Chapter 42: New Theories
"Bang bang. There was a hard bang on the door.
Zhou Lie turned over and got up, and after opening the door, he saw Layla's hurried face.
Needless to say, the two rushed downstairs, still the same familiar scene, where the adventurers were drinking and chatting, the innkeeper was busy at the counter, and Miss Anna was shuttling through the crowd, ordering food for people.
When you come to the street, there is no trace of a massacre at all, the street is clean, there is not a trace of blood, it is not at all like you have experienced a massacre.
"It's circulating, it should be the relationship of that white light. ”
"Well, but why aren't those soldiers here?"
"Because they are also people who belong to this cycle, not outsiders. "There's a seven-day cycle here, and every night on the night of the Running of the Bulls, this group of soldiers will show up, maybe the death of one person, or the death of the whole town, that will cause time to reset." ”
"So that lord fixed the time here?In order to save his people?" Zhou Lie frowned, if it was really this reason, then as long as he persuaded that lord, it shouldn't be a difficult matter, but was it really this reason, if it was to save the people in the town, since he had the ability to go back in time, why not go back and warn them.
And why should the tragedy of the last day be included in the cycle, if it was Zhou Lie, this kind of tragic event would definitely not be included in the cycle.
Layla felt the same way, but they had to wait another seven days to see the lord.
But Zhou Lie still felt that something was not quite right in his heart, if those soldiers were also characters in the cycle, then where did they come from, they couldn't have appeared out of thin air.
It didn't take long for Randy and his two servants to come out of the room, and they saw Zhou Lie sitting down in the hall early, and felt a little surprised, how could this prince, who was usually engaged in asking them to wake up, suddenly be so diligent today.
"Randy, and Suwen Suwu, there's something very serious to tell you. Zhou Lie stared at the three people in front of him and said.
Needless to say, the loyal Su Wen and Su Wu were naturally ready to listen solemnly, but Randy on the side looked indifferent, although he was smiling, but he obviously didn't take Zhou Lie's words seriously.
Zhou Lie leaned over to Randy's ear and whispered, "You have a mole on your buttocks." ”
Hearing this, Randy was suddenly startled, and looked at Zhou Lie with an incredulous face.
This sentence is really useful, seeing the other party's expression, Zhou Lie himself couldn't believe it, the other party was really shocked.
Then Zhou Lie told them about their current situation again, although Su Wen and Su Wu were full of doubts, but since their master said so, they naturally believed it unconditionally, and after hearing this, Randy suddenly realized.
Then Zhou Lie and Layla told Randy everything they investigated in the last cycle, and also told Randy what they thought.
No matter what they need to do, they need the help of this group of adventurers, and Randy, as the only breakthrough, every time he cycles, Zhou Lie will take the trouble to explain the current situation to the other party, no matter how many times.
"Well, I get the idea. Randy rubbed a strand of hair in front of his forehead and said, "Although it may be useless, in the next few days, I will gather the adventurers again to conduct an inspection and search of this town, although I don't know magic, but I will also find a way to provide you with a small amount of power." ”
"By the way, why did you believe me when I told you that?" Zhou Lie asked suspiciously.
"Didn't I tell you the reason in the last cycle?" Randy asked, smiling.
He didn't give a specific reason, and he didn't even tell me what the sentence meant. Zhou Lie spread his hands, to say that there is a mole on his buttocks, although this kind of thing is private, but it is a bit unbelievable to use this as the basis for believing in others, and there are actually many ways to know that there is a mole on his buttocks.
"Haha, how could I possibly tell you the meaning of that sentence. Randy laughed, "That sentence is an unforgettable part of my life, and whoever can say this means that I believe him, and the fact that I can tell you this proves that you have indeed experienced a period of time that I don't know, so I will believe what you say." ”
Zhou Lie smiled, this explanation made him feel at ease, every time he saw Randy's signature smile, he always felt that he was thinking about how to scare himself, and this explanation made him feel that this man who had been smirking all the time still had a trace of ordinary people's breath.
"Just convince us caravan people, don't try to convince the townspeople, you failed last time, and we were almost kicked out to sleep on the street. ”
"Understood. ”
After the account was explained, Layla followed her teammates to do the commission that had been completed long ago, while Zhou Lie rode around the town on horseback, trying to explore the border.
But this is really not a simple job, outside the town is a plain, and the surrounding scenery is the same, only when he finds that the town that should be behind him suddenly runs in front of him, Zhou Lie can find that he has crossed the border and is sent back to the entrance.
"Do you have any special feelings when you cross these borders?" Zhou Lie asked in his mind.
"Well, there's a very familiar feeling. "Rarely, Frem didn't say he didn't know.
