?”

Xu Qing mused.

“It’s not impossible,”

Ye Langtian said.

And so.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian continued to wait. Fortunately, Xu Qing had stored a large amount of Spiritual Food in his Level 10 Broken Storage Ring, most of which was Level 7 or higher.

For the short term.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian didn’t have to worry about running out of things to eat.

「In a flash.」

Night fell once again.

In Ye Family Town, lights flickered on in every household. In the once-empty rooms, two or three figures appeared in each.

The appearance of these people was extremely abrupt, as if they had materialized out of thin air.

It was exceedingly strange.

This time.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian went to the tavern again.

Sure enough.

Inside the tavern, Xu Qing and Ye Langtian once again heard the patrons’ discussions. To their surprise, the topics and the very words of their conversations were identical to yesterday’s.

At first.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian didn’t notice. But as they took in the familiar surroundings and heard the familiar words, they slowly began to feel that something was not quite right.

“Master, don’t you feel that something is a bit off?”

Ye Langtian asked with a frown, his voice low.

“Yes.”

Xu Qing nodded. “I’ve noticed it too. The events of this evening, the words we’re hearing, the things we’re seeing—they’re all exactly the same as what we saw and heard yesterday.”

“This…”

A jolt went through Ye Langtian. Hearing Xu Qing’s words, he reacted instantly. He looked around again, his eyes widening in shock.

“It really is…”

Ye Langtian’s pupils contracted.

For the previous seven days, nothing had happened, and they hadn’t heard of anything strange. But yesterday, they had unexpectedly learned of the Ancient Well’s existence.

As a result.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian had failed to find the Ancient Well. They had turned the entire County Magistrate’s Office upside down last night and again during the day today, but found nothing.

It was as if the Ancient Well had been fabricated out of thin air.

As if it didn’t exist at all.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian had originally planned to wait until nightfall to investigate further and gather more specific information, only to find that they seemed to have fallen into a “time loop.”

Ever since learning about the Ancient Well—for the first day, the second, the third, the fourth—Xu Qing and Ye Langtian experienced the same things day and night.

It was as if they were truly caught in a “time loop.”

Furthermore.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian were also trapped within this “time loop.”

However.

For Xu Qing and Ye Langtian, their own time was still moving forward day by day; it was just that they were experiencing the exact same events every day.

In other words.

If Xu Qing and Ye Langtian couldn’t break this so-called “time loop” and uncover the secret of the Ancient Well, they would be truly trapped to their deaths in Mysterious: Deserted Village.

“Haaa…”

Xu Qing took a deep breath and said in a low voice, “It’s confirmed. Our time is moving forward, but the time in Ye Family Town is not. It seems that starting from the day the Ancient Well appeared, they have been trapped in some kind of unbelievable ’time loop’.”