"time……"

Su Bai vaguely felt that he had grasped an important clue.

"The number of times the timeline can be restarted is definitely not unlimited... Perhaps it's limited by the little girl's health condition, or it's determined based on other conditions..."

He pondered to himself.

He quickly ruled out the former possibility.

The little girl's health condition should only be one aspect of her condition.

If the number of restarts is limited based on her health condition, then there is no way to explain the countless needle marks on her arm.

She seemed to be on the verge of death after only restarting a few times, but based on the current intelligence analysis, she had restarted at least hundreds of times and encountered countless people who had mistakenly entered the illusion. She couldn't possibly be the last one.

Compared to this conclusion that is mostly based on coincidence, this is a more likely explanation.

Su Bai is more inclined to believe that the number of restarts is actually limited by other conditions.

What would this special condition be?

Thinking about this...

He already had the answer in his heart.

time!

Each time he restarts, it means that his timeline is deviating further and further from the normal timeline.

If he were to die again right now, the timeline would no longer be eight minutes ago.

It was actually 25 minutes earlier on the normal timeline!

Here.

Time is like an invisible 'toxin'.

The longer he succumbs to the illusion, the more 'toxins' he inhales, until it's beyond redemption and there's no possibility of returning to the normal timeline. At that point, he'll probably be completely abandoned by the little girl...

Su Bai glanced at the little boy who was cheering for his performance.

This moment.

He immediately understood why the little brat's game rules seemed perfectly normal.

because.

His very existence is an anomaly!

His appearance was solely to hold me back, causing me to unknowingly fall into a time trap. Compared to the fatal mechanisms that triggered instant death in the previous two cases, his mechanism was even more insidious!

No wonder.

Despite preparing in advance, I still won the rock-paper-scissors game.

The outcome of hopscotch is completely unimportant.

Whoever it is.

Completing one round of the game takes at least ten minutes.

Completely trapped in a time loop of illusion, unable to escape, perhaps for half an hour, an hour, or two hours?

Su Bai couldn't be sure.

But he knew he had absolutely no time to waste on it.

"Brother, why did you stop jumping? Stopping halfway through will count as failing the game!"

The little boy smiled and reminded him.

Su Bai turned to look at him, her gaze eerily calm. "I suddenly want to confirm something."

"What...uh!"

The little boy's question was cut off before he could even voice it.

Su Bai moved so fast that it was impossible to see. In an instant, he was in front of him, grabbed his neck, and lifted him off the ground. The force in his hand continued to increase. A crisp cracking sound came from the little boy's neck bones. His face quickly turned red, and then turned purple and blue.

Su Bai said softly, "I want to know, can you all be killed here?"

Boom!

A crisp sound.

He snapped the little boy's neck.

Thump.

He threw the cold corpse on the ground. There was no doubt that his actions had seriously violated the rules of the 'hopscotch' game. However, the expected punishment did not come. His eyes flickered slightly.

feasible!

He fell into his old misconception, always thinking that the three monsters in the illusion were invincible. However, the truth is that they can be killed here just as well!

Then what is he afraid of!

With his strength, even if all the monsters in this illusion were combined, they might not be able to harm him in the slightest!

clatter,

clatter,

clatter.

I was just thinking about it.

The sound of high heels approached rapidly from behind.

But at this moment, Su Bai was brimming with confidence. Knowing the weaknesses of these three monsters, he no longer needed to hide.

The footsteps drew closer.

The woman's slender shadow was already visible around the corner.

Just before she appeared, a bright fire flashed in Su Bai's eyes.

Blazing torrents!

Boom!!

As soon as a corner of a black skirt appeared around the corner, boiling flames rose up and instantly engulfed it. The linkage effect was triggered, and several pillars of flames shot up in succession, melting half of the corridor into a golden-red flowing liquid!

However.

Before Su Bai could even relax.

A figure in a black dress emerged unharmed from the flames.

Her usually handsome face was serious and gloomy, her dark eyes lifeless, and she uttered only a terrifying, distorted voice:

"Found you!"

...

Thump!

The ticking of the pocket watch's hands rang loudly in Su Bai's ears.

He suddenly came to his senses.

He looked at the little girl standing behind the window, who was so weak that she could barely speak.

Su Bai calmly jumped into the house.

Despite his repeated failures, he was not discouraged. His misjudgment of the situation did not diminish his will much; instead, it allowed him to gather more detailed intelligence and get closer to success.

He patted the little girl's head.

He said, "This time, I will definitely take you out."

"..."

The little girl's eyes were blank, but her long silence seemed to express a certain attitude.

Enough with the small talk.

Su Bai meticulously followed the steps to complete the preliminary process.

Clean up the traces, give gifts, search for collectibles, wait for the woman's mechanism to trigger, and then escape the room using the effects of the demon clone and the Forgotten Mask.

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