I Am Unstoppable

Tate was skinny, while Lyle was chubby. Thus, Tate was struggling to move Lyle's body.

In the end, he had no choice but to leave Lyle's body aside while he went to get a lifeboat.

Jonathan and Dante followed behind him.

Although Tate was furious, there was nothing he could do about this as he wasn't as strong as Jonathan. There was no way he could defeat the latter in a fight.

The lifeboats were tied at one end of the boat. When in danger, one would only need to activate the cable pulley to lower the lifeboat to the sea.

Tate knew the ship well and quickly found the lifeboats.

He then brought Lyle's body over and placed it into the lifeboat. After getting into the lifeboat, he yelled, “Don't follow me!”

Pointing at the other corner, he told them, “There are many other lifeboats. We shall go on separate ways.”

There was nothing Jonathan and Dante could say to that.

They were about to leave the haunted Liberty soon, so it was only natural to go on their separate ways.

No one knew what was lying in wait for them in the vast ocean.

Suddenly, a loud gunshot echoed in the air.

Tate was about to get into the lifeboat when the gunshot was fired. The bullet flew straight into his forehead, and he died on the spot.

Shocked, Jonathan finally spotted the person who fired the shot.

The person was twenty meters away in his northeast direction.

There was no time to ponder over it, so Jonathan instantly went after the person.

He wanted to get to the bottom of things.

The person who fired the shot was pretty accurate, and he was hiding inside the room.

Jonathan smashed the glass wall down and barged into the room. Inside, he saw a black figure escaping into the theater.

Without hesitation, Jonathan followed the figure into the theater.

The person who fired the shot was as quick as lightning, so Jonathan lost sight of him in the theater.

He tried sensing where the person was but to no avail.

A helpless feeling rose in his heart.

Slowly, Jonathan grew frustrated but he quickly tamped it down. I won't fall for the trick easily!

Soon, another gunshot was fired on the corridor.

Jonathan gasped in shock, for he remembered Dante was there.

At once, he rushed to the corridor.

A black figure was seen hauling Tate and Dante's bodies up before running toward the other end of the corridor.

Clearly, Dante was dead.

Jonathan spotted a pool of blood on the ground.

He quickly went after the person.

The black figure had two bodies with him, so he wasn't as fast as before. Jonathan picked up speed to catch up with the man.

The black figure finally came to a stop at the afterdeck on another level. It was the employee's rest area, so no one would go there.

“Who are you?” Jonathan questioned sternly.

The black figure was standing with his back to Jonathan as he tossed the bodies on the deck.

In the next second, Jonathan got the shock of his life when he turned to look at the deck which was full of bodies.

To be exact, there was a mountain of dead bodies being devoured by black guillemots.

Jonathan wasn't afraid of bodies as he was used to seeing them.

However, these bodies were all Tate and Dante.

Jonathan backed away instinctively at the unusual sight.

At the same time, the black figure spun on his heels, and Jonathan could finally take a good look at him.

To his astonishment, the black figure looked exactly like him.

In disbelief, Jonathan asked in a trembling voice, “What is going on? Who are you?”

The black figure's voice was bitter. “Don't you understand? You are me, and I am you.”

“Why is this happening?” Jonathan urged.

The black figure asked, “Didn't you listen to the story Briana told you?”

Jonathan was confused. “What story?”

The black figure explained, “Briana said we offended Orcus and have to be punished for our sins. We need to keep stacking stones on top of a mountain. Once we manage to stack ten thousand stones, all stones are to be pushed down the mountain, and we will have to continue stacking the stones on top of the mountain again and again. That is Orcus' punishment to us.”

He paused before adding, “The number of bodies here shows how many times we've encountered the time loop. Each time loop will end only if everyone on the ship dies. The new time loop will begin after you kill me. After this, you'll see a new boat heading this way with another Jonathan, Tate, Lyle, and Dante. Just like me, you'll have to kill them all and bring the new Jonathan here to tell him the truth.”

Jonathan protested, “I don't get it. Why do we have to kill each other? We can take the lifeboat and escape.”

The black figure answered, “If we get onto the lifeboat, we will be stuck on the sea forever. However, if you kill me, I will be free from this time loop. I want to know what will happen next if I die or escape from this time loop. I want to make things clear. That is the conclusion of our previous selves after countless experiments.”

Anguish flashed across Jonathan's eyes as he asked, “Does Orcus really exist in this world?”

“I don't know,” the black figure replied truthfully. “There is no time for us to talk nonsense. Take action now, for I need to leave and find out what happens next.”

Jonathan shook his head. “I won't kill you. We know this is a time loop, so why are we allowing Orcus to watch us make a fool of ourselves? I'd rather stay in this time loop forever.”

The black figure shrugged and replied, “All right, then. That was what I told my previous self, but he chose to kill himself and jumped into the sea. Looks like nothing will change in this current time loop.” With that said, he went to the railing and raised his gun to shoot himself in the head.

Bang! The black figure fell into the sea along with his gun.

Jonathan felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end as realization dawned upon him.

The time loop would come to an end when everyone from the previous batch died.

If the black figure remained alive, the time loop wouldn't end, and the next batch of people wouldn't show up.

The black figure thought that he wouldn't die for real as he had to experience the time loop again. Thus, he wanted to see if he could return to a specific time and end the time loop once and for all.

Jonathan took a deep breath, knowing that he was encountering something unbelievable.

I must be vigilant.

He then went to the corridor inside and walked past many bedrooms to enter a restroom.

There were many restrooms on the ship, but Jonathan only went to one of them.

In the mirror above the sink, he saw a sentence written in blood: Time loop is the only way to solve the current problem.

It was Jonathan's handwriting, so he guessed it was his previous self who wrote this down as a reminder for his later self.

After relieving himself, he walked out to see a drawer beneath the sink. The drawer was ajar, so he pulled it open to see a gun and bullets inside.

He took the gun and loaded the bullets.