Hearing these words, everyone present was stunned at the same time.

"A disconnected era, a closed area, and supplies appearing out of nowhere..." Cao Yuan muttered for a moment, as if he had 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 his experience in Japan.

Just as An Qingyu said, all the special points they have found so far are too similar to the characteristics of the "human circle", but the two are completely different in terms of size and scale. There are tens of millions of people living in Japan's "human circle", and the area it occupies is extremely terrifying, while this small fishing village has less than a hundred people at most, and it is only a palm-sized area.

"But this doesn't make sense?" Lin Qiye thought for a moment and shook his head. "Shouldn't the 'Human Circle' be attached to a certain artifact? Also, where does the energy to support this 'Human Circle' come from? There shouldn't be a huge reserve of souls to consume like Japan, right?"

"Qiye is right. Although this place is very similar to the 'Human Circle', it is not the '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 store in this fishing village last night and found this purchase order." An Qingyu pointed at the items on it and said seriously, "This store purchases goods every three days. It clearly states where each item comes from and how much it costs."

"What does this prove?" Baili Pangpang asked puzzledly.

"This means that these supplies did not appear out of thin air." Lin Qiye replied, "If it is a 'human circle', these supplies should appear in an incredible form. To the people living in it, it should be almost like a miracle. Just like in Japan's 'human circle', all the electricity is generated by the Eight-foot Mirror burning souls, and then supplied to other power equipment entering the city in the [Pure Land].

But it’s different here, the materials here are actually produced somewhere else 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 at a few names on the purchase order and said, "Also, didn't these companies go bankrupt a long time ago? How can we still buy goods for them?"

"That's where the problem lies." An Qingyu took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. "I thought about it all night last night and sorted out all the possibilities. There is only one possibility that can explain all of this..."

Everyone held their breath, waiting for An Qingyu to give an answer.

"Here, we are trapped in time."

Seeing the bewildered expressions of the crowd, An Qingyu continued to explain, "From all the signs so far, this is indeed a village that existed more than 50 years ago. The store that gets its goods from the outside world every three days, the fishermen who go out to sea to fish every day, the father who waits for his son to come back from his trip... They work from sunrise to sunset. If you ignore the borders around the village, this is just an ordinary fishing village.

However, for some reason, the time here is disconnected from the outside world, forming 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 with its beginning and its end connected.

While time in the outside world passes normally, people here are constantly repeating a certain period of time. When this period of time reaches the end of the closed loop, it is like pressing the restart button here, and all people and things will return to the starting point and continue the cycle.

This period of time could be one day, two days, or three days... While more than fifty years have passed in the outside world, everything here is cycled within these few days. Supplies are endless, and people do not age. Everything that happens in these few days will be repeated over and over again."

Hearing An Qingyu's bold guess, the other members of the Nightfall team were stunned. Even Lin Qiye found it hard to believe:

"A closed time loop that has existed for more than fifty years? Is it really possible?"

"Humans can't do it, but gods... maybe they can." An Qingyu glanced at the fishing village and continued, "I suspect that there is someone or something in this fishing village that triggers the laws of time and maintains the operation of the closed loop of time."

time……

Hearing these two words, for some reason, Lin Qiye's mind once again appeared the figure of the silver-haired old man drifting alone in a boat among the waves.

Is there any connection between this king mask, who is suspected to be from the future, and the current situation of this fishing village?

"But if all this is really man-made, then what is his purpose?" Shen Qingzhu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up. "This is just a small fishing village on the border of Daxia. There is nothing special about it. Why would he spend such a huge price to create a time loop here?"

"Apart from the time, is there really nothing special here? Or have we just not discovered it yet?" An Qingyu asked back.

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 I soon 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 tore open the surface of the earth, revealing

In the mud, dead bodies of insects and ants were lying there with their limbs scattered all over the place, looking extremely miserable after their deaths.

"They all died." Lin Qiye continued, "First the ants, then the centipedes, and then the bats... In one night, all the nocturnal creatures died."

"It's not just nocturnal creatures." An Qingyu closed his eyes and sensed for a while, his expression extremely solemn, "The few mice I planted with 'fish seeds' last night also died..."

"What's going on?" Baili Pangpang scratched his head and said half-jokingly, "The special thing here is that it can automatically eliminate pests?"

As soon as Baili Pangpang finished speaking, something fell heavily on his head and then fell to the ground, making him grimaced in pain.

"What attacked me?"

Baili Pangpang rubbed his head and looked down, and suddenly his whole body was shocked.

At his feet, a bird covered in wounds fell weakly to the ground, with a hint of red in its eyes. It flapped its almost broken wings like crazy, rolled to the side of Baili Pangpang's shoes, and pecked him hard twice.

A few seconds later, the bird lay motionless on the ground, lifeless.

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