Seeing the scene before him, Feng Yang understood that he had returned to a day earlier.
Feng Yang felt somewhat helpless.
"So, even if I didn't enter Linjiang Village, I would still be pulled into the time loop?"
Feng Yang rolled up his sleeve and looked at the wound on his arm.
After a night of recovery, the wound on his arm had completely scabbed over.
But that wasn't the key issue.
The key issue was that although Feng Yang had returned to a day earlier, the cut he had made with the long knife yesterday hadn't disappeared.
Not only that, Feng Yang also discovered that the nick he had made on the long knife yesterday was also preserved.
Clearly, the wound on Feng Yang's arm and the damage to his long knife proved that Feng Yang himself, and the items he carried, were not affected by the "time loop."
Furthermore, Feng Yang discovered that the stone he had carelessly discarded after smashing the knife yesterday was nowhere to be found.
Clearly, the stone had been "reset" by the time loop.
It seemed the time loop phenomenon in Linjiang Village could not only "reset" the entire village but also the surrounding area.
However, this "reset" couldn't affect very distant areas.
This led Feng Yang to consider a possibility: "Perhaps I wasn't actually trapped in a time loop."
The only thing truly undergoing a continuous time loop was Linjiang Village and its surrounding area.
Feng Yang's reappearance in Linjiang Village was simply due to some hidden force teleporting him back to the village's vicinity.
When the "reset" and "teleportation" phenomena occurred simultaneously, Feng Yang experienced the illusion of being trapped in a time loop.
The more Feng Yang thought about it, the more plausible this seemed.
If that were the case, the wound on his arm and the nick on his longsword would all make sense.
Feng Yang still had one last question: how did the force constantly teleporting him back to Linjiang Village originate?
Perhaps, if he could understand this reason, Feng Yang could escape the time loop of this strange village.
Thinking this through, Feng Yang no longer hesitated.
He walked toward the villagers in the distance.
While Feng Yang was pondering, the villagers had already dealt with the pig-headed monster blocking their path.
Upon seeing Feng Yang approaching, one of the villagers asked, "What's wrong? Is something the matter?"
Feng Yang sized up the villagers before him but didn't reply.
After a moment of contemplation, he suddenly asked, "You're all already dead, aren't you?"
"What do you mean?" The villager looked puzzled upon hearing Feng Yang's question.
Actually, Feng Yang had a reason for asking this.
The pig-headed monster had fallen into the "reset" phenomenon of Linjiang Village precisely because it had died near the village.
From this, it could be deduced whether the villagers, who were also in the "reset" phenomenon, were still alive. The answer was obvious.
Sure enough, within seconds, the villager seemed to remember something, and his expression changed drastically.
In fact, not only him, but almost all the villagers present showed a look of realization after hearing Feng Yang's question.
At the same time, their bodies began to become ethereal and transparent until finally, the villagers completely vanished from the spot.
Seeing this, Feng Yang was stunned. The disappearance of these villagers was completely unexpected.
"I had only asked a casual question, and these dead people simply vanished?"
Based on some films and television shows he had watched before his transmigration, Feng Yang made a guess: perhaps the reason these dead people continued to exist was because they harbored some kind of obsession.
Although their bodies were dead, their consciousness could not accept it, thus remaining in the world in this peculiar way.
This was also why these villagers showed that look of realization when they heard Feng Yang's question.
"After remembering that they were already dead, the dead could no longer remain in the world, and thus gradually disappeared from the spot."
Of course, all of this was just Feng Yang's speculation.
The specific reason still needed further investigation.
Feng Yang picked up the hoes that the villagers had dropped and walked into Linjiang Village.
In the village, a group of villagers were gathered in a circle.
In the center of the crowd lay two children, their bodies completely blackened, and a sorceress was performing a ritual on them.
Feng Yang walked straight to the center of the crowd.
He repeated his earlier words to them:
"You're all dead, aren't you?"
"What did you say?" Like the previous villagers, they were initially taken aback by Feng Yang's question.
But soon, most of them showed a look of realization.
As if they had remembered something important, the bodies of all the villagers present began to dissipate from their original positions.
At the same time, the true appearance of the entire Linjiang Village gradually appeared before Feng Yang.
Feng Yang suppressed his fear and looked at the countless tombstones on the ground around him, feeling the hairs on his body stand on end.
It turned out that this was not a village at all, but a cemetery where countless dead people were buried!
Not long after these cemeteries appeared, some black smoke gradually emerged from the surrounding tombstones.
This black smoke was almost exactly the same as what Feng Yang had encountered in Leek Village, formed by the resentment of the dead.
Soon after the black smoke appeared, it gradually gathered in the air.
After gathering together, the black smoke immediately drifted toward Feng Yang's location.
The black smoke drifted rapidly through the air, and Feng Yang knew he couldn't dodge it, so he neither flinched nor avoided it, letting the smoke rush toward his chest.
In the blink of an eye, the black smoke formed from resentment had completely entered Feng Yang's body.
At the same time, countless thoughts flooded into Feng Yang's mind.
These thoughts were almost all formed from the villagers' resentment, hatred, anger, and other negative emotions before their deaths, just like in Leek Village.
Affected by these resentments, Feng Yang was in excruciating pain; his consciousness felt like it was about to explode.
At the same time, Feng Yang quickly discovered that this resentment was slightly different from the one he had absorbed in Leek Village.
The negative emotions contained in this resentment had a clear target.
And that target was the man Feng Yang had seen in the illusion before; that man seemed to be the culprit who had slaughtered the entire village.
The resentment of these dead men harbored a strong hatred for that man.
And the pain in Feng Yang's mind was caused by this hatred.
The pain seemed to be constantly urging Feng Yang to kill the man.
However, this pain didn't last long.
After about five minutes, the pain in Feng Yang's mind gradually subsided, and at the same time, a strange power filled his entire body.
"This feeling again?"
Feng Yang was overjoyed upon feeling the inexplicable power within him.
Clearly, this power came from the resentment of the dead in Linjiang Village, exactly the same as his experience in Leek Village.
The only difference was that this time, while gaining power, Feng Yang also carried the hatred brought by the resentment of the dead.
And this hatred was something he couldn't let go of.
Feng Yang even had a faint premonition.
If he chose to give up revenge, the resentment hidden within him would definitely erupt again.
At that time, not to mention other consequences, the pain brought by that resentment alone would be enough to make Feng Yang suffer unbearably, even to the point of wanting to die.
Having obtained the benefits brought by this resentment, Feng Yang didn't mind avenging the dead.
But the question was, where exactly was the man he saw in the illusion?