Upon hearing this, everyone present was stunned at the same time.
"A disconnected era, a closed area, materials appearing out of thin air..." Cao Yuan murmured for a moment, as if he thought of something, "Why does it sound so similar..."
"'Human Circle'?!" Lin Qiye's pupils shrank slightly.
Originally, Lin Qiye didn't realize this at all. When An Qingyu said this, Lin Qiye immediately recalled what he had experienced in Japan.
As An Qingyu said, all the special points they have discovered so far are very similar to the characteristics of the "human circle", except that the two are completely different levels of existence in terms of size. Japan's "human circle"
There are tens of millions of people living in it, and the area it covers is extremely terrifying. However, this small fishing village has less than a hundred people at all times, and it is only an area as big as a palm.
"But this doesn't make sense?" Lin Qiye thought for a moment and shook his head repeatedly, "Shouldn't the 'Human Circle' be attached to a certain artifact? Also, where does the energy that supports this 'Human Circle' come from? This should be
There is no huge soul consumption reserve like Japan, right?"
"Qiye is right. Although this place is very similar to a 'human circle', it is not a 'human circle'."
An Qingyu took out a crumpled piece of paper from his arms and spread it on the ground. Everyone gathered around and looked at it carefully.
"I sneaked into the canteen of this fishing village last night and found this purchase list." An Qingyu pointed at the items on it and said seriously, "This canteen receives goods once every three days. Where does each kind of goods come from?
Come on, the cost is clearly written on it."
"What does this mean?" Baili Pangpang asked puzzledly.
"It shows that these materials do not appear out of thin air." Lin Qiye replied, "If it is a 'human circle', these materials should appear in an incredible form. In the eyes of the people living there, they should be similar to miracles.
For example, in Japan's "Human Circle", all electrical energy is burned by the Yata Mirror's soul, and then supplied to other electrical equipment entering the city in the "Pure Land".
But it’s different here. The materials here are indeed produced elsewhere and then transported to this village.”
"But... isn't this place closed? How were these goods transported in?" Cao Yuan became more and more confused. He pointed to a few names on the purchase list, "Also, haven't these companies already been here?
Is it bankrupt? How can I still buy goods for them?”
"That's the problem." An Qingyu took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, "I thought about it all night last night and sorted out all the possibilities. There is only one way to explain it all.
possible……"
Everyone held their breath, waiting for An Qingyu to give the answer.
"Here, trapped in time."
Looking at the blank expressions on everyone's face, An Qingyu continued to explain, "From all the current signs, this is indeed a village that existed more than fifty years ago. The canteen that receives goods from the outside every three days, every day
Fishermen who go out to fish, fathers who are waiting for their sons to come back... They work at sunrise and rest at sunset. If you ignore the boundaries around the village, this is an ordinary fishing village.
However, for some reason, the time here is disconnected from the outside world and forms a closed loop."
An Qingyu picked up a branch from the ground and drew a straight line and a circle.
"If the normal flow of time is a straight line moving forward, then the time in this village is a circle connected from end to end.
Under the normal passage of time in the outside world, people here are repeating a certain period of time. When this period of time reaches the end of the closed loop, it is like pressing the reset button, and all people and things will return to
Starting point, continue the cycle.
This period of time may be one day, or two days, or three days... Although more than fifty years have passed in the outside world, everything here is circulating in these few days, with endless supplies and endless people.
It will age, and everything that happens in these few days will happen over and over again."
Hearing An Qingyu's bold guess, everyone else in the [Night Curtain] team was stunned. Even Lin Qiye was a little unbelievable:
"A closed time loop that has existed for more than fifty years? Is it really possible?"
"Humans can't do it, but gods...maybe." An Qingyu glanced at the fishing village and continued, "I suspect that there is someone or something in this fishing village that triggers the law of time.
, to maintain the operation of the closed loop of time.”
time……
Hearing these two words, for some reason, the figure of the silver-haired old man floating alone in the waves in a boat appeared in Lin Qiye's mind again.
Is there any connection between this king's face that seems to come from the future and the current situation of this fishing village?
"But if all this is really man-made, what is his purpose?" Shen Qingzhu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said, "This is just a small fishing village on the border of Daxia. There is nothing special about it. Why does it cost so much?
, create a closed time loop here?"
"Except for time, is there really nothing special here? Or have we not discovered it yet?" An Qingyu asked.
At this moment, Lin Qiye seemed to have thought of something, "Yes."
Everyone turned to look at Lin Qiye.
"Last night, I communicated with the nocturnal creatures in this fishing village and spread out to look for clues, but soon I discovered..."
A touch of night spread in Lin Qiye's eyes. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the soil under his feet. The night ripped open the surface of the earth, revealing the thick soil layer below.
In the soil, corpses of insects and ants were lying in it, their limbs were scattered everywhere, and their death was extremely miserable.
"They're all dead." Lin Qiye continued, "First it was the ants, then the centipedes, then the bats... In one night, all the nocturnal creatures were dead."
"It's not just nocturnal creatures." An Qingyu closed his eyes for a while, with a solemn expression, "All the mice I planted as 'fish fingerlings' last night also died..."
"What's going on?" Baili Pangpang scratched his head and said half-jokingly, "The special thing here is that it automatically eliminates pests?"
As soon as Baili Pangpang finished speaking, something fell heavily on his head, and then fell to the ground. He grinned in pain.
"What sneaks up on me?"
Baili Pangpang rubbed his head and looked down, and his whole body was suddenly shocked.
At his feet, a wounded bird fell weakly to the ground, with a hint of red in its eyes. It flapped its almost broken wings like crazy, rolled over to the side of Baili's fat shoes, and pecked hard.
Hit him twice.
After a few seconds, the bird lay motionless on the ground, lifeless.