"What does that feel like. ”
"It's like being filtered through a filter. ”
"I shouldn't have asked you. ”
"Oh, I was supposed to tell you that I felt a familiar wave last night when time started to go back!" Frem sneered, with a hint of banter in his tone.
"I'm stuck here is the same as you're stuck here, I advise you to tell me it's better, is it something similar to the eye of the array?" Zhou Lie threatened angrily.
"No, I don't know, but that thing is more intimate than familiar, and although it appears for a moment and then disappears, I really feel the presence of that thing. ”
"Wouldn't it be the same as you, um, an unknown creature like you?" Zhou Lie asked.
Frem was rarely silent for a long time before he replied, "Possibly, that aura is similar to mine, but it's too faint." ”
Another thing that can be attached to others like Frem and give people flame power is it, Zhou Lie understood what Frem meant, although he was a little curious about the details, but he thought that it had nothing to do with this matter, so he didn't think about it again.
Walking through those places that have long been rotten, Zhou Lie still has nothing new to discover, but there is one more way to entertain, every time he visits a store that he has been to before, Zhou Lie can be the first to say what the boss is going to say, looking at the other party's surprised eyes, Zhou Lie feels very funny.
Towards dusk, they returned to the hotel, where Randy waited for a long time.
"According to my inference, that lord is not the one who caused this town to go into circulation. This was the first thing Randy said when he saw Zhou Lie.
Zhou Lie sat down at the table, ordered a few side dishes and ale, and motioned for Randy to continue.
"According to the information of His Highness, there are two kinds of characters who appear out of thin air in the town, one is the lord, who does not live in the town himself, and can leave the town safely and will not be trapped, and the other is the soldiers you said, it is the appearance of these soldiers that makes me veto my previous judgment. ”
"I know of the soldiers, in 1227, when our army went south, a group of scouts disappeared in the vicinity, and then our army swept the area, but at that time, we did not find the town. Only a few other villages, when the group was not found, seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. ”
"And after I heard His Highness's account of those soldiers, I can confirm that they are soldiers in the Imperial Army at that time, although this is a very amazing thing, but please trust my judgment in this point. ”
"You mean, there are soldiers here who have disappeared here?" Zhou Lie raised his eyebrows, "Then how did they get here?"
"Instead of thinking about how they got here, let's think about how we got here, looking at the people from all over the town are just us as a caravan, combined with our previous inference, this is a closed space, so why did we come in?"
"You'll have to ask Layla about this kind of magic, but I don't think she knows. Zhou Lie spread his hands helplessly, "However, I still don't understand why you said that the lord was not the one who caused this town to enter the loop. ”
"Because the lord wasn't in town that night. Randy said, "And according to what His Highness said, in the middle of the night after the Running of the Bulls, the slaughter lord didn't know, and the cycle started in the middle of the night, which is obviously impossible, even if he came back and saw the results of the massacre, I'm afraid he wouldn't choose to let the space here be locked and reincarnated, for example, which lord are you, you want to save your own people, will you choose this way?"
Zhou Lie shook his head, "This way without a future is no different from death." ”
Randy nodded, "yes, again, I don't think that lord would do such a thing, so he doesn't possess either the motive or the timing." ”
"So who do you think it is. ”
"That's for Miss Layla to find him, I believe that the person who caused all this is the one who experienced the massacre, and there are no magicians in the town at all, so it can be concluded that this situation is caused by the immaturity of the caster, otherwise any magician in his right mind would not have made such a circular isolated world, and the strangest thing is why we are the only ones who broke in. ”
Yes, it is impossible to create such a circular closed world with the use of magic that can turn back time in order to save a group of people, and the people in it will never know that they are going through the seven days that will never stop, and in the end they will inevitably be killed by the soldiers.
The townsfolk couldn't get out of here, and for years, they were the only ones who had been intruders.
Randy's conclusion also told Layla, the young magician had been thinking about it for a long time, and he couldn't figure out why his group had become the only intruder for years, according to Layla, to enter such an enclosed space, unless there was something similar to a key, let the space open for itself, and this key could make anything, people, or things related to this town, use this kind of thing as a guide to enter it.
Layla and Randy had a headache on the side, and what was related to this town, and Zhou Lie naturally remembered what Frem had said to him.
"It's you again!" Zhou Lie was speechless in his heart.
"Hmph. Frem snorted coldly and expressed his attitude.
"All in all, there are three questions at present, first, where did the lord and those soldiers come from, second, who and for what purpose keeps time circulating here, and third, Russia and Japan are the only ones we have broken into, as long as we understand these three questions, the mystery here can be solved. ”