"Is there a living person in the mouth of this giant beast?"

Galan looked at the knife mark that pierced the giant beast's mouth. Behind the broken fangs, its mouth was pitch black in the deep sea water, and nothing could be seen at all.

"To be precise, it's in its stomach." Lin Qiye stared at the giant beast's mouth, his eyes slightly lit up, "I think I found that thing."

He patted the lantern fish under him and communicated with it with his mind. The next moment, the two of them were shrouded in a pale yellow light and slowly flew into the giant beast's mouth.

The beast was so huge that even its mouth was the size of an ordinary gymnasium. Through the light of the lantern fish, Galan could clearly see the teeth hidden in its mouth, scattered around, mixed with some bone fragments of large fish.

After passing through its mouth, the lantern fish slid down the esophagus. After an unknown amount of time, they came to a dark space that seemed endless. The corpses of countless fish and a large number of strangely shaped biological skeletons were floating in the air, like a huge cemetery of bones. An inexplicable stench filled the air.

"Is this its stomach?" Jia Lan hugged Lin Qiye's waist, observed the surroundings through the dim light of the lantern fish, and asked curiously, "Isn't this too big?"

"It's one of its stomachs." Lin Qiye added, "It has four stomachs like this."

Galan opened his mouth in shock.

As the lantern fish moved forward, a bloody wall of flesh vaguely appeared in the darkness in the distance.

The surface of this meat wall is uneven, and seems to be adhered to by some green gastric juice. The wall extends infinitely in all directions, wrapping the entire space.

Here is the edge of the stomach.

With the help of the faint light from the lantern fish, Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes slightly and looked towards the center of the meat wall.

There, a figure that was about to be swallowed by the flesh wall was hanging alone in the air. His lower body was completely wrapped in the flesh and blood of the flesh wall, and his upper body was naked and exposed. He lowered his head, and strands of old hair floated in the smelly sea water, like a corpse.

That was an old man Lin Qiye had never seen before.

But at this moment, Lin Qiye's eyes were not on the old man, but on the old man's chest...

On the old man's skinny and wrinkled chest, a familiar long knife pierced deeply into his body. At the end of the long knife floated a brilliant ring like flowing light. Unaffected by the resistance of the sea water, it rotated slowly and gracefully, making people unable to take their eyes away at just one glance.

As the ring of flowing light rotated, the passage of time seemed to have stopped. The past and the future were intertwined in that small ring, like an Ouroboros with its head and tail connected, mysterious and powerful.

Lin Qiye recognized this knife.

【Yi Yuan】.

"Is that knife..." At the same time, Galan also saw the knife and spoke with some doubt.

"Yes." Lin Qiye nodded, "That is Wang Mian's personal sword."

"Why is his knife here? Where is he?"

"This shouldn't be Wang Mian's sword... No, it should be said that this is not the Wang Mian's sword we are familiar with." Lin Qiye stared at the mysterious ring floating at the end of [Yi Yuan] and spoke slowly, "This sword is wrapped with the law that maintains the closed loop of time in this fishing village. This kind of law power is simply not something that the current Wang Mian can possess."

So far, Lin Qiye has only seen this sword on two people, one is Wang Mian, the current captain of the [Masked] team, and the other is the elderly Wang Mian who dispersed them into the Japanese "human circle" and is suspected to be from the future.

Since the current Wang Mian cannot possess the power of laws, the identity of the owner of this sword is obvious.

This is the sword of the king from the future.

The time loop of this fishing village should also be his work.

But why did he set up such a closed loop here? Why did this knife appear here? Who was stabbed by this knife?

Questions surged into Lin Qiye's mind one after another. Just as he was deep in thought, the old man who was nailed to the flesh wall by [Yi Yuan] slowly opened his eyes...

The old hair floating in the sea water swayed slightly. He raised his head slightly, and his pair of deep, red eyes fell on Lin Qiye and Jialan. For some reason, when he saw these eyes, Lin Qiye's heart suddenly tightened.

"Two more rats have sneaked in..." The old man's lips moved slightly, but his old voice faintly reached the ears of the two.

Long before Lin Qiye came in, he had used his mental power to sense that the old man's heart was still beating. Although it had been pierced by Yi Yuan, and although the beating was extremely weak, he was still alive... in a way that Lin Qiye could not understand.

"Who are you?" Lin Qiye asked with a frown.

"Me?" the old man replied calmly, "My name is Chen Yangrong, an ordinary fisherman."

Fisherman?

Hearing these two words, Lin Qiye frowned slightly.

A monster whose heart was pierced by [Yi Yuan] but still survived in the stomach of a deep-sea monster. You call yourself an ordinary fisherman?

"You are also poor creatures who have strayed into this closed time loop, right?" The old man's voice once again echoed in Lin Qiye's ears, and his voice seemed a little lazy. "If you want to live, come and pull out the knife on my chest. When I get out, I will thank you well."

“…”

Lin Qiye looked at him with a strange expression, stretched out his hand, and pointed at himself, "Do you think I'm a fool?"

Let’s not talk about why the old man Wang Mian wanted to kill this old man. Just looking at his appearance and his body trapped in the stomach wall of the giant beast, he definitely doesn’t look like a good guy... Just based on one sentence, you want me to draw my sword and let you out?

Do I look like someone who can be deceived so easily?

Even if you want to cheat, you have to make up a decent lie first, right?

"Haha, how do you know if you don't try? What if you are a fool?" Chen Yangrong chuckled.

Seeing the serious expressions of Lin Qiye and Jia Lan, Chen Yangrong's smile gradually faded, and he spoke slowly, "However, I am not kidding you, and I am too lazy to waste my breath on making up stories with you. Whether you are smart or stupid, if you want to walk out of here alive, you can only pull out this knife.

Otherwise, you will die.”

Lin Qiye thought for a moment, squinted at him, his eyes flashing with brilliance.

"Dead end? Why would I die?"

Chen Yangrong looked at him for a moment and sneered, "You still know how to ask questions... It seems that you are not a fool."

Chen Yangrong didn't seem to care about Lin Qiye's little thoughts. He stretched out his hand and pointed at the slowly rotating ring of light in front of his chest, "Or, you will die in its hands..."

Then he raised his arm and pointed above his head:

"Or, you will die in their hands."