Chapter 2 The Missing Tape

The Book of Wisdom's powerful blow sent her flying, crashing into the dressing table in the room. A large number of cosmetics and daily necessities all fell to the ground.

Just then, the terrifying half-bodied man leaped up from the ground like a toad. He reached for the Book of Wisdom fluttering in the air.

The Book of Wisdom spun in a spiral ascent, and the broken half of the man's corpse missed completely.

Just then, Shen Wei, arriving late, finally reached the room.

"Boss, why is there another you on the bed?"

The Book of Wisdom hovered over Ao Wu's head and asked, puzzled.

"Don't ask about things in society..."

"Oh!"

At this moment, the terrifying woman with her face slashed open let out a terrifying roar. Then, she took the knife and charged at Shen Wei again. The strange man with only half a body also used a toad-like ability to attack Shen Wei from above and below with his wife.

It has to be said that these two terrifying guys are quite powerful, with extremely strong physical defenses. Shen Wei's knife could only cut shallow wounds on their bodies. The one man and two ghosts had a big brawl in the house, making a mess of the room.

After a bitter battle, Shen Wei finally seized the opportunity. He propped up the Yin-Yang Umbrella to block the terrifying woman's knife, then drew his knife and counterattacked, directly giving the terrifying woman a rising slash from bottom to top.

The terrifying woman with her face slashed open was sent flying by this powerful slash.

The half-bodied corpse practicing toad kung fu was slapped in the face by the Book of Wisdom, directly knocking him into the wall.

The terrifying woman with her face slashed open and the strange man with half his body cut off, seeing that they could not gain any advantage, immediately retreated.

At this time, Shen Wei also noticed signs that the other him on the bed was about to wake up.

He hurried out to avoid causing unnecessary trouble. Shen Wei first went up to the 3rd floor, found Tape 1 in the projection room, put it in the VCR, and started playing it, bringing this version of himself back to the previous world.

Afterward, Shen Wei hid in another room on the 2nd floor, watching the other version of himself continue the plot that he had started.

He didn't stop it, just watched quietly, because all of this was a cycle of time, and rash changes could bring about extremely terrible consequences due to the butterfly effect.

"From now on, it's my plot. I absolutely can't continue watching this tape. Once I finish watching the last tape, I don't know what terrible things will happen, and I don't know what terrifying things are waiting for me..."

"What exactly is the path to survival?"

Thinking of this, Shen Wei frowned.

Rule Four: There is a way to leave here in the videotape. Find it as soon as possible and leave, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences.

"The way to leave should still be in this damned videotape. This videotape is like an evil medium. Every time you watch it, you fall one level deeper into the inner world. When you fall to the bottom, you may never be able to escape."

"Moreover, the flow of time here seems to be a problem, because I feel that my own lifespan is being consumed very quickly, especially as the videotape continues to play normally. This is definitely not a place to stay for long, otherwise I may die from exhaustion of my lifespan..."

"So, if I want to escape from here, I can only constantly ascend dimensions, or rather, constantly go up from the deepest part of the inner world, layer by layer, until I return to the real world. So the playback order of the videotape must be reversed, such as Videotape 3, Videotape 2, Videotape 1. Maybe after playing Videotape 1, I can return to the real world..."

Thinking of this, Shen Wei's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Your reasoning is obviously incorrect. I, this great one, can see it. You have already played Videotape 1, but you have not returned to the real world. If you don't believe me, look outside. Those terrible things are still there. We are still in this terrible inner world..."

The Evil God Right Hand pointed to the huge decaying corpse soaking in the swimming pool outside the window.

After hearing the Evil God Right Hand's reasoning, Shen Wei also realized where his reasoning was wrong. In the Tape 1 space, that is, after Tape 1 was played, Shen Wei came outside the villa and ran into the neighbor, Fatty Aunt, the blond little nun, and the God's Summons four-man group. They entered the neighbor, Fatty Aunt's, room together, forming another cycle, and Shen Wei failed to jump out of this cycle, so he could not leave.

"Strange! What clues have I overlooked?"

Shen Wei kept recalling the contents of Tape 1. Finally, he thought of an extremely crucial issue.

"Right Hand, have you noticed that this is a segmented movie-style videotape? The story it tells is not complete. We didn't see the ending of the story, and part of the middle is missing. But even the beginning of the videotape is missing. Why are the male and female owners here possessed? What are they possessed by that makes them kill each other? And how did they move here? What interludes occurred in the middle? None of this is stated..."

Shen Wei paced back and forth on the ground, thought for a while, and then said again:

"Remember the story that the neighbor, Fatty Aunt, told before? This couple had a lot of strange things happen after they moved in, such as strange figures, objects moving for no reason, and so on!"

"But this is not expressed in Tape 1. This shows that Tape 1 is just a smokescreen. It is not the real Tape 1 in the true sense, or rather, not the real beginning of the story, but the second part of the story..."

The Evil God Right Hand was greatly shocked after hearing this: "Are you saying there is another videotape?"

"Right Hand, your smart IQ has finally occupied the high ground. I do suspect that there is another videotape. That is the beginning of the story, and also the first inner world. I would like to call it Tape 0..."

"This previous space-time shift, the Tape 1 in the VCR, made me mistakenly believe that we were in the first inner world, but in fact we are in the second inner world. The person in charge of this rule anomaly is also misleading us. He directly transferred us to the second inner world, just to mislead our judgment. It's really too insidious..."

Shen Wei complained slyly.

"You brat, don't jump to conclusions. It may not be the rule anomaly that's playing tricks. It's very likely that the existence imprisoned in this last inner world is the one playing tricks. I can feel him. He is also very powerful..."

The Evil God Right Hand's voice became extremely serious.

"Damn, wouldn't the God's Summons gang be dead if they went down?"

Shen Wei said with a look of horror.

"You brat is really meddling in other people's business. What does it matter to you whether they live or die?"

The Evil God Right Hand's tone revealed a hint of sarcasm.

"It's not like that, Right Hand. If those guys were killed by that terrifying existence, that would be fine, but I'm afraid they will be controlled by that terrifying existence, and then do some terrible things, such as escaping from prison, such as eating you to enhance their strength, or even descending into the real world..."

After hearing this, the Evil God Right Hand's arrogant appearance suddenly disappeared, and the entire hand began to tremble slightly.