"Even if you hold on until the end of the closed loop, the law of time will ruthlessly wipe you out. Here, you have no way to escape!
This fishing village is a dead end that is enough to wipe out any existence below the divine realm!
Your only way out is to pull out this damn knife of time and end the endless closed loop here, so that you can escape from their gaze and avoid the fate of being wiped out by time..."
Lin Qiye took a deep breath, suppressed the rage in his heart, and spoke in a cold voice:
"Pull it out, and then what? Let this giant beast revive under the red moon, and then destroy all living things?"
Hearing this, Chen Yangrong was slightly stunned.
He looked at Lin Qiye in surprise and asked doubtfully: "How did you know?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Lin Qiye stretched out his hand and pointed at the stomach wall behind Chen Yangrong that was constantly squirming. "Since the appearance of your so-called red moon, the giant beast that had originally lost its vitality has regained vitality and began to actively devour your body. Moreover, as the power that affects people's emotions becomes stronger and stronger, its squirming becomes faster and faster.
When the Red Moon's power reaches its peak, the stomach lining here will completely devour your body, and the beast will be resurrected... This is what it wants.
Combined with your crazy talk just now, I can basically guess the truth about the existence of this fishing village."
"Oh?" Chen Yangrong raised his eyebrows, "What is the truth?"
"The time in this fishing village is not just a closed loop... it is also a cage." Lin Qiye said slowly, "and the prisoner in it is not you, Chen Yangrong... but it."
Lin Qiye's gaze fell on the huge stomach wall in front of him.
“If I’m not mistaken, this giant beast corpse that sank in the deep sea should be closely related to the Cthulhu mythology.
According to what you said, the Cthulhu gods exist on the moon, but are waiting to "return". It can be inferred that "they" are now in a state similar to being imprisoned and cannot return to the earth freely. Then the corpse of the giant beast sunk at the bottom of the deep sea may be the only means for "them" to leave on the earth.
So, ‘they’ want to resurrect this beast.”
Lin Qiye paused, beads of sweat dripping down his cheeks. He took a deep breath, sorted out the clues in his mind again, and continued:
“You just said that we will either die from the erasure of time or from ‘their’ gaze… and this ‘gaze’ from the moon should be the manifestation of the red moon.
One day fifty years ago, perhaps something happened on the moon, and the Cthulhu gods imprisoned on the moon were able to cast their gaze to a corner of the earth, and this gaze that fell from the moon became the red moon in the eyes of humans.
This gaze fell on the sea area where the giant beast's corpse was, and at the same time covered the fishing village on the shore.
From the beginning, their goal was to revive the beast through the red moon. Whether it was you, Chen Yangrong, or the fishing village on the shore that was also shrouded in the red moon, they were just accidental products...
You, Chen Yangrong, are just an ordinary person who encountered a shipwreck before the arrival of the red moon and was accidentally sucked into the stomach wall of a giant beast. However, with the arrival of the red moon, your body is slowly devoured by the giant beast, and its power and thoughts are also frantically eroding your consciousness, turning you into its puppet without you even realizing it.
You mistook its will for your own thoughts, and in just a few days, you became a fanatical believer of Cthulhu and had to personally lead the Cthulhu gods on the moon back.
The red moon cannot be blocked, which means the resurrection of the giant beast cannot be interrupted, so the old king can only use the time loop to lock the time of this area, and let it reach its peak when the red moon reaches its peak, which is the moment when the giant beast is about to be resurrected, and turn back time to three days ago to reverse the process of its resurrection.
Therefore, in this closed-loop prison of time, the resurrection of this giant beast was delayed for a full fifty years.
I said... right?"
Lin Qiye said the last sentence not while looking at Chen Yangrong, but while looking at the dark stomach wall around him... He was trying to communicate with this recovering giant beast.
After saying all this under the influence of the red moon, Lin Qiye felt like his brain was about to explode. His breathing became heavier, his consciousness began to gradually fade, and an unprecedented feeling of mania surged into his heart.
Chen Yangrong stared at him blankly for a long time before speaking in disbelief:
"Just based on what I just said, you have deduced so many things?"
Lin Qiye did not answer. He just silently clenched his fists, and the veins on the back of his hands bulged...
"It seems that you are much smarter than the last group of mice." Chen Yangrong couldn't help but sigh, "They discovered the truth after reading the timeline recorded in this ring. You actually guessed it based on just a few words from me. It's really amazing."
Hearing this, Lin Qiye was slightly stunned.
"The last one?"
"Yes, there are also seven of them, wearing grey cloaks. They probably came in on the last day before the three-round closure..."
The image of the Masked Team quickly emerged in Lin Qiye's mind, and he raised his head abruptly, "Where are they? How are they?!"
"How is it?" Chen Yangrong sneered, "I should have told you that this is a dead end that can wipe out anyone below the God Realm.
It was already very good that they could survive the influence of the red moon. Unfortunately, until they were wiped out by the law of time, they still did not choose to draw the knife... They are really tough nut to crack.
but……"
Chen Yangrong paused, then changed the subject, "It seems that there was a young man inside who finally beat the time and disappeared."
Lin Qiye stayed where he was.
【Mask】...erased by time?
Judging from the time they entered the fishing village, the [Masked] team entered the closed loop about twelve days ago... but until now, the closed loop here has not been broken, which means that they did not choose to draw the knife at that time.
Without drawing the sword, the closed loop will not end, and their final fate can only be to kill each other or be erased by time.
[Mask] survived the red moon, but could not outrun time.
Lin Qiye should have thought of this outcome long ago. He just subconsciously avoided this question and didn't want to face such an outcome...
He still didn't want to believe it!
"You farted!"
Under the influence of the red moon, Lin Qiye's violent temper was instantly ignited. He opened his red eyes angrily and opened his mouth with a roar.
"You don't believe it?" Chen Yangrong sneered and said, "The ring at the end of this knife records the timeline of every closed loop here. If you don't believe it... just look for yourself."
Lin Qiye's eyes fell on the slowly rotating ring of light at the tail of [Yi Yuan], and a look of determination flashed in his eyes. He suddenly rushed out of the lantern fish's light range, came to Chen Yangrong's chest, and stared at a certain part of the ring...
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