Everyone looked at the dead bird on the ground and fell into silence.

"This is..." Baili Pangpang looked at this scene and stood still.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu quickly looked up at the sky. Four or five birds were fighting in the sky in the distance, crying and attacking each other. Broken feathers stained with blood kept falling from the sky and flew away with the wind...

One bird after another was pecked and fell. In the end, only one bird covered in blood was still alive in the sky.

It chirped sharply in the air, flapped its wings unsteadily, and gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.

"I seem to know how these insects died..." Cao Yuan muttered to himself.

"Are they killing each other?" Lin Qiye frowned as he looked at the remains of insects and ants in the pit, his eyes full of confusion, "Why?"

An Qingyu was silent for a moment, then shook his head, "I don't know."

"Right." At this moment, Shen Qingzhu seemed to have thought of something, "You just said that time here is a closed loop. When it comes to the end, all people and things here will be reset and return to their original state...

What about us?

Are we going to end up back where we started?"

Hearing this question, An Qingyu thought about it seriously and said with a serious expression, "If the situation here is really as I speculated, a time loop that is constantly 'ending' and 'restarting', then we probably can't go back to the starting point of this period.

It's like an adventure game. When saving a level, the system only records and retains the status at the moment of saving. We are outsiders who entered later, and the save file here does not have our information. Once the time here comes to an end and restarts again...

We will be like dust on a closed loop, wiped out by time."

Baili Pangpang's face suddenly turned ugly.

"Eradicated by time? Is it that serious?"

"We cannot contend with the power of the Law of Time," An Qingyu said seriously. "Our only way out is to find a way to leave here before the closed loop ends."

"But we don't even know when it will start or end."

"No, we already know the start time." Lin Qiye picked up the purchase order. "The last time the store received goods was the evening before yesterday, which means the starting point of the closed loop should be yesterday, which coincides with the time we entered this fishing village... Perhaps, this is also the reason why we were able to enter here by accident."

"But the time when the closed loop will end is unknown. It could be tomorrow, this afternoon, or... the next second."

"That is to say, while we are talking here, the closed loop may have come to an end and wiped us out directly?" Baili Pangpang couldn't help but complain, "Isn't this too exciting?!"

"That's the theory, but I don't think it will happen so quickly." An Qingyu speculated, "As I just said, I don't think this closed loop appeared here for no reason. Its existence must be accompanied by some reason that we haven't discovered yet. Before this 'reason' triggers a 'consequence', the closed loop will not end casually."

An Qingyu's words were too profound. Except for Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu, most of the others were confused. However, they had already realized the urgency of time.

"I have another question." Shen Qingzhu said slowly, "If this closed loop started yesterday, then what about the Masked Team that entered this fishing village several days earlier than us?"

The air suddenly became quiet.

Lin Qiye stood there in a daze. An idea came to his mind, but he forced it down.

An Qingyu was silent for a moment, but still said truthfully: "The Masked Team entered the fishing village ten days ago, and should have entered the previous or the previous time loop here. They are outsiders like us and are not in the queue that was restarted. Since we can't see them in this closed loop, it means...

They may have been wiped out.”

"Impossible!" Baili Pangpang was the first to jump out and object, "That's a [Mask]! How can it be wiped out so easily?!"

"I agree." Cao Yuan said immediately, "The fact that they didn't appear here doesn't mean they were definitely wiped out. What if they also found a way to leave before the closed loop ends?"

"If they managed to escape, why didn't we see them in the outside world?" An Qingyu asked back.

Cao Yuan was speechless.

"Maybe they were sent to another time just like we were at that time? Maybe they were sent to another place and it was too late to come back?" Baili Pangpang's speech speed gradually increased, as if he was a little anxious.

"These are all your guesses. Although there is such a possibility, the probability is too slim."

"Then aren't the closed loop and erasure you mentioned just speculations?"

"This is a reasonable guess based on the existing clues."

"No matter what! I don't believe that the Mask team would be wiped out in a place like this!"

"Mask is also a human being. He can bleed and die. You can't deny the facts because of your own subjective impression."

"Bullshit facts!"

The voices of An Qingyu and Baili Pangpang were getting louder and louder, and their speech speeds were getting faster and faster. Baili Pangpang's face turned red, as if he was very angry. An Qingyu, who was standing beside him, also frowned more and more, and he showed no intention of backing down.

"Shut up!"

Lin Qiye suddenly spoke, suppressing the voices of both of them.

Lin Qiye's eyes swept over the two of them, and majesty emerged in his eyes. He said angrily: "What are you arguing about? Is now the time for you to quarrel? Regardless of whether the [Masked] team is dead or alive, our primary goal is to find a way to leave here!

If we can't leave before the loop is closed, we'll all die here!"

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Lin Qiye took a deep breath and continued, "If it is true as Qingyu said, that the time loop here is caused by someone or an object, then it will definitely cause some supernatural anomalies. We should search according to the groups we formed last night. Once we find any clues, notify others immediately."

"Disband!"

After Lin Qiye finished speaking, Baili Pangpang secretly glanced at An Qingyu, as if he wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a moment, he shook his head and walked alone to the other side of the fishing village.

“Qi Ye…” An Qingyu took off his glasses, pinched his nose with his right hand, frowned, and seemed a little tired. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to confront Pang Pang just now, I…”

"It's okay, I know you're just telling the truth." Lin Qiye patted his shoulder and comforted him, "Fatty may appear careless on the surface, but he's actually very thoughtful. In his heart, [Mask] is more than just a special team... He just hopes they can be safe."

"No, that's not what I meant." An Qingyu put on his glasses again, looked at Lin Qiye with his bloodshot eyes, and said seriously, "I couldn't control my emotions... This is very wrong."

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