Work Prophet-Chapter 906 - 71: Death Loop

What would you want to do when your life is reduced to only twelve minutes?

Some people would want to be with their family and friends at such a time, while others prefer to greet death quietly on their own. Some would want to taste delicious food, and some would want to listen to a song...

However, Li Yu doesn't need to worry about such things. For someone sealed tightly in an iron can, he simply has no choice.

He can only silently wait for the arrival of death in the darkness.

As the concentration of oxygen continued to decrease, Li Yu's breathing became rapid, his lips and nails started to turn purple, and at this time, the iron can was still descending, yet hadn't reached the seabed.

According to Sergei's account, he specifically chose a place with a trench to prevent those unaware of the situation from discovering the iron can and retrieving it.

Li Yu was no longer concerned about this. He had already foreseen what he would encounter on his way to Buzhou Mountain.

Still, he did not regret it. If there's any regret, it's probably not being able to say goodbye to his friends in this world.

Oxygen further decreased inside the iron can. Li Yu began to feel a headache, his blood pressure gradually dropped, his pupils started to dilate, and his muscles began to twitch.

If there was a mirror in front of him right now, it probably wouldn't look very pleasing. Fortunately, there's no one else in the iron can.

Li Yu's consciousness gradually faded, his eyelids grew heavier, until he was completely swallowed by the darkness.

...

When Li Yu opened his eyes again, the world was no longer pitch black.

There was a glimmer of light before him, a distance away.

Li Yu was familiar with such a sight; every time he died, he would enter this mystical space.

He knew there was a mini-game waiting for him where the light was. As long as he completed the mini-game, he would receive a red heart representing life+1.

This was the ability bestowed upon him by his divine character [Reborn], but this time, Li Yu didn't rush towards the light.

Partly because he knew well what awaited him after resurrection.

So Li Yu sat down casually at a spot.

Initially, he wanted to calculate time, but in this space, time seemed to have stopped, and at the same time, Li Yu couldn't feel exhaustion, hunger, or even fatigue.

He felt as if he was enveloped by omnipresent void.

After resting for a while, Li Yu didn't feel any power restored, but due to sheer boredom, he decided to get up and walk to other places.

However, he had also lost his sense of direction.

Fortunately, the distant light could still guide him, yet this time Li Yu did not walk towards the light, but rather turned his back to it walking into deeper darkness.

Regardless of how far he walked, the surroundings remained unchanged, and even when he looked back, it seemed the light hadn't moved further away.

So Li Yu stopped and sat down again.

This time he felt he sat for an unusually long time, as if a century had passed.

He wondered if the outside world had been destroyed, though perhaps it made no difference to him.

After all, he could only continue revolving between death and rebirth, which might be the worst kind of eternal life imaginable to mankind.

But in this vast void, even death became more appealing.

Because at least death could make Li Yu feel his existence again, even if through suffocation, he could at least attain pain for a brief time.

Rather than continue being numb and eventually be completely devoured by this void.

Thus, Li Yu turned and resolutely walked towards the light.

This time the mini-game was "Memory Match."

Li Yu took not much time before successfully clearing the game and returned again to the iron can, where the moment he opened his mouth he felt suffocated.

This was the taste of Death God approaching, and now the only flavor Li Yu could savor.

He didn't have the luxury to choose, this time it took merely four minutes before he was sent back to the void.

Li Yu greedily reminisced about everything that had just happened, sitting on the ground for a while.

Then he got up, patted his rear, and continued walking towards the light.

......

Again and again, as Sergei predicted, Li Yu was constantly experiencing death and resurrection, feeling as though he had gone through all the mini-games on 4399.

But amidst void and pain, he would rather choose pain.

......

.........

Li Yu initially thought this cycle would last indefinitely.

However, after he didn't know how many resurrections, he suddenly felt the iron can sealing him begin to move, slowly ascending.

Li Yu didn't know what was happening outside; he didn't have time to think because his brain soon stopped working due to lack of oxygen.

Li Yu closed his eyes again, this time making it through the mini-game as fast as possible.

But perhaps because he was too fast, when he opened his eyes, the can was still rising.

Therefore, Li Yu soon died again from suffocation, but instead of disappointment, he moved even faster.

Finally, after dying three more times, someone from outside opened the welded lid of the iron can afresh, and Li Yu breathed in fresh air he longed for.

He gasped profusely, staring towards the opening of the can where a slender figure stood, sheltering under an umbrella, looking at Li Yu inside the can with interest.

"How was your long vacation?"

"This was no vacation, I think this should be counted as a work injury." Li Yu replied.

"But you've already resigned, remember? Right at Buzhou Mountain, when you voiced it in front of the five directors." The person outside reminded.

"And then I was packed into this iron can, without even having the chance to find you to process my resignation."

"Hmm, seems there were indeed some issues with the procedures." The person nodded in agreement.

"Who are you exactly?" Li Yu asked.

"You know, I'm the HR who recruited you into the Third Epoch." Xu Mengyuan blinked.

"No, I mean, who are you really?" Li Yu said, "I can guess that you might be the most mysterious independent director of the company, after all, the duty of an independent director is to oversee company operations, especially the board, and no one in the company has more contact with the board than you.

"So if you're the sixth director, everything makes sense. But what I don't understand is, why, why would you have such high authority?

"Especially considering the forces behind the other five directors, why would they allow you to override them?"

"Because I am the rules themselves." Xu Mengyuan smiled, "I know you may feel nostalgic about your new home, but we have many things to discuss next and time is pressing, so you better get out of this can first